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 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 94 84
Rank change year-on-year +45 -10 -15
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 162 74 165
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.60% 3.16% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.57% 3.35% 3.44%
Number of salaries quoted 121 59 126
10th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,870 £63,141
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% +18.57% -9.80%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,751 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,250 £88,750
North West median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £64,250
% change year-on-year - +12.84% -8.21%

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 4,532 2,209 4,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.72% 94.28% 83.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,594 1,269 3,556
10th Percentile £32,775 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -9.48%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,164 £81,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £51,564 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.66% +3.13% -9.09%

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 28 June 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 28 June 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 -
Salford - 1 £74,301 -
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 (4.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.85%) Apache
2 3 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.62%) CMS
3 1 (0.62%) Confluence
3 1 (0.62%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 97 (59.88%) AWS
2 74 (45.68%) Azure
3 45 (27.78%) GitHub
4 36 (22.22%) GCP
5 32 (19.75%) Serverless
6 27 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (14.20%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (9.88%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (8.02%) SaaS
11 12 (7.41%) Amazon S3
12 11 (6.79%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (6.79%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (6.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 11 (6.79%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (6.79%) Pulumi
13 9 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (4.32%) Entra ID
15 6 (3.70%) OpenShift
15 6 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (13.58%) Firewall
2 8 (4.94%) Network Security
2 8 (4.94%) SAN
3 6 (3.70%) DNS
3 6 (3.70%) VPN
4 4 (2.47%) DHCP
5 3 (1.85%) AMQP
5 3 (1.85%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.62%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.79%) MongoDB
1 11 (6.79%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (4.94%) Relational Database
3 6 (3.70%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.47%) Flink
5 3 (1.85%) Big Data
5 3 (1.85%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (1.85%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.85%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.85%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.85%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.23%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.23%) MySQL
6 2 (1.23%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.62%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.62%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.62%) Redis
7 1 (0.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (12.35%) Jenkins
2 19 (11.73%) GitLab
3 15 (9.26%) Git
4 2 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.23%) Vagrant
4 2 (1.23%) Vite
5 1 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.62%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.62%) JIRA
5 1 (0.62%) MLflow
5 1 (0.62%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 34 (20.99%) Social Skills
2 18 (11.11%) Finance
3 11 (6.79%) Public Sector
4 8 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.85%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.62%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 70 (43.21%) Senior
2 43 (26.54%) Cloud Engineer
3 27 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (10.49%) Lead
5 15 (9.26%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (9.26%) Software Engineer
6 14 (8.64%) Security Engineer
7 13 (8.02%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 12 (7.41%) Developer
8 12 (7.41%) GCP Engineer
8 12 (7.41%) Senior Developer
9 11 (6.79%) Architect
9 11 (6.79%) Automation Engineer
9 11 (6.79%) Senior Automation Engineer
10 10 (6.17%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 10 (6.17%) Data Engineer
11 9 (5.56%) Cloud Automation Engineer
11 9 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
11 9 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
11 9 (5.56%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (12.96%) Spring
2 20 (12.35%) Spring Boot
3 17 (10.49%) React
4 13 (8.02%) Node.js
5 11 (6.79%) .NET
5 11 (6.79%) FastAPI
6 8 (4.94%) JWT
6 8 (4.94%) OAuth
6 8 (4.94%) PySpark
7 7 (4.32%) Django
7 7 (4.32%) Kafka
8 6 (3.70%) ARM Templates
8 6 (3.70%) AWS CDK
8 6 (3.70%) OAuth2
8 6 (3.70%) OpenID
8 6 (3.70%) REST
8 6 (3.70%) SAML
9 5 (3.09%) Vue
10 4 (2.47%) Backbone.js
10 4 (2.47%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 49 (30.25%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.64%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.94%) Enterprise Cloud
5 6 (3.70%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.09%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.09%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.47%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.85%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.85%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.85%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.23%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.62%) NHS
10 1 (0.62%) Online Gambling
10 1 (0.62%) Replication
10 1 (0.62%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.49%) Linux
2 7 (4.32%) Windows
3 5 (3.09%) Debian
3 5 (3.09%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.47%) CentOS
4 4 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.47%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (77.16%) CI/CD
2 103 (63.58%) DevOps
3 50 (30.86%) Agile
4 48 (29.63%) Platform Engineering
5 46 (28.40%) Containerisation
6 45 (27.78%) Observability
7 44 (27.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 42 (25.93%) AI
9 37 (22.84%) Mentoring
10 26 (16.05%) Software Engineering
11 25 (15.43%) Collaborative Culture
12 24 (14.81%) Event-Driven
13 23 (14.20%) TDD
13 23 (14.20%) Technical Leadership
14 22 (13.58%) Microservices
14 22 (13.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 22 (13.58%) Test Automation
15 21 (12.96%) Decision-Making
15 21 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
16 20 (12.35%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 88 (54.32%) Python
2 34 (20.99%) Java
3 28 (17.28%) PowerShell
4 26 (16.05%) Bash
5 23 (14.20%) SQL
6 17 (10.49%) TypeScript
7 16 (9.88%) Bicep
8 13 (8.02%) C#
9 11 (6.79%) Go
10 10 (6.17%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.62%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (19.75%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.20%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.02%) Azure Certification
3 13 (8.02%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.32%) Degree
5 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.85%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.47%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.85%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 49 (30.25%) Docker
2 14 (8.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.32%) Active Directory
4 5 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.23%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 122 (75.31%) Terraform
2 76 (46.91%) Kubernetes
3 32 (19.75%) Ansible
4 13 (8.02%) Grafana
5 12 (7.41%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.09%) Puppet
7 4 (2.47%) Argo
7 4 (2.47%) Istio
7 4 (2.47%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.85%) linkerd
8 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.23%) Packer
10 1 (0.62%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.62%) Rancher
Vendors
1 22 (13.58%) Microsoft
2 19 (11.73%) Google
3 16 (9.88%) VMware
4 5 (3.09%) Databricks
5 3 (1.85%) LogicMonitor
5 3 (1.85%) Red Hat
5 3 (1.85%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.23%) Cisco
6 2 (1.23%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.23%) Oracle
6 2 (1.23%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.62%) F5
7 1 (0.62%) HP