Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 87 90
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 43 67 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.54% 2.22% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 2.48% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 49 86
10th Percentile £444 £475 £415
25th Percentile £473 £490 £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 £626 £700 £650
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £69.50 - -
Median hourly rate £72.00 - -
75th Percentile £74.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -13.46% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,341 2,704 3,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.85% 89.77% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,900 2,591
10th Percentile £310 £313 £241
25th Percentile £401 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £660
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 142 155
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.02 £10.63
25th Percentile £14.13 £20.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.54 £23.70
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% +28.86% +30.83%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £52.63
90th Percentile £66.61 £59.08 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 0 41 £550 -2.22% 33
Cheshire -5 2 £568 +13.50% 3
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 (9.30%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 29 (67.44%) AWS
2 17 (39.53%) Azure
3 12 (27.91%) Serverless
4 11 (25.58%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (23.26%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (23.26%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (20.93%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (18.60%) Amazon S3
8 6 (13.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (13.95%) Amazon ELB
8 6 (13.95%) Snowflake
8 6 (13.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (11.63%) GitHub
10 4 (9.30%) GCP
11 3 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (4.65%) Amazon EMR
12 2 (4.65%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (4.65%) Azure Storage
12 2 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
13 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) Firewall
1 3 (6.98%) VPN
2 2 (4.65%) DNS
2 2 (4.65%) SSL
3 1 (2.33%) DAB
3 1 (2.33%) Network Security
3 1 (2.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) Data Lake
1 6 (13.95%) DynamoDB
2 5 (11.63%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (9.30%) MySQL
4 3 (6.98%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.65%) Redis
5 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.33%) Delta Lake
6 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (37.21%) Git
2 11 (25.58%) GitLab
3 7 (16.28%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.65%) JIRA
4 2 (4.65%) Selenium
5 1 (2.33%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.33%) Liquibase
5 1 (2.33%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (20.93%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.30%) Banking
2 4 (9.30%) Retail
3 3 (6.98%) Finance
4 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.33%) Publishing
5 1 (2.33%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (41.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (27.91%) AWS DevOps
3 9 (20.93%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (18.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 7 (16.28%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (13.95%) Architect
6 6 (13.95%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 6 (13.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (11.63%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 5 (11.63%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (9.30%) Developer
8 4 (9.30%) Senior
8 4 (9.30%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (9.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (9.30%) Software Engineer
9 3 (6.98%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 3 (6.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 3 (6.98%) Lead
9 3 (6.98%) Operations Engineer
9 3 (6.98%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.95%) Node.js
2 5 (11.63%) AWS CDK
3 4 (9.30%) React
4 3 (6.98%) ARM Templates
4 3 (6.98%) Lambda Expressions
4 3 (6.98%) Spring
4 3 (6.98%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.65%) Jest
5 2 (4.65%) JSON
5 2 (4.65%) pytest
5 2 (4.65%) SAML
5 2 (4.65%) Sass
5 2 (4.65%) YAML
6 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.33%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 1 (2.33%) Express.js
6 1 (2.33%) Kafka
6 1 (2.33%) koa
6 1 (2.33%) Next.js
6 1 (2.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.60%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (11.63%) Public Cloud
3 4 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (9.30%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.65%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.30%) Linux
1 4 (9.30%) Windows
2 3 (6.98%) Android
2 3 (6.98%) Apple iOS
2 3 (6.98%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.65%) Alpine Linux
3 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (76.74%) DevOps
2 28 (65.12%) CI/CD
3 15 (34.88%) Agile
4 12 (27.91%) Containerisation
5 10 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (20.93%) Infrastructure Management
7 7 (16.28%) Kanban
7 7 (16.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 7 (16.28%) Software Delivery
8 6 (13.95%) Code Quality
8 6 (13.95%) Migration
8 6 (13.95%) Software Engineering
9 5 (11.63%) Data Migration
9 5 (11.63%) Microservices
9 5 (11.63%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (11.63%) Refactoring
9 5 (11.63%) Scrum
9 5 (11.63%) Software Testing
9 5 (11.63%) Test Automation
10 4 (9.30%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 23 (53.49%) Python
2 11 (25.58%) Go
2 11 (25.58%) SQL
3 10 (23.26%) Bash
4 7 (16.28%) TypeScript
5 6 (13.95%) Java
6 5 (11.63%) PowerShell
7 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
8 3 (6.98%) Bicep
9 1 (2.33%) C#
9 1 (2.33%) C++
9 1 (2.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (23.26%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) Degree
4 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) ISO 22301
1 3 (6.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (6.98%) NIST
1 3 (6.98%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.65%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.65%) QA
3 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (37.21%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (69.77%) Terraform
2 21 (48.84%) Kubernetes
3 13 (30.23%) Ansible
4 6 (13.95%) HP Fortify
5 3 (6.98%) Grafana
6 2 (4.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) Splunk
2 3 (6.98%) Atlassian
2 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.98%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.65%) Databricks
3 2 (4.65%) Sage
3 2 (4.65%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.33%) Google
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle
4 1 (2.33%) Tanium