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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 45 62
Rank change year-on-year -3 +17 +8
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 107 22 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 3.28% 2.58% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.11% 3.09% 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 96 18 16
10th Percentile £32,750 £41,070 £28,125
25th Percentile £41,500 £50,557 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £70,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +55.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £55,250 £80,000 £48,791
90th Percentile £73,750 - £51,833
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -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 2,095 712 984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 64.26% 83.57% 67.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,459 524 595
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £30,000 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,066 £48,311 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.77% +5.02% +0.88%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%

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 27 September 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 27 September 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 -6 73 £48,500 -35.33% 17
West Wales -39 30 £45,000 +19.26% 3
North Wales - 4 £40,000 - 1
Dyfed - 2 £45,000 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.93%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 32 (29.91%) Azure
2 27 (25.23%) AWS
3 16 (14.95%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (14.02%) SaaS
5 11 (10.28%) Entra ID
6 7 (6.54%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (3.74%) Cloudflare
7 4 (3.74%) IaaS
7 4 (3.74%) PowerApps
7 4 (3.74%) Route 53
8 3 (2.80%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.80%) Azure Databricks
8 3 (2.80%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (2.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (2.80%) PaaS
9 2 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 24 (22.43%) WAN
2 21 (19.63%) LAN
3 20 (18.69%) VPN
4 19 (17.76%) DNS
5 15 (14.02%) DHCP
5 15 (14.02%) WLAN
6 11 (10.28%) Firewall
7 6 (5.61%) IPsec
7 6 (5.61%) Network Security
7 6 (5.61%) SSH
7 6 (5.61%) SSL
7 6 (5.61%) TCP/IP
8 5 (4.67%) BGP
8 5 (4.67%) MPLS
8 5 (4.67%) SAN
9 4 (3.74%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (2.80%) NAS
11 2 (1.87%) HSRP
11 2 (1.87%) SD-WAN
11 2 (1.87%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.80%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.80%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.87%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.93%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 4 (3.74%) Git
General
1 15 (14.02%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.41%) Public Sector
3 8 (7.48%) Telecoms
4 5 (4.67%) Finance
5 4 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.87%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.93%) Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Legal
8 1 (0.93%) Local Government
8 1 (0.93%) Police
8 1 (0.93%) Retail
8 1 (0.93%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 86 (80.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 47 (43.93%) Senior
3 44 (41.12%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 24 (22.43%) IT Engineer
5 20 (18.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (18.69%) Network Engineer
5 20 (18.69%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (18.69%) Senior Network Engineer
6 11 (10.28%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (10.28%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (7.48%) Server Engineer
8 7 (6.54%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 7 (6.54%) Senior VMware Engineer
8 7 (6.54%) VMware Engineer
8 7 (6.54%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.67%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.67%) Senior IT Engineer
10 4 (3.74%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 4 (3.74%) ICT Support
10 4 (3.74%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.21%) Terraform
2 4 (3.74%) Node.js
3 2 (1.87%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.93%) .NET
4 1 (0.93%) React
4 1 (0.93%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (0.93%) Serverless Framework
4 1 (0.93%) Spring
4 1 (0.93%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.41%) PKI
2 5 (4.67%) Replication
3 4 (3.74%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.74%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.74%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (3.74%) Low-Code
3 4 (3.74%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.74%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.74%) Operational Technology
4 3 (2.80%) CMDB
4 3 (2.80%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.93%) Fat Client
5 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.93%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 24 (22.43%) Windows
2 18 (16.82%) Windows Server
3 12 (11.21%) Linux
4 6 (5.61%) Unix
5 1 (0.93%) AIX
5 1 (0.93%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (13.08%) DevOps
1 14 (13.08%) ITIL
2 13 (12.15%) CI/CD
3 12 (11.21%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (9.35%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (8.41%) Incident Response
5 9 (8.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (7.48%) Business Continuity
7 7 (6.54%) Customer Service
8 6 (5.61%) BCP
8 6 (5.61%) Business Continuity Planning
8 6 (5.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (5.61%) Mentoring
9 5 (4.67%) Computer Science
9 5 (4.67%) Containerisation
9 5 (4.67%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (4.67%) Observability
9 5 (4.67%) Risk Management
9 5 (4.67%) SIEM
9 5 (4.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (13.08%) PowerShell
2 6 (5.61%) Python
3 4 (3.74%) Java
4 3 (2.80%) Bicep
4 3 (2.80%) SQL
5 1 (0.93%) Natural
5 1 (0.93%) Ruby
5 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (15.89%) SC Cleared
1 17 (15.89%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.41%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (8.41%) DV Cleared
3 8 (7.48%) CCIE
3 8 (7.48%) CCNP
4 7 (6.54%) Degree
5 6 (5.61%) JNCIP
6 5 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.93%) CCNA
7 1 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.93%) MCSE
7 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.87%) NIST
1 2 (1.87%) SLA
2 1 (0.93%) GRC
2 1 (0.93%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 19 (17.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (12.15%) vSphere
3 11 (10.28%) Active Directory
4 7 (6.54%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.67%) VMware NSX
6 4 (3.74%) Docker
7 3 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.80%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.87%) NFS
9 1 (0.93%) Firmware
9 1 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (9.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (7.48%) Ansible
3 4 (3.74%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (2.80%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.93%) SCCM
5 1 (0.93%) SCOM
Vendors
1 30 (28.04%) VMware
2 26 (24.30%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.67%) Veeam
4 4 (3.74%) Cisco
4 4 (3.74%) NetApp
5 3 (2.80%) Databricks
5 3 (2.80%) Splunk
6 2 (1.87%) Unisys
7 1 (0.93%) Apple
7 1 (0.93%) Citrix
7 1 (0.93%) Google
7 1 (0.93%) HP
7 1 (0.93%) Meraki
7 1 (0.93%) OneLogin
7 1 (0.93%) Oracle