Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 22 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 112 144
Rank change year-on-year +44 +32 -24
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 71 35 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.65% 1.22% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.10% 1.34% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 24 25
10th Percentile £413 £483 £438
25th Percentile £515 £514 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +23.81% -0.57%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £613
90th Percentile £688 £751 £665
South East median daily rate £605 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -6.92% +8.33% +15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,291 2,607 3,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.42% 90.62% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,259 1,771 2,166
10th Percentile £224 £313 £250
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +4.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £588
90th Percentile £675 £699 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 67 89
10th Percentile £14.50 £17.00 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £25.23 £12.31
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +201.38% -17.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.59 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.39
South East median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 22 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 22 June 2024. 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
Berkshire +23 64 £605 -6.92% 5
Buckinghamshire +26 5 £500 -16.67% 5
Oxfordshire - 2 £500 -
Infrastructure as Code
South East

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 22 (30.99%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 56 (78.87%) Azure
2 28 (39.44%) AWS
2 28 (39.44%) Azure Monitor
3 26 (36.62%) Entra ID
4 22 (30.99%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (29.58%) Azure Storage
6 12 (16.90%) GCP
7 9 (12.68%) OpenShift
8 7 (9.86%) Azure API Management
9 6 (8.45%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (5.63%) PaaS
11 3 (4.23%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (4.23%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (4.23%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (2.82%) Azure Functions
12 2 (2.82%) Serverless
12 2 (2.82%) Slack
13 1 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
13 1 (1.41%) Azure Sentinel
13 1 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 24 (33.80%) Firewall
2 23 (32.39%) DNS
3 21 (29.58%) DHCP
4 7 (9.86%) VSAN
5 1 (1.41%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.41%) Network Security
5 1 (1.41%) SSL
5 1 (1.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (5.63%) SSDT
2 2 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (2.82%) BigQuery
2 2 (2.82%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.41%) Big Data
3 1 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.41%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 18 (25.35%) Jenkins
2 14 (19.72%) GitLab
2 14 (19.72%) Selenium
3 13 (18.31%) Cucumber
3 13 (18.31%) JIRA
4 12 (16.90%) REST Assured
4 12 (16.90%) SonarQube
5 6 (8.45%) Git
6 2 (2.82%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.41%) Appium
7 1 (1.41%) MSTest
7 1 (1.41%) NUnit
7 1 (1.41%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.41%) Spinnaker
7 1 (1.41%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 55 (77.46%) Social Skills
2 17 (23.94%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (12.68%) Law
4 8 (11.27%) Police
5 3 (4.23%) Banking
5 3 (4.23%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (4.23%) Finance
5 3 (4.23%) Retail
6 2 (2.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (29.58%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (19.72%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (19.72%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (19.72%) Support Specialist
3 11 (15.49%) Senior
4 10 (14.08%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (9.86%) Active Directory Engineer
5 7 (9.86%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 7 (9.86%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 7 (9.86%) Software Engineer
5 7 (9.86%) Support Engineer
5 7 (9.86%) VMware Expert
6 6 (8.45%) Developer
6 6 (8.45%) Java Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Senior Java Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Environment Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (53.52%) ARM Templates
2 13 (18.31%) Java EE
2 13 (18.31%) REST
3 7 (9.86%) YAML
4 3 (4.23%) Kafka
5 2 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.82%) Fluent Bit
5 2 (2.82%) Loki
6 1 (1.41%) .NET
6 1 (1.41%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.41%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.41%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 22 (30.99%) PKI
2 21 (29.58%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (16.90%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (33.80%) Linux
2 23 (32.39%) Windows
3 21 (29.58%) Windows Server
3 21 (29.58%) Windows Server 2016
3 21 (29.58%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (88.73%) DevOps
2 49 (69.01%) CI/CD
3 29 (40.85%) Containerisation
4 27 (38.03%) Technical Leadership
5 24 (33.80%) Agile
6 23 (32.39%) Analytics
6 23 (32.39%) Identity Management
7 22 (30.99%) Log Analytics
7 22 (30.99%) RBAC
7 22 (30.99%) Release Management
7 22 (30.99%) Service Management
8 21 (29.58%) ITIL
8 21 (29.58%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 21 (29.58%) Privileged Identity Management
9 18 (25.35%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (22.54%) Configuration Management
10 16 (22.54%) Continuous Integration
10 16 (22.54%) Test Automation
11 14 (19.72%) Collaborative Working
11 14 (19.72%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (45.07%) PowerShell
2 22 (30.99%) Bicep
2 22 (30.99%) C#
3 21 (29.58%) VB
3 21 (29.58%) VBScript
4 15 (21.13%) Java
5 6 (8.45%) Bash
6 5 (7.04%) Python
7 4 (5.63%) SQL
8 2 (2.82%) C++
8 2 (2.82%) Go
8 2 (2.82%) Groovy
8 2 (2.82%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.82%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (53.52%) Security Cleared
2 35 (49.30%) SC Cleared
3 24 (33.80%) Degree
3 24 (33.80%) DV Cleared
4 21 (29.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 25 (35.21%) Docker
2 22 (30.99%) Active Directory
2 22 (30.99%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (29.58%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (11.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (9.86%) vCloud
5 7 (9.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 56 (78.87%) Kubernetes
2 35 (49.30%) Terraform
3 22 (30.99%) SCCM
4 21 (29.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 21 (29.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (29.58%) SCOM
4 21 (29.58%) WSUS
5 19 (26.76%) Ansible
6 12 (16.90%) Docker Swarm
6 12 (16.90%) Podman
7 7 (9.86%) Istio
7 7 (9.86%) Rancher
7 7 (9.86%) vCenter Server
8 4 (5.63%) Prometheus
9 3 (4.23%) Grafana
10 2 (2.82%) Argo
10 2 (2.82%) Kustomize
11 1 (1.41%) Progress Chef
11 1 (1.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (35.21%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.08%) Google
3 8 (11.27%) VMware
4 1 (1.41%) BMC
4 1 (1.41%) Databricks
4 1 (1.41%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.41%) Remedy
4 1 (1.41%) ServiceNow