Infrastructure as Code Contracts in Leeds

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 49 78
Rank change year-on-year +8 +29 -10
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 19 14 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 4.09% 1.75% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 2.02% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 15
10th Percentile £413 £414 £413
25th Percentile £500 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £700
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -32.14% +33.33%
75th Percentile £738 £579 £738
90th Percentile £748 £593 £775
West Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £475 £688
% change year-on-year +15.79% -30.91% +29.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 692 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.04% 86.61% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 421 872
10th Percentile £263 £300 £388
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £12.15 £16.87
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.30 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -78.88% +158.37%
75th Percentile £98.08 £12.53 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in Leeds

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in Leeds

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in Leeds

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 5 (26.32%) nginx
1 5 (26.32%) Traefik
2 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (89.47%) AWS
2 13 (68.42%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (42.11%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (36.84%) AWS Fargate
5 6 (31.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (31.58%) Entra ID
5 6 (31.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (21.05%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (21.05%) Serverless
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
7 2 (10.53%) Azure
8 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) DNS
1 6 (31.58%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.26%) Metadata
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (68.42%) Jenkins
2 12 (63.16%) GitLab
3 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 7 (36.84%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) DevOps Engineer
1 11 (57.89%) Senior
2 9 (47.37%) Senior DevOps
3 7 (36.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) .NET Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Python Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (57.89%) cloud-init
2 7 (36.84%) Kafka
3 6 (31.58%) Keycloak
4 1 (5.26%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) PKI
2 1 (5.26%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (63.16%) CentOS
1 12 (63.16%) Linux
1 12 (63.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 12 (63.16%) Unix
2 1 (5.26%) Mac OS
2 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) DevOps
2 16 (84.21%) CI/CD
3 8 (42.11%) Cloud Security
3 8 (42.11%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (36.84%) Secrets Management
5 6 (31.58%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 6 (31.58%) Identity Management
5 6 (31.58%) Observability
5 6 (31.58%) Static Application Security Testing
6 5 (26.32%) Agile
6 5 (26.32%) Mobile Device Management
7 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
8 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
8 2 (10.53%) Service Delivery
9 1 (5.26%) Dependency Management
9 1 (5.26%) Scrum
9 1 (5.26%) Software Engineering
9 1 (5.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (84.21%) Python
2 12 (63.16%) Bash
2 12 (63.16%) Go
3 2 (10.53%) SQL
4 1 (5.26%) C#
4 1 (5.26%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 14 (73.68%) SC Cleared
1 14 (73.68%) Security Cleared
2 7 (36.84%) AWS Certification
3 2 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) NCSC
2 1 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (89.47%) Terraform
2 12 (63.16%) Packer
3 8 (42.11%) Kubernetes
4 7 (36.84%) Grafana
4 7 (36.84%) Prometheus
5 6 (31.58%) Consul
5 6 (31.58%) Istio
5 6 (31.58%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (31.58%) linkerd
5 6 (31.58%) Rancher
5 6 (31.58%) ZABBIX
6 5 (26.32%) HAProxy
7 1 (5.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Okta
1 6 (31.58%) Splunk
2 5 (26.32%) Apple
2 5 (26.32%) ESET
3 1 (5.26%) Brio
3 1 (5.26%) Databricks