Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South West

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the South West is £56,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 April 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 113 57
Rank change year-on-year +33 -56 +88
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 139 40 349
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.88% 1.50% 4.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.00% 1.63% 4.17%
Number of salaries quoted 92 33 255
10th Percentile £41,318 £43,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,894 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +20.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,886 £57,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £63,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

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 6,948 2,456 8,362
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.20% 92.37% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,777 1,642 6,397
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,567 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £65,473 £68,114 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.74%

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 20 April 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 20 April 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 +30 56 £51,250 -14.58% 12
Bristol -4 37 £65,000 -9.71% 9
Wiltshire +9 28 £60,000 +18.11%
Devon -22 11 £50,000 -3.34% 3
Dorset -16 3 £130,000 +147.62%
Somerset - 3 £65,000 - 7
Cornwall - 1 - - 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 April 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.

1 138 (99.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 43 (30.94%) Security Cleared
3 42 (30.22%) Microsoft
4 40 (28.78%) Linux
5 37 (26.62%) Windows
6 32 (23.02%) VMware
7 31 (22.30%) VMware Infrastructure
8 29 (20.86%) Ansible
9 24 (17.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 23 (16.55%) DV Cleared
10 23 (16.55%) Windows Server
11 22 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (15.11%) Active Directory
12 21 (15.11%) Firewall
12 21 (15.11%) Python
13 19 (13.67%) Azure
13 19 (13.67%) DevOps
14 18 (12.95%) DNS
14 18 (12.95%) Hyper-V
14 18 (12.95%) PowerShell
14 18 (12.95%) Terraform
14 18 (12.95%) WAN
15 17 (12.23%) AWS
15 17 (12.23%) Cisco
15 17 (12.23%) Continuous Improvement
15 17 (12.23%) LAN
16 15 (10.79%) Cybersecurity
16 15 (10.79%) DHCP
16 15 (10.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
16 15 (10.79%) Kubernetes

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 6 (4.32%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.88%) Confluence
4 3 (2.16%) IIS
5 2 (1.44%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.72%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (4.32%) AutoCAD
2 2 (1.44%) Civil 3D
3 1 (0.72%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 19 (13.67%) Azure
2 17 (12.23%) AWS
3 12 (8.63%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (5.76%) Entra ID
5 6 (4.32%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.16%) IaaS
6 3 (2.16%) PaaS
7 2 (1.44%) GCP
8 1 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.72%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.72%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.72%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.72%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.72%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.72%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.72%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (15.11%) Firewall
2 18 (12.95%) DNS
2 18 (12.95%) WAN
3 17 (12.23%) LAN
4 15 (10.79%) DHCP
5 12 (8.63%) VPN
6 10 (7.19%) TCP/IP
7 9 (6.47%) Network Security
8 6 (4.32%) Unified Communications
8 6 (4.32%) VLAN
8 6 (4.32%) WebEx
8 6 (4.32%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (3.60%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (3.60%) Cisco Firepower
10 3 (2.16%) LTE
10 3 (2.16%) NAS
10 3 (2.16%) SAN
11 2 (1.44%) Internet
12 1 (0.72%) BGP
12 1 (0.72%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.60%) InfluxDB
2 2 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.72%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.72%) MySQL
3 1 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (10.07%) GitLab
2 9 (6.47%) Git
3 5 (3.60%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.88%) Cypress.io
4 4 (2.88%) Robot Framework
4 4 (2.88%) Selenium
4 4 (2.88%) TestRail
5 3 (2.16%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.16%) JIRA
General
1 19 (13.67%) Social Skills
2 12 (8.63%) Finance
2 12 (8.63%) Retail
3 9 (6.47%) Telecoms
4 8 (5.76%) Marketing
4 8 (5.76%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.60%) Aerospace
5 5 (3.60%) Banking
5 5 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.16%) Electronics
7 3 (2.16%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.32%) XMPP
2 4 (2.88%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (2.88%) Playwright
2 4 (2.88%) pytest
3 3 (2.16%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (2.16%) Keycloak
3 3 (2.16%) OAuth
3 3 (2.16%) OAuth2
3 3 (2.16%) OpenID
3 3 (2.16%) SAML
4 2 (1.44%) REST
4 2 (1.44%) SOAP
5 1 (0.72%) Jinja
5 1 (0.72%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.72%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.19%) Replication
2 6 (4.32%) Driving Licence
2 6 (4.32%) FlexPod
2 6 (4.32%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (4.32%) Onboarding
2 6 (4.32%) Video Conferencing
3 5 (3.60%) Data Centre
3 5 (3.60%) YubiKey
4 4 (2.88%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.44%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.44%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.44%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.72%) CCTV
7 1 (0.72%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.72%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.72%) Social Media
7 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 40 (28.78%) Linux
2 37 (26.62%) Windows
3 23 (16.55%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.60%) CentOS
5 3 (2.16%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.72%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.72%) VMS
6 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (99.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (17.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (13.67%) DevOps
5 17 (12.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (10.79%) Cybersecurity
7 14 (10.07%) Infrastructure Automation
8 13 (9.35%) Agile
8 13 (9.35%) CI/CD
9 12 (8.63%) Containerisation
10 11 (7.91%) Collaborative Culture
11 10 (7.19%) Disaster Recovery
12 9 (6.47%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (6.47%) Collaborative Working
12 9 (6.47%) ITIL
13 8 (5.76%) Data Management
13 8 (5.76%) High Availability
13 8 (5.76%) Project Delivery
14 7 (5.04%) Analytics
14 7 (5.04%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 21 (15.11%) Python
2 18 (12.95%) PowerShell
3 14 (10.07%) Bash
4 5 (3.60%) SQL
5 4 (2.88%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 43 (30.94%) Security Cleared
2 23 (16.55%) DV Cleared
3 13 (9.35%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.60%) Degree
4 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (1.44%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.44%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.44%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.72%) CCNA
7 1 (0.72%) CCNP
7 1 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.72%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (9.35%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (5.04%) GDPR
4 5 (3.60%) NIST
5 3 (2.16%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.44%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.72%) NCSC
7 1 (0.72%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.72%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (22.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (15.11%) Active Directory
3 18 (12.95%) Hyper-V
4 11 (7.91%) Docker
5 8 (5.76%) vSphere
6 6 (4.32%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (3.60%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (3.60%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (2.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.72%) Ceph
9 1 (0.72%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.72%) Firmware
9 1 (0.72%) KVM
9 1 (0.72%) Lustre
9 1 (0.72%) QEMU
9 1 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.72%) Xen
Systems Management
1 29 (20.86%) Ansible
2 18 (12.95%) Terraform
3 15 (10.79%) Kubernetes
4 11 (7.91%) Grafana
5 7 (5.04%) vCenter Server
6 6 (4.32%) Cisco CUCM
6 6 (4.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (2.88%) Kibana
7 4 (2.88%) logstash
8 3 (2.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (2.16%) NetBackup
8 3 (2.16%) Puppet
8 3 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (2.16%) VxRail
9 2 (1.44%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.44%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.44%) WSUS
10 1 (0.72%) Mesos
10 1 (0.72%) SCCM
10 1 (0.72%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 42 (30.22%) Microsoft
2 32 (23.02%) VMware
3 17 (12.23%) Cisco
4 13 (9.35%) Splunk
5 11 (7.91%) Fortinet
6 8 (5.76%) Red Hat
7 7 (5.04%) Palo Alto
8 6 (4.32%) Dell
8 6 (4.32%) NetApp
9 5 (3.60%) Tenable
9 5 (3.60%) Veeam
10 4 (2.88%) Atlassian
10 4 (2.88%) Juniper
11 3 (2.16%) BeyondTrust
11 3 (2.16%) HP
11 3 (2.16%) Meraki
11 3 (2.16%) Qualys
11 3 (2.16%) SAP
12 2 (1.44%) SolarWinds
12 2 (1.44%) Thales