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 11 September 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 9 22
Rank change year-on-year -6 +13 +15
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 68 11 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucester 10.56% 11.96% 8.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.79% 12.36% 8.60%
Number of salaries quoted 27 8 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40,000 - £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +100.00% -24.88%
75th Percentile - - £55,313
90th Percentile £69,000 - £60,225
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 630 89 279
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.83% 96.74% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 331 58 164
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,875 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £40,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,125 £67,275
Gloucestershire median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +19.05% +0.96% -5.45%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 68 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 28 (41.18%) Security Cleared
3 26 (38.24%) Linux
4 21 (30.88%) Ansible
4 21 (30.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (30.88%) Kubernetes
5 20 (29.41%) Terraform
6 18 (26.47%) CI/CD
6 18 (26.47%) Containerisation
6 18 (26.47%) Python
7 17 (25.00%) Agile
8 15 (22.06%) Bash
8 15 (22.06%) Docker
9 14 (20.59%) Collaborative Culture
10 13 (19.12%) AWS
10 13 (19.12%) Collaborative Working
10 13 (19.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (17.65%) Grafana
12 11 (16.18%) Azure
12 11 (16.18%) VMware
12 11 (16.18%) VMware Infrastructure
13 10 (14.71%) DevOps
13 10 (14.71%) Git
13 10 (14.71%) GitLab
13 10 (14.71%) OpenShift
13 10 (14.71%) Windows
14 9 (13.24%) Disaster Recovery
14 9 (13.24%) Elastic Stack
14 9 (13.24%) High Availability
14 9 (13.24%) Jenkins

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 4 (5.88%) OpenStack
2 3 (4.41%) Apache
2 3 (4.41%) Confluence
3 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.94%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (19.12%) AWS
2 11 (16.18%) Azure
3 10 (14.71%) OpenShift
4 7 (10.29%) GCP
5 4 (5.88%) OCI
6 3 (4.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.94%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.82%) Firewall
1 6 (8.82%) LAN
1 6 (8.82%) WAN
2 4 (5.88%) DNS
2 4 (5.88%) VPN
2 4 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (2.94%) DHCP
3 2 (2.94%) NAS
3 2 (2.94%) Network Security
3 2 (2.94%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.82%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 10 (14.71%) Git
1 10 (14.71%) GitLab
2 9 (13.24%) Jenkins
3 6 (8.82%) Cypress.io
3 6 (8.82%) Robot Framework
3 6 (8.82%) Selenium
3 6 (8.82%) TestRail
4 1 (1.47%) JIRA
General
1 17 (25.00%) Finance
2 7 (10.29%) Aerospace
3 3 (4.41%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (29.41%) Terraform
2 9 (13.24%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (8.82%) Playwright
3 6 (8.82%) pytest
4 1 (1.47%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.29%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.82%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.88%) Replication
4 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 26 (38.24%) Linux
2 10 (14.71%) Windows
3 6 (8.82%) CentOS
4 4 (5.88%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.41%) Unix
6 1 (1.47%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (30.88%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (26.47%) CI/CD
3 18 (26.47%) Containerisation
4 17 (25.00%) Agile
5 14 (20.59%) Collaborative Culture
6 13 (19.12%) Collaborative Working
6 13 (19.12%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (14.71%) DevOps
8 9 (13.24%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (13.24%) High Availability
8 9 (13.24%) Test Automation
9 7 (10.29%) Infrastructure Automation
9 7 (10.29%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (10.29%) Project Delivery
10 6 (8.82%) Dashboard Development
10 6 (8.82%) Software Testing
10 6 (8.82%) Test Management
11 5 (7.35%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (5.88%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 18 (26.47%) Python
2 15 (22.06%) Bash
3 6 (8.82%) JavaScript
3 6 (8.82%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.29%) DV Cleared
4 6 (8.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.94%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (2.94%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (5.88%) GDPR
1 4 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.41%) QA
System Software
1 15 (22.06%) Docker
2 11 (16.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.82%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (7.35%) Active Directory
5 4 (5.88%) Hyper-V
6 3 (4.41%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.47%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (30.88%) Ansible
1 21 (30.88%) Kubernetes
2 12 (17.65%) Grafana
3 7 (10.29%) vCenter Server
4 6 (8.82%) Kibana
4 6 (8.82%) logstash
4 6 (8.82%) Prometheus
5 5 (7.35%) Puppet
6 3 (4.41%) Argo
6 3 (4.41%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (4.41%) Istio
6 3 (4.41%) linkerd
6 3 (4.41%) Mesos
7 2 (2.94%) FortiGate
7 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (16.18%) VMware
2 8 (11.76%) Red Hat
3 6 (8.82%) Atlassian
3 6 (8.82%) Splunk
4 5 (7.35%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.88%) Oracle
6 2 (2.94%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.94%) Veeam
7 1 (1.47%) Cisco
7 1 (1.47%) Dell