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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 63 73
Rank change year-on-year +12 +10 +10
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 22 21 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.20% 1.70% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% 2.44% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 15 13 15
10th Percentile £48,000 £41,690 £32,049
25th Percentile £68,045 £43,449 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £47,307 £39,500
Median % change year-on-year +69.11% +19.76% -7.06%
75th Percentile - £52,500 £43,750
90th Percentile - £53,102 £51,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £51,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year +16.50% -2.83% +1.92%

All Process and 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 817 862 868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 81.62% 69.97% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 595 491 687
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £27,800
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,122 £47,500 £46,210
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% +2.79% -7.58%
75th Percentile £60,000 £64,554 £61,452
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,299 £72,460
UK median annual salary £54,537 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.11% - -

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 13 November 2025.

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 13 November 2025. 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 21 £80,000 +73.33% 13
West Wales +13 1 £37,733 -23.16% 2
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 9 (40.91%) Azure
2 8 (36.36%) Azure Stack
2 8 (36.36%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.55%) AWS
3 1 (4.55%) Datadog
3 1 (4.55%) dbt
3 1 (4.55%) PaaS
3 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
1 1 (4.55%) JMeter
1 1 (4.55%) Locust
General
1 9 (40.91%) Public Sector
2 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.55%) Finance
5 1 (4.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 19 (86.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) IT Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Support
3 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Civil Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Development Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Junior
4 1 (4.55%) Junior Support Technician
4 1 (4.55%) Lead
4 1 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Development Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Support Technician
4 1 (4.55%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) OLE
2 1 (4.55%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Onboarding
2 8 (36.36%) Data Centre
2 8 (36.36%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (18.18%) Anti-Spyware
3 4 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.55%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (45.45%) Windows
2 9 (40.91%) Linux
2 9 (40.91%) Windows Server
3 8 (36.36%) Rocky
3 8 (36.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Containerisation
2 5 (22.73%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (18.18%) Benchmarking
3 4 (18.18%) Mathematics
3 4 (18.18%) Server Monitoring
3 4 (18.18%) Time Management
4 2 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 2 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (4.55%) Client Onboarding
5 1 (4.55%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (4.55%) Due Diligence
5 1 (4.55%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (4.55%) Observability
5 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (4.55%) Presales
5 1 (4.55%) Project Delivery
5 1 (4.55%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) Java
1 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
1 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 11 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 9 (40.91%) SC Cleared
4 8 (36.36%) Azure Certification
4 8 (36.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (36.36%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) Active Directory
2 8 (36.36%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Grafana
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Dell