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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 99 79
Rank change year-on-year +52 -20 -32
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 212 54 110
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.81% 2.30% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.69% 2.58% 3.34%
Number of salaries quoted 156 44 60
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,625 £40,875
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £85,300
North West median annual salary £72,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.00% -3.85% -7.14%

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 5,743 2,095 3,292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.06% 89.26% 83.17%
Number of salaries quoted 4,365 1,192 1,706
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £40,988
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 £86,125 £83,875
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% -8.18%

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 23 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 23 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 - 6 £65,000 - 4
Stockport - 6 £75,000 - 5
Cheadle - 3 £72,500 - 3
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 (2.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.42%) Apache
2 3 (1.42%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.94%) Confluence
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.47%) CMS
4 1 (0.47%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.47%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 104 (49.06%) AWS
2 99 (46.70%) Azure
3 53 (25.00%) GitHub
4 39 (18.40%) GCP
5 31 (14.62%) Serverless
6 30 (14.15%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (14.15%) GitHub Actions
7 24 (11.32%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (5.66%) SaaS
10 11 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (5.19%) Amazon S3
10 11 (5.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 10 (4.72%) OpenShift
11 10 (4.72%) Snowflake
11 10 (4.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (4.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (4.25%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (3.30%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.38%) Firewall
2 10 (4.72%) DNS
3 7 (3.30%) DHCP
3 7 (3.30%) SAN
4 6 (2.83%) Network Security
4 6 (2.83%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.83%) VPN
5 3 (1.42%) AMQP
5 3 (1.42%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (0.94%) BGP
6 2 (0.94%) CTI
6 2 (0.94%) DMZ
6 2 (0.94%) IPsec
6 2 (0.94%) NX-OS
6 2 (0.94%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.94%) WAN
7 1 (0.47%) HTTP
7 1 (0.47%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.72%) MongoDB
2 9 (4.25%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.30%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.36%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.89%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.42%) Big Data
6 3 (1.42%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (1.42%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.42%) Flink
6 3 (1.42%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.42%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.94%) Chroma
7 2 (0.94%) MySQL
7 2 (0.94%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.47%) Redis
8 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (12.74%) GitLab
2 25 (11.79%) Git
3 24 (11.32%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.30%) JIRA
5 5 (2.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.42%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.94%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.94%) Vite
8 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.47%) Maven
8 1 (0.47%) MLflow
8 1 (0.47%) Mocha
8 1 (0.47%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 51 (24.06%) Social Skills
2 17 (8.02%) Public Sector
3 16 (7.55%) Finance
4 9 (4.25%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.83%) Aerospace
5 6 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (0.94%) Law
6 2 (0.94%) Local Government
6 2 (0.94%) Retail
7 1 (0.47%) iGaming
7 1 (0.47%) Legal
7 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.47%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 90 (42.45%) Senior
2 63 (29.72%) DevOps Engineer
3 45 (21.23%) Cloud Engineer
4 27 (12.74%) Platform Engineer
5 23 (10.85%) Automation Engineer
5 23 (10.85%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 22 (10.38%) Senior DevOps
6 22 (10.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 20 (9.43%) Lead
7 20 (9.43%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 17 (8.02%) Developer
8 17 (8.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (8.02%) Software Engineer
9 16 (7.55%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 14 (6.60%) Senior Developer
11 13 (6.13%) Data Engineer
11 13 (6.13%) Principal Engineer
12 12 (5.66%) Cloud Automation Engineer
12 12 (5.66%) Security Engineer
12 12 (5.66%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (70.75%) Terraform
2 33 (15.57%) Spring
3 32 (15.09%) Spring Boot
4 26 (12.26%) React
5 11 (5.19%) .NET
5 11 (5.19%) Node.js
5 11 (5.19%) Pulumi
6 9 (4.25%) FastAPI
7 8 (3.77%) Kafka
7 8 (3.77%) REST
8 7 (3.30%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.30%) ARM Templates
8 7 (3.30%) PySpark
8 7 (3.30%) Vue
9 6 (2.83%) AWS CDK
9 6 (2.83%) JWT
9 6 (2.83%) OAuth
9 6 (2.83%) OAuth2
9 6 (2.83%) OpenID
9 6 (2.83%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (26.89%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.13%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.19%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.77%) Data Centre
6 7 (3.30%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.36%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.89%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.89%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.42%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.94%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.94%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.94%) Online Gambling
10 2 (0.94%) PKI
11 1 (0.47%) Blog
11 1 (0.47%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.47%) NHS
11 1 (0.47%) Replication
11 1 (0.47%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 40 (18.87%) Linux
2 12 (5.66%) Windows
3 11 (5.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (3.77%) CentOS
5 5 (2.36%) Unix
5 5 (2.36%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.89%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.42%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (75.94%) CI/CD
2 141 (66.51%) DevOps
3 72 (33.96%) Platform Engineering
4 65 (30.66%) Containerisation
5 53 (25.00%) Observability
6 51 (24.06%) AI
7 50 (23.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 49 (23.11%) Agile
9 44 (20.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 42 (19.81%) Mentoring
11 38 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
11 38 (17.92%) Software Engineering
12 30 (14.15%) Infrastructure Automation
13 29 (13.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 28 (13.21%) Stakeholder Management
14 28 (13.21%) Technical Leadership
15 27 (12.74%) Cloud Security
16 26 (12.26%) Microservices
17 25 (11.79%) Cost Optimisation
18 23 (10.85%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 128 (60.38%) Python
2 50 (23.58%) Bash
3 49 (23.11%) Java
4 39 (18.40%) PowerShell
5 26 (12.26%) SQL
6 23 (10.85%) Go
7 21 (9.91%) TypeScript
8 18 (8.49%) Bicep
9 13 (6.13%) C#
10 9 (4.25%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.89%) Rust
12 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.47%) Ruby
12 1 (0.47%) Scala
12 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 62 (29.25%) Security Cleared
2 39 (18.40%) DV Cleared
3 34 (16.04%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.19%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.77%) Degree
6 7 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.83%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.94%) CCIE
9 2 (0.94%) CCNA
9 2 (0.94%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.30%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.42%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.42%) SOC 2
3 2 (0.94%) SLA
System Software
1 73 (34.43%) Docker
2 16 (7.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.77%) Active Directory
4 7 (3.30%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.94%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.94%) vSphere
6 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 95 (44.81%) Kubernetes
2 58 (27.36%) Ansible
3 20 (9.43%) Grafana
4 19 (8.96%) Prometheus
5 11 (5.19%) Puppet
6 8 (3.77%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.36%) Argo
7 5 (2.36%) Istio
8 4 (1.89%) linkerd
9 3 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.94%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.94%) Packer
10 2 (0.94%) Podman
10 2 (0.94%) SolarWinds Orion
10 2 (0.94%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 34 (16.04%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.38%) Google
3 17 (8.02%) VMware
4 7 (3.30%) Cisco
5 6 (2.83%) Splunk
6 5 (2.36%) Databricks
6 5 (2.36%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.89%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.89%) New Relic
8 3 (1.42%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (1.42%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.42%) YouTube
9 2 (0.94%) F5
9 2 (0.94%) FIS
9 2 (0.94%) Mistral
9 2 (0.94%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.94%) Oracle
9 2 (0.94%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.94%) Thales
9 2 (0.94%) Zscaler