Infrastructure Engineering Jobs in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 38 25
Rank change year-on-year -69 -13 +134
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 77 488 585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.96% 4.85% 9.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 6.13% 9.68%
Number of salaries quoted 66 350 137
10th Percentile £30,500 £35,000 £36,050
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,347 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.69% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £75,000 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £70,000 £85,401
England median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Process and 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 3,422 7,957 6,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 87.23% 79.14% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2,078 5,597 3,678
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £31,750 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £54,590
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.83% +9.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,150
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the South West.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the South West over the 6 months to 12 July 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 12 July 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 -5 26 £60,000 +20.00% 24
Gloucestershire -25 16 £80,000 +72.97% 41
Devon -4 15 £47,500 +5.56% 4
Dorset -7 8 £83,750 +86.11% 3
Wiltshire -34 7 £60,000 +17.65% 12
Somerset +2 3 £47,500 -11.63% 7
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (12.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) AutoCAD
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 34 (44.16%) Azure
2 21 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (20.78%) Entra ID
4 14 (18.18%) AWS
5 8 (10.39%) IaaS
5 8 (10.39%) Serverless
6 5 (6.49%) Azure Stack
6 5 (6.49%) PaaS
6 5 (6.49%) Rubrik
7 4 (5.19%) SaaS
8 3 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.90%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.60%) GCP
9 2 (2.60%) Stackdriver
10 1 (1.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.30%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 17 (22.08%) Firewall
2 10 (12.99%) SD-WAN
3 9 (11.69%) TCP/IP
3 9 (11.69%) VLAN
4 8 (10.39%) LAN
4 8 (10.39%) WAN
4 8 (10.39%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (7.79%) DHCP
5 6 (7.79%) DNS
5 6 (7.79%) SAN
6 3 (3.90%) VPN
7 2 (2.60%) BGP
7 2 (2.60%) Network Security
7 2 (2.60%) OSPF
7 2 (2.60%) Wireless
7 2 (2.60%) WLAN
8 1 (1.30%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (1.30%) Internet
8 1 (1.30%) MPLS
8 1 (1.30%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.58%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.90%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.30%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (5.19%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.90%) GitLab
General
1 14 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 12 (15.58%) Social Skills
3 9 (11.69%) Legal
4 6 (7.79%) Local Government
5 5 (6.49%) Finance
6 3 (3.90%) Advertising
6 3 (3.90%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.60%) Banking
7 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.30%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Military
8 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (20.78%) Senior
3 15 (19.48%) IT Engineer
3 15 (19.48%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (15.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (10.39%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (10.39%) Infrastructure Support
6 7 (9.09%) Lead
7 6 (7.79%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 6 (7.79%) Support Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Architect
8 5 (6.49%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) IT Support
8 5 (6.49%) IT Support Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Support Specialist
8 5 (6.49%) Technical Specialist
8 5 (6.49%) Technical Support
8 5 (6.49%) Technical Support Specialist
9 4 (5.19%) Civil Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.49%) 802.1X
2 3 (3.90%) AWS CDK
2 3 (3.90%) OLE
3 1 (1.30%) .NET
3 1 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.79%) Data Centre
1 6 (7.79%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (6.49%) BYOD
2 5 (6.49%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.90%) NHS
4 2 (2.60%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.60%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.60%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.60%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.30%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.30%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (28.57%) Windows
2 19 (24.68%) Windows Server
3 16 (20.78%) Linux
4 9 (11.69%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (6.49%) Rocky
6 2 (2.60%) Android
6 2 (2.60%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.30%) Windows 8
7 1 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (16.88%) DevOps
3 11 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 10 (12.99%) Vulnerability Management
5 9 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (10.39%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (9.09%) Project Delivery
8 6 (7.79%) Cloud Security
8 6 (7.79%) ITIL
8 6 (7.79%) Mentoring
8 6 (7.79%) Service Management
9 5 (6.49%) CRM
9 5 (6.49%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (6.49%) Predictive Analysis
9 5 (6.49%) Preventative Maintenance
9 5 (6.49%) Project Management
10 4 (5.19%) Configuration Management
10 4 (5.19%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (5.19%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 12 (15.58%) Python
3 7 (9.09%) Bash
3 7 (9.09%) SQL
4 2 (2.60%) Go
4 2 (2.60%) Java
5 1 (1.30%) Perl
Qualifications
1 22 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 15 (19.48%) DV Cleared
3 13 (16.88%) SC Cleared
4 6 (7.79%) Azure Certification
5 5 (6.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (6.49%) Degree
5 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (6.49%) Network+ Certification
5 5 (6.49%) NVQ Level 3
6 4 (5.19%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.90%) CCNA
7 3 (3.90%) CCNP
7 3 (3.90%) DBS Check
7 3 (3.90%) Postgraduate
8 2 (2.60%) CCIE
8 2 (2.60%) MCSA
8 2 (2.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.49%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (6.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.90%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.60%) JSP 440
3 2 (2.60%) NIST
3 2 (2.60%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 22 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 16 (20.78%) Hyper-V
3 8 (10.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (9.09%) Docker
5 6 (7.79%) vSphere
6 3 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (2.60%) XenApp
8 1 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 13 (16.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (15.58%) Terraform
4 8 (10.39%) Ansible
5 4 (5.19%) SCCM
6 3 (3.90%) Progress Chef
6 3 (3.90%) SmoothWall
7 1 (1.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 14 (18.18%) VMware
3 8 (10.39%) Cisco
4 7 (9.09%) Aruba
4 7 (9.09%) Veeam
5 5 (6.49%) Dell
5 5 (6.49%) HP
5 5 (6.49%) Palo Alto
6 3 (3.90%) EMC
6 3 (3.90%) Google
7 2 (2.60%) Citrix
7 2 (2.60%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.60%) Meraki
8 1 (1.30%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (1.30%) Juniper
8 1 (1.30%) NVIDIA
8 1 (1.30%) Oracle
8 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.30%) Splunk
8 1 (1.30%) Zscaler