Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 111 139
Rank change year-on-year +37 +28 -25
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 68 40 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.53% 1.36% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 1.49% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 23 27
10th Percentile £413 £465 £438
25th Percentile £509 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £555 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.01% +5.71% +10.53%
75th Percentile £622 £681 £575
90th Percentile £688 £720 £628
South East median daily rate £605 £600 £590
% change year-on-year +0.83% +1.69% +19.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
South East median hourly rate - £55.00 £55.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,337 2,689 3,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.10% 91.56% 89.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,302 1,867 2,096
10th Percentile £213 £321 £225
25th Percentile £369 £413 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 62 87
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.71 £24.86 £11.78
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.36
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.80
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.45
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.72% -18.36%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 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
Berkshire +22 58 £605 +10.00% 8
Buckinghamshire +26 8 £590 +2.16% 2
Oxfordshire - 2 £500 - 3
Infrastructure as Code
South East

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (23.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.47%) Confluence
2 1 (1.47%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 49 (72.06%) Azure
2 28 (41.18%) AWS
3 21 (30.88%) Azure Monitor
4 16 (23.53%) Entra ID
4 16 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (22.06%) Azure Storage
6 10 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (14.71%) GCP
7 7 (10.29%) OpenShift
8 6 (8.82%) Azure API Management
8 6 (8.82%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (8.82%) Azure Key Vault
8 6 (8.82%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (7.35%) Azure Functions
9 5 (7.35%) Serverless
10 4 (5.88%) PaaS
11 3 (4.41%) SaaS
12 1 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (1.47%) GitHub
12 1 (1.47%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 19 (27.94%) Firewall
2 17 (25.00%) DNS
3 15 (22.06%) DHCP
4 10 (14.71%) VSAN
5 4 (5.88%) SNA
6 1 (1.47%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.47%) Network Security
6 1 (1.47%) SSL
6 1 (1.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.35%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (7.35%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.41%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.47%) Big Data
3 1 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.47%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 17 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 15 (22.06%) GitLab
3 14 (20.59%) JIRA
3 14 (20.59%) Selenium
4 13 (19.12%) Cucumber
5 12 (17.65%) REST Assured
5 12 (17.65%) SonarQube
6 7 (10.29%) Git
7 6 (8.82%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.47%) Appium
8 1 (1.47%) MSTest
8 1 (1.47%) NUnit
8 1 (1.47%) rollup.js
8 1 (1.47%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.47%) Spinnaker
8 1 (1.47%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (1.47%) webpack
General
1 47 (69.12%) Social Skills
2 16 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (13.24%) Law
4 8 (11.76%) Police
5 3 (4.41%) Banking
5 3 (4.41%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (4.41%) Finance
5 3 (4.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (22.06%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (20.59%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (20.59%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (20.59%) Support Specialist
3 10 (14.71%) Senior
4 9 (13.24%) Developer
5 7 (10.29%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 7 (10.29%) Software Engineer
5 7 (10.29%) VMware Expert
6 6 (8.82%) Architect
6 6 (8.82%) Java Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Analyst
7 5 (7.35%) Senior Java Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Integration Developer
8 4 (5.88%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (51.47%) ARM Templates
2 16 (23.53%) REST
3 13 (19.12%) Java EE
4 6 (8.82%) YAML
5 4 (5.88%) .NET
5 4 (5.88%) JSON
6 3 (4.41%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (4.41%) OAuth
6 3 (4.41%) OpenID
6 3 (4.41%) SOAP
6 3 (4.41%) XML
7 1 (1.47%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.47%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.47%) Enzyme
7 1 (1.47%) Jest
7 1 (1.47%) Kafka
7 1 (1.47%) Next.js
7 1 (1.47%) React
7 1 (1.47%) Redux
7 1 (1.47%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 16 (23.53%) PKI
2 15 (22.06%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (19.12%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.47%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 17 (25.00%) Linux
2 15 (22.06%) Windows
2 15 (22.06%) Windows Server
2 15 (22.06%) Windows Server 2016
2 15 (22.06%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (85.29%) DevOps
2 47 (69.12%) CI/CD
3 29 (42.65%) Technical Leadership
4 22 (32.35%) Containerisation
5 21 (30.88%) Agile
6 18 (26.47%) Continuous Integration
6 18 (26.47%) Test Automation
7 17 (25.00%) Analytics
7 17 (25.00%) Identity Management
7 17 (25.00%) ITIL
7 17 (25.00%) Release Management
7 17 (25.00%) Service Management
8 16 (23.53%) Log Analytics
8 16 (23.53%) RBAC
9 15 (22.06%) Configuration Management
9 15 (22.06%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 15 (22.06%) Privileged Identity Management
9 15 (22.06%) Translating Business Requirements
10 14 (20.59%) Performance Optimisation
10 14 (20.59%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (41.18%) PowerShell
2 19 (27.94%) C#
3 16 (23.53%) Bicep
4 15 (22.06%) VB
4 15 (22.06%) VBScript
5 13 (19.12%) Java
6 7 (10.29%) SQL
7 4 (5.88%) Python
8 2 (2.94%) Bash
9 1 (1.47%) Go
Qualifications
1 34 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 33 (48.53%) SC Cleared
3 18 (26.47%) Degree
4 16 (23.53%) DV Cleared
5 15 (22.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.47%) CCNP
7 1 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.47%) MCSE
7 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.47%) NCSC
1 1 (1.47%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (33.82%) Docker
2 16 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 16 (23.53%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (22.06%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (16.18%) VMware NSX
5 8 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (10.29%) vCloud
7 3 (4.41%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 47 (69.12%) Kubernetes
2 32 (47.06%) Terraform
3 22 (32.35%) Ansible
4 16 (23.53%) SCCM
5 15 (22.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 15 (22.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (22.06%) SCOM
5 15 (22.06%) WSUS
6 12 (17.65%) Docker Swarm
6 12 (17.65%) Podman
7 10 (14.71%) vCenter Server
8 8 (11.76%) Rancher
9 7 (10.29%) Istio
10 4 (5.88%) vRealize
11 2 (2.94%) Progress Chef
11 2 (2.94%) Prometheus
11 2 (2.94%) Puppet
12 1 (1.47%) Grafana
12 1 (1.47%) Kibana
12 1 (1.47%) VxRail
Vendors
1 22 (32.35%) Microsoft
2 14 (20.59%) VMware
3 8 (11.76%) Google
4 3 (4.41%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.47%) Adobe
5 1 (1.47%) BMC
5 1 (1.47%) Databricks
5 1 (1.47%) Dell
5 1 (1.47%) LogRhythm
5 1 (1.47%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.47%) Remedy
5 1 (1.47%) SolarWinds