Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the North West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Infrastructure as Code skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 77 86
Rank change year-on-year -19 +9 0
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 45 85 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.69% 2.77% 2.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% 3.06% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 60 86
10th Percentile £433 £462 £414
25th Percentile £475 £507 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £623 £700 £650
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £69.50 - £46.19
Median hourly rate £72.00 - £47.38
75th Percentile £74.50 - £48.56
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £78.00 £47.38
% change year-on-year -19.87% +64.64% -21.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Infrastructure as Code is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,295 2,775 3,562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.05% 90.39% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,459 1,954 2,592
10th Percentile £310 £313 £250
25th Percentile £406 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 136 172
10th Percentile £10.96 £16.44 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £22.97 £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.19 £35.52 £24.10
Median % change year-on-year -31.89% +47.37% +31.41%
75th Percentile £46.18 £49.43 £49.00
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%

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 16 May 2024.

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
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 16 May 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
Manchester +2 43 £550 -8.33% 38
Cheshire -1 1 - - 1
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 4 (8.89%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 31 (68.89%) AWS
2 16 (35.56%) Azure
3 13 (28.89%) Serverless
4 12 (26.67%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (24.44%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (24.44%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (15.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (15.56%) Amazon S3
7 7 (15.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (13.33%) Amazon ELB
8 6 (13.33%) GitHub
8 6 (13.33%) Snowflake
9 4 (8.89%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (8.89%) GCP
10 3 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (4.44%) Amazon EMR
11 2 (4.44%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (4.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (4.44%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) Firewall
1 3 (6.67%) VPN
2 2 (4.44%) DNS
2 2 (4.44%) SSL
3 1 (2.22%) Network Security
3 1 (2.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) Data Lake
1 6 (13.33%) DynamoDB
2 5 (11.11%) MySQL
3 4 (8.89%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (6.67%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.44%) Redis
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (33.33%) Git
2 10 (22.22%) GitLab
3 7 (15.56%) SonarQube
4 3 (6.67%) Burp Suite
4 3 (6.67%) Jenkins
5 2 (4.44%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.44%) JIRA
5 2 (4.44%) Selenium
6 1 (2.22%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.22%) Travis CI
General
1 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (8.89%) Retail
3 3 (6.67%) Banking
3 3 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.22%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 19 (42.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (28.89%) AWS DevOps
3 10 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 8 (17.78%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (15.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 6 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (11.11%) Architect
8 5 (11.11%) Developer
8 5 (11.11%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 5 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (8.89%) Senior
9 4 (8.89%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (8.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (8.89%) Software Engineer
10 3 (6.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 3 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 3 (6.67%) Ethical Hacker
10 3 (6.67%) Lead
10 3 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.33%) AWS CDK
2 5 (11.11%) Node.js
3 4 (8.89%) React
4 3 (6.67%) ARM Templates
4 3 (6.67%) Lambda Expressions
4 3 (6.67%) Spring
4 3 (6.67%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.44%) .NET
5 2 (4.44%) Jest
5 2 (4.44%) pytest
5 2 (4.44%) SAML
5 2 (4.44%) Sass
5 2 (4.44%) YAML
6 1 (2.22%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.22%) AWS SAM
6 1 (2.22%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.22%) koa
6 1 (2.22%) Next.js
6 1 (2.22%) RESTful
6 1 (2.22%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 4 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.89%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.67%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.33%) Linux
2 3 (6.67%) Android
2 3 (6.67%) Apple iOS
2 3 (6.67%) Kali Linux
2 3 (6.67%) Windows
2 3 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.44%) Alpine Linux
3 2 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (75.56%) DevOps
2 29 (64.44%) CI/CD
3 17 (37.78%) Agile
4 12 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 9 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
6 8 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (17.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 8 (17.78%) Software Delivery
7 7 (15.56%) Kanban
8 6 (13.33%) Code Quality
8 6 (13.33%) Refactoring
9 5 (11.11%) Cloud Security
9 5 (11.11%) Data Migration
9 5 (11.11%) Migration
9 5 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (11.11%) Scrum
9 5 (11.11%) Software Engineering
9 5 (11.11%) Software Testing
10 4 (8.89%) E-Commerce
10 4 (8.89%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (51.11%) Python
2 11 (24.44%) Bash
3 10 (22.22%) Go
4 8 (17.78%) SQL
4 8 (17.78%) TypeScript
5 5 (11.11%) PowerShell
6 4 (8.89%) Java
6 4 (8.89%) JavaScript
7 3 (6.67%) Bicep
8 2 (4.44%) C#
9 1 (2.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (24.44%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) OSCP
4 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.44%) Degree
5 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.22%) MCSE
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) PCI DSS
2 3 (6.67%) ISO 22301
2 3 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.67%) NIST
3 2 (4.44%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (4.44%) QA
4 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (35.56%) Docker
2 2 (4.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (71.11%) Terraform
2 20 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 12 (26.67%) Ansible
4 6 (13.33%) HP Fortify
5 3 (6.67%) Grafana
6 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) Splunk
2 3 (6.67%) Atlassian
2 3 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.44%) Sage
3 2 (4.44%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.22%) Databricks
4 1 (2.22%) Google
4 1 (2.22%) Microsoft