Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 82 89
Rank change year-on-year +41 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 175 48 37
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 4.63% 2.17% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.59% 2.45% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 35 23
10th Percentile £404 £358 £400
25th Percentile £475 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.90% -9.09% -10.20%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £606
90th Percentile £688 £680 £648
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £66.20 £75.65 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £78.88 £69.50
Median hourly rate £76.00 £87.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.64% +20.83% -
75th Percentile - £92.38 £74.50
90th Percentile - £93.95 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £68.44
% change year-on-year +12.00% -8.68% -12.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,129 1,959 2,012
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.71% 88.68% 84.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,820 1,271 1,212
10th Percentile £277 £280 £310
25th Percentile £400 £375 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £454 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.25% -9.30% -
75th Percentile £599 £575 £588
90th Percentile £676 £663 £675
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 124 169
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.50 £10.95
25th Percentile £24.18 £18.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £45.00 £27.19 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +65.52% -20.53% -2.26%
75th Percentile £73.00 £56.19 £51.91
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.63 £70.90
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in the North West

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Infrastructure as Code.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the North West over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the North West

Infrastructure as Code
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Infrastructure as Code.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the North West over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the North West

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 12 August 2026. 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
Manchester +22 113 £525 -8.70% 164
Cheshire +14 30 £613 +68.87% 23
Lancashire +13 27 £600 +33.33% 6
Merseyside -16 2 £425 -5.56% 6
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.86%) Apache
1 5 (2.86%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.29%) Confluence
3 3 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.14%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.14%) SAS
5 1 (0.57%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.57%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 129 (73.71%) AWS
2 90 (51.43%) Azure
3 47 (26.86%) GCP
4 31 (17.71%) GitHub
5 28 (16.00%) OCI
6 26 (14.86%) Serverless
7 23 (13.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (12.57%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (12.57%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (9.71%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (8.57%) Azure AKS
11 14 (8.00%) Entra ID
11 14 (8.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 14 (8.00%) SaaS
12 13 (7.43%) Azure Sentinel
13 12 (6.86%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (6.29%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (5.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (5.14%) Amazon S3
16 7 (4.00%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 29 (16.57%) Firewall
2 15 (8.57%) WAN
3 14 (8.00%) BGP
3 14 (8.00%) DNS
3 14 (8.00%) Network Security
3 14 (8.00%) OSPF
3 14 (8.00%) SD-WAN
4 11 (6.29%) Ethernet VPN
4 11 (6.29%) VXLAN
5 10 (5.71%) BIG-IP
5 10 (5.71%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (5.71%) WLAN
6 9 (5.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 8 (4.57%) VPN
8 6 (3.43%) TCP/IP
9 5 (2.86%) Wireless
10 4 (2.29%) HTTP
10 4 (2.29%) NAS
10 4 (2.29%) SAN
10 4 (2.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.29%) Oracle Database
2 16 (9.14%) Oracle Exadata
2 16 (9.14%) RDBMS
2 16 (9.14%) Relational Database
3 11 (6.29%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.57%) DynamoDB
5 7 (4.00%) NoSQL
5 7 (4.00%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.43%) BigQuery
6 6 (3.43%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.86%) MySQL
7 5 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (2.29%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.14%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.14%) DocumentDB
11 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.57%) Flink
Development Applications
1 44 (25.14%) GitLab
2 37 (21.14%) Git
3 14 (8.00%) Jenkins
4 9 (5.14%) Claude Code
5 6 (3.43%) JUnit
6 4 (2.29%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.29%) JIRA
6 4 (2.29%) Selenium
6 4 (2.29%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.71%) Mockito
7 3 (1.71%) Postman
8 2 (1.14%) Flyway
8 2 (1.14%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.57%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.57%) WebDriver
General
1 27 (15.43%) Finance
2 22 (12.57%) Social Skills
3 20 (11.43%) Public Sector
4 13 (7.43%) Retail
5 10 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (5.14%) Banking
7 6 (3.43%) Games
7 6 (3.43%) Military
8 3 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.14%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 56 (32.00%) Senior
2 28 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 26 (14.86%) Cloud Engineer
4 21 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 19 (10.86%) AWS Engineer
5 19 (10.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (10.29%) Lead
6 18 (10.29%) Security Engineer
7 15 (8.57%) Software Engineer
8 12 (6.86%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (6.29%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 11 (6.29%) Developer
10 10 (5.71%) Architect
10 10 (5.71%) Java Engineer
10 10 (5.71%) Senior DevOps
11 9 (5.14%) AWS Software Engineer
11 9 (5.14%) Principal Engineer
11 9 (5.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.57%) Java Software Engineer
12 8 (4.57%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.29%) REST
2 16 (9.14%) Node.js
3 14 (8.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 13 (7.43%) Spring
4 13 (7.43%) Spring Boot
5 12 (6.86%) React
6 11 (6.29%) Next.js
7 10 (5.71%) Kafka
7 10 (5.71%) PySpark
8 8 (4.57%) .NET
9 6 (3.43%) ARM Templates
9 6 (3.43%) AWS CDK
9 6 (3.43%) JSON
10 5 (2.86%) Langfuse
10 5 (2.86%) RESTful
10 5 (2.86%) XML
11 3 (1.71%) .NET Framework
11 3 (1.71%) OAuth
11 3 (1.71%) Spring MVC
11 3 (1.71%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (30.29%) Cloud Native
2 17 (9.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (9.14%) Public Cloud
4 14 (8.00%) Data Centre
5 12 (6.86%) Security Posture
6 11 (6.29%) Enterprise Cloud
6 11 (6.29%) Product Ownership
7 8 (4.57%) AI Agents
8 7 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (3.43%) Animation
9 6 (3.43%) Replication
10 5 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (2.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (2.29%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.71%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (1.71%) Clustering
12 3 (1.71%) Culture of Ownership
12 3 (1.71%) NHS
13 2 (1.14%) Management Information System
13 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 41 (23.43%) Linux
2 24 (13.71%) Windows
3 14 (8.00%) AIX
4 12 (6.86%) Windows Server
5 7 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.14%) Unix
7 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (70.29%) CI/CD
2 93 (53.14%) DevOps
3 52 (29.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 47 (26.86%) Observability
5 43 (24.57%) Agile
6 36 (20.57%) Migration
7 34 (19.43%) Cloud Security
7 34 (19.43%) Containerisation
7 34 (19.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (16.57%) Software Engineering
9 28 (16.00%) AI
10 27 (15.43%) High Availability
10 27 (15.43%) Test Automation
11 26 (14.86%) Infrastructure Automation
11 26 (14.86%) Technical Leadership
12 25 (14.29%) Event-Driven
12 25 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 24 (13.71%) Microservices
14 23 (13.14%) DevSecOps
14 23 (13.14%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 76 (43.43%) Python
2 35 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 32 (18.29%) Bash
4 31 (17.71%) Bicep
5 24 (13.71%) SQL
6 19 (10.86%) Java
7 13 (7.43%) TypeScript
8 7 (4.00%) C#
9 5 (2.86%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.29%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (2.29%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (1.14%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.14%) Scala
12 1 (0.57%) Go
12 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.14%) SC Cleared
3 18 (10.29%) Azure Certification
4 14 (8.00%) Degree
5 11 (6.29%) AWS Certification
6 9 (5.14%) CISSP
7 6 (3.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.43%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.86%) CCNP
9 4 (2.29%) GCFA
9 4 (2.29%) GCIH
10 3 (1.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.71%) CCIE
11 2 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.57%) CCNA
12 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.29%) Data Quality
1 11 (6.29%) QA
2 8 (4.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 7 (4.00%) GDPR
4 6 (3.43%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.29%) NIST
6 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (1.14%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.57%) GRC
7 1 (0.57%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (25.14%) Docker
2 16 (9.14%) Oracle RAC
3 14 (8.00%) Active Directory
4 8 (4.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (2.86%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.14%) Ceph
6 2 (1.14%) KVM
7 1 (0.57%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.57%) Squid
7 1 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.57%) zsh
Systems Management
1 133 (76.00%) Terraform
2 65 (37.14%) Kubernetes
3 51 (29.14%) Ansible
4 16 (9.14%) Data Guard
4 16 (9.14%) Oracle RMAN
5 12 (6.86%) Prometheus
6 11 (6.29%) Grafana
7 8 (4.57%) Argo
7 8 (4.57%) Progress Chef
8 7 (4.00%) CASB
9 6 (3.43%) Istio
10 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.14%) linkerd
11 2 (1.14%) Packer
11 2 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.57%) Puppet
12 1 (0.57%) vRealize
12 1 (0.57%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 36 (20.57%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.86%) Oracle
3 16 (9.14%) Palo Alto
4 13 (7.43%) Aruba
5 12 (6.86%) Arista
6 11 (6.29%) F5
6 11 (6.29%) Splunk
7 10 (5.71%) Google
8 9 (5.14%) Red Hat
9 8 (4.57%) VMware
10 7 (4.00%) OpenAI
10 7 (4.00%) Perforce
11 6 (3.43%) Fortinet
12 5 (2.86%) Cisco
13 4 (2.29%) Cribl.io
13 4 (2.29%) ServiceNow
14 3 (1.71%) Databricks
14 3 (1.71%) Zscaler
15 2 (1.14%) Informatica
15 2 (1.14%) Juniper