Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the South West

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 51 117
Rank change year-on-year -37 +66 -11
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 64 139 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.97% 4.09% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 4.57% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 117 43
10th Percentile £465 £450 £502
25th Percentile £525 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £613 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +8.41% +18.95%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £679
90th Percentile - £725 £858
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +12.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 0
10th Percentile £65.18 £70.50 -
25th Percentile £67.31 - -
Median hourly rate £72.75 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% - -
75th Percentile £76.31 - -
90th Percentile £77.33 £90.00 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -13.46% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,671 3,042 3,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.08% 89.42% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,693 2,208 2,335
10th Percentile £226 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +5.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 359 314 204
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.29 £21.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £59.90 £48.38
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +23.82% +7.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £63.64
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.07 £68.90
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the South West

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the South West

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the South West over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the South West

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the South West

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Wiltshire -34 28 £582 -7.07% 2
Gloucestershire -16 14 £625 +4.17% 17
Bristol +7 13 £544 -14.71% 10
Dorset - 4 - - 1
Devon - 3 £475 - 11
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (6.25%) Apache Solr
1 4 (6.25%) Confluence
1 4 (6.25%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 25 (39.06%) Azure
2 20 (31.25%) AWS
3 9 (14.06%) GCP
3 9 (14.06%) PaaS
4 7 (10.94%) OpenShift
5 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.69%) IaaS
7 2 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.13%) Slack
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Service Fabric
8 1 (1.56%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.56%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.94%) Firewall
1 7 (10.94%) VPN
2 6 (9.38%) DNS
2 6 (9.38%) TCP/IP
3 4 (6.25%) HTTPS
3 4 (6.25%) IPsec
4 3 (4.69%) IPv4
4 3 (4.69%) OSPF
4 3 (4.69%) VLAN
5 2 (3.13%) DHCP
6 1 (1.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) Couchbase
1 4 (6.25%) MySQL
1 4 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.56%) Power BI
3 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (17.19%) Git
2 7 (10.94%) JIRA
3 6 (9.38%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.25%) Bitbucket
4 4 (6.25%) GitLab
5 3 (4.69%) Burp Suite
6 2 (3.13%) Artifactory
General
1 11 (17.19%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.25%) Legal
4 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.56%) Electronics
5 1 (1.56%) Finance
5 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.56%) Marketing
5 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (23.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (18.75%) Architect
3 7 (10.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (10.94%) Lead
3 7 (10.94%) Senior
4 6 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (6.25%) Automation Architect
6 3 (4.69%) Automation Test Lead
6 3 (4.69%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Azure Architect
6 3 (4.69%) Developer
6 3 (4.69%) Ethical Hacker
6 3 (4.69%) Office Automation Architect
6 3 (4.69%) Senior Developer
6 3 (4.69%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (4.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Test Leader
7 2 (3.13%) IT Security Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Senior Security Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (21.88%) YAML
2 7 (10.94%) .NET
3 4 (6.25%) .NET Framework
3 4 (6.25%) ARM Templates
3 4 (6.25%) JSON
3 4 (6.25%) LEMP Stack
3 4 (6.25%) ModSecurity
3 4 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (3.13%) Fluent Bit
4 2 (3.13%) Loki
5 1 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.38%) PKI
1 6 (9.38%) SCADA
2 5 (7.81%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.81%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.25%) Public Cloud
3 4 (6.25%) Security Posture
4 3 (4.69%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (3.13%) Hackathon
6 1 (1.56%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 46 (71.88%) Linux
2 20 (31.25%) Windows
3 18 (28.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (9.38%) Unix
5 4 (6.25%) CentOS
6 3 (4.69%) Kali Linux
6 3 (4.69%) VMS
6 3 (4.69%) Windows 2000
6 3 (4.69%) Windows XP
7 2 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (54.69%) DevOps
2 21 (32.81%) CI/CD
3 20 (31.25%) Infrastructure Automation
4 19 (29.69%) Configuration Management
5 18 (28.13%) Agile
6 12 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (15.63%) Validation
8 9 (14.06%) SDLC
9 8 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (12.50%) Virtual Infrastructure
10 6 (9.38%) Containerisation
10 6 (9.38%) Customer Requirements
10 6 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (9.38%) GitOps
10 6 (9.38%) Information Security
10 6 (9.38%) Machine Learning
10 6 (9.38%) Task Automation
10 6 (9.38%) Test Automation
11 5 (7.81%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 31 (48.44%) PowerShell
2 22 (34.38%) Python
3 11 (17.19%) Bash
4 7 (10.94%) C#
5 5 (7.81%) Java
6 4 (6.25%) Bicep
6 4 (6.25%) PHP
6 4 (6.25%) Shell Script
7 3 (4.69%) Go
8 2 (3.13%) SQL
9 1 (1.56%) Julia
9 1 (1.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 46 (71.88%) Security Cleared
2 29 (45.31%) SC Cleared
3 15 (23.44%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.81%) Degree
5 4 (6.25%) Master's Degree
6 3 (4.69%) OSCP
7 2 (3.13%) AWS Certification
7 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.56%) GIAC
8 1 (1.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.94%) NIST
2 4 (6.25%) GDPR
2 4 (6.25%) HIPAA
2 4 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.25%) QA
3 3 (4.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (32.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (20.31%) Docker
3 9 (14.06%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (10.94%) VMware NSX
5 6 (9.38%) vSphere
6 4 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 43 (67.19%) Terraform
2 31 (48.44%) Ansible
3 17 (26.56%) Kubernetes
4 15 (23.44%) Puppet
5 9 (14.06%) Progress Chef
5 9 (14.06%) Salt
6 4 (6.25%) OPNET
6 4 (6.25%) PowerCLI
7 3 (4.69%) Grafana
7 3 (4.69%) Prometheus
8 2 (3.13%) Argo
8 2 (3.13%) Kustomize
8 2 (3.13%) SCCM
8 2 (3.13%) vCenter Server
8 2 (3.13%) VxRail
9 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (35.94%) VMware
2 17 (26.56%) Red Hat
3 9 (14.06%) Microsoft
4 8 (12.50%) Google
4 8 (12.50%) SaltStack
5 6 (9.38%) Atlassian
6 4 (6.25%) Cisco
7 3 (4.69%) Fortinet
7 3 (4.69%) Juniper
8 2 (3.13%) SAP
8 2 (3.13%) Veeam
9 1 (1.56%) Databricks
9 1 (1.56%) Oracle