Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the City of London

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Infrastructure as Code skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 81 52
Rank change year-on-year -3 -29 +64
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 46 90 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.11% 2.54% 4.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 2.77% 4.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 67 154
10th Percentile £448 £513 £475
25th Percentile £500 £550 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £638 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.55% +2.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £643 £731 £772
90th Percentile £680 £785 £850
Central London median daily rate £550 £645 £625
% change year-on-year -14.73% +3.20% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Infrastructure as Code is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,973 3,247 3,857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.46% 91.57% 91.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,394 2,187 2,924
10th Percentile £352 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £681
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £573
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.80% +9.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 42
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.10 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £16.61 £21.81
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -12.50% +122.53%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £54.38
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the City of London

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the City of London

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the City of London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the City of London

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

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 City of London region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
London Bridge +2 1 £501 -23.00%
Infrastructure as Code
Central London

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (4.35%) Luigi
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.17%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 26 (56.52%) AWS
2 23 (50.00%) Azure
3 9 (19.57%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (17.39%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (17.39%) GCP
4 8 (17.39%) GitHub
5 7 (15.22%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (15.22%) Amazon S3
6 6 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (13.04%) Serverless
7 5 (10.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (6.52%) IaaS
8 3 (6.52%) PaaS
9 2 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (4.35%) Amazon ELB
9 2 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (4.35%) Entra ID
9 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) Firewall
2 3 (6.52%) DNS
3 2 (4.35%) VPN
3 2 (4.35%) WAN
4 1 (2.17%) DHCP
4 1 (2.17%) IPv4
4 1 (2.17%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.17%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.17%) VLAN
4 1 (2.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.87%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (8.70%) MySQL
3 3 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.52%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.35%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.17%) Big Data
5 1 (2.17%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.17%) CouchDB
5 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.17%) Redis
5 1 (2.17%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 13 (28.26%) GitLab
2 12 (26.09%) Jenkins
3 9 (19.57%) Git
4 2 (4.35%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.35%) CircleCI
4 2 (4.35%) Maven
4 2 (4.35%) Subversion
5 1 (2.17%) AppScan
5 1 (2.17%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.17%) Burp Suite
5 1 (2.17%) Darcs
5 1 (2.17%) GoCD
5 1 (2.17%) JIRA
5 1 (2.17%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (2.17%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (2.17%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.17%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.17%) Terragrunt
5 1 (2.17%) Travis CI
5 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 13 (28.26%) Finance
3 2 (4.35%) Banking
3 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.35%) Retail
4 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (28.26%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (23.91%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (17.39%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) Architect
5 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (10.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Lead
9 2 (4.35%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Azure Data Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
9 2 (4.35%) Data Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Full Stack Developer
9 2 (4.35%) Senior
9 2 (4.35%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (6.52%) AWS CDK
3 2 (4.35%) Pandas
3 2 (4.35%) React
3 2 (4.35%) YAML
4 1 (2.17%) .NET
4 1 (2.17%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.17%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.17%) CSS
4 1 (2.17%) HTML
4 1 (2.17%) JSON
4 1 (2.17%) Kafka
4 1 (2.17%) REST
4 1 (2.17%) SAML
4 1 (2.17%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.52%) Public Cloud
2 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.35%) PKI
3 1 (2.17%) CBDC
3 1 (2.17%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (2.17%) Clustering
3 1 (2.17%) Digital Currency
3 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.17%) MPEG
3 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (2.17%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 12 (26.09%) Linux
2 8 (17.39%) Windows
3 5 (10.87%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.17%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (63.04%) DevOps
2 23 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (23.91%) Containerisation
4 9 (19.57%) Agile
4 9 (19.57%) Microservices
5 7 (15.22%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (10.87%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (8.70%) Cloud Security
8 4 (8.70%) Configuration Management
8 4 (8.70%) Scrum
9 3 (6.52%) Computer Science
9 3 (6.52%) DevSecOps
9 3 (6.52%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (6.52%) Kanban
9 3 (6.52%) Open Source
9 3 (6.52%) RBAC
9 3 (6.52%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (50.00%) Python
2 12 (26.09%) Bash
3 9 (19.57%) PowerShell
4 5 (10.87%) SQL
5 4 (8.70%) C#
6 3 (6.52%) Bicep
6 3 (6.52%) Go
6 3 (6.52%) Java
7 2 (4.35%) Ruby
7 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.17%) C
8 1 (2.17%) C++
8 1 (2.17%) Groovy
8 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.17%) Perl
8 1 (2.17%) Rust
8 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (17.39%) SC Cleared
1 8 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.87%) AWS Certification
3 4 (8.70%) Degree
4 3 (6.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.35%) SANS
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) QA
2 1 (2.17%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.17%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (34.78%) Docker
2 3 (6.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.17%) Ceph
3 1 (2.17%) NFS
3 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (78.26%) Terraform
2 16 (34.78%) Kubernetes
3 14 (30.43%) Ansible
4 7 (15.22%) Puppet
5 6 (13.04%) Progress Chef
5 6 (13.04%) Prometheus
6 4 (8.70%) Grafana
7 3 (6.52%) Consul
8 2 (4.35%) Graylog
8 2 (4.35%) Kibana
8 2 (4.35%) logstash
8 2 (4.35%) Nagios
8 2 (4.35%) Packer
9 1 (2.17%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (2.17%) Mesos
9 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (2.17%) Nessus
9 1 (2.17%) Rancher
9 1 (2.17%) SCCM
9 1 (2.17%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 8 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.52%) Red Hat
2 3 (6.52%) Splunk
3 2 (4.35%) Cisco
3 2 (4.35%) Google
3 2 (4.35%) Guidewire
3 2 (4.35%) MKS
3 2 (4.35%) VMware
4 1 (2.17%) Amdocs
4 1 (2.17%) Aruba
4 1 (2.17%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.17%) Juniper
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle
4 1 (2.17%) Terracotta
4 1 (2.17%) Veracode
4 1 (2.17%) Zscaler