Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in Wales

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 42 43
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +9
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 4 8 10
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.84% 1.87% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 2.20% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 9
10th Percentile £476 £535 £202
25th Percentile £497 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £572 £587 £650
90th Percentile £589 £608 £658
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.21% -5.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £25.18 -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £42.38 £75.00
% change year-on-year +47.49% -43.50% +28.21%

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 380 364 382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 79.83% 85.05% 87.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 221 290
10th Percentile £183 £162 £175
25th Percentile £282 £213 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% - -10.53%
75th Percentile £501 £550 £575
90th Percentile £613 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 47 24
10th Percentile £13.33 £19.33 £17.30
25th Percentile £16.78 £20.12 £21.32
Median hourly rate £18.59 £25.36 £26.58
Median % change year-on-year -26.70% -4.60% +33.51%
75th Percentile £23.71 £40.00 £52.81
90th Percentile £31.05 £48.75 £55.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure as Code relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in Wales

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Infrastructure as Code.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Wales over the 6 months to 18 December 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 18 December 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
Dyfed - 2 £600 -
South Wales -2 1 - - 14
West Wales - 1 £475 - 3
Infrastructure as Code
UK

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Azure App Service
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) CloudFront
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Military
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Solution Architect
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Digital Wallet
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Observability
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Refactoring
4 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (25.00%) User Experience
4 1 (25.00%) User Stories
4 1 (25.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Groovy
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Argo
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Podman
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) ForgeRock
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk