Infrastructure as Code Contracts in England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Infrastructure as Code skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 100 112
Rank change year-on-year -19 +12 +25
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 695 1,219 1,729
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.90% 2.48% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 2.75% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 893 1,266
10th Percentile £402 £462 £469
25th Percentile £475 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £638 £694 £688
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 14 2
10th Percentile £55.00 £52.50 £47.07
25th Percentile £55.31 £70.50 £48.39
Median hourly rate £62.50 £78.00 £51.19
Median % change year-on-year -19.87% +52.38% -15.74%
75th Percentile £73.69 £85.00 £53.39
90th Percentile £76.25 £90.00 £54.36
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £78.00 £47.38
% change year-on-year -13.46% +64.64% -22.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Infrastructure as Code is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,610 44,349 64,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.47% 90.16% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,692 31,129 45,727
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £446 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £764 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,241 1,561 1,760
10th Percentile £12.87 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +49.36% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

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 13 May 2024.

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 13 May 2024.

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 13 May 2024. 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 -27 379 £550 -11.65% 224
South East +60 115 £605 +0.83% 64
North of England -10 86 £550 -8.33% 79
South West -47 47 £575 -6.12% 56
North West -16 45 £550 -8.33% 44
Yorkshire +24 38 £594 -1.00% 24
Midlands +17 28 £550 +2.33% 55
West Midlands +12 26 £550 +4.76% 39
East of England 0 6 £500 +0.50% 10
North East -1 3 - - 11
East Midlands +19 2 £450 -18.18% 16
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 26 (3.74%) Confluence
2 23 (3.31%) OpenStack
3 20 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (2.16%) nginx
6 12 (1.73%) Apache Spark
7 7 (1.01%) Apache
8 5 (0.72%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.58%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.58%) Luigi
9 4 (0.58%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.43%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.14%) CMS
11 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.14%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.14%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Shopify
2 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 321 (46.19%) Azure
2 311 (44.75%) AWS
3 128 (18.42%) GCP
4 112 (16.12%) Serverless
5 110 (15.83%) Azure DevOps
6 81 (11.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 76 (10.94%) GitHub
8 73 (10.50%) AWS Lambda
9 63 (9.06%) IaaS
10 60 (8.63%) Amazon EC2
11 58 (8.35%) PaaS
12 57 (8.20%) Amazon S3
13 48 (6.91%) SaaS
14 40 (5.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 37 (5.32%) Entra ID
16 36 (5.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 33 (4.75%) Amazon EKS
17 33 (4.75%) Azure Monitor
17 33 (4.75%) GitHub Actions
18 29 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 100 (14.39%) Firewall
2 76 (10.94%) DNS
3 43 (6.19%) VPN
4 42 (6.04%) DHCP
5 40 (5.76%) TCP/IP
6 21 (3.02%) WAN
7 20 (2.88%) Network Security
8 19 (2.73%) LAN
9 17 (2.45%) HTTP
10 16 (2.30%) WLAN
11 15 (2.16%) IPsec
12 14 (2.01%) VLAN
12 14 (2.01%) VSAN
13 13 (1.87%) Wireless
14 12 (1.73%) OSPF
15 11 (1.58%) SAN
16 10 (1.44%) Kerberos
17 9 (1.29%) BGP
18 8 (1.15%) HTTPS
18 8 (1.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (5.04%) NoSQL
2 32 (4.60%) Elasticsearch
3 31 (4.46%) Amazon RDS
3 31 (4.46%) MySQL
4 29 (4.17%) SQL Server
5 28 (4.03%) BigQuery
6 25 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
7 22 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 20 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 20 (2.88%) Data Lake
9 17 (2.45%) MongoDB
9 17 (2.45%) Relational Database
10 15 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (2.16%) DynamoDB
11 12 (1.73%) Big Data
12 9 (1.29%) Redis
13 8 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (1.15%) RDBMS
14 7 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
15 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 151 (21.73%) Jenkins
2 124 (17.84%) Git
3 112 (16.12%) GitLab
4 44 (6.33%) JIRA
5 27 (3.88%) SonarQube
6 22 (3.17%) Selenium
7 17 (2.45%) TeamCity
8 15 (2.16%) Cucumber
9 12 (1.73%) Burp Suite
9 12 (1.73%) CircleCI
9 12 (1.73%) REST Assured
10 10 (1.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 10 (1.44%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.44%) Travis CI
11 6 (0.86%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.72%) AppScan
12 5 (0.72%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (0.58%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.58%) Terragrunt
General
1 196 (28.20%) Social Skills
2 81 (11.65%) Finance
3 48 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (6.04%) Public Sector
5 31 (4.46%) Banking
6 17 (2.45%) Retail
7 16 (2.30%) Law
8 11 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.15%) Legal
10 8 (1.15%) Police
11 6 (0.86%) Marketing
12 5 (0.72%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.58%) German Language
13 4 (0.58%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.43%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.43%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.43%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.29%) Back Office
15 2 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 156 (22.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 105 (15.11%) Architect
3 75 (10.79%) AWS Engineer
4 73 (10.50%) Azure Engineer
4 73 (10.50%) Senior
5 59 (8.49%) Cloud Engineer
5 59 (8.49%) Developer
6 53 (7.63%) AWS DevOps
7 47 (6.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 44 (6.33%) Lead
9 43 (6.19%) Platform Engineer
10 36 (5.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 35 (5.04%) Cloud Architect
12 34 (4.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 31 (4.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 31 (4.46%) Software Engineer
14 30 (4.32%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 30 (4.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 25 (3.60%) Site Engineer
16 23 (3.31%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (8.06%) ARM Templates
2 53 (7.63%) Elastic Stack
3 47 (6.76%) YAML
4 38 (5.47%) .NET
5 37 (5.32%) REST
6 24 (3.45%) JSON
6 24 (3.45%) Kafka
7 23 (3.31%) Node.js
8 18 (2.59%) React
9 16 (2.30%) AWS CDK
10 15 (2.16%) RESTful
11 13 (1.87%) Java EE
11 13 (1.87%) RabbitMQ
11 13 (1.87%) SOAP
12 12 (1.73%) XML
13 11 (1.58%) GraphQL
13 11 (1.58%) LDAP
14 10 (1.44%) .NET Core
14 10 (1.44%) OAuth
14 10 (1.44%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 45 (6.47%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.33%) PKI
3 28 (4.03%) Public Cloud
4 22 (3.17%) Data Centre
5 21 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
6 20 (2.88%) Onboarding
7 18 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (2.45%) Product Ownership
9 16 (2.30%) Mobile App
10 15 (2.16%) IoT
11 14 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (1.58%) Management Information System
13 11 (1.58%) Replication
13 11 (1.58%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 10 (1.44%) Clustering
15 9 (1.29%) Data Structures
15 9 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
16 8 (1.15%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 187 (26.91%) Linux
2 84 (12.09%) Windows
3 53 (7.63%) Windows Server
4 46 (6.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (4.03%) Unix
6 24 (3.45%) CentOS
7 18 (2.59%) Windows Server 2016
8 17 (2.45%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (2.16%) Ubuntu
10 10 (1.44%) VMS
11 8 (1.15%) Oracle Linux
11 8 (1.15%) Solaris
12 7 (1.01%) Kali Linux
13 4 (0.58%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.43%) Android
14 3 (0.43%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.43%) Debian
14 3 (0.43%) Windows 2000
14 3 (0.43%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (62.30%) DevOps
2 384 (55.25%) CI/CD
3 211 (30.36%) Agile
4 179 (25.76%) Containerisation
5 120 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
6 103 (14.82%) Continuous Integration
7 86 (12.37%) Microservices
8 85 (12.23%) Cloud Security
9 80 (11.51%) DevSecOps
9 80 (11.51%) Test Automation
10 71 (10.22%) Configuration Management
11 67 (9.64%) Analytics
12 61 (8.78%) Software Engineering
13 58 (8.35%) Migration
14 57 (8.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 55 (7.91%) Platform Engineering
15 55 (7.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 53 (7.63%) Scrum
17 49 (7.05%) Computer Science
17 49 (7.05%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 279 (40.14%) Python
2 156 (22.45%) PowerShell
3 135 (19.42%) Bash
4 84 (12.09%) SQL
5 75 (10.79%) Java
6 70 (10.07%) C#
7 56 (8.06%) Bicep
8 40 (5.76%) TypeScript
9 39 (5.61%) Go
9 39 (5.61%) Shell Script
10 33 (4.75%) JavaScript
11 16 (2.30%) VB
11 16 (2.30%) VBScript
12 12 (1.73%) Ruby
13 7 (1.01%) Groovy
14 6 (0.86%) PHP
15 5 (0.72%) Perl
16 3 (0.43%) Julia
16 3 (0.43%) Scala
17 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 188 (27.05%) Security Cleared
2 152 (21.87%) SC Cleared
3 73 (10.50%) Degree
4 45 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 45 (6.47%) DV Cleared
5 16 (2.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 15 (2.16%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.16%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.01%) OSCP
8 6 (0.86%) CISSP
9 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.58%) CCNP
10 4 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.58%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.43%) CCIE
11 3 (0.43%) GIAC
12 2 (0.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.32%) NIST
2 33 (4.75%) QA
3 17 (2.45%) PCI DSS
4 16 (2.30%) GDPR
4 16 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.15%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.86%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.58%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.43%) ISO 22301
8 3 (0.43%) NCSC
8 3 (0.43%) SLA
9 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 214 (30.79%) Docker
2 65 (9.35%) Active Directory
3 47 (6.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 45 (6.47%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (3.45%) VMware NSX
6 17 (2.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (2.45%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (1.58%) vSphere
8 7 (1.01%) vCloud
9 5 (0.72%) Firmware
10 4 (0.58%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.29%) Squid
13 1 (0.14%) Ceph
13 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.14%) NFS
13 1 (0.14%) XenApp
13 1 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 464 (66.76%) Terraform
2 260 (37.41%) Kubernetes
3 189 (27.19%) Ansible
4 71 (10.22%) Grafana
5 66 (9.50%) Prometheus
6 55 (7.91%) Puppet
7 41 (5.90%) Progress Chef
8 28 (4.03%) Kibana
8 28 (4.03%) logstash
9 27 (3.88%) SCCM
10 21 (3.02%) Docker Swarm
11 20 (2.88%) vCenter Server
12 19 (2.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 19 (2.73%) Microsoft Intune
13 16 (2.30%) Packer
13 16 (2.30%) SCOM
13 16 (2.30%) WSUS
14 12 (1.73%) Podman
14 12 (1.73%) vRealize
15 11 (1.58%) Istio
Vendors
1 111 (15.97%) Microsoft
2 68 (9.78%) VMware
3 53 (7.63%) Google
4 42 (6.04%) Splunk
5 33 (4.75%) Cisco
6 29 (4.17%) Oracle
7 23 (3.31%) Red Hat
8 20 (2.88%) Palo Alto
9 18 (2.59%) Databricks
9 18 (2.59%) Dell
10 17 (2.45%) Fortinet
11 15 (2.16%) Juniper
12 14 (2.01%) Salesforce
13 13 (1.87%) Amdocs
14 11 (1.58%) CyberArk
14 11 (1.58%) ServiceNow
15 10 (1.44%) HP
15 10 (1.44%) SAP
16 8 (1.15%) EMC
16 8 (1.15%) IBM