Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Bristol

Infrastructure Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Bristol is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 April 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 70 111
Rank change year-on-year -3 +41 +20
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 33 24 47
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.17% 2.47% 1.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.22% 2.61% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 31 21 32
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £71,991 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +51.56% -19.49%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £55,313
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £63,675
South West median annual salary £55,000 £61,644 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.78% +23.29% +8.70%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 2,702 919 2,830
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.44% 94.55% 96.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,990 645 2,235
10th Percentile £28,475 £30,750 £33,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,250 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,886 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £91,250 £87,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -1.96%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Bristol

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Bristol.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Bristol

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Bristol over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Bristol

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 17 April 2026, Infrastructure Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (21.21%) DevOps
2 7 (21.21%) DV Cleared
2 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
3 5 (15.15%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (15.15%) Firewall
3 5 (15.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (15.15%) Network Security
3 5 (15.15%) Windows
4 4 (12.12%) Active Directory
4 4 (12.12%) Azure
4 4 (12.12%) Data Loss Prevention
4 4 (12.12%) Mentoring
4 4 (12.12%) NIST
4 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (12.12%) SIEM
4 4 (12.12%) Tenable
4 4 (12.12%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 4 (12.12%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
5 3 (9.09%) VMware
5 3 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (6.06%) AI
6 2 (6.06%) CI/CD
6 2 (6.06%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (6.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (6.06%) GitLab

Infrastructure Engineer 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 4 (12.12%) Azure
2 1 (3.03%) IaaS
2 1 (3.03%) PaaS
2 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.15%) Firewall
1 5 (15.15%) Network Security
2 2 (6.06%) VPN
3 1 (3.03%) Internet
3 1 (3.03%) LAN
3 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.03%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) GitLab
2 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) YubiKey
2 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.15%) Windows
2 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.03%) Linux
3 1 (3.03%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (21.21%) DevOps
3 4 (12.12%) Data Loss Prevention
3 4 (12.12%) Mentoring
3 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (12.12%) SIEM
3 4 (12.12%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 4 (12.12%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (6.06%) AI
5 2 (6.06%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (6.06%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (6.06%) Incident Response
5 2 (6.06%) ITIL
5 2 (6.06%) ITSM
5 2 (6.06%) Machine Learning
5 2 (6.06%) Runbook
5 2 (6.06%) Software Delivery
5 2 (6.06%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) DV Cleared
1 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (15.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (12.12%) NIST
3 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (3.03%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.06%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.03%) Docker
4 1 (3.03%) KVM
4 1 (3.03%) QEMU
4 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.03%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (6.06%) WSUS
2 1 (3.03%) Ansible
2 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.03%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) Tenable
3 3 (9.09%) VMware
4 2 (6.06%) Qualys
4 2 (6.06%) Splunk
5 1 (3.03%) Red Hat