Infrastructure as Code Contracts

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 89 105
Rank change year-on-year -21 +16 +7
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 860 1,513 2,254
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.02% 2.64% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 2.94% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 600 1,107 1,642
10th Percentile £405 £456 £451
25th Percentile £464 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% +11.06%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £675
90th Percentile £688 £755 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +13.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 2
10th Percentile £55.00 £54.90 £39.27
25th Percentile £55.63 £70.50 £40.42
Median hourly rate £67.50 £78.00 £43.69
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +78.54% -28.09%
75th Percentile £76.25 £85.00 £46.80
90th Percentile £98.80 £90.00 £47.86
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.75 £78.00 £47.38
% change year-on-year -10.58% +64.64% -15.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 20 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
England -20 711 £550 -8.33% 550
London -22 387 £550 -10.20% 250
UK excluding London -20 350 £550 -2.22% 372
Work from Home -13 337 £525 -12.50% 342
South East +60 118 £605 +0.83% 108
North of England +8 95 £550 -8.33% 82
Scotland -16 64 £500 +0.50% 16
Yorkshire +33 46 £558 -7.08% 35
North West -19 46 £550 -8.33% 41
South West -49 46 £613 - 60
Midlands +3 29 £538 - 67
West Midlands +11 27 £550 +4.76% 49
East of England +3 6 £500 +0.50% 21
North East 0 3 - - 6
Wales +17 2 £666 +2.50% 9
East Midlands +12 2 £450 -18.18% 18
Northern Ireland - 1 £640 - 10

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 30 (3.49%) Confluence
2 22 (2.56%) OpenStack
3 21 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.98%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.74%) nginx
6 6 (0.70%) Anypoint
6 6 (0.70%) Apache
7 4 (0.47%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.47%) Luigi
7 4 (0.47%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.23%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.12%) CMS
10 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.12%) Gliffy
2 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.35%) Shopify
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 417 (48.49%) AWS
2 374 (43.49%) Azure
3 161 (18.72%) Serverless
4 145 (16.86%) GCP
5 128 (14.88%) Azure DevOps
6 124 (14.42%) AWS CloudFormation
7 112 (13.02%) AWS Lambda
8 108 (12.56%) Amazon S3
9 84 (9.77%) GitHub
10 81 (9.42%) Amazon EC2
11 71 (8.26%) IaaS
12 63 (7.33%) PaaS
13 56 (6.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 54 (6.28%) SaaS
15 53 (6.16%) OpenShift
16 49 (5.70%) Amazon EKS
16 49 (5.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 40 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
17 40 (4.65%) Entra ID
18 39 (4.53%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 104 (12.09%) Firewall
2 78 (9.07%) DNS
3 44 (5.12%) TCP/IP
4 43 (5.00%) VPN
5 42 (4.88%) DHCP
6 28 (3.26%) Network Security
7 22 (2.56%) WAN
8 20 (2.33%) HTTP
9 19 (2.21%) LAN
10 15 (1.74%) IPsec
11 14 (1.63%) WLAN
12 12 (1.40%) OSPF
12 12 (1.40%) VLAN
13 11 (1.28%) VSAN
14 10 (1.16%) Wireless
15 9 (1.05%) BGP
15 9 (1.05%) HTTPS
15 9 (1.05%) SAN
15 9 (1.05%) SSL
16 8 (0.93%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (7.21%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (6.28%) Amazon RDS
3 43 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
4 37 (4.30%) SQL Server
5 36 (4.19%) NoSQL
6 35 (4.07%) MySQL
7 34 (3.95%) BigQuery
8 30 (3.49%) MongoDB
9 29 (3.37%) Amazon Redshift
10 28 (3.26%) Amazon Aurora
10 28 (3.26%) Data Lake
11 27 (3.14%) Azure SQL Database
12 21 (2.44%) Relational Database
13 19 (2.21%) Big Data
14 17 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
15 16 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
15 16 (1.86%) DynamoDB
15 16 (1.86%) Oracle Database
16 10 (1.16%) RDBMS
16 10 (1.16%) Redis
Development Applications
1 195 (22.67%) Jenkins
2 158 (18.37%) Git
3 133 (15.47%) GitLab
4 51 (5.93%) JIRA
5 29 (3.37%) SonarQube
6 23 (2.67%) Selenium
7 18 (2.09%) TeamCity
8 15 (1.74%) Cucumber
9 14 (1.63%) Burp Suite
9 14 (1.63%) CircleCI
10 12 (1.40%) REST Assured
11 11 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 11 (1.28%) Travis CI
12 10 (1.16%) Artifactory
12 10 (1.16%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.70%) AppScan
13 6 (0.70%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.58%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.58%) Subversion
14 5 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 243 (28.26%) Social Skills
2 92 (10.70%) Finance
3 78 (9.07%) Public Sector
4 56 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (5.00%) Banking
6 23 (2.67%) Retail
7 16 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (1.86%) Law
7 16 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (0.93%) Legal
8 8 (0.93%) Police
9 7 (0.81%) Back Office
9 7 (0.81%) Investment Banking
9 7 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (0.70%) Marketing
11 5 (0.58%) Electronics
12 4 (0.47%) Corporate Banking
12 4 (0.47%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.35%) German Language
13 3 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 201 (23.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 130 (15.12%) Architect
3 98 (11.40%) Developer
4 90 (10.47%) Azure Engineer
5 89 (10.35%) AWS Engineer
5 89 (10.35%) Senior
6 65 (7.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 62 (7.21%) AWS DevOps
8 57 (6.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 56 (6.51%) Platform Engineer
10 44 (5.12%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 43 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 42 (4.88%) Lead
13 40 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 37 (4.30%) Cloud Architect
15 35 (4.07%) Software Engineer
16 33 (3.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 31 (3.60%) DevSecOps Engineer
18 26 (3.02%) Data Engineer
18 26 (3.02%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (7.44%) ARM Templates
2 58 (6.74%) Elastic Stack
3 57 (6.63%) YAML
4 53 (6.16%) AWS CDK
5 50 (5.81%) REST
6 45 (5.23%) .NET
7 38 (4.42%) Node.js
8 34 (3.95%) React
9 28 (3.26%) JSON
9 28 (3.26%) Kafka
10 23 (2.67%) SOAP
11 21 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
12 18 (2.09%) RESTful
12 18 (2.09%) Spring
13 16 (1.86%) XML
14 15 (1.74%) OAuth
15 14 (1.63%) Spring Boot
16 13 (1.51%) Java EE
17 12 (1.40%) CSS
17 12 (1.40%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (6.16%) Cloud Native
2 49 (5.70%) PKI
3 34 (3.95%) Public Cloud
4 23 (2.67%) Data Centre
4 23 (2.67%) Product Ownership
4 23 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 19 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (2.09%) Mobile App
7 18 (2.09%) Replication
8 16 (1.86%) IoT
8 16 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
9 15 (1.74%) Management Information System
10 14 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.28%) Clustering
12 11 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 10 (1.16%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 208 (24.19%) Linux
2 96 (11.16%) Windows
3 55 (6.40%) Windows Server
4 53 (6.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 30 (3.49%) Unix
6 21 (2.44%) CentOS
6 21 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 18 (2.09%) Windows Server 2019
8 17 (1.98%) Ubuntu
9 10 (1.16%) VMS
10 7 (0.81%) Kali Linux
10 7 (0.81%) Oracle Linux
11 6 (0.70%) Solaris
12 4 (0.47%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.35%) Android
13 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.35%) Debian
13 3 (0.35%) Windows 2000
13 3 (0.35%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 534 (62.09%) DevOps
2 482 (56.05%) CI/CD
3 280 (32.56%) Agile
4 226 (26.28%) Containerisation
5 155 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
6 124 (14.42%) Continuous Integration
7 114 (13.26%) Microservices
8 107 (12.44%) Test Automation
9 101 (11.74%) Cloud Security
10 95 (11.05%) Analytics
11 94 (10.93%) Configuration Management
12 92 (10.70%) DevSecOps
13 83 (9.65%) Scrum
14 80 (9.30%) Migration
15 78 (9.07%) Software Engineering
16 69 (8.02%) Platform Engineering
17 62 (7.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 61 (7.09%) Observability
19 59 (6.86%) Computer Science
19 59 (6.86%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 341 (39.65%) Python
2 168 (19.53%) PowerShell
3 154 (17.91%) Bash
4 118 (13.72%) SQL
5 111 (12.91%) Java
6 77 (8.95%) C#
7 73 (8.49%) TypeScript
8 67 (7.79%) Bicep
9 50 (5.81%) JavaScript
10 45 (5.23%) Go
11 41 (4.77%) Shell Script
12 17 (1.98%) Ruby
12 17 (1.98%) VB
12 17 (1.98%) VBScript
13 12 (1.40%) Groovy
14 8 (0.93%) PHP
15 7 (0.81%) Perl
15 7 (0.81%) Scala
16 3 (0.35%) ActionScript
16 3 (0.35%) C
Qualifications
1 204 (23.72%) Security Cleared
2 157 (18.26%) SC Cleared
3 87 (10.12%) Degree
4 55 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (5.58%) DV Cleared
6 24 (2.79%) Azure Certification
7 21 (2.44%) AWS Certification
8 17 (1.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 13 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 7 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (0.81%) OSCP
13 6 (0.70%) CISSP
13 6 (0.70%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.47%) CCNP
14 4 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.47%) SANS
15 3 (0.35%) CCIE
15 3 (0.35%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (5.12%) QA
2 38 (4.42%) NIST
3 23 (2.67%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.98%) PCI DSS
5 16 (1.86%) GDPR
5 16 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.63%) Disclosure Scotland
7 7 (0.81%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.58%) NCSC
10 4 (0.47%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.35%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.23%) SLA
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 265 (30.81%) Docker
2 70 (8.14%) Active Directory
3 53 (6.16%) Virtual Machines
4 48 (5.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 24 (2.79%) VMware NSX
6 19 (2.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (1.63%) vSphere
9 10 (1.16%) vCloud
10 5 (0.58%) Firmware
10 5 (0.58%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 2 (0.23%) Squid
14 1 (0.12%) Ceph
14 1 (0.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.12%) KVM
14 1 (0.12%) NFS
14 1 (0.12%) XenApp
14 1 (0.12%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 555 (64.53%) Terraform
2 318 (36.98%) Kubernetes
3 226 (26.28%) Ansible
4 112 (13.02%) Grafana
5 78 (9.07%) Prometheus
6 60 (6.98%) Puppet
7 48 (5.58%) Progress Chef
8 37 (4.30%) Kibana
9 28 (3.26%) logstash
9 28 (3.26%) SCCM
10 22 (2.56%) Docker Swarm
11 21 (2.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 21 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
12 18 (2.09%) Packer
12 18 (2.09%) SCOM
12 18 (2.09%) vCenter Server
13 17 (1.98%) WSUS
14 14 (1.63%) Podman
15 13 (1.51%) HP Fortify
16 12 (1.40%) vRealize
Vendors
1 133 (15.47%) Microsoft
2 69 (8.02%) VMware
3 65 (7.56%) Google
4 52 (6.05%) Oracle
5 46 (5.35%) Splunk
6 29 (3.37%) Cisco
6 29 (3.37%) Red Hat
7 24 (2.79%) Databricks
8 19 (2.21%) Fortinet
9 18 (2.09%) Palo Alto
10 17 (1.98%) Juniper
11 16 (1.86%) SAP
12 15 (1.74%) Dell
12 15 (1.74%) Salesforce
13 13 (1.51%) Amdocs
14 11 (1.28%) CyberArk
15 8 (0.93%) Atlassian
15 8 (0.93%) HP
15 8 (0.93%) ServiceNow
16 7 (0.81%) Veeam