Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South West

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the South West is £54,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 July 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 109 48
Rank change year-on-year +55 -61 +76
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 225 56 408
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.72% 1.70% 4.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.89% 1.85% 4.34%
Number of salaries quoted 132 52 301
10th Percentile £40,000 £30,950 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,938 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £52,115 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.62% +4.23% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,625 £55,000
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 7,781 3,027 9,394
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 92.09% 96.00%
Number of salaries quoted 5,362 2,030 6,991
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,625 £37,099
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% -11.67%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 +29 96 £52,500 -34.38% 18
Bristol -6 41 £65,000 +10.64% 2
Wiltshire +13 35 £50,000 -10.39% 6
Devon -10 27 £50,000 +27.39% 7
Somerset -26 12 £55,000 +15.79% 4
Dorset +4 11 £45,000 -46.27% 3
Cornwall - 3 £50,000 - 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 July 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.

1 225 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 64 (28.44%) Microsoft
3 54 (24.00%) Security Cleared
4 53 (23.56%) Linux
5 46 (20.44%) Windows
6 37 (16.44%) Azure
6 37 (16.44%) Microsoft 365
6 37 (16.44%) VMware
7 36 (16.00%) Ansible
8 33 (14.67%) VMware Infrastructure
9 32 (14.22%) Infrastructure as Code
10 30 (13.33%) Kubernetes
11 29 (12.89%) Windows Server
12 28 (12.44%) AWS
12 28 (12.44%) Terraform
13 27 (12.00%) DevOps
13 27 (12.00%) Firewall
13 27 (12.00%) Python
14 26 (11.56%) Cybersecurity
15 24 (10.67%) Active Directory
15 24 (10.67%) Infrastructure Automation
16 23 (10.22%) DNS
17 22 (9.78%) Agile
17 22 (9.78%) CI/CD
17 22 (9.78%) DV Cleared
17 22 (9.78%) GitLab
18 21 (9.33%) Collaborative Culture
18 21 (9.33%) Continuous Improvement
18 21 (9.33%) WAN
19 20 (8.89%) Bash

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 14 (6.22%) SharePoint
2 11 (4.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.22%) Confluence
4 4 (1.78%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.89%) IIS
6 1 (0.44%) Apache
Applications
1 10 (4.44%) AutoCAD
2 6 (2.67%) Civil 3D
Cloud Services
1 37 (16.44%) Azure
1 37 (16.44%) Microsoft 365
2 28 (12.44%) AWS
3 15 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 11 (4.89%) OpenShift
5 4 (1.78%) GCP
5 4 (1.78%) OCI
6 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.89%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (0.89%) IaaS
7 2 (0.89%) OneDrive
7 2 (0.89%) PaaS
8 1 (0.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.44%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.44%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.44%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.44%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 27 (12.00%) Firewall
2 23 (10.22%) DNS
3 21 (9.33%) WAN
4 20 (8.89%) DHCP
5 19 (8.44%) LAN
6 13 (5.78%) VLAN
7 11 (4.89%) TCP/IP
7 11 (4.89%) VPN
8 7 (3.11%) Network Security
8 7 (3.11%) Unified Communications
8 7 (3.11%) WebEx
8 7 (3.11%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (2.67%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (2.67%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (2.22%) VoIP
11 4 (1.78%) NAS
11 4 (1.78%) SAN
12 2 (0.89%) LTE
12 2 (0.89%) SD-WAN
13 1 (0.44%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.56%) InfluxDB
2 3 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.44%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.44%) MySQL
3 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (9.78%) GitLab
2 10 (4.44%) Git
2 10 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.11%) Cypress.io
3 7 (3.11%) Robot Framework
3 7 (3.11%) Selenium
3 7 (3.11%) TestRail
4 3 (1.33%) JIRA
5 2 (0.89%) Bitbucket
General
1 29 (12.89%) Finance
2 19 (8.44%) Social Skills
3 11 (4.89%) Retail
4 10 (4.44%) Aerospace
5 8 (3.56%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.11%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.67%) Banking
7 6 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.67%) Marketing
8 5 (2.22%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (3.11%) Apache NiFi
2 7 (3.11%) Playwright
2 7 (3.11%) pytest
2 7 (3.11%) XMPP
3 6 (2.67%) Keycloak
4 2 (0.89%) OAuth
4 2 (0.89%) OAuth2
4 2 (0.89%) OpenID
4 2 (0.89%) SAML
5 1 (0.44%) Node.js
5 1 (0.44%) REST
5 1 (0.44%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.78%) Replication
2 8 (3.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (3.56%) Onboarding
3 7 (3.11%) FlexPod
3 7 (3.11%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.11%) Video Conferencing
4 5 (2.22%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.33%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.33%) PKI
6 2 (0.89%) Cyberattack
6 2 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.89%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.89%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.44%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 53 (23.56%) Linux
2 46 (20.44%) Windows
3 29 (12.89%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.56%) CentOS
5 3 (1.33%) Unix
6 2 (0.89%) Android
6 2 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.89%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.44%) Rocky
7 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.44%) VMS
7 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (14.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 27 (12.00%) DevOps
4 26 (11.56%) Cybersecurity
5 24 (10.67%) Infrastructure Automation
6 22 (9.78%) Agile
6 22 (9.78%) CI/CD
7 21 (9.33%) Collaborative Culture
7 21 (9.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (8.44%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (8.00%) Containerisation
10 15 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
10 15 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
11 14 (6.22%) Data Management
11 14 (6.22%) High Availability
11 14 (6.22%) Project Delivery
12 11 (4.89%) ITIL
13 10 (4.44%) Migration
14 9 (4.00%) Analytics
14 9 (4.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (12.00%) Python
2 20 (8.89%) Bash
3 18 (8.00%) PowerShell
4 7 (3.11%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (9.78%) DV Cleared
3 12 (5.33%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 7 (3.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.67%) Degree
6 4 (1.78%) CCNP
6 4 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.33%) MCSE
8 2 (0.89%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.89%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.44%) CCNA
9 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.44%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.89%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (3.56%) GDPR
2 8 (3.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.89%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (0.89%) QA
3 2 (0.89%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (14.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (10.67%) Active Directory
3 20 (8.89%) Hyper-V
4 15 (6.67%) Docker
5 7 (3.11%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (3.11%) vSphere
6 6 (2.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (2.67%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.78%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.44%) Firmware
10 1 (0.44%) GPFS
10 1 (0.44%) KVM
10 1 (0.44%) Lustre
10 1 (0.44%) QEMU
10 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.44%) Xen
Systems Management
1 36 (16.00%) Ansible
2 30 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 28 (12.44%) Terraform
4 17 (7.56%) Grafana
5 10 (4.44%) vCenter Server
6 8 (3.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (3.11%) Cisco CUCM
7 7 (3.11%) Kibana
7 7 (3.11%) logstash
7 7 (3.11%) VxRail
8 6 (2.67%) Puppet
9 3 (1.33%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.89%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.89%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.44%) Argo
11 1 (0.44%) Istio
11 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.44%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 64 (28.44%) Microsoft
2 37 (16.44%) VMware
3 15 (6.67%) Cisco
4 14 (6.22%) Splunk
5 12 (5.33%) Red Hat
6 11 (4.89%) Fortinet
7 9 (4.00%) Veeam
8 8 (3.56%) Palo Alto
9 7 (3.11%) Atlassian
9 7 (3.11%) NetApp
10 6 (2.67%) BeyondTrust
11 5 (2.22%) Dell
11 5 (2.22%) Oracle
12 4 (1.78%) Juniper
13 3 (1.33%) HP
14 2 (0.89%) Meraki
14 2 (0.89%) Thales
15 1 (0.44%) Aruba
15 1 (0.44%) ServiceNow
15 1 (0.44%) Zerto