Infrastructure as Code Contracts with Work from Home Options

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 92 77 99
Rank change year-on-year -15 +22 -11
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 336 703 1,155
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.27% 2.85% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.58% 3.18% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 529 892
10th Percentile £405 £456 £440
25th Percentile £469 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +5.89%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £650
90th Percentile £675 £719 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £585
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £55.25 £16.60 -
25th Percentile £55.63 £29.50 £38.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £51.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.75% +27.50% -34.96%
75th Percentile £66.63 £76.75 £41.50
90th Percentile £71.35 £92.20 -
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,021 22,109 40,018
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.70% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,736 15,644 29,065
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 507 537
10th Percentile £14.93 £18.63 £14.15
25th Percentile £25.00 £27.86 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +35.06% +61.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.00 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

Infrastructure as Code
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure as Code trend for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Infrastructure as Code.

Infrastructure as Code daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Infrastructure as Code daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure as Code
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Infrastructure as Code.

Infrastructure as Code hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure as Code
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Infrastructure as Code hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 19 (5.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (5.06%) Confluence
3 8 (2.38%) nginx
4 6 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.79%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.79%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.19%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.19%) Luigi
6 3 (0.89%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.60%) Apache
8 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.30%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.30%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Gliffy
1 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.19%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 181 (53.87%) AWS
2 165 (49.11%) Azure
3 73 (21.73%) Serverless
4 62 (18.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 58 (17.26%) AWS Lambda
6 52 (15.48%) Amazon S3
6 52 (15.48%) Azure DevOps
7 50 (14.88%) GCP
8 35 (10.42%) Amazon EC2
9 31 (9.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 28 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
10 28 (8.33%) GitHub
11 27 (8.04%) Azure Monitor
11 27 (8.04%) OpenShift
12 26 (7.74%) Entra ID
13 23 (6.85%) IaaS
13 23 (6.85%) PaaS
14 22 (6.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 20 (5.95%) Azure Storage
16 19 (5.65%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 55 (16.37%) Firewall
2 41 (12.20%) DNS
3 28 (8.33%) DHCP
4 23 (6.85%) TCP/IP
5 13 (3.87%) Network Security
5 13 (3.87%) VPN
6 8 (2.38%) VLAN
7 7 (2.08%) HTTP
7 7 (2.08%) LAN
8 6 (1.79%) Kerberos
8 6 (1.79%) NAS
8 6 (1.79%) SAN
9 5 (1.49%) HTTPS
9 5 (1.49%) IPsec
9 5 (1.49%) WAN
9 5 (1.49%) WLAN
10 3 (0.89%) BGP
10 3 (0.89%) OSPF
11 2 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.60%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (10.12%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (6.55%) Amazon Aurora
4 18 (5.36%) Elasticsearch
5 17 (5.06%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (4.76%) MongoDB
6 16 (4.76%) SQL Server
7 15 (4.46%) MySQL
8 14 (4.17%) NoSQL
9 11 (3.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (3.27%) Data Lake
10 10 (2.98%) BigQuery
11 9 (2.68%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (2.38%) Oracle Database
13 6 (1.79%) Big Data
13 6 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (1.49%) InfluxDB
14 5 (1.49%) Informix
14 5 (1.49%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 73 (21.73%) Jenkins
2 60 (17.86%) Git
3 49 (14.58%) GitLab
4 33 (9.82%) JIRA
5 14 (4.17%) Selenium
6 11 (3.27%) SonarQube
7 10 (2.98%) Cucumber
8 9 (2.68%) TeamCity
9 8 (2.38%) REST Assured
10 6 (1.79%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.79%) Travis CI
10 6 (1.79%) Visual Studio
11 5 (1.49%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (1.19%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.19%) Burp Suite
12 4 (1.19%) Terragrunt
13 3 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.89%) Bitbucket
14 2 (0.60%) Gradle
14 2 (0.60%) Jaeger
General
1 94 (27.98%) Social Skills
2 48 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 33 (9.82%) Finance
4 23 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.27%) Banking
5 11 (3.27%) Law
6 7 (2.08%) Police
7 6 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.19%) Legal
8 4 (1.19%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.89%) Marketing
9 3 (0.89%) Retail
10 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.30%) Electronics
11 1 (0.30%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.30%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.30%) Military
11 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 100 (29.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 52 (15.48%) Developer
3 40 (11.90%) Senior
4 36 (10.71%) Azure Engineer
5 35 (10.42%) AWS Engineer
6 29 (8.63%) Architect
7 27 (8.04%) AWS DevOps
8 26 (7.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 22 (6.55%) Cloud Engineer
10 21 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
11 19 (5.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 19 (5.65%) Azure Specialist
11 19 (5.65%) Lead
12 18 (5.36%) Data Engineer
13 17 (5.06%) Active Directory Support
14 15 (4.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 14 (4.17%) Active Directory Specialist
15 14 (4.17%) Support Specialist
16 12 (3.57%) Software Engineer
17 11 (3.27%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (13.99%) ARM Templates
2 35 (10.42%) AWS CDK
3 28 (8.33%) REST
3 28 (8.33%) YAML
4 21 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
5 20 (5.95%) .NET
6 17 (5.06%) React
7 16 (4.76%) JSON
7 16 (4.76%) Node.js
8 11 (3.27%) ADO
9 10 (2.98%) OAuth
9 10 (2.98%) RabbitMQ
9 10 (2.98%) SOAP
10 9 (2.68%) CSS
10 9 (2.68%) XML
11 8 (2.38%) HTML
11 8 (2.38%) Java EE
11 8 (2.38%) LDAP
11 8 (2.38%) Spring Boot
12 7 (2.08%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.04%) PKI
2 19 (5.65%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (5.06%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.87%) Replication
5 9 (2.68%) Data Centre
5 9 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.08%) Clustering
7 6 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.79%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.79%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.49%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.49%) Tandem
9 4 (1.19%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.19%) Distributed Applications
9 4 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.19%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (0.89%) IoT
10 3 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 96 (28.57%) Linux
2 47 (13.99%) Windows
3 28 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 20 (5.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (5.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 17 (5.06%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (4.76%) Ubuntu
8 8 (2.38%) Unix
9 7 (2.08%) CentOS
10 6 (1.79%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (1.79%) Solaris
11 2 (0.60%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.60%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.60%) VMS
11 2 (0.60%) Windows 2000
11 2 (0.60%) Windows XP
12 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (72.92%) DevOps
2 205 (61.01%) CI/CD
3 111 (33.04%) Agile
4 72 (21.43%) Containerisation
5 67 (19.94%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (15.18%) Continuous Integration
7 45 (13.39%) Test Automation
8 44 (13.10%) Microservices
9 43 (12.80%) Analytics
10 39 (11.61%) Configuration Management
11 35 (10.42%) High Availability
12 33 (9.82%) Software Engineering
13 31 (9.23%) Migration
13 31 (9.23%) Scrum
14 28 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
14 28 (8.33%) Kanban
15 27 (8.04%) Mentoring
16 26 (7.74%) Platform Engineering
16 26 (7.74%) Software Delivery
17 24 (7.14%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 131 (38.99%) Python
2 77 (22.92%) PowerShell
3 53 (15.77%) Bash
4 47 (13.99%) SQL
5 46 (13.69%) Java
6 44 (13.10%) Bicep
7 43 (12.80%) C#
8 36 (10.71%) TypeScript
9 28 (8.33%) JavaScript
10 20 (5.95%) Go
11 17 (5.06%) VB
11 17 (5.06%) VBScript
12 11 (3.27%) Shell Script
13 9 (2.68%) PHP
14 8 (2.38%) Groovy
14 8 (2.38%) Ruby
15 3 (0.89%) Perl
16 2 (0.60%) Rust
16 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 82 (24.40%) Security Cleared
2 65 (19.35%) SC Cleared
3 31 (9.23%) Degree
4 21 (6.25%) DV Cleared
5 17 (5.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 12 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.98%) AWS Certification
8 8 (2.38%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.60%) OSCP
10 2 (0.60%) SANS
11 1 (0.30%) CCNP
11 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.30%) CISSP
11 1 (0.30%) GIAC
11 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.30%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 15 (4.46%) QA
3 12 (3.57%) GDPR
4 11 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.27%) NIST
5 6 (1.79%) Disclosure Scotland
5 6 (1.79%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.19%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.19%) NCSC
7 3 (0.89%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.30%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 100 (29.76%) Docker
2 46 (13.69%) Active Directory
3 31 (9.23%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (5.36%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (2.98%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.19%) vSphere
7 3 (0.89%) Firmware
7 3 (0.89%) vCloud
7 3 (0.89%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.60%) Squid
9 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 212 (63.10%) Terraform
2 123 (36.61%) Kubernetes
3 86 (25.60%) Ansible
4 57 (16.96%) Grafana
5 31 (9.23%) Prometheus
6 25 (7.44%) Puppet
7 20 (5.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 20 (5.95%) Progress Chef
8 18 (5.36%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (5.36%) SCOM
9 17 (5.06%) SCCM
9 17 (5.06%) WSUS
10 15 (4.46%) Kibana
11 11 (3.27%) Docker Swarm
12 9 (2.68%) logstash
13 8 (2.38%) Podman
14 6 (1.79%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (1.79%) Netcool
14 6 (1.79%) Tivoli
14 6 (1.79%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 63 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.14%) Oracle
3 19 (5.65%) Google
4 18 (5.36%) Splunk
5 14 (4.17%) VMware
6 13 (3.87%) Databricks
7 10 (2.98%) Cisco
8 9 (2.68%) Dell
9 8 (2.38%) CyberArk
10 7 (2.08%) Fortinet
10 7 (2.08%) HP
10 7 (2.08%) IBM
10 7 (2.08%) Red Hat
10 7 (2.08%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.79%) EMC
11 6 (1.79%) Isilon
11 6 (1.79%) Juniper
11 6 (1.79%) Qualys
11 6 (1.79%) Serena
12 5 (1.49%) Palo Alto