Infrastructure as Code Contracts in England

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Infrastructure as Code skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 98 109
Rank change year-on-year -18 +11 +28
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 722 1,259 1,776
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.95% 2.49% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 2.76% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 910 1,301
10th Percentile £402 £461 £469
25th Percentile £475 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £694 £688
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 2
10th Percentile - £52.50 £47.07
25th Percentile £55.00 £70.50 £48.39
Median hourly rate £57.50 £78.00 £51.19
Median % change year-on-year -26.28% +52.38% -14.69%
75th Percentile £71.25 £85.00 £53.39
90th Percentile £75.30 £85.80 £54.36
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £78.00 £48.46
% change year-on-year -19.87% +60.97% -21.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Infrastructure as Code is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in England

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in England.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in England

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in England

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in England.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in England

Infrastructure as Code
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in England

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure as Code within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -21 388 £550 -12.00% 210
South East +62 119 £605 +0.83% 56
North of England -7 83 £550 -8.33% 69
South West -42 53 £550 -9.28% 41
North West -18 45 £550 -7.37% 41
Yorkshire +22 35 £569 -5.21% 19
Midlands +17 33 £538 - 46
West Midlands +25 30 £550 +4.76% 30
East of England +3 6 £475 -8.65% 11
East Midlands +15 3 £450 -18.18% 16
North East +5 3 - - 9
Infrastructure as Code
UK

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 27 (3.74%) OpenStack
2 24 (3.32%) Confluence
3 18 (2.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (2.22%) nginx
5 15 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.52%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.97%) Apache
8 5 (0.69%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.55%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.55%) Luigi
9 4 (0.55%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.42%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.14%) CMS
12 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.14%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.14%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Shopify
2 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 334 (46.26%) Azure
2 323 (44.74%) AWS
3 129 (17.87%) GCP
4 117 (16.20%) Azure DevOps
5 111 (15.37%) Serverless
6 79 (10.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 74 (10.25%) GitHub
8 73 (10.11%) AWS Lambda
9 63 (8.73%) IaaS
10 60 (8.31%) Amazon EC2
11 58 (8.03%) PaaS
12 53 (7.34%) Amazon S3
13 48 (6.65%) SaaS
14 39 (5.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 37 (5.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 35 (4.85%) Amazon EKS
16 35 (4.85%) Azure Monitor
17 34 (4.71%) Entra ID
18 33 (4.57%) GitHub Actions
19 30 (4.16%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 112 (15.51%) Firewall
2 74 (10.25%) DNS
3 55 (7.62%) VPN
4 41 (5.68%) DHCP
5 39 (5.40%) TCP/IP
6 26 (3.60%) LAN
6 26 (3.60%) WAN
7 24 (3.32%) WLAN
8 23 (3.19%) Network Security
9 21 (2.91%) IPsec
9 21 (2.91%) Wireless
10 18 (2.49%) OSPF
11 16 (2.22%) VSAN
12 15 (2.08%) BGP
12 15 (2.08%) HTTP
13 14 (1.94%) VLAN
14 11 (1.52%) SAN
14 11 (1.52%) SNA
15 10 (1.39%) Cisco ASA
15 10 (1.39%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (4.99%) NoSQL
2 34 (4.71%) Elasticsearch
3 32 (4.43%) MySQL
4 28 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
5 27 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (3.60%) BigQuery
6 26 (3.60%) SQL Server
7 21 (2.91%) Data Lake
8 19 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 19 (2.63%) MongoDB
9 18 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
10 16 (2.22%) DynamoDB
10 16 (2.22%) Relational Database
11 14 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (1.52%) Big Data
13 9 (1.25%) Redis
14 8 (1.11%) RDBMS
15 7 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
15 7 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
16 5 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 154 (21.33%) Jenkins
2 128 (17.73%) Git
3 111 (15.37%) GitLab
4 42 (5.82%) JIRA
5 27 (3.74%) SonarQube
6 22 (3.05%) Selenium
7 15 (2.08%) Cucumber
7 15 (2.08%) TeamCity
8 12 (1.66%) Burp Suite
8 12 (1.66%) CircleCI
8 12 (1.66%) REST Assured
9 8 (1.11%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.11%) Travis CI
10 7 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (0.83%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.83%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.69%) AppScan
12 5 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (0.55%) Maven
13 4 (0.55%) Terragrunt
General
1 191 (26.45%) Social Skills
2 86 (11.91%) Finance
3 52 (7.20%) Public Sector
4 48 (6.65%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (4.29%) Banking
6 17 (2.35%) Retail
7 16 (2.22%) Law
8 12 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.25%) Marketing
10 8 (1.11%) Legal
10 8 (1.11%) Police
11 7 (0.97%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.83%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.83%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.69%) Electronics
13 5 (0.69%) German Language
14 3 (0.42%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.42%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.28%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 155 (21.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 104 (14.40%) Architect
3 80 (11.08%) Senior
4 79 (10.94%) Azure Engineer
5 74 (10.25%) AWS Engineer
6 67 (9.28%) Developer
7 62 (8.59%) Cloud Engineer
8 56 (7.76%) Lead
9 52 (7.20%) AWS DevOps
10 45 (6.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 45 (6.23%) Platform Engineer
11 39 (5.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 37 (5.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 34 (4.71%) Cloud Architect
14 33 (4.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 29 (4.02%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 29 (4.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 26 (3.60%) Software Engineer
17 24 (3.32%) Site Engineer
18 23 (3.19%) Azure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (7.76%) Elastic Stack
2 55 (7.62%) ARM Templates
3 51 (7.06%) YAML
4 40 (5.54%) REST
5 37 (5.12%) .NET
6 23 (3.19%) JSON
6 23 (3.19%) Kafka
7 17 (2.35%) RESTful
8 16 (2.22%) Node.js
9 15 (2.08%) GraphQL
9 15 (2.08%) SOAP
10 14 (1.94%) AWS CDK
11 13 (1.80%) Java EE
11 13 (1.80%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (1.66%) Lambda Expressions
12 12 (1.66%) React
13 11 (1.52%) LDAP
14 10 (1.39%) .NET Core
14 10 (1.39%) ADO
14 10 (1.39%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 53 (7.34%) PKI
2 49 (6.79%) Cloud Native
3 28 (3.88%) Public Cloud
4 24 (3.32%) Onboarding
5 22 (3.05%) Data Centre
6 19 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (2.35%) Mobile App
9 16 (2.22%) IoT
10 15 (2.08%) Product Ownership
11 13 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
12 12 (1.66%) Management Information System
13 11 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (1.52%) Replication
13 11 (1.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 10 (1.39%) Clustering
15 9 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
16 8 (1.11%) Security Posture
17 7 (0.97%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 195 (27.01%) Linux
2 82 (11.36%) Windows
3 51 (7.06%) Windows Server
4 50 (6.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (3.88%) CentOS
6 27 (3.74%) Unix
7 16 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 16 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
8 15 (2.08%) Ubuntu
9 10 (1.39%) VMS
10 8 (1.11%) Oracle Linux
10 8 (1.11%) Solaris
11 7 (0.97%) Kali Linux
12 4 (0.55%) Alpine Linux
13 3 (0.42%) Android
13 3 (0.42%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.42%) Debian
13 3 (0.42%) Windows 2000
13 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.42%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (59.83%) DevOps
2 387 (53.60%) CI/CD
3 225 (31.16%) Agile
4 181 (25.07%) Containerisation
5 120 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
6 99 (13.71%) Continuous Integration
7 90 (12.47%) Cloud Security
8 83 (11.50%) Microservices
9 75 (10.39%) DevSecOps
9 75 (10.39%) Test Automation
10 74 (10.25%) Configuration Management
11 64 (8.86%) Analytics
12 63 (8.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 63 (8.73%) Software Engineering
13 60 (8.31%) Migration
14 59 (8.17%) Scrum
15 56 (7.76%) Platform Engineering
16 54 (7.48%) Observability
16 54 (7.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 50 (6.93%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 292 (40.44%) Python
2 154 (21.33%) PowerShell
3 131 (18.14%) Bash
4 83 (11.50%) SQL
5 74 (10.25%) Java
6 70 (9.70%) C#
7 53 (7.34%) Bicep
8 42 (5.82%) Shell Script
9 41 (5.68%) Go
10 36 (4.99%) JavaScript
11 33 (4.57%) TypeScript
12 15 (2.08%) VB
12 15 (2.08%) VBScript
13 13 (1.80%) Ruby
14 8 (1.11%) Groovy
15 7 (0.97%) Perl
16 6 (0.83%) PHP
17 5 (0.69%) Kotlin
18 4 (0.55%) Scala
19 3 (0.42%) Julia
Qualifications
1 210 (29.09%) Security Cleared
2 170 (23.55%) SC Cleared
3 68 (9.42%) Degree
4 47 (6.51%) DV Cleared
5 42 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.35%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.22%) Azure Certification
8 15 (2.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 8 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (0.97%) OSCP
11 6 (0.83%) CISSP
12 4 (0.55%) CCNP
12 4 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.42%) CCIE
13 3 (0.42%) GIAC
13 3 (0.42%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.28%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.12%) NIST
2 32 (4.43%) QA
3 18 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (2.35%) PCI DSS
5 16 (2.22%) GDPR
6 8 (1.11%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.97%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.55%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.55%) SLA
9 3 (0.42%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.42%) NCSC
10 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 212 (29.36%) Docker
2 59 (8.17%) Active Directory
3 49 (6.79%) Virtual Machines
4 47 (6.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 28 (3.88%) VMware NSX
6 19 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (2.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (1.66%) vSphere
9 7 (0.97%) vCloud
10 5 (0.69%) Firmware
11 4 (0.55%) Hyper-V
12 3 (0.42%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 3 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.28%) Squid
14 1 (0.14%) Ceph
14 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.14%) KVM
14 1 (0.14%) NFS
14 1 (0.14%) XenApp
14 1 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 476 (65.93%) Terraform
2 256 (35.46%) Kubernetes
3 201 (27.84%) Ansible
4 75 (10.39%) Grafana
5 69 (9.56%) Prometheus
6 56 (7.76%) Puppet
7 42 (5.82%) Progress Chef
8 31 (4.29%) Kibana
9 30 (4.16%) logstash
10 26 (3.60%) SCCM
11 22 (3.05%) vCenter Server
12 19 (2.63%) Docker Swarm
13 18 (2.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 17 (2.35%) Microsoft Intune
14 17 (2.35%) Packer
14 17 (2.35%) vRealize
15 15 (2.08%) SCOM
15 15 (2.08%) WSUS
16 14 (1.94%) FortiGate
17 12 (1.66%) Podman
Vendors
1 108 (14.96%) Microsoft
2 71 (9.83%) VMware
3 53 (7.34%) Google
4 38 (5.26%) Splunk
5 37 (5.12%) Cisco
6 31 (4.29%) Palo Alto
7 29 (4.02%) Oracle
8 28 (3.88%) Red Hat
9 27 (3.74%) Fortinet
10 21 (2.91%) Dell
11 20 (2.77%) Juniper
12 17 (2.35%) Databricks
13 16 (2.22%) Amdocs
14 15 (2.08%) ServiceNow
15 13 (1.80%) Salesforce
15 13 (1.80%) SAP
16 11 (1.52%) Extreme Networks
17 10 (1.39%) CyberArk
17 10 (1.39%) HP
17 10 (1.39%) SolarWinds