Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South West

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the South West is £59,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 June 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 127 51
Rank change year-on-year +59 -76 +75
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 172 31 391
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.25% 1.14% 4.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.39% 1.23% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 110 29 287
10th Percentile £44,625 £41,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £40,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,250 £51,729 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% +3.46% +5.26%
75th Percentile £69,688 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,500 £63,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% +13.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 7,202 2,523 9,171
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 92.38% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 5,011 1,598 6,956
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,365
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,058 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.07% +2.12% -4.76%
75th Percentile £69,278 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,875 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.83% +9.52% -13.22%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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 the South West.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the South West.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 1 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
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 Infrastructure Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +26 68 £52,500 -4.55% 18
Bristol +15 50 £65,000 +8.33% 4
Wiltshire +8 28 £60,000 +18.11% 10
Devon -18 16 £50,000 +0.78% 7
Somerset -25 4 £62,500 +31.58% 6
Dorset -10 3 £65,000 -22.39% 15
Cornwall - 3 £50,000 -
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 South West region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 172 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 48 (27.91%) Microsoft
3 47 (27.33%) Security Cleared
4 43 (25.00%) Linux
5 37 (21.51%) Windows
6 34 (19.77%) VMware
7 31 (18.02%) Ansible
7 31 (18.02%) VMware Infrastructure
8 28 (16.28%) Infrastructure as Code
9 25 (14.53%) Azure
9 25 (14.53%) DevOps
10 24 (13.95%) DV Cleared
10 24 (13.95%) Python
11 23 (13.37%) Windows Server
12 22 (12.79%) Active Directory
12 22 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (12.21%) Firewall
13 21 (12.21%) Terraform
14 20 (11.63%) AWS
15 19 (11.05%) Infrastructure Automation
15 19 (11.05%) Kubernetes
15 19 (11.05%) WAN
16 18 (10.47%) DNS
16 18 (10.47%) GitLab
16 18 (10.47%) Hyper-V
16 18 (10.47%) LAN
17 17 (9.88%) Cisco
17 17 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
17 17 (9.88%) Cybersecurity
17 17 (9.88%) Microsoft 365

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (4.65%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.91%) Confluence
2 5 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.74%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.16%) IIS
5 1 (0.58%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (5.23%) AutoCAD
2 5 (2.91%) Civil 3D
Cloud Services
1 25 (14.53%) Azure
2 20 (11.63%) AWS
3 17 (9.88%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (4.07%) Entra ID
4 7 (4.07%) OpenShift
5 3 (1.74%) GCP
5 3 (1.74%) IaaS
5 3 (1.74%) PaaS
6 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.58%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (0.58%) OCI
7 1 (0.58%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.58%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (12.21%) Firewall
2 19 (11.05%) WAN
3 18 (10.47%) DNS
3 18 (10.47%) LAN
4 15 (8.72%) DHCP
5 12 (6.98%) VPN
6 9 (5.23%) Network Security
6 9 (5.23%) TCP/IP
7 7 (4.07%) Unified Communications
7 7 (4.07%) VLAN
7 7 (4.07%) WebEx
8 6 (3.49%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (3.49%) Cisco Firepower
8 6 (3.49%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.74%) LTE
9 3 (1.74%) NAS
9 3 (1.74%) SAN
10 1 (0.58%) BGP
10 1 (0.58%) Internet
10 1 (0.58%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.91%) InfluxDB
2 2 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.58%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.58%) MySQL
3 1 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (10.47%) GitLab
2 8 (4.65%) Git
3 6 (3.49%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.33%) Cypress.io
4 4 (2.33%) Robot Framework
4 4 (2.33%) Selenium
4 4 (2.33%) TestRail
5 3 (1.74%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.74%) JIRA
General
1 21 (12.21%) Social Skills
2 18 (10.47%) Finance
3 13 (7.56%) Retail
4 11 (6.40%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.81%) Telecoms
6 9 (5.23%) Marketing
7 6 (3.49%) Aerospace
7 6 (3.49%) Banking
8 5 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.33%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.74%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.74%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.07%) XMPP
2 5 (2.91%) Apache NiFi
2 5 (2.91%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (2.91%) Keycloak
3 4 (2.33%) Playwright
3 4 (2.33%) pytest
4 3 (1.74%) OAuth
4 3 (1.74%) OAuth2
4 3 (1.74%) OpenID
4 3 (1.74%) SAML
5 1 (0.58%) Jinja
5 1 (0.58%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.58%) REST
5 1 (0.58%) SOAP
5 1 (0.58%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.98%) Replication
2 8 (4.65%) Onboarding
3 7 (4.07%) FlexPod
3 7 (4.07%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.07%) Video Conferencing
4 5 (2.91%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.91%) Driving Licence
4 5 (2.91%) YubiKey
5 4 (2.33%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.74%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.16%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.16%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.58%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.58%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.58%) Social Media
8 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (25.00%) Linux
2 37 (21.51%) Windows
3 23 (13.37%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.91%) CentOS
5 2 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.58%) Android
6 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.58%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.58%) Unix
6 1 (0.58%) VMS
6 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 28 (16.28%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (14.53%) DevOps
4 22 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (11.05%) Infrastructure Automation
6 17 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (9.88%) Cybersecurity
7 15 (8.72%) CI/CD
8 14 (8.14%) Agile
8 14 (8.14%) Collaborative Culture
9 12 (6.98%) Containerisation
10 11 (6.40%) Collaborative Working
10 11 (6.40%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (5.81%) ITIL
12 9 (5.23%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (5.23%) Data Management
12 9 (5.23%) High Availability
12 9 (5.23%) Project Delivery
13 8 (4.65%) Analytics
14 7 (4.07%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 24 (13.95%) Python
2 17 (9.88%) PowerShell
3 15 (8.72%) Bash
4 4 (2.33%) JavaScript
4 4 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (27.33%) Security Cleared
2 24 (13.95%) DV Cleared
3 13 (7.56%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (3.49%) Degree
6 4 (2.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (1.74%) CCNP
7 3 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.16%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.16%) MCSE
8 2 (1.16%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.58%) CCNA
9 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.58%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.58%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (6.98%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (4.07%) GDPR
4 5 (2.91%) NIST
5 3 (1.74%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.16%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.58%) NCSC
7 1 (0.58%) QA
System Software
1 31 (18.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (12.79%) Active Directory
3 18 (10.47%) Hyper-V
4 11 (6.40%) Docker
5 7 (4.07%) vSphere
6 6 (3.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (3.49%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (2.91%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.58%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.58%) Firmware
9 1 (0.58%) KVM
9 1 (0.58%) QEMU
9 1 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.58%) Xen
Systems Management
1 31 (18.02%) Ansible
2 21 (12.21%) Terraform
3 19 (11.05%) Kubernetes
4 13 (7.56%) Grafana
5 8 (4.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (4.07%) Cisco CUCM
6 7 (4.07%) vCenter Server
7 5 (2.91%) VxRail
8 4 (2.33%) Kibana
8 4 (2.33%) logstash
8 4 (2.33%) Puppet
9 3 (1.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.74%) NetBackup
9 3 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.16%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.16%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.16%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.16%) WSUS
11 1 (0.58%) linkerd
11 1 (0.58%) Mesos
Vendors
1 48 (27.91%) Microsoft
2 34 (19.77%) VMware
3 17 (9.88%) Cisco
4 14 (8.14%) Splunk
5 11 (6.40%) Fortinet
6 8 (4.65%) Palo Alto
6 8 (4.65%) Red Hat
7 7 (4.07%) NetApp
8 6 (3.49%) Dell
9 5 (2.91%) BeyondTrust
9 5 (2.91%) Juniper
9 5 (2.91%) Tenable
9 5 (2.91%) Veeam
10 4 (2.33%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.74%) HP
11 3 (1.74%) Qualys
11 3 (1.74%) SAP
12 2 (1.16%) Meraki
12 2 (1.16%) Oracle
12 2 (1.16%) Thales