Infrastructure Engineering Jobs in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Infrastructure Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 25 140
Rank change year-on-year -20 +115 -34
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 442 581 203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.75% 8.51% 2.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.68% 9.01% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 317 144 163
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,750 £31,680
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,875 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £87,419 £65,550
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Infrastructure Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,779 6,447 7,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 83.68% 94.46% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 5,564 3,582 5,012
10th Percentile £28,600 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,270 £38,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the South West.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the South West over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering within the South West region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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
Gloucestershire -4 129 £55,000 - 18
Wiltshire +1 117 £50,500 +15.43% 18
Bristol -13 84 £57,500 -11.54% 20
Dorset -36 52 £43,072 -9.32% 6
Devon -37 31 £40,603 -7.19% 14
Somerset -26 27 £50,000 +8.70% 3
Cornwall - 2 £36,750 -
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 36 (8.14%) SharePoint
2 31 (7.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.13%) SharePoint 2010
3 5 (1.13%) SharePoint 2013
4 4 (0.90%) Jupyter
4 4 (0.90%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.45%) Confluence
6 1 (0.23%) Moodle
Applications
1 5 (1.13%) OrCAD
1 5 (1.13%) SOLIDWORKS
2 2 (0.45%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 142 (32.13%) Azure
2 93 (21.04%) Microsoft 365
3 92 (20.81%) AWS
4 64 (14.48%) SaaS
5 44 (9.95%) OpenShift
6 40 (9.05%) IaaS
7 37 (8.37%) PaaS
8 36 (8.14%) Entra ID
9 19 (4.30%) Power Platform
10 13 (2.94%) Nutanix
11 8 (1.81%) OneDrive
12 4 (0.90%) Amazon S3
13 3 (0.68%) GCP
13 3 (0.68%) WhatsApp
14 2 (0.45%) Mimecast
14 2 (0.45%) Power Automate
14 2 (0.45%) PowerApps
14 2 (0.45%) Rubrik
14 2 (0.45%) Slack
15 1 (0.23%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 73 (16.52%) DNS
2 59 (13.35%) Firewall
3 53 (11.99%) DHCP
4 43 (9.73%) TCP/IP
5 42 (9.50%) WAN
6 38 (8.60%) HTTP
7 34 (7.69%) LAN
8 21 (4.75%) SD-WAN
9 18 (4.07%) SAN
10 16 (3.62%) NAS
10 16 (3.62%) VPN
11 14 (3.17%) iSCSI
11 14 (3.17%) Wireless
12 12 (2.71%) RS-232
13 11 (2.49%) Ethernet
14 10 (2.26%) Fibre Channel
14 10 (2.26%) Wi-Fi
15 7 (1.58%) WLAN
16 6 (1.36%) Internet
16 6 (1.36%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.07%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.71%) Big Data
3 5 (1.13%) MySQL
4 3 (0.68%) Power BI
5 2 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.23%) DB2
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (1.13%) LabVIEW
1 5 (1.13%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (0.45%) JIRA
2 2 (0.45%) MSI
3 1 (0.23%) GitLab
3 1 (0.23%) Jenkins
General
1 67 (15.16%) Aerospace
2 57 (12.90%) Social Skills
3 41 (9.28%) Public Sector
4 24 (5.43%) Manufacturing
5 18 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.39%) Electronics
7 13 (2.94%) Finance
7 13 (2.94%) Military
8 7 (1.58%) Law
8 7 (1.58%) Retail
9 5 (1.13%) Aviation
10 4 (0.90%) Automotive
10 4 (0.90%) Legal
11 3 (0.68%) Games
11 3 (0.68%) Social Housing
12 2 (0.45%) Advertising
12 2 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.45%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.45%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 364 (82.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 73 (16.52%) Senior
3 67 (15.16%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 40 (9.05%) IT Engineer
5 34 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 33 (7.47%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 32 (7.24%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 23 (5.20%) Support Engineer
9 18 (4.07%) Architect
9 18 (4.07%) AWS Architect
9 18 (4.07%) Backup Engineer
9 18 (4.07%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
9 18 (4.07%) Cloud Architect
9 18 (4.07%) Consultant
9 18 (4.07%) Lead
9 18 (4.07%) Storage and Backup Engineer
9 18 (4.07%) Storage Engineer
10 17 (3.85%) Cloud Consultant
10 17 (3.85%) Infrastructure Support
10 17 (3.85%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.58%) JSON
2 6 (1.36%) JSON Schema
2 6 (1.36%) KML
2 6 (1.36%) Regular Expression
2 6 (1.36%) Software Packaging
2 6 (1.36%) XML
2 6 (1.36%) XML Schema
3 4 (0.90%) EJB
4 3 (0.68%) Kafka
4 3 (0.68%) Spring
5 2 (0.45%) .NET
5 2 (0.45%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.23%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.50%) Data Centre
2 31 (7.01%) Public Cloud
3 24 (5.43%) Self-Motivation
4 23 (5.20%) Cloud Native
5 17 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
6 14 (3.17%) Driving Licence
6 14 (3.17%) EMC VNX
7 12 (2.71%) Cyber Defence
8 11 (2.49%) Analogue Electronics
8 11 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (2.26%) PKI
10 8 (1.81%) Replication
11 6 (1.36%) Clustering
11 6 (1.36%) Fat Client
11 6 (1.36%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.36%) Thin Client
12 5 (1.13%) FPGA
12 5 (1.13%) Private Cloud
13 4 (0.90%) Enterprise Storage
13 4 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 195 (44.12%) Windows
2 175 (39.59%) Linux
3 86 (19.46%) Windows Server
4 61 (13.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (3.39%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (3.17%) Windows 10
6 14 (3.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 10 (2.26%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (1.58%) Windows 7
9 5 (1.13%) Ubuntu
9 5 (1.13%) VMS
10 4 (0.90%) CentOS
10 4 (0.90%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.90%) zOS
11 3 (0.68%) Unix
12 2 (0.45%) Android
12 2 (0.45%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.23%) Debian
13 1 (0.23%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (15.16%) DevOps
2 47 (10.63%) Actionable Insight
2 47 (10.63%) Mentoring
3 40 (9.05%) Collaborative Working
3 40 (9.05%) ITIL
4 38 (8.60%) Software Architecture
5 37 (8.37%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (7.47%) Cybersecurity
7 32 (7.24%) Agile
8 27 (6.11%) Service Delivery
9 26 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
10 24 (5.43%) Service Management
11 22 (4.98%) Project Delivery
12 20 (4.52%) Change Management
12 20 (4.52%) Containerisation
12 20 (4.52%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (4.52%) Customer Service
13 17 (3.85%) Server Management
14 16 (3.62%) Physics
15 14 (3.17%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 99 (22.40%) PowerShell
2 88 (19.91%) Python
3 58 (13.12%) Bash
4 47 (10.63%) Java
5 13 (2.94%) SQL
6 6 (1.36%) C#
7 3 (0.68%) Rust
8 2 (0.45%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 188 (42.53%) Security Cleared
2 110 (24.89%) DV Cleared
3 71 (16.06%) SC Cleared
4 39 (8.82%) Degree
5 18 (4.07%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (3.62%) CCNA
7 9 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.81%) Network+ Certification
9 7 (1.58%) CCNP
10 6 (1.36%) DBS Check
11 5 (1.13%) A+ Certification
11 5 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.90%) MCSE
13 3 (0.68%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.68%) CISSP
13 3 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.75%) SLA
2 7 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.13%) SOC 1
3 5 (1.13%) SOC 2
4 3 (0.68%) QA
5 1 (0.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 118 (26.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 91 (20.59%) Active Directory
3 73 (16.52%) Hyper-V
4 50 (11.31%) Docker
5 31 (7.01%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (4.30%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (3.39%) vSphere
8 10 (2.26%) Firmware
9 8 (1.81%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.90%) NFS
10 4 (0.90%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (0.90%) XenApp
11 3 (0.68%) KVM
11 3 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.45%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.23%) Samba
13 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 94 (21.27%) Ansible
2 71 (16.06%) Kubernetes
3 61 (13.80%) Puppet
4 35 (7.92%) SCCM
5 34 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (5.43%) Terraform
7 20 (4.52%) vCenter Server
8 19 (4.30%) Nagios
9 17 (3.85%) EMC NetWorker
10 8 (1.81%) ZABBIX
11 6 (1.36%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.90%) Grafana
13 3 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
15 1 (0.23%) CASB
15 1 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
15 1 (0.23%) Kibana
15 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
15 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 1 (0.23%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 160 (36.20%) VMware
2 117 (26.47%) Microsoft
3 60 (13.57%) Red Hat
4 57 (12.90%) Cisco
5 35 (7.92%) Veeam
6 24 (5.43%) Citrix
7 18 (4.07%) SolarWinds
8 17 (3.85%) EMC
9 14 (3.17%) HP
10 12 (2.71%) Brocade
11 11 (2.49%) Aruba
11 11 (2.49%) IBM
11 11 (2.49%) Meraki
11 11 (2.49%) ServiceNow
12 10 (2.26%) NetApp
13 6 (1.36%) Aderant
13 6 (1.36%) iManage
14 5 (1.13%) Fortinet
14 5 (1.13%) Oracle
14 5 (1.13%) Sparx