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 12 September 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 44 36
Rank change year-on-year +20 -8 +25
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 137 18 64
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 5.82% 3.28% 5.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.19% 3.47% 5.94%
Number of salaries quoted 66 15 34
10th Percentile £40,000 £53,100 £33,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £59,957 £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 - £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 - £70,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%

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 2,214 518 1,078
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.01% 94.53% 96.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,478 354 688
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £51,250 £51,750
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -0.97% -5.91%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,250 £77,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £45,272 £52,000
% change year-on-year +21.49% -12.94% -5.45%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -6 71 £65,000 -18.75% 12
Cheltenham - 47 £75,000 - 4
Tewkesbury -13 1 £52,500 -25.00%
Infrastructure Engineer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 Gloucestershire region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 137 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 41 (29.93%) Linux
3 39 (28.47%) Security Cleared
4 29 (21.17%) Terraform
5 26 (18.98%) Ansible
5 26 (18.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (18.98%) Kubernetes
6 25 (18.25%) Microsoft
7 24 (17.52%) AWS
8 23 (16.79%) Python
9 20 (14.60%) Infrastructure Automation
10 19 (13.87%) Windows
11 18 (13.14%) CI/CD
11 18 (13.14%) Containerisation
12 17 (12.41%) Agile
12 17 (12.41%) Azure
12 17 (12.41%) Bash
12 17 (12.41%) DV Cleared
12 17 (12.41%) VMware
12 17 (12.41%) VMware Infrastructure
13 16 (11.68%) Project Delivery
14 15 (10.95%) Docker
14 15 (10.95%) Grafana
14 15 (10.95%) Microsoft 365
15 14 (10.22%) Collaborative Culture
15 14 (10.22%) Collaborative Working
16 13 (9.49%) Continuous Improvement
17 11 (8.03%) Disaster Recovery
17 11 (8.03%) PowerShell
18 10 (7.30%) DevOps

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 5 (3.65%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.92%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.19%) Apache
3 3 (2.19%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 24 (17.52%) AWS
2 17 (12.41%) Azure
3 15 (10.95%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (7.30%) OpenShift
5 7 (5.11%) GCP
6 5 (3.65%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.92%) OCI
8 3 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.46%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.46%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.73%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.73%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (0.73%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.73%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.73%) Route 53
10 1 (0.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.30%) Firewall
2 9 (6.57%) LAN
2 9 (6.57%) WAN
3 7 (5.11%) DNS
4 6 (4.38%) VPN
5 5 (3.65%) DHCP
6 4 (2.92%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (2.19%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (2.19%) Cisco Firepower
7 3 (2.19%) Unified Communications
7 3 (2.19%) VLAN
7 3 (2.19%) WebEx
8 2 (1.46%) NAS
8 2 (1.46%) Network Security
8 2 (1.46%) SAN
9 1 (0.73%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.38%) InfluxDB
2 1 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 10 (7.30%) Git
1 10 (7.30%) GitLab
2 9 (6.57%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.38%) Cypress.io
3 6 (4.38%) Robot Framework
3 6 (4.38%) Selenium
3 6 (4.38%) TestRail
4 1 (0.73%) JIRA
General
1 17 (12.41%) Finance
2 7 (5.11%) Aerospace
3 6 (4.38%) Social Skills
4 3 (2.19%) Banking
4 3 (2.19%) Marketing
4 3 (2.19%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.19%) Retail
4 3 (2.19%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (21.17%) Terraform
2 9 (6.57%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (4.38%) Playwright
3 6 (4.38%) pytest
4 3 (2.19%) XMPP
5 1 (0.73%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.11%) Cloud Native
1 7 (5.11%) Replication
2 6 (4.38%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.19%) FlexPod
4 3 (2.19%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.19%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (0.73%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 41 (29.93%) Linux
2 19 (13.87%) Windows
3 9 (6.57%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.38%) CentOS
5 3 (2.19%) Unix
6 2 (1.46%) Android
6 2 (1.46%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.46%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.73%) Rocky
7 1 (0.73%) VMS
7 1 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (18.98%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (14.60%) Infrastructure Automation
4 18 (13.14%) CI/CD
4 18 (13.14%) Containerisation
5 17 (12.41%) Agile
6 16 (11.68%) Project Delivery
7 14 (10.22%) Collaborative Culture
7 14 (10.22%) Collaborative Working
8 13 (9.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (8.03%) Disaster Recovery
10 10 (7.30%) DevOps
10 10 (7.30%) High Availability
11 9 (6.57%) Test Automation
12 7 (5.11%) Cybersecurity
12 7 (5.11%) Platform Engineering
13 6 (4.38%) Dashboard Development
13 6 (4.38%) Software Testing
13 6 (4.38%) Test Management
14 5 (3.65%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (16.79%) Python
2 17 (12.41%) Bash
3 11 (8.03%) PowerShell
4 6 (4.38%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.46%) SQL
6 1 (0.73%) Java
Qualifications
1 39 (28.47%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.41%) DV Cleared
3 9 (6.57%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (1.46%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.46%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (1.46%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (0.73%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.38%) GDPR
2 4 (2.92%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.19%) QA
System Software
1 17 (12.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (10.95%) Docker
3 9 (6.57%) Active Directory
4 6 (4.38%) Hyper-V
4 6 (4.38%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.92%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (2.19%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (2.19%) vSphere
7 1 (0.73%) Firmware
7 1 (0.73%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (18.98%) Ansible
1 26 (18.98%) Kubernetes
2 15 (10.95%) Grafana
3 8 (5.84%) vCenter Server
4 6 (4.38%) Kibana
4 6 (4.38%) logstash
4 6 (4.38%) Prometheus
4 6 (4.38%) Puppet
5 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.19%) Argo
6 3 (2.19%) Cisco CUCM
6 3 (2.19%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (2.19%) Istio
6 3 (2.19%) linkerd
6 3 (2.19%) Mesos
7 2 (1.46%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.73%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.73%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 25 (18.25%) Microsoft
2 17 (12.41%) VMware
3 9 (6.57%) Splunk
4 8 (5.84%) Red Hat
5 6 (4.38%) Atlassian
5 6 (4.38%) Cisco
6 5 (3.65%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.92%) Oracle
7 4 (2.92%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.19%) NetApp
8 3 (2.19%) Veeam
9 2 (1.46%) Dell
10 1 (0.73%) HP
10 1 (0.73%) Juniper