Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Infrastructure Engineering
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 61 50
Rank change year-on-year 0 -11 +21
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 9 9 28
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 1.10% 1.28% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 1.46% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 23
10th Percentile £323 £448 £514
25th Percentile £413 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £595
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -7.56% +34.18%
75th Percentile £544 £747 £630
90th Percentile - £775 £646
South West median daily rate £555 £550 £563
% change year-on-year +0.91% -2.22% +18.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
South West median hourly rate £89.00 - £58.09
% change year-on-year - - -25.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 708 617 875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 86.34% 88.02% 86.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 342 545
10th Percentile £263 £221 £303
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £484 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% -12.05% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £650
90th Percentile £725 £743 £704
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 87 117
10th Percentile £15.00 £42.90 £34.20
25th Percentile £18.87 £60.75 £56.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.25 £76.25
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £29.40 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -54.78% +8.33% -7.69%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Bristol

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Bristol over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Bristol

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
2 2 (22.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) VLAN
1 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) CMake
2 1 (11.11%) Gradle
2 1 (11.11%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Build Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Project Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Bazel
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Public Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) CCTV
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Data Management
3 1 (11.11%) ERP
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
3 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Open Source
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) C
2 1 (11.11%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
1 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Istio
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Logitech
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) VMware