Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Gloucester

Infrastructure Engineer
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Gloucester is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 October 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 7 30
Rank change year-on-year -5 +23 +6
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 82 11 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucester 10.93% 11.96% 5.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.19% 12.36% 5.76%
Number of salaries quoted 35 8 7
10th Percentile £40,000 - £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 - £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +100.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile - - £59,125
90th Percentile £75,000 - £66,700
Gloucestershire median annual salary £65,000 £80,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -18.75% +77.78% -19.64%

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 733 89 243
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.73% 96.74% 96.43%
Number of salaries quoted 374 58 126
10th Percentile £33,250 £31,025 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,000 £41,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.93% -2.27% -11.93%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £69,375
Gloucestershire median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +30.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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
Salary Histogram in Gloucester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Gloucester over the 6 months to 3 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Gloucester

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

For the 6 months to 3 October 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 82 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (35.37%) Security Cleared
3 24 (29.27%) Linux
4 22 (26.83%) Ansible
4 22 (26.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (26.83%) Kubernetes
5 21 (25.61%) Python
6 20 (24.39%) Terraform
7 19 (23.17%) Containerisation
8 18 (21.95%) Agile
8 18 (21.95%) CI/CD
9 17 (20.73%) Bash
10 15 (18.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (17.07%) Collaborative Working
12 13 (15.85%) Docker
13 12 (14.63%) AWS
13 12 (14.63%) Grafana
14 11 (13.41%) Collaborative Culture
14 11 (13.41%) Disaster Recovery
14 11 (13.41%) Git
15 10 (12.20%) High Availability
15 10 (12.20%) OpenShift
15 10 (12.20%) SC Cleared
16 9 (10.98%) Azure
16 9 (10.98%) DevOps
16 9 (10.98%) GitLab
16 9 (10.98%) Infrastructure Automation
16 9 (10.98%) Platform Engineering
16 9 (10.98%) Windows
17 8 (9.76%) DV Cleared

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 (6.10%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (6.10%) OpenStack
2 4 (4.88%) Apache
3 3 (3.66%) Confluence
4 2 (2.44%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (14.63%) AWS
2 10 (12.20%) OpenShift
3 9 (10.98%) Azure
4 7 (8.54%) GCP
5 4 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (4.88%) OCI
6 3 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.44%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.88%) DNS
1 4 (4.88%) Firewall
1 4 (4.88%) LAN
1 4 (4.88%) WAN
2 2 (2.44%) DHCP
2 2 (2.44%) NAS
2 2 (2.44%) SAN
2 2 (2.44%) VPN
2 2 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.10%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 11 (13.41%) Git
2 9 (10.98%) GitLab
3 8 (9.76%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.10%) Cypress.io
4 5 (6.10%) Robot Framework
4 5 (6.10%) Selenium
4 5 (6.10%) TestRail
5 1 (1.22%) JIRA
General
1 21 (25.61%) Finance
2 7 (8.54%) Aerospace
3 4 (4.88%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (24.39%) Terraform
2 8 (9.76%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (6.10%) Playwright
3 5 (6.10%) pytest
4 2 (2.44%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.98%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.10%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.88%) Replication
4 1 (1.22%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 24 (29.27%) Linux
2 9 (10.98%) Windows
3 5 (6.10%) CentOS
4 4 (4.88%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.66%) Unix
6 2 (2.44%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (26.83%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (23.17%) Containerisation
4 18 (21.95%) Agile
4 18 (21.95%) CI/CD
5 15 (18.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (17.07%) Collaborative Working
7 11 (13.41%) Collaborative Culture
7 11 (13.41%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (12.20%) High Availability
9 9 (10.98%) DevOps
9 9 (10.98%) Infrastructure Automation
9 9 (10.98%) Platform Engineering
10 8 (9.76%) Project Delivery
10 8 (9.76%) Test Automation
11 6 (7.32%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (6.10%) Dashboard Development
12 5 (6.10%) Microservices
12 5 (6.10%) Software Testing
12 5 (6.10%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (25.61%) Python
2 17 (20.73%) Bash
3 5 (6.10%) JavaScript
3 5 (6.10%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (35.37%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.20%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.76%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.66%) QA
2 2 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.44%) GDPR
2 2 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (15.85%) Docker
2 8 (9.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (6.10%) Active Directory
3 5 (6.10%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.66%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.44%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (26.83%) Ansible
1 22 (26.83%) Kubernetes
2 12 (14.63%) Grafana
3 7 (8.54%) Prometheus
4 6 (7.32%) vCenter Server
5 5 (6.10%) Kibana
5 5 (6.10%) logstash
5 5 (6.10%) Puppet
6 4 (4.88%) Argo
6 4 (4.88%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (4.88%) Istio
6 4 (4.88%) linkerd
6 4 (4.88%) Mesos
7 2 (2.44%) FortiGate
7 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (9.76%) Microsoft
1 8 (9.76%) VMware
2 7 (8.54%) Red Hat
3 5 (6.10%) Atlassian
3 5 (6.10%) Splunk
4 4 (4.88%) Oracle
5 2 (2.44%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.44%) Veeam