Infrastructure as Code Contracts in South Wales

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 34 54 55
Rank change year-on-year +20 +1 -24
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 7 4 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 2.06% 0.77% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.57% 0.87% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 15
10th Percentile £623 £380 £495
25th Percentile £644 £538 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% +6.48%
75th Percentile £669 £681 £667
90th Percentile £689 £693 £678
Wales median daily rate £650 £650 £600
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 272 460 755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 80.24% 88.80% 83.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 351 560
10th Percentile £160 £190 £256
25th Percentile £352 £330 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £667 £650 £650
Wales median daily rate £495 £475 £487
% change year-on-year +4.21% -2.48% +8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 23 27
10th Percentile £11.21 £16.37 £14.31
25th Percentile £15.35 £16.98 £19.02
Median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.03% -19.38% +9.76%
75th Percentile £52.31 £22.11 £36.94
90th Percentile £87.62 £49.75 £47.40
Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £18.82 £23.75
% change year-on-year +19.59% -20.78% +23.38%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in South Wales

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in South Wales

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales 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
Cardiff +14 5 £650 +40.54% 6
Newport +6 2 £638 -8.93%
Infrastructure as Code
Wales

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Azure Pipelines
4 2 (28.57%) AWS
4 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (14.29%) GCP
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MySQL
1 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
1 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Burp Suite
1 2 (28.57%) SonarQube
2 1 (14.29%) AppScan
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Subversion
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps Specialist
4 1 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (14.29%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Public Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Community of Practice
4 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
4 3 (42.86%) IT Strategy
4 3 (42.86%) Line Management
4 3 (42.86%) Project Delivery
4 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
4 3 (42.86%) Scrum
4 3 (42.86%) Strategic Roadmap
4 3 (42.86%) Technology Roadmap
4 3 (42.86%) Technology Strategy
4 3 (42.86%) User Stories
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (28.57%) OWASP
5 2 (28.57%) Security Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) PHP
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) DBS Check
2 2 (28.57%) SANS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
2 2 (28.57%) Graylog
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Nagios
2 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
3 1 (14.29%) HP Fortify
3 1 (14.29%) Nessus
3 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
3 1 (14.29%) Puppet
3 1 (14.29%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Checkmarx
2 2 (28.57%) Splunk
3 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
3 1 (14.29%) Veracode