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 17 July 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 112 42
Rank change year-on-year +59 -70 +81
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 227 57 407
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.73% 1.71% 4.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.90% 1.87% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 139 53 302
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,400 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £83,000 £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 7,825 3,056 9,089
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 91.83% 95.98%
Number of salaries quoted 5,383 2,054 6,752
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,875 £37,250
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 £80,525 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -10.00%

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 17 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 17 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 +24 99 £55,000 -31.25% 19
Bristol -2 40 £65,000 +10.64% 5
Wiltshire +10 33 £50,000 -10.39% 3
Devon -2 28 £50,000 +27.39% 5
Somerset -25 12 £55,000 +15.79% 5
Dorset +4 11 £45,000 -46.27% 1
Cornwall - 4 £55,000 - 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 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.

1 227 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 61 (26.87%) Microsoft
3 51 (22.47%) Linux
4 48 (21.15%) Security Cleared
5 42 (18.50%) Windows
6 39 (17.18%) Azure
7 37 (16.30%) Microsoft 365
8 34 (14.98%) VMware
9 33 (14.54%) Ansible
10 31 (13.66%) AWS
11 30 (13.22%) Infrastructure as Code
11 30 (13.22%) VMware Infrastructure
12 29 (12.78%) Kubernetes
13 28 (12.33%) Terraform
14 26 (11.45%) Cybersecurity
14 26 (11.45%) Windows Server
15 25 (11.01%) Firewall
15 25 (11.01%) Python
16 24 (10.57%) DevOps
17 22 (9.69%) Infrastructure Automation
18 20 (8.81%) Active Directory
18 20 (8.81%) Agile
18 20 (8.81%) DNS
18 20 (8.81%) DV Cleared
19 19 (8.37%) CI/CD
19 19 (8.37%) Continuous Improvement
19 19 (8.37%) GitLab
19 19 (8.37%) Hyper-V
19 19 (8.37%) WAN
20 18 (7.93%) Collaborative Culture

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 (6.17%) SharePoint
2 11 (4.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.76%) Confluence
4 3 (1.32%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.88%) Apache
5 2 (0.88%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (4.85%) AutoCAD
2 7 (3.08%) Civil 3D
Cloud Services
1 39 (17.18%) Azure
2 37 (16.30%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (13.66%) AWS
4 15 (6.61%) Entra ID
5 9 (3.96%) OpenShift
6 5 (2.20%) GCP
7 4 (1.76%) OCI
8 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (0.88%) IaaS
9 2 (0.88%) OneDrive
9 2 (0.88%) PaaS
10 1 (0.44%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.44%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.44%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.44%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.01%) Firewall
2 20 (8.81%) DNS
3 19 (8.37%) WAN
4 17 (7.49%) DHCP
4 17 (7.49%) LAN
5 13 (5.73%) VLAN
6 10 (4.41%) TCP/IP
7 9 (3.96%) VPN
8 7 (3.08%) Network Security
8 7 (3.08%) Unified Communications
8 7 (3.08%) WebEx
8 7 (3.08%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (2.64%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (2.64%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (2.20%) VoIP
11 2 (0.88%) NAS
11 2 (0.88%) SAN
11 2 (0.88%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.44%) LTE
12 1 (0.44%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.08%) InfluxDB
2 3 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.44%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.44%) MySQL
3 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (8.37%) GitLab
2 10 (4.41%) Git
3 9 (3.96%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.64%) Cypress.io
4 6 (2.64%) Robot Framework
4 6 (2.64%) Selenium
4 6 (2.64%) TestRail
5 2 (0.88%) JIRA
6 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
General
1 28 (12.33%) Finance
2 19 (8.37%) Social Skills
3 11 (4.85%) Retail
4 8 (3.52%) Aerospace
4 8 (3.52%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.08%) Telecoms
6 6 (2.64%) Banking
6 6 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.64%) Marketing
7 5 (2.20%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.32%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.52%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (3.08%) Apache NiFi
2 7 (3.08%) XMPP
3 6 (2.64%) Keycloak
3 6 (2.64%) Playwright
3 6 (2.64%) pytest
4 1 (0.44%) Node.js
4 1 (0.44%) OAuth
4 1 (0.44%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.44%) OpenID
4 1 (0.44%) REST
4 1 (0.44%) SAML
4 1 (0.44%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.85%) Replication
2 8 (3.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (3.52%) Onboarding
3 7 (3.08%) FlexPod
3 7 (3.08%) Video Conferencing
4 6 (2.64%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.20%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.76%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.32%) PKI
8 2 (0.88%) Cyberattack
8 2 (0.88%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.88%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.88%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.44%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.44%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 51 (22.47%) Linux
2 42 (18.50%) Windows
3 26 (11.45%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.08%) CentOS
5 3 (1.32%) Unix
6 2 (0.88%) Android
6 2 (0.88%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.88%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.88%) 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
1 227 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 30 (13.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 26 (11.45%) Cybersecurity
4 24 (10.57%) DevOps
5 22 (9.69%) Infrastructure Automation
6 20 (8.81%) Agile
7 19 (8.37%) CI/CD
7 19 (8.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (7.93%) Collaborative Culture
8 18 (7.93%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (7.05%) Containerisation
10 14 (6.17%) Project Delivery
11 13 (5.73%) Disaster Recovery
12 12 (5.29%) Collaborative Working
12 12 (5.29%) Data Management
13 11 (4.85%) High Availability
13 11 (4.85%) ITIL
14 10 (4.41%) Migration
15 8 (3.52%) Service Management
15 8 (3.52%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 25 (11.01%) Python
2 17 (7.49%) Bash
3 15 (6.61%) PowerShell
4 6 (2.64%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 20 (8.81%) DV Cleared
3 12 (5.29%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.08%) Degree
5 6 (2.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 6 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.76%) CCNP
6 4 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.32%) MCSE
8 2 (0.88%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.44%) CCNA
9 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.44%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (3.52%) GDPR
2 8 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (0.88%) QA
3 2 (0.88%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 30 (13.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (8.81%) Active Directory
3 19 (8.37%) Hyper-V
4 14 (6.17%) Docker
5 7 (3.08%) vSphere
6 6 (2.64%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (2.64%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.64%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (1.76%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 4 (1.76%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.44%) Firmware
9 1 (0.44%) GPFS
9 1 (0.44%) KVM
9 1 (0.44%) Lustre
9 1 (0.44%) QEMU
9 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.44%) Xen
Systems Management
1 33 (14.54%) Ansible
2 29 (12.78%) Kubernetes
3 28 (12.33%) Terraform
4 17 (7.49%) Grafana
5 8 (3.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (3.52%) vCenter Server
6 7 (3.08%) Cisco CUCM
6 7 (3.08%) VxRail
7 6 (2.64%) Kibana
7 6 (2.64%) logstash
7 6 (2.64%) Puppet
8 4 (1.76%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.88%) Argo
9 2 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.88%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.88%) Istio
9 2 (0.88%) linkerd
9 2 (0.88%) Mesos
10 1 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.44%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 61 (26.87%) Microsoft
2 34 (14.98%) VMware
3 14 (6.17%) Cisco
4 13 (5.73%) Splunk
5 11 (4.85%) Fortinet
6 10 (4.41%) Red Hat
7 8 (3.52%) Palo Alto
7 8 (3.52%) Veeam
8 7 (3.08%) NetApp
9 6 (2.64%) Atlassian
9 6 (2.64%) BeyondTrust
10 5 (2.20%) Oracle
11 4 (1.76%) Dell
12 3 (1.32%) Juniper
13 2 (0.88%) HP
13 2 (0.88%) Meraki
13 2 (0.88%) Thales
14 1 (0.44%) Aruba
14 1 (0.44%) ServiceNow
14 1 (0.44%) Zerto