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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 86 87
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 -5
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 62 67 107
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.65% 2.90% 2.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 3.03% 3.08%
Number of salaries quoted 47 50 92
10th Percentile £52,450 £47,325 £48,875
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,301 £65,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +14.31% +3.53% -3.41%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,472 £92,250
North West median annual salary £74,051 £67,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year +9.71% +7.51% -3.41%

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 2,827 2,208 3,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.17% 95.63% 88.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,829 1,157 2,861
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £74,258 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £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 4 March 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 4 March 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 - 4 £67,500 - 3
Salford - 4 £73,801 - 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 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.45%) Apache
2 4 (6.45%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.61%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 42 (67.74%) AWS
2 31 (50.00%) Azure
3 22 (35.48%) GCP
4 20 (32.26%) GitHub
5 19 (30.65%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (29.03%) Serverless
7 13 (20.97%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (14.52%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (12.90%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (11.29%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (11.29%) Azure AKS
10 7 (11.29%) OpenShift
11 6 (9.68%) Amazon S3
11 6 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (9.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (8.06%) Entra ID
12 5 (8.06%) PaaS
13 4 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.68%) Firewall
2 4 (6.45%) AMQP
2 4 (6.45%) SAN
2 4 (6.45%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.23%) DNS
3 2 (3.23%) VPN
4 1 (1.61%) BIG-IP
4 1 (1.61%) Network Security
4 1 (1.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.74%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (14.52%) MongoDB
3 6 (9.68%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (8.06%) MySQL
5 4 (6.45%) Big Data
5 4 (6.45%) Cloudera CDH
5 4 (6.45%) Hadoop
6 3 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (4.84%) DynamoDB
6 3 (4.84%) NoSQL
6 3 (4.84%) Redis
7 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.61%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.61%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 9 (14.52%) Jenkins
2 8 (12.90%) GitLab
3 7 (11.29%) Git
4 5 (8.06%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (4.84%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.23%) Vagrant
7 1 (1.61%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.61%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.61%) JIRA
7 1 (1.61%) JMeter
7 1 (1.61%) Locust
General
1 17 (27.42%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.52%) Finance
3 4 (6.45%) Aerospace
3 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.23%) Electronics
4 2 (3.23%) Law
4 2 (3.23%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.23%) Marketing
4 2 (3.23%) Retail
4 2 (3.23%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.61%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 19 (30.65%) Senior
2 12 (19.35%) Cloud Engineer
3 8 (12.90%) Architect
3 8 (12.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (12.90%) Platform Engineer
3 8 (12.90%) Software Engineer
4 5 (8.06%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (8.06%) GCP Engineer
4 5 (8.06%) Lead
4 5 (8.06%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (6.45%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Developer
6 3 (4.84%) Python Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Security Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.13%) Node.js
1 10 (16.13%) Spring
1 10 (16.13%) Spring Boot
2 8 (12.90%) REST
3 6 (9.68%) Django
3 6 (9.68%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (9.68%) React
4 5 (8.06%) AngularJS
5 4 (6.45%) ARM Templates
5 4 (6.45%) AWS CDK
5 4 (6.45%) FastAPI
5 4 (6.45%) gRPC
5 4 (6.45%) Material-UI
5 4 (6.45%) OpenAPI
5 4 (6.45%) Swagger
6 3 (4.84%) .NET
6 3 (4.84%) NestJS
6 3 (4.84%) RESTful
7 2 (3.23%) OAuth
7 2 (3.23%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 24 (38.71%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (6.45%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.84%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.23%) Driving Licence
5 2 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.23%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.61%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.61%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 18 (29.03%) Linux
2 7 (11.29%) Debian
2 7 (11.29%) Ubuntu
3 5 (8.06%) Windows
4 4 (6.45%) CentOS
4 4 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (4.84%) Unix
5 3 (4.84%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (74.19%) CI/CD
2 42 (67.74%) DevOps
3 28 (45.16%) Agile
4 23 (37.10%) Containerisation
5 15 (24.19%) Observability
5 15 (24.19%) Platform Engineering
6 13 (20.97%) Microservices
6 13 (20.97%) Scrum
6 13 (20.97%) Software Engineering
7 11 (17.74%) Mentoring
8 10 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (16.13%) Test Automation
9 9 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (14.52%) Roadmaps
9 9 (14.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 9 (14.52%) TDD
10 8 (12.90%) AI
10 8 (12.90%) Cloud Security
10 8 (12.90%) Infrastructure Automation
11 7 (11.29%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 29 (46.77%) Python
2 16 (25.81%) Java
3 10 (16.13%) JavaScript
4 9 (14.52%) Bicep
4 9 (14.52%) PowerShell
5 7 (11.29%) TypeScript
6 5 (8.06%) SQL
7 4 (6.45%) Go
8 2 (3.23%) C#
9 1 (1.61%) Bash
Qualifications
1 14 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 11 (17.74%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.29%) Azure Certification
3 7 (11.29%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (4.84%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.61%) NIST
2 1 (1.61%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.61%) QA
2 1 (1.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (37.10%) Docker
2 4 (6.45%) VMware NSX
2 4 (6.45%) vSphere
3 3 (4.84%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.84%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 45 (72.58%) Terraform
2 35 (56.45%) Kubernetes
3 18 (29.03%) Ansible
4 4 (6.45%) Puppet
5 3 (4.84%) Rancher
6 2 (3.23%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (3.23%) Grafana
6 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.23%) Packer
6 2 (3.23%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.23%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (16.13%) Google
2 9 (14.52%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.52%) VMware
3 4 (6.45%) Red Hat
3 4 (6.45%) SaltStack
4 2 (3.23%) Oracle
4 2 (3.23%) SAP
4 2 (3.23%) Splunk
5 1 (1.61%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.61%) Databricks
5 1 (1.61%) F5
5 1 (1.61%) Foundry
5 1 (1.61%) HP
5 1 (1.61%) Pega
5 1 (1.61%) WSO2