Infrastructure Engineering Job Trends in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 107 43
Rank change year-on-year +48 -64 -13
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 174 57 406
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.47% 2.09% 4.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.55% 2.33% 5.65%
Number of salaries quoted 118 44 310
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £49,063 £50,938 £41,472
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,246 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.21% +33.16% +6.32%
75th Percentile £65,000 £88,125 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £97,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,320 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.58% +10.64% -4.76%

All Process & 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 4,908 2,448 7,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 69.70% 89.80% 84.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,292 1,522 5,479
10th Percentile £29,573 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -2.86%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,568 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,375 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the South West over the 6 months to 9 April 2026.

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 9 April 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 +39 68 £55,000 -42.11% 29
Bristol +4 39 £61,250 -14.92% 11
Wiltshire +8 32 £55,000 +6.59% 11
Devon -11 14 £42,750 -25.25% 4
Somerset -14 10 £55,000 - 5
Dorset -13 9 £60,000 -28.36% 5
Cornwall - 2 £47,000 -
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 7 (4.02%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.45%) Confluence
2 6 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.30%) IIS
4 2 (1.15%) Apache
4 2 (1.15%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.57%) Drupal
5 1 (0.57%) nginx
5 1 (0.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.30%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.57%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 34 (19.54%) Azure
2 25 (14.37%) AWS
3 18 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (6.32%) Entra ID
5 9 (5.17%) GitHub
5 9 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (4.60%) OpenShift
7 6 (3.45%) GCP
7 6 (3.45%) IaaS
8 5 (2.87%) PaaS
9 3 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.72%) Serverless
10 2 (1.15%) Rubrik
11 1 (0.57%) AWS Control Tower
11 1 (0.57%) Copilot Studio
11 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.57%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.57%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 27 (15.52%) Firewall
2 21 (12.07%) WAN
3 20 (11.49%) DNS
4 18 (10.34%) DHCP
5 17 (9.77%) LAN
6 14 (8.05%) VPN
7 12 (6.90%) TCP/IP
8 10 (5.75%) VLAN
9 9 (5.17%) Network Security
10 8 (4.60%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (3.45%) Unified Communications
11 6 (3.45%) WebEx
12 5 (2.87%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (2.87%) Cisco Firepower
12 5 (2.87%) SAN
13 3 (1.72%) LTE
13 3 (1.72%) NAS
13 3 (1.72%) SD-WAN
14 2 (1.15%) Internet
15 1 (0.57%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.45%) InfluxDB
2 3 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.72%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.57%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (0.57%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.57%) MySQL
3 1 (0.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.57%) Power BI
3 1 (0.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (9.20%) Git
2 14 (8.05%) GitLab
3 13 (7.47%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.02%) JIRA
5 5 (2.87%) Robot Framework
5 5 (2.87%) Subversion
5 5 (2.87%) TestRail
6 3 (1.72%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.72%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.72%) Selenium
7 1 (0.57%) Gatling
7 1 (0.57%) JMeter
7 1 (0.57%) Vagrant
General
1 29 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.77%) Finance
3 14 (8.05%) Aerospace
4 12 (6.90%) Retail
5 10 (5.75%) Telecoms
6 9 (5.17%) Marketing
6 9 (5.17%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.02%) Electronics
7 7 (4.02%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.87%) Banking
10 3 (1.72%) Automotive
11 2 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.15%) Law
12 1 (0.57%) Advertising
12 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 123 (70.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 31 (17.82%) Senior
3 26 (14.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 22 (12.64%) IT Engineer
5 20 (11.49%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (6.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 11 (6.32%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (6.32%) Infrastructure Support
8 9 (5.17%) Security Engineer
8 9 (5.17%) Support Engineer
9 8 (4.60%) Senior IT Engineer
10 7 (4.02%) Analyst
10 7 (4.02%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 7 (4.02%) Senior Security Engineer
11 6 (3.45%) Collaboration Engineer
11 6 (3.45%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 6 (3.45%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
11 6 (3.45%) Linux Engineer
12 5 (2.87%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (3.45%) XMPP
1 6 (3.45%) YAML
2 3 (1.72%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (1.72%) Keycloak
2 3 (1.72%) OAuth
2 3 (1.72%) OAuth2
2 3 (1.72%) OpenID
2 3 (1.72%) Playwright
2 3 (1.72%) pytest
2 3 (1.72%) SAML
3 2 (1.15%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.15%) REST
3 2 (1.15%) SOAP
4 1 (0.57%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.57%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.57%) Jinja
4 1 (0.57%) Memcached
4 1 (0.57%) NETCONF
4 1 (0.57%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.32%) Driving Licence
3 9 (5.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (5.17%) Replication
4 6 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.45%) FlexPod
4 6 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.45%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (2.87%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.87%) YubiKey
6 4 (2.30%) CCTV
6 4 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.15%) BYOD
8 2 (1.15%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.15%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.15%) PMI
8 2 (1.15%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (27.01%) Linux
2 44 (25.29%) Windows
3 28 (16.09%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.02%) CentOS
5 3 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.15%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.15%) Unix
6 2 (1.15%) VMS
7 1 (0.57%) Solaris
7 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (22.41%) Infrastructure as Code
2 35 (20.11%) DevOps
3 30 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (13.22%) CI/CD
5 20 (11.49%) Agile
6 19 (10.92%) Containerisation
6 19 (10.92%) Infrastructure Automation
7 18 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (9.77%) Cybersecurity
9 16 (9.20%) Collaborative Working
10 13 (7.47%) Collaborative Culture
10 13 (7.47%) Platform Engineering
11 11 (6.32%) Mentoring
12 10 (5.75%) Business Intelligence
12 10 (5.75%) ITIL
13 9 (5.17%) Disaster Recovery
13 9 (5.17%) Test Automation
13 9 (5.17%) Vulnerability Management
14 8 (4.60%) Data Management
14 8 (4.60%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 30 (17.24%) Python
2 26 (14.94%) Bash
3 24 (13.79%) PowerShell
4 8 (4.60%) Bicep
5 5 (2.87%) Go
5 5 (2.87%) Java
5 5 (2.87%) SQL
6 3 (1.72%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.57%) PHP
7 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 67 (38.51%) Security Cleared
2 42 (24.14%) DV Cleared
3 26 (14.94%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.60%) Degree
4 8 (4.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (2.30%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.15%) CBAP
7 2 (1.15%) CCNA
7 2 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.15%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.15%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.57%) CCNP
8 1 (0.57%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.57%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.57%) RHCE
8 1 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (8.05%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.45%) GDPR
4 5 (2.87%) NIST
4 5 (2.87%) QA
5 3 (1.72%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.72%) SLA
6 2 (1.15%) NCSC
6 2 (1.15%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (18.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (14.37%) Active Directory
3 24 (13.79%) Docker
4 20 (11.49%) Hyper-V
5 10 (5.75%) vSphere
6 5 (2.87%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.87%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (2.87%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.57%) Ceph
8 1 (0.57%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.57%) Firmware
8 1 (0.57%) KVM
8 1 (0.57%) Lustre
8 1 (0.57%) QEMU
8 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.57%) Xen
Systems Management
1 34 (19.54%) Ansible
2 32 (18.39%) Kubernetes
3 25 (14.37%) Terraform
4 13 (7.47%) Grafana
5 10 (5.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (4.02%) vCenter Server
7 6 (3.45%) Argo
7 6 (3.45%) Cisco CUCM
8 5 (2.87%) Puppet
8 5 (2.87%) Rancher
8 5 (2.87%) yum
9 3 (1.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.72%) Kibana
9 3 (1.72%) logstash
9 3 (1.72%) NetBackup
9 3 (1.72%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.72%) VxRail
10 2 (1.15%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.15%) WSUS
Vendors
1 47 (27.01%) Microsoft
2 33 (18.97%) VMware
3 18 (10.34%) Cisco
4 14 (8.05%) Splunk
5 11 (6.32%) Fortinet
6 10 (5.75%) Red Hat
7 8 (4.60%) Palo Alto
8 6 (3.45%) Dell
8 6 (3.45%) NetApp
8 6 (3.45%) Veeam
9 5 (2.87%) HP
9 5 (2.87%) Tenable
10 4 (2.30%) Juniper
10 4 (2.30%) Meraki
10 4 (2.30%) SAP
11 3 (1.72%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.72%) BeyondTrust
11 3 (1.72%) Google
11 3 (1.72%) Qualys
12 2 (1.15%) Thales