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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 36 63
Rank change year-on-year -10 +27 +10
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 33 18 16
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 2.78% 3.39% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.50% 3.67% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 12 3
10th Percentile £430 £450 £441
25th Percentile £525 £458 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £538 £510
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% +5.39% -20.00%
75th Percentile £688 £656 £570
90th Percentile £738 £675 £603
South West median daily rate £575 £618 £550
% change year-on-year -6.88% +12.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £65.18
25th Percentile - - £67.31
Median hourly rate £79.00 £78.70 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% +8.18% -13.39%
75th Percentile - - £76.31
90th Percentile - - £77.33
South West median hourly rate £79.00 £78.70 £72.75
% change year-on-year +0.38% +8.18% -6.73%

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 943 490 854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 79.38% 92.28% 82.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 298 505
10th Percentile £325 £216 £253
25th Percentile £403 £363 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £452 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.62% -9.60% -0.99%
75th Percentile £560 £588 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 68 151
10th Percentile £18.01 £18.51 £36.25
25th Percentile £61.25 £55.31 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +1.63%
75th Percentile £67.25 £68.00 £70.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £58.75 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -9.62% +36.84% -22.76%

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 16 April 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 4 (12.12%) Apache Spark
2 3 (9.09%) Apache
2 3 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 19 (57.58%) AWS
2 16 (48.48%) GCP
3 9 (27.27%) GitHub
3 9 (27.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 8 (24.24%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (21.21%) Azure
5 7 (21.21%) Serverless
6 5 (15.15%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
9 2 (6.06%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (3.03%) Cloud Composer
10 1 (3.03%) Datadog
10 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
10 1 (3.03%) Stackdriver
10 1 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) DNS
1 2 (6.06%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (3.03%) Firewall
2 1 (3.03%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (6.06%) BigQuery
1 2 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (6.06%) SAP HANA
2 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.03%) Big Data
2 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.03%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 9 (27.27%) Git
1 9 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 5 (15.15%) GitLab
3 1 (3.03%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.03%) Mockito
General
1 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.03%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) GCP Engineer
2 8 (24.24%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) Architect
3 6 (18.18%) Senior
4 5 (15.15%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) GCP DevOps
4 5 (15.15%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Data Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) AWS Architect
6 3 (9.09%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Lead
6 3 (9.09%) Network Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Migration Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Software Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) Kafka
2 2 (6.06%) Keycloak
2 2 (6.06%) Node.js
2 2 (6.06%) REST
3 1 (3.03%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.03%) Jinja
3 1 (3.03%) NETCONF
3 1 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (3.03%) Play Framework
3 1 (3.03%) PySpark
3 1 (3.03%) Spring
3 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.12%) Public Cloud
3 3 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 3 (9.09%) Replication
4 2 (6.06%) Clustering
4 2 (6.06%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.03%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (24.24%) Linux
2 5 (15.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (9.09%) Windows
4 2 (6.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (69.70%) DevOps
2 19 (57.58%) CI/CD
3 13 (39.39%) Containerisation
4 8 (24.24%) Mentoring
5 7 (21.21%) Agile
5 7 (21.21%) AI
5 7 (21.21%) Cloud Security
6 6 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (18.18%) Migration
6 6 (18.18%) Observability
6 6 (18.18%) Roadmaps
7 4 (12.12%) Analytics
7 4 (12.12%) Data Engineering
7 4 (12.12%) Data Governance
7 4 (12.12%) Data Modelling
7 4 (12.12%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 4 (12.12%) Decision-Making
7 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (12.12%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (12.12%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (36.36%) Python
2 4 (12.12%) SQL
3 2 (6.06%) Ruby
4 1 (3.03%) Bash
4 1 (3.03%) Go
4 1 (3.03%) Java
4 1 (3.03%) Scala
4 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (39.39%) Security Cleared
2 10 (30.30%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.03%) Degree
5 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (9.09%) PCI DSS
3 2 (6.06%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.06%) GDPR
3 2 (6.06%) NCSC
4 1 (3.03%) GRC
4 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 10 (30.30%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) Corosync
2 2 (6.06%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.03%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (84.85%) Terraform
2 21 (63.64%) Kubernetes
3 9 (27.27%) Ansible
4 5 (15.15%) Grafana
4 5 (15.15%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.06%) Cilium
5 2 (6.06%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (6.06%) Istio
5 2 (6.06%) Pacemaker
6 1 (3.03%) Argo
6 1 (3.03%) FortiGate
6 1 (3.03%) Kibana
6 1 (3.03%) logstash
Vendors
1 11 (33.33%) Google
2 5 (15.15%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.06%) SAP
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco
4 1 (3.03%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.03%) VMware