Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 15 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 2.53% 1.69% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.80% 2.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £415 - -
25th Percentile £428 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £573 £566
% change year-on-year -12.66% +1.10% -10.30%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 143 46 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 90.51% 77.97% 76.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 20 53
10th Percentile £178 £140 £131
25th Percentile £200 £140 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £300 £375
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -20.00% -25.37%
75th Percentile £596 £491 £488
90th Percentile £848 £615 £594
West Midlands median daily rate £476 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -4.80% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 6
10th Percentile £13.10 £13.47 £15.13
25th Percentile £16.58 £29.00 £19.83
Median hourly rate £19.41 £30.00 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year -35.30% -11.58% +23.38%
75th Percentile £21.08 £31.00 £34.73
90th Percentile £23.38 £33.45 £41.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.27 £24.34 £24.31
% change year-on-year +24.36% +0.11% -11.59%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

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

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 3 September 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
Uttoxeter - 3 £450 -
Infrastructure as Code
West Midlands

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Spark SQL
1 4 (100.00%) Tableau
2 3 (75.00%) Delta Lake
3 2 (50.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (25.00%) Power BI
4 1 (25.00%) Semantic Layer
General
1 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) PySpark
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Video\Live Streaming
2 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Change Data Capture
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) Runbook
3 2 (50.00%) Business Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (50.00%) Data Lineage
3 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Lakehouse
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft