Infrastructure as Code Contracts in Cheltenham

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham 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 7 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 37 23
Rank change year-on-year +23 -14 +2
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 3 8 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 4.17% 3.05% 5.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.36% 3.69% 6.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 7
10th Percentile - £520 £585
25th Percentile £525 £525 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -18.52% +8.00%
75th Percentile £628 £625 £800
90th Percentile £660 - £830
Gloucestershire median daily rate £700 £588 £625
% change year-on-year +19.15% -6.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate - - £78.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 56 217 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 77.78% 82.82% 81.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 104 93
10th Percentile £388 £377 £357
25th Percentile £525 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £738 £671 £700
90th Percentile £769 £725 £763
Gloucestershire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 8
10th Percentile - £44.75 £24.08
25th Percentile - £70.00 £28.69
Median hourly rate - £71.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year - +47.92% +239.82%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £90.00
90th Percentile - - £91.35
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £51.75 £40.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +29.38% -46.67% +131.48%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in Cheltenham

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in Cheltenham

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 (33.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) npm
1 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) InfluxDB
1 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Java Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) CentOS
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Observability
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle