Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Bristol

Infrastructure Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Bristol is £71,991 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 May 2025.

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

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 109 139
Rank change year-on-year +27 +30 +8
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 21 48 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 1.67% 1.55% 1.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.76% 1.60% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 19 33 27
10th Percentile £44,250 £36,250 £45,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £43,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +51.56% -20.83% +38.73%
75th Percentile £78,750 £51,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,000 £62,900 £87,419
South West median annual salary £60,822 £50,000 £47,250
% change year-on-year +21.64% +5.82% +5.00%

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 1,194 3,006 2,460
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 97.03% 92.73%
Number of salaries quoted 809 2,247 1,544
10th Percentile £34,500 £33,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year - -0.54% +8.85%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £73,776
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
South West median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -4.76% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Bristol

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Bristol over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Bristol

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, 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 Bristol region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (52.38%) Azure
3 9 (42.86%) Linux
3 9 (42.86%) Migration
3 9 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 9 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
4 8 (38.10%) Microsoft
5 7 (33.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 7 (33.33%) Oracle
5 7 (33.33%) SQL Server
5 7 (33.33%) Web Services
5 7 (33.33%) Finance
5 7 (33.33%) Banking
5 7 (33.33%) General Ledger
6 6 (28.57%) PowerShell
6 6 (28.57%) DevOps
6 6 (28.57%) IaaS
6 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
6 6 (28.57%) Windows Server
7 5 (23.81%) Docker
7 5 (23.81%) SAP Data Services
7 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Management
7 5 (23.81%) PaaS
7 5 (23.81%) SAP HANA
7 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
7 5 (23.81%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (23.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (23.81%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 5 (23.81%) Service Delivery

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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (23.81%) NetWeaver
1 5 (23.81%) Tomcat
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) Azure
2 6 (28.57%) IaaS
3 5 (23.81%) PaaS
4 4 (19.05%) Azure AKS
4 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
6 2 (9.52%) GCP
6 2 (9.52%) GitHub
6 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (9.52%) OCI
7 1 (4.76%) AWS
7 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (4.76%) Dagster
7 1 (4.76%) Pulumi
7 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
1 2 (9.52%) LAN
1 2 (9.52%) WAN
2 1 (4.76%) Internet
2 1 (4.76%) MPLS
2 1 (4.76%) Network Security
2 1 (4.76%) SD-WAN
2 1 (4.76%) Unified Communications
2 1 (4.76%) VPN
2 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (23.81%) BusinessObjects
2 5 (23.81%) SAP BW
2 5 (23.81%) SAP Data Services
2 5 (23.81%) SAP HANA
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.52%) Git
3 2 (9.52%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 7 (33.33%) Banking
2 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 7 (33.33%) General Ledger
3 1 (4.76%) Advertising
3 1 (4.76%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Legal
3 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.76%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (4.76%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (42.86%) Linux
2 6 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 5 (23.81%) AIX
3 5 (23.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (23.81%) Unix
4 2 (9.52%) Windows
5 1 (4.76%) Android
5 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
5 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
5 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (42.86%) Migration
2 9 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 6 (28.57%) DevOps
4 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Management
4 5 (23.81%) Service Delivery
4 5 (23.81%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (19.05%) Cloud Security
5 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
6 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (9.52%) Agile
7 2 (9.52%) Attestation
7 2 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (9.52%) Continuous Deployment
7 2 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (9.52%) ETL
7 2 (9.52%) ITSM
7 2 (9.52%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 5 (23.81%) C
2 5 (23.81%) Java
3 4 (19.05%) Bicep
3 4 (19.05%) Python
4 3 (14.29%) SQL
5 2 (9.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Azure Certification
2 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) MCSA
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Docker
2 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
1 5 (23.81%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (14.29%) Terraform
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (9.52%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Microsoft
2 7 (33.33%) Oracle
3 5 (23.81%) IBM
3 5 (23.81%) SAP
4 3 (14.29%) VMware
5 2 (9.52%) Cisco
6 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
6 1 (4.76%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
6 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.76%) Zscaler