Infrastructure as Code Contracts in Reading

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 70 94
Rank change year-on-year +30 +24 -37
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 56 17 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 4.71% 1.64% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.22% 1.81% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 10 5
10th Percentile £500 £476 -
25th Percentile £514 £527 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £621 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% +18.33% -
75th Percentile £631 £688 £575
90th Percentile £688 £706 £703
Berkshire median daily rate £605 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £55.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,072 939 1,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.24% 90.64% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 623 819
10th Percentile £213 £363 £234
25th Percentile £413 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £658 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £508 £525 £498
% change year-on-year -3.24% +5.53% +7.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 8
10th Percentile £27.58 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £53.74 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.07 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +132.14% -35.63%
75th Percentile £82.55 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in Reading

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in Reading

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Reading over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in Reading

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 16 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 46 (82.14%) Azure
2 22 (39.29%) AWS
3 21 (37.50%) Azure Monitor
4 16 (28.57%) Entra ID
4 16 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (26.79%) Azure Storage
6 9 (16.07%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (16.07%) GCP
7 7 (12.50%) OpenShift
8 6 (10.71%) Azure API Management
8 6 (10.71%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (10.71%) Azure Key Vault
8 6 (10.71%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (8.93%) Azure Functions
9 5 (8.93%) Serverless
10 3 (5.36%) PaaS
11 2 (3.57%) SaaS
12 1 (1.79%) Figma
12 1 (1.79%) IaaS
12 1 (1.79%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 18 (32.14%) Firewall
2 17 (30.36%) DNS
3 15 (26.79%) DHCP
4 7 (12.50%) VSAN
5 1 (1.79%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.79%) Network Security
5 1 (1.79%) SSL
5 1 (1.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.93%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (8.93%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.36%) NoSQL
2 3 (5.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.79%) Big Data
3 1 (1.79%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 14 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 14 (25.00%) Selenium
2 13 (23.21%) Cucumber
2 13 (23.21%) GitLab
2 13 (23.21%) JIRA
3 12 (21.43%) REST Assured
3 12 (21.43%) SonarQube
4 6 (10.71%) Visual Studio
5 4 (7.14%) Git
6 1 (1.79%) Appium
6 1 (1.79%) MSTest
6 1 (1.79%) NUnit
6 1 (1.79%) rollup.js
6 1 (1.79%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.79%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.79%) webpack
General
1 44 (78.57%) Social Skills
2 15 (26.79%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (16.07%) Law
4 8 (14.29%) Police
Job Titles
1 15 (26.79%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (25.00%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (25.00%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (25.00%) Support Specialist
3 9 (16.07%) Developer
4 8 (14.29%) Senior
5 7 (12.50%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 7 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 7 (12.50%) VMware Expert
6 6 (10.71%) Java Engineer
6 6 (10.71%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Architect
7 5 (8.93%) Senior Java Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (7.14%) Integration Developer
8 4 (7.14%) Java Developer
9 3 (5.36%) Java Architect
9 3 (5.36%) Java Technical Architect
9 3 (5.36%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (62.50%) ARM Templates
2 16 (28.57%) REST
3 13 (23.21%) Java EE
4 4 (7.14%) .NET
4 4 (7.14%) JSON
5 3 (5.36%) OAuth
5 3 (5.36%) OpenID
5 3 (5.36%) SOAP
5 3 (5.36%) XML
5 3 (5.36%) YAML
6 1 (1.79%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.79%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.79%) Enzyme
6 1 (1.79%) Jest
6 1 (1.79%) Kafka
6 1 (1.79%) Next.js
6 1 (1.79%) React
6 1 (1.79%) Redux
6 1 (1.79%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 16 (28.57%) PKI
2 15 (26.79%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (17.86%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.79%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 16 (28.57%) Linux
2 15 (26.79%) Windows
2 15 (26.79%) Windows Server
2 15 (26.79%) Windows Server 2016
2 15 (26.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (96.43%) DevOps
2 40 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 28 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
4 20 (35.71%) Containerisation
5 18 (32.14%) Agile
6 17 (30.36%) Analytics
6 17 (30.36%) Identity Management
7 16 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
7 16 (28.57%) Log Analytics
7 16 (28.57%) RBAC
7 16 (28.57%) Release Management
7 16 (28.57%) Service Management
7 16 (28.57%) Test Automation
8 15 (26.79%) ITIL
8 15 (26.79%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 15 (26.79%) Privileged Identity Management
8 15 (26.79%) Translating Business Requirements
9 14 (25.00%) Configuration Management
9 14 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
9 14 (25.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (44.64%) PowerShell
2 19 (33.93%) C#
3 16 (28.57%) Bicep
4 15 (26.79%) VB
4 15 (26.79%) VBScript
5 13 (23.21%) Java
6 3 (5.36%) SQL
7 2 (3.57%) Bash
8 1 (1.79%) Python
Qualifications
1 30 (53.57%) Security Cleared
2 29 (51.79%) SC Cleared
3 18 (32.14%) Degree
4 16 (28.57%) DV Cleared
5 15 (26.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (37.50%) Docker
2 16 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 15 (26.79%) Virtual Desktop
3 15 (26.79%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (12.50%) vCloud
5 7 (12.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 44 (78.57%) Kubernetes
2 25 (44.64%) Terraform
3 16 (28.57%) SCCM
4 15 (26.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 15 (26.79%) Ansible
4 15 (26.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (26.79%) SCOM
4 15 (26.79%) WSUS
5 12 (21.43%) Docker Swarm
5 12 (21.43%) Podman
6 7 (12.50%) Istio
6 7 (12.50%) Rancher
6 7 (12.50%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.79%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.79%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.79%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (39.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.29%) Google
2 8 (14.29%) VMware
3 1 (1.79%) Adobe
3 1 (1.79%) BMC
3 1 (1.79%) Databricks
3 1 (1.79%) Palo Alto
3 1 (1.79%) Remedy
3 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow