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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 90 55
Rank change year-on-year +21 -35 +5
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 138 94 308
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.27% 2.90% 4.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.20% 3.24% 5.07%
Number of salaries quoted 97 46 242
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,158 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,313 £38,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £71,991 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.60% +43.98% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £87,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,250 £96,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.22% +12.50% -6.54%

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 4,308 2,897 6,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 70.86% 89.28% 87.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,935 1,457 4,782
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,750 £29,290
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -3.69%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 2 March 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 2 March 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 40 £55,000 -38.89% 21
Bristol +9 34 £61,250 -14.92% 6
Wiltshire +9 31 £55,000 - 22
Devon -8 13 £63,950 +87.42% 2
Somerset -26 13 £45,000 -20.88% 14
Dorset -14 6 £60,000 -28.36% 3
Cornwall - 1 - - 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 5 (3.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.90%) Confluence
3 2 (1.45%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.72%) Apache
4 1 (0.72%) IIS
4 1 (0.72%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (2.90%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.72%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 34 (24.64%) Azure
2 14 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (9.42%) AWS
3 13 (9.42%) Entra ID
4 11 (7.97%) GitHub
4 11 (7.97%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (7.97%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (3.62%) OpenShift
6 4 (2.90%) OCI
7 3 (2.17%) GCP
7 3 (2.17%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.45%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.72%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.72%) Copilot Studio
9 1 (0.72%) IaaS
9 1 (0.72%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.72%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (12.32%) DNS
1 17 (12.32%) Firewall
2 16 (11.59%) DHCP
3 12 (8.70%) VPN
4 9 (6.52%) WAN
5 8 (5.80%) Network Security
6 7 (5.07%) LAN
7 6 (4.35%) SAN
7 6 (4.35%) TCP/IP
7 6 (4.35%) VLAN
8 3 (2.17%) LTE
8 3 (2.17%) NAS
8 3 (2.17%) Unified Communications
8 3 (2.17%) WebEx
8 3 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (1.45%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (1.45%) Cisco Firepower
10 1 (0.72%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.72%) NGFW
10 1 (0.72%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.17%) InfluxDB
2 2 (1.45%) Power BI
3 1 (0.72%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (7.97%) Git
2 10 (7.25%) GitLab
3 5 (3.62%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.62%) JIRA
3 5 (3.62%) Subversion
4 3 (2.17%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.17%) Robot Framework
4 3 (2.17%) TestRail
5 1 (0.72%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.72%) Selenium
General
1 31 (22.46%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.32%) Finance
3 10 (7.25%) Retail
4 9 (6.52%) Aerospace
5 7 (5.07%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.35%) Marketing
6 6 (4.35%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.90%) Electronics
8 4 (2.90%) Law
8 4 (2.90%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.45%) Banking
9 2 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.72%) Legal
10 1 (0.72%) Military
Job Titles
1 99 (71.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 20 (14.49%) Senior
3 17 (12.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (11.59%) IT Engineer
4 16 (11.59%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (10.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 14 (10.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (7.97%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (5.80%) Senior IT Engineer
9 7 (5.07%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
9 7 (5.07%) Security Engineer
10 6 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (3.62%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (3.62%) IT Manager
12 4 (2.90%) Design Engineer
12 4 (2.90%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
12 4 (2.90%) Principal Engineer
12 4 (2.90%) Principal Security Engineer
12 4 (2.90%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.97%) YAML
2 4 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (2.17%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (2.17%) Keycloak
3 3 (2.17%) OAuth
3 3 (2.17%) OAuth2
3 3 (2.17%) OpenID
3 3 (2.17%) SAML
3 3 (2.17%) XMPP
4 2 (1.45%) REST
4 2 (1.45%) SOAP
5 1 (0.72%) Jinja
5 1 (0.72%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.72%) Playwright
5 1 (0.72%) pytest
5 1 (0.72%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.14%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.07%) Driving Licence
3 6 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.62%) Replication
4 5 (3.62%) YubiKey
5 4 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.17%) FlexPod
6 3 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.17%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.45%) CCTV
7 2 (1.45%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.45%) PMI
7 2 (1.45%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.72%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 32 (23.19%) Windows
2 27 (19.57%) Linux
3 26 (18.84%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.90%) CentOS
5 2 (1.45%) Unix
6 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.72%) Solaris
6 1 (0.72%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (22.46%) Infrastructure as Code
2 29 (21.01%) DevOps
3 28 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (13.77%) Containerisation
5 17 (12.32%) Agile
5 17 (12.32%) CI/CD
6 16 (11.59%) Platform Engineering
7 15 (10.87%) Collaborative Working
7 15 (10.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (8.70%) ITIL
9 11 (7.97%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (7.25%) ITSM
11 9 (6.52%) Collaborative Culture
12 8 (5.80%) Disaster Recovery
12 8 (5.80%) Server Management
13 7 (5.07%) High Availability
13 7 (5.07%) Mentoring
13 7 (5.07%) Technical Leadership
13 7 (5.07%) Validation
13 7 (5.07%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (16.67%) Python
2 21 (15.22%) Bash
2 21 (15.22%) PowerShell
3 12 (8.70%) Bicep
4 5 (3.62%) Go
4 5 (3.62%) Java
5 2 (1.45%) SQL
6 1 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.72%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 57 (41.30%) Security Cleared
2 35 (25.36%) DV Cleared
3 19 (13.77%) SC Cleared
4 11 (7.97%) Degree
5 5 (3.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.45%) CBAP
7 2 (1.45%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.72%) CCNA
8 1 (0.72%) CCNP
8 1 (0.72%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.72%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (6.52%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (4.35%) QA
4 5 (3.62%) NIST
4 5 (3.62%) SLA
5 3 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (2.17%) GDPR
6 2 (1.45%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.72%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 23 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (14.49%) Docker
4 15 (10.87%) Hyper-V
5 10 (7.25%) vSphere
6 5 (3.62%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.45%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.72%) Ceph
9 1 (0.72%) Lustre
9 1 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.72%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (20.29%) Kubernetes
2 19 (13.77%) Ansible
3 13 (9.42%) Terraform
4 9 (6.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (5.80%) Grafana
6 6 (4.35%) Argo
6 6 (4.35%) vCenter Server
7 5 (3.62%) Rancher
7 5 (3.62%) yum
8 3 (2.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (2.17%) Cisco CUCM
8 3 (2.17%) SCCM
8 3 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (2.17%) VxRail
9 2 (1.45%) NetBackup
9 2 (1.45%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.45%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.45%) Puppet
9 2 (1.45%) WSUS
10 1 (0.72%) linkerd
Vendors
1 41 (29.71%) Microsoft
2 24 (17.39%) VMware
3 12 (8.70%) Cisco
4 9 (6.52%) Splunk
5 7 (5.07%) Fortinet
6 5 (3.62%) Meraki
6 5 (3.62%) Tenable
7 4 (2.90%) Dell
7 4 (2.90%) Oracle
7 4 (2.90%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.90%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.90%) SAP
7 4 (2.90%) Thales
8 3 (2.17%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (2.17%) HP
8 3 (2.17%) NetApp
8 3 (2.17%) Qualys
8 3 (2.17%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.17%) Veeam
9 2 (1.45%) ServiceNow