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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 92 39
Rank change year-on-year +54 -53 +10
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 430 81 310
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 4.10% 2.26% 4.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.75% 2.75% 5.98%
Number of salaries quoted 289 72 207
10th Percentile £38,450 £31,300 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,445 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +10.89% +5.26%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £59,992
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 7,473 2,947 5,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.33% 82.07% 76.10%
Number of salaries quoted 5,093 1,833 2,983
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,789 £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 £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 8 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 8 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 +20 187 £65,000 -18.75% 52
Devon +21 75 £50,000 +11.11% 12
Bristol -3 65 £65,000 +8.33% 18
Wiltshire +19 49 £50,000 -14.89% 27
Dorset +15 28 £46,000 +17.95% 10
Somerset -17 18 £53,500 +12.63% 9
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 17 (3.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (3.72%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.40%) Confluence
4 5 (1.16%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.93%) Apache
6 1 (0.23%) IIS
6 1 (0.23%) Site Server
Applications
1 13 (3.02%) AutoCAD
1 13 (3.02%) Civil 3D
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 80 (18.60%) Azure
2 71 (16.51%) AWS
3 46 (10.70%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (8.37%) Entra ID
5 20 (4.65%) GCP
6 15 (3.49%) OpenShift
7 11 (2.56%) Serverless
8 8 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.63%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (1.63%) GitHub
9 7 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.16%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (0.93%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (0.93%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (0.93%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.44%) DNS
2 29 (6.74%) Firewall
3 28 (6.51%) DHCP
4 15 (3.49%) VLAN
5 13 (3.02%) TCP/IP
6 11 (2.56%) VoIP
7 9 (2.09%) Network Security
7 9 (2.09%) WAN
8 8 (1.86%) LAN
8 8 (1.86%) VPN
9 7 (1.63%) Wireless
10 6 (1.40%) SAN
11 5 (1.16%) NAS
11 5 (1.16%) Software-Defined Networking
12 4 (0.93%) Internet
12 4 (0.93%) IPv4
13 2 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
14 1 (0.23%) EIGRP
14 1 (0.23%) MPLS
14 1 (0.23%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.79%) MySQL
2 9 (2.09%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.63%) InfluxDB
4 3 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.70%) DynamoDB
4 3 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.70%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.70%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (7.21%) GitLab
2 30 (6.98%) Git
3 21 (4.88%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.33%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.63%) Robot Framework
5 7 (1.63%) TestRail
6 5 (1.16%) Cypress.io
6 5 (1.16%) JIRA
6 5 (1.16%) Selenium
7 4 (0.93%) Subversion
8 1 (0.23%) Claude Code
General
1 49 (11.40%) Finance
2 47 (10.93%) Social Skills
3 20 (4.65%) Manufacturing
4 11 (2.56%) Aerospace
4 11 (2.56%) Public Sector
4 11 (2.56%) Retail
5 10 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (2.09%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (0.93%) Legal
8 2 (0.47%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.23%) Banking
9 1 (0.23%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.23%) Marketing
9 1 (0.23%) Military
9 1 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 347 (80.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 111 (25.81%) Senior
3 103 (23.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 38 (8.84%) Infrastructure Support
5 37 (8.60%) Cloud Engineer
5 37 (8.60%) Support Engineer
6 36 (8.37%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 33 (7.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 33 (7.67%) IT Engineer
8 32 (7.44%) DevOps Engineer
9 28 (6.51%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 26 (6.05%) Azure Engineer
11 25 (5.81%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 20 (4.65%) Electrical Engineer
13 17 (3.95%) IT Support
14 16 (3.72%) IT Support Engineer
15 14 (3.26%) Lead
16 13 (3.02%) Test Engineer
17 12 (2.79%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
18 11 (2.56%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (13.72%) Terraform
2 13 (3.02%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (1.16%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (1.16%) Playwright
3 5 (1.16%) pytest
4 4 (0.93%) boto
5 3 (0.70%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (0.70%) Keycloak
5 3 (0.70%) LDAP
5 3 (0.70%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (0.70%) RESTful
5 3 (0.70%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.47%) YAML
7 1 (0.23%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.23%) Django
7 1 (0.23%) Node.js
7 1 (0.23%) OAuth
7 1 (0.23%) OpenID
7 1 (0.23%) Sass
7 1 (0.23%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (4.42%) Cloud Native
2 9 (2.09%) Driving Licence
3 8 (1.86%) Data Centre
3 8 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (1.63%) Replication
5 6 (1.40%) PKI
5 6 (1.40%) Product Ownership
6 4 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (0.70%) Onboarding
7 3 (0.70%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.47%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (0.47%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.23%) CCTV
9 1 (0.23%) Clustering
9 1 (0.23%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.23%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.23%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.23%) PropTech
9 1 (0.23%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 81 (18.84%) Linux
2 70 (16.28%) Windows
3 50 (11.63%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.33%) CentOS
5 7 (1.63%) Unix
6 3 (0.70%) 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
7 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.23%) VMS
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (16.51%) DevOps
2 70 (16.28%) Infrastructure as Code
3 62 (14.42%) CI/CD
4 56 (13.02%) Containerisation
5 44 (10.23%) Agile
5 44 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 38 (8.84%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (8.37%) Cybersecurity
8 30 (6.98%) Platform Engineering
9 28 (6.51%) Disaster Recovery
10 27 (6.28%) Infrastructure Automation
11 23 (5.35%) Collaborative Culture
12 22 (5.12%) Project Delivery
13 19 (4.42%) ITIL
14 18 (4.19%) Migration
14 18 (4.19%) Technical Leadership
15 17 (3.95%) Collaborative Working
15 17 (3.95%) Mentoring
16 16 (3.72%) Observability
16 16 (3.72%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (11.86%) Python
2 43 (10.00%) Bash
3 29 (6.74%) PowerShell
4 17 (3.95%) Java
5 11 (2.56%) Go
5 11 (2.56%) SQL
6 7 (1.63%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.16%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.93%) Rust
9 3 (0.70%) Bicep
9 3 (0.70%) C#
9 3 (0.70%) C++
Qualifications
1 106 (24.65%) Security Cleared
2 56 (13.02%) DV Cleared
3 32 (7.44%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.79%) Degree
5 10 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.86%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 7 (1.63%) Chartered Engineer
7 7 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.93%) CCNA
8 4 (0.93%) ISTQB
8 4 (0.93%) OSCP
8 4 (0.93%) RHCE
8 4 (0.93%) RHCSA
9 3 (0.70%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.70%) CCNP
9 3 (0.70%) MCSE
9 3 (0.70%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.47%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.47%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.26%) Cyber Essentials
2 12 (2.79%) QA
3 4 (0.93%) GDPR
3 4 (0.93%) 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
4 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (11.40%) Active Directory
2 37 (8.60%) Docker
3 32 (7.44%) Hyper-V
3 32 (7.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.09%) vSphere
5 8 (1.86%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.93%) Squid
8 3 (0.70%) NDS
9 2 (0.47%) KVM
9 2 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.23%) GPFS
10 1 (0.23%) Lustre
10 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 60 (13.95%) Kubernetes
2 49 (11.40%) Ansible
3 23 (5.35%) Grafana
4 18 (4.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (3.49%) Prometheus
5 15 (3.49%) Puppet
6 10 (2.33%) vCenter Server
7 9 (2.09%) Argo
8 7 (1.63%) Rancher
9 5 (1.16%) FortiGate
9 5 (1.16%) Kibana
9 5 (1.16%) logstash
9 5 (1.16%) ZABBIX
10 4 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.93%) Istio
10 4 (0.93%) linkerd
10 4 (0.93%) Mesos
10 4 (0.93%) Packer
10 4 (0.93%) VxRail
10 4 (0.93%) yum
Vendors
1 92 (21.40%) Microsoft
2 39 (9.07%) VMware
3 15 (3.49%) Veeam
4 13 (3.02%) Red Hat
5 12 (2.79%) Splunk
6 11 (2.56%) Cisco
7 8 (1.86%) Oracle
8 7 (1.63%) Citrix
9 5 (1.16%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.93%) Google
11 3 (0.70%) BeyondTrust
11 3 (0.70%) CyberArk
11 3 (0.70%) ForgeRock
11 3 (0.70%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.70%) Juniper
11 3 (0.70%) NetIQ
11 3 (0.70%) Okta
11 3 (0.70%) OpenText
11 3 (0.70%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.47%) arcserve