Infrastructure as Code Contracts in Cheshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 56 56
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 -5
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 7 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.56% 0.40% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 0.47% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 6
10th Percentile £330 - £438
25th Percentile - - £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -28.40% +8.11% +16.79%
75th Percentile £368 - £500
90th Percentile £469 - £564
North West median daily rate £488 £550 £594
% change year-on-year -11.36% -7.37% +13.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in Cheshire

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in Cheshire

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in Cheshire

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Knutsford - 6 £358 -
Alderley Edge - 1 - - 2
Infrastructure as Code
North West

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 3 (42.86%) Apache
1 3 (42.86%) nginx
1 3 (42.86%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (57.14%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
3 3 (42.86%) AWS KMS
3 3 (42.86%) Serverless
4 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (14.29%) Azure
5 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MongoDB
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Architect
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Architect
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Solution Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Specialist
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
1 3 (42.86%) OAuth
2 2 (28.57%) Kafka
3 1 (14.29%) ADO
3 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
3 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (28.57%) Public Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Blockchain
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Blue-Green Deployment
2 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
2 3 (42.86%) Secrets Management
2 3 (42.86%) Service Catalogue
3 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Kanban
4 1 (14.29%) Pair Programming
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Kibana
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 2 (28.57%) Ansible
4 1 (14.29%) Grafana
4 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
4 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) AppDynamics
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) VMware