Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 20 28
Rank change year-on-year -15 +8 +18
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 0.39% 2.89% 2.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 3.21% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - £524 £643
25th Percentile £413 £541 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -15.38% +136.36%
75th Percentile £438 £559 -
90th Percentile - £575 £674
South Wales median daily rate £425 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -22.73% -15.38% -1.89%

All Process & 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 203 156 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 78.38% 90.17% 76.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 128 148
10th Percentile £249 £194 £149
25th Percentile £293 £262 £279
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -2.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £501 £543 £555
90th Percentile £645 £633 £628
South Wales median daily rate £425 £425 £450
% change year-on-year - -5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 3
10th Percentile - - £13.00
25th Percentile £12.21 £21.25 £14.88
Median hourly rate £14.32 £24.25 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.94% +34.72% +12.29%
75th Percentile £20.94 £34.06 £35.88
90th Percentile £21.13 £45.88 £46.60
South Wales median hourly rate £21.25 £22.25 £22.50
% change year-on-year -4.49% -1.11% +24.04%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

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

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft