Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the East of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 104 100
Rank change year-on-year +27 -4 -24
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 11 6 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.13% 0.32% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 0.37% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 12
10th Percentile £386 £465 £403
25th Percentile £475 £469 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £498
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +0.50% -17.08%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £520
90th Percentile £763 £605 £547
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 880 1,608 1,734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 90.35% 85.03% 88.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 669 1,007
10th Percentile £228 £205 £205
25th Percentile £400 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £677 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 610 327
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - +81.82% +41.94%
75th Percentile £72.50 £60.00 £64.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.03 £70.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.40
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.29% +45.58%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the East of England

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the East of England

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the East of England over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the East of England

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 19 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
Cambridgeshire - 6 £485 - 17
Hertfordshire +25 2 £663 +20.45% 6
Bedfordshire 0 2 £500 +5.26% 2
Suffolk - 1 £751 - 2
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (9.09%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (27.27%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (18.18%) Azure
4 2 (18.18%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) SaaS
4 2 (18.18%) Serverless
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub
5 1 (9.09%) IaaS
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (9.09%) PaaS
5 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
1 3 (27.27%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) GitLab
2 2 (18.18%) TeamCity
3 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Administrator
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Technical Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) AWS CDK
2 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Culture of Ownership
1 1 (9.09%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
1 1 (9.09%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) ITSM
4 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 2 (18.18%) Agile
5 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
5 2 (18.18%) Cost Management
5 2 (18.18%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (18.18%) Data Science
5 2 (18.18%) High Availability
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Service Management
5 2 (18.18%) Zero Trust
6 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps
6 1 (9.09%) GitOps
6 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (9.09%) Observability
6 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
6 1 (9.09%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
3 1 (9.09%) Bicep
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) VMware NSX
3 1 (9.09%) Docker
3 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Terraform
2 5 (45.45%) Ansible
3 3 (27.27%) Progress Chef
3 3 (27.27%) Puppet
4 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
4 2 (18.18%) Salt
4 2 (18.18%) vRealize
4 2 (18.18%) VxRail
5 1 (9.09%) Avamar
5 1 (9.09%) Consul
5 1 (9.09%) Grafana
5 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) ServiceNow
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) VMware
3 2 (18.18%) Dell
3 2 (18.18%) LogRhythm
3 2 (18.18%) SolarWinds
4 1 (9.09%) Atlassian
4 1 (9.09%) Databricks
4 1 (9.09%) Spotify