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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 96 48
Rank change year-on-year +30 -48 -6
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 148 76 342
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.32% 2.59% 4.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.28% 2.87% 5.23%
Number of salaries quoted 104 47 266
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,626 £35,625
25th Percentile £48,463 £51,425 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £71,991 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.60% +43.98% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £88,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £74,625 £97,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,320 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.58% +10.64% -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 4,515 2,644 6,533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 70.86% 90.21% 86.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,069 1,474 5,104
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £28,775
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 14 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 14 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 +43 49 £55,000 -38.89% 19
Bristol -1 36 £60,000 -16.66% 11
Wiltshire +17 32 £55,000 +6.59% 18
Devon -1 13 £63,950 +25.83%
Somerset -21 11 £55,000 -2.22% 6
Dorset -9 6 £60,000 -28.36% 1
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 (3.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.70%) Confluence
3 2 (1.35%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.68%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) IIS
4 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (2.70%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.68%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 33 (22.30%) Azure
2 16 (10.81%) AWS
3 13 (8.78%) Entra ID
4 12 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (6.08%) GitHub
5 9 (6.08%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (4.05%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.03%) GCP
7 3 (2.03%) OCI
7 3 (2.03%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.35%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.68%) Copilot Studio
9 1 (0.68%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.68%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.68%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.68%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (12.84%) Firewall
2 18 (12.16%) DNS
3 17 (11.49%) DHCP
4 12 (8.11%) VPN
5 11 (7.43%) WAN
6 9 (6.08%) LAN
6 9 (6.08%) Network Security
7 7 (4.73%) TCP/IP
7 7 (4.73%) VLAN
8 6 (4.05%) SAN
9 4 (2.70%) Unified Communications
9 4 (2.70%) WebEx
9 4 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (2.03%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (2.03%) Cisco Firepower
10 3 (2.03%) LTE
10 3 (2.03%) NAS
11 1 (0.68%) 4G
11 1 (0.68%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (0.68%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.70%) InfluxDB
2 2 (1.35%) Power BI
3 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (8.78%) Git
2 12 (8.11%) GitLab
3 7 (4.73%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.38%) JIRA
4 5 (3.38%) Subversion
5 4 (2.70%) Robot Framework
5 4 (2.70%) TestRail
6 3 (2.03%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.35%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.35%) Selenium
General
1 30 (20.27%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.49%) Finance
3 11 (7.43%) Retail
4 10 (6.76%) Aerospace
5 8 (5.41%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.73%) Marketing
6 7 (4.73%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.38%) Electronics
8 5 (3.38%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.70%) Law
10 3 (2.03%) Banking
11 2 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Automotive
12 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Legal
12 1 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 107 (72.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 24 (16.22%) Senior
3 20 (13.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (11.49%) IT Engineer
4 17 (11.49%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (9.46%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 14 (9.46%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (7.43%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (6.08%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (5.41%) Security Engineer
8 8 (5.41%) Senior IT Engineer
9 7 (4.73%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
10 5 (3.38%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (3.38%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.38%) IT Manager
10 5 (3.38%) Senior Security Engineer
11 4 (2.70%) Collaboration Engineer
11 4 (2.70%) Design Engineer
11 4 (2.70%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
11 4 (2.70%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.08%) YAML
2 5 (3.38%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (2.70%) XMPP
4 3 (2.03%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (2.03%) Keycloak
4 3 (2.03%) OAuth
4 3 (2.03%) OAuth2
4 3 (2.03%) OpenID
4 3 (2.03%) SAML
5 2 (1.35%) Playwright
5 2 (1.35%) pytest
5 2 (1.35%) REST
5 2 (1.35%) SOAP
6 1 (0.68%) Jinja
6 1 (0.68%) NETCONF
6 1 (0.68%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.78%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.41%) Driving Licence
3 6 (4.05%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.05%) Replication
4 5 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.38%) YubiKey
5 4 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.70%) FlexPod
5 4 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.70%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.70%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (2.03%) CCTV
6 3 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.35%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.35%) PMI
7 2 (1.35%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.68%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 37 (25.00%) Windows
2 31 (20.95%) Linux
3 27 (18.24%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.38%) CentOS
5 2 (1.35%) Unix
6 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.68%) Solaris
6 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (22.30%) Infrastructure as Code
2 30 (20.27%) DevOps
3 28 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (12.16%) Agile
4 18 (12.16%) CI/CD
4 18 (12.16%) Containerisation
5 15 (10.14%) Collaborative Working
5 15 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (10.14%) Platform Engineering
6 12 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
6 12 (8.11%) ITIL
7 11 (7.43%) Collaborative Culture
8 10 (6.76%) Infrastructure Automation
8 10 (6.76%) ITSM
9 9 (6.08%) Mentoring
10 8 (5.41%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (5.41%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (5.41%) Server Management
11 7 (4.73%) Scrum
11 7 (4.73%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 26 (17.57%) Python
2 23 (15.54%) Bash
2 23 (15.54%) PowerShell
3 10 (6.76%) Bicep
4 5 (3.38%) Go
4 5 (3.38%) Java
5 2 (1.35%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.35%) SQL
6 1 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 61 (41.22%) Security Cleared
2 38 (25.68%) DV Cleared
3 22 (14.86%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.76%) Degree
5 5 (3.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.35%) CBAP
8 2 (1.35%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.68%) CCNA
9 1 (0.68%) CCNP
9 1 (0.68%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.68%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.68%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (6.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (4.05%) QA
4 5 (3.38%) NIST
4 5 (3.38%) SLA
5 4 (2.70%) GDPR
6 3 (2.03%) Accessibility
6 3 (2.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.35%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.68%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (18.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (16.22%) Active Directory
3 20 (13.51%) Docker
4 17 (11.49%) Hyper-V
5 11 (7.43%) vSphere
6 5 (3.38%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (2.03%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.03%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.68%) Ceph
8 1 (0.68%) Lustre
8 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.68%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (18.92%) Kubernetes
2 23 (15.54%) Ansible
3 16 (10.81%) Terraform
4 10 (6.76%) Grafana
5 9 (6.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (4.73%) vCenter Server
7 6 (4.05%) Argo
8 5 (3.38%) Rancher
8 5 (3.38%) yum
9 4 (2.70%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (2.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (2.03%) NetBackup
10 3 (2.03%) SCCM
10 3 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (2.03%) VxRail
11 2 (1.35%) Kibana
11 2 (1.35%) logstash
11 2 (1.35%) Prometheus
11 2 (1.35%) Puppet
11 2 (1.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 43 (29.05%) Microsoft
2 28 (18.92%) VMware
3 14 (9.46%) Cisco
4 11 (7.43%) Splunk
5 8 (5.41%) Fortinet
6 5 (3.38%) Dell
6 5 (3.38%) Meraki
6 5 (3.38%) Palo Alto
6 5 (3.38%) Red Hat
6 5 (3.38%) Tenable
7 4 (2.70%) HP
7 4 (2.70%) NetApp
7 4 (2.70%) SAP
7 4 (2.70%) Thales
7 4 (2.70%) Veeam
8 3 (2.03%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (2.03%) Juniper
8 3 (2.03%) Oracle
8 3 (2.03%) Qualys
8 3 (2.03%) SolarWinds