Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 19 35
Rank change year-on-year 0 +16 +8
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 10 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 5.26% 3.25% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.94% 4.00% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 0
10th Percentile - £424 -
25th Percentile £416 £441 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £453 £459 -
90th Percentile £484 £476 -
Hampshire median daily rate £513 £513 £600
% change year-on-year - -14.58% -9.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 144 100 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 75.79% 81.30% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 58 127
10th Percentile £262 £348 £394
25th Percentile £417 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.64% -11.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £556 £613 £665
90th Percentile - £691 £800
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 23 31
10th Percentile £16.60 £31.25 £19.99
25th Percentile £20.50 £35.00 £30.36
Median hourly rate £33.08 £60.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.33% +5.22% -4.17%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.38 £63.13
90th Percentile £51.81 £71.00 £70.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £51.42
% change year-on-year -40.83% -31.93% +18.21%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

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

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) GitHub
1 9 (90.00%) OpenShift
2 6 (60.00%) AWS
3 5 (50.00%) Azure
3 5 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) Kafka
1 10 (100.00%) Keycloak
2 4 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (40.00%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) Observability
2 9 (90.00%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (60.00%) GitOps
4 5 (50.00%) Agile
4 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (40.00%) DevSecOps
5 4 (40.00%) Immutable Infrastructure
5 4 (40.00%) SBOM
5 4 (40.00%) Scrum
6 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Bash
2 6 (60.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Ansible
1 10 (100.00%) Grafana
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 10 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform
2 6 (60.00%) Argo
3 5 (50.00%) Istio
3 5 (50.00%) linkerd
4 4 (40.00%) Packer
5 1 (10.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Splunk
2 9 (90.00%) Red Hat
3 6 (60.00%) VMware