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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 51 57
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 +26
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 25 12 23
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 2.53% 2.02% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.02% 2.25% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 10 14
10th Percentile £400 £450 £507
25th Percentile £490 £501 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £581 £556
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +4.49% -10.64%
75th Percentile £719 £647 £644
90th Percentile £768 £675 £694
South West median daily rate £575 £601 £569
% change year-on-year -4.37% +5.71% -5.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £79.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £79.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - -7.14%

All Process & 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 829 534 864
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 83.82% 89.90% 83.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 300 518
10th Percentile £325 £205 £288
25th Percentile £403 £351 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £530
% change year-on-year - -0.94% -2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 64 138
10th Percentile £17.69 £35.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £38.96 £57.19 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -
75th Percentile - £68.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.13 £70.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £52.35
% change year-on-year -11.54% +24.16% -14.87%

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 11 February 2026.

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 3 (12.00%) Apache
1 3 (12.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 17 (68.00%) AWS
2 11 (44.00%) GCP
3 8 (32.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (32.00%) Azure
3 8 (32.00%) GitHub
4 6 (24.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 5 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (16.00%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (16.00%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (16.00%) Serverless
7 3 (12.00%) AWS CodePipeline
7 3 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (12.00%) Azure AKS
8 2 (8.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (8.00%) AWS KMS
8 2 (8.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
8 2 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) DNS
1 2 (8.00%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (4.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (4.00%) VPN
2 1 (4.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (16.00%) Git
3 2 (8.00%) GitLab
4 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.00%) Mockito
General
1 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
1 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Law
4 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) AWS Engineer
1 6 (24.00%) GCP Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Senior
4 3 (12.00%) Data Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Data Migration Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) GCP DevOps
5 2 (8.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Software Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Node.js
2 3 (12.00%) Kafka
3 2 (8.00%) Express.js
3 2 (8.00%) Next.js
3 2 (8.00%) React
4 1 (4.00%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (4.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (16.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (8.00%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Windows
3 1 (4.00%) Unix
3 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) DevOps
2 15 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (24.00%) Containerisation
3 6 (24.00%) Migration
4 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (16.00%) Agile
5 4 (16.00%) AI
5 4 (16.00%) Analytics
5 4 (16.00%) Cost Optimisation
5 4 (16.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 4 (16.00%) Decision-Making
5 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
5 4 (16.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (12.00%) Cloud Security
6 3 (12.00%) Data Engineering
6 3 (12.00%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (12.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (12.00%) Observability
6 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (12.00%) Bicep
2 3 (12.00%) SQL
2 3 (12.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (8.00%) Bash
3 2 (8.00%) Ruby
4 1 (4.00%) Go
4 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (36.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.00%) GDPR
3 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.00%) NIST
3 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 10 (40.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (80.00%) Terraform
2 16 (64.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (24.00%) Ansible
4 3 (12.00%) Kibana
5 2 (8.00%) Grafana
5 2 (8.00%) Istio
5 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (4.00%) Argo
6 1 (4.00%) logstash
6 1 (4.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Google
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.00%) Brocade
3 1 (4.00%) Cisco
3 1 (4.00%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (4.00%) VMware