Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in South Wales

Infrastructure Engineer
Wales > South Wales

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in South Wales is £41,067 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 104 84
Rank change year-on-year +35 -20 -25
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 39 6 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 2.30% 0.51% 2.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.52% 0.57% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 35 4 33
10th Percentile £37,101 £37,650 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,300 £37,875 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,067 £39,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.30% -3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £45,034 £40,625 £45,000
90th Percentile £60,500 £41,750 £48,750
Wales median annual salary £41,067 £40,000 £46,250
% change year-on-year +2.67% -13.51% +23.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in South Wales. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in South Wales with a recognized job title 1,550 1,056 1,500
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.61% 89.11% 95.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,056 556 870
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £31,475
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in South Wales

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in South Wales

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in South Wales over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in South Wales

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Cardiff +24 27 £42,500 - 6
Bridgend - 5 £40,500 -
Newport +6 3 £40,000 - 1
Caerphilly +1 3 £45,000 +18.42% 3
Glamorgan - 1 - - 5
Infrastructure Engineer
Wales

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South Wales region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 37 (94.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (53.85%) SAN
3 16 (41.03%) Social Skills
4 14 (35.90%) Microsoft
4 14 (35.90%) VMware
5 13 (33.33%) AWS
5 13 (33.33%) Linux
6 12 (30.77%) Hyper-V
6 12 (30.77%) Ansible
7 11 (28.21%) Windows Server
7 11 (28.21%) Windows
8 10 (25.64%) Veeam
9 9 (23.08%) Migration
10 8 (20.51%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (20.51%) Terraform
10 8 (20.51%) Proactive Monitoring
11 7 (17.95%) Slack
11 7 (17.95%) Virtual Machines
11 7 (17.95%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (17.95%) Root Cause Analysis
11 7 (17.95%) Line Management
11 7 (17.95%) Azure
11 7 (17.95%) CMDB
11 7 (17.95%) Change Management
12 6 (15.38%) VoIP
12 6 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (12.82%) Customer Service
13 5 (12.82%) Datto
13 5 (12.82%) Data Centre

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (33.33%) AWS
2 8 (20.51%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (17.95%) Azure
3 7 (17.95%) Cloud Computing
3 7 (17.95%) Slack
4 1 (2.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 21 (53.85%) SAN
2 6 (15.38%) VoIP
3 5 (12.82%) Firewall
3 5 (12.82%) LAN
3 5 (12.82%) WAN
4 4 (10.26%) NAS
4 4 (10.26%) VPN
5 3 (7.69%) HTTP
5 3 (7.69%) TCP/IP
6 2 (5.13%) Network Security
7 1 (2.56%) DHCP
7 1 (2.56%) DNS
7 1 (2.56%) VLAN
7 1 (2.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
General
1 16 (41.03%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Law
3 2 (5.13%) Retail
4 1 (2.56%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) CMDB
2 5 (12.82%) Data Centre
3 4 (10.26%) iPad
4 2 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.56%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 13 (33.33%) Linux
2 11 (28.21%) Windows
2 11 (28.21%) Windows Server
3 3 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (2.56%) Unix
4 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (94.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (23.08%) Migration
3 8 (20.51%) Proactive Monitoring
3 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (17.95%) Change Management
4 7 (17.95%) Line Management
4 7 (17.95%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (12.82%) Customer Service
6 4 (10.26%) Business Continuity
6 4 (10.26%) Network Architecture
6 4 (10.26%) Project Management
6 4 (10.26%) Systems Engineering
7 3 (7.69%) Storage Management
8 2 (5.13%) Agile
8 2 (5.13%) Data Protection
8 2 (5.13%) Mentoring
9 1 (2.56%) BCP
9 1 (2.56%) Continuous Delivery
9 1 (2.56%) ITIL
9 1 (2.56%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.26%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.13%) Python
2 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.56%) Bash
3 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) A+ Certification
1 5 (12.82%) BPSS Clearance
1 5 (12.82%) CCNA
1 5 (12.82%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (12.82%) Degree
1 5 (12.82%) SC Cleared
1 5 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.56%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (30.77%) Hyper-V
2 7 (17.95%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (12.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (10.26%) Firmware
5 3 (7.69%) Active Directory
5 3 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (30.77%) Ansible
2 8 (20.51%) Terraform
3 1 (2.56%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (35.90%) Microsoft
1 14 (35.90%) VMware
2 10 (25.64%) Veeam
3 5 (12.82%) Acronis
3 5 (12.82%) Aruba
3 5 (12.82%) Datto
3 5 (12.82%) Mitel
3 5 (12.82%) Sophos
4 3 (7.69%) Oracle
5 2 (5.13%) Cisco
5 2 (5.13%) Meraki
6 1 (2.56%) Dell
6 1 (2.56%) HP
6 1 (2.56%) IBM