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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 92 36
Rank change year-on-year +54 -56 -7
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 416 78 357
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 4.15% 2.23% 4.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.86% 2.73% 6.26%
Number of salaries quoted 289 69 242
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,891 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% +11.78% +5.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £58,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.50% +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 7,105 2,861 5,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 70.85% 81.86% 75.93%
Number of salaries quoted 4,847 1,810 3,429
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,750 £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 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +23 175 £65,000 -18.75% 71
Devon +16 70 £50,000 +5.26% 7
Bristol +7 68 £65,000 +8.33% 33
Wiltshire +25 48 £50,000 -16.67% 17
Dorset +17 26 £63,750 +63.46% 8
Somerset -19 20 £53,500 +12.63% 11
Cornwall - 8 £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 20 (4.81%) SharePoint
2 19 (4.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.92%) Confluence
4 5 (1.20%) Apache
4 5 (1.20%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.72%) IIS
6 1 (0.24%) Drupal
6 1 (0.24%) nginx
6 1 (0.24%) Site Server
6 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (3.13%) AutoCAD
1 13 (3.13%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 79 (18.99%) Azure
2 73 (17.55%) AWS
3 49 (11.78%) Microsoft 365
4 35 (8.41%) Entra ID
5 19 (4.57%) GCP
6 16 (3.85%) OpenShift
7 13 (3.13%) Serverless
8 10 (2.40%) GitHub
8 10 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (1.92%) IaaS
11 6 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.44%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.20%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.20%) PaaS
13 4 (0.96%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 34 (8.17%) Firewall
2 32 (7.69%) DNS
3 30 (7.21%) DHCP
4 18 (4.33%) TCP/IP
4 18 (4.33%) VLAN
4 18 (4.33%) WAN
5 15 (3.61%) LAN
6 11 (2.64%) VoIP
7 10 (2.40%) Network Security
8 9 (2.16%) VPN
9 7 (1.68%) Wireless
10 6 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (1.20%) Software-Defined Networking
12 4 (0.96%) IPv4
12 4 (0.96%) SAN
13 3 (0.72%) NAS
13 3 (0.72%) SD-WAN
14 2 (0.48%) Cisco Firepower
14 2 (0.48%) Unified Communications
14 2 (0.48%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.88%) MySQL
2 9 (2.16%) InfluxDB
2 9 (2.16%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.72%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.72%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.72%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.24%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.24%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 32 (7.69%) GitLab
2 27 (6.49%) Git
3 24 (5.77%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.16%) Bitbucket
5 8 (1.92%) Robot Framework
5 8 (1.92%) TestRail
6 7 (1.68%) JIRA
7 6 (1.44%) Cypress.io
7 6 (1.44%) Selenium
8 3 (0.72%) Subversion
9 1 (0.24%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.24%) Gatling
9 1 (0.24%) JMeter
9 1 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 45 (10.82%) Social Skills
2 43 (10.34%) Finance
3 18 (4.33%) Manufacturing
4 15 (3.61%) Aerospace
5 12 (2.88%) Public Sector
5 12 (2.88%) Retail
6 11 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (0.96%) Legal
9 3 (0.72%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.48%) Automotive
10 2 (0.48%) Banking
10 2 (0.48%) Electronics
10 2 (0.48%) Marketing
11 1 (0.24%) Advertising
11 1 (0.24%) Military
11 1 (0.24%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 330 (79.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 104 (25.00%) Senior
3 94 (22.60%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 42 (10.10%) Infrastructure Support
5 39 (9.38%) Support Engineer
6 36 (8.65%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 35 (8.41%) IT Engineer
8 34 (8.17%) Cloud Engineer
9 31 (7.45%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 28 (6.73%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 25 (6.01%) DevOps Engineer
12 23 (5.53%) Azure Engineer
13 22 (5.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
14 17 (4.09%) IT Support
14 17 (4.09%) IT Support Engineer
15 16 (3.85%) Electrical Engineer
16 14 (3.37%) Lead
16 14 (3.37%) Test Engineer
17 13 (3.13%) Linux Engineer
17 13 (3.13%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (14.42%) Terraform
2 13 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (1.44%) Playwright
3 6 (1.44%) pytest
4 5 (1.20%) Apache NiFi
5 4 (0.96%) boto
6 3 (0.72%) Keycloak
6 3 (0.72%) LDAP
6 3 (0.72%) RESTful
6 3 (0.72%) SailPoint
7 2 (0.48%) 802.1X
7 2 (0.48%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (0.48%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (0.48%) XMPP
7 2 (0.48%) YAML
8 1 (0.24%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.24%) Node.js
8 1 (0.24%) React
8 1 (0.24%) Sass
8 1 (0.24%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.81%) Cloud Native
2 11 (2.64%) Driving Licence
3 10 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (1.92%) Data Centre
5 7 (1.68%) Product Ownership
5 7 (1.68%) Replication
6 5 (1.20%) PKI
7 4 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (0.96%) Onboarding
7 4 (0.96%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.72%) CCTV
9 2 (0.48%) BYOD
9 2 (0.48%) Cyberattack
9 2 (0.48%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.48%) FlexPod
9 2 (0.48%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.48%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.48%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.48%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.24%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 86 (20.67%) Linux
2 74 (17.79%) Windows
3 52 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.88%) CentOS
5 6 (1.44%) Unix
6 4 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.72%) VMS
8 2 (0.48%) Android
8 2 (0.48%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.48%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.48%) Rocky
8 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (15.87%) Infrastructure as Code
2 65 (15.63%) DevOps
3 60 (14.42%) CI/CD
4 53 (12.74%) Containerisation
5 42 (10.10%) Agile
5 42 (10.10%) Continuous Improvement
6 40 (9.62%) Cybersecurity
7 34 (8.17%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (7.21%) Infrastructure Automation
9 27 (6.49%) Disaster Recovery
10 26 (6.25%) Platform Engineering
10 26 (6.25%) Project Delivery
11 23 (5.53%) Collaborative Culture
12 18 (4.33%) Collaborative Working
12 18 (4.33%) ITIL
12 18 (4.33%) Mentoring
12 18 (4.33%) Test Automation
13 17 (4.09%) High Availability
14 16 (3.85%) Observability
14 16 (3.85%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 46 (11.06%) Python
2 39 (9.38%) Bash
3 29 (6.97%) PowerShell
4 13 (3.13%) Java
4 13 (3.13%) SQL
5 10 (2.40%) Go
6 6 (1.44%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.96%) Rust
8 3 (0.72%) Bicep
8 3 (0.72%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.48%) C#
9 2 (0.48%) C++
10 1 (0.24%) PHP
Qualifications
1 101 (24.28%) Security Cleared
2 50 (12.02%) DV Cleared
3 35 (8.41%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.13%) Degree
5 11 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (2.16%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 8 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (1.68%) Chartered Engineer
9 5 (1.20%) CCNA
9 5 (1.20%) RHCE
10 4 (0.96%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.96%) OSCP
10 4 (0.96%) RHCSA
11 3 (0.72%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.72%) CCNP
11 3 (0.72%) MCSE
11 3 (0.72%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.48%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 11 (2.64%) QA
3 8 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.68%) GDPR
5 2 (0.48%) SLA
5 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 51 (12.26%) Active Directory
2 38 (9.13%) Docker
3 34 (8.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (7.93%) Hyper-V
5 10 (2.40%) vSphere
6 8 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.44%) VMware NSX
8 5 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.96%) Squid
10 3 (0.72%) KVM
10 3 (0.72%) NDS
11 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.24%) Firmware
12 1 (0.24%) GPFS
12 1 (0.24%) Lustre
12 1 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 59 (14.18%) Kubernetes
2 52 (12.50%) Ansible
3 23 (5.53%) Grafana
4 20 (4.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (3.13%) Prometheus
5 13 (3.13%) Puppet
6 9 (2.16%) vCenter Server
7 7 (1.68%) Argo
8 6 (1.44%) FortiGate
8 6 (1.44%) Kibana
8 6 (1.44%) logstash
8 6 (1.44%) Packer
8 6 (1.44%) Rancher
9 5 (1.20%) ZABBIX
10 4 (0.96%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.96%) Istio
10 4 (0.96%) linkerd
10 4 (0.96%) Mesos
10 4 (0.96%) VxRail
11 3 (0.72%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 87 (20.91%) Microsoft
2 41 (9.86%) VMware
3 18 (4.33%) Red Hat
3 18 (4.33%) Veeam
4 14 (3.37%) Splunk
5 13 (3.13%) Cisco
6 9 (2.16%) Oracle
7 6 (1.44%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.44%) Fortinet
8 4 (0.96%) Citrix
8 4 (0.96%) HP
8 4 (0.96%) Juniper
9 3 (0.72%) Aruba
9 3 (0.72%) BeyondTrust
9 3 (0.72%) CyberArk
9 3 (0.72%) ForgeRock
9 3 (0.72%) Google
9 3 (0.72%) NetIQ
9 3 (0.72%) OpenText
9 3 (0.72%) Palo Alto