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 1 September 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 44 33
Rank change year-on-year +20 -11 +32
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 134 19 73
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 5.94% 3.42% 6.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.32% 3.61% 6.32%
Number of salaries quoted 61 16 41
10th Percentile £40,000 £52,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,685 £35,000
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 - £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 - £70,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +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 2,121 527 1,155
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 94.95% 96.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,401 365 777
10th Percentile £30,250 £27,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £35,000 £38,572
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 £100,000 £87,500 £78,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -6.86% -7.07%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 65 £65,000 -18.75% 9
Cheltenham +1 50 £75,000 +25.00% 6
Tewkesbury -11 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 1 September 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.

1 134 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 44 (32.84%) Linux
3 40 (29.85%) Security Cleared
4 31 (23.13%) Terraform
5 29 (21.64%) Ansible
6 28 (20.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (20.15%) Kubernetes
8 26 (19.40%) AWS
8 26 (19.40%) Python
9 25 (18.66%) Microsoft
10 23 (17.16%) Infrastructure Automation
11 22 (16.42%) Windows
12 20 (14.93%) VMware
12 20 (14.93%) VMware Infrastructure
13 19 (14.18%) Bash
13 19 (14.18%) CI/CD
13 19 (14.18%) Containerisation
14 18 (13.43%) Agile
14 18 (13.43%) Project Delivery
15 17 (12.69%) Azure
15 17 (12.69%) DV Cleared
15 17 (12.69%) Grafana
16 16 (11.94%) Docker
16 16 (11.94%) Microsoft 365
17 15 (11.19%) Collaborative Culture
18 13 (9.70%) Collaborative Working
18 13 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
18 13 (9.70%) PowerShell
19 11 (8.21%) Disaster Recovery
19 11 (8.21%) Firewall

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 (3.73%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.99%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.24%) Apache
3 3 (2.24%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 26 (19.40%) AWS
2 17 (12.69%) Azure
3 16 (11.94%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (8.21%) OpenShift
5 7 (5.22%) GCP
6 5 (3.73%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.99%) OCI
8 3 (2.24%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.49%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.75%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (0.75%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.75%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.75%) Route 53
10 1 (0.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.21%) Firewall
2 10 (7.46%) LAN
2 10 (7.46%) WAN
3 8 (5.97%) DNS
4 6 (4.48%) DHCP
4 6 (4.48%) VPN
5 4 (2.99%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (2.99%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (2.99%) Unified Communications
5 4 (2.99%) VLAN
5 4 (2.99%) WebEx
5 4 (2.99%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.49%) NAS
6 2 (1.49%) Network Security
6 2 (1.49%) SAN
6 2 (1.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.22%) InfluxDB
2 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (8.21%) Git
1 11 (8.21%) GitLab
2 10 (7.46%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.22%) Cypress.io
3 7 (5.22%) Robot Framework
3 7 (5.22%) Selenium
3 7 (5.22%) TestRail
4 1 (0.75%) JIRA
General
1 17 (12.69%) Finance
2 7 (5.22%) Aerospace
3 6 (4.48%) Social Skills
4 4 (2.99%) Banking
4 4 (2.99%) Marketing
4 4 (2.99%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.99%) Retail
4 4 (2.99%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (23.13%) Terraform
2 10 (7.46%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (5.22%) Playwright
3 7 (5.22%) pytest
4 4 (2.99%) XMPP
5 1 (0.75%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.97%) Replication
2 7 (5.22%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.22%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.73%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.99%) FlexPod
4 4 (2.99%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.99%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (0.75%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 44 (32.84%) Linux
2 22 (16.42%) Windows
3 10 (7.46%) Windows Server
4 7 (5.22%) CentOS
5 3 (2.24%) Unix
6 2 (1.49%) Android
6 2 (1.49%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.49%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.75%) Rocky
7 1 (0.75%) VMS
7 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 28 (20.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (17.16%) Infrastructure Automation
4 19 (14.18%) CI/CD
4 19 (14.18%) Containerisation
5 18 (13.43%) Agile
5 18 (13.43%) Project Delivery
6 15 (11.19%) Collaborative Culture
7 13 (9.70%) Collaborative Working
7 13 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (8.21%) Disaster Recovery
9 10 (7.46%) DevOps
9 10 (7.46%) High Availability
9 10 (7.46%) Test Automation
10 8 (5.97%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (5.22%) Dashboard Development
11 7 (5.22%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (5.22%) Software Testing
11 7 (5.22%) Test Management
12 6 (4.48%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (19.40%) Python
2 19 (14.18%) Bash
3 13 (9.70%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.22%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.49%) SQL
6 1 (0.75%) Java
Qualifications
1 40 (29.85%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.69%) DV Cleared
3 9 (6.72%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (1.49%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (1.49%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.48%) GDPR
2 4 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.24%) QA
System Software
1 20 (14.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (11.94%) Docker
3 9 (6.72%) Active Directory
4 7 (5.22%) Hyper-V
4 7 (5.22%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 4 (2.99%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (2.99%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.99%) vSphere
6 1 (0.75%) Firmware
6 1 (0.75%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (21.64%) Ansible
2 27 (20.15%) Kubernetes
3 17 (12.69%) Grafana
4 9 (6.72%) vCenter Server
5 7 (5.22%) Kibana
5 7 (5.22%) logstash
6 6 (4.48%) Prometheus
6 6 (4.48%) Puppet
7 4 (2.99%) Cisco CUCM
7 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (2.24%) Argo
8 3 (2.24%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (2.24%) Istio
8 3 (2.24%) linkerd
8 3 (2.24%) Mesos
9 2 (1.49%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.49%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.75%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 25 (18.66%) Microsoft
2 20 (14.93%) VMware
3 11 (8.21%) Splunk
4 9 (6.72%) Red Hat
5 8 (5.97%) Cisco
6 7 (5.22%) Atlassian
7 6 (4.48%) Fortinet
8 5 (3.73%) Palo Alto
9 4 (2.99%) NetApp
9 4 (2.99%) Oracle
9 4 (2.99%) Veeam
10 3 (2.24%) Dell
11 2 (1.49%) HP
11 2 (1.49%) Juniper