Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in Chester

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chester requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 3.05% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.03% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £569 £434 £425
% change year-on-year +31.11% +2.12% -22.73%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 149 67 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 75.63% 82.72% 82.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 29 18
10th Percentile £300 £190 £452
25th Percentile £413 £325 £532
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £605
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.96% +12.56%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £738
90th Percentile £675 £773 £741
Cheshire median daily rate £475 £436 £476
% change year-on-year +8.94% -8.45% -4.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 11
10th Percentile - £12.56 £16.00
25th Percentile £16.01 £12.63 £25.50
Median hourly rate £32.23 £14.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +130.18% -60.00% +10.17%
75th Percentile £37.50 £20.20 £41.25
90th Percentile £74.13 £23.17 £47.50
Cheshire median hourly rate £37.98 £17.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +113.94% -49.29% +14.60%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in Chester

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

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

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 6 (100.00%) WAN
2 5 (83.33%) Wireless
3 2 (33.33%) Network Security
3 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (16.67%) BGP
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (16.67%) DWDM
4 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
4 1 (16.67%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (16.67%) IOS XR
4 1 (16.67%) IPv4
4 1 (16.67%) IPv6
4 1 (16.67%) MPLS
4 1 (16.67%) Multicast
4 1 (16.67%) OSPF
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Automation Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Python Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Core Network Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Core Network Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) REST
2 5 (83.33%) Django
2 5 (83.33%) JSON
3 3 (50.00%) Flask
4 2 (33.33%) XML
5 1 (16.67%) NETCONF
5 1 (16.67%) Terraform
5 1 (16.67%) YANG
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) Observability
2 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (50.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Workflow
4 1 (16.67%) Build Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CCIE
1 1 (16.67%) CCNP
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (16.67%) Arista