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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 50 48
Rank change year-on-year -30 -2 +60
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 104 227 252
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.31% 3.96% 5.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.02% 5.06% 6.09%
Number of salaries quoted 90 143 191
10th Percentile £39,850 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £45,313 £37,000 £40,443
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,695 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.39% - +7.53%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,272 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £78,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -2.78% +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 3,440 4,484 4,140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 76.46% 78.23% 94.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,302 2,480 3,169
10th Percentile £27,707 £30,000 £30,986
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,125 £69,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,600 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%

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 25 November 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 25 November 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 -9 31 £62,500 +13.64% 19
Gloucestershire +15 23 £80,000 +52.38% 24
Somerset -24 15 £47,500 -9.52% 8
Devon -7 14 £31,000 -31.11% 3
Wiltshire -9 12 £55,000 +22.22% 13
Dorset +9 8 £60,000 +33.33% 6
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 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.96%) Civil 3D
1 1 (0.96%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 57 (54.81%) Azure
2 27 (25.96%) Entra ID
3 21 (20.19%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (11.54%) AWS
4 12 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (10.58%) GitHub
5 11 (10.58%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (8.65%) IaaS
7 8 (7.69%) Azure Stack
8 7 (6.73%) OCI
8 7 (6.73%) PaaS
9 6 (5.77%) Serverless
10 5 (4.81%) Rubrik
11 4 (3.85%) OpenShift
12 2 (1.92%) Mimecast
12 2 (1.92%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.96%) Azure Key Vault
13 1 (0.96%) GCP
13 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 18 (17.31%) Firewall
2 12 (11.54%) DHCP
2 12 (11.54%) DNS
3 11 (10.58%) VPN
4 10 (9.62%) VLAN
5 9 (8.65%) SD-WAN
6 8 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (6.73%) SAN
7 7 (6.73%) WAN
8 6 (5.77%) LAN
8 6 (5.77%) TCP/IP
9 4 (3.85%) Wireless
10 2 (1.92%) WLAN
11 1 (0.96%) InfiniBand
11 1 (0.96%) NAS
11 1 (0.96%) Network Security
11 1 (0.96%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.62%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.92%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.96%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.92%) Robot Framework
2 2 (1.92%) TestRail
3 1 (0.96%) Git
3 1 (0.96%) GitLab
3 1 (0.96%) Subversion
General
1 20 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.42%) Public Sector
3 6 (5.77%) Legal
4 4 (3.85%) Finance
4 4 (3.85%) Law
4 4 (3.85%) Local Government
5 3 (2.88%) Manufacturing
5 3 (2.88%) Retail
6 2 (1.92%) Advertising
6 2 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.96%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.96%) Electronics
7 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.96%) Marketing
7 1 (0.96%) Military
7 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (61.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 21 (20.19%) IT Engineer
2 21 (20.19%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (15.38%) Senior
4 14 (13.46%) Platform Engineer
5 13 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (9.62%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (7.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 8 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support
8 7 (6.73%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (6.73%) Support Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 5 (4.81%) IT Support
10 5 (4.81%) IT Support Engineer
11 4 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (3.85%) Civil Engineer
11 4 (3.85%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 3 (2.88%) Development Engineer
12 3 (2.88%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.58%) YAML
2 5 (4.81%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.92%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.65%) Data Centre
3 8 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.81%) BYOD
5 4 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.88%) NHS
7 2 (1.92%) CCTV
7 2 (1.92%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.96%) Digital Signage
8 1 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.96%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.96%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (36.54%) Windows
2 34 (32.69%) Windows Server
3 21 (20.19%) Linux
4 9 (8.65%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (7.69%) Rocky
6 4 (3.85%) Ubuntu
7 3 (2.88%) CentOS
7 3 (2.88%) Debian
8 1 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (23.08%) Containerisation
2 18 (17.31%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (16.35%) DevOps
3 17 (16.35%) Platform Engineering
4 13 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 13 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (7.69%) ITIL
5 8 (7.69%) Mentoring
5 8 (7.69%) Server Management
6 7 (6.73%) Cloud Security
6 7 (6.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (6.73%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (6.73%) ITSM
7 6 (5.77%) Vulnerability Management
8 5 (4.81%) Business Continuity
8 5 (4.81%) Predictive Analysis
8 5 (4.81%) Preventative Maintenance
9 4 (3.85%) Agile
9 4 (3.85%) Project Delivery
9 4 (3.85%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 16 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 12 (11.54%) Bicep
3 8 (7.69%) Python
4 7 (6.73%) Bash
5 3 (2.88%) SQL
6 1 (0.96%) Go
6 1 (0.96%) Java
Qualifications
1 25 (24.04%) Security Cleared
2 19 (18.27%) DV Cleared
3 13 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 9 (8.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (7.69%) Azure Certification
5 8 (7.69%) Degree
5 8 (7.69%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (2.88%) NVQ Level 3
6 3 (2.88%) Postgraduate
7 2 (1.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.92%) CCIE
7 2 (1.92%) CCNA
7 2 (1.92%) CCNP
7 2 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.96%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (5.77%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (4.81%) SLA
4 4 (3.85%) GDPR
5 3 (2.88%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.88%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 35 (33.65%) Active Directory
2 24 (23.08%) Hyper-V
3 16 (15.38%) Docker
4 12 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (9.62%) vSphere
6 3 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.88%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.92%) XenApp
8 1 (0.96%) Ceph
8 1 (0.96%) Lustre
8 1 (0.96%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.96%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (27.88%) Kubernetes
2 13 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (8.65%) Terraform
4 7 (6.73%) Ansible
5 5 (4.81%) SCCM
6 3 (2.88%) vCenter Server
7 2 (1.92%) Grafana
8 1 (0.96%) Argo
8 1 (0.96%) Rancher
8 1 (0.96%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.96%) SmoothWall
8 1 (0.96%) yum
Vendors
1 31 (29.81%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.42%) VMware
3 8 (7.69%) Dell
3 8 (7.69%) Oracle
3 8 (7.69%) Veeam
4 7 (6.73%) Aruba
5 6 (5.77%) Cisco
5 6 (5.77%) HP
6 5 (4.81%) Meraki
6 5 (4.81%) Red Hat
7 4 (3.85%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.88%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.88%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.92%) Citrix
9 2 (1.92%) SonicWALL
9 2 (1.92%) Splunk
9 2 (1.92%) Thales
10 1 (0.96%) EMC
10 1 (0.96%) Google
10 1 (0.96%) ServiceNow