Infrastructure Architect Job Trends in the South West

Infrastructure Architect
England > South West

The median Infrastructure Architect salary in the South West is £73,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 November 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 207 202
Rank change year-on-year +26 -5 +112
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 2 4 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.046% 0.068% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.072% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 12
10th Percentile £63,125 £81,375 -
25th Percentile £65,938 £81,563 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £83,750 £62,400
Median % change year-on-year -11.94% +34.21% -32.30%
75th Percentile £78,438 £86,563 £67,070
90th Percentile £79,375 £87,125 £69,707
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £82,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -8.54% +3.80%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 4,044 5,532 4,223
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.58% 94.16% 95.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,739 3,353 3,261
10th Percentile £27,707 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £40,443
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,198 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.11% -2.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £54,292 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.58% -4.17% -

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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 the South West.

Infrastructure Architect job vacancy trend in the South West

Infrastructure Architect
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the South West.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the South West

Infrastructure Architect
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in the South West over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Architect in the South West

Infrastructure Architect
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Architect within the South West region over the 6 months to 20 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol - 2 £73,750 - 2
Infrastructure Architect
England

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 20 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 South West region featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SAP