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 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 44 49
Rank change year-on-year -36 +5 +64
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 93 259 256
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.48% 4.19% 5.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.08% 5.49% 5.84%
Number of salaries quoted 80 171 176
10th Percentile £30,613 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% +2.15%
75th Percentile £70,000 £59,992 £61,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £51,098 £54,000
% change year-on-year +17.42% -5.37% +2.86%

All Process and 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 3,019 4,715 4,381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 80.49% 76.29% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,939 2,670 3,327
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,431
25th Percentile £31,500 £40,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 28 October 2025.

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 28 October 2025. 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
Bristol -7 25 £61,250 +22.50% 20
Gloucestershire +8 22 £80,000 +77.78% 22
Devon -15 16 £31,250 -30.56% 3
Somerset -18 13 £45,000 -14.29% 7
Dorset +11 8 £84,500 +87.78% 2
Wiltshire -22 8 £55,000 +8.91% 10
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 11 (11.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) AutoCAD
1 1 (1.08%) Civil 3D
1 1 (1.08%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 53 (56.99%) Azure
2 28 (30.11%) Entra ID
3 24 (25.81%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (11.83%) AWS
5 9 (9.68%) IaaS
6 8 (8.60%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (8.60%) Azure Stack
7 7 (7.53%) GitHub
7 7 (7.53%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (7.53%) OCI
7 7 (7.53%) PaaS
8 5 (5.38%) Rubrik
8 5 (5.38%) Serverless
9 3 (3.23%) OpenShift
9 3 (3.23%) SaaS
10 2 (2.15%) Google Workspace
10 2 (2.15%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.08%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (1.08%) Mimecast
11 1 (1.08%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 18 (19.35%) Firewall
2 12 (12.90%) VPN
3 11 (11.83%) DHCP
3 11 (11.83%) DNS
4 10 (10.75%) VLAN
5 9 (9.68%) SD-WAN
6 8 (8.60%) SAN
6 8 (8.60%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (7.53%) WAN
8 6 (6.45%) LAN
8 6 (6.45%) TCP/IP
9 4 (4.30%) Wireless
10 2 (2.15%) WLAN
11 1 (1.08%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (1.08%) InfiniBand
11 1 (1.08%) NAS
11 1 (1.08%) Network Security
11 1 (1.08%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.75%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.08%) InfluxDB
2 1 (1.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.08%) Git
2 1 (1.08%) GitLab
2 1 (1.08%) Robot Framework
2 1 (1.08%) Subversion
2 1 (1.08%) TestRail
General
1 20 (21.51%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.20%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.60%) Legal
4 6 (6.45%) Local Government
5 4 (4.30%) Law
6 3 (3.23%) Finance
6 3 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.15%) Advertising
7 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.15%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.08%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.08%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.08%) Military
8 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (63.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (20.43%) IT Engineer
2 19 (20.43%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (15.05%) Senior
4 13 (13.98%) Cloud Engineer
5 12 (12.90%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (8.60%) Infrastructure Support
6 8 (8.60%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.53%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 7 (7.53%) Support Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) IT Support
9 5 (5.38%) IT Support Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) Lead
9 5 (5.38%) Support Specialist
9 5 (5.38%) Technical Specialist
9 5 (5.38%) Technical Support
9 5 (5.38%) Technical Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.53%) YAML
2 5 (5.38%) 802.1X
3 2 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.15%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.68%) Data Centre
1 9 (9.68%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (8.60%) Onboarding
3 7 (7.53%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.38%) BYOD
5 4 (4.30%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.30%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.23%) NHS
7 2 (2.15%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (2.15%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (1.08%) CCTV
8 1 (1.08%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.08%) Digital Signage
8 1 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.08%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (41.94%) Windows
2 35 (37.63%) Windows Server
3 21 (22.58%) Linux
4 11 (11.83%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (8.60%) Rocky
6 4 (4.30%) Ubuntu
7 3 (3.23%) Debian
8 2 (2.15%) CentOS
9 1 (1.08%) Android
9 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.08%) Windows 10
9 1 (1.08%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (21.51%) Containerisation
2 15 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
3 14 (15.05%) DevOps
4 13 (13.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (9.68%) ITIL
6 8 (8.60%) CI/CD
6 8 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (8.60%) Server Management
7 7 (7.53%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (7.53%) ITSM
7 7 (7.53%) Mentoring
7 7 (7.53%) Vulnerability Management
8 5 (5.38%) CRM
8 5 (5.38%) Predictive Analysis
8 5 (5.38%) Preventative Maintenance
8 5 (5.38%) Project Delivery
8 5 (5.38%) Project Management
8 5 (5.38%) Service Management
8 5 (5.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (19.35%) PowerShell
2 9 (9.68%) Python
3 7 (7.53%) Bicep
4 6 (6.45%) Bash
5 2 (2.15%) SQL
6 1 (1.08%) Go
6 1 (1.08%) Java
Qualifications
1 24 (25.81%) Security Cleared
2 16 (17.20%) DV Cleared
3 13 (13.98%) SC Cleared
4 11 (11.83%) Degree
5 9 (9.68%) Azure Certification
5 9 (9.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (8.60%) Network+ Certification
7 5 (5.38%) NVQ Level 3
8 3 (3.23%) DBS Check
8 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (3.23%) Postgraduate
9 2 (2.15%) CCIE
9 2 (2.15%) CCNA
9 2 (2.15%) CCNP
9 2 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (2.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.38%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (5.38%) SLA
3 3 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.23%) GDPR
4 2 (2.15%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.15%) QA
System Software
1 36 (38.71%) Active Directory
2 25 (26.88%) Hyper-V
3 15 (16.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (12.90%) Docker
5 11 (11.83%) vSphere
6 4 (4.30%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (2.15%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (2.15%) VMware NSX
7 2 (2.15%) XenApp
8 1 (1.08%) Ceph
8 1 (1.08%) Lustre
8 1 (1.08%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (25.81%) Kubernetes
2 17 (18.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (9.68%) Ansible
3 9 (9.68%) Terraform
4 4 (4.30%) SCCM
5 3 (3.23%) SmoothWall
5 3 (3.23%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.08%) Argo
6 1 (1.08%) Grafana
6 1 (1.08%) Rancher
6 1 (1.08%) yum
Vendors
1 32 (34.41%) Microsoft
2 18 (19.35%) VMware
3 9 (9.68%) Veeam
4 8 (8.60%) Cisco
4 8 (8.60%) Dell
4 8 (8.60%) Oracle
5 7 (7.53%) Aruba
6 6 (6.45%) HP
6 6 (6.45%) Palo Alto
7 4 (4.30%) Meraki
7 4 (4.30%) Red Hat
8 3 (3.23%) EMC
9 2 (2.15%) Citrix
9 2 (2.15%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.15%) Google
9 2 (2.15%) SonicWALL
9 2 (2.15%) Splunk
9 2 (2.15%) Thales
10 1 (1.08%) 3PAR
10 1 (1.08%) SolarWinds