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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 44 29
Rank change year-on-year +17 -15 +13
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 42 34 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.41% 4.06% 7.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.79% 4.76% 8.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 23 63
10th Percentile £425 £426 £433
25th Percentile £463 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £493
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% +0.30% -5.29%
75th Percentile £534 £530 £526
90th Percentile £564 £600 £567
Scotland median daily rate £500 £494 £493
% change year-on-year +1.21% +0.30% -6.19%

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 619 714 1,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.50% 85.20% 91.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 396 702
10th Percentile £279 £208 £213
25th Percentile £413 £355 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £538 £540 £538
90th Percentile £594 £638 £600
Scotland median daily rate £467 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 22 4
10th Percentile £17.08 £13.21 £21.59
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.00 £34.23
Median hourly rate £17.87 £17.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -63.16% +111.58%
75th Percentile £41.44 £23.89 £55.94
90th Percentile £62.38 £36.62 £59.88
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £18.93
% change year-on-year +2.09% +3.49% -29.50%

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 4 August 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 2 (4.76%) nginx
2 1 (2.38%) Apache
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.38%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 34 (80.95%) AWS
2 22 (52.38%) Serverless
3 21 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 19 (45.24%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (40.48%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (26.19%) GitHub
7 10 (23.81%) Azure
8 9 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (19.05%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (19.05%) AWS CodePipeline
9 8 (19.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (16.67%) OpenShift
11 6 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (11.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (11.90%) Power Platform
13 4 (9.52%) Amazon Cognito
13 4 (9.52%) AWS CodeBuild
14 3 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
14 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) Firewall
1 1 (2.38%) HTTP
1 1 (2.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.95%) Amazon Aurora
2 12 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (16.67%) MongoDB
4 6 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (9.52%) Relational Database
6 3 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (7.14%) MariaDB
6 3 (7.14%) MySQL
6 3 (7.14%) Power Query
6 3 (7.14%) Redis
7 2 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (4.76%) GIS
7 2 (4.76%) InfluxDB
7 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
7 2 (4.76%) Oracle Database
7 2 (4.76%) Power BI
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 10 (23.81%) Cypress.io
3 6 (14.29%) Storybook
4 4 (9.52%) GitLab
5 3 (7.14%) Git
6 2 (4.76%) Liquibase
6 2 (4.76%) Snyk
General
1 18 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 13 (30.95%) Social Skills
3 7 (16.67%) Finance
4 4 (9.52%) Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (23.81%) Developer
2 7 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) Architect
3 6 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Site Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Lead
5 3 (7.14%) React Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Senior
6 2 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Data Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Software Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (45.24%) AWS CDK
2 13 (30.95%) React
3 8 (19.05%) CSS
4 6 (14.29%) Jest
4 6 (14.29%) REST
4 6 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 6 (14.29%) Tailwind CSS
5 5 (11.90%) RESTful
6 4 (9.52%) Next.js
7 3 (7.14%) ARM Templates
7 3 (7.14%) AWS Amplify
7 3 (7.14%) GraphQL
7 3 (7.14%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (7.14%) JSON
7 3 (7.14%) Node.js
7 3 (7.14%) Spring
7 3 (7.14%) YAML
8 2 (4.76%) HTML
8 2 (4.76%) OAuth
8 2 (4.76%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (7.14%) Low-Code
4 2 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.76%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.38%) Replication
5 1 (2.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (30.95%) Linux
2 10 (23.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (11.90%) Unix
4 4 (9.52%) Windows
5 2 (4.76%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (76.19%) CI/CD
2 24 (57.14%) Agile
3 23 (54.76%) DevOps
4 12 (28.57%) Microservices
5 11 (26.19%) Containerisation
5 11 (26.19%) Kanban
6 10 (23.81%) User Experience
7 8 (19.05%) Deployment Automation
7 8 (19.05%) Observability
7 8 (19.05%) Test Automation
8 7 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (16.67%) Mentoring
8 7 (16.67%) Scrum
9 6 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
9 6 (14.29%) DevSecOps
9 6 (14.29%) Human-Centred Design
9 6 (14.29%) Inclusive Design
10 5 (11.90%) Architecture Roadmap
10 5 (11.90%) Product Roadmap
10 5 (11.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (42.86%) Python
2 16 (38.10%) TypeScript
3 15 (35.71%) Bash
4 12 (28.57%) Java
5 9 (21.43%) JavaScript
6 5 (11.90%) Perl
6 5 (11.90%) PowerShell
6 5 (11.90%) SQL
7 4 (9.52%) Go
7 4 (9.52%) Shell Script
8 3 (7.14%) Bicep
8 3 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 7 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 4 (9.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.76%) Degree
3 2 (4.76%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 3 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (30.95%) Docker
2 4 (9.52%) KVM
3 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (42.86%) Terraform
2 17 (40.48%) Ansible
2 17 (40.48%) Grafana
3 14 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 11 (26.19%) Prometheus
5 4 (9.52%) Red Hat Satellite
6 3 (7.14%) HAProxy
6 3 (7.14%) Progress Chef
7 2 (4.76%) Fluentd
7 2 (4.76%) linkerd
7 2 (4.76%) Nagios
8 1 (2.38%) Podman
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) Oracle
2 5 (11.90%) Red Hat
3 3 (7.14%) Commvault
3 3 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 3 (7.14%) ForgeRock
3 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.76%) Google
4 2 (4.76%) Splunk
5 1 (2.38%) Ping Identity
5 1 (2.38%) VMware