Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the West Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 78 81 103
Rank change year-on-year +3 +22 +41
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 19 30 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.41% 1.54% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 1.83% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 25 24
10th Percentile £400 £405 £431
25th Percentile £512 £500 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £689 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +25.27% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £700 £611 £641
90th Percentile - - £666
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £27.38 £57.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year -52.39% -26.28% +52.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Birmingham +20 10 £607 +51.75% 15
Herefordshire - 4 £700 -
Worcestershire -4 3 £700 +27.27% 3
Shropshire -2 2 - -
Staffordshire - 2 £550 - 18
Coventry +5 1 £400 -20.00% 12
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 2 (10.53%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) Apache
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) NetSuite
2 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) AWS
1 6 (31.58%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) Serverless
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon S3
3 4 (21.05%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (21.05%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (15.79%) PaaS
4 3 (15.79%) SaaS
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (10.53%) AWS CodeCommit
5 2 (10.53%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (10.53%) Boomi
5 2 (10.53%) GCP
5 2 (10.53%) OCI
6 1 (5.26%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (5.26%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.26%) Big Data
3 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
3 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.53%) JIRA
3 1 (5.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.26%) Git
3 1 (5.26%) GitLab
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Developer
2 3 (15.79%) AWS Developer
2 3 (15.79%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Python Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Python Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Site Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Big Data Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Lead
4 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Product Owner
4 1 (5.26%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) AWS CDK
1 2 (10.53%) Django
1 2 (10.53%) MACH
2 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.26%) Kafka
2 1 (5.26%) REST
2 1 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Containerisation
2 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
3 5 (26.32%) Agile
3 5 (26.32%) Task Automation
4 4 (21.05%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (21.05%) DevOps
4 4 (21.05%) ITSM
4 4 (21.05%) Network Monitoring
4 4 (21.05%) Service Management
5 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
5 3 (15.79%) CRM
5 3 (15.79%) Data Modelling
5 3 (15.79%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (15.79%) ETL
5 3 (15.79%) Load Testing
5 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (15.79%) SIEM
5 3 (15.79%) Software Delivery
5 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) Python
2 4 (21.05%) Bash
2 4 (21.05%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) Java
3 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.53%) R
5 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.26%) Scala
5 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) SC Cleared
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 3 (15.79%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) NCSC
2 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Docker
2 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (68.42%) Terraform
2 10 (52.63%) Ansible
3 9 (47.37%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.26%) Grafana
4 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Broadcom
1 4 (21.05%) VMware
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) BT
3 1 (5.26%) Databricks
3 1 (5.26%) Foundry
3 1 (5.26%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk