Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 106 126 114
Rank change year-on-year +20 -12 +34
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 301 374 554
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.36% 1.80% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% 2.12% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 264 426
10th Percentile £411 £425 £445
25th Percentile £463 £486 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £701 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 8
10th Percentile - £56.75 £65.10
25th Percentile - £59.38 £70.50
Median hourly rate £78.70 £67.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.59% -13.46% +57.45%
75th Percentile - £74.63 -
90th Percentile - £76.65 £80.40
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -19.87% +60.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +14 85 £593 -2.07% 252
North of England +15 79 £525 -4.55% 260
Scotland -7 60 £525 +2.69% 32
North West +14 42 £488 -11.36% 178
South West +34 41 £619 +12.55% 86
Midlands +17 27 £550 +4.76% 71
Yorkshire -1 26 £550 -3.30% 67
West Midlands +3 19 £689 +25.27% 43
North East +7 10 £558 - 19
East of England +33 9 £550 +15.79% 41
East Midlands +16 8 £475 +5.56% 21
Wales +1 7 £533 -18.08% 11
Northern Ireland -8 1 £500 -21.88% 15
Infrastructure as Code
UK

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 16 (5.32%) Confluence
2 15 (4.98%) nginx
3 10 (3.32%) Apache
4 8 (2.66%) Apache Spark
5 7 (2.33%) Traefik
6 3 (1.00%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.66%) IIS
7 2 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.66%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.66%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.33%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.33%) Luigi
8 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 154 (51.16%) AWS
2 103 (34.22%) Azure
3 53 (17.61%) Serverless
4 49 (16.28%) AWS CloudFormation
5 41 (13.62%) GitHub
6 37 (12.29%) AWS Lambda
7 34 (11.30%) Amazon S3
8 31 (10.30%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (9.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 25 (8.31%) IaaS
11 23 (7.64%) GCP
12 21 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
13 20 (6.64%) PaaS
14 19 (6.31%) Amazon ECS
15 17 (5.65%) Amazon EC2
15 17 (5.65%) Entra ID
15 17 (5.65%) SaaS
16 15 (4.98%) Azure Monitor
16 15 (4.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 14 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (11.96%) DNS
2 25 (8.31%) Firewall
3 15 (4.98%) TCP/IP
4 14 (4.65%) DHCP
5 13 (4.32%) VPN
6 11 (3.65%) VSAN
7 10 (3.32%) Network Security
8 7 (2.33%) SAN
9 4 (1.33%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.33%) WAN
10 3 (1.00%) BGP
10 3 (1.00%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (1.00%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (1.00%) MPLS
10 3 (1.00%) NGFW
10 3 (1.00%) OSPF
11 2 (0.66%) Calico
11 2 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (0.66%) VLAN
12 1 (0.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (7.97%) MongoDB
2 17 (5.65%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (4.98%) Relational Database
4 14 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (3.99%) SQL Server
7 11 (3.65%) NoSQL
8 10 (3.32%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (3.32%) DynamoDB
9 8 (2.66%) MySQL
10 7 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (1.99%) Parquet
12 5 (1.66%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.33%) Big Data
13 4 (1.33%) RDBMS
14 3 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (1.00%) MariaDB
14 3 (1.00%) Redis
14 3 (1.00%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 68 (22.59%) Jenkins
2 48 (15.95%) GitLab
3 32 (10.63%) Git
3 32 (10.63%) JIRA
4 17 (5.65%) Bitbucket
5 14 (4.65%) SonarQube
6 12 (3.99%) Selenium
7 9 (2.99%) Cucumber
7 9 (2.99%) REST Assured
8 7 (2.33%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.99%) Maven
10 4 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (1.33%) Storybook
11 3 (1.00%) Chocolatey
12 2 (0.66%) CircleCI
13 1 (0.33%) Gradle
13 1 (0.33%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.33%) TestNG
General
1 70 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 48 (15.95%) Public Sector
3 38 (12.62%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (10.63%) Finance
5 16 (5.32%) Banking
6 8 (2.66%) Investment Banking
6 8 (2.66%) Law
7 5 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.33%) Legal
8 4 (1.33%) Military
8 4 (1.33%) Police
8 4 (1.33%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.00%) Back Office
9 3 (1.00%) Electronics
9 3 (1.00%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.00%) Marketing
10 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.33%) Games
11 1 (0.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 83 (27.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 58 (19.27%) Senior
3 41 (13.62%) Architect
4 36 (11.96%) Developer
5 25 (8.31%) Azure Engineer
6 21 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (6.98%) Senior DevOps
7 20 (6.64%) AWS Engineer
8 17 (5.65%) Platform Engineer
8 17 (5.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 16 (5.32%) Lead
9 16 (5.32%) Software Engineer
10 14 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (4.32%) Technical Architect
12 12 (3.99%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.65%) AWS Developer
13 11 (3.65%) Senior Architect
14 10 (3.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.32%) Data Engineer
14 10 (3.32%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.31%) ARM Templates
2 24 (7.97%) AWS CDK
3 23 (7.64%) Kafka
4 21 (6.98%) REST
5 18 (5.98%) React
6 17 (5.65%) cloud-init
6 17 (5.65%) Node.js
7 15 (4.98%) YAML
8 14 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
8 14 (4.65%) OAuth
9 12 (3.99%) .NET
10 11 (3.65%) Java EE
10 11 (3.65%) JSON
11 10 (3.32%) Keycloak
12 8 (2.66%) CSS
12 8 (2.66%) RESTful
13 5 (1.66%) ADO
13 5 (1.66%) GraphQL
13 5 (1.66%) Loki
13 5 (1.66%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.64%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.64%) PKI
3 16 (5.32%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (4.65%) Public Cloud
5 11 (3.65%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (2.99%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.66%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.33%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.33%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.00%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.66%) Clustering
11 2 (0.66%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.66%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 82 (27.24%) Linux
2 32 (10.63%) Windows
3 28 (9.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (7.97%) Unix
5 22 (7.31%) CentOS
6 7 (2.33%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.00%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.66%) Android
8 2 (0.66%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.66%) VMS
9 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (59.14%) CI/CD
1 178 (59.14%) DevOps
2 104 (34.55%) Containerisation
3 75 (24.92%) Agile
4 68 (22.59%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (20.27%) Continuous Integration
6 48 (15.95%) Test Automation
7 42 (13.95%) Microservices
8 37 (12.29%) Software Engineering
9 35 (11.63%) Continuous Delivery
10 34 (11.30%) Configuration Management
10 34 (11.30%) DevSecOps
11 33 (10.96%) ITIL
12 32 (10.63%) Observability
13 28 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 25 (8.31%) Cloud Security
15 24 (7.97%) Migration
15 24 (7.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 22 (7.31%) Technical Leadership
17 21 (6.98%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 126 (41.86%) Python
2 58 (19.27%) Bash
3 41 (13.62%) PowerShell
4 39 (12.96%) SQL
5 32 (10.63%) Java
6 24 (7.97%) Go
7 23 (7.64%) JavaScript
8 22 (7.31%) TypeScript
9 14 (4.65%) Bicep
10 12 (3.99%) C#
11 10 (3.32%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.33%) Perl
13 2 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.66%) Groovy
13 2 (0.66%) PHP
13 2 (0.66%) R
14 1 (0.33%) ActionScript 2.0
14 1 (0.33%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.33%) Ruby
14 1 (0.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 110 (36.54%) Security Cleared
2 87 (28.90%) SC Cleared
3 39 (12.96%) AWS Certification
4 19 (6.31%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (6.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 18 (5.98%) DV Cleared
6 16 (5.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 15 (4.98%) Degree
7 15 (4.98%) MCSE
8 13 (4.32%) Azure Certification
9 11 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (3.32%) AWS Certified Developer
11 9 (2.99%) CCNP
11 9 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.00%) CCNA
13 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.66%) CISSP
14 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.97%) NCSC
2 17 (5.65%) NIST
3 10 (3.32%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (2.66%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.33%) Disclosure Scotland
5 7 (2.33%) SLA
6 4 (1.33%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.66%) QA
9 1 (0.33%) GDPR
9 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 80 (26.58%) Docker
2 27 (8.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (4.98%) VMware NSX
4 13 (4.32%) Active Directory
5 7 (2.33%) vSphere
6 6 (1.99%) DFS Replication
7 4 (1.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (1.33%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (1.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 3 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.33%) NFS
10 1 (0.33%) Samba
Systems Management
1 194 (64.45%) Terraform
2 113 (37.54%) Kubernetes
3 79 (26.25%) Ansible
4 43 (14.29%) Grafana
4 43 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 22 (7.31%) Packer
6 14 (4.65%) Istio
7 12 (3.99%) ZABBIX
8 11 (3.65%) HAProxy
9 10 (3.32%) Consul
9 10 (3.32%) Docker Swarm
9 10 (3.32%) linkerd
9 10 (3.32%) Podman
9 10 (3.32%) Rancher
10 9 (2.99%) Jamf Pro
10 9 (2.99%) Puppet
11 6 (1.99%) Progress Chef
12 5 (1.66%) Kibana
13 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 49 (16.28%) VMware
2 31 (10.30%) Microsoft
3 21 (6.98%) Splunk
4 16 (5.32%) Cisco
5 15 (4.98%) Oracle
6 12 (3.99%) Palo Alto
7 9 (2.99%) Databricks
7 9 (2.99%) Okta
7 9 (2.99%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.33%) Apple
8 7 (2.33%) ESET
8 7 (2.33%) Google
9 6 (1.99%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.66%) IBM
10 5 (1.66%) SAP
10 5 (1.66%) SolarWinds
11 4 (1.33%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.33%) Broadcom
11 4 (1.33%) Dell
11 4 (1.33%) Veritas