Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in Essex

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 2.76% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £465 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £590 - -
90th Percentile £600 - -
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 192 84 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 75.59% 95.45% 82.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 39 93
10th Percentile £300 £187 £194
25th Percentile £338 £315 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £505 £476 £551
90th Percentile £588 £500 £600
East of England median daily rate £495 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -1.00% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 18 52
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.25 £10.59
25th Percentile £16.08 £15.19 £15.93
Median hourly rate £20.51 £32.50 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year -36.89% -43.23% +28.57%
75th Percentile £44.64 £48.30 £80.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £144.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% -10.00% +81.82%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure as Code relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in Essex

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Infrastructure as Code.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Essex over the 6 months to 1 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in Essex

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 1 June 2026. 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
Basildon - 6 £535 - 2
Brentwood - 5 £500 -
Chelmsford - 1 £425 - 1
Infrastructure as Code
East of England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) GCP
1 6 (85.71%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) IaaS
2 1 (14.29%) PaaS
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Git
1 6 (85.71%) IntelliJ
1 6 (85.71%) JUnit
1 6 (85.71%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) GCP Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) GCP Software Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (28.57%) GCP Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Java Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Java Software Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Software Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) GCP Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Spring
1 6 (85.71%) Spring Boot
2 3 (42.86%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) BDD
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 6 (85.71%) Code Quality
1 6 (85.71%) Open Source
1 6 (85.71%) Security Testing
1 6 (85.71%) Software Engineering
1 6 (85.71%) TDD
2 5 (71.43%) Application Security
2 5 (71.43%) Architectural Design
2 5 (71.43%) Static Application Security Testing
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) Process Improvement
4 3 (42.86%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (42.86%) SDLC
5 2 (28.57%) Software Architecture
5 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Agile
6 1 (14.29%) Change Management
6 1 (14.29%) ITIL
6 1 (14.29%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) Go
2 3 (42.86%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Checkmarx
1 6 (85.71%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft