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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 63 42
Rank change year-on-year -17 -21 +44
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 104 161 249
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.05% 3.68% 5.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 4.39% 6.16%
Number of salaries quoted 87 100 190
10th Percentile £41,155 £28,500 £27,950
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,000 £40,443
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,886 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £91,250 £77,780
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,300 £52,500
% change year-on-year +7.88% +1.52% -

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 3,675 3,671 4,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 72.29% 83.91% 91.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,489 1,902 3,075
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £40,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,439 £53,351
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% +2.04% +4.61%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,400 £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 26 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 26 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 -7 28 £61,250 +2.08% 21
Gloucestershire +22 27 £68,750 +30.95% 40
Wiltshire -7 15 £55,000 +48.65% 15
Somerset -26 14 £50,000 +25.00% 15
Devon -1 13 £42,750 +35.19% 13
Dorset +7 7 £60,000 -22.74% 8
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 (4.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.92%) Confluence
3 1 (0.96%) IIS
3 1 (0.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 48 (46.15%) Azure
2 21 (20.19%) Entra ID
3 14 (13.46%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (10.58%) GitHub
5 11 (10.58%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (7.69%) AWS
7 7 (6.73%) OCI
8 6 (5.77%) IaaS
8 6 (5.77%) PaaS
9 5 (4.81%) Azure Stack
10 4 (3.85%) OpenShift
10 4 (3.85%) Serverless
11 3 (2.88%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.88%) Rubrik
12 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (1.92%) Mimecast
13 1 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.96%) GCP
13 1 (0.96%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.54%) DHCP
1 12 (11.54%) DNS
1 12 (11.54%) Firewall
2 11 (10.58%) VPN
3 7 (6.73%) VLAN
4 6 (5.77%) SAN
4 6 (5.77%) TCP/IP
5 5 (4.81%) Network Security
6 4 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (2.88%) SD-WAN
7 3 (2.88%) Wireless
8 2 (1.92%) LAN
8 2 (1.92%) LTE
8 2 (1.92%) WAN
9 1 (0.96%) InfiniBand
9 1 (0.96%) Internet
9 1 (0.96%) Intranet
9 1 (0.96%) NAS
9 1 (0.96%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.81%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.92%) InfluxDB
2 2 (1.92%) Power BI
3 1 (0.96%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (4.81%) Git
2 3 (2.88%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.88%) JIRA
2 3 (2.88%) Subversion
3 2 (1.92%) GitLab
3 2 (1.92%) Robot Framework
3 2 (1.92%) TestRail
4 1 (0.96%) Bitbucket
General
1 27 (25.96%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.58%) Public Sector
3 8 (7.69%) Finance
4 5 (4.81%) Aerospace
5 4 (3.85%) Electronics
5 4 (3.85%) Law
5 4 (3.85%) Manufacturing
5 4 (3.85%) Marketing
5 4 (3.85%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.88%) Retail
7 2 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.96%) Military
Job Titles
1 65 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (13.46%) IT Engineer
2 14 (13.46%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (13.46%) Platform Engineer
3 12 (11.54%) Senior
4 11 (10.58%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 10 (9.62%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (9.62%) Cloud Engineer
5 10 (9.62%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (5.77%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (5.77%) Infrastructure Support
6 6 (5.77%) Support Engineer
7 5 (4.81%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.81%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 5 (4.81%) IT Manager
8 4 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (3.85%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 4 (3.85%) Security Engineer
9 3 (2.88%) IT Support
9 3 (2.88%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.58%) YAML
2 3 (2.88%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.92%) OAuth
3 2 (1.92%) OAuth2
3 2 (1.92%) OpenID
3 2 (1.92%) SAML
4 1 (0.96%) OLE
4 1 (0.96%) REST
4 1 (0.96%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.81%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.88%) BYOD
5 3 (2.88%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.88%) YubiKey
6 2 (1.92%) CCTV
6 2 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.92%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.92%) PMI
6 2 (1.92%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.92%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.96%) Digital Signage
7 1 (0.96%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 34 (32.69%) Windows
2 30 (28.85%) Windows Server
3 20 (19.23%) Linux
4 5 (4.81%) Rocky
4 5 (4.81%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (3.85%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.88%) CentOS
6 3 (2.88%) Debian
7 1 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.96%) Solaris
7 1 (0.96%) Unix
7 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (22.12%) Infrastructure as Code
2 20 (19.23%) Containerisation
2 20 (19.23%) DevOps
3 18 (17.31%) Platform Engineering
3 18 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 9 (8.65%) Agile
5 9 (8.65%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
6 8 (7.69%) ITSM
6 8 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management
7 7 (6.73%) ITIL
7 7 (6.73%) Server Management
8 6 (5.77%) Cloud Security
9 5 (4.81%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (4.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (4.81%) Mentoring
9 5 (4.81%) RBAC
9 5 (4.81%) Scrum
9 5 (4.81%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (18.27%) PowerShell
2 13 (12.50%) Python
3 12 (11.54%) Bash
3 12 (11.54%) Bicep
4 3 (2.88%) Go
4 3 (2.88%) Java
4 3 (2.88%) SQL
5 1 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 36 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 24 (23.08%) DV Cleared
3 16 (15.38%) SC Cleared
4 13 (12.50%) Degree
5 6 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (4.81%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.81%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.92%) CBAP
7 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.92%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (4.81%) SLA
4 4 (3.85%) GDPR
4 4 (3.85%) QA
5 3 (2.88%) NIST
6 2 (1.92%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.92%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.96%) NCSC
System Software
1 30 (28.85%) Active Directory
2 21 (20.19%) Hyper-V
3 16 (15.38%) Docker
4 14 (13.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (7.69%) vSphere
6 3 (2.88%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.96%) Ceph
8 1 (0.96%) Lustre
8 1 (0.96%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.96%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.96%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 27 (25.96%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (8.65%) Ansible
3 9 (8.65%) Terraform
4 4 (3.85%) SCCM
5 3 (2.88%) Argo
5 3 (2.88%) Rancher
5 3 (2.88%) vCenter Server
5 3 (2.88%) yum
6 2 (1.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.92%) Grafana
6 2 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.96%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.96%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.96%) SCVMM
7 1 (0.96%) WSUS
Vendors
1 32 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.42%) VMware
3 7 (6.73%) Oracle
4 6 (5.77%) Dell
4 6 (5.77%) Veeam
5 5 (4.81%) HP
5 5 (4.81%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.85%) Cisco
6 4 (3.85%) SAP
6 4 (3.85%) Splunk
7 3 (2.88%) Aruba
7 3 (2.88%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.88%) Meraki
7 3 (2.88%) SolarWinds
7 3 (2.88%) Tenable
8 2 (1.92%) Qualys
8 2 (1.92%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.92%) SonicWALL
8 2 (1.92%) Thales
9 1 (0.96%) Palo Alto