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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 103 47
Rank change year-on-year +43 -56 -17
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 168 57 380
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.47% 2.10% 4.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.54% 2.34% 5.42%
Number of salaries quoted 114 44 295
10th Percentile £40,578 £46,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,888 £51,513 £41,695
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £71,991 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.60% +42.56% +6.32%
75th Percentile £65,000 £90,000 £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 4,751 2,434 7,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 69.86% 89.82% 84.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3,202 1,497 5,380
10th Percentile £28,750 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,950
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.95% -2.95%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £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 3 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 3 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 +46 65 £55,000 -40.54% 29
Bristol +1 36 £60,000 -16.66% 11
Wiltshire +11 33 £55,000 +6.59% 11
Devon -13 13 £42,750 -30.65% 4
Somerset -8 11 £55,000 - 5
Dorset -16 8 £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 5 (2.98%) Confluence
1 5 (2.98%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (2.98%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.79%) IIS
3 2 (1.19%) Apache
3 2 (1.19%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.60%) Drupal
4 1 (0.60%) nginx
4 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.38%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.60%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 36 (21.43%) Azure
2 24 (14.29%) AWS
3 16 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (6.55%) Entra ID
6 9 (5.36%) GitHub
6 9 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (4.76%) OpenShift
8 5 (2.98%) GCP
9 3 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.79%) IaaS
9 3 (1.79%) PaaS
10 2 (1.19%) Serverless
11 1 (0.60%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.60%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.60%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (0.60%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (0.60%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.60%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.60%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (14.88%) Firewall
2 20 (11.90%) DNS
3 19 (11.31%) DHCP
4 18 (10.71%) WAN
5 15 (8.93%) LAN
6 13 (7.74%) VPN
7 10 (5.95%) Network Security
7 10 (5.95%) TCP/IP
8 9 (5.36%) VLAN
9 6 (3.57%) Unified Communications
9 6 (3.57%) WebEx
9 6 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (2.98%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (2.98%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (2.98%) SAN
11 3 (1.79%) LTE
11 3 (1.79%) NAS
12 2 (1.19%) SD-WAN
13 1 (0.60%) Ethernet VPN
13 1 (0.60%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.57%) InfluxDB
2 2 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.19%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.60%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (0.60%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.60%) MySQL
3 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.60%) Power BI
3 1 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (9.52%) Git
2 14 (8.33%) GitLab
3 11 (6.55%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.57%) JIRA
5 5 (2.98%) Robot Framework
5 5 (2.98%) Subversion
5 5 (2.98%) TestRail
6 3 (1.79%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.79%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.79%) Selenium
7 1 (0.60%) Gatling
7 1 (0.60%) JMeter
7 1 (0.60%) Vagrant
General
1 31 (18.45%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.12%) Finance
3 14 (8.33%) Aerospace
4 12 (7.14%) Retail
5 10 (5.95%) Telecoms
6 9 (5.36%) Marketing
6 9 (5.36%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.17%) Electronics
7 7 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.17%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.98%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.98%) Banking
9 4 (2.38%) Law
10 3 (1.79%) Automotive
11 2 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.60%) Advertising
12 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.60%) Legal
12 1 (0.60%) Military
Job Titles
1 119 (70.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 30 (17.86%) Senior
3 25 (14.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 20 (11.90%) IT Engineer
5 18 (10.71%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (7.74%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 13 (7.74%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (4.76%) Infrastructure Support
8 8 (4.76%) Security Engineer
8 8 (4.76%) Senior IT Engineer
9 7 (4.17%) Support Engineer
10 6 (3.57%) Analyst
10 6 (3.57%) Collaboration Engineer
10 6 (3.57%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
10 6 (3.57%) Linux Engineer
10 6 (3.57%) Senior Security Engineer
11 5 (2.98%) IT Manager
11 5 (2.98%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (2.98%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.17%) YAML
2 6 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (3.57%) XMPP
3 3 (1.79%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (1.79%) Keycloak
3 3 (1.79%) OAuth
3 3 (1.79%) OAuth2
3 3 (1.79%) OpenID
3 3 (1.79%) Playwright
3 3 (1.79%) pytest
3 3 (1.79%) SAML
4 2 (1.19%) REST
4 2 (1.19%) SOAP
5 1 (0.60%) .NET
5 1 (0.60%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.60%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.60%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.60%) Jinja
5 1 (0.60%) Memcached
5 1 (0.60%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.74%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.95%) Driving Licence
3 9 (5.36%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.76%) Replication
5 6 (3.57%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.57%) FlexPod
5 6 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.57%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (2.98%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.98%) YubiKey
7 4 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.79%) CCTV
8 3 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.19%) PMI
9 2 (1.19%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.60%) BYOD
10 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.60%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 43 (25.60%) Linux
2 42 (25.00%) Windows
3 29 (17.26%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.17%) CentOS
5 2 (1.19%) Unix
5 2 (1.19%) VMS
5 2 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.60%) Solaris
6 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (23.21%) Infrastructure as Code
2 34 (20.24%) DevOps
3 29 (17.26%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (13.69%) CI/CD
5 20 (11.90%) Agile
6 19 (11.31%) Containerisation
7 18 (10.71%) Infrastructure Automation
8 16 (9.52%) Collaborative Working
8 16 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
9 14 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
10 13 (7.74%) Collaborative Culture
11 11 (6.55%) ITIL
12 10 (5.95%) Business Intelligence
13 9 (5.36%) ITSM
13 9 (5.36%) Mentoring
13 9 (5.36%) Test Automation
14 8 (4.76%) Disaster Recovery
14 8 (4.76%) SDLC
14 8 (4.76%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (17.26%) Python
2 25 (14.88%) Bash
3 24 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 9 (5.36%) Bicep
5 5 (2.98%) Go
5 5 (2.98%) Java
6 3 (1.79%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.79%) SQL
7 1 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.60%) PHP
7 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 70 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 42 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 27 (16.07%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.76%) Degree
4 8 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (2.38%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.19%) CBAP
8 2 (1.19%) CCNA
8 2 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.19%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (1.19%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.60%) CCNP
9 1 (0.60%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.60%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.60%) RHCE
9 1 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.57%) QA
4 5 (2.98%) NIST
4 5 (2.98%) SLA
5 4 (2.38%) GDPR
6 3 (1.79%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.19%) NCSC
8 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.60%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (18.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 24 (14.29%) Docker
3 20 (11.90%) Hyper-V
4 12 (7.14%) vSphere
5 5 (2.98%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 5 (2.98%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (2.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 4 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.60%) Ceph
7 1 (0.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.60%) Firmware
7 1 (0.60%) Lustre
7 1 (0.60%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 33 (19.64%) Ansible
2 32 (19.05%) Kubernetes
3 24 (14.29%) Terraform
4 13 (7.74%) Grafana
5 8 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (4.17%) vCenter Server
7 6 (3.57%) Argo
7 6 (3.57%) Cisco CUCM
8 5 (2.98%) Rancher
8 5 (2.98%) yum
9 4 (2.38%) Puppet
10 3 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.79%) Kibana
10 3 (1.79%) logstash
10 3 (1.79%) NetBackup
10 3 (1.79%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.79%) VxRail
11 2 (1.19%) Prometheus
11 2 (1.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 47 (27.98%) Microsoft
2 32 (19.05%) VMware
3 18 (10.71%) Cisco
4 14 (8.33%) Splunk
5 10 (5.95%) Fortinet
6 8 (4.76%) Palo Alto
6 8 (4.76%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.57%) Dell
7 6 (3.57%) NetApp
8 5 (2.98%) Tenable
9 4 (2.38%) HP
9 4 (2.38%) Juniper
9 4 (2.38%) Meraki
9 4 (2.38%) SAP
9 4 (2.38%) Veeam
10 3 (1.79%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.79%) BeyondTrust
10 3 (1.79%) Qualys
10 3 (1.79%) Thales
11 2 (1.19%) ServiceNow