Infrastructure as Code Contracts in Cardiff

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 25 30 44
Rank change year-on-year +5 +14 +10
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 5 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 3.13% 2.36% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.42% 3.11% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile £437 £643 £313
25th Percentile £443 - £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £650 £463
Median % change year-on-year -25.31% +40.54% -15.91%
75th Percentile £550 - £556
90th Percentile £571 £674 £613
South Wales median daily rate £533 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -18.08% - +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 146 161 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 91.25% 75.94% 88.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 132 233
10th Percentile £196 £189 £201
25th Percentile £269 £379 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% -0.54%
75th Percentile £525 £555 £575
90th Percentile £625 £644 £630
South Wales median daily rate £413 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile - £13.00 -
25th Percentile £12.21 £14.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.00 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +9.46% -12.29%
75th Percentile £23.75 £35.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.75 £46.60 £24.50
South Wales median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
% change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in Cardiff

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in Cardiff

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in Cardiff

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) dbt
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Privacy
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Open Source
3 1 (20.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Re-Platforming
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C
1 1 (20.00%) Go
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CSSLP
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) QA
1 1 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Argo
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Nagios
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft