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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 109 38
Rank change year-on-year +61 -71 -14
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 227 48 457
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.96% 1.74% 4.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.27% 1.92% 5.89%
Number of salaries quoted 147 38 347
10th Percentile £38,900 £46,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,625 £46,911 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,097 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +12.19% -
75th Percentile £65,625 £79,063 £58,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,500 £65,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.56% +19.00% -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 5,318 2,500 7,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 69.40% 90.81% 80.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,521 1,520 5,788
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £33,688 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,952
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +3.04% -6.51%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,525 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 4 June 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 4 June 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 +34 92 £55,000 -31.25% 27
Bristol +21 60 £65,000 +8.33% 11
Wiltshire +14 33 £52,500 +1.74% 18
Devon -10 23 £50,000 -3.34% 7
Dorset -4 8 £55,000 -34.33% 12
Somerset -20 7 £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 11 (4.85%) Confluence
2 10 (4.41%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.32%) IIS
4 3 (1.32%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.88%) Apache
6 1 (0.44%) Drupal
6 1 (0.44%) nginx
6 1 (0.44%) Site Server
6 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (3.96%) AutoCAD
2 5 (2.20%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 44 (19.38%) Azure
2 34 (14.98%) AWS
3 26 (11.45%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (5.73%) Entra ID
5 9 (3.96%) GCP
5 9 (3.96%) OpenShift
6 6 (2.64%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.64%) IaaS
6 6 (2.64%) Serverless
7 5 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.20%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.20%) GitHub
7 5 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (2.20%) PaaS
8 4 (1.76%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (1.76%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 30 (13.22%) Firewall
2 25 (11.01%) WAN
3 23 (10.13%) DNS
4 22 (9.69%) LAN
5 20 (8.81%) DHCP
6 13 (5.73%) VPN
7 11 (4.85%) TCP/IP
8 9 (3.96%) Network Security
8 9 (3.96%) VLAN
9 8 (3.52%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (3.08%) Unified Communications
10 7 (3.08%) WebEx
11 6 (2.64%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (2.64%) Cisco Firepower
12 4 (1.76%) IPv4
12 4 (1.76%) NAS
12 4 (1.76%) SAN
12 4 (1.76%) Software-Defined Networking
13 3 (1.32%) LTE
13 3 (1.32%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.64%) InfluxDB
2 3 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.32%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.88%) MySQL
3 2 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.44%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.44%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (0.44%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.44%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (11.45%) GitLab
2 19 (8.37%) Git
3 18 (7.93%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.41%) JIRA
5 8 (3.52%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.20%) Robot Framework
6 5 (2.20%) TestRail
7 4 (1.76%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.76%) Selenium
8 3 (1.32%) Subversion
9 1 (0.44%) Gatling
9 1 (0.44%) JMeter
9 1 (0.44%) Vagrant
General
1 30 (13.22%) Social Skills
2 24 (10.57%) Finance
3 17 (7.49%) Aerospace
4 13 (5.73%) Retail
5 10 (4.41%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.96%) Telecoms
7 8 (3.52%) Marketing
8 6 (2.64%) Banking
8 6 (2.64%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.20%) Electronics
10 4 (1.76%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.76%) Legal
11 3 (1.32%) Automotive
12 1 (0.44%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 174 (76.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 49 (21.59%) Senior
3 41 (18.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 26 (11.45%) IT Engineer
5 22 (9.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (8.37%) Cloud Engineer
7 18 (7.93%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (5.73%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (5.29%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (5.29%) Infrastructure Support
10 11 (4.85%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.96%) Analyst
11 9 (3.96%) Security Engineer
12 8 (3.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 8 (3.52%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.52%) Senior Security Engineer
12 8 (3.52%) Support Engineer
13 7 (3.08%) Collaboration Engineer
13 7 (3.08%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 7 (3.08%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.52%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (3.08%) XMPP
3 5 (2.20%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (2.20%) Keycloak
4 4 (1.76%) boto
4 4 (1.76%) Playwright
4 4 (1.76%) pytest
5 3 (1.32%) OAuth
5 3 (1.32%) OAuth2
5 3 (1.32%) OpenID
5 3 (1.32%) SAML
6 2 (0.88%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.44%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.44%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.44%) Jinja
7 1 (0.44%) Memcached
7 1 (0.44%) NETCONF
7 1 (0.44%) React
7 1 (0.44%) Vue
7 1 (0.44%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.17%) Driving Licence
1 14 (6.17%) Hybrid Cloud
2 13 (5.73%) Replication
3 9 (3.96%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.52%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.52%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.08%) FlexPod
5 7 (3.08%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (2.20%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.20%) YubiKey
7 4 (1.76%) CCTV
7 4 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.32%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.88%) BYOD
9 2 (0.88%) Cyberattack
9 2 (0.88%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.44%) Clustering
10 1 (0.44%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 62 (27.31%) Linux
2 53 (23.35%) Windows
3 34 (14.98%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.64%) CentOS
5 3 (1.32%) Unix
6 2 (0.88%) VMS
6 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.44%) Android
7 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (19.38%) Infrastructure as Code
2 40 (17.62%) DevOps
3 31 (13.66%) CI/CD
4 28 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (10.57%) Agile
5 24 (10.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 23 (10.13%) Infrastructure Automation
7 22 (9.69%) Containerisation
8 20 (8.81%) Cybersecurity
9 18 (7.93%) Collaborative Culture
10 15 (6.61%) Collaborative Working
11 14 (6.17%) Disaster Recovery
12 12 (5.29%) Mentoring
12 12 (5.29%) Test Automation
13 11 (4.85%) High Availability
13 11 (4.85%) ITIL
14 10 (4.41%) Platform Engineering
14 10 (4.41%) Project Delivery
15 9 (3.96%) Data Management
15 9 (3.96%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 35 (15.42%) Python
2 26 (11.45%) Bash
3 25 (11.01%) PowerShell
4 8 (3.52%) Java
5 5 (2.20%) SQL
6 4 (1.76%) Go
6 4 (1.76%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.88%) Bicep
7 2 (0.88%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 68 (29.96%) Security Cleared
2 39 (17.18%) DV Cleared
3 25 (11.01%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (3.96%) Degree
6 8 (3.52%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.64%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.64%) CCNA
8 5 (2.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (2.20%) RHCE
9 4 (1.76%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.76%) Chartered Engineer
9 4 (1.76%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.76%) OSCP
9 4 (1.76%) Postgraduate
9 4 (1.76%) RHCSA
10 3 (1.32%) CCNP
11 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.88%) MCSE
11 2 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (6.61%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (3.08%) GDPR
4 5 (2.20%) NIST
5 4 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (1.76%) QA
6 3 (1.32%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.88%) NCSC
7 2 (0.88%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (15.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (14.54%) Active Directory
3 24 (10.57%) Docker
4 22 (9.69%) Hyper-V
5 12 (5.29%) vSphere
6 6 (2.64%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (2.64%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.64%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (2.20%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.76%) Squid
8 4 (1.76%) VMware NSX
9 3 (1.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.44%) Firmware
10 1 (0.44%) KVM
10 1 (0.44%) QEMU
10 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.44%) Xen
Systems Management
1 42 (18.50%) Ansible
2 35 (15.42%) Kubernetes
3 34 (14.98%) Terraform
4 16 (7.05%) Grafana
5 14 (6.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (3.52%) vCenter Server
7 7 (3.08%) Cisco CUCM
7 7 (3.08%) Puppet
8 6 (2.64%) Packer
9 5 (2.20%) VxRail
10 4 (1.76%) Argo
10 4 (1.76%) FortiGate
10 4 (1.76%) Kibana
10 4 (1.76%) logstash
10 4 (1.76%) Prometheus
10 4 (1.76%) Rancher
10 4 (1.76%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.32%) NetBackup
11 3 (1.32%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.32%) yum
Vendors
1 59 (25.99%) Microsoft
2 39 (17.18%) VMware
3 19 (8.37%) Cisco
3 19 (8.37%) Splunk
4 14 (6.17%) Red Hat
5 11 (4.85%) Fortinet
6 8 (3.52%) Palo Alto
7 7 (3.08%) NetApp
7 7 (3.08%) Veeam
8 6 (2.64%) Dell
8 6 (2.64%) Oracle
9 5 (2.20%) BeyondTrust
9 5 (2.20%) HP
9 5 (2.20%) Juniper
9 5 (2.20%) Tenable
10 4 (1.76%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.32%) Qualys
12 2 (0.88%) Aruba
12 2 (0.88%) Google
12 2 (0.88%) SAP