Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 107 134
Rank change year-on-year -5 +27 -3
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 403 523 608
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.89% 2.30% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% 2.59% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 407 494
10th Percentile £414 £439 £441
25th Percentile £475 £481 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £625
90th Percentile £688 £724 £684
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £598
% change year-on-year -8.33% +0.42% +10.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 12 0
10th Percentile £57.63 £71.25 -
25th Percentile £61.56 - -
Median hourly rate £69.75 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.58% - -
75th Percentile £75.38 £78.50 -
90th Percentile £76.95 £89.00 -
UK median hourly rate £69.75 £78.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -10.58% +95.00% -34.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +65 134 £605 -6.92% 50
North of England +21 113 £528 -12.08% 59
South West -41 69 £582 -4.98% 55
Yorkshire +41 65 £514 -17.18% 20
Scotland -18 59 £494 - 18
Midlands +25 47 £564 +7.33% 54
West Midlands +29 45 £576 +11.30% 39
North West -5 43 £550 -8.33% 37
East of England -6 7 £525 +10.53% 13
North East -1 5 - - 2
Wales +20 2 £666 +11.04% 8
East Midlands +4 2 £450 -18.18% 15
Northern Ireland - 1 £640 - 4
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 23 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (5.21%) Confluence
3 9 (2.23%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.23%) nginx
4 6 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.99%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.74%) CMS
6 3 (0.74%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.50%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 194 (48.14%) AWS
2 171 (42.43%) Azure
3 67 (16.63%) Serverless
4 62 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 54 (13.40%) Amazon S3
6 53 (13.15%) GCP
7 52 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
8 44 (10.92%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (10.17%) OpenShift
10 36 (8.93%) Azure Monitor
11 34 (8.44%) GitHub
12 29 (7.20%) Entra ID
13 24 (5.96%) Amazon EC2
14 23 (5.71%) Azure Storage
15 22 (5.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 22 (5.46%) IaaS
15 22 (5.46%) Microsoft 365
16 21 (5.21%) Cloud Computing
17 19 (4.71%) PaaS
18 12 (2.98%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 54 (13.40%) DNS
2 53 (13.15%) Firewall
3 31 (7.69%) DHCP
4 23 (5.71%) VPN
5 22 (5.46%) TCP/IP
6 9 (2.23%) HTTP
7 8 (1.99%) VSAN
8 6 (1.49%) Network Security
8 6 (1.49%) SSL
8 6 (1.49%) WAN
9 5 (1.24%) IPv4
9 5 (1.24%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (1.24%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.99%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.99%) IPsec
11 3 (0.74%) BIG-IP
11 3 (0.74%) LAN
11 3 (0.74%) OSPF
11 3 (0.74%) SAN
11 3 (0.74%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (11.91%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (6.45%) Amazon Aurora
3 25 (6.20%) MongoDB
3 25 (6.20%) MySQL
4 22 (5.46%) Elasticsearch
5 21 (5.21%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (4.71%) Data Lake
6 19 (4.71%) NoSQL
7 16 (3.97%) BigQuery
8 15 (3.72%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (3.23%) Relational Database
10 12 (2.98%) SQL Server
11 11 (2.73%) Big Data
12 10 (2.48%) Hadoop
13 9 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
13 9 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (2.23%) Oracle Database
14 7 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (1.74%) Informix
14 7 (1.74%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 84 (20.84%) Jenkins
2 66 (16.38%) Git
2 66 (16.38%) GitLab
3 36 (8.93%) JIRA
4 25 (6.20%) SonarQube
5 16 (3.97%) Selenium
6 13 (3.23%) Cucumber
7 12 (2.98%) REST Assured
8 9 (2.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 9 (2.23%) CircleCI
8 9 (2.23%) Travis CI
9 8 (1.99%) Artifactory
10 7 (1.74%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.49%) Bitbucket
11 6 (1.49%) Burp Suite
12 5 (1.24%) AppScan
12 5 (1.24%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.50%) Liquibase
13 2 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
13 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 123 (30.52%) Social Skills
2 50 (12.41%) Public Sector
3 32 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (5.21%) Finance
5 20 (4.96%) Banking
6 9 (2.23%) Law
6 9 (2.23%) Retail
7 8 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.99%) Police
7 8 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.74%) Back Office
9 6 (1.49%) Legal
10 3 (0.74%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.50%) Marketing
12 1 (0.25%) Electronics
12 1 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.25%) Publishing
12 1 (0.25%) Retail Finance
12 1 (0.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 80 (19.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 60 (14.89%) Architect
3 46 (11.41%) Developer
4 37 (9.18%) Azure Engineer
5 34 (8.44%) AWS Engineer
6 31 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
7 27 (6.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 27 (6.70%) Platform Engineer
7 27 (6.70%) Senior
8 23 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 21 (5.21%) Active Directory Support
10 20 (4.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 18 (4.47%) Cloud Engineer
12 17 (4.22%) Lead
13 16 (3.97%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 16 (3.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 16 (3.97%) Site Engineer
13 16 (3.97%) Software Engineer
14 14 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
14 14 (3.47%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (11.66%) ARM Templates
2 41 (10.17%) AWS CDK
3 40 (9.93%) YAML
4 25 (6.20%) REST
5 23 (5.71%) React
6 19 (4.71%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (4.71%) JSON
6 19 (4.71%) Kafka
7 18 (4.47%) .NET
8 15 (3.72%) Node.js
9 13 (3.23%) Java EE
10 12 (2.98%) RESTful
11 11 (2.73%) HTML
11 11 (2.73%) RabbitMQ
11 11 (2.73%) Spring
11 11 (2.73%) Spring Boot
12 10 (2.48%) CSS
13 9 (2.23%) ADO
13 9 (2.23%) XML
14 7 (1.74%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.19%) PKI
2 25 (6.20%) Cloud Native
3 22 (5.46%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (3.97%) Public Cloud
5 14 (3.47%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (2.48%) Data Centre
8 10 (2.48%) Replication
9 9 (2.23%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.99%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.99%) SCADA
11 7 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.49%) Hackathon
13 5 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
14 4 (0.99%) Security Posture
15 3 (0.74%) Operational Technology
15 3 (0.74%) Private Cloud
15 3 (0.74%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 137 (34.00%) Linux
2 65 (16.13%) Windows
3 48 (11.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 36 (8.93%) Windows Server
5 21 (5.21%) Windows Server 2016
5 21 (5.21%) Windows Server 2019
6 19 (4.71%) Unix
7 13 (3.23%) Ubuntu
8 8 (1.99%) VMS
9 4 (0.99%) CentOS
10 3 (0.74%) Android
10 3 (0.74%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.74%) Windows 2000
10 3 (0.74%) Windows XP
11 2 (0.50%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.50%) Debian
12 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (63.52%) DevOps
2 204 (50.62%) CI/CD
3 154 (38.21%) Agile
4 123 (30.52%) Containerisation
5 73 (18.11%) Test Automation
6 65 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
7 64 (15.88%) Configuration Management
8 53 (13.15%) Analytics
9 51 (12.66%) Continuous Integration
10 46 (11.41%) Scrum
11 43 (10.67%) Infrastructure Automation
11 43 (10.67%) Microservices
12 42 (10.42%) Technical Leadership
13 41 (10.17%) DevSecOps
14 34 (8.44%) Roadmaps
14 34 (8.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 32 (7.94%) High Availability
15 32 (7.94%) Kanban
16 30 (7.44%) Migration
17 29 (7.20%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 127 (31.51%) Python
2 106 (26.30%) PowerShell
3 74 (18.36%) Java
4 67 (16.63%) Bash
5 58 (14.39%) SQL
6 48 (11.91%) C#
6 48 (11.91%) TypeScript
7 40 (9.93%) Bicep
8 29 (7.20%) JavaScript
9 22 (5.46%) Go
10 21 (5.21%) VB
10 21 (5.21%) VBScript
11 15 (3.72%) Shell Script
12 12 (2.98%) Groovy
13 5 (1.24%) PHP
13 5 (1.24%) Scala
14 3 (0.74%) ActionScript
14 3 (0.74%) C++
14 3 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.74%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 150 (37.22%) Security Cleared
2 118 (29.28%) SC Cleared
3 50 (12.41%) DV Cleared
4 39 (9.68%) Degree
5 21 (5.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (3.47%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (1.99%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.49%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.50%) PhD
11 2 (0.50%) SANS
12 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.25%) GIAC
12 1 (0.25%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.95%) QA
2 24 (5.96%) Accessibility
3 16 (3.97%) NIST
4 15 (3.72%) Disclosure Scotland
5 10 (2.48%) GDPR
6 9 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.24%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.99%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.74%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 120 (29.78%) Docker
2 47 (11.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (10.42%) Virtual Machines
4 36 (8.93%) Active Directory
5 21 (5.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 20 (4.96%) VMware NSX
7 10 (2.48%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (2.23%) vSphere
9 7 (1.74%) vCloud
10 3 (0.74%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 3 (0.74%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.25%) KVM
11 1 (0.25%) XenApp
11 1 (0.25%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 215 (53.35%) Terraform
2 160 (39.70%) Kubernetes
3 126 (31.27%) Ansible
4 61 (15.14%) Grafana
5 37 (9.18%) Puppet
6 32 (7.94%) SCCM
7 31 (7.69%) Progress Chef
8 24 (5.96%) Prometheus
9 22 (5.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 22 (5.46%) Microsoft Intune
10 21 (5.21%) Docker Swarm
10 21 (5.21%) SCOM
10 21 (5.21%) WSUS
11 17 (4.22%) Kibana
12 15 (3.72%) vCenter Server
13 13 (3.23%) Salt
14 12 (2.98%) Podman
15 11 (2.73%) HP Fortify
15 11 (2.73%) Istio
16 9 (2.23%) Rancher
Vendors
1 63 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 58 (14.39%) VMware
3 32 (7.94%) Red Hat
4 31 (7.69%) Google
5 25 (6.20%) Oracle
6 23 (5.71%) Splunk
7 11 (2.73%) SaltStack
8 9 (2.23%) Atlassian
8 9 (2.23%) Cisco
9 7 (1.74%) Veeam
10 6 (1.49%) Checkmarx
10 6 (1.49%) Databricks
10 6 (1.49%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.24%) F5
11 5 (1.24%) Juniper
11 5 (1.24%) Veracode
12 4 (0.99%) Arqiva
12 4 (0.99%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.99%) Veritas
13 3 (0.74%) Zscaler