Infrastructure as Code Contracts in Berkshire

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 66 85
Rank change year-on-year 0 +19 +31
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 27 58 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.30% 2.92% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 3.29% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 41 17
10th Percentile £354 £500 £448
25th Percentile £500 £515 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £675 £625 £688
90th Percentile £684 £688 £710
South East median daily rate £593 £605 £600
% change year-on-year -2.07% +0.83% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in Berkshire

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in Berkshire

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in Berkshire

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in Berkshire

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading -8 13 £650 +7.44% 27
Wokingham - 4 £440 - 3
Bracknell +19 2 £550 - 1
Windsor - 2 - - 1
Slough - 1 £650 - 20
Infrastructure as Code
South East

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 24 (88.89%) Azure
2 13 (48.15%) AWS
3 10 (37.04%) Azure Monitor
4 8 (29.63%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (22.22%) Entra ID
6 5 (18.52%) Azure API Management
7 4 (14.81%) Azure AKS
8 3 (11.11%) Azure Storage
8 3 (11.11%) GitHub
8 3 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (7.41%) Azure Table
9 2 (7.41%) GCP
9 2 (7.41%) IaaS
9 2 (7.41%) Power Automate
9 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
9 2 (7.41%) SaaS
10 1 (3.70%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (3.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) Firewall
2 1 (3.70%) DHCP
2 1 (3.70%) DNS
2 1 (3.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.11%) SSDT
3 2 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (7.41%) Power BI
4 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.70%) MySQL
4 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (37.04%) GitLab
2 9 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 9 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 9 (33.33%) JIRA
2 9 (33.33%) REST Assured
2 9 (33.33%) Selenium
2 9 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 14 (51.85%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (29.63%) Law
4 4 (14.81%) Police
5 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (22.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 6 (22.22%) Developer
4 5 (18.52%) Java Developer
4 5 (18.52%) Java Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) Java Software Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) Software Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Lead
6 2 (7.41%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (7.41%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) React Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Site Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Senior
7 1 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (48.15%) ARM Templates
2 10 (37.04%) REST
3 9 (33.33%) Java EE
4 6 (22.22%) OAuth
5 3 (11.11%) YAML
6 2 (7.41%) .NET
6 2 (7.41%) .NET Core
6 2 (7.41%) ADO
6 2 (7.41%) GraphQL
6 2 (7.41%) React
7 1 (3.70%) Apollo GraphQL
7 1 (3.70%) Jinja
7 1 (3.70%) JSON
7 1 (3.70%) NETCONF
7 1 (3.70%) Node.js
7 1 (3.70%) RESTCONF
7 1 (3.70%) RESTful
7 1 (3.70%) SOAP
7 1 (3.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.70%) PKI
3 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Windows
2 1 (3.70%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) VMS
2 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (92.59%) DevOps
2 18 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 15 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (51.85%) Configuration Management
5 13 (48.15%) CI/CD
6 12 (44.44%) Software Engineering
7 11 (40.74%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (33.33%) Software Architecture
8 9 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
8 9 (33.33%) Test Automation
9 8 (29.63%) Identity Management
10 6 (22.22%) Agile
10 6 (22.22%) RBAC
10 6 (22.22%) Release Management
11 5 (18.52%) B2B
11 5 (18.52%) B2C
11 5 (18.52%) Decision-Making
11 5 (18.52%) ETL
11 5 (18.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 4 (14.81%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) PowerShell
2 10 (37.04%) Java
3 9 (33.33%) Python
4 6 (22.22%) Bicep
5 3 (11.11%) C#
6 2 (7.41%) Bash
6 2 (7.41%) SQL
7 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.70%) VB
7 1 (3.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (40.74%) SC Cleared
1 11 (40.74%) Security Cleared
2 7 (25.93%) Azure Certification
3 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.70%) CCNP
4 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.70%) Degree
4 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (3.70%) JNCIP
System Software
1 12 (44.44%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (85.19%) Terraform
2 16 (59.26%) Kubernetes
3 13 (48.15%) Ansible
4 9 (33.33%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (33.33%) Podman
5 3 (11.11%) Grafana
5 3 (11.11%) Prometheus
5 3 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (3.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (3.70%) Puppet
6 1 (3.70%) SCCM
6 1 (3.70%) SCOM
6 1 (3.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) UiPath
3 1 (3.70%) Cisco
3 1 (3.70%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) Splunk