Immutable Infrastructure Contracts

Immutable Infrastructure
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Immutable Infrastructure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Immutable Infrastructure 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 514 576 688
Rank change year-on-year +62 +112 +145
Contract jobs citing Immutable Infrastructure 6 6 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.014% 0.050%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% 0.016% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 28
10th Percentile £427 - £406
25th Percentile £464 - £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £80 £600
Median % change year-on-year +712.50% -86.67% -4.46%
75th Percentile - - £719
90th Percentile £682 - £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 - £600
% change year-on-year - - -5.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Immutable Infrastructure 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Immutable Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Immutable Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Immutable Infrastructure in the UK

Immutable Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Immutable Infrastructure.

Daily rate trend for Immutable Infrastructure in the UK

Immutable Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Immutable Infrastructure over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Immutable Infrastructure in the UK

Immutable Infrastructure
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Immutable Infrastructure within the UK 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
England +56 5 £564 +605.00% 6
UK excluding London +64 4 £478 - 2
London +37 2 £650 +712.50% 4
North of England +18 2 £405 - 2
Work from Home +41 1 £478 - 5
North West +15 1 - -
South East - 1 £478 -
Scotland - 1 £685 -
Yorkshire - 1 £405 - 2

Immutable Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) NAS
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) MariaDB
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) Keycloak
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) BYOD
1 1 (16.67%) EMC VMAX
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (16.67%) CentOS
3 1 (16.67%) Unix
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (50.00%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) GitOps
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Observability
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) RBAC
4 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (16.67%) Break/Fix
5 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Product Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (16.67%) Storage Management
5 1 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
5 1 (16.67%) Technical Debt
5 1 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (33.33%) Argo
3 2 (33.33%) Packer
3 2 (33.33%) Puppet
4 1 (16.67%) Grafana
4 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) AppDynamics
2 1 (16.67%) EMC
2 1 (16.67%) NetApp
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Veritas
2 1 (16.67%) VMware