Infrastructure Management Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Infrastructure Management
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Infrastructure Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 52 60
Rank change year-on-year -17 +8 -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 6 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.85% 0.47% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.49% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £353 - -
25th Percentile £356 £561 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £374 £573 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.61% - -
75th Percentile £502 £584 -
90th Percentile £696 - -
North West median daily rate £388 £573 £500
% change year-on-year -32.31% +14.50% +1.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £103.72 - -
Median hourly rate £107.43 - -
75th Percentile £111.15 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £107.43 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Infrastructure Management 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 632 409 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 89.14% 95.34% 86.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 266 298
10th Percentile £313 £298 £310
25th Percentile £368 £358 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £471 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% -5.75% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £564 £560
90th Percentile £653 £639 £622
North West median daily rate £455 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 33 34
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.41 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.72 £24.18 £16.61
Median hourly rate £23.50 £32.50 £21.84
Median % change year-on-year -27.69% +48.81% -5.66%
75th Percentile £43.00 £77.50 £38.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £86.00 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £31.64 £22.98
% change year-on-year +42.23% +37.71% -38.57%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Infrastructure Management job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Infrastructure Management

Infrastructure Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Management in Cheshire over the 6 months to 21 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Management in Cheshire

Infrastructure Management
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 Management within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 21 March 2026. 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
Warrington - 5 £388 - 1
Knutsford - 1 £358 -
Infrastructure Management
North West

Infrastructure Management
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 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS CodeBuild
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) Datadog
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) CircleCI
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Military
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
1 3 (50.00%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 3 (50.00%) Private Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 3 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Change Control
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bash
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (16.67%) Prometheus