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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 49 71
Rank change year-on-year +18 +22 -12
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 57 20 7
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 4.23% 2.87% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.55% 3.13% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 15 4
10th Percentile £425 £444 £490
25th Percentile £488 £463 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +10.09% -11.92%
75th Percentile £659 £704 £572
90th Percentile £726 £798 £611
South West median daily rate £575 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -4.17% +5.26% -8.80%
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 1,027 640 765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 76.24% 91.82% 82.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 331 430
10th Percentile £325 £235 £263
25th Percentile £425 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £447 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.45% -10.60% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £590
90th Percentile £650 £650 £719
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 112 154
10th Percentile £21.13 £12.82 £52.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £18.51 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £28.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +132.14% -60.00% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.25 £74.86
90th Percentile £72.54 £73.75 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £62.25 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +147.51% -62.74% +3.85%

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 25 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 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.75%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.75%) Confluence
1 1 (1.75%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 30 (52.63%) AWS
2 21 (36.84%) Azure
2 21 (36.84%) GCP
3 9 (15.79%) GitHub
3 9 (15.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 7 (12.28%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (10.53%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (8.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 5 (8.77%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (7.02%) Serverless
8 3 (5.26%) Amazon S3
8 3 (5.26%) Snowflake
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.51%) Apigee
9 2 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.51%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.51%) dbt
9 2 (3.51%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.04%) Firewall
2 6 (10.53%) BGP
3 5 (8.77%) WAN
4 2 (3.51%) NX-OS
5 1 (1.75%) DNS
5 1 (1.75%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (1.75%) Network Security
5 1 (1.75%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.75%) tcpdump
5 1 (1.75%) VPN
5 1 (1.75%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (3.51%) SAP HANA
2 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.75%) Big Data
2 1 (1.75%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (22.81%) Git
1 13 (22.81%) Jenkins
2 9 (15.79%) GitLab
3 1 (1.75%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.75%) JUnit
3 1 (1.75%) Postman
3 1 (1.75%) Selenium
3 1 (1.75%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (22.81%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.04%) Finance
2 8 (14.04%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.02%) Banking
4 3 (5.26%) Local Government
4 3 (5.26%) Military
4 3 (5.26%) Police
5 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (26.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (19.30%) GCP Engineer
3 10 (17.54%) Senior
4 7 (12.28%) Architect
4 7 (12.28%) GCP DevOps
4 7 (12.28%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 6 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (10.53%) Network Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) Azure Consultant
6 5 (8.77%) Consultant
6 5 (8.77%) Lead
7 4 (7.02%) Data Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Infrastructure Manager
8 3 (5.26%) Network Infrastructure Manager
8 3 (5.26%) Network Manager
8 3 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) Senior Network Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (73.68%) Terraform
2 4 (7.02%) Pulumi
3 3 (5.26%) REST
3 3 (5.26%) RESTful
3 3 (5.26%) Spring Boot
4 2 (3.51%) .NET
4 2 (3.51%) Kafka
4 2 (3.51%) Keycloak
4 2 (3.51%) Node.js
4 2 (3.51%) Swagger
5 1 (1.75%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.75%) Jinja
5 1 (1.75%) Loki
5 1 (1.75%) ModSecurity
5 1 (1.75%) NETCONF
5 1 (1.75%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.75%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.75%) Play Framework
5 1 (1.75%) PySpark
5 1 (1.75%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (24.56%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.77%) Data Centre
2 5 (8.77%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.51%) Clustering
3 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.51%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.51%) Replication
4 1 (1.75%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.75%) Learning Management System
4 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.79%) Linux
1 9 (15.79%) Windows
2 7 (12.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.51%) CentOS
4 1 (1.75%) Unix
4 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (68.42%) DevOps
2 33 (57.89%) CI/CD
3 16 (28.07%) Containerisation
3 16 (28.07%) Observability
4 13 (22.81%) Agile
5 11 (19.30%) Platform Engineering
6 10 (17.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (17.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 9 (15.79%) Incident Response
7 9 (15.79%) Microservices
7 9 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (14.04%) AI
8 8 (14.04%) Migration
8 8 (14.04%) Secrets Management
8 8 (14.04%) Test Automation
9 7 (12.28%) Analytics
9 7 (12.28%) Cloud Security
9 7 (12.28%) Mentoring
9 7 (12.28%) Runbook
9 7 (12.28%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (33.33%) Python
2 9 (15.79%) Bash
3 4 (7.02%) Java
3 4 (7.02%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.26%) Groovy
4 3 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.51%) SQL
6 1 (1.75%) Go
6 1 (1.75%) Scala
6 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 16 (28.07%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.77%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.26%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.75%) Degree
6 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.75%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) NCSC
1 3 (5.26%) QA
2 2 (3.51%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.51%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.75%) GRC
3 1 (1.75%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (22.81%) Docker
2 4 (7.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.51%) Corosync
3 2 (3.51%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (43.86%) Kubernetes
2 9 (15.79%) Ansible
3 7 (12.28%) Grafana
4 6 (10.53%) FortiGate
5 5 (8.77%) Prometheus
6 3 (5.26%) Argo
7 2 (3.51%) Cilium
7 2 (3.51%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (3.51%) Istio
7 2 (3.51%) Pacemaker
7 2 (3.51%) Puppet
8 1 (1.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.75%) QRadar
8 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (22.81%) Google
2 7 (12.28%) Red Hat
3 6 (10.53%) Microsoft
4 5 (8.77%) VMware
4 5 (8.77%) Zscaler
5 4 (7.02%) Dynatrace
6 3 (5.26%) NetApp
7 2 (3.51%) BiZZdesign
7 2 (3.51%) Cisco
7 2 (3.51%) Oracle
7 2 (3.51%) SAP
8 1 (1.75%) ArcSight
8 1 (1.75%) Cribl.io
8 1 (1.75%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.75%) IBM
8 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.75%) Splunk
8 1 (1.75%) webMethods