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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 92 37
Rank change year-on-year +53 -55 +10
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 422 81 318
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 4.02% 2.26% 4.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.65% 2.74% 6.04%
Number of salaries quoted 285 72 212
10th Percentile £37,250 £31,300 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,313 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,542 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +13.08% +5.26%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £59,059
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £73,500
England median annual salary £59,200 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.33% +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 7,474 2,952 5,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.17% 82.30% 76.00%
Number of salaries quoted 5,074 1,839 3,056
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,811 £31,500 £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 £81,375
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%

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 October 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 October 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 +19 181 £65,000 -18.75% 65
Devon +19 74 £50,000 +8.11% 15
Bristol +2 69 £65,000 +6.12% 21
Wiltshire +19 46 £50,000 -14.89% 28
Dorset +12 26 £46,000 +17.95% 15
Somerset -24 18 £53,500 +12.63% 14
Cornwall - 7 £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 18 (4.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (4.03%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.66%) Confluence
4 5 (1.18%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.95%) Apache
6 1 (0.24%) IIS
6 1 (0.24%) Site Server
Applications
1 13 (3.08%) AutoCAD
1 13 (3.08%) Civil 3D
Cloud Services
1 76 (18.01%) Azure
2 70 (16.59%) AWS
3 44 (10.43%) Microsoft 365
4 35 (8.29%) Entra ID
5 21 (4.98%) GCP
6 15 (3.55%) OpenShift
7 12 (2.84%) Serverless
8 8 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (1.90%) GitHub
8 8 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (1.66%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (1.42%) IaaS
11 5 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (1.18%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.95%) AWS CloudTrail
12 4 (0.95%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 31 (7.35%) DNS
2 29 (6.87%) Firewall
3 27 (6.40%) DHCP
4 16 (3.79%) VLAN
5 15 (3.55%) TCP/IP
6 12 (2.84%) WAN
7 11 (2.61%) VoIP
8 10 (2.37%) LAN
9 9 (2.13%) Network Security
10 7 (1.66%) VPN
10 7 (1.66%) Wireless
11 5 (1.18%) Internet
11 5 (1.18%) Software-Defined Networking
12 4 (0.95%) IPv4
12 4 (0.95%) SAN
12 4 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (0.71%) NAS
14 2 (0.47%) SD-WAN
15 1 (0.24%) Cisco ASA
15 1 (0.24%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.84%) MySQL
2 9 (2.13%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.66%) InfluxDB
4 3 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.71%) DynamoDB
4 3 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.71%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.71%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (7.35%) GitLab
2 30 (7.11%) Git
3 22 (5.21%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.37%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.66%) Robot Framework
5 7 (1.66%) TestRail
6 6 (1.42%) JIRA
7 5 (1.18%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.18%) Selenium
8 4 (0.95%) Subversion
9 1 (0.24%) Claude Code
General
1 48 (11.37%) Finance
2 44 (10.43%) Social Skills
3 18 (4.27%) Manufacturing
4 11 (2.61%) Aerospace
4 11 (2.61%) Public Sector
4 11 (2.61%) Retail
5 10 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (1.66%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (0.95%) Legal
8 2 (0.47%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.24%) Banking
9 1 (0.24%) Marketing
9 1 (0.24%) Military
9 1 (0.24%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 339 (80.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 111 (26.30%) Senior
3 102 (24.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 39 (9.24%) Infrastructure Support
5 37 (8.77%) Support Engineer
6 36 (8.53%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 35 (8.29%) Cloud Engineer
8 34 (8.06%) IT Engineer
9 31 (7.35%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 29 (6.87%) DevOps Engineer
10 29 (6.87%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 23 (5.45%) Azure Engineer
12 22 (5.21%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 18 (4.27%) Electrical Engineer
14 16 (3.79%) IT Support
14 16 (3.79%) IT Support Engineer
15 15 (3.55%) Lead
16 13 (3.08%) Test Engineer
17 12 (2.84%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
18 11 (2.61%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (13.51%) Terraform
2 13 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (1.18%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (1.18%) Playwright
3 5 (1.18%) pytest
4 4 (0.95%) boto
5 3 (0.71%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (0.71%) Keycloak
5 3 (0.71%) LDAP
5 3 (0.71%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (0.71%) RESTful
5 3 (0.71%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.47%) YAML
7 1 (0.24%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.24%) CSS
7 1 (0.24%) Django
7 1 (0.24%) OAuth
7 1 (0.24%) SAML
7 1 (0.24%) Sass
7 1 (0.24%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (4.50%) Cloud Native
2 9 (2.13%) Driving Licence
3 8 (1.90%) Data Centre
4 7 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (1.42%) PKI
5 6 (1.42%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.42%) Replication
6 4 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (0.95%) Public Cloud
7 3 (0.71%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.47%) CCTV
8 2 (0.47%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.24%) BYOD
9 1 (0.24%) Clustering
9 1 (0.24%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.24%) FlexPod
9 1 (0.24%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.24%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.24%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 83 (19.67%) Linux
2 69 (16.35%) Windows
3 49 (11.61%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.37%) CentOS
5 7 (1.66%) Unix
6 4 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.47%) Android
7 2 (0.47%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.47%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.47%) Rocky
8 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.24%) VMS
8 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (16.11%) DevOps
1 68 (16.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 61 (14.45%) CI/CD
3 57 (13.51%) Containerisation
4 45 (10.66%) Continuous Improvement
5 42 (9.95%) Agile
6 37 (8.77%) Cybersecurity
7 36 (8.53%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (6.87%) Platform Engineering
9 27 (6.40%) Disaster Recovery
9 27 (6.40%) Infrastructure Automation
10 23 (5.45%) Project Delivery
11 22 (5.21%) Collaborative Culture
12 19 (4.50%) Mentoring
13 18 (4.27%) ITIL
14 17 (4.03%) Collaborative Working
14 17 (4.03%) High Availability
14 17 (4.03%) Technical Leadership
15 16 (3.79%) Observability
15 16 (3.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 50 (11.85%) Python
2 42 (9.95%) Bash
3 26 (6.16%) PowerShell
4 16 (3.79%) Java
5 12 (2.84%) SQL
6 11 (2.61%) Go
7 7 (1.66%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.18%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.95%) Rust
10 3 (0.71%) Bicep
10 3 (0.71%) C#
10 3 (0.71%) C++
Qualifications
1 99 (23.46%) Security Cleared
2 51 (12.09%) DV Cleared
3 30 (7.11%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.84%) Degree
5 8 (1.90%) AWS Certification
5 8 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (1.66%) Chartered Engineer
6 7 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (0.95%) CCNA
7 4 (0.95%) ISTQB
7 4 (0.95%) OSCP
7 4 (0.95%) RHCE
7 4 (0.95%) RHCSA
8 3 (0.71%) CCNP
8 3 (0.71%) MCSE
8 3 (0.71%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.47%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.55%) Cyber Essentials
2 12 (2.84%) QA
3 5 (1.18%) GDPR
3 5 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.24%) SLA
4 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 48 (11.37%) Active Directory
2 37 (8.77%) Docker
3 31 (7.35%) Hyper-V
3 31 (7.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.13%) vSphere
5 7 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.66%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.95%) Squid
8 3 (0.71%) KVM
8 3 (0.71%) NDS
9 2 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.24%) GPFS
10 1 (0.24%) Lustre
10 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.24%) QEMU
10 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 59 (13.98%) Kubernetes
2 48 (11.37%) Ansible
3 22 (5.21%) Grafana
4 19 (4.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (3.55%) Puppet
6 14 (3.32%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.13%) vCenter Server
8 8 (1.90%) Argo
9 7 (1.66%) Rancher
10 6 (1.42%) FortiGate
11 5 (1.18%) Kibana
11 5 (1.18%) logstash
11 5 (1.18%) Packer
11 5 (1.18%) ZABBIX
12 4 (0.95%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.95%) Istio
12 4 (0.95%) linkerd
12 4 (0.95%) Mesos
12 4 (0.95%) VxRail
12 4 (0.95%) yum
Vendors
1 89 (21.09%) Microsoft
2 38 (9.00%) VMware
3 17 (4.03%) Veeam
4 15 (3.55%) Red Hat
5 12 (2.84%) Splunk
6 9 (2.13%) Cisco
7 8 (1.90%) Oracle
8 6 (1.42%) Citrix
9 5 (1.18%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.18%) Google
10 4 (0.95%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.71%) BeyondTrust
11 3 (0.71%) CyberArk
11 3 (0.71%) ForgeRock
11 3 (0.71%) HP
11 3 (0.71%) Juniper
11 3 (0.71%) NetIQ
11 3 (0.71%) Okta
11 3 (0.71%) OpenText
12 2 (0.47%) arcserve