Infrastructure Engineering Jobs in the South West

Infrastructure Engineering
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 39 24
Rank change year-on-year -86 -15 +123
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 57 503 593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.60% 4.75% 9.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 5.96% 9.77%
Number of salaries quoted 43 361 129
10th Percentile £43,250 £35,000 £34,921
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £75,000 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £97,000 £66,250 £82,548
England median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,266 8,445 6,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 91.77% 79.73% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,905 5,957 3,481
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 £52,000 £53,325
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% -2.48% +6.65%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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 14 June 2025.

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 14 June 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
Bristol -12 17 £60,000 +20.00% 33
Gloucestershire -27 11 £80,000 +60.00% 22
Dorset -6 8 £83,750 +86.11% 3
Devon -13 8 £51,729 +14.95% 11
Wiltshire -30 8 £55,800 +10.50% 10
Somerset -7 3 £47,500 -9.52% 14
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 9 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.51%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) AutoCAD
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (36.84%) Azure
2 13 (22.81%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (19.30%) AWS
4 9 (15.79%) Entra ID
5 4 (7.02%) SaaS
5 4 (7.02%) Serverless
6 3 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 3 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (5.26%) IaaS
6 3 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.51%) Azure Stack
7 2 (3.51%) GCP
7 2 (3.51%) Stackdriver
8 1 (1.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.75%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.75%) Pulumi
8 1 (1.75%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 11 (19.30%) Firewall
2 6 (10.53%) VLAN
3 5 (8.77%) LAN
3 5 (8.77%) SAN
3 5 (8.77%) SD-WAN
3 5 (8.77%) TCP/IP
3 5 (8.77%) WAN
4 4 (7.02%) VPN
5 3 (5.26%) DHCP
5 3 (5.26%) DNS
5 3 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (3.51%) BGP
6 2 (3.51%) Network Security
6 2 (3.51%) OSPF
6 2 (3.51%) WLAN
7 1 (1.75%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (1.75%) Ethernet
7 1 (1.75%) Internet
7 1 (1.75%) MPLS
7 1 (1.75%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.26%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.75%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.26%) GitLab
General
1 11 (19.30%) Public Sector
1 11 (19.30%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.79%) Legal
3 6 (10.53%) Local Government
4 5 (8.77%) Finance
5 3 (5.26%) Advertising
5 3 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.26%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.51%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.51%) Banking
6 2 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Military
7 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (64.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (17.54%) Senior
3 9 (15.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (12.28%) Architect
4 7 (12.28%) IT Engineer
4 7 (12.28%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (10.53%) Lead
6 5 (8.77%) Support Specialist
6 5 (8.77%) Technical Specialist
6 5 (8.77%) Technical Support
6 5 (8.77%) Technical Support Specialist
7 4 (7.02%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (7.02%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.02%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.02%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.26%) AWS Architect
8 3 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (5.26%) Network Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.26%) AWS CDK
2 2 (3.51%) OLE
3 1 (1.75%) .NET
3 1 (1.75%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.26%) Data Centre
1 3 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (5.26%) NHS
2 2 (3.51%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (3.51%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.51%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.51%) Public Cloud
2 2 (3.51%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (1.75%) BYOD
3 1 (1.75%) Cyberattack
3 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (24.56%) Windows
2 12 (21.05%) Windows Server
3 11 (19.30%) Linux
4 7 (12.28%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (3.51%) Android
5 2 (3.51%) Rocky
5 2 (3.51%) Windows 10
5 2 (3.51%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.75%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (26.32%) DevOps
1 15 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (14.04%) Technical Leadership
4 7 (12.28%) Containerisation
4 7 (12.28%) Project Delivery
5 6 (10.53%) ITIL
5 6 (10.53%) Mentoring
5 6 (10.53%) Service Management
5 6 (10.53%) Software Engineering
5 6 (10.53%) Vulnerability Management
6 5 (8.77%) Cloud Security
6 5 (8.77%) CRM
6 5 (8.77%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (8.77%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (8.77%) Project Management
6 5 (8.77%) Risk Management
6 5 (8.77%) Roadmaps
7 4 (7.02%) Business Strategy
7 4 (7.02%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 14 (24.56%) PowerShell
2 12 (21.05%) Python
3 7 (12.28%) Bash
4 6 (10.53%) SQL
5 2 (3.51%) Go
5 2 (3.51%) Java
6 1 (1.75%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 11 (19.30%) SC Cleared
3 9 (15.79%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.77%) Degree
4 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (8.77%) NVQ Level 3
5 4 (7.02%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (5.26%) Azure Certification
6 3 (5.26%) CCNA
6 3 (5.26%) CCNP
6 3 (5.26%) DBS Check
6 3 (5.26%) Postgraduate
7 2 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (3.51%) CCIE
7 2 (3.51%) MCSA
7 2 (3.51%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (3.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.02%) JSP 440
1 4 (7.02%) NIST
1 4 (7.02%) NIST 800
2 3 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 14 (24.56%) Active Directory
2 9 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (14.04%) Hyper-V
4 7 (12.28%) Docker
5 5 (8.77%) vSphere
6 2 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.75%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.75%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 11 (19.30%) Terraform
2 10 (17.54%) Kubernetes
3 9 (15.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (12.28%) Ansible
5 3 (5.26%) Progress Chef
5 3 (5.26%) SCCM
5 3 (5.26%) SmoothWall
6 1 (1.75%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 13 (22.81%) VMware
3 8 (14.04%) Cisco
4 5 (8.77%) Palo Alto
5 3 (5.26%) EMC
5 3 (5.26%) Google
5 3 (5.26%) Veeam
6 2 (3.51%) Aruba
6 2 (3.51%) Dell
6 2 (3.51%) Dynatrace
6 2 (3.51%) Meraki
7 1 (1.75%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.75%) Citrix
7 1 (1.75%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (1.75%) HP
7 1 (1.75%) Juniper
7 1 (1.75%) NVIDIA
7 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.75%) Splunk
7 1 (1.75%) Zscaler
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