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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 3.81% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £366 - -
25th Percentile £439 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median daily rate £575 - -

All Process & 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 86 59 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 81.90% 89.39% 87.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 36 25
10th Percentile £217 £269 £355
25th Percentile £481 £409 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £528 £593
Median % change year-on-year +13.74% -11.03% +35.52%
75th Percentile £754 £630 £645
90th Percentile £850 £666 £885
Lancashire median daily rate £575 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% +3.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 11 33
10th Percentile £36.41 - £12.63
25th Percentile £39.53 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £62.80 £28.75 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +118.42% +79.02% -60.43%
75th Percentile £71.45 £47.12 £25.30
90th Percentile £71.50 £59.30 £46.18
Lancashire median hourly rate £64.09 £28.75 £35.36
% change year-on-year +122.92% -18.69% -16.12%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Preston

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Preston over the 6 months to 20 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in Preston

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Blueprints
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) RBAC
2 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft