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 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 44 55
Rank change year-on-year -2 +11 +23
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 28 14 23
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 2.57% 2.70% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.16% 2.96% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 10 8
10th Percentile £400 £450 £481
25th Percentile £493 £503 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £619 £544
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +13.79% -12.30%
75th Percentile £714 £669 £639
90th Percentile £738 £675 £686
South West median daily rate £575 £618 £550
% change year-on-year -6.88% +12.27% -10.20%
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% -13.39%
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% -10.19%

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 887 473 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 81.53% 91.31% 82.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 283 488
10th Percentile £325 £213 £259
25th Percentile £400 £341 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £553 £588 £625
90th Percentile £669 £675 £700
South West median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 64 159
10th Percentile £17.69 £35.00 £39.25
25th Percentile £60.00 £60.94 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile - £68.00 £70.63
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.50 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year -11.54% +33.42% -20.78%

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 16 March 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 3 (10.71%) Apache
1 3 (10.71%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 16 (57.14%) AWS
2 13 (46.43%) GCP
3 8 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (28.57%) GitHub
4 7 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 6 (21.43%) Serverless
6 4 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (14.29%) Azure
6 4 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (10.71%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (7.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
8 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (7.14%) AWS KMS
9 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (3.57%) Datadog
9 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) DNS
1 2 (7.14%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.57%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 7 (25.00%) Git
3 2 (7.14%) GitLab
4 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.57%) Mockito
General
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) GCP Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) AWS Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Senior
3 5 (17.86%) Architect
4 4 (14.29%) GCP DevOps
4 4 (14.29%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Data Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) AWS Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Data Migration Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Network Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) Kafka
2 2 (7.14%) Node.js
3 1 (3.57%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.57%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (3.57%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Cloud Native
2 4 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 3 (10.71%) Product Ownership
4 2 (7.14%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.57%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Unix
2 2 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) DevOps
2 17 (60.71%) CI/CD
3 9 (32.14%) Containerisation
4 6 (21.43%) Mentoring
5 5 (17.86%) AI
5 5 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (17.86%) Migration
5 5 (17.86%) Roadmaps
6 4 (14.29%) Agile
6 4 (14.29%) Analytics
6 4 (14.29%) Cloud Security
6 4 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 4 (14.29%) Decision-Making
6 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (14.29%) Observability
6 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (10.71%) Data Engineering
7 3 (10.71%) Data Governance
7 3 (10.71%) Data Modelling
7 3 (10.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) Python
2 3 (10.71%) SQL
3 2 (7.14%) Ruby
4 1 (3.57%) Bash
4 1 (3.57%) Go
4 1 (3.57%) Scala
4 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (32.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (7.14%) GDPR
2 2 (7.14%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.57%) GRC
3 1 (3.57%) NCSC
3 1 (3.57%) NIST
3 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 9 (32.14%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (85.71%) Terraform
2 17 (60.71%) Kubernetes
3 6 (21.43%) Ansible
4 2 (7.14%) Grafana
4 2 (7.14%) Istio
4 2 (7.14%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.57%) Argo
5 1 (3.57%) Kibana
5 1 (3.57%) logstash
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Google
2 2 (7.14%) Red Hat