Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the North of England

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 98 106
Rank change year-on-year -6 +8 +8
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 83 126 159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.78% 2.22% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 2.44% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 94 129
10th Percentile £425 £458 £415
25th Percentile £463 £513 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +6.06%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £625
90th Percentile £645 £763 £653
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £69.50 - £46.19
Median hourly rate £72.00 - £47.38
75th Percentile £74.50 - £48.56
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £78.00 £51.19
% change year-on-year -19.87% +52.38% -15.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,003 5,154 6,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.61% 90.64% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,440 3,571 4,590
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £564
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 201 250
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.75 £12.84
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.00 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -38.90% +55.98% +2.00%
75th Percentile £45.00 £47.00 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.57
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the North of England

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the North of England

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the North of England

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the North of England

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
North West -20 45 £550 -7.37% 40
Yorkshire +21 35 £574 -4.38% 23
North East -1 3 - - 9
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 10 (12.05%) Confluence
2 5 (6.02%) nginx
3 3 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.61%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 47 (56.63%) AWS
2 34 (40.96%) Azure
3 20 (24.10%) GitHub
4 17 (20.48%) Serverless
5 16 (19.28%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (19.28%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (18.07%) GCP
7 12 (14.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (14.46%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (14.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (9.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (8.43%) Amazon S3
9 7 (8.43%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (7.23%) Amazon ELB
10 6 (7.23%) Apigee
10 6 (7.23%) Kong
10 6 (7.23%) Snowflake
11 5 (6.02%) CloudBees
11 5 (6.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (16.87%) Firewall
2 9 (10.84%) VPN
3 8 (9.64%) DNS
4 6 (7.23%) HTTP
4 6 (7.23%) TCP/IP
5 5 (6.02%) Network Security
6 3 (3.61%) WAN
7 2 (2.41%) IPv4
7 2 (2.41%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (2.41%) SD-WAN
7 2 (2.41%) SSL
7 2 (2.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.46%) MySQL
2 11 (13.25%) NoSQL
3 6 (7.23%) Data Lake
3 6 (7.23%) DynamoDB
3 6 (7.23%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (7.23%) MongoDB
4 5 (6.02%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.82%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.82%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.61%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (3.61%) ClickHouse
7 2 (2.41%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.41%) Redis
8 1 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 22 (26.51%) Git
1 22 (26.51%) GitLab
1 22 (26.51%) Jenkins
2 11 (13.25%) SonarQube
3 8 (9.64%) JIRA
4 7 (8.43%) Burp Suite
4 7 (8.43%) Travis CI
5 6 (7.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (7.23%) CircleCI
6 4 (4.82%) AppScan
6 4 (4.82%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.41%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.41%) Selenium
General
1 21 (25.30%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.46%) Finance
3 10 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.84%) Banking
5 6 (7.23%) Retail
6 4 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.20%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 31 (37.35%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (16.87%) AWS DevOps
2 14 (16.87%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 12 (14.46%) Azure Engineer
4 11 (13.25%) Architect
4 11 (13.25%) AWS Engineer
4 11 (13.25%) Site Engineer
5 10 (12.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 10 (12.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) Software Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Full Stack Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Lead
8 5 (6.02%) Developer
8 5 (6.02%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Senior
9 4 (4.82%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (4.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.05%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (9.64%) YAML
3 7 (8.43%) JSON
3 7 (8.43%) React
4 6 (7.23%) AWS CDK
4 6 (7.23%) XML
5 5 (6.02%) Kafka
5 5 (6.02%) Node.js
6 4 (4.82%) Next.js
6 4 (4.82%) RESTful
7 3 (3.61%) Apache Beam
7 3 (3.61%) ARM Templates
7 3 (3.61%) Keycloak
7 3 (3.61%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (3.61%) Spring
7 3 (3.61%) Spring Boot
8 2 (2.41%) .NET
8 2 (2.41%) pytest
8 2 (2.41%) SAML
8 2 (2.41%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.84%) Public Cloud
2 8 (9.64%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (7.23%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.82%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.61%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.20%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 19 (22.89%) Linux
2 3 (3.61%) Android
2 3 (3.61%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.61%) Kali Linux
2 3 (3.61%) Unix
2 3 (3.61%) Windows
2 3 (3.61%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.41%) Alpine Linux
3 2 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (80.72%) DevOps
2 60 (72.29%) CI/CD
3 38 (45.78%) Agile
4 33 (39.76%) Containerisation
5 22 (26.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 19 (22.89%) Continuous Integration
7 18 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (15.66%) Microservices
8 13 (15.66%) Test Automation
9 11 (13.25%) Cloud Security
9 11 (13.25%) Configuration Management
9 11 (13.25%) Design Patterns
9 11 (13.25%) Migration
9 11 (13.25%) Scrum
10 10 (12.05%) Observability
10 10 (12.05%) Project Management
10 10 (12.05%) Technology Strategy
11 9 (10.84%) Infrastructure Management
12 8 (9.64%) SDLC
12 8 (9.64%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 42 (50.60%) Python
2 29 (34.94%) Bash
3 18 (21.69%) PowerShell
4 14 (16.87%) Go
5 13 (15.66%) SQL
6 11 (13.25%) TypeScript
7 10 (12.05%) Java
7 10 (12.05%) JavaScript
8 5 (6.02%) Groovy
9 3 (3.61%) Bicep
9 3 (3.61%) Ruby
9 3 (3.61%) Scala
10 2 (2.41%) C#
10 2 (2.41%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (14.46%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.05%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.82%) Degree
4 3 (3.61%) OSCP
5 2 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.20%) MCSE
6 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.46%) QA
2 6 (7.23%) PCI DSS
3 4 (4.82%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.61%) ISO 22301
4 3 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.61%) NIST
5 2 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 38 (45.78%) Docker
2 3 (3.61%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 61 (73.49%) Terraform
2 38 (45.78%) Kubernetes
3 27 (32.53%) Ansible
4 19 (22.89%) Grafana
5 14 (16.87%) Prometheus
6 10 (12.05%) HP Fortify
6 10 (12.05%) Progress Chef
6 10 (12.05%) Puppet
7 6 (7.23%) Docker Swarm
7 6 (7.23%) Kibana
7 6 (7.23%) logstash
8 4 (4.82%) Graylog
8 4 (4.82%) Nessus
8 4 (4.82%) WebInspect
9 2 (2.41%) Istio
9 2 (2.41%) Kiali
Vendors
1 18 (21.69%) Splunk
2 5 (6.02%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.82%) Checkmarx
3 4 (4.82%) Veracode
4 3 (3.61%) Atlassian
4 3 (3.61%) Google
4 3 (3.61%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.41%) Aruba
5 2 (2.41%) Cisco
5 2 (2.41%) F5
5 2 (2.41%) Juniper
5 2 (2.41%) Meraki
5 2 (2.41%) Sage
5 2 (2.41%) Virgin Media
5 2 (2.41%) VMware
5 2 (2.41%) Zscaler
6 1 (1.20%) Databricks