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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 95 71
Rank change year-on-year +53 -24 -6
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 185 72 151
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.83% 2.87% 3.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% 3.12% 3.83%
Number of salaries quoted 146 58 108
10th Percentile £49,375 £53,375 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,188 £80,625 £81,563
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £89,350
North West median annual salary £74,651 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.64% +7.69% -8.45%

All Process & 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 4,810 2,310 3,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.67% 92.07% 82.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,791 1,339 2,729
10th Percentile £33,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £98,500 £87,550 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £51,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% -1.85% -7.27%

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 27 July 2026.

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 27 July 2026. 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
Altrincham - 10 £65,000 -
Cheadle - 3 £72,500 -
Stockport - 3 £75,000 - 1
Salford - 1 £74,301 - 1
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 8 (4.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.08%) Apache
2 2 (1.08%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.54%) CMS
3 1 (0.54%) Confluence
3 1 (0.54%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 99 (53.51%) AWS
2 84 (45.41%) Azure
3 44 (23.78%) GitHub
4 36 (19.46%) GCP
5 30 (16.22%) Serverless
6 25 (13.51%) AWS CloudFormation
7 24 (12.97%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (11.35%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (7.57%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (7.03%) SaaS
11 12 (6.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 11 (5.95%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (5.95%) Amazon S3
12 11 (5.95%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (5.95%) Pulumi
13 10 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (4.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 7 (3.78%) Entra ID
16 6 (3.24%) Power Platform
16 6 (3.24%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 23 (12.43%) Firewall
2 8 (4.32%) SAN
3 7 (3.78%) Network Security
4 6 (3.24%) DNS
4 6 (3.24%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.16%) DHCP
5 4 (2.16%) VPN
6 2 (1.08%) AMQP
6 2 (1.08%) BGP
6 2 (1.08%) DMZ
6 2 (1.08%) IPsec
6 2 (1.08%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.08%) WAN
7 1 (0.54%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.54%) HTTP
7 1 (0.54%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (4.86%) MongoDB
3 8 (4.32%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.70%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.16%) Flink
6 3 (1.62%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.62%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.08%) Big Data
7 2 (1.08%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (1.08%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.08%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.08%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.54%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.54%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.54%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.54%) Power BI
8 1 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (11.89%) GitLab
2 20 (10.81%) Jenkins
3 19 (10.27%) Git
4 3 (1.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (1.62%) JIRA
5 2 (1.08%) Vagrant
5 2 (1.08%) Vite
6 1 (0.54%) MLflow
6 1 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.54%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 39 (21.08%) Social Skills
2 19 (10.27%) Finance
3 12 (6.49%) Public Sector
4 9 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.08%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.54%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 79 (42.70%) Senior
2 51 (27.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 43 (23.24%) Cloud Engineer
4 22 (11.89%) Platform Engineer
5 21 (11.35%) Automation Engineer
5 21 (11.35%) Lead
5 21 (11.35%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 19 (10.27%) Senior DevOps
6 19 (10.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 16 (8.65%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 15 (8.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 15 (8.11%) Software Engineer
9 13 (7.03%) Developer
9 13 (7.03%) Senior Developer
10 12 (6.49%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 12 (6.49%) Security Engineer
11 11 (5.95%) Cloud Automation Engineer
12 10 (5.41%) Architect
12 10 (5.41%) Data Engineer
12 10 (5.41%) DevOps Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (15.68%) Spring
2 28 (15.14%) Spring Boot
3 19 (10.27%) React
4 12 (6.49%) .NET
5 10 (5.41%) FastAPI
5 10 (5.41%) Node.js
6 8 (4.32%) PySpark
7 7 (3.78%) JWT
7 7 (3.78%) Kafka
7 7 (3.78%) OAuth
8 6 (3.24%) ARM Templates
8 6 (3.24%) Django
8 6 (3.24%) OAuth2
8 6 (3.24%) OpenID
8 6 (3.24%) SAML
9 5 (2.70%) AWS CDK
9 5 (2.70%) Vue
10 4 (2.16%) Backbone.js
10 4 (2.16%) Great Expectations
10 4 (2.16%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 50 (27.03%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.95%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.32%) Enterprise Cloud
5 7 (3.78%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.24%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.24%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.16%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.62%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.62%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.08%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.08%) Online Gambling
9 2 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.54%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.54%) NHS
10 1 (0.54%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.54%) Replication
10 1 (0.54%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 26 (14.05%) Linux
2 6 (3.24%) Windows
3 5 (2.70%) CentOS
3 5 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.16%) Debian
4 4 (2.16%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.16%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (78.38%) CI/CD
2 124 (67.03%) DevOps
3 63 (34.05%) Platform Engineering
4 57 (30.81%) Containerisation
5 49 (26.49%) Continuous Improvement
5 49 (26.49%) Observability
6 48 (25.95%) Agile
7 45 (24.32%) AI
8 42 (22.70%) Mentoring
9 38 (20.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 31 (16.76%) Software Engineering
11 27 (14.59%) Technical Leadership
12 26 (14.05%) Collaborative Culture
13 24 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (12.43%) Event-Driven
15 22 (11.89%) Microservices
15 22 (11.89%) TDD
16 21 (11.35%) Decision-Making
16 21 (11.35%) Test Automation
17 20 (10.81%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 101 (54.59%) Python
2 42 (22.70%) Java
3 32 (17.30%) Bash
4 28 (15.14%) PowerShell
5 22 (11.89%) SQL
6 18 (9.73%) Go
7 17 (9.19%) TypeScript
8 16 (8.65%) Bicep
9 14 (7.57%) C#
10 7 (3.78%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 46 (24.86%) Security Cleared
2 26 (14.05%) SC Cleared
3 25 (13.51%) DV Cleared
4 11 (5.95%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.78%) Degree
6 4 (2.16%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.08%) CCIE
8 2 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.86%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.62%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.62%) SOC 2
System Software
1 61 (32.97%) Docker
2 14 (7.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.78%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 136 (73.51%) Terraform
2 87 (47.03%) Kubernetes
3 45 (24.32%) Ansible
4 17 (9.19%) Grafana
5 16 (8.65%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.24%) Progress Chef
6 6 (3.24%) Puppet
7 5 (2.70%) Istio
8 4 (2.16%) Argo
8 4 (2.16%) linkerd
9 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.08%) Packer
10 2 (1.08%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.54%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 22 (11.89%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.35%) Google
3 15 (8.11%) VMware
4 5 (2.70%) Databricks
5 4 (2.16%) Cisco
5 4 (2.16%) Splunk
6 3 (1.62%) F5
6 3 (1.62%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (1.08%) New Relic
7 2 (1.08%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.08%) Oracle
7 2 (1.08%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.08%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.08%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.08%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.54%) HP