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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 90 33
Rank change year-on-year +53 -57 -12
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 401 82 388
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 4.22% 2.36% 4.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.94% 2.86% 6.48%
Number of salaries quoted 282 73 280
10th Percentile £36,350 £31,650 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,194 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.84% +14.39% +5.26%
75th Percentile £70,938 £75,000 £57,813
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 6,751 2,864 5,987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.00% 82.30% 75.86%
Number of salaries quoted 4,549 1,862 3,865
10th Percentile £30,250 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 +28 170 £65,000 -18.75% 52
Bristol +9 68 £65,000 +8.33% 23
Devon +21 65 £50,000 +8.11% 5
Wiltshire +22 45 £50,000 -13.04% 12
Dorset +13 26 £63,750 +63.46% 7
Somerset -22 19 £53,500 -12.65% 12
Cornwall - 8 £60,000 -
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 18 (4.49%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.00%) Confluence
4 5 (1.25%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.00%) Apache
6 3 (0.75%) IIS
7 1 (0.25%) Drupal
7 1 (0.25%) nginx
7 1 (0.25%) Site Server
7 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (3.24%) AutoCAD
1 13 (3.24%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 74 (18.45%) Azure
2 73 (18.20%) AWS
3 49 (12.22%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (7.98%) Entra ID
5 16 (3.99%) GCP
5 16 (3.99%) OpenShift
6 11 (2.74%) Serverless
7 10 (2.49%) GitHub
7 10 (2.49%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (1.75%) IaaS
10 6 (1.50%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (1.50%) Amazon S3
10 6 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.25%) PaaS
12 4 (1.00%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 35 (8.73%) Firewall
2 31 (7.73%) DNS
3 29 (7.23%) DHCP
4 21 (5.24%) WAN
5 18 (4.49%) LAN
5 18 (4.49%) VLAN
6 17 (4.24%) TCP/IP
7 11 (2.74%) Network Security
8 10 (2.49%) VPN
9 9 (2.24%) VoIP
10 7 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (1.50%) Wireless
12 5 (1.25%) Software-Defined Networking
13 4 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
13 4 (1.00%) Cisco Firepower
13 4 (1.00%) IPv4
13 4 (1.00%) SAN
13 4 (1.00%) Unified Communications
13 4 (1.00%) WebEx
14 3 (0.75%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.74%) MySQL
2 10 (2.49%) InfluxDB
3 7 (1.75%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.50%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.50%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.50%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.25%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.25%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (8.23%) GitLab
2 26 (6.48%) Jenkins
3 25 (6.23%) Git
4 9 (2.24%) Robot Framework
4 9 (2.24%) TestRail
5 8 (2.00%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.75%) Cypress.io
6 7 (1.75%) JIRA
6 7 (1.75%) Selenium
7 2 (0.50%) Subversion
8 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.25%) Gatling
8 1 (0.25%) JMeter
8 1 (0.25%) Vagrant
General
1 41 (10.22%) Social Skills
2 38 (9.48%) Finance
3 19 (4.74%) Manufacturing
4 15 (3.74%) Aerospace
5 13 (3.24%) Retail
6 12 (2.99%) Public Sector
7 11 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.25%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.00%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.00%) Banking
9 4 (1.00%) Marketing
10 3 (0.75%) Automotive
10 3 (0.75%) Electronics
10 3 (0.75%) Legal
11 1 (0.25%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 318 (79.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 100 (24.94%) Senior
3 90 (22.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 41 (10.22%) Infrastructure Support
5 38 (9.48%) Support Engineer
6 35 (8.73%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 35 (8.73%) IT Engineer
7 33 (8.23%) Cloud Engineer
8 31 (7.73%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 28 (6.98%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 24 (5.99%) DevOps Engineer
11 23 (5.74%) Azure Engineer
12 22 (5.49%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 16 (3.99%) Electrical Engineer
13 16 (3.99%) IT Support
13 16 (3.99%) IT Support Engineer
14 14 (3.49%) Test Engineer
15 12 (2.99%) Linux Engineer
15 12 (2.99%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
15 12 (2.99%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (15.46%) Terraform
2 14 (3.49%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (1.75%) Playwright
3 7 (1.75%) pytest
4 4 (1.00%) Apache NiFi
4 4 (1.00%) boto
4 4 (1.00%) XMPP
5 3 (0.75%) Keycloak
6 2 (0.50%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.50%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (0.50%) LDAP
6 2 (0.50%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (0.50%) RESTful
6 2 (0.50%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.50%) YAML
7 1 (0.25%) .NET
7 1 (0.25%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.25%) Django
7 1 (0.25%) OAuth
7 1 (0.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (4.74%) Cloud Native
2 13 (3.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (2.74%) Driving Licence
4 9 (2.24%) Replication
5 8 (2.00%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.00%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.50%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.25%) PKI
8 4 (1.00%) CCTV
8 4 (1.00%) FlexPod
8 4 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.75%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.50%) BYOD
10 2 (0.50%) Cyberattack
10 2 (0.50%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.50%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.25%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 85 (21.20%) Linux
2 75 (18.70%) Windows
3 50 (12.47%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.99%) CentOS
5 6 (1.50%) Unix
6 3 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.75%) VMS
7 2 (0.50%) Android
7 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.25%) Rocky
8 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (16.46%) Infrastructure as Code
2 61 (15.21%) DevOps
3 59 (14.71%) CI/CD
4 49 (12.22%) Containerisation
5 38 (9.48%) Agile
6 37 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 37 (9.23%) Cybersecurity
7 35 (8.73%) Infrastructure Automation
8 30 (7.48%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (6.23%) Disaster Recovery
9 25 (6.23%) Platform Engineering
9 25 (6.23%) Project Delivery
10 24 (5.99%) Collaborative Culture
11 19 (4.74%) Test Automation
12 17 (4.24%) ITIL
12 17 (4.24%) Mentoring
13 16 (3.99%) Collaborative Working
13 16 (3.99%) High Availability
14 15 (3.74%) Observability
14 15 (3.74%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 46 (11.47%) Python
2 39 (9.73%) Bash
3 31 (7.73%) PowerShell
4 12 (2.99%) SQL
5 11 (2.74%) Java
6 8 (2.00%) Go
7 7 (1.75%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.00%) Rust
9 3 (0.75%) Bicep
10 2 (0.50%) C#
10 2 (0.50%) C++
10 2 (0.50%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 94 (23.44%) Security Cleared
2 47 (11.72%) DV Cleared
3 34 (8.48%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.24%) Degree
5 11 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (2.24%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 8 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.50%) Chartered Engineer
9 5 (1.25%) CCNA
9 5 (1.25%) RHCE
10 4 (1.00%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.00%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.00%) OSCP
10 4 (1.00%) RHCSA
11 3 (0.75%) CCNP
11 3 (0.75%) MCSE
11 3 (0.75%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.99%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (2.24%) QA
3 8 (2.00%) GDPR
4 2 (0.50%) SLA
4 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 48 (11.97%) Active Directory
2 38 (9.48%) Docker
3 37 (9.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (8.23%) Hyper-V
5 11 (2.74%) vSphere
6 9 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.50%) VMware NSX
8 5 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (1.00%) Squid
9 4 (1.00%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.50%) KVM
10 2 (0.50%) NDS
10 2 (0.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.25%) Firmware
11 1 (0.25%) GPFS
11 1 (0.25%) Lustre
11 1 (0.25%) QEMU
11 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 57 (14.21%) Kubernetes
2 53 (13.22%) Ansible
3 25 (6.23%) Grafana
4 18 (4.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (2.99%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.99%) Puppet
6 10 (2.49%) vCenter Server
7 7 (1.75%) Kibana
7 7 (1.75%) logstash
8 6 (1.50%) FortiGate
8 6 (1.50%) Packer
9 5 (1.25%) Argo
9 5 (1.25%) ZABBIX
10 4 (1.00%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (1.00%) Rancher
10 4 (1.00%) VxRail
11 3 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.75%) Istio
11 3 (0.75%) Mesos
11 3 (0.75%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 81 (20.20%) Microsoft
2 44 (10.97%) VMware
3 18 (4.49%) Red Hat
4 17 (4.24%) Splunk
4 17 (4.24%) Veeam
5 16 (3.99%) Cisco
6 9 (2.24%) Oracle
7 8 (2.00%) Fortinet
8 7 (1.75%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.25%) HP
9 5 (1.25%) Juniper
9 5 (1.25%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.00%) NetApp
11 3 (0.75%) Aruba
11 3 (0.75%) BeyondTrust
11 3 (0.75%) Citrix
11 3 (0.75%) Dell
12 2 (0.50%) CyberArk
12 2 (0.50%) ForgeRock
12 2 (0.50%) Okta