Immutable Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in the South East

Immutable Infrastructure
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Immutable Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Immutable Infrastructure 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.20% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £418 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 - -
75th Percentile £489 - -
90th Percentile £525 - -
England median daily rate £435 - £528
% change year-on-year - - -14.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Immutable Infrastructure 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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,153 3,598 4,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 88.74% 83.50% 89.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,970 2,167 3,294
10th Percentile £213 £255 £245
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 185 259
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.10 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £30.00 £24.75
Median hourly rate £21.02 £58.49 £54.39
Median % change year-on-year -64.06% +7.55% +67.13%
75th Percentile £42.93 £70.00 £67.75
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.34 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +38.38%

Immutable Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Immutable Infrastructure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Immutable Infrastructure job vacancy trend in the South East

Immutable Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Immutable Infrastructure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Immutable Infrastructure

Immutable Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Immutable Infrastructure within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 October 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
Hampshire - 7 £435 - 2
Immutable Infrastructure
England

Immutable Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (100.00%) GitHub
2 5 (71.43%) OpenShift
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECR
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (71.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Artifactory
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
General
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (71.43%) Kafka
2 5 (71.43%) Keycloak
2 5 (71.43%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (71.43%) Observability
2 5 (71.43%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (71.43%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Grafana
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 7 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
2 5 (71.43%) Ansible
2 5 (71.43%) Packer
3 2 (28.57%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Red Hat
1 5 (71.43%) Splunk