Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South West

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the South West is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 July 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 120 48
Rank change year-on-year +60 -72 +69
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 215 51 412
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.63% 1.60% 4.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.80% 1.73% 4.34%
Number of salaries quoted 127 47 301
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,200 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,729 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% +3.46% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £65,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -

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 7,675 2,942 9,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.00% 92.28% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 5,338 1,977 7,052
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,500 £37,041
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £56,000 £52,501
% change year-on-year +2.68% +6.67% -12.50%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 +32 91 £52,500 -34.38% 24
Bristol -10 40 £65,000 +8.33% 4
Wiltshire +15 33 £51,250 -8.15% 6
Devon -8 26 £50,000 +27.39% 6
Somerset -26 11 £55,000 +15.79% 6
Dorset +2 10 £45,000 -46.27% 5
Cornwall - 4 £50,000 - 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 July 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.

1 215 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 62 (28.84%) Microsoft
3 51 (23.72%) Linux
4 50 (23.26%) Security Cleared
5 43 (20.00%) Windows
6 35 (16.28%) Azure
6 35 (16.28%) Microsoft 365
6 35 (16.28%) VMware
7 33 (15.35%) Ansible
8 31 (14.42%) VMware Infrastructure
9 30 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
10 28 (13.02%) DevOps
11 27 (12.56%) AWS
11 27 (12.56%) Kubernetes
11 27 (12.56%) Python
11 27 (12.56%) Windows Server
12 25 (11.63%) Terraform
13 24 (11.16%) Firewall
14 23 (10.70%) Cybersecurity
15 22 (10.23%) Infrastructure Automation
16 21 (9.77%) Active Directory
16 21 (9.77%) DV Cleared
16 21 (9.77%) GitLab
17 20 (9.30%) CI/CD
17 20 (9.30%) DNS
17 20 (9.30%) WAN
18 19 (8.84%) Agile
18 19 (8.84%) Bash
18 19 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
19 18 (8.37%) Collaborative Culture

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 13 (6.05%) SharePoint
2 10 (4.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.33%) Confluence
4 4 (1.86%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.93%) IIS
6 1 (0.47%) Apache
Applications
1 10 (4.65%) AutoCAD
2 6 (2.79%) Civil 3D
Cloud Services
1 35 (16.28%) Azure
1 35 (16.28%) Microsoft 365
2 27 (12.56%) AWS
3 14 (6.51%) Entra ID
4 10 (4.65%) OpenShift
5 4 (1.86%) GCP
6 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (1.40%) OCI
7 2 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.93%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (0.93%) IaaS
7 2 (0.93%) OneDrive
7 2 (0.93%) PaaS
8 1 (0.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.47%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 24 (11.16%) Firewall
2 20 (9.30%) DNS
2 20 (9.30%) WAN
3 18 (8.37%) LAN
4 17 (7.91%) DHCP
5 11 (5.12%) VLAN
6 10 (4.65%) TCP/IP
6 10 (4.65%) VPN
7 7 (3.26%) Unified Communications
7 7 (3.26%) WebEx
7 7 (3.26%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (2.79%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (2.79%) Cisco Firepower
8 6 (2.79%) Network Security
9 4 (1.86%) VoIP
10 3 (1.40%) NAS
10 3 (1.40%) SAN
11 2 (0.93%) LTE
11 2 (0.93%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.47%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.26%) InfluxDB
2 3 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.47%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.47%) MySQL
3 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (9.77%) GitLab
2 9 (4.19%) Git
2 9 (4.19%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.79%) Cypress.io
3 6 (2.79%) Robot Framework
3 6 (2.79%) Selenium
3 6 (2.79%) TestRail
4 3 (1.40%) JIRA
5 2 (0.93%) Bitbucket
General
1 25 (11.63%) Finance
2 19 (8.84%) Social Skills
3 11 (5.12%) Retail
4 9 (4.19%) Aerospace
5 8 (3.72%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.72%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.79%) Banking
7 6 (2.79%) Marketing
8 5 (2.33%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.40%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.72%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (3.26%) Apache NiFi
2 7 (3.26%) XMPP
3 6 (2.79%) Keycloak
3 6 (2.79%) Playwright
3 6 (2.79%) pytest
4 2 (0.93%) OAuth
4 2 (0.93%) OAuth2
4 2 (0.93%) OpenID
4 2 (0.93%) SAML
5 1 (0.47%) Jinja
5 1 (0.47%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.47%) Node.js
5 1 (0.47%) REST
5 1 (0.47%) SOAP
5 1 (0.47%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.58%) Replication
2 8 (3.72%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (3.72%) Onboarding
3 7 (3.26%) FlexPod
3 7 (3.26%) Video Conferencing
4 6 (2.79%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.33%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.33%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.40%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.40%) PKI
7 2 (0.93%) Cyberattack
7 2 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.93%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.47%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.47%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.47%) Social Media
8 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 51 (23.72%) Linux
2 43 (20.00%) Windows
3 27 (12.56%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.26%) CentOS
5 3 (1.40%) Unix
6 2 (0.93%) Android
6 2 (0.93%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.93%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.47%) Rocky
7 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.47%) VMS
7 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 30 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
3 28 (13.02%) DevOps
4 23 (10.70%) Cybersecurity
5 22 (10.23%) Infrastructure Automation
6 20 (9.30%) CI/CD
7 19 (8.84%) Agile
7 19 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (8.37%) Collaborative Culture
8 18 (8.37%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (7.44%) Containerisation
10 14 (6.51%) Collaborative Working
10 14 (6.51%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (6.05%) High Availability
12 12 (5.58%) Data Management
12 12 (5.58%) Project Delivery
13 11 (5.12%) ITIL
14 9 (4.19%) Analytics
15 8 (3.72%) Mentoring
15 8 (3.72%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (12.56%) Python
2 19 (8.84%) Bash
3 17 (7.91%) PowerShell
4 6 (2.79%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (23.26%) Security Cleared
2 21 (9.77%) DV Cleared
3 12 (5.58%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 6 (2.79%) Degree
6 4 (1.86%) CCNP
6 4 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.40%) MCSE
8 2 (0.93%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.47%) CCNA
9 1 (0.47%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.47%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.65%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (3.72%) GDPR
2 8 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (0.93%) QA
3 2 (0.93%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (14.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (9.77%) Active Directory
3 18 (8.37%) Hyper-V
4 14 (6.51%) Docker
5 7 (3.26%) vSphere
6 6 (2.79%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (2.79%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.79%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.86%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.47%) Firmware
10 1 (0.47%) GPFS
10 1 (0.47%) KVM
10 1 (0.47%) Lustre
10 1 (0.47%) QEMU
10 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.47%) Xen
Systems Management
1 33 (15.35%) Ansible
2 27 (12.56%) Kubernetes
3 25 (11.63%) Terraform
4 16 (7.44%) Grafana
5 9 (4.19%) vCenter Server
6 8 (3.72%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (3.26%) Cisco CUCM
7 7 (3.26%) VxRail
8 6 (2.79%) Kibana
8 6 (2.79%) logstash
9 5 (2.33%) Puppet
10 3 (1.40%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.93%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.93%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.47%) Argo
12 1 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.47%) Mesos
12 1 (0.47%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 62 (28.84%) Microsoft
2 35 (16.28%) VMware
3 16 (7.44%) Cisco
4 13 (6.05%) Splunk
5 11 (5.12%) Fortinet
5 11 (5.12%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.72%) Palo Alto
6 8 (3.72%) Veeam
7 7 (3.26%) NetApp
8 6 (2.79%) Atlassian
8 6 (2.79%) BeyondTrust
9 5 (2.33%) Dell
10 4 (1.86%) Juniper
10 4 (1.86%) Oracle
11 3 (1.40%) HP
12 2 (0.93%) Meraki
12 2 (0.93%) Thales
13 1 (0.47%) Aruba
13 1 (0.47%) ServiceNow
13 1 (0.47%) Zerto