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 12 September 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 111 41
Rank change year-on-year +66 -70 +37
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 326 53 328
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 3.27% 1.52% 4.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.52% 1.65% 4.52%
Number of salaries quoted 226 49 224
10th Percentile £37,375 £30,500 £31,125
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £68,438 £70,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £63,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -

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 9,271 3,213 7,249
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.11% 92.33% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 6,418 2,117 4,769
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,150 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,272 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.49% -12.94% -5.45%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 +20 137 £65,000 -18.75% 18
Devon +16 62 £50,000 +11.11% 3
Bristol -5 50 £65,000 +30.00% 5
Wiltshire +14 39 £50,000 -13.04% 4
Dorset +10 17 £65,000 - 3
Somerset -27 14 £55,000 +15.79% 7
Cornwall - 7 £60,000 -
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 September 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.

1 326 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 62 (19.02%) Microsoft
3 59 (18.10%) Security Cleared
4 52 (15.95%) Windows
5 51 (15.64%) Linux
6 49 (15.03%) Azure
7 42 (12.88%) AWS
8 41 (12.58%) Microsoft 365
9 36 (11.04%) Cybersecurity
9 36 (11.04%) Windows Server
10 34 (10.43%) Active Directory
11 32 (9.82%) Ansible
11 32 (9.82%) Kubernetes
11 32 (9.82%) Terraform
12 31 (9.51%) Infrastructure as Code
12 31 (9.51%) VMware
13 29 (8.90%) DV Cleared
14 28 (8.59%) Infrastructure Automation
14 28 (8.59%) VMware Infrastructure
15 27 (8.28%) Agile
15 27 (8.28%) DevOps
16 26 (7.98%) Firewall
16 26 (7.98%) Hyper-V
17 25 (7.67%) Python
18 24 (7.36%) Continuous Improvement
19 23 (7.06%) Entra ID
20 22 (6.75%) CI/CD
20 22 (6.75%) DNS
21 20 (6.13%) DHCP
22 19 (5.83%) Containerisation

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 18 (5.52%) SharePoint
2 15 (4.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.53%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.92%) Apache
4 3 (0.92%) Confluence
5 2 (0.61%) IIS
Applications
1 13 (3.99%) AutoCAD
1 13 (3.99%) Civil 3D
Cloud Services
1 49 (15.03%) Azure
2 42 (12.88%) AWS
3 41 (12.58%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (7.06%) Entra ID
5 11 (3.37%) OpenShift
6 7 (2.15%) GCP
6 7 (2.15%) Serverless
7 5 (1.53%) IaaS
8 4 (1.23%) OCI
9 3 (0.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (0.92%) PaaS
10 2 (0.61%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.61%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.31%) Amazon ELB
11 1 (0.31%) AWS KMS
11 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.31%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.31%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.98%) Firewall
2 22 (6.75%) DNS
3 20 (6.13%) DHCP
4 16 (4.91%) VLAN
5 14 (4.29%) TCP/IP
6 13 (3.99%) WAN
7 12 (3.68%) LAN
8 11 (3.37%) VoIP
9 8 (2.45%) VPN
10 7 (2.15%) Network Security
11 5 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.92%) Cisco ASA
12 3 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
12 3 (0.92%) SAN
12 3 (0.92%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.92%) WebEx
12 3 (0.92%) Wireless
13 2 (0.61%) NAS
14 1 (0.31%) LTE
14 1 (0.31%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.15%) InfluxDB
1 7 (2.15%) MySQL
2 6 (1.84%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.31%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (4.60%) GitLab
2 11 (3.37%) Git
3 10 (3.07%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.84%) Cypress.io
4 6 (1.84%) Robot Framework
4 6 (1.84%) Selenium
4 6 (1.84%) TestRail
5 1 (0.31%) JIRA
General
1 30 (9.20%) Finance
2 28 (8.59%) Social Skills
3 14 (4.29%) Manufacturing
4 10 (3.07%) Retail
5 9 (2.76%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.45%) Aerospace
7 5 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.23%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.92%) Banking
9 3 (0.92%) Marketing
10 2 (0.61%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (9.82%) Terraform
2 9 (2.76%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (1.84%) Playwright
3 6 (1.84%) pytest
4 4 (1.23%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (0.92%) Keycloak
5 3 (0.92%) XMPP
6 1 (0.31%) Node.js
6 1 (0.31%) OAuth
6 1 (0.31%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.31%) OpenID
6 1 (0.31%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (2.45%) Cloud Native
2 7 (2.15%) Product Ownership
2 7 (2.15%) Replication
3 5 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (1.53%) Onboarding
4 3 (0.92%) FlexPod
4 3 (0.92%) PKI
4 3 (0.92%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (0.61%) Cyberattack
5 2 (0.61%) Data Centre
5 2 (0.61%) Management Information System
5 2 (0.61%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.31%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.31%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.31%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (15.95%) Windows
2 51 (15.64%) Linux
3 36 (11.04%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.07%) CentOS
5 4 (1.23%) Unix
6 3 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.61%) Android
7 2 (0.61%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.61%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.31%) Rocky
8 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.31%) VMS
8 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 36 (11.04%) Cybersecurity
3 31 (9.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (8.59%) Infrastructure Automation
5 27 (8.28%) Agile
5 27 (8.28%) DevOps
6 24 (7.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 22 (6.75%) CI/CD
8 19 (5.83%) Containerisation
9 18 (5.52%) Project Delivery
10 16 (4.91%) Collaborative Culture
10 16 (4.91%) Collaborative Working
10 16 (4.91%) ITIL
11 13 (3.99%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (3.99%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (3.99%) Service Management
12 12 (3.68%) High Availability
13 11 (3.37%) Change Management
13 11 (3.37%) Migration
13 11 (3.37%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 25 (7.67%) Python
2 18 (5.52%) Bash
3 16 (4.91%) PowerShell
4 10 (3.07%) SQL
5 6 (1.84%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.31%) Java
Qualifications
1 59 (18.10%) Security Cleared
2 29 (8.90%) DV Cleared
3 14 (4.29%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.76%) Degree
5 6 (1.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.92%) CCNP
7 3 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.92%) MCSE
8 2 (0.61%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.61%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.31%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.31%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.60%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (2.45%) GDPR
3 7 (2.15%) QA
4 6 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.61%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
System Software
1 34 (10.43%) Active Directory
2 28 (8.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (7.98%) Hyper-V
4 16 (4.91%) Docker
5 6 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.84%) vSphere
6 4 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.61%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.31%) Firmware
9 1 (0.31%) GPFS
9 1 (0.31%) KVM
9 1 (0.31%) Lustre
9 1 (0.31%) QEMU
9 1 (0.31%) Xen
Systems Management
1 32 (9.82%) Ansible
1 32 (9.82%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.60%) Grafana
3 12 (3.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.45%) vCenter Server
5 7 (2.15%) Puppet
6 6 (1.84%) Kibana
6 6 (1.84%) logstash
6 6 (1.84%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.23%) VxRail
8 3 (0.92%) Argo
8 3 (0.92%) Cisco CUCM
8 3 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.92%) Istio
8 3 (0.92%) linkerd
8 3 (0.92%) Mesos
8 3 (0.92%) Nessus
8 3 (0.92%) SCOM
8 3 (0.92%) vRealize
9 2 (0.61%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 62 (19.02%) Microsoft
2 31 (9.51%) VMware
3 16 (4.91%) Veeam
4 10 (3.07%) Red Hat
5 9 (2.76%) Cisco
5 9 (2.76%) Splunk
6 6 (1.84%) Atlassian
6 6 (1.84%) Fortinet
7 5 (1.53%) Oracle
8 4 (1.23%) Citrix
8 4 (1.23%) Palo Alto
9 3 (0.92%) BeyondTrust
9 3 (0.92%) Juniper
9 3 (0.92%) NetApp
10 2 (0.61%) arcserve
10 2 (0.61%) Dell
10 2 (0.61%) HP
11 1 (0.31%) Aruba
11 1 (0.31%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.31%) YouTube