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 9 July 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 55 42
Rank change year-on-year +29 -13 +36
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 94 12 98
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 5.49% 2.22% 5.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.82% 2.35% 6.04%
Number of salaries quoted 29 9 62
10th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £52,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £80,000 £49,250
Median % change year-on-year -34.38% +62.44% -12.05%
75th Percentile £66,250 - £60,188
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,000 £75,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £52,115 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.54% +4.23% +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 1,615 511 1,622
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 94.45% 96.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,083 313 1,222
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,754 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £94,750 £78,750
South West median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 9 July 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 9 July 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 +1 48 £40,000 -50.00% 8
Cheltenham -6 24 £75,000 +25.00% 14
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 9 July 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 94 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 44 (46.81%) Linux
3 35 (37.23%) Security Cleared
4 32 (34.04%) Microsoft
5 29 (30.85%) Ansible
6 26 (27.66%) Infrastructure as Code
7 25 (26.60%) Python
7 25 (26.60%) Terraform
8 24 (25.53%) VMware
8 24 (25.53%) VMware Infrastructure
8 24 (25.53%) Windows
9 23 (24.47%) AWS
10 20 (21.28%) Kubernetes
11 19 (20.21%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (19.15%) Bash
13 17 (18.09%) CI/CD
13 17 (18.09%) Grafana
14 16 (17.02%) Agile
14 16 (17.02%) Collaborative Culture
14 16 (17.02%) Containerisation
14 16 (17.02%) Firewall
14 16 (17.02%) Infrastructure Automation
15 15 (15.96%) LAN
15 15 (15.96%) WAN
16 14 (14.89%) Docker
16 14 (14.89%) PowerShell
16 14 (14.89%) Splunk
17 13 (13.83%) GitLab
17 13 (13.83%) Windows Server
18 12 (12.77%) Active Directory

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 (5.32%) Confluence
1 5 (5.32%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.19%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.06%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 23 (24.47%) AWS
2 19 (20.21%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (12.77%) Azure
4 10 (10.64%) OpenShift
5 5 (5.32%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.26%) GCP
7 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (3.19%) OCI
8 2 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.13%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.02%) Firewall
2 15 (15.96%) LAN
2 15 (15.96%) WAN
3 11 (11.70%) DNS
4 9 (9.57%) DHCP
5 7 (7.45%) Unified Communications
5 7 (7.45%) VLAN
5 7 (7.45%) VPN
5 7 (7.45%) WebEx
6 6 (6.38%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (6.38%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (4.26%) NAS
7 4 (4.26%) SAN
7 4 (4.26%) TCP/IP
7 4 (4.26%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (2.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.45%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 13 (13.83%) GitLab
2 9 (9.57%) Jenkins
3 8 (8.51%) Git
4 7 (7.45%) Cypress.io
4 7 (7.45%) Robot Framework
4 7 (7.45%) Selenium
4 7 (7.45%) TestRail
5 3 (3.19%) JIRA
6 1 (1.06%) Bitbucket
General
1 12 (12.77%) Finance
2 8 (8.51%) Aerospace
3 6 (6.38%) Banking
3 6 (6.38%) Marketing
3 6 (6.38%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.38%) Retail
3 6 (6.38%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.19%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.57%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (7.45%) Playwright
2 7 (7.45%) pytest
2 7 (7.45%) XMPP
3 1 (1.06%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.83%) Replication
2 7 (7.45%) FlexPod
2 7 (7.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (7.45%) Onboarding
2 7 (7.45%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.45%) Video Conferencing
3 4 (4.26%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.19%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 44 (46.81%) Linux
2 24 (25.53%) Windows
3 13 (13.83%) Windows Server
4 7 (7.45%) CentOS
5 2 (2.13%) Android
5 2 (2.13%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.13%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.13%) Unix
6 1 (1.06%) Rocky
6 1 (1.06%) VMS
6 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (27.66%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (18.09%) CI/CD
4 16 (17.02%) Agile
4 16 (17.02%) Collaborative Culture
4 16 (17.02%) Containerisation
4 16 (17.02%) Infrastructure Automation
5 11 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (11.70%) Project Delivery
6 10 (10.64%) Collaborative Working
6 10 (10.64%) Data Management
6 10 (10.64%) DevOps
6 10 (10.64%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (10.64%) High Availability
7 9 (9.57%) Test Automation
8 8 (8.51%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (7.45%) Dashboard Development
9 7 (7.45%) Software Testing
9 7 (7.45%) Test Management
10 6 (6.38%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (26.60%) Python
2 18 (19.15%) Bash
3 14 (14.89%) PowerShell
4 7 (7.45%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (37.23%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.77%) DV Cleared
3 8 (8.51%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (2.13%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.13%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (2.13%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.38%) GDPR
2 4 (4.26%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 24 (25.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (14.89%) Docker
3 12 (12.77%) Active Directory
4 7 (7.45%) Hyper-V
4 7 (7.45%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (7.45%) vSphere
5 6 (6.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (6.38%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (5.32%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.06%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 29 (30.85%) Ansible
2 25 (26.60%) Terraform
3 20 (21.28%) Kubernetes
4 17 (18.09%) Grafana
5 10 (10.64%) vCenter Server
6 7 (7.45%) Cisco CUCM
6 7 (7.45%) Kibana
6 7 (7.45%) logstash
7 4 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (3.19%) Prometheus
8 3 (3.19%) Puppet
9 2 (2.13%) FortiGate
9 2 (2.13%) NetBackup
10 1 (1.06%) Argo
10 1 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (1.06%) Istio
10 1 (1.06%) linkerd
10 1 (1.06%) Mesos
10 1 (1.06%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 32 (34.04%) Microsoft
2 24 (25.53%) VMware
3 14 (14.89%) Splunk
4 11 (11.70%) Cisco
5 10 (10.64%) Red Hat
6 9 (9.57%) Fortinet
7 8 (8.51%) Palo Alto
8 7 (7.45%) Atlassian
8 7 (7.45%) NetApp
9 4 (4.26%) Veeam
10 3 (3.19%) Dell
10 3 (3.19%) Oracle
11 2 (2.13%) HP
11 2 (2.13%) Juniper