Infrastructure as Code Contracts in Scotland

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 58 51 47
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 +12
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 60 81 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.69% 3.65% 5.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.95% 4.13% 5.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 68 114
10th Percentile £413 £437 £447
25th Percentile £445 £460 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £498
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% +2.76% -6.48%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £569
90th Percentile £587 £688 £668
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in Scotland

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in Scotland

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in Scotland

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure as Code within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +4 34 £498 -17.00% 11
Edinburgh -11 19 £525 +5.00% 14
Lanarkshire - 6 £525 - 1
Infrastructure as Code
UK

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 10 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) GeoServer
2 1 (1.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 38 (63.33%) AWS
2 31 (51.67%) Serverless
3 20 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 18 (30.00%) Amazon S3
5 11 (18.33%) GitHub
6 10 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (16.67%) Azure
7 8 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (13.33%) Amazon Cognito
8 6 (10.00%) AWS CloudTrail
8 6 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (10.00%) OpenShift
8 6 (10.00%) Power Platform
9 4 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
9 4 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (6.67%) IaaS
10 3 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (3.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) DHCP
1 4 (6.67%) DNS
1 4 (6.67%) Network Security
1 4 (6.67%) VPN
2 1 (1.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 8 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (11.67%) DynamoDB
2 7 (11.67%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (10.00%) Parquet
4 5 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 5 (8.33%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.00%) MariaDB
5 3 (5.00%) MySQL
5 3 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.00%) Oracle Database
6 2 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.33%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.33%) Power Query
6 2 (3.33%) Redis
7 1 (1.67%) GIS
7 1 (1.67%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 14 (23.33%) JIRA
2 13 (21.67%) Bitbucket
3 10 (16.67%) Git
4 8 (13.33%) Jenkins
5 5 (8.33%) Cypress.io
6 4 (6.67%) Storybook
7 1 (1.67%) GitLab
7 1 (1.67%) Gradle
7 1 (1.67%) Maven
7 1 (1.67%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 14 (23.33%) Finance
2 14 (23.33%) Public Sector
3 10 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (13.33%) Banking
4 8 (13.33%) Investment Banking
5 5 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (5.00%) Back Office
7 2 (3.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (33.33%) Developer
2 10 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (10.00%) Architect
5 6 (10.00%) Cloud Developer
5 6 (10.00%) Python Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) AWS Developer
7 4 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Scrum Master
7 4 (6.67%) Senior
8 3 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Python Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Senior Developer
9 2 (3.33%) AWS Architect
9 2 (3.33%) AWS DevOps
9 2 (3.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.33%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (28.33%) AWS CDK
2 8 (13.33%) CSS
2 8 (13.33%) JSON
2 8 (13.33%) React
3 7 (11.67%) Node.js
4 4 (6.67%) AngularJS
4 4 (6.67%) Express.js
4 4 (6.67%) HTML
4 4 (6.67%) Jest
4 4 (6.67%) Loki
4 4 (6.67%) Middleware
4 4 (6.67%) REST
4 4 (6.67%) Spring Boot
4 4 (6.67%) Tailwind CSS
5 3 (5.00%) Next.js
6 2 (3.33%) ARM Templates
6 2 (3.33%) FastAPI
6 2 (3.33%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (3.33%) pytest
6 2 (3.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 4 (6.67%) Mainframe
3 4 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.33%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.33%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 19 (31.67%) Linux
2 7 (11.67%) Windows
3 4 (6.67%) Unix
4 3 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.33%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.67%) CentOS
6 1 (1.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (58.33%) DevOps
2 34 (56.67%) CI/CD
3 21 (35.00%) Agile
4 19 (31.67%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (23.33%) Containerisation
6 11 (18.33%) Computer Science
6 11 (18.33%) Continuous Delivery
6 11 (18.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (18.33%) Kanban
7 10 (16.67%) Operational Stability
8 9 (15.00%) Scrum
9 8 (13.33%) Mathematics
9 8 (13.33%) Microservices
9 8 (13.33%) Test Automation
10 7 (11.67%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (11.67%) Investment Management
10 7 (11.67%) Roadmaps
10 7 (11.67%) Wealth Management
11 6 (10.00%) Event-Driven
11 6 (10.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 38 (63.33%) Python
2 13 (21.67%) TypeScript
3 12 (20.00%) SQL
4 11 (18.33%) JavaScript
5 9 (15.00%) Bash
6 8 (13.33%) Java
7 5 (8.33%) Shell Script
8 3 (5.00%) PowerShell
9 2 (3.33%) Bicep
9 2 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (3.33%) Go
10 1 (1.67%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 20 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 11 (18.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 8 (13.33%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.00%) Degree
4 3 (5.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) Accessibility
2 6 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.67%) NCSC
3 1 (1.67%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (30.00%) Docker
2 4 (6.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 4 (6.67%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (5.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (48.33%) Terraform
2 17 (28.33%) Kubernetes
3 13 (21.67%) Ansible
4 8 (13.33%) Grafana
5 7 (11.67%) Prometheus
6 3 (5.00%) Progress Chef
7 2 (3.33%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.67%) HAProxy
8 1 (1.67%) linkerd
8 1 (1.67%) Packer
8 1 (1.67%) Podman
8 1 (1.67%) Puppet
8 1 (1.67%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) Oracle
2 6 (10.00%) Splunk
2 6 (10.00%) VMware
3 4 (6.67%) Veritas
4 3 (5.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.33%) Netskope
5 2 (3.33%) Proofpoint
5 2 (3.33%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.33%) Symantec
6 1 (1.67%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.67%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.67%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.67%) Fortinet