Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the South East

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 80 145 178
Rank change year-on-year +65 +33 -57
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 134 70 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.33% 1.24% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 1.39% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 54 60
10th Percentile £416 £475 £449
25th Percentile £519 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +8.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £650 £719 £653
90th Percentile £688 £760 £675
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +11.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,758 5,043 6,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.70% 89.05% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,760 3,463 4,677
10th Percentile £260 £250 £246
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 218 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.31
25th Percentile £18.32 £25.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.16 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £64.90
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the South East

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the South East

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the South East

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the South East

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East 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
Thames Valley +44 71 £605 -6.92% 15
Berkshire +23 64 £605 -6.92% 6
Hampshire +10 30 £584 +1.48% 12
Surrey +23 16 £663 +4.95% 5
Buckinghamshire +26 5 £500 -16.67% 8
West Sussex +4 5 £500 -32.43% 4
East Sussex +5 2 £538 -17.31% 3
Oxfordshire - 2 £500 - 1
Kent - 2 - - 3
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (16.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.24%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.49%) CMS
4 1 (0.75%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 67 (50.00%) Azure
2 42 (31.34%) AWS
3 30 (22.39%) Azure Monitor
4 27 (20.15%) Entra ID
5 22 (16.42%) Microsoft 365
6 21 (15.67%) Azure Storage
7 15 (11.19%) GCP
8 11 (8.21%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (7.46%) OpenShift
10 9 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (6.72%) IaaS
11 7 (5.22%) Azure API Management
12 5 (3.73%) PaaS
13 4 (2.99%) GitHub
14 3 (2.24%) Azure Data Factory
14 3 (2.24%) Azure Key Vault
14 3 (2.24%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
15 2 (1.49%) Azure Functions
15 2 (1.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 26 (19.40%) DNS
2 24 (17.91%) Firewall
3 21 (15.67%) DHCP
4 7 (5.22%) VSAN
5 3 (2.24%) SAN
6 2 (1.49%) VPN
7 1 (0.75%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.75%) Network Security
7 1 (0.75%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (3.73%) BigQuery
3 4 (2.99%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.99%) MySQL
3 4 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.99%) RDBMS
3 4 (2.99%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.99%) SSDT
4 3 (2.24%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.24%) Metadata
5 2 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.49%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.75%) Big Data
6 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.75%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 22 (16.42%) Git
2 20 (14.93%) GitLab
3 18 (13.43%) Jenkins
4 14 (10.45%) JIRA
4 14 (10.45%) Selenium
5 13 (9.70%) Cucumber
6 12 (8.96%) REST Assured
6 12 (8.96%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.49%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.75%) Appium
8 1 (0.75%) MSTest
8 1 (0.75%) NUnit
8 1 (0.75%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.75%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.75%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 60 (44.78%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.18%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (6.72%) Law
3 9 (6.72%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.97%) Police
5 5 (3.73%) Banking
6 3 (2.24%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (2.24%) Finance
6 3 (2.24%) Retail
7 2 (1.49%) Back Office
7 2 (1.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (15.67%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (10.45%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (10.45%) Architect
2 14 (10.45%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (10.45%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 14 (10.45%) Support Specialist
3 13 (9.70%) Azure Engineer
3 13 (9.70%) Senior
4 10 (7.46%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (5.97%) Applications Engineer
5 8 (5.97%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (5.97%) Support Engineer
6 7 (5.22%) Active Directory Engineer
6 7 (5.22%) Active Directory Support Engineer
6 7 (5.22%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 7 (5.22%) Software Engineer
6 7 (5.22%) VMware Expert
7 6 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (4.48%) Developer
7 6 (4.48%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (28.36%) ARM Templates
2 17 (12.69%) YAML
3 13 (9.70%) Java EE
3 13 (9.70%) REST
4 8 (5.97%) ADO
5 3 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (2.24%) Kafka
6 2 (1.49%) .NET
6 2 (1.49%) Fluent Bit
6 2 (1.49%) Loki
7 1 (0.75%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.75%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.75%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.42%) PKI
2 21 (15.67%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (8.96%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (2.99%) SCADA
5 3 (2.24%) Smart Meter
6 2 (1.49%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.49%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.75%) Clustering
7 1 (0.75%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 58 (43.28%) Linux
2 36 (26.87%) Windows
3 22 (16.42%) Windows Server
4 21 (15.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 21 (15.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 20 (14.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (5.97%) Ubuntu
7 5 (3.73%) VMS
8 4 (2.99%) Unix
9 2 (1.49%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (61.94%) DevOps
2 64 (47.76%) CI/CD
3 50 (37.31%) Containerisation
4 45 (33.58%) Agile
5 31 (23.13%) Test Automation
6 28 (20.90%) Configuration Management
7 27 (20.15%) Technical Leadership
8 25 (18.66%) Release Management
9 24 (17.91%) ITIL
9 24 (17.91%) Virtual Infrastructure
10 23 (17.16%) Analytics
10 23 (17.16%) Identity Management
11 22 (16.42%) Log Analytics
11 22 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (16.42%) RBAC
11 22 (16.42%) Service Management
12 21 (15.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 21 (15.67%) Privileged Identity Management
13 18 (13.43%) Infrastructure Automation
14 17 (12.69%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 47 (35.07%) PowerShell
2 24 (17.91%) Bicep
3 22 (16.42%) C#
4 21 (15.67%) VB
4 21 (15.67%) VBScript
5 15 (11.19%) Java
5 15 (11.19%) Python
6 12 (8.96%) Bash
7 7 (5.22%) SQL
8 5 (3.73%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.99%) Go
10 2 (1.49%) C++
10 2 (1.49%) Groovy
10 2 (1.49%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 81 (60.45%) Security Cleared
2 69 (51.49%) SC Cleared
3 28 (20.90%) Degree
4 27 (20.15%) DV Cleared
5 21 (15.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.49%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.49%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.49%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.49%) GDPR
1 2 (1.49%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.75%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (23.88%) Virtual Machines
2 31 (23.13%) Active Directory
2 31 (23.13%) Docker
3 21 (15.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 21 (15.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (5.97%) VMware NSX
5 7 (5.22%) vCloud
6 4 (2.99%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 67 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 58 (43.28%) Terraform
3 39 (29.10%) Ansible
4 22 (16.42%) SCCM
5 21 (15.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 21 (15.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (15.67%) SCOM
5 21 (15.67%) WSUS
6 12 (8.96%) Docker Swarm
6 12 (8.96%) Podman
7 10 (7.46%) Progress Chef
7 10 (7.46%) Puppet
8 9 (6.72%) Salt
9 8 (5.97%) Rancher
10 7 (5.22%) Istio
10 7 (5.22%) vCenter Server
11 5 (3.73%) Packer
11 5 (3.73%) vRealize
12 4 (2.99%) Prometheus
13 3 (2.24%) Grafana
Vendors
1 28 (20.90%) Microsoft
2 26 (19.40%) VMware
3 18 (13.43%) Red Hat
4 10 (7.46%) Google
5 8 (5.97%) SaltStack
6 4 (2.99%) Arqiva
6 4 (2.99%) Oracle
6 4 (2.99%) Veritas
7 3 (2.24%) Databricks
7 3 (2.24%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.49%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.75%) BMC
9 1 (0.75%) Dell
9 1 (0.75%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.75%) Remedy