Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South West

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the South West is £60,822 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 58 147
Rank change year-on-year -83 +89 +16
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 39 377 137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.12% 4.09% 1.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 4.25% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 32 258 104
10th Percentile £46,250 £35,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £48,894 £41,217 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,822 £50,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.64% +7.53% +3.33%
75th Percentile £74,477 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £86,875 £63,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 3,260 8,862 6,155
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 96.11% 89.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,021 6,471 3,849
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,000 £29,200
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,365 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the South West.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer 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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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
Bristol +38 22 £71,991 +51.56% 13
Devon +9 9 £51,729 +25.54% 6
Dorset +10 4 £52,500 +5.00% 2
Wiltshire -32 2 £50,800 +0.59% 4
Gloucestershire -28 1 £60,000 +9.09% 17
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 36 (92.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (38.46%) Azure
3 12 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 12 (30.77%) Social Skills
4 11 (28.21%) PowerShell
4 11 (28.21%) DevOps
5 10 (25.64%) Linux
5 10 (25.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
6 9 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
6 9 (23.08%) Migration
7 8 (20.51%) Web Services
7 8 (20.51%) SQL Server
7 8 (20.51%) Python
7 8 (20.51%) Windows Server
8 7 (17.95%) CI/CD
8 7 (17.95%) Oracle
8 7 (17.95%) Finance
8 7 (17.95%) Banking
8 7 (17.95%) General Ledger
8 7 (17.95%) Firewall
8 7 (17.95%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 6 (15.38%) Docker
9 6 (15.38%) Kubernetes
9 6 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure Management
9 6 (15.38%) IaaS
9 6 (15.38%) Security Cleared
9 6 (15.38%) VMware
10 5 (12.82%) Azure DevOps

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (12.82%) NetWeaver
1 5 (12.82%) Tomcat
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (17.95%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 15 (38.46%) Azure
2 6 (15.38%) IaaS
2 6 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (12.82%) PaaS
4 4 (10.26%) AWS
4 4 (10.26%) Azure AKS
5 3 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (7.69%) GitHub
6 2 (5.13%) Entra ID
6 2 (5.13%) GCP
6 2 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.13%) OCI
7 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (2.56%) Dagster
7 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.56%) Pulumi
7 1 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.95%) Firewall
2 4 (10.26%) BGP
2 4 (10.26%) VLAN
3 3 (7.69%) LAN
3 3 (7.69%) Network Security
3 3 (7.69%) WAN
4 2 (5.13%) HSRP
4 2 (5.13%) OSPF
4 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.13%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (2.56%) Ethernet
5 1 (2.56%) InfiniBand
5 1 (2.56%) Internet
5 1 (2.56%) MPLS
5 1 (2.56%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.56%) Unified Communications
5 1 (2.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.51%) SQL Server
2 5 (12.82%) BusinessObjects
2 5 (12.82%) SAP BW
2 5 (12.82%) SAP Data Services
2 5 (12.82%) SAP HANA
3 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.13%) Git
3 2 (5.13%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 12 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Banking
2 7 (17.95%) Finance
2 7 (17.95%) General Ledger
3 4 (10.26%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Advertising
5 1 (2.56%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Legal
5 1 (2.56%) Military
5 1 (2.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.51%) Web Services
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.56%) .NET
3 1 (2.56%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.64%) Linux
2 8 (20.51%) Windows Server
3 5 (12.82%) AIX
3 5 (12.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (12.82%) Unix
4 4 (10.26%) Windows
5 2 (5.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.56%) Android
6 1 (2.56%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.56%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (92.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (28.21%) DevOps
3 10 (25.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (23.08%) Migration
4 9 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
4 9 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
5 7 (17.95%) CI/CD
6 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure Management
7 5 (12.82%) High Availability
7 5 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (12.82%) Service Delivery
8 4 (10.26%) Cloud Security
8 4 (10.26%) Containerisation
8 4 (10.26%) Decision-Making
8 4 (10.26%) ITIL
9 3 (7.69%) Business Continuity
9 3 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management
9 3 (7.69%) Vulnerability Remediation
10 2 (5.13%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.21%) PowerShell
2 8 (20.51%) Python
3 5 (12.82%) C
3 5 (12.82%) Java
4 4 (10.26%) Bicep
4 4 (10.26%) SQL
5 3 (7.69%) Bash
6 2 (5.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.82%) Azure Certification
3 3 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (7.69%) DV Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.13%) CCNP
4 2 (5.13%) Degree
4 2 (5.13%) MCSA
4 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.56%) CCNA
5 1 (2.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) QA
System Software
1 6 (15.38%) Docker
2 4 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.69%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (5.13%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.82%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 4 (10.26%) Terraform
4 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (5.13%) SCCM
6 1 (2.56%) Ansible
6 1 (2.56%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 12 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.95%) Oracle
3 6 (15.38%) VMware
4 5 (12.82%) IBM
4 5 (12.82%) SAP
5 3 (7.69%) Cisco
6 1 (2.56%) Aruba
6 1 (2.56%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.56%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (2.56%) NVIDIA
6 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.56%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.56%) Zscaler