Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 129 110 145
Rank change year-on-year -19 +35 -10
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 352 540 555
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.73% 2.35% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 2.62% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 426 442
10th Percentile £425 £446 £438
25th Percentile £483 £484 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £629 £650 £625
90th Percentile £688 £706 £678
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £585
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 1
10th Percentile £57.63 £70.50 -
25th Percentile £61.56 £74.25 £46.19
Median hourly rate £69.75 £78.00 £47.38
Median % change year-on-year -10.58% +64.64% -9.76%
75th Percentile £75.38 - £48.56
90th Percentile £76.95 £82.80 -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £78.00 £43.69
% change year-on-year -13.46% +78.54% -28.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,127 20,595 27,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.40% 89.52% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,209 14,220 18,919
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,061 1,259 1,357
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +58 117 £605 +0.83% 59
North of England +3 94 £550 -8.33% 67
Scotland -15 70 £500 +0.50% 17
Yorkshire +28 46 £558 -7.08% 24
North West -19 45 £550 -8.33% 37
South West -56 44 £625 +2.04% 54
Midlands +12 29 £538 - 52
West Midlands +16 27 £550 +4.76% 36
East of England +2 6 £500 +0.50% 10
North East -2 3 - - 6
Wales +16 2 £666 +2.50% 4
East Midlands +8 2 £450 -18.18% 16
Northern Ireland - 1 £640 - 10
Infrastructure as Code
UK

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (5.11%) Confluence
1 18 (5.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (2.56%) nginx
3 7 (1.99%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.14%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.85%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.57%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.57%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.28%) CMS
8 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 179 (50.85%) AWS
2 157 (44.60%) Azure
3 71 (20.17%) Serverless
4 66 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
5 55 (15.63%) AWS Lambda
6 52 (14.77%) Amazon S3
7 50 (14.20%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (13.35%) GCP
9 38 (10.80%) OpenShift
10 34 (9.66%) GitHub
11 29 (8.24%) Azure Monitor
12 26 (7.39%) Amazon EC2
13 23 (6.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 21 (5.97%) Entra ID
15 20 (5.68%) IaaS
16 19 (5.40%) Azure Storage
17 18 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
18 15 (4.26%) PaaS
19 13 (3.69%) Cloud Computing
20 11 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 51 (14.49%) DNS
2 50 (14.20%) Firewall
3 27 (7.67%) DHCP
4 24 (6.82%) TCP/IP
5 21 (5.97%) VPN
6 10 (2.84%) HTTP
7 8 (2.27%) VSAN
8 7 (1.99%) SSL
9 6 (1.70%) Network Security
9 6 (1.70%) WAN
10 5 (1.42%) IPv4
10 5 (1.42%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (1.42%) SD-WAN
11 4 (1.14%) HTTPS
11 4 (1.14%) IPsec
12 3 (0.85%) BIG-IP
12 3 (0.85%) LAN
12 3 (0.85%) OSPF
12 3 (0.85%) SAN
12 3 (0.85%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (14.49%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (8.81%) Amazon Aurora
3 26 (7.39%) MySQL
4 23 (6.53%) MongoDB
5 21 (5.97%) Amazon RDS
5 21 (5.97%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (5.68%) NoSQL
7 17 (4.83%) Data Lake
8 16 (4.55%) SQL Server
9 12 (3.41%) BigQuery
9 12 (3.41%) Relational Database
10 11 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (3.13%) Oracle Database
11 9 (2.56%) Big Data
12 8 (2.27%) Hadoop
13 7 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (1.99%) RDBMS
14 6 (1.70%) InfluxDB
14 6 (1.70%) Informix
Development Applications
1 76 (21.59%) Jenkins
2 58 (16.48%) GitLab
3 54 (15.34%) Git
4 33 (9.38%) JIRA
5 25 (7.10%) SonarQube
6 16 (4.55%) Selenium
7 13 (3.69%) Cucumber
8 12 (3.41%) REST Assured
9 11 (3.13%) Travis CI
10 10 (2.84%) CircleCI
11 9 (2.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (2.56%) Burp Suite
12 8 (2.27%) Artifactory
13 6 (1.70%) Visual Studio
14 5 (1.42%) AppScan
14 5 (1.42%) TeamCity
15 4 (1.14%) Bitbucket
15 4 (1.14%) Cypress.io
16 3 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
17 2 (0.57%) webpack
General
1 112 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 43 (12.22%) Public Sector
3 31 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (6.25%) Finance
5 16 (4.55%) Banking
6 9 (2.56%) Law
6 9 (2.56%) Retail
7 8 (2.27%) Police
8 7 (1.99%) Back Office
9 6 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.70%) Legal
10 5 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.85%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.57%) German Language
12 2 (0.57%) Marketing
13 1 (0.28%) Electronics
13 1 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.28%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.28%) Retail Finance
13 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 71 (20.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 56 (15.91%) Developer
3 45 (12.78%) Architect
4 35 (9.94%) Azure Engineer
5 30 (8.52%) Senior
6 27 (7.67%) AWS Engineer
7 23 (6.53%) AWS DevOps
8 22 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
9 20 (5.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 19 (5.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 17 (4.83%) Active Directory Support
11 17 (4.83%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 17 (4.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 16 (4.55%) Azure Specialist
12 16 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
12 16 (4.55%) Site Engineer
13 15 (4.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 15 (4.26%) Lead
14 14 (3.98%) Active Directory Specialist
14 14 (3.98%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (13.07%) ARM Templates
2 45 (12.78%) AWS CDK
3 27 (7.67%) REST
4 23 (6.53%) YAML
5 21 (5.97%) .NET
5 21 (5.97%) JSON
6 20 (5.68%) React
7 19 (5.40%) Elastic Stack
8 14 (3.98%) Kafka
8 14 (3.98%) Node.js
9 13 (3.69%) Java EE
10 12 (3.41%) XML
11 11 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (2.84%) RESTful
12 10 (2.84%) Spring
12 10 (2.84%) Spring Boot
13 9 (2.56%) CSS
13 9 (2.56%) HTML
14 8 (2.27%) ADO
14 8 (2.27%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.52%) Cloud Native
2 26 (7.39%) PKI
3 18 (5.11%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (3.98%) Public Cloud
5 13 (3.69%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (3.41%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.13%) Data Centre
8 10 (2.84%) Replication
9 9 (2.56%) Data Structures
10 8 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.70%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.42%) Private Cloud
13 4 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
14 3 (0.85%) Cyber Defence
14 3 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.85%) Operational Technology
14 3 (0.85%) Smart Meter
15 2 (0.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 109 (30.97%) Linux
2 44 (12.50%) Windows
3 31 (8.81%) Windows Server
4 27 (7.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (5.97%) Unix
6 17 (4.83%) Windows Server 2016
6 17 (4.83%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (3.69%) Ubuntu
8 9 (2.56%) VMS
9 4 (1.14%) CentOS
10 3 (0.85%) Android
10 3 (0.85%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.85%) Debian
10 3 (0.85%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.85%) Windows 2000
10 3 (0.85%) Windows XP
11 2 (0.57%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (63.35%) DevOps
2 184 (52.27%) CI/CD
3 154 (43.75%) Agile
4 110 (31.25%) Containerisation
5 66 (18.75%) Test Automation
6 54 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (14.77%) Scrum
8 50 (14.20%) Continuous Integration
9 48 (13.64%) Configuration Management
10 43 (12.22%) Technical Leadership
11 42 (11.93%) Analytics
12 38 (10.80%) Kanban
13 37 (10.51%) Microservices
14 35 (9.94%) DevSecOps
15 32 (9.09%) Migration
15 32 (9.09%) Roadmaps
16 31 (8.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 26 (7.39%) Cloud Security
17 26 (7.39%) Service Management
17 26 (7.39%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 123 (34.94%) Python
2 80 (22.73%) PowerShell
3 67 (19.03%) Bash
4 66 (18.75%) Java
5 54 (15.34%) SQL
6 51 (14.49%) TypeScript
7 46 (13.07%) C#
8 34 (9.66%) Bicep
9 26 (7.39%) JavaScript
10 20 (5.68%) Go
11 17 (4.83%) VB
11 17 (4.83%) VBScript
12 15 (4.26%) Shell Script
13 11 (3.13%) Groovy
14 6 (1.70%) PHP
15 4 (1.14%) Ruby
16 3 (0.85%) ActionScript
16 3 (0.85%) Perl
16 3 (0.85%) Scala
17 2 (0.57%) C
Qualifications
1 105 (29.83%) Security Cleared
2 76 (21.59%) SC Cleared
3 40 (11.36%) DV Cleared
4 32 (9.09%) Degree
5 17 (4.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 9 (2.56%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.14%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.14%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.85%) OSCP
10 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.57%) MCSE
10 2 (0.57%) PhD
10 2 (0.57%) SANS
11 1 (0.28%) CCNP
11 1 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.28%) GIAC
11 1 (0.28%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.10%) QA
2 23 (6.53%) Accessibility
3 17 (4.83%) NIST
4 16 (4.55%) Disclosure Scotland
5 10 (2.84%) GDPR
6 9 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (2.27%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.14%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.85%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.57%) SLA
11 1 (0.28%) NCSC
System Software
1 104 (29.55%) Docker
2 34 (9.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (8.24%) Active Directory
4 24 (6.82%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (5.11%) VMware NSX
6 17 (4.83%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (3.13%) vSphere
8 10 (2.84%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (1.99%) vCloud
10 4 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.85%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.85%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.28%) KVM
Systems Management
1 180 (51.14%) Terraform
2 147 (41.76%) Kubernetes
3 109 (30.97%) Ansible
4 61 (17.33%) Grafana
5 27 (7.67%) SCCM
6 25 (7.10%) Prometheus
6 25 (7.10%) Puppet
7 21 (5.97%) Docker Swarm
8 19 (5.40%) Progress Chef
9 18 (5.11%) Kibana
10 17 (4.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 17 (4.83%) Microsoft Intune
10 17 (4.83%) SCOM
10 17 (4.83%) WSUS
11 15 (4.26%) vCenter Server
12 12 (3.41%) Podman
13 11 (3.13%) HP Fortify
13 11 (3.13%) Istio
14 10 (2.84%) Packer
15 9 (2.56%) logstash
Vendors
1 53 (15.06%) Microsoft
2 42 (11.93%) VMware
3 25 (7.10%) Oracle
4 24 (6.82%) Google
4 24 (6.82%) Splunk
5 10 (2.84%) Red Hat
6 7 (1.99%) Atlassian
6 7 (1.99%) Cisco
6 7 (1.99%) Veeam
7 6 (1.70%) Checkmarx
7 6 (1.70%) F5
7 6 (1.70%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.42%) Arqiva
8 5 (1.42%) Juniper
8 5 (1.42%) Veracode
8 5 (1.42%) Veritas
9 4 (1.14%) Commvault
9 4 (1.14%) Databricks
9 4 (1.14%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.85%) Salesforce