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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 94 37
Rank change year-on-year +49 -57 -15
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 266 63 483
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 3.39% 2.20% 4.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.85% 2.47% 5.87%
Number of salaries quoted 172 50 364
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,875 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,938 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,097 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +12.19% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,250 £66,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -6.24%

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 5,490 2,551 8,223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 69.87% 89.04% 78.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,663 1,599 6,016
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,058 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.72% -0.86% -5.02%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,525 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +35 104 £55,000 -31.25% 26
Bristol +8 61 £65,000 +8.33% 5
Wiltshire +14 41 £52,500 -12.50% 15
Devon -12 29 £50,000 +0.78% 5
Dorset +7 16 £45,000 -46.27% 12
Somerset -24 11 £55,000 +15.79% 7
Cornwall - 4 £50,000 -
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 12 (4.51%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.76%) Confluence
3 9 (3.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.50%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.13%) IIS
6 2 (0.75%) Apache
7 1 (0.38%) Drupal
7 1 (0.38%) nginx
7 1 (0.38%) Site Server
7 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (3.38%) AutoCAD
2 5 (1.88%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 55 (20.68%) Azure
2 40 (15.04%) AWS
3 37 (13.91%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (7.52%) Entra ID
5 12 (4.51%) OpenShift
6 10 (3.76%) GCP
7 7 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.63%) Serverless
8 6 (2.26%) GitHub
8 6 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (2.26%) IaaS
9 5 (1.88%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (1.88%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.88%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.88%) PaaS
10 4 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.50%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (1.50%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 33 (12.41%) Firewall
2 26 (9.77%) DNS
3 25 (9.40%) WAN
4 23 (8.65%) DHCP
5 22 (8.27%) LAN
6 13 (4.89%) VPN
7 11 (4.14%) TCP/IP
7 11 (4.14%) VLAN
8 10 (3.76%) Network Security
9 8 (3.01%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (2.63%) Unified Communications
10 7 (2.63%) WebEx
11 6 (2.26%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (2.26%) Cisco Firepower
12 4 (1.50%) IPv4
12 4 (1.50%) NAS
12 4 (1.50%) SAN
12 4 (1.50%) Software-Defined Networking
13 3 (1.13%) SD-WAN
14 2 (0.75%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.63%) InfluxDB
2 3 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.13%) MySQL
2 3 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.13%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.75%) DynamoDB
3 2 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.75%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.75%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.38%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (0.38%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (10.90%) GitLab
2 19 (7.14%) Git
2 19 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.38%) JIRA
4 8 (3.01%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.26%) Robot Framework
5 6 (2.26%) TestRail
6 5 (1.88%) Cypress.io
6 5 (1.88%) Selenium
7 2 (0.75%) Subversion
8 1 (0.38%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.38%) Gatling
8 1 (0.38%) JMeter
8 1 (0.38%) Vagrant
General
1 34 (12.78%) Social Skills
2 25 (9.40%) Finance
3 16 (6.02%) Aerospace
4 13 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (4.89%) Retail
5 8 (3.01%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.01%) Telecoms
6 7 (2.63%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.26%) Banking
7 6 (2.26%) Marketing
8 4 (1.50%) Legal
9 3 (1.13%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.13%) Automotive
9 3 (1.13%) Electronics
10 1 (0.38%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 204 (76.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 61 (22.93%) Senior
3 51 (19.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 31 (11.65%) IT Engineer
5 25 (9.40%) Cloud Engineer
6 24 (9.02%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 23 (8.65%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 18 (6.77%) Infrastructure Support
9 17 (6.39%) Azure Engineer
10 16 (6.02%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (5.64%) Support Engineer
12 13 (4.89%) DevOps Engineer
13 12 (4.51%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
14 11 (4.14%) Security Engineer
15 9 (3.38%) IT Support
15 9 (3.38%) IT Support Engineer
16 8 (3.01%) Analyst
16 8 (3.01%) Operations Engineer
16 8 (3.01%) Senior Security Engineer
16 8 (3.01%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.38%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (2.63%) XMPP
3 6 (2.26%) Apache NiFi
3 6 (2.26%) Keycloak
4 5 (1.88%) Playwright
4 5 (1.88%) pytest
5 4 (1.50%) boto
6 2 (0.75%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.75%) OAuth
6 2 (0.75%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.75%) OpenID
6 2 (0.75%) RESTful
6 2 (0.75%) SAML
6 2 (0.75%) YAML
7 1 (0.38%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.38%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.38%) Memcached
7 1 (0.38%) Node.js
7 1 (0.38%) REST
7 1 (0.38%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.02%) Driving Licence
2 15 (5.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 13 (4.89%) Replication
5 10 (3.76%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.01%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.63%) FlexPod
7 7 (2.63%) Video Conferencing
8 5 (1.88%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.88%) YubiKey
9 4 (1.50%) CCTV
9 4 (1.50%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.13%) PKI
10 3 (1.13%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.75%) BYOD
11 2 (0.75%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 67 (25.19%) Linux
2 61 (22.93%) Windows
3 41 (15.41%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.63%) CentOS
5 3 (1.13%) Unix
5 3 (1.13%) VMS
6 2 (0.75%) Android
6 2 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.75%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (17.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 44 (16.54%) DevOps
3 36 (13.53%) CI/CD
4 30 (11.28%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (10.90%) Containerisation
6 27 (10.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (9.40%) Agile
7 25 (9.40%) Infrastructure Automation
8 22 (8.27%) Cybersecurity
9 21 (7.89%) Collaborative Culture
10 19 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
11 14 (5.26%) Test Automation
12 13 (4.89%) Collaborative Working
12 13 (4.89%) High Availability
12 13 (4.89%) Mentoring
13 12 (4.51%) ITIL
13 12 (4.51%) Platform Engineering
13 12 (4.51%) Project Delivery
14 10 (3.76%) Data Management
14 10 (3.76%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (13.53%) Python
2 27 (10.15%) Bash
3 25 (9.40%) PowerShell
4 8 (3.01%) Java
5 6 (2.26%) SQL
6 5 (1.88%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.50%) Go
8 3 (1.13%) Bicep
9 2 (0.75%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 76 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 43 (16.17%) DV Cleared
3 28 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (3.38%) Degree
6 8 (3.01%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.26%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (2.26%) CCNA
7 6 (2.26%) Chartered Engineer
8 5 (1.88%) RHCE
9 4 (1.50%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.50%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.50%) OSCP
9 4 (1.50%) Postgraduate
9 4 (1.50%) RHCSA
10 3 (1.13%) CCNP
11 2 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.75%) MCSE
11 2 (0.75%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (6.02%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (3.01%) GDPR
4 5 (1.88%) NIST
5 4 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.13%) QA
7 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.75%) NCSC
7 2 (0.75%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (13.91%) Active Directory
3 27 (10.15%) Docker
4 26 (9.77%) Hyper-V
5 12 (4.51%) vSphere
6 8 (3.01%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (2.26%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (1.88%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (1.88%) VMware NSX
9 4 (1.50%) Squid
10 3 (1.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.38%) Firmware
11 1 (0.38%) KVM
11 1 (0.38%) QEMU
11 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.38%) Xen
Systems Management
1 43 (16.17%) Ansible
2 40 (15.04%) Kubernetes
3 37 (13.91%) Terraform
4 18 (6.77%) Grafana
5 17 (6.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (3.38%) vCenter Server
7 7 (2.63%) Cisco CUCM
7 7 (2.63%) Puppet
7 7 (2.63%) VxRail
8 6 (2.26%) FortiGate
8 6 (2.26%) Packer
9 5 (1.88%) Kibana
9 5 (1.88%) logstash
9 5 (1.88%) Prometheus
10 4 (1.50%) Rancher
10 4 (1.50%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.13%) Argo
12 2 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.75%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 73 (27.44%) Microsoft
2 42 (15.79%) VMware
3 20 (7.52%) Cisco
3 20 (7.52%) Splunk
4 15 (5.64%) Red Hat
5 11 (4.14%) Fortinet
6 8 (3.01%) Palo Alto
7 7 (2.63%) NetApp
7 7 (2.63%) Oracle
7 7 (2.63%) Veeam
8 6 (2.26%) BeyondTrust
9 5 (1.88%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.88%) Dell
9 5 (1.88%) Tenable
10 4 (1.50%) HP
10 4 (1.50%) Juniper
11 3 (1.13%) Qualys
12 2 (0.75%) Aruba
12 2 (0.75%) Google
12 2 (0.75%) Thales