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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 94 143
Rank change year-on-year +22 +49 -52
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 44 34 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.17% 1.54% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 1.75% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 22 23
10th Percentile £458 £427 £473
25th Percentile £513 £467 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £576 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.30% -1.43% +20.00%
75th Percentile £611 £647 £581
90th Percentile £675 £697 £625
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -13.46% - -

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 1,664 1,941 3,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 81.89% 87.67% 90.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,108 1,315 2,341
10th Percentile £263 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £496
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.94% +16.59%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £588
90th Percentile £731 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 51 58
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £12.18
25th Percentile £14.31 £14.03 £13.90
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year - +30.43% +15.00%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.97
90th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £24.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +6.38% +37.27% +14.13%

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 June 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 June 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 +21 28 £607 -19.07% 7
Worcestershire +6 7 £550 -15.38%
Birmingham +1 5 £519 +1.72% 15
Coventry +2 1 £450 -6.25% 8
Solihull - 1 £345 - 5
Shropshire - 1 £523 -
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 (2.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (2.27%) CMS
1 1 (2.27%) Headless CMS
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (40.91%) Azure
2 11 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (18.18%) Azure AKS
4 6 (13.64%) Azure App Service
5 3 (6.82%) AWS
5 3 (6.82%) GitHub
5 3 (6.82%) IaaS
5 3 (6.82%) PaaS
6 2 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.27%) Mimecast
7 1 (2.27%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (25.00%) DNS
2 8 (18.18%) DHCP
3 7 (15.91%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.55%) Firewall
4 2 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.27%) Flink
2 1 (2.27%) Redis
2 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (31.82%) Git
2 2 (4.55%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (4.55%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.27%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.27%) Hudson
3 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.27%) JIRA
3 1 (2.27%) webpack
General
1 11 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.55%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (18.18%) Architect
1 8 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (15.91%) Developer
3 6 (13.64%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (13.64%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (13.64%) Principal Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Angular Developer
5 3 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) DevOps Specialist
6 2 (4.55%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Server Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Subject Matter Expert
6 2 (4.55%) VMware Specialist
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Architect
7 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (29.55%) YAML
2 6 (13.64%) .NET
2 6 (13.64%) RESTful
3 5 (11.36%) AngularJS
4 3 (6.82%) JSON
5 1 (2.27%) ADO
5 1 (2.27%) Apache Sling
5 1 (2.27%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.27%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.27%) Kafka
5 1 (2.27%) Next.js
5 1 (2.27%) OSGi
5 1 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.27%) React
5 1 (2.27%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) SCADA
2 5 (11.36%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (11.36%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.82%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (54.55%) Linux
2 22 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (45.45%) Windows
4 7 (15.91%) Windows Server
5 6 (13.64%) Unix
6 1 (2.27%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (47.73%) DevOps
2 12 (27.27%) Configuration Management
2 12 (27.27%) Infrastructure Automation
2 12 (27.27%) Validation
3 11 (25.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 9 (20.45%) Agile
5 8 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (15.91%) Customer Requirements
6 7 (15.91%) Virtual Environments
7 6 (13.64%) CI/CD
7 6 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (13.64%) Visualisation
8 5 (11.36%) Information Management
8 5 (11.36%) Microservices
8 5 (11.36%) Security Hardening
8 5 (11.36%) SIEM
8 5 (11.36%) User Experience
8 5 (11.36%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 19 (43.18%) PowerShell
2 13 (29.55%) C#
3 8 (18.18%) Bicep
3 8 (18.18%) Java
3 8 (18.18%) SQL
4 6 (13.64%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.82%) Python
6 2 (4.55%) Bash
7 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 24 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 16 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 7 (15.91%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.82%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) NIST
1 5 (11.36%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (43.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (31.82%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (11.36%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (11.36%) VMware NSX
4 4 (9.09%) Docker
5 3 (6.82%) Hyper-V
5 3 (6.82%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
6 1 (2.27%) XenApp
6 1 (2.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 22 (50.00%) Terraform
2 15 (34.09%) Ansible
3 13 (29.55%) Progress Chef
4 12 (27.27%) Puppet
5 11 (25.00%) Salt
6 8 (18.18%) SCCM
7 6 (13.64%) Kubernetes
8 5 (11.36%) vCenter Server
9 1 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (2.27%) Argo
9 1 (2.27%) Istio
9 1 (2.27%) linkerd
9 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (2.27%) Rancher
9 1 (2.27%) SELinux
9 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (50.00%) VMware
2 18 (40.91%) Red Hat
3 9 (20.45%) SaltStack
4 5 (11.36%) Microsoft
4 5 (11.36%) Veeam
5 1 (2.27%) Citrix
5 1 (2.27%) Guidewire
5 1 (2.27%) Ivanti
5 1 (2.27%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle
5 1 (2.27%) Zscaler