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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 71 55
Rank change year-on-year -20 -16 +16
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 62 119 154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 2.62% 2.93% 5.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.93% 3.54% 5.84%
Number of salaries quoted 52 65 132
10th Percentile £52,525 £42,750 £46,306
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% +13.82%
75th Percentile £77,813 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +3.93%

All Process and 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 2,117 3,364 2,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 89.32% 82.78% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,200 1,787 2,067
10th Percentile £28,975 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,994 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,125 £83,750 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,055 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.11% -8.99% +4.76%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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
Bury -4 1 £60,000 -
Oldham - 1 £65,000 -
Infrastructure as Code
North West

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.61%) Apache
1 1 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (56.45%) Azure
2 32 (51.61%) AWS
3 18 (29.03%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (22.58%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (20.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (16.13%) SaaS
7 9 (14.52%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (12.90%) AWS CodeBuild
8 8 (12.90%) Route 53
8 8 (12.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (9.68%) GitHub
9 6 (9.68%) PaaS
10 5 (8.06%) GCP
11 4 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (6.45%) Power Automate
12 3 (4.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (4.84%) Copilot Studio
12 3 (4.84%) IaaS
12 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (4.84%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.06%) Firewall
2 3 (4.84%) DNS
2 3 (4.84%) WAN
3 2 (3.23%) VPN
4 1 (1.61%) Network Security
4 1 (1.61%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.61%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.45%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.84%) Big Data
3 2 (3.23%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.23%) MySQL
4 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.61%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.61%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (24.19%) Jenkins
2 13 (20.97%) GitLab
3 8 (12.90%) CircleCI
4 2 (3.23%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.23%) Gatling
4 2 (3.23%) Git
4 2 (3.23%) JMeter
4 2 (3.23%) Selenium
5 1 (1.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.61%) JUnit
5 1 (1.61%) Maven
5 1 (1.61%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (12.90%) Finance
2 7 (11.29%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.84%) Banking
3 3 (4.84%) Retail
4 1 (1.61%) Aviation
4 1 (1.61%) Digital Health
4 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.61%) Health Technology
4 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (32.26%) Cloud Engineer
2 18 (29.03%) Senior
3 12 (19.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (16.13%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (14.52%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 7 (11.29%) Lead
6 7 (11.29%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (9.68%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (9.68%) Developer
7 6 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Architect
8 5 (8.06%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Software Engineer
9 4 (6.45%) AWS Architect
9 4 (6.45%) Backend Developer
9 4 (6.45%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 4 (6.45%) Security Engineer
10 3 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.13%) .NET
1 10 (16.13%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (12.90%) ARM Templates
3 5 (8.06%) React
4 4 (6.45%) .NET Core
4 4 (6.45%) Spring
5 3 (4.84%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.23%) Kafka
6 2 (3.23%) Node.js
6 2 (3.23%) Playwright
6 2 (3.23%) RESTful
7 1 (1.61%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.61%) Hibernate
7 1 (1.61%) JWT
7 1 (1.61%) Middleware
7 1 (1.61%) Next.js
7 1 (1.61%) OAuth
7 1 (1.61%) REST
7 1 (1.61%) scikit-learn
7 1 (1.61%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 17 (27.42%) Cloud Native
2 7 (11.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (8.06%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.84%) AI Agents
4 3 (4.84%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.84%) Security Posture
5 2 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.61%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.61%) IoT
6 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.61%) NHS
6 1 (1.61%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (27.42%) Linux
2 9 (14.52%) Debian
2 9 (14.52%) Ubuntu
3 3 (4.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.84%) Windows
4 2 (3.23%) Unix
5 1 (1.61%) CentOS
5 1 (1.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (77.42%) DevOps
2 37 (59.68%) CI/CD
3 19 (30.65%) Agile
4 17 (27.42%) Containerisation
5 16 (25.81%) Configuration Management
6 12 (19.35%) Infrastructure Automation
7 11 (17.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (16.13%) Microservices
8 10 (16.13%) Software Engineering
9 9 (14.52%) Cloud Security
9 9 (14.52%) Platform Engineering
10 8 (12.90%) Auto-Scaling
10 8 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (11.29%) Artificial Intelligence
11 7 (11.29%) Event-Driven
11 7 (11.29%) Mentoring
11 7 (11.29%) Test Automation
12 6 (9.68%) Clean Code
12 6 (9.68%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 19 (30.65%) Python
2 14 (22.58%) Bash
3 10 (16.13%) C#
4 9 (14.52%) SQL
5 7 (11.29%) PowerShell
6 5 (8.06%) Java
7 4 (6.45%) JavaScript
8 3 (4.84%) Bicep
8 3 (4.84%) TypeScript
9 2 (3.23%) Go
9 2 (3.23%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.61%) Rust
10 1 (1.61%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (12.90%) Azure Certification
2 6 (9.68%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.84%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.84%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (3.23%) Degree
5 2 (3.23%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.61%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.61%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.84%) QA
2 2 (3.23%) GDPR
3 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.61%) NIST
3 1 (1.61%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (33.87%) Docker
2 3 (4.84%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.84%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (4.84%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.61%) HDFS
3 1 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (80.65%) Terraform
2 28 (45.16%) Kubernetes
3 20 (32.26%) Ansible
4 13 (20.97%) Prometheus
5 12 (19.35%) Grafana
6 1 (1.61%) Argo
6 1 (1.61%) Istio
6 1 (1.61%) Karpenter
6 1 (1.61%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.61%) Proxmox
6 1 (1.61%) Puppet
6 1 (1.61%) Salt
6 1 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (27.42%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.90%) Splunk
3 3 (4.84%) Databricks
3 3 (4.84%) Foundry
4 1 (1.61%) Dell
4 1 (1.61%) Google
4 1 (1.61%) Meraki
4 1 (1.61%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.61%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.61%) VMware