Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 24 34
Rank change year-on-year +1 +10 -5
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 4 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 2.37% 1.95% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 2.84% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 6
10th Percentile £385 £431 -
25th Percentile £400 £467 £611
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £634
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -17.16% -11.36%
75th Percentile £475 £578 £645
90th Percentile - £607 £648
North West median daily rate £500 £525 £618
% change year-on-year -4.76% -14.98% +14.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 148 141 229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 87.57% 68.78% 89.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 57 134
10th Percentile £363 £259 £352
25th Percentile £425 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £493 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% -10.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £586 £600 £645
90th Percentile £671 £647 £720
North West median daily rate £450 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -9.55% -0.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 52
10th Percentile £18.87 £25.78 £20.58
25th Percentile £23.32 £35.36 £37.70
Median hourly rate £51.16 £40.33 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +26.87% -12.68% +22.18%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £49.52
90th Percentile £74.32 £51.44 £73.02
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.84% +21.43% +59.09%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in Lancashire

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

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

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 14 September 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
Blackpool +6 4 £450 -27.13%
Infrastructure as Code
North West

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) DBA
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Administrator
3 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Runbook
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Bicep
2 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform