Infrastructure as Code Contracts in England

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 76 115 97
Rank change year-on-year +39 -18 +10
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 771 727 1,260
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.17% 1.95% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.47% 2.26% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 496 910
10th Percentile £400 £403 £461
25th Percentile £463 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £653 £650 £694
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 13
10th Percentile £25.25 - £52.50
25th Percentile £25.72 £55.00 £70.50
Median hourly rate £27.38 £57.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.39% -26.28% +52.38%
75th Percentile £55.63 £71.25 £85.00
90th Percentile £71.85 £75.30 £85.80
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -19.87% +60.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in England

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in England

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in England

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in England.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in England

Infrastructure as Code
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in England

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in 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 England 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
London +42 491 £550 -1.35% 594
South East +14 85 £593 -2.07% 250
North of England +15 79 £525 -4.55% 259
North West +14 42 £488 -11.36% 177
South West +34 41 £619 +12.55% 85
Midlands +17 27 £550 +4.76% 71
Yorkshire -1 26 £550 -3.30% 67
West Midlands +3 19 £689 +25.27% 43
North East +7 10 £558 - 19
East of England +33 9 £550 +15.79% 41
East Midlands +16 8 £475 +5.56% 21
Infrastructure as Code
UK

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 35 (4.54%) Apache Spark
2 27 (3.50%) nginx
3 19 (2.46%) Apache
3 19 (2.46%) Confluence
4 12 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (1.56%) Traefik
5 5 (0.65%) IIS
5 5 (0.65%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.52%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.39%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.26%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.26%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.13%) Camunda
9 1 (0.13%) Luigi
9 1 (0.13%) Mattermost
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Shopify
2 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 395 (51.23%) AWS
2 339 (43.97%) Azure
3 139 (18.03%) AWS CloudFormation
4 126 (16.34%) Azure DevOps
4 126 (16.34%) Serverless
5 120 (15.56%) GitHub
6 107 (13.88%) GCP
7 86 (11.15%) PaaS
8 75 (9.73%) AWS Lambda
9 73 (9.47%) IaaS
10 67 (8.69%) GitHub Actions
11 66 (8.56%) Amazon S3
12 58 (7.52%) Azure AKS
13 57 (7.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 56 (7.26%) Amazon EKS
15 55 (7.13%) Azure Monitor
16 52 (6.74%) Amazon EC2
17 48 (6.23%) SaaS
18 45 (5.84%) Entra ID
19 40 (5.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 94 (12.19%) Firewall
2 83 (10.77%) DNS
3 58 (7.52%) VPN
4 44 (5.71%) TCP/IP
5 24 (3.11%) Network Security
6 21 (2.72%) NGFW
7 20 (2.59%) DHCP
8 18 (2.33%) HTTP
9 16 (2.08%) WAN
10 14 (1.82%) SD-WAN
11 12 (1.56%) SAN
11 12 (1.56%) VSAN
12 11 (1.43%) BGP
13 9 (1.17%) MPLS
14 7 (0.91%) Internet
15 5 (0.65%) Kerberos
15 5 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
15 5 (0.65%) Wireshark
16 4 (0.52%) OSPF
16 4 (0.52%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.61%) Amazon RDS
2 39 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (4.02%) Amazon Redshift
4 31 (4.02%) NoSQL
5 30 (3.89%) MongoDB
6 24 (3.11%) SQL Server
7 21 (2.72%) Relational Database
8 20 (2.59%) DynamoDB
9 19 (2.46%) Data Lake
9 19 (2.46%) Hadoop
10 17 (2.20%) Power BI
11 16 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
11 16 (2.08%) Big Data
12 15 (1.95%) Amazon Aurora
13 13 (1.69%) Apache Hive
14 11 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
15 10 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
16 9 (1.17%) Apache Iceberg
17 8 (1.04%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 161 (20.88%) Jenkins
2 139 (18.03%) GitLab
3 79 (10.25%) Git
4 38 (4.93%) JIRA
5 24 (3.11%) SonarQube
6 18 (2.33%) CircleCI
7 13 (1.69%) Selenium
8 10 (1.30%) Maven
9 9 (1.17%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.17%) REST Assured
10 8 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 8 (1.04%) TeamCity
10 8 (1.04%) Terragrunt
11 7 (0.91%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.65%) Poetry
13 3 (0.39%) Chocolatey
13 3 (0.39%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.39%) JMeter
14 1 (0.13%) JUnit
14 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
General
1 181 (23.48%) Social Skills
2 118 (15.30%) Finance
3 78 (10.12%) Public Sector
4 64 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (5.71%) Banking
6 17 (2.20%) Financial Institution
7 14 (1.82%) Military
7 14 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (1.69%) Marketing
9 10 (1.30%) Law
9 10 (1.30%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.04%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.04%) Retail
11 7 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (0.65%) Legal
14 4 (0.52%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.52%) Multimedia
14 4 (0.52%) Police
15 3 (0.39%) Billing
Job Titles
1 202 (26.20%) DevOps Engineer
2 134 (17.38%) Senior
3 109 (14.14%) Architect
4 96 (12.45%) AWS Engineer
5 91 (11.80%) Azure Engineer
6 64 (8.30%) Developer
7 62 (8.04%) Cloud Engineer
7 62 (8.04%) Lead
8 58 (7.52%) Platform Engineer
9 49 (6.36%) AWS DevOps
10 47 (6.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 47 (6.10%) Senior DevOps
11 41 (5.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 40 (5.19%) Data Engineer
13 36 (4.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 30 (3.89%) Azure Architect
14 30 (3.89%) Cloud Architect
15 29 (3.76%) Software Engineer
16 27 (3.50%) Network Engineer
17 25 (3.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (7.39%) ARM Templates
2 52 (6.74%) Kafka
3 46 (5.97%) .NET
4 34 (4.41%) Elastic Stack
5 33 (4.28%) React
6 30 (3.89%) Node.js
7 29 (3.76%) REST
8 28 (3.63%) YAML
9 24 (3.11%) AWS CDK
10 22 (2.85%) cloud-init
11 21 (2.72%) ADO
11 21 (2.72%) OAuth
12 20 (2.59%) OpenTelemetry
13 18 (2.33%) RESTful
14 17 (2.20%) Keycloak
15 16 (2.08%) Spring
16 15 (1.95%) JSON
17 14 (1.82%) .NET Framework
18 13 (1.69%) GraphQL
19 11 (1.43%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 95 (12.32%) Cloud Native
2 50 (6.49%) Public Cloud
3 40 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 32 (4.15%) PKI
5 18 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (2.20%) Data Centre
7 16 (2.08%) Anti-Spyware
8 12 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
8 12 (1.56%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (1.17%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.17%) Replication
11 8 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.04%) Hedge funds
12 7 (0.91%) Management Information System
12 7 (0.91%) Security Posture
13 6 (0.78%) Clustering
13 6 (0.78%) Private Cloud
13 6 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 153 (19.84%) Linux
2 54 (7.00%) Windows
3 51 (6.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 36 (4.67%) Unix
5 27 (3.50%) CentOS
6 23 (2.98%) Windows Server
7 9 (1.17%) VMS
8 5 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.39%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.39%) Rocky
9 3 (0.39%) Solaris
9 3 (0.39%) SUSE
10 2 (0.26%) Android
10 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.13%) VyOS
11 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 457 (59.27%) DevOps
2 437 (56.68%) CI/CD
3 258 (33.46%) Containerisation
4 181 (23.48%) Agile
5 179 (23.22%) Problem-Solving
6 112 (14.53%) Continuous Integration
7 100 (12.97%) Microservices
7 100 (12.97%) Migration
8 95 (12.32%) Cloud Security
8 95 (12.32%) Configuration Management
9 92 (11.93%) Observability
10 89 (11.54%) Software Engineering
11 88 (11.41%) Infrastructure Automation
12 84 (10.89%) Test Automation
13 69 (8.95%) Platform Engineering
14 65 (8.43%) High Availability
15 61 (7.91%) Analytics
15 61 (7.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 59 (7.65%) Mentoring
17 49 (6.36%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 329 (42.67%) Python
2 128 (16.60%) Bash
3 119 (15.43%) PowerShell
4 104 (13.49%) SQL
5 89 (11.54%) Java
6 65 (8.43%) Go
7 64 (8.30%) Bicep
8 62 (8.04%) C#
9 55 (7.13%) JavaScript
10 41 (5.32%) TypeScript
11 13 (1.69%) Shell Script
12 11 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
12 11 (1.43%) Perl
13 9 (1.17%) PL/SQL
14 8 (1.04%) RPG
14 8 (1.04%) RPG IV
15 7 (0.91%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.65%) R
16 5 (0.65%) Ruby
16 5 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 213 (27.63%) Security Cleared
2 172 (22.31%) SC Cleared
3 58 (7.52%) AWS Certification
4 47 (6.10%) Degree
5 32 (4.15%) Azure Certification
6 29 (3.76%) DV Cleared
7 23 (2.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 22 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 20 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (2.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 15 (1.95%) MCSE
11 11 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (1.30%) CCNP
13 9 (1.17%) AWS Certified Developer
13 9 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 7 (0.91%) CISSP
15 6 (0.78%) OCP
15 6 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
16 4 (0.52%) CCNA
16 4 (0.52%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (4.80%) NCSC
2 26 (3.37%) NIST
3 22 (2.85%) GDPR
4 18 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.82%) Data Quality
6 13 (1.69%) QA
7 11 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (1.43%) SLA
8 9 (1.17%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.91%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.91%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.39%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.26%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.13%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.13%) FedRAMP
12 1 (0.13%) GxP
12 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 213 (27.63%) Docker
2 43 (5.58%) Active Directory
3 36 (4.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (3.11%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (2.08%) VMware NSX
6 9 (1.17%) vSphere
7 6 (0.78%) DFS Replication
8 3 (0.39%) FreeRADIUS
8 3 (0.39%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.39%) iptables
8 3 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.26%) Lustre
9 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.13%) Ceph
10 1 (0.13%) NFS
10 1 (0.13%) Samba
10 1 (0.13%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.13%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 582 (75.49%) Terraform
2 354 (45.91%) Kubernetes
3 193 (25.03%) Ansible
4 96 (12.45%) Grafana
5 95 (12.32%) Prometheus
6 39 (5.06%) Puppet
7 33 (4.28%) Packer
8 25 (3.24%) Progress Chef
9 24 (3.11%) Istio
9 24 (3.11%) Rancher
10 21 (2.72%) ZABBIX
11 17 (2.20%) Podman
12 16 (2.08%) Consul
13 15 (1.95%) HAProxy
13 15 (1.95%) Jamf Pro
14 14 (1.82%) linkerd
15 12 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
16 11 (1.43%) Argo
16 11 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
17 10 (1.30%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 99 (12.84%) Microsoft
2 61 (7.91%) VMware
3 40 (5.19%) Splunk
4 37 (4.80%) Databricks
4 37 (4.80%) Google
5 36 (4.67%) Palo Alto
6 30 (3.89%) Cisco
7 29 (3.76%) Red Hat
8 18 (2.33%) CheckPoint
8 18 (2.33%) Oracle
9 17 (2.20%) Infoblox
10 16 (2.08%) ServiceNow
11 15 (1.95%) Okta
12 13 (1.69%) Apple
12 13 (1.69%) Cloudera
12 13 (1.69%) ESET
13 12 (1.56%) SAP
14 10 (1.30%) Fortinet
15 9 (1.17%) SolarWinds
16 8 (1.04%) IBM