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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 90 39
Rank change year-on-year +53 -51 +8
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 436 84 292
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 4.15% 2.33% 4.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.82% 2.84% 5.73%
Number of salaries quoted 292 74 198
10th Percentile £38,750 £32,900 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,438 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £71,250 £69,688 £59,996
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 7,495 2,956 5,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.41% 82.09% 76.06%
Number of salaries quoted 5,090 1,844 2,932
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,063 £31,250 £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 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%

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 9 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 9 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 +22 190 £65,000 -18.75% 50
Devon +19 76 £50,000 +11.11% 13
Bristol 0 66 £65,000 +8.33% 22
Wiltshire +18 51 £50,000 -11.11% 25
Dorset +16 27 £46,000 +17.95% 12
Somerset -19 18 £53,500 +12.63% 9
Cornwall - 7 £60,000 - 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 17 (3.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (3.44%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.38%) Confluence
4 5 (1.15%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.92%) Apache
6 1 (0.23%) Site Server
Applications
1 13 (2.98%) AutoCAD
1 13 (2.98%) Civil 3D
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 83 (19.04%) Azure
2 72 (16.51%) AWS
3 48 (11.01%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (8.72%) Entra ID
5 21 (4.82%) GCP
6 16 (3.67%) OpenShift
7 11 (2.52%) Serverless
8 9 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (1.61%) GitHub
9 7 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.15%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (0.92%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (0.92%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (7.80%) DNS
2 31 (7.11%) Firewall
3 30 (6.88%) DHCP
4 15 (3.44%) VLAN
5 13 (2.98%) TCP/IP
6 11 (2.52%) VoIP
7 9 (2.06%) Network Security
7 9 (2.06%) WAN
8 8 (1.83%) LAN
8 8 (1.83%) VPN
8 8 (1.83%) Wireless
9 7 (1.61%) SAN
10 6 (1.38%) NAS
11 5 (1.15%) Software-Defined Networking
12 4 (0.92%) Internet
12 4 (0.92%) IPv4
13 2 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
14 1 (0.23%) BGP
14 1 (0.23%) MPLS
14 1 (0.23%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.75%) MySQL
2 9 (2.06%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.83%) InfluxDB
4 3 (0.69%) DynamoDB
4 3 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.69%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.69%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 33 (7.57%) GitLab
2 32 (7.34%) Git
3 23 (5.28%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.29%) Bitbucket
5 8 (1.83%) Robot Framework
5 8 (1.83%) TestRail
6 6 (1.38%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.38%) Selenium
7 5 (1.15%) JIRA
7 5 (1.15%) Subversion
8 1 (0.23%) Claude Code
General
1 51 (11.70%) Finance
2 48 (11.01%) Social Skills
3 21 (4.82%) Manufacturing
4 11 (2.52%) Aerospace
4 11 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (2.52%) Public Sector
4 11 (2.52%) Retail
5 9 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (0.92%) Legal
7 2 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (0.46%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.23%) Banking
8 1 (0.23%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.23%) Marketing
8 1 (0.23%) Military
Job Titles
1 351 (80.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 112 (25.69%) Senior
3 104 (23.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 37 (8.49%) Cloud Engineer
4 37 (8.49%) Infrastructure Support
5 36 (8.26%) Support Engineer
6 35 (8.03%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 33 (7.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 33 (7.57%) DevOps Engineer
7 33 (7.57%) IT Engineer
8 28 (6.42%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 27 (6.19%) Azure Engineer
10 26 (5.96%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 21 (4.82%) Electrical Engineer
12 17 (3.90%) IT Support
13 16 (3.67%) IT Support Engineer
14 14 (3.21%) Lead
14 14 (3.21%) Test Engineer
15 12 (2.75%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
16 11 (2.52%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (13.99%) Terraform
2 15 (3.44%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (1.38%) Playwright
3 6 (1.38%) pytest
4 5 (1.15%) Apache NiFi
5 4 (0.92%) boto
6 3 (0.69%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (0.69%) Keycloak
6 3 (0.69%) LDAP
6 3 (0.69%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (0.69%) RESTful
6 3 (0.69%) SailPoint
7 2 (0.46%) YAML
8 1 (0.23%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.23%) Django
8 1 (0.23%) Node.js
8 1 (0.23%) OAuth
8 1 (0.23%) OpenID
8 1 (0.23%) Sass
8 1 (0.23%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (4.36%) Cloud Native
2 11 (2.52%) Driving Licence
3 8 (1.83%) Data Centre
3 8 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (1.83%) Replication
4 7 (1.61%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.38%) PKI
6 4 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (0.69%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (0.69%) Onboarding
7 3 (0.69%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.46%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.23%) CCTV
9 1 (0.23%) FlexPod
9 1 (0.23%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.23%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.23%) PropTech
9 1 (0.23%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 85 (19.50%) Linux
2 73 (16.74%) Windows
3 52 (11.93%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.75%) CentOS
5 8 (1.83%) Unix
6 4 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.69%) Android
8 2 (0.46%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.46%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.46%) Rocky
9 1 (0.23%) VMS
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (16.74%) DevOps
1 73 (16.74%) Infrastructure as Code
2 65 (14.91%) CI/CD
3 58 (13.30%) Containerisation
4 46 (10.55%) Agile
4 46 (10.55%) Continuous Improvement
5 40 (9.17%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (8.03%) Cybersecurity
7 31 (7.11%) Platform Engineering
8 29 (6.65%) Disaster Recovery
9 27 (6.19%) Infrastructure Automation
10 26 (5.96%) Collaborative Culture
11 22 (5.05%) Project Delivery
12 21 (4.82%) ITIL
13 19 (4.36%) Migration
13 19 (4.36%) Service Management
14 18 (4.13%) AI
14 18 (4.13%) Technical Leadership
14 18 (4.13%) Test Automation
15 17 (3.90%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 54 (12.39%) Python
2 46 (10.55%) Bash
3 31 (7.11%) PowerShell
4 18 (4.13%) Java
5 12 (2.75%) Go
6 10 (2.29%) SQL
7 8 (1.83%) Shell Script
8 6 (1.38%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.92%) Rust
10 3 (0.69%) Bicep
10 3 (0.69%) C#
10 3 (0.69%) C++
Qualifications
1 111 (25.46%) Security Cleared
2 58 (13.30%) DV Cleared
3 33 (7.57%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.75%) Degree
5 11 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.83%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 7 (1.61%) Chartered Engineer
7 7 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.92%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.92%) CCNA
8 4 (0.92%) ISTQB
8 4 (0.92%) OSCP
8 4 (0.92%) RHCE
8 4 (0.92%) RHCSA
9 3 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.69%) CCNP
9 3 (0.69%) MCSA
9 3 (0.69%) MCSE
9 3 (0.69%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.21%) Cyber Essentials
2 13 (2.98%) QA
3 3 (0.69%) GDPR
3 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.23%) NIST
4 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 50 (11.47%) Active Directory
2 39 (8.94%) Docker
3 33 (7.57%) Hyper-V
3 33 (7.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.29%) vSphere
5 8 (1.83%) VMware NSX
6 7 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.92%) Squid
9 3 (0.69%) NDS
10 2 (0.46%) KVM
10 2 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.23%) GPFS
11 1 (0.23%) Lustre
11 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 63 (14.45%) Kubernetes
2 52 (11.93%) Ansible
3 25 (5.73%) Grafana
4 18 (4.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (3.90%) Puppet
6 16 (3.67%) Prometheus
7 11 (2.52%) vCenter Server
8 10 (2.29%) Argo
9 8 (1.83%) Rancher
10 6 (1.38%) Kibana
10 6 (1.38%) logstash
11 5 (1.15%) FortiGate
11 5 (1.15%) yum
11 5 (1.15%) ZABBIX
12 4 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.92%) Mesos
12 4 (0.92%) Nessus
12 4 (0.92%) Packer
12 4 (0.92%) SCOM
12 4 (0.92%) vRealize
Vendors
1 93 (21.33%) Microsoft
2 40 (9.17%) VMware
3 15 (3.44%) Veeam
4 14 (3.21%) Red Hat
5 13 (2.98%) Splunk
6 12 (2.75%) Cisco
7 8 (1.83%) Citrix
7 8 (1.83%) Oracle
8 6 (1.38%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.92%) Google
9 4 (0.92%) SolarWinds
10 3 (0.69%) BeyondTrust
10 3 (0.69%) CyberArk
10 3 (0.69%) ForgeRock
10 3 (0.69%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.69%) Juniper
10 3 (0.69%) NetIQ
10 3 (0.69%) Okta
10 3 (0.69%) OpenText
11 2 (0.46%) HP