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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 96 36
Rank change year-on-year +53 -60 -14
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 275 64 480
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 3.46% 2.22% 4.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.94% 2.50% 5.91%
Number of salaries quoted 176 51 359
10th Percentile £38,125 £42,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £40,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,194 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.84% +14.39% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £66,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -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 5,570 2,555 8,124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 70.15% 88.59% 78.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,719 1,630 5,937
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -1.92% -3.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,525 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,525 £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 24 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 24 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 +34 111 £55,000 -31.25% 24
Bristol +15 62 £65,000 +8.33% 6
Wiltshire +11 40 £52,500 -12.50% 12
Devon -8 31 £50,000 +0.78% 4
Dorset +10 16 £45,000 -46.27% 11
Somerset -29 11 £55,000 +15.79% 8
Cornwall - 4 £50,000 - 2
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 13 (4.73%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.64%) Confluence
2 10 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.45%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.09%) IIS
5 2 (0.73%) Apache
6 1 (0.36%) Drupal
6 1 (0.36%) nginx
6 1 (0.36%) Site Server
6 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (3.27%) AutoCAD
2 5 (1.82%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 56 (20.36%) Azure
2 42 (15.27%) AWS
3 38 (13.82%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (7.64%) Entra ID
5 13 (4.73%) OpenShift
6 11 (4.00%) GCP
7 8 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (2.55%) Serverless
9 6 (2.18%) GitHub
9 6 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.82%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.82%) IaaS
11 4 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.45%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (1.45%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (1.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (12.00%) Firewall
2 28 (10.18%) DNS
3 25 (9.09%) DHCP
3 25 (9.09%) WAN
4 22 (8.00%) LAN
5 13 (4.73%) VPN
6 12 (4.36%) TCP/IP
6 12 (4.36%) VLAN
7 10 (3.64%) Network Security
8 8 (2.91%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (2.55%) Unified Communications
9 7 (2.55%) WebEx
10 6 (2.18%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (2.18%) Cisco Firepower
11 4 (1.45%) IPv4
11 4 (1.45%) NAS
11 4 (1.45%) SAN
11 4 (1.45%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (1.09%) SD-WAN
12 3 (1.09%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.91%) InfluxDB
2 3 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.09%) MySQL
2 3 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.09%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.73%) DynamoDB
3 2 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.73%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.73%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.36%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.36%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (11.27%) GitLab
2 21 (7.64%) Jenkins
3 20 (7.27%) Git
4 9 (3.27%) JIRA
5 8 (2.91%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.55%) Robot Framework
6 7 (2.55%) TestRail
7 6 (2.18%) Cypress.io
7 6 (2.18%) Selenium
8 2 (0.73%) Subversion
9 1 (0.36%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.36%) Gatling
9 1 (0.36%) JMeter
9 1 (0.36%) Vagrant
General
1 36 (13.09%) Social Skills
2 29 (10.55%) Finance
3 17 (6.18%) Aerospace
4 14 (5.09%) Retail
5 13 (4.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (2.91%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.91%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.55%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.18%) Banking
8 6 (2.18%) Marketing
9 4 (1.45%) Legal
10 3 (1.09%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.09%) Automotive
10 3 (1.09%) Electronics
11 1 (0.36%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 212 (77.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 63 (22.91%) Senior
3 53 (19.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 32 (11.64%) IT Engineer
5 26 (9.45%) Cloud Engineer
6 25 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 24 (8.73%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 20 (7.27%) Infrastructure Support
9 17 (6.18%) Azure Engineer
9 17 (6.18%) Support Engineer
10 16 (5.82%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (5.09%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 13 (4.73%) DevOps Engineer
13 11 (4.00%) Security Engineer
14 10 (3.64%) IT Support
14 10 (3.64%) IT Support Engineer
15 8 (2.91%) Linux Engineer
15 8 (2.91%) Operations Engineer
15 8 (2.91%) Senior Security Engineer
15 8 (2.91%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (2.55%) Apache NiFi
2 7 (2.55%) XMPP
3 6 (2.18%) Keycloak
3 6 (2.18%) Playwright
3 6 (2.18%) pytest
4 4 (1.45%) boto
5 2 (0.73%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.73%) OAuth
5 2 (0.73%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.73%) OpenID
5 2 (0.73%) RESTful
5 2 (0.73%) SAML
5 2 (0.73%) YAML
6 1 (0.36%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.36%) Django
6 1 (0.36%) Memcached
6 1 (0.36%) Node.js
6 1 (0.36%) REST
6 1 (0.36%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.45%) Driving Licence
1 15 (5.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (5.09%) Cloud Native
3 13 (4.73%) Replication
4 10 (3.64%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.91%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.55%) FlexPod
6 7 (2.55%) Video Conferencing
7 6 (2.18%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.82%) YubiKey
9 4 (1.45%) CCTV
10 3 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.09%) PKI
10 3 (1.09%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.73%) BYOD
11 2 (0.73%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.73%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 72 (26.18%) Linux
2 63 (22.91%) Windows
3 42 (15.27%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.91%) CentOS
5 5 (1.82%) Unix
6 3 (1.09%) VMS
7 2 (0.73%) Android
7 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.73%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.36%) Rocky
8 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (17.82%) Infrastructure as Code
2 45 (16.36%) DevOps
3 39 (14.18%) CI/CD
4 31 (11.27%) Containerisation
5 30 (10.91%) Continuous Improvement
5 30 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (10.18%) Agile
7 26 (9.45%) Infrastructure Automation
8 23 (8.36%) Cybersecurity
9 22 (8.00%) Collaborative Culture
10 20 (7.27%) Disaster Recovery
11 16 (5.82%) High Availability
11 16 (5.82%) Test Automation
12 15 (5.45%) Collaborative Working
13 14 (5.09%) ITIL
14 13 (4.73%) Mentoring
14 13 (4.73%) Project Delivery
15 12 (4.36%) Platform Engineering
16 11 (4.00%) Data Management
16 11 (4.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 39 (14.18%) Python
2 30 (10.91%) Bash
3 26 (9.45%) PowerShell
4 8 (2.91%) Java
5 6 (2.18%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.18%) SQL
6 4 (1.45%) Go
7 3 (1.09%) Bicep
8 2 (0.73%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 80 (29.09%) Security Cleared
2 44 (16.00%) DV Cleared
3 30 (10.91%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (3.27%) Degree
6 7 (2.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (2.18%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.18%) CCNA
7 6 (2.18%) Chartered Engineer
8 5 (1.82%) RHCE
9 4 (1.45%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.45%) CCNP
9 4 (1.45%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.45%) OSCP
9 4 (1.45%) Postgraduate
9 4 (1.45%) RHCSA
10 3 (1.09%) MCSE
11 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.73%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.82%) Cyber Essentials
1 16 (5.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (2.91%) GDPR
3 5 (1.82%) NIST
4 4 (1.45%) QA
5 3 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.73%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.73%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.36%) NCSC
7 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (14.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 38 (13.82%) Active Directory
3 29 (10.55%) Docker
4 27 (9.82%) Hyper-V
5 12 (4.36%) vSphere
6 8 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (2.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (2.18%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (1.82%) VMware NSX
9 4 (1.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (1.45%) Squid
10 1 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.36%) Firmware
10 1 (0.36%) GPFS
10 1 (0.36%) KVM
10 1 (0.36%) Lustre
10 1 (0.36%) QEMU
10 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.36%) Xen
Systems Management
1 46 (16.73%) Ansible
2 43 (15.64%) Kubernetes
3 39 (14.18%) Terraform
4 20 (7.27%) Grafana
5 17 (6.18%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (3.64%) vCenter Server
7 8 (2.91%) Puppet
8 7 (2.55%) Cisco CUCM
8 7 (2.55%) VxRail
9 6 (2.18%) FortiGate
9 6 (2.18%) Kibana
9 6 (2.18%) logstash
9 6 (2.18%) Packer
9 6 (2.18%) Prometheus
10 4 (1.45%) Rancher
10 4 (1.45%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.09%) Argo
12 2 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.73%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 75 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 43 (15.64%) VMware
3 21 (7.64%) Splunk
4 20 (7.27%) Cisco
5 17 (6.18%) Red Hat
6 11 (4.00%) Fortinet
7 8 (2.91%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.91%) Veeam
8 7 (2.55%) NetApp
8 7 (2.55%) Oracle
9 6 (2.18%) Atlassian
9 6 (2.18%) BeyondTrust
10 5 (1.82%) Dell
10 5 (1.82%) HP
10 5 (1.82%) Tenable
11 4 (1.45%) Juniper
12 3 (1.09%) Qualys
13 2 (0.73%) Aruba
13 2 (0.73%) Google
13 2 (0.73%) Thales