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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 96 85
Rank change year-on-year +48 -11 -36
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 213 57 101
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.78% 2.42% 2.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.64% 2.72% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 161 49 54
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,700 £43,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.19% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,790 £77,188
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £70,400 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.31% +4.00% -10.71%

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 5,849 2,098 3,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.38% 88.97% 84.65%
Number of salaries quoted 4,359 1,194 1,586
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £33,750 £41,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £52,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £69,950
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -2.91% -6.36%

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 October 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 October 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
Stockport - 7 £75,000 - 6
Altrincham - 6 £65,000 - 2
Cheadle - 3 £72,500 - 4
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 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.41%) CMS
2 3 (1.41%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.94%) Apache
3 2 (0.94%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.94%) Confluence
4 1 (0.47%) IIS
4 1 (0.47%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 99 (46.48%) AWS
2 96 (45.07%) Azure
3 46 (21.60%) GitHub
4 34 (15.96%) GCP
5 28 (13.15%) Serverless
6 26 (12.21%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (11.74%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (9.39%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (7.04%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (6.10%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (5.63%) Amazon S3
12 11 (5.16%) SaaS
13 10 (4.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 10 (4.69%) OpenShift
14 9 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (4.23%) Snowflake
14 9 (4.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (3.76%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.92%) Firewall
2 11 (5.16%) DNS
3 8 (3.76%) VPN
4 7 (3.29%) Network Security
5 6 (2.82%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.35%) SAN
7 4 (1.88%) DHCP
8 3 (1.41%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.94%) AMQP
9 2 (0.94%) BGP
9 2 (0.94%) CTI
9 2 (0.94%) DMZ
9 2 (0.94%) IPsec
9 2 (0.94%) NX-OS
9 2 (0.94%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.94%) WAN
10 1 (0.47%) BIG-IP
10 1 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 1 (0.47%) HTTP
10 1 (0.47%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.69%) MongoDB
2 9 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.29%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.88%) Chroma
4 4 (1.88%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.88%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.88%) Pinecone
5 3 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.41%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.41%) Flink
5 3 (1.41%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.94%) Big Data
6 2 (0.94%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (0.94%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.94%) MySQL
6 2 (0.94%) Power BI
6 2 (0.94%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.47%) Redis
7 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (15.49%) GitLab
2 25 (11.74%) Git
3 22 (10.33%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.29%) JIRA
5 5 (2.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.88%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.94%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.94%) Vite
8 1 (0.47%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.47%) Maven
8 1 (0.47%) MLflow
8 1 (0.47%) Mocha
General
1 54 (25.35%) Social Skills
2 16 (7.51%) Public Sector
3 14 (6.57%) Finance
4 8 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.82%) Aerospace
5 6 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.41%) Retail
7 2 (0.94%) Law
7 2 (0.94%) Local Government
8 1 (0.47%) iGaming
8 1 (0.47%) Legal
8 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.47%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 88 (41.31%) Senior
2 71 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 43 (20.19%) Cloud Engineer
4 28 (13.15%) Platform Engineer
5 26 (12.21%) Senior DevOps
5 26 (12.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 25 (11.74%) Automation Engineer
6 25 (11.74%) Senior Automation Engineer
7 23 (10.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (9.86%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 19 (8.92%) Developer
10 18 (8.45%) Software Engineer
11 17 (7.98%) Lead
12 16 (7.51%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 15 (7.04%) Security Engineer
13 15 (7.04%) Senior Developer
14 14 (6.57%) Cloud Automation Engineer
15 13 (6.10%) Principal Engineer
16 12 (5.63%) DevOps Platform Engineer
16 12 (5.63%) Principal DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (69.48%) Terraform
2 33 (15.49%) Spring
2 33 (15.49%) Spring Boot
3 28 (13.15%) React
4 12 (5.63%) .NET
5 10 (4.69%) Node.js
5 10 (4.69%) Pulumi
6 9 (4.23%) FastAPI
6 9 (4.23%) REST
7 7 (3.29%) Kafka
7 7 (3.29%) PySpark
7 7 (3.29%) Vue
8 6 (2.82%) AngularJS
8 6 (2.82%) AWS CDK
8 6 (2.82%) JWT
8 6 (2.82%) OAuth
8 6 (2.82%) OAuth2
8 6 (2.82%) OpenID
8 6 (2.82%) SAML
9 5 (2.35%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 52 (24.41%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.16%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.69%) Security Posture
4 9 (4.23%) Data Centre
4 9 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.82%) Enterprise Cloud
5 6 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.35%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.88%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.41%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.41%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.94%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.94%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.94%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.94%) PKI
10 1 (0.47%) Blog
10 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.47%) NHS
10 1 (0.47%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 49 (23.00%) Linux
2 14 (6.57%) Windows
3 11 (5.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.29%) CentOS
5 5 (2.35%) Unix
6 3 (1.41%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.94%) Debian
7 2 (0.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (76.06%) CI/CD
2 138 (64.79%) DevOps
3 74 (34.74%) Platform Engineering
4 62 (29.11%) Containerisation
5 52 (24.41%) AI
6 50 (23.47%) Agile
6 50 (23.47%) Observability
7 47 (22.07%) Continuous Improvement
7 47 (22.07%) Mentoring
8 42 (19.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 39 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (17.84%) Software Engineering
11 34 (15.96%) Technical Leadership
12 33 (15.49%) Cloud Security
12 33 (15.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 32 (15.02%) Infrastructure Automation
14 30 (14.08%) Stakeholder Management
15 28 (13.15%) Microservices
16 24 (11.27%) Coaching
16 24 (11.27%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 127 (59.62%) Python
2 55 (25.82%) Bash
3 51 (23.94%) Java
4 35 (16.43%) PowerShell
5 28 (13.15%) Go
6 24 (11.27%) TypeScript
7 21 (9.86%) SQL
8 14 (6.57%) Bicep
8 14 (6.57%) C#
9 8 (3.76%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.88%) Rust
11 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.47%) Ruby
11 1 (0.47%) Scala
11 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 70 (32.86%) Security Cleared
2 43 (20.19%) DV Cleared
3 37 (17.37%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.76%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.29%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.29%) Degree
5 7 (3.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.94%) CCIE
7 2 (0.94%) CCNA
7 2 (0.94%) MCSE
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.82%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.88%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.41%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.94%) SLA
5 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 74 (34.74%) Docker
2 15 (7.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.88%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.88%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.88%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.94%) vSphere
6 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 93 (43.66%) Kubernetes
2 60 (28.17%) Ansible
3 16 (7.51%) Grafana
4 15 (7.04%) Prometheus
5 12 (5.63%) Puppet
6 8 (3.76%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.35%) Argo
8 4 (1.88%) Istio
8 4 (1.88%) linkerd
8 4 (1.88%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.41%) Podman
9 3 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.94%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.94%) Packer
10 2 (0.94%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.47%) Opsview
Vendors
1 36 (16.90%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.39%) Google
3 16 (7.51%) VMware
4 6 (2.82%) Cisco
4 6 (2.82%) Fortinet
4 6 (2.82%) Splunk
4 6 (2.82%) YouTube
5 5 (2.35%) Databricks
5 5 (2.35%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.88%) Mistral
6 4 (1.88%) New Relic
6 4 (1.88%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.41%) F5
7 3 (1.41%) Thales
8 2 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.94%) FIS
8 2 (0.94%) Oracle
8 2 (0.94%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.94%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.47%) LogicMonitor