Infrastructure Engineering Jobs in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 25 151
Rank change year-on-year -9 +126 -41
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 444 572 212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.05% 9.19% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.53% 9.71% 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 322 137 164
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,750 £31,275
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,750 £35,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £66,250 £51,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £83,151 £60,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,800 5,890 8,753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 77.33% 94.65% 95.66%
Number of salaries quoted 4,670 3,616 5,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,188 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +4.35%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the South West over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the South West region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Wiltshire +3 128 £51,000 +13.33% 6
Bristol +18 108 £52,500 -19.23% 11
Gloucestershire -3 98 £45,000 -19.64% 9
Dorset -39 42 £43,072 +3.17% 3
Devon -27 41 £45,000 +10.65% 4
Somerset -29 20 £53,750 +14.36% 1
Cornwall -17 7 £30,000 - 1
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 39 (8.78%) SharePoint
2 29 (6.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.90%) Jupyter
3 4 (0.90%) Skype for Business
4 3 (0.68%) SharePoint 2010
4 3 (0.68%) SharePoint 2013
5 2 (0.45%) Confluence
6 1 (0.23%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (0.90%) OrCAD
1 4 (0.90%) SOLIDWORKS
2 2 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 127 (28.60%) Azure
2 90 (20.27%) Microsoft 365
3 78 (17.57%) AWS
4 73 (16.44%) SaaS
5 33 (7.43%) Entra ID
6 30 (6.76%) IaaS
7 28 (6.31%) PaaS
8 26 (5.86%) OpenShift
9 22 (4.95%) Power Platform
10 10 (2.25%) PowerApps
11 8 (1.80%) Nutanix
11 8 (1.80%) OneDrive
12 4 (0.90%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.90%) GCP
12 4 (0.90%) Mimecast
13 3 (0.68%) WhatsApp
14 2 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
14 2 (0.45%) Azure Storage
14 2 (0.45%) Power Automate
14 2 (0.45%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 58 (13.06%) Firewall
2 47 (10.59%) DNS
3 36 (8.11%) WAN
4 34 (7.66%) DHCP
5 30 (6.76%) TCP/IP
6 26 (5.86%) SAN
7 25 (5.63%) LAN
8 24 (5.41%) HTTP
9 21 (4.73%) NAS
10 18 (4.05%) SD-WAN
11 15 (3.38%) Internet
12 11 (2.48%) iSCSI
13 9 (2.03%) Ethernet
13 9 (2.03%) Fibre Channel
13 9 (2.03%) Skype
14 8 (1.80%) RS-232
14 8 (1.80%) VLAN
14 8 (1.80%) VPN
15 6 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
16 5 (1.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.63%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.15%) Oracle Database
3 13 (2.93%) Big Data
4 3 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.68%) Power BI
5 2 (0.45%) MySQL
6 1 (0.23%) DB2
6 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (2.93%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (0.90%) LabVIEW
3 2 (0.45%) JIRA
3 2 (0.45%) MSI
4 1 (0.23%) GitLab
4 1 (0.23%) Rational DOORS
General
1 64 (14.41%) Aerospace
2 49 (11.04%) Social Skills
3 34 (7.66%) Finance
4 27 (6.08%) Public Sector
5 24 (5.41%) Banking
5 24 (5.41%) Manufacturing
6 19 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (3.15%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (2.70%) Legal
9 11 (2.48%) Electronics
10 10 (2.25%) Military
11 6 (1.35%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.13%) Retail
13 4 (0.90%) Automotive
13 4 (0.90%) Aviation
13 4 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.68%) Social Housing
15 2 (0.45%) Advertising
15 2 (0.45%) Games
15 2 (0.45%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 388 (87.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 63 (14.19%) Senior
3 57 (12.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 39 (8.78%) IT Engineer
5 33 (7.43%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 29 (6.53%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 29 (6.53%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 23 (5.18%) Support Engineer
8 20 (4.50%) Lead
9 19 (4.28%) Infrastructure Support
9 19 (4.28%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 19 (4.28%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
10 18 (4.05%) Backup Engineer
10 18 (4.05%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
10 18 (4.05%) Storage and Backup Engineer
10 18 (4.05%) Storage Engineer
11 17 (3.83%) Network Engineer
12 16 (3.60%) Architect
12 16 (3.60%) AWS Architect
12 16 (3.60%) Cloud Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.35%) JSON
1 6 (1.35%) JSON Schema
1 6 (1.35%) KML
1 6 (1.35%) Regular Expression
1 6 (1.35%) XML
1 6 (1.35%) XML Schema
2 4 (0.90%) EJB
3 3 (0.68%) Kafka
3 3 (0.68%) Software Packaging
3 3 (0.68%) Spring
4 2 (0.45%) .NET
4 2 (0.45%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 66 (14.86%) Data Centre
2 25 (5.63%) Cloud Native
3 24 (5.41%) Public Cloud
4 18 (4.05%) Management Information System
5 16 (3.60%) Enterprise Cloud
5 16 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.93%) Cyber Defence
7 12 (2.70%) Driving Licence
7 12 (2.70%) PKI
8 11 (2.48%) Clustering
9 9 (2.03%) EMC VNX
10 8 (1.80%) Fat Client
10 8 (1.80%) Thin Client
11 7 (1.58%) Analogue Electronics
11 7 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.58%) Cyberattack
11 7 (1.58%) Replication
12 6 (1.35%) Enterprise Storage
13 5 (1.13%) Private Cloud
14 4 (0.90%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 163 (36.71%) Windows
2 148 (33.33%) Linux
3 82 (18.47%) Windows Server
4 35 (7.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (3.38%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (2.93%) Windows Server 2012
6 13 (2.93%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (2.48%) Windows 10
8 7 (1.58%) Ubuntu
8 7 (1.58%) VMS
9 6 (1.35%) CentOS
9 6 (1.35%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.90%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.90%) zOS
11 3 (0.68%) OS/2
11 3 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.45%) Android
12 2 (0.45%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.23%) openSUSE
13 1 (0.23%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (10.81%) Collaborative Working
2 47 (10.59%) DevOps
3 44 (9.91%) Agile
4 39 (8.78%) Service Delivery
5 35 (7.88%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (7.21%) Mentoring
7 31 (6.98%) Cybersecurity
8 29 (6.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 29 (6.53%) ITIL
9 27 (6.08%) Actionable Insight
10 24 (5.41%) Software Architecture
11 20 (4.50%) Information Security
12 18 (4.05%) Line Management
12 18 (4.05%) Project Delivery
13 17 (3.83%) Containerisation
14 16 (3.60%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (3.60%) Server Management
15 15 (3.38%) Project Management
16 13 (2.93%) Change Management
17 12 (2.70%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 79 (17.79%) PowerShell
2 57 (12.84%) Python
3 35 (7.88%) Bash
4 32 (7.21%) Java
5 31 (6.98%) SQL
6 9 (2.03%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.03%) Ruby
7 7 (1.58%) C++
7 7 (1.58%) Go
8 5 (1.13%) Bicep
8 5 (1.13%) C#
9 3 (0.68%) Rust
10 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 131 (29.50%) Security Cleared
2 75 (16.89%) DV Cleared
3 60 (13.51%) SC Cleared
4 47 (10.59%) Degree
5 16 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (3.15%) CCNA
7 9 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.58%) CCNP
9 5 (1.13%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.90%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.90%) MCSE
11 3 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.45%) CISSP
12 2 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.23%) Chartered Engineer
13 1 (0.23%) HNC
13 1 (0.23%) HND
13 1 (0.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 23 (5.18%) SLA
2 9 (2.03%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (1.13%) SOC 1
3 5 (1.13%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.45%) QA
5 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
System Software
1 103 (23.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 71 (15.99%) Active Directory
3 58 (13.06%) Hyper-V
4 30 (6.76%) Docker
5 24 (5.41%) VMware ESXi
6 23 (5.18%) vSphere
7 19 (4.28%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (1.80%) VMware NSX
9 6 (1.35%) Firmware
10 5 (1.13%) Microsoft App-V
11 4 (0.90%) NFS
11 4 (0.90%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 4 (0.90%) XenApp
12 3 (0.68%) vCloud
13 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.45%) Terminal Server
13 2 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.23%) Samba
Systems Management
1 71 (15.99%) Ansible
2 46 (10.36%) Kubernetes
3 41 (9.23%) Puppet
4 34 (7.66%) SCCM
5 30 (6.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (5.18%) Terraform
7 16 (3.60%) Nagios
8 14 (3.15%) vCenter Server
9 11 (2.48%) EMC NetWorker
10 7 (1.58%) ZABBIX
11 6 (1.35%) Grafana
11 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 5 (1.13%) Failover Clustering
12 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Clustering
13 4 (0.90%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.68%) CASB
14 3 (0.68%) vRealize
14 3 (0.68%) WSUS
15 2 (0.45%) Opsview
Vendors
1 136 (30.63%) VMware
2 131 (29.50%) Microsoft
3 58 (13.06%) Cisco
4 45 (10.14%) Red Hat
5 27 (6.08%) HP
6 25 (5.63%) Veeam
7 19 (4.28%) Oracle
8 13 (2.93%) SolarWinds
9 11 (2.48%) Aruba
9 11 (2.48%) Citrix
9 11 (2.48%) EMC
9 11 (2.48%) Meraki
10 10 (2.25%) IBM
11 9 (2.03%) Brocade
12 7 (1.58%) NetApp
13 6 (1.35%) ServiceNow
14 3 (0.68%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.68%) Dell
14 3 (0.68%) Sophos
15 2 (0.45%) Commvault