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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 89 38
Rank change year-on-year +47 -51 -15
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 293 77 463
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 3.54% 2.34% 4.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.95% 2.75% 6.02%
Number of salaries quoted 180 66 350
10th Percentile £37,375 £30,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £57,347 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.02% +14.69% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £80,250 £90,000 £68,875
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 5,920 2,796 7,695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.54% 85.06% 78.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3,905 1,812 5,614
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -3.83%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 11 July 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 11 July 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 +35 128 £55,000 -31.25% 22
Bristol +3 54 £65,000 +8.33% 8
Wiltshire +14 39 £50,000 -16.67% 10
Devon -7 35 £50,000 +5.26% 8
Dorset +6 18 £45,000 -46.27% 5
Somerset -24 15 £55,000 +15.79% 7
Cornwall - 4 £50,000 - 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 16 (5.46%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (3.41%) Confluence
4 4 (1.37%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.02%) IIS
6 2 (0.68%) Apache
7 1 (0.34%) Drupal
7 1 (0.34%) nginx
7 1 (0.34%) Site Server
7 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (3.41%) AutoCAD
2 6 (2.05%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 60 (20.48%) Azure
2 46 (15.70%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (15.36%) AWS
4 24 (8.19%) Entra ID
5 14 (4.78%) OpenShift
6 12 (4.10%) GCP
7 9 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (2.39%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (2.39%) Serverless
9 6 (2.05%) GitHub
9 6 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.71%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.71%) IaaS
11 4 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.37%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (1.37%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (1.37%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 37 (12.63%) Firewall
2 32 (10.92%) DNS
3 29 (9.90%) DHCP
4 27 (9.22%) WAN
5 23 (7.85%) LAN
6 15 (5.12%) VLAN
7 14 (4.78%) TCP/IP
8 12 (4.10%) VPN
9 9 (3.07%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (2.39%) Network Security
10 7 (2.39%) Unified Communications
10 7 (2.39%) WebEx
11 6 (2.05%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (2.05%) Cisco Firepower
12 5 (1.71%) NAS
12 5 (1.71%) SAN
12 5 (1.71%) VoIP
13 4 (1.37%) IPv4
13 4 (1.37%) SD-WAN
13 4 (1.37%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.07%) InfluxDB
2 4 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (1.37%) MySQL
3 3 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.02%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.68%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.68%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.68%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.34%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.34%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.34%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (11.26%) GitLab
2 24 (8.19%) Git
2 24 (8.19%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.07%) Bitbucket
3 9 (3.07%) JIRA
4 8 (2.73%) Robot Framework
4 8 (2.73%) TestRail
5 7 (2.39%) Cypress.io
5 7 (2.39%) Selenium
6 4 (1.37%) Subversion
7 1 (0.34%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.34%) Gatling
7 1 (0.34%) JMeter
7 1 (0.34%) Vagrant
General
1 39 (13.31%) Finance
2 31 (10.58%) Social Skills
3 19 (6.48%) Aerospace
4 12 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (3.75%) Retail
6 8 (2.73%) Manufacturing
6 8 (2.73%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.39%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.05%) Banking
8 6 (2.05%) Marketing
9 4 (1.37%) Legal
10 3 (1.02%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.02%) Automotive
10 3 (1.02%) Electronics
11 1 (0.34%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 225 (76.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 69 (23.55%) Senior
3 59 (20.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 31 (10.58%) IT Engineer
5 28 (9.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 26 (8.87%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 24 (8.19%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 22 (7.51%) Infrastructure Support
9 21 (7.17%) Azure Engineer
10 20 (6.83%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 19 (6.48%) Support Engineer
12 16 (5.46%) DevOps Engineer
12 16 (5.46%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 12 (4.10%) IT Support
13 12 (4.10%) IT Support Engineer
13 12 (4.10%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
14 10 (3.41%) Linux Engineer
14 10 (3.41%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
15 9 (3.07%) Test Engineer
16 8 (2.73%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (2.39%) Apache NiFi
2 7 (2.39%) Playwright
2 7 (2.39%) pytest
2 7 (2.39%) XMPP
3 6 (2.05%) Keycloak
4 4 (1.37%) boto
5 2 (0.68%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.68%) OAuth
5 2 (0.68%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.68%) OpenID
5 2 (0.68%) RESTful
5 2 (0.68%) SAML
5 2 (0.68%) YAML
6 1 (0.34%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.34%) Memcached
6 1 (0.34%) Node.js
6 1 (0.34%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.34%) REST
6 1 (0.34%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.12%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (4.78%) Cloud Native
2 14 (4.78%) Driving Licence
2 14 (4.78%) Replication
3 10 (3.41%) Data Centre
4 8 (2.73%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.39%) FlexPod
5 7 (2.39%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.39%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (1.37%) CCTV
6 4 (1.37%) PKI
7 3 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.02%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.02%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.68%) BYOD
8 2 (0.68%) Cyberattack
8 2 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.68%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.68%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 79 (26.96%) Linux
2 65 (22.18%) Windows
3 43 (14.68%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.07%) CentOS
5 6 (2.05%) Unix
6 3 (1.02%) VMS
7 2 (0.68%) Android
7 2 (0.68%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.68%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.34%) Rocky
8 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (18.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 48 (16.38%) DevOps
3 45 (15.36%) CI/CD
4 36 (12.29%) Containerisation
5 34 (11.60%) Agile
5 34 (11.60%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (9.56%) Cybersecurity
6 28 (9.56%) Infrastructure Automation
6 28 (9.56%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (9.22%) Collaborative Culture
8 22 (7.51%) Disaster Recovery
9 18 (6.14%) Test Automation
10 17 (5.80%) Collaborative Working
10 17 (5.80%) High Availability
11 16 (5.46%) Project Delivery
12 14 (4.78%) Data Management
12 14 (4.78%) Migration
12 14 (4.78%) Platform Engineering
13 13 (4.44%) Mentoring
14 12 (4.10%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 43 (14.68%) Python
2 34 (11.60%) Bash
3 27 (9.22%) PowerShell
4 11 (3.75%) Java
5 7 (2.39%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.05%) Go
6 6 (2.05%) SQL
7 3 (1.02%) Bicep
7 3 (1.02%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.34%) C#
8 1 (0.34%) C++
8 1 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 83 (28.33%) Security Cleared
2 41 (13.99%) DV Cleared
3 29 (9.90%) SC Cleared
4 14 (4.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (3.41%) Degree
6 9 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (2.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (2.05%) AWS Certification
8 6 (2.05%) CCNA
8 6 (2.05%) Chartered Engineer
9 5 (1.71%) RHCE
10 4 (1.37%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.37%) CCNP
10 4 (1.37%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.37%) OSCP
10 4 (1.37%) Postgraduate
10 4 (1.37%) RHCSA
11 3 (1.02%) MCSE
12 2 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.68%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.78%) Cyber Essentials
2 11 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.73%) GDPR
4 6 (2.05%) QA
5 3 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.68%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.68%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.34%) NCSC
7 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (13.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 38 (12.97%) Active Directory
3 32 (10.92%) Docker
4 27 (9.22%) Hyper-V
5 12 (4.10%) vSphere
6 9 (3.07%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (2.05%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (1.71%) VMware NSX
9 4 (1.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (1.37%) Squid
10 2 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.34%) Firmware
11 1 (0.34%) GPFS
11 1 (0.34%) KVM
11 1 (0.34%) Lustre
11 1 (0.34%) QEMU
11 1 (0.34%) Xen
Systems Management
1 51 (17.41%) Ansible
1 51 (17.41%) Kubernetes
2 45 (15.36%) Terraform
3 22 (7.51%) Grafana
4 16 (5.46%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (4.10%) Puppet
6 11 (3.75%) vCenter Server
7 7 (2.39%) Cisco CUCM
7 7 (2.39%) Kibana
7 7 (2.39%) logstash
7 7 (2.39%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.39%) VxRail
8 6 (2.05%) FortiGate
8 6 (2.05%) Packer
8 6 (2.05%) Rancher
9 5 (1.71%) Argo
10 4 (1.37%) yum
10 4 (1.37%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.68%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 78 (26.62%) Microsoft
2 43 (14.68%) VMware
3 19 (6.48%) Cisco
3 19 (6.48%) Splunk
4 18 (6.14%) Red Hat
5 11 (3.75%) Fortinet
5 11 (3.75%) Veeam
6 9 (3.07%) Oracle
7 8 (2.73%) Palo Alto
8 7 (2.39%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.39%) NetApp
9 6 (2.05%) BeyondTrust
10 5 (1.71%) Dell
10 5 (1.71%) HP
11 4 (1.37%) Juniper
12 3 (1.02%) Aruba
13 2 (0.68%) Google
13 2 (0.68%) Meraki
13 2 (0.68%) Thales
14 1 (0.34%) ServiceNow