Infrastructure as Code Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 29 34
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 -1
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 9 3 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 3.69% 1.23% 5.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 1.44% 5.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 17
10th Percentile £460 - £605
25th Percentile £519 - £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.43%
75th Percentile £613 - £847
90th Percentile £690 - £850
North East median daily rate £558 - £750
% change year-on-year - - +36.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 203 208 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 83.20% 85.60% 93.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 98 255
10th Percentile £213 £297 £319
25th Percentile £350 £371 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £566 £589 £650
90th Percentile £626 £650 £736
North East median daily rate £470 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 36 0
10th Percentile - £11.50 -
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £50.70 £50.00 -
North East median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
% change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in Tyne and Wear

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in Tyne and Wear

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in Tyne and Wear

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -3 9 £565 - 30
Infrastructure as Code
North East

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 3 (33.33%) nginx
2 2 (22.22%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (22.22%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
4 2 (22.22%) Kong
4 2 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (11.11%) AWS CodeCommit
5 1 (11.11%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
1 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) GitLab
2 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
3 2 (22.22%) Selenium
4 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 5 (55.56%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Electronics
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
2 2 (22.22%) Marketing
2 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior
2 4 (44.44%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Lead
4 2 (22.22%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) ARM Templates
1 2 (22.22%) cloud-init
1 2 (22.22%) Kafka
1 2 (22.22%) Keycloak
1 2 (22.22%) pytest
2 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (22.22%) CentOS
3 2 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (33.33%) Agile
4 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (22.22%) API Management
5 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
5 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
5 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (22.22%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (22.22%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Identity Management
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Mobile Device Management
5 2 (22.22%) Observability
5 2 (22.22%) Programme Management
5 2 (22.22%) Secrets Management
5 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (22.22%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) Go
4 1 (11.11%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
3 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform
2 8 (88.89%) Kubernetes
3 5 (55.56%) Grafana
3 5 (55.56%) Prometheus
4 4 (44.44%) Ansible
5 3 (33.33%) Packer
6 2 (22.22%) Consul
6 2 (22.22%) HAProxy
6 2 (22.22%) Istio
6 2 (22.22%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (22.22%) linkerd
6 2 (22.22%) Rancher
6 2 (22.22%) ZABBIX
7 1 (11.11%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (11.11%) Kibana
7 1 (11.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Apple
1 2 (22.22%) ESET
1 2 (22.22%) Okta
1 2 (22.22%) SAP
1 2 (22.22%) Splunk
2 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft