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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 81 82
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -3
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 61 76 108
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.82% 3.02% 3.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 3.19% 3.38%
Number of salaries quoted 47 47 97
10th Percentile £52,750 £50,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,625 £87,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £96,000 £97,139 £88,750
North West median annual salary £70,539 £67,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year +4.50% +7.51% -3.41%

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 2,578 2,386 3,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.75% 94.91% 89.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,603 1,180 2,660
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.20%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,950 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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
Salford - 3 £73,801 - 3
Altrincham - 1 £67,500 - 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 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.56%) Apache
2 4 (6.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.64%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 39 (63.93%) AWS
2 36 (59.02%) Azure
3 21 (34.43%) GCP
4 18 (29.51%) AWS CloudFormation
4 18 (29.51%) GitHub
5 14 (22.95%) Serverless
6 10 (16.39%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (14.75%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (11.48%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (11.48%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (11.48%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (11.48%) OpenShift
9 6 (9.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (9.84%) Azure AKS
10 5 (8.20%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (8.20%) Amazon S3
10 5 (8.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (8.20%) PaaS
10 5 (8.20%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.20%) Firewall
2 4 (6.56%) AMQP
2 4 (6.56%) SAN
3 2 (3.28%) DNS
3 2 (3.28%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.28%) VPN
3 2 (3.28%) WAN
4 1 (1.64%) BIG-IP
4 1 (1.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.75%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (13.11%) MongoDB
3 5 (8.20%) Big Data
3 5 (8.20%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (8.20%) Hadoop
3 5 (8.20%) MySQL
4 4 (6.56%) Cloudera CDH
4 4 (6.56%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.92%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.28%) Redis
7 1 (1.64%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.64%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 10 (16.39%) Jenkins
2 8 (13.11%) GitLab
3 7 (11.48%) Git
4 5 (8.20%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (4.92%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.28%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.64%) JIRA
7 1 (1.64%) JMeter
7 1 (1.64%) Locust
7 1 (1.64%) Vagrant
General
1 18 (29.51%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.11%) Finance
3 5 (8.20%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.56%) Aerospace
5 3 (4.92%) Retail
6 2 (3.28%) Electronics
6 2 (3.28%) Law
6 2 (3.28%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.28%) Marketing
6 2 (3.28%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 16 (26.23%) Senior
2 12 (19.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 8 (13.11%) Architect
3 8 (13.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (13.11%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (9.84%) Lead
4 6 (9.84%) Software Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Developer
5 5 (8.20%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.56%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) GCP Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) AWS Architect
8 2 (3.28%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (3.28%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.28%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (3.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.75%) Node.js
2 8 (13.11%) REST
3 7 (11.48%) React
3 7 (11.48%) Spring
3 7 (11.48%) Spring Boot
4 6 (9.84%) .NET
4 6 (9.84%) AngularJS
4 6 (9.84%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (6.56%) ARM Templates
5 4 (6.56%) Django
5 4 (6.56%) gRPC
5 4 (6.56%) Material-UI
5 4 (6.56%) OpenAPI
5 4 (6.56%) Swagger
6 3 (4.92%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (4.92%) FastAPI
6 3 (4.92%) RESTful
7 2 (3.28%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (3.28%) AWS CDK
7 2 (3.28%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 23 (37.70%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.20%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (6.56%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.92%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.28%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.28%) Driving Licence
5 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 17 (27.87%) Linux
2 7 (11.48%) Debian
2 7 (11.48%) Ubuntu
3 5 (8.20%) Windows
4 4 (6.56%) CentOS
4 4 (6.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (4.92%) VMS
6 2 (3.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (73.77%) CI/CD
2 42 (68.85%) DevOps
3 29 (47.54%) Agile
4 22 (36.07%) Containerisation
5 15 (24.59%) Platform Engineering
6 13 (21.31%) Microservices
6 13 (21.31%) Observability
7 11 (18.03%) Software Engineering
8 10 (16.39%) AI
8 10 (16.39%) Infrastructure Automation
8 10 (16.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (16.39%) Scrum
8 10 (16.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 9 (14.75%) Mentoring
9 9 (14.75%) Roadmaps
10 8 (13.11%) Configuration Management
10 8 (13.11%) Test Automation
11 7 (11.48%) Kanban
11 7 (11.48%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 29 (47.54%) Python
2 11 (18.03%) Java
2 11 (18.03%) JavaScript
3 10 (16.39%) Bicep
3 10 (16.39%) PowerShell
4 6 (9.84%) TypeScript
5 5 (8.20%) C#
5 5 (8.20%) Go
5 5 (8.20%) SQL
6 3 (4.92%) Bash
7 1 (1.64%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (21.31%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.03%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.48%) Azure Certification
4 6 (9.84%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.64%) NIST
2 1 (1.64%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.64%) QA
2 1 (1.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (32.79%) Docker
2 4 (6.56%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.56%) VMware NSX
2 4 (6.56%) vSphere
3 3 (4.92%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.28%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.64%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 44 (72.13%) Terraform
2 30 (49.18%) Kubernetes
3 18 (29.51%) Ansible
4 4 (6.56%) Prometheus
4 4 (6.56%) Puppet
5 3 (4.92%) Grafana
5 3 (4.92%) Rancher
6 1 (1.64%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.64%) Packer
6 1 (1.64%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (18.03%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.75%) VMware
3 8 (13.11%) Google
4 4 (6.56%) Red Hat
4 4 (6.56%) SaltStack
5 3 (4.92%) Splunk
6 2 (3.28%) Foundry
6 2 (3.28%) Oracle
6 2 (3.28%) SAP
7 1 (1.64%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.64%) Databricks
7 1 (1.64%) F5
7 1 (1.64%) HP
7 1 (1.64%) Pega
7 1 (1.64%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.64%) WSO2