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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 67 51
Rank change year-on-year -1 -16 +23
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 118 137 291
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.21% 3.45% 4.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.11% 3.98% 5.54%
Number of salaries quoted 87 73 219
10th Percentile £42,500 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,875 £35,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,886 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £89,500 £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 3,798 3,439 5,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.02% 86.58% 88.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,566 1,679 4,054
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,850 £29,440
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% -0.09%
75th Percentile £67,744 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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
Bristol +6 32 £62,500 -10.39% 15
Gloucestershire +27 31 £55,000 -38.89% 23
Wiltshire -2 25 £55,000 +48.65% 21
Somerset -25 14 £50,000 +25.00% 10
Devon -9 9 £45,000 +42.31% 9
Dorset +4 6 £60,000 -22.74% 11
Cornwall - 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 3 (2.54%) Confluence
1 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.85%) IIS
2 1 (0.85%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 39 (33.05%) Azure
2 14 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
2 14 (11.86%) Entra ID
3 11 (9.32%) AWS
3 11 (9.32%) GitHub
3 11 (9.32%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (5.93%) OCI
6 6 (5.08%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.54%) IaaS
7 3 (2.54%) PaaS
7 3 (2.54%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.69%) GCP
8 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.69%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.85%) Copilot Studio
9 1 (0.85%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.85%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.86%) Firewall
1 14 (11.86%) VPN
2 12 (10.17%) DHCP
2 12 (10.17%) DNS
3 7 (5.93%) Network Security
3 7 (5.93%) SAN
4 4 (3.39%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.39%) VLAN
5 3 (2.54%) LTE
5 3 (2.54%) NAS
5 3 (2.54%) WAN
6 2 (1.69%) LAN
6 2 (1.69%) Wireless
7 1 (0.85%) BGP
7 1 (0.85%) Broadband
7 1 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.85%) Internet
7 1 (0.85%) Intranet
7 1 (0.85%) MPLS
7 1 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.54%) InfluxDB
2 2 (1.69%) Power BI
3 1 (0.85%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (6.78%) Git
2 7 (5.93%) GitLab
3 5 (4.24%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.39%) JIRA
4 4 (3.39%) Subversion
5 3 (2.54%) Robot Framework
5 3 (2.54%) TestRail
6 2 (1.69%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.85%) Selenium
General
1 32 (27.12%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.17%) Finance
3 8 (6.78%) Aerospace
4 7 (5.93%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.93%) Retail
5 5 (4.24%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.39%) Electronics
6 4 (3.39%) Law
6 4 (3.39%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.39%) Marketing
7 3 (2.54%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 78 (66.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (13.56%) Senior
3 14 (11.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 14 (11.86%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (11.86%) Platform Engineer
3 14 (11.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (11.02%) IT Engineer
4 13 (11.02%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (7.63%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (5.93%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (5.93%) Senior IT Engineer
7 6 (5.08%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 6 (5.08%) Security Engineer
8 5 (4.24%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.24%) IT Manager
9 4 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (3.39%) Linux Engineer
9 4 (3.39%) Principal Engineer
9 4 (3.39%) Principal Security Engineer
9 4 (3.39%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.32%) YAML
2 4 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (2.54%) OAuth
3 3 (2.54%) OAuth2
3 3 (2.54%) OpenID
3 3 (2.54%) SAML
4 1 (0.85%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.85%) Jinja
4 1 (0.85%) Keycloak
4 1 (0.85%) NETCONF
4 1 (0.85%) Playwright
4 1 (0.85%) pytest
4 1 (0.85%) REST
4 1 (0.85%) SOAP
4 1 (0.85%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.02%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.24%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.24%) YubiKey
3 4 (3.39%) Driving Licence
3 4 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.54%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.69%) CCTV
5 2 (1.69%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.69%) PMI
5 2 (1.69%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.69%) Replication
6 1 (0.85%) Digital Signage
6 1 (0.85%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.85%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 32 (27.12%) Windows
2 27 (22.88%) Windows Server
3 25 (21.19%) Linux
4 4 (3.39%) CentOS
4 4 (3.39%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.54%) Debian
6 2 (1.69%) Unix
7 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.85%) Rocky
7 1 (0.85%) Solaris
7 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (23.73%) DevOps
1 28 (23.73%) Infrastructure as Code
2 24 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (16.10%) Containerisation
3 19 (16.10%) Platform Engineering
4 17 (14.41%) CI/CD
5 14 (11.86%) Agile
5 14 (11.86%) Collaborative Working
6 12 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (8.47%) ITSM
8 9 (7.63%) ITIL
9 8 (6.78%) Collaborative Culture
9 8 (6.78%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (6.78%) Server Management
10 7 (5.93%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (5.93%) Vulnerability Management
11 6 (5.08%) High Availability
11 6 (5.08%) Patch Management
11 6 (5.08%) RBAC
11 6 (5.08%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 21 (17.80%) PowerShell
2 20 (16.95%) Python
3 18 (15.25%) Bash
4 12 (10.17%) Bicep
5 4 (3.39%) Go
5 4 (3.39%) Java
6 2 (1.69%) SQL
7 1 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.85%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (38.14%) Security Cleared
2 28 (23.73%) DV Cleared
3 14 (11.86%) Degree
4 13 (11.02%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.69%) CBAP
6 2 (1.69%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (5.93%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (4.24%) NIST
3 5 (4.24%) QA
3 5 (4.24%) SLA
4 4 (3.39%) GDPR
5 3 (2.54%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.69%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.85%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (22.88%) Active Directory
2 19 (16.10%) Docker
2 19 (16.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (11.86%) Hyper-V
4 7 (5.93%) vSphere
5 4 (3.39%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (2.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.85%) Ceph
8 1 (0.85%) Lustre
8 1 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (24.58%) Kubernetes
2 16 (13.56%) Ansible
3 12 (10.17%) Terraform
4 9 (7.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (4.24%) vCenter Server
6 4 (3.39%) Argo
6 4 (3.39%) Grafana
6 4 (3.39%) Rancher
6 4 (3.39%) yum
7 3 (2.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (2.54%) SCCM
7 3 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.69%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.69%) WSUS
9 1 (0.85%) Kibana
9 1 (0.85%) logstash
9 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.85%) Puppet
9 1 (0.85%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.85%) VxRail
Vendors
1 33 (27.97%) Microsoft
2 19 (16.10%) VMware
3 7 (5.93%) Oracle
3 7 (5.93%) Red Hat
4 6 (5.08%) Cisco
4 6 (5.08%) Splunk
5 5 (4.24%) Tenable
6 4 (3.39%) Dell
6 4 (3.39%) SAP
6 4 (3.39%) Veeam
7 3 (2.54%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.54%) HP
7 3 (2.54%) Meraki
7 3 (2.54%) Qualys
7 3 (2.54%) SolarWinds
7 3 (2.54%) Thales
8 2 (1.69%) Juniper
8 2 (1.69%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.69%) SonicWALL
9 1 (0.85%) Atlassian