Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in Leeds

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 35 25
Rank change year-on-year +18 -10 +48
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 103 30 43
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 9.87% 5.02% 6.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.55% 5.56% 7.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 17 42
10th Percentile £400 - £297
25th Percentile £459 - £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £413
Median % change year-on-year - +21.21% -33.47%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £502
90th Percentile £638 £625 £593
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £519 £413
% change year-on-year -3.61% +25.76% -33.47%

All Process & 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 892 540 604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 85.44% 90.30% 84.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 352 401
10th Percentile £363 £301 £350
25th Percentile £417 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £575
90th Percentile £646 £636 £655
West Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -1.52% -1.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 4 26
10th Percentile £19.30 £25.15 -
25th Percentile £28.17 £25.38 £12.15
Median hourly rate £35.00 £29.56 £13.87
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% +113.09% -27.00%
75th Percentile £43.96 £50.48 £27.81
90th Percentile - £79.33 £38.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.25 £22.14 £14.44
% change year-on-year +9.53% +53.38% -19.81%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in Leeds

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Leeds over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in Leeds

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 4 (3.88%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.97%) Apache
3 1 (0.97%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.97%) Confluence
3 1 (0.97%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.97%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (58.25%) AWS
2 49 (47.57%) GitHub
3 36 (34.95%) Azure
4 34 (33.01%) GitHub Actions
5 28 (27.18%) GCP
6 19 (18.45%) Serverless
7 14 (13.59%) Amazon S3
7 14 (13.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 10 (9.71%) Apigee
8 10 (9.71%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (7.77%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (6.80%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (6.80%) Power Platform
11 6 (5.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (5.83%) Kong
12 5 (4.85%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (4.85%) Cloud Run
12 5 (4.85%) PowerApps
12 5 (4.85%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.74%) Firewall
2 7 (6.80%) DNS
3 5 (4.85%) BGP
3 5 (4.85%) OSPF
3 5 (4.85%) VPN
3 5 (4.85%) WAN
4 3 (2.91%) BIG-IP
4 3 (2.91%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (2.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (2.91%) Network Security
4 3 (2.91%) SD-WAN
4 3 (2.91%) VXLAN
4 3 (2.91%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (2.91%) WLAN
5 2 (1.94%) DHCP
5 2 (1.94%) Internet
5 2 (1.94%) LAN
5 2 (1.94%) Spanning Tree
5 2 (1.94%) Wireless
6 1 (0.97%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.74%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.80%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (5.83%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (5.83%) BigQuery
3 6 (5.83%) DynamoDB
3 6 (5.83%) Redis
4 5 (4.85%) Hazelcast
4 5 (4.85%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.85%) RDBMS
4 5 (4.85%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.91%) Metadata
6 2 (1.94%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.94%) Parquet
6 2 (1.94%) Power BI
7 1 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.97%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.97%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.97%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.97%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 22 (21.36%) Jenkins
2 16 (15.53%) Git
3 13 (12.62%) GitLab
4 10 (9.71%) JIRA
5 5 (4.85%) Gradle
5 5 (4.85%) Maven
6 4 (3.88%) Snyk
7 3 (2.91%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.91%) Gatling
8 2 (1.94%) Selenium
9 1 (0.97%) Spinnaker
General
1 20 (19.42%) Public Sector
2 16 (15.53%) Social Skills
3 11 (10.68%) Finance
4 4 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.91%) Law
5 3 (2.91%) Social Science
6 2 (1.94%) Legal
6 2 (1.94%) Military
7 1 (0.97%) Banking
7 1 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (27.18%) Developer
2 21 (20.39%) Senior
3 14 (13.59%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (12.62%) Python Developer
5 10 (9.71%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (8.74%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (7.77%) Lead
7 8 (7.77%) Python Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (5.83%) Data Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 6 (5.83%) Java Developer
10 5 (4.85%) Architect
10 5 (4.85%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 5 (4.85%) GCP Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Lead Developer
10 5 (4.85%) Senior Developer
10 5 (4.85%) Senior DevOps
11 4 (3.88%) Agile Delivery Manager
11 4 (3.88%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.53%) React
2 11 (10.68%) Flask
3 10 (9.71%) OAuth
3 10 (9.71%) Vue
4 9 (8.74%) CSS
4 9 (8.74%) HTML
5 8 (7.77%) OAuth2
6 7 (6.80%) FHIR
6 7 (6.80%) JWT
7 6 (5.83%) Playwright
8 5 (4.85%) Apache Avro
8 5 (4.85%) JPA
8 5 (4.85%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (4.85%) Protocol Buffers
8 5 (4.85%) Quarkus
8 5 (4.85%) RESTful
8 5 (4.85%) Spring
8 5 (4.85%) Spring Boot
8 5 (4.85%) Spring WebFlux
8 5 (4.85%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 31 (30.10%) Cloud Native
2 14 (13.59%) NHS
3 7 (6.80%) AI Agents
3 7 (6.80%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.85%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.85%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.91%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.94%) Replication
8 1 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.97%) IoT
8 1 (0.97%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.80%) Linux
2 5 (4.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (4.85%) Windows
3 3 (2.91%) Unix
4 2 (1.94%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.97%) CentOS
5 1 (0.97%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (84.47%) CI/CD
2 60 (58.25%) DevOps
3 35 (33.98%) Observability
4 32 (31.07%) Agile
5 22 (21.36%) Platform Engineering
6 18 (17.48%) Data Engineering
6 18 (17.48%) Software Engineering
7 15 (14.56%) Roadmaps
7 15 (14.56%) Validation
8 14 (13.59%) Full-Stack Development
9 13 (12.62%) AI
10 12 (11.65%) Deployment Automation
11 11 (10.68%) Cloud Security
11 11 (10.68%) Containerisation
12 10 (9.71%) Data Protection
12 10 (9.71%) Migration
12 10 (9.71%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (9.71%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (9.71%) Test Automation
13 9 (8.74%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 57 (55.34%) Python
2 18 (17.48%) SQL
3 14 (13.59%) Java
4 13 (12.62%) JavaScript
5 10 (9.71%) Bash
6 7 (6.80%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.85%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.88%) Bicep
9 3 (2.91%) Scala
10 2 (1.94%) Groovy
10 2 (1.94%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 25 (24.27%) Security Cleared
2 17 (16.50%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.91%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.91%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.97%) CCNA
6 1 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.97%) CISM
6 1 (0.97%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.80%) HL7
2 5 (4.85%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.85%) GDPR
2 5 (4.85%) WCAG
3 4 (3.88%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (1.94%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.94%) NIST
6 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.97%) NCSC
6 1 (0.97%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 23 (22.33%) Docker
2 2 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.97%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 82 (79.61%) Terraform
2 23 (22.33%) Kubernetes
3 10 (9.71%) Grafana
4 6 (5.83%) Ansible
4 6 (5.83%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.85%) Argo
6 3 (2.91%) HAProxy
6 3 (2.91%) Packer
7 1 (0.97%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (14.56%) Google
2 11 (10.68%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.74%) Foundry
4 5 (4.85%) Databricks
4 5 (4.85%) F5
4 5 (4.85%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.88%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.88%) Palantir
6 3 (2.91%) Arista
6 3 (2.91%) Aruba
6 3 (2.91%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.91%) Splunk
7 2 (1.94%) Brio
7 2 (1.94%) CheckPoint
7 2 (1.94%) Cisco
7 2 (1.94%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (1.94%) New Relic
8 1 (0.97%) Informatica
8 1 (0.97%) Trend Micro
8 1 (0.97%) Workday