Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the Midlands

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 104 116 169
Rank change year-on-year +12 +53 -55
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 29 44 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.08% 1.34% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 1.52% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 31 26
10th Percentile £375 £445 £455
25th Percentile £456 £480 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +2.38% +20.00%
75th Percentile £611 £638 £539
90th Percentile £633 £650 £653
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £78.00 £47.38
% change year-on-year -19.87% +64.64% -21.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,214 2,900 4,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.21% 88.33% 87.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,486 2,032 3,228
10th Percentile £238 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +15.15%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 107 146
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.92 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.91 £14.76 £13.74
Median hourly rate £18.00 £20.71 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.06% +18.31% +14.01%
75th Percentile £33.25 £31.00 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £56.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the Midlands

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the Midlands

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the Midlands

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +16 27 £550 +4.76% 38
East Midlands +8 2 £450 -18.18% 16
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 (3.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (3.45%) CMS
1 1 (3.45%) Headless CMS
1 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (65.52%) Azure
2 13 (44.83%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (27.59%) Azure AKS
4 6 (20.69%) Azure App Service
5 5 (17.24%) AWS
6 4 (13.79%) GitHub
7 3 (10.34%) IaaS
7 3 (10.34%) PaaS
7 3 (10.34%) Serverless
8 2 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (6.90%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (6.90%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
9 1 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (34.48%) DNS
2 7 (24.14%) DHCP
2 7 (24.14%) TCP/IP
3 2 (6.90%) Firewall
3 2 (6.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.45%) Flink
2 1 (3.45%) Redis
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (6.90%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.45%) Artifactory
3 1 (3.45%) Hudson
3 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.45%) JIRA
3 1 (3.45%) webpack
General
1 11 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Finance
2 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) Developer
3 6 (20.69%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Principal Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) Angular Developer
4 5 (17.24%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Architect
5 2 (6.90%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (6.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Server Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Backend Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Senior
6 1 (3.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) .NET
2 6 (20.69%) RESTful
3 5 (17.24%) AngularJS
4 3 (10.34%) JSON
5 2 (6.90%) YAML
6 1 (3.45%) Apache Sling
6 1 (3.45%) ARM Templates
6 1 (3.45%) GraphQL
6 1 (3.45%) Kafka
6 1 (3.45%) Next.js
6 1 (3.45%) OSGi
6 1 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (3.45%) React
6 1 (3.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (17.24%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.34%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (31.03%) Linux
2 8 (27.59%) Windows
3 6 (20.69%) Unix
3 6 (20.69%) Windows Server
4 5 (17.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (55.17%) DevOps
2 9 (31.03%) Agile
3 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
4 7 (24.14%) Virtual Environments
5 6 (20.69%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (20.69%) Microservices
5 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (20.69%) Visualisation
6 5 (17.24%) Critical Thinking
6 5 (17.24%) Information Management
6 5 (17.24%) Security Hardening
6 5 (17.24%) Security Monitoring
6 5 (17.24%) SIEM
6 5 (17.24%) Systems Engineering
6 5 (17.24%) User Experience
6 5 (17.24%) UX Design
7 3 (10.34%) DevSecOps
7 3 (10.34%) Kanban
7 3 (10.34%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) C#
2 8 (27.59%) Bicep
2 8 (27.59%) Java
2 8 (27.59%) SQL
3 7 (24.14%) PowerShell
4 6 (20.69%) TypeScript
5 3 (10.34%) Python
6 2 (6.90%) Bash
7 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.69%) DV Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.45%) Degree
4 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) NIST
1 5 (17.24%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) GDPR
2 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (20.69%) Docker
3 5 (17.24%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (17.24%) VMware NSX
4 3 (10.34%) Hyper-V
4 3 (10.34%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (10.34%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (41.38%) Terraform
2 8 (27.59%) Kubernetes
3 7 (24.14%) SCCM
4 5 (17.24%) vCenter Server
5 4 (13.79%) Ansible
6 2 (6.90%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.45%) Argo
7 1 (3.45%) Istio
7 1 (3.45%) linkerd
7 1 (3.45%) Packer
7 1 (3.45%) Puppet
7 1 (3.45%) Rancher
7 1 (3.45%) SELinux
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) VMware
2 5 (17.24%) Veeam
3 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.45%) Citrix
4 1 (3.45%) Guidewire
4 1 (3.45%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) Red Hat