Infrastructure as Code Contracts in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 107 117
Rank change year-on-year +7 +10 +16
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 800 1,116 1,671
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.13% 2.37% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% 2.64% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 826 1,237
10th Percentile £400 £450 £463
25th Percentile £475 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +11.63%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £688
90th Percentile £688 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £598
% change year-on-year -8.33% +0.42% +10.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 17 0
10th Percentile - £66.80 -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% - -
75th Percentile £74.50 £85.00 -
90th Percentile £76.60 £90.00 -
UK median hourly rate £69.75 £78.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -10.58% +95.00% -34.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -8 422 £550 -8.33% 208
South East +65 134 £605 -6.92% 49
North of England +21 113 £528 -12.08% 60
South West -41 69 £582 -4.98% 54
Yorkshire +41 65 £514 -17.18% 21
Midlands +25 47 £564 +7.33% 53
West Midlands +29 45 £576 +11.30% 37
North West -5 43 £550 -8.33% 37
East of England -6 7 £525 +10.53% 12
North East -1 5 - - 2
East Midlands +4 2 £450 -18.18% 16
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 28 (3.50%) Confluence
2 26 (3.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.50%) OpenStack
4 16 (2.00%) nginx
5 15 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.75%) Anypoint
6 6 (0.75%) Apache
7 5 (0.63%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.50%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.50%) Luigi
9 3 (0.38%) CMS
9 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.25%) IIS
11 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.25%) Gliffy
2 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 378 (47.25%) Azure
2 330 (41.25%) AWS
3 149 (18.63%) GCP
4 123 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
5 115 (14.38%) Serverless
6 90 (11.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 78 (9.75%) GitHub
8 70 (8.75%) AWS Lambda
9 69 (8.63%) Amazon S3
10 65 (8.13%) IaaS
11 64 (8.00%) PaaS
12 55 (6.88%) Entra ID
13 50 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
14 46 (5.75%) Azure Monitor
15 44 (5.50%) SaaS
16 41 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
17 34 (4.25%) GitHub Actions
18 32 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 31 (3.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 30 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 97 (12.13%) Firewall
2 84 (10.50%) DNS
3 45 (5.63%) DHCP
4 39 (4.88%) TCP/IP
4 39 (4.88%) VPN
5 22 (2.75%) Network Security
6 20 (2.50%) HTTP
7 15 (1.88%) WAN
8 14 (1.75%) LAN
9 11 (1.38%) VSAN
10 10 (1.25%) IPsec
10 10 (1.25%) VLAN
11 9 (1.13%) SSL
11 9 (1.13%) WLAN
12 8 (1.00%) HTTPS
12 8 (1.00%) IPv4
12 8 (1.00%) SAN
13 7 (0.88%) Kerberos
13 7 (0.88%) OSPF
14 6 (0.75%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (4.63%) BigQuery
2 35 (4.38%) Amazon RDS
3 34 (4.25%) NoSQL
4 33 (4.13%) MySQL
5 30 (3.75%) Data Lake
6 29 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
7 28 (3.50%) Elasticsearch
8 27 (3.38%) Amazon Redshift
9 26 (3.25%) SQL Server
10 24 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
10 24 (3.00%) Relational Database
11 21 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
12 19 (2.38%) MongoDB
13 17 (2.13%) DynamoDB
14 16 (2.00%) Big Data
15 14 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
16 10 (1.25%) Hadoop
16 10 (1.25%) RDBMS
16 10 (1.25%) Redis
17 7 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 170 (21.25%) Jenkins
2 151 (18.88%) Git
3 129 (16.13%) GitLab
4 48 (6.00%) JIRA
5 28 (3.50%) SonarQube
6 21 (2.63%) Selenium
7 16 (2.00%) TeamCity
8 14 (1.75%) CircleCI
8 14 (1.75%) Cucumber
9 12 (1.50%) REST Assured
10 11 (1.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 10 (1.25%) Travis CI
12 8 (1.00%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.88%) Cypress.io
14 6 (0.75%) Artifactory
15 5 (0.63%) AppScan
15 5 (0.63%) Burp Suite
15 5 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
16 4 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
16 4 (0.50%) Subversion
General
1 228 (28.50%) Social Skills
2 90 (11.25%) Finance
3 52 (6.50%) Banking
4 45 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (5.63%) Public Sector
5 17 (2.13%) Retail
6 16 (2.00%) Law
7 12 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.00%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.00%) Legal
9 8 (1.00%) Police
10 7 (0.88%) Marketing
11 5 (0.63%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.50%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.38%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.38%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.25%) Back Office
14 2 (0.25%) Electronics
14 2 (0.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 182 (22.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 128 (16.00%) Architect
3 93 (11.63%) Azure Engineer
4 84 (10.50%) Senior
5 78 (9.75%) AWS Engineer
6 68 (8.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 65 (8.13%) Developer
8 57 (7.13%) AWS DevOps
9 54 (6.75%) Platform Engineer
10 53 (6.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 42 (5.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 40 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 37 (4.63%) Lead
14 34 (4.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 33 (4.13%) Cloud Architect
16 32 (4.00%) Software Engineer
17 30 (3.75%) DevSecOps Engineer
18 28 (3.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 27 (3.38%) Security Engineer
20 26 (3.25%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (8.88%) YAML
2 69 (8.63%) ARM Templates
3 47 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
4 38 (4.75%) REST
5 37 (4.63%) .NET
6 33 (4.13%) Kafka
7 25 (3.13%) Node.js
8 23 (2.88%) JSON
9 19 (2.38%) React
9 19 (2.38%) RESTful
10 17 (2.13%) AWS CDK
11 15 (1.88%) RabbitMQ
12 13 (1.63%) Java EE
13 12 (1.50%) GraphQL
13 12 (1.50%) SOAP
13 12 (1.50%) Spring
14 10 (1.25%) .NET Core
14 10 (1.25%) ADO
14 10 (1.25%) XML
15 9 (1.13%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 43 (5.38%) PKI
2 42 (5.25%) Cloud Native
3 35 (4.38%) Public Cloud
4 26 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
5 20 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 20 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 20 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (2.00%) Mobile App
8 15 (1.88%) IoT
8 15 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
9 13 (1.63%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 10 (1.25%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.25%) Security Posture
13 9 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.13%) Replication
14 8 (1.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 211 (26.38%) Linux
2 106 (13.25%) Windows
3 65 (8.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 54 (6.75%) Windows Server
5 29 (3.63%) Unix
6 25 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
7 22 (2.75%) Windows Server 2019
8 19 (2.38%) CentOS
9 11 (1.38%) Ubuntu
10 10 (1.25%) VMS
11 5 (0.63%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (0.63%) Solaris
12 4 (0.50%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.50%) Android
12 4 (0.50%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.38%) Windows 2000
13 3 (0.38%) Windows XP
14 2 (0.25%) Debian
15 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 501 (62.63%) DevOps
2 440 (55.00%) CI/CD
3 224 (28.00%) Agile
4 217 (27.13%) Containerisation
5 146 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
6 111 (13.88%) Continuous Integration
7 102 (12.75%) Microservices
8 97 (12.13%) Configuration Management
9 96 (12.00%) Cloud Security
10 95 (11.88%) Test Automation
11 93 (11.63%) DevSecOps
12 89 (11.13%) Analytics
13 76 (9.50%) Infrastructure Automation
14 69 (8.63%) Platform Engineering
14 69 (8.63%) Software Engineering
15 64 (8.00%) Migration
16 62 (7.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 60 (7.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 59 (7.38%) Scrum
19 58 (7.25%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 301 (37.63%) Python
2 192 (24.00%) PowerShell
3 141 (17.63%) Bash
4 100 (12.50%) SQL
5 95 (11.88%) Java
6 77 (9.63%) C#
7 68 (8.50%) Bicep
8 42 (5.25%) TypeScript
9 40 (5.00%) Shell Script
10 38 (4.75%) Go
11 34 (4.25%) JavaScript
12 21 (2.63%) VB
12 21 (2.63%) VBScript
13 13 (1.63%) Ruby
14 8 (1.00%) Groovy
15 7 (0.88%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.75%) PHP
17 5 (0.63%) Scala
18 4 (0.50%) C++
19 3 (0.38%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 228 (28.50%) Security Cleared
2 184 (23.00%) SC Cleared
3 86 (10.75%) Degree
4 59 (7.38%) DV Cleared
5 49 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (3.88%) Azure Certification
7 25 (3.13%) AWS Certification
8 21 (2.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 20 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 13 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 9 (1.13%) Master's Degree
12 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.88%) CISSP
14 6 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.50%) PhD
16 3 (0.38%) CCIE
16 3 (0.38%) CCNP
16 3 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
16 3 (0.38%) GIAC
17 2 (0.25%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (4.63%) NIST
2 35 (4.38%) QA
3 17 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (2.00%) GDPR
5 14 (1.75%) Data Quality
6 12 (1.50%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.00%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.50%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.38%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 254 (31.75%) Docker
2 77 (9.63%) Active Directory
3 63 (7.88%) Virtual Machines
4 62 (7.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (2.88%) VMware NSX
6 22 (2.75%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (1.13%) vSphere
9 7 (0.88%) vCloud
10 4 (0.50%) Firmware
10 4 (0.50%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.25%) Squid
12 2 (0.25%) XenApp
12 2 (0.25%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.13%) Ceph
13 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.13%) NFS
Systems Management
1 537 (67.13%) Terraform
2 303 (37.88%) Kubernetes
3 215 (26.88%) Ansible
4 74 (9.25%) Grafana
5 68 (8.50%) Puppet
6 66 (8.25%) Prometheus
7 56 (7.00%) Progress Chef
8 33 (4.13%) SCCM
9 26 (3.25%) Kibana
9 26 (3.25%) logstash
9 26 (3.25%) Microsoft Intune
10 24 (3.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 22 (2.75%) Docker Swarm
12 21 (2.63%) SCOM
12 21 (2.63%) WSUS
13 17 (2.13%) Salt
13 17 (2.13%) vCenter Server
14 16 (2.00%) Podman
15 13 (1.63%) Istio
16 12 (1.50%) vRealize
Vendors
1 139 (17.38%) Microsoft
2 85 (10.63%) VMware
3 72 (9.00%) Google
4 48 (6.00%) Red Hat
5 41 (5.13%) Splunk
6 27 (3.38%) Oracle
7 26 (3.25%) Cisco
7 26 (3.25%) Databricks
8 16 (2.00%) Fortinet
8 16 (2.00%) Salesforce
8 16 (2.00%) SaltStack
9 13 (1.63%) Amdocs
9 13 (1.63%) Dell
9 13 (1.63%) Palo Alto
10 12 (1.50%) CyberArk
10 12 (1.50%) Juniper
10 12 (1.50%) SAP
11 11 (1.38%) Atlassian
12 8 (1.00%) SolarWinds
13 7 (0.88%) Veeam