Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
Somerset > Taunton

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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 4.76% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.77% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
Somerset median daily rate £575 £625 -
% change year-on-year -8.00% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52 11 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 82.54% 100.00% 96.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 10 25
10th Percentile £400 £520 £550
25th Percentile £431 £605 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £743 £600
Median % change year-on-year -39.39% +23.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £603 £900 £606
90th Percentile £632 £1,015 £620
Somerset median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.85 - £12.50
Median hourly rate £40.54 £12.45 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +225.62% -4.23% -28.77%
75th Percentile £43.84 - £14.25
90th Percentile - - £15.60
Somerset median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £25.00
% change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -50.74%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in Taunton

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

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

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Architect
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Technical Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Architect
2 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Core
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Wiki
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bicep
1 2 (66.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) VirtualBox
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) VMware