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 August 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 111 33
Rank change year-on-year +60 -78 +54
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 287 55 382
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 3.17% 1.58% 4.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.37% 1.73% 5.00%
Number of salaries quoted 193 51 283
10th Percentile £39,200 £30,500 £30,708
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,729 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% +3.46% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £82,000 £80,000 £63,750
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 8,517 3,176 7,647
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.19% 91.32% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 5,800 2,140 5,468
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £32,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.28% -3.00% -8.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,138 £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 16 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 16 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 +21 124 £65,000 -18.75% 17
Bristol -5 51 £65,000 +20.93% 5
Devon +12 40 £50,000 +27.39% 10
Wiltshire +18 38 £50,000 -10.39% 3
Somerset -21 14 £55,000 +15.79% 7
Dorset +7 13 £45,000 - 1
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 16 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.

1 287 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 61 (21.25%) Microsoft
3 54 (18.82%) Linux
4 53 (18.47%) Security Cleared
5 48 (16.72%) Windows
6 43 (14.98%) Azure
7 40 (13.94%) AWS
8 38 (13.24%) Microsoft 365
9 34 (11.85%) Ansible
9 34 (11.85%) VMware
10 33 (11.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 33 (11.50%) Terraform
11 31 (10.80%) VMware Infrastructure
12 30 (10.45%) Windows Server
13 29 (10.10%) Cybersecurity
13 29 (10.10%) Infrastructure Automation
13 29 (10.10%) Kubernetes
14 28 (9.76%) Python
15 27 (9.41%) Active Directory
16 26 (9.06%) Agile
17 25 (8.71%) DevOps
18 24 (8.36%) DV Cleared
19 23 (8.01%) Firewall
20 21 (7.32%) CI/CD
21 20 (6.97%) Hyper-V
22 19 (6.62%) Bash
22 19 (6.62%) DNS
22 19 (6.62%) Project Delivery
23 18 (6.27%) Entra ID
23 18 (6.27%) 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 (4.53%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.39%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.05%) Confluence
5 2 (0.70%) Apache
5 2 (0.70%) IIS
Applications
1 14 (4.88%) AutoCAD
2 13 (4.53%) Civil 3D
Cloud Services
1 43 (14.98%) Azure
2 40 (13.94%) AWS
3 38 (13.24%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (6.27%) Entra ID
5 10 (3.48%) OpenShift
6 5 (1.74%) GCP
7 4 (1.39%) OCI
8 3 (1.05%) IaaS
8 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (1.05%) PaaS
9 2 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.70%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (0.70%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.35%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.35%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.35%) Serverless
10 1 (0.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.01%) Firewall
2 19 (6.62%) DNS
3 17 (5.92%) DHCP
3 17 (5.92%) WAN
4 16 (5.57%) LAN
5 14 (4.88%) VLAN
6 10 (3.48%) TCP/IP
7 9 (3.14%) VPN
8 7 (2.44%) Network Security
8 7 (2.44%) Unified Communications
8 7 (2.44%) WebEx
9 6 (2.09%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (2.09%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (2.09%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (1.74%) VoIP
11 3 (1.05%) SAN
12 2 (0.70%) NAS
12 2 (0.70%) Wireless
13 1 (0.35%) LTE
13 1 (0.35%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.44%) InfluxDB
2 4 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.05%) MySQL
4 1 (0.35%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (5.23%) GitLab
2 11 (3.83%) Git
3 9 (3.14%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.09%) Cypress.io
4 6 (2.09%) Robot Framework
4 6 (2.09%) Selenium
4 6 (2.09%) TestRail
5 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.35%) JIRA
General
1 26 (9.06%) Finance
2 25 (8.71%) Social Skills
3 13 (4.53%) Retail
4 12 (4.18%) Public Sector
5 11 (3.83%) Manufacturing
6 8 (2.79%) Aerospace
7 7 (2.44%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.09%) Banking
8 6 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.09%) Marketing
9 2 (0.70%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.79%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (2.44%) XMPP
3 6 (2.09%) Playwright
3 6 (2.09%) pytest
4 4 (1.39%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (1.05%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.35%) Node.js
6 1 (0.35%) OAuth
6 1 (0.35%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.35%) OpenID
6 1 (0.35%) REST
6 1 (0.35%) SAML
6 1 (0.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (3.83%) Replication
2 9 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (3.14%) Onboarding
3 7 (2.44%) FlexPod
3 7 (2.44%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.44%) Video Conferencing
4 6 (2.09%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.05%) PKI
6 2 (0.70%) Cyberattack
6 2 (0.70%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.70%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.70%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.35%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.35%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.35%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (18.82%) Linux
2 48 (16.72%) Windows
3 30 (10.45%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.79%) CentOS
5 3 (1.05%) Unix
6 2 (0.70%) Android
6 2 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.70%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.35%) Rocky
7 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.35%) VMS
7 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 33 (11.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 29 (10.10%) Cybersecurity
3 29 (10.10%) Infrastructure Automation
4 26 (9.06%) Agile
5 25 (8.71%) DevOps
6 21 (7.32%) CI/CD
7 19 (6.62%) Project Delivery
8 17 (5.92%) Containerisation
9 16 (5.57%) Collaborative Culture
9 16 (5.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (4.88%) ITIL
11 13 (4.53%) Collaborative Working
11 13 (4.53%) Disaster Recovery
12 12 (4.18%) Data Management
13 11 (3.83%) High Availability
13 11 (3.83%) Migration
13 11 (3.83%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (3.83%) Service Management
14 8 (2.79%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 28 (9.76%) Python
2 19 (6.62%) Bash
3 18 (6.27%) PowerShell
4 6 (2.09%) JavaScript
4 6 (2.09%) SQL
5 1 (0.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 53 (18.47%) Security Cleared
2 24 (8.36%) DV Cleared
3 14 (4.88%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.14%) Degree
5 6 (2.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.05%) CCNP
7 3 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.05%) MCSE
8 2 (0.70%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.70%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.35%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.48%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (2.79%) GDPR
3 7 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.74%) QA
5 2 (0.70%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 31 (10.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (9.41%) Active Directory
3 20 (6.97%) Hyper-V
4 14 (4.88%) Docker
5 8 (2.79%) vSphere
6 6 (2.09%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.09%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.70%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.35%) Firmware
9 1 (0.35%) GPFS
9 1 (0.35%) KVM
9 1 (0.35%) Lustre
9 1 (0.35%) QEMU
9 1 (0.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 34 (11.85%) Ansible
2 33 (11.50%) Terraform
3 29 (10.10%) Kubernetes
4 17 (5.92%) Grafana
5 9 (3.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (2.79%) vCenter Server
7 7 (2.44%) Cisco CUCM
7 7 (2.44%) Puppet
8 6 (2.09%) Kibana
8 6 (2.09%) logstash
9 4 (1.39%) Prometheus
9 4 (1.39%) VxRail
10 2 (0.70%) Argo
10 2 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.70%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.70%) Istio
10 2 (0.70%) linkerd
10 2 (0.70%) Mesos
10 2 (0.70%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.70%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 61 (21.25%) Microsoft
2 34 (11.85%) VMware
3 15 (5.23%) Cisco
4 13 (4.53%) Splunk
5 11 (3.83%) Veeam
6 10 (3.48%) Fortinet
6 10 (3.48%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.79%) Palo Alto
8 7 (2.44%) NetApp
9 6 (2.09%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.74%) Oracle
11 4 (1.39%) Juniper
12 3 (1.05%) BeyondTrust
12 3 (1.05%) Dell
12 3 (1.05%) HP
13 2 (0.70%) arcserve
13 2 (0.70%) Citrix
14 1 (0.35%) Meraki
14 1 (0.35%) ServiceNow
14 1 (0.35%) Zerto