Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 3.21% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.97% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £443 - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £673 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £588 £500 £582
% change year-on-year +17.50% -14.09% -3.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 126 104 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 80.77% 82.54% 69.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 61 78
10th Percentile £170 £175 £209
25th Percentile £400 £410 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £634
90th Percentile £688 £713 £660
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £545 £585
% change year-on-year +0.92% -6.84% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 10
10th Percentile £12.24 £70.95 £13.13
25th Percentile £29.13 £71.63 £66.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £73.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% -8.75% +196.30%
75th Percentile £62.23 £74.13 -
90th Percentile £79.20 £74.65 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £47.50 £41.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +15.85% -28.51% +4.27%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in Southampton

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

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

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in Southampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Southampton over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in Southampton

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Cloudflare
3 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Batch
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) PaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) MQTT
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
1 2 (40.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (20.00%) gRPC
2 1 (20.00%) Protocol Buffers
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (60.00%) Observability
3 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (40.00%) Auto-Scaling
4 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
4 2 (40.00%) High Availability
4 2 (40.00%) Refactoring
4 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
4 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
5 1 (20.00%) Microservices
5 1 (20.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (40.00%) Bicep
4 1 (20.00%) Groovy
4 1 (20.00%) Rust
4 1 (20.00%) Scala
4 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 3 (60.00%) Grafana
2 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (60.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) Argo
3 1 (20.00%) Podman
3 1 (20.00%) Puppet
3 1 (20.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) NVIDIA
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk
1 1 (20.00%) Tenable
1 1 (20.00%) VMware