Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 27 22
Rank change year-on-year -15 -5 -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 10 11 5
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 3.62% 6.18% 5.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.76% 6.47% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 2
10th Percentile £348 £384 £518
25th Percentile £406 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -27.27% -
75th Percentile £575 £407 £575
90th Percentile £633 £508 £583
Cheshire median daily rate £449 £427 £555
% change year-on-year +4.97% -23.02% +6.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate - £80.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 266 170 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 96.38% 95.51% 96.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 139 68
10th Percentile £310 £338 £450
25th Percentile £358 £358 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -21.30% +10.20%
75th Percentile £492 £548 £593
90th Percentile £555 £685 £606
Cheshire median daily rate £446 £489 £525
% change year-on-year -8.79% -6.86% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.01 £35.00 £23.61
% change year-on-year -37.11% +48.24% +46.92%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

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

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Knutsford over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in Knutsford

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) GCP
3 4 (40.00%) OpenShift
4 2 (20.00%) Datadog
5 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
2 3 (30.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) GitLab
2 2 (20.00%) CircleCI
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Monitoring Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 5 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 5 (50.00%) Observability
3 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (40.00%) Migration
3 4 (40.00%) Risk Analysis
3 4 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
3 4 (40.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 4 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (30.00%) Security Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) Change Control
5 2 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (20.00%) DevSecOps
5 2 (20.00%) High Availability
5 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Bash
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) CISM
1 4 (40.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (40.00%) NIST
2 2 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 4 (40.00%) Fluentd
2 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (20.00%) Ansible
3 2 (20.00%) Grafana
3 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Cribl.io
1 4 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft