Infrastructure as Code Job Trends in Manchester

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 86 55
Rank change year-on-year +12 -31 +16
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 63 96 124
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.66% 2.63% 5.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 3.09% 5.47%
Number of salaries quoted 58 48 108
10th Percentile £52,350 £48,900 £46,306
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.36% -2.15%
75th Percentile £80,635 £75,313 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,419
North West median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Infrastructure as Code falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,010 3,108 2,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 84.95% 85.22% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,277 1,417 1,856
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £59,778
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -7.99% +8.69%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,500 £85,000 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in Manchester

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Infrastructure as Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Manchester over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure as Code in Manchester

Infrastructure as Code
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure as Code within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 6 November 2025. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Salford +17 3 £73,801 +13.54% 1
Oldham - 1 £65,000 -
Infrastructure as Code
North West

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.17%) Apache
1 2 (3.17%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.59%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (63.49%) AWS
2 38 (60.32%) Azure
3 17 (26.98%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (25.40%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (17.46%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (17.46%) GitHub
7 10 (15.87%) Serverless
8 9 (14.29%) GCP
9 8 (12.70%) SaaS
9 8 (12.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (11.11%) AWS CodeBuild
10 7 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (11.11%) PaaS
10 7 (11.11%) Route 53
11 5 (7.94%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (7.94%) Amazon S3
11 5 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (7.94%) Power Automate
12 4 (6.35%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.35%) Firewall
2 3 (4.76%) DNS
2 3 (4.76%) WAN
3 2 (3.17%) SAN
3 2 (3.17%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.59%) AMQP
4 1 (1.59%) Network Security
4 1 (1.59%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.59%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (6.35%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.76%) Big Data
3 3 (4.76%) MySQL
3 3 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.17%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.17%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.17%) Redis
5 1 (1.59%) Cloudera CDH
5 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.59%) Power BI
5 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.59%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 14 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 12 (19.05%) GitLab
3 7 (11.11%) CircleCI
4 5 (7.94%) Git
5 3 (4.76%) Cucumber
5 3 (4.76%) JMeter
6 2 (3.17%) Gatling
6 2 (3.17%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (3.17%) Selenium
7 1 (1.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.59%) Locust
General
1 9 (14.29%) Finance
1 9 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (6.35%) Public Sector
2 4 (6.35%) Retail
3 2 (3.17%) Electronics
3 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
3 2 (3.17%) Marketing
3 2 (3.17%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.59%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.59%) Digital Health
4 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.59%) Law
4 1 (1.59%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 16 (25.40%) Senior
2 14 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
3 11 (17.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (12.70%) Architect
4 8 (12.70%) Developer
5 7 (11.11%) Lead
5 7 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (7.94%) AWS Architect
7 5 (7.94%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) AWS Solution Architect
8 4 (6.35%) Backend Developer
9 3 (4.76%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.76%) Software Engineer
10 2 (3.17%) Java Developer
10 2 (3.17%) Principal Developer
10 2 (3.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 2 (3.17%) Senior Software Engineer
10 2 (3.17%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.46%) .NET
2 8 (12.70%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (9.52%) ARM Templates
4 5 (7.94%) React
5 4 (6.35%) Spring
5 4 (6.35%) Spring Boot
6 3 (4.76%) .NET Core
6 3 (4.76%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.76%) Django
6 3 (4.76%) Node.js
6 3 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (4.76%) REST
7 2 (3.17%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (3.17%) FastAPI
7 2 (3.17%) Middleware
7 2 (3.17%) Playwright
7 2 (3.17%) WCF
8 1 (1.59%) Pandas
8 1 (1.59%) pytest
8 1 (1.59%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 22 (34.92%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.35%) AI Agents
2 4 (6.35%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (6.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.17%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.59%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.59%) NHS
4 1 (1.59%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.59%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 15 (23.81%) Linux
2 8 (12.70%) Debian
2 8 (12.70%) Ubuntu
3 4 (6.35%) Windows
4 3 (4.76%) Unix
4 3 (4.76%) VMS
5 2 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.59%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (74.60%) DevOps
2 44 (69.84%) CI/CD
3 28 (44.44%) Agile
4 21 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 13 (20.63%) Platform Engineering
6 11 (17.46%) AI
6 11 (17.46%) Configuration Management
6 11 (17.46%) Microservices
6 11 (17.46%) Observability
7 10 (15.87%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (15.87%) Software Engineering
8 9 (14.29%) Cloud Security
8 9 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
8 9 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (14.29%) Mentoring
8 9 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 9 (14.29%) Test Automation
9 8 (12.70%) Clean Code
10 7 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 23 (36.51%) Python
2 11 (17.46%) PowerShell
3 10 (15.87%) Bash
3 10 (15.87%) C#
4 8 (12.70%) Bicep
5 7 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 7 (11.11%) SQL
6 5 (7.94%) Java
7 3 (4.76%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.59%) Go
8 1 (1.59%) Scala
8 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (17.46%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.70%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.11%) Azure Certification
4 5 (7.94%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.17%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (3.17%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.59%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.59%) Degree
6 1 (1.59%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.17%) NIST
1 2 (3.17%) QA
2 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.59%) GDPR
2 1 (1.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (38.10%) Docker
2 5 (7.94%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (3.17%) VMware NSX
5 2 (3.17%) vSphere
6 1 (1.59%) HDFS
6 1 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 46 (73.02%) Terraform
2 26 (41.27%) Kubernetes
3 16 (25.40%) Ansible
4 11 (17.46%) Prometheus
5 10 (15.87%) Grafana
6 1 (1.59%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (1.59%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.59%) Puppet
6 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (25.40%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.70%) Splunk
3 5 (7.94%) VMware
4 4 (6.35%) Databricks
4 4 (6.35%) Foundry
4 4 (6.35%) Google
5 2 (3.17%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.17%) SAP
6 1 (1.59%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.59%) Dell
6 1 (1.59%) Meraki
6 1 (1.59%) Oracle
6 1 (1.59%) Pega
6 1 (1.59%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.59%) SaltStack
6 1 (1.59%) WSO2