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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 61 50
Rank change year-on-year +14 -11 +32
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 23 8 32
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 2.86% 1.04% 3.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.29% 1.21% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 6 25
10th Percentile £420 £514 £487
25th Percentile £512 £543 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £571
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -3.59% -6.48%
75th Percentile £722 £605 £645
90th Percentile £775 £628 £695
South West median daily rate £606 £570 £588
% change year-on-year +6.36% -2.98% -3.69%
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 700 660 901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 86.96% 85.60% 86.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 355 561
10th Percentile £250 £225 £300
25th Percentile £400 £394 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £650
90th Percentile £741 £750 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 93 119
10th Percentile £15.24 £38.30 £33.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £60.75 £56.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +0.77% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.25 £80.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £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 29 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 2 (8.70%) Apache
1 2 (8.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 19 (82.61%) AWS
2 13 (56.52%) GitHub
3 9 (39.13%) Azure
4 8 (34.78%) GCP
5 6 (26.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (21.74%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (13.04%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (13.04%) AWS CodePipeline
7 3 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (13.04%) Azure AKS
7 3 (13.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (13.04%) Serverless
8 2 (8.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (8.70%) AWS KMS
8 2 (8.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
9 1 (4.35%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (4.35%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) DNS
1 2 (8.70%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (4.35%) SD-WAN
2 1 (4.35%) VPN
2 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (4.35%) Big Data
2 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) GitLab
2 4 (17.39%) Git
2 4 (17.39%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (34.78%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Financial Institution
2 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.70%) Law
3 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Architect
2 3 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Lead
3 2 (8.70%) Migration Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Senior
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Technical Architect
4 1 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Specialist
4 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) Express.js
1 2 (8.70%) Kafka
1 2 (8.70%) Next.js
1 2 (8.70%) Node.js
1 2 (8.70%) React
2 1 (4.35%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (4.35%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.35%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.04%) Public Cloud
3 2 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.35%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Linux
2 5 (21.74%) Unix
3 1 (4.35%) Windows
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) CI/CD
1 17 (73.91%) DevOps
2 10 (43.48%) Migration
3 8 (34.78%) Mentoring
4 7 (30.43%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (13.04%) Agile
6 3 (13.04%) Analytics
6 3 (13.04%) Decision-Making
6 3 (13.04%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 2 (8.70%) API Management
7 2 (8.70%) Containerisation
7 2 (8.70%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (8.70%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (8.70%) RBAC
7 2 (8.70%) Regulatory Compliance
7 2 (8.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Python
2 3 (13.04%) Bicep
3 2 (8.70%) Bash
3 2 (8.70%) Ruby
3 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.35%) Go
4 1 (4.35%) Java
4 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
4 2 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (82.61%) Terraform
2 9 (39.13%) Kubernetes
3 7 (30.43%) Puppet
4 5 (21.74%) Ansible
5 3 (13.04%) Kibana
6 2 (8.70%) Grafana
6 2 (8.70%) Istio
6 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
7 1 (4.35%) logstash
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Google
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Brocade
2 1 (4.35%) Cisco
2 1 (4.35%) Extreme Networks
2 1 (4.35%) VMware