Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Wales

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Wales

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Wales is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 July 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 46 66
Rank change year-on-year -4 +20 +43
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 65 19 44
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.87% 2.80% 2.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.06% 3.21% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 61 15 41
10th Percentile £41,500 £37,733 £37,101
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,535 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £70,000 £41,067
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +70.45% +3.31%
75th Percentile £50,000 £80,000 £45,034
90th Percentile £75,000 - £57,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +17.35% -2.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Wales. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Wales with a recognized job title 2,126 592 1,880
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 87.32% 92.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,411 422 1,492
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,438 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,332 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,124 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% +11.39% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,800 £77,272 £70,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Wales

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Wales.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Wales

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Wales over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Wales

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Wales region over the 6 months to 10 July 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
South Wales -8 49 £45,000 -35.71% 4
West Wales -23 16 £50,000 +32.51% 1
Dyfed - 2 £45,000 -
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales

For the 6 months to 10 July 2026, Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Wales region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 65 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 23 (35.38%) VPN
2 23 (35.38%) WAN
3 21 (32.31%) AWS
4 19 (29.23%) LAN
4 19 (29.23%) SC Cleared
4 19 (29.23%) Security Cleared
4 19 (29.23%) Windows
5 18 (27.69%) DNS
5 18 (27.69%) VMware
6 17 (26.15%) Azure
7 16 (24.62%) VMware Infrastructure
8 15 (23.08%) SaaS
8 15 (23.08%) WLAN
9 14 (21.54%) DHCP
9 14 (21.54%) Windows Server
10 13 (20.00%) DV Cleared
10 13 (20.00%) Firewall
11 12 (18.46%) ITIL
11 12 (18.46%) Linux
11 12 (18.46%) vSphere
12 11 (16.92%) Ansible
12 11 (16.92%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (16.92%) Microsoft
13 10 (15.38%) CCIE
13 10 (15.38%) CCNP
13 10 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
14 9 (13.85%) Degree
14 9 (13.85%) Incident Response
14 9 (13.85%) Terraform

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 21 (32.31%) AWS
2 17 (26.15%) Azure
3 15 (23.08%) SaaS
4 4 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (6.15%) Cloudflare
4 4 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (6.15%) Route 53
5 3 (4.62%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.62%) IaaS
5 3 (4.62%) PaaS
6 2 (3.08%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (35.38%) VPN
1 23 (35.38%) WAN
2 19 (29.23%) LAN
3 18 (27.69%) DNS
4 15 (23.08%) WLAN
5 14 (21.54%) DHCP
6 13 (20.00%) Firewall
7 8 (12.31%) BGP
7 8 (12.31%) MPLS
8 6 (9.23%) IPsec
8 6 (9.23%) Network Security
8 6 (9.23%) SSH
8 6 (9.23%) SSL
8 6 (9.23%) TCP/IP
9 4 (6.15%) HSRP
9 4 (6.15%) SD-WAN
9 4 (6.15%) VoIP
9 4 (6.15%) VPLS
9 4 (6.15%) VRRP
10 2 (3.08%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.15%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.62%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.54%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Git
General
1 6 (9.23%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.15%) Finance
4 3 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.54%) Retail
5 1 (1.54%) Welsh Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.15%) ModSecurity
1 4 (6.15%) Node.js
2 1 (1.54%) React
2 1 (1.54%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (1.54%) Serverless Framework
2 1 (1.54%) Spring
2 1 (1.54%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.38%) PKI
2 5 (7.69%) CMDB
3 4 (6.15%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.15%) Replication
4 3 (4.62%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (4.62%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.54%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.54%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.54%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 19 (29.23%) Windows
2 14 (21.54%) Windows Server
3 12 (18.46%) Linux
4 7 (10.77%) Unix
5 1 (1.54%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (18.46%) ITIL
3 10 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
4 9 (13.85%) Incident Response
5 8 (12.31%) CI/CD
5 8 (12.31%) Computer Science
5 8 (12.31%) SIEM
6 7 (10.77%) DevOps
7 6 (9.23%) BCP
7 6 (9.23%) Business Continuity
7 6 (9.23%) Business Continuity Planning
8 5 (7.69%) High Availability
8 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (6.15%) Boundary Protection
9 4 (6.15%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (6.15%) Identity Access Management
9 4 (6.15%) Mentoring
9 4 (6.15%) Observability
9 4 (6.15%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (6.15%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (12.31%) PowerShell
2 7 (10.77%) Python
3 4 (6.15%) Java
4 3 (4.62%) SQL
5 1 (1.54%) Natural
5 1 (1.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (29.23%) SC Cleared
1 19 (29.23%) Security Cleared
2 13 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 11 (16.92%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (15.38%) CCIE
4 10 (15.38%) CCNP
5 9 (13.85%) Degree
6 8 (12.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (9.23%) JNCIP
8 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.54%) CCNA
8 1 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.54%) MCSE
8 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (6.15%) NIST
2 2 (3.08%) SLA
3 1 (1.54%) GRC
3 1 (1.54%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 16 (24.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (18.46%) vSphere
3 8 (12.31%) VMware NSX
4 6 (9.23%) Active Directory
5 4 (6.15%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (4.62%) Docker
7 2 (3.08%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (16.92%) Ansible
2 9 (13.85%) Terraform
3 4 (6.15%) vCenter Server
4 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (27.69%) VMware
2 11 (16.92%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.69%) Cisco
4 4 (6.15%) Splunk
5 3 (4.62%) Veeam
6 2 (3.08%) NetApp
7 1 (1.54%) OneLogin
7 1 (1.54%) Oracle