Infrastructure as Code Contracts in Birmingham

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 40 60 59
Rank change year-on-year +20 -1 +19
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 10 7 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.92% 0.91% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 1.09% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 9
10th Percentile £397 £355 £441
25th Percentile £512 £363 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £607 £400 £510
Median % change year-on-year +51.75% -21.57% -2.86%
75th Percentile £697 £481 £638
90th Percentile £700 £515 £645
West Midlands median daily rate £689 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +25.27% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £55.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in Birmingham

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in Birmingham

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in Birmingham

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Apigee
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Composer
1 1 (10.00%) Datadog
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (10.00%) GCP
1 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Big Data
1 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Site Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Apigee Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Big Data Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) GCP Data Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
1 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) ITSM
1 4 (40.00%) Network Monitoring
1 4 (40.00%) Service Management
2 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (30.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (30.00%) SIEM
2 3 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Use Case
4 1 (10.00%) CRM
4 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (10.00%) Data Security
4 1 (10.00%) Scrum
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) Scala
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Terraform
2 7 (70.00%) Ansible
3 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Broadcom
1 4 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) BT
2 1 (10.00%) Foundry
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk