Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in South Wales

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 33 36
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 +14
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2 8 6
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.56% 2.57% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 2.90% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 5
10th Percentile - £535 £620
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -15.38% -2.80%
75th Percentile £438 £587 -
90th Percentile - £608 £673
Wales median daily rate £450 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -18.18% -15.38% -2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £25.18 -
Wales median hourly rate - £25.18 -

All Process & 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 270 276 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 76.27% 88.75% 82.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 164 224
10th Percentile £206 £182 £162
25th Percentile £290 £250 £279
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% - -10.53%
75th Percentile £538 £586 £578
90th Percentile £650 £688 £673
Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -2.94% - -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 29 27
10th Percentile £12.64 £15.20 £13.03
25th Percentile £15.08 £20.12 £21.30
Median hourly rate £18.69 £22.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.96% -30.77% +72.73%
75th Percentile £26.83 £28.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £45.00 £86.72
Wales median hourly rate £18.18 £23.84 £32.50
% change year-on-year -23.74% -26.65% +72.73%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in South Wales

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

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

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 3 February 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
Newport +2 1 - -
Cardiff -10 1 £425 -22.73% 3
Infrastructure as Code
Wales

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure App Service
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Military
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Batch Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Product Planning
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft