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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 104 77
Rank change year-on-year +60 -27 -32
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 211 52 112
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.78% 2.19% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 2.46% 3.32%
Number of salaries quoted 156 43 61
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,550 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £87,500
North West median annual salary £72,500 £63,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.73% -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 5,784 2,116 3,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.11% 89.25% 83.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4,390 1,200 1,726
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £86,250 £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 25 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 25 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 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.42%) Apache
2 3 (1.42%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.95%) Confluence
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.47%) CMS
4 1 (0.47%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.47%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 103 (48.82%) AWS
2 99 (46.92%) Azure
3 53 (25.12%) GitHub
4 39 (18.48%) GCP
5 30 (14.22%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (14.22%) GitHub Actions
5 30 (14.22%) Serverless
6 24 (11.37%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (7.58%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (5.69%) SaaS
9 11 (5.21%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (5.21%) Amazon S3
9 11 (5.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 10 (4.74%) OpenShift
10 10 (4.74%) Snowflake
10 10 (4.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (4.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (4.27%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (3.32%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.43%) Firewall
2 10 (4.74%) DNS
3 7 (3.32%) DHCP
3 7 (3.32%) SAN
4 6 (2.84%) Network Security
4 6 (2.84%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.84%) VPN
5 3 (1.42%) AMQP
5 3 (1.42%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (0.95%) BGP
6 2 (0.95%) CTI
6 2 (0.95%) DMZ
6 2 (0.95%) IPsec
6 2 (0.95%) NX-OS
6 2 (0.95%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.95%) WAN
7 1 (0.47%) HTTP
7 1 (0.47%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.74%) MongoDB
2 9 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.32%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.37%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.90%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.42%) Big Data
6 3 (1.42%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (1.42%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.42%) Flink
6 3 (1.42%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.42%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.95%) Chroma
7 2 (0.95%) MySQL
7 2 (0.95%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.47%) Redis
8 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (12.80%) GitLab
2 25 (11.85%) Git
3 24 (11.37%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.32%) JIRA
5 5 (2.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.42%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.95%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.95%) Vite
8 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.47%) Maven
8 1 (0.47%) MLflow
8 1 (0.47%) Mocha
8 1 (0.47%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 51 (24.17%) Social Skills
2 17 (8.06%) Public Sector
3 15 (7.11%) Finance
4 8 (3.79%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.84%) Aerospace
5 6 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (0.95%) Law
6 2 (0.95%) Local Government
6 2 (0.95%) Retail
7 1 (0.47%) iGaming
7 1 (0.47%) Legal
7 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.47%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 90 (42.65%) Senior
2 63 (29.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 45 (21.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 27 (12.80%) Platform Engineer
5 23 (10.90%) Automation Engineer
5 23 (10.90%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 22 (10.43%) Senior DevOps
6 22 (10.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 20 (9.48%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 19 (9.00%) Lead
9 17 (8.06%) Developer
9 17 (8.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 17 (8.06%) Software Engineer
10 16 (7.58%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 14 (6.64%) Senior Developer
12 13 (6.16%) Data Engineer
12 13 (6.16%) Principal Engineer
13 12 (5.69%) Cloud Automation Engineer
13 12 (5.69%) Security Engineer
13 12 (5.69%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (71.09%) Terraform
2 33 (15.64%) Spring
3 32 (15.17%) Spring Boot
4 26 (12.32%) React
5 11 (5.21%) .NET
5 11 (5.21%) Node.js
5 11 (5.21%) Pulumi
6 9 (4.27%) FastAPI
7 8 (3.79%) Kafka
7 8 (3.79%) REST
8 7 (3.32%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.32%) ARM Templates
8 7 (3.32%) PySpark
8 7 (3.32%) Vue
9 6 (2.84%) AWS CDK
9 6 (2.84%) JWT
9 6 (2.84%) OAuth
9 6 (2.84%) OAuth2
9 6 (2.84%) OpenID
9 6 (2.84%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (27.01%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.16%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.21%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.79%) Data Centre
6 7 (3.32%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.37%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.90%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.42%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.95%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.95%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.95%) Online Gambling
10 2 (0.95%) PKI
11 1 (0.47%) Blog
11 1 (0.47%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.47%) NHS
11 1 (0.47%) Replication
11 1 (0.47%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 40 (18.96%) Linux
2 12 (5.69%) Windows
3 11 (5.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (3.79%) CentOS
5 5 (2.37%) Unix
5 5 (2.37%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.90%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.42%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (76.30%) CI/CD
2 141 (66.82%) DevOps
3 72 (34.12%) Platform Engineering
4 65 (30.81%) Containerisation
5 53 (25.12%) Observability
6 51 (24.17%) AI
7 50 (23.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 49 (23.22%) Agile
9 44 (20.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 42 (19.91%) Mentoring
11 38 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
11 38 (18.01%) Software Engineering
12 30 (14.22%) Infrastructure Automation
13 29 (13.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 28 (13.27%) Stakeholder Management
14 28 (13.27%) Technical Leadership
15 27 (12.80%) Cloud Security
16 26 (12.32%) Microservices
17 24 (11.37%) Cost Optimisation
18 22 (10.43%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 127 (60.19%) Python
2 50 (23.70%) Bash
3 49 (23.22%) Java
4 39 (18.48%) PowerShell
5 25 (11.85%) SQL
6 23 (10.90%) Go
7 21 (9.95%) TypeScript
8 18 (8.53%) Bicep
9 13 (6.16%) C#
10 9 (4.27%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.90%) Rust
12 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.47%) Ruby
12 1 (0.47%) Scala
12 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 62 (29.38%) Security Cleared
2 39 (18.48%) DV Cleared
3 34 (16.11%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.21%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.32%) Degree
5 7 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.84%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.95%) CCIE
8 2 (0.95%) CCNA
8 2 (0.95%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.84%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.42%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.42%) SOC 2
3 2 (0.95%) SLA
System Software
1 73 (34.60%) Docker
2 16 (7.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.79%) Active Directory
4 7 (3.32%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.95%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.95%) vSphere
6 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 95 (45.02%) Kubernetes
2 58 (27.49%) Ansible
3 20 (9.48%) Grafana
4 19 (9.00%) Prometheus
5 11 (5.21%) Puppet
6 8 (3.79%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.37%) Argo
7 5 (2.37%) Istio
8 4 (1.90%) linkerd
9 3 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.95%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.95%) Packer
10 2 (0.95%) Podman
10 2 (0.95%) SolarWinds Orion
10 2 (0.95%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 34 (16.11%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.43%) Google
3 17 (8.06%) VMware
4 7 (3.32%) Cisco
5 6 (2.84%) Splunk
6 5 (2.37%) Databricks
6 5 (2.37%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.90%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.90%) New Relic
8 3 (1.42%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (1.42%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.42%) YouTube
9 2 (0.95%) F5
9 2 (0.95%) FIS
9 2 (0.95%) Mistral
9 2 (0.95%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.95%) Oracle
9 2 (0.95%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.95%) Thales
9 2 (0.95%) Zscaler