Infrastructure as Code Contracts in Edinburgh

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 37 46
Rank change year-on-year -11 +9 +14
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 19 36 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.04% 4.42% 5.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.20% 5.00% 5.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 32 59
10th Percentile £466 £416 £456
25th Percentile £480 £453 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +1.52% -6.19%
75th Percentile £588 £577 £509
90th Percentile £623 £645 £556
Scotland median daily rate £525 £511 £498
% change year-on-year +2.69% +2.76% -6.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in Edinburgh

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in Edinburgh

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in Edinburgh

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (5.26%) GeoServer
1 1 (5.26%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 15 (78.95%) AWS
2 13 (68.42%) Serverless
3 12 (63.16%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (52.63%) Amazon S3
5 8 (42.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (21.05%) AWS CodePipeline
6 4 (21.05%) Azure
6 4 (21.05%) GitHub
6 4 (21.05%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (15.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
8 2 (10.53%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (10.53%) CloudFront
8 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (10.53%) Power Automate
9 1 (5.26%) AWS CodeBuild
9 1 (5.26%) Azure AKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (31.58%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (26.32%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (15.79%) Oracle Database
5 2 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (10.53%) MariaDB
5 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
5 2 (10.53%) MySQL
5 2 (10.53%) Power Query
5 2 (10.53%) Redis
5 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
6 1 (5.26%) GIS
6 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Cypress.io
2 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 4 (21.05%) Storybook
3 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 10 (52.63%) Public Sector
2 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Developer
2 6 (31.58%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Architect
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Angular Developer
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Architect
5 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) DevOps Developer
5 1 (5.26%) React Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (52.63%) AWS CDK
2 8 (42.11%) React
3 5 (26.32%) CSS
4 4 (21.05%) Jest
4 4 (21.05%) Node.js
4 4 (21.05%) Spring Boot
4 4 (21.05%) Tailwind CSS
5 3 (15.79%) Next.js
6 2 (10.53%) ARM Templates
6 2 (10.53%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (10.53%) JSON
6 2 (10.53%) YAML
7 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
7 1 (5.26%) Express.js
7 1 (5.26%) HTML
7 1 (5.26%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (5.26%) PostGIS
7 1 (5.26%) REST
7 1 (5.26%) RESTful
7 1 (5.26%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.53%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (10.53%) Low-Code
3 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
2 9 (47.37%) DevOps
3 7 (36.84%) Agile
3 7 (36.84%) Kanban
4 6 (31.58%) Microservices
5 5 (26.32%) Scrum
5 5 (26.32%) User Experience
6 4 (21.05%) DevSecOps
6 4 (21.05%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (21.05%) Human-Centred Design
6 4 (21.05%) Inclusive Design
6 4 (21.05%) Pair Programming
6 4 (21.05%) TDD
6 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
7 3 (15.79%) Architecture Roadmap
7 3 (15.79%) Code Quality
7 3 (15.79%) Migration
7 3 (15.79%) Product Roadmap
7 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
7 3 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) TypeScript
2 7 (36.84%) JavaScript
3 6 (31.58%) Bash
3 6 (31.58%) Java
3 6 (31.58%) Python
4 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
5 2 (10.53%) Bicep
5 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (10.53%) SQL
6 1 (5.26%) Go
6 1 (5.26%) Groovy
6 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) AWS Certification
2 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) Accessibility
1 4 (21.05%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Terraform
2 5 (26.32%) Ansible
3 3 (15.79%) Grafana
3 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
4 2 (10.53%) FortiGate
4 2 (10.53%) Progress Chef
4 2 (10.53%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.26%) HAProxy
5 1 (5.26%) linkerd
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
2 1 (5.26%) ForgeRock
2 1 (5.26%) Fortinet
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.26%) VMware