Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 89 53
Rank change year-on-year +20 -36 +63
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 41 65 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.41% 2.00% 4.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 2.43% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 35 115
10th Percentile £450 £465 £450
25th Percentile £508 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% -2.04% +8.41%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £700 - £713
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 11
10th Percentile - £65.18 £70.50
25th Percentile - £67.31 -
Median hourly rate £78.70 £72.75 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% -6.73% -
75th Percentile - £76.31 -
90th Percentile - £77.33 £90.00
England median hourly rate £78.70 £67.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +16.59% -13.46% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,547 2,671 3,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.89% 82.31% 89.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 942 1,698 2,209
10th Percentile £220 £229 £313
25th Percentile £382 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 357 317
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.69 £29.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% -8.33% +23.76%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £81.70
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the South West

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the South West

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the South West over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the South West

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the South West

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Bristol +19 15 £550 +1.15% 92
Wiltshire +19 13 £618 +6.10% 66
Gloucestershire +11 7 £663 +6.00% 141
Dorset +5 2 £538 - 63
Somerset - 2 £625 - 80
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (4.88%) Apache
1 2 (4.88%) Apache Spark
1 2 (4.88%) nginx
2 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (43.90%) AWS
2 16 (39.02%) Azure
3 6 (14.63%) GCP
4 4 (9.76%) GitHub
5 3 (7.32%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (7.32%) OpenShift
6 2 (4.88%) Azure App Service
6 2 (4.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (4.88%) Azure Storage
6 2 (4.88%) Serverless
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.44%) BrowserStack
7 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.44%) IaaS
7 1 (2.44%) Pulumi
7 1 (2.44%) SaaS
7 1 (2.44%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.63%) Firewall
2 5 (12.20%) DNS
3 2 (4.88%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.88%) VPN
4 1 (2.44%) DHCP
4 1 (2.44%) HTTP
4 1 (2.44%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) MongoDB
1 5 (12.20%) NoSQL
2 4 (9.76%) RDBMS
2 4 (9.76%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.88%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.44%) Big Data
4 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (19.51%) Git
1 8 (19.51%) Jenkins
2 4 (9.76%) GitLab
3 2 (4.88%) Cypress.io
3 2 (4.88%) JIRA
3 2 (4.88%) Selenium
4 1 (2.44%) Appium
4 1 (2.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (2.44%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.44%) Snyk
4 1 (2.44%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.32%) Finance
2 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Electronics
4 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.44%) Marketing
4 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (19.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (17.07%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) Lead
4 4 (9.76%) Administrator
4 4 (9.76%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (9.76%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 3 (7.32%) Architect
5 3 (7.32%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) DevOps Administrator
5 3 (7.32%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Integration Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Linux DevOps Administrator
6 2 (4.88%) Azure Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Desktop Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Principal DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) QA Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.20%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (7.32%) ARM Templates
2 3 (7.32%) Node.js
3 2 (4.88%) Playwright
3 2 (4.88%) YAML
4 1 (2.44%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.44%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (2.44%) Kafka
4 1 (2.44%) React
4 1 (2.44%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.32%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.44%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (43.90%) Linux
2 13 (31.71%) Windows
3 2 (4.88%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.44%) CentOS
4 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (53.66%) CI/CD
2 17 (41.46%) Containerisation
3 16 (39.02%) DevOps
4 10 (24.39%) Configuration Management
5 8 (19.51%) Platform Engineering
5 8 (19.51%) Software Engineering
6 7 (17.07%) Agile
6 7 (17.07%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (17.07%) GitOps
6 7 (17.07%) High Availability
6 7 (17.07%) NsoIT
7 6 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (12.20%) DevSecOps
8 5 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (9.76%) Test Automation
9 4 (9.76%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 3 (7.32%) Performance Tuning
10 3 (7.32%) Security Hardening
10 3 (7.32%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (46.34%) Python
2 11 (26.83%) PowerShell
3 9 (21.95%) Bash
4 5 (12.20%) SQL
5 4 (9.76%) Perl
6 3 (7.32%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.88%) Bicep
8 1 (2.44%) C
8 1 (2.44%) C++
8 1 (2.44%) Go
8 1 (2.44%) Groovy
8 1 (2.44%) Java
8 1 (2.44%) Ruby
8 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (70.73%) Security Cleared
2 20 (48.78%) SC Cleared
3 10 (24.39%) DV Cleared
4 7 (17.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (4.88%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.44%) CISSP
6 1 (2.44%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.44%) Degree
6 1 (2.44%) ISTQB
6 1 (2.44%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (2.44%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) NCSC
2 2 (4.88%) QA
3 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (34.15%) Docker
2 2 (4.88%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.44%) NFS
3 1 (2.44%) Samba
3 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (95.12%) Terraform
2 22 (53.66%) Ansible
3 20 (48.78%) Kubernetes
4 7 (17.07%) Prometheus
5 6 (14.63%) Grafana
6 2 (4.88%) Puppet
7 1 (2.44%) HAProxy
7 1 (2.44%) Kibana
7 1 (2.44%) logstash
7 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (2.44%) Nagios
7 1 (2.44%) Podman
7 1 (2.44%) SELinux
7 1 (2.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (26.83%) VMware
2 4 (9.76%) MuleSoft
2 4 (9.76%) SnapLogic
3 3 (7.32%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.88%) Cisco
5 1 (2.44%) Citrix
5 1 (2.44%) NetApp
5 1 (2.44%) SAP
5 1 (2.44%) Splunk