Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the North West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 68 87
Rank change year-on-year -24 +19 -6
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 45 95 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.63% 2.96% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 3.26% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 66 87
10th Percentile £433 £459 £414
25th Percentile £475 £493 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £594 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% +13.10% +8.53%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £625
90th Percentile £630 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.19
Median hourly rate - - £47.38
75th Percentile - - £48.56
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £78.00 £51.19
% change year-on-year -26.28% +52.38% -14.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North 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 North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,910 3,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.57% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,071 2,633
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 145 164
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.49 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +10.64%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the North West

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the North West

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the North West

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the North West

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North West region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Manchester 0 42 £550 -6.38% 35
Cheshire -1 2 £500 +8.11% 3
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 (8.89%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 31 (68.89%) AWS
2 19 (42.22%) Azure
3 13 (28.89%) Serverless
4 12 (26.67%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (24.44%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (15.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (15.56%) Amazon S3
7 7 (15.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (13.33%) Amazon ELB
8 6 (13.33%) Snowflake
9 5 (11.11%) GitHub
10 4 (8.89%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (8.89%) GCP
11 2 (4.44%) Amazon EMR
11 2 (4.44%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (4.44%) Azure Storage
11 2 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (4.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.89%) Firewall
1 4 (8.89%) VPN
2 2 (4.44%) DNS
2 2 (4.44%) SSL
3 1 (2.22%) DMZ
3 1 (2.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) Data Lake
1 6 (13.33%) DynamoDB
2 5 (11.11%) MySQL
3 4 (8.89%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (6.67%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.44%) Redis
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (33.33%) Git
2 10 (22.22%) GitLab
3 7 (15.56%) SonarQube
4 3 (6.67%) Burp Suite
4 3 (6.67%) Jenkins
5 2 (4.44%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.44%) JIRA
5 2 (4.44%) Selenium
6 1 (2.22%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.22%) Travis CI
General
1 10 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (8.89%) Finance
2 4 (8.89%) Retail
3 3 (6.67%) Banking
4 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.22%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 19 (42.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (28.89%) AWS DevOps
3 10 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 8 (17.78%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (15.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 7 (15.56%) Developer
7 6 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (11.11%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 4 (8.89%) Architect
9 4 (8.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (8.89%) Python Developer
9 4 (8.89%) Senior
9 4 (8.89%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (8.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 3 (6.67%) Ethical Hacker
10 3 (6.67%) Lead
10 3 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
10 3 (6.67%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.67%) AWS CDK
1 3 (6.67%) Lambda Expressions
2 2 (4.44%) .NET
2 2 (4.44%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.44%) Jest
2 2 (4.44%) Node.js
2 2 (4.44%) pytest
2 2 (4.44%) SAML
2 2 (4.44%) Sass
2 2 (4.44%) YAML
3 1 (2.22%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.22%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.22%) Entity Framework
3 1 (2.22%) Express.js
3 1 (2.22%) HTML
3 1 (2.22%) JSON
3 1 (2.22%) Kafka
3 1 (2.22%) REST
3 1 (2.22%) RESTful
3 1 (2.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 4 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.89%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.67%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.22%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.56%) Linux
2 4 (8.89%) Windows
2 4 (8.89%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.67%) Android
3 3 (6.67%) Apple iOS
3 3 (6.67%) Kali Linux
4 2 (4.44%) Alpine Linux
4 2 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (73.33%) DevOps
2 25 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 16 (35.56%) Agile
4 12 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 9 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
6 8 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (17.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (13.33%) Software Delivery
8 5 (11.11%) Cloud Security
8 5 (11.11%) Data Migration
8 5 (11.11%) Migration
8 5 (11.11%) Refactoring
8 5 (11.11%) Software Testing
9 4 (8.89%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (8.89%) E-Commerce
9 4 (8.89%) High Availability
9 4 (8.89%) Kanban
9 4 (8.89%) Scrum
9 4 (8.89%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 26 (57.78%) Python
2 11 (24.44%) Bash
3 10 (22.22%) Go
4 7 (15.56%) SQL
5 6 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 6 (13.33%) PowerShell
6 5 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.44%) Bicep
7 2 (4.44%) C#
8 1 (2.22%) Java
8 1 (2.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (31.11%) Security Cleared
2 10 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) OSCP
4 2 (4.44%) BC Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.22%) Degree
5 1 (2.22%) MCSE
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) PCI DSS
2 3 (6.67%) ISO 22301
2 3 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.67%) NIST
3 2 (4.44%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (4.44%) QA
4 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (35.56%) Docker
2 2 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (73.33%) Terraform
2 18 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 13 (28.89%) Ansible
4 6 (13.33%) HP Fortify
5 3 (6.67%) Grafana
6 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) Splunk
2 3 (6.67%) Atlassian
2 3 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.44%) Sage
3 2 (4.44%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.22%) Databricks
4 1 (2.22%) F5
4 1 (2.22%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.22%) Google
4 1 (2.22%) Palo Alto