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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 91 37
Rank change year-on-year +54 -54 -6
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 419 76 350
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 4.10% 2.18% 4.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.78% 2.67% 6.18%
Number of salaries quoted 290 67 238
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,500 £32,625
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,194 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.84% +14.39% +5.26%
75th Percentile £70,625 £75,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 7,251 2,845 5,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 70.91% 81.71% 76.01%
Number of salaries quoted 4,937 1,799 3,375
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £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 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,560
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.45% -7.90%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 +24 177 £65,000 -18.75% 80
Devon +20 74 £50,000 +8.11% 5
Bristol +4 67 £65,000 +8.33% 31
Wiltshire +21 47 £50,000 -16.67% 16
Dorset +15 26 £63,750 +63.46% 11
Somerset -20 20 £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 20 (4.77%) Microsoft Exchange
1 20 (4.77%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.67%) Confluence
3 4 (0.95%) Apache
3 4 (0.95%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.48%) IIS
5 1 (0.24%) Site Server
Applications
1 13 (3.10%) AutoCAD
1 13 (3.10%) Civil 3D
Cloud Services
1 78 (18.62%) Azure
2 72 (17.18%) AWS
3 49 (11.69%) Microsoft 365
4 35 (8.35%) Entra ID
5 19 (4.53%) GCP
6 15 (3.58%) OpenShift
7 13 (3.10%) Serverless
8 9 (2.15%) GitHub
8 9 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.91%) IaaS
10 7 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (1.19%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.19%) PaaS
12 4 (0.95%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (0.95%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 34 (8.11%) Firewall
2 32 (7.64%) DNS
3 30 (7.16%) DHCP
4 18 (4.30%) VLAN
5 17 (4.06%) TCP/IP
5 17 (4.06%) WAN
6 14 (3.34%) LAN
7 11 (2.63%) VoIP
8 10 (2.39%) Network Security
9 9 (2.15%) VPN
10 7 (1.67%) Wireless
11 6 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (1.19%) Software-Defined Networking
13 4 (0.95%) IPv4
13 4 (0.95%) SAN
14 3 (0.72%) Internet
14 3 (0.72%) NAS
14 3 (0.72%) SD-WAN
15 2 (0.48%) Cisco Firepower
15 2 (0.48%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.63%) MySQL
2 8 (1.91%) InfluxDB
2 8 (1.91%) SQL Server
3 4 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.72%) DynamoDB
4 3 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.72%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.72%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (7.64%) GitLab
2 27 (6.44%) Git
3 23 (5.49%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.15%) Bitbucket
5 8 (1.91%) Robot Framework
5 8 (1.91%) TestRail
6 6 (1.43%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.43%) JIRA
6 6 (1.43%) Selenium
7 3 (0.72%) Subversion
8 1 (0.24%) Claude Code
General
1 45 (10.74%) Social Skills
2 43 (10.26%) Finance
3 17 (4.06%) Manufacturing
4 13 (3.10%) Aerospace
5 12 (2.86%) Public Sector
5 12 (2.86%) Retail
6 11 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (0.95%) Legal
9 3 (0.72%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.48%) Banking
10 2 (0.48%) Marketing
11 1 (0.24%) Advertising
11 1 (0.24%) Automotive
11 1 (0.24%) Electronics
11 1 (0.24%) Military
11 1 (0.24%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 334 (79.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 105 (25.06%) Senior
3 95 (22.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 42 (10.02%) Infrastructure Support
5 39 (9.31%) Support Engineer
6 36 (8.59%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 35 (8.35%) IT Engineer
8 34 (8.11%) Cloud Engineer
9 31 (7.40%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 28 (6.68%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 25 (5.97%) DevOps Engineer
12 22 (5.25%) Azure Engineer
12 22 (5.25%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 17 (4.06%) IT Support
13 17 (4.06%) IT Support Engineer
14 16 (3.82%) Electrical Engineer
15 15 (3.58%) Lead
16 14 (3.34%) Test Engineer
17 12 (2.86%) Linux Engineer
17 12 (2.86%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (13.60%) Terraform
2 13 (3.10%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (1.43%) Playwright
3 6 (1.43%) pytest
4 5 (1.19%) Apache NiFi
5 4 (0.95%) boto
6 3 (0.72%) Keycloak
6 3 (0.72%) LDAP
6 3 (0.72%) RESTful
6 3 (0.72%) SailPoint
7 2 (0.48%) 802.1X
7 2 (0.48%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (0.48%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (0.48%) XMPP
7 2 (0.48%) YAML
8 1 (0.24%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.24%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.24%) React
8 1 (0.24%) Sass
8 1 (0.24%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (4.53%) Cloud Native
2 11 (2.63%) Driving Licence
3 9 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (1.91%) Data Centre
5 7 (1.67%) Product Ownership
5 7 (1.67%) Replication
6 5 (1.19%) PKI
7 4 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (0.95%) Onboarding
7 4 (0.95%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.72%) CCTV
9 2 (0.48%) BYOD
9 2 (0.48%) Cyberattack
9 2 (0.48%) FlexPod
9 2 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.48%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.48%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.48%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.24%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.24%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 84 (20.05%) Linux
2 73 (17.42%) Windows
3 51 (12.17%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.63%) CentOS
5 6 (1.43%) Unix
6 4 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.72%) VMS
8 2 (0.48%) Android
8 2 (0.48%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.48%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.48%) Rocky
8 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (15.75%) Infrastructure as Code
2 65 (15.51%) DevOps
3 59 (14.08%) CI/CD
4 54 (12.89%) Containerisation
5 43 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 42 (10.02%) Agile
7 40 (9.55%) Cybersecurity
8 35 (8.35%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (6.92%) Infrastructure Automation
10 27 (6.44%) Disaster Recovery
11 26 (6.21%) Project Delivery
12 25 (5.97%) Platform Engineering
13 23 (5.49%) Collaborative Culture
14 18 (4.30%) Collaborative Working
14 18 (4.30%) ITIL
15 17 (4.06%) High Availability
15 17 (4.06%) Mentoring
15 17 (4.06%) Test Automation
16 16 (3.82%) Observability
16 16 (3.82%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 46 (10.98%) Python
2 39 (9.31%) Bash
3 29 (6.92%) PowerShell
4 13 (3.10%) Java
4 13 (3.10%) SQL
5 10 (2.39%) Go
6 6 (1.43%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.95%) Rust
7 4 (0.95%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.72%) Bicep
9 2 (0.48%) C#
9 2 (0.48%) C++
Qualifications
1 99 (23.63%) Security Cleared
2 49 (11.69%) DV Cleared
3 33 (7.88%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.10%) Degree
5 10 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.91%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 8 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (1.67%) Chartered Engineer
8 5 (1.19%) CCNA
9 4 (0.95%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.95%) OSCP
9 4 (0.95%) RHCE
9 4 (0.95%) RHCSA
10 3 (0.72%) CCNP
10 3 (0.72%) MCSE
10 3 (0.72%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.48%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.48%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.06%) Cyber Essentials
2 11 (2.63%) QA
3 8 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.67%) GDPR
5 2 (0.48%) SLA
5 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 50 (11.93%) Active Directory
2 37 (8.83%) Docker
3 33 (7.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (7.64%) Hyper-V
5 10 (2.39%) vSphere
6 8 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.43%) VMware NSX
8 5 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.95%) Squid
10 3 (0.72%) KVM
10 3 (0.72%) NDS
11 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.24%) Firmware
12 1 (0.24%) GPFS
12 1 (0.24%) Lustre
12 1 (0.24%) QEMU
12 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 57 (13.60%) Kubernetes
2 49 (11.69%) Ansible
3 23 (5.49%) Grafana
4 20 (4.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (3.10%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.86%) Puppet
7 9 (2.15%) vCenter Server
8 7 (1.67%) Argo
9 6 (1.43%) FortiGate
9 6 (1.43%) Kibana
9 6 (1.43%) logstash
9 6 (1.43%) Rancher
10 5 (1.19%) Packer
10 5 (1.19%) ZABBIX
11 4 (0.95%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.95%) Istio
11 4 (0.95%) linkerd
11 4 (0.95%) Mesos
11 4 (0.95%) VxRail
12 3 (0.72%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 89 (21.24%) Microsoft
2 40 (9.55%) VMware
3 18 (4.30%) Veeam
4 17 (4.06%) Red Hat
5 14 (3.34%) Splunk
6 12 (2.86%) Cisco
7 8 (1.91%) Oracle
8 6 (1.43%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.19%) Fortinet
10 4 (0.95%) Citrix
10 4 (0.95%) HP
11 3 (0.72%) Aruba
11 3 (0.72%) BeyondTrust
11 3 (0.72%) CyberArk
11 3 (0.72%) ForgeRock
11 3 (0.72%) Google
11 3 (0.72%) Juniper
11 3 (0.72%) NetIQ
11 3 (0.72%) OpenText
11 3 (0.72%) Palo Alto