Immutable Infrastructure Contracts

Immutable Infrastructure
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Immutable Infrastructure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Immutable Infrastructure over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 669 814
Rank change year-on-year +92 +145 -113
Contract jobs citing Immutable Infrastructure 6 27 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.046% 0.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% 0.052% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 25 19
10th Percentile - £450 £453
25th Percentile - £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £80 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year -86.67% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile - £700 £670
90th Percentile - £724 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate - £600 £638
% change year-on-year - -5.96% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Immutable Infrastructure 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,868 52,242 79,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.23% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,721 36,208 56,080
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,718 1,919
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -6.98%

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
Top 6 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 13 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
England +89 6 £80 -86.09% 1
London +81 3 £80 -86.67%
UK excluding London +63 3 - - 1
North West +20 3 - - 1
North of England +18 3 - - 1
Work from Home +104 1 - -

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 3 (50.00%) Apache
1 3 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) Network Security
2 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Mobility Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Android
1 3 (50.00%) Apple iOS
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 3 (50.00%) Product Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Go
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Puppet
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform