Infrastructure Engineering Jobs in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 41 25
Rank change year-on-year -87 -16 +110
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 52 450 588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.44% 4.81% 8.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 5.79% 9.31%
Number of salaries quoted 38 326 141
10th Percentile £46,250 £35,000 £34,605
25th Percentile £48,894 £40,000 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £80,938 £59,996 £67,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £73,750 £87,419
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 3,360 7,769 6,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.20% 83.00% 94.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,931 5,597 3,511
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,375 £37,500 £39,100
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,325
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £80,627
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the South West.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the South West over the 6 months to 18 May 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 18 May 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 -6 20 £71,991 +40.47% 23
Devon -2 11 £51,729 +25.54% 11
Wiltshire -31 7 £51,600 +2.18% 12
Dorset -1 5 £83,750 +79.97% 4
Gloucestershire -24 5 £95,000 +72.73% 28
Somerset -10 3 £47,500 -7.32% 13
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.77%) NetWeaver
2 3 (5.77%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 20 (38.46%) Azure
2 11 (21.15%) AWS
2 11 (21.15%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (7.69%) Azure AKS
4 4 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 4 (7.69%) IaaS
5 3 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (5.77%) Amazon S3
5 3 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (5.77%) PaaS
5 3 (5.77%) SaaS
5 3 (5.77%) Serverless
5 3 (5.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (3.85%) GCP
6 2 (3.85%) Stackdriver
7 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.92%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.92%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.38%) Firewall
2 5 (9.62%) VLAN
3 3 (5.77%) BGP
3 3 (5.77%) LAN
3 3 (5.77%) Network Security
3 3 (5.77%) SAN
3 3 (5.77%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.77%) VPN
3 3 (5.77%) WAN
4 2 (3.85%) OSPF
4 2 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.92%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (1.92%) DHCP
5 1 (1.92%) DNS
5 1 (1.92%) Ethernet
5 1 (1.92%) HSRP
5 1 (1.92%) Internet
5 1 (1.92%) MPLS
5 1 (1.92%) NAS
5 1 (1.92%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.46%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.77%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (5.77%) Data Lake
2 3 (5.77%) SAP BW
2 3 (5.77%) SAP Data Services
2 3 (5.77%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.92%) MySQL
3 1 (1.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.77%) GitLab
2 3 (5.77%) Oracle Forms
General
1 13 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.62%) Banking
3 5 (9.62%) Finance
4 4 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.77%) General Ledger
5 3 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.85%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Legal
6 2 (3.85%) Local Government
7 1 (1.92%) Advertising
7 1 (1.92%) Military
7 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (67.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (15.38%) Architect
2 8 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
2 8 (15.38%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (13.46%) Senior
3 7 (13.46%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) IT Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Lead
6 4 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.69%) Web Services
2 3 (5.77%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.92%) .NET
3 1 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.92%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.62%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.85%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.92%) Cyberattack
3 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.92%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.92%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (21.15%) Linux
2 10 (19.23%) Windows
2 10 (19.23%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (5.77%) AIX
4 3 (5.77%) Unix
5 2 (3.85%) Android
5 2 (3.85%) Apple iOS
5 2 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.92%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.92%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (36.54%) DevOps
2 12 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
3 11 (21.15%) Technical Leadership
4 10 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (17.31%) Cloud Security
5 9 (17.31%) Containerisation
5 9 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (15.38%) Migration
7 7 (13.46%) CI/CD
8 6 (11.54%) High Availability
8 6 (11.54%) ITIL
8 6 (11.54%) Software Engineering
9 5 (9.62%) Risk Management
9 5 (9.62%) Roadmaps
9 5 (9.62%) Service Management
10 4 (7.69%) Collaborative Culture
10 4 (7.69%) Configuration Management
10 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Management
10 4 (7.69%) SOA
10 4 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (32.69%) PowerShell
1 17 (32.69%) Python
2 7 (13.46%) Bash
3 6 (11.54%) SQL
4 5 (9.62%) Java
5 4 (7.69%) Bicep
6 3 (5.77%) C
7 2 (3.85%) Go
8 1 (1.92%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (32.69%) Security Cleared
2 9 (17.31%) SC Cleared
3 7 (13.46%) DV Cleared
4 5 (9.62%) Azure Certification
5 4 (7.69%) Degree
5 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (5.77%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.85%) CCNP
7 2 (3.85%) DBS Check
7 2 (3.85%) MCSA
7 2 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.92%) CCNA
8 1 (1.92%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.69%) JSP 440
1 4 (7.69%) NIST
1 4 (7.69%) NIST 800
2 2 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 11 (21.15%) Docker
2 8 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (13.46%) Active Directory
4 4 (7.69%) Hyper-V
5 3 (5.77%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (5.77%) vSphere
6 1 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.92%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 11 (21.15%) Terraform
3 7 (13.46%) Ansible
4 6 (11.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (5.77%) Progress Chef
5 3 (5.77%) SCCM
5 3 (5.77%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 2 (3.85%) SmoothWall
7 1 (1.92%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.92%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 13 (25.00%) VMware
3 6 (11.54%) Cisco
4 3 (5.77%) Google
4 3 (5.77%) IBM
4 3 (5.77%) Oracle
4 3 (5.77%) SAP
5 2 (3.85%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.85%) EMC
5 2 (3.85%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.92%) 3PAR
6 1 (1.92%) Aruba
6 1 (1.92%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.92%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (1.92%) Juniper
6 1 (1.92%) NVIDIA
6 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.92%) Splunk
6 1 (1.92%) Veeam
6 1 (1.92%) Zscaler