Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the South West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 99 57 115
Rank change year-on-year -42 +58 -20
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 53 138 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.67% 3.81% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 4.25% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 120 43
10th Percentile £423 £450 £441
25th Percentile £500 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £606 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +10.23% +22.22%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £638
90th Percentile £738 £713 £697
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £65.18 £70.50 -
25th Percentile £67.31 £74.25 -
Median hourly rate £72.75 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% - -
75th Percentile £76.31 - -
90th Percentile £77.33 £81.20 -
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 West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,629 3,250 3,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.83% 89.63% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,685 2,396 2,332
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.95%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £589
90th Percentile £700 £719 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 335 196
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.00 £17.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.36 £70.54
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the South West

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the South West

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the South West

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the South West

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Gloucestershire -3 16 £625 +4.82% 12
Bristol +15 15 £510 -20.00% 23
Wiltshire -47 14 £475 -20.83%
Dorset - 4 - -
Devon -1 1 - - 3
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (7.55%) Apache Solr
1 4 (7.55%) nginx
2 1 (1.89%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 28 (52.83%) Azure
2 22 (41.51%) AWS
3 10 (18.87%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (11.32%) GCP
5 5 (9.43%) PaaS
6 4 (7.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (7.55%) IaaS
6 4 (7.55%) Serverless
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.77%) AWS CodeCommit
7 2 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.77%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.77%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.89%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.89%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (18.87%) Firewall
2 6 (11.32%) DNS
2 6 (11.32%) TCP/IP
2 6 (11.32%) VPN
3 4 (7.55%) HTTPS
3 4 (7.55%) IPsec
4 3 (5.66%) IPv4
4 3 (5.66%) OSPF
4 3 (5.66%) VLAN
5 2 (3.77%) DHCP
5 2 (3.77%) DMZ
5 2 (3.77%) Network Security
6 1 (1.89%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.55%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (7.55%) Couchbase
1 4 (7.55%) MySQL
1 4 (7.55%) NoSQL
1 4 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (7.55%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.77%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (9.43%) Git
2 4 (7.55%) GitLab
2 4 (7.55%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.55%) JIRA
3 3 (5.66%) Burp Suite
4 2 (3.77%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.89%) Bitbucket
General
1 14 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.55%) German Language
2 4 (7.55%) Legal
3 3 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.66%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.89%) Electronics
4 1 (1.89%) Finance
4 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.89%) Marketing
4 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (24.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (16.98%) Senior
3 7 (13.21%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) Lead
5 5 (9.43%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Database Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Developer
6 4 (7.55%) Security Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Senior Database Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Automation Test Lead
7 3 (5.66%) Ethical Hacker
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Test Leader
8 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) IT Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.43%) YAML
2 4 (7.55%) .NET
2 4 (7.55%) JSON
2 4 (7.55%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (7.55%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (5.66%) ARM Templates
4 2 (3.77%) PySpark
5 1 (1.89%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.89%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.98%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.43%) Data Centre
2 5 (9.43%) PKI
3 4 (7.55%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.66%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (3.77%) IoT
6 1 (1.89%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (47.17%) Linux
2 10 (18.87%) Windows
3 6 (11.32%) Unix
4 4 (7.55%) CentOS
5 3 (5.66%) Kali Linux
5 3 (5.66%) VMS
5 3 (5.66%) Windows 2000
5 3 (5.66%) Windows XP
6 2 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.77%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.89%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (56.60%) DevOps
2 22 (41.51%) Agile
3 18 (33.96%) CI/CD
4 10 (18.87%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (16.98%) Configuration Management
5 9 (16.98%) Migration
6 8 (15.09%) Cloud Security
7 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (13.21%) SDLC
8 6 (11.32%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (11.32%) Information Security
8 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Automation
8 6 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (11.32%) Test Automation
9 5 (9.43%) Containerisation
9 5 (9.43%) Microservices
9 5 (9.43%) SIEM
9 5 (9.43%) Software Delivery
9 5 (9.43%) Virtual Environments
10 4 (7.55%) Cost Reduction
Programming Languages
1 21 (39.62%) Python
2 18 (33.96%) PowerShell
3 13 (24.53%) Bash
4 7 (13.21%) C#
4 7 (13.21%) SQL
5 6 (11.32%) Shell Script
6 5 (9.43%) Java
7 4 (7.55%) Bicep
7 4 (7.55%) PHP
8 3 (5.66%) Go
8 3 (5.66%) Julia
8 3 (5.66%) Perl
9 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (50.94%) Security Cleared
2 14 (26.42%) DV Cleared
2 14 (26.42%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.66%) OSCP
4 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.77%) Degree
5 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.89%) GIAC
5 1 (1.89%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.89%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.21%) NIST
2 4 (7.55%) GDPR
2 4 (7.55%) HIPAA
2 4 (7.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (7.55%) QA
3 3 (5.66%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.77%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (18.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (13.21%) Docker
2 7 (13.21%) vSphere
3 4 (7.55%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (7.55%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 39 (73.58%) Terraform
2 24 (45.28%) Ansible
3 12 (22.64%) Kubernetes
4 7 (13.21%) Puppet
5 2 (3.77%) SCCM
5 2 (3.77%) vCenter Server
5 2 (3.77%) VxRail
6 1 (1.89%) Grafana
6 1 (1.89%) OPNET
6 1 (1.89%) Packer
6 1 (1.89%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (20.75%) VMware
2 9 (16.98%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.43%) Fortinet
3 5 (9.43%) Google
4 3 (5.66%) Atlassian
4 3 (5.66%) Juniper
5 2 (3.77%) F5
5 2 (3.77%) Palo Alto
5 2 (3.77%) SAP
5 2 (3.77%) Veeam
6 1 (1.89%) Cisco
6 1 (1.89%) Citrix
6 1 (1.89%) Databricks
6 1 (1.89%) Oracle
6 1 (1.89%) Red Hat