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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 93 79
Rank change year-on-year +31 -14 -12
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 124 71 156
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.17% 3.29% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.02% 3.43% 3.60%
Number of salaries quoted 85 54 127
10th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £47,700
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,813 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +15.18% -6.40%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,751 £80,625
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,500 £89,250
North West median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +11.54% -6.40%

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 4,107 2,068 4,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.78% 95.83% 85.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,011 1,180 3,445
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £44,875 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +6.48% -6.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,325 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 22 May 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 22 May 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 - 10 £65,000 -
Salford - 1 £74,301 - 1
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 (5.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.42%) Apache
2 3 (2.42%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.81%) CMS
3 1 (0.81%) Confluence
3 1 (0.81%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 74 (59.68%) AWS
2 66 (53.23%) Azure
3 39 (31.45%) GitHub
4 28 (22.58%) GCP
5 26 (20.97%) Serverless
6 22 (17.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (15.32%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (12.10%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (12.10%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (8.06%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (7.26%) Amazon S3
11 8 (6.45%) SaaS
12 7 (5.65%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (5.65%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (5.65%) Azure AKS
12 7 (5.65%) Entra ID
12 7 (5.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 7 (5.65%) OpenShift
12 7 (5.65%) Snowflake
13 6 (4.84%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 18 (14.52%) Firewall
2 7 (5.65%) SAN
3 6 (4.84%) DNS
3 6 (4.84%) VPN
4 5 (4.03%) Network Security
5 4 (3.23%) DHCP
6 3 (2.42%) AMQP
6 3 (2.42%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.81%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (7.26%) MongoDB
3 5 (4.03%) DynamoDB
3 5 (4.03%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (3.23%) Flink
4 4 (3.23%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.42%) Big Data
5 3 (2.42%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (2.42%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.42%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.42%) MySQL
6 2 (1.61%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (9.68%) GitLab
2 11 (8.87%) Jenkins
3 10 (8.06%) Git
4 3 (2.42%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.42%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.61%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.81%) JIRA
6 1 (0.81%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.90%) Finance
3 10 (8.06%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.42%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.81%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 57 (45.97%) Senior
2 34 (27.42%) Cloud Engineer
3 12 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (9.68%) Platform Engineer
3 12 (9.68%) Software Engineer
4 11 (8.87%) Architect
4 11 (8.87%) Lead
5 10 (8.06%) Data Engineer
5 10 (8.06%) GCP Engineer
5 10 (8.06%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 9 (7.26%) Developer
6 9 (7.26%) Security Engineer
6 9 (7.26%) Senior Data Engineer
6 9 (7.26%) Senior Developer
7 8 (6.45%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 7 (5.65%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) Cloud Automation Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) Senior Automation Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.10%) Spring
2 14 (11.29%) Spring Boot
3 13 (10.48%) Node.js
4 11 (8.87%) React
5 9 (7.26%) .NET
6 8 (6.45%) Kafka
7 7 (5.65%) PySpark
8 6 (4.84%) AWS CDK
8 6 (4.84%) Django
8 6 (4.84%) JWT
8 6 (4.84%) OAuth
8 6 (4.84%) REST
9 5 (4.03%) ARM Templates
9 5 (4.03%) FastAPI
10 4 (3.23%) Backbone.js
10 4 (3.23%) Great Expectations
10 4 (3.23%) OpenID
10 4 (3.23%) RESTful
10 4 (3.23%) SAML
10 4 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (23.39%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (7.26%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (6.45%) Enterprise Cloud
4 8 (6.45%) Public Cloud
5 5 (4.03%) Data Centre
5 5 (4.03%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.42%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.61%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.81%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.81%) NHS
8 1 (0.81%) Online Gambling
8 1 (0.81%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.10%) Linux
2 8 (6.45%) Windows
3 5 (4.03%) Debian
3 5 (4.03%) Ubuntu
4 4 (3.23%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.42%) CentOS
5 3 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.81%) Unix
6 1 (0.81%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (78.23%) CI/CD
2 79 (63.71%) DevOps
3 42 (33.87%) Agile
4 36 (29.03%) Platform Engineering
5 34 (27.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 31 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 30 (24.19%) Observability
8 27 (21.77%) Mentoring
9 26 (20.97%) AI
10 23 (18.55%) Collaborative Culture
11 21 (16.94%) Test Automation
12 20 (16.13%) Decision-Making
12 20 (16.13%) Scrum
13 18 (14.52%) Event-Driven
13 18 (14.52%) Infrastructure Automation
13 18 (14.52%) Software Engineering
13 18 (14.52%) TDD
14 17 (13.71%) Analytics
14 17 (13.71%) Cost Optimisation
15 16 (12.90%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 63 (50.81%) Python
2 25 (20.16%) Java
3 24 (19.35%) PowerShell
4 21 (16.94%) SQL
5 17 (13.71%) Bash
6 15 (12.10%) Bicep
7 10 (8.06%) TypeScript
8 9 (7.26%) C#
9 7 (5.65%) JavaScript
10 4 (3.23%) Go
Qualifications
1 19 (15.32%) Security Cleared
2 17 (13.71%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.68%) Azure Certification
4 6 (4.84%) Degree
5 5 (4.03%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.42%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.81%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (26.61%) Docker
2 12 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (5.65%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.42%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.42%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 91 (73.39%) Terraform
2 56 (45.16%) Kubernetes
3 26 (20.97%) Ansible
4 5 (4.03%) Grafana
5 4 (3.23%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.42%) Puppet
6 3 (2.42%) Rancher
7 2 (1.61%) Packer
7 2 (1.61%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.81%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.81%) Istio
Vendors
1 20 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.90%) VMware
3 12 (9.68%) Google
4 4 (3.23%) Databricks
5 3 (2.42%) LogicMonitor
5 3 (2.42%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.42%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.61%) Cisco
6 2 (1.61%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.81%) F5
7 1 (0.81%) HP
7 1 (0.81%) Oracle