Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South West

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the South West is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 109 180
Rank change year-on-year +68 +71 -48
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 401 173 164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.56% 2.78% 1.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.76% 3.10% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 283 102 137
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,975 £31,680
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,406 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £51,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £78,500 £60,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 8,426 5,578 8,651
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.82% 89.64% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 6,017 3,752 5,360
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,438 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,288 £36,363
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,725 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% +8.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the South West.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer 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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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
Wiltshire +37 127 £51,000 +13.33% 6
Gloucestershire +39 96 £45,000 -19.64% 6
Bristol +32 72 £50,000 -17.01% 10
Devon +9 36 £45,000 +10.65% 4
Dorset +9 34 £45,000 -6.25% 1
Somerset +26 29 £42,500 -10.53% 1
Cornwall -17 7 £30,000 -
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 388 (96.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 153 (38.15%) Windows
3 128 (31.92%) VMware
4 121 (30.17%) Security Cleared
5 120 (29.93%) Linux
6 115 (28.68%) Azure
7 114 (28.43%) Microsoft
8 95 (23.69%) VMware Infrastructure
9 80 (19.95%) Microsoft 365
9 80 (19.95%) Windows Server
10 77 (19.20%) PowerShell
11 68 (16.96%) SaaS
12 66 (16.46%) SC Cleared
12 66 (16.46%) Active Directory
13 64 (15.96%) Data Centre
14 62 (15.46%) DV Cleared
15 57 (14.21%) Aerospace
16 56 (13.97%) Hyper-V
17 52 (12.97%) Ansible
18 51 (12.72%) AWS
18 51 (12.72%) Firewall
19 48 (11.97%) Cisco
19 48 (11.97%) Collaborative Working
20 44 (10.97%) Red Hat
21 43 (10.72%) DNS
21 43 (10.72%) Agile
21 43 (10.72%) Social Skills
22 41 (10.22%) Finance
23 40 (9.98%) SharePoint
24 39 (9.73%) Service Delivery

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 40 (9.98%) SharePoint
2 31 (7.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.00%) Jupyter
3 4 (1.00%) Skype for Business
4 3 (0.75%) SharePoint 2010
4 3 (0.75%) SharePoint 2013
5 2 (0.50%) Confluence
6 1 (0.25%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 115 (28.68%) Azure
2 80 (19.95%) Microsoft 365
3 68 (16.96%) SaaS
4 51 (12.72%) AWS
5 30 (7.48%) Entra ID
6 26 (6.48%) OpenShift
7 22 (5.49%) Power Platform
8 14 (3.49%) IaaS
9 12 (2.99%) PaaS
10 10 (2.49%) PowerApps
11 8 (2.00%) Nutanix
11 8 (2.00%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.00%) Amazon S3
13 3 (0.75%) WhatsApp
14 2 (0.50%) Azure DevOps
14 2 (0.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 2 (0.50%) Azure Storage
14 2 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
14 2 (0.50%) Power Automate
14 2 (0.50%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 51 (12.72%) Firewall
2 43 (10.72%) DNS
3 37 (9.23%) WAN
4 30 (7.48%) DHCP
4 30 (7.48%) TCP/IP
5 26 (6.48%) LAN
6 25 (6.23%) SAN
7 24 (5.99%) HTTP
8 20 (4.99%) NAS
9 18 (4.49%) SD-WAN
10 16 (3.99%) Wireless
11 12 (2.99%) Internet
12 11 (2.74%) iSCSI
13 10 (2.49%) VPN
14 9 (2.24%) Fibre Channel
15 8 (2.00%) Skype
16 7 (1.75%) VLAN
17 6 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
18 5 (1.25%) Intrusion Detection
18 5 (1.25%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.23%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.49%) Oracle Database
3 13 (3.24%) Big Data
4 3 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.75%) Power BI
5 2 (0.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (3.24%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (0.50%) JIRA
2 2 (0.50%) MSI
3 1 (0.25%) GitLab
General
1 57 (14.21%) Aerospace
2 43 (10.72%) Social Skills
3 41 (10.22%) Finance
4 24 (5.99%) Banking
4 24 (5.99%) Public Sector
5 19 (4.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (4.24%) Manufacturing
7 12 (2.99%) Legal
8 5 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.25%) Military
8 5 (1.25%) Retail
9 4 (1.00%) Automotive
9 4 (1.00%) Electronics
9 4 (1.00%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.75%) Social Housing
11 2 (0.50%) Advertising
11 2 (0.50%) Games
11 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.50%) Welsh Language
12 1 (0.25%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.50%) JSON
1 6 (1.50%) JSON Schema
1 6 (1.50%) KML
1 6 (1.50%) Regular Expression
1 6 (1.50%) XML
1 6 (1.50%) XML Schema
2 4 (1.00%) EJB
3 3 (0.75%) Software Packaging
4 2 (0.50%) .NET
4 2 (0.50%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 64 (15.96%) Data Centre
2 19 (4.74%) Driving Licence
3 15 (3.74%) Management Information System
4 13 (3.24%) Cyber Defence
5 11 (2.74%) PKI
6 9 (2.24%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.24%) EMC VNX
7 7 (1.75%) Cyberattack
7 7 (1.75%) Fat Client
7 7 (1.75%) Replication
7 7 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.75%) Thin Client
8 6 (1.50%) Enterprise Storage
9 5 (1.25%) Clustering
10 3 (0.75%) Fibre Optics
10 3 (0.75%) IBM Mainframe
10 3 (0.75%) Mainframe
10 3 (0.75%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.50%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 153 (38.15%) Windows
2 120 (29.93%) Linux
3 80 (19.95%) Windows Server
4 35 (8.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (3.49%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (3.24%) Windows Server 2019
7 12 (2.99%) Windows Server 2012
8 10 (2.49%) Windows 10
9 7 (1.75%) VMS
10 6 (1.50%) Windows 7
11 4 (1.00%) Mac OS
11 4 (1.00%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.75%) CentOS
12 3 (0.75%) OS/2
12 3 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.75%) zOS
13 2 (0.50%) Android
13 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.25%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (96.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 48 (11.97%) Collaborative Working
3 43 (10.72%) Agile
4 39 (9.73%) Service Delivery
5 30 (7.48%) DevOps
6 27 (6.73%) Actionable Insight
7 26 (6.48%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (6.23%) ITIL
9 24 (5.99%) Mentoring
9 24 (5.99%) Software Architecture
10 20 (4.99%) Cybersecurity
11 18 (4.49%) Information Security
12 15 (3.74%) Line Management
13 13 (3.24%) Infrastructure as Code
14 12 (2.99%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (2.99%) Project Delivery
15 11 (2.74%) Server Management
16 10 (2.49%) Business Continuity
16 10 (2.49%) Change Management
16 10 (2.49%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 77 (19.20%) PowerShell
2 38 (9.48%) Python
3 35 (8.73%) Bash
4 30 (7.48%) SQL
5 26 (6.48%) Java
6 9 (2.24%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.24%) Ruby
7 7 (1.75%) C++
7 7 (1.75%) Go
8 5 (1.25%) Bicep
9 2 (0.50%) C#
10 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 121 (30.17%) Security Cleared
2 66 (16.46%) SC Cleared
3 62 (15.46%) DV Cleared
4 33 (8.23%) Degree
5 13 (3.24%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (2.99%) CCNA
7 9 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.50%) CCNP
9 4 (1.00%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.00%) MCSE
10 3 (0.75%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.50%) CISSP
11 2 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.25%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (0.25%) HNC
12 1 (0.25%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.99%) SLA
2 14 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 95 (23.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 66 (16.46%) Active Directory
3 56 (13.97%) Hyper-V
4 30 (7.48%) Docker
5 23 (5.74%) VMware ESXi
6 22 (5.49%) vSphere
7 19 (4.74%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (1.75%) VMware NSX
9 5 (1.25%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (1.00%) NFS
10 4 (1.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (1.00%) XenApp
11 3 (0.75%) vCloud
12 2 (0.50%) Firmware
12 2 (0.50%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 52 (12.97%) Ansible
2 33 (8.23%) SCCM
3 30 (7.48%) Kubernetes
3 30 (7.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (6.23%) Puppet
5 16 (3.99%) Nagios
5 16 (3.99%) vCenter Server
6 11 (2.74%) EMC NetWorker
7 7 (1.75%) Terraform
7 7 (1.75%) ZABBIX
8 6 (1.50%) Grafana
9 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 4 (1.00%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.00%) FortiGate
10 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.75%) vRealize
11 3 (0.75%) WSUS
12 2 (0.50%) Opsview
12 2 (0.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 128 (31.92%) VMware
2 114 (28.43%) Microsoft
3 48 (11.97%) Cisco
4 44 (10.97%) Red Hat
5 25 (6.23%) Veeam
6 24 (5.99%) HP
7 16 (3.99%) Oracle
8 13 (3.24%) SolarWinds
9 11 (2.74%) Aruba
9 11 (2.74%) Citrix
9 11 (2.74%) EMC
9 11 (2.74%) Meraki
10 10 (2.49%) IBM
11 9 (2.24%) Brocade
12 7 (1.75%) NetApp
13 6 (1.50%) ServiceNow
14 3 (0.75%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.75%) Dell
14 3 (0.75%) Sophos
15 2 (0.50%) Commvault