Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Gloucester

Infrastructure Engineer
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Gloucester is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 June 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 14 24
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 +29
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 42 6 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucester 11.17% 7.23% 8.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.54% 7.59% 8.64%
Number of salaries quoted 8 3 20
10th Percentile £37,500 - -
25th Percentile £39,375 - £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £80,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +113.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £42,813 - £45,504
90th Percentile £43,750 - £60,025
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,500 £70,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +40.00% -9.91%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Gloucester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Gloucester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Gloucester with a recognized job title 364 79 440
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.81% 95.18% 96.92%
Number of salaries quoted 196 47 293
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,150 £30,075
25th Percentile £38,633 £39,375 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £67,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Gloucester.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Gloucester

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Gloucester

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Gloucester.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Gloucester

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester

For the 6 months to 23 June 2026, Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Gloucester region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 42 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 27 (64.29%) Linux
3 25 (59.52%) Security Cleared
4 17 (40.48%) Ansible
4 17 (40.48%) Kubernetes
5 16 (38.10%) CI/CD
5 16 (38.10%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (35.71%) Containerisation
6 15 (35.71%) Terraform
7 14 (33.33%) Agile
8 13 (30.95%) Collaborative Culture
8 13 (30.95%) Docker
8 13 (30.95%) Python
8 13 (30.95%) VMware
8 13 (30.95%) VMware Infrastructure
9 12 (28.57%) Bash
10 11 (26.19%) GitLab
10 11 (26.19%) Windows
11 10 (23.81%) AWS
11 10 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
12 9 (21.43%) DevOps
12 9 (21.43%) DV Cleared
12 9 (21.43%) Grafana
12 9 (21.43%) High Availability
12 9 (21.43%) OpenShift
12 9 (21.43%) Red Hat
12 9 (21.43%) vCenter Server
13 8 (19.05%) Active Directory
13 8 (19.05%) Azure

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (11.90%) Confluence
2 3 (7.14%) OpenStack
3 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.76%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.38%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.81%) AWS
2 9 (21.43%) OpenShift
3 8 (19.05%) Azure
4 4 (9.52%) GCP
5 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.76%) OCI
6 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.67%) Firewall
1 7 (16.67%) LAN
1 7 (16.67%) WAN
2 5 (11.90%) DNS
2 5 (11.90%) VPN
3 4 (9.52%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (7.14%) DHCP
4 3 (7.14%) NAS
4 3 (7.14%) SAN
5 2 (4.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.29%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 11 (26.19%) GitLab
2 8 (19.05%) Jenkins
3 7 (16.67%) Git
4 6 (14.29%) Cypress.io
4 6 (14.29%) Robot Framework
4 6 (14.29%) Selenium
4 6 (14.29%) TestRail
5 3 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 11 (26.19%) Finance
2 7 (16.67%) Aerospace
3 2 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.38%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.05%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (14.29%) Playwright
2 6 (14.29%) pytest
3 1 (2.38%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 5 (11.90%) Replication
3 4 (9.52%) Cloud Native
4 3 (7.14%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (64.29%) Linux
2 11 (26.19%) Windows
3 6 (14.29%) CentOS
4 5 (11.90%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.76%) Unix
6 1 (2.38%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (38.10%) CI/CD
2 16 (38.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (35.71%) Containerisation
4 14 (33.33%) Agile
5 13 (30.95%) Collaborative Culture
6 10 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
7 9 (21.43%) DevOps
7 9 (21.43%) High Availability
8 8 (19.05%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (19.05%) Test Automation
9 6 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
9 6 (14.29%) Software Testing
9 6 (14.29%) Test Management
10 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Automation
10 5 (11.90%) Project Delivery
11 4 (9.52%) Patch Management
12 3 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
12 3 (7.14%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 13 (30.95%) Python
2 12 (28.57%) Bash
3 6 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 6 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (59.52%) Security Cleared
2 9 (21.43%) DV Cleared
3 6 (14.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 5 (11.90%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.76%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (4.76%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (9.52%) GDPR
1 4 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 13 (30.95%) Docker
1 13 (30.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (19.05%) Active Directory
3 6 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (11.90%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (9.52%) Hyper-V
6 1 (2.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (40.48%) Ansible
1 17 (40.48%) Kubernetes
2 15 (35.71%) Terraform
3 9 (21.43%) Grafana
3 9 (21.43%) vCenter Server
4 6 (14.29%) Kibana
4 6 (14.29%) logstash
5 3 (7.14%) Prometheus
5 3 (7.14%) Puppet
6 2 (4.76%) FortiGate
6 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (2.38%) Argo
7 1 (2.38%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (2.38%) Istio
7 1 (2.38%) linkerd
7 1 (2.38%) Mesos
Vendors
1 13 (30.95%) VMware
2 9 (21.43%) Red Hat
3 7 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 6 (14.29%) Atlassian
4 6 (14.29%) Splunk
5 2 (4.76%) Fortinet
5 2 (4.76%) Oracle
5 2 (4.76%) Veeam
6 1 (2.38%) Cisco
6 1 (2.38%) Dell