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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 35 65
Rank change year-on-year -13 +30 +32
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 17 60 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.89% 5.19% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.14% 6.01% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 41 23
10th Percentile £356 £425 £533
25th Percentile £413 £538 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £605 £650
Median % change year-on-year -13.22% -6.92% +20.93%
75th Percentile £742 £638 £688
90th Percentile £774 £688 £698
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £605 £600
% change year-on-year -17.27% +0.83% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £69.38 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £69.38 -

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 542 999 984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.18% 86.49% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 528 650
10th Percentile £350 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% +5.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £714 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -6.76% +2.86% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 38 25
10th Percentile - £14.50 £29.10
25th Percentile £14.75 £51.86 £53.50
Median hourly rate £20.75 £61.60 £65.13
Median % change year-on-year -66.31% -5.41% +117.08%
75th Percentile £38.42 £75.83 £74.00
90th Percentile £60.50 £87.47 £76.29
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £61.33 £59.38
% change year-on-year -39.21% +3.29% +163.89%

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 27 July 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 16 (94.12%) Azure
2 12 (70.59%) AWS
3 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) GCP
3 4 (23.53%) GitHub
4 3 (17.65%) Entra ID
5 2 (11.76%) Azure AKS
5 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.88%) Azure App Service
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.88%) IaaS
6 1 (5.88%) OCI
6 1 (5.88%) PaaS
6 1 (5.88%) SaaS
6 1 (5.88%) Twilio
6 1 (5.88%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
1 2 (11.76%) Network Security
2 1 (5.88%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) GitLab
2 8 (47.06%) Jenkins
3 6 (35.29%) Cucumber
3 6 (35.29%) JIRA
3 6 (35.29%) REST Assured
3 6 (35.29%) Selenium
3 6 (35.29%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 9 (52.94%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (35.29%) Finance
4 5 (29.41%) Law
5 4 (23.53%) Police
6 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
6 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Java Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Java Software Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Software Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Architect
2 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Security Architect
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Developer
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) ARM Templates
1 7 (41.18%) REST
2 6 (35.29%) Java EE
3 1 (5.88%) Express.js
3 1 (5.88%) FastAPI
3 1 (5.88%) FHIR
3 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
3 1 (5.88%) LangChain
3 1 (5.88%) OAuth
3 1 (5.88%) OpenID
3 1 (5.88%) SailPoint
3 1 (5.88%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
2 2 (11.76%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) DevOps
2 9 (52.94%) Configuration Management
2 9 (52.94%) Containerisation
2 9 (52.94%) Test Automation
3 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
4 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (41.18%) Software Engineering
5 6 (35.29%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (35.29%) Software Architecture
5 6 (35.29%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (23.53%) DevSecOps
7 3 (17.65%) Cloud Security
7 3 (17.65%) Information Security
7 3 (17.65%) SDLC
7 3 (17.65%) Security Architecture
7 3 (17.65%) SIEM
7 3 (17.65%) Strategic Thinking
7 3 (17.65%) Threat Modelling
7 3 (17.65%) TOGAF
7 3 (17.65%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) Bicep
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) AWS Certification
4 3 (17.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (17.65%) CCSP
4 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (17.65%) CISSP
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) GDPR
1 3 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (17.65%) NIST
1 3 (17.65%) PCI DSS
1 3 (17.65%) PSD2
2 1 (5.88%) HL7
2 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (64.71%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (82.35%) Terraform
2 12 (70.59%) Kubernetes
3 8 (47.06%) Ansible
4 6 (35.29%) Docker Swarm
4 6 (35.29%) Podman
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) CyberArk
1 1 (5.88%) IBM
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft