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 24 February 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 61 60
Rank change year-on-year +24 -1 +29
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 29 13 70
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 3.49% 2.42% 5.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.71% 2.51% 5.51%
Number of salaries quoted 15 3 35
10th Percentile £38,500 £47,000 £49,050
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £61,875 £80,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £65,750 £86,000 £75,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% +11.11%

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 781 518 1,271
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 96.28% 95.85%
Number of salaries quoted 544 218 925
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,700 £75,750
South West median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -

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 24 February 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 24 February 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
Cheltenham -4 10 £55,000 -22.81% 4
Gloucester +2 8 - -
Stroud - 1 £40,000 -
Tewkesbury - 1 £52,500 -
Infrastructure Engineer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 24 February 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 28 (96.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (55.17%) Security Cleared
3 14 (48.28%) Linux
3 14 (48.28%) Microsoft
4 13 (44.83%) Ansible
5 12 (41.38%) Windows
6 11 (37.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (37.93%) Python
7 10 (34.48%) DV Cleared
7 10 (34.48%) VMware
7 10 (34.48%) VMware Infrastructure
8 9 (31.03%) Active Directory
8 9 (31.03%) Bash
8 9 (31.03%) DHCP
8 9 (31.03%) DNS
9 8 (27.59%) AWS
9 8 (27.59%) Firewall
9 8 (27.59%) PowerShell
9 8 (27.59%) Windows Server
10 7 (24.14%) Cisco
10 7 (24.14%) TCP/IP
10 7 (24.14%) Terraform
11 6 (20.69%) Azure
11 6 (20.69%) GitLab
11 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (20.69%) vCenter Server
11 6 (20.69%) Virtual Infrastructure
12 5 (17.24%) Agile
12 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
12 5 (17.24%) Containerisation

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 2 (6.90%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) Apache
2 1 (3.45%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) AWS
2 6 (20.69%) Azure
3 5 (17.24%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (10.34%) Entra ID
4 3 (10.34%) OpenShift
5 2 (6.90%) IaaS
5 2 (6.90%) Mimecast
5 2 (6.90%) PaaS
6 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (31.03%) DHCP
1 9 (31.03%) DNS
2 8 (27.59%) Firewall
3 7 (24.14%) TCP/IP
4 5 (17.24%) LAN
4 5 (17.24%) WAN
5 4 (13.79%) VPN
6 3 (10.34%) VLAN
7 2 (6.90%) NAS
7 2 (6.90%) SAN
7 2 (6.90%) Unified Communications
7 2 (6.90%) WebEx
8 1 (3.45%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (3.45%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (3.45%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (3.45%) Telnet
8 1 (3.45%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) GitLab
2 3 (10.34%) Git
3 2 (6.90%) Bitbucket
3 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.90%) JIRA
4 1 (3.45%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.45%) Robot Framework
4 1 (3.45%) Selenium
4 1 (3.45%) TestRail
General
1 6 (20.69%) Finance
1 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
2 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Marketing
3 4 (13.79%) Telecoms
4 3 (10.34%) Electronics
4 3 (10.34%) Manufacturing
4 3 (10.34%) Retail
5 2 (6.90%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.45%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) XMPP
2 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.45%) Playwright
2 1 (3.45%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Replication
2 2 (6.90%) CCTV
2 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.90%) FlexPod
2 2 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.90%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (48.28%) Linux
2 12 (41.38%) Windows
3 8 (27.59%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.90%) CentOS
5 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (96.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (37.93%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (20.69%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 5 (17.24%) Agile
4 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
4 5 (17.24%) Containerisation
4 5 (17.24%) High Availability
5 4 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (13.79%) DevOps
5 4 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (10.34%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (10.34%) Data Management
6 3 (10.34%) Digital Marketing
6 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Management
6 3 (10.34%) Patch Management
6 3 (10.34%) Programme Management
7 2 (6.90%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) Python
2 9 (31.03%) Bash
3 8 (27.59%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 16 (55.17%) Security Cleared
2 10 (34.48%) DV Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.45%) Degree
4 1 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) GDPR
1 2 (6.90%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (34.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (31.03%) Active Directory
3 5 (17.24%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (17.24%) vSphere
4 4 (13.79%) Docker
5 3 (10.34%) Hyper-V
6 2 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (3.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (44.83%) Ansible
2 7 (24.14%) Terraform
3 6 (20.69%) vCenter Server
4 5 (17.24%) Kubernetes
5 4 (13.79%) Grafana
6 2 (6.90%) Cisco CUCM
6 2 (6.90%) NetBackup
7 1 (3.45%) Argo
7 1 (3.45%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (3.45%) Istio
7 1 (3.45%) Kibana
7 1 (3.45%) linkerd
7 1 (3.45%) logstash
7 1 (3.45%) Mesos
7 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (48.28%) Microsoft
2 10 (34.48%) VMware
3 7 (24.14%) Cisco
4 5 (17.24%) Fortinet
5 3 (10.34%) Palo Alto
5 3 (10.34%) SAP
5 3 (10.34%) Splunk
6 2 (6.90%) Dell
6 2 (6.90%) HP
6 2 (6.90%) Juniper
6 2 (6.90%) Meraki
6 2 (6.90%) NetApp
6 2 (6.90%) Red Hat
6 2 (6.90%) SolarWinds
6 2 (6.90%) Veeam
7 1 (3.45%) Atlassian