Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the West Midlands

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 103 144
Rank change year-on-year +21 +41 -52
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 30 37 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.54% 1.55% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 1.75% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 24 24
10th Percentile £405 £431 £447
25th Percentile £500 £476 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +50.00%
75th Percentile £611 £641 £549
90th Percentile - £666 £625
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £78.00 £51.19
% change year-on-year -26.28% +52.38% -15.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,637 2,110 3,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.91% 88.54% 90.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,085 1,445 2,351
10th Percentile £275 £263 £270
25th Percentile £375 £401 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +16.07%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 69
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.05
England median hourly rate £35.96 £37.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -4.12% +53.06% +2.08%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the West Midlands

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the West Midlands

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the West Midlands

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Warwickshire +9 10 £607 -19.07% 4
Worcestershire +9 7 £550 -15.38%
Birmingham +4 7 £400 -21.57% 20
Coventry +5 4 £500 +4.17% 3
Shropshire - 1 £523 - 1
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (3.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (3.33%) CMS
1 1 (3.33%) Headless CMS
1 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (70.00%) Azure
2 13 (43.33%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (23.33%) Azure AKS
3 7 (23.33%) Azure App Service
4 5 (16.67%) AWS
5 3 (10.00%) GitHub
5 3 (10.00%) IaaS
5 3 (10.00%) PaaS
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Functions
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (6.67%) Serverless
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (33.33%) DNS
2 8 (26.67%) TCP/IP
3 7 (23.33%) DHCP
4 5 (16.67%) Firewall
4 5 (16.67%) VPN
5 2 (6.67%) DMZ
5 2 (6.67%) Network Security
6 1 (3.33%) FTP
6 1 (3.33%) HTTPS
6 1 (3.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (6.67%) Data Lake
1 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.33%) Flink
2 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.33%) Redis
2 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) Fiddler
2 1 (3.33%) GitLab
2 1 (3.33%) Hudson
2 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.33%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (3.33%) TeamCity
2 1 (3.33%) webpack
General
1 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (3.33%) Electronics
4 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.33%) Marketing
4 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Developer
1 8 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Angular Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) C# Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Network Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior
5 2 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Server Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Architect
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Developer
6 1 (3.33%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (26.67%) .NET
2 6 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 6 (20.00%) RESTful
3 3 (10.00%) JSON
3 3 (10.00%) YAML
4 2 (6.67%) GraphQL
5 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.33%) Apache Sling
5 1 (3.33%) Entity Framework
5 1 (3.33%) Kafka
5 1 (3.33%) Next.js
5 1 (3.33%) OSGi
5 1 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (3.33%) React
5 1 (3.33%) Swagger
5 1 (3.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.67%) PKI
4 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Linux
1 7 (23.33%) Windows
2 6 (20.00%) Unix
3 5 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) DevOps
2 9 (30.00%) Agile
3 8 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 8 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (23.33%) Microservices
4 7 (23.33%) Virtual Environments
5 6 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (20.00%) SIEM
5 6 (20.00%) Visualisation
6 5 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
6 5 (16.67%) Information Management
6 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (16.67%) Security Hardening
6 5 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
6 5 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
6 5 (16.67%) User Experience
6 5 (16.67%) UX Design
7 4 (13.33%) Cloud Security
8 3 (10.00%) Edge Computing
8 3 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 14 (46.67%) C#
2 8 (26.67%) Java
3 7 (23.33%) Bicep
3 7 (23.33%) SQL
4 6 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 5 (16.67%) PowerShell
6 3 (10.00%) Python
7 1 (3.33%) Bash
7 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) NIST
1 5 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (16.67%) VMware NSX
3 4 (13.33%) Docker
4 3 (10.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (10.00%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (43.33%) Terraform
2 7 (23.33%) SCCM
3 6 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 5 (16.67%) Ansible
4 5 (16.67%) vCenter Server
5 1 (3.33%) Argo
5 1 (3.33%) Istio
5 1 (3.33%) linkerd
5 1 (3.33%) Packer
5 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.33%) SELinux
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) VMware
2 5 (16.67%) Veeam
3 2 (6.67%) F5
3 2 (6.67%) Fortinet
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.33%) Citrix
4 1 (3.33%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle
4 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.33%) SAP
4 1 (3.33%) Zscaler