Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the West Midlands

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 95 142
Rank change year-on-year +6 +47 -45
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 27 37 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.41% 1.60% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 1.82% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 24 21
10th Percentile £390 £431 £470
25th Percentile £488 £476 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +50.00%
75th Percentile £611 £641 £538
90th Percentile £647 £666 £625
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £78.00 £51.19
% change year-on-year -19.87% +52.38% -15.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,602 2,036 3,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.79% 88.29% 90.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,062 1,391 2,325
10th Percentile £275 £263 £275
25th Percentile £371 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +4.59% +15.29%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 47 65
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.30 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £19.00 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% +12.93% +0.03%
75th Percentile £40.25 £28.13 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £50.00 £21.40
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the West Midlands

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the West Midlands

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the West Midlands

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 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
Warwickshire +13 10 £607 -19.07% 8
Worcestershire +11 7 £550 -15.38%
Birmingham +6 7 £463 -9.31% 19
Coventry +5 1 £450 -6.25% 4
Shropshire - 1 £523 - 1
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (3.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (3.70%) CMS
1 1 (3.70%) Headless CMS
1 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (70.37%) Azure
2 13 (48.15%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (25.93%) Azure AKS
3 7 (25.93%) Azure App Service
4 4 (14.81%) GitHub
5 3 (11.11%) AWS
5 3 (11.11%) IaaS
5 3 (11.11%) PaaS
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Functions
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (7.41%) Serverless
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (37.04%) DNS
2 7 (25.93%) DHCP
2 7 (25.93%) TCP/IP
3 2 (7.41%) Firewall
3 2 (7.41%) VPN
4 1 (3.70%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (7.41%) Data Lake
1 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) Flink
2 1 (3.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (7.41%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.70%) Artifactory
3 1 (3.70%) Hudson
3 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.70%) JIRA
3 1 (3.70%) webpack
General
1 10 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.70%) Electronics
3 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.70%) Marketing
3 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Developer
1 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Principal Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Angular Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) C# Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Server Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) .NET Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Contracts Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Development Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Senior
6 1 (3.70%) Software Development Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Software Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) .NET
2 6 (22.22%) AngularJS
2 6 (22.22%) RESTful
3 3 (11.11%) JSON
3 3 (11.11%) YAML
4 2 (7.41%) GraphQL
5 1 (3.70%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.70%) Apache Sling
5 1 (3.70%) Entity Framework
5 1 (3.70%) Kafka
5 1 (3.70%) Next.js
5 1 (3.70%) OSGi
5 1 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (3.70%) React
5 1 (3.70%) Swagger
5 1 (3.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (18.52%) Product Ownership
2 3 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (29.63%) Windows
2 7 (25.93%) Linux
3 6 (22.22%) Unix
3 6 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 5 (18.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) DevOps
2 10 (37.04%) Agile
3 8 (29.63%) CI/CD
3 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (25.93%) Virtual Environments
5 6 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (22.22%) Microservices
5 6 (22.22%) Visualisation
6 5 (18.52%) Critical Thinking
6 5 (18.52%) Information Management
6 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (18.52%) Security Hardening
6 5 (18.52%) Security Monitoring
6 5 (18.52%) SIEM
6 5 (18.52%) Systems Engineering
6 5 (18.52%) User Experience
6 5 (18.52%) UX Design
7 4 (14.81%) Scrum
8 3 (11.11%) Edge Computing
8 3 (11.11%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) C#
2 8 (29.63%) Java
3 7 (25.93%) Bicep
3 7 (25.93%) SQL
4 6 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 6 (22.22%) TypeScript
5 3 (11.11%) Python
6 1 (3.70%) Bash
6 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 6 (22.22%) DV Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.70%) Degree
4 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) NIST
1 5 (18.52%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (29.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (18.52%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (18.52%) VMware NSX
3 4 (14.81%) Docker
4 3 (11.11%) Hyper-V
4 3 (11.11%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (37.04%) Terraform
2 7 (25.93%) SCCM
3 6 (22.22%) Kubernetes
4 5 (18.52%) vCenter Server
5 4 (14.81%) Ansible
6 2 (7.41%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.70%) Argo
7 1 (3.70%) Istio
7 1 (3.70%) linkerd
7 1 (3.70%) Packer
7 1 (3.70%) Puppet
7 1 (3.70%) Rancher
7 1 (3.70%) SELinux
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) VMware
2 5 (18.52%) Veeam
3 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.70%) Citrix
4 1 (3.70%) Guidewire
4 1 (3.70%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.70%) SAP