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 3 April 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 118 64
Rank change year-on-year +34 -54 +78
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 120 42 314
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.76% 1.55% 3.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.88% 1.66% 3.96%
Number of salaries quoted 83 35 230
10th Percentile £40,385 £44,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,550 £50,000 £42,167
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,644 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.78% +23.29% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,000 £90,000 £63,875
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 6,386 2,525 7,931
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 93.17% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 4,444 1,620 6,131
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,848 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,563 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,568 £64,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.71%

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 3 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 3 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 +39 44 £52,500 -12.50% 21
Wiltshire +14 31 £55,000 +8.27% 7
Bristol -1 31 £60,000 -16.66% 6
Devon -17 8 £53,875 -12.60% 2
Somerset - 3 £65,000 - 3
Dorset -22 2 £130,000 +55.22% 2
Cornwall - 1 - -
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 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.

1 119 (99.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 45 (37.50%) Security Cleared
3 43 (35.83%) Microsoft
4 35 (29.17%) Windows
5 31 (25.83%) VMware
6 30 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 29 (24.17%) Linux
8 27 (22.50%) Ansible
9 26 (21.67%) Windows Server
10 23 (19.17%) DV Cleared
11 21 (17.50%) Active Directory
11 21 (17.50%) Firewall
11 21 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
11 21 (17.50%) Python
12 20 (16.67%) Azure
12 20 (16.67%) Hyper-V
12 20 (16.67%) PowerShell
12 20 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (15.83%) DNS
14 18 (15.00%) Cisco
14 18 (15.00%) DHCP
15 17 (14.17%) Terraform
16 16 (13.33%) AWS
16 16 (13.33%) DevOps
16 16 (13.33%) WAN
17 15 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
17 15 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
18 14 (11.67%) Bash
18 14 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
18 14 (11.67%) LAN

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 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.67%) Confluence
2 2 (1.67%) IIS
2 2 (1.67%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.83%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (3.33%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.83%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 20 (16.67%) Azure
2 16 (13.33%) AWS
3 11 (9.17%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 6 (5.00%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.67%) GCP
6 2 (1.67%) IaaS
6 2 (1.67%) PaaS
7 1 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.83%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.83%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (0.83%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.83%) OCI
7 1 (0.83%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.83%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.83%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.83%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (17.50%) Firewall
2 19 (15.83%) DNS
3 18 (15.00%) DHCP
4 16 (13.33%) WAN
5 14 (11.67%) LAN
6 13 (10.83%) VPN
7 10 (8.33%) Network Security
8 9 (7.50%) TCP/IP
9 8 (6.67%) VLAN
10 6 (5.00%) Unified Communications
10 6 (5.00%) WebEx
11 5 (4.17%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (4.17%) Cisco Firepower
11 5 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (2.50%) LTE
12 3 (2.50%) NAS
12 3 (2.50%) SAN
13 1 (0.83%) Internet
13 1 (0.83%) Intranet
13 1 (0.83%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.33%) InfluxDB
2 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.83%) MariaDB
2 1 (0.83%) MySQL
2 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.83%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (10.00%) GitLab
2 8 (6.67%) Git
3 4 (3.33%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.50%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.50%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.50%) JIRA
4 3 (2.50%) Robot Framework
4 3 (2.50%) Selenium
4 3 (2.50%) TestRail
General
1 23 (19.17%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.00%) Finance
2 12 (10.00%) Retail
3 9 (7.50%) Telecoms
4 8 (6.67%) Marketing
4 8 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.17%) Banking
5 5 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.33%) Aerospace
6 4 (3.33%) Law
7 3 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.50%) Electronics
7 3 (2.50%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.00%) XMPP
2 3 (2.50%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (2.50%) Keycloak
2 3 (2.50%) OAuth
2 3 (2.50%) OAuth2
2 3 (2.50%) OpenID
2 3 (2.50%) Playwright
2 3 (2.50%) pytest
2 3 (2.50%) SAML
3 2 (1.67%) REST
3 2 (1.67%) SOAP
4 1 (0.83%) Jinja
4 1 (0.83%) NETCONF
4 1 (0.83%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.67%) Replication
2 6 (5.00%) Driving Licence
2 6 (5.00%) FlexPod
2 6 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
3 5 (4.17%) YubiKey
4 4 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.67%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.67%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.83%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.83%) Digital Signage
7 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.83%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 35 (29.17%) Windows
2 29 (24.17%) Linux
3 26 (21.67%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.17%) CentOS
5 2 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.83%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.83%) VMS
6 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (99.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (13.33%) DevOps
5 15 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 15 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
6 14 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (9.17%) Agile
8 10 (8.33%) CI/CD
8 10 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
8 10 (8.33%) Containerisation
8 10 (8.33%) ITIL
9 9 (7.50%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (7.50%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (6.67%) Data Management
10 8 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
11 7 (5.83%) High Availability
11 7 (5.83%) ITSM
12 6 (5.00%) Incident Management
12 6 (5.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (17.50%) Python
2 20 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 14 (11.67%) Bash
4 3 (2.50%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.67%) SQL
6 1 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 45 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 23 (19.17%) DV Cleared
3 13 (10.83%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.33%) Degree
6 3 (2.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.67%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.67%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.83%) CCNA
8 1 (0.83%) CCNP
8 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.83%) RHCE
8 1 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (9.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (4.17%) NIST
4 4 (3.33%) GDPR
4 4 (3.33%) SLA
5 3 (2.50%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.83%) NCSC
6 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.83%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (17.50%) Active Directory
3 20 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 12 (10.00%) vSphere
5 9 (7.50%) Docker
6 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (4.17%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (3.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 4 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.83%) Ceph
8 1 (0.83%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.83%) Firmware
8 1 (0.83%) Lustre
8 1 (0.83%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (22.50%) Ansible
2 17 (14.17%) Terraform
3 13 (10.83%) Kubernetes
4 10 (8.33%) Grafana
5 7 (5.83%) vCenter Server
6 6 (5.00%) Cisco CUCM
7 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (2.50%) Kibana
8 3 (2.50%) logstash
8 3 (2.50%) NetBackup
8 3 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (2.50%) VxRail
9 2 (1.67%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.67%) Puppet
9 2 (1.67%) WSUS
10 1 (0.83%) Mesos
10 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.83%) SCCM
10 1 (0.83%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 43 (35.83%) Microsoft
2 31 (25.83%) VMware
3 18 (15.00%) Cisco
4 12 (10.00%) Splunk
5 10 (8.33%) Fortinet
6 8 (6.67%) Palo Alto
7 6 (5.00%) Dell
7 6 (5.00%) NetApp
7 6 (5.00%) Red Hat
8 5 (4.17%) Tenable
9 4 (3.33%) Juniper
9 4 (3.33%) Meraki
10 3 (2.50%) Atlassian
10 3 (2.50%) BeyondTrust
10 3 (2.50%) HP
10 3 (2.50%) Qualys
10 3 (2.50%) SAP
10 3 (2.50%) Thales
10 3 (2.50%) Veeam
11 2 (1.67%) SolarWinds