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 10 October 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 114 52
Rank change year-on-year +70 -62 +22
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 352 55 249
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 3.35% 1.54% 3.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.61% 1.65% 3.87%
Number of salaries quoted 243 51 172
10th Percentile £38,750 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,375 £55,000
90th Percentile £87,000 £80,000 £65,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -4.76%

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 9,740 3,332 6,433
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 93.12% 94.51%
Number of salaries quoted 6,699 2,153 3,972
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,281
% change year-on-year +7.27% -0.51% -7.87%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 +13 147 £65,000 -18.75% 20
Devon +20 71 £50,000 +31.58% 7
Bristol -9 49 £65,000 +17.97% 7
Wiltshire +18 45 £50,000 -11.11% 18
Dorset +16 18 £54,250 - 4
Somerset -12 14 £55,000 +15.79% 6
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 10 October 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.

1 352 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 71 (20.17%) Microsoft
3 68 (19.32%) Security Cleared
4 58 (16.48%) Windows
5 55 (15.63%) Azure
6 45 (12.78%) Linux
6 45 (12.78%) Microsoft 365
7 39 (11.08%) Windows Server
8 38 (10.80%) Active Directory
8 38 (10.80%) AWS
9 33 (9.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 33 (9.38%) Kubernetes
10 32 (9.09%) Ansible
10 32 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
10 32 (9.09%) DV Cleared
10 32 (9.09%) Terraform
11 30 (8.52%) Entra ID
12 29 (8.24%) Agile
12 29 (8.24%) Python
13 28 (7.95%) DNS
14 27 (7.67%) Hyper-V
14 27 (7.67%) Infrastructure Automation
14 27 (7.67%) VMware
15 26 (7.39%) DevOps
16 25 (7.10%) DHCP
17 24 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
17 24 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
18 23 (6.53%) Bash
18 23 (6.53%) CI/CD
18 23 (6.53%) Firewall

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 16 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (3.98%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.42%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.14%) Apache
5 1 (0.28%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (3.69%) AutoCAD
1 13 (3.69%) Civil 3D
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 55 (15.63%) Azure
2 45 (12.78%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (10.80%) AWS
4 30 (8.52%) Entra ID
5 11 (3.13%) OpenShift
6 7 (1.99%) GCP
6 7 (1.99%) Serverless
7 4 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (1.14%) IaaS
7 4 (1.14%) OCI
8 3 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.57%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (0.57%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.28%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (0.28%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.28%) PaaS
10 1 (0.28%) Route 53
10 1 (0.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 28 (7.95%) DNS
2 25 (7.10%) DHCP
3 23 (6.53%) Firewall
4 14 (3.98%) VLAN
5 12 (3.41%) TCP/IP
6 11 (3.13%) VoIP
7 8 (2.27%) VPN
8 7 (1.99%) SAN
9 6 (1.70%) NAS
10 5 (1.42%) Network Security
10 5 (1.42%) WAN
10 5 (1.42%) Wireless
11 4 (1.14%) LAN
12 1 (0.28%) Cisco ASA
12 1 (0.28%) LTE
12 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.28%) Unified Communications
12 1 (0.28%) WebEx
12 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.28%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.56%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.70%) InfluxDB
2 6 (1.70%) MySQL
3 2 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 15 (4.26%) GitLab
2 13 (3.69%) Git
3 9 (2.56%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.70%) Cypress.io
4 6 (1.70%) Robot Framework
4 6 (1.70%) Selenium
4 6 (1.70%) TestRail
5 1 (0.28%) JIRA
General
1 36 (10.23%) Social Skills
2 34 (9.66%) Finance
3 19 (5.40%) Manufacturing
4 8 (2.27%) Public Sector
4 8 (2.27%) Retail
5 6 (1.70%) Aerospace
6 5 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.14%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.57%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.28%) Banking
10 1 (0.28%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.28%) Marketing
10 1 (0.28%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (9.09%) Terraform
2 9 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (1.70%) Playwright
3 6 (1.70%) pytest
4 5 (1.42%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (0.85%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.28%) Node.js
6 1 (0.28%) OAuth
6 1 (0.28%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.28%) OpenID
6 1 (0.28%) SAML
6 1 (0.28%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (2.84%) Cloud Native
2 7 (1.99%) Product Ownership
2 7 (1.99%) Replication
3 5 (1.42%) Driving Licence
4 3 (0.85%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (0.85%) Onboarding
4 3 (0.85%) PKI
5 2 (0.57%) Data Centre
5 2 (0.57%) Security Posture
5 2 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.28%) FlexPod
6 1 (0.28%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.28%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.28%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 58 (16.48%) Windows
2 45 (12.78%) Linux
3 39 (11.08%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.84%) CentOS
5 4 (1.14%) Android
5 4 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.14%) Unix
6 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.57%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.57%) Rocky
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 33 (9.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 32 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
4 29 (8.24%) Agile
5 27 (7.67%) Infrastructure Automation
6 26 (7.39%) DevOps
7 24 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (6.53%) CI/CD
8 23 (6.53%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (5.40%) Containerisation
9 19 (5.40%) ITIL
10 18 (5.11%) Service Management
11 17 (4.83%) Collaborative Culture
12 16 (4.55%) Disaster Recovery
13 15 (4.26%) Collaborative Working
13 15 (4.26%) Migration
14 14 (3.98%) Project Delivery
15 12 (3.41%) Change Management
15 12 (3.41%) High Availability
16 11 (3.13%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 29 (8.24%) Python
2 23 (6.53%) Bash
3 22 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 6 (1.70%) JavaScript
4 6 (1.70%) SQL
5 3 (0.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 68 (19.32%) Security Cleared
2 32 (9.09%) DV Cleared
3 20 (5.68%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.56%) Degree
5 8 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.14%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.14%) MCSA
8 3 (0.85%) CCNP
8 3 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.85%) MCSE
9 1 (0.28%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.41%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (2.27%) QA
3 2 (0.57%) GDPR
4 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 38 (10.80%) Active Directory
2 27 (7.67%) Hyper-V
3 24 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (3.69%) Docker
5 6 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.42%) vSphere
7 4 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.14%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.28%) GPFS
9 1 (0.28%) KVM
9 1 (0.28%) Lustre
9 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 33 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 32 (9.09%) Ansible
3 15 (4.26%) Grafana
4 13 (3.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (2.84%) vCenter Server
6 8 (2.27%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.27%) Puppet
7 6 (1.70%) Kibana
7 6 (1.70%) logstash
8 5 (1.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (1.42%) Argo
9 4 (1.14%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (1.14%) Istio
9 4 (1.14%) linkerd
9 4 (1.14%) Mesos
9 4 (1.14%) Nessus
9 4 (1.14%) SCCM
9 4 (1.14%) SCOM
9 4 (1.14%) vRealize
9 4 (1.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 71 (20.17%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.67%) VMware
3 14 (3.98%) Veeam
4 8 (2.27%) Cisco
4 8 (2.27%) Citrix
4 8 (2.27%) Red Hat
5 7 (1.99%) Splunk
6 6 (1.70%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.14%) Oracle
7 4 (1.14%) SolarWinds
8 3 (0.85%) BeyondTrust
9 2 (0.57%) arcserve
9 2 (0.57%) HP
9 2 (0.57%) Juniper
10 1 (0.28%) Aruba
10 1 (0.28%) Dell
10 1 (0.28%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.28%) NetApp
10 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.28%) Zerto