Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 3 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.73% - 3.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% - 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £353 - £485
25th Percentile £399 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.30%
75th Percentile £531 - £625
90th Percentile £535 - £640
South East median daily rate £575 £525 £579
% change year-on-year +9.52% -9.25% -7.44%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 354 150 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 86.34% 81.08% 84.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 106 89
10th Percentile £191 £170 £193
25th Percentile £275 £220 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £439 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -2.50% -8.72%
75th Percentile £494 £525 £528
90th Percentile £638 £711 £625
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 22 5
10th Percentile £15.48 £12.63 £24.45
25th Percentile £23.00 £15.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £16.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +143.75% -42.86% -20.85%
75th Percentile £53.75 £20.69 £29.00
90th Percentile - - £35.75
South East median hourly rate £52.43 £20.73 £57.35
% change year-on-year +152.89% -63.85% +9.24%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

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

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in West Sussex over the 6 months to 18 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in West Sussex

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 18 September 2026. 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
Crawley - 2 £513 - 11
Horsham - 1 £322 - 2
Infrastructure as Code
South East

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) FinOps
2 1 (33.33%) GitOps
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) MLOps
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) VMware