Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Infrastructure Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Gloucestershire is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
27 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 51 62
Rank change year-on-year +12 +11 +21
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 21 33 44
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 3.41% 3.70% 5.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.66% 3.81% 5.44%
Number of salaries quoted 17 16 20
10th Percentile £46,000 £33,750 £45,625
25th Percentile £54,914 £41,125 £49,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £48,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +64.10% -11.36% -
75th Percentile - £70,000 £65,938
90th Percentile - - £78,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +10.80%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 573 866 809
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.02% 97.09% 94.84%
Number of salaries quoted 413 445 502
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £39,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +2.86%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £82,100 £80,000
South West median annual salary £47,500 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.65% -0.95% +5.00%

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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 2025. 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 +21 11 £80,000 +42.22% 5
Cheltenham +4 1 £67,500 +10.20% 4
Stroud +1 1 £40,000 -11.11%
Tewkesbury - 1 £70,000 -
Infrastructure Engineer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 27 November 2025, 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 20 (95.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (71.43%) Windows
3 14 (66.67%) Azure
3 14 (66.67%) Windows Server
4 13 (61.90%) Active Directory
5 12 (57.14%) DV Cleared
5 12 (57.14%) Security Cleared
6 11 (52.38%) Entra ID
7 10 (47.62%) Hyper-V
7 10 (47.62%) Kubernetes
7 10 (47.62%) Linux
8 9 (42.86%) Containerisation
8 9 (42.86%) SC Cleared
9 8 (38.10%) Azure Certification
9 8 (38.10%) Azure Stack
9 8 (38.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (38.10%) Dell
9 8 (38.10%) Network+ Certification
9 8 (38.10%) Rocky
9 8 (38.10%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
11 4 (19.05%) Firewall
11 4 (19.05%) VMware
12 3 (14.29%) Accessibility
12 3 (14.29%) Cisco
12 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 3 (14.29%) Due Diligence
12 3 (14.29%) Fortinet
12 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
12 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365

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:

Applications
1 1 (4.76%) AutoCAD
1 1 (4.76%) Civil 3D
Cloud Services
1 14 (66.67%) Azure
2 11 (52.38%) Entra ID
3 8 (38.10%) Azure Stack
4 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (9.52%) AWS
5 2 (9.52%) IaaS
5 2 (9.52%) Mimecast
5 2 (9.52%) OpenShift
5 2 (9.52%) PaaS
6 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) Firewall
2 2 (9.52%) VPN
3 1 (4.76%) DHCP
3 1 (4.76%) DNS
3 1 (4.76%) LAN
3 1 (4.76%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.76%) Telnet
3 1 (4.76%) VLAN
3 1 (4.76%) VSAN
3 1 (4.76%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) GitLab
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (61.90%) Public Sector
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Legal
3 3 (14.29%) Local Government
4 2 (9.52%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Data Centre
1 8 (38.10%) Hybrid Cloud
1 8 (38.10%) Onboarding
2 3 (14.29%) NHS
3 2 (9.52%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 15 (71.43%) Windows
2 14 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 10 (47.62%) Linux
4 8 (38.10%) Rocky
4 8 (38.10%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (4.76%) CentOS
5 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (95.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (14.29%) Due Diligence
3 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (14.29%) Strategic Planning
4 2 (9.52%) BCP
4 2 (9.52%) Business Continuity
4 2 (9.52%) Business Continuity Planning
4 2 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (9.52%) High Availability
4 2 (9.52%) Migration
4 2 (9.52%) Project Management
4 2 (9.52%) RBAC
4 2 (9.52%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (9.52%) Threat Detection
4 2 (9.52%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.52%) Bash
2 2 (9.52%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (57.14%) DV Cleared
1 12 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 9 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 8 (38.10%) Azure Certification
3 8 (38.10%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (38.10%) Network+ Certification
4 3 (14.29%) Postgraduate
5 1 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 2 (9.52%) GDPR
2 2 (9.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (61.90%) Active Directory
2 10 (47.62%) Hyper-V
3 3 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (14.29%) vSphere
4 1 (4.76%) Docker
4 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (47.62%) Kubernetes
2 3 (14.29%) vCenter Server
3 2 (9.52%) Ansible
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Dell
2 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
3 4 (19.05%) VMware
4 3 (14.29%) Cisco
4 3 (14.29%) Fortinet
5 2 (9.52%) Meraki
5 2 (9.52%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
16 Infrastructure Engineer jobs in Gloucestershire