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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 52 51
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +32
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 22 11 25
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 2.15% 1.92% 2.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.59% 2.13% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 9 13
10th Percentile £399 £450 £507
25th Percentile £493 £488 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +11.36% -9.84%
75th Percentile £717 £650 £625
90th Percentile £741 £675 £674
South West median daily rate £575 £613 £563
% change year-on-year -6.12% +8.89% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £79.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £79.00 - -

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 850 517 869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 82.93% 90.38% 83.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 285 499
10th Percentile £325 £205 £275
25th Percentile £408 £340 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £638
90th Percentile £725 £688 £690
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 67 155
10th Percentile £17.69 £35.00 £36.25
25th Percentile £40.94 £60.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +0.81%
75th Percentile - £68.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £71.78 £82.54
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% +30.00% -18.70%

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 22 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 (13.64%) Apache
1 3 (13.64%) Apache Spark
2 2 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 15 (68.18%) AWS
2 10 (45.45%) GCP
3 8 (36.36%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (31.82%) GitHub
5 6 (27.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 5 (22.73%) Serverless
7 4 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (18.18%) Azure
7 4 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (13.64%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (9.09%) AWS KMS
10 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
10 1 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (4.55%) Vertex AI
10 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) DNS
1 2 (9.09%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 4 (18.18%) Git
3 2 (9.09%) GitLab
4 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.55%) Mockito
General
1 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) AWS Engineer
1 6 (27.27%) GCP Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Architect
2 4 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) Data Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Architect
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Data Migration Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) GCP DevOps
4 2 (9.09%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Kafka
1 3 (13.64%) Node.js
2 1 (4.55%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.55%) Express.js
2 1 (4.55%) Next.js
2 1 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (4.55%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.64%) Public Cloud
3 2 (9.09%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Unix
2 2 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) DevOps
2 13 (59.09%) CI/CD
3 7 (31.82%) Containerisation
4 5 (22.73%) Migration
4 5 (22.73%) Roadmaps
5 4 (18.18%) AI
5 4 (18.18%) Analytics
5 4 (18.18%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 4 (18.18%) Decision-Making
5 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
6 3 (13.64%) Agile
6 3 (13.64%) Cloud Security
6 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (13.64%) Cost Optimisation
6 3 (13.64%) Data Engineering
6 3 (13.64%) Data Modelling
6 3 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (13.64%) Observability
6 3 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Python
2 3 (13.64%) SQL
3 2 (9.09%) Ruby
3 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.55%) Bash
4 1 (4.55%) Bicep
4 1 (4.55%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (9.09%) GDPR
2 2 (9.09%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.55%) NIST
3 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 8 (36.36%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (81.82%) Terraform
2 15 (68.18%) Kubernetes
3 5 (22.73%) Ansible
4 2 (9.09%) Grafana
4 2 (9.09%) Istio
4 2 (9.09%) Kibana
4 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.55%) Argo
5 1 (4.55%) logstash
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Google
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft