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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 96 43
Rank change year-on-year +39 -53 -14
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 185 56 415
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.54% 2.12% 4.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 2.37% 5.68%
Number of salaries quoted 120 43 321
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,438 £50,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £71,991 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.60% +42.56% +1.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £88,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,250 £97,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -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 5,050 2,366 7,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 69.41% 89.76% 84.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,359 1,520 5,550
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +5.88% -2.86%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,568 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 16 April 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 16 April 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 +38 77 £55,000 -42.11% 17
Bristol +1 40 £62,500 -13.18% 15
Wiltshire +17 32 £55,000 +6.59% 3
Devon -10 16 £42,750 -18.33% 4
Dorset -15 9 £60,000 -28.36% 2
Somerset -19 9 £55,000 - 5
Cornwall - 2 £47,000 - 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 8 (4.32%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.78%) Confluence
2 7 (3.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.16%) IIS
4 2 (1.08%) Apache
4 2 (1.08%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.54%) Drupal
5 1 (0.54%) nginx
5 1 (0.54%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.70%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.54%) Civil 3D
2 1 (0.54%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 36 (19.46%) Azure
2 28 (15.14%) AWS
3 19 (10.27%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (6.49%) Entra ID
5 10 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (5.41%) OpenShift
6 8 (4.32%) GCP
6 8 (4.32%) GitHub
6 8 (4.32%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (3.24%) IaaS
8 5 (2.70%) PaaS
9 4 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.62%) Serverless
11 2 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.08%) Rubrik
12 1 (0.54%) AWS Control Tower
12 1 (0.54%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.54%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 28 (15.14%) Firewall
2 22 (11.89%) WAN
3 21 (11.35%) DNS
4 19 (10.27%) LAN
5 18 (9.73%) DHCP
6 12 (6.49%) TCP/IP
6 12 (6.49%) VPN
7 9 (4.86%) Network Security
8 8 (4.32%) VLAN
8 8 (4.32%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (3.24%) Unified Communications
9 6 (3.24%) WebEx
10 5 (2.70%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (2.70%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (2.70%) SAN
11 3 (1.62%) LTE
11 3 (1.62%) NAS
11 3 (1.62%) SD-WAN
12 2 (1.08%) Internet
13 1 (0.54%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.32%) InfluxDB
2 3 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.62%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.08%) MySQL
3 2 (1.08%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.54%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.54%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (0.54%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.54%) Power BI
4 1 (0.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (9.73%) Git
2 17 (9.19%) GitLab
3 15 (8.11%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.78%) JIRA
4 7 (3.78%) Robot Framework
4 7 (3.78%) TestRail
5 5 (2.70%) Subversion
6 4 (2.16%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.16%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.16%) Selenium
7 1 (0.54%) Gatling
7 1 (0.54%) JMeter
7 1 (0.54%) Vagrant
General
1 29 (15.68%) Social Skills
2 18 (9.73%) Finance
3 15 (8.11%) Aerospace
4 12 (6.49%) Retail
5 10 (5.41%) Telecoms
6 9 (4.86%) Marketing
6 9 (4.86%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.78%) Electronics
7 7 (3.78%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.24%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.70%) Banking
10 3 (1.62%) Automotive
11 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.08%) Law
12 1 (0.54%) Advertising
12 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.54%) Legal
Job Titles
1 131 (70.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 33 (17.84%) Senior
3 28 (15.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 23 (12.43%) IT Engineer
5 21 (11.35%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (7.03%) Infrastructure Support
7 12 (6.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (5.95%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 11 (5.95%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (5.41%) Support Engineer
10 9 (4.86%) Security Engineer
11 8 (4.32%) Analyst
11 8 (4.32%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 8 (4.32%) Senior IT Engineer
12 7 (3.78%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 7 (3.78%) Linux Engineer
12 7 (3.78%) Senior Security Engineer
13 6 (3.24%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
13 6 (3.24%) IT Support
13 6 (3.24%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.86%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (3.24%) XMPP
3 5 (2.70%) YAML
4 4 (2.16%) Playwright
4 4 (2.16%) pytest
5 3 (1.62%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (1.62%) Keycloak
5 3 (1.62%) OAuth
5 3 (1.62%) OAuth2
5 3 (1.62%) OpenID
5 3 (1.62%) SAML
6 2 (1.08%) 802.1X
6 2 (1.08%) REST
6 2 (1.08%) SOAP
7 1 (0.54%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.54%) Jinja
7 1 (0.54%) Memcached
7 1 (0.54%) NETCONF
7 1 (0.54%) RESTful
7 1 (0.54%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.95%) Cloud Native
1 11 (5.95%) Driving Licence
2 10 (5.41%) Replication
3 9 (4.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.24%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.24%) FlexPod
4 6 (3.24%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.24%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.24%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (2.70%) YubiKey
6 4 (2.16%) CCTV
6 4 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.62%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.62%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.08%) BYOD
8 2 (1.08%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.08%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.08%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 56 (30.27%) Linux
2 47 (25.41%) Windows
3 28 (15.14%) Windows Server
4 8 (4.32%) CentOS
5 3 (1.62%) Unix
5 3 (1.62%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.08%) VMS
7 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.54%) Solaris
7 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (22.70%) Infrastructure as Code
2 37 (20.00%) DevOps
3 32 (17.30%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (14.05%) CI/CD
5 24 (12.97%) Agile
6 21 (11.35%) Containerisation
6 21 (11.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (9.73%) Infrastructure Automation
8 17 (9.19%) Collaborative Culture
8 17 (9.19%) Cybersecurity
9 16 (8.65%) Collaborative Working
10 13 (7.03%) Platform Engineering
10 13 (7.03%) Test Automation
11 11 (5.95%) ITIL
11 11 (5.95%) Mentoring
12 10 (5.41%) Business Intelligence
12 10 (5.41%) Disaster Recovery
13 9 (4.86%) High Availability
13 9 (4.86%) Vulnerability Management
14 8 (4.32%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 32 (17.30%) Python
2 28 (15.14%) Bash
3 25 (13.51%) PowerShell
4 7 (3.78%) Bicep
4 7 (3.78%) SQL
5 6 (3.24%) Go
5 6 (3.24%) Java
6 4 (2.16%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.08%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.54%) PHP
Qualifications
1 71 (38.38%) Security Cleared
2 43 (23.24%) DV Cleared
3 26 (14.05%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.32%) Degree
4 8 (4.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (3.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (2.16%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.08%) CBAP
7 2 (1.08%) CCNA
7 2 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.08%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.08%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.08%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.54%) CCNP
8 1 (0.54%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.54%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.54%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (8.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (3.78%) GDPR
4 5 (2.70%) NIST
4 5 (2.70%) QA
5 3 (1.62%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.62%) SLA
6 2 (1.08%) NCSC
6 2 (1.08%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (17.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (14.05%) Docker
3 25 (13.51%) Active Directory
4 20 (10.81%) Hyper-V
5 9 (4.86%) vSphere
6 6 (3.24%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (2.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (2.70%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (2.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.54%) Ceph
9 1 (0.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.54%) Firmware
9 1 (0.54%) KVM
9 1 (0.54%) Lustre
9 1 (0.54%) QEMU
9 1 (0.54%) Xen
Systems Management
1 37 (20.00%) Ansible
2 35 (18.92%) Kubernetes
3 28 (15.14%) Terraform
4 16 (8.65%) Grafana
5 10 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (3.78%) vCenter Server
7 6 (3.24%) Argo
7 6 (3.24%) Cisco CUCM
7 6 (3.24%) Puppet
7 6 (3.24%) Rancher
8 5 (2.70%) yum
9 4 (2.16%) Kibana
9 4 (2.16%) logstash
10 3 (1.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.62%) NetBackup
10 3 (1.62%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.62%) Prometheus
10 3 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.62%) VxRail
11 2 (1.08%) WSUS
Vendors
1 47 (25.41%) Microsoft
2 34 (18.38%) VMware
3 17 (9.19%) Cisco
4 16 (8.65%) Splunk
5 12 (6.49%) Red Hat
6 11 (5.95%) Fortinet
7 7 (3.78%) Palo Alto
7 7 (3.78%) Veeam
8 6 (3.24%) Dell
8 6 (3.24%) NetApp
9 5 (2.70%) HP
9 5 (2.70%) Tenable
10 4 (2.16%) Atlassian
10 4 (2.16%) Juniper
10 4 (2.16%) SAP
11 3 (1.62%) BeyondTrust
11 3 (1.62%) Meraki
11 3 (1.62%) Qualys
12 2 (1.08%) ServiceNow
12 2 (1.08%) Thales