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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 95 41
Rank change year-on-year +37 -54 -12
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 177 57 406
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.50% 2.17% 4.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.59% 2.43% 5.68%
Number of salaries quoted 119 44 312
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,125 £50,938 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,246 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.21% +33.16% +6.32%
75th Percentile £65,000 £88,125 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £97,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,320 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.58% +10.64% -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 4,932 2,345 7,154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 69.71% 89.40% 84.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,310 1,520 5,482
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,660 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% +7.18% -2.86%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,568 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

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 10 April 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 April 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 +31 71 £55,000 -42.11% 29
Bristol -1 39 £61,250 -14.92% 11
Wiltshire +4 32 £55,000 +6.59% 11
Devon -14 14 £42,750 -25.25% 4
Somerset -14 10 £55,000 - 5
Dorset -14 9 £60,000 -28.36% 5
Cornwall - 2 £47,000 -
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 8 (4.52%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.95%) Confluence
2 7 (3.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.26%) IIS
4 2 (1.13%) Apache
4 2 (1.13%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.56%) Drupal
5 1 (0.56%) nginx
5 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.26%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.56%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 36 (20.34%) Azure
2 26 (14.69%) AWS
3 19 (10.73%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (6.78%) Entra ID
5 11 (6.21%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (5.08%) GitHub
6 9 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (5.08%) OpenShift
7 7 (3.95%) GCP
8 6 (3.39%) IaaS
9 5 (2.82%) PaaS
10 4 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.69%) Serverless
12 2 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (1.13%) Rubrik
13 1 (0.56%) AWS Control Tower
13 1 (0.56%) Azure AKS
13 1 (0.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Purview
13 1 (0.56%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 28 (15.82%) Firewall
2 22 (12.43%) WAN
3 21 (11.86%) DNS
4 18 (10.17%) DHCP
4 18 (10.17%) LAN
5 14 (7.91%) VPN
6 12 (6.78%) TCP/IP
7 10 (5.65%) VLAN
8 9 (5.08%) Network Security
8 9 (5.08%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (3.39%) Unified Communications
9 6 (3.39%) WebEx
10 5 (2.82%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (2.82%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (2.82%) SAN
11 3 (1.69%) LTE
11 3 (1.69%) NAS
11 3 (1.69%) SD-WAN
12 2 (1.13%) Internet
13 1 (0.56%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.39%) InfluxDB
2 3 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.69%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.13%) MySQL
3 2 (1.13%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.56%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (0.56%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.56%) Power BI
4 1 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (9.60%) Git
2 15 (8.47%) GitLab
3 13 (7.34%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.95%) JIRA
5 5 (2.82%) Robot Framework
5 5 (2.82%) Subversion
5 5 (2.82%) TestRail
6 4 (2.26%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.69%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.69%) Selenium
8 1 (0.56%) Gatling
8 1 (0.56%) JMeter
8 1 (0.56%) Vagrant
General
1 30 (16.95%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.60%) Finance
3 15 (8.47%) Aerospace
4 12 (6.78%) Retail
5 10 (5.65%) Telecoms
6 9 (5.08%) Marketing
6 9 (5.08%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.95%) Electronics
7 7 (3.95%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.82%) Banking
10 3 (1.69%) Automotive
11 2 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.13%) Law
12 1 (0.56%) Advertising
12 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 125 (70.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 31 (17.51%) Senior
3 26 (14.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 23 (12.99%) IT Engineer
5 21 (11.86%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (6.78%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (6.78%) Infrastructure Support
7 11 (6.21%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 11 (6.21%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (5.65%) Support Engineer
9 9 (5.08%) Security Engineer
10 8 (4.52%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 8 (4.52%) Senior IT Engineer
11 7 (3.95%) Analyst
11 7 (3.95%) Linux Engineer
11 7 (3.95%) Senior Security Engineer
12 6 (3.39%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 6 (3.39%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
12 6 (3.39%) IT Support
12 6 (3.39%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (3.39%) XMPP
1 6 (3.39%) YAML
2 3 (1.69%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (1.69%) Keycloak
2 3 (1.69%) OAuth
2 3 (1.69%) OAuth2
2 3 (1.69%) OpenID
2 3 (1.69%) Playwright
2 3 (1.69%) pytest
2 3 (1.69%) SAML
3 2 (1.13%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.13%) REST
3 2 (1.13%) SOAP
4 1 (0.56%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.56%) Jinja
4 1 (0.56%) Memcached
4 1 (0.56%) NETCONF
4 1 (0.56%) RESTful
4 1 (0.56%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.78%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.21%) Driving Licence
3 10 (5.65%) Replication
4 9 (5.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.39%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.39%) FlexPod
5 6 (3.39%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.39%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (2.82%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.82%) YubiKey
7 4 (2.26%) CCTV
7 4 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.69%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.13%) BYOD
9 2 (1.13%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.13%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.13%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 50 (28.25%) Linux
2 45 (25.42%) Windows
3 29 (16.38%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.95%) CentOS
5 3 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.13%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.13%) Unix
6 2 (1.13%) VMS
7 1 (0.56%) Solaris
7 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (23.16%) Infrastructure as Code
2 37 (20.90%) DevOps
3 31 (17.51%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (14.12%) CI/CD
5 22 (12.43%) Agile
6 21 (11.86%) Containerisation
7 20 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (10.73%) Infrastructure Automation
9 17 (9.60%) Collaborative Working
9 17 (9.60%) Cybersecurity
10 14 (7.91%) Collaborative Culture
11 13 (7.34%) Platform Engineering
12 11 (6.21%) ITIL
12 11 (6.21%) Mentoring
13 10 (5.65%) Business Intelligence
13 10 (5.65%) Disaster Recovery
13 10 (5.65%) Test Automation
14 9 (5.08%) High Availability
14 9 (5.08%) Vulnerability Management
15 8 (4.52%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (17.51%) Python
2 26 (14.69%) Bash
3 24 (13.56%) PowerShell
4 8 (4.52%) Bicep
5 7 (3.95%) SQL
6 6 (3.39%) Go
6 6 (3.39%) Java
7 3 (1.69%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.56%) PHP
8 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 69 (38.98%) Security Cleared
2 43 (24.29%) DV Cleared
3 26 (14.69%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.52%) Degree
4 8 (4.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (2.26%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.13%) CBAP
7 2 (1.13%) CCNA
7 2 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.13%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.13%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.13%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.56%) CCNP
8 1 (0.56%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.56%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.56%) RHCE
8 1 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (8.47%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (3.95%) GDPR
4 5 (2.82%) NIST
4 5 (2.82%) QA
5 3 (1.69%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.69%) SLA
6 2 (1.13%) NCSC
6 2 (1.13%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (18.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (14.69%) Active Directory
3 25 (14.12%) Docker
4 21 (11.86%) Hyper-V
5 10 (5.65%) vSphere
6 6 (3.39%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (2.82%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (2.82%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (2.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.56%) Ceph
9 1 (0.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.56%) Firmware
9 1 (0.56%) KVM
9 1 (0.56%) Lustre
9 1 (0.56%) QEMU
9 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.56%) Xen
Systems Management
1 36 (20.34%) Ansible
2 34 (19.21%) Kubernetes
3 27 (15.25%) Terraform
4 13 (7.34%) Grafana
5 11 (6.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (3.95%) vCenter Server
7 6 (3.39%) Argo
7 6 (3.39%) Cisco CUCM
7 6 (3.39%) Rancher
8 5 (2.82%) Puppet
8 5 (2.82%) yum
9 3 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.69%) Kibana
9 3 (1.69%) logstash
9 3 (1.69%) NetBackup
9 3 (1.69%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.69%) VxRail
10 2 (1.13%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 48 (27.12%) Microsoft
2 34 (19.21%) VMware
3 18 (10.17%) Cisco
4 14 (7.91%) Splunk
5 12 (6.78%) Fortinet
6 10 (5.65%) Red Hat
7 8 (4.52%) Palo Alto
8 7 (3.95%) Veeam
9 6 (3.39%) Dell
9 6 (3.39%) NetApp
10 5 (2.82%) HP
10 5 (2.82%) Tenable
11 4 (2.26%) Juniper
11 4 (2.26%) Meraki
11 4 (2.26%) SAP
12 3 (1.69%) Atlassian
12 3 (1.69%) BeyondTrust
12 3 (1.69%) Google
12 3 (1.69%) Qualys
13 2 (1.13%) Thales