Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 - 39
Rank change year-on-year - - -9
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 8 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 2.64% - 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.01% - 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £496 - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.77%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £625 - -
East of England median daily rate £600 £638 £575
% change year-on-year -5.88% +10.87% +10.58%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 266 139 252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 87.79% 92.05% 86.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 82 161
10th Percentile £402 £418 £313
25th Percentile £413 £500 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £580 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £560
90th Percentile £638 £700 £625
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 32
10th Percentile £25.15 £20.26 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £27.50 £15.39
Median hourly rate £68.21 £36.14 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.74% +68.09% -61.49%
75th Percentile £73.46 £81.88 £32.90
90th Percentile £78.50 £88.00 £65.75
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -58.00% +31.16% +8.91%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure as Code relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Infrastructure as Code.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 6 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in Bedfordshire

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 6 March 2026. 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
Luton - 8 £600 - 3
Infrastructure as Code
East of England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) Azure AKS
1 5 (62.50%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Storage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Lead
2 5 (62.50%) Technical Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Spring
1 5 (62.50%) Spring Boot
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) Computer Science
3 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) Event-Driven
3 5 (62.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 5 (62.50%) Microservices
4 4 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (37.50%) AI
5 3 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
6 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
6 2 (25.00%) High Availability
6 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
6 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
7 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft