Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the South East

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 77 91 150
Rank change year-on-year +14 +59 +21
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 85 120 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.82% 2.16% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.08% 2.54% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 82 49
10th Percentile £419 £414 £455
25th Percentile £484 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £605 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.07% +0.83% +1.69%
75th Percentile £675 £655 £675
90th Percentile £688 £688 £757
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £27.38 £57.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year -52.39% -26.28% +52.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the South East

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the South East

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the South East

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the South East

Infrastructure as Code
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 Infrastructure as Code within the South East 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
Thames Valley +20 44 £624 +3.15% 43
Berkshire 0 27 £578 -4.55% 25
Buckinghamshire +25 17 £629 +6.62% 11
Hampshire +22 12 £540 +80.00% 24
Surrey +11 10 £650 -1.89% 24
East Sussex +4 9 £475 -11.63% 2
Kent +9 7 £615 -3.53% 11
West Sussex +11 2 £300 -40.00% 4
Middlesex - 1 - -
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (2.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (2.35%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.18%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.18%) Confluence
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 48 (56.47%) Azure
2 31 (36.47%) AWS
3 18 (21.18%) IaaS
4 14 (16.47%) PaaS
5 12 (14.12%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (14.12%) Azure Monitor
6 11 (12.94%) GitHub
6 11 (12.94%) SaaS
7 7 (8.24%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (7.06%) Entra ID
9 5 (5.88%) Azure API Management
10 4 (4.71%) Azure AKS
10 4 (4.71%) GCP
10 4 (4.71%) Power Platform
11 3 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (3.53%) Azure Storage
11 3 (3.53%) CloudFront
11 3 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (2.35%) Azure Table
12 2 (2.35%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (16.47%) Firewall
2 11 (12.94%) VSAN
3 9 (10.59%) DNS
4 7 (8.24%) DHCP
4 7 (8.24%) VPN
5 6 (7.06%) SAN
6 5 (5.88%) Network Security
7 4 (4.71%) SD-WAN
7 4 (4.71%) TCP/IP
7 4 (4.71%) WAN
8 3 (3.53%) BGP
8 3 (3.53%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (3.53%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (3.53%) MPLS
8 3 (3.53%) NGFW
8 3 (3.53%) OSPF
9 2 (2.35%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (2.35%) VLAN
10 1 (1.18%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (1.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.53%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.53%) SSDT
4 2 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.35%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.35%) MySQL
4 2 (2.35%) Power BI
4 2 (2.35%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.18%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.18%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (16.47%) GitLab
2 11 (12.94%) Jenkins
3 10 (11.76%) JIRA
3 10 (11.76%) SonarQube
4 9 (10.59%) Cucumber
4 9 (10.59%) REST Assured
4 9 (10.59%) Selenium
5 2 (2.35%) Git
5 2 (2.35%) Maven
General
1 23 (27.06%) Social Skills
2 17 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.41%) Law
3 8 (9.41%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.71%) Police
Job Titles
1 24 (28.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 15 (17.65%) Architect
4 12 (14.12%) Senior
5 11 (12.94%) Technical Architect
6 10 (11.76%) Senior Architect
6 10 (11.76%) Senior Technical Architect
7 8 (9.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 7 (8.24%) Developer
8 7 (8.24%) Java Engineer
9 6 (7.06%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (7.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (7.06%) Software Engineer
9 6 (7.06%) VMware Engineer
9 6 (7.06%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.88%) Java Developer
10 5 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
11 4 (4.71%) Network Engineer
11 4 (4.71%) Principal Architect
11 4 (4.71%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.47%) ARM Templates
2 13 (15.29%) REST
3 11 (12.94%) Java EE
4 8 (9.41%) YAML
5 6 (7.06%) OAuth
6 5 (5.88%) React
7 4 (4.71%) Kafka
8 3 (3.53%) .NET
8 3 (3.53%) ADO
8 3 (3.53%) JSON
8 3 (3.53%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (2.35%) .NET Core
9 2 (2.35%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (2.35%) GraphQL
9 2 (2.35%) Node.js
10 1 (1.18%) 802.1X
10 1 (1.18%) Jinja
10 1 (1.18%) RESTful
10 1 (1.18%) SOAP
10 1 (1.18%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.94%) Hybrid Cloud
1 11 (12.94%) PKI
2 10 (11.76%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.71%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.71%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.18%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.18%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.59%) Windows
2 7 (8.24%) Linux
3 3 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.35%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.18%) VMS
5 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (67.06%) DevOps
2 47 (55.29%) Containerisation
3 42 (49.41%) CI/CD
4 28 (32.94%) Continuous Integration
5 24 (28.24%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (25.88%) ITIL
7 21 (24.71%) Agile
8 20 (23.53%) DevSecOps
8 20 (23.53%) Test Automation
9 18 (21.18%) Continuous Delivery
10 16 (18.82%) Microservices
11 15 (17.65%) Configuration Management
11 15 (17.65%) TOGAF
12 14 (16.47%) Zachman Framework
13 13 (15.29%) Software Engineering
14 12 (14.12%) Migration
15 11 (12.94%) Cybersecurity
16 10 (11.76%) IT Strategy
16 10 (11.76%) Matrix Organization
16 10 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (22.35%) Python
2 17 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 13 (15.29%) Java
4 8 (9.41%) Bash
4 8 (9.41%) SQL
5 6 (7.06%) Bicep
5 6 (7.06%) C#
6 4 (4.71%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.53%) Go
8 1 (1.18%) PHP
8 1 (1.18%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.18%) VB
8 1 (1.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (49.41%) Security Cleared
2 40 (47.06%) SC Cleared
3 17 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (17.65%) MCSE
5 11 (12.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 10 (11.76%) Azure Certification
7 9 (10.59%) CCNP
7 9 (10.59%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (7.06%) DV Cleared
9 5 (5.88%) Degree
10 3 (3.53%) CCNA
11 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (1.18%) CEH
12 1 (1.18%) CISM
12 1 (1.18%) CISSP
12 1 (1.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (1.18%) JNCIP
12 1 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (18.82%) NCSC
2 15 (17.65%) NIST
3 10 (11.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (7.06%) SLA
5 2 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (21.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (20.00%) Docker
3 11 (12.94%) VMware NSX
4 8 (9.41%) Active Directory
5 7 (8.24%) vSphere
6 6 (7.06%) DFS Replication
7 1 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (49.41%) Terraform
2 27 (31.76%) Kubernetes
3 18 (21.18%) Ansible
4 9 (10.59%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (10.59%) Podman
5 7 (8.24%) Grafana
6 6 (7.06%) Prometheus
7 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (3.53%) SCCM
7 3 (3.53%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (2.35%) Puppet
9 1 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.18%) Packer
9 1 (1.18%) Rancher
9 1 (1.18%) SCOM
9 1 (1.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (25.88%) VMware
2 18 (21.18%) Microsoft
3 13 (15.29%) Cisco
4 12 (14.12%) Palo Alto
5 4 (4.71%) Splunk
6 3 (3.53%) Databricks
6 3 (3.53%) UiPath
7 2 (2.35%) Oracle
7 2 (2.35%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.18%) Dell KACE
8 1 (1.18%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.18%) Google
8 1 (1.18%) Meraki
8 1 (1.18%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.18%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.18%) Ubiquiti