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 10 August 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 117 35
Rank change year-on-year +66 -82 +64
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 272 55 385
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 3.04% 1.57% 4.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.24% 1.72% 5.03%
Number of salaries quoted 182 51 286
10th Percentile £39,100 £30,500 £30,385
25th Percentile £46,563 £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 £82,250 £80,000 £64,125
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 8,408 3,199 7,648
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.97% 91.11% 95.66%
Number of salaries quoted 5,732 2,149 5,508
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £38,572
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £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 10 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 10 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 +24 120 £65,000 -18.75% 26
Bristol -6 48 £65,000 +20.93% 9
Devon +8 37 £50,000 +27.39% 5
Wiltshire +19 36 £50,000 -10.39% 7
Dorset +7 12 £45,000 - 1
Somerset -26 12 £55,000 +15.79% 7
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 10 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.

1 272 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 63 (23.16%) Microsoft
3 54 (19.85%) Linux
4 52 (19.12%) Security Cleared
5 48 (17.65%) Windows
6 44 (16.18%) Azure
7 39 (14.34%) AWS
8 38 (13.97%) Microsoft 365
9 35 (12.87%) VMware
10 33 (12.13%) Ansible
11 32 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
11 32 (11.76%) Terraform
12 31 (11.40%) Kubernetes
12 31 (11.40%) VMware Infrastructure
13 30 (11.03%) Windows Server
14 28 (10.29%) Cybersecurity
15 27 (9.93%) Active Directory
15 27 (9.93%) Infrastructure Automation
15 27 (9.93%) Python
16 25 (9.19%) DevOps
16 25 (9.19%) DV Cleared
17 23 (8.46%) Agile
18 22 (8.09%) Firewall
19 21 (7.72%) Hyper-V
20 19 (6.99%) CI/CD
20 19 (6.99%) DNS
21 18 (6.62%) Bash
21 18 (6.62%) Continuous Improvement
21 18 (6.62%) Entra ID
21 18 (6.62%) GitLab

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 (4.78%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.47%) Confluence
4 3 (1.10%) Apache
4 3 (1.10%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.74%) IIS
Applications
1 14 (5.15%) AutoCAD
2 12 (4.41%) Civil 3D
Cloud Services
1 44 (16.18%) Azure
2 39 (14.34%) AWS
3 38 (13.97%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (6.62%) Entra ID
5 9 (3.31%) OpenShift
6 6 (2.21%) GCP
7 4 (1.47%) OCI
8 3 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.74%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (0.74%) IaaS
9 2 (0.74%) OneDrive
9 2 (0.74%) PaaS
10 1 (0.37%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.37%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.37%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.37%) Route 53
10 1 (0.37%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.09%) Firewall
2 19 (6.99%) DNS
3 17 (6.25%) DHCP
3 17 (6.25%) WAN
4 16 (5.88%) LAN
5 13 (4.78%) VLAN
6 10 (3.68%) TCP/IP
7 9 (3.31%) VPN
8 7 (2.57%) Unified Communications
8 7 (2.57%) WebEx
9 6 (2.21%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (2.21%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (2.21%) Network Security
9 6 (2.21%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (1.84%) VoIP
11 2 (0.74%) NAS
11 2 (0.74%) SAN
11 2 (0.74%) Wireless
12 1 (0.37%) LTE
12 1 (0.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.57%) InfluxDB
2 4 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.74%) MySQL
4 1 (0.37%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (6.62%) GitLab
2 11 (4.04%) Git
3 9 (3.31%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.21%) Cypress.io
4 6 (2.21%) Robot Framework
4 6 (2.21%) Selenium
4 6 (2.21%) TestRail
5 2 (0.74%) JIRA
6 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
General
1 28 (10.29%) Finance
2 26 (9.56%) Social Skills
3 12 (4.41%) Retail
4 11 (4.04%) Public Sector
5 8 (2.94%) Aerospace
5 8 (2.94%) Manufacturing
6 7 (2.57%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.21%) Banking
7 6 (2.21%) Marketing
8 5 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.74%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (2.57%) XMPP
3 6 (2.21%) Apache NiFi
3 6 (2.21%) Playwright
3 6 (2.21%) pytest
4 5 (1.84%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.37%) Node.js
5 1 (0.37%) OAuth
5 1 (0.37%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.37%) OpenID
5 1 (0.37%) REST
5 1 (0.37%) SAML
5 1 (0.37%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.04%) Replication
2 9 (3.31%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (2.94%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.57%) FlexPod
4 7 (2.57%) Video Conferencing
5 6 (2.21%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.21%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.10%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.10%) PKI
7 2 (0.74%) Cyberattack
7 2 (0.74%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.74%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.37%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.37%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (19.85%) Linux
2 48 (17.65%) Windows
3 30 (11.03%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.57%) CentOS
5 3 (1.10%) Unix
6 2 (0.74%) Android
6 2 (0.74%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.74%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.37%) Rocky
7 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.37%) VMS
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
3 28 (10.29%) Cybersecurity
4 27 (9.93%) Infrastructure Automation
5 25 (9.19%) DevOps
6 23 (8.46%) Agile
7 19 (6.99%) CI/CD
8 18 (6.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (6.62%) Project Delivery
9 17 (6.25%) Collaborative Culture
9 17 (6.25%) Containerisation
10 14 (5.15%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (4.78%) ITIL
12 12 (4.41%) Data Management
12 12 (4.41%) Disaster Recovery
13 11 (4.04%) Collaborative Working
13 11 (4.04%) High Availability
14 10 (3.68%) Service Management
15 9 (3.31%) Migration
16 8 (2.94%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (9.93%) Python
2 18 (6.62%) Bash
2 18 (6.62%) PowerShell
3 6 (2.21%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.84%) SQL
5 1 (0.37%) Java
Qualifications
1 52 (19.12%) Security Cleared
2 25 (9.19%) DV Cleared
3 11 (4.04%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.31%) Degree
5 6 (2.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.10%) CCNP
7 3 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.10%) MCSE
8 2 (0.74%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.74%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.37%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.68%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (2.94%) GDPR
3 7 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.10%) QA
5 2 (0.74%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 31 (11.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (9.93%) Active Directory
3 21 (7.72%) Hyper-V
4 15 (5.51%) Docker
5 7 (2.57%) vSphere
6 6 (2.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.21%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (1.84%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.74%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.37%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.37%) Firmware
9 1 (0.37%) GPFS
9 1 (0.37%) KVM
9 1 (0.37%) Lustre
9 1 (0.37%) QEMU
9 1 (0.37%) Xen
Systems Management
1 33 (12.13%) Ansible
2 32 (11.76%) Terraform
3 31 (11.40%) Kubernetes
4 18 (6.62%) Grafana
5 9 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (3.31%) vCenter Server
6 7 (2.57%) Cisco CUCM
6 7 (2.57%) Puppet
7 6 (2.21%) Kibana
7 6 (2.21%) logstash
7 6 (2.21%) VxRail
8 5 (1.84%) Prometheus
9 3 (1.10%) Argo
9 3 (1.10%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (1.10%) Istio
9 3 (1.10%) linkerd
9 3 (1.10%) Mesos
10 2 (0.74%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.74%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.74%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 63 (23.16%) Microsoft
2 35 (12.87%) VMware
3 15 (5.51%) Cisco
4 13 (4.78%) Splunk
5 11 (4.04%) Veeam
6 10 (3.68%) Fortinet
6 10 (3.68%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.94%) Palo Alto
8 7 (2.57%) NetApp
9 6 (2.21%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.84%) BeyondTrust
10 5 (1.84%) Oracle
11 4 (1.47%) Dell
11 4 (1.47%) Juniper
12 3 (1.10%) HP
13 2 (0.74%) arcserve
14 1 (0.37%) Aruba
14 1 (0.37%) Citrix
14 1 (0.37%) Thales
14 1 (0.37%) Zerto