Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the East Midlands

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 64 78
Rank change year-on-year +16 +14 +15
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 8 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.49% 0.26% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 0.33% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 7
10th Percentile - - £509
25th Percentile £463 £425 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -18.18% -13.73%
75th Percentile £541 £475 £581
90th Percentile £636 - £608
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 462 603 918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.19% 78.01% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 404 692
10th Percentile £200 £192 £213
25th Percentile £323 £269 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £573
90th Percentile £591 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 57 74
10th Percentile - £11.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%
75th Percentile £24.54 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £33.15 £45.79 £58.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the East Midlands

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the East Midlands

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the East Midlands

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Derbyshire - 4 £700 - 1
Leicestershire - 3 £475 - 5
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (12.50%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (12.50%) Azure API Management
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Batch
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (12.50%) dbt
4 1 (12.50%) Pulumi
4 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (12.50%) BigQuery
1 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Chocolatey
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) SonarQube
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) ITIL
3 3 (37.50%) Microservices
3 3 (37.50%) Service Catalogue
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Workflow
5 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
5 1 (12.50%) Data Transformation
5 1 (12.50%) ETL
5 1 (12.50%) Fintech
5 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) C#
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Bicep
3 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (37.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Perforce