Infrastructure as Code Contracts in Wales

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 37 57
Rank change year-on-year +1 +20 0
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 7 7 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 2.39% 1.77% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 2.25% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 4
10th Percentile £440 £623 £380
25th Percentile £463 £644 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -18.08% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £669 £681
90th Percentile £612 £689 £693
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 255 311 549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 87.03% 78.73% 86.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 212 421
10th Percentile £185 £168 £183
25th Percentile £285 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +5.26% -2.48%
75th Percentile £525 £571 £573
90th Percentile £625 £667 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 28
10th Percentile £15.60 £11.75 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.12 £14.78 £16.98
Median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%
75th Percentile £35.25 £51.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £45.00 £86.00 £49.13
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Wales over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 1 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
South Wales +6 7 £533 -18.08% 11
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 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) dbt
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Migration Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
3 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) BDD
4 1 (14.29%) Concurrent Programming
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) Data Privacy
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Open Source
4 1 (14.29%) Re-Platforming
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C
1 1 (14.29%) Go
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CSSLP
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) QA
1 1 (14.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Argo
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Nagios
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft