Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in Herefordshire

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
West Midlands > Herefordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Herefordshire requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 16 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -10 -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 13 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Herefordshire 18.57% 2.08% 17.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.84% 2.78% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 4
10th Percentile - - £566
25th Percentile - - £628
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £575 £675
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -14.81% -
75th Percentile £850 - £697
90th Percentile £890 - £714
West Midlands median daily rate £561 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +12.25% -9.09% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 69 36 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire 98.57% 75.00% 82.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 29 11
10th Percentile £510 £513 £300
25th Percentile £525 £563 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £612 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.21% +11.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £700 £635 £706
90th Percentile £750 £685 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £517 £500
% change year-on-year -3.29% +3.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 1
10th Percentile £20.81 - -
25th Percentile £21.46 £31.25 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -35.00% -
75th Percentile - £33.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.25 £21.80 £24.60
% change year-on-year -7.09% -11.40% +38.98%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Herefordshire

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in Herefordshire

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in Herefordshire

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

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

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in Herefordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Herefordshire over the 6 months to 4 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in Herefordshire

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire region over the 6 months to 4 December 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
Ledbury - 12 £700 -
Infrastructure as Code
West Midlands

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Herefordshire 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 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (76.92%) GitHub
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Stack
3 2 (15.38%) IaaS
3 2 (15.38%) PaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.69%) AWS
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.69%) InfluxDB
1 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (76.92%) SonarQube
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Chief Technology Officer
3 1 (7.69%) Site Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (76.92%) YAML
2 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
1 2 (15.38%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) CI/CD
1 11 (84.62%) Containerisation
2 10 (76.92%) DevOps
2 10 (76.92%) DevSecOps
2 10 (76.92%) Platform Engineering
2 10 (76.92%) Regulatory Compliance
2 10 (76.92%) Test Automation
3 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (7.69%) Configuration Management
4 1 (7.69%) Domain Models
4 1 (7.69%) Event-Driven
4 1 (7.69%) ITIL
4 1 (7.69%) Observability
4 1 (7.69%) Service Management
4 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineering
4 1 (7.69%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Go
1 1 (7.69%) Java
1 1 (7.69%) Python
1 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (92.31%) SC Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (76.92%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (84.62%) Docker
2 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (84.62%) Kubernetes
1 11 (84.62%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) VMware
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft