Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the Midlands

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 118 168
Rank change year-on-year +25 +50 -52
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 46 38 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.58% 1.18% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% 1.35% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 26 25
10th Percentile £425 £435 £452
25th Percentile £508 £480 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.33% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £611 £622 £568
90th Percentile £674 £661 £619
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +12.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -13.46% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,361 2,822 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.91% 87.56% 87.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,581 1,980 3,236
10th Percentile £231 £258 £250
25th Percentile £358 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 101 130
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +31.51% +21.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £24.50
90th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the Midlands

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the Midlands

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the Midlands over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the Midlands

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 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
West Midlands +27 44 £576 +12.94% 37
East Midlands +8 2 £450 -18.18% 15
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (2.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (2.17%) CMS
1 1 (2.17%) Headless CMS
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (39.13%) Azure
2 11 (23.91%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (17.39%) Azure AKS
4 6 (13.04%) Azure App Service
5 5 (10.87%) AWS
6 3 (6.52%) GitHub
6 3 (6.52%) IaaS
6 3 (6.52%) PaaS
6 3 (6.52%) Serverless
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.17%) Mimecast
8 1 (2.17%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (23.91%) DNS
2 8 (17.39%) DHCP
3 7 (15.22%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.35%) Firewall
4 2 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.17%) Flink
2 1 (2.17%) Redis
2 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (30.43%) Git
2 2 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (4.35%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.17%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.17%) Hudson
3 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.17%) JIRA
3 1 (2.17%) webpack
General
1 11 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.35%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (17.39%) Architect
1 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (15.22%) Developer
3 6 (13.04%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (13.04%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (13.04%) Principal Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Angular Developer
4 5 (10.87%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) DevOps Specialist
6 2 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Server Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Subject Matter Expert
6 2 (4.35%) VMware Specialist
7 1 (2.17%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (28.26%) YAML
2 6 (13.04%) .NET
2 6 (13.04%) RESTful
3 5 (10.87%) AngularJS
4 3 (6.52%) JSON
5 1 (2.17%) ADO
5 1 (2.17%) Apache Sling
5 1 (2.17%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.17%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.17%) Kafka
5 1 (2.17%) Next.js
5 1 (2.17%) OSGi
5 1 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.17%) React
5 1 (2.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) SCADA
2 5 (10.87%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (10.87%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.52%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (56.52%) Linux
2 22 (47.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (43.48%) Windows
4 7 (15.22%) Windows Server
5 6 (13.04%) Unix
6 1 (2.17%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (50.00%) DevOps
2 12 (26.09%) Configuration Management
2 12 (26.09%) Infrastructure Automation
2 12 (26.09%) Validation
3 11 (23.91%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 9 (19.57%) Agile
5 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (15.22%) Customer Requirements
6 7 (15.22%) Virtual Environments
7 6 (13.04%) CI/CD
7 6 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (13.04%) Visualisation
8 5 (10.87%) Information Management
8 5 (10.87%) Microservices
8 5 (10.87%) Security Hardening
8 5 (10.87%) SIEM
8 5 (10.87%) User Experience
8 5 (10.87%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 19 (41.30%) PowerShell
2 13 (28.26%) C#
3 8 (17.39%) Bicep
3 8 (17.39%) Java
3 8 (17.39%) SQL
4 6 (13.04%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.52%) Python
6 2 (4.35%) Bash
7 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 24 (52.17%) Security Cleared
2 16 (34.78%) SC Cleared
3 7 (15.22%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.52%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) NIST
1 5 (10.87%) QA
2 2 (4.35%) GDPR
2 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (41.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (30.43%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (13.04%) Docker
4 5 (10.87%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (10.87%) VMware NSX
5 3 (6.52%) Hyper-V
5 3 (6.52%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
6 1 (2.17%) XenApp
6 1 (2.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 24 (52.17%) Terraform
2 15 (32.61%) Ansible
3 13 (28.26%) Progress Chef
4 12 (26.09%) Puppet
5 11 (23.91%) Salt
6 8 (17.39%) Kubernetes
6 8 (17.39%) SCCM
7 5 (10.87%) vCenter Server
8 1 (2.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (2.17%) Argo
8 1 (2.17%) Istio
8 1 (2.17%) linkerd
8 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (2.17%) Rancher
8 1 (2.17%) SELinux
8 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (47.83%) VMware
2 18 (39.13%) Red Hat
3 9 (19.57%) SaltStack
4 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
4 5 (10.87%) Veeam
5 1 (2.17%) Citrix
5 1 (2.17%) Guidewire
5 1 (2.17%) Ivanti
5 1 (2.17%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (2.17%) Oracle
5 1 (2.17%) Zscaler