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 August 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 51 31
Rank change year-on-year +27 -20 +39
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 119 16 82
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 5.77% 2.64% 6.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.13% 2.82% 6.75%
Number of salaries quoted 54 13 53
10th Percentile £40,000 £52,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,313 £65,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +77.78% -22.41%
75th Percentile £75,000 - £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 - £70,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £51,729 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.32% +3.46% +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 1,940 567 1,215
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 93.72% 96.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,285 358 854
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £28,650
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £87,500 £80,000
South West median annual salary £52,500 £49,300 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.49% -1.40% -8.41%

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 August 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 August 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 -3 51 £42,500 -46.88% 9
Cheltenham +5 49 £75,000 +25.00% 12
Tewkesbury -7 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 11 August 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.

1 119 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 46 (38.66%) Linux
3 34 (28.57%) Security Cleared
4 29 (24.37%) Microsoft
4 29 (24.37%) Terraform
5 28 (23.53%) Ansible
6 27 (22.69%) AWS
7 26 (21.85%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (20.17%) Python
8 24 (20.17%) Windows
9 23 (19.33%) Infrastructure Automation
10 22 (18.49%) Kubernetes
10 22 (18.49%) VMware
10 22 (18.49%) VMware Infrastructure
11 19 (15.97%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (15.13%) Project Delivery
13 17 (14.29%) Grafana
14 16 (13.45%) Agile
14 16 (13.45%) Bash
15 15 (12.61%) Azure
15 15 (12.61%) CI/CD
15 15 (12.61%) Containerisation
16 14 (11.76%) Collaborative Culture
16 14 (11.76%) DV Cleared
16 14 (11.76%) Firewall
17 13 (10.92%) Docker
17 13 (10.92%) LAN
17 13 (10.92%) PowerShell
17 13 (10.92%) Splunk
17 13 (10.92%) WAN

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 (4.20%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.52%) Confluence
4 2 (1.68%) Apache
4 2 (1.68%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 27 (22.69%) AWS
2 19 (15.97%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (12.61%) Azure
4 8 (6.72%) OpenShift
5 5 (4.20%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.20%) GCP
6 4 (3.36%) OCI
7 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.68%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.68%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.84%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.84%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (0.84%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.84%) AWS KMS
9 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.84%) Route 53
9 1 (0.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.76%) Firewall
2 13 (10.92%) LAN
2 13 (10.92%) WAN
3 9 (7.56%) DNS
4 7 (5.88%) DHCP
4 7 (5.88%) Unified Communications
4 7 (5.88%) VLAN
4 7 (5.88%) WebEx
5 6 (5.04%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (5.04%) Cisco Firepower
5 6 (5.04%) VPN
6 4 (3.36%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (2.52%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.68%) NAS
8 2 (1.68%) Network Security
8 2 (1.68%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.04%) InfluxDB
2 1 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 9 (7.56%) Git
1 9 (7.56%) GitLab
2 8 (6.72%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.04%) Cypress.io
3 6 (5.04%) Robot Framework
3 6 (5.04%) Selenium
3 6 (5.04%) TestRail
4 1 (0.84%) JIRA
General
1 13 (10.92%) Finance
2 7 (5.88%) Aerospace
3 6 (5.04%) Banking
3 6 (5.04%) Marketing
3 6 (5.04%) Public Sector
3 6 (5.04%) Retail
3 6 (5.04%) Telecoms
4 5 (4.20%) Social Skills
5 2 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.72%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (5.88%) XMPP
3 6 (5.04%) Playwright
3 6 (5.04%) pytest
4 1 (0.84%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.24%) Replication
2 8 (6.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (5.88%) FlexPod
3 7 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.88%) Video Conferencing
4 6 (5.04%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.36%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.84%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 46 (38.66%) Linux
2 24 (20.17%) Windows
3 12 (10.08%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.04%) CentOS
5 2 (1.68%) Android
5 2 (1.68%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.68%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.68%) Unix
6 1 (0.84%) Rocky
6 1 (0.84%) VMS
6 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (21.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (19.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 18 (15.13%) Project Delivery
5 16 (13.45%) Agile
6 15 (12.61%) CI/CD
6 15 (12.61%) Containerisation
7 14 (11.76%) Collaborative Culture
8 12 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (8.40%) Collaborative Working
9 10 (8.40%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (7.56%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (6.72%) Data Management
11 8 (6.72%) High Availability
11 8 (6.72%) Test Automation
12 7 (5.88%) DevOps
13 6 (5.04%) Dashboard Development
13 6 (5.04%) Performance Management
13 6 (5.04%) Software Testing
13 6 (5.04%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (20.17%) Python
2 16 (13.45%) Bash
3 13 (10.92%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.04%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.68%) SQL
6 1 (0.84%) Java
Qualifications
1 34 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.76%) DV Cleared
3 7 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (1.68%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.68%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (1.68%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (0.84%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.04%) GDPR
2 4 (3.36%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.68%) QA
System Software
1 22 (18.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (10.92%) Docker
3 9 (7.56%) Active Directory
4 7 (5.88%) Hyper-V
4 7 (5.88%) vSphere
5 6 (5.04%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (5.04%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (5.04%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (3.36%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.84%) Firmware
7 1 (0.84%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (24.37%) Terraform
2 28 (23.53%) Ansible
3 22 (18.49%) Kubernetes
4 17 (14.29%) Grafana
5 8 (6.72%) vCenter Server
6 7 (5.88%) Cisco CUCM
7 6 (5.04%) Kibana
7 6 (5.04%) logstash
8 5 (4.20%) Puppet
9 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (3.36%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.68%) Argo
10 2 (1.68%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (1.68%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.68%) Istio
10 2 (1.68%) linkerd
10 2 (1.68%) Mesos
10 2 (1.68%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.84%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 29 (24.37%) Microsoft
2 22 (18.49%) VMware
3 13 (10.92%) Splunk
4 11 (9.24%) Cisco
5 9 (7.56%) Fortinet
6 8 (6.72%) Palo Alto
6 8 (6.72%) Red Hat
7 7 (5.88%) NetApp
8 6 (5.04%) Atlassian
9 4 (3.36%) Oracle
9 4 (3.36%) Veeam
10 3 (2.52%) Dell
11 2 (1.68%) HP
11 2 (1.68%) Juniper