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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 61 47
Rank change year-on-year -21 -14 +45
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 102 169 242
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.05% 3.76% 5.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.80% 4.53% 6.19%
Number of salaries quoted 85 102 185
10th Percentile £40,000 £28,500 £27,700
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,891 £51,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.05% +2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,886 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £91,250 £78,500
England median annual salary £59,761 £53,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.70% +1.90% -

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 3,647 3,733 3,910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 73.34% 83.16% 93.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,468 1,969 2,992
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,775
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £53,351
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.09% +4.61%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,300 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 19 December 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 19 December 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
Gloucestershire +24 28 £70,000 +33.33% 17
Bristol -12 27 £62,500 +4.17% 17
Devon 0 14 £42,750 +35.19% 6
Somerset -23 14 £50,000 +5.26% 11
Wiltshire -9 12 £55,000 +48.65% 19
Dorset +9 7 £60,000 +33.33% 4
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 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.96%) Confluence
3 1 (0.98%) IIS
3 1 (0.98%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 49 (48.04%) Azure
2 22 (21.57%) Entra ID
3 15 (14.71%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (12.75%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (10.78%) GitHub
5 11 (10.78%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (9.80%) AWS
7 7 (6.86%) OCI
8 6 (5.88%) Azure Stack
9 5 (4.90%) IaaS
9 5 (4.90%) PaaS
10 4 (3.92%) OpenShift
10 4 (3.92%) Serverless
11 3 (2.94%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.94%) Rubrik
12 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (1.96%) Mimecast
13 1 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
13 1 (0.98%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.76%) DHCP
1 12 (11.76%) DNS
2 11 (10.78%) Firewall
3 10 (9.80%) VPN
4 7 (6.86%) VLAN
5 6 (5.88%) SAN
5 6 (5.88%) TCP/IP
6 4 (3.92%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (2.94%) LAN
7 3 (2.94%) SD-WAN
7 3 (2.94%) WAN
7 3 (2.94%) Wireless
8 2 (1.96%) LTE
9 1 (0.98%) InfiniBand
9 1 (0.98%) Internet
9 1 (0.98%) Intranet
9 1 (0.98%) NAS
9 1 (0.98%) Network Security
9 1 (0.98%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.90%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.96%) InfluxDB
2 2 (1.96%) Power BI
3 1 (0.98%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (4.90%) Git
2 3 (2.94%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.94%) JIRA
2 3 (2.94%) Subversion
3 2 (1.96%) GitLab
3 2 (1.96%) Robot Framework
3 2 (1.96%) TestRail
4 1 (0.98%) Bitbucket
General
1 25 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 8 (7.84%) Finance
4 5 (4.90%) Aerospace
5 4 (3.92%) Electronics
5 4 (3.92%) Law
5 4 (3.92%) Manufacturing
5 4 (3.92%) Marketing
5 4 (3.92%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.94%) Retail
7 2 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Military
Job Titles
1 60 (58.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (14.71%) IT Engineer
2 15 (14.71%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (13.73%) Platform Engineer
4 12 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (11.76%) Senior
5 8 (7.84%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 8 (7.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (6.86%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (6.86%) Infrastructure Support
7 6 (5.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (5.88%) Support Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) IT Manager
9 4 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (2.94%) IT Support
10 3 (2.94%) IT Support Engineer
10 3 (2.94%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 3 (2.94%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.78%) YAML
2 3 (2.94%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.96%) OAuth
3 2 (1.96%) OAuth2
3 2 (1.96%) OpenID
3 2 (1.96%) SAML
4 1 (0.98%) OLE
4 1 (0.98%) REST
4 1 (0.98%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.82%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.94%) BYOD
6 2 (1.96%) CCTV
6 2 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.96%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.96%) PMI
6 2 (1.96%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.98%) Digital Signage
7 1 (0.98%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.98%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.98%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (32.35%) Windows
2 29 (28.43%) Windows Server
3 21 (20.59%) Linux
4 6 (5.88%) Rocky
4 6 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (3.92%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.94%) CentOS
6 3 (2.94%) Debian
7 1 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.98%) Solaris
7 1 (0.98%) Unix
7 1 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (21.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 21 (20.59%) Containerisation
3 20 (19.61%) DevOps
4 18 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
5 16 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (12.75%) CI/CD
7 8 (7.84%) Agile
7 8 (7.84%) Collaborative Working
7 8 (7.84%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (7.84%) ITSM
8 7 (6.86%) ITIL
8 7 (6.86%) Server Management
9 6 (5.88%) Cloud Security
10 5 (4.90%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (4.90%) Mentoring
10 5 (4.90%) People Management
10 5 (4.90%) Scrum
10 5 (4.90%) Vulnerability Management
11 4 (3.92%) Patch Management
11 4 (3.92%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 19 (18.63%) PowerShell
2 13 (12.75%) Python
3 12 (11.76%) Bash
3 12 (11.76%) Bicep
4 3 (2.94%) Go
4 3 (2.94%) Java
4 3 (2.94%) SQL
5 1 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 33 (32.35%) Security Cleared
2 21 (20.59%) DV Cleared
3 15 (14.71%) SC Cleared
4 13 (12.75%) Degree
5 7 (6.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (5.88%) Azure Certification
6 6 (5.88%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.96%) CBAP
7 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.96%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (4.90%) SLA
2 4 (3.92%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (3.92%) GDPR
2 4 (3.92%) QA
3 2 (1.96%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.96%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (27.45%) Active Directory
2 20 (19.61%) Hyper-V
3 16 (15.69%) Docker
4 12 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (7.84%) vSphere
6 3 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.98%) Ceph
7 1 (0.98%) Lustre
7 1 (0.98%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.98%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.98%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 28 (27.45%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (8.82%) Ansible
3 9 (8.82%) Terraform
4 4 (3.92%) SCCM
5 3 (2.94%) Argo
5 3 (2.94%) Rancher
5 3 (2.94%) vCenter Server
5 3 (2.94%) yum
6 2 (1.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.96%) Grafana
6 2 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.98%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.98%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.98%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 28 (27.45%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.75%) VMware
3 7 (6.86%) Dell
3 7 (6.86%) Oracle
4 6 (5.88%) Veeam
5 5 (4.90%) HP
5 5 (4.90%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.92%) Cisco
6 4 (3.92%) SAP
7 3 (2.94%) Aruba
7 3 (2.94%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.94%) Meraki
7 3 (2.94%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.96%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.96%) SonicWALL
8 2 (1.96%) Splunk
8 2 (1.96%) Thales
9 1 (0.98%) Citrix
9 1 (0.98%) Google
9 1 (0.98%) Juniper