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 19 August 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 114 34
Rank change year-on-year +66 -80 +62
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 291 57 387
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 3.19% 1.65% 4.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.39% 1.80% 5.04%
Number of salaries quoted 198 53 288
10th Percentile £38,925 £31,400 £30,385
25th Percentile £46,563 £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 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 8,590 3,169 7,680
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 91.46% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 5,862 2,135 5,466
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -8.65%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,100 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 19 August 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 19 August 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 +20 124 £65,000 -18.75% 27
Bristol -2 51 £65,000 +20.93% 10
Devon +9 43 £50,000 +27.39% 11
Wiltshire +15 37 £50,000 -9.09% 4
Dorset +12 15 £62,500 - 2
Somerset -24 14 £55,000 +15.79% 8
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 19 August 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.

1 291 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 60 (20.62%) Microsoft
3 52 (17.87%) Linux
3 52 (17.87%) Security Cleared
4 48 (16.49%) Windows
5 42 (14.43%) Azure
6 41 (14.09%) AWS
7 37 (12.71%) Microsoft 365
8 32 (11.00%) Ansible
8 32 (11.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (11.00%) VMware
9 31 (10.65%) Terraform
9 31 (10.65%) Windows Server
10 30 (10.31%) Cybersecurity
11 29 (9.97%) Active Directory
11 29 (9.97%) Kubernetes
11 29 (9.97%) VMware Infrastructure
12 28 (9.62%) Infrastructure Automation
13 27 (9.28%) Python
14 26 (8.93%) Agile
15 25 (8.59%) DevOps
16 24 (8.25%) DV Cleared
17 22 (7.56%) Firewall
17 22 (7.56%) Hyper-V
18 21 (7.22%) CI/CD
19 19 (6.53%) Bash
19 19 (6.53%) DNS
19 19 (6.53%) Project Delivery
20 18 (6.19%) Entra ID
20 18 (6.19%) PowerShell

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 (4.47%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.37%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.03%) Confluence
5 2 (0.69%) Apache
5 2 (0.69%) IIS
Applications
1 14 (4.81%) AutoCAD
2 13 (4.47%) Civil 3D
Cloud Services
1 42 (14.43%) Azure
2 41 (14.09%) AWS
3 37 (12.71%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (6.19%) Entra ID
5 10 (3.44%) OpenShift
6 5 (1.72%) GCP
7 4 (1.37%) OCI
8 3 (1.03%) IaaS
8 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (1.03%) PaaS
9 2 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.69%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (0.69%) OneDrive
9 2 (0.69%) Serverless
10 1 (0.34%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.34%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.34%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.34%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.56%) Firewall
2 19 (6.53%) DNS
3 17 (5.84%) DHCP
4 14 (4.81%) WAN
5 13 (4.47%) LAN
5 13 (4.47%) VLAN
6 11 (3.78%) TCP/IP
7 8 (2.75%) VPN
8 7 (2.41%) Network Security
9 6 (2.06%) VoIP
10 5 (1.72%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (1.72%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (1.72%) Unified Communications
10 5 (1.72%) WebEx
10 5 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (1.03%) SAN
11 3 (1.03%) Wireless
12 2 (0.69%) NAS
13 1 (0.34%) LTE
13 1 (0.34%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.41%) InfluxDB
2 5 (1.72%) MySQL
3 4 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.34%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.34%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (5.15%) GitLab
2 11 (3.78%) Git
3 9 (3.09%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.06%) Cypress.io
4 6 (2.06%) Robot Framework
4 6 (2.06%) Selenium
4 6 (2.06%) TestRail
5 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.34%) JIRA
General
1 26 (8.93%) Finance
2 25 (8.59%) Social Skills
3 12 (4.12%) Retail
4 11 (3.78%) Manufacturing
4 11 (3.78%) Public Sector
5 8 (2.75%) Aerospace
6 6 (2.06%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.72%) Banking
7 5 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.72%) Marketing
8 2 (0.69%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.75%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (2.06%) Playwright
2 6 (2.06%) pytest
3 5 (1.72%) XMPP
4 4 (1.37%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (1.03%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.34%) Node.js
6 1 (0.34%) OAuth
6 1 (0.34%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.34%) OpenID
6 1 (0.34%) REST
6 1 (0.34%) SAML
6 1 (0.34%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (3.09%) Replication
2 7 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (2.41%) Onboarding
2 7 (2.41%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.06%) Cloud Native
4 5 (1.72%) FlexPod
4 5 (1.72%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (1.03%) PKI
6 2 (0.69%) Cyberattack
6 2 (0.69%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.69%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.69%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.34%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.34%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (17.87%) Linux
2 48 (16.49%) Windows
3 31 (10.65%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.75%) CentOS
5 3 (1.03%) Unix
6 2 (0.69%) Android
6 2 (0.69%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.69%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.34%) Rocky
7 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.34%) VMS
7 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (11.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 30 (10.31%) Cybersecurity
4 28 (9.62%) Infrastructure Automation
5 26 (8.93%) Agile
6 25 (8.59%) DevOps
7 21 (7.22%) CI/CD
8 19 (6.53%) Project Delivery
9 17 (5.84%) Containerisation
9 17 (5.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (5.50%) Collaborative Culture
11 14 (4.81%) ITIL
12 13 (4.47%) Collaborative Working
13 12 (4.12%) Disaster Recovery
13 12 (4.12%) Service Management
14 11 (3.78%) Data Management
14 11 (3.78%) High Availability
15 10 (3.44%) Migration
15 10 (3.44%) Problem-Solving
16 8 (2.75%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (9.28%) Python
2 19 (6.53%) Bash
3 18 (6.19%) PowerShell
4 8 (2.75%) SQL
5 6 (2.06%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.34%) Java
Qualifications
1 52 (17.87%) Security Cleared
2 24 (8.25%) DV Cleared
3 13 (4.47%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.09%) Degree
5 6 (2.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.03%) CCNP
7 3 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.03%) MCSE
8 2 (0.69%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.69%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.34%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.44%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (2.75%) GDPR
3 6 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.72%) QA
5 2 (0.69%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
System Software
1 29 (9.97%) Active Directory
1 29 (9.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (7.56%) Hyper-V
3 14 (4.81%) Docker
4 6 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (2.06%) vSphere
5 5 (1.72%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 5 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.69%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.34%) Firmware
8 1 (0.34%) GPFS
8 1 (0.34%) KVM
8 1 (0.34%) Lustre
8 1 (0.34%) QEMU
8 1 (0.34%) Xen
Systems Management
1 32 (11.00%) Ansible
2 31 (10.65%) Terraform
3 29 (9.97%) Kubernetes
4 15 (5.15%) Grafana
5 8 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (2.75%) vCenter Server
6 7 (2.41%) Puppet
7 6 (2.06%) Kibana
7 6 (2.06%) logstash
8 5 (1.72%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (1.37%) Prometheus
9 4 (1.37%) VxRail
10 2 (0.69%) Argo
10 2 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.69%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.69%) Istio
10 2 (0.69%) linkerd
10 2 (0.69%) Mesos
10 2 (0.69%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.69%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 60 (20.62%) Microsoft
2 32 (11.00%) VMware
3 12 (4.12%) Cisco
3 12 (4.12%) Veeam
4 11 (3.78%) Splunk
5 10 (3.44%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.75%) Fortinet
7 6 (2.06%) Atlassian
7 6 (2.06%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.72%) NetApp
8 5 (1.72%) Oracle
9 4 (1.37%) Juniper
10 3 (1.03%) BeyondTrust
10 3 (1.03%) Dell
10 3 (1.03%) HP
11 2 (0.69%) arcserve
11 2 (0.69%) Citrix
12 1 (0.34%) Aruba
12 1 (0.34%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.34%) Zerto