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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 52 51
Rank change year-on-year +15 -1 +20
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 36 44 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 4.02% 3.06% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 3.53% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 23 37
10th Percentile £400 £444 £475
25th Percentile £413 £484 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -2.22% +7.14%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £638
90th Percentile £710 £630 £685
North West median daily rate £475 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £75.65 - -
25th Percentile £78.88 £69.50 -
Median hourly rate £87.00 £72.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% - -
75th Percentile £92.38 £74.50 -
90th Percentile £93.95 - -
North West median hourly rate £87.00 £72.00 -
% change year-on-year +20.83% - -

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 797 1,246 1,621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.95% 86.59% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 846 1,190
10th Percentile £312 £313 £318
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £589
90th Percentile £668 £694 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 77 52
10th Percentile £14.17 £12.46 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.70 £13.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.00 £27.60
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% -5.80% +50.76%
75th Percentile £74.38 £61.25 £42.81
90th Percentile £86.20 £73.30 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £30.40 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.92% -25.71% +51.99%

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 30 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Manchester over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 30 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 - 3
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 4 (11.11%) WebSphere
1 4 (11.11%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (5.56%) Apache
2 2 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.56%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 24 (66.67%) AWS
2 12 (33.33%) GitHub
3 11 (30.56%) Azure
4 10 (27.78%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (27.78%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (22.22%) GCP
6 6 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (11.11%) Amazon S3
7 4 (11.11%) IBM Cloud
7 4 (11.11%) npm
8 3 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (8.33%) Apigee
8 3 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (8.33%) Serverless
9 2 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (5.56%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (19.44%) DNS
2 4 (11.11%) Calico
3 3 (8.33%) DHCP
4 2 (5.56%) Firewall
5 1 (2.78%) HTTP
5 1 (2.78%) Network Security
5 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 3 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.56%) Delta Lake
3 2 (5.56%) DynamoDB
3 2 (5.56%) MySQL
3 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.78%) InfluxDB
4 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (22.22%) GitLab
3 6 (16.67%) Git
4 5 (13.89%) Maven
5 3 (8.33%) CircleCI
5 3 (8.33%) Cypress.io
5 3 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Banking
4 2 (5.56%) Finance
4 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.56%) Retail
5 1 (2.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) Senior
2 9 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 8 (22.22%) Architect
3 8 (22.22%) Senior Software Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Data Architect
6 3 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) AWS Software Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Data Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) DevOps Specialist
7 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Principal Data Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Lead
8 1 (2.78%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.00%) Node.js
2 6 (16.67%) OAuth
2 6 (16.67%) React
3 4 (11.11%) ARM Templates
3 4 (11.11%) AWS CDK
3 4 (11.11%) Kafka
3 4 (11.11%) OAuth2
3 4 (11.11%) OpenID
3 4 (11.11%) RESTful
3 4 (11.11%) SAML
4 3 (8.33%) GraphQL
4 3 (8.33%) Playwright
4 3 (8.33%) Puppeteer
5 2 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.78%) .NET
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Amplify
6 1 (2.78%) HTML
6 1 (2.78%) NestJS
6 1 (2.78%) REST
6 1 (2.78%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (5.56%) Clustering
2 2 (5.56%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.78%) BYOD
3 1 (2.78%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.22%) Linux
2 4 (11.11%) Android
2 4 (11.11%) Apple iOS
3 2 (5.56%) CentOS
3 2 (5.56%) Windows
3 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (63.89%) CI/CD
2 15 (41.67%) Containerisation
2 15 (41.67%) DevOps
3 13 (36.11%) Software Engineering
4 10 (27.78%) Agile
5 9 (25.00%) Analytics
6 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (22.22%) RBAC
7 7 (19.44%) Continuous Deployment
7 7 (19.44%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (19.44%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (19.44%) Digital Twin
7 7 (19.44%) Incident Management
7 7 (19.44%) Visualisation
8 6 (16.67%) Microservices
9 5 (13.89%) Cost Optimisation
9 5 (13.89%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (13.89%) Load Balancing
9 5 (13.89%) Test Automation
9 5 (13.89%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (33.33%) Python
2 8 (22.22%) TypeScript
3 7 (19.44%) Bash
3 7 (19.44%) Java
4 5 (13.89%) Shell Script
4 5 (13.89%) SQL
5 4 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 3 (8.33%) Bicep
7 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.78%) Perl
8 1 (2.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (30.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.78%) NIST
2 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (72.22%) Terraform
2 21 (58.33%) Kubernetes
3 7 (19.44%) Istio
4 6 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 5 (13.89%) Grafana
6 3 (8.33%) Ansible
6 3 (8.33%) Kustomize
7 2 (5.56%) Nagios
7 2 (5.56%) ZABBIX
8 1 (2.78%) Graylog
8 1 (2.78%) Packer
8 1 (2.78%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) IBM
2 3 (8.33%) Databricks
2 3 (8.33%) Google
2 3 (8.33%) PagerDuty
3 2 (5.56%) Dell
3 2 (5.56%) HP
3 2 (5.56%) SolarWinds
3 2 (5.56%) VMware
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) Ping Identity
4 1 (2.78%) SendGrid