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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 53 71
Rank change year-on-year +23 +18 -18
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 61 14 6
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 4.53% 1.88% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.84% 2.04% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 13 5
10th Percentile £425 £439 £497
25th Percentile £488 £505 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.20% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £684 £713 £619
90th Percentile £773 £805 £630
South West median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -5.15%

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 1,045 685 745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 77.58% 91.95% 83.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 537 334 388
10th Percentile £339 £250 £261
25th Percentile £450 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £482
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -1.35% -8.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £743 £725
South West median daily rate £538 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +7.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 152 139
10th Percentile £20.50 £13.04 £47.15
25th Percentile £45.63 £18.87 £62.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £32.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -53.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £68.68 £77.50
South West median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +146.52% -62.74% +12.50%

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 October 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 2 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.64%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 29 (47.54%) AWS
2 22 (36.07%) GCP
3 19 (31.15%) Azure
4 11 (18.03%) GitHub
5 8 (13.11%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (9.84%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (9.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 6 (9.84%) Serverless
7 5 (8.20%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (8.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (8.20%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (6.56%) Cloud Functions
9 3 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.92%) Cloud Composer
9 3 (4.92%) dbt
9 3 (4.92%) Snowflake
9 3 (4.92%) Vertex AI
10 2 (3.28%) Apigee
10 2 (3.28%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.11%) Firewall
2 6 (9.84%) BGP
3 5 (8.20%) WAN
4 2 (3.28%) DNS
4 2 (3.28%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.64%) DHCP
5 1 (1.64%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (1.64%) Network Security
5 1 (1.64%) NX-OS
5 1 (1.64%) tcpdump
5 1 (1.64%) VPN
5 1 (1.64%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.84%) BigQuery
2 5 (8.20%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (6.56%) Metadata
4 2 (3.28%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (3.28%) Data Vault
4 2 (3.28%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.28%) Looker
4 2 (3.28%) Power BI
4 2 (3.28%) Tableau
5 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.64%) MySQL
5 1 (1.64%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (21.31%) Git
2 11 (18.03%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.20%) GitLab
4 2 (3.28%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.28%) Selenium
5 1 (1.64%) JIRA
5 1 (1.64%) JUnit
5 1 (1.64%) Postman
5 1 (1.64%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (16.39%) Finance
1 10 (16.39%) Public Sector
1 10 (16.39%) Social Skills
2 4 (6.56%) Banking
3 3 (4.92%) Local Government
3 3 (4.92%) Military
3 3 (4.92%) Police
4 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (24.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (19.67%) Architect
2 12 (19.67%) Senior
3 7 (11.48%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (9.84%) Azure Consultant
4 6 (9.84%) Consultant
4 6 (9.84%) GCP Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Developer
5 5 (8.20%) GCP Architect
5 5 (8.20%) GCP DevOps
5 5 (8.20%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (6.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Network Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (6.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) AWS Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (67.21%) Terraform
2 4 (6.56%) Pulumi
2 4 (6.56%) RESTful
3 3 (4.92%) .NET
3 3 (4.92%) AWS CDK
4 2 (3.28%) Django
4 2 (3.28%) Node.js
4 2 (3.28%) Spring Boot
4 2 (3.28%) Swagger
5 1 (1.64%) JSON
5 1 (1.64%) Kafka
5 1 (1.64%) Loki
5 1 (1.64%) ModSecurity
5 1 (1.64%) OAuth
5 1 (1.64%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.64%) OpenID
5 1 (1.64%) Pandas
5 1 (1.64%) React
5 1 (1.64%) REST
5 1 (1.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (27.87%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.56%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.28%) Clustering
4 2 (3.28%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.28%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.64%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.64%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (19.67%) Windows
2 8 (13.11%) Linux
3 5 (8.20%) Unix
4 2 (3.28%) CentOS
4 2 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (68.85%) DevOps
2 38 (62.30%) CI/CD
3 15 (24.59%) Containerisation
4 13 (21.31%) Analytics
4 13 (21.31%) Observability
5 12 (19.67%) Agile
5 12 (19.67%) Migration
6 11 (18.03%) AI
7 10 (16.39%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (16.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 9 (14.75%) Data Modelling
8 9 (14.75%) Incident Response
8 9 (14.75%) Microservices
8 9 (14.75%) Roadmaps
8 9 (14.75%) Technical Leadership
8 9 (14.75%) Validation
9 8 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (13.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (11.48%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 21 (34.43%) Python
2 10 (16.39%) Bash
3 5 (8.20%) PowerShell
3 5 (8.20%) SQL
4 4 (6.56%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.92%) Groovy
5 3 (4.92%) Java
5 3 (4.92%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.28%) Bicep
7 1 (1.64%) Go
Qualifications
1 17 (27.87%) Security Cleared
2 16 (26.23%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.20%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.92%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.28%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.64%) OSCP
6 1 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.56%) Data Quality
1 4 (6.56%) QA
2 3 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.92%) NCSC
2 3 (4.92%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.64%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (21.31%) Docker
2 3 (4.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (29.51%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.20%) Ansible
2 5 (8.20%) FortiGate
3 4 (6.56%) Grafana
4 3 (4.92%) Argo
5 2 (3.28%) Istio
5 2 (3.28%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.28%) Puppet
6 1 (1.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.64%) QRadar
6 1 (1.64%) SCCM
6 1 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (22.95%) Google
2 8 (13.11%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.20%) Zscaler
4 4 (6.56%) Dynatrace
4 4 (6.56%) VMware
5 3 (4.92%) NetApp
6 2 (3.28%) BiZZdesign
6 2 (3.28%) Oracle
6 2 (3.28%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.64%) ArcSight
7 1 (1.64%) Cisco
7 1 (1.64%) Cribl.io
7 1 (1.64%) F5
7 1 (1.64%) IBM
7 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.64%) Splunk
7 1 (1.64%) webMethods