Infrastructure as Code Contracts

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 93 105
Rank change year-on-year -9 +12 +2
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 953 1,423 2,182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.18% 2.56% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.56% 2.86% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,043 1,614
10th Percentile £400 £450 £455
25th Percentile £472 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £598
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.42% +10.65%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £688 £762 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 19 1
10th Percentile £55.00 £59.20 -
25th Percentile £57.19 £70.50 £38.50
Median hourly rate £69.75 £78.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.58% +95.00% -34.16%
75th Percentile £77.13 £82.50 £41.50
90th Percentile £104.00 £90.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.75 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -10.58% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 June 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
England +7 800 £550 -8.33% 449
London -8 422 £550 -8.33% 210
UK excluding London -5 403 £550 -2.22% 257
Work from Home -9 353 £538 -10.42% 299
South East +65 134 £605 -6.92% 49
North of England +21 113 £528 -12.08% 62
South West -41 69 £582 -4.98% 54
Yorkshire +41 65 £514 -17.18% 21
Scotland -18 59 £494 - 18
Midlands +25 47 £564 +7.33% 52
West Midlands +29 45 £576 +11.30% 37
North West -5 43 £550 -8.33% 39
East of England -6 7 £525 +10.53% 12
North East -1 5 - - 2
Wales +20 2 £666 +11.04% 8
East Midlands +4 2 £450 -18.18% 15
Northern Ireland - 1 £640 - 4

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 33 (3.46%) Confluence
2 26 (2.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (2.20%) OpenStack
4 20 (2.10%) Apache Spark
5 17 (1.78%) nginx
6 15 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.73%) Anypoint
8 6 (0.63%) Apache
9 5 (0.52%) SharePoint
10 4 (0.42%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.42%) Luigi
11 3 (0.31%) CMS
11 3 (0.31%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.21%) GeoServer
12 2 (0.21%) IIS
13 1 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.21%) Gliffy
2 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.31%) Shopify
3 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 435 (45.65%) AWS
2 418 (43.86%) Azure
3 164 (17.21%) Serverless
4 159 (16.68%) GCP
5 138 (14.48%) Azure DevOps
6 135 (14.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 116 (12.17%) Amazon S3
8 112 (11.75%) AWS Lambda
9 87 (9.13%) GitHub
10 75 (7.87%) Amazon EC2
10 75 (7.87%) IaaS
11 69 (7.24%) PaaS
12 57 (5.98%) Entra ID
12 57 (5.98%) OpenShift
13 53 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 52 (5.46%) SaaS
15 49 (5.14%) Azure Monitor
16 47 (4.93%) Amazon EKS
17 45 (4.72%) Cloud Computing
18 44 (4.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 102 (10.70%) Firewall
2 85 (8.92%) DNS
3 45 (4.72%) DHCP
4 43 (4.51%) TCP/IP
5 41 (4.30%) VPN
6 29 (3.04%) Network Security
7 22 (2.31%) HTTP
8 16 (1.68%) WAN
9 14 (1.47%) LAN
10 11 (1.15%) VSAN
11 10 (1.05%) IPsec
11 10 (1.05%) VLAN
12 9 (0.94%) HTTPS
12 9 (0.94%) SSL
12 9 (0.94%) WLAN
13 8 (0.84%) IPv4
13 8 (0.84%) SAN
14 7 (0.73%) Kerberos
14 7 (0.73%) OSPF
15 6 (0.63%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (7.24%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (5.77%) Amazon RDS
3 40 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
4 37 (3.88%) BigQuery
4 37 (3.88%) NoSQL
5 36 (3.78%) MySQL
6 35 (3.67%) SQL Server
7 32 (3.36%) Amazon Redshift
7 32 (3.36%) Data Lake
7 32 (3.36%) MongoDB
8 28 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
8 28 (2.94%) Relational Database
9 25 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
10 24 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
11 19 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
12 18 (1.89%) Big Data
13 17 (1.78%) DynamoDB
14 14 (1.47%) Oracle Database
15 12 (1.26%) RDBMS
16 10 (1.05%) Redis
Development Applications
1 207 (21.72%) Jenkins
2 182 (19.10%) Git
3 145 (15.22%) GitLab
4 55 (5.77%) JIRA
5 30 (3.15%) SonarQube
6 22 (2.31%) Selenium
7 18 (1.89%) TeamCity
8 15 (1.57%) CircleCI
9 14 (1.47%) Cucumber
10 12 (1.26%) REST Assured
11 11 (1.15%) Artifactory
11 11 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 10 (1.05%) Travis CI
13 8 (0.84%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.84%) Cypress.io
14 7 (0.73%) Burp Suite
15 6 (0.63%) AppScan
16 5 (0.52%) Subversion
16 5 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
17 4 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 269 (28.23%) Social Skills
2 99 (10.39%) Finance
3 82 (8.60%) Public Sector
4 57 (5.98%) Banking
5 51 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (2.41%) Retail
7 19 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (1.68%) Law
10 8 (0.84%) Investment Banking
10 8 (0.84%) Legal
10 8 (0.84%) Police
11 7 (0.73%) Back Office
11 7 (0.73%) Marketing
11 7 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (0.63%) Electronics
13 5 (0.52%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.42%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.31%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 214 (22.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 151 (15.84%) Architect
3 102 (10.70%) Azure Engineer
3 102 (10.70%) Developer
4 98 (10.28%) Senior
5 92 (9.65%) AWS Engineer
6 75 (7.87%) Cloud Engineer
7 67 (7.03%) AWS DevOps
8 65 (6.82%) Platform Engineer
9 63 (6.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 46 (4.83%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 46 (4.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 42 (4.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 38 (3.99%) Lead
13 37 (3.88%) Software Engineer
14 36 (3.78%) Cloud Architect
15 33 (3.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 31 (3.25%) DevSecOps Engineer
17 28 (2.94%) Security Engineer
17 28 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (8.50%) YAML
2 74 (7.76%) ARM Templates
3 57 (5.98%) AWS CDK
4 53 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
4 53 (5.56%) REST
5 44 (4.62%) .NET
6 41 (4.30%) Node.js
7 37 (3.88%) React
8 33 (3.46%) Kafka
9 26 (2.73%) JSON
10 22 (2.31%) RabbitMQ
10 22 (2.31%) RESTful
11 21 (2.20%) SOAP
11 21 (2.20%) Spring
12 16 (1.68%) Spring Boot
13 15 (1.57%) HTML
14 14 (1.47%) CSS
15 13 (1.36%) Java EE
15 13 (1.36%) XML
16 12 (1.26%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 49 (5.14%) Cloud Native
1 49 (5.14%) PKI
2 39 (4.09%) Public Cloud
3 27 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
4 24 (2.52%) Product Ownership
5 23 (2.41%) Onboarding
6 21 (2.20%) Data Centre
7 20 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
8 18 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (1.89%) Mobile App
8 18 (1.89%) Replication
9 17 (1.78%) IoT
9 17 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
9 17 (1.78%) Management Information System
10 14 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.15%) Security Posture
12 11 (1.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 10 (1.05%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 234 (24.55%) Linux
2 117 (12.28%) Windows
3 77 (8.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 59 (6.19%) Windows Server
5 32 (3.36%) Unix
6 25 (2.62%) Windows Server 2016
7 22 (2.31%) Windows Server 2019
8 19 (1.99%) CentOS
9 16 (1.68%) Ubuntu
10 10 (1.05%) VMS
11 5 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (0.52%) Solaris
12 4 (0.42%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.42%) Android
12 4 (0.42%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.31%) Windows 2000
13 3 (0.31%) Windows XP
14 2 (0.21%) Debian
15 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 594 (62.33%) DevOps
2 533 (55.93%) CI/CD
3 290 (30.43%) Agile
4 254 (26.65%) Containerisation
5 176 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
6 131 (13.75%) Continuous Integration
7 127 (13.33%) Microservices
8 124 (13.01%) Test Automation
9 112 (11.75%) Cloud Security
9 112 (11.75%) Configuration Management
10 109 (11.44%) Analytics
11 103 (10.81%) DevSecOps
12 88 (9.23%) Infrastructure Automation
13 87 (9.13%) Migration
14 84 (8.81%) Scrum
15 83 (8.71%) Software Engineering
16 79 (8.29%) Platform Engineering
17 71 (7.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 68 (7.14%) High Availability
19 64 (6.72%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 357 (37.46%) Python
2 203 (21.30%) PowerShell
3 159 (16.68%) Bash
4 127 (13.33%) Java
5 124 (13.01%) SQL
6 84 (8.81%) C#
7 77 (8.08%) Bicep
8 76 (7.97%) TypeScript
9 49 (5.14%) JavaScript
10 45 (4.72%) Go
11 44 (4.62%) Shell Script
12 21 (2.20%) VB
12 21 (2.20%) VBScript
13 19 (1.99%) Ruby
14 13 (1.36%) Groovy
15 9 (0.94%) Scala
16 8 (0.84%) PHP
17 7 (0.73%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.52%) Perl
19 4 (0.42%) C++
Qualifications
1 243 (25.50%) Security Cleared
2 195 (20.46%) SC Cleared
3 95 (9.97%) Degree
4 59 (6.19%) DV Cleared
5 55 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (3.78%) Azure Certification
7 33 (3.46%) AWS Certification
8 21 (2.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 21 (2.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 14 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (1.05%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.73%) CISSP
13 4 (0.42%) PhD
13 4 (0.42%) SANS
14 3 (0.31%) CCIE
14 3 (0.31%) CCNP
14 3 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.31%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (4.72%) QA
2 38 (3.99%) NIST
3 25 (2.62%) Accessibility
4 18 (1.89%) GDPR
5 17 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.57%) Disclosure Scotland
7 14 (1.47%) Data Quality
8 12 (1.26%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.42%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.31%) ISO 22301
11 3 (0.31%) NCSC
12 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.10%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 306 (32.11%) Docker
2 83 (8.71%) Active Directory
3 70 (7.35%) Virtual Machines
4 63 (6.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 26 (2.73%) VMware NSX
6 23 (2.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (1.57%) VMware ESXi
8 12 (1.26%) vSphere
9 10 (1.05%) vCloud
10 5 (0.52%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.42%) Firmware
12 3 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 3 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.21%) Squid
13 2 (0.21%) XenApp
13 2 (0.21%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.10%) Ceph
14 1 (0.10%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.10%) KVM
14 1 (0.10%) NFS
Systems Management
1 617 (64.74%) Terraform
2 357 (37.46%) Kubernetes
3 254 (26.65%) Ansible
4 114 (11.96%) Grafana
5 76 (7.97%) Puppet
6 75 (7.87%) Prometheus
7 63 (6.61%) Progress Chef
8 34 (3.57%) Kibana
9 33 (3.46%) SCCM
10 27 (2.83%) Microsoft Intune
11 26 (2.73%) logstash
12 24 (2.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 22 (2.31%) Docker Swarm
13 22 (2.31%) SCOM
14 21 (2.20%) WSUS
15 18 (1.89%) vCenter Server
16 17 (1.78%) Salt
17 16 (1.68%) Podman
18 15 (1.57%) Istio
19 13 (1.36%) vRealize
Vendors
1 151 (15.84%) Microsoft
2 90 (9.44%) VMware
3 79 (8.29%) Google
4 56 (5.88%) Red Hat
5 52 (5.46%) Oracle
6 44 (4.62%) Splunk
7 30 (3.15%) Databricks
8 26 (2.73%) Cisco
9 19 (1.99%) Salesforce
10 18 (1.89%) SAP
11 16 (1.68%) Fortinet
11 16 (1.68%) SaltStack
12 13 (1.36%) Amdocs
12 13 (1.36%) Dell
12 13 (1.36%) Palo Alto
13 12 (1.26%) CyberArk
13 12 (1.26%) Juniper
14 11 (1.15%) Atlassian
15 8 (0.84%) SolarWinds
16 7 (0.73%) WSO2