Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Infrastructure Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Gloucestershire is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 October 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 38 39
Rank change year-on-year +12 +1 +20
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 142 19 51
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 5.68% 3.48% 5.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.03% 3.70% 5.23%
Number of salaries quoted 65 16 25
10th Percentile £40,000 £51,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £54,685 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +77.78% -19.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 - £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 - -
South West median annual salary £55,000 £55,445 £47,500
% change year-on-year -0.80% +16.73% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Gloucestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Gloucestershire. 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 Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 2,353 513 975
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.16% 93.96% 96.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,509 345 572
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £81,250 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,750 £77,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -9.09%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Gloucestershire.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Gloucestershire

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Gloucestershire

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 5 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucester -4 80 £65,000 -18.75% 19
Cheltenham - 42 £75,000 - 13
Infrastructure Engineer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 Gloucestershire region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 142 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 40 (28.17%) Security Cleared
3 35 (24.65%) Linux
4 28 (19.72%) Kubernetes
4 28 (19.72%) Terraform
5 27 (19.01%) Microsoft
6 26 (18.31%) Ansible
6 26 (18.31%) Infrastructure as Code
7 25 (17.61%) Python
8 21 (14.79%) AWS
9 20 (14.08%) Bash
10 19 (13.38%) Containerisation
10 19 (13.38%) DV Cleared
11 18 (12.68%) Agile
11 18 (12.68%) CI/CD
11 18 (12.68%) Infrastructure Automation
12 15 (10.56%) Windows
13 14 (9.86%) Azure
13 14 (9.86%) Collaborative Working
13 14 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (9.15%) Docker
14 13 (9.15%) Grafana
14 13 (9.15%) Project Delivery
15 11 (7.75%) Collaborative Culture
15 11 (7.75%) Disaster Recovery
15 11 (7.75%) Git
15 11 (7.75%) High Availability
15 11 (7.75%) Microsoft 365
15 11 (7.75%) PowerShell
15 11 (7.75%) VMware

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 6 (4.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.52%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.82%) Apache
3 4 (2.82%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.41%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 21 (14.79%) AWS
2 14 (9.86%) Azure
3 11 (7.75%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (7.04%) OpenShift
5 7 (4.93%) GCP
6 4 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (2.82%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.82%) OCI
7 3 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.41%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.41%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.70%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.70%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (0.70%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.70%) AWS KMS
9 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.70%) Route 53
9 1 (0.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.52%) DNS
2 4 (2.82%) DHCP
2 4 (2.82%) Firewall
2 4 (2.82%) LAN
2 4 (2.82%) WAN
3 3 (2.11%) VPN
4 2 (1.41%) NAS
4 2 (1.41%) SAN
5 1 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.70%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.70%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.70%) VLAN
5 1 (0.70%) WebEx
5 1 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.52%) InfluxDB
2 1 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (7.75%) Git
2 9 (6.34%) GitLab
3 8 (5.63%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.52%) Cypress.io
4 5 (3.52%) Robot Framework
4 5 (3.52%) Selenium
4 5 (3.52%) TestRail
5 1 (0.70%) JIRA
General
1 21 (14.79%) Finance
2 7 (4.93%) Aerospace
2 7 (4.93%) Social Skills
3 1 (0.70%) Banking
3 1 (0.70%) Marketing
3 1 (0.70%) Public Sector
3 1 (0.70%) Retail
3 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (19.72%) Terraform
2 8 (5.63%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (3.52%) Playwright
3 5 (3.52%) pytest
4 2 (1.41%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.70%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.34%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.52%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.82%) Replication
4 2 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.70%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.70%) FlexPod
5 1 (0.70%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.70%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 35 (24.65%) Linux
2 15 (10.56%) Windows
3 5 (3.52%) CentOS
3 5 (3.52%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.11%) Unix
5 2 (1.41%) Android
5 2 (1.41%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.41%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.41%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (18.31%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (13.38%) Containerisation
4 18 (12.68%) Agile
4 18 (12.68%) CI/CD
4 18 (12.68%) Infrastructure Automation
5 14 (9.86%) Collaborative Working
5 14 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (9.15%) Project Delivery
7 11 (7.75%) Collaborative Culture
7 11 (7.75%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (7.75%) High Availability
8 9 (6.34%) DevOps
8 9 (6.34%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (5.63%) Test Automation
10 6 (4.23%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (3.52%) Cloud Operations
11 5 (3.52%) Cybersecurity
11 5 (3.52%) Dashboard Development
11 5 (3.52%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 25 (17.61%) Python
2 20 (14.08%) Bash
3 11 (7.75%) PowerShell
4 5 (3.52%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.41%) Java
6 1 (0.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (28.17%) Security Cleared
2 19 (13.38%) DV Cleared
3 10 (7.04%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.11%) GDPR
1 3 (2.11%) QA
2 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (9.15%) Docker
2 11 (7.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.93%) Active Directory
4 5 (3.52%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.41%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.41%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (19.72%) Kubernetes
2 26 (18.31%) Ansible
3 13 (9.15%) Grafana
4 8 (5.63%) vCenter Server
5 7 (4.93%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.93%) Puppet
6 5 (3.52%) Kibana
6 5 (3.52%) logstash
7 4 (2.82%) Argo
7 4 (2.82%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (2.82%) Istio
7 4 (2.82%) linkerd
7 4 (2.82%) Mesos
8 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.70%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.70%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.70%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 27 (19.01%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.75%) VMware
3 7 (4.93%) Red Hat
4 6 (4.23%) Splunk
5 5 (3.52%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.82%) Oracle
7 2 (1.41%) Cisco
7 2 (1.41%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.41%) Veeam
8 1 (0.70%) Dell
8 1 (0.70%) HP
8 1 (0.70%) Juniper
8 1 (0.70%) NetApp
8 1 (0.70%) Palo Alto