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 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 84 61
Rank change year-on-year +5 -23 +6
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 57 75 92
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.04% 2.78% 3.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 2.97% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 51 45 80
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,000 £46,300
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +3.17% -6.67%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £94,584 £90,654
North West median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.29% -3.18%

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 2,252 2,524 2,161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 80.46% 93.52% 91.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,328 1,174 1,717
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £35,500 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £84,335
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% -3.64%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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
Salford - 3 £73,801 -
Oldham - 1 £65,000 -
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 4 (7.02%) Apache
1 4 (7.02%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.75%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (66.67%) Azure
2 37 (64.91%) AWS
3 16 (28.07%) AWS CloudFormation
4 14 (24.56%) GCP
4 14 (24.56%) GitHub
5 12 (21.05%) Serverless
6 10 (17.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (17.54%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (14.04%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (12.28%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (12.28%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (12.28%) SaaS
9 6 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (8.77%) Amazon S3
10 5 (8.77%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (8.77%) OpenShift
10 5 (8.77%) PaaS
11 4 (7.02%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (7.02%) Azure AKS
11 4 (7.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.26%) AMQP
2 2 (3.51%) DNS
2 2 (3.51%) Firewall
2 2 (3.51%) SAN
2 2 (3.51%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.28%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (10.53%) MongoDB
3 5 (8.77%) Big Data
4 4 (7.02%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (7.02%) Hadoop
4 4 (7.02%) MySQL
4 4 (7.02%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.26%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.51%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.51%) Redis
7 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.75%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 8 (14.04%) GitLab
1 8 (14.04%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.53%) Git
3 3 (5.26%) CircleCI
3 3 (5.26%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.75%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.75%) JIRA
5 1 (1.75%) JMeter
5 1 (1.75%) Locust
General
1 14 (24.56%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.04%) Finance
3 4 (7.02%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.26%) Aerospace
4 3 (5.26%) Retail
5 2 (3.51%) Electronics
5 2 (3.51%) Law
5 2 (3.51%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.51%) Marketing
5 2 (3.51%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 15 (26.32%) Senior
2 12 (21.05%) Cloud Engineer
3 8 (14.04%) Developer
3 8 (14.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (12.28%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (10.53%) Architect
6 5 (8.77%) Lead
7 4 (7.02%) Backend Developer
7 4 (7.02%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.51%) AWS Architect
9 2 (3.51%) Data Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (3.51%) Senior DevOps
9 2 (3.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.04%) .NET
2 7 (12.28%) React
3 6 (10.53%) Node.js
3 6 (10.53%) Spring
3 6 (10.53%) Spring Boot
4 5 (8.77%) AngularJS
4 5 (8.77%) ARM Templates
4 5 (8.77%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (8.77%) REST
5 4 (7.02%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (5.26%) Django
6 3 (5.26%) gRPC
6 3 (5.26%) Material-UI
6 3 (5.26%) OpenAPI
6 3 (5.26%) RESTful
6 3 (5.26%) Swagger
7 2 (3.51%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (3.51%) FastAPI
7 2 (3.51%) Middleware
7 2 (3.51%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 21 (36.84%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.26%) AI Agents
2 3 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (5.26%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.51%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.75%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.75%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 16 (28.07%) Linux
2 6 (10.53%) Debian
2 6 (10.53%) Ubuntu
3 4 (7.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (7.02%) Windows
4 3 (5.26%) CentOS
4 3 (5.26%) Unix
4 3 (5.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (71.93%) CI/CD
2 39 (68.42%) DevOps
3 30 (52.63%) Agile
4 21 (36.84%) Containerisation
5 13 (22.81%) Observability
5 13 (22.81%) Platform Engineering
6 11 (19.30%) Microservices
6 11 (19.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 11 (19.30%) Software Engineering
7 10 (17.54%) AI
7 10 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (15.79%) Mentoring
8 9 (15.79%) Test Automation
9 8 (14.04%) Configuration Management
9 8 (14.04%) Infrastructure Automation
9 8 (14.04%) Scrum
10 7 (12.28%) Clean Code
10 7 (12.28%) Collaborative Culture
10 7 (12.28%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 23 (40.35%) Python
2 9 (15.79%) Java
2 9 (15.79%) JavaScript
2 9 (15.79%) PowerShell
3 8 (14.04%) Bicep
4 7 (12.28%) C#
5 6 (10.53%) Bash
5 6 (10.53%) SQL
6 4 (7.02%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.26%) Go
8 1 (1.75%) Scala
8 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (24.56%) Security Cleared
2 11 (19.30%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.28%) DV Cleared
4 4 (7.02%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.75%) Degree
6 1 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.75%) NIST
1 1 (1.75%) QA
1 1 (1.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (33.33%) Docker
2 4 (7.02%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (5.26%) VMware NSX
3 3 (5.26%) vSphere
4 2 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.75%) HDFS
5 1 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 44 (77.19%) Terraform
2 25 (43.86%) Kubernetes
3 16 (28.07%) Ansible
4 6 (10.53%) Prometheus
5 5 (8.77%) Grafana
6 3 (5.26%) Puppet
7 2 (3.51%) Rancher
8 1 (1.75%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (1.75%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (19.30%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.28%) VMware
3 5 (8.77%) Google
4 4 (7.02%) Red Hat
4 4 (7.02%) Splunk
5 3 (5.26%) Foundry
5 3 (5.26%) SaltStack
6 2 (3.51%) Databricks
6 2 (3.51%) SAP
7 1 (1.75%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.75%) Dell
7 1 (1.75%) Oracle
7 1 (1.75%) Pega
7 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.75%) WSO2