Infrastructure as Code Contracts in Wales

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 59 59
Rank change year-on-year +19 0 -22
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 7 4 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.74% 0.63% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 0.73% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 17
10th Percentile £623 £380 £505
25th Percentile £644 £538 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £669 £681 £665
90th Percentile £689 £693 £678
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 advertised in Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 318 546 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 79.10% 86.12% 83.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 421 615
10th Percentile £173 £180 £200
25th Percentile £350 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £570 £573 £575
90th Percentile £667 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 29 31
10th Percentile £11.75 £14.00 £14.31
25th Percentile £14.78 £16.98 £19.02
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.14 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.04% -27.44% +29.87%
75th Percentile £51.75 £25.00 £29.25
90th Percentile £86.00 £49.00 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in Wales

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in Wales

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
South Wales +19 7 £650 - 6
Infrastructure as Code
UK

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Azure Pipelines
4 2 (28.57%) AWS
4 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (14.29%) GCP
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MySQL
1 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
1 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Burp Suite
1 2 (28.57%) SonarQube
2 1 (14.29%) AppScan
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Subversion
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Specialist
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps Specialist
4 1 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Public Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Community of Practice
4 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
4 3 (42.86%) IT Strategy
4 3 (42.86%) Line Management
4 3 (42.86%) Project Delivery
4 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
4 3 (42.86%) Scrum
4 3 (42.86%) Strategic Roadmap
4 3 (42.86%) Technology Roadmap
4 3 (42.86%) Technology Strategy
4 3 (42.86%) User Stories
5 2 (28.57%) Blue-Green Deployment
5 2 (28.57%) OWASP
5 2 (28.57%) Security Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) PHP
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) DBS Check
2 2 (28.57%) SANS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
2 2 (28.57%) Graylog
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Nagios
2 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
3 1 (14.29%) HP Fortify
3 1 (14.29%) Nessus
3 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
3 1 (14.29%) Puppet
3 1 (14.29%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Checkmarx
2 2 (28.57%) Splunk
3 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
3 1 (14.29%) Veracode