Infrastructure as Code Contracts in Cheshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 42 65
Rank change year-on-year +5 +23 -25
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 14 8 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.73% 1.98% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.15% 2.19% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 1
10th Percentile £392 £524 -
25th Percentile £400 £541 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £427 £555 £520
Median % change year-on-year -23.02% +6.73% -2.80%
75th Percentile £577 £571 £530
90th Percentile £597 £581 -
North West median daily rate £512 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -14.63% +9.09% +4.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £73.50 - -
25th Percentile £75.00 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £85.00 - -
90th Percentile £86.50 - -
North West median hourly rate £75.00 £68.75 £53.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% +29.72% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 445 365 526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 86.74% 90.12% 87.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 226 326
10th Percentile £329 £301 £248
25th Percentile £388 £441 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +16.67% +5.51%
75th Percentile £568 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £612 £631
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 27 25
10th Percentile £16.03 £15.60 -
25th Percentile £21.05 £17.38 £10.20
Median hourly rate £31.19 £23.61 £16.07
Median % change year-on-year +32.12% +46.92% -15.42%
75th Percentile £41.56 £35.39 £23.21
90th Percentile £43.75 £40.00 £32.60
North West median hourly rate £40.33 £35.50 £25.41
% change year-on-year +13.59% +39.74% +41.14%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in Cheshire

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in Cheshire

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Cheshire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in Cheshire

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. 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
Knutsford -6 11 £400 -27.27% 1
Warrington +12 1 £450 - 2
Infrastructure as Code
North West

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) AWS
2 7 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 7 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 7 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 7 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (50.00%) Serverless
3 5 (35.71%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (35.71%) Amazon Kinesis
3 5 (35.71%) Amazon S3
4 4 (28.57%) Azure
5 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
6 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (7.14%) GCP
6 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) DynamoDB
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Hive
2 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 3 (21.43%) Git
3 2 (14.29%) GitLab
4 1 (7.14%) JIRA
4 1 (7.14%) JProfiler
4 1 (7.14%) VisualVM
4 1 (7.14%) YourKit
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Technology Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) JSON
2 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) Loki
2 1 (7.14%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) DevOps
2 7 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 7 (50.00%) Service Catalogue
3 6 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 6 (42.86%) Use Case
4 5 (35.71%) Canary Deployment
4 5 (35.71%) Decision-Making
4 5 (35.71%) ITIL
4 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
6 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (14.29%) Design Patterns
7 2 (14.29%) Microservices
7 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
8 1 (7.14%) Actionable Insight
8 1 (7.14%) Continuous Delivery
8 1 (7.14%) Data Engineering
8 1 (7.14%) Performance Metrics
8 1 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Python
2 7 (50.00%) Groovy
3 2 (14.29%) Bash
3 2 (14.29%) Go
3 2 (14.29%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) C++
4 1 (7.14%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (7.14%) Ruby
4 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) HDFS
1 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) Ansible
2 2 (14.29%) Progress Chef
3 1 (7.14%) Ambari
3 1 (7.14%) Consul
3 1 (7.14%) Ganglia
3 1 (7.14%) Grafana
3 1 (7.14%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Splunk
2 1 (7.14%) Tanium
2 1 (7.14%) VMware