Infrastructure Architect Job Trends in Bristol

Infrastructure Architect
South West > Bristol

The median Infrastructure Architect salary in Bristol is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 - 119
Rank change year-on-year - - +57
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 1 0 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.068% - 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% - 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,250 - £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £65,351
Median % change year-on-year - - -29.10%
75th Percentile £73,750 - £67,803
90th Percentile - - £70,750
South West median annual salary £67,500 £83,750 £62,400
% change year-on-year -19.40% +34.21% -32.30%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Bristol with a recognized job title 1,361 1,947 1,532
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 95.72% 94.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,007 1,217 1,287
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,650 £35,733
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -7.60% +8.23%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £87,419
South West median annual salary £45,000 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +5.00%

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Infrastructure Architect job vacancy trend in Bristol

Infrastructure Architect
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in Bristol.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in Bristol

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 14 November 2025, Infrastructure Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Bristol region featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SAP