Infrastructure Management Job Trends in the South West

Infrastructure Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Infrastructure Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 164 204
Rank change year-on-year -10 +40 +51
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Management 5 20 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.099% 0.48% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.56% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3 11 16
10th Percentile £53,250 £32,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £54,375 £36,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,000 £55,440
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% -4.40% +54.00%
75th Percentile £66,875 £73,886 £60,938
90th Percentile £71,750 - £63,750
England median annual salary £68,736 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.98% +8.70% +8.49%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

Infrastructure Management 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 3,604 3,571 4,264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.71% 85.29% 89.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,469 1,807 3,232
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,439 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% +3.69% +2.94%
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,627
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Infrastructure Management job vacancy trend in the South West

Infrastructure Management
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Infrastructure Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Infrastructure Management

Infrastructure Management
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Management in the South West over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Management in the South West

Infrastructure Management
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 Management within the South West region over the 6 months to 11 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
Gloucestershire +23 4 £62,500 +78.57% 1
Devon - 1 £57,500 -
Infrastructure Management
England

Infrastructure Management
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 2 (40.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Electronics
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Debian
2 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
1 3 (60.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bicep
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (20.00%) SAP