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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 109 45
Rank change year-on-year +48 -64 -16
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 167 57 377
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.46% 2.10% 4.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.51% 2.34% 5.40%
Number of salaries quoted 114 44 294
10th Percentile £41,925 £46,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £49,063 £51,513 £41,472
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £71,991 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.60% +42.56% +6.32%
75th Percentile £65,000 £90,000 £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 4,753 2,437 6,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 69.90% 89.93% 84.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3,206 1,499 5,383
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,950
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.95% -2.95%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £56,875 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.21% +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 2 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 2 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 +45 65 £55,000 -40.54% 29
Bristol -7 37 £60,000 -16.66% 11
Wiltshire +9 33 £55,000 +6.59% 11
Devon -7 12 £42,750 -30.65% 4
Somerset -12 11 £55,000 - 5
Dorset -18 7 £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 5 (2.99%) Confluence
1 5 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.20%) Apache
3 2 (1.20%) IIS
3 2 (1.20%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.60%) Drupal
4 1 (0.60%) nginx
4 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.40%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.60%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 36 (21.56%) Azure
2 23 (13.77%) AWS
3 16 (9.58%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (7.19%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (7.19%) Entra ID
5 9 (5.39%) GitHub
5 9 (5.39%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (4.79%) OpenShift
7 5 (2.99%) GCP
8 3 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.20%) IaaS
9 2 (1.20%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.20%) OCI
9 2 (1.20%) PaaS
9 2 (1.20%) Serverless
10 1 (0.60%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.60%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.60%) CloudFront
10 1 (0.60%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (14.97%) Firewall
2 20 (11.98%) DNS
3 19 (11.38%) DHCP
4 17 (10.18%) WAN
5 14 (8.38%) LAN
6 13 (7.78%) VPN
7 10 (5.99%) Network Security
7 10 (5.99%) TCP/IP
8 9 (5.39%) VLAN
9 6 (3.59%) Unified Communications
9 6 (3.59%) WebEx
9 6 (3.59%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (2.99%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (2.99%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (2.99%) SAN
11 3 (1.80%) LTE
11 3 (1.80%) NAS
12 2 (1.20%) SD-WAN
13 1 (0.60%) Ethernet VPN
13 1 (0.60%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.59%) InfluxDB
2 2 (1.20%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.60%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (0.60%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.60%) MySQL
3 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.60%) Power BI
3 1 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (9.58%) Git
2 14 (8.38%) GitLab
3 11 (6.59%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.59%) JIRA
5 5 (2.99%) Robot Framework
5 5 (2.99%) Subversion
5 5 (2.99%) TestRail
6 3 (1.80%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.80%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.80%) Selenium
7 1 (0.60%) Gatling
7 1 (0.60%) JMeter
7 1 (0.60%) Vagrant
General
1 31 (18.56%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.18%) Finance
3 14 (8.38%) Aerospace
4 13 (7.78%) Retail
5 10 (5.99%) Telecoms
6 9 (5.39%) Marketing
6 9 (5.39%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.19%) Electronics
7 7 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.19%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.99%) Banking
9 4 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.40%) Law
10 3 (1.80%) Automotive
11 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.60%) Advertising
12 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.60%) Legal
12 1 (0.60%) Military
Job Titles
1 119 (71.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 29 (17.37%) Senior
3 24 (14.37%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 20 (11.98%) IT Engineer
5 18 (10.78%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (7.78%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 13 (7.78%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (7.19%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (5.39%) Security Engineer
9 8 (4.79%) Senior IT Engineer
10 7 (4.19%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
11 6 (3.59%) Collaboration Engineer
11 6 (3.59%) Infrastructure Support
11 6 (3.59%) Linux Engineer
11 6 (3.59%) Senior Security Engineer
11 6 (3.59%) Support Engineer
12 5 (2.99%) Analyst
12 5 (2.99%) IT Manager
12 5 (2.99%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (2.99%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.19%) YAML
2 6 (3.59%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (3.59%) XMPP
3 3 (1.80%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (1.80%) Keycloak
3 3 (1.80%) OAuth
3 3 (1.80%) OAuth2
3 3 (1.80%) OpenID
3 3 (1.80%) Playwright
3 3 (1.80%) pytest
3 3 (1.80%) SAML
4 2 (1.20%) REST
4 2 (1.20%) SOAP
5 1 (0.60%) .NET
5 1 (0.60%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.60%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.60%) Jinja
5 1 (0.60%) Memcached
5 1 (0.60%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.60%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.78%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.99%) Driving Licence
3 9 (5.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.79%) Replication
5 6 (3.59%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.59%) FlexPod
5 6 (3.59%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.59%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (2.99%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.99%) YubiKey
7 4 (2.40%) CCTV
7 4 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.80%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.20%) PMI
9 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.60%) BYOD
10 1 (0.60%) Digital Signage
10 1 (0.60%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 43 (25.75%) Linux
2 42 (25.15%) Windows
3 30 (17.96%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.19%) CentOS
5 2 (1.20%) Unix
5 2 (1.20%) VMS
6 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.60%) Solaris
6 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (23.35%) Infrastructure as Code
2 34 (20.36%) DevOps
3 29 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (13.77%) CI/CD
5 20 (11.98%) Agile
6 19 (11.38%) Containerisation
7 17 (10.18%) Infrastructure Automation
8 16 (9.58%) Collaborative Working
8 16 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (8.98%) Cybersecurity
10 14 (8.38%) Platform Engineering
11 13 (7.78%) Collaborative Culture
12 11 (6.59%) ITIL
13 10 (5.99%) Business Intelligence
14 9 (5.39%) Disaster Recovery
14 9 (5.39%) ITSM
14 9 (5.39%) Mentoring
14 9 (5.39%) Test Automation
15 8 (4.79%) SDLC
15 8 (4.79%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (17.37%) Python
2 25 (14.97%) Bash
3 23 (13.77%) PowerShell
4 9 (5.39%) Bicep
5 5 (2.99%) Go
5 5 (2.99%) Java
6 3 (1.80%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.20%) SQL
8 1 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.60%) PHP
8 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 70 (41.92%) Security Cleared
2 42 (25.15%) DV Cleared
3 27 (16.17%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.39%) Degree
5 8 (4.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (2.40%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.20%) CBAP
9 2 (1.20%) CCNA
9 2 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.20%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (1.20%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.60%) CCNP
10 1 (0.60%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.60%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.60%) RHCE
10 1 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (7.19%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.59%) QA
4 5 (2.99%) NIST
4 5 (2.99%) SLA
5 4 (2.40%) GDPR
6 3 (1.80%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.20%) NCSC
7 2 (1.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (18.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (14.37%) Active Directory
2 24 (14.37%) Docker
3 20 (11.98%) Hyper-V
4 13 (7.78%) vSphere
5 5 (2.99%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 5 (2.99%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (2.99%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 4 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.60%) Ceph
7 1 (0.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.60%) Firmware
7 1 (0.60%) Lustre
7 1 (0.60%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 33 (19.76%) Ansible
2 32 (19.16%) Kubernetes
3 24 (14.37%) Terraform
4 13 (7.78%) Grafana
5 8 (4.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (4.79%) vCenter Server
6 6 (3.59%) Argo
6 6 (3.59%) Cisco CUCM
7 5 (2.99%) Rancher
7 5 (2.99%) yum
8 4 (2.40%) Puppet
9 3 (1.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.80%) Kibana
9 3 (1.80%) logstash
9 3 (1.80%) NetBackup
9 3 (1.80%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.80%) VxRail
10 2 (1.20%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 47 (28.14%) Microsoft
2 32 (19.16%) VMware
3 19 (11.38%) Cisco
4 14 (8.38%) Splunk
5 11 (6.59%) Fortinet
6 8 (4.79%) Palo Alto
6 8 (4.79%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.59%) Dell
7 6 (3.59%) NetApp
8 5 (2.99%) Meraki
8 5 (2.99%) Tenable
9 4 (2.40%) HP
9 4 (2.40%) Juniper
9 4 (2.40%) SAP
9 4 (2.40%) Veeam
10 3 (1.80%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.80%) Oracle
10 3 (1.80%) Qualys
10 3 (1.80%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.80%) Thales