Infrastructure as Code Contracts

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 105 89
Rank change year-on-year +34 -16 +12
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 973 906 1,600
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.33% 2.08% 2.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 2.41% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 635 1,150
10th Percentile £400 £405 £455
25th Percentile £463 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £645 £675
90th Percentile £738 £711 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 14
10th Percentile £25.25 £55.00 £51.45
25th Percentile £27.13 £55.31 £57.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -19.87% +60.97%
75th Percentile £78.70 £75.94 £83.25
90th Percentile £92.50 £77.75 £85.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.70 £67.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +16.59% -13.46% +57.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +45 776 £550 - 971
London +50 496 £550 -2.65% 461
Work from Home +34 363 £550 +4.76% 652
UK excluding London +18 298 £550 - 547
South East +14 85 £593 -2.07% 104
North of England +23 80 £525 -4.55% 240
Scotland -12 57 £513 - 27
North West +8 42 £488 -11.36% 162
South West +33 41 £619 +12.55% 69
Yorkshire +7 27 £550 -3.30% 64
Midlands +17 26 £620 +15.26% 57
West Midlands +5 19 £689 +25.27% 37
North East +7 10 £558 - 18
East of England +36 9 £550 +15.79% 27
East Midlands +14 7 £475 +5.56% 19
Wales +5 7 £533 -18.08% 11
Northern Ireland -8 1 £500 -21.88% 14

Infrastructure as Code
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 36 (3.70%) Apache Spark
2 30 (3.08%) Confluence
3 28 (2.88%) nginx
4 23 (2.36%) Apache
5 12 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (1.23%) Traefik
6 9 (0.92%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.51%) IIS
7 5 (0.51%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.41%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.21%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.21%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.21%) Mattermost
9 2 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.10%) Camunda
10 1 (0.10%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.10%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.21%) Notion
1 2 (0.21%) Trello
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Shopify
2 2 (0.21%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.21%) SAP IBP
2 2 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 529 (54.37%) AWS
2 417 (42.86%) Azure
3 191 (19.63%) AWS CloudFormation
4 181 (18.60%) Serverless
5 160 (16.44%) GitHub
6 150 (15.42%) GCP
7 143 (14.70%) Azure DevOps
8 113 (11.61%) PaaS
9 111 (11.41%) AWS Lambda
10 107 (11.00%) Amazon S3
11 102 (10.48%) IaaS
12 83 (8.53%) GitHub Actions
13 77 (7.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 72 (7.40%) Amazon EKS
15 70 (7.19%) Amazon EC2
16 68 (6.99%) SaaS
17 65 (6.68%) Azure AKS
18 63 (6.47%) Azure Monitor
19 50 (5.14%) Amazon ECS
19 50 (5.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 123 (12.64%) Firewall
2 118 (12.13%) DNS
3 70 (7.19%) TCP/IP
4 69 (7.09%) VPN
5 43 (4.42%) DHCP
6 41 (4.21%) HTTP
7 31 (3.19%) Network Security
8 29 (2.98%) BGP
9 22 (2.26%) OSPF
10 21 (2.16%) HTTPS
10 21 (2.16%) NGFW
11 16 (1.64%) WAN
12 14 (1.44%) SD-WAN
13 12 (1.23%) SAN
13 12 (1.23%) VSAN
14 9 (0.92%) MPLS
15 8 (0.82%) Internet
16 6 (0.62%) SSL
17 5 (0.51%) Kerberos
17 5 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (8.12%) Amazon RDS
2 54 (5.55%) Data Warehouse
3 50 (5.14%) NoSQL
3 50 (5.14%) PostgreSQL
4 39 (4.01%) Amazon Redshift
5 36 (3.70%) MongoDB
6 33 (3.39%) SQL Server
7 31 (3.19%) DynamoDB
7 31 (3.19%) Relational Database
8 26 (2.67%) Data Lake
9 24 (2.47%) Amazon Athena
10 23 (2.36%) Hadoop
11 22 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
12 18 (1.85%) Power BI
13 17 (1.75%) Big Data
14 15 (1.54%) MySQL
14 15 (1.54%) Parquet
15 14 (1.44%) Apache Hive
15 14 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
16 13 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 195 (20.04%) Jenkins
2 167 (17.16%) GitLab
3 101 (10.38%) Git
4 58 (5.96%) JIRA
5 28 (2.88%) SonarQube
6 20 (2.06%) Bitbucket
7 18 (1.85%) CircleCI
8 13 (1.34%) Selenium
9 11 (1.13%) Maven
10 9 (0.92%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.92%) REST Assured
10 9 (0.92%) Terragrunt
11 8 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (0.82%) TeamCity
12 6 (0.62%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.51%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.51%) Poetry
14 4 (0.41%) NUnit
15 3 (0.31%) Gradle
15 3 (0.31%) JMeter
General
1 226 (23.23%) Social Skills
2 142 (14.59%) Finance
3 107 (11.00%) Public Sector
4 81 (8.32%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (5.45%) Banking
6 17 (1.75%) Financial Institution
7 16 (1.64%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.44%) Military
8 14 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (1.34%) Marketing
10 10 (1.03%) Law
10 10 (1.03%) Telecoms
11 9 (0.92%) Legal
12 8 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (0.82%) Retail
13 7 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.41%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.41%) Multimedia
15 4 (0.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 249 (25.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 160 (16.44%) Senior
3 148 (15.21%) Architect
4 121 (12.44%) AWS Engineer
5 102 (10.48%) Developer
6 97 (9.97%) Azure Engineer
7 76 (7.81%) Cloud Engineer
8 72 (7.40%) Lead
9 68 (6.99%) Platform Engineer
10 62 (6.37%) Senior DevOps
11 60 (6.17%) AWS DevOps
12 58 (5.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 56 (5.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 54 (5.55%) Cloud Architect
15 49 (5.04%) Data Engineer
16 45 (4.62%) Technical Architect
17 41 (4.21%) Software Engineer
18 40 (4.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 33 (3.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 31 (3.19%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (6.89%) ARM Templates
2 62 (6.37%) Kafka
3 55 (5.65%) .NET
4 45 (4.62%) AWS CDK
5 44 (4.52%) Elastic Stack
5 44 (4.52%) React
6 40 (4.11%) Node.js
7 38 (3.91%) REST
8 37 (3.80%) YAML
9 31 (3.19%) OAuth
10 27 (2.77%) JSON
11 25 (2.57%) RESTful
12 24 (2.47%) cloud-init
13 23 (2.36%) ADO
14 22 (2.26%) Keycloak
15 21 (2.16%) Spring
16 20 (2.06%) OpenTelemetry
17 17 (1.75%) Spring Boot
18 16 (1.64%) OpenID
19 14 (1.44%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 149 (15.31%) Cloud Native
2 54 (5.55%) Public Cloud
3 43 (4.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 32 (3.29%) PKI
5 23 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (2.06%) Data Centre
7 20 (2.06%) Product Ownership
8 17 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
9 16 (1.64%) Anti-Spyware
10 12 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
11 10 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.03%) Onboarding
12 9 (0.92%) Replication
13 8 (0.82%) Hedge funds
13 8 (0.82%) Security Posture
14 7 (0.72%) Algorithms
14 7 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (0.72%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 196 (20.14%) Linux
2 65 (6.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 65 (6.68%) Windows
3 45 (4.62%) Unix
4 30 (3.08%) CentOS
5 24 (2.47%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.03%) VMS
7 6 (0.62%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.51%) SUSE
8 5 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.41%) Rocky
10 3 (0.31%) Solaris
11 2 (0.21%) Android
11 2 (0.21%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.10%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.10%) VyOS
12 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 558 (57.35%) DevOps
2 550 (56.53%) CI/CD
3 315 (32.37%) Containerisation
4 235 (24.15%) Agile
5 221 (22.71%) Problem-Solving
6 127 (13.05%) Microservices
7 125 (12.85%) Continuous Integration
8 121 (12.44%) Test Automation
9 113 (11.61%) Migration
10 110 (11.31%) Cloud Security
11 108 (11.10%) Software Engineering
12 107 (11.00%) Infrastructure Automation
13 105 (10.79%) Configuration Management
14 103 (10.59%) Observability
15 83 (8.53%) High Availability
16 82 (8.43%) Mentoring
17 81 (8.32%) Platform Engineering
18 72 (7.40%) Analytics
19 71 (7.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 61 (6.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 424 (43.58%) Python
2 159 (16.34%) Bash
3 140 (14.39%) PowerShell
4 136 (13.98%) SQL
5 107 (11.00%) Java
6 93 (9.56%) Bicep
7 78 (8.02%) JavaScript
8 74 (7.61%) Go
9 71 (7.30%) C#
10 56 (5.76%) TypeScript
11 20 (2.06%) Shell Script
12 12 (1.23%) Perl
13 11 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (0.92%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.82%) RPG
15 8 (0.82%) RPG IV
15 8 (0.82%) Ruby
16 7 (0.72%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.62%) C
17 6 (0.62%) PHP
Qualifications
1 244 (25.08%) Security Cleared
2 199 (20.45%) SC Cleared
3 91 (9.35%) AWS Certification
4 60 (6.17%) Degree
5 37 (3.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 37 (3.80%) Azure Certification
6 31 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (2.98%) DV Cleared
8 22 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (2.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 17 (1.75%) AWS Certified Developer
11 15 (1.54%) MCSE
12 12 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 12 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (1.13%) CCNP
14 7 (0.72%) CISSP
14 7 (0.72%) OCP
14 7 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
15 5 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (0.51%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (3.91%) NCSC
2 28 (2.88%) NIST
3 25 (2.57%) GDPR
4 21 (2.16%) Data Quality
5 20 (2.06%) QA
6 19 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.54%) Accessibility
8 11 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (1.13%) SLA
9 9 (0.92%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.82%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
11 7 (0.72%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 2 (0.21%) NIST 800
15 1 (0.10%) 21 CFR Part 11
15 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 1 (0.10%) FedRAMP
15 1 (0.10%) GxP
System Software
1 288 (29.60%) Docker
2 48 (4.93%) Active Directory
3 38 (3.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (2.77%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (1.64%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.92%) vSphere
7 6 (0.62%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 6 (0.62%) DFS Replication
8 5 (0.51%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 4 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.31%) FreeRADIUS
10 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.31%) iptables
10 3 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.21%) Lustre
11 2 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.10%) Ceph
12 1 (0.10%) NFS
12 1 (0.10%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 1 (0.10%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 728 (74.82%) Terraform
2 423 (43.47%) Kubernetes
3 235 (24.15%) Ansible
4 119 (12.23%) Grafana
5 118 (12.13%) Prometheus
6 46 (4.73%) Puppet
7 37 (3.80%) Packer
8 35 (3.60%) Progress Chef
9 27 (2.77%) Istio
10 24 (2.47%) Rancher
11 21 (2.16%) ZABBIX
12 20 (2.06%) Consul
13 19 (1.95%) Argo
14 18 (1.85%) Podman
15 16 (1.64%) HAProxy
15 16 (1.64%) linkerd
16 15 (1.54%) Jamf Pro
16 15 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
17 13 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
18 11 (1.13%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 113 (11.61%) Microsoft
2 67 (6.89%) VMware
3 54 (5.55%) Palo Alto
4 52 (5.34%) Splunk
5 49 (5.04%) Cisco
6 44 (4.52%) Google
7 40 (4.11%) Databricks
8 36 (3.70%) CheckPoint
9 34 (3.49%) Red Hat
10 29 (2.98%) Fortinet
11 27 (2.77%) Oracle
12 21 (2.16%) SAP
13 17 (1.75%) Infoblox
13 17 (1.75%) ServiceNow
14 15 (1.54%) Okta
15 13 (1.34%) Apple
15 13 (1.34%) Cloudera
15 13 (1.34%) ESET
16 9 (0.92%) SolarWinds
17 8 (0.82%) IBM