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 6 September 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 114 38
Rank change year-on-year +70 -76 +37
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 318 54 338
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 3.27% 1.56% 4.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.49% 1.70% 4.61%
Number of salaries quoted 219 50 235
10th Percentile £38,500 £30,500 £33,750
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 £68,750 £70,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £85,500 £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 9,110 3,185 7,334
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.70% 92.13% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6,283 2,120 4,938
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -8.65% -5.25%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £58,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.45% - -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 6 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 6 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 +21 134 £65,000 -18.75% 19
Devon +19 58 £50,000 +11.11% 2
Bristol 0 51 £65,000 +18.18% 7
Wiltshire +18 37 £50,000 -13.04% 2
Dorset +12 17 £65,000 - 1
Somerset -21 14 £55,000 +15.79% 10
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 6 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.

1 318 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 59 (18.55%) Microsoft
3 58 (18.24%) Security Cleared
4 52 (16.35%) Linux
4 52 (16.35%) Windows
5 47 (14.78%) Azure
6 43 (13.52%) AWS
7 39 (12.26%) Microsoft 365
8 33 (10.38%) Ansible
8 33 (10.38%) Infrastructure as Code
8 33 (10.38%) Kubernetes
8 33 (10.38%) Terraform
8 33 (10.38%) Windows Server
9 32 (10.06%) Active Directory
9 32 (10.06%) Cybersecurity
9 32 (10.06%) VMware
10 29 (9.12%) DevOps
10 29 (9.12%) Infrastructure Automation
10 29 (9.12%) VMware Infrastructure
11 27 (8.49%) Agile
11 27 (8.49%) DV Cleared
11 27 (8.49%) Python
12 25 (7.86%) Hyper-V
13 24 (7.55%) CI/CD
13 24 (7.55%) Firewall
14 22 (6.92%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (6.60%) DNS
15 21 (6.60%) Entra ID
16 20 (6.29%) Bash
16 20 (6.29%) 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 16 (5.03%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.57%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.94%) Apache
4 3 (0.94%) Confluence
5 2 (0.63%) IIS
Applications
1 13 (4.09%) AutoCAD
1 13 (4.09%) Civil 3D
Cloud Services
1 47 (14.78%) Azure
2 43 (13.52%) AWS
3 39 (12.26%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (6.60%) Entra ID
5 12 (3.77%) OpenShift
6 7 (2.20%) GCP
7 5 (1.57%) Serverless
8 4 (1.26%) IaaS
8 4 (1.26%) OCI
9 3 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (0.94%) PaaS
10 2 (0.63%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.63%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.31%) AWS KMS
11 1 (0.31%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.31%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.31%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.55%) Firewall
2 21 (6.60%) DNS
3 19 (5.97%) DHCP
4 14 (4.40%) VLAN
5 13 (4.09%) TCP/IP
5 13 (4.09%) WAN
6 12 (3.77%) LAN
7 9 (2.83%) VoIP
8 8 (2.52%) VPN
9 7 (2.20%) Network Security
10 5 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.94%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (0.94%) Cisco Firepower
11 3 (0.94%) SAN
11 3 (0.94%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.94%) WebEx
11 3 (0.94%) Wireless
12 2 (0.63%) NAS
13 1 (0.31%) Internet
13 1 (0.31%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.52%) InfluxDB
2 7 (2.20%) MySQL
3 4 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.26%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.31%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (5.35%) GitLab
2 12 (3.77%) Git
3 11 (3.46%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.20%) Cypress.io
4 7 (2.20%) Robot Framework
4 7 (2.20%) Selenium
4 7 (2.20%) TestRail
5 1 (0.31%) JIRA
General
1 29 (9.12%) Finance
2 26 (8.18%) Social Skills
3 14 (4.40%) Manufacturing
4 10 (3.14%) Retail
5 9 (2.83%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.52%) Aerospace
7 5 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.26%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.94%) Banking
9 3 (0.94%) Marketing
10 2 (0.63%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (10.38%) Terraform
2 10 (3.14%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (2.20%) Playwright
3 7 (2.20%) pytest
4 4 (1.26%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (0.94%) Keycloak
5 3 (0.94%) 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 (2.52%) Cloud Native
1 8 (2.52%) Product Ownership
2 7 (2.20%) Replication
3 5 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (1.57%) Onboarding
4 3 (0.94%) FlexPod
4 3 (0.94%) PKI
4 3 (0.94%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (0.63%) Cyberattack
5 2 (0.63%) Data Centre
5 2 (0.63%) Management Information System
5 2 (0.63%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.31%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.31%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.31%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (16.35%) Linux
1 52 (16.35%) Windows
2 33 (10.38%) Windows Server
3 10 (3.14%) CentOS
4 4 (1.26%) Unix
5 2 (0.63%) Android
5 2 (0.63%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.63%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.31%) Rocky
6 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.31%) VMS
6 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 33 (10.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 32 (10.06%) Cybersecurity
4 29 (9.12%) DevOps
4 29 (9.12%) Infrastructure Automation
5 27 (8.49%) Agile
6 24 (7.55%) CI/CD
7 22 (6.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (6.29%) Containerisation
9 18 (5.66%) Project Delivery
10 17 (5.35%) Collaborative Culture
11 15 (4.72%) Collaborative Working
11 15 (4.72%) ITIL
12 13 (4.09%) Disaster Recovery
13 12 (3.77%) High Availability
13 12 (3.77%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (3.77%) Service Management
14 10 (3.14%) Migration
14 10 (3.14%) Test Automation
15 9 (2.83%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (8.49%) Python
2 20 (6.29%) Bash
3 18 (5.66%) PowerShell
4 10 (3.14%) SQL
5 7 (2.20%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.31%) Java
Qualifications
1 58 (18.24%) Security Cleared
2 27 (8.49%) DV Cleared
3 14 (4.40%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.83%) Degree
5 7 (2.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.94%) CCNP
7 3 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.94%) MCSE
8 2 (0.63%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.63%) 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 13 (4.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (2.52%) GDPR
3 7 (2.20%) QA
4 6 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.63%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
System Software
1 32 (10.06%) Active Directory
2 29 (9.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (7.86%) Hyper-V
4 17 (5.35%) Docker
5 7 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.57%) vSphere
7 4 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.94%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.63%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.31%) Firmware
10 1 (0.31%) GPFS
10 1 (0.31%) KVM
10 1 (0.31%) Lustre
10 1 (0.31%) QEMU
10 1 (0.31%) Xen
Systems Management
1 33 (10.38%) Ansible
1 33 (10.38%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.03%) Grafana
3 10 (3.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (2.83%) vCenter Server
5 7 (2.20%) Kibana
5 7 (2.20%) logstash
5 7 (2.20%) Puppet
6 6 (1.89%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.26%) VxRail
8 3 (0.94%) Argo
8 3 (0.94%) Cisco CUCM
8 3 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.94%) Istio
8 3 (0.94%) linkerd
8 3 (0.94%) Mesos
9 2 (0.63%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.63%) Nessus
9 2 (0.63%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.63%) SCOM
Vendors
1 59 (18.55%) Microsoft
2 32 (10.06%) VMware
3 15 (4.72%) Veeam
4 11 (3.46%) Red Hat
5 10 (3.14%) Cisco
5 10 (3.14%) Splunk
6 7 (2.20%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.89%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.57%) Oracle
9 4 (1.26%) Juniper
9 4 (1.26%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.94%) BeyondTrust
10 3 (0.94%) Citrix
10 3 (0.94%) Dell
10 3 (0.94%) HP
10 3 (0.94%) NetApp
11 2 (0.63%) arcserve
12 1 (0.31%) Aruba
12 1 (0.31%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.31%) YouTube