Infrastructure as Code Contracts in Scotland

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 51 62
Rank change year-on-year -3 +11 +7
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 83 149 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.74% 5.22% 3.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.22% 5.64% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 114 105
10th Percentile £437 £447 £416
25th Percentile £460 £472 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £498 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.76% -5.24% +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £573 £575
90th Percentile £688 £668 £638
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £49.54
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £78.00 £48.46
% change year-on-year -23.08% +60.97% -21.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,966 2,642 3,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.56% 92.60% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,201 1,899 2,324
10th Percentile £232 £263 £241
25th Percentile £400 £408 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 56 50
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.99
25th Percentile £16.00 £12.04 £17.58
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -43.75% -27.59%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.03 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 2024. 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
Edinburgh +5 36 £494 +0.30% 17
Glasgow -7 34 £600 - 4
Renfrewshire - 1 £600 -
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 2 (2.41%) Confluence
1 2 (2.41%) GeoServer
2 1 (1.20%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 70 (84.34%) AWS
2 41 (49.40%) Serverless
3 39 (46.99%) AWS Lambda
4 38 (45.78%) AWS CloudFormation
5 36 (43.37%) Amazon S3
6 25 (30.12%) OpenShift
7 12 (14.46%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (13.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (12.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 9 (10.84%) Azure
11 8 (9.64%) AWS CodeBuild
11 8 (9.64%) AWS CodePipeline
12 6 (7.23%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (7.23%) Amazon SageMaker
13 5 (6.02%) AWS CodeDeploy
13 5 (6.02%) AWS Fargate
13 5 (6.02%) IaaS
14 4 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (4.82%) Rekognition
14 4 (4.82%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.64%) SSL
2 7 (8.43%) TCP/IP
3 6 (7.23%) HTTP
4 5 (6.02%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 5 (6.02%) NetScaler
5 3 (3.61%) Firewall
6 1 (1.20%) DHCP
6 1 (1.20%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (44.58%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (33.73%) Amazon Aurora
3 12 (14.46%) MongoDB
4 11 (13.25%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (13.25%) Oracle Database
5 9 (10.84%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (7.23%) InfluxDB
6 6 (7.23%) Informix
7 3 (3.61%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (3.61%) GIS
7 3 (3.61%) MySQL
8 2 (2.41%) MariaDB
8 2 (2.41%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.20%) Big Data
9 1 (1.20%) Redis
9 1 (1.20%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.20%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 25 (30.12%) Jenkins
2 10 (12.05%) Git
3 7 (8.43%) Cypress.io
3 7 (8.43%) GitLab
4 5 (6.02%) Artifactory
5 3 (3.61%) Burp Suite
5 3 (3.61%) JIRA
6 2 (2.41%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.20%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.20%) Gradle
7 1 (1.20%) gulp
7 1 (1.20%) Maven
7 1 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.20%) Selenium
7 1 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.20%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.20%) Travis CI
General
1 37 (44.58%) Public Sector
2 23 (27.71%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.23%) Banking
4 5 (6.02%) Back Office
4 5 (6.02%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (6.02%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (4.82%) Finance
6 3 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.20%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (45.78%) Developer
2 9 (10.84%) Architect
2 9 (10.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (9.64%) Java Developer
4 7 (8.43%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (8.43%) Full Stack Developer
4 7 (8.43%) Software Developer
5 6 (7.23%) Cloud Architect
5 6 (7.23%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (7.23%) Python Developer
6 5 (6.02%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (6.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (6.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 5 (6.02%) Lead
6 5 (6.02%) Senior
6 5 (6.02%) Technical Leader
7 4 (4.82%) Automation Developer
7 4 (4.82%) AWS Architect
7 4 (4.82%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (46.99%) AWS CDK
2 20 (24.10%) React
3 18 (21.69%) REST
4 16 (19.28%) CSS
4 16 (19.28%) HTML
5 9 (10.84%) Spring
5 9 (10.84%) Spring Boot
6 8 (9.64%) Node.js
7 6 (7.23%) OAuth
7 6 (7.23%) OAuth2
7 6 (7.23%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (7.23%) Spring Security
8 5 (6.02%) SOAP
9 4 (4.82%) Spring MVC
9 4 (4.82%) Spring Web Flow
9 4 (4.82%) Thymeleaf
10 3 (3.61%) PostGIS
11 2 (2.41%) AngularJS
11 2 (2.41%) Lambda Expressions
11 2 (2.41%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.07%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (9.64%) Replication
3 6 (7.23%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.82%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.82%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.61%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (3.61%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.41%) PKI
6 2 (2.41%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.20%) Clustering
7 1 (1.20%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 28 (33.73%) Linux
2 12 (14.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (9.64%) Unix
4 5 (6.02%) Ubuntu
5 4 (4.82%) Windows
6 3 (3.61%) Kali Linux
7 1 (1.20%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (65.06%) Agile
2 49 (59.04%) CI/CD
3 33 (39.76%) DevOps
4 25 (30.12%) Roadmaps
5 23 (27.71%) Kanban
6 22 (26.51%) Test Automation
7 20 (24.10%) Human-Centred Design
7 20 (24.10%) Microservices
8 19 (22.89%) Code Quality
8 19 (22.89%) Scrum
9 18 (21.69%) Inclusive Design
10 17 (20.48%) Mentoring
11 16 (19.28%) Analytics
11 16 (19.28%) Pair Programming
12 15 (18.07%) Community of Practice
12 15 (18.07%) Migration
12 15 (18.07%) TDD
12 15 (18.07%) Unit Testing
12 15 (18.07%) User Experience
13 14 (16.87%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 44 (53.01%) Python
2 35 (42.17%) TypeScript
3 34 (40.96%) Java
4 26 (31.33%) JavaScript
5 16 (19.28%) Bash
6 14 (16.87%) SQL
7 7 (8.43%) Perl
8 6 (7.23%) Groovy
9 3 (3.61%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.41%) C
10 2 (2.41%) C#
10 2 (2.41%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.20%) Go
11 1 (1.20%) PHP
11 1 (1.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (9.64%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (3.61%) OSCP
3 2 (2.41%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.20%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.20%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (27.71%) Accessibility
2 13 (15.66%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (3.61%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.41%) GDPR
5 1 (1.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (18.07%) Docker
2 3 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.20%) KVM
3 1 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 34 (40.96%) Grafana
2 23 (27.71%) Ansible
2 23 (27.71%) Terraform
3 16 (19.28%) Kubernetes
4 9 (10.84%) Kibana
5 4 (4.82%) Packer
6 3 (3.61%) Puppet
7 2 (2.41%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.20%) Argo
8 1 (1.20%) FreeIPA
8 1 (1.20%) Icinga
8 1 (1.20%) Istio
8 1 (1.20%) Nagios
8 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.20%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.20%) vRealize
Vendors
1 17 (20.48%) Oracle
2 8 (9.64%) F5
3 4 (4.82%) Commvault
4 3 (3.61%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.61%) VMware
5 2 (2.41%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.41%) Sage
6 1 (1.20%) Google
6 1 (1.20%) Pega
6 1 (1.20%) Splunk