Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South West

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the South West is £50,000 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 48 122 172
Rank change year-on-year +74 +50 -38
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 445 147 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.21% 2.28% 1.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.38% 2.57% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 307 92 132
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,925 £31,500
25th Percentile £40,603 £41,969 £32,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £50,625
90th Percentile £64,700 £67,500 £60,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 10,157 5,725 8,324
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.15% 88.79% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 7,334 3,659 5,114
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £64,750 £68,750 £65,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
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 Engineer within the South West 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
Wiltshire +50 134 £50,500 +12.22% 8
Gloucestershire +37 121 £50,000 -9.91% 10
Bristol +23 66 £47,500 -22.45% 5
Devon +7 41 £45,000 - 6
Dorset -5 39 £50,000 +9.89% 4
Somerset +25 36 £37,750 -20.53% 6
Cornwall -16 8 £30,000 - 2
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

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 West region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 430 (96.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 178 (40.00%) Windows
3 163 (36.63%) Security Cleared
4 148 (33.26%) VMware
5 146 (32.81%) Linux
6 131 (29.44%) Azure
7 116 (26.07%) Microsoft
8 110 (24.72%) VMware Infrastructure
9 98 (22.02%) PowerShell
10 89 (20.00%) DV Cleared
11 81 (18.20%) Microsoft 365
12 80 (17.98%) Windows Server
13 76 (17.08%) Active Directory
14 75 (16.85%) SC Cleared
15 72 (16.18%) SaaS
16 69 (15.51%) Ansible
16 69 (15.51%) Hyper-V
17 63 (14.16%) Aerospace
18 59 (13.26%) DNS
19 57 (12.81%) Red Hat
19 57 (12.81%) Data Centre
20 56 (12.58%) Python
21 55 (12.36%) AWS
22 54 (12.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
22 54 (12.13%) Firewall
23 51 (11.46%) Bash
24 47 (10.56%) Cisco
25 46 (10.34%) DHCP
25 46 (10.34%) Docker
25 46 (10.34%) Kubernetes

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
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 38 (8.54%) SharePoint
2 32 (7.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.12%) SharePoint 2010
3 5 (1.12%) SharePoint 2013
4 4 (0.90%) Jupyter
4 4 (0.90%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.45%) Confluence
6 1 (0.22%) IIS
6 1 (0.22%) Moodle
Applications
1 2 (0.45%) AutoCAD
1 2 (0.45%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 131 (29.44%) Azure
2 81 (18.20%) Microsoft 365
3 72 (16.18%) SaaS
4 55 (12.36%) AWS
5 40 (8.99%) OpenShift
6 30 (6.74%) Entra ID
7 27 (6.07%) Power Platform
8 19 (4.27%) IaaS
9 16 (3.60%) PaaS
10 13 (2.92%) Nutanix
11 10 (2.25%) PowerApps
12 8 (1.80%) OneDrive
13 4 (0.90%) Amazon S3
14 3 (0.67%) WhatsApp
15 2 (0.45%) Power Automate
15 2 (0.45%) Rubrik
15 2 (0.45%) Slack
16 1 (0.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 1 (0.22%) Azure Storage
16 1 (0.22%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 59 (13.26%) DNS
2 54 (12.13%) Firewall
3 46 (10.34%) DHCP
4 45 (10.11%) WAN
5 41 (9.21%) TCP/IP
6 35 (7.87%) HTTP
7 31 (6.97%) LAN
8 22 (4.94%) SAN
9 21 (4.72%) SD-WAN
10 20 (4.49%) Wireless
11 17 (3.82%) NAS
12 14 (3.15%) iSCSI
13 11 (2.47%) Fibre Channel
13 11 (2.47%) Internet
14 10 (2.25%) VPN
14 10 (2.25%) Wi-Fi
15 7 (1.57%) WLAN
16 5 (1.12%) Ethernet VPN
16 5 (1.12%) VLAN
16 5 (1.12%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.17%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.92%) Big Data
3 6 (1.35%) Oracle Database
4 5 (1.12%) MySQL
5 3 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (1.12%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (0.45%) JIRA
2 2 (0.45%) MSI
3 1 (0.22%) GitLab
General
1 63 (14.16%) Aerospace
2 41 (9.21%) Social Skills
3 38 (8.54%) Public Sector
4 33 (7.42%) Finance
5 24 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (3.60%) Manufacturing
7 14 (3.15%) Banking
8 11 (2.47%) Legal
9 8 (1.80%) Military
10 7 (1.57%) Retail
11 4 (0.90%) Advertising
11 4 (0.90%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (0.90%) Automotive
11 4 (0.90%) Electronics
12 3 (0.67%) Social Housing
13 2 (0.45%) Games
13 2 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.45%) Welsh Language
14 1 (0.22%) Law
14 1 (0.22%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.35%) JSON
1 6 (1.35%) JSON Schema
1 6 (1.35%) KML
1 6 (1.35%) Regular Expression
1 6 (1.35%) Software Packaging
1 6 (1.35%) XML
1 6 (1.35%) XML Schema
2 4 (0.90%) EJB
3 2 (0.45%) .NET
3 2 (0.45%) ASP.NET
3 2 (0.45%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 57 (12.81%) Data Centre
2 22 (4.94%) Driving Licence
3 15 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (3.15%) EMC VNX
5 13 (2.92%) Cyber Defence
6 10 (2.25%) PKI
7 9 (2.02%) Cloud Native
7 9 (2.02%) Replication
8 7 (1.57%) Cyberattack
8 7 (1.57%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.35%) Fat Client
9 6 (1.35%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.35%) Thin Client
10 4 (0.90%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (0.90%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.67%) IBM Mainframe
11 3 (0.67%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.45%) Clustering
12 2 (0.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 2 (0.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 178 (40.00%) Windows
2 146 (32.81%) Linux
3 80 (17.98%) Windows Server
4 54 (12.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (3.60%) Windows Server 2019
6 15 (3.37%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (2.92%) Windows 10
8 10 (2.25%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (1.57%) Windows 7
10 6 (1.35%) VMS
11 4 (0.90%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.90%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.67%) CentOS
12 3 (0.67%) zOS
13 2 (0.45%) Android
13 2 (0.45%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.22%) AIX
14 1 (0.22%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 430 (96.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 46 (10.34%) Collaborative Working
3 42 (9.44%) Agile
4 40 (8.99%) DevOps
5 38 (8.54%) Actionable Insight
6 35 (7.87%) Software Architecture
7 34 (7.64%) ITIL
8 32 (7.19%) Service Delivery
9 29 (6.52%) Mentoring
10 25 (5.62%) Cybersecurity
11 23 (5.17%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (3.82%) Service Management
13 15 (3.37%) Line Management
13 15 (3.37%) Project Delivery
14 14 (3.15%) Server Management
15 12 (2.70%) Infrastructure as Code
16 11 (2.47%) Continuous Improvement
17 10 (2.25%) Change Management
17 10 (2.25%) ITSM
17 10 (2.25%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 98 (22.02%) PowerShell
2 56 (12.58%) Python
3 51 (11.46%) Bash
4 37 (8.31%) Java
5 18 (4.04%) SQL
6 9 (2.02%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.02%) Ruby
7 7 (1.57%) C++
7 7 (1.57%) Go
8 2 (0.45%) Bicep
8 2 (0.45%) C#
Qualifications
1 163 (36.63%) Security Cleared
2 89 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 75 (16.85%) SC Cleared
4 24 (5.39%) Degree
5 14 (3.15%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (2.92%) CCNA
7 9 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.35%) CCNP
9 5 (1.12%) A+ Certification
9 5 (1.12%) DBS Check
9 5 (1.12%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (0.90%) MCSE
11 3 (0.67%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.45%) CISSP
12 2 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.22%) HNC
13 1 (0.22%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.82%) SLA
2 7 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 110 (24.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 76 (17.08%) Active Directory
3 69 (15.51%) Hyper-V
4 46 (10.34%) Docker
5 28 (6.29%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (4.04%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (3.37%) vSphere
8 8 (1.80%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.90%) Firmware
9 4 (0.90%) NFS
9 4 (0.90%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (0.90%) XenApp
10 2 (0.45%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 69 (15.51%) Ansible
2 46 (10.34%) Kubernetes
3 36 (8.09%) Puppet
4 34 (7.64%) SCCM
5 29 (6.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 22 (4.94%) vCenter Server
7 19 (4.27%) Nagios
8 17 (3.82%) EMC NetWorker
9 9 (2.02%) ZABBIX
10 7 (1.57%) Terraform
11 6 (1.35%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.90%) Grafana
13 2 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 1 (0.22%) CASB
14 1 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
14 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Clustering
14 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.22%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 148 (33.26%) VMware
2 116 (26.07%) Microsoft
3 57 (12.81%) Red Hat
4 47 (10.56%) Cisco
5 37 (8.31%) Veeam
6 17 (3.82%) Citrix
6 17 (3.82%) EMC
6 17 (3.82%) SolarWinds
7 15 (3.37%) HP
8 13 (2.92%) Meraki
9 12 (2.70%) Brocade
10 11 (2.47%) Aruba
10 11 (2.47%) IBM
10 11 (2.47%) NetApp
11 9 (2.02%) Oracle
12 5 (1.12%) Fortinet
12 5 (1.12%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.90%) Sophos
14 3 (0.67%) CheckPoint
14 3 (0.67%) Dell