Infrastructure Engineering Job Trends in Wales

Infrastructure Engineering
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 56 57
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 25 9 55
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.99% 1.62% 3.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 1.80% 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 16 9 54
10th Percentile £49,877 £43,511 £27,450
25th Percentile - £44,956 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,104 £41,067
Median % change year-on-year +12.01% +19.57% -8.74%
75th Percentile £63,517 £57,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £74,533 £64,875 £62,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 885 500 1,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 70.41% 90.25% 83.74%
Number of salaries quoted 544 279 1,000
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,450
25th Percentile £33,875 £40,000 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% +12.22% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,797 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Wales

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Wales over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Wales

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the Wales region over the 6 months to 18 March 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 -2 22 £55,000 -6.98% 7
West Wales -9 3 £52,794 +7.51%
Infrastructure Engineering
UK

Infrastructure Engineering
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) SaaS
2 2 (8.00%) AWS
2 2 (8.00%) Azure
2 2 (8.00%) Datadog
2 2 (8.00%) dbt
2 2 (8.00%) PaaS
3 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) BGP
1 1 (4.00%) DHCP
1 1 (4.00%) DNS
1 1 (4.00%) Firewall
1 1 (4.00%) HSRP
1 1 (4.00%) LAN
1 1 (4.00%) MPLS
1 1 (4.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (4.00%) VoIP
1 1 (4.00%) VPLS
1 1 (4.00%) VPN
1 1 (4.00%) VRRP
1 1 (4.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (8.00%) JMeter
1 2 (8.00%) Locust
General
1 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 22 (88.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) Senior
2 8 (32.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Lead
5 2 (8.00%) Network Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Server Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Wintel Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Server Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Test Leader
5 2 (8.00%) Wintel Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Wintel Server Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Junior Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (4.00%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Anti-Spyware
1 4 (16.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (8.00%) Clustering
3 1 (4.00%) CMDB
3 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Windows
1 3 (12.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (16.00%) Benchmarking
2 4 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (16.00%) Mathematics
2 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (16.00%) Server Monitoring
2 4 (16.00%) Time Management
3 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (12.00%) DevOps
3 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (8.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (8.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (8.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (8.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (8.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (8.00%) FinOps
4 2 (8.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (8.00%) Observability
4 2 (8.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) Python
2 2 (8.00%) Java
2 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) CCIE
3 1 (4.00%) CCNP
3 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.00%) NIST
1 2 (8.00%) QA
1 2 (8.00%) WCAG
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Grafana
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) VMware
2 1 (4.00%) Cisco
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) Veeam