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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 65 83
Rank change year-on-year +17 +18 -6
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 20 19 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.30% 1.49% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 2.16% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 17 11 13
10th Percentile £40,593 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,659 £43,449 £37,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £80,000 £51,165 £45,000
90th Percentile - £52,500 £52,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +0.96%

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 724 878 940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 83.41% 69.08% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 535 508 742
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,700 £27,025
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £45,250 £46,210
Median % change year-on-year +7.18% -2.08% -7.58%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £61,445
90th Percentile £73,750 £74,144 £72,493
UK median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.17% - -

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 19 October 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 19 October 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 +11 18 £80,000 +73.33% 4
West Wales - 2 £37,733 - 1
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 (45.00%) Azure
2 8 (40.00%) Azure Stack
2 8 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (10.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) GitHub
3 2 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Local Government
3 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (90.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) IT Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Civil Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Development Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Development Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Junior
5 1 (5.00%) Junior Support Technician
5 1 (5.00%) Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Support Technician
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) OLE
2 2 (10.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Onboarding
2 8 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 8 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) NHS
4 1 (5.00%) Anti-Spyware
4 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Windows
2 10 (50.00%) Linux
3 9 (45.00%) Windows Server
4 8 (40.00%) Rocky
4 8 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (10.00%) Business Development
4 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (10.00%) DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (10.00%) Due Diligence
4 2 (10.00%) Integration Testing
4 2 (10.00%) Line Management
4 2 (10.00%) Microservices
4 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (10.00%) Project Management
4 2 (10.00%) Strategic Planning
5 1 (5.00%) Benchmarking
5 1 (5.00%) Mathematics
5 1 (5.00%) Service Delivery
5 1 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (5.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Java
1 2 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (55.00%) DV Cleared
1 11 (55.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (40.00%) Azure Certification
2 8 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 8 (40.00%) Network+ Certification
2 8 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (40.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Dell