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 11 October 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 37 49
Rank change year-on-year +13 +12 +10
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 147 19 46
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 5.84% 3.65% 4.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.20% 3.85% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 67 16 23
10th Percentile £40,000 £51,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £54,685 £37,500
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 £92,500 - -
South West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +15.79% -

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 2,371 493 1,011
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 94.63% 96.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,490 334 532
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,532 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -0.10% -4.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £74,688 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,875 £78,750
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 11 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 11 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 -6 79 £65,000 -18.75% 11
Cheltenham - 45 £75,000 - 7
Infrastructure Engineer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 147 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 43 (29.25%) Security Cleared
3 35 (23.81%) Linux
4 31 (21.09%) Terraform
5 30 (20.41%) Kubernetes
6 29 (19.73%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (19.05%) Ansible
7 28 (19.05%) Microsoft
7 28 (19.05%) Python
8 23 (15.65%) Bash
9 22 (14.97%) AWS
10 21 (14.29%) DV Cleared
11 20 (13.61%) Infrastructure Automation
12 19 (12.93%) Agile
12 19 (12.93%) CI/CD
12 19 (12.93%) Containerisation
13 17 (11.56%) Windows
14 15 (10.20%) Grafana
15 14 (9.52%) PowerShell
16 13 (8.84%) Azure
16 13 (8.84%) Collaborative Working
16 13 (8.84%) Docker
16 13 (8.84%) VMware
16 13 (8.84%) VMware Infrastructure
17 12 (8.16%) Collaborative Culture
17 12 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
17 12 (8.16%) Git
17 12 (8.16%) Project Delivery
18 11 (7.48%) DevOps
18 11 (7.48%) OpenShift

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 (3.40%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (3.40%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.72%) Apache
3 3 (2.04%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.68%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 22 (14.97%) AWS
2 13 (8.84%) Azure
3 11 (7.48%) OpenShift
4 10 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (4.76%) GCP
6 4 (2.72%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (2.72%) OCI
7 3 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.04%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.36%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.36%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.68%) AWS KMS
9 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.68%) Route 53
9 1 (0.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.72%) DHCP
1 4 (2.72%) DNS
2 3 (2.04%) Firewall
2 3 (2.04%) LAN
2 3 (2.04%) VPN
2 3 (2.04%) WAN
3 2 (1.36%) NAS
3 2 (1.36%) SAN
4 1 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.68%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.68%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.68%) VLAN
4 1 (0.68%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.08%) InfluxDB
2 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 12 (8.16%) Git
2 10 (6.80%) GitLab
3 9 (6.12%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.08%) Cypress.io
4 6 (4.08%) Robot Framework
4 6 (4.08%) Selenium
4 6 (4.08%) TestRail
5 1 (0.68%) JIRA
General
1 21 (14.29%) Finance
2 7 (4.76%) Social Skills
3 6 (4.08%) Aerospace
4 1 (0.68%) Banking
4 1 (0.68%) Marketing
4 1 (0.68%) Public Sector
4 1 (0.68%) Retail
4 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (21.09%) Terraform
2 9 (6.12%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (4.08%) Playwright
3 6 (4.08%) pytest
4 2 (1.36%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.68%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.12%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.08%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.04%) Replication
4 2 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.68%) FlexPod
5 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.68%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 35 (23.81%) Linux
2 17 (11.56%) Windows
3 6 (4.08%) CentOS
4 4 (2.72%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.04%) Unix
6 2 (1.36%) Android
6 2 (1.36%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.36%) macOS
6 2 (1.36%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (19.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (13.61%) Infrastructure Automation
4 19 (12.93%) Agile
4 19 (12.93%) CI/CD
4 19 (12.93%) Containerisation
5 13 (8.84%) Collaborative Working
6 12 (8.16%) Collaborative Culture
6 12 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (8.16%) Project Delivery
7 11 (7.48%) DevOps
8 10 (6.80%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (6.80%) High Availability
8 10 (6.80%) Platform Engineering
9 9 (6.12%) Test Automation
10 6 (4.08%) Dashboard Development
10 6 (4.08%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (4.08%) Software Testing
10 6 (4.08%) Test Management
11 5 (3.40%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 28 (19.05%) Python
2 23 (15.65%) Bash
3 14 (9.52%) PowerShell
4 6 (4.08%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.72%) Java
Qualifications
1 43 (29.25%) Security Cleared
2 21 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 10 (6.80%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.04%) QA
2 2 (1.36%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (8.84%) Docker
1 13 (8.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (4.08%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (3.40%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (2.72%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (20.41%) Kubernetes
2 28 (19.05%) Ansible
3 15 (10.20%) Grafana
4 11 (7.48%) vCenter Server
5 9 (6.12%) Puppet
6 8 (5.44%) Prometheus
7 6 (4.08%) Kibana
7 6 (4.08%) logstash
8 5 (3.40%) Argo
9 4 (2.72%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (2.72%) Istio
9 4 (2.72%) linkerd
9 4 (2.72%) Mesos
10 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.68%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.68%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 28 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.84%) VMware
3 8 (5.44%) Red Hat
4 7 (4.76%) Splunk
5 6 (4.08%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.72%) Oracle
7 2 (1.36%) Cisco
8 1 (0.68%) Dell
8 1 (0.68%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.68%) HP
8 1 (0.68%) Juniper
8 1 (0.68%) NetApp
8 1 (0.68%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.68%) Veeam