Infrastructure as Code Contracts in South Wales

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 27 33 54
Rank change year-on-year +6 +21 0
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 7 7 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 2.87% 2.08% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.21% 2.60% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 4
10th Percentile £440 £623 £380
25th Percentile £463 £644 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -18.08% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £575 £669 £681
90th Percentile £612 £689 £693
Wales median daily rate £533 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -18.08% - +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 218 269 461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 89.34% 80.06% 88.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 190 351
10th Percentile £185 £160 £190
25th Percentile £285 £356 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £530 £588 £575
90th Percentile £630 £668 £650
Wales median daily rate £420 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -16.00% +5.26% -2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 23
10th Percentile £15.30 £11.21 £16.37
25th Percentile £19.09 £15.35 £16.98
Median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%
75th Percentile £41.25 £52.31 £22.11
90th Percentile £45.00 £87.62 £49.75
Wales median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
% change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in South Wales

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in South Wales

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in South Wales

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales 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
Cardiff +5 5 £486 -25.31% 26
Newport +7 1 £625 -1.96% 16
Gwent - 1 £540 -
Infrastructure as Code
Wales

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) dbt
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Migration Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
3 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) BDD
4 1 (14.29%) Concurrent Programming
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) Data Privacy
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Open Source
4 1 (14.29%) Re-Platforming
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C
1 1 (14.29%) Go
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CSSLP
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) QA
1 1 (14.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Argo
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Nagios
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft