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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 65 47
Rank change year-on-year -21 -18 +35
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 106 158 250
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.12% 3.64% 5.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 4.32% 6.27%
Number of salaries quoted 89 96 191
10th Percentile £42,385 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £36,813 £40,443
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,891 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.78% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,886 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £91,250 £77,700
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +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 3,638 3,658 3,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 72.60% 84.34% 91.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,464 1,879 3,024
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% +7.49%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,781
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 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 -6 30 £60,000 - 32
Gloucestershire +19 26 £67,500 +20.00% 53
Wiltshire -5 18 £55,000 +48.65% 15
Somerset -25 14 £50,000 +25.00% 30
Devon -6 11 £43,875 +38.75% 23
Dorset +9 7 £60,000 -22.74% 10
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 (4.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.89%) Confluence
3 1 (0.94%) IIS
3 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 45 (42.45%) Azure
2 19 (17.92%) Entra ID
3 13 (12.26%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (11.32%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (10.38%) GitHub
5 11 (10.38%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (7.55%) AWS
7 7 (6.60%) OCI
8 5 (4.72%) IaaS
8 5 (4.72%) PaaS
9 4 (3.77%) Azure Stack
9 4 (3.77%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.83%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.83%) Serverless
11 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (1.89%) Mimecast
11 2 (1.89%) Rubrik
12 1 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.94%) GCP
12 1 (0.94%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.38%) DHCP
1 11 (10.38%) DNS
1 11 (10.38%) VPN
2 10 (9.43%) Firewall
3 6 (5.66%) SAN
3 6 (5.66%) VLAN
4 5 (4.72%) Network Security
4 5 (4.72%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.83%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (2.83%) Wireless
6 2 (1.89%) LTE
6 2 (1.89%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.94%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.94%) Internet
7 1 (0.94%) Intranet
7 1 (0.94%) LAN
7 1 (0.94%) NAS
7 1 (0.94%) VSAN
7 1 (0.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.77%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.89%) InfluxDB
2 2 (1.89%) Power BI
3 1 (0.94%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (4.72%) Git
2 3 (2.83%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.83%) JIRA
2 3 (2.83%) Subversion
3 2 (1.89%) GitLab
3 2 (1.89%) Robot Framework
3 2 (1.89%) TestRail
4 1 (0.94%) Bitbucket
General
1 28 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.43%) Public Sector
3 8 (7.55%) Finance
4 5 (4.72%) Aerospace
4 5 (4.72%) Retail
5 4 (3.77%) Electronics
5 4 (3.77%) Law
5 4 (3.77%) Manufacturing
5 4 (3.77%) Marketing
5 4 (3.77%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 68 (64.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (13.21%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 14 (13.21%) IT Engineer
2 14 (13.21%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (13.21%) Platform Engineer
2 14 (13.21%) Senior
3 13 (12.26%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (11.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (9.43%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (5.66%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.72%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.72%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 5 (4.72%) IT Manager
7 5 (4.72%) Security Engineer
7 5 (4.72%) Senior IT Engineer
7 5 (4.72%) Support Engineer
8 4 (3.77%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (3.77%) Infrastructure Support
8 4 (3.77%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 4 (3.77%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.38%) YAML
2 2 (1.89%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.89%) OAuth
2 2 (1.89%) OAuth2
2 2 (1.89%) OpenID
2 2 (1.89%) SAML
3 1 (0.94%) REST
3 1 (0.94%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.32%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.60%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (3.77%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.83%) Driving Licence
4 3 (2.83%) YubiKey
5 2 (1.89%) BYOD
5 2 (1.89%) CCTV
5 2 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.89%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.89%) PMI
5 2 (1.89%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.89%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.94%) Digital Signage
6 1 (0.94%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 32 (30.19%) Windows
2 28 (26.42%) Windows Server
3 19 (17.92%) Linux
4 4 (3.77%) Rocky
4 4 (3.77%) Ubuntu
4 4 (3.77%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (2.83%) CentOS
5 3 (2.83%) Debian
6 1 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.94%) Solaris
6 1 (0.94%) Unix
6 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (21.70%) Infrastructure as Code
2 20 (18.87%) DevOps
3 19 (17.92%) Containerisation
4 18 (16.98%) Platform Engineering
4 18 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (12.26%) CI/CD
6 9 (8.49%) Agile
6 9 (8.49%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (8.49%) ITSM
7 8 (7.55%) Collaborative Working
7 8 (7.55%) ITIL
8 7 (6.60%) Server Management
8 7 (6.60%) Vulnerability Management
9 6 (5.66%) Cloud Security
9 6 (5.66%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (4.72%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (4.72%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (4.72%) Mentoring
10 5 (4.72%) People Management
10 5 (4.72%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 19 (17.92%) PowerShell
2 13 (12.26%) Python
3 12 (11.32%) Bash
3 12 (11.32%) Bicep
4 3 (2.83%) Go
4 3 (2.83%) Java
4 3 (2.83%) SQL
5 1 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 35 (33.02%) Security Cleared
2 23 (21.70%) DV Cleared
3 15 (14.15%) SC Cleared
4 13 (12.26%) Degree
5 5 (4.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.77%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.77%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.89%) CBAP
7 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.89%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (6.60%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (4.72%) SLA
4 4 (3.77%) GDPR
4 4 (3.77%) QA
5 3 (2.83%) NIST
6 2 (1.89%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.89%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.94%) NCSC
System Software
1 28 (26.42%) Active Directory
2 19 (17.92%) Hyper-V
3 16 (15.09%) Docker
4 14 (13.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (7.55%) vSphere
6 3 (2.83%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.94%) Ceph
8 1 (0.94%) Lustre
8 1 (0.94%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.94%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.94%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 26 (24.53%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (8.49%) Ansible
3 9 (8.49%) Terraform
4 4 (3.77%) SCCM
5 3 (2.83%) Argo
5 3 (2.83%) Rancher
5 3 (2.83%) vCenter Server
5 3 (2.83%) yum
6 2 (1.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.89%) Grafana
6 2 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.94%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.94%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.94%) SCVMM
7 1 (0.94%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (29.25%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.15%) VMware
3 7 (6.60%) Oracle
4 5 (4.72%) Dell
4 5 (4.72%) Red Hat
4 5 (4.72%) Veeam
5 4 (3.77%) Cisco
5 4 (3.77%) HP
5 4 (3.77%) SAP
5 4 (3.77%) Splunk
6 3 (2.83%) Fortinet
6 3 (2.83%) Meraki
6 3 (2.83%) SolarWinds
6 3 (2.83%) Tenable
7 2 (1.89%) Aruba
7 2 (1.89%) Qualys
7 2 (1.89%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.89%) SonicWALL
7 2 (1.89%) Thales
8 1 (0.94%) Google