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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 111 42
Rank change year-on-year +60 -69 -16
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 217 50 420
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.85% 1.87% 4.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.14% 2.06% 5.65%
Number of salaries quoted 141 38 321
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,750 £50,313 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,072 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% +24.14% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £80,938 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,097 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.67% +14.19% -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 5,238 2,432 7,429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 68.71% 91.19% 83.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,447 1,530 5,552
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,829 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £52,550 £50,976
Median % change year-on-year +2.76% +3.09% -2.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,525 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £81,375 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 8 May 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 May 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 87 £55,000 -42.11% 13
Bristol +19 59 £65,000 -9.71% 8
Wiltshire +16 33 £55,000 +6.59% 3
Devon -6 22 £50,000 -3.34% 3
Dorset -13 8 £60,000 -28.36% 3
Somerset -20 4 £62,500 +31.58% 4
Cornwall - 4 £50,000 - 2
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 9 (4.15%) Confluence
2 8 (3.69%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.84%) IIS
5 3 (1.38%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.92%) Apache
7 1 (0.46%) Drupal
7 1 (0.46%) nginx
7 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (4.15%) AutoCAD
2 5 (2.30%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 37 (17.05%) Azure
2 30 (13.82%) AWS
3 21 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (5.07%) Entra ID
5 10 (4.61%) OpenShift
6 9 (4.15%) GCP
7 6 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.76%) IaaS
8 5 (2.30%) PaaS
9 4 (1.84%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.84%) GitHub
9 4 (1.84%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.84%) Serverless
10 3 (1.38%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.92%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.92%) Rubrik
12 1 (0.46%) AWS Control Tower
12 1 (0.46%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.46%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 31 (14.29%) Firewall
2 25 (11.52%) WAN
3 22 (10.14%) LAN
4 20 (9.22%) DNS
5 17 (7.83%) DHCP
6 13 (5.99%) VPN
7 12 (5.53%) TCP/IP
8 9 (4.15%) Network Security
8 9 (4.15%) VLAN
9 8 (3.69%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (3.23%) Unified Communications
10 7 (3.23%) WebEx
11 6 (2.76%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (2.76%) Cisco Firepower
11 6 (2.76%) SAN
12 4 (1.84%) LTE
12 4 (1.84%) NAS
13 3 (1.38%) SD-WAN
14 2 (0.92%) Internet
15 1 (0.46%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.23%) InfluxDB
2 3 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.38%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.92%) MySQL
3 2 (0.92%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.46%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.46%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (0.46%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.46%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.46%) Power BI
4 1 (0.46%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (10.14%) GitLab
2 18 (8.29%) Git
3 16 (7.37%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.15%) JIRA
5 6 (2.76%) Robot Framework
5 6 (2.76%) TestRail
6 5 (2.30%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.84%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.84%) Selenium
7 4 (1.84%) Subversion
8 1 (0.46%) Gatling
8 1 (0.46%) JMeter
8 1 (0.46%) Vagrant
General
1 29 (13.36%) Social Skills
2 25 (11.52%) Finance
3 15 (6.91%) Aerospace
3 15 (6.91%) Retail
4 12 (5.53%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.07%) Telecoms
6 10 (4.61%) Marketing
7 8 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.23%) Electronics
8 7 (3.23%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.76%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (2.76%) Banking
10 3 (1.38%) Automotive
10 3 (1.38%) Legal
11 1 (0.46%) Advertising
11 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 163 (75.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 43 (19.82%) Senior
3 36 (16.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 26 (11.98%) IT Engineer
5 24 (11.06%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (6.45%) Infrastructure Support
7 12 (5.53%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (5.07%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (4.61%) Security Engineer
9 10 (4.61%) Support Engineer
10 9 (4.15%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 9 (4.15%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (4.15%) Analyst
11 8 (3.69%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 8 (3.69%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 8 (3.69%) Senior IT Engineer
11 8 (3.69%) Senior Security Engineer
12 7 (3.23%) Linux Engineer
12 7 (3.23%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.15%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (3.23%) XMPP
3 4 (1.84%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (1.84%) Keycloak
3 4 (1.84%) OAuth
3 4 (1.84%) OAuth2
3 4 (1.84%) OpenID
3 4 (1.84%) Playwright
3 4 (1.84%) pytest
3 4 (1.84%) SAML
4 2 (0.92%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.92%) REST
4 2 (0.92%) SOAP
5 1 (0.46%) .NET
5 1 (0.46%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.46%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.46%) boto
5 1 (0.46%) CSS
5 1 (0.46%) Django
5 1 (0.46%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.45%) Driving Licence
2 12 (5.53%) Replication
3 11 (5.07%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.23%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.23%) FlexPod
4 7 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.23%) Video Conferencing
5 6 (2.76%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.30%) CCTV
6 5 (2.30%) YubiKey
7 4 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.38%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.38%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.92%) BYOD
9 2 (0.92%) Cyberattack
9 2 (0.92%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.92%) PMI
10 1 (0.46%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 60 (27.65%) Linux
2 50 (23.04%) Windows
3 31 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.23%) CentOS
5 4 (1.84%) Unix
6 3 (1.38%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.92%) VMS
8 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.46%) Solaris
8 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (18.89%) Infrastructure as Code
2 40 (18.43%) DevOps
3 34 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (11.98%) CI/CD
5 23 (10.60%) Agile
5 23 (10.60%) Infrastructure Automation
6 22 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (8.76%) Cybersecurity
8 17 (7.83%) Collaborative Culture
8 17 (7.83%) Collaborative Working
9 16 (7.37%) Containerisation
10 13 (5.99%) Mentoring
10 13 (5.99%) Test Automation
11 12 (5.53%) Disaster Recovery
12 11 (5.07%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (5.07%) High Availability
13 10 (4.61%) Data Management
13 10 (4.61%) Platform Engineering
14 9 (4.15%) ITIL
14 9 (4.15%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 35 (16.13%) Python
2 28 (12.90%) Bash
3 24 (11.06%) PowerShell
4 7 (3.23%) SQL
5 6 (2.76%) Java
6 5 (2.30%) Go
7 4 (1.84%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.92%) Bicep
8 2 (0.92%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 73 (33.64%) Security Cleared
2 42 (19.35%) DV Cleared
3 28 (12.90%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.61%) Degree
4 10 (4.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (1.84%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.38%) CCNA
7 3 (1.38%) Chartered Engineer
7 3 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.38%) Postgraduate
8 2 (0.92%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.92%) CBAP
8 2 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.92%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (0.92%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.92%) RHCE
9 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (6.91%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (3.23%) GDPR
4 5 (2.30%) NIST
4 5 (2.30%) QA
5 4 (1.84%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.92%) NCSC
7 2 (0.92%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (15.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (12.90%) Active Directory
3 22 (10.14%) Docker
4 19 (8.76%) Hyper-V
5 9 (4.15%) vSphere
6 6 (2.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.76%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (2.76%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.46%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.46%) Firmware
8 1 (0.46%) KVM
8 1 (0.46%) QEMU
8 1 (0.46%) Squid
8 1 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.46%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.46%) Xen
Systems Management
1 40 (18.43%) Ansible
2 33 (15.21%) Kubernetes
3 31 (14.29%) Terraform
4 17 (7.83%) Grafana
5 10 (4.61%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (3.69%) vCenter Server
7 7 (3.23%) Cisco CUCM
7 7 (3.23%) Puppet
8 5 (2.30%) Argo
8 5 (2.30%) Rancher
9 4 (1.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.84%) Kibana
9 4 (1.84%) logstash
9 4 (1.84%) Prometheus
9 4 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.84%) VxRail
9 4 (1.84%) yum
10 3 (1.38%) NetBackup
10 3 (1.38%) Packer
10 3 (1.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 51 (23.50%) Microsoft
2 36 (16.59%) VMware
3 18 (8.29%) Cisco
4 17 (7.83%) Splunk
5 12 (5.53%) Fortinet
5 12 (5.53%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.69%) Palo Alto
7 7 (3.23%) NetApp
7 7 (3.23%) Veeam
8 6 (2.76%) Dell
9 5 (2.30%) HP
9 5 (2.30%) Tenable
10 4 (1.84%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.84%) BeyondTrust
10 4 (1.84%) Juniper
10 4 (1.84%) SAP
11 3 (1.38%) Meraki
11 3 (1.38%) Qualys
11 3 (1.38%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.92%) SolarWinds