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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 93 74
Rank change year-on-year +49 -19 -19
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 201 75 132
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.82% 3.05% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.75% 3.39% 3.74%
Number of salaries quoted 152 64 80
10th Percentile £46,825 £53,050 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,563 £80,000
90th Percentile £94,750 £90,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +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 5,361 2,213 3,533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.26% 90.00% 82.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,162 1,302 2,117
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,050 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,285 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -1.30% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,404 £69,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -7.27%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 £65,000 - 1
Stockport - 4 £75,000 - 1
Cheadle - 3 £72,500 -
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 (2.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.00%) Apache
2 2 (1.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.50%) CMS
3 1 (0.50%) Confluence
3 1 (0.50%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 104 (51.74%) AWS
2 92 (45.77%) Azure
3 49 (24.38%) GitHub
4 37 (18.41%) GCP
5 28 (13.93%) GitHub Actions
5 28 (13.93%) Serverless
6 26 (12.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 26 (12.94%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (6.47%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (6.47%) SaaS
8 11 (5.47%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (5.47%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (5.47%) Amazon S3
8 11 (5.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 11 (5.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 10 (4.98%) Snowflake
10 9 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (4.48%) OpenShift
11 6 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (2.99%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 23 (11.44%) Firewall
2 8 (3.98%) DNS
3 7 (3.48%) Network Security
3 7 (3.48%) SAN
3 7 (3.48%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.99%) VPN
5 5 (2.49%) DHCP
6 3 (1.49%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (1.00%) AMQP
7 2 (1.00%) BGP
7 2 (1.00%) DMZ
7 2 (1.00%) IPsec
7 2 (1.00%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.00%) WAN
8 1 (0.50%) CTI
8 1 (0.50%) HTTP
8 1 (0.50%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.98%) MongoDB
2 9 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.98%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.49%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.99%) Flink
6 3 (1.49%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.49%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.49%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.00%) Big Data
7 2 (1.00%) Chroma
7 2 (1.00%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (1.00%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.00%) MySQL
7 2 (1.00%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.50%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.50%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.50%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.50%) Power BI
8 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (12.44%) GitLab
2 21 (10.45%) Git
2 21 (10.45%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 4 (1.99%) JIRA
4 2 (1.00%) Vite
5 1 (0.50%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.50%) Maven
5 1 (0.50%) MLflow
5 1 (0.50%) Mocha
5 1 (0.50%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 49 (24.38%) Social Skills
2 19 (9.45%) Finance
3 15 (7.46%) Public Sector
4 10 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.49%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.00%) Local Government
8 1 (0.50%) Law
8 1 (0.50%) Legal
8 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.50%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 87 (43.28%) Senior
2 59 (29.35%) DevOps Engineer
3 44 (21.89%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (12.44%) Platform Engineer
5 22 (10.95%) Automation Engineer
5 22 (10.95%) Senior Automation Engineer
5 22 (10.95%) Senior DevOps
5 22 (10.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 21 (10.45%) Lead
7 20 (9.95%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 15 (7.46%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 15 (7.46%) Software Engineer
9 14 (6.97%) Data Engineer
9 14 (6.97%) Developer
10 13 (6.47%) Senior Data Engineer
10 13 (6.47%) Senior Developer
11 12 (5.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (5.97%) Security Engineer
12 11 (5.47%) Cloud Automation Engineer
12 11 (5.47%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (72.64%) Terraform
2 29 (14.43%) Spring
3 28 (13.93%) Spring Boot
4 23 (11.44%) React
5 12 (5.97%) .NET
6 10 (4.98%) Pulumi
7 9 (4.48%) FastAPI
7 9 (4.48%) Node.js
8 8 (3.98%) Kafka
8 8 (3.98%) PySpark
9 6 (2.99%) ARM Templates
9 6 (2.99%) JWT
9 6 (2.99%) OAuth
9 6 (2.99%) OAuth2
9 6 (2.99%) OpenID
9 6 (2.99%) SAML
9 6 (2.99%) Vue
10 5 (2.49%) AngularJS
10 5 (2.49%) AWS CDK
10 5 (2.49%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 50 (24.88%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.47%) Onboarding
4 10 (4.98%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.98%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.98%) Enterprise Cloud
6 6 (2.99%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.99%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.99%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.49%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.00%) Online Gambling
10 1 (0.50%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.50%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.50%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.50%) NHS
10 1 (0.50%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.50%) Replication
10 1 (0.50%) Sports Betting
10 1 (0.50%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 31 (15.42%) Linux
2 9 (4.48%) Windows
3 6 (2.99%) CentOS
3 6 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.99%) Unix
4 4 (1.99%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.00%) Debian
5 2 (1.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (76.12%) CI/CD
2 132 (65.67%) DevOps
3 72 (35.82%) Platform Engineering
4 61 (30.35%) Containerisation
5 53 (26.37%) Continuous Improvement
5 53 (26.37%) Observability
6 48 (23.88%) AI
7 46 (22.89%) Agile
8 42 (20.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 41 (20.40%) Mentoring
10 33 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (16.42%) Software Engineering
11 27 (13.43%) Infrastructure Automation
11 27 (13.43%) Technical Leadership
12 26 (12.94%) Collaborative Culture
13 25 (12.44%) Cost Optimisation
13 25 (12.44%) Stakeholder Management
14 24 (11.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 24 (11.94%) Microservices
15 22 (10.95%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 118 (58.71%) Python
2 44 (21.89%) Java
3 43 (21.39%) Bash
4 31 (15.42%) PowerShell
5 26 (12.94%) SQL
6 21 (10.45%) Go
7 18 (8.96%) TypeScript
8 15 (7.46%) Bicep
9 14 (6.97%) C#
10 8 (3.98%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.49%) Rust
12 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.50%) Ruby
12 1 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 54 (26.87%) Security Cleared
2 31 (15.42%) DV Cleared
3 30 (14.93%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.98%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.98%) Degree
6 6 (2.99%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.00%) CCIE
10 1 (0.50%) CCNA
10 1 (0.50%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.48%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.49%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.49%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 63 (31.34%) Docker
2 15 (7.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.48%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.00%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.00%) vSphere
6 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 90 (44.78%) Kubernetes
2 52 (25.87%) Ansible
3 17 (8.46%) Grafana
4 16 (7.96%) Prometheus
5 9 (4.48%) Puppet
6 6 (2.99%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.49%) Istio
8 4 (1.99%) Argo
8 4 (1.99%) linkerd
9 3 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.00%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.50%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (12.44%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.45%) Google
3 16 (7.96%) VMware
4 6 (2.99%) Cisco
4 6 (2.99%) Splunk
5 5 (2.49%) Databricks
6 4 (1.99%) New Relic
7 3 (1.49%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.49%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (1.00%) F5
8 2 (1.00%) Mistral
8 2 (1.00%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.00%) Oracle
8 2 (1.00%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.00%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.00%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.00%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.50%) FIS
9 1 (0.50%) Meraki
9 1 (0.50%) YouTube