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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 93 35
Rank change year-on-year +53 -58 -11
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 295 77 462
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 3.55% 2.31% 4.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.96% 2.73% 6.24%
Number of salaries quoted 188 67 352
10th Percentile £37,500 £30,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,194 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.84% +14.39% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £78,250 £88,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 5,946 2,817 7,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.47% 84.65% 78.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,923 1,830 5,383
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,056 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £73,750 £66,938 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +30 129 £55,000 -31.25% 22
Bristol +7 54 £65,000 +8.33% 10
Wiltshire +13 38 £50,000 -16.67% 6
Devon 0 36 £50,000 +5.26% 6
Dorset +5 18 £45,000 -14.29% 3
Somerset -23 15 £55,000 +15.79% 6
Cornwall - 5 £50,000 - 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 16 (5.42%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (3.05%) Confluence
4 3 (1.02%) Apache
4 3 (1.02%) IIS
4 3 (1.02%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.34%) Drupal
5 1 (0.34%) nginx
5 1 (0.34%) Site Server
5 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.73%) AutoCAD
2 7 (2.37%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 62 (21.02%) Azure
2 49 (16.61%) AWS
3 46 (15.59%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (8.47%) Entra ID
5 12 (4.07%) GCP
5 12 (4.07%) OpenShift
6 8 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.37%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (2.37%) Serverless
8 6 (2.03%) GitHub
8 6 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (1.69%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.69%) IaaS
10 4 (1.36%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (1.36%) OCI
10 4 (1.36%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (11.53%) Firewall
2 29 (9.83%) DNS
3 26 (8.81%) DHCP
4 25 (8.47%) WAN
5 21 (7.12%) LAN
6 15 (5.08%) VLAN
7 13 (4.41%) TCP/IP
8 10 (3.39%) VPN
9 9 (3.05%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (2.71%) Network Security
11 7 (2.37%) Unified Communications
11 7 (2.37%) WebEx
12 6 (2.03%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (2.03%) Cisco Firepower
13 5 (1.69%) VoIP
14 4 (1.36%) IPv4
14 4 (1.36%) SD-WAN
14 4 (1.36%) Software-Defined Networking
15 3 (1.02%) NAS
15 3 (1.02%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.71%) InfluxDB
2 4 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (1.36%) MySQL
3 3 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.02%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.68%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.68%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.68%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.34%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.34%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.34%) Redis
Development Applications
1 30 (10.17%) GitLab
2 23 (7.80%) Git
3 22 (7.46%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.71%) Bitbucket
4 8 (2.71%) JIRA
5 7 (2.37%) Robot Framework
5 7 (2.37%) TestRail
6 6 (2.03%) Cypress.io
6 6 (2.03%) Selenium
7 3 (1.02%) Subversion
8 1 (0.34%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.34%) Gatling
8 1 (0.34%) JMeter
8 1 (0.34%) Vagrant
General
1 37 (12.54%) Finance
2 31 (10.51%) Social Skills
3 16 (5.42%) Aerospace
4 12 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (3.73%) Retail
6 9 (3.05%) Public Sector
7 8 (2.71%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.37%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.03%) Banking
9 6 (2.03%) Marketing
10 4 (1.36%) Legal
11 3 (1.02%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (1.02%) Automotive
11 3 (1.02%) Electronics
12 1 (0.34%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 227 (76.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 73 (24.75%) Senior
3 63 (21.36%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 31 (10.51%) IT Engineer
5 28 (9.49%) Cloud Engineer
6 26 (8.81%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 24 (8.14%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 22 (7.46%) Azure Engineer
8 22 (7.46%) Infrastructure Support
9 21 (7.12%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 19 (6.44%) Support Engineer
11 16 (5.42%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 15 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
13 12 (4.07%) IT Support
13 12 (4.07%) IT Support Engineer
13 12 (4.07%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
14 11 (3.73%) Linux Engineer
14 11 (3.73%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
15 9 (3.05%) Civil Engineer
16 8 (2.71%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.73%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (2.37%) Apache NiFi
2 7 (2.37%) XMPP
3 6 (2.03%) Keycloak
3 6 (2.03%) Playwright
3 6 (2.03%) pytest
4 4 (1.36%) boto
5 2 (0.68%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.68%) RESTful
5 2 (0.68%) YAML
6 1 (0.34%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.34%) Django
6 1 (0.34%) Memcached
6 1 (0.34%) Node.js
6 1 (0.34%) OAuth
6 1 (0.34%) OpenID
6 1 (0.34%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.34%) REST
6 1 (0.34%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.34%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.08%) Cloud Native
1 15 (5.08%) Hybrid Cloud
2 13 (4.41%) Driving Licence
3 12 (4.07%) Replication
4 9 (3.05%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.71%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.37%) FlexPod
6 7 (2.37%) Video Conferencing
7 6 (2.03%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.36%) CCTV
8 4 (1.36%) PKI
9 3 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.02%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.02%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.68%) BYOD
10 2 (0.68%) Cyberattack
10 2 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.68%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.68%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.34%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 75 (25.42%) Linux
2 61 (20.68%) Windows
3 40 (13.56%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.71%) CentOS
5 5 (1.69%) Unix
6 3 (1.02%) VMS
7 2 (0.68%) Android
7 2 (0.68%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.68%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.34%) Rocky
8 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (17.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 45 (15.25%) DevOps
3 42 (14.24%) CI/CD
4 35 (11.86%) Containerisation
5 32 (10.85%) Continuous Improvement
6 31 (10.51%) Agile
7 28 (9.49%) Cybersecurity
7 28 (9.49%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (8.81%) Infrastructure Automation
9 23 (7.80%) Collaborative Culture
10 21 (7.12%) Disaster Recovery
11 17 (5.76%) Project Delivery
12 16 (5.42%) Test Automation
13 14 (4.75%) High Availability
13 14 (4.75%) Migration
13 14 (4.75%) Platform Engineering
14 13 (4.41%) Collaborative Working
14 13 (4.41%) Mentoring
15 12 (4.07%) Data Management
15 12 (4.07%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 39 (13.22%) Python
2 29 (9.83%) Bash
3 24 (8.14%) PowerShell
4 10 (3.39%) Java
5 6 (2.03%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.03%) SQL
6 5 (1.69%) Go
7 3 (1.02%) Bicep
8 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.34%) C#
9 1 (0.34%) C++
9 1 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 76 (25.76%) Security Cleared
2 38 (12.88%) DV Cleared
3 30 (10.17%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (3.73%) Degree
6 9 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (2.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (2.03%) AWS Certification
8 6 (2.03%) CCNA
8 6 (2.03%) Chartered Engineer
9 5 (1.69%) RHCE
10 4 (1.36%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.36%) CCNP
10 4 (1.36%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.36%) OSCP
10 4 (1.36%) Postgraduate
10 4 (1.36%) RHCSA
11 3 (1.02%) MCSE
12 2 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.68%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.75%) Cyber Essentials
2 11 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.71%) GDPR
4 5 (1.69%) QA
5 3 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.68%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.34%) NCSC
7 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (12.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 35 (11.86%) Active Directory
3 31 (10.51%) Docker
4 26 (8.81%) Hyper-V
5 12 (4.07%) vSphere
6 8 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (2.03%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (2.03%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (1.69%) VMware NSX
9 4 (1.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (1.36%) Squid
9 4 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.34%) Firmware
11 1 (0.34%) GPFS
11 1 (0.34%) KVM
11 1 (0.34%) Lustre
11 1 (0.34%) QEMU
11 1 (0.34%) Xen
Systems Management
1 48 (16.27%) Kubernetes
2 47 (15.93%) Ansible
3 45 (15.25%) Terraform
4 22 (7.46%) Grafana
5 16 (5.42%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (3.73%) Puppet
7 9 (3.05%) vCenter Server
8 8 (2.71%) Prometheus
9 7 (2.37%) Cisco CUCM
9 7 (2.37%) VxRail
10 6 (2.03%) FortiGate
10 6 (2.03%) Kibana
10 6 (2.03%) logstash
10 6 (2.03%) Packer
11 5 (1.69%) Argo
11 5 (1.69%) Rancher
12 4 (1.36%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.02%) yum
14 2 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.68%) Istio
Vendors
1 76 (25.76%) Microsoft
2 40 (13.56%) VMware
3 18 (6.10%) Cisco
3 18 (6.10%) Splunk
4 16 (5.42%) Red Hat
5 11 (3.73%) Fortinet
6 10 (3.39%) Veeam
7 9 (3.05%) Oracle
8 8 (2.71%) Palo Alto
9 7 (2.37%) NetApp
10 6 (2.03%) Atlassian
10 6 (2.03%) BeyondTrust
11 4 (1.36%) Dell
11 4 (1.36%) HP
12 3 (1.02%) Aruba
12 3 (1.02%) Juniper
13 2 (0.68%) Google
13 2 (0.68%) Meraki
13 2 (0.68%) Thales
14 1 (0.34%) CyberArk