Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Infrastructure as Code skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 108 148
Rank change year-on-year -19 +40 -9
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 359 562 568
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.75% 2.35% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 2.63% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 440 449
10th Percentile £425 £445 £438
25th Percentile £482 £483 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £688 £701 £679
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £595
% change year-on-year -8.33% +0.84% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 3
10th Percentile £56.75 £65.10 £46.86
25th Percentile £59.38 £70.50 £47.86
Median hourly rate £67.50 £78.00 £49.54
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +57.45% +13.23%
75th Percentile £74.63 - £52.27
90th Percentile £76.65 £81.60 £53.91
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £78.00 £48.46
% change year-on-year -26.28% +60.97% -21.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,416 21,395 27,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.70% 89.57% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,404 14,844 19,217
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,048 1,307 1,356
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.05
25th Percentile £15.22 £15.56 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

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 5 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 5 May 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
South East +63 120 £605 +0.83% 69
North of England -8 79 £550 -8.33% 79
Scotland -14 76 £506 +1.61% 14
South West -39 52 £550 -10.20% 50
North West -16 42 £550 -7.37% 44
Yorkshire +17 34 £573 -4.58% 26
Midlands +14 29 £525 -2.33% 57
West Midlands +13 27 £550 +4.76% 39
Wales +17 6 £650 - 8
East of England +10 5 £488 -6.25% 12
North East +2 3 - - 9
East Midlands +14 2 £450 -18.18% 18
Northern Ireland - 1 £640 - 14
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 17 (4.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (3.90%) Confluence
3 9 (2.51%) nginx
4 6 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.11%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.84%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.56%) CMS
7 2 (0.56%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.56%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 169 (47.08%) AWS
2 157 (43.73%) Azure
3 66 (18.38%) Serverless
4 64 (17.83%) AWS CloudFormation
5 56 (15.60%) Azure DevOps
6 54 (15.04%) AWS Lambda
7 44 (12.26%) Amazon S3
8 36 (10.03%) GCP
9 35 (9.75%) OpenShift
10 31 (8.64%) GitHub
11 26 (7.24%) Azure Monitor
12 24 (6.69%) Amazon EC2
13 23 (6.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 22 (6.13%) IaaS
15 20 (5.57%) Entra ID
16 18 (5.01%) Azure Storage
16 18 (5.01%) Microsoft 365
17 14 (3.90%) PaaS
18 11 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
19 10 (2.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 49 (13.65%) Firewall
2 47 (13.09%) DNS
3 26 (7.24%) DHCP
3 26 (7.24%) TCP/IP
4 19 (5.29%) VPN
5 12 (3.34%) HTTP
6 11 (3.06%) VSAN
7 9 (2.51%) SSL
8 7 (1.95%) Network Security
9 5 (1.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 5 (1.39%) NetScaler
9 5 (1.39%) SD-WAN
9 5 (1.39%) WAN
10 4 (1.11%) HTTPS
10 4 (1.11%) IPsec
10 4 (1.11%) IPv4
10 4 (1.11%) SNA
11 3 (0.84%) LAN
11 3 (0.84%) OSPF
11 3 (0.84%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (14.21%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (8.64%) Amazon Aurora
3 26 (7.24%) MySQL
4 23 (6.41%) MongoDB
5 20 (5.57%) NoSQL
6 18 (5.01%) Elasticsearch
6 18 (5.01%) SQL Server
7 12 (3.34%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (3.34%) Relational Database
8 11 (3.06%) Data Lake
8 11 (3.06%) Oracle Database
9 10 (2.79%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (1.95%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.67%) DynamoDB
11 6 (1.67%) InfluxDB
11 6 (1.67%) Informix
12 5 (1.39%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (1.11%) Couchbase
13 4 (1.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 70 (19.50%) Jenkins
2 55 (15.32%) GitLab
3 54 (15.04%) Git
4 30 (8.36%) JIRA
5 25 (6.96%) SonarQube
6 16 (4.46%) Selenium
7 13 (3.62%) Cucumber
8 12 (3.34%) REST Assured
9 10 (2.79%) Cypress.io
10 9 (2.51%) Burp Suite
11 8 (2.23%) Travis CI
12 7 (1.95%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.95%) CircleCI
13 6 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (1.67%) Visual Studio
14 5 (1.39%) AppScan
15 3 (0.84%) Bitbucket
15 3 (0.84%) TeamCity
16 2 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
16 2 (0.56%) webpack
General
1 112 (31.20%) Social Skills
2 44 (12.26%) Public Sector
3 28 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.69%) Finance
5 16 (4.46%) Banking
6 9 (2.51%) Law
6 9 (2.51%) Retail
7 8 (2.23%) Police
8 7 (1.95%) Back Office
9 6 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.67%) Legal
10 5 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.11%) German Language
12 3 (0.84%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.84%) Marketing
13 2 (0.56%) Electronics
13 2 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.56%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (18.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 64 (17.83%) Developer
3 37 (10.31%) Azure Engineer
4 35 (9.75%) Architect
5 32 (8.91%) Senior
6 28 (7.80%) AWS Engineer
7 23 (6.41%) AWS DevOps
7 23 (6.41%) Lead
8 22 (6.13%) Platform Engineer
9 21 (5.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 20 (5.57%) Cloud Engineer
11 19 (5.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 19 (5.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 18 (5.01%) Azure Specialist
12 18 (5.01%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 16 (4.46%) Active Directory Support
14 15 (4.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 14 (3.90%) Active Directory Specialist
15 14 (3.90%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 14 (3.90%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (11.98%) ARM Templates
2 41 (11.42%) AWS CDK
3 36 (10.03%) REST
4 25 (6.96%) React
5 24 (6.69%) YAML
6 20 (5.57%) .NET
6 20 (5.57%) JSON
7 16 (4.46%) CSS
7 16 (4.46%) Elastic Stack
7 16 (4.46%) HTML
8 13 (3.62%) Java EE
9 11 (3.06%) RabbitMQ
10 10 (2.79%) Node.js
10 10 (2.79%) RESTful
11 9 (2.51%) AngularJS
11 9 (2.51%) OAuth
11 9 (2.51%) Spring
11 9 (2.51%) Spring Boot
11 9 (2.51%) XML
12 8 (2.23%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.19%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.96%) PKI
3 17 (4.74%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (4.18%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (3.62%) Public Cloud
6 11 (3.06%) Data Centre
6 11 (3.06%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.79%) Replication
8 8 (2.23%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.95%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.67%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.39%) Private Cloud
12 4 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
13 3 (0.84%) Cyber Defence
13 3 (0.84%) Mobile App
13 3 (0.84%) Operational Technology
13 3 (0.84%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 111 (30.92%) Linux
2 41 (11.42%) Windows
3 29 (8.08%) Windows Server
4 27 (7.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (6.96%) Unix
6 16 (4.46%) Windows Server 2016
6 16 (4.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (3.90%) Ubuntu
8 9 (2.51%) VMS
9 4 (1.11%) CentOS
10 3 (0.84%) Android
10 3 (0.84%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.84%) Debian
10 3 (0.84%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.84%) Windows 2000
10 3 (0.84%) Windows XP
11 2 (0.56%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (60.72%) DevOps
2 188 (52.37%) CI/CD
3 159 (44.29%) Agile
4 99 (27.58%) Containerisation
5 70 (19.50%) Test Automation
6 48 (13.37%) Continuous Integration
6 48 (13.37%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (13.09%) Configuration Management
8 45 (12.53%) Scrum
9 42 (11.70%) Microservices
10 39 (10.86%) Roadmaps
10 39 (10.86%) Technical Leadership
11 38 (10.58%) Analytics
12 37 (10.31%) Migration
13 30 (8.36%) Kanban
14 29 (8.08%) Cloud Security
14 29 (8.08%) DevSecOps
14 29 (8.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 27 (7.52%) Service Management
16 26 (7.24%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 118 (32.87%) Python
2 76 (21.17%) PowerShell
3 69 (19.22%) Bash
4 67 (18.66%) Java
5 51 (14.21%) SQL
6 49 (13.65%) TypeScript
7 45 (12.53%) C#
8 37 (10.31%) JavaScript
9 31 (8.64%) Bicep
10 20 (5.57%) Go
11 17 (4.74%) Shell Script
12 16 (4.46%) VB
12 16 (4.46%) VBScript
13 11 (3.06%) Groovy
14 10 (2.79%) Perl
15 6 (1.67%) PHP
16 4 (1.11%) Ruby
17 3 (0.84%) Julia
17 3 (0.84%) Scala
18 2 (0.56%) C
Qualifications
1 114 (31.75%) Security Cleared
2 84 (23.40%) SC Cleared
3 38 (10.58%) DV Cleared
4 30 (8.36%) Degree
5 16 (4.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 8 (2.23%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.84%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.84%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.84%) OSCP
10 2 (0.56%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.56%) MCSE
10 2 (0.56%) PhD
10 2 (0.56%) SANS
11 1 (0.28%) CCNP
11 1 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.28%) GIAC
11 1 (0.28%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.08%) Accessibility
2 22 (6.13%) QA
3 17 (4.74%) NIST
4 14 (3.90%) Disclosure Scotland
5 11 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.79%) GDPR
7 8 (2.23%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.11%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.84%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.84%) SLA
10 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.56%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.28%) NCSC
11 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 95 (26.46%) Docker
2 34 (9.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (7.52%) Active Directory
4 22 (6.13%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (5.85%) VMware NSX
6 17 (4.74%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (3.62%) VMware ESXi
8 12 (3.34%) vSphere
9 7 (1.95%) vCloud
10 4 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.84%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.84%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.28%) KVM
Systems Management
1 177 (49.30%) Terraform
2 134 (37.33%) Kubernetes
3 111 (30.92%) Ansible
4 56 (15.60%) Grafana
5 26 (7.24%) SCCM
6 23 (6.41%) Puppet
7 20 (5.57%) Prometheus
8 18 (5.01%) Docker Swarm
8 18 (5.01%) vCenter Server
9 16 (4.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 16 (4.46%) Microsoft Intune
9 16 (4.46%) Progress Chef
9 16 (4.46%) SCOM
9 16 (4.46%) WSUS
10 15 (4.18%) Kibana
11 12 (3.34%) Podman
12 11 (3.06%) HP Fortify
12 11 (3.06%) Istio
12 11 (3.06%) Packer
12 11 (3.06%) vRealize
Vendors
1 45 (12.53%) VMware
2 44 (12.26%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.69%) Oracle
4 21 (5.85%) Splunk
5 16 (4.46%) Google
6 10 (2.79%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.51%) F5
8 8 (2.23%) Fortinet
9 7 (1.95%) Veeam
10 6 (1.67%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.67%) Checkmarx
10 6 (1.67%) Cisco
10 6 (1.67%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.39%) Arqiva
11 5 (1.39%) Juniper
11 5 (1.39%) Veracode
11 5 (1.39%) Veritas
12 4 (1.11%) Commvault
12 4 (1.11%) Databricks
13 3 (0.84%) Salesforce