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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 101 80
Rank change year-on-year +53 -21 -32
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 218 54 106
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.86% 2.28% 2.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.74% 2.55% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 160 45 58
10th Percentile £47,425 £52,600 £40,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,500 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -2.34% -8.57%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,938
90th Percentile £95,000 £89,000 £87,650
North West median annual salary £71,991 £63,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.93% -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 2,118 3,329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.26% 89.52% 83.77%
Number of salaries quoted 4,397 1,181 1,659
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £34,750 £40,250
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 30 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 30 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 - 2
Stockport - 6 £75,000 - 5
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 (2.29%) 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
1 107 (49.08%) AWS
2 103 (47.25%) Azure
3 53 (24.31%) GitHub
4 39 (17.89%) GCP
5 31 (14.22%) Serverless
6 30 (13.76%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (13.30%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (11.01%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (7.34%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (6.42%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (5.50%) SaaS
12 11 (5.05%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (5.05%) Amazon S3
12 11 (5.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 10 (4.59%) OpenShift
13 10 (4.59%) Snowflake
13 10 (4.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (4.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (4.13%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (3.67%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.09%) Firewall
2 12 (5.50%) DNS
3 7 (3.21%) DHCP
3 7 (3.21%) SAN
3 7 (3.21%) VPN
4 6 (2.75%) Network Security
4 6 (2.75%) 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 (4.59%) MongoDB
2 9 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.21%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.29%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.83%) 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 30 (13.76%) GitLab
2 24 (11.01%) Git
2 24 (11.01%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.21%) JIRA
4 5 (2.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.83%) 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 (24.31%) Social Skills
2 18 (8.26%) Public Sector
3 15 (6.88%) Finance
4 9 (4.13%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.75%) Aerospace
5 6 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (0.92%) Law
6 2 (0.92%) Local Government
6 2 (0.92%) Retail
7 1 (0.46%) iGaming
7 1 (0.46%) Legal
7 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.46%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 92 (42.20%) Senior
2 66 (30.28%) DevOps Engineer
3 47 (21.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 28 (12.84%) Platform Engineer
5 24 (11.01%) Automation Engineer
5 24 (11.01%) Senior Automation Engineer
5 24 (11.01%) Senior DevOps
5 24 (11.01%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 21 (9.63%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 20 (9.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 19 (8.72%) Lead
9 18 (8.26%) Software Engineer
10 17 (7.80%) Developer
11 16 (7.34%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 14 (6.42%) Security Engineer
12 14 (6.42%) Senior Developer
13 13 (5.96%) Cloud Automation Engineer
13 13 (5.96%) Data Engineer
13 13 (5.96%) Principal Engineer
14 12 (5.50%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (70.18%) Terraform
2 33 (15.14%) Spring
3 32 (14.68%) Spring Boot
4 27 (12.39%) React
5 12 (5.50%) .NET
5 12 (5.50%) Node.js
6 11 (5.05%) Pulumi
7 9 (4.13%) FastAPI
7 9 (4.13%) REST
8 8 (3.67%) Kafka
9 7 (3.21%) AngularJS
9 7 (3.21%) ARM Templates
9 7 (3.21%) PySpark
9 7 (3.21%) Vue
10 6 (2.75%) AWS CDK
10 6 (2.75%) JWT
10 6 (2.75%) OAuth
10 6 (2.75%) OAuth2
10 6 (2.75%) OpenID
10 6 (2.75%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (26.61%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.96%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.05%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (4.13%) Security Posture
5 8 (3.67%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.75%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (2.29%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.83%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.38%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.92%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.92%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.92%) Online Gambling
10 2 (0.92%) PKI
10 2 (0.92%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.46%) Blog
11 1 (0.46%) NHS
11 1 (0.46%) Replication
11 1 (0.46%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 43 (19.72%) Linux
2 14 (6.42%) Windows
3 11 (5.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (3.67%) CentOS
5 5 (2.29%) Unix
5 5 (2.29%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.83%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.38%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (75.69%) CI/CD
2 145 (66.51%) DevOps
3 74 (33.94%) Platform Engineering
4 66 (30.28%) Containerisation
5 54 (24.77%) AI
5 54 (24.77%) Observability
6 53 (24.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 51 (23.39%) Agile
8 45 (20.64%) Mentoring
8 45 (20.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 42 (19.27%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (17.89%) Software Engineering
11 31 (14.22%) Cloud Security
11 31 (14.22%) Infrastructure Automation
11 31 (14.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 31 (14.22%) Technical Leadership
12 29 (13.30%) Stakeholder Management
13 27 (12.39%) Microservices
14 24 (11.01%) Cost Optimisation
15 23 (10.55%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 131 (60.09%) Python
2 54 (24.77%) Bash
3 49 (22.48%) Java
4 41 (18.81%) PowerShell
5 25 (11.47%) Go
5 25 (11.47%) SQL
6 22 (10.09%) TypeScript
7 18 (8.26%) Bicep
8 14 (6.42%) C#
9 9 (4.13%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.83%) Rust
11 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.46%) Ruby
11 1 (0.46%) Scala
11 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 66 (30.28%) Security Cleared
2 39 (17.89%) DV Cleared
3 38 (17.43%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.05%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.67%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (3.21%) Degree
7 4 (1.83%) 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 (2.75%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.83%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.38%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.92%) SLA
5 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 74 (33.94%) Docker
2 16 (7.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.67%) Active Directory
4 7 (3.21%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.92%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.92%) vSphere
6 1 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 98 (44.95%) Kubernetes
2 59 (27.06%) Ansible
3 20 (9.17%) Grafana
4 19 (8.72%) Prometheus
5 11 (5.05%) Puppet
6 8 (3.67%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.29%) Argo
7 5 (2.29%) Istio
8 4 (1.83%) linkerd
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%) Podman
10 2 (0.92%) SolarWinds Orion
10 2 (0.92%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.46%) Opsview
Vendors
1 37 (16.97%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.09%) Google
3 17 (7.80%) VMware
4 7 (3.21%) Cisco
5 6 (2.75%) Splunk
6 5 (2.29%) Databricks
6 5 (2.29%) Fortinet
6 5 (2.29%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.29%) YouTube
7 4 (1.83%) New Relic
8 3 (1.38%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (1.38%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.92%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.92%) F5
9 2 (0.92%) FIS
9 2 (0.92%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.92%) Oracle
9 2 (0.92%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.92%) Thales
9 2 (0.92%) Zscaler