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 23 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 71 93
Rank change year-on-year +36 +22 -31
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 64 14 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 5.29% 1.34% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.05% 1.52% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 11 5
10th Percentile £460 £571 -
25th Percentile £570 £625 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +23.81% -3.40%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £703
Berkshire median daily rate £605 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -6.92% +18.18% +4.17%

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 1,058 922 1,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 87.51% 88.06% 90.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 595 794
10th Percentile £214 £363 £247
25th Percentile £413 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +10.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £655
Berkshire median daily rate £509 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.14% +5.00% +6.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 22 9
10th Percentile £15.40 £45.25 £13.15
25th Percentile £51.86 £55.91 £21.25
Median hourly rate £60.83 £68.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.54% +126.67% -21.05%
75th Percentile £75.83 £75.56 £34.89
90th Percentile £87.51 £79.19 £38.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.53 £63.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -3.92% +200.00% -2.33%

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 23 June 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 22 (34.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 52 (81.25%) Azure
2 28 (43.75%) Azure Monitor
3 26 (40.63%) Entra ID
4 22 (34.38%) AWS
4 22 (34.38%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (32.81%) Azure Storage
6 11 (17.19%) GCP
7 7 (10.94%) Azure API Management
7 7 (10.94%) OpenShift
8 5 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.69%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (4.69%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (4.69%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (3.13%) Azure Functions
10 2 (3.13%) PaaS
10 2 (3.13%) Serverless
11 1 (1.56%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.56%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (1.56%) IaaS
11 1 (1.56%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 24 (37.50%) Firewall
2 23 (35.94%) DNS
3 21 (32.81%) DHCP
4 7 (10.94%) VSAN
5 1 (1.56%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.56%) Network Security
5 1 (1.56%) SSL
5 1 (1.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (6.25%) SSDT
2 2 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (3.13%) BigQuery
2 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.56%) Big Data
3 1 (1.56%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 14 (21.88%) Jenkins
1 14 (21.88%) Selenium
2 13 (20.31%) Cucumber
2 13 (20.31%) GitLab
2 13 (20.31%) JIRA
3 12 (18.75%) REST Assured
3 12 (18.75%) SonarQube
4 4 (6.25%) Git
5 2 (3.13%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.56%) Appium
6 1 (1.56%) MSTest
6 1 (1.56%) NUnit
6 1 (1.56%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.56%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 52 (81.25%) Social Skills
2 17 (26.56%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (14.06%) Law
4 8 (12.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 21 (32.81%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (21.88%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (21.88%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (21.88%) Support Specialist
3 9 (14.06%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (12.50%) Senior
5 7 (10.94%) Active Directory Engineer
5 7 (10.94%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 7 (10.94%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 7 (10.94%) Software Engineer
5 7 (10.94%) Support Engineer
5 7 (10.94%) VMware Expert
6 6 (9.38%) Developer
6 6 (9.38%) Java Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Senior Java Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Java Developer
8 4 (6.25%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (59.38%) ARM Templates
2 13 (20.31%) Java EE
2 13 (20.31%) REST
3 7 (10.94%) YAML
4 3 (4.69%) Kafka
5 1 (1.56%) .NET
5 1 (1.56%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.56%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.56%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 22 (34.38%) PKI
2 21 (32.81%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (14.06%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 22 (34.38%) Linux
2 21 (32.81%) Windows
2 21 (32.81%) Windows Server
2 21 (32.81%) Windows Server 2016
2 21 (32.81%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (93.75%) DevOps
2 46 (71.88%) CI/CD
3 27 (42.19%) Technical Leadership
4 26 (40.63%) Containerisation
5 24 (37.50%) Agile
6 23 (35.94%) Analytics
6 23 (35.94%) Identity Management
7 22 (34.38%) Log Analytics
7 22 (34.38%) RBAC
7 22 (34.38%) Release Management
7 22 (34.38%) Service Management
8 21 (32.81%) ITIL
8 21 (32.81%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 21 (32.81%) Privileged Identity Management
9 16 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
9 16 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (25.00%) Test Automation
10 14 (21.88%) Collaborative Working
10 14 (21.88%) Performance Optimisation
10 14 (21.88%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (46.88%) PowerShell
2 22 (34.38%) Bicep
2 22 (34.38%) C#
3 21 (32.81%) VB
3 21 (32.81%) VBScript
4 15 (23.44%) Java
5 4 (6.25%) Bash
6 3 (4.69%) Python
7 2 (3.13%) C++
7 2 (3.13%) Go
7 2 (3.13%) Groovy
7 2 (3.13%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 35 (54.69%) SC Cleared
3 24 (37.50%) Degree
4 22 (34.38%) DV Cleared
5 21 (32.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 22 (34.38%) Active Directory
2 21 (32.81%) Docker
2 21 (32.81%) Virtual Desktop
2 21 (32.81%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (10.94%) vCloud
4 7 (10.94%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 52 (81.25%) Kubernetes
2 31 (48.44%) Terraform
3 22 (34.38%) SCCM
4 21 (32.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 21 (32.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (32.81%) SCOM
4 21 (32.81%) WSUS
5 15 (23.44%) Ansible
6 12 (18.75%) Docker Swarm
6 12 (18.75%) Podman
7 7 (10.94%) Istio
7 7 (10.94%) Rancher
7 7 (10.94%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.56%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (39.06%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.63%) Google
3 8 (12.50%) VMware
4 1 (1.56%) BMC
4 1 (1.56%) Databricks
4 1 (1.56%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.56%) Remedy
4 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow