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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 62 75
Rank change year-on-year +15 +13 +7
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 27 18 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.50% 1.98% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% 2.39% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 19 13 14
10th Percentile £48,423 £43,449 £31,818
25th Percentile - £44,956 £36,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,104 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.01% +15.54% -
75th Percentile £67,033 £53,252 £51,875
90th Percentile £80,000 £56,650 £63,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £54,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.99% +3.33% -

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 826 753 791
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 76.62% 82.75% 92.62%
Number of salaries quoted 568 375 589
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,122 £49,104 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +3.38% -1.44%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £61,445
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,433
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 +12 24 £55,000 +7.84% 1
West Wales +3 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 7 (25.93%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) Entra ID
3 4 (14.81%) Azure Stack
4 2 (7.41%) SaaS
5 1 (3.70%) AWS
5 1 (3.70%) Datadog
5 1 (3.70%) dbt
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
1 1 (3.70%) JMeter
1 1 (3.70%) Locust
General
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Organisational Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (88.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Senior
2 6 (22.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Support
3 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Support Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) IT Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Server Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Wintel Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Server Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Wintel Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Wintel Server Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Consultant
7 1 (3.70%) Junior
7 1 (3.70%) Support Technician
7 1 (3.70%) Technical Consultant
7 1 (3.70%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Onboarding
2 4 (14.81%) Anti-Spyware
2 4 (14.81%) Data Centre
2 4 (14.81%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (14.81%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (7.41%) Clustering
4 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (29.63%) Windows
1 8 (29.63%) Windows Server
2 4 (14.81%) Linux
2 4 (14.81%) Rocky
2 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (18.52%) Containerisation
1 5 (18.52%) Continuous Integration
1 5 (18.52%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (14.81%) Benchmarking
2 4 (14.81%) Mathematics
2 4 (14.81%) Server Monitoring
2 4 (14.81%) Time Management
3 2 (7.41%) CI/CD
3 2 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (7.41%) DevOps
3 2 (7.41%) Incident Response
3 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (3.70%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (3.70%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (3.70%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (3.70%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (3.70%) Presales
4 1 (3.70%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.70%) Java
2 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) Azure Certification
2 4 (14.81%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (14.81%) DV Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.70%) GDPR
1 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.70%) NIST
1 1 (3.70%) QA
1 1 (3.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 4 (14.81%) Hyper-V
3 2 (7.41%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Grafana
2 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Dell
2 2 (7.41%) VMware
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) Veeam