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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 100 50
Rank change year-on-year +36 -50 -10
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 150 69 340
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.34% 2.41% 4.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.30% 2.67% 5.18%
Number of salaries quoted 105 45 268
10th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £71,991 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.60% +43.98% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £90,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £97,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,160 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.29% +10.32% -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 4,541 2,582 6,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 70.73% 90.22% 85.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,068 1,485 5,143
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £28,867
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 17 March 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 17 March 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 +38 52 £55,000 -40.54% 20
Bristol -6 36 £60,000 -16.66% 8
Wiltshire +16 32 £55,000 +6.59% 18
Devon -3 12 £54,475 -11.63% 1
Somerset -18 11 £55,000 -2.22% 5
Dorset -14 6 £60,000 -28.36% 1
Cornwall - 1 - - 1
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 4 (2.67%) Confluence
1 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.67%) Apache
3 1 (0.67%) IIS
3 1 (0.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (2.67%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.67%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 32 (21.33%) Azure
2 17 (11.33%) AWS
3 12 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (8.00%) Entra ID
3 12 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (6.00%) GitHub
4 9 (6.00%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (4.00%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.00%) GCP
6 3 (2.00%) OCI
7 2 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (1.33%) Mimecast
7 2 (1.33%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.67%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.67%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.67%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.67%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.67%) SaaS
8 1 (0.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.33%) Firewall
2 18 (12.00%) DNS
3 17 (11.33%) DHCP
4 12 (8.00%) VPN
4 12 (8.00%) WAN
5 10 (6.67%) LAN
6 9 (6.00%) Network Security
7 8 (5.33%) VLAN
8 7 (4.67%) TCP/IP
9 6 (4.00%) SAN
10 5 (3.33%) Unified Communications
10 5 (3.33%) WebEx
11 4 (2.67%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (2.67%) Cisco Firepower
11 4 (2.67%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (2.00%) LTE
12 3 (2.00%) NAS
13 1 (0.67%) Ethernet VPN
13 1 (0.67%) SD-WAN
13 1 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.67%) InfluxDB
2 2 (1.33%) Power BI
3 1 (0.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (8.67%) Git
2 12 (8.00%) GitLab
3 7 (4.67%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.33%) JIRA
4 5 (3.33%) Subversion
5 4 (2.67%) Robot Framework
5 4 (2.67%) TestRail
6 3 (2.00%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.33%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.33%) Selenium
General
1 30 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.33%) Finance
3 12 (8.00%) Retail
4 10 (6.67%) Aerospace
5 9 (6.00%) Telecoms
6 8 (5.33%) Marketing
6 8 (5.33%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.33%) Electronics
8 5 (3.33%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.67%) Banking
9 4 (2.67%) Law
10 2 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Automotive
11 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Legal
11 1 (0.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 110 (73.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 25 (16.67%) Senior
3 21 (14.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 18 (12.00%) IT Engineer
4 18 (12.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (9.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 14 (9.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (7.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (5.33%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (5.33%) Security Engineer
7 8 (5.33%) Senior IT Engineer
8 7 (4.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
9 5 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (3.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.33%) Collaboration Engineer
9 5 (3.33%) IT Manager
9 5 (3.33%) Senior Security Engineer
10 4 (2.67%) Design Engineer
10 4 (2.67%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
10 4 (2.67%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.00%) YAML
2 5 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (3.33%) XMPP
3 3 (2.00%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (2.00%) Keycloak
3 3 (2.00%) OAuth
3 3 (2.00%) OAuth2
3 3 (2.00%) OpenID
3 3 (2.00%) SAML
4 2 (1.33%) Playwright
4 2 (1.33%) pytest
4 2 (1.33%) REST
4 2 (1.33%) SOAP
5 1 (0.67%) Jinja
5 1 (0.67%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.67%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.67%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.33%) Driving Licence
3 7 (4.67%) Replication
4 6 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.33%) FlexPod
5 5 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (3.33%) YubiKey
6 4 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.67%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.00%) CCTV
7 3 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.33%) PMI
8 2 (1.33%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.67%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.67%) Digital Signage
9 1 (0.67%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 37 (24.67%) Windows
2 32 (21.33%) Linux
3 28 (18.67%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.33%) CentOS
5 2 (1.33%) Unix
6 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.67%) Solaris
6 1 (0.67%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (22.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 30 (20.00%) DevOps
3 28 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (12.00%) Agile
4 18 (12.00%) CI/CD
4 18 (12.00%) Containerisation
5 15 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
5 15 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (9.33%) Platform Engineering
7 13 (8.67%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (8.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 12 (8.00%) ITIL
9 11 (7.33%) Collaborative Culture
10 10 (6.67%) ITSM
11 9 (6.00%) Business Intelligence
12 8 (5.33%) Disaster Recovery
12 8 (5.33%) Mentoring
13 7 (4.67%) High Availability
13 7 (4.67%) Server Management
13 7 (4.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (18.00%) Python
2 23 (15.33%) Bash
3 22 (14.67%) PowerShell
4 10 (6.67%) Bicep
5 5 (3.33%) Go
5 5 (3.33%) Java
6 2 (1.33%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.33%) SQL
7 1 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 61 (40.67%) Security Cleared
2 38 (25.33%) DV Cleared
3 22 (14.67%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.67%) Degree
5 5 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.33%) CBAP
8 2 (1.33%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.67%) CCNA
9 1 (0.67%) CCNP
9 1 (0.67%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.67%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.67%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (4.00%) QA
4 5 (3.33%) NIST
4 5 (3.33%) SLA
5 4 (2.67%) GDPR
6 3 (2.00%) Accessibility
6 3 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.33%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 28 (18.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (15.33%) Active Directory
3 20 (13.33%) Docker
4 17 (11.33%) Hyper-V
5 12 (8.00%) vSphere
6 5 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (2.67%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (2.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.67%) Ceph
9 1 (0.67%) Lustre
9 1 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (18.67%) Kubernetes
2 24 (16.00%) Ansible
3 16 (10.67%) Terraform
4 11 (7.33%) Grafana
5 8 (5.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (4.67%) vCenter Server
7 6 (4.00%) Argo
8 5 (3.33%) Cisco CUCM
8 5 (3.33%) Rancher
8 5 (3.33%) yum
9 3 (2.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (2.00%) NetBackup
9 3 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.00%) VxRail
10 2 (1.33%) Kibana
10 2 (1.33%) logstash
10 2 (1.33%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.33%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.33%) SCCM
10 2 (1.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 43 (28.67%) Microsoft
2 29 (19.33%) VMware
3 15 (10.00%) Cisco
4 12 (8.00%) Splunk
5 9 (6.00%) Fortinet
6 6 (4.00%) Palo Alto
7 5 (3.33%) Dell
7 5 (3.33%) Meraki
7 5 (3.33%) NetApp
7 5 (3.33%) Red Hat
7 5 (3.33%) Tenable
8 4 (2.67%) HP
8 4 (2.67%) SAP
8 4 (2.67%) Thales
8 4 (2.67%) Veeam
9 3 (2.00%) BeyondTrust
9 3 (2.00%) Juniper
9 3 (2.00%) Oracle
9 3 (2.00%) Qualys
9 3 (2.00%) SolarWinds