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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 93 106
Rank change year-on-year -12 +13 +1
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 933 1,430 2,198
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.15% 2.57% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 2.87% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 1,044 1,621
10th Percentile £400 £450 £455
25th Percentile £475 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +11.32%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £688 £760 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £555 £550
% change year-on-year -0.90% +0.91% +10.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 18 1
10th Percentile £55.00 £58.18 -
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 £83.25 £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 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 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
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 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +2 782 £550 -8.33% 447
London -16 412 £550 -8.33% 196
UK excluding London -5 395 £550 -0.90% 270
Work from Home -11 344 £538 -10.42% 285
South East +69 135 £605 -6.92% 54
North of England +26 110 £550 -8.33% 66
South West -33 69 £584 -4.73% 59
Scotland -21 62 £494 +0.15% 18
Yorkshire +36 60 £520 -15.10% 23
Midlands +29 45 £564 +7.33% 51
North West -8 45 £550 -7.37% 40
West Midlands +23 43 £576 +12.94% 36
East of England -8 6 £500 +5.26% 15
North East +3 5 - - 3
Wales +18 2 £666 +11.04% 5
East Midlands +9 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 32 (3.43%) Confluence
2 24 (2.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (2.14%) OpenStack
4 18 (1.93%) Apache Spark
5 17 (1.82%) nginx
6 15 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.75%) Anypoint
8 6 (0.64%) Apache
9 5 (0.54%) SharePoint
10 4 (0.43%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.43%) Luigi
11 3 (0.32%) CMS
11 3 (0.32%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.21%) GeoServer
12 2 (0.21%) IIS
13 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.21%) Gliffy
1 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.32%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 426 (45.66%) AWS
2 402 (43.09%) Azure
3 165 (17.68%) Serverless
4 155 (16.61%) GCP
5 136 (14.58%) Azure DevOps
6 132 (14.15%) AWS CloudFormation
7 113 (12.11%) Amazon S3
8 112 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
9 86 (9.22%) GitHub
10 76 (8.15%) IaaS
11 75 (8.04%) Amazon EC2
12 69 (7.40%) PaaS
13 58 (6.22%) OpenShift
14 56 (6.00%) Entra ID
15 53 (5.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 53 (5.68%) SaaS
16 49 (5.25%) Azure Monitor
17 47 (5.04%) Amazon EKS
18 45 (4.82%) Cloud Computing
19 44 (4.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 100 (10.72%) Firewall
2 83 (8.90%) DNS
3 43 (4.61%) DHCP
3 43 (4.61%) TCP/IP
4 41 (4.39%) VPN
5 29 (3.11%) Network Security
6 21 (2.25%) HTTP
7 16 (1.71%) WAN
8 14 (1.50%) LAN
9 11 (1.18%) VSAN
10 10 (1.07%) IPsec
10 10 (1.07%) VLAN
11 9 (0.96%) HTTPS
11 9 (0.96%) SSL
11 9 (0.96%) WLAN
12 8 (0.86%) IPv4
12 8 (0.86%) SAN
13 7 (0.75%) Kerberos
13 7 (0.75%) OSPF
14 6 (0.64%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (7.40%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (5.89%) Amazon RDS
3 40 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
4 37 (3.97%) BigQuery
4 37 (3.97%) NoSQL
5 36 (3.86%) MySQL
6 34 (3.64%) SQL Server
7 33 (3.54%) MongoDB
8 31 (3.32%) Data Lake
9 29 (3.11%) Amazon Redshift
10 28 (3.00%) Amazon Aurora
10 28 (3.00%) Relational Database
11 26 (2.79%) Azure SQL Database
12 20 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
12 20 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
13 18 (1.93%) Big Data
14 16 (1.71%) DynamoDB
15 14 (1.50%) Oracle Database
16 12 (1.29%) RDBMS
17 10 (1.07%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 201 (21.54%) Jenkins
2 182 (19.51%) Git
3 143 (15.33%) GitLab
4 54 (5.79%) JIRA
5 29 (3.11%) SonarQube
6 22 (2.36%) Selenium
7 18 (1.93%) TeamCity
8 15 (1.61%) CircleCI
9 14 (1.50%) Cucumber
10 12 (1.29%) Burp Suite
10 12 (1.29%) REST Assured
11 11 (1.18%) Artifactory
11 11 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 11 (1.18%) Travis CI
12 8 (0.86%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.86%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.64%) AppScan
14 5 (0.54%) Subversion
14 5 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
15 4 (0.43%) Postman
General
1 266 (28.51%) Social Skills
2 93 (9.97%) Finance
3 82 (8.79%) Public Sector
4 56 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (5.57%) Banking
6 21 (2.25%) Retail
7 18 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (1.71%) Law
10 8 (0.86%) Legal
10 8 (0.86%) Police
11 7 (0.75%) Back Office
11 7 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (0.64%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.64%) Marketing
13 5 (0.54%) Electronics
14 4 (0.43%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.32%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.32%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 208 (22.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 148 (15.86%) Architect
3 101 (10.83%) Developer
4 97 (10.40%) Azure Engineer
5 95 (10.18%) Senior
6 89 (9.54%) AWS Engineer
7 74 (7.93%) Cloud Engineer
8 65 (6.97%) AWS DevOps
8 65 (6.97%) Platform Engineer
9 61 (6.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 44 (4.72%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 44 (4.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 42 (4.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 37 (3.97%) Lead
12 37 (3.97%) Software Engineer
13 36 (3.86%) Cloud Architect
14 33 (3.54%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 31 (3.32%) DevSecOps Engineer
16 27 (2.89%) Security Engineer
16 27 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (8.47%) YAML
2 73 (7.82%) ARM Templates
3 57 (6.11%) AWS CDK
4 53 (5.68%) Elastic Stack
5 52 (5.57%) REST
6 45 (4.82%) .NET
7 41 (4.39%) Node.js
8 37 (3.97%) React
9 31 (3.32%) Kafka
10 27 (2.89%) JSON
11 22 (2.36%) RabbitMQ
11 22 (2.36%) SOAP
12 21 (2.25%) Spring
13 20 (2.14%) RESTful
14 16 (1.71%) Spring Boot
15 15 (1.61%) HTML
16 14 (1.50%) CSS
16 14 (1.50%) XML
17 13 (1.39%) Java EE
17 13 (1.39%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 49 (5.25%) Cloud Native
2 48 (5.14%) PKI
3 38 (4.07%) Public Cloud
4 26 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (2.57%) Product Ownership
6 23 (2.47%) Onboarding
7 21 (2.25%) Data Centre
8 20 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
9 18 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
9 18 (1.93%) Mobile App
9 18 (1.93%) Replication
10 17 (1.82%) IoT
11 16 (1.71%) Management Information System
12 14 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
14 11 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
14 11 (1.18%) Security Posture
14 11 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 10 (1.07%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 233 (24.97%) Linux
2 112 (12.00%) Windows
3 78 (8.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 57 (6.11%) Windows Server
5 31 (3.32%) Unix
6 24 (2.57%) Windows Server 2016
7 21 (2.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 19 (2.04%) CentOS
9 16 (1.71%) Ubuntu
10 11 (1.18%) VMS
11 5 (0.54%) Kali Linux
11 5 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (0.54%) Solaris
12 4 (0.43%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.32%) Android
13 3 (0.32%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.32%) Windows 2000
13 3 (0.32%) Windows XP
14 2 (0.21%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 583 (62.49%) DevOps
2 517 (55.41%) CI/CD
3 293 (31.40%) Agile
4 253 (27.12%) Containerisation
5 170 (18.22%) Problem-Solving
6 131 (14.04%) Continuous Integration
7 126 (13.50%) Microservices
8 121 (12.97%) Test Automation
9 114 (12.22%) Cloud Security
10 109 (11.68%) Configuration Management
11 102 (10.93%) Analytics
12 101 (10.83%) DevSecOps
13 86 (9.22%) Migration
13 86 (9.22%) Scrum
14 85 (9.11%) Infrastructure Automation
15 80 (8.57%) Software Engineering
16 79 (8.47%) Platform Engineering
17 69 (7.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 66 (7.07%) High Availability
19 64 (6.86%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 351 (37.62%) Python
2 199 (21.33%) PowerShell
3 157 (16.83%) Bash
4 125 (13.40%) Java
5 118 (12.65%) SQL
6 84 (9.00%) C#
7 76 (8.15%) Bicep
7 76 (8.15%) TypeScript
8 49 (5.25%) JavaScript
9 44 (4.72%) Go
10 42 (4.50%) Shell Script
11 20 (2.14%) VB
11 20 (2.14%) VBScript
12 17 (1.82%) Ruby
13 13 (1.39%) Groovy
14 9 (0.96%) Scala
15 8 (0.86%) PHP
16 6 (0.64%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.54%) Perl
18 4 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 240 (25.72%) Security Cleared
2 193 (20.69%) SC Cleared
3 92 (9.86%) Degree
4 56 (6.00%) DV Cleared
5 54 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (3.64%) Azure Certification
7 32 (3.43%) AWS Certification
8 20 (2.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 19 (2.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 12 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (1.07%) Master's Degree
13 9 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.75%) CISSP
15 5 (0.54%) OSCP
16 4 (0.43%) PhD
16 4 (0.43%) SANS
17 3 (0.32%) CCIE
17 3 (0.32%) CCNP
17 3 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (4.82%) QA
2 38 (4.07%) NIST
3 25 (2.68%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.82%) GDPR
4 17 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (1.71%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.61%) Disclosure Scotland
7 10 (1.07%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.43%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.32%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.32%) NCSC
11 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 296 (31.73%) Docker
2 80 (8.57%) Active Directory
3 68 (7.29%) Virtual Machines
4 63 (6.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 26 (2.79%) VMware NSX
6 22 (2.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
8 13 (1.39%) vSphere
9 10 (1.07%) vCloud
10 5 (0.54%) Firmware
10 5 (0.54%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.32%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.21%) Squid
13 1 (0.11%) Ceph
13 1 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.11%) KVM
13 1 (0.11%) NFS
13 1 (0.11%) XenApp
13 1 (0.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 614 (65.81%) Terraform
2 350 (37.51%) Kubernetes
3 249 (26.69%) Ansible
4 114 (12.22%) Grafana
5 75 (8.04%) Prometheus
5 75 (8.04%) Puppet
6 63 (6.75%) Progress Chef
7 34 (3.64%) Kibana
8 31 (3.32%) SCCM
9 26 (2.79%) logstash
10 25 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
11 22 (2.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 22 (2.36%) Docker Swarm
12 21 (2.25%) SCOM
13 20 (2.14%) WSUS
14 18 (1.93%) vCenter Server
15 17 (1.82%) Salt
16 16 (1.71%) Podman
17 15 (1.61%) Istio
18 14 (1.50%) vRealize
Vendors
1 148 (15.86%) Microsoft
2 88 (9.43%) VMware
3 78 (8.36%) Google
4 56 (6.00%) Red Hat
5 53 (5.68%) Oracle
6 44 (4.72%) Splunk
7 26 (2.79%) Cisco
8 25 (2.68%) Databricks
9 19 (2.04%) Salesforce
10 17 (1.82%) SAP
11 16 (1.71%) Fortinet
11 16 (1.71%) SaltStack
12 14 (1.50%) Dell
13 13 (1.39%) Amdocs
13 13 (1.39%) Palo Alto
14 12 (1.29%) CyberArk
14 12 (1.29%) Juniper
15 11 (1.18%) Atlassian
16 8 (0.86%) SolarWinds
17 7 (0.75%) Veeam