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 11 March 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 117 73
Rank change year-on-year +30 -44 +65
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 105 53 263
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.67% 1.78% 3.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.78% 1.92% 3.66%
Number of salaries quoted 76 35 194
10th Percentile £41,925 £41,189 £34,854
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,625 £41,250
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 £81,250 £90,000 £65,000
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 5,890 2,760 7,192
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 92.74% 95.97%
Number of salaries quoted 4,116 1,600 5,677
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,568 £64,750
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% -9.69%

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 March 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 March 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 +33 31 £52,500 -12.50% 11
Wiltshire +29 31 £55,000 +6.59% 10
Bristol +1 30 £59,250 -17.70% 8
Devon -6 9 £45,000 -27.00% 2
Somerset -24 2 £62,500 +11.11% 7
Dorset -16 1 £130,000 +55.22% 1
Cornwall - 1 - -
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 March 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.

1 104 (99.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 41 (39.05%) Security Cleared
3 40 (38.10%) Microsoft
4 31 (29.52%) Windows
5 26 (24.76%) Windows Server
6 25 (23.81%) VMware
7 24 (22.86%) VMware Infrastructure
8 22 (20.95%) Active Directory
9 21 (20.00%) DV Cleared
10 20 (19.05%) Ansible
10 20 (19.05%) Linux
10 20 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (18.10%) Azure
11 19 (18.10%) PowerShell
12 18 (17.14%) DNS
12 18 (17.14%) Firewall
13 17 (16.19%) DHCP
13 17 (16.19%) Python
14 16 (15.24%) Hyper-V
15 15 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
16 13 (12.38%) Cisco
16 13 (12.38%) Continuous Improvement
17 12 (11.43%) Bash
17 12 (11.43%) Cybersecurity
17 12 (11.43%) DevOps
17 12 (11.43%) SC Cleared
17 12 (11.43%) VPN
18 11 (10.48%) AWS
18 11 (10.48%) Entra ID
18 11 (10.48%) ITIL

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 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.90%) Confluence
2 2 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.95%) Apache
3 1 (0.95%) IIS
3 1 (0.95%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (3.81%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.95%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 19 (18.10%) Azure
2 11 (10.48%) AWS
2 11 (10.48%) Entra ID
3 10 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.81%) OpenShift
5 3 (2.86%) OCI
6 2 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.90%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.95%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.95%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.95%) GCP
7 1 (0.95%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.95%) IaaS
7 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (0.95%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.95%) PaaS
7 1 (0.95%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.95%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.95%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (17.14%) DNS
1 18 (17.14%) Firewall
2 17 (16.19%) DHCP
3 12 (11.43%) VPN
4 11 (10.48%) WAN
5 9 (8.57%) LAN
6 8 (7.62%) Network Security
7 7 (6.67%) TCP/IP
7 7 (6.67%) VLAN
8 4 (3.81%) SAN
8 4 (3.81%) Unified Communications
8 4 (3.81%) WebEx
9 3 (2.86%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (2.86%) Cisco Firepower
9 3 (2.86%) LTE
9 3 (2.86%) NAS
9 3 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.95%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.95%) NGFW
10 1 (0.95%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.90%) InfluxDB
2 1 (0.95%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (9.52%) GitLab
2 7 (6.67%) Git
3 3 (2.86%) Bitbucket
3 3 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.86%) JIRA
4 2 (1.90%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.90%) Robot Framework
4 2 (1.90%) Selenium
4 2 (1.90%) TestRail
General
1 24 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.43%) Finance
3 11 (10.48%) Retail
4 7 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 6 (5.71%) Marketing
5 6 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.81%) Law
7 3 (2.86%) Banking
7 3 (2.86%) Electronics
7 3 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.86%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.90%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.90%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.81%) XMPP
2 3 (2.86%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (2.86%) Keycloak
2 3 (2.86%) OAuth
2 3 (2.86%) OAuth2
2 3 (2.86%) OpenID
2 3 (2.86%) SAML
3 2 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.90%) Playwright
3 2 (1.90%) pytest
3 2 (1.90%) REST
3 2 (1.90%) SOAP
4 1 (0.95%) Jinja
4 1 (0.95%) NETCONF
4 1 (0.95%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.71%) Driving Licence
1 6 (5.71%) Replication
2 5 (4.76%) YubiKey
3 4 (3.81%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.81%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.81%) FlexPod
3 4 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (3.81%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.81%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.90%) CCTV
5 2 (1.90%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.90%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.90%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.95%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.95%) Digital Signage
6 1 (0.95%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (29.52%) Windows
2 26 (24.76%) Windows Server
3 20 (19.05%) Linux
4 3 (2.86%) CentOS
5 1 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.95%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (99.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (12.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (11.43%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (11.43%) DevOps
6 11 (10.48%) ITIL
7 9 (8.57%) Agile
8 8 (7.62%) Collaborative Working
8 8 (7.62%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (7.62%) Infrastructure Automation
8 8 (7.62%) ITSM
9 7 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (6.67%) Collaborative Culture
9 7 (6.67%) Containerisation
9 7 (6.67%) High Availability
10 6 (5.71%) Data Management
10 6 (5.71%) RBAC
10 6 (5.71%) Virtual Infrastructure
10 6 (5.71%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (18.10%) PowerShell
2 17 (16.19%) Python
3 12 (11.43%) Bash
4 2 (1.90%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.95%) SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (39.05%) Security Cleared
2 21 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 12 (11.43%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.71%) Degree
5 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.95%) CCNA
7 1 (0.95%) CCNP
7 1 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (8.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (4.76%) NIST
3 5 (4.76%) SLA
4 3 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (2.86%) GDPR
5 2 (1.90%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.95%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (22.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (20.95%) Active Directory
3 16 (15.24%) Hyper-V
4 11 (10.48%) vSphere
5 6 (5.71%) Docker
6 5 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (3.81%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (2.86%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (2.86%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.95%) Ceph
9 1 (0.95%) Lustre
9 1 (0.95%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (19.05%) Ansible
2 11 (10.48%) Terraform
3 9 (8.57%) Kubernetes
4 7 (6.67%) Grafana
4 7 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (6.67%) vCenter Server
5 4 (3.81%) Cisco CUCM
6 3 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (2.86%) VxRail
7 2 (1.90%) Kibana
7 2 (1.90%) logstash
7 2 (1.90%) NetBackup
7 2 (1.90%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.90%) WSUS
8 1 (0.95%) linkerd
8 1 (0.95%) Mesos
8 1 (0.95%) Puppet
8 1 (0.95%) SCCM
8 1 (0.95%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 40 (38.10%) Microsoft
2 25 (23.81%) VMware
3 13 (12.38%) Cisco
4 9 (8.57%) Splunk
5 8 (7.62%) Fortinet
6 5 (4.76%) Meraki
6 5 (4.76%) Palo Alto
6 5 (4.76%) Tenable
7 4 (3.81%) Dell
7 4 (3.81%) NetApp
7 4 (3.81%) Thales
8 3 (2.86%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (2.86%) Oracle
8 3 (2.86%) Qualys
8 3 (2.86%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.86%) SAP
8 3 (2.86%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.86%) Veeam
9 2 (1.90%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.90%) Juniper