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 16 June 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 120 48
Rank change year-on-year +63 -72 +76
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 198 39 423
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.54% 1.38% 4.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.70% 1.50% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 124 35 309
10th Percentile £40,375 £38,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £41,206
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,729 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% +3.46% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,313 £60,625 £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 7,325 2,605 9,925
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 92.31% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 5,121 1,694 7,381
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,246 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.49% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £64,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,239 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.45% +9.52% -13.22%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 75 £52,500 -12.50% 24
Bristol +10 48 £65,000 +10.64% 7
Wiltshire +19 34 £55,000 +6.59% 13
Devon -9 21 £50,000 +5.26% 9
Dorset +2 9 £45,000 -46.27% 19
Somerset -26 8 £57,500 +21.05% 4
Cornwall - 3 £50,000 -
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 June 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.

1 198 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 59 (29.80%) Microsoft
3 50 (25.25%) Security Cleared
4 43 (21.72%) Linux
5 41 (20.71%) Windows
6 35 (17.68%) VMware
7 32 (16.16%) Azure
8 31 (15.66%) VMware Infrastructure
9 29 (14.65%) Ansible
10 27 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
11 26 (13.13%) DevOps
11 26 (13.13%) DV Cleared
11 26 (13.13%) Infrastructure as Code
11 26 (13.13%) Windows Server
12 24 (12.12%) Active Directory
13 23 (11.62%) AWS
13 23 (11.62%) Firewall
13 23 (11.62%) Python
14 22 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
15 21 (10.61%) Kubernetes
15 21 (10.61%) Terraform
16 20 (10.10%) Cybersecurity
17 19 (9.60%) GitLab
17 19 (9.60%) Hyper-V
17 19 (9.60%) Infrastructure Automation
17 19 (9.60%) WAN
18 18 (9.09%) LAN
19 17 (8.59%) Continuous Improvement
19 17 (8.59%) DNS
19 17 (8.59%) 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 10 (5.05%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.53%) Confluence
4 3 (1.52%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.01%) IIS
6 1 (0.51%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (4.55%) AutoCAD
2 5 (2.53%) Civil 3D
Cloud Services
1 32 (16.16%) Azure
2 27 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (11.62%) AWS
4 10 (5.05%) Entra ID
5 8 (4.04%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.52%) GCP
6 3 (1.52%) IaaS
6 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (1.52%) PaaS
7 2 (1.01%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.01%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.51%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.51%) OCI
8 1 (0.51%) SaaS
8 1 (0.51%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (11.62%) Firewall
2 19 (9.60%) WAN
3 18 (9.09%) LAN
4 17 (8.59%) DNS
5 14 (7.07%) DHCP
6 12 (6.06%) VPN
7 10 (5.05%) Network Security
8 9 (4.55%) VLAN
9 8 (4.04%) TCP/IP
10 7 (3.54%) Unified Communications
10 7 (3.54%) WebEx
11 6 (3.03%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (3.03%) Cisco Firepower
11 6 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (1.52%) LTE
12 3 (1.52%) NAS
12 3 (1.52%) SAN
13 2 (1.01%) VoIP
14 1 (0.51%) Broadband
14 1 (0.51%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.03%) InfluxDB
2 2 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.51%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.51%) MySQL
3 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (9.60%) GitLab
2 8 (4.04%) Git
3 7 (3.54%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.53%) Cypress.io
4 5 (2.53%) Robot Framework
4 5 (2.53%) Selenium
4 5 (2.53%) TestRail
5 3 (1.52%) JIRA
6 2 (1.01%) Bitbucket
General
1 23 (11.62%) Social Skills
2 17 (8.59%) Finance
3 13 (6.57%) Retail
4 8 (4.04%) Public Sector
4 8 (4.04%) Telecoms
5 6 (3.03%) Aerospace
5 6 (3.03%) Banking
5 6 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (3.03%) Marketing
6 4 (2.02%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.54%) XMPP
2 6 (3.03%) Apache NiFi
2 6 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (3.03%) Keycloak
3 5 (2.53%) Playwright
3 5 (2.53%) pytest
4 3 (1.52%) OAuth
4 3 (1.52%) OAuth2
4 3 (1.52%) OpenID
4 3 (1.52%) SAML
5 1 (0.51%) Jinja
5 1 (0.51%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.51%) Node.js
5 1 (0.51%) REST
5 1 (0.51%) SOAP
5 1 (0.51%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.06%) Replication
2 8 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (4.04%) Onboarding
3 7 (3.54%) FlexPod
3 7 (3.54%) Video Conferencing
4 5 (2.53%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.53%) Driving Licence
4 5 (2.53%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.53%) YubiKey
5 4 (2.02%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.01%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.01%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.01%) PKI
8 1 (0.51%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.51%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.51%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.51%) Social Media
8 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (21.72%) Linux
2 41 (20.71%) Windows
3 26 (13.13%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.03%) CentOS
5 2 (1.01%) Android
5 2 (1.01%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.01%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.51%) Unix
6 1 (0.51%) VMS
6 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (13.13%) DevOps
2 26 (13.13%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (10.10%) Cybersecurity
5 19 (9.60%) Infrastructure Automation
6 17 (8.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (8.08%) CI/CD
8 15 (7.58%) Collaborative Culture
9 14 (7.07%) Agile
10 13 (6.57%) Containerisation
11 11 (5.56%) Collaborative Working
11 11 (5.56%) Disaster Recovery
11 11 (5.56%) ITIL
12 10 (5.05%) Data Management
13 9 (4.55%) Analytics
13 9 (4.55%) High Availability
13 9 (4.55%) Project Delivery
14 8 (4.04%) Mentoring
15 7 (3.54%) Converged Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 23 (11.62%) Python
2 17 (8.59%) PowerShell
3 15 (7.58%) Bash
4 5 (2.53%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.02%) SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (25.25%) Security Cleared
2 26 (13.13%) DV Cleared
3 12 (6.06%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (2.53%) Degree
6 3 (1.52%) CCNP
6 3 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.01%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.01%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.01%) MCSE
7 2 (1.01%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.51%) CCNA
8 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.51%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (6.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (4.04%) GDPR
4 5 (2.53%) NIST
5 3 (1.52%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.01%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.51%) NCSC
7 1 (0.51%) QA
System Software
1 31 (15.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (12.12%) Active Directory
3 19 (9.60%) Hyper-V
4 12 (6.06%) Docker
5 7 (3.54%) vSphere
6 6 (3.03%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (3.03%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (2.53%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.51%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.51%) Firmware
9 1 (0.51%) KVM
9 1 (0.51%) QEMU
9 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.51%) Xen
Systems Management
1 29 (14.65%) Ansible
2 21 (10.61%) Kubernetes
2 21 (10.61%) Terraform
3 14 (7.07%) Grafana
4 9 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (4.04%) vCenter Server
6 7 (3.54%) Cisco CUCM
7 6 (3.03%) VxRail
8 5 (2.53%) Kibana
8 5 (2.53%) logstash
9 4 (2.02%) Puppet
10 3 (1.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.01%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.01%) NetBackup
11 2 (1.01%) Prometheus
11 2 (1.01%) WSUS
12 1 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.51%) Mesos
12 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 59 (29.80%) Microsoft
2 35 (17.68%) VMware
3 16 (8.08%) Cisco
4 15 (7.58%) Splunk
5 11 (5.56%) Fortinet
6 9 (4.55%) Red Hat
7 8 (4.04%) Palo Alto
8 7 (3.54%) NetApp
9 6 (3.03%) BeyondTrust
10 5 (2.53%) Atlassian
10 5 (2.53%) Dell
10 5 (2.53%) Tenable
10 5 (2.53%) Veeam
11 4 (2.02%) Juniper
12 3 (1.52%) Qualys
13 2 (1.01%) HP
13 2 (1.01%) Meraki
13 2 (1.01%) Oracle
13 2 (1.01%) Thales
14 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow