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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 59 51
Rank change year-on-year +5 -8 +31
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 19 8 27
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 2.13% 1.28% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 1.42% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 18
10th Percentile £405 £450 £481
25th Percentile £505 £469 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 £540 £563
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% -4.00% -7.79%
75th Percentile £725 £591 £640
90th Percentile £775 £626 £686
South West median daily rate £588 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +2.17% -4.17% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £79.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £57.50 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - -7.14%

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 755 562 837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 84.64% 89.92% 84.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 379 311 512
10th Percentile £305 £213 £289
25th Percentile £400 £353 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £641
90th Percentile £746 £700 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 68 123
10th Percentile £17.69 £33.80 £35.00
25th Percentile £33.50 £58.94 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.56%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £75.63
90th Percentile £67.25 £74.61 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £44.00 £65.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -32.31% +15.06% -8.15%

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 20 January 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 (10.53%) Apache
1 2 (10.53%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) AWS
2 9 (47.37%) GCP
3 8 (42.11%) Azure
3 8 (42.11%) GitHub
4 6 (31.58%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (26.32%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (26.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (15.79%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (15.79%) Azure AKS
6 3 (15.79%) Serverless
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (10.53%) AWS KMS
7 2 (10.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
8 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (5.26%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) DNS
1 2 (10.53%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (5.26%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.26%) VPN
2 1 (5.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.79%) Git
3 1 (5.26%) GitLab
General
1 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Law
3 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) GCP Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Architect
2 3 (15.79%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) GCP DevOps
3 2 (10.53%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Migration Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Software Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Express.js
1 2 (10.53%) Kafka
1 2 (10.53%) Next.js
1 2 (10.53%) Node.js
1 2 (10.53%) React
2 1 (5.26%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (5.26%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.26%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.79%) Public Cloud
3 2 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.26%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) CI/CD
1 13 (68.42%) DevOps
2 4 (21.05%) Migration
3 3 (15.79%) Agile
3 3 (15.79%) Analytics
3 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (15.79%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 3 (15.79%) Decision-Making
3 3 (15.79%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Security
4 2 (10.53%) Containerisation
4 2 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (10.53%) RBAC
4 2 (10.53%) Roadmaps
4 2 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Python
2 3 (15.79%) Bicep
3 2 (10.53%) Ruby
3 2 (10.53%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.26%) Bash
4 1 (5.26%) Go
4 1 (5.26%) Java
4 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 6 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (78.95%) Terraform
2 11 (57.89%) Kubernetes
3 6 (31.58%) Ansible
4 3 (15.79%) Kibana
5 2 (10.53%) Grafana
5 2 (10.53%) Istio
5 2 (10.53%) Prometheus
6 1 (5.26%) logstash
6 1 (5.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Google
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Brocade
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco
3 1 (5.26%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (5.26%) VMware