Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in Kent

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Kent requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in Kent 1.63% - 3.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% - 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £542 - £512
25th Percentile £553 - £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £592 - £538
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.00%
75th Percentile £618 - £586
90th Percentile £621 - £628
South East median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 102 140 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 82.93% 76.50% 79.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 59 138
10th Percentile £174 £155 £165
25th Percentile £306 £219 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% +2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £566 £623 £565
90th Percentile £630 £678 £639
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £520
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 12
10th Percentile £15.58 - £20.08
25th Percentile £19.39 £15.00 £45.13
Median hourly rate £20.40 £31.39 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.01% -42.93% +29.98%
75th Percentile £25.05 £54.09 £65.69
90th Percentile £39.00 £57.22 £79.17
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.05 £51.76
% change year-on-year -64.32% +12.14% +39.40%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in Kent

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

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

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in Kent

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 Kent region over the 6 months to 28 October 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
Maidstone - 1 £615 - 1
Infrastructure as Code
South East

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Security Patching
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) DFS Replication
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware