Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the North East

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 28 35 40
Rank change year-on-year +7 +5 -5
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 10 3 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 3.13% 0.89% 4.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.83% 1.11% 4.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 17
10th Percentile £473 - £605
25th Percentile £522 - £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +36.36%
75th Percentile £594 - £847
90th Percentile £680 - £850
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 261 270 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 81.56% 79.88% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 127 300
10th Percentile £225 £242 £254
25th Percentile £358 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £625
90th Percentile £650 £660 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 47 2
10th Percentile - £11.44 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.81 £35.56
Median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%
75th Percentile £46.82 £47.47 £45.56
90th Percentile £51.68 £50.00 £47.93
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the North East

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the North East

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the North East

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Tyne and Wear +1 9 £565 - 15
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 3 (30.00%) nginx
2 2 (20.00%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (20.00%) Kong
3 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CodeCommit
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) GitLab
2 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (20.00%) Selenium
4 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Electronics
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (20.00%) Marketing
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) Senior
3 4 (40.00%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (30.00%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (30.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (20.00%) Lead
5 2 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (10.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (10.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (10.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (20.00%) cloud-init
1 2 (20.00%) Kafka
1 2 (20.00%) Keycloak
1 2 (20.00%) pytest
2 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) PKI
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (20.00%) CentOS
3 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (20.00%) API Management
5 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (20.00%) Identity Management
5 2 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Programme Management
5 2 (20.00%) Secrets Management
5 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) Go
4 1 (10.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Terraform
2 8 (80.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (50.00%) Grafana
3 5 (50.00%) Prometheus
4 4 (40.00%) Ansible
5 3 (30.00%) Packer
6 2 (20.00%) Consul
6 2 (20.00%) HAProxy
6 2 (20.00%) Istio
6 2 (20.00%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (20.00%) linkerd
6 2 (20.00%) Rancher
6 2 (20.00%) ZABBIX
7 1 (10.00%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (10.00%) Kibana
7 1 (10.00%) logstash
7 1 (10.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) SAP
2 2 (20.00%) Apple
2 2 (20.00%) ESET
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Okta
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) Ariba
3 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace