Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 24 28
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +5
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 8 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 2.87% 3.03% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.12% 3.39% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 2
10th Percentile - £578 £583
25th Percentile £550 £600 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -1.96%
75th Percentile - £657 £644
90th Percentile - £692 £648
South West median daily rate £575 £613 £563
% change year-on-year -6.12% +8.89% -8.16%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 194 118 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 69.53% 89.39% 79.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 79 99
10th Percentile £245 £220 £155
25th Percentile £305 £372 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.80% +5.26% -10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £584
90th Percentile £602 £717 £625
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £529
% change year-on-year -0.95% -0.71% -3.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 2 31
10th Percentile £40.37 £13.35 £15.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £14.63 £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £17.01 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +238.14% -57.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £58.75 £19.13 £48.00
90th Percentile - £20.26 £55.94
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year -11.54% +33.42% -20.78%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure as Code relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset.

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in Somerset

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Infrastructure as Code.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 5 March 2026. 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
Taunton - 5 £550 -
Infrastructure as Code
South West

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (37.50%) IaaS
3 3 (37.50%) PaaS
4 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (12.50%) AWS
5 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (12.50%) Azure API Management
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
2 4 (50.00%) DHCP
2 4 (50.00%) DNS
2 4 (50.00%) VPN
3 2 (25.00%) Network Security
4 1 (12.50%) NAS
4 1 (12.50%) SAN
4 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
4 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Architect
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Architect
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) MODAF Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Network Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Security Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) ADO
1 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (12.50%) CMDB
2 1 (12.50%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) SIEM
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Runbook
2 5 (62.50%) Zero Trust
3 4 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 4 (50.00%) ITIL
3 4 (50.00%) SOAR
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) Business Continuity
4 3 (37.50%) Change Management
4 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) Cost Management
4 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Key Management
4 3 (37.50%) Operational Stability
4 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) Scrum
5 2 (25.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Bicep
2 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) NCSC
2 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (37.50%) NIST
3 2 (25.00%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (50.00%) VMware