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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 93 74
Rank change year-on-year +47 -19 -25
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 203 68 123
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.77% 2.83% 3.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 3.16% 3.65%
Number of salaries quoted 152 58 66
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,675 £43,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,625 £80,000
90th Percentile £94,750 £88,250 £85,000
North West median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% -3.70% -3.57%

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 5,539 2,151 3,367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.59% 89.48% 82.50%
Number of salaries quoted 4,265 1,232 1,835
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,050 £30,400
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £86,250 £83,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,309
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.61% -8.53%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 - 7 £65,000 - 2
Stockport - 6 £75,000 -
Cheadle - 3 £72,500 -
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 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.48%) Apache
2 3 (1.48%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.49%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 103 (50.74%) AWS
2 92 (45.32%) Azure
3 49 (24.14%) GitHub
4 39 (19.21%) GCP
5 31 (15.27%) Serverless
6 28 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (13.30%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (12.32%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (7.88%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (5.91%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (5.91%) Amazon S3
10 12 (5.91%) SaaS
11 11 (5.42%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (5.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 11 (5.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 10 (4.93%) OpenShift
12 10 (4.93%) Snowflake
13 9 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (2.96%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 24 (11.82%) Firewall
2 9 (4.43%) DNS
3 7 (3.45%) Network Security
3 7 (3.45%) SAN
3 7 (3.45%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.96%) DHCP
4 6 (2.96%) VPN
5 3 (1.48%) AMQP
5 3 (1.48%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (0.99%) BGP
6 2 (0.99%) CTI
6 2 (0.99%) DMZ
6 2 (0.99%) IPsec
6 2 (0.99%) NX-OS
6 2 (0.99%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.99%) WAN
7 1 (0.49%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.93%) MongoDB
2 9 (4.43%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.45%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.46%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.97%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.97%) Flink
6 3 (1.48%) Big Data
6 3 (1.48%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (1.48%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.48%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.48%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.99%) Chroma
7 2 (0.99%) MySQL
7 2 (0.99%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.49%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.49%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (11.82%) GitLab
2 22 (10.84%) Git
3 21 (10.34%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.46%) JIRA
5 4 (1.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.99%) Vite
7 1 (0.49%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.49%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.49%) Maven
7 1 (0.49%) MLflow
7 1 (0.49%) Mocha
7 1 (0.49%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.49%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 48 (23.65%) Social Skills
2 17 (8.37%) Finance
3 15 (7.39%) Public Sector
4 9 (4.43%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.96%) Aerospace
6 5 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.99%) Law
7 2 (0.99%) Local Government
7 2 (0.99%) Retail
8 1 (0.49%) iGaming
8 1 (0.49%) Legal
8 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.49%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 89 (43.84%) Senior
2 58 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 43 (21.18%) Cloud Engineer
4 26 (12.81%) Platform Engineer
5 22 (10.84%) Automation Engineer
5 22 (10.84%) Senior Automation Engineer
5 22 (10.84%) Senior DevOps
5 22 (10.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 20 (9.85%) Lead
6 20 (9.85%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 17 (8.37%) Software Engineer
8 16 (7.88%) Developer
9 15 (7.39%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 14 (6.90%) Data Engineer
10 14 (6.90%) Senior Developer
11 13 (6.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (6.40%) Senior Data Engineer
12 12 (5.91%) Security Engineer
13 11 (5.42%) Cloud Automation Engineer
13 11 (5.42%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (71.92%) Terraform
2 31 (15.27%) Spring
3 30 (14.78%) Spring Boot
4 23 (11.33%) React
5 10 (4.93%) .NET
5 10 (4.93%) Node.js
5 10 (4.93%) Pulumi
6 9 (4.43%) FastAPI
6 9 (4.43%) Kafka
7 8 (3.94%) PySpark
8 7 (3.45%) REST
9 6 (2.96%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.96%) ARM Templates
9 6 (2.96%) AWS CDK
9 6 (2.96%) JWT
9 6 (2.96%) OAuth
9 6 (2.96%) OAuth2
9 6 (2.96%) OpenID
9 6 (2.96%) SAML
9 6 (2.96%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 52 (25.62%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.42%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.43%) Data Centre
4 9 (4.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.96%) Enterprise Cloud
5 6 (2.96%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.96%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.97%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.48%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.99%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.99%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.99%) Online Gambling
8 2 (0.99%) PKI
9 1 (0.49%) Blog
9 1 (0.49%) NHS
9 1 (0.49%) Replication
9 1 (0.49%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.49%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 34 (16.75%) Linux
2 10 (4.93%) Windows
3 9 (4.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.45%) CentOS
5 4 (1.97%) Unix
5 4 (1.97%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.48%) Debian
6 3 (1.48%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (76.35%) CI/CD
2 133 (65.52%) DevOps
3 70 (34.48%) Platform Engineering
4 61 (30.05%) Containerisation
5 53 (26.11%) Observability
6 50 (24.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 48 (23.65%) Agile
7 48 (23.65%) AI
8 42 (20.69%) Mentoring
9 40 (19.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 37 (18.23%) Software Engineering
11 34 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
13 27 (13.30%) Technical Leadership
14 25 (12.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 25 (12.32%) Stakeholder Management
15 24 (11.82%) Cost Optimisation
15 24 (11.82%) Microservices
16 23 (11.33%) Collaborative Culture
16 23 (11.33%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 121 (59.61%) Python
2 46 (22.66%) Java
3 45 (22.17%) Bash
4 33 (16.26%) PowerShell
5 26 (12.81%) SQL
6 23 (11.33%) Go
7 19 (9.36%) TypeScript
8 16 (7.88%) Bicep
9 12 (5.91%) C#
10 9 (4.43%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.48%) Rust
12 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.49%) Ruby
12 1 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 55 (27.09%) Security Cleared
2 32 (15.76%) DV Cleared
2 32 (15.76%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.93%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.94%) Degree
5 6 (2.96%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.99%) CCIE
7 2 (0.99%) CCNA
7 2 (0.99%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.94%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.48%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.48%) SOC 2
3 2 (0.99%) SLA
System Software
1 65 (32.02%) Docker
2 16 (7.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.45%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.96%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.48%) vSphere
6 2 (0.99%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 89 (43.84%) Kubernetes
2 52 (25.62%) Ansible
3 18 (8.87%) Grafana
4 17 (8.37%) Prometheus
5 10 (4.93%) Puppet
6 7 (3.45%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.46%) Istio
8 4 (1.97%) Argo
8 4 (1.97%) linkerd
9 3 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.99%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.99%) Podman
10 2 (0.99%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.49%) Packer
11 1 (0.49%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 27 (13.30%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.84%) Google
3 17 (8.37%) VMware
4 7 (3.45%) Cisco
5 6 (2.96%) Splunk
6 5 (2.46%) Databricks
6 5 (2.46%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.97%) New Relic
8 3 (1.48%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.48%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (1.48%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.99%) F5
9 2 (0.99%) FIS
9 2 (0.99%) Mistral
9 2 (0.99%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.99%) Oracle
9 2 (0.99%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.99%) Thales
9 2 (0.99%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.49%) Meraki