Infrastructure as Code Contracts in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 103 105
Rank change year-on-year +28 +2 +12
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 847 802 1,125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.37% 2.14% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.69% 2.51% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 559 551 839
10th Percentile £394 £400 £450
25th Percentile £438 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £658 £638 £688
90th Percentile £740 £688 £775
UK median daily rate £546 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -0.73% -8.33% +2.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 17
10th Percentile £26.15 £55.00 £66.80
25th Percentile £27.50 £57.19 -
Median hourly rate £78.70 £68.44 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -12.26% +1.96%
75th Percentile £84.50 £73.69 £85.00
90th Percentile £90.80 £76.25 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £78.85 £69.38 £78.00
% change year-on-year +13.66% -11.06% +2.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,947 31,985 42,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.37% 85.42% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,830 20,733 29,654
10th Percentile £300 £304 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,102 2,360 1,544
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.25
25th Percentile £17.82 £16.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.50 £37.50 £35.03
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +7.05% +36.41%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.53 £64.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.54 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in England

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in England

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in England over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in England

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in England

Infrastructure as Code
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in England over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in England

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 25 June 2025. 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
London +50 544 £550 - 968
North of England -9 83 £500 -3.85% 355
South East +2 81 £501 -17.27% 284
South West +31 48 £625 +7.39% 142
North West +5 45 £475 -13.64% 217
Midlands +5 43 £554 -0.58% 137
Yorkshire -18 33 £525 +3.55% 116
West Midlands -11 31 £600 +6.67% 89
East of England +33 16 £500 -4.76% 115
East Midlands +16 12 £475 +5.56% 43
North East 0 5 £425 - 22
Infrastructure as Code
UK

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 22 (2.60%) Apache Spark
2 19 (2.24%) Apache
2 19 (2.24%) Confluence
3 16 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.83%) nginx
5 5 (0.59%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.47%) IIS
6 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.47%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.47%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (0.35%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.24%) JBoss
8 2 (0.24%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.12%) CMS
9 1 (0.12%) Luigi
9 1 (0.12%) Mattermost
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (0.71%) Shopify
2 3 (0.35%) SAP PM
3 2 (0.24%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 440 (51.95%) AWS
2 414 (48.88%) Azure
3 178 (21.02%) GitHub
4 164 (19.36%) GCP
5 145 (17.12%) Serverless
6 143 (16.88%) Azure DevOps
7 132 (15.58%) AWS CloudFormation
8 100 (11.81%) GitHub Actions
9 81 (9.56%) AWS Lambda
10 74 (8.74%) Azure AKS
11 70 (8.26%) Amazon EKS
12 69 (8.15%) PaaS
13 65 (7.67%) Amazon S3
14 64 (7.56%) Azure Monitor
15 62 (7.32%) Entra ID
16 59 (6.97%) IaaS
17 55 (6.49%) SaaS
18 52 (6.14%) Amazon EC2
19 47 (5.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 42 (4.96%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 100 (11.81%) Firewall
2 80 (9.45%) DNS
3 59 (6.97%) VPN
4 40 (4.72%) Network Security
5 25 (2.95%) TCP/IP
6 23 (2.72%) DHCP
7 18 (2.13%) NGFW
8 17 (2.01%) HTTP
9 13 (1.53%) SAN
10 9 (1.06%) Internet
10 9 (1.06%) SSL
11 7 (0.83%) Kerberos
11 7 (0.83%) WAN
12 6 (0.71%) HTTPS
13 5 (0.59%) BGP
13 5 (0.59%) SD-WAN
13 5 (0.59%) SSH
13 5 (0.59%) Wireshark
14 4 (0.47%) NAS
14 4 (0.47%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
2 38 (4.49%) NoSQL
3 36 (4.25%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (3.19%) DynamoDB
5 26 (3.07%) SQL Server
6 25 (2.95%) Azure SQL Database
6 25 (2.95%) Data Lake
7 24 (2.83%) Relational Database
8 23 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (2.72%) Power BI
9 20 (2.36%) MongoDB
10 18 (2.13%) Big Data
11 16 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
12 15 (1.77%) BigQuery
13 13 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
14 11 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (1.30%) Delta Lake
14 11 (1.30%) Redis
15 8 (0.94%) Hadoop
16 7 (0.83%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 166 (19.60%) Jenkins
2 140 (16.53%) GitLab
3 96 (11.33%) Git
4 49 (5.79%) JIRA
5 46 (5.43%) SonarQube
6 25 (2.95%) CircleCI
7 14 (1.65%) Selenium
8 13 (1.53%) Burp Suite
8 13 (1.53%) Metasploit
9 12 (1.42%) Maven
9 12 (1.42%) TeamCity
10 10 (1.18%) Terragrunt
11 9 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (1.06%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.06%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.83%) Artifactory
12 7 (0.83%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.83%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
14 3 (0.35%) Chocolatey
General
1 238 (28.10%) Social Skills
2 133 (15.70%) Finance
3 81 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (9.45%) Public Sector
5 53 (6.26%) Banking
6 16 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
6 16 (1.89%) Retail
7 15 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (1.65%) Financial Institution
8 14 (1.65%) Law
9 12 (1.42%) Marketing
10 11 (1.30%) Military
11 9 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (0.94%) Investment Banking
12 8 (0.94%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.71%) Legal
14 5 (0.59%) Publishing
15 4 (0.47%) Police
16 3 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.35%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 185 (21.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 134 (15.82%) Senior
3 123 (14.52%) Architect
4 94 (11.10%) Azure Engineer
5 90 (10.63%) AWS Engineer
6 77 (9.09%) Developer
7 71 (8.38%) Platform Engineer
8 67 (7.91%) Cloud Engineer
9 50 (5.90%) AWS DevOps
10 49 (5.79%) Lead
11 45 (5.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 40 (4.72%) Azure Architect
13 39 (4.60%) Software Engineer
14 38 (4.49%) Data Engineer
15 36 (4.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 33 (3.90%) Cloud Architect
17 32 (3.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 30 (3.54%) Network Engineer
18 30 (3.54%) Senior DevOps
18 30 (3.54%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (8.50%) ARM Templates
2 58 (6.85%) .NET
3 42 (4.96%) Node.js
4 41 (4.84%) React
5 40 (4.72%) Kafka
6 39 (4.60%) Elastic Stack
7 33 (3.90%) REST
7 33 (3.90%) YAML
8 32 (3.78%) OAuth
9 31 (3.66%) ADO
10 28 (3.31%) AWS CDK
10 28 (3.31%) RESTful
11 27 (3.19%) JSON
12 23 (2.72%) OpenTelemetry
13 21 (2.48%) GraphQL
14 18 (2.13%) OpenID
14 18 (2.13%) SAML
15 15 (1.77%) .NET Framework
15 15 (1.77%) OAuth2
16 14 (1.65%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 139 (16.41%) Cloud Native
2 49 (5.79%) Public Cloud
3 37 (4.37%) Hybrid Cloud
4 25 (2.95%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
5 17 (2.01%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.01%) Product Ownership
6 16 (1.89%) Anti-Spyware
6 16 (1.89%) Data Centre
7 15 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
8 13 (1.53%) PKI
9 11 (1.30%) Private Cloud
10 10 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
12 8 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (0.94%) Security Posture
13 7 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
14 6 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (0.71%) Hedge funds
14 6 (0.71%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 144 (17.00%) Linux
2 56 (6.61%) Windows
3 27 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (3.07%) Windows Server
5 17 (2.01%) Unix
6 11 (1.30%) VMS
7 5 (0.59%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.59%) CentOS
7 5 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.47%) Android
8 4 (0.47%) Solaris
9 3 (0.35%) Rocky
10 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.24%) SUSE
10 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 508 (59.98%) CI/CD
2 501 (59.15%) DevOps
3 267 (31.52%) Containerisation
4 209 (24.68%) Agile
5 179 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
6 120 (14.17%) Migration
7 118 (13.93%) Configuration Management
8 113 (13.34%) Observability
9 108 (12.75%) Microservices
10 103 (12.16%) Cloud Security
10 103 (12.16%) Software Engineering
11 99 (11.69%) Test Automation
12 98 (11.57%) Infrastructure Automation
13 88 (10.39%) Continuous Integration
14 86 (10.15%) Mentoring
15 85 (10.04%) Platform Engineering
16 76 (8.97%) Analytics
16 76 (8.97%) High Availability
17 72 (8.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 63 (7.44%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 379 (44.75%) Python
2 160 (18.89%) Bash
3 139 (16.41%) PowerShell
4 126 (14.88%) SQL
5 114 (13.46%) Java
6 88 (10.39%) Bicep
7 70 (8.26%) JavaScript
8 65 (7.67%) C#
9 54 (6.38%) Go
10 52 (6.14%) TypeScript
11 20 (2.36%) Shell Script
12 14 (1.65%) Kotlin
13 12 (1.42%) Groovy
13 12 (1.42%) Kusto Query Language
14 11 (1.30%) Perl
15 9 (1.06%) PL/SQL
15 9 (1.06%) RPG
16 8 (0.94%) RPG IV
17 7 (0.83%) Scala
18 6 (0.71%) C
Qualifications
1 225 (26.56%) Security Cleared
2 179 (21.13%) SC Cleared
3 48 (5.67%) AWS Certification
4 39 (4.60%) Azure Certification
5 38 (4.49%) Degree
6 30 (3.54%) DV Cleared
7 24 (2.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 18 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.53%) CREST Certified
9 13 (1.53%) OSCP
10 12 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (1.42%) Tigerscheme
11 11 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 9 (1.06%) CHECK Team Member
12 9 (1.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 7 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
13 7 (0.83%) CCNP
13 7 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.71%) OCP
14 6 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (4.25%) GDPR
2 29 (3.42%) Data Quality
3 25 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (2.24%) QA
5 18 (2.13%) NCSC
6 17 (2.01%) NIST
7 16 (1.89%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.77%) SLA
9 13 (1.53%) HIPAA
9 13 (1.53%) SOC 2
10 9 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.35%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.12%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 1 (0.12%) GxP
13 1 (0.12%) HL7
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
System Software
1 245 (28.93%) Docker
2 67 (7.91%) Active Directory
3 26 (3.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.30%) vSphere
6 8 (0.94%) DFS Replication
7 6 (0.71%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.59%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.47%) iptables
9 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.35%) FreeRADIUS
10 3 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.24%) zsh
12 1 (0.12%) Ceph
12 1 (0.12%) Lustre
12 1 (0.12%) Snort
12 1 (0.12%) Squid
12 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 1 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (0.12%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 631 (74.50%) Terraform
2 395 (46.64%) Kubernetes
3 226 (26.68%) Ansible
4 104 (12.28%) Grafana
5 103 (12.16%) Prometheus
6 55 (6.49%) Puppet
7 30 (3.54%) Progress Chef
8 26 (3.07%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (2.13%) Podman
10 14 (1.65%) Packer
11 13 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
11 13 (1.53%) Nmap
12 12 (1.42%) Argo
12 12 (1.42%) Rancher
13 11 (1.30%) Istio
14 10 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
15 8 (0.94%) Kibana
16 7 (0.83%) Kustomize
16 7 (0.83%) Nagios
16 7 (0.83%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 132 (15.58%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.26%) Google
3 47 (5.55%) VMware
4 37 (4.37%) Databricks
4 37 (4.37%) Splunk
5 36 (4.25%) Red Hat
6 25 (2.95%) Palo Alto
7 20 (2.36%) Cisco
8 19 (2.24%) Oracle
9 18 (2.13%) CheckPoint
10 17 (2.01%) ServiceNow
11 16 (1.89%) Infoblox
12 13 (1.53%) Veracode
13 12 (1.42%) SAP
14 11 (1.30%) IBM
14 11 (1.30%) SolarWinds
15 9 (1.06%) Salesforce
16 8 (0.94%) Cloudera
16 8 (0.94%) Qualys
17 7 (0.83%) CyberArk
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