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

6 months to
1 Oct 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 217 54 107
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.84% 2.27% 2.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.73% 2.54% 3.20%
Number of salaries quoted 158 45 59
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,600 £40,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -0.79% -10.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,625
90th Percentile £95,000 £89,000 £87,600
North West median annual salary £72,245 £63,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -1.92% -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 5,822 2,129 3,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.22% 89.49% 83.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,394 1,191 1,665
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £31,100
25th Percentile £45,000 £34,875 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.24% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £84,750
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 1 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 1 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 - 5
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 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.38%) Apache
2 3 (1.38%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.92%) CMS
3 2 (0.92%) Confluence
3 2 (0.92%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.46%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 106 (48.85%) AWS
2 102 (47.00%) Azure
3 53 (24.42%) GitHub
4 39 (17.97%) GCP
5 31 (14.29%) Serverless
6 30 (13.82%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (13.36%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (10.60%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (7.37%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (5.07%) Amazon S3
11 11 (5.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 11 (5.07%) SaaS
12 10 (4.61%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (4.61%) OpenShift
12 10 (4.61%) Snowflake
12 10 (4.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (4.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (3.69%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 21 (9.68%) Firewall
2 11 (5.07%) DNS
3 7 (3.23%) SAN
3 7 (3.23%) VPN
4 6 (2.76%) DHCP
4 6 (2.76%) Network Security
4 6 (2.76%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.38%) AMQP
5 3 (1.38%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (0.92%) BGP
6 2 (0.92%) CTI
6 2 (0.92%) DMZ
6 2 (0.92%) IPsec
6 2 (0.92%) NX-OS
6 2 (0.92%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.92%) WAN
7 1 (0.46%) HTTP
7 1 (0.46%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.61%) MongoDB
2 9 (4.15%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.23%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.30%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.84%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.38%) Big Data
6 3 (1.38%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (1.38%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.38%) Flink
6 3 (1.38%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.38%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.92%) Chroma
7 2 (0.92%) MySQL
7 2 (0.92%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.46%) Redis
8 1 (0.46%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (13.36%) GitLab
2 24 (11.06%) Git
2 24 (11.06%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.23%) JIRA
4 5 (2.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.84%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.92%) Vagrant
6 2 (0.92%) Vite
7 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.46%) Maven
7 1 (0.46%) MLflow
7 1 (0.46%) Mocha
General
1 53 (24.42%) Social Skills
2 18 (8.29%) Public Sector
3 15 (6.91%) Finance
4 9 (4.15%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.23%) Aerospace
6 6 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.38%) Retail
8 2 (0.92%) Law
8 2 (0.92%) Local Government
9 1 (0.46%) iGaming
9 1 (0.46%) Legal
9 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.46%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 91 (41.94%) Senior
2 66 (30.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 46 (21.20%) Cloud Engineer
4 28 (12.90%) Platform Engineer
5 24 (11.06%) Automation Engineer
5 24 (11.06%) Senior Automation Engineer
5 24 (11.06%) Senior DevOps
5 24 (11.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 21 (9.68%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 19 (8.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 19 (8.76%) Lead
7 19 (8.76%) Software Engineer
8 17 (7.83%) Developer
9 16 (7.37%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 14 (6.45%) Security Engineer
10 14 (6.45%) Senior Developer
11 13 (5.99%) Cloud Automation Engineer
11 13 (5.99%) Data Engineer
11 13 (5.99%) Principal Engineer
12 12 (5.53%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (70.05%) Terraform
2 33 (15.21%) Spring
3 32 (14.75%) Spring Boot
4 27 (12.44%) React
5 12 (5.53%) .NET
5 12 (5.53%) Node.js
6 11 (5.07%) Pulumi
7 9 (4.15%) FastAPI
7 9 (4.15%) REST
8 8 (3.69%) Kafka
9 7 (3.23%) AngularJS
9 7 (3.23%) ARM Templates
9 7 (3.23%) PySpark
9 7 (3.23%) Vue
10 6 (2.76%) AWS CDK
10 6 (2.76%) JWT
10 6 (2.76%) OAuth
10 6 (2.76%) OAuth2
10 6 (2.76%) OpenID
10 6 (2.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (26.73%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.99%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.07%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.15%) Security Posture
5 8 (3.69%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.30%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (2.30%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.84%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.38%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (0.92%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.92%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.92%) Online Gambling
9 2 (0.92%) PKI
9 2 (0.92%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.46%) Blog
10 1 (0.46%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.46%) Replication
10 1 (0.46%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 44 (20.28%) Linux
2 13 (5.99%) Windows
3 12 (5.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (3.69%) CentOS
5 5 (2.30%) Unix
6 4 (1.84%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.84%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.38%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (76.04%) CI/CD
2 145 (66.82%) DevOps
3 73 (33.64%) Platform Engineering
4 66 (30.41%) Containerisation
5 54 (24.88%) AI
5 54 (24.88%) Observability
6 51 (23.50%) Agile
6 51 (23.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 45 (20.74%) Mentoring
7 45 (20.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 42 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (18.43%) Software Engineering
10 32 (14.75%) Infrastructure Automation
11 31 (14.29%) Cloud Security
11 31 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
12 30 (13.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 29 (13.36%) Stakeholder Management
14 27 (12.44%) Microservices
15 24 (11.06%) Cost Optimisation
16 22 (10.14%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 131 (60.37%) Python
2 55 (25.35%) Bash
3 49 (22.58%) Java
4 40 (18.43%) PowerShell
5 26 (11.98%) Go
6 25 (11.52%) SQL
7 22 (10.14%) TypeScript
8 17 (7.83%) Bicep
9 14 (6.45%) C#
10 9 (4.15%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.84%) Rust
12 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.46%) Ruby
12 1 (0.46%) Scala
12 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 66 (30.41%) Security Cleared
2 39 (17.97%) DV Cleared
3 38 (17.51%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.61%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.69%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.23%) Degree
6 7 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.92%) CCIE
8 2 (0.92%) CCNA
8 2 (0.92%) MCSE
9 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.76%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.84%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.38%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.92%) SLA
5 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 75 (34.56%) Docker
2 15 (6.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.92%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.92%) vSphere
5 1 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 97 (44.70%) Kubernetes
2 59 (27.19%) Ansible
3 20 (9.22%) Grafana
4 19 (8.76%) Prometheus
5 11 (5.07%) Puppet
6 8 (3.69%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.30%) Argo
7 5 (2.30%) Istio
8 4 (1.84%) linkerd
9 3 (1.38%) Podman
9 3 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.92%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.92%) Packer
10 2 (0.92%) SolarWinds Orion
10 2 (0.92%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.46%) Opsview
Vendors
1 36 (16.59%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.14%) Google
3 16 (7.37%) VMware
4 6 (2.76%) Cisco
4 6 (2.76%) Red Hat
4 6 (2.76%) Splunk
5 5 (2.30%) Databricks
5 5 (2.30%) Fortinet
5 5 (2.30%) YouTube
6 4 (1.84%) New Relic
7 3 (1.38%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (1.38%) SaltStack
7 3 (1.38%) Thales
8 2 (0.92%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.92%) F5
8 2 (0.92%) FIS
8 2 (0.92%) Mistral
8 2 (0.92%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.92%) Oracle
8 2 (0.92%) Zscaler