Infrastructure as Code Contracts in Scotland

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 59 41 47
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +16
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 59 152 168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.75% 5.69% 4.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.18% 6.19% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 113 142
10th Percentile £431 £427 £450
25th Percentile £461 £460 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -5.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £575
90th Percentile £605 £630 £651
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £598
% change year-on-year -8.33% +0.42% +10.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,857 2,457 3,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 86.65% 91.95% 93.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 1,716 2,260
10th Percentile £221 £258 £250
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £573 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 57 54
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.07 £11.25 £17.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £43.75 £50.27
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.63 £57.05
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in Scotland

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in Scotland

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in Scotland

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region 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
Edinburgh -5 36 £494 +0.30% 9
Glasgow -13 13 £506 -15.67% 8
Renfrewshire - 1 £600 -
Infrastructure as Code
UK

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (3.39%) Confluence
1 2 (3.39%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 55 (93.22%) AWS
2 36 (61.02%) AWS CloudFormation
2 36 (61.02%) Serverless
3 35 (59.32%) AWS Lambda
4 34 (57.63%) Amazon S3
5 25 (42.37%) OpenShift
6 12 (20.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 12 (20.34%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (20.34%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 8 (13.56%) AWS CodeBuild
7 8 (13.56%) AWS CodePipeline
8 6 (10.17%) Textract
9 5 (8.47%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (8.47%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 5 (8.47%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (6.78%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (6.78%) IaaS
11 3 (5.08%) AWS CodeCommit
12 2 (3.39%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 2 (3.39%) Rekognition
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (59.32%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (44.07%) Amazon Aurora
3 12 (20.34%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (20.34%) MongoDB
4 9 (15.25%) Oracle Database
5 8 (13.56%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (11.86%) Informix
7 6 (10.17%) InfluxDB
8 3 (5.08%) GIS
9 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
10 1 (1.69%) Big Data
10 1 (1.69%) MySQL
10 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.69%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 20 (33.90%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.17%) GitLab
3 5 (8.47%) Artifactory
4 3 (5.08%) Git
5 2 (3.39%) JIRA
6 1 (1.69%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.69%) Liquibase
6 1 (1.69%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.69%) Terragrunt
General
1 33 (55.93%) Public Sector
2 14 (23.73%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.47%) Back Office
3 5 (8.47%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (5.08%) Banking
5 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.69%) Finance
6 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (45.76%) Developer
2 8 (13.56%) Automation Developer
2 8 (13.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (11.86%) Architect
4 5 (8.47%) AWS Architect
4 5 (8.47%) AWS DevOps
4 5 (8.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) Database Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) Software Developer
5 4 (6.78%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Data Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Full Stack Developer
5 4 (6.78%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.08%) AWS Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (5.08%) Senior
6 3 (5.08%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (61.02%) AWS CDK
2 13 (22.03%) React
3 10 (16.95%) CSS
3 10 (16.95%) HTML
3 10 (16.95%) REST
4 8 (13.56%) Node.js
4 8 (13.56%) Spring
4 8 (13.56%) Spring Boot
5 6 (10.17%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (10.17%) SpaCy
6 5 (8.47%) OAuth
6 5 (8.47%) OAuth2
6 5 (8.47%) SOAP
6 5 (8.47%) Spring Security
7 4 (6.78%) PyTorch
8 3 (5.08%) PostGIS
8 3 (5.08%) Spring MVC
8 3 (5.08%) Spring Web Flow
8 3 (5.08%) Thymeleaf
9 2 (3.39%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.34%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (13.56%) Replication
3 5 (8.47%) PKI
4 4 (6.78%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.39%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) Clustering
6 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.69%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.34%) Linux
2 10 (16.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (8.47%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (66.10%) Agile
2 30 (50.85%) CI/CD
3 26 (44.07%) DevOps
4 22 (37.29%) Roadmaps
5 21 (35.59%) Kanban
6 18 (30.51%) Scrum
7 17 (28.81%) Code Quality
8 14 (23.73%) Community of Practice
8 14 (23.73%) Test Automation
9 13 (22.03%) Human-Centred Design
10 12 (20.34%) Analytics
10 12 (20.34%) Machine Learning
10 12 (20.34%) Mentoring
10 12 (20.34%) Microservices
10 12 (20.34%) Migration
10 12 (20.34%) Pair Programming
10 12 (20.34%) TDD
10 12 (20.34%) User Experience
11 11 (18.64%) Code Coverage
11 11 (18.64%) Inclusive Design
Programming Languages
1 32 (54.24%) Python
2 29 (49.15%) TypeScript
3 20 (33.90%) Java
4 13 (22.03%) JavaScript
5 12 (20.34%) SQL
6 9 (15.25%) Bash
7 5 (8.47%) Groovy
8 3 (5.08%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.69%) C
9 1 (1.69%) C#
9 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (5.08%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (28.81%) Accessibility
2 15 (25.42%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (3.39%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (23.73%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) KVM
2 1 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (52.54%) Grafana
2 22 (37.29%) Ansible
3 18 (30.51%) Terraform
4 13 (22.03%) Kubernetes
5 8 (13.56%) Kibana
6 3 (5.08%) Packer
7 1 (1.69%) Argo
7 1 (1.69%) Istio
7 1 (1.69%) Nagios
7 1 (1.69%) Puppet
7 1 (1.69%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.69%) vRealize
Vendors
1 18 (30.51%) Oracle
2 3 (5.08%) Commvault
2 3 (5.08%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.39%) Sage
4 1 (1.69%) VMware