Infrastructure as Code Contracts

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 91 106
Rank change year-on-year -20 +15 +9
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 846 1,522 2,218
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.99% 2.67% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 2.97% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 588 1,113 1,618
10th Percentile £405 £454 £450
25th Percentile £469 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% +11.90%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £688 £754 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £559 £550
% change year-on-year -1.57% +1.59% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 2
10th Percentile £55.00 £54.90 £39.27
25th Percentile £55.63 £70.50 £40.42
Median hourly rate £67.50 £78.00 £43.69
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +78.54% -28.96%
75th Percentile £76.25 £85.00 £46.80
90th Percentile £98.80 £90.00 £47.86
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.75 £78.00 £47.38
% change year-on-year -10.58% +64.64% -9.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,687 51,295 79,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 89.83% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,611 35,552 55,630
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £476
% change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,428 1,693 1,906
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 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
England -25 689 £550 -8.33% 454
London -22 370 £550 -10.20% 201
UK excluding London -18 351 £550 -1.57% 276
Work from Home -17 336 £525 -12.50% 309
South East +63 115 £605 +0.83% 61
North of England -1 93 £550 -8.33% 73
Scotland -8 71 £500 +0.50% 17
Yorkshire +32 45 £565 -5.83% 23
North West -15 45 £550 -8.33% 40
South West -53 43 £600 -2.04% 52
Midlands +17 29 £538 - 50
West Midlands +9 27 £550 +4.76% 36
East of England +4 6 £500 +0.50% 10
North East -2 3 - - 10
Wales +21 2 £666 +2.50% 5
East Midlands +10 2 £450 -18.18% 14
Northern Ireland - 1 £640 - 10

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 30 (3.55%) Confluence
2 22 (2.60%) OpenStack
3 21 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (1.89%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.77%) nginx
6 6 (0.71%) Anypoint
6 6 (0.71%) Apache
7 4 (0.47%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.47%) Luigi
7 4 (0.47%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.24%) CMS
9 2 (0.24%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.12%) Gliffy
2 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.35%) Shopify
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 410 (48.46%) AWS
2 367 (43.38%) Azure
3 162 (19.15%) Serverless
4 141 (16.67%) GCP
5 128 (15.13%) Azure DevOps
6 126 (14.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 113 (13.36%) AWS Lambda
8 105 (12.41%) Amazon S3
9 83 (9.81%) GitHub
10 78 (9.22%) Amazon EC2
11 70 (8.27%) IaaS
12 61 (7.21%) PaaS
13 56 (6.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 54 (6.38%) SaaS
15 52 (6.15%) OpenShift
16 50 (5.91%) Amazon EKS
17 49 (5.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 40 (4.73%) Azure Monitor
19 39 (4.61%) Entra ID
20 37 (4.37%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 103 (12.17%) Firewall
2 78 (9.22%) DNS
3 45 (5.32%) TCP/IP
4 43 (5.08%) VPN
5 42 (4.96%) DHCP
6 28 (3.31%) Network Security
7 21 (2.48%) HTTP
7 21 (2.48%) WAN
8 18 (2.13%) LAN
9 15 (1.77%) IPsec
10 14 (1.65%) WLAN
11 12 (1.42%) OSPF
11 12 (1.42%) VLAN
12 11 (1.30%) VSAN
13 10 (1.18%) SSL
13 10 (1.18%) Wireless
14 9 (1.06%) BGP
14 9 (1.06%) HTTPS
14 9 (1.06%) SAN
15 8 (0.95%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (7.80%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
3 43 (5.08%) Elasticsearch
4 38 (4.49%) SQL Server
5 36 (4.26%) MySQL
5 36 (4.26%) NoSQL
6 34 (4.02%) BigQuery
7 33 (3.90%) Amazon Aurora
8 30 (3.55%) MongoDB
9 29 (3.43%) Amazon Redshift
10 28 (3.31%) Data Lake
11 27 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
12 19 (2.25%) Big Data
12 19 (2.25%) Relational Database
13 17 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
14 16 (1.89%) Oracle Database
15 15 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
16 14 (1.65%) DynamoDB
17 10 (1.18%) RDBMS
17 10 (1.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 188 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 157 (18.56%) Git
3 129 (15.25%) GitLab
4 52 (6.15%) JIRA
5 29 (3.43%) SonarQube
6 23 (2.72%) Selenium
7 18 (2.13%) TeamCity
8 15 (1.77%) CircleCI
8 15 (1.77%) Cucumber
9 14 (1.65%) Burp Suite
10 12 (1.42%) REST Assured
10 12 (1.42%) Travis CI
11 11 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 10 (1.18%) Bitbucket
13 9 (1.06%) Artifactory
14 6 (0.71%) AppScan
14 6 (0.71%) Cypress.io
14 6 (0.71%) Terragrunt
14 6 (0.71%) Visual Studio
15 5 (0.59%) Subversion
General
1 236 (27.90%) Social Skills
2 89 (10.52%) Finance
3 78 (9.22%) Public Sector
4 55 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (4.61%) Banking
6 22 (2.60%) Retail
7 16 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (1.89%) Law
7 16 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (0.95%) Legal
8 8 (0.95%) Police
9 7 (0.83%) Back Office
9 7 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (0.71%) Investment Banking
10 6 (0.71%) Marketing
11 5 (0.59%) Electronics
12 4 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.47%) German Language
12 4 (0.47%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 194 (22.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 130 (15.37%) Architect
3 101 (11.94%) Developer
4 87 (10.28%) AWS Engineer
5 86 (10.17%) Azure Engineer
6 85 (10.05%) Senior
7 64 (7.57%) Cloud Engineer
8 63 (7.45%) AWS DevOps
9 57 (6.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 54 (6.38%) Platform Engineer
11 43 (5.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 43 (5.08%) Lead
12 40 (4.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 39 (4.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 37 (4.37%) Cloud Architect
15 35 (4.14%) Software Engineer
16 33 (3.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 31 (3.66%) DevSecOps Engineer
18 26 (3.07%) Data Engineer
18 26 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (7.57%) ARM Templates
2 58 (6.86%) Elastic Stack
3 56 (6.62%) AWS CDK
3 56 (6.62%) YAML
4 51 (6.03%) REST
5 45 (5.32%) .NET
6 38 (4.49%) Node.js
7 34 (4.02%) React
8 29 (3.43%) JSON
9 27 (3.19%) Kafka
10 22 (2.60%) SOAP
11 19 (2.25%) RabbitMQ
12 18 (2.13%) Spring
13 17 (2.01%) RESTful
14 16 (1.89%) XML
15 15 (1.77%) OAuth
16 14 (1.65%) Spring Boot
17 13 (1.54%) Java EE
18 12 (1.42%) CSS
18 12 (1.42%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (6.38%) Cloud Native
2 49 (5.79%) PKI
3 31 (3.66%) Public Cloud
4 23 (2.72%) Data Centre
4 23 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (2.60%) Onboarding
6 21 (2.48%) Product Ownership
7 18 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (2.13%) Mobile App
7 18 (2.13%) Replication
8 17 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
9 16 (1.89%) IoT
10 15 (1.77%) Management Information System
11 14 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.30%) Clustering
12 11 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 10 (1.18%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 203 (24.00%) Linux
2 92 (10.87%) Windows
3 54 (6.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 54 (6.38%) Windows Server
4 31 (3.66%) Unix
5 21 (2.48%) CentOS
6 20 (2.36%) Windows Server 2016
7 18 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
8 17 (2.01%) Ubuntu
9 10 (1.18%) VMS
10 7 (0.83%) Kali Linux
10 7 (0.83%) Oracle Linux
11 6 (0.71%) Solaris
12 4 (0.47%) Alpine Linux
13 3 (0.35%) Android
13 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.35%) Debian
13 3 (0.35%) Windows 2000
13 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.35%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 525 (62.06%) DevOps
2 468 (55.32%) CI/CD
3 278 (32.86%) Agile
4 218 (25.77%) Containerisation
5 149 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
6 122 (14.42%) Continuous Integration
7 112 (13.24%) Microservices
8 107 (12.65%) Test Automation
9 100 (11.82%) Cloud Security
10 94 (11.11%) Analytics
11 90 (10.64%) Configuration Management
11 90 (10.64%) DevSecOps
12 83 (9.81%) Scrum
13 79 (9.34%) Migration
14 75 (8.87%) Software Engineering
15 66 (7.80%) Platform Engineering
16 61 (7.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 60 (7.09%) Kanban
18 59 (6.97%) High Availability
19 58 (6.86%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 336 (39.72%) Python
2 164 (19.39%) PowerShell
3 151 (17.85%) Bash
4 114 (13.48%) Java
4 114 (13.48%) SQL
5 78 (9.22%) C#
6 77 (9.10%) TypeScript
7 67 (7.92%) Bicep
8 53 (6.26%) JavaScript
9 46 (5.44%) Go
10 40 (4.73%) Shell Script
11 18 (2.13%) Ruby
12 17 (2.01%) VB
12 17 (2.01%) VBScript
13 13 (1.54%) Groovy
14 9 (1.06%) PHP
15 8 (0.95%) Perl
16 7 (0.83%) Scala
17 3 (0.35%) ActionScript
17 3 (0.35%) C
Qualifications
1 201 (23.76%) Security Cleared
2 157 (18.56%) SC Cleared
3 83 (9.81%) Degree
4 51 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (5.44%) DV Cleared
6 22 (2.60%) Azure Certification
7 21 (2.48%) AWS Certification
8 17 (2.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 13 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 7 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (0.83%) OSCP
13 6 (0.71%) CISSP
14 5 (0.59%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.47%) CCNP
15 4 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.47%) SANS
16 3 (0.35%) CCIE
16 3 (0.35%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (5.20%) QA
2 38 (4.49%) NIST
3 24 (2.84%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.01%) PCI DSS
5 16 (1.89%) Disclosure Scotland
5 16 (1.89%) GDPR
5 16 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.59%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.59%) NCSC
8 4 (0.47%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.35%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.24%) SLA
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 256 (30.26%) Docker
2 68 (8.04%) Active Directory
3 53 (6.26%) Virtual Machines
4 48 (5.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 24 (2.84%) VMware NSX
6 19 (2.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (1.77%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (1.65%) vSphere
9 10 (1.18%) vCloud
10 5 (0.59%) Firmware
10 5 (0.59%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 2 (0.24%) Squid
14 1 (0.12%) Ceph
14 1 (0.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.12%) KVM
14 1 (0.12%) NFS
14 1 (0.12%) XenApp
14 1 (0.12%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 541 (63.95%) Terraform
2 312 (36.88%) Kubernetes
3 221 (26.12%) Ansible
4 111 (13.12%) Grafana
5 74 (8.75%) Prometheus
6 61 (7.21%) Puppet
7 49 (5.79%) Progress Chef
8 37 (4.37%) Kibana
9 28 (3.31%) logstash
9 28 (3.31%) SCCM
10 22 (2.60%) Docker Swarm
11 21 (2.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 21 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
12 18 (2.13%) Packer
12 18 (2.13%) SCOM
12 18 (2.13%) vCenter Server
13 17 (2.01%) WSUS
14 13 (1.54%) HP Fortify
15 12 (1.42%) Istio
15 12 (1.42%) Podman
Vendors
1 132 (15.60%) Microsoft
2 69 (8.16%) VMware
3 64 (7.57%) Google
4 51 (6.03%) Oracle
5 45 (5.32%) Splunk
6 29 (3.43%) Cisco
6 29 (3.43%) Red Hat
7 23 (2.72%) Databricks
8 18 (2.13%) Fortinet
8 18 (2.13%) Palo Alto
9 16 (1.89%) Juniper
9 16 (1.89%) SAP
10 15 (1.77%) Dell
10 15 (1.77%) Salesforce
11 13 (1.54%) Amdocs
12 10 (1.18%) CyberArk
13 8 (0.95%) Atlassian
13 8 (0.95%) HP
13 8 (0.95%) ServiceNow
14 7 (0.83%) F5