Immutable Infrastructure Contract Job Trends

Immutable Infrastructure
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Immutable Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 555 619
Rank change year-on-year +6 +64 +140
Contract jobs citing Immutable Infrastructure 8 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.024% 0.003% 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.027% 0.003% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 8
10th Percentile £408 - £384
25th Percentile £418 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 - £539
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.40%
75th Percentile £471 - £665
90th Percentile £525 - £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 - -

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 29,792 32,493 42,515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.47% 86.04% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,524 19,585 28,850
10th Percentile £294 £308 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,885 1,263 1,576
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.25
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -9.60% +37.21%
75th Percentile £42.79 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.21 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.27 £40.33 £43.75
% change year-on-year -44.79% -7.83% +75.00%

Immutable Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Immutable Infrastructure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Immutable Infrastructure job vacancy trend in the UK

Immutable Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Immutable Infrastructure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Immutable Infrastructure

Immutable Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Immutable Infrastructure over the 6 months to 12 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Immutable Infrastructure in the UK

Immutable Infrastructure
Top 5 Contract Job 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 12 October 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 - 8 £435 - 2
South East - 7 £435 - 2
UK excluding London - 7 £435 - 2
Work from Home +23 5 £435 - 1
London - 1 £390 -

Immutable Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) GitHub
2 5 (62.50%) OpenShift
3 3 (37.50%) AWS
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Internet
1 1 (12.50%) NAS
1 1 (12.50%) SAN
1 1 (12.50%) SSH
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (62.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (62.50%) Kafka
2 5 (62.50%) Keycloak
2 5 (62.50%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
3 5 (62.50%) Observability
3 5 (62.50%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (62.50%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) Auto-Scaling
4 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 1 (12.50%) Creative Thinking
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
4 1 (12.50%) Open Source
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (12.50%) Server Management
4 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 7 (87.50%) Grafana
2 7 (87.50%) Kubernetes
2 7 (87.50%) Prometheus
3 6 (75.00%) Ansible
3 6 (75.00%) Packer
4 2 (25.00%) Sysdig
5 1 (12.50%) yum
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Red Hat
1 5 (62.50%) Splunk