Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in Stockport

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
Manchester > Stockport

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Stockport requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Stockport 8.33% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median daily rate £525 £475 £531
% change year-on-year +10.53% -10.59% -3.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Stockport

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 Stockport.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10 10 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stockport 83.33% 90.91% 95.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 14
10th Percentile - £381 £287
25th Percentile £153 - £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £192 £400 £488
Median % change year-on-year -52.13% -17.95% +25.81%
75th Percentile £394 £438 £569
90th Percentile £555 £500 £613
Manchester median daily rate £450 £453 £500
% change year-on-year -0.55% -9.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £11.62
25th Percentile - - £12.71
Median hourly rate - - £34.16
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.63%
75th Percentile - - £59.69
90th Percentile - - £63.63
Manchester median hourly rate £46.25 £32.50 £24.19
% change year-on-year +42.31% +34.35% -40.27%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Stockport

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in Stockport

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stockport 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform