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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 106 92
Rank change year-on-year +35 -14 +9
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 981 886 1,569
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.35% 2.04% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.68% 2.36% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 690 619 1,131
10th Percentile £400 £405 £450
25th Percentile £463 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +0.84%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £703 £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 15
10th Percentile £25.25 - £51.60
25th Percentile £27.22 £55.00 £61.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £57.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -26.28% +60.97%
75th Percentile £83.05 £71.25 £85.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £75.30 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.85 £67.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +16.81% -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 26,635 37,480 53,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.90% 86.37% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,151 24,166 36,804
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,086 2,447 1,751
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.96 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% -0.11% +44.00%
75th Percentile £61.28 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 7 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 +49 776 £550 - 1,208
London +56 495 £550 - 624
Work from Home +33 367 £550 +2.33% 775
UK excluding London +21 305 £550 - 772
North of England +21 83 £525 -4.55% 263
South East +4 80 £569 -6.03% 268
Scotland +7 62 £519 +2.52% 28
North West +20 46 £488 -11.36% 172
South West +23 40 £622 +13.09% 81
Midlands +22 29 £575 +9.52% 75
Yorkshire +8 27 £550 -3.93% 75
West Midlands +12 21 £645 +17.18% 46
East of England +36 11 £550 +10.00% 38
North East +4 10 £558 - 18
East Midlands +17 8 £475 +5.56% 26
Wales +9 7 £533 -18.08% 12
Northern Ireland -9 1 £500 -21.88% 19

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 32 (3.26%) Apache Spark
2 30 (3.06%) Confluence
3 27 (2.75%) nginx
4 21 (2.14%) Apache
5 13 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (1.22%) Traefik
7 10 (1.02%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.51%) IIS
8 5 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.31%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.20%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.20%) Mattermost
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.10%) Camunda
11 1 (0.10%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.10%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.20%) Notion
1 2 (0.20%) Trello
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Shopify
2 2 (0.20%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.20%) SAP IBP
2 2 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.10%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 537 (54.74%) AWS
2 420 (42.81%) Azure
3 200 (20.39%) AWS CloudFormation
4 188 (19.16%) Serverless
5 167 (17.02%) GitHub
6 152 (15.49%) GCP
7 140 (14.27%) Azure DevOps
8 116 (11.82%) AWS Lambda
9 108 (11.01%) Amazon S3
10 106 (10.81%) PaaS
11 95 (9.68%) IaaS
12 93 (9.48%) GitHub Actions
13 79 (8.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 74 (7.54%) Amazon EKS
15 70 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
16 66 (6.73%) Azure AKS
17 65 (6.63%) SaaS
18 64 (6.52%) Azure Monitor
19 52 (5.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 51 (5.20%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 127 (12.95%) Firewall
2 123 (12.54%) DNS
3 71 (7.24%) TCP/IP
3 71 (7.24%) VPN
4 43 (4.38%) DHCP
5 42 (4.28%) HTTP
6 33 (3.36%) Network Security
7 29 (2.96%) BGP
8 22 (2.24%) OSPF
9 21 (2.14%) HTTPS
9 21 (2.14%) NGFW
10 16 (1.63%) WAN
11 14 (1.43%) SD-WAN
12 12 (1.22%) SAN
13 9 (0.92%) MPLS
14 8 (0.82%) Internet
15 7 (0.71%) VSAN
16 6 (0.61%) SSL
17 5 (0.51%) Kerberos
17 5 (0.51%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (8.15%) Amazon RDS
2 53 (5.40%) NoSQL
3 51 (5.20%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
5 37 (3.77%) Amazon Redshift
5 37 (3.77%) MongoDB
6 35 (3.57%) Relational Database
6 35 (3.57%) SQL Server
7 30 (3.06%) DynamoDB
8 29 (2.96%) Amazon Aurora
9 26 (2.65%) Data Lake
10 23 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
11 22 (2.24%) Hadoop
12 18 (1.83%) Power BI
13 16 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
13 16 (1.63%) Big Data
14 15 (1.53%) MySQL
15 14 (1.43%) Apache Hive
15 14 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
15 14 (1.43%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 203 (20.69%) Jenkins
2 168 (17.13%) GitLab
3 102 (10.40%) Git
4 61 (6.22%) JIRA
5 29 (2.96%) SonarQube
6 20 (2.04%) Bitbucket
7 19 (1.94%) CircleCI
8 13 (1.33%) Selenium
9 11 (1.12%) Cypress.io
9 11 (1.12%) Maven
10 10 (1.02%) TeamCity
11 9 (0.92%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.92%) REST Assured
11 9 (0.92%) Terragrunt
12 8 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.61%) Artifactory
13 6 (0.61%) Storybook
14 5 (0.51%) Poetry
15 4 (0.41%) Gradle
15 4 (0.41%) NUnit
General
1 229 (23.34%) Social Skills
2 145 (14.78%) Finance
3 109 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 78 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (5.40%) Banking
6 16 (1.63%) Financial Institution
6 16 (1.63%) Investment Banking
7 14 (1.43%) Military
7 14 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (1.33%) Marketing
9 10 (1.02%) Law
9 10 (1.02%) Telecoms
10 9 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (0.92%) Legal
11 8 (0.82%) Retail
12 7 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.41%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.41%) Multimedia
14 4 (0.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 249 (25.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 159 (16.21%) Senior
3 149 (15.19%) Architect
4 119 (12.13%) AWS Engineer
5 102 (10.40%) Developer
6 99 (10.09%) Azure Engineer
7 74 (7.54%) Cloud Engineer
8 72 (7.34%) Platform Engineer
9 70 (7.14%) Lead
10 64 (6.52%) Senior DevOps
11 62 (6.32%) AWS DevOps
12 59 (6.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 58 (5.91%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 54 (5.50%) Cloud Architect
15 49 (4.99%) Data Engineer
16 42 (4.28%) Software Engineer
17 40 (4.08%) Technical Architect
18 39 (3.98%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 34 (3.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 32 (3.26%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (7.03%) ARM Templates
2 59 (6.01%) Kafka
3 53 (5.40%) .NET
4 52 (5.30%) React
5 48 (4.89%) AWS CDK
6 44 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
7 43 (4.38%) Node.js
8 38 (3.87%) REST
9 36 (3.67%) YAML
10 31 (3.16%) OAuth
11 30 (3.06%) RESTful
12 29 (2.96%) JSON
13 24 (2.45%) cloud-init
14 23 (2.34%) ADO
15 21 (2.14%) Keycloak
15 21 (2.14%) OpenTelemetry
16 19 (1.94%) GraphQL
16 19 (1.94%) Spring
17 15 (1.53%) OpenID
17 15 (1.53%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 156 (15.90%) Cloud Native
2 56 (5.71%) Public Cloud
3 39 (3.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 27 (2.75%) PKI
5 24 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (2.04%) Data Centre
7 20 (2.04%) Product Ownership
8 17 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
9 16 (1.63%) Anti-Spyware
10 11 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
11 10 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (0.92%) Onboarding
12 9 (0.92%) Replication
13 8 (0.82%) Security Posture
14 7 (0.71%) Algorithms
14 7 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
14 7 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (0.71%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 198 (20.18%) Linux
2 65 (6.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 65 (6.63%) Windows
3 46 (4.69%) Unix
4 30 (3.06%) CentOS
5 24 (2.45%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.02%) VMS
7 6 (0.61%) 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 (0.20%) Android
11 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.20%) 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
1 565 (57.59%) DevOps
2 558 (56.88%) CI/CD
3 318 (32.42%) Containerisation
4 236 (24.06%) Agile
5 211 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
6 131 (13.35%) Microservices
7 128 (13.05%) Test Automation
8 124 (12.64%) Continuous Integration
9 120 (12.23%) Migration
10 108 (11.01%) Observability
10 108 (11.01%) Software Engineering
11 107 (10.91%) Infrastructure Automation
12 106 (10.81%) Configuration Management
13 105 (10.70%) Cloud Security
14 85 (8.66%) Mentoring
14 85 (8.66%) Platform Engineering
15 83 (8.46%) High Availability
16 71 (7.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 69 (7.03%) Analytics
18 62 (6.32%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 427 (43.53%) Python
2 164 (16.72%) Bash
3 138 (14.07%) PowerShell
4 137 (13.97%) SQL
5 107 (10.91%) Java
6 96 (9.79%) Bicep
7 77 (7.85%) Go
7 77 (7.85%) JavaScript
8 66 (6.73%) C#
9 64 (6.52%) TypeScript
10 24 (2.45%) Shell Script
11 12 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
11 12 (1.22%) Perl
12 9 (0.92%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.82%) RPG
13 8 (0.82%) RPG IV
13 8 (0.82%) Ruby
14 7 (0.71%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.61%) PHP
16 5 (0.51%) C
Qualifications
1 245 (24.97%) Security Cleared
2 198 (20.18%) SC Cleared
3 91 (9.28%) AWS Certification
4 60 (6.12%) Degree
5 37 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 37 (3.77%) Azure Certification
6 29 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (2.55%) DV Cleared
8 18 (1.83%) AWS Certified Developer
9 17 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 14 (1.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 12 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (1.12%) CCNP
14 10 (1.02%) MCSE
15 8 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
16 7 (0.71%) CISSP
16 7 (0.71%) OCP
16 7 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
17 5 (0.51%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.36%) NCSC
2 27 (2.75%) GDPR
3 23 (2.34%) NIST
4 21 (2.14%) Data Quality
5 20 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (2.04%) QA
6 15 (1.53%) Accessibility
7 11 (1.12%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.12%) SLA
8 10 (1.02%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
9 7 (0.71%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.20%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.10%) FedRAMP
14 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 293 (29.87%) Docker
2 48 (4.89%) Active Directory
3 33 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.12%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.92%) vSphere
7 6 (0.61%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 6 (0.61%) DFS Replication
8 5 (0.51%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 4 (0.41%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.31%) FreeRADIUS
10 3 (0.31%) iptables
10 3 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.20%) Lustre
11 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.10%) Ceph
12 1 (0.10%) Samba
12 1 (0.10%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 1 (0.10%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 734 (74.82%) Terraform
2 430 (43.83%) Kubernetes
3 237 (24.16%) Ansible
4 119 (12.13%) Grafana
4 119 (12.13%) Prometheus
5 49 (4.99%) Puppet
6 38 (3.87%) Progress Chef
7 37 (3.77%) Packer
8 25 (2.55%) Istio
8 25 (2.55%) Rancher
9 21 (2.14%) ZABBIX
10 20 (2.04%) Consul
11 18 (1.83%) Podman
12 17 (1.73%) Argo
13 16 (1.63%) linkerd
14 15 (1.53%) HAProxy
14 15 (1.53%) Jamf Pro
15 14 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
16 13 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
17 11 (1.12%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 121 (12.33%) Microsoft
2 63 (6.42%) VMware
3 52 (5.30%) Splunk
4 49 (4.99%) Palo Alto
5 45 (4.59%) Cisco
5 45 (4.59%) Google
6 40 (4.08%) Databricks
7 36 (3.67%) CheckPoint
8 35 (3.57%) Red Hat
9 29 (2.96%) Fortinet
9 29 (2.96%) Oracle
10 21 (2.14%) SAP
11 19 (1.94%) ServiceNow
12 17 (1.73%) Infoblox
13 15 (1.53%) Okta
14 13 (1.33%) Apple
14 13 (1.33%) ESET
15 12 (1.22%) Cloudera
16 9 (0.92%) SolarWinds
17 8 (0.82%) Salesforce