FlexPod Job Trends in the South West

Cisco/NetApp FlexPod
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FlexPod in permanent job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited FlexPod over the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing FlexPod 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.017% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.075% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
England median annual salary - - -

All Generic Skills
South West

FlexPod falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,334 1,443 2,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 22.84% 40.39% 33.96%
Number of salaries quoted 804 639 1,756
10th Percentile £27,537 £26,450 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,519 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,440
% change year-on-year -12.00% +12.73% -14.71%

FlexPod
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing FlexPod relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

FlexPod job vacancy trend in the South West

FlexPod
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing FlexPod.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing FlexPod

FlexPod
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FlexPod within the South West region over the 6 months to 17 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
Gloucestershire - 1 - - 1
FlexPod
England

FlexPod
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) WebEx
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Collaboration Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
1 1 (100.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) VMware