Infrastructure as Code Contracts in South Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 32 31
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 -6
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 35 26 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 5.55% 5.63% 4.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.84% 6.48% 4.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 19 18
10th Percentile £385 £503 £556
25th Percentile £406 £509 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.60% -0.08% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £663
90th Percentile £685 £646 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £438 £600
% change year-on-year +14.29% -27.08% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 599 401 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 94.93% 86.80% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 221 256
10th Percentile £292 £358 £369
25th Percentile £369 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £515 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.22% -14.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £545 £588 £688
90th Percentile £613 £645 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 5
10th Percentile £15.00 - £13.90
25th Percentile £17.33 £12.55 £18.25
Median hourly rate £18.36 £12.83 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.08% -35.85% +19.40%
75th Percentile £18.87 £20.75 £22.75
90th Percentile - £21.80 £39.10
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.87 £20.00
% change year-on-year +59.63% -30.65% +5.26%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in South Yorkshire

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in South Yorkshire

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in South Yorkshire

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
Sheffield -4 35 £500 -18.13% 12
Infrastructure as Code
Yorkshire

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 25 (71.43%) AWS
2 23 (65.71%) GCP
3 18 (51.43%) Azure
4 15 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (25.71%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (25.71%) Entra ID
6 8 (22.86%) Azure AKS
6 8 (22.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 8 (22.86%) SaaS
7 7 (20.00%) Serverless
8 6 (17.14%) GitHub
8 6 (17.14%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (11.43%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (2.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (2.86%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (2.86%) AWS KMS
10 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (2.86%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.86%) NoSQL
2 3 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.71%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (54.29%) Jenkins
2 9 (25.71%) GitLab
3 6 (17.14%) Liquibase
4 3 (8.57%) Git
5 1 (2.86%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.86%) JIRA
5 1 (2.86%) Selenium
5 1 (2.86%) TestNG
General
1 16 (45.71%) Social Skills
2 14 (40.00%) Banking
3 13 (37.14%) Finance
4 4 (11.43%) Financial Institution
5 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.71%) Police
7 1 (2.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) Architect
2 7 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 4 (11.43%) Python Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Senior
5 2 (5.71%) Angular Developer
5 2 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) DevOps Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (5.71%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Node.js Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Technical Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Technical Architect
6 1 (2.86%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.71%) RESTful
2 8 (22.86%) REST
2 8 (22.86%) SAML
3 7 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (20.00%) JSON
3 7 (20.00%) OAuth
3 7 (20.00%) OpenID
4 6 (17.14%) OAuth2
5 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.71%) CSS
5 2 (5.71%) CSS3
5 2 (5.71%) Express.js
5 2 (5.71%) HTML
5 2 (5.71%) HTML5
5 2 (5.71%) MEAN Stack
5 2 (5.71%) NestJS
5 2 (5.71%) NgRx
5 2 (5.71%) Node.js
5 2 (5.71%) Sass
6 1 (2.86%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 14 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (17.14%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (17.14%) Onboarding
3 5 (14.29%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.86%) EMC VMAX
4 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (85.71%) DevOps
2 23 (65.71%) CI/CD
3 14 (40.00%) Microservices
4 10 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 8 (22.86%) Agile
5 8 (22.86%) GAP Analysis
5 8 (22.86%) Identity Management
5 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure Automation
5 8 (22.86%) RBAC
5 8 (22.86%) Software Engineering
5 8 (22.86%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (22.86%) Test Automation
5 8 (22.86%) Workshop Facilitation
6 7 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (20.00%) Privileged Identity Management
7 6 (17.14%) Cloud Security
7 6 (17.14%) Computer Science
7 6 (17.14%) Cost Optimisation
7 6 (17.14%) Design Patterns
7 6 (17.14%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 18 (51.43%) Python
2 12 (34.29%) Java
3 7 (20.00%) Go
4 4 (11.43%) Bash
4 4 (11.43%) TypeScript
5 3 (8.57%) Kotlin
6 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.71%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.71%) SQL
7 1 (2.86%) Bicep
7 1 (2.86%) Groovy
7 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (17.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (17.14%) Degree
1 6 (17.14%) Master's Degree
2 5 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 5 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.86%) NIST
2 1 (2.86%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (25.71%) Docker
2 8 (22.86%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (82.86%) Terraform
2 21 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 14 (40.00%) Ansible
4 9 (25.71%) Grafana
4 9 (25.71%) Prometheus
5 8 (22.86%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.86%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.86%) Puppet
6 1 (2.86%) vRealize
Vendors
1 8 (22.86%) Google
2 7 (20.00%) Alibaba
3 6 (17.14%) Splunk
4 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.71%) Databricks
6 1 (2.86%) 3PAR
6 1 (2.86%) Brocade
6 1 (2.86%) Cisco
6 1 (2.86%) EMC
6 1 (2.86%) HP
6 1 (2.86%) VMware