Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 22 37
Rank change year-on-year +13 +15 -6
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 4.55% 0.97% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.15% 1.06% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +10.00% -31.03%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £525
90th Percentile £645 - -
South West median daily rate £588 £575 £588
% change year-on-year +2.17% -2.13% -2.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 65 94 209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 73.86% 91.26% 89.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 53 117
10th Percentile £178 £263 £172
25th Percentile £270 £413 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -11.36% +11.11%
75th Percentile £548 £550 £675
90th Percentile £675 £685 £825
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 50
10th Percentile - - £15.62
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.41 £21.23
Median hourly rate £16.85 £15.22 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -73.07% +169.90%
75th Percentile £22.79 £15.62 £65.98
90th Percentile £25.15 £20.40 £69.62
South West median hourly rate £29.40 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -54.78% +8.33% -7.69%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in Dorset

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

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

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Dorset over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in Dorset

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

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 Dorset region over the 6 months to 15 December 2025. 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
Blandford Forum - 3 £525 -
Bournemouth +4 1 £650 +18.18% 10
Infrastructure as Code
South West

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Task Automation
1 3 (75.00%) Workflow
2 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Change
2 1 (25.00%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Grafana
1 3 (75.00%) Packer
1 3 (75.00%) Podman
1 3 (75.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (75.00%) Proxmox
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) VMware