Infrastructure as Code Contracts in England

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 99 113
Rank change year-on-year -23 +14 +20
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 696 1,199 1,717
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.91% 2.49% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 2.76% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 881 1,260
10th Percentile £400 £463 £468
25th Percentile £475 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £638 £694 £688
90th Percentile £690 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £585
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 1
10th Percentile £55.00 £70.50 -
25th Percentile £55.31 £76.13 £46.19
Median hourly rate £62.50 £78.00 £47.38
Median % change year-on-year -19.87% +64.64% -21.04%
75th Percentile £73.69 £86.25 £48.56
90th Percentile £76.25 £90.00 -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £78.00 £43.69
% change year-on-year -13.46% +78.54% -28.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,446 43,440 63,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.42% 90.15% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,588 30,513 45,420
10th Percentile £300 £325 £333
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,538 1,746
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £16.23 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.00 £49.37
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in England

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in England.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in England

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in England

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in England.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in England

Infrastructure as Code
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in England

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 16 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
London -23 375 £550 -10.20% 202
South East +58 117 £605 +0.83% 60
North of England +3 94 £550 -8.33% 75
Yorkshire +28 46 £558 -7.08% 26
North West -19 45 £550 -8.33% 40
South West -56 44 £625 +2.04% 53
Midlands +12 29 £538 - 53
West Midlands +16 27 £550 +4.76% 37
East of England +2 6 £500 +0.50% 10
North East -2 3 - - 9
East Midlands +8 2 £450 -18.18% 16
Infrastructure as Code
UK

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 25 (3.59%) Confluence
2 22 (3.16%) OpenStack
3 21 (3.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (2.30%) Apache Spark
6 15 (2.16%) nginx
7 6 (0.86%) Apache
8 5 (0.72%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.57%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.57%) Luigi
9 4 (0.57%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.43%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.14%) CMS
11 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.14%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.14%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Shopify
2 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 326 (46.84%) Azure
2 309 (44.40%) AWS
3 131 (18.82%) GCP
4 114 (16.38%) Serverless
5 112 (16.09%) Azure DevOps
6 81 (11.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 75 (10.78%) GitHub
8 70 (10.06%) AWS Lambda
9 60 (8.62%) Amazon S3
10 58 (8.33%) IaaS
11 57 (8.19%) Amazon EC2
12 56 (8.05%) PaaS
13 46 (6.61%) SaaS
14 37 (5.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 36 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 36 (5.17%) Azure Monitor
15 36 (5.17%) Entra ID
16 33 (4.74%) Amazon EKS
16 33 (4.74%) Cloud Computing
17 32 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 97 (13.94%) Firewall
2 76 (10.92%) DNS
3 41 (5.89%) DHCP
3 41 (5.89%) VPN
4 39 (5.60%) TCP/IP
5 20 (2.87%) Network Security
5 20 (2.87%) WAN
6 18 (2.59%) HTTP
6 18 (2.59%) LAN
7 15 (2.16%) IPsec
8 14 (2.01%) WLAN
9 12 (1.72%) OSPF
9 12 (1.72%) VLAN
10 11 (1.58%) VSAN
11 10 (1.44%) Wireless
12 9 (1.29%) BGP
12 9 (1.29%) SAN
12 9 (1.29%) SSL
13 8 (1.15%) IPv4
13 8 (1.15%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (5.03%) Amazon RDS
2 34 (4.89%) BigQuery
3 33 (4.74%) NoSQL
4 32 (4.60%) Elasticsearch
4 32 (4.60%) MySQL
5 28 (4.02%) SQL Server
6 26 (3.74%) Data Lake
7 25 (3.59%) Amazon Redshift
7 25 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
8 23 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 19 (2.73%) Relational Database
10 18 (2.59%) MongoDB
11 17 (2.44%) Big Data
12 15 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
13 14 (2.01%) DynamoDB
14 13 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
15 10 (1.44%) Redis
16 8 (1.15%) Hadoop
16 8 (1.15%) RDBMS
17 7 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 159 (22.84%) Jenkins
2 128 (18.39%) Git
3 113 (16.24%) GitLab
4 43 (6.18%) JIRA
5 27 (3.88%) SonarQube
6 22 (3.16%) Selenium
7 15 (2.16%) Cucumber
7 15 (2.16%) TeamCity
8 13 (1.87%) CircleCI
9 12 (1.72%) Burp Suite
9 12 (1.72%) REST Assured
10 11 (1.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 11 (1.58%) Travis CI
11 10 (1.44%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.86%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.72%) AppScan
13 5 (0.72%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
14 4 (0.57%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.57%) Maven
General
1 198 (28.45%) Social Skills
2 78 (11.21%) Finance
3 50 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (6.03%) Public Sector
5 33 (4.74%) Banking
6 17 (2.44%) Retail
7 16 (2.30%) Law
8 11 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.15%) Legal
10 8 (1.15%) Police
11 6 (0.86%) Investment Banking
11 6 (0.86%) Marketing
12 4 (0.57%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.43%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.43%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.43%) German Language
13 3 (0.43%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.29%) Billing
14 2 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 161 (23.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 110 (15.80%) Architect
3 77 (11.06%) Azure Engineer
4 74 (10.63%) AWS Engineer
4 74 (10.63%) Senior
5 58 (8.33%) Developer
6 57 (8.19%) Cloud Engineer
7 52 (7.47%) AWS DevOps
8 47 (6.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 46 (6.61%) Platform Engineer
10 40 (5.75%) Lead
11 37 (5.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 36 (5.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 34 (4.89%) Cloud Architect
13 34 (4.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 30 (4.31%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 30 (4.31%) Software Engineer
15 28 (4.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 23 (3.30%) Site Engineer
17 22 (3.16%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (8.48%) ARM Templates
2 52 (7.47%) Elastic Stack
3 46 (6.61%) YAML
4 38 (5.46%) .NET
4 38 (5.46%) REST
5 27 (3.88%) Kafka
6 25 (3.59%) JSON
7 23 (3.30%) Node.js
8 18 (2.59%) React
9 16 (2.30%) AWS CDK
10 15 (2.16%) RESTful
11 14 (2.01%) RabbitMQ
11 14 (2.01%) SOAP
12 13 (1.87%) Java EE
12 13 (1.87%) XML
13 12 (1.72%) GraphQL
14 10 (1.44%) .NET Core
14 10 (1.44%) ADO
14 10 (1.44%) OAuth
14 10 (1.44%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 44 (6.32%) PKI
2 43 (6.18%) Cloud Native
3 27 (3.88%) Public Cloud
4 22 (3.16%) Data Centre
4 22 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
5 20 (2.87%) Onboarding
6 18 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (2.44%) Product Ownership
8 16 (2.30%) Mobile App
9 15 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (2.01%) IoT
10 14 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
11 12 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.58%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.58%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 10 (1.44%) Data Structures
14 9 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (1.29%) Replication
15 8 (1.15%) Clustering
15 8 (1.15%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 184 (26.44%) Linux
2 84 (12.07%) Windows
3 50 (7.18%) Windows Server
4 43 (6.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (4.02%) Unix
6 21 (3.02%) CentOS
7 20 (2.87%) Windows Server 2016
8 18 (2.59%) Windows Server 2019
9 12 (1.72%) Ubuntu
10 10 (1.44%) VMS
11 7 (1.01%) Kali Linux
12 6 (0.86%) Oracle Linux
12 6 (0.86%) Solaris
13 4 (0.57%) Alpine Linux
14 3 (0.43%) Android
14 3 (0.43%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.43%) Debian
14 3 (0.43%) Windows 2000
14 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.43%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 438 (62.93%) DevOps
2 385 (55.32%) CI/CD
3 208 (29.89%) Agile
4 185 (26.58%) Containerisation
5 125 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
6 103 (14.80%) Continuous Integration
7 86 (12.36%) Microservices
8 85 (12.21%) Cloud Security
9 83 (11.93%) DevSecOps
10 80 (11.49%) Test Automation
11 77 (11.06%) Configuration Management
12 75 (10.78%) Analytics
13 59 (8.48%) Software Engineering
14 58 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
15 55 (7.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 55 (7.90%) Migration
16 54 (7.76%) Scrum
17 51 (7.33%) Computer Science
17 51 (7.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 48 (6.90%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 278 (39.94%) Python
2 157 (22.56%) PowerShell
3 135 (19.40%) Bash
4 91 (13.07%) SQL
5 79 (11.35%) Java
6 70 (10.06%) C#
7 59 (8.48%) Bicep
8 39 (5.60%) Go
8 39 (5.60%) TypeScript
9 37 (5.32%) Shell Script
10 33 (4.74%) JavaScript
11 17 (2.44%) VB
11 17 (2.44%) VBScript
12 12 (1.72%) Ruby
13 7 (1.01%) Groovy
14 6 (0.86%) PHP
15 3 (0.43%) ActionScript
15 3 (0.43%) Perl
15 3 (0.43%) Scala
16 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 183 (26.29%) Security Cleared
2 145 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 76 (10.92%) Degree
4 48 (6.90%) DV Cleared
5 47 (6.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.44%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 14 (2.01%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.01%) OSCP
9 6 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (0.86%) CISSP
9 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.72%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.57%) CCNP
11 4 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.43%) CCIE
12 3 (0.43%) GIAC
13 2 (0.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.32%) NIST
2 34 (4.89%) QA
3 17 (2.44%) PCI DSS
4 16 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (2.01%) GDPR
6 7 (1.01%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.72%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.57%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.43%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.29%) NCSC
11 2 (0.29%) SLA
12 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 214 (30.75%) Docker
2 63 (9.05%) Active Directory
3 46 (6.61%) Virtual Machines
4 45 (6.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (3.02%) VMware NSX
6 18 (2.59%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (2.01%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (1.58%) vSphere
9 7 (1.01%) vCloud
10 5 (0.72%) Firmware
11 4 (0.57%) Hyper-V
12 3 (0.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 3 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.29%) Squid
14 1 (0.14%) Ceph
14 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.14%) NFS
14 1 (0.14%) XenApp
14 1 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 466 (66.95%) Terraform
2 263 (37.79%) Kubernetes
3 186 (26.72%) Ansible
4 72 (10.34%) Grafana
5 67 (9.63%) Prometheus
6 52 (7.47%) Puppet
7 41 (5.89%) Progress Chef
8 28 (4.02%) Kibana
8 28 (4.02%) logstash
8 28 (4.02%) SCCM
9 22 (3.16%) Docker Swarm
10 20 (2.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 20 (2.87%) Microsoft Intune
11 17 (2.44%) SCOM
11 17 (2.44%) vCenter Server
11 17 (2.44%) WSUS
12 15 (2.16%) Packer
13 12 (1.72%) Podman
14 11 (1.58%) Istio
14 11 (1.58%) vRealize
Vendors
1 119 (17.10%) Microsoft
2 63 (9.05%) VMware
3 57 (8.19%) Google
4 43 (6.18%) Splunk
5 29 (4.17%) Cisco
6 27 (3.88%) Oracle
7 23 (3.30%) Red Hat
8 18 (2.59%) Databricks
8 18 (2.59%) Fortinet
8 18 (2.59%) Palo Alto
9 16 (2.30%) Juniper
10 15 (2.16%) Dell
11 14 (2.01%) Salesforce
12 13 (1.87%) Amdocs
13 11 (1.58%) CyberArk
14 10 (1.44%) SAP
15 8 (1.15%) Atlassian
15 8 (1.15%) HP
15 8 (1.15%) ServiceNow
16 7 (1.01%) Veeam