Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 77 147
Rank change year-on-year +11 +70 -10
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 64 65 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.99% 2.45% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.44% 2.70% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 54 26
10th Percentile £440 £454 £513
25th Percentile £490 £550 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +10.34%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £650
90th Percentile £638 £700 £684
South East median daily rate £579 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -3.58% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £56.50
25th Percentile £69.06 - £62.50
Median hourly rate £69.38 - £75.00
75th Percentile £69.69 - £87.50
90th Percentile - - £93.50
South East median hourly rate £69.38 £76.53 £75.00
% change year-on-year -9.35% +2.04% -3.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,861 2,411 3,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.00% 90.74% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,069 1,584 2,502
10th Percentile £300 £245 £305
25th Percentile £411 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £612
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
South East median daily rate £511 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -1.70% +1.46% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 100 72
10th Percentile £18.00 £16.39 £11.42
25th Percentile £27.75 £24.00 £14.06
Median hourly rate £57.50 £50.00 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +159.74% -
75th Percentile £62.69 £66.11 £50.31
90th Percentile £70.72 £75.67 £75.75
South East median hourly rate £58.30 £52.30 £37.13
% change year-on-year +11.47% +40.86% +35.02%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Berkshire -12 35 £605 +0.83% 10
Buckinghamshire +32 29 £550 -16.22% 10
Infrastructure as Code
South East

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 11 (17.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.13%) Apache
2 2 (3.13%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 36 (56.25%) Azure
2 18 (28.13%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (26.56%) Entra ID
4 16 (25.00%) AWS
5 15 (23.44%) Azure Monitor
6 12 (18.75%) Azure Storage
7 7 (10.94%) PaaS
8 5 (7.81%) Azure API Management
8 5 (7.81%) IaaS
9 4 (6.25%) GCP
9 4 (6.25%) SaaS
10 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (3.13%) GitHub
11 2 (3.13%) OpenShift
11 2 (3.13%) Slack
12 1 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (1.56%) Azure Functions
12 1 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (1.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (17.19%) DHCP
1 11 (17.19%) DNS
1 11 (17.19%) Firewall
1 11 (17.19%) MPLS
2 10 (15.63%) VSAN
3 9 (14.06%) GPON
4 7 (10.94%) BGP
4 7 (10.94%) Ethernet VPN
4 7 (10.94%) VPN
5 4 (6.25%) Broadband
5 4 (6.25%) DWDM
5 4 (6.25%) Ethernet
5 4 (6.25%) IPv4
5 4 (6.25%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.94%) MongoDB
1 7 (10.94%) NoSQL
2 4 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (6.25%) SSDT
3 2 (3.13%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.13%) MySQL
4 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 13 (20.31%) JIRA
2 10 (15.63%) GitLab
3 5 (7.81%) Git
4 3 (4.69%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.13%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.56%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.56%) Selenium
6 1 (1.56%) Snyk
6 1 (1.56%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (45.31%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.38%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.69%) Publishing
5 2 (3.13%) Banking
5 2 (3.13%) Finance
6 1 (1.56%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 12 (18.75%) Architect
2 12 (18.75%) Support Engineer
3 11 (17.19%) Active Directory Engineer
3 11 (17.19%) Active Directory Support
3 11 (17.19%) Active Directory Support Engineer
4 10 (15.63%) Senior
5 9 (14.06%) Technical Architect
6 8 (12.50%) Consultant
6 8 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (12.50%) Senior Architect
7 7 (10.94%) Automation Tester
7 7 (10.94%) Network Consultant
7 7 (10.94%) Senior Technical Architect
7 7 (10.94%) Tester
8 4 (6.25%) Environment And Release Manager
8 4 (6.25%) Environment Manager
8 4 (6.25%) Network Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Release Manager
9 3 (4.69%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (18.75%) ARM Templates
2 9 (14.06%) NETCONF
2 9 (14.06%) REST
2 9 (14.06%) YANG
3 7 (10.94%) Gherkin
3 7 (10.94%) RESTCONF
3 7 (10.94%) SOAP
4 6 (9.38%) YAML
5 2 (3.13%) Fluent Bit
5 2 (3.13%) Kafka
5 2 (3.13%) LAMP
5 2 (3.13%) Loki
6 1 (1.56%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.56%) Node.js
6 1 (1.56%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 22 (34.38%) PKI
2 15 (23.44%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (17.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (10.94%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.69%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.13%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.13%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.56%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.56%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (34.38%) Linux
2 15 (23.44%) Windows
3 12 (18.75%) Windows Server
4 11 (17.19%) Windows Server 2016
4 11 (17.19%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (10.94%) CentOS
5 7 (10.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (68.75%) CI/CD
2 28 (43.75%) DevOps
3 27 (42.19%) Containerisation
3 27 (42.19%) ITIL
4 25 (39.06%) Agile
5 15 (23.44%) Microservices
6 12 (18.75%) DevSecOps
6 12 (18.75%) Identity Management
7 11 (17.19%) Analytics
7 11 (17.19%) Log Analytics
7 11 (17.19%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 11 (17.19%) Privileged Identity Management
7 11 (17.19%) RBAC
7 11 (17.19%) Release Management
7 11 (17.19%) Service Management
7 11 (17.19%) TOGAF
8 10 (15.63%) Continuous Delivery
8 10 (15.63%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (15.63%) Test Automation
8 10 (15.63%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 22 (34.38%) PowerShell
1 22 (34.38%) Python
2 12 (18.75%) Bicep
2 12 (18.75%) C#
3 11 (17.19%) VB
3 11 (17.19%) VBScript
4 8 (12.50%) SQL
5 4 (6.25%) Bash
5 4 (6.25%) Java
5 4 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.13%) C++
6 2 (3.13%) Go
6 2 (3.13%) Groovy
6 2 (3.13%) PHP
6 2 (3.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 26 (40.63%) Security Cleared
2 22 (34.38%) SC Cleared
3 20 (31.25%) DV Cleared
4 12 (18.75%) Degree
5 11 (17.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 11 (17.19%) MCSE
5 11 (17.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (17.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (4.69%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (18.75%) NIST
2 11 (17.19%) Cyber Essentials
3 10 (15.63%) NCSC
4 9 (14.06%) QA
5 1 (1.56%) GDPR
5 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.56%) MiFID
5 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (21.88%) Virtual Desktop
2 13 (20.31%) Active Directory
2 13 (20.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (17.19%) Docker
3 11 (17.19%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (15.63%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (31.25%) Terraform
2 18 (28.13%) Kubernetes
3 15 (23.44%) Ansible
4 11 (17.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 11 (17.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (17.19%) SCCM
4 11 (17.19%) SCOM
4 11 (17.19%) WSUS
5 3 (4.69%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.13%) Argo
6 2 (3.13%) Grafana
6 2 (3.13%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 25 (39.06%) Cisco
2 19 (29.69%) Microsoft
3 14 (21.88%) VMware
4 11 (17.19%) Palo Alto
5 9 (14.06%) Nokia
6 5 (7.81%) Juniper
7 4 (6.25%) Google
7 4 (6.25%) Splunk
8 1 (1.56%) Virgin Media