Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the South East

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 87 149 167
Rank change year-on-year +62 +18 -54
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 119 72 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.16% 1.24% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.54% 1.39% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 49 67
10th Percentile £414 £455 £450
25th Percentile £513 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £600 £590
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +1.69% +19.19%
75th Percentile £655 £675 £650
90th Percentile £688 £757 £700
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £57.50 £78.00 £51.19
% change year-on-year -26.28% +52.38% -14.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,683 5,187 6,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.85% 89.29% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,599 4,696
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £404 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% +1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 219 286
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.83 £15.72
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -15.89%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.71
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.83 £62.70
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the South East

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the South East

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the South East

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the South East

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +32 68 £605 +9.01% 13
Berkshire +23 58 £605 +10.00% 8
Surrey +22 16 £663 +3.92% 14
Hampshire +4 15 £300 -50.00% 18
Buckinghamshire +24 8 £590 +2.16% 2
Kent - 6 £638 - 1
East Sussex +9 3 £538 -17.31% 2
West Sussex 0 3 £500 -35.69% 3
Oxfordshire - 2 £500 - 3
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 16 (13.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.84%) Confluence
3 1 (0.84%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 63 (52.94%) Azure
2 42 (35.29%) AWS
3 21 (17.65%) Azure Monitor
4 18 (15.13%) Entra ID
5 17 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (12.61%) Azure Storage
7 13 (10.92%) GCP
8 12 (10.08%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (9.24%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (8.40%) IaaS
11 8 (6.72%) OpenShift
12 6 (5.04%) Azure API Management
12 6 (5.04%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (5.04%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (5.04%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (4.20%) Azure Functions
13 5 (4.20%) GitHub
13 5 (4.20%) PaaS
13 5 (4.20%) Serverless
14 3 (2.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (17.65%) DNS
2 19 (15.97%) Firewall
3 15 (12.61%) DHCP
4 10 (8.40%) VSAN
5 4 (3.36%) SNA
6 3 (2.52%) SAN
7 2 (1.68%) VPN
8 1 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.84%) Network Security
8 1 (0.84%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.20%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (4.20%) MongoDB
1 5 (4.20%) MySQL
1 5 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (4.20%) RDBMS
1 5 (4.20%) Relational Database
1 5 (4.20%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.52%) BigQuery
2 3 (2.52%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.52%) Metadata
2 3 (2.52%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.84%) Big Data
3 1 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.84%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 21 (17.65%) GitLab
2 17 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 14 (11.76%) Git
3 14 (11.76%) JIRA
3 14 (11.76%) Selenium
4 13 (10.92%) Cucumber
5 12 (10.08%) REST Assured
5 12 (10.08%) SonarQube
6 6 (5.04%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.84%) Appium
7 1 (0.84%) MSTest
7 1 (0.84%) NUnit
7 1 (0.84%) rollup.js
7 1 (0.84%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.84%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.84%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.84%) webpack
General
1 51 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (7.56%) Law
4 8 (6.72%) Police
5 4 (3.36%) Finance
6 3 (2.52%) Banking
6 3 (2.52%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (2.52%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.52%) Retail
7 2 (1.68%) Back Office
7 2 (1.68%) Legal
8 1 (0.84%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 17 (14.29%) Azure Specialist
2 15 (12.61%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (11.76%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (11.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 14 (11.76%) Support Specialist
4 12 (10.08%) Senior
5 11 (9.24%) Architect
6 9 (7.56%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (7.56%) Developer
6 9 (7.56%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (6.72%) Applications Engineer
7 8 (6.72%) Linux Engineer
8 7 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (5.88%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 7 (5.88%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.88%) VMware Expert
9 6 (5.04%) Java Engineer
9 6 (5.04%) Java Software Engineer
9 6 (5.04%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (29.41%) ARM Templates
2 16 (13.45%) REST
3 13 (10.92%) Java EE
4 8 (6.72%) ADO
5 7 (5.88%) YAML
6 5 (4.20%) .NET
6 5 (4.20%) JSON
7 3 (2.52%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (2.52%) OAuth
7 3 (2.52%) OpenID
7 3 (2.52%) SOAP
7 3 (2.52%) XML
8 1 (0.84%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.84%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.84%) CSS
8 1 (0.84%) Jest
8 1 (0.84%) Kafka
8 1 (0.84%) React
8 1 (0.84%) Redux
8 1 (0.84%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.45%) PKI
2 15 (12.61%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (10.92%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.20%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.52%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.52%) Smart Meter
6 2 (1.68%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.84%) Clustering
7 1 (0.84%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.84%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.84%) Replication
7 1 (0.84%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 38 (31.93%) Linux
2 18 (15.13%) Windows
3 16 (13.45%) Windows Server
4 15 (12.61%) Windows Server 2016
4 15 (12.61%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (6.72%) Ubuntu
6 7 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (5.04%) VMS
8 5 (4.20%) Unix
9 3 (2.52%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (58.82%) DevOps
2 60 (50.42%) CI/CD
3 46 (38.66%) Containerisation
4 42 (35.29%) Agile
5 32 (26.89%) Test Automation
6 29 (24.37%) Technical Leadership
7 20 (16.81%) ITIL
8 19 (15.97%) Continuous Integration
9 17 (14.29%) Analytics
9 17 (14.29%) Configuration Management
9 17 (14.29%) Identity Management
9 17 (14.29%) RBAC
9 17 (14.29%) Release Management
9 17 (14.29%) Service Management
10 16 (13.45%) Log Analytics
10 16 (13.45%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (12.61%) Decision-Making
11 15 (12.61%) DevSecOps
11 15 (12.61%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 15 (12.61%) Privileged Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (25.21%) PowerShell
2 19 (15.97%) C#
3 16 (13.45%) Bicep
4 15 (12.61%) Python
4 15 (12.61%) VB
4 15 (12.61%) VBScript
5 13 (10.92%) Java
6 10 (8.40%) Bash
6 10 (8.40%) SQL
7 6 (5.04%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.68%) Go
Qualifications
1 61 (51.26%) Security Cleared
2 54 (45.38%) SC Cleared
3 22 (18.49%) Degree
4 17 (14.29%) DV Cleared
5 15 (12.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.68%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.68%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.68%) PhD
7 1 (0.84%) CCNP
7 1 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.84%) MCSE
7 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.52%) SLA
2 2 (1.68%) GDPR
2 2 (1.68%) NIST
2 2 (1.68%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.84%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.84%) NCSC
System Software
1 30 (25.21%) Docker
2 25 (21.01%) Active Directory
3 17 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (12.61%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (10.08%) VMware NSX
6 11 (9.24%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (5.88%) vCloud
8 5 (4.20%) vSphere
9 3 (2.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 60 (50.42%) Kubernetes
2 46 (38.66%) Terraform
3 33 (27.73%) Ansible
4 16 (13.45%) SCCM
5 15 (12.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 15 (12.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (12.61%) SCOM
5 15 (12.61%) WSUS
6 12 (10.08%) Docker Swarm
6 12 (10.08%) Podman
7 10 (8.40%) vCenter Server
7 10 (8.40%) vRealize
8 8 (6.72%) Rancher
9 7 (5.88%) Istio
10 6 (5.04%) Packer
11 2 (1.68%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.68%) Prometheus
11 2 (1.68%) Puppet
11 2 (1.68%) VxRail
12 1 (0.84%) Kibana
Vendors
1 24 (20.17%) Microsoft
2 21 (17.65%) VMware
3 8 (6.72%) Google
4 5 (4.20%) Arqiva
4 5 (4.20%) Oracle
4 5 (4.20%) Red Hat
4 5 (4.20%) Veritas
5 3 (2.52%) Databricks
5 3 (2.52%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.68%) Dell
6 2 (1.68%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.84%) Adobe
7 1 (0.84%) BMC
7 1 (0.84%) LogRhythm
7 1 (0.84%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.84%) Remedy