Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in Derby

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
Derbyshire > Derby

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derby requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Derby 5.43% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.80% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Derbyshire median daily rate £413 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Derby

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 Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 103 77 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 79.84% 80.21% 70.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 32 61
10th Percentile £185 £200 £188
25th Percentile £384 £269 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.12%
75th Percentile £556 £531 £594
90th Percentile £606 £633 £664
Derbyshire median daily rate £413 £450 £401
% change year-on-year -8.22% +12.36% -11.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 10
10th Percentile £15.84 - £15.25
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.68 £19.30 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -13.54% +9.58% +4.62%
75th Percentile £18.78 £23.86 £18.75
90th Percentile £24.72 £24.18 £20.00
Derbyshire median hourly rate £16.68 £21.59 £17.72
% change year-on-year -22.73% +21.84% +5.29%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in Derby

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in Derby

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

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

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby 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 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) GitHub
3 3 (42.86%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (28.57%) Azure AKS
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) NAS
2 2 (28.57%) SAN
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security
3 1 (14.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) CircleCI
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (57.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) IT Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (28.57%) Operational Technology
1 2 (28.57%) Replication
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (57.14%) High Availability
3 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Runbook
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) BCP
4 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
4 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity Planning
4 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
4 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (28.57%) GitOps
4 2 (28.57%) Identity Management
4 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
4 2 (28.57%) Log Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) RBAC
5 1 (14.29%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 2 (28.57%) Ansible
3 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) F5
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow