Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in Preston

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 1.09% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Lancashire median daily rate £450 £525 £634
% change year-on-year -14.29% -17.16% -11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.53 - -
Median hourly rate £42.69 - -
75th Percentile £45.84 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £42.69 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 79 42 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 85.87% 91.30% 98.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 19 22
10th Percentile £250 £290 £328
25th Percentile £403 £469 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% +26.59% -3.97%
75th Percentile £578 £559 £498
90th Percentile £680 £600 £500
Lancashire median daily rate £455 £500 £623
% change year-on-year -9.00% -19.68% +19.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 36
10th Percentile £29.21 £24.43 £20.58
25th Percentile £39.53 £25.17 £33.66
Median hourly rate £41.94 £30.96 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +35.47% -32.96% +15.39%
75th Percentile £45.84 £44.63 £51.63
90th Percentile £71.79 £67.70 £74.37
Lancashire median hourly rate £45.46 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year -1.56% - +15.45%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in Preston

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in Preston

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

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

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform