Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 50 50
Rank change year-on-year +21 0 -17
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 57 16 22
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 7.65% 2.35% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.46% 2.64% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 13 17
10th Percentile £358 £357 £473
25th Percentile £401 £382 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £438 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.97% -16.67% -13.76%
75th Percentile £637 £500 £650
90th Percentile £734 £520 £710
Scotland median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -4.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 674 606 743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 90.47% 88.86% 91.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 423 506
10th Percentile £300 £268 £350
25th Percentile £381 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £588
90th Percentile £613 £652 £700
Scotland median daily rate £470 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 21
10th Percentile £14.40 £15.56 £12.00
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.50 £12.13
Median hourly rate £17.72 £19.59 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.53% +35.10% -61.26%
75th Percentile £25.95 £25.17 £17.72
90th Percentile £54.37 £40.90 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £19.59 £18.93
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.49% -2.30%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Glasgow over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in Glasgow

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (12.28%) WebLogic
2 4 (7.02%) Confluence
3 3 (5.26%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.75%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.75%) Mule
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 41 (71.93%) AWS
2 27 (47.37%) Azure
3 10 (17.54%) GitHub
3 10 (17.54%) Serverless
4 9 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (14.04%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (12.28%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (10.53%) Amazon S3
7 6 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (10.53%) Snowflake
8 5 (8.77%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (7.02%) GCP
9 4 (7.02%) PaaS
9 4 (7.02%) Slack
10 3 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (5.26%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (5.26%) OpenShift
11 2 (3.51%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.77%) DNS
2 4 (7.02%) Firewall
2 4 (7.02%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.26%) VSAN
4 2 (3.51%) DHCP
4 2 (3.51%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.75%) AMQP
5 1 (1.75%) DSL
5 1 (1.75%) HTTP
5 1 (1.75%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (1.75%) SSL
5 1 (1.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.53%) Oracle Database
3 4 (7.02%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.51%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.51%) NewSQL
4 2 (3.51%) OLTP
5 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.75%) Power BI
5 1 (1.75%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 13 (22.81%) Git
2 12 (21.05%) Jenkins
3 7 (12.28%) CircleCI
4 6 (10.53%) JIRA
4 6 (10.53%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (7.02%) Terragrunt
6 3 (5.26%) Cypress.io
6 3 (5.26%) GitLab
6 3 (5.26%) JUnit
6 3 (5.26%) MLflow
7 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket
7 2 (3.51%) Gradle
7 2 (3.51%) IntelliJ
7 2 (3.51%) Maven
7 2 (3.51%) PyCharm
7 2 (3.51%) Visual Studio
7 2 (3.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (33.33%) Finance
2 11 (19.30%) Social Skills
3 8 (14.04%) Banking
3 8 (14.04%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.75%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (26.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (24.56%) Architect
3 10 (17.54%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (15.79%) Developer
5 8 (14.04%) Technical Architect
6 7 (12.28%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (12.28%) Lead
6 7 (12.28%) Lead Architect
6 7 (12.28%) Technical Leader
7 6 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (8.77%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (8.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (8.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 4 (7.02%) Database Engineer
9 4 (7.02%) Java Developer
9 4 (7.02%) Java Engineer
9 4 (7.02%) Python Developer
9 4 (7.02%) Python Engineer
9 4 (7.02%) Software Engineer
10 3 (5.26%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.28%) Spring
1 7 (12.28%) Spring Boot
2 5 (8.77%) RESTful
3 4 (7.02%) AngularJS
3 4 (7.02%) OAuth
4 3 (5.26%) AWS CDK
4 3 (5.26%) FastAPI
4 3 (5.26%) Jest
4 3 (5.26%) React
4 3 (5.26%) REST
4 3 (5.26%) scikit-learn
4 3 (5.26%) SOAP
4 3 (5.26%) TensorFlow
5 2 (3.51%) JWT
5 2 (3.51%) Kafka
5 2 (3.51%) OpenID
5 2 (3.51%) pytest
5 2 (3.51%) PyTorch
5 2 (3.51%) SAML
5 2 (3.51%) Torch
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.54%) Cloud Native
2 7 (12.28%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (8.77%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (7.02%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (7.02%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (5.26%) Algorithms
6 3 (5.26%) Data Centre
6 3 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (5.26%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.75%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.75%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 19 (33.33%) Linux
2 5 (8.77%) Windows
3 2 (3.51%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (85.96%) CI/CD
2 32 (56.14%) DevOps
3 25 (43.86%) Agile
4 15 (26.32%) Roadmaps
5 14 (24.56%) Containerisation
6 12 (21.05%) TDD
7 10 (17.54%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (17.54%) Migration
8 9 (15.79%) Continuous Delivery
8 9 (15.79%) Observability
8 9 (15.79%) Test Automation
9 8 (14.04%) Domain-Driven Design
9 8 (14.04%) Infrastructure Automation
9 8 (14.04%) Machine Learning
9 8 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (14.04%) SDLC
9 8 (14.04%) Strategic Roadmap
10 7 (12.28%) High Availability
10 7 (12.28%) Mentoring
10 7 (12.28%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (52.63%) Python
2 19 (33.33%) Java
3 10 (17.54%) TypeScript
4 6 (10.53%) Go
5 5 (8.77%) PowerShell
6 4 (7.02%) Bash
7 3 (5.26%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.51%) ANSI SQL
8 2 (3.51%) Bicep
8 2 (3.51%) C#
8 2 (3.51%) SQL
9 1 (1.75%) DataWeave
9 1 (1.75%) Perl
9 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (19.30%) Security Cleared
2 10 (17.54%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.51%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.75%) CISM
4 1 (1.75%) CISSP
4 1 (1.75%) Degree
4 1 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.02%) QA
2 3 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.75%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.75%) GDPR
4 1 (1.75%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (24.56%) Docker
2 3 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (70.18%) Terraform
2 24 (42.11%) Kubernetes
3 15 (26.32%) Ansible
4 8 (14.04%) Grafana
5 7 (12.28%) Prometheus
6 4 (7.02%) Argo
6 4 (7.02%) Istio
7 1 (1.75%) Fluentd
7 1 (1.75%) Podman
7 1 (1.75%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 11 (19.30%) Oracle
2 8 (14.04%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.77%) Greenplum
4 4 (7.02%) AppDynamics
4 4 (7.02%) Splunk
5 3 (5.26%) VMware
6 2 (3.51%) F5
6 2 (3.51%) Infoblox
6 2 (3.51%) MuleSoft
6 2 (3.51%) Netskope
6 2 (3.51%) Proofpoint
6 2 (3.51%) Symantec
7 1 (1.75%) Avaya
7 1 (1.75%) Cisco
7 1 (1.75%) Cribl.io
7 1 (1.75%) Genesys