Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 80 90 88
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 46 45 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.36% 1.66% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.62% 1.95% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 23 50
10th Percentile £358 £444 £474
25th Percentile £401 £484 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £647
90th Percentile £675 £630 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
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 - -
England median hourly rate £78.70 £67.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +16.59% -13.46% -

All Process and 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 1,755 2,311 2,737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.05% 85.25% 90.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,450 1,919
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £391 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £553 £588 £588
90th Percentile £661 £676 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 263 140
10th Percentile £13.88 £11.00 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.72 £14.00 £22.09
Median hourly rate £30.40 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.92% -25.71% +51.99%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £48.19
90th Percentile £84.80 £66.61 £66.00
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the North West

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the North West

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 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the North West

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the North West

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 30 May 2025.

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 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
Manchester +15 36 £475 -13.64% 292
Cheshire +5 7 £358 - 158
Merseyside - 3 £625 - 73
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (10.87%) Apache
2 4 (8.70%) WebSphere
2 4 (8.70%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (6.52%) nginx
3 3 (6.52%) Tomcat
4 2 (4.35%) Apache Spark
4 2 (4.35%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 32 (69.57%) AWS
2 15 (32.61%) Azure
3 12 (26.09%) GitHub
4 10 (21.74%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (21.74%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (21.74%) GCP
4 10 (21.74%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (15.22%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (15.22%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (15.22%) Amazon S3
6 6 (13.04%) Serverless
7 5 (10.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (10.87%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (8.70%) IBM Cloud
8 4 (8.70%) npm
9 3 (6.52%) Apigee
9 3 (6.52%) AWS KMS
10 2 (4.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (4.35%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.39%) DNS
2 4 (8.70%) Calico
3 3 (6.52%) DHCP
3 3 (6.52%) Firewall
4 1 (2.17%) HTTP
4 1 (2.17%) Network Security
4 1 (2.17%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.22%) MongoDB
2 4 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (8.70%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.52%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.35%) Delta Lake
4 2 (4.35%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.35%) MySQL
4 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.17%) InfluxDB
5 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (26.09%) Jenkins
2 8 (17.39%) GitLab
3 7 (15.22%) Git
4 5 (10.87%) Maven
5 3 (6.52%) CircleCI
5 3 (6.52%) Cypress.io
5 3 (6.52%) JIRA
General
1 9 (19.57%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.04%) Banking
4 5 (10.87%) Finance
5 2 (4.35%) Legal
5 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.35%) Retail
6 1 (2.17%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (23.91%) Senior
3 10 (21.74%) Architect
4 9 (19.57%) Software Engineer
5 8 (17.39%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (10.87%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (8.70%) Data Architect
8 4 (8.70%) Principal Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) AWS DevOps
9 3 (6.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Platform Engineer
10 2 (4.35%) AWS Architect
10 2 (4.35%) Data Engineer
10 2 (4.35%) DevOps Specialist
10 2 (4.35%) Lead
10 2 (4.35%) Principal Data Engineer
10 2 (4.35%) Principal DevOps Engineer
10 2 (4.35%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (19.57%) Node.js
1 9 (19.57%) OAuth
2 6 (13.04%) Kafka
2 6 (13.04%) React
3 5 (10.87%) ARM Templates
3 5 (10.87%) RESTful
4 4 (8.70%) .NET
4 4 (8.70%) AWS CDK
4 4 (8.70%) OAuth2
4 4 (8.70%) OpenID
4 4 (8.70%) SAML
5 3 (6.52%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (6.52%) GraphQL
5 3 (6.52%) Playwright
5 3 (6.52%) Puppeteer
6 2 (4.35%) ADO
7 1 (2.17%) AWS Amplify
7 1 (2.17%) HTML
7 1 (2.17%) REST
7 1 (2.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (4.35%) Clustering
2 2 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.35%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.35%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.17%) Blockchain
3 1 (2.17%) BYOD
3 1 (2.17%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.17%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (30.43%) Linux
2 4 (8.70%) Android
2 4 (8.70%) Apple iOS
2 4 (8.70%) Windows
2 4 (8.70%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.35%) CentOS
4 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (67.39%) CI/CD
2 23 (50.00%) DevOps
3 18 (39.13%) Containerisation
4 13 (28.26%) Software Engineering
5 12 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (23.91%) Agile
7 10 (21.74%) Analytics
8 8 (17.39%) Continuous Deployment
8 8 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (17.39%) Microservices
8 8 (17.39%) RBAC
9 7 (15.22%) Cost Optimisation
9 7 (15.22%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (15.22%) Digital Twin
9 7 (15.22%) Incident Management
9 7 (15.22%) Visualisation
10 6 (13.04%) Identity Access Management
11 5 (10.87%) Architectural Design
11 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Automation
11 5 (10.87%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (28.26%) Python
2 10 (21.74%) Java
3 8 (17.39%) Bash
3 8 (17.39%) SQL
3 8 (17.39%) TypeScript
4 5 (10.87%) Shell Script
5 4 (8.70%) Bicep
5 4 (8.70%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.52%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.17%) Perl
7 1 (2.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (23.91%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.52%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.35%) Degree
5 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.17%) NIST
2 1 (2.17%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (32.61%) Docker
2 2 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (73.91%) Terraform
2 24 (52.17%) Kubernetes
3 7 (15.22%) Ansible
3 7 (15.22%) Istio
3 7 (15.22%) Prometheus
4 6 (13.04%) Grafana
5 3 (6.52%) Kibana
5 3 (6.52%) Kustomize
6 2 (4.35%) Nagios
6 2 (4.35%) ZABBIX
7 1 (2.17%) Graylog
7 1 (2.17%) Packer
7 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) IBM
2 3 (6.52%) AppDynamics
2 3 (6.52%) Databricks
2 3 (6.52%) Google
2 3 (6.52%) PagerDuty
2 3 (6.52%) VMware
3 2 (4.35%) Cisco
3 2 (4.35%) Dell
3 2 (4.35%) HP
3 2 (4.35%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle
4 1 (2.17%) Ping Identity
4 1 (2.17%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.17%) SendGrid