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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 59 95
Rank change year-on-year -19 +36 +63
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 35 48 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.10% 2.60% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 3.17% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 33 18
10th Percentile £450 £375 £421
25th Percentile £525 £500 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £557 £606
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -8.12% +15.48%
75th Percentile £618 £635 £688
90th Percentile £800 £685 £750
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 £70.60 £68.44 £78.00
% change year-on-year +3.16% -12.26% +1.96%

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 1,473 1,512 1,878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.36% 81.82% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 928 1,032 1,291
10th Percentile £220 £291 £263
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £626 £600
90th Percentile £663 £738 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 61 37
10th Percentile £12.62 £13.00 £14.10
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% -32.73% +59.42%
75th Percentile £32.44 £37.50 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.25 £47.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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
Worcestershire +2 10 £638 +15.91% 2
Warwickshire -20 8 £573 -1.63% 5
Birmingham 0 7 £450 -25.00% 12
Herefordshire - 6 £800 -
Coventry +1 4 £600 +33.33% 4
Solihull +9 2 - - 1
Shropshire - 2 £558 - 6
Staffordshire - 1 - - 11
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 (5.71%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) Apache
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.86%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) SAP PM
2 1 (2.86%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 23 (65.71%) Azure
2 15 (42.86%) GitHub
3 13 (37.14%) AWS
4 10 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (17.14%) GCP
5 6 (17.14%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (17.14%) PaaS
5 6 (17.14%) Serverless
6 5 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (11.43%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (11.43%) Amazon S3
7 4 (11.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 4 (11.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (11.43%) IaaS
7 4 (11.43%) Power Platform
8 3 (8.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (8.57%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (8.57%) Collibra
8 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) Firewall
2 2 (5.71%) Network Security
2 2 (5.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (11.43%) Delta Lake
1 4 (11.43%) Power BI
2 3 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (8.57%) GIS
2 3 (8.57%) NoSQL
2 3 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.71%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (5.71%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.86%) Big Data
4 1 (2.86%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.86%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) GitLab
2 6 (17.14%) Git
3 4 (11.43%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.71%) Bitbucket
4 2 (5.71%) JIRA
5 1 (2.86%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.86%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.86%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.86%) Gradle
5 1 (2.86%) JUnit
5 1 (2.86%) Maven
5 1 (2.86%) Postman
5 1 (2.86%) Selenium
5 1 (2.86%) Snyk
5 1 (2.86%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.86%) webpack
General
1 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.57%) Finance
4 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.86%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Architect
2 5 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Data Architect
3 4 (11.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (11.43%) Systems Architect
4 2 (5.71%) AWS Developer
4 2 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Chief Technology Officer
4 2 (5.71%) Developer
4 2 (5.71%) Lead
4 2 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Product Owner
4 2 (5.71%) Site Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Architect
5 1 (2.86%) Big Data Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (2.86%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.29%) YAML
2 4 (11.43%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (11.43%) Kafka
3 2 (5.71%) ADO
4 1 (2.86%) .NET
4 1 (2.86%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.86%) Django
4 1 (2.86%) JSON
4 1 (2.86%) MACH
4 1 (2.86%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (11.43%) SCADA
2 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.57%) IoT
2 3 (8.57%) Private Cloud
3 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (25.71%) Windows
2 3 (8.57%) Linux
2 3 (8.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 16 (45.71%) Containerisation
2 16 (45.71%) DevOps
3 11 (31.43%) Agile
4 9 (25.71%) Configuration Management
5 6 (17.14%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (17.14%) Data Governance
5 6 (17.14%) DevSecOps
5 6 (17.14%) Incident Response
5 6 (17.14%) Task Automation
6 5 (14.29%) Analytics
6 5 (14.29%) Cloud Security
6 5 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 5 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 5 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (14.29%) Machine Learning
6 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (14.29%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 12 (34.29%) Python
2 8 (22.86%) SQL
3 7 (20.00%) Bash
4 6 (17.14%) Bicep
5 3 (8.57%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (5.71%) Java
6 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.86%) Go
7 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.86%) R
7 1 (2.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (34.29%) SC Cleared
3 7 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 5 (14.29%) Degree
5 4 (11.43%) AWS Certification
5 4 (11.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (8.57%) Azure Certification
6 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) NCSC
2 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.71%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.71%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (51.43%) Docker
2 8 (22.86%) Active Directory
3 5 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (5.71%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (82.86%) Terraform
2 17 (48.57%) Ansible
2 17 (48.57%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.57%) Grafana
3 3 (8.57%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.71%) Puppet
5 1 (2.86%) Consul
5 1 (2.86%) Podman
5 1 (2.86%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (20.00%) VMware
3 5 (14.29%) Broadcom
4 4 (11.43%) Databricks
5 3 (8.57%) Google
5 3 (8.57%) Informatica
5 3 (8.57%) Oracle
5 3 (8.57%) SAP
6 2 (5.71%) Cisco
6 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
6 2 (5.71%) Splunk
7 1 (2.86%) BT
7 1 (2.86%) IBM
7 1 (2.86%) OpenAI
7 1 (2.86%) Qualys