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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 86 42
Rank change year-on-year +49 -44 +8
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 435 84 286
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 4.12% 2.35% 4.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.77% 2.87% 5.56%
Number of salaries quoted 292 74 193
10th Percentile £38,750 £32,900 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,438 £37,000
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 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -6.98%

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 7,538 2,926 5,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.45% 81.89% 76.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5,095 1,833 2,900
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £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% -1.32%

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 11 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 11 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 +19 188 £65,000 -18.75% 36
Devon +21 76 £50,000 +11.11% 13
Bristol -1 66 £65,000 +8.33% 17
Wiltshire +24 52 £50,000 -11.11% 24
Dorset +15 27 £46,000 +17.95% 10
Somerset -20 18 £53,500 +12.63% 8
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 16 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (3.22%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.15%) Confluence
3 5 (1.15%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.92%) Apache
5 1 (0.23%) Site Server
Applications
1 13 (2.99%) AutoCAD
1 13 (2.99%) Civil 3D
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 83 (19.08%) Azure
2 71 (16.32%) AWS
3 49 (11.26%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (8.97%) Entra ID
5 20 (4.60%) GCP
6 15 (3.45%) OpenShift
7 11 (2.53%) Serverless
8 9 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.61%) GitHub
9 7 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (1.38%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (1.15%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (0.92%) AWS CloudTrail
12 4 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (0.92%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (8.05%) DNS
2 32 (7.36%) DHCP
3 31 (7.13%) Firewall
4 15 (3.45%) VLAN
5 13 (2.99%) TCP/IP
6 11 (2.53%) VoIP
7 9 (2.07%) Network Security
7 9 (2.07%) VPN
7 9 (2.07%) Wireless
8 8 (1.84%) SAN
8 8 (1.84%) WAN
9 7 (1.61%) LAN
9 7 (1.61%) NAS
10 5 (1.15%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (0.92%) Internet
11 4 (0.92%) IPv4
12 1 (0.23%) BGP
12 1 (0.23%) MPLS
12 1 (0.23%) OSPF
12 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.53%) MySQL
2 9 (2.07%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.84%) InfluxDB
4 2 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.46%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.46%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.46%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (7.13%) Git
1 31 (7.13%) GitLab
2 23 (5.29%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.07%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.84%) Robot Framework
4 8 (1.84%) TestRail
5 6 (1.38%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.38%) Selenium
6 5 (1.15%) JIRA
6 5 (1.15%) Subversion
7 1 (0.23%) Claude Code
General
1 51 (11.72%) Finance
2 49 (11.26%) Social Skills
3 21 (4.83%) Manufacturing
4 12 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (2.53%) Public Sector
5 11 (2.53%) Retail
6 10 (2.30%) Aerospace
6 10 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (0.92%) Legal
8 3 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.46%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.23%) Banking
10 1 (0.23%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.23%) Marketing
10 1 (0.23%) Military
Job Titles
1 351 (80.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 112 (25.75%) Senior
3 104 (23.91%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 36 (8.28%) Cloud Engineer
4 36 (8.28%) Infrastructure Support
5 35 (8.05%) Support Engineer
6 34 (7.82%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 33 (7.59%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 33 (7.59%) DevOps Engineer
8 32 (7.36%) IT Engineer
9 28 (6.44%) Azure Engineer
10 27 (6.21%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 27 (6.21%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 21 (4.83%) Electrical Engineer
12 16 (3.68%) IT Support
13 15 (3.45%) IT Support Engineer
14 14 (3.22%) Lead
14 14 (3.22%) Test Engineer
15 12 (2.76%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
16 10 (2.30%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (13.79%) Terraform
2 15 (3.45%) 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%) SailPoint
7 2 (0.46%) RESTful
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 (4.37%) Cloud Native
2 13 (2.99%) Driving Licence
3 8 (1.84%) Data Centre
3 8 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (1.84%) Replication
4 7 (1.61%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.38%) PKI
6 4 (0.92%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (0.69%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.46%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.46%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
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%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 82 (18.85%) Linux
2 74 (17.01%) Windows
3 52 (11.95%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.76%) CentOS
5 8 (1.84%) Unix
6 4 (0.92%) Android
6 4 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.46%) macOS
7 2 (0.46%) Rocky
8 1 (0.23%) VMS
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (16.32%) Infrastructure as Code
2 70 (16.09%) DevOps
3 62 (14.25%) CI/CD
4 56 (12.87%) Containerisation
5 44 (10.11%) Agile
5 44 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 41 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (8.05%) Cybersecurity
8 31 (7.13%) Platform Engineering
9 29 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
10 28 (6.44%) Infrastructure Automation
11 26 (5.98%) Collaborative Culture
12 21 (4.83%) ITIL
12 21 (4.83%) Project Delivery
13 20 (4.60%) Migration
13 20 (4.60%) Service Management
14 19 (4.37%) Technical Leadership
15 18 (4.14%) AI
16 17 (3.91%) Scrum
16 17 (3.91%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 54 (12.41%) Python
2 47 (10.80%) Bash
3 34 (7.82%) PowerShell
4 18 (4.14%) Java
5 11 (2.53%) Go
6 8 (1.84%) Shell Script
6 8 (1.84%) SQL
7 6 (1.38%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.92%) Rust
9 3 (0.69%) Bicep
9 3 (0.69%) C#
9 3 (0.69%) C++
Qualifications
1 111 (25.52%) Security Cleared
2 58 (13.33%) DV Cleared
3 34 (7.82%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.76%) Degree
4 12 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (1.84%) AWS Certification
5 8 (1.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (1.61%) Chartered Engineer
6 7 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.15%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.92%) CCNA
8 4 (0.92%) ISTQB
8 4 (0.92%) MCSA
8 4 (0.92%) OSCP
8 4 (0.92%) RHCE
8 4 (0.92%) RHCSA
9 3 (0.69%) CCNP
9 3 (0.69%) MCSE
9 3 (0.69%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials
1 13 (2.99%) QA
2 2 (0.46%) GDPR
2 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.23%) NIST
3 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 51 (11.72%) Active Directory
2 38 (8.74%) Docker
3 33 (7.59%) Hyper-V
3 33 (7.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.30%) vSphere
5 9 (2.07%) 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 62 (14.25%) Kubernetes
2 51 (11.72%) Ansible
3 25 (5.75%) Grafana
4 18 (4.14%) Puppet
5 17 (3.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (3.68%) Prometheus
7 12 (2.76%) vCenter Server
8 10 (2.30%) Argo
9 7 (1.61%) Rancher
10 6 (1.38%) Kibana
10 6 (1.38%) logstash
11 5 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (1.15%) yum
11 5 (1.15%) ZABBIX
12 4 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.92%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.92%) Istio
12 4 (0.92%) linkerd
12 4 (0.92%) Mesos
12 4 (0.92%) VxRail
Vendors
1 95 (21.84%) Microsoft
2 40 (9.20%) VMware
3 14 (3.22%) Red Hat
3 14 (3.22%) Veeam
4 13 (2.99%) Cisco
4 13 (2.99%) Splunk
5 8 (1.84%) Citrix
5 8 (1.84%) Oracle
6 6 (1.38%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.15%) SolarWinds
8 4 (0.92%) Google
9 3 (0.69%) BeyondTrust
9 3 (0.69%) CyberArk
9 3 (0.69%) ForgeRock
9 3 (0.69%) Juniper
9 3 (0.69%) NetIQ
9 3 (0.69%) Okta
9 3 (0.69%) OpenText
10 2 (0.46%) arcserve
10 2 (0.46%) HP