Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Infrastructure Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Gloucestershire is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 May 2026.

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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 62 42
Rank change year-on-year +37 -20 +50
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 63 2 102
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 4.77% 0.48% 6.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.07% 0.51% 6.26%
Number of salaries quoted 23 2 63
10th Percentile £38,000 - £35,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £52,500 £42,320
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -0.90%
75th Percentile £65,625 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £66,500 £75,000
South West median annual salary £59,250 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.25% +20.00% +5.82%

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 1,243 389 1,629
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 93.96% 96.96%
Number of salaries quoted 857 237 1,243
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,250 £75,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 - 31 £41,250 - 2
Cheltenham -7 22 £55,000 -8.33% 1
Tewkesbury - 2 £52,500 -
Infrastructure Engineer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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 63 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 39 (61.90%) Linux
3 26 (41.27%) Ansible
3 26 (41.27%) Security Cleared
4 23 (36.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (36.51%) VMware
4 23 (36.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 21 (33.33%) Python
6 20 (31.75%) Windows
7 19 (30.16%) Terraform
8 17 (26.98%) AWS
9 16 (25.40%) Firewall
10 14 (22.22%) Bash
10 14 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
10 14 (22.22%) LAN
10 14 (22.22%) WAN
11 13 (20.63%) Cisco
11 13 (20.63%) DNS
11 13 (20.63%) Grafana
11 13 (20.63%) Windows Server
12 12 (19.05%) DV Cleared
12 12 (19.05%) Kubernetes
13 11 (17.46%) CI/CD
13 11 (17.46%) Containerisation
13 11 (17.46%) DHCP
13 11 (17.46%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (17.46%) Splunk
14 10 (15.87%) Active Directory
14 10 (15.87%) Agile

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 (7.94%) Confluence
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.17%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.59%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 17 (26.98%) AWS
2 11 (17.46%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (12.70%) Azure
4 6 (9.52%) OpenShift
5 3 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 3 (4.76%) GCP
6 1 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.59%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 16 (25.40%) Firewall
2 14 (22.22%) LAN
2 14 (22.22%) WAN
3 13 (20.63%) DNS
4 11 (17.46%) DHCP
5 7 (11.11%) TCP/IP
5 7 (11.11%) Unified Communications
5 7 (11.11%) VLAN
5 7 (11.11%) WebEx
6 6 (9.52%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (9.52%) Cisco Firepower
6 6 (9.52%) VPN
7 4 (6.35%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (4.76%) NAS
8 3 (4.76%) SAN
9 2 (3.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.35%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 10 (15.87%) GitLab
2 6 (9.52%) Git
3 5 (7.94%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.35%) Cypress.io
4 4 (6.35%) Robot Framework
4 4 (6.35%) Selenium
4 4 (6.35%) TestRail
5 3 (4.76%) JIRA
6 2 (3.17%) Bitbucket
General
1 9 (14.29%) Finance
1 9 (14.29%) Marketing
1 9 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 9 (14.29%) Telecoms
2 7 (11.11%) Retail
3 6 (9.52%) Banking
4 4 (6.35%) Aerospace
5 3 (4.76%) Electronics
5 3 (4.76%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.17%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.11%) XMPP
2 5 (7.94%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (6.35%) Playwright
3 4 (6.35%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.05%) Replication
2 7 (11.11%) FlexPod
2 7 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 7 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
3 4 (6.35%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.76%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.59%) CCTV
5 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 39 (61.90%) Linux
2 20 (31.75%) Windows
3 13 (20.63%) Windows Server
4 4 (6.35%) CentOS
5 1 (1.59%) Unix
5 1 (1.59%) VMS
5 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 23 (36.51%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
4 11 (17.46%) CI/CD
4 11 (17.46%) Containerisation
5 10 (15.87%) Agile
6 9 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
6 9 (14.29%) Data Management
7 8 (12.70%) DevOps
7 8 (12.70%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (12.70%) High Availability
8 7 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (11.11%) Project Delivery
9 6 (9.52%) Patch Management
9 6 (9.52%) Performance Management
9 6 (9.52%) Virtual Infrastructure
10 5 (7.94%) Collaborative Working
10 5 (7.94%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (33.33%) Python
2 14 (22.22%) Bash
3 10 (15.87%) PowerShell
4 4 (6.35%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (41.27%) Security Cleared
2 12 (19.05%) DV Cleared
3 6 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (3.17%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.17%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (3.17%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.59%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) GDPR
2 4 (6.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (6.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.59%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.59%) QA
System Software
1 23 (36.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (15.87%) Active Directory
2 10 (15.87%) Docker
3 8 (12.70%) Hyper-V
3 8 (12.70%) vSphere
4 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (9.52%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (9.52%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (6.35%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.59%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (41.27%) Ansible
2 19 (30.16%) Terraform
3 13 (20.63%) Grafana
4 12 (19.05%) Kubernetes
5 8 (12.70%) vCenter Server
6 7 (11.11%) Cisco CUCM
7 4 (6.35%) Kibana
7 4 (6.35%) logstash
8 3 (4.76%) NetBackup
9 2 (3.17%) FortiGate
9 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (3.17%) Prometheus
9 2 (3.17%) Puppet
10 1 (1.59%) Argo
10 1 (1.59%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (1.59%) Istio
10 1 (1.59%) linkerd
10 1 (1.59%) Mesos
10 1 (1.59%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.59%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 23 (36.51%) VMware
2 21 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 13 (20.63%) Cisco
4 11 (17.46%) Splunk
5 10 (15.87%) Fortinet
6 8 (12.70%) Palo Alto
7 7 (11.11%) NetApp
8 6 (9.52%) Red Hat
9 5 (7.94%) Veeam
10 4 (6.35%) Atlassian
10 4 (6.35%) Dell
11 3 (4.76%) HP
11 3 (4.76%) Juniper
11 3 (4.76%) SAP
12 1 (1.59%) Meraki
12 1 (1.59%) SolarWinds