Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the Thames Valley

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 109 137
Rank change year-on-year +50 +28 -15
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 71 36 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.69% 1.26% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 1.39% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 25 25
10th Percentile £435 £485 £438
25th Percentile £525 £519 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +23.81% -
75th Percentile £625 £688 £613
90th Percentile £688 £748 £665
South East median daily rate £605 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -6.92% +8.33% +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,268 2,598 3,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 86.01% 90.78% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 1,766 2,158
10th Percentile £213 £319 £235
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £485
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +4.12% +7.78%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £579
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +0.10% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 69 89
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.50 £12.25
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.50 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +201.38% -17.24%
75th Percentile £64.42 £73.59 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £63.27
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.72
% change year-on-year -9.52% +141.77% -21.04%

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 May 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 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
Berkshire +25 63 £605 -6.92% 8
Buckinghamshire +30 6 £556 -7.29% 12
Oxfordshire - 2 £500 - 1
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 21 (29.58%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 57 (80.28%) Azure
2 29 (40.85%) AWS
3 28 (39.44%) Azure Monitor
4 25 (35.21%) Entra ID
5 21 (29.58%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (28.17%) Azure Storage
7 10 (14.08%) GCP
8 9 (12.68%) OpenShift
9 8 (11.27%) Azure API Management
10 7 (9.86%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (7.04%) PaaS
12 4 (5.63%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (5.63%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (5.63%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (4.23%) Azure Functions
13 3 (4.23%) Serverless
14 2 (2.82%) SaaS
14 2 (2.82%) Slack
15 1 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
15 1 (1.41%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 23 (32.39%) Firewall
2 22 (30.99%) DNS
3 20 (28.17%) DHCP
4 7 (9.86%) VSAN
5 1 (1.41%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.41%) Network Security
5 1 (1.41%) SSL
5 1 (1.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (5.63%) SSDT
2 3 (4.23%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (4.23%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.41%) Big Data
3 1 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.41%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (25.35%) Jenkins
2 14 (19.72%) GitLab
2 14 (19.72%) Selenium
3 13 (18.31%) Cucumber
3 13 (18.31%) JIRA
4 12 (16.90%) REST Assured
4 12 (16.90%) SonarQube
5 6 (8.45%) Git
6 3 (4.23%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.41%) Appium
7 1 (1.41%) MSTest
7 1 (1.41%) NUnit
7 1 (1.41%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.41%) Spinnaker
7 1 (1.41%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 54 (76.06%) Social Skills
2 18 (25.35%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (12.68%) Law
4 8 (11.27%) Police
5 3 (4.23%) Banking
5 3 (4.23%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (4.23%) Finance
5 3 (4.23%) Retail
6 2 (2.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (28.17%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (19.72%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (19.72%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (19.72%) Support Specialist
3 12 (16.90%) Senior
4 9 (12.68%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (9.86%) Developer
5 7 (9.86%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 7 (9.86%) Software Engineer
5 7 (9.86%) VMware Expert
6 6 (8.45%) Active Directory Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Active Directory Support Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Java Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Java Software Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Support Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Analyst
7 5 (7.04%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Senior Java Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (53.52%) ARM Templates
2 14 (19.72%) REST
3 13 (18.31%) Java EE
4 7 (9.86%) YAML
5 2 (2.82%) .NET
5 2 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.82%) Fluent Bit
5 2 (2.82%) JSON
5 2 (2.82%) Loki
6 1 (1.41%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.41%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.41%) Kafka
6 1 (1.41%) OAuth
6 1 (1.41%) OpenID
6 1 (1.41%) SOAP
6 1 (1.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (29.58%) PKI
2 20 (28.17%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (16.90%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.41%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (32.39%) Linux
2 22 (30.99%) Windows
3 20 (28.17%) Windows Server
3 20 (28.17%) Windows Server 2016
3 20 (28.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (91.55%) DevOps
2 49 (69.01%) CI/CD
3 28 (39.44%) Containerisation
4 27 (38.03%) Technical Leadership
5 25 (35.21%) Agile
6 22 (30.99%) Analytics
6 22 (30.99%) Identity Management
7 21 (29.58%) ITIL
7 21 (29.58%) Log Analytics
7 21 (29.58%) RBAC
7 21 (29.58%) Release Management
7 21 (29.58%) Service Management
8 20 (28.17%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 20 (28.17%) Privileged Identity Management
9 18 (25.35%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (23.94%) Continuous Integration
11 16 (22.54%) Configuration Management
11 16 (22.54%) Test Automation
12 14 (19.72%) Collaborative Working
12 14 (19.72%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (42.25%) PowerShell
2 22 (30.99%) C#
3 21 (29.58%) Bicep
4 20 (28.17%) VB
4 20 (28.17%) VBScript
5 13 (18.31%) Java
6 5 (7.04%) SQL
7 4 (5.63%) Bash
8 3 (4.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 38 (53.52%) Security Cleared
2 35 (49.30%) SC Cleared
3 23 (32.39%) Degree
3 23 (32.39%) DV Cleared
4 20 (28.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.41%) CCNP
6 1 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.41%) MCSE
6 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.41%) NCSC
1 1 (1.41%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (35.21%) Docker
2 21 (29.58%) Active Directory
2 21 (29.58%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (28.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (11.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (9.86%) vCloud
5 7 (9.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 53 (74.65%) Kubernetes
2 33 (46.48%) Terraform
3 21 (29.58%) SCCM
4 20 (28.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 20 (28.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (28.17%) SCOM
4 20 (28.17%) WSUS
5 19 (26.76%) Ansible
6 12 (16.90%) Docker Swarm
6 12 (16.90%) Podman
7 7 (9.86%) Istio
7 7 (9.86%) Rancher
7 7 (9.86%) vCenter Server
8 4 (5.63%) Prometheus
9 3 (4.23%) Grafana
10 2 (2.82%) Argo
10 2 (2.82%) Kustomize
11 1 (1.41%) Progress Chef
11 1 (1.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (35.21%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.68%) VMware
3 8 (11.27%) Google
4 1 (1.41%) BMC
4 1 (1.41%) Databricks
4 1 (1.41%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.41%) Remedy
4 1 (1.41%) ServiceNow