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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 88 42
Rank change year-on-year +51 -46 +9
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 436 84 290
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 4.15% 2.35% 4.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.81% 2.86% 5.57%
Number of salaries quoted 293 74 196
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% -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 7,508 2,932 5,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.40% 81.95% 76.47%
Number of salaries quoted 5,088 1,836 2,927
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 10 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 10 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% 41
Devon +18 76 £50,000 +11.11% 12
Bristol -1 67 £65,000 +8.33% 21
Wiltshire +24 52 £50,000 -11.11% 24
Dorset +19 27 £46,000 +17.95% 9
Somerset -17 18 £53,500 +12.63% 7
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 (3.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (3.21%) 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 (2.98%) AutoCAD
1 13 (2.98%) Civil 3D
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 83 (19.04%) Azure
2 71 (16.28%) AWS
3 49 (11.24%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (8.94%) Entra ID
5 20 (4.59%) GCP
6 15 (3.44%) OpenShift
7 11 (2.52%) Serverless
8 9 (2.06%) 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 (8.03%) DNS
2 32 (7.34%) DHCP
3 31 (7.11%) Firewall
4 15 (3.44%) VLAN
5 13 (2.98%) TCP/IP
6 11 (2.52%) VoIP
7 9 (2.06%) Network Security
7 9 (2.06%) VPN
7 9 (2.06%) Wireless
8 8 (1.83%) SAN
8 8 (1.83%) 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%) EIGRP
12 1 (0.23%) MPLS
12 1 (0.23%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.52%) MySQL
2 9 (2.06%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.83%) 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 32 (7.34%) GitLab
2 31 (7.11%) Git
3 23 (5.28%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.06%) Bitbucket
5 8 (1.83%) Robot Framework
5 8 (1.83%) TestRail
6 6 (1.38%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.38%) Selenium
7 5 (1.15%) JIRA
7 5 (1.15%) Subversion
8 1 (0.23%) Claude Code
General
1 51 (11.70%) Finance
2 49 (11.24%) Social Skills
3 21 (4.82%) Manufacturing
4 12 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (2.52%) Public Sector
5 11 (2.52%) Retail
6 10 (2.29%) Aerospace
6 10 (2.29%) 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
1 352 (80.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 113 (25.92%) Senior
3 105 (24.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 36 (8.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 36 (8.26%) Infrastructure Support
5 35 (8.03%) Support Engineer
6 34 (7.80%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 33 (7.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 33 (7.57%) DevOps Engineer
8 32 (7.34%) IT Engineer
9 28 (6.42%) Azure Engineer
10 27 (6.19%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 27 (6.19%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 21 (4.82%) Electrical Engineer
12 16 (3.67%) IT Support
13 15 (3.44%) IT Support Engineer
14 14 (3.21%) Lead
14 14 (3.21%) Test Engineer
15 12 (2.75%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
16 10 (2.29%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (13.53%) Terraform
2 15 (3.44%) 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 (4.36%) Cloud Native
2 13 (2.98%) Driving Licence
3 8 (1.83%) Data Centre
3 8 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (1.83%) 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%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 82 (18.81%) Linux
2 74 (16.97%) Windows
3 52 (11.93%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.75%) CentOS
5 8 (1.83%) Unix
6 4 (0.92%) Android
6 4 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.46%) Mac OS
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 (16.28%) DevOps
1 71 (16.28%) Infrastructure as Code
2 63 (14.45%) CI/CD
3 56 (12.84%) Containerisation
4 44 (10.09%) Agile
4 44 (10.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 41 (9.40%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (8.03%) Cybersecurity
7 31 (7.11%) Platform Engineering
8 29 (6.65%) Disaster Recovery
9 27 (6.19%) Infrastructure Automation
10 26 (5.96%) Collaborative Culture
11 21 (4.82%) ITIL
11 21 (4.82%) Project Delivery
12 20 (4.59%) Migration
12 20 (4.59%) Service Management
13 18 (4.13%) AI
13 18 (4.13%) Technical Leadership
14 17 (3.90%) Mentoring
14 17 (3.90%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 53 (12.16%) Python
2 46 (10.55%) Bash
3 33 (7.57%) PowerShell
4 17 (3.90%) Java
5 11 (2.52%) Go
6 8 (1.83%) Shell Script
6 8 (1.83%) 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
1 110 (25.23%) Security Cleared
2 57 (13.07%) DV Cleared
3 34 (7.80%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.75%) Degree
4 12 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (1.83%) AWS Certification
5 8 (1.83%) 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 (2.98%) Cyber Essentials
1 13 (2.98%) 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 (11.70%) Active Directory
2 38 (8.72%) Docker
3 33 (7.57%) Hyper-V
4 32 (7.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (2.29%) vSphere
6 8 (1.83%) VMware NSX
7 7 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.92%) Squid
10 3 (0.69%) NDS
11 2 (0.46%) KVM
11 2 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.23%) GPFS
12 1 (0.23%) Lustre
12 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 61 (13.99%) Kubernetes
2 50 (11.47%) Ansible
3 25 (5.73%) Grafana
4 17 (3.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (3.90%) Puppet
5 16 (3.67%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.52%) vCenter Server
7 10 (2.29%) Argo
8 7 (1.61%) Rancher
9 6 (1.38%) Kibana
9 6 (1.38%) logstash
10 5 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (1.15%) yum
10 5 (1.15%) ZABBIX
11 4 (0.92%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.92%) Istio
11 4 (0.92%) linkerd
11 4 (0.92%) Nessus
11 4 (0.92%) SCCM
11 4 (0.92%) SCOM
Vendors
1 94 (21.56%) Microsoft
2 39 (8.94%) VMware
3 14 (3.21%) Red Hat
3 14 (3.21%) Veeam
4 13 (2.98%) Cisco
4 13 (2.98%) Splunk
5 8 (1.83%) Citrix
5 8 (1.83%) 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