Infrastructure as Code Contracts in Reading

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 47 39 70
Rank change year-on-year -8 +31 +20
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 13 56 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.18% 4.70% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 5.21% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 40 10
10th Percentile £469 £500 £476
25th Percentile £625 £514 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £605 £621
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -2.62% +18.33%
75th Percentile £684 £631 £688
90th Percentile £688 £688 £706
Berkshire median daily rate £578 £605 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

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 1 May 2025.

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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (38.46%) Azure API Management
3 5 (38.46%) Entra ID
4 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
5 1 (7.69%) IaaS
5 1 (7.69%) PaaS
5 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 3 (23.08%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Cucumber
1 6 (46.15%) GitLab
1 6 (46.15%) Jenkins
1 6 (46.15%) JIRA
1 6 (46.15%) REST Assured
1 6 (46.15%) Selenium
1 6 (46.15%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (69.23%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Law
3 4 (30.77%) Police
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Java Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Java Software Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Software Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Lead
4 2 (15.38%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) ARM Templates
2 6 (46.15%) Java EE
2 6 (46.15%) REST
3 5 (38.46%) OAuth
4 3 (23.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (92.31%) Containerisation
3 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 7 (53.85%) Configuration Management
3 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (53.85%) Software Engineering
4 6 (46.15%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (46.15%) Software Architecture
4 6 (46.15%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (46.15%) Test Automation
5 5 (38.46%) B2B
5 5 (38.46%) B2C
5 5 (38.46%) ETL
5 5 (38.46%) Identity Management
5 5 (38.46%) RBAC
5 5 (38.46%) Release Management
6 3 (23.08%) Secure Coding
7 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
8 1 (7.69%) Cost Management
8 1 (7.69%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Java
1 6 (46.15%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) Bicep
2 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Terraform
2 7 (53.85%) Ansible
2 7 (53.85%) Kubernetes
3 6 (46.15%) Docker Swarm
3 6 (46.15%) Podman
4 3 (23.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) UiPath