Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 111 144
Rank change year-on-year -14 +33 -7
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 346 546 560
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.69% 2.32% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 2.59% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 426 443
10th Percentile £424 £446 £438
25th Percentile £483 £482 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £553 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% +0.45% +15.79%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £688 £713 £683
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -8.33% +1.69% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 3
10th Percentile £57.63 £65.10 £46.86
25th Percentile £61.56 £70.50 £47.86
Median hourly rate £69.75 £78.00 £49.54
Median % change year-on-year -10.58% +57.45% +13.23%
75th Percentile £75.38 - £52.27
90th Percentile £76.95 £81.60 £53.91
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £78.00 £48.46
% change year-on-year -13.46% +60.97% -21.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,341 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South East +54 120 £605 +0.83% 60
North of England -7 82 £550 -8.33% 75
Scotland -16 66 £506 +1.86% 20
South West -46 50 £575 -6.12% 48
North West -16 45 £550 -8.33% 41
Yorkshire +27 34 £573 -4.58% 25
Midlands +15 28 £538 - 56
West Midlands +15 26 £550 +4.76% 40
East of England -1 6 £500 -3.85% 13
North East +1 3 - - 9
Wales +17 2 £666 +2.50% 6
East Midlands +14 2 £450 -18.18% 16
Northern Ireland - 1 £640 - 12
Infrastructure as Code
UK

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 17 (4.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (4.34%) Confluence
3 9 (2.60%) nginx
4 6 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.16%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.87%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.58%) CMS
7 2 (0.58%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.58%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 164 (47.40%) AWS
2 150 (43.35%) Azure
3 63 (18.21%) Serverless
4 61 (17.63%) AWS CloudFormation
5 52 (15.03%) AWS Lambda
5 52 (15.03%) Azure DevOps
6 41 (11.85%) Amazon S3
7 37 (10.69%) GCP
8 32 (9.25%) OpenShift
9 31 (8.96%) GitHub
10 26 (7.51%) Azure Monitor
11 25 (7.23%) Amazon EC2
12 23 (6.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 22 (6.36%) IaaS
14 20 (5.78%) Entra ID
15 18 (5.20%) Azure Storage
15 18 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
16 15 (4.34%) PaaS
17 11 (3.18%) GitHub Actions
18 10 (2.89%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (13.58%) DNS
1 47 (13.58%) Firewall
2 26 (7.51%) DHCP
3 23 (6.65%) TCP/IP
4 18 (5.20%) VPN
5 11 (3.18%) VSAN
6 9 (2.60%) HTTP
7 6 (1.73%) SSL
8 5 (1.45%) Network Security
8 5 (1.45%) SD-WAN
8 5 (1.45%) WAN
9 4 (1.16%) HTTPS
9 4 (1.16%) IPsec
9 4 (1.16%) IPv4
9 4 (1.16%) SNA
10 3 (0.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 3 (0.87%) NetScaler
10 3 (0.87%) OSPF
10 3 (0.87%) SAN
10 3 (0.87%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (13.87%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (8.09%) Amazon Aurora
3 26 (7.51%) MySQL
4 23 (6.65%) MongoDB
5 20 (5.78%) NoSQL
6 18 (5.20%) Elasticsearch
6 18 (5.20%) SQL Server
7 13 (3.76%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (3.47%) Relational Database
9 11 (3.18%) Data Lake
9 11 (3.18%) Oracle Database
10 10 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (2.02%) RDBMS
12 6 (1.73%) DynamoDB
12 6 (1.73%) InfluxDB
12 6 (1.73%) Informix
13 5 (1.45%) BigQuery
14 4 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (1.16%) Couchbase
14 4 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 65 (18.79%) Jenkins
2 55 (15.90%) GitLab
3 51 (14.74%) Git
4 31 (8.96%) JIRA
5 25 (7.23%) SonarQube
6 16 (4.62%) Selenium
7 13 (3.76%) Cucumber
8 12 (3.47%) REST Assured
9 9 (2.60%) Burp Suite
10 8 (2.31%) Travis CI
11 7 (2.02%) Artifactory
11 7 (2.02%) CircleCI
12 6 (1.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (1.73%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.73%) Visual Studio
13 5 (1.45%) AppScan
14 4 (1.16%) Bitbucket
15 3 (0.87%) TeamCity
16 2 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
16 2 (0.58%) Terragrunt
General
1 110 (31.79%) Social Skills
2 39 (11.27%) Public Sector
3 28 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (6.65%) Finance
5 15 (4.34%) Banking
6 9 (2.60%) Law
6 9 (2.60%) Retail
7 8 (2.31%) Police
8 7 (2.02%) Back Office
9 6 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.73%) Legal
10 5 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.16%) German Language
12 3 (0.87%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.87%) Marketing
13 2 (0.58%) Electronics
13 2 (0.58%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.58%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 65 (18.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 57 (16.47%) Developer
3 36 (10.40%) Architect
4 34 (9.83%) Azure Engineer
5 31 (8.96%) Senior
6 29 (8.38%) AWS Engineer
7 23 (6.65%) AWS DevOps
8 22 (6.36%) Platform Engineer
9 20 (5.78%) Lead
10 19 (5.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 19 (5.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 18 (5.20%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 18 (5.20%) Cloud Engineer
11 18 (5.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 17 (4.91%) Azure Specialist
13 16 (4.62%) Active Directory Support
14 15 (4.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 15 (4.34%) Site Engineer
15 14 (4.05%) Active Directory Specialist
15 14 (4.05%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (12.43%) ARM Templates
2 40 (11.56%) AWS CDK
3 30 (8.67%) REST
4 24 (6.94%) YAML
5 22 (6.36%) .NET
5 22 (6.36%) React
6 20 (5.78%) JSON
7 16 (4.62%) Elastic Stack
8 14 (4.05%) Node.js
9 13 (3.76%) Java EE
10 11 (3.18%) CSS
10 11 (3.18%) HTML
10 11 (3.18%) RabbitMQ
11 10 (2.89%) RESTful
11 10 (2.89%) Spring
11 10 (2.89%) Spring Boot
12 9 (2.60%) XML
13 8 (2.31%) ADO
13 8 (2.31%) AngularJS
13 8 (2.31%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.54%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.94%) PKI
3 17 (4.91%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (4.05%) Public Cloud
5 13 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (3.47%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.18%) Data Centre
8 10 (2.89%) Replication
9 8 (2.31%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (2.02%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.73%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.45%) Private Cloud
13 4 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
14 3 (0.87%) Cyber Defence
14 3 (0.87%) Operational Technology
14 3 (0.87%) Smart Meter
15 2 (0.58%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 109 (31.50%) Linux
2 41 (11.85%) Windows
3 29 (8.38%) Windows Server
4 27 (7.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (6.65%) Unix
6 16 (4.62%) Windows Server 2016
6 16 (4.62%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (4.05%) Ubuntu
8 9 (2.60%) VMS
9 4 (1.16%) CentOS
10 3 (0.87%) Android
10 3 (0.87%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.87%) Debian
10 3 (0.87%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.87%) Windows 2000
10 3 (0.87%) Windows XP
11 2 (0.58%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (60.98%) DevOps
2 183 (52.89%) CI/CD
3 153 (44.22%) Agile
4 99 (28.61%) Containerisation
5 69 (19.94%) Test Automation
6 47 (13.58%) Continuous Integration
6 47 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (13.29%) Configuration Management
8 44 (12.72%) Scrum
9 38 (10.98%) Microservices
9 38 (10.98%) Technical Leadership
10 35 (10.12%) Analytics
10 35 (10.12%) Migration
11 32 (9.25%) Kanban
11 32 (9.25%) Roadmaps
12 30 (8.67%) DevSecOps
12 30 (8.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 27 (7.80%) Service Management
14 25 (7.23%) ITIL
14 25 (7.23%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 113 (32.66%) Python
2 77 (22.25%) PowerShell
3 66 (19.08%) Bash
4 63 (18.21%) Java
5 48 (13.87%) SQL
5 48 (13.87%) TypeScript
6 46 (13.29%) C#
7 31 (8.96%) Bicep
7 31 (8.96%) JavaScript
8 20 (5.78%) Go
9 17 (4.91%) Shell Script
10 16 (4.62%) VB
10 16 (4.62%) VBScript
11 11 (3.18%) Groovy
12 7 (2.02%) Perl
13 6 (1.73%) PHP
14 4 (1.16%) Ruby
15 3 (0.87%) Julia
15 3 (0.87%) Scala
16 2 (0.58%) C
Qualifications
1 108 (31.21%) Security Cleared
2 79 (22.83%) SC Cleared
3 38 (10.98%) DV Cleared
4 31 (8.96%) Degree
5 16 (4.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 8 (2.31%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.16%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.87%) OSCP
10 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.58%) MCSE
10 2 (0.58%) PhD
10 2 (0.58%) SANS
11 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.29%) CCNP
11 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.29%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.65%) Accessibility
2 22 (6.36%) QA
3 17 (4.91%) NIST
4 14 (4.05%) Disclosure Scotland
5 10 (2.89%) GDPR
6 9 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (2.31%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.16%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.87%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.87%) SLA
10 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.58%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.29%) NCSC
11 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 94 (27.17%) Docker
2 35 (10.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (7.80%) Active Directory
4 22 (6.36%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (6.36%) VMware NSX
5 16 (4.62%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (3.76%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (3.47%) vSphere
8 7 (2.02%) vCloud
9 4 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.87%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 3 (0.87%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.29%) KVM
Systems Management
1 172 (49.71%) Terraform
2 137 (39.60%) Kubernetes
3 110 (31.79%) Ansible
4 52 (15.03%) Grafana
5 26 (7.51%) SCCM
6 23 (6.65%) Puppet
7 20 (5.78%) Prometheus
8 18 (5.20%) Docker Swarm
8 18 (5.20%) vCenter Server
9 16 (4.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 16 (4.62%) Microsoft Intune
9 16 (4.62%) Progress Chef
9 16 (4.62%) SCOM
9 16 (4.62%) WSUS
10 15 (4.34%) Kibana
11 12 (3.47%) Podman
12 11 (3.18%) HP Fortify
12 11 (3.18%) Istio
12 11 (3.18%) Packer
12 11 (3.18%) vRealize
Vendors
1 46 (13.29%) VMware
2 44 (12.72%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.94%) Oracle
4 21 (6.07%) Splunk
5 17 (4.91%) Google
6 10 (2.89%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.02%) Atlassian
7 7 (2.02%) Cisco
7 7 (2.02%) Veeam
8 6 (1.73%) Checkmarx
8 6 (1.73%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.45%) Arqiva
9 5 (1.45%) F5
9 5 (1.45%) Juniper
9 5 (1.45%) Veracode
9 5 (1.45%) Veritas
10 4 (1.16%) Commvault
10 4 (1.16%) Databricks
10 4 (1.16%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.87%) Salesforce