Infrastructure as Code Contracts in Manchester

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 54 58
Rank change year-on-year +8 +4 +12
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 33 42 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 3.56% 2.77% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.98% 3.18% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 23 41
10th Percentile £400 £429 £475
25th Percentile £450 £459 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -6.38% +11.90%
75th Percentile £625 £594 £650
90th Percentile £740 £640 £675
North West median daily rate £488 £550 £594
% change year-on-year -11.36% -7.37% +13.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in Manchester

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in Manchester

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in Manchester

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in Manchester

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Altrincham - 1 - - 9
Salford - 1 £300 - 4
Infrastructure as Code
North West

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.06%) Apache
1 2 (6.06%) Apache Spark
1 2 (6.06%) IIS
1 2 (6.06%) WebSphere
1 2 (6.06%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 23 (69.70%) AWS
2 11 (33.33%) GitHub
3 10 (30.30%) Amazon EKS
3 10 (30.30%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 9 (27.27%) Azure
5 5 (15.15%) GCP
6 4 (12.12%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (12.12%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (12.12%) Amazon S3
7 3 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (9.09%) Serverless
7 3 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (6.06%) Apigee
8 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (6.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (6.06%) Entra ID
8 2 (6.06%) IBM Cloud
8 2 (6.06%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 8 (24.24%) DNS
2 3 (9.09%) DHCP
3 2 (6.06%) Calico
3 2 (6.06%) Firewall
3 2 (6.06%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.03%) HTTP
4 1 (3.03%) Network Security
4 1 (3.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (12.12%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.06%) Delta Lake
2 2 (6.06%) DynamoDB
2 2 (6.06%) MySQL
2 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.03%) InfluxDB
3 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (30.30%) Jenkins
2 9 (27.27%) GitLab
3 4 (12.12%) Git
4 3 (9.09%) Maven
5 2 (6.06%) CircleCI
5 2 (6.06%) Cypress.io
5 2 (6.06%) JIRA
General
1 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
3 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Banking
4 2 (6.06%) Military
5 1 (3.03%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Senior
2 9 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (24.24%) Architect
4 6 (18.18%) Software Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Senior DevOps
5 5 (15.15%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (12.12%) Data Architect
6 4 (12.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) AWS Software Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Azure Architect
8 2 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Data Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) DevOps Specialist
8 2 (6.06%) Principal Data Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Principal Engineer
9 1 (3.03%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 1 (3.03%) Lead
9 1 (3.03%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.21%) Node.js
2 5 (15.15%) Kafka
2 5 (15.15%) OAuth
2 5 (15.15%) React
3 4 (12.12%) ARM Templates
3 4 (12.12%) cloud-init
3 4 (12.12%) OAuth2
3 4 (12.12%) OpenID
3 4 (12.12%) SAML
4 3 (9.09%) AWS CDK
5 2 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (6.06%) GraphQL
5 2 (6.06%) Playwright
5 2 (6.06%) Puppeteer
5 2 (6.06%) RESTful
6 1 (3.03%) .NET
6 1 (3.03%) ADO
6 1 (3.03%) HTML
6 1 (3.03%) REST
6 1 (3.03%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.06%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (6.06%) Clustering
2 2 (6.06%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.03%) BYOD
3 1 (3.03%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.03%) PKI
3 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (30.30%) Linux
2 6 (18.18%) CentOS
3 5 (15.15%) Unix
4 4 (12.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (6.06%) Android
5 2 (6.06%) Apple iOS
5 2 (6.06%) Windows
5 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
5 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 15 (45.45%) DevOps
3 11 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 11 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (27.27%) Analytics
5 8 (24.24%) Agile
5 8 (24.24%) RBAC
5 8 (24.24%) Software Engineering
6 7 (21.21%) Continuous Deployment
6 7 (21.21%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (21.21%) Digital Twin
6 7 (21.21%) Visualisation
7 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (15.15%) Cost Optimisation
8 5 (15.15%) Load Balancing
9 4 (12.12%) Architectural Design
9 4 (12.12%) Data Security
9 4 (12.12%) ETL
9 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (12.12%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (39.39%) Python
2 10 (30.30%) Bash
3 6 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 4 (12.12%) Go
4 4 (12.12%) SQL
5 3 (9.09%) Bicep
5 3 (9.09%) Java
5 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 3 (9.09%) Shell Script
6 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.03%) Perl
7 1 (3.03%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (39.39%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.03%) NCSC
2 1 (3.03%) NIST
2 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (27.27%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.06%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.06%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (78.79%) Terraform
2 16 (48.48%) Kubernetes
3 6 (18.18%) Istio
3 6 (18.18%) Prometheus
4 5 (15.15%) Grafana
4 5 (15.15%) Packer
5 3 (9.09%) Ansible
5 3 (9.09%) Kustomize
5 3 (9.09%) ZABBIX
6 2 (6.06%) Nagios
7 1 (3.03%) Consul
7 1 (3.03%) Graylog
7 1 (3.03%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (3.03%) linkerd
7 1 (3.03%) Puppet
7 1 (3.03%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) IBM
2 3 (9.09%) Databricks
3 2 (6.06%) Dell
3 2 (6.06%) Google
3 2 (6.06%) HP
3 2 (6.06%) PagerDuty
3 2 (6.06%) SolarWinds
3 2 (6.06%) VMware
4 1 (3.03%) Okta
4 1 (3.03%) Oracle
4 1 (3.03%) Splunk