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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 98 82
Rank change year-on-year +48 -16 -36
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 214 54 105
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.80% 2.27% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.67% 2.55% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 160 47 57
10th Percentile £47,425 £52,650 £39,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,245 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.59% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,750 £88,500 £86,000
North West median annual salary £70,950 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +13.52% - -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 5,825 2,119 3,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.16% 89.22% 84.25%
Number of salaries quoted 4,372 1,189 1,622
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £34,448 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,104 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.48% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £84,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,055
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.11% -8.99%

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 7 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 7 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 - 7 £75,000 - 5
Altrincham - 6 £65,000 - 3
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 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.40%) Apache
2 3 (1.40%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.40%) CMS
2 3 (1.40%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.93%) Confluence
4 1 (0.47%) IIS
4 1 (0.47%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 102 (47.66%) AWS
2 100 (46.73%) Azure
3 49 (22.90%) GitHub
4 36 (16.82%) GCP
5 31 (14.49%) Serverless
6 28 (13.08%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (12.62%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (10.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (6.07%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (5.14%) Amazon S3
11 11 (5.14%) SaaS
12 10 (4.67%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (4.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 10 (4.67%) OpenShift
12 10 (4.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (4.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (4.21%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (4.21%) Snowflake
14 8 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 20 (9.35%) Firewall
2 12 (5.61%) DNS
3 8 (3.74%) VPN
4 7 (3.27%) Network Security
5 6 (2.80%) SAN
5 6 (2.80%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.34%) DHCP
7 3 (1.40%) AMQP
7 3 (1.40%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.93%) BGP
8 2 (0.93%) CTI
8 2 (0.93%) DMZ
8 2 (0.93%) IPsec
8 2 (0.93%) NX-OS
8 2 (0.93%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.93%) WAN
9 1 (0.47%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 1 (0.47%) HTTP
9 1 (0.47%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.14%) MongoDB
2 10 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.27%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.87%) Chroma
4 4 (1.87%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.87%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.87%) Pinecone
5 3 (1.40%) Big Data
5 3 (1.40%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (1.40%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.40%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.40%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.93%) Flink
6 2 (0.93%) MySQL
7 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.47%) Power BI
7 1 (0.47%) Redis
7 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (14.95%) GitLab
2 25 (11.68%) Git
3 23 (10.75%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.27%) JIRA
5 5 (2.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.87%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.93%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.93%) Vite
8 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.47%) Maven
8 1 (0.47%) MLflow
8 1 (0.47%) Mocha
General
1 54 (25.23%) Social Skills
2 16 (7.48%) Public Sector
3 13 (6.07%) Finance
4 8 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.27%) Aerospace
6 6 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.40%) Retail
8 2 (0.93%) Law
8 2 (0.93%) Local Government
9 1 (0.47%) iGaming
9 1 (0.47%) Legal
9 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.47%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 88 (41.12%) Senior
2 66 (30.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 44 (20.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 28 (13.08%) Platform Engineer
5 25 (11.68%) Automation Engineer
5 25 (11.68%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 24 (11.21%) Senior DevOps
6 24 (11.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 22 (10.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (9.81%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 19 (8.88%) Developer
9 19 (8.88%) Software Engineer
10 17 (7.94%) Lead
11 16 (7.48%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 15 (7.01%) Security Engineer
12 15 (7.01%) Senior Developer
13 14 (6.54%) Cloud Automation Engineer
14 13 (6.07%) Principal Engineer
15 12 (5.61%) DevOps Platform Engineer
15 12 (5.61%) Principal DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (68.69%) Terraform
2 32 (14.95%) Spring
2 32 (14.95%) Spring Boot
3 30 (14.02%) React
4 13 (6.07%) .NET
5 12 (5.61%) Node.js
6 10 (4.67%) FastAPI
6 10 (4.67%) Pulumi
6 10 (4.67%) REST
7 7 (3.27%) AngularJS
7 7 (3.27%) Kafka
7 7 (3.27%) Vue
8 6 (2.80%) AWS CDK
8 6 (2.80%) JWT
8 6 (2.80%) OAuth
8 6 (2.80%) OAuth2
8 6 (2.80%) OpenID
8 6 (2.80%) PySpark
8 6 (2.80%) SAML
9 5 (2.34%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 56 (26.17%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.14%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (5.14%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.67%) Security Posture
4 9 (4.21%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.34%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (2.34%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.87%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.40%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.40%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.40%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.93%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.93%) PKI
10 1 (0.47%) Blog
10 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.47%) Online Gambling
10 1 (0.47%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 47 (21.96%) Linux
2 14 (6.54%) Windows
3 12 (5.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (3.74%) CentOS
5 5 (2.34%) Unix
6 4 (1.87%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.40%) Debian
7 3 (1.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (75.70%) CI/CD
2 139 (64.95%) DevOps
3 72 (33.64%) Platform Engineering
4 63 (29.44%) Containerisation
5 54 (25.23%) AI
5 54 (25.23%) Observability
6 51 (23.83%) Agile
7 48 (22.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 46 (21.50%) Mentoring
9 43 (20.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 40 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (18.69%) Software Engineering
11 33 (15.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 32 (14.95%) Cloud Security
12 32 (14.95%) Infrastructure Automation
12 32 (14.95%) Technical Leadership
13 30 (14.02%) Microservices
13 30 (14.02%) Stakeholder Management
14 22 (10.28%) Coaching
14 22 (10.28%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 127 (59.35%) Python
2 54 (25.23%) Bash
3 48 (22.43%) Java
4 38 (17.76%) PowerShell
5 26 (12.15%) Go
6 24 (11.21%) TypeScript
7 21 (9.81%) SQL
8 16 (7.48%) Bicep
9 15 (7.01%) C#
10 9 (4.21%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.87%) 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 66 (30.84%) Security Cleared
2 40 (18.69%) DV Cleared
3 37 (17.29%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.21%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.27%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.27%) Degree
5 7 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.93%) CCIE
7 2 (0.93%) CCNA
7 2 (0.93%) MCSE
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.34%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.87%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.40%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.93%) SLA
5 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 75 (35.05%) Docker
2 15 (7.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (2.80%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.40%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.93%) vSphere
7 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 94 (43.93%) Kubernetes
2 58 (27.10%) Ansible
3 18 (8.41%) Grafana
4 17 (7.94%) Prometheus
5 12 (5.61%) Puppet
6 8 (3.74%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.34%) Argo
8 4 (1.87%) Istio
8 4 (1.87%) linkerd
9 3 (1.40%) Podman
9 3 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.40%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.93%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.93%) Packer
10 2 (0.93%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.47%) Opsview
Vendors
1 37 (17.29%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.81%) Google
3 16 (7.48%) VMware
4 6 (2.80%) Cisco
4 6 (2.80%) Fortinet
4 6 (2.80%) Red Hat
4 6 (2.80%) Splunk
5 5 (2.34%) Databricks
5 5 (2.34%) YouTube
6 4 (1.87%) Mistral
6 4 (1.87%) New Relic
6 4 (1.87%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.40%) F5
7 3 (1.40%) SaltStack
7 3 (1.40%) Thales
8 2 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.93%) FIS
8 2 (0.93%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (0.93%) Oracle
8 2 (0.93%) Zscaler