Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 37 49
Rank change year-on-year -22 +12 +15
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 15 13 9
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 2.29% 2.93% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.58% 3.30% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 5
10th Percentile £353 £389 £505
25th Percentile £388 £400 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £405 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.48% -26.45% +18.92%
75th Percentile £556 £528 £565
90th Percentile £639 £603 £579
North West median daily rate £525 £492 £588
% change year-on-year +6.65% -16.21% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -
North West median hourly rate £42.69 £80.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year -46.64% +16.36% +29.72%

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 582 394 370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.72% 88.94% 92.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 228 237
10th Percentile £268 £309 £265
25th Percentile £358 £370 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £482 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% -3.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £527 £575 £550
90th Percentile £686 £643 £588
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 23 24
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £14.60
25th Percentile £18.87 £19.00 £17.14
Median hourly rate £23.18 £24.18 £21.84
Median % change year-on-year -4.16% +10.71% +61.12%
75th Percentile £40.00 £33.75 £35.19
90th Percentile £70.55 £84.30 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £34.50 £32.01 £35.50
% change year-on-year +7.78% -9.83% +37.54%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure as Code relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Infrastructure as Code.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Cheshire over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in Cheshire

Infrastructure as Code
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Infrastructure as Code.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Infrastructure as Code

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 15 December 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 -17 12 £460 +15.00%
Warrington -7 2 £374 -16.81%
Infrastructure as Code
North West

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 14 (93.33%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) Azure
3 7 (46.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (40.00%) GCP
5 4 (26.67%) OpenShift
6 3 (20.00%) GitHub
6 3 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (13.33%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (13.33%) Datadog
8 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
8 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
8 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Firewall
2 3 (20.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) GitLab
2 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (20.00%) CircleCI
4 2 (13.33%) Git
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Security Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Lead
4 2 (13.33%) Monitoring Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.67%) Kafka
2 1 (6.67%) React
2 1 (6.67%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) Spring
2 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (93.33%) DevOps
3 8 (53.33%) Cloud Security
4 6 (40.00%) Containerisation
5 5 (33.33%) Incident Response
5 5 (33.33%) Observability
6 4 (26.67%) Migration
6 4 (26.67%) Risk Analysis
6 4 (26.67%) Threat Modelling
6 4 (26.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 4 (26.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 3 (20.00%) Agile
7 3 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
7 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (20.00%) Security Architecture
7 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 2 (13.33%) DevSecOps
8 2 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) Bash
3 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) Korn
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) CISM
1 4 (26.67%) CISSP
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (26.67%) NIST
2 3 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (73.33%) Terraform
2 9 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (26.67%) Fluentd
4 2 (13.33%) Ansible
4 2 (13.33%) Grafana
4 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Cribl.io
1 4 (26.67%) Splunk
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft