Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the South East

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 83 141 165
Rank change year-on-year +58 +24 -46
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 117 65 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.15% 1.16% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 1.30% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 50 62
10th Percentile £413 £459 £455
25th Percentile £514 £520 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% - +21.21%
75th Percentile £650 £719 £658
90th Percentile £688 £760 £675
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,584 4,983 6,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.28% 89.17% 89.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,667 3,471 4,653
10th Percentile £250 £250 £228
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +1.60% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 213 284
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.10
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £61.05
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the South East

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the South East

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the South East

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the South East

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +32 67 £605 +7.08% 20
Berkshire +19 59 £605 +8.52% 6
Surrey +22 16 £663 +3.92% 14
Hampshire -1 16 £300 -45.45% 12
Buckinghamshire +28 6 £506 -15.63% 10
Kent - 4 £638 - 1
East Sussex +6 3 £538 -17.31% 2
West Sussex +4 3 £500 -31.97% 2
Oxfordshire - 2 £500 - 4
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 18 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.85%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 65 (55.56%) Azure
2 44 (37.61%) AWS
3 23 (19.66%) Azure Monitor
4 19 (16.24%) Entra ID
5 18 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (14.53%) Azure Storage
7 13 (11.11%) GCP
8 11 (9.40%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (9.40%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (8.55%) IaaS
9 10 (8.55%) OpenShift
10 7 (5.98%) PaaS
11 6 (5.13%) Azure API Management
11 6 (5.13%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (5.13%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (5.13%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (4.27%) Azure Functions
12 5 (4.27%) Serverless
13 4 (3.42%) GitHub
14 3 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (19.66%) DNS
2 20 (17.09%) Firewall
3 17 (14.53%) DHCP
4 7 (5.98%) VSAN
5 3 (2.56%) SAN
6 2 (1.71%) VPN
7 1 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.85%) Network Security
7 1 (0.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.27%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (4.27%) MongoDB
1 5 (4.27%) MySQL
1 5 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (4.27%) RDBMS
1 5 (4.27%) Relational Database
1 5 (4.27%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.56%) BigQuery
2 3 (2.56%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.56%) Metadata
2 3 (2.56%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.85%) Big Data
3 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.85%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 21 (17.95%) GitLab
2 18 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 14 (11.97%) JIRA
3 14 (11.97%) Selenium
4 13 (11.11%) Cucumber
4 13 (11.11%) Git
5 12 (10.26%) REST Assured
5 12 (10.26%) SonarQube
6 6 (5.13%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.85%) Appium
7 1 (0.85%) MSTest
7 1 (0.85%) NUnit
7 1 (0.85%) rollup.js
7 1 (0.85%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.85%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.85%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.85%) webpack
General
1 53 (45.30%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (7.69%) Law
4 8 (6.84%) Police
5 5 (4.27%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.42%) Finance
7 3 (2.56%) Banking
7 3 (2.56%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (2.56%) Retail
8 2 (1.71%) Back Office
8 2 (1.71%) Legal
9 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 17 (14.53%) Active Directory Support
2 16 (13.68%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (11.97%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (11.97%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 14 (11.97%) Senior
3 14 (11.97%) Support Specialist
4 11 (9.40%) Architect
5 10 (8.55%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (7.69%) Developer
6 9 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (6.84%) Applications Engineer
7 8 (6.84%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (6.84%) Linux Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) VMware Expert
9 6 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) Java Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) Java Software Engineer
10 5 (4.27%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (31.62%) ARM Templates
2 16 (13.68%) REST
3 13 (11.11%) Java EE
4 8 (6.84%) ADO
5 5 (4.27%) .NET
6 4 (3.42%) JSON
6 4 (3.42%) YAML
7 3 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (2.56%) OAuth
7 3 (2.56%) OpenID
7 3 (2.56%) SOAP
7 3 (2.56%) XML
8 2 (1.71%) Fluent Bit
8 2 (1.71%) Loki
9 1 (0.85%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.85%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.85%) Kafka
9 1 (0.85%) React
9 1 (0.85%) Redux
9 1 (0.85%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.38%) PKI
2 17 (14.53%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.27%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.56%) Smart Meter
6 2 (1.71%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.71%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.85%) Clustering
7 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Replication
7 1 (0.85%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 42 (35.90%) Linux
2 22 (18.80%) Windows
3 18 (15.38%) Windows Server
4 17 (14.53%) Windows Server 2016
4 17 (14.53%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (6.84%) Ubuntu
6 7 (5.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (5.13%) VMS
8 5 (4.27%) Unix
9 3 (2.56%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (62.39%) DevOps
2 61 (52.14%) CI/CD
3 47 (40.17%) Containerisation
4 44 (37.61%) Agile
5 31 (26.50%) Test Automation
6 28 (23.93%) Technical Leadership
7 21 (17.95%) ITIL
8 19 (16.24%) Analytics
8 19 (16.24%) Configuration Management
8 19 (16.24%) Continuous Integration
8 19 (16.24%) Identity Management
8 19 (16.24%) RBAC
8 19 (16.24%) Release Management
9 18 (15.38%) Log Analytics
9 18 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (15.38%) Service Management
10 17 (14.53%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 17 (14.53%) Privileged Identity Management
11 15 (12.82%) Decision-Making
11 15 (12.82%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 31 (26.50%) PowerShell
2 21 (17.95%) C#
3 18 (15.38%) Bicep
4 17 (14.53%) VB
4 17 (14.53%) VBScript
5 14 (11.97%) Python
6 13 (11.11%) Java
7 12 (10.26%) Bash
8 10 (8.55%) SQL
9 6 (5.13%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.71%) Go
Qualifications
1 63 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 54 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 24 (20.51%) Degree
4 21 (17.95%) DV Cleared
5 17 (14.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.71%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.71%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.71%) PhD
7 1 (0.85%) CCNP
7 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.85%) MCSE
7 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.71%) GDPR
1 2 (1.71%) NIST
1 2 (1.71%) PCI DSS
1 2 (1.71%) SLA
2 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.85%) NCSC
System Software
1 32 (27.35%) Docker
2 27 (23.08%) Active Directory
3 19 (16.24%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (14.53%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (9.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (6.84%) VMware NSX
7 7 (5.98%) vCloud
8 5 (4.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 63 (53.85%) Kubernetes
2 42 (35.90%) Terraform
3 31 (26.50%) Ansible
4 18 (15.38%) SCCM
5 17 (14.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 17 (14.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (14.53%) SCOM
5 17 (14.53%) WSUS
6 12 (10.26%) Docker Swarm
6 12 (10.26%) Podman
7 8 (6.84%) Rancher
8 7 (5.98%) Istio
8 7 (5.98%) vCenter Server
9 6 (5.13%) Packer
9 6 (5.13%) vRealize
10 4 (3.42%) Prometheus
11 3 (2.56%) Grafana
12 2 (1.71%) Argo
12 2 (1.71%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.85%) VxRail
Vendors
1 26 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 17 (14.53%) VMware
3 8 (6.84%) Google
4 5 (4.27%) Arqiva
4 5 (4.27%) Oracle
4 5 (4.27%) Red Hat
4 5 (4.27%) Veritas
5 3 (2.56%) Databricks
6 2 (1.71%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.85%) Adobe
7 1 (0.85%) BMC
7 1 (0.85%) Dell
7 1 (0.85%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.85%) Remedy
7 1 (0.85%) SolarWinds