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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 41 61
Rank change year-on-year 0 +20 +12
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 39 16 13
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 3.10% 2.84% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.96% 3.07% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 10 2
10th Percentile £400 £446 £479
25th Percentile £515 £453 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £544
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.15% -16.35%
75th Percentile £663 £669 £595
90th Percentile £738 £675 £613
South West median daily rate £575 £619 £600
% change year-on-year -7.11% +3.17% -2.04%
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% -
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 986 521 877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 78.32% 92.38% 82.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 293 483
10th Percentile £325 £235 £251
25th Percentile £413 £363 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £600
90th Percentile £650 £664 £686
South West median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 85 193
10th Percentile £19.33 £18.51 £40.00
25th Percentile £56.13 £32.50 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year - -3.35% +12.08%
75th Percentile £67.75 £68.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%

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 15 May 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 (10.26%) Apache Spark
2 3 (7.69%) Apache
2 3 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 21 (53.85%) AWS
2 20 (51.28%) GCP
3 11 (28.21%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (25.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 9 (23.08%) GitHub
6 7 (17.95%) Azure
6 7 (17.95%) Serverless
7 6 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (10.26%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (5.13%) Amazon S3
10 2 (5.13%) Apigee
10 2 (5.13%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (5.13%) Azure AKS
11 1 (2.56%) Cloud Composer
11 1 (2.56%) OpenShift
11 1 (2.56%) Stackdriver
11 1 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) DNS
1 2 (5.13%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (2.56%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (5.13%) BigQuery
1 2 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (5.13%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.56%) Big Data
2 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 14 (35.90%) Git
2 13 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 5 (12.82%) GitLab
4 2 (5.13%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.56%) JUnit
5 1 (2.56%) Mockito
5 1 (2.56%) Postman
5 1 (2.56%) Selenium
5 1 (2.56%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.56%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.56%) Banking
3 1 (2.56%) Finance
3 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (38.46%) GCP Engineer
2 12 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (20.51%) GCP DevOps
3 8 (20.51%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 7 (17.95%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (15.38%) Architect
6 5 (12.82%) Senior
7 4 (10.26%) Data Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Network Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) AWS Architect
8 3 (7.69%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
8 3 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
8 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
9 2 (5.13%) AWS DevOps
9 2 (5.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 2 (5.13%) Lead
9 2 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (5.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) Kafka
2 2 (5.13%) Keycloak
2 2 (5.13%) Node.js
2 2 (5.13%) REST
3 1 (2.56%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.56%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.56%) Jinja
3 1 (2.56%) NETCONF
3 1 (2.56%) Play Framework
3 1 (2.56%) PySpark
3 1 (2.56%) RESTful
3 1 (2.56%) Spring
3 1 (2.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.64%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.26%) Public Cloud
3 3 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.69%) Replication
4 2 (5.13%) Clustering
4 2 (5.13%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.56%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.51%) Linux
2 5 (12.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (7.69%) Windows
4 2 (5.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (74.36%) DevOps
2 24 (61.54%) CI/CD
3 14 (35.90%) Containerisation
4 9 (23.08%) Agile
4 9 (23.08%) Cloud Security
4 9 (23.08%) Mentoring
4 9 (23.08%) Observability
5 7 (17.95%) AI
5 7 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (15.38%) Migration
6 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (12.82%) Roadmaps
7 5 (12.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (12.82%) Test Automation
8 4 (10.26%) Analytics
8 4 (10.26%) Code Quality
8 4 (10.26%) Data Governance
8 4 (10.26%) Data Modelling
8 4 (10.26%) High Availability
8 4 (10.26%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (38.46%) Python
2 4 (10.26%) Bash
2 4 (10.26%) SQL
3 3 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.13%) Groovy
4 2 (5.13%) Java
4 2 (5.13%) Ruby
5 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.56%) Scala
5 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 11 (28.21%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.56%) Degree
5 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.69%) PCI DSS
3 2 (5.13%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.13%) GDPR
3 2 (5.13%) NCSC
3 2 (5.13%) QA
4 1 (2.56%) GRC
System Software
1 12 (30.77%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) Corosync
2 2 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 33 (84.62%) Terraform
2 24 (61.54%) Kubernetes
3 8 (20.51%) Ansible
4 5 (12.82%) Grafana
4 5 (12.82%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.13%) Cilium
5 2 (5.13%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (5.13%) Istio
5 2 (5.13%) Pacemaker
6 1 (2.56%) Argo
6 1 (2.56%) FortiGate
6 1 (2.56%) Kibana
6 1 (2.56%) logstash
Vendors
1 13 (33.33%) Google
2 5 (12.82%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.13%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.13%) SAP
4 1 (2.56%) Cisco
4 1 (2.56%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.56%) VMware