Infrastructure Engineering Jobs in Wales

Infrastructure Engineering
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 51 56
Rank change year-on-year -11 +5 +4
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 22 65 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 1.35% 2.94% 4.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 4.06% 5.16%
Number of salaries quoted 18 62 14
10th Percentile £37,733 £26,250 £36,625
25th Percentile £46,973 £37,101 £38,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,625 £41,067 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +62.23% -3.37% -5.56%
75th Percentile £80,000 £50,633 £45,000
90th Percentile - £57,500 £66,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 1,299 1,600 1,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 79.94% 72.46% 96.79%
Number of salaries quoted 843 1,123 806
10th Percentile £24,041 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £33,177
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £62,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,000 £70,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Wales

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Wales.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Wales

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Wales over the 6 months to 16 July 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 16 July 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 +3 19 £70,000 +64.71% 7
West Wales +13 3 £37,733 -12.40%
Infrastructure Engineering
UK

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.55%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) Azure
2 6 (27.27%) Azure Stack
2 6 (27.27%) Entra ID
3 3 (13.64%) AWS
4 2 (9.09%) GitHub
4 2 (9.09%) Serverless
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) BGP
1 1 (4.55%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (4.55%) DNS
1 1 (4.55%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
1 1 (4.55%) IPsec
1 1 (4.55%) OSPF
1 1 (4.55%) VPN
1 1 (4.55%) VXLAN
1 1 (4.55%) WAN
1 1 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (4.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
2 4 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (18.18%) Local Government
3 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (90.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) IT Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Senior
3 5 (22.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Civil Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Development Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Principal Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Senior Development Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Lead
5 1 (4.55%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) OLE
2 2 (9.09%) Node.js
3 1 (4.55%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Onboarding
2 6 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 6 (27.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (18.18%) NHS
4 1 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 9 (40.91%) Windows
2 8 (36.36%) Linux
3 7 (31.82%) Windows Server
4 6 (27.27%) Rocky
4 6 (27.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Containerisation
2 7 (31.82%) Mentoring
3 6 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (18.18%) Business Development
4 4 (18.18%) Due Diligence
4 4 (18.18%) Line Management
4 4 (18.18%) Project Delivery
4 4 (18.18%) Project Management
4 4 (18.18%) Strategic Planning
5 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
5 3 (13.64%) DevOps
6 2 (9.09%) Integration Testing
6 2 (9.09%) Microservices
6 2 (9.09%) Service Delivery
7 1 (4.55%) Change Control
7 1 (4.55%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (4.55%) Load Balancing
7 1 (4.55%) Network Monitoring
7 1 (4.55%) Open Source
7 1 (4.55%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) Python
2 2 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 9 (40.91%) DV Cleared
3 7 (31.82%) SC Cleared
4 6 (27.27%) Azure Certification
4 6 (27.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (27.27%) Network+ Certification
5 4 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Active Directory
2 6 (27.27%) Hyper-V
3 3 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Dell
2 1 (4.55%) CheckPoint
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco
2 1 (4.55%) F5
2 1 (4.55%) Juniper
2 1 (4.55%) LogRhythm
2 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto
2 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds
2 1 (4.55%) Tufin