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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 75 80
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 -8
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 81 75 134
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.82% 3.71% 2.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 3.90% 3.33%
Number of salaries quoted 59 62 107
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,297 £55,610
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% +15.18% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £82,751 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,474 £89,250
North West median annual salary £73,801 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.79% +11.54% -

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 3,279 1,923 4,019
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.64% 95.25% 87.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,229 1,242 3,261
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,550 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,614 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 3 April 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 3 April 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 £67,500 - 2
Salford - 4 £73,801 -
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 6 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.94%) Apache
2 4 (4.94%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.23%) CMS
3 1 (1.23%) Confluence
3 1 (1.23%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.23%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 58 (71.60%) AWS
2 36 (44.44%) Azure
3 26 (32.10%) GCP
4 24 (29.63%) AWS CloudFormation
5 23 (28.40%) GitHub
6 22 (27.16%) Serverless
7 18 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (12.35%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (12.35%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (8.64%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (8.64%) Azure AKS
9 7 (8.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 7 (8.64%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (8.64%) OpenShift
10 5 (6.17%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (6.17%) Amazon S3
10 5 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (6.17%) Entra ID
11 4 (4.94%) PaaS
11 4 (4.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.88%) Firewall
2 5 (6.17%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.94%) AMQP
3 4 (4.94%) SAN
4 3 (3.70%) DNS
4 3 (3.70%) VPN
5 2 (2.47%) Network Security
6 1 (1.23%) BIG-IP
6 1 (1.23%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 6 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (4.94%) Big Data
4 4 (4.94%) Cloudera CDH
4 4 (4.94%) Hadoop
4 4 (4.94%) MySQL
4 4 (4.94%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.70%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.70%) Redis
5 3 (3.70%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.47%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.47%) Flink
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.23%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 11 (13.58%) GitLab
2 10 (12.35%) Jenkins
3 9 (11.11%) Git
4 5 (6.17%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (3.70%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.47%) JIRA
6 2 (2.47%) Vagrant
7 1 (1.23%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.23%) JMeter
7 1 (1.23%) Locust
7 1 (1.23%) PyCharm
7 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (23.46%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.28%) Finance
3 5 (6.17%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.94%) Aerospace
5 3 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.47%) Electronics
6 2 (2.47%) Law
6 2 (2.47%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.47%) Marketing
6 2 (2.47%) Retail
6 2 (2.47%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.23%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 29 (35.80%) Senior
2 18 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
3 13 (16.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (13.58%) Software Engineer
5 8 (9.88%) Architect
5 8 (9.88%) Lead
6 7 (8.64%) GCP Engineer
6 7 (8.64%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.94%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Developer
8 4 (4.94%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Python Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
9 3 (3.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.28%) Spring
2 13 (16.05%) Spring Boot
3 12 (14.81%) Node.js
4 8 (9.88%) React
4 8 (9.88%) REST
5 7 (8.64%) Django
6 5 (6.17%) AngularJS
6 5 (6.17%) ARM Templates
6 5 (6.17%) FastAPI
6 5 (6.17%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (6.17%) YAML
7 4 (4.94%) .NET
7 4 (4.94%) AWS CDK
7 4 (4.94%) gRPC
7 4 (4.94%) Material-UI
7 4 (4.94%) OpenAPI
7 4 (4.94%) RESTful
7 4 (4.94%) Swagger
8 3 (3.70%) Kafka
8 3 (3.70%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 24 (29.63%) Cloud Native
2 9 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.17%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (6.17%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.70%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.47%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.47%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.47%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.47%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.23%) Online Gambling
7 1 (1.23%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.23%) Sports Betting
7 1 (1.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 18 (22.22%) Linux
2 6 (7.41%) Debian
2 6 (7.41%) Ubuntu
2 6 (7.41%) Windows
3 4 (4.94%) CentOS
3 4 (4.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (3.70%) Unix
5 2 (2.47%) VMS
6 1 (1.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (71.60%) CI/CD
2 53 (65.43%) DevOps
3 35 (43.21%) Agile
4 27 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 21 (25.93%) Observability
5 21 (25.93%) Platform Engineering
6 18 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (20.99%) Collaborative Culture
7 17 (20.99%) Scrum
7 17 (20.99%) Software Engineering
8 15 (18.52%) Mentoring
9 13 (16.05%) Microservices
9 13 (16.05%) Test Automation
10 12 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 12 (14.81%) Roadmaps
10 12 (14.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 12 (14.81%) TDD
11 10 (12.35%) Infrastructure Automation
11 10 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (11.11%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 39 (48.15%) Python
2 22 (27.16%) Java
3 11 (13.58%) SQL
4 10 (12.35%) PowerShell
5 9 (11.11%) Bicep
5 9 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 9 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.94%) C#
6 4 (4.94%) Go
7 1 (1.23%) Bash
Qualifications
1 20 (24.69%) Security Cleared
2 16 (19.75%) SC Cleared
3 9 (11.11%) Azure Certification
4 8 (9.88%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (2.47%) Degree
8 1 (1.23%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.94%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.47%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.23%) NIST
3 1 (1.23%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.23%) QA
3 1 (1.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (34.57%) Docker
2 4 (4.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.94%) VMware NSX
2 4 (4.94%) vSphere
3 3 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 60 (74.07%) Terraform
2 47 (58.02%) Kubernetes
3 23 (28.40%) Ansible
4 4 (4.94%) Puppet
5 3 (3.70%) Rancher
6 2 (2.47%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (2.47%) Grafana
6 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.47%) Packer
6 2 (2.47%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.23%) Istio
7 1 (1.23%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (14.81%) Google
2 10 (12.35%) VMware
3 9 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.94%) Red Hat
4 4 (4.94%) SaltStack
5 2 (2.47%) Oracle
5 2 (2.47%) SAP
6 1 (1.23%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.23%) Cisco
6 1 (1.23%) Databricks
6 1 (1.23%) F5
6 1 (1.23%) HP
6 1 (1.23%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.23%) Pega
6 1 (1.23%) Splunk
6 1 (1.23%) WSO2