Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Bristol

Infrastructure Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Bristol is £452, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025.

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

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 59 57
Rank change year-on-year +11 -2 +14
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 9 22 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 1.59% 2.09% 2.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.67% 2.19% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 26
10th Percentile £352 £370 £338
25th Percentile £413 £375 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% -11.36% +5.77%
75th Percentile £497 £531 £609
90th Percentile £612 £590 £638
South West median daily rate £575 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +9.52% - +10.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £72.75 -
South West median hourly rate - £72.75 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Bristol with a recognized job title 539 1,003 1,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.06% 95.07% 89.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 547 763
10th Percentile £222 £259 £300
25th Percentile £362 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £561 £604 £638
90th Percentile £650 £688 £713
South West median daily rate £500 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -2.77% -2.05% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 232 128
10th Percentile £18.51 £35.00 £30.37
25th Percentile £25.15 £45.00 £57.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £66.25 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.15% +54.12%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £70.30
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £58.75 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.82% -15.38% +38.30%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Bristol

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Bristol.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Bristol

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Bristol over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Bristol

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Bristol.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Bristol

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 2025, Infrastructure Engineer contract 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 contract job ads across the Bristol region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (88.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (66.67%) AWS
3 5 (55.56%) GitLab
3 5 (55.56%) Linux
3 5 (55.56%) Python
3 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
3 5 (55.56%) Docker
4 4 (44.44%) Puppet
4 4 (44.44%) Bitbucket
5 3 (33.33%) Windows
5 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
6 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
6 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
6 2 (22.22%) DHCP
6 2 (22.22%) DNS
6 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
6 2 (22.22%) Project Management
6 2 (22.22%) VMware
6 2 (22.22%) GitHub
6 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
6 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
6 2 (22.22%) DevOps
7 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
7 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
7 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
7 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (11.11%) vCenter Server
7 1 (11.11%) Serverless

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DHCP
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) HTTP
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) GitLab
2 4 (44.44%) Bitbucket
3 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Fire and Rescue
1 1 (11.11%) Military
1 1 (11.11%) Police
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Clustering
1 1 (11.11%) PKI
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 1 (11.11%) Unix
4 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Change Management
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
4 1 (11.11%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Open Source
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (11.11%) Protective Monitoring
4 1 (11.11%) Release Management
4 1 (11.11%) SDLC
4 1 (11.11%) Server Building
4 1 (11.11%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) Perl
2 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Workstation
2 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Puppet
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) SCCM
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Veritas