Infrastructure as Code Contracts

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Infrastructure as Code skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 92 103
Rank change year-on-year -16 +11 +7
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 883 1,574 2,308
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.05% 2.66% 2.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 2.96% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 1,131 1,685
10th Percentile £405 £450 £455
25th Percentile £463 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £706 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £559 £550
% change year-on-year -1.57% +1.59% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 15 4
10th Percentile - £51.60 £40.81
25th Percentile £55.00 £61.50 £44.27
Median hourly rate £57.50 £78.00 £48.46
Median % change year-on-year -26.28% +60.97% -21.21%
75th Percentile £71.25 £85.00 £50.91
90th Percentile £75.30 £90.00 £53.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £78.00 £49.54
% change year-on-year -13.46% +57.45% +13.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Infrastructure as Code 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 37,262 53,150 80,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.86% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,013 36,862 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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 2,440 1,756 1,916
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 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 -23 713 £550 -8.33% 461
London -24 390 £550 -12.00% 210
UK excluding London -15 359 £550 -1.57% 272
Work from Home -10 354 £538 -10.42% 260
South East +64 120 £605 +0.83% 60
North of England -12 79 £550 -8.33% 72
Scotland -12 76 £506 +1.71% 15
South West -39 52 £550 -10.20% 48
North West -22 42 £550 -7.37% 39
Yorkshire +18 34 £573 -4.58% 25
Midlands +14 29 £525 -2.33% 51
West Midlands +15 27 £550 +4.76% 34
Wales +17 6 £650 - 6
East of England +3 5 £488 -6.25% 10
North East +4 3 - - 8
East Midlands +18 2 £450 -18.18% 17
Northern Ireland - 1 £640 - 13

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 28 (3.17%) Confluence
2 27 (3.06%) OpenStack
3 20 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.70%) nginx
6 11 (1.25%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.79%) Apache
8 6 (0.68%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.45%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.45%) Luigi
9 4 (0.45%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.34%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.23%) CMS
11 2 (0.23%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.11%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.11%) Gliffy
2 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.34%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 415 (47.00%) AWS
2 383 (43.37%) Azure
3 161 (18.23%) Serverless
4 138 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
5 134 (15.18%) GCP
6 121 (13.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 115 (13.02%) AWS Lambda
8 101 (11.44%) Amazon S3
9 85 (9.63%) Amazon EC2
10 82 (9.29%) GitHub
11 77 (8.72%) IaaS
12 68 (7.70%) PaaS
13 56 (6.34%) SaaS
14 55 (6.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 55 (6.23%) Amazon EKS
15 52 (5.89%) OpenShift
15 52 (5.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 41 (4.64%) Entra ID
17 37 (4.19%) Azure Monitor
18 35 (3.96%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 117 (13.25%) Firewall
2 76 (8.61%) DNS
3 52 (5.89%) VPN
4 49 (5.55%) TCP/IP
5 43 (4.87%) DHCP
6 30 (3.40%) Network Security
7 27 (3.06%) WAN
8 26 (2.94%) LAN
9 24 (2.72%) WLAN
10 23 (2.60%) HTTP
11 21 (2.38%) IPsec
11 21 (2.38%) Wireless
12 18 (2.04%) OSPF
13 16 (1.81%) VSAN
14 15 (1.70%) BGP
15 14 (1.59%) VLAN
16 12 (1.36%) SSL
17 11 (1.25%) SAN
17 11 (1.25%) SNA
18 10 (1.13%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (7.36%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (5.32%) Amazon RDS
3 45 (5.10%) Elasticsearch
4 39 (4.42%) SQL Server
5 38 (4.30%) NoSQL
6 36 (4.08%) MySQL
7 32 (3.62%) Amazon Aurora
8 29 (3.28%) MongoDB
9 27 (3.06%) BigQuery
10 26 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
11 23 (2.60%) Data Lake
12 22 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
13 18 (2.04%) Relational Database
14 16 (1.81%) DynamoDB
14 16 (1.81%) Oracle Database
15 15 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
16 13 (1.47%) Big Data
17 10 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
17 10 (1.13%) RDBMS
17 10 (1.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 193 (21.86%) Jenkins
2 162 (18.35%) Git
3 127 (14.38%) GitLab
4 50 (5.66%) JIRA
5 29 (3.28%) SonarQube
6 23 (2.60%) Selenium
7 17 (1.93%) TeamCity
8 15 (1.70%) Cucumber
9 14 (1.59%) Burp Suite
10 13 (1.47%) CircleCI
11 12 (1.36%) Cypress.io
11 12 (1.36%) REST Assured
12 9 (1.02%) Bitbucket
12 9 (1.02%) Travis CI
13 8 (0.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 7 (0.79%) Artifactory
15 6 (0.68%) AppScan
15 6 (0.68%) Terragrunt
15 6 (0.68%) Visual Studio
16 5 (0.57%) Subversion
General
1 238 (26.95%) Social Skills
2 94 (10.65%) Finance
3 88 (9.97%) Public Sector
4 56 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (4.53%) Banking
6 22 (2.49%) Retail
7 17 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
8 16 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (1.81%) Law
9 9 (1.02%) Electronics
9 9 (1.02%) Marketing
10 8 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (0.91%) Legal
10 8 (0.91%) Police
11 7 (0.79%) Back Office
11 7 (0.79%) Investment Banking
11 7 (0.79%) Manufacturing
11 7 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (0.68%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.57%) German Language
Job Titles
1 192 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 127 (14.38%) Architect
3 112 (12.68%) Developer
4 91 (10.31%) AWS Engineer
4 91 (10.31%) Senior
5 88 (9.97%) Azure Engineer
6 74 (8.38%) Cloud Engineer
7 62 (7.02%) AWS DevOps
7 62 (7.02%) Lead
8 56 (6.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 53 (6.00%) Platform Engineer
10 47 (5.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 45 (5.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 39 (4.42%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 38 (4.30%) Cloud Architect
14 33 (3.74%) Software Engineer
15 31 (3.51%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 31 (3.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 28 (3.17%) Data Engineer
17 24 (2.72%) Azure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (7.02%) ARM Templates
2 61 (6.91%) Elastic Stack
2 61 (6.91%) YAML
3 60 (6.80%) REST
4 53 (6.00%) AWS CDK
5 42 (4.76%) .NET
6 37 (4.19%) React
7 31 (3.51%) Node.js
8 27 (3.06%) JSON
9 23 (2.60%) Kafka
9 23 (2.60%) SOAP
10 19 (2.15%) CSS
10 19 (2.15%) HTML
10 19 (2.15%) RabbitMQ
10 19 (2.15%) RESTful
11 16 (1.81%) OAuth
11 16 (1.81%) Spring
12 15 (1.70%) Lambda Expressions
13 14 (1.59%) GraphQL
14 13 (1.47%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 57 (6.46%) Cloud Native
2 55 (6.23%) PKI
3 32 (3.62%) Public Cloud
4 24 (2.72%) Onboarding
5 23 (2.60%) Data Centre
6 21 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (2.27%) Product Ownership
7 20 (2.27%) Replication
8 19 (2.15%) Mobile App
9 18 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (1.93%) IoT
10 17 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
11 16 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
11 16 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (1.81%) Management Information System
12 13 (1.47%) Clustering
13 12 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
14 11 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
14 11 (1.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 217 (24.58%) Linux
2 92 (10.42%) Windows
3 61 (6.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 54 (6.12%) Windows Server
5 35 (3.96%) Unix
6 28 (3.17%) CentOS
7 20 (2.27%) Ubuntu
8 17 (1.93%) Windows Server 2016
8 17 (1.93%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (1.13%) VMS
10 9 (1.02%) Oracle Linux
11 8 (0.91%) Solaris
12 7 (0.79%) Kali Linux
13 4 (0.45%) Alpine Linux
14 3 (0.34%) Android
14 3 (0.34%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.34%) Debian
14 3 (0.34%) Windows 2000
14 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.34%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 532 (60.25%) DevOps
2 486 (55.04%) CI/CD
3 302 (34.20%) Agile
4 211 (23.90%) Containerisation
5 147 (16.65%) Problem-Solving
6 122 (13.82%) Continuous Integration
7 119 (13.48%) Microservices
8 114 (12.91%) Test Automation
9 106 (12.00%) Cloud Security
10 91 (10.31%) Configuration Management
11 90 (10.19%) Analytics
12 89 (10.08%) Migration
13 85 (9.63%) Scrum
14 83 (9.40%) DevSecOps
15 75 (8.49%) Software Engineering
16 70 (7.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 64 (7.25%) Platform Engineering
18 63 (7.13%) Observability
19 60 (6.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 59 (6.68%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 354 (40.09%) Python
2 166 (18.80%) PowerShell
3 158 (17.89%) Bash
4 118 (13.36%) Java
5 110 (12.46%) SQL
6 77 (8.72%) C#
7 73 (8.27%) TypeScript
8 65 (7.36%) JavaScript
9 63 (7.13%) Bicep
10 47 (5.32%) Go
11 45 (5.10%) Shell Script
12 18 (2.04%) Ruby
13 16 (1.81%) VB
13 16 (1.81%) VBScript
14 15 (1.70%) Perl
15 13 (1.47%) Groovy
16 9 (1.02%) PHP
17 8 (0.91%) Scala
18 4 (0.45%) Kotlin
19 3 (0.34%) Julia
Qualifications
1 228 (25.82%) Security Cleared
2 179 (20.27%) SC Cleared
3 80 (9.06%) Degree
4 49 (5.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (5.44%) DV Cleared
6 22 (2.49%) Azure Certification
7 20 (2.27%) AWS Certification
8 16 (1.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 14 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.79%) CISSP
10 7 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.79%) OSCP
11 4 (0.45%) CCNP
11 4 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.45%) SANS
12 3 (0.34%) CCIE
12 3 (0.34%) GIAC
12 3 (0.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (4.76%) QA
2 38 (4.30%) NIST
3 30 (3.40%) Accessibility
4 18 (2.04%) GDPR
4 18 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (1.93%) PCI DSS
6 14 (1.59%) Disclosure Scotland
7 8 (0.91%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.68%) NCSC
9 4 (0.45%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.45%) SLA
10 3 (0.34%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 249 (28.20%) Docker
2 68 (7.70%) Active Directory
3 56 (6.34%) Virtual Machines
4 50 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 31 (3.51%) VMware NSX
6 20 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
7 18 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (1.70%) vSphere
9 10 (1.13%) vCloud
10 5 (0.57%) Firmware
10 5 (0.57%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.34%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 2 (0.23%) Squid
14 1 (0.11%) Ceph
14 1 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.11%) KVM
14 1 (0.11%) NFS
14 1 (0.11%) XenApp
14 1 (0.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 551 (62.40%) Terraform
2 303 (34.31%) Kubernetes
3 235 (26.61%) Ansible
4 115 (13.02%) Grafana
5 78 (8.83%) Prometheus
6 65 (7.36%) Puppet
7 50 (5.66%) Progress Chef
8 39 (4.42%) Kibana
9 30 (3.40%) logstash
10 27 (3.06%) SCCM
11 23 (2.60%) vCenter Server
12 21 (2.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 20 (2.27%) Packer
14 19 (2.15%) Docker Swarm
14 19 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
15 18 (2.04%) vRealize
16 17 (1.93%) SCOM
17 16 (1.81%) WSUS
18 14 (1.59%) FortiGate
19 13 (1.47%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 124 (14.04%) Microsoft
2 77 (8.72%) VMware
3 58 (6.57%) Google
4 52 (5.89%) Oracle
5 42 (4.76%) Splunk
6 38 (4.30%) Cisco
7 33 (3.74%) Red Hat
8 28 (3.17%) Palo Alto
9 24 (2.72%) Databricks
9 24 (2.72%) Fortinet
10 21 (2.38%) Dell
11 20 (2.27%) Juniper
12 19 (2.15%) SAP
13 16 (1.81%) Amdocs
14 15 (1.70%) ServiceNow
15 14 (1.59%) Salesforce
16 11 (1.25%) CyberArk
16 11 (1.25%) Extreme Networks
17 10 (1.13%) F5
17 10 (1.13%) HP