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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 80 147
Rank change year-on-year -3 +67 +26
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 73 135 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.50% 2.42% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 2.89% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 94 49
10th Percentile £414 £440 £465
25th Percentile £463 £519 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £605 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +0.83% -
75th Percentile £628 £650 £730
90th Percentile £681 £688 £761
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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 2,668 4,666 4,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.34% 83.55% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,716 2,714 3,430
10th Percentile £250 £255 £249
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +1.95% +0.05%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £619
90th Percentile £656 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 446 214
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.00 £16.24
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.23 £22.16
Median hourly rate £27.76 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.56% -5.00% +127.79%
75th Percentile £62.37 £62.50 £64.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.93 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

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 29 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 29 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 +7 39 £605 - 55
Berkshire +1 31 £628 +3.72% 29
Hampshire +22 14 £515 -11.51% 39
Buckinghamshire +14 8 £565 +13.00% 11
East Sussex +5 7 £475 -11.63% 4
Kent +5 7 £615 -3.53% 14
Surrey +4 5 £600 -9.43% 11
West Sussex +13 1 £300 -40.00% 11
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 (2.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (2.74%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.37%) Confluence
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 44 (60.27%) Azure
2 30 (41.10%) AWS
3 14 (19.18%) Azure Monitor
4 13 (17.81%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (15.07%) GitHub
6 9 (12.33%) IaaS
7 7 (9.59%) Azure AKS
8 6 (8.22%) Entra ID
8 6 (8.22%) GCP
8 6 (8.22%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (8.22%) PaaS
9 5 (6.85%) Azure API Management
9 5 (6.85%) Azure Storage
9 5 (6.85%) OpenShift
10 4 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (5.48%) Power Platform
11 3 (4.11%) Azure Table
11 3 (4.11%) Power Automate
11 3 (4.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (19.18%) Firewall
2 9 (12.33%) DNS
3 7 (9.59%) DHCP
3 7 (9.59%) VPN
4 6 (8.22%) SAN
5 5 (6.85%) Network Security
6 4 (5.48%) SD-WAN
6 4 (5.48%) TCP/IP
6 4 (5.48%) VSAN
6 4 (5.48%) WAN
7 3 (4.11%) BGP
7 3 (4.11%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (4.11%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (4.11%) MPLS
7 3 (4.11%) NGFW
7 3 (4.11%) OSPF
8 2 (2.74%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (2.74%) HTTP
8 2 (2.74%) VLAN
9 1 (1.37%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.22%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.11%) Power BI
3 3 (4.11%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.11%) SSDT
4 2 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.74%) MySQL
4 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.37%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (21.92%) GitLab
2 15 (20.55%) Jenkins
3 11 (15.07%) JIRA
4 9 (12.33%) Cucumber
4 9 (12.33%) REST Assured
4 9 (12.33%) Selenium
4 9 (12.33%) SonarQube
5 3 (4.11%) Git
6 2 (2.74%) Maven
General
1 23 (31.51%) Social Skills
2 17 (23.29%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.96%) Law
4 4 (5.48%) Police
4 4 (5.48%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.74%) Retail
6 1 (1.37%) Finance
Job Titles
1 24 (32.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (21.92%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (10.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 8 (10.96%) Developer
4 7 (9.59%) Java Engineer
4 7 (9.59%) Software Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) Senior
5 6 (8.22%) VMware Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Java Developer
6 5 (6.85%) Java Software Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Architect
7 4 (5.48%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.55%) ARM Templates
2 14 (19.18%) REST
3 11 (15.07%) Java EE
4 8 (10.96%) React
5 6 (8.22%) OAuth
5 6 (8.22%) YAML
6 5 (6.85%) .NET
6 5 (6.85%) ADO
7 3 (4.11%) .NET Core
7 3 (4.11%) GraphQL
7 3 (4.11%) JSON
7 3 (4.11%) Middleware
7 3 (4.11%) Web Services
8 2 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (2.74%) Kafka
8 2 (2.74%) Node.js
8 2 (2.74%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (1.37%) 802.1X
9 1 (1.37%) Express.js
9 1 (1.37%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.48%) Cloud Native
1 4 (5.48%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (5.48%) PKI
1 4 (5.48%) Public Cloud
1 4 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.11%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.37%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.33%) Windows
2 7 (9.59%) Linux
3 3 (4.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.74%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.37%) VMS
5 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (69.86%) DevOps
2 39 (53.42%) CI/CD
3 33 (45.21%) Containerisation
4 24 (32.88%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (26.03%) Configuration Management
6 16 (21.92%) Continuous Integration
6 16 (21.92%) Test Automation
7 15 (20.55%) Migration
8 14 (19.18%) Software Engineering
9 12 (16.44%) Agile
10 11 (15.07%) ITIL
11 10 (13.70%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (12.33%) Identity Management
12 9 (12.33%) Observability
12 9 (12.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 9 (12.33%) Software Architecture
13 8 (10.96%) DevSecOps
13 8 (10.96%) Microservices
14 7 (9.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 7 (9.59%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (30.14%) Python
2 18 (24.66%) PowerShell
3 16 (21.92%) Java
4 12 (16.44%) SQL
5 9 (12.33%) Bash
5 9 (12.33%) Bicep
6 8 (10.96%) C#
6 8 (10.96%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.11%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.74%) Go
8 2 (2.74%) Korn
9 1 (1.37%) PHP
9 1 (1.37%) VB
9 1 (1.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 28 (38.36%) Security Cleared
2 26 (35.62%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.96%) Azure Certification
4 7 (9.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (6.85%) CCNP
5 5 (6.85%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (5.48%) MCSE
6 4 (5.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (4.11%) CCNA
7 3 (4.11%) Degree
8 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.74%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.37%) JNCIP
9 1 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.59%) SLA
2 3 (4.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (4.11%) NCSC
2 3 (4.11%) NIST
3 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.37%) HL7
System Software
1 21 (28.77%) Docker
2 11 (15.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (10.96%) Active Directory
4 7 (9.59%) vSphere
5 6 (8.22%) DFS Replication
6 4 (5.48%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (61.64%) Terraform
2 35 (47.95%) Kubernetes
3 20 (27.40%) Ansible
4 9 (12.33%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (12.33%) Podman
5 8 (10.96%) Grafana
6 7 (9.59%) Prometheus
7 3 (4.11%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.37%) Packer
8 1 (1.37%) Puppet
8 1 (1.37%) Rancher
8 1 (1.37%) SCCM
8 1 (1.37%) SCOM
8 1 (1.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (24.66%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.07%) VMware
3 6 (8.22%) Cisco
4 5 (6.85%) Palo Alto
4 5 (6.85%) Red Hat
5 3 (4.11%) Google
5 3 (4.11%) Splunk
5 3 (4.11%) UiPath
6 2 (2.74%) Ab Initio
6 2 (2.74%) Oracle
7 1 (1.37%) Databricks
7 1 (1.37%) Dell KACE
7 1 (1.37%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.37%) Meraki
7 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.37%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.37%) Ubiquiti