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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 45 67
Rank change year-on-year -7 +22 +7
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 36 15 13
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 2.79% 2.63% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.54% 2.85% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 10 2
10th Percentile £400 £446 £479
25th Percentile £481 £453 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £544
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.15% -14.71%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £595
90th Percentile £723 £675 £613
South West median daily rate £575 £619 £625
% change year-on-year -7.11% -0.96% +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 1,017 527 874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 78.72% 92.46% 82.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 299 488
10th Percentile £330 £235 £250
25th Percentile £413 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £600
90th Percentile £644 £650 £675
South West median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 77 196
10th Percentile £19.33 £18.51 £40.00
25th Percentile £53.53 £22.30 £46.04
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £67.38
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -7.24% +17.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.00 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £36.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +59.72% -34.55% -6.22%

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 26 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 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 3 (8.33%) Apache
2 3 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 20 (55.56%) AWS
2 18 (50.00%) GCP
3 9 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (22.22%) Azure
4 8 (22.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 7 (19.44%) GitHub
6 5 (13.89%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (13.89%) Serverless
7 3 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (5.56%) Amazon S3
8 2 (5.56%) Apigee
8 2 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (5.56%) Azure AKS
9 1 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.78%) Cloud Composer
9 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.78%) Stackdriver
9 1 (2.78%) Vertex AI
9 1 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
1 1 (2.78%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (5.56%) BigQuery
1 2 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (5.56%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.78%) Big Data
2 1 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.78%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 12 (33.33%) Git
1 12 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (13.89%) GitLab
3 2 (5.56%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.78%) JUnit
4 1 (2.78%) Mockito
4 1 (2.78%) Postman
4 1 (2.78%) Selenium
4 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.78%) Banking
3 1 (2.78%) Finance
3 1 (2.78%) Military
3 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (36.11%) GCP Engineer
2 11 (30.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) GCP DevOps
3 7 (19.44%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Architect
5 4 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Network Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Senior
6 3 (8.33%) AWS Architect
6 3 (8.33%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (8.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (8.33%) Lead
7 2 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Migration Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) Kafka
2 3 (8.33%) Node.js
3 2 (5.56%) Keycloak
3 2 (5.56%) REST
3 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.78%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (2.78%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.78%) Jinja
4 1 (2.78%) NETCONF
4 1 (2.78%) OAuth
4 1 (2.78%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.78%) OpenID
4 1 (2.78%) Play Framework
4 1 (2.78%) PySpark
4 1 (2.78%) React
4 1 (2.78%) RESTful
4 1 (2.78%) SAML
4 1 (2.78%) Spring
4 1 (2.78%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (30.56%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 3 (8.33%) Replication
3 2 (5.56%) Clustering
3 2 (5.56%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.78%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.78%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) Linux
2 5 (13.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (8.33%) Windows
4 2 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (77.78%) DevOps
2 21 (58.33%) CI/CD
3 14 (38.89%) Containerisation
4 9 (25.00%) Agile
4 9 (25.00%) Observability
5 8 (22.22%) Cloud Security
6 7 (19.44%) AI
6 7 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (19.44%) Mentoring
7 6 (16.67%) Migration
7 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (16.67%) Roadmaps
8 5 (13.89%) Data Modelling
8 5 (13.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (13.89%) Test Automation
9 4 (11.11%) Analytics
9 4 (11.11%) Data Governance
9 4 (11.11%) High Availability
9 4 (11.11%) Microservices
9 4 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (11.11%) Bash
2 4 (11.11%) SQL
3 3 (8.33%) Java
3 3 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.56%) Groovy
5 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.78%) Scala
5 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 9 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (8.33%) PCI DSS
3 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.56%) GDPR
3 2 (5.56%) NCSC
3 2 (5.56%) QA
4 1 (2.78%) GRC
System Software
1 11 (30.56%) Docker
2 2 (5.56%) Corosync
3 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (83.33%) Terraform
2 21 (58.33%) Kubernetes
3 7 (19.44%) Ansible
4 5 (13.89%) Grafana
4 5 (13.89%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.56%) Argo
5 2 (5.56%) Cilium
5 2 (5.56%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (5.56%) Pacemaker
6 1 (2.78%) FortiGate
6 1 (2.78%) Istio
6 1 (2.78%) Kibana
6 1 (2.78%) logstash
6 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (30.56%) Google
2 5 (13.89%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.56%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.56%) SAP
4 1 (2.78%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (2.78%) Cisco
4 1 (2.78%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.78%) VMware