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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 87 85
Rank change year-on-year +36 -2 -31
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 218 57 99
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.83% 2.44% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.69% 2.75% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 168 50 52
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,725 £41,875
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,746 £63,750 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.54% +3.66% -5.89%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,635 £76,563
90th Percentile £93,250 £87,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £70,400 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.31% +4.00% -10.71%

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 5,906 2,076 3,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.54% 88.87% 84.74%
Number of salaries quoted 4,396 1,191 1,555
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,229 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.72% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -3.85% -5.45%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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
Stockport - 9 £75,000 - 6
Altrincham - 6 £65,000 - 2
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%) CMS
2 3 (1.38%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.92%) Apache
3 2 (0.92%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.92%) Confluence
4 1 (0.46%) IIS
4 1 (0.46%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 103 (47.25%) AWS
2 98 (44.95%) Azure
3 50 (22.94%) GitHub
4 36 (16.51%) GCP
5 27 (12.39%) Serverless
6 26 (11.93%) GitHub Actions
7 25 (11.47%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (9.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (6.88%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (5.96%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (5.50%) Amazon S3
12 11 (5.05%) SaaS
13 10 (4.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 10 (4.59%) OpenShift
14 9 (4.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (4.13%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (4.13%) Snowflake
14 9 (4.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
16 7 (3.21%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.72%) Firewall
2 11 (5.05%) DNS
3 8 (3.67%) VPN
4 7 (3.21%) Network Security
5 6 (2.75%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.29%) SAN
7 4 (1.83%) DHCP
8 3 (1.38%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.92%) AMQP
9 2 (0.92%) BGP
9 2 (0.92%) CTI
9 2 (0.92%) DMZ
9 2 (0.92%) IPsec
9 2 (0.92%) NX-OS
9 2 (0.92%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.92%) WAN
10 1 (0.46%) BIG-IP
10 1 (0.46%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 1 (0.46%) HTTP
10 1 (0.46%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.50%) MongoDB
2 11 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.21%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.75%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.83%) Chroma
5 4 (1.83%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.83%) Pinecone
6 3 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.38%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.38%) Flink
6 3 (1.38%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.92%) Big Data
7 2 (0.92%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (0.92%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.92%) MySQL
7 2 (0.92%) Power BI
7 2 (0.92%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.46%) SSDT
8 1 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (16.51%) GitLab
2 28 (12.84%) Git
3 26 (11.93%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.21%) JIRA
5 6 (2.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.83%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.92%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.92%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.92%) Vite
8 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.46%) Maven
8 1 (0.46%) MLflow
8 1 (0.46%) Mocha
General
1 57 (26.15%) Social Skills
2 18 (8.26%) Public Sector
3 13 (5.96%) Finance
4 7 (3.21%) Aerospace
4 7 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.83%) Retail
7 2 (0.92%) Law
7 2 (0.92%) Local Government
8 1 (0.46%) iGaming
8 1 (0.46%) Legal
8 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.46%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 91 (41.74%) Senior
2 76 (34.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 43 (19.72%) Cloud Engineer
4 30 (13.76%) Platform Engineer
5 27 (12.39%) Senior DevOps
5 27 (12.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 26 (11.93%) Automation Engineer
6 26 (11.93%) Senior Automation Engineer
7 24 (11.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (9.63%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 19 (8.72%) Developer
10 18 (8.26%) Software Engineer
11 17 (7.80%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 16 (7.34%) Lead
13 15 (6.88%) Cloud Automation Engineer
13 15 (6.88%) Principal Engineer
13 15 (6.88%) Security Engineer
13 15 (6.88%) Senior Developer
14 14 (6.42%) Principal DevOps Engineer
15 13 (5.96%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (69.72%) Terraform
2 36 (16.51%) Spring
2 36 (16.51%) Spring Boot
3 30 (13.76%) React
4 12 (5.50%) Node.js
5 11 (5.05%) .NET
5 11 (5.05%) REST
6 10 (4.59%) Pulumi
7 9 (4.13%) FastAPI
8 7 (3.21%) Kafka
8 7 (3.21%) PySpark
8 7 (3.21%) Vue
9 6 (2.75%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.75%) AWS CDK
9 6 (2.75%) JWT
9 6 (2.75%) OAuth
9 6 (2.75%) OAuth2
9 6 (2.75%) OpenID
9 6 (2.75%) SAML
10 5 (2.29%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 54 (24.77%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.05%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.59%) Data Centre
3 10 (4.59%) Security Posture
4 9 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.75%) Enterprise Cloud
5 6 (2.75%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.83%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.38%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.38%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.92%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.92%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.92%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.92%) PKI
10 1 (0.46%) Blog
10 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.46%) Online Gambling
10 1 (0.46%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 53 (24.31%) Linux
2 14 (6.42%) Windows
3 13 (5.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (3.67%) CentOS
5 5 (2.29%) Unix
6 3 (1.38%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.92%) Debian
7 2 (0.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (76.61%) CI/CD
2 143 (65.60%) DevOps
3 78 (35.78%) Platform Engineering
4 63 (28.90%) Containerisation
5 53 (24.31%) AI
6 51 (23.39%) Agile
7 49 (22.48%) Observability
8 48 (22.02%) Mentoring
9 47 (21.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 44 (20.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 41 (18.81%) Software Engineering
12 38 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
13 36 (16.51%) Technical Leadership
14 35 (16.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 33 (15.14%) Cloud Security
15 33 (15.14%) Infrastructure Automation
15 33 (15.14%) Stakeholder Management
16 31 (14.22%) Microservices
17 24 (11.01%) Coaching
18 23 (10.55%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 127 (58.26%) Python
2 55 (25.23%) Bash
3 54 (24.77%) Java
4 33 (15.14%) PowerShell
5 29 (13.30%) Go
6 26 (11.93%) TypeScript
7 22 (10.09%) SQL
8 13 (5.96%) Bicep
8 13 (5.96%) C#
9 10 (4.59%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.83%) Rust
11 2 (0.92%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.46%) Ruby
12 1 (0.46%) Scala
12 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 76 (34.86%) Security Cleared
2 45 (20.64%) DV Cleared
3 42 (19.27%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.67%) AWS Certification
4 8 (3.67%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.75%) 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
9 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.29%) 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 80 (36.70%) Docker
2 15 (6.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.83%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.83%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.38%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.92%) vSphere
7 1 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 98 (44.95%) Kubernetes
2 63 (28.90%) Ansible
3 16 (7.34%) Grafana
4 15 (6.88%) Prometheus
5 12 (5.50%) Puppet
6 8 (3.67%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.29%) Argo
8 4 (1.83%) Istio
8 4 (1.83%) linkerd
8 4 (1.83%) Podman
8 4 (1.83%) vCenter Server
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%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.46%) Opsview
Vendors
1 35 (16.06%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.63%) Google
3 16 (7.34%) VMware
4 6 (2.75%) Cisco
4 6 (2.75%) Fortinet
4 6 (2.75%) Red Hat
4 6 (2.75%) Splunk
4 6 (2.75%) YouTube
5 5 (2.29%) Databricks
6 4 (1.83%) Mistral
6 4 (1.83%) New Relic
6 4 (1.83%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.83%) Thales
7 3 (1.38%) F5
8 2 (0.92%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.92%) FIS
8 2 (0.92%) Oracle
8 2 (0.92%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.92%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.46%) Meraki