Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 91 101
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 -1
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 77 95 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.32% 2.05% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.59% 2.40% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 59 93
10th Percentile £364 £425 £465
25th Percentile £425 £480 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £663
90th Percentile £710 £639 £750
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £75.65 - -
25th Percentile £78.88 £69.50 -
Median hourly rate £87.00 £72.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% - -
75th Percentile £92.38 £74.50 -
90th Percentile £93.95 - -
England median hourly rate £27.50 £62.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year -56.00% -19.87% +64.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,970 3,960 5,069
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.62% 85.44% 90.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,421 3,492
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £557 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 365 204
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.50 £15.54
Median hourly rate £26.28 £17.72 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +48.29% -36.35% +46.53%
75th Percentile £57.76 £45.00 £43.94
90th Percentile £81.08 £59.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.40
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.29% +45.58%

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 19 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 19 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
North West +15 47 £475 -13.64% 258
Yorkshire -10 23 £513 -8.07% 128
North East -1 7 £550 - 43
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 5 (6.49%) Apache
2 4 (5.19%) nginx
3 3 (3.90%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.60%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.60%) IIS
4 2 (2.60%) WebSphere
4 2 (2.60%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (1.30%) Confluence
5 1 (1.30%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 50 (64.94%) AWS
2 22 (28.57%) Azure
3 20 (25.97%) AWS CloudFormation
4 15 (19.48%) GitHub
5 12 (15.58%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (15.58%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (15.58%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (15.58%) Serverless
6 11 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (12.99%) GCP
8 9 (11.69%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (11.69%) Amazon S3
9 8 (10.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (6.49%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (6.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (5.19%) AWS KMS
13 3 (3.90%) Apigee
13 3 (3.90%) AWS Fargate
13 3 (3.90%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.58%) DNS
2 5 (6.49%) Firewall
2 5 (6.49%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.90%) DHCP
4 2 (2.60%) Calico
4 2 (2.60%) Network Security
4 2 (2.60%) SSL
4 2 (2.60%) VPN
5 1 (1.30%) HTTP
5 1 (1.30%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.30%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.69%) MongoDB
2 6 (7.79%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.19%) DynamoDB
4 3 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (3.90%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.60%) Delta Lake
5 2 (2.60%) MySQL
5 2 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.30%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.30%) Metadata
6 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (33.77%) Jenkins
2 20 (25.97%) GitLab
3 10 (12.99%) Git
4 4 (5.19%) JIRA
5 3 (3.90%) CircleCI
5 3 (3.90%) Cypress.io
5 3 (3.90%) Maven
5 3 (3.90%) Selenium
6 1 (1.30%) TestNG
General
1 13 (16.88%) Public Sector
2 10 (12.99%) Social Skills
3 8 (10.39%) Banking
4 7 (9.09%) Finance
5 5 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.60%) Electronics
6 2 (2.60%) Legal
6 2 (2.60%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.60%) Marketing
6 2 (2.60%) Military
6 2 (2.60%) Retail
6 2 (2.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (38.96%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (32.47%) Senior
3 15 (19.48%) Architect
4 13 (16.88%) Senior DevOps
5 12 (15.58%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 10 (12.99%) AWS Engineer
6 10 (12.99%) Software Engineer
7 8 (10.39%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (7.79%) AWS DevOps
8 6 (7.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Lead
9 5 (6.49%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (5.19%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) Data Architect
10 4 (5.19%) Lead DevOps
10 4 (5.19%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) Principal Engineer
11 3 (3.90%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.69%) Node.js
1 9 (11.69%) OAuth
2 8 (10.39%) ARM Templates
2 8 (10.39%) cloud-init
2 8 (10.39%) Kafka
3 7 (9.09%) RESTful
4 6 (7.79%) .NET
4 6 (7.79%) React
5 4 (5.19%) AWS CDK
5 4 (5.19%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (5.19%) OAuth2
5 4 (5.19%) OpenID
5 4 (5.19%) SAML
6 3 (3.90%) GraphQL
6 3 (3.90%) Playwright
6 3 (3.90%) Puppeteer
6 3 (3.90%) pytest
7 2 (2.60%) ADO
7 2 (2.60%) Keycloak
7 2 (2.60%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.99%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (2.60%) Clustering
2 2 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (2.60%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.60%) PKI
2 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.60%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.30%) Blockchain
3 1 (1.30%) BYOD
3 1 (1.30%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.30%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (1.30%) NHS
3 1 (1.30%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (31.17%) Linux
2 12 (15.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (12.99%) CentOS
3 10 (12.99%) Unix
4 5 (6.49%) Windows
5 4 (5.19%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.60%) Android
6 2 (2.60%) Apple iOS
6 2 (2.60%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (74.03%) CI/CD
2 52 (67.53%) DevOps
3 22 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 19 (24.68%) Agile
5 16 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (19.48%) Software Engineering
7 13 (16.88%) Cloud Security
7 13 (16.88%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (16.88%) Infrastructure Automation
7 13 (16.88%) Observability
8 12 (15.58%) Incident Management
8 12 (15.58%) Microservices
9 11 (14.29%) Test Automation
10 10 (12.99%) Analytics
11 9 (11.69%) RBAC
12 8 (10.39%) Artificial Intelligence
12 8 (10.39%) Continuous Deployment
12 8 (10.39%) Cost Optimisation
12 8 (10.39%) Deployment Automation
13 7 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 31 (40.26%) Python
2 20 (25.97%) Bash
3 11 (14.29%) Java
3 11 (14.29%) SQL
4 8 (10.39%) Go
4 8 (10.39%) TypeScript
5 5 (6.49%) Bicep
5 5 (6.49%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.49%) Shell Script
6 4 (5.19%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.60%) C#
8 1 (1.30%) ActionScript
8 1 (1.30%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (1.30%) Groovy
8 1 (1.30%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.30%) Perl
8 1 (1.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 24 (31.17%) Security Cleared
2 16 (20.78%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.09%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.60%) Degree
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.30%) IBM Certification
6 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.60%) NCSC
1 2 (2.60%) NIST
1 2 (2.60%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.30%) GDPR
2 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.30%) QA
2 1 (1.30%) SLA
2 1 (1.30%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 21 (27.27%) Docker
2 3 (3.90%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.60%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.60%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 56 (72.73%) Terraform
2 34 (44.16%) Kubernetes
3 15 (19.48%) Ansible
4 13 (16.88%) Prometheus
5 12 (15.58%) Grafana
6 10 (12.99%) Packer
7 7 (9.09%) Istio
8 4 (5.19%) Kustomize
8 4 (5.19%) ZABBIX
9 3 (3.90%) Kibana
9 3 (3.90%) Puppet
10 2 (2.60%) Consul
10 2 (2.60%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (2.60%) linkerd
10 2 (2.60%) Nagios
10 2 (2.60%) Progress Chef
10 2 (2.60%) Rancher
11 1 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (1.30%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (1.30%) vRealize
Vendors
1 5 (6.49%) IBM
2 4 (5.19%) Databricks
2 4 (5.19%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.19%) Splunk
2 4 (5.19%) VMware
3 3 (3.90%) AppDynamics
3 3 (3.90%) Cisco
3 3 (3.90%) Google
3 3 (3.90%) HP
3 3 (3.90%) PagerDuty
3 3 (3.90%) SAP
4 2 (2.60%) Dell
4 2 (2.60%) Okta
4 2 (2.60%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.30%) 3PAR
5 1 (1.30%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.30%) EMC
5 1 (1.30%) ESET
5 1 (1.30%) Ping Identity
5 1 (1.30%) SendGrid