Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the North of England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Infrastructure as Code skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 98 105
Rank change year-on-year -7 +7 +8
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 82 128 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.75% 2.24% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 2.47% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 95 130
10th Percentile £425 £459 £415
25th Percentile £463 £513 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +6.06%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £625
90th Percentile £645 £770 £651
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £69.50 - £46.19
Median hourly rate £72.00 - £47.38
75th Percentile £74.50 - £48.56
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £78.00 £51.19
% change year-on-year -19.87% +52.38% -15.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Infrastructure as Code is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,023 5,182 6,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.72% 90.78% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,447 3,599 4,626
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 202 253
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.86 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.15 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.21% +57.57% +0.87%
75th Percentile £45.00 £46.51 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.40
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the North of England

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the North of England

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the North of England

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the North of England

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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
North West -16 45 £550 -8.33% 41
Yorkshire +27 34 £573 -4.58% 25
North East +1 3 - - 9
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 10 (12.20%) Confluence
2 5 (6.10%) nginx
3 3 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.66%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 47 (57.32%) AWS
2 34 (41.46%) Azure
3 19 (23.17%) GitHub
4 17 (20.73%) Serverless
5 16 (19.51%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (18.29%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (18.29%) GCP
7 12 (14.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (14.63%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (13.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (9.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (8.54%) Amazon S3
11 6 (7.32%) Amazon ELB
11 6 (7.32%) Apigee
11 6 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (7.32%) Kong
11 6 (7.32%) Snowflake
12 5 (6.10%) CloudBees
12 5 (6.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (4.88%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.85%) Firewall
2 9 (10.98%) VPN
3 8 (9.76%) DNS
4 6 (7.32%) HTTP
4 6 (7.32%) TCP/IP
5 4 (4.88%) Network Security
6 2 (2.44%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (2.44%) SD-WAN
6 2 (2.44%) SSL
6 2 (2.44%) WAN
6 2 (2.44%) Wireless
7 1 (1.22%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.63%) MySQL
2 11 (13.41%) NoSQL
3 6 (7.32%) Data Lake
3 6 (7.32%) DynamoDB
3 6 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (7.32%) MongoDB
4 5 (6.10%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.88%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.88%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.66%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (3.66%) ClickHouse
7 2 (2.44%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.44%) Redis
8 1 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 22 (26.83%) Git
1 22 (26.83%) GitLab
1 22 (26.83%) Jenkins
2 11 (13.41%) SonarQube
3 8 (9.76%) JIRA
4 7 (8.54%) Burp Suite
4 7 (8.54%) Travis CI
5 6 (7.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (7.32%) CircleCI
6 4 (4.88%) AppScan
6 4 (4.88%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.44%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.44%) Selenium
General
1 21 (25.61%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.63%) Finance
3 10 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.98%) Banking
5 6 (7.32%) Retail
6 4 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.22%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.22%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 31 (37.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (17.07%) AWS DevOps
3 13 (15.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 11 (13.41%) AWS Engineer
4 11 (13.41%) Azure Engineer
5 10 (12.20%) Architect
5 10 (12.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 10 (12.20%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 10 (12.20%) Site Engineer
6 7 (8.54%) Software Engineer
7 6 (7.32%) Developer
7 6 (7.32%) Full Stack Engineer
7 6 (7.32%) Lead
8 5 (6.10%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 5 (6.10%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) DevOps Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) Senior
9 4 (4.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.20%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (9.76%) YAML
3 7 (8.54%) JSON
3 7 (8.54%) React
4 6 (7.32%) AWS CDK
4 6 (7.32%) XML
5 5 (6.10%) Kafka
5 5 (6.10%) Node.js
6 4 (4.88%) Next.js
6 4 (4.88%) RESTful
7 3 (3.66%) Apache Beam
7 3 (3.66%) Keycloak
7 3 (3.66%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (3.66%) Spring
7 3 (3.66%) Spring Boot
8 2 (2.44%) .NET
8 2 (2.44%) ARM Templates
8 2 (2.44%) Jest
8 2 (2.44%) SAML
8 2 (2.44%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.98%) Public Cloud
2 8 (9.76%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (7.32%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.88%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.66%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.22%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.22%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 18 (21.95%) Linux
2 3 (3.66%) Android
2 3 (3.66%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.66%) Kali Linux
2 3 (3.66%) Unix
2 3 (3.66%) Windows
2 3 (3.66%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.44%) Alpine Linux
3 2 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (79.27%) DevOps
2 58 (70.73%) CI/CD
3 39 (47.56%) Agile
4 33 (40.24%) Containerisation
5 21 (25.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 18 (21.95%) Continuous Integration
6 18 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (15.85%) Microservices
7 13 (15.85%) Test Automation
8 11 (13.41%) Configuration Management
8 11 (13.41%) Design Patterns
8 11 (13.41%) Migration
8 11 (13.41%) Scrum
9 10 (12.20%) Cloud Security
9 10 (12.20%) Project Management
9 10 (12.20%) Technology Strategy
10 9 (10.98%) Infrastructure Management
10 9 (10.98%) Observability
11 8 (9.76%) SDLC
11 8 (9.76%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 43 (52.44%) Python
2 28 (34.15%) Bash
3 18 (21.95%) PowerShell
4 14 (17.07%) Go
5 12 (14.63%) SQL
6 11 (13.41%) JavaScript
6 11 (13.41%) TypeScript
7 10 (12.20%) Java
8 5 (6.10%) Groovy
9 3 (3.66%) Ruby
9 3 (3.66%) Scala
10 2 (2.44%) Bicep
10 2 (2.44%) C#
10 2 (2.44%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (15.85%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.20%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.88%) Degree
4 3 (3.66%) OSCP
5 2 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.22%) BC Cleared
6 1 (1.22%) MCSE
6 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.63%) QA
2 6 (7.32%) PCI DSS
3 4 (4.88%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.66%) ISO 22301
4 3 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.66%) NIST
5 2 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 37 (45.12%) Docker
2 3 (3.66%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 59 (71.95%) Terraform
2 38 (46.34%) Kubernetes
3 27 (32.93%) Ansible
4 19 (23.17%) Grafana
5 14 (17.07%) Prometheus
6 10 (12.20%) HP Fortify
6 10 (12.20%) Progress Chef
6 10 (12.20%) Puppet
7 6 (7.32%) Docker Swarm
7 6 (7.32%) Kibana
7 6 (7.32%) logstash
8 4 (4.88%) Graylog
8 4 (4.88%) Nessus
8 4 (4.88%) WebInspect
9 2 (2.44%) Istio
9 2 (2.44%) Kiali
Vendors
1 18 (21.95%) Splunk
2 4 (4.88%) Checkmarx
2 4 (4.88%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.88%) Veracode
3 3 (3.66%) Atlassian
3 3 (3.66%) Google
3 3 (3.66%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.44%) Aruba
4 2 (2.44%) Cisco
4 2 (2.44%) F5
4 2 (2.44%) Juniper
4 2 (2.44%) Meraki
4 2 (2.44%) Sage
4 2 (2.44%) Virgin Media
4 2 (2.44%) VMware
4 2 (2.44%) Zscaler
5 1 (1.22%) Databricks