Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the North of England

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 95 98 108
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 +4
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 94 124 161
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.02% 2.22% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 2.45% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 93 131
10th Percentile £425 £465 £413
25th Percentile £480 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £620
90th Percentile £639 £750 £650
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £69.50 - £46.19
Median hourly rate £72.00 - £47.38
75th Percentile £74.50 - £48.56
90th Percentile - - -
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
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,971 5,062 6,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.53% 90.60% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,420 3,499 4,622
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £401 £413 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £569
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 201 266
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.72 £13.56
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.98 £19.12
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +46.32% +5.90%
75th Percentile £45.00 £44.50 £36.75
90th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £62.86
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the North of England

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the North of England

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the North of England

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the North of England

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
Yorkshire +28 46 £558 -7.08% 24
North West -19 45 £550 -8.33% 38
North East -2 3 - - 6
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 13 (13.83%) Confluence
2 7 (7.45%) Apache Spark
3 5 (5.32%) nginx
4 3 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.19%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 58 (61.70%) AWS
2 44 (46.81%) Azure
3 25 (26.60%) GCP
4 24 (25.53%) Serverless
5 23 (24.47%) GitHub
6 16 (17.02%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (17.02%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (15.96%) Amazon S3
8 13 (13.83%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (13.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (12.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (11.70%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (9.57%) Kong
12 8 (8.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (7.45%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
13 7 (7.45%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (6.38%) Amazon ELB
14 6 (6.38%) Apigee
14 6 (6.38%) Snowflake
15 5 (5.32%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 17 (18.09%) Firewall
2 12 (12.77%) VPN
3 11 (11.70%) DNS
4 9 (9.57%) HTTP
4 9 (9.57%) TCP/IP
5 5 (5.32%) Network Security
5 5 (5.32%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (5.32%) SSL
6 3 (3.19%) BIG-IP
6 3 (3.19%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 3 (3.19%) WAN
7 2 (2.13%) IPv4
7 2 (2.13%) SD-WAN
7 2 (2.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.83%) Data Lake
2 12 (12.77%) MySQL
3 11 (11.70%) Amazon Redshift
3 11 (11.70%) NoSQL
4 9 (9.57%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (9.57%) BigQuery
4 9 (9.57%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (7.45%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (7.45%) Big Data
5 7 (7.45%) Hadoop
6 6 (6.38%) DynamoDB
6 6 (6.38%) MongoDB
7 5 (5.32%) Relational Database
8 4 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (4.26%) SQL Server
9 3 (3.19%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (3.19%) ClickHouse
10 2 (2.13%) Redis
11 1 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 33 (35.11%) Jenkins
2 32 (34.04%) Git
3 25 (26.60%) GitLab
4 11 (11.70%) JIRA
4 11 (11.70%) SonarQube
5 10 (10.64%) Travis CI
6 9 (9.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (9.57%) CircleCI
7 7 (7.45%) Burp Suite
8 4 (4.26%) AppScan
8 4 (4.26%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.13%) Bitbucket
9 2 (2.13%) Selenium
General
1 24 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (12.77%) Finance
4 10 (10.64%) Banking
5 6 (6.38%) Retail
6 4 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.06%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.06%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 34 (36.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (19.15%) Architect
3 14 (14.89%) AWS DevOps
3 14 (14.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 12 (12.77%) Azure Engineer
5 11 (11.70%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (11.70%) Site Engineer
6 10 (10.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 10 (10.64%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 7 (7.45%) Software Engineer
7 7 (7.45%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (6.38%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) DevOps Automation Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Full Stack Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Lead
9 5 (5.32%) Developer
9 5 (5.32%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.83%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (12.77%) Kafka
3 11 (11.70%) YAML
4 10 (10.64%) JSON
5 9 (9.57%) XML
6 7 (7.45%) React
7 6 (6.38%) AWS CDK
8 5 (5.32%) Node.js
9 4 (4.26%) Next.js
9 4 (4.26%) RESTful
10 3 (3.19%) Apache Beam
10 3 (3.19%) ARM Templates
10 3 (3.19%) Keycloak
10 3 (3.19%) Lambda Expressions
10 3 (3.19%) Spring
10 3 (3.19%) Spring Boot
11 2 (2.13%) .NET
11 2 (2.13%) pytest
11 2 (2.13%) SAML
11 2 (2.13%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.57%) Data Structures
1 9 (9.57%) Public Cloud
2 8 (8.51%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.19%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.06%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.06%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 19 (20.21%) Linux
2 3 (3.19%) Android
2 3 (3.19%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.19%) Kali Linux
2 3 (3.19%) Unix
2 3 (3.19%) Windows
2 3 (3.19%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.13%) Alpine Linux
3 2 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (82.98%) DevOps
2 64 (68.09%) CI/CD
3 43 (45.74%) Containerisation
4 41 (43.62%) Agile
5 22 (23.40%) Continuous Integration
5 22 (23.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 21 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (14.89%) Scrum
8 13 (13.83%) Microservices
8 13 (13.83%) Project Management
8 13 (13.83%) Test Automation
9 11 (11.70%) Cloud Security
9 11 (11.70%) Configuration Management
9 11 (11.70%) Design Patterns
9 11 (11.70%) Migration
9 11 (11.70%) Task Automation
9 11 (11.70%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (10.64%) Continuous Deployment
10 10 (10.64%) Observability
10 10 (10.64%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 52 (55.32%) Python
2 32 (34.04%) Bash
3 21 (22.34%) PowerShell
4 20 (21.28%) SQL
5 17 (18.09%) Java
6 14 (14.89%) Go
7 11 (11.70%) TypeScript
8 10 (10.64%) JavaScript
9 5 (5.32%) Groovy
10 3 (3.19%) ActionScript
10 3 (3.19%) Bicep
10 3 (3.19%) Ruby
10 3 (3.19%) Scala
11 2 (2.13%) C#
11 2 (2.13%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.06%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (12.77%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.64%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.26%) Degree
4 3 (3.19%) OSCP
5 2 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.06%) MCSE
6 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.96%) QA
2 6 (6.38%) PCI DSS
3 4 (4.26%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.19%) ISO 22301
4 3 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.19%) NIST
5 2 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 41 (43.62%) Docker
2 3 (3.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 72 (76.60%) Terraform
2 42 (44.68%) Kubernetes
3 30 (31.91%) Ansible
4 22 (23.40%) Grafana
5 17 (18.09%) Prometheus
6 13 (13.83%) Progress Chef
6 13 (13.83%) Puppet
7 10 (10.64%) HP Fortify
8 9 (9.57%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (9.57%) Kibana
8 9 (9.57%) logstash
9 4 (4.26%) Graylog
9 4 (4.26%) Nessus
9 4 (4.26%) WebInspect
10 2 (2.13%) Istio
10 2 (2.13%) Kiali
Vendors
1 21 (22.34%) Splunk
2 12 (12.77%) Microsoft
3 10 (10.64%) Google
4 5 (5.32%) F5
5 4 (4.26%) Checkmarx
5 4 (4.26%) Veracode
6 3 (3.19%) Atlassian
6 3 (3.19%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.13%) Aruba
7 2 (2.13%) Cisco
7 2 (2.13%) Juniper
7 2 (2.13%) Meraki
7 2 (2.13%) Sage
7 2 (2.13%) Virgin Media
7 2 (2.13%) VMware
7 2 (2.13%) Zscaler
8 1 (1.06%) Databricks