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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 89 31
Rank change year-on-year +50 -58 -7
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 410 76 365
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 4.14% 2.19% 4.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.84% 2.68% 6.35%
Number of salaries quoted 287 67 253
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £41,206
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,891 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% +11.78% +5.26%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £58,750
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 7,022 2,833 5,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 70.99% 81.60% 75.64%
Number of salaries quoted 4,773 1,817 3,529
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 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £81,250
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 10 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 10 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 +23 171 £65,000 -18.75% 25
Devon +15 69 £50,000 +8.11% 6
Bristol +7 69 £65,000 +8.33% 12
Wiltshire +23 48 £50,000 -16.67% 10
Dorset +17 26 £63,750 +63.46% 7
Somerset -19 19 £53,500 +12.63% 7
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 20 (4.88%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.95%) Confluence
4 5 (1.22%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.98%) Apache
6 3 (0.73%) IIS
7 1 (0.24%) Drupal
7 1 (0.24%) nginx
7 1 (0.24%) Site Server
7 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (3.17%) AutoCAD
1 13 (3.17%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 77 (18.78%) Azure
2 72 (17.56%) AWS
3 50 (12.20%) Microsoft 365
4 35 (8.54%) Entra ID
5 16 (3.90%) GCP
5 16 (3.90%) OpenShift
6 13 (3.17%) Serverless
7 10 (2.44%) GitHub
7 10 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.95%) IaaS
10 7 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.46%) Amazon S3
11 6 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.22%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.22%) PaaS
13 4 (0.98%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 36 (8.78%) Firewall
2 33 (8.05%) DNS
3 31 (7.56%) DHCP
4 20 (4.88%) WAN
5 19 (4.63%) TCP/IP
5 19 (4.63%) VLAN
6 17 (4.15%) LAN
7 11 (2.68%) Network Security
7 11 (2.68%) VoIP
8 10 (2.44%) VPN
9 7 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (1.71%) Wireless
10 5 (1.22%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (0.98%) IPv4
11 4 (0.98%) SAN
12 3 (0.73%) Cisco ASA
12 3 (0.73%) NAS
12 3 (0.73%) SD-WAN
12 3 (0.73%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.73%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.68%) MySQL
2 10 (2.44%) InfluxDB
3 9 (2.20%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.49%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.49%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.49%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.24%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.24%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (8.05%) GitLab
2 25 (6.10%) Git
2 25 (6.10%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.20%) Robot Framework
3 9 (2.20%) TestRail
4 8 (1.95%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.71%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.71%) JIRA
5 7 (1.71%) Selenium
6 3 (0.73%) Subversion
7 1 (0.24%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.24%) Gatling
7 1 (0.24%) JMeter
7 1 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 42 (10.24%) Social Skills
2 41 (10.00%) Finance
3 18 (4.39%) Manufacturing
4 14 (3.41%) Aerospace
5 13 (3.17%) Retail
6 12 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (2.93%) Public Sector
7 4 (0.98%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (0.98%) Legal
7 4 (0.98%) Telecoms
8 3 (0.73%) Banking
8 3 (0.73%) Marketing
9 2 (0.49%) Automotive
9 2 (0.49%) Electronics
10 1 (0.24%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 325 (79.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 106 (25.85%) Senior
3 95 (23.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 43 (10.49%) Infrastructure Support
5 40 (9.76%) Support Engineer
6 37 (9.02%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 37 (9.02%) IT Engineer
7 33 (8.05%) Cloud Engineer
8 31 (7.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 30 (7.32%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 24 (5.85%) DevOps Engineer
11 23 (5.61%) Azure Engineer
12 22 (5.37%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 18 (4.39%) IT Support
13 18 (4.39%) IT Support Engineer
14 16 (3.90%) Electrical Engineer
15 14 (3.41%) Test Engineer
16 12 (2.93%) Linux Engineer
16 12 (2.93%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
16 12 (2.93%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (14.63%) Terraform
2 14 (3.41%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (1.71%) Playwright
3 7 (1.71%) pytest
4 4 (0.98%) Apache NiFi
4 4 (0.98%) boto
5 3 (0.73%) Keycloak
5 3 (0.73%) LDAP
5 3 (0.73%) SailPoint
5 3 (0.73%) XMPP
6 2 (0.49%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.49%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (0.49%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (0.49%) RESTful
6 2 (0.49%) YAML
7 1 (0.24%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.24%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.24%) React
7 1 (0.24%) Sass
7 1 (0.24%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (4.63%) Cloud Native
2 12 (2.93%) Driving Licence
3 11 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (1.95%) Data Centre
4 8 (1.95%) Product Ownership
4 8 (1.95%) Replication
5 5 (1.22%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.22%) PKI
6 4 (0.98%) CCTV
6 4 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (0.73%) FlexPod
7 3 (0.73%) Public Cloud
7 3 (0.73%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (0.49%) BYOD
8 2 (0.49%) Cyberattack
8 2 (0.49%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.49%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.49%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.49%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.24%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 85 (20.73%) Linux
2 77 (18.78%) Windows
3 53 (12.93%) Windows Server
4 13 (3.17%) CentOS
5 6 (1.46%) Unix
6 4 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.73%) VMS
8 2 (0.49%) Android
8 2 (0.49%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.49%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.24%) Rocky
9 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (15.85%) Infrastructure as Code
2 63 (15.37%) DevOps
3 59 (14.39%) CI/CD
4 50 (12.20%) Containerisation
5 41 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
6 40 (9.76%) Agile
6 40 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (7.80%) Infrastructure Automation
8 31 (7.56%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (6.34%) Disaster Recovery
9 26 (6.34%) Project Delivery
10 24 (5.85%) Collaborative Culture
10 24 (5.85%) Platform Engineering
11 18 (4.39%) ITIL
11 18 (4.39%) Test Automation
12 17 (4.15%) Mentoring
13 16 (3.90%) Collaborative Working
13 16 (3.90%) High Availability
13 16 (3.90%) Technical Leadership
14 15 (3.66%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 46 (11.22%) Python
2 40 (9.76%) Bash
3 31 (7.56%) PowerShell
4 12 (2.93%) Java
4 12 (2.93%) SQL
5 9 (2.20%) Go
6 7 (1.71%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.98%) Rust
8 3 (0.73%) Bicep
9 2 (0.49%) C#
9 2 (0.49%) C++
9 2 (0.49%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.24%) PHP
Qualifications
1 97 (23.66%) Security Cleared
2 49 (11.95%) DV Cleared
3 33 (8.05%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.17%) Degree
5 11 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (2.20%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 8 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (1.71%) Chartered Engineer
9 5 (1.22%) CCNA
9 5 (1.22%) RHCE
10 4 (0.98%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.98%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.98%) OSCP
10 4 (0.98%) RHCSA
11 3 (0.73%) CCNP
11 3 (0.73%) MCSE
11 3 (0.73%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.49%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.49%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.39%) Cyber Essentials
2 10 (2.44%) QA
3 9 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.95%) GDPR
5 2 (0.49%) SLA
5 2 (0.49%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 51 (12.44%) Active Directory
2 37 (9.02%) Docker
2 37 (9.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (8.54%) Hyper-V
4 11 (2.68%) vSphere
5 9 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.46%) VMware NSX
7 5 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.98%) Squid
9 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.73%) NDS
9 3 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.49%) KVM
10 2 (0.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.24%) Firmware
11 1 (0.24%) GPFS
11 1 (0.24%) Lustre
11 1 (0.24%) QEMU
11 1 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 57 (13.90%) Kubernetes
2 52 (12.68%) Ansible
3 24 (5.85%) Grafana
4 20 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (3.17%) Puppet
6 12 (2.93%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.44%) vCenter Server
8 7 (1.71%) Kibana
8 7 (1.71%) logstash
9 6 (1.46%) Argo
9 6 (1.46%) FortiGate
9 6 (1.46%) Packer
10 5 (1.22%) Rancher
10 5 (1.22%) ZABBIX
11 4 (0.98%) VxRail
12 3 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.73%) Istio
12 3 (0.73%) linkerd
12 3 (0.73%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.73%) vRealize
Vendors
1 84 (20.49%) Microsoft
2 44 (10.73%) VMware
3 19 (4.63%) Veeam
4 18 (4.39%) Red Hat
5 16 (3.90%) Splunk
6 15 (3.66%) Cisco
7 9 (2.20%) Oracle
8 7 (1.71%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.71%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.22%) HP
9 5 (1.22%) Juniper
10 4 (0.98%) Citrix
10 4 (0.98%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.73%) BeyondTrust
11 3 (0.73%) CyberArk
11 3 (0.73%) Dell
11 3 (0.73%) ForgeRock
11 3 (0.73%) NetApp
11 3 (0.73%) NetIQ
11 3 (0.73%) Okta