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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 30 79
Rank change year-on-year -15 +49 -19
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 20 40 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 3.64% 5.19% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.97% 6.19% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 38 11
10th Percentile - £288 -
25th Percentile £500 £386 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £406 £625
Median % change year-on-year +29.23% -35.00% -2.34%
75th Percentile £550 £499 £700
90th Percentile £675 £596 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £406 £650
% change year-on-year +29.23% -37.50% +4.84%

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 504 646 1,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 91.64% 83.79% 90.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 412 716
10th Percentile £305 £300 £397
25th Percentile £384 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £638
90th Percentile £623 £638 £705
West Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -2.10% -6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 27 14
10th Percentile £25.20 - £12.00
25th Percentile £25.50 £12.15 £15.94
Median hourly rate £32.81 £12.30 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +166.75% -35.26% -11.63%
75th Percentile £34.46 £18.33 £21.31
90th Percentile £72.92 £33.75 £23.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.69 £19.00
% change year-on-year +61.78% -27.97% -1.81%

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 20 July 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 1 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 17 (85.00%) AWS
2 10 (50.00%) Serverless
3 9 (45.00%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (25.00%) GitHub
5 5 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (20.00%) Amazon S3
6 4 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (20.00%) Azure
7 3 (15.00%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (15.00%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (10.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 2 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (5.00%) Datadog
9 1 (5.00%) GCP
9 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) DNS
1 2 (10.00%) SSL
1 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) Network Security
2 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (15.00%) DynamoDB
1 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (10.00%) Riak
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (20.00%) GitLab
3 3 (15.00%) Git
General
1 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Architect
1 5 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) AWS Architect
3 3 (15.00%) .NET Software Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Solution Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Python Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) React
2 3 (15.00%) .NET
3 2 (10.00%) Node.js
4 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CDK
4 1 (5.00%) Blazor
4 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.00%) Next.js
4 1 (5.00%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (5.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (30.00%) NHS
3 3 (15.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 12 (60.00%) DevOps
2 10 (50.00%) Agile
3 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 7 (35.00%) Software Engineering
4 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
5 5 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (20.00%) Clean Code
6 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (10.00%) Configuration Management
7 2 (10.00%) Front End Development
7 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
7 2 (10.00%) Observability
7 2 (10.00%) Resource Management
7 2 (10.00%) Scrum
7 2 (10.00%) Secure Coding
7 2 (10.00%) TDD
8 1 (5.00%) Compliance Audit
8 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
8 1 (5.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) C#
2 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (5.00%) Bash
4 1 (5.00%) Bicep
4 1 (5.00%) Groovy
4 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) NCSC
2 1 (5.00%) NIST
2 1 (5.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (95.00%) Terraform
2 4 (20.00%) Ansible
2 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (15.00%) Grafana
3 3 (15.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.00%) Kustomize
4 1 (5.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Splunk
2 1 (5.00%) Databricks
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft