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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 74 49
Rank change year-on-year +25 -25 +35
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 18 5 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 2.47% 0.54% 2.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 0.66% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 25
10th Percentile £444 £490 £521
25th Percentile £463 £522 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £545 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.09% -9.17% -
75th Percentile £704 £572 £675
90th Percentile £798 £611 £703
South West median daily rate £600 £575 £619
% change year-on-year +4.35% -7.07% +3.13%
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 - - +1.96%

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 674 761 914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 92.33% 82.72% 86.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 408 623
10th Percentile £256 £284 £308
25th Percentile £375 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £590 £599 £650
90th Percentile £738 £701 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 141 111
10th Percentile £12.82 £50.00 £20.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £65.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.57% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £75.63
90th Percentile £71.13 £77.50 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £64.57
% change year-on-year -62.74% +4.53% +11.05%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code 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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Bristol over the 6 months to 18 September 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

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Apache
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (83.33%) AWS
2 9 (50.00%) GitHub
3 8 (44.44%) Azure
4 6 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (16.67%) Azure AKS
5 3 (16.67%) GCP
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
6 2 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
7 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (5.56%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (5.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (5.56%) CloudFront
7 1 (5.56%) Kong
7 1 (5.56%) Sentry
7 1 (5.56%) Serverless
7 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) DNS
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.56%) VPN
2 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.56%) Big Data
2 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) GitLab
2 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 2 (11.11%) Git
General
1 7 (38.89%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Financial Institution
3 2 (11.11%) Law
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Lead
4 2 (11.11%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Linux DevOps Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Express.js
1 2 (11.11%) Next.js
1 2 (11.11%) Node.js
1 2 (11.11%) React
2 1 (5.56%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.56%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.56%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Cloud Native
2 3 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 2 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Linux
2 5 (27.78%) Unix
3 1 (5.56%) CentOS
3 1 (5.56%) Windows
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) DevOps
2 12 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 10 (55.56%) Migration
4 6 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 6 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 3 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (16.67%) High Availability
7 2 (11.11%) API Management
7 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (11.11%) GitOps
7 2 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
7 2 (11.11%) Security Hardening
7 2 (11.11%) Security Operations
7 2 (11.11%) Task Automation
7 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) Bash
3 3 (16.67%) Bicep
4 2 (11.11%) Perl
4 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.56%) Java
5 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (77.78%) Terraform
2 8 (44.44%) Puppet
3 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 5 (27.78%) Ansible
5 3 (16.67%) Grafana
5 3 (16.67%) Kibana
5 3 (16.67%) Prometheus
6 1 (5.56%) logstash
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 3 (16.67%) VMware
2 1 (5.56%) Brocade
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco
2 1 (5.56%) Extreme Networks
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat