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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 94 78
Rank change year-on-year +51 -16 -15
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 185 71 146
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.79% 2.83% 3.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.78% 3.08% 3.76%
Number of salaries quoted 146 57 104
10th Percentile £49,375 £53,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,188 £81,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £91,150
North West median annual salary £74,651 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.64% +7.69% -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 4,898 2,305 3,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.91% 91.80% 82.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3,857 1,338 2,654
10th Percentile £33,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,375 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £99,100 £88,333 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,364
% change year-on-year +10.00% -2.66% -6.61%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 - 9 £65,000 -
Cheadle - 3 £72,500 -
Stockport - 3 £75,000 - 3
Salford - 1 £74,301 -
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 7 (3.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.08%) Apache
2 2 (1.08%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.54%) CMS
3 1 (0.54%) Confluence
3 1 (0.54%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 99 (53.51%) AWS
2 84 (45.41%) Azure
3 45 (24.32%) GitHub
4 36 (19.46%) GCP
5 30 (16.22%) Serverless
6 25 (13.51%) AWS CloudFormation
6 25 (13.51%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (11.89%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (7.03%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (7.03%) SaaS
9 12 (6.49%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (6.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 11 (5.95%) Amazon S3
10 11 (5.95%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (5.95%) Pulumi
11 10 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (4.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (3.78%) Snowflake
14 6 (3.24%) Entra ID
14 6 (3.24%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (11.89%) Firewall
2 8 (4.32%) SAN
3 7 (3.78%) Network Security
4 6 (3.24%) DNS
4 6 (3.24%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.16%) DHCP
5 4 (2.16%) VPN
6 2 (1.08%) AMQP
6 2 (1.08%) BGP
6 2 (1.08%) DMZ
6 2 (1.08%) IPsec
6 2 (1.08%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.08%) WAN
7 1 (0.54%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.54%) HTTP
7 1 (0.54%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (4.86%) MongoDB
3 8 (4.32%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.70%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.16%) Flink
6 3 (1.62%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.62%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.62%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.08%) Big Data
7 2 (1.08%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (1.08%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.08%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.54%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.54%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.54%) Power BI
8 1 (0.54%) Redis
8 1 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (11.35%) GitLab
2 20 (10.81%) Jenkins
3 19 (10.27%) Git
4 3 (1.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (1.62%) JIRA
5 2 (1.08%) Vite
6 1 (0.54%) MLflow
6 1 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.54%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.54%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 39 (21.08%) Social Skills
2 19 (10.27%) Finance
3 12 (6.49%) Public Sector
4 9 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.08%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.54%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 80 (43.24%) Senior
2 51 (27.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 42 (22.70%) Cloud Engineer
4 22 (11.89%) Platform Engineer
5 21 (11.35%) Automation Engineer
5 21 (11.35%) Lead
5 21 (11.35%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 19 (10.27%) Senior DevOps
6 19 (10.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 17 (9.19%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 15 (8.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 14 (7.57%) Software Engineer
10 13 (7.03%) Developer
10 13 (7.03%) Senior Developer
11 12 (6.49%) Security Engineer
12 11 (5.95%) Cloud Automation Engineer
12 11 (5.95%) Data Engineer
12 11 (5.95%) DevOps Platform Engineer
13 10 (5.41%) DevOps Automation Engineer
13 10 (5.41%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (15.14%) Spring
2 27 (14.59%) Spring Boot
3 18 (9.73%) React
4 12 (6.49%) .NET
5 10 (5.41%) FastAPI
5 10 (5.41%) Node.js
6 8 (4.32%) PySpark
7 7 (3.78%) JWT
7 7 (3.78%) Kafka
7 7 (3.78%) OAuth
8 6 (3.24%) ARM Templates
8 6 (3.24%) Django
8 6 (3.24%) OAuth2
8 6 (3.24%) OpenID
8 6 (3.24%) SAML
9 5 (2.70%) AWS CDK
9 5 (2.70%) Vue
10 4 (2.16%) Backbone.js
10 4 (2.16%) Great Expectations
10 4 (2.16%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 50 (27.03%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.95%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.32%) Enterprise Cloud
4 8 (4.32%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.24%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.24%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.16%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.62%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.62%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.08%) Online Gambling
9 1 (0.54%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.54%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.54%) NHS
9 1 (0.54%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.54%) Replication
9 1 (0.54%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.54%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.51%) Linux
2 6 (3.24%) Windows
3 5 (2.70%) CentOS
3 5 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.16%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.62%) Debian
5 3 (1.62%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (78.38%) CI/CD
2 124 (67.03%) DevOps
3 63 (34.05%) Platform Engineering
4 57 (30.81%) Containerisation
5 51 (27.57%) Observability
6 48 (25.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 47 (25.41%) Agile
8 45 (24.32%) AI
9 41 (22.16%) Mentoring
10 38 (20.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 30 (16.22%) Software Engineering
12 26 (14.05%) Collaborative Culture
12 26 (14.05%) Technical Leadership
13 24 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (12.43%) Event-Driven
15 22 (11.89%) Infrastructure Automation
15 22 (11.89%) Microservices
16 21 (11.35%) Cost Optimisation
16 21 (11.35%) TDD
16 21 (11.35%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 102 (55.14%) Python
2 41 (22.16%) Java
3 33 (17.84%) Bash
4 28 (15.14%) PowerShell
5 23 (12.43%) SQL
6 18 (9.73%) Go
7 16 (8.65%) Bicep
7 16 (8.65%) TypeScript
8 14 (7.57%) C#
9 7 (3.78%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 46 (24.86%) Security Cleared
2 26 (14.05%) SC Cleared
3 25 (13.51%) DV Cleared
4 11 (5.95%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.78%) Degree
6 4 (2.16%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.08%) CCIE
8 2 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.86%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.62%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.62%) SOC 2
System Software
1 60 (32.43%) Docker
2 14 (7.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.78%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 136 (73.51%) Terraform
2 86 (46.49%) Kubernetes
3 44 (23.78%) Ansible
4 17 (9.19%) Grafana
5 16 (8.65%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.24%) Puppet
7 5 (2.70%) Istio
7 5 (2.70%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.16%) Argo
8 4 (2.16%) linkerd
9 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.08%) SolarWinds Orion
10 1 (0.54%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.54%) Packer
Vendors
1 21 (11.35%) Google
1 21 (11.35%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.11%) VMware
3 5 (2.70%) Databricks
4 4 (2.16%) Cisco
4 4 (2.16%) Splunk
5 3 (1.62%) F5
5 3 (1.62%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (1.08%) New Relic
6 2 (1.08%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.08%) Oracle
6 2 (1.08%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.08%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.08%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.08%) Zscaler
7 1 (0.54%) HP