Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 61 48
Rank change year-on-year +7 -13 +42
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 17 8 31
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 2.16% 0.99% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 1.20% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 25
10th Percentile £402 £480 £515
25th Percentile £455 £514 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.38% -2.08%
75th Percentile £699 £591 £650
90th Percentile £794 £626 £695
South West median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
South West median hourly rate £36.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - -2.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

Infrastructure as Code 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 716 665 907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 91.09% 82.51% 87.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 368 581
10th Percentile £240 £239 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -8.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £645
90th Percentile £739 £739 £700
South West median daily rate £517 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.57% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 92 126
10th Percentile £13.26 £35.10 £30.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £60.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £33.50 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.37% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.25 £76.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in Bristol

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in Bristol

Infrastructure as Code
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Apache
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (88.24%) AWS
2 10 (58.82%) GitHub
3 7 (41.18%) Azure
4 5 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (23.53%) GCP
6 3 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (17.65%) Azure AKS
6 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (11.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (11.76%) AWS KMS
7 2 (11.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
8 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (5.88%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (5.88%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (5.88%) Kong
8 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) SD-WAN
1 1 (5.88%) VPN
1 1 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.88%) Big Data
2 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) GitLab
2 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 8 (47.06%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Financial Institution
3 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.76%) Law
5 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Architect
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Lead
3 1 (5.88%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Network Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Security Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Security Specialist
3 1 (5.88%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Express.js
1 2 (11.76%) Next.js
1 2 (11.76%) Node.js
1 2 (11.76%) React
2 1 (5.88%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Linux
1 5 (29.41%) Unix
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) DevOps
2 12 (70.59%) CI/CD
3 9 (52.94%) Migration
4 6 (35.29%) Mentoring
5 5 (29.41%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (17.65%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 2 (11.76%) Agile
7 2 (11.76%) API Management
7 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (11.76%) Regulatory Compliance
7 2 (11.76%) Security Operations
7 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
8 1 (5.88%) Containerisation
8 1 (5.88%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 1 (5.88%) Incident Response
8 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineering
8 1 (5.88%) RBAC
8 1 (5.88%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Bicep
1 3 (17.65%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) Bash
2 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
3 1 (5.88%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.88%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (76.47%) Terraform
2 7 (41.18%) Puppet
3 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
4 3 (17.65%) Ansible
4 3 (17.65%) Kibana
5 1 (5.88%) Grafana
5 1 (5.88%) Istio
5 1 (5.88%) logstash
5 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Brocade
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco
2 1 (5.88%) Extreme Networks
2 1 (5.88%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) VMware