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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 49 60
Rank change year-on-year +12 +11 -1
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 51 17 10
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 3.89% 2.46% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.06% 2.69% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 12 2
10th Percentile £425 £435 £477
25th Percentile £488 £462 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £600 £519
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% +15.66% -14.43%
75th Percentile £625 £647 £539
90th Percentile £670 £799 £546
South West median daily rate £575 £615 £573
% change year-on-year -6.50% +7.42% -8.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £65.18
25th Percentile - - £67.31
Median hourly rate - £78.70 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year - +8.18% -9.06%
75th Percentile - - £76.31
90th Percentile - - £77.33
South West median hourly rate £98.82 £57.35 £72.75
% change year-on-year +72.31% -21.17% -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 1,008 632 781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 76.83% 91.46% 82.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 333 421
10th Percentile £325 £235 £260
25th Percentile £425 £361 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £447 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% -10.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £590
90th Percentile £642 £650 £725
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 103 185
10th Percentile £19.33 £12.82 £43.75
25th Percentile £45.00 £18.87 £58.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £30.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.88% -56.79% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £66.75 £74.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.75 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £25.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year +128.63% -61.31% -

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 10 August 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 1 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.96%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.96%) Confluence
1 1 (1.96%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 28 (54.90%) AWS
2 20 (39.22%) Azure
3 19 (37.25%) GCP
4 8 (15.69%) GitHub
4 8 (15.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 6 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (9.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 5 (9.80%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (9.80%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (7.84%) Serverless
8 3 (5.88%) Amazon S3
8 3 (5.88%) Pulumi
8 3 (5.88%) Snowflake
9 2 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.92%) Apigee
9 2 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.92%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.92%) Datadog
9 2 (3.92%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.73%) Firewall
2 5 (9.80%) BGP
2 5 (9.80%) WAN
3 1 (1.96%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (3.92%) SAP HANA
2 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.96%) Big Data
2 1 (1.96%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.96%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.96%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (25.49%) Jenkins
2 12 (23.53%) Git
3 7 (13.73%) GitLab
4 1 (1.96%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.96%) JUnit
4 1 (1.96%) Postman
4 1 (1.96%) Selenium
4 1 (1.96%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.73%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.84%) Finance
4 3 (5.88%) Local Government
4 3 (5.88%) Military
4 3 (5.88%) Police
5 2 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Banking
6 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (27.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (21.57%) GCP Engineer
3 7 (13.73%) Architect
3 7 (13.73%) GCP DevOps
3 7 (13.73%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 7 (13.73%) Senior
4 6 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Azure Consultant
5 5 (9.80%) Consultant
5 5 (9.80%) Lead
6 4 (7.84%) Data Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Network Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) AWS Architect
8 2 (3.92%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.92%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.88%) RESTful
1 3 (5.88%) Spring Boot
2 2 (3.92%) .NET
2 2 (3.92%) Kafka
2 2 (3.92%) Keycloak
2 2 (3.92%) Node.js
2 2 (3.92%) REST
2 2 (3.92%) Swagger
3 1 (1.96%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.96%) Jinja
3 1 (1.96%) NETCONF
3 1 (1.96%) OAuth
3 1 (1.96%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.96%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.96%) Play Framework
3 1 (1.96%) SAML
3 1 (1.96%) SOAP
3 1 (1.96%) Spring
3 1 (1.96%) Web Services
3 1 (1.96%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 13 (25.49%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.92%) Clustering
3 2 (3.92%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.92%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.92%) Replication
4 1 (1.96%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.96%) Learning Management System
4 1 (1.96%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.65%) Windows
2 8 (15.69%) Linux
3 6 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.96%) CentOS
4 1 (1.96%) Unix
4 1 (1.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (72.55%) DevOps
2 29 (56.86%) CI/CD
3 16 (31.37%) Containerisation
4 13 (25.49%) Agile
4 13 (25.49%) Observability
5 10 (19.61%) Platform Engineering
6 9 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (17.65%) Microservices
6 9 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 8 (15.69%) AI
7 8 (15.69%) Migration
7 8 (15.69%) Test Automation
8 7 (13.73%) Analytics
8 7 (13.73%) Cloud Security
8 7 (13.73%) Incident Response
8 7 (13.73%) Runbook
8 7 (13.73%) Secrets Management
9 6 (11.76%) Roadmaps
9 6 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (29.41%) Python
2 8 (15.69%) Bash
3 4 (7.84%) Java
3 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.88%) Groovy
4 3 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.92%) SQL
6 1 (1.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 15 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.80%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.96%) Degree
5 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) QA
2 2 (3.92%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.92%) NCSC
2 2 (3.92%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.96%) GRC
System Software
1 13 (25.49%) Docker
2 2 (3.92%) Corosync
2 2 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.92%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (76.47%) Terraform
2 23 (45.10%) Kubernetes
3 8 (15.69%) Ansible
4 7 (13.73%) Grafana
5 6 (11.76%) FortiGate
6 5 (9.80%) Prometheus
7 3 (5.88%) Argo
8 2 (3.92%) Cilium
8 2 (3.92%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (3.92%) Pacemaker
9 1 (1.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.96%) Istio
9 1 (1.96%) Puppet
9 1 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (25.49%) Google
2 6 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.76%) Red Hat
3 5 (9.80%) Zscaler
4 3 (5.88%) Dynatrace
4 3 (5.88%) VMware
5 2 (3.92%) BiZZdesign
5 2 (3.92%) Oracle
5 2 (3.92%) SAP
6 1 (1.96%) Cisco
6 1 (1.96%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.96%) IBM
6 1 (1.96%) NetApp
6 1 (1.96%) webMethods