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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 48 70
Rank change year-on-year +13 +22 -5
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 56 19 6
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 4.14% 2.77% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.44% 3.03% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 15 4
10th Percentile £425 £444 £490
25th Percentile £494 £463 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +10.09% -11.92%
75th Percentile £663 £704 £572
90th Percentile £750 £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 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £63.75
Median hourly rate - £78.70 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year - +16.59% -15.63%
75th Percentile - - £71.25
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £98.82 £57.35 £67.50
% change year-on-year +72.31% -15.04% -13.46%

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 1,029 627 768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 76.11% 91.53% 82.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 535 320 428
10th Percentile £325 £249 £273
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 £652 £650 £721
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 113 152
10th Percentile £21.07 £12.82 £51.50
25th Percentile £46.25 £18.51 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £26.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -62.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.44
90th Percentile £75.00 £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 28 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 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.79%) Confluence
1 1 (1.79%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 31 (55.36%) AWS
2 21 (37.50%) Azure
3 19 (33.93%) GCP
4 9 (16.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 8 (14.29%) GitHub
6 7 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (10.71%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (8.93%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (8.93%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (8.93%) Serverless
9 3 (5.36%) Amazon S3
9 3 (5.36%) Snowflake
10 2 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (3.57%) Azure AKS
10 2 (3.57%) Datadog
10 2 (3.57%) dbt
10 2 (3.57%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.29%) Firewall
2 6 (10.71%) BGP
3 5 (8.93%) WAN
4 2 (3.57%) NX-OS
5 1 (1.79%) DNS
5 1 (1.79%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (1.79%) Network Security
5 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.79%) tcpdump
5 1 (1.79%) VPN
5 1 (1.79%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (3.57%) SAP HANA
2 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.79%) Big Data
2 1 (1.79%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (21.43%) Git
1 12 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 9 (16.07%) GitLab
3 1 (1.79%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.79%) JUnit
3 1 (1.79%) Postman
3 1 (1.79%) Selenium
3 1 (1.79%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.29%) Finance
2 8 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.14%) Banking
4 3 (5.36%) Local Government
4 3 (5.36%) Military
4 3 (5.36%) Police
5 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (17.86%) GCP Engineer
2 10 (17.86%) Senior
3 7 (12.50%) Architect
4 6 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (10.71%) GCP DevOps
4 6 (10.71%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 6 (10.71%) Network Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Azure Consultant
5 5 (8.93%) Consultant
5 5 (8.93%) Lead
6 4 (7.14%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) AWS Architect
7 3 (5.36%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (5.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (5.36%) Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (5.36%) Network Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (5.36%) Network Manager
7 3 (5.36%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (71.43%) Terraform
2 4 (7.14%) Pulumi
3 3 (5.36%) REST
3 3 (5.36%) RESTful
3 3 (5.36%) Spring Boot
4 2 (3.57%) .NET
4 2 (3.57%) Kafka
4 2 (3.57%) Keycloak
4 2 (3.57%) Node.js
4 2 (3.57%) Swagger
5 1 (1.79%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.79%) Jinja
5 1 (1.79%) Loki
5 1 (1.79%) ModSecurity
5 1 (1.79%) NETCONF
5 1 (1.79%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.79%) OpenID
5 1 (1.79%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.79%) PySpark
5 1 (1.79%) React
Miscellaneous
1 15 (26.79%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.93%) Data Centre
3 4 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.57%) Clustering
5 2 (3.57%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.57%) Replication
6 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.79%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.86%) Windows
2 9 (16.07%) Linux
3 7 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.57%) CentOS
4 2 (3.57%) Unix
5 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (69.64%) DevOps
2 32 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 17 (30.36%) Containerisation
4 16 (28.57%) Observability
5 13 (23.21%) Agile
6 11 (19.64%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (17.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 9 (16.07%) Incident Response
8 9 (16.07%) Microservices
8 9 (16.07%) Migration
8 9 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (14.29%) AI
9 8 (14.29%) Mentoring
9 8 (14.29%) Secrets Management
9 8 (14.29%) Test Automation
10 7 (12.50%) Analytics
10 7 (12.50%) Roadmaps
10 7 (12.50%) Runbook
10 7 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (33.93%) Python
2 9 (16.07%) Bash
3 4 (7.14%) Java
3 4 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.36%) Groovy
4 3 (5.36%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.57%) SQL
6 1 (1.79%) Go
6 1 (1.79%) Scala
6 1 (1.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (32.14%) Security Cleared
2 16 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.93%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.36%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.79%) Degree
6 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.79%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (5.36%) NCSC
1 3 (5.36%) PCI DSS
1 3 (5.36%) QA
2 2 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (1.79%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (23.21%) Docker
2 4 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.57%) Corosync
3 2 (3.57%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (44.64%) Kubernetes
2 9 (16.07%) Ansible
3 7 (12.50%) Grafana
4 6 (10.71%) FortiGate
5 5 (8.93%) Prometheus
6 3 (5.36%) Argo
7 2 (3.57%) Cilium
7 2 (3.57%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (3.57%) Istio
7 2 (3.57%) Pacemaker
7 2 (3.57%) Puppet
8 1 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.79%) QRadar
8 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (19.64%) Google
2 7 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 6 (10.71%) Microsoft
4 5 (8.93%) VMware
4 5 (8.93%) Zscaler
5 4 (7.14%) Dynatrace
6 3 (5.36%) NetApp
7 2 (3.57%) BiZZdesign
7 2 (3.57%) Cisco
7 2 (3.57%) Oracle
7 2 (3.57%) SAP
8 1 (1.79%) ArcSight
8 1 (1.79%) Cribl.io
8 1 (1.79%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.79%) IBM
8 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.79%) Splunk
8 1 (1.79%) webMethods