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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 101 85
Rank change year-on-year +52 -16 -22
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 153 70 161
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.52% 3.09% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.53% 3.24% 3.31%
Number of salaries quoted 112 54 125
10th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £46,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,870 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% +19.25% -10.31%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,751 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,500 £88,750
North West median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +15.48% -10.31%

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 4,340 2,163 4,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.48% 95.33% 82.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,427 1,221 3,640
10th Percentile £33,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -9.19%
75th Percentile £76,625 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £81,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +4.50% -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 15 June 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 June 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 - 10 £65,000 -
Cheadle - 3 £72,500 -
Salford - 1 £74,301 - 2
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 7 (4.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.96%) Apache
2 3 (1.96%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.65%) CMS
3 1 (0.65%) Confluence
3 1 (0.65%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 94 (61.44%) AWS
2 74 (48.37%) Azure
3 45 (29.41%) GitHub
4 35 (22.88%) GCP
5 32 (20.92%) Serverless
6 25 (16.34%) AWS CloudFormation
7 22 (14.38%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (10.46%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (7.84%) Amazon S3
11 11 (7.19%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (7.19%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (7.19%) Pulumi
11 11 (7.19%) SaaS
12 10 (6.54%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 9 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (4.58%) Entra ID
15 6 (3.92%) Azure AKS
15 6 (3.92%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (12.42%) Firewall
2 7 (4.58%) SAN
3 6 (3.92%) DNS
3 6 (3.92%) Network Security
3 6 (3.92%) VPN
4 4 (2.61%) DHCP
5 3 (1.96%) AMQP
5 3 (1.96%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.65%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.19%) MongoDB
1 11 (7.19%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.58%) Relational Database
3 6 (3.92%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.61%) Flink
5 3 (1.96%) Big Data
5 3 (1.96%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (1.96%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.96%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.96%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.96%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.31%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.31%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.65%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.65%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.65%) Power BI
7 1 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (13.07%) Jenkins
2 19 (12.42%) GitLab
3 15 (9.80%) Git
4 3 (1.96%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.31%) Vagrant
5 2 (1.31%) Vite
6 1 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.65%) JIRA
6 1 (0.65%) MLflow
6 1 (0.65%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (20.92%) Social Skills
2 18 (11.76%) Finance
3 11 (7.19%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.96%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.65%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 65 (42.48%) Senior
2 40 (26.14%) Cloud Engineer
3 22 (14.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (10.46%) Lead
5 15 (9.80%) Software Engineer
6 13 (8.50%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (7.84%) Architect
7 12 (7.84%) Developer
7 12 (7.84%) GCP Engineer
7 12 (7.84%) Security Engineer
7 12 (7.84%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 12 (7.84%) Senior Developer
8 10 (6.54%) Data Engineer
9 9 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
10 8 (5.23%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (5.23%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (5.23%) Cloud Automation Engineer
10 8 (5.23%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 8 (5.23%) Senior Automation Engineer
11 7 (4.58%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.76%) Spring
2 17 (11.11%) React
2 17 (11.11%) Spring Boot
3 13 (8.50%) Node.js
4 11 (7.19%) .NET
4 11 (7.19%) FastAPI
5 8 (5.23%) JWT
5 8 (5.23%) OAuth
5 8 (5.23%) PySpark
6 7 (4.58%) Django
6 7 (4.58%) Kafka
7 6 (3.92%) ARM Templates
7 6 (3.92%) AWS CDK
7 6 (3.92%) OAuth2
7 6 (3.92%) OpenID
7 6 (3.92%) REST
7 6 (3.92%) SAML
8 5 (3.27%) Vue
9 4 (2.61%) Great Expectations
9 4 (2.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (31.37%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.15%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (7.84%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (5.23%) Enterprise Cloud
5 6 (3.92%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.27%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.27%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.96%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.31%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.31%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.65%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.65%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.65%) NHS
9 1 (0.65%) Online Gambling
9 1 (0.65%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.65%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.80%) Linux
2 7 (4.58%) Windows
3 5 (3.27%) Debian
3 5 (3.27%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.61%) CentOS
4 4 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.61%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (79.08%) CI/CD
2 96 (62.75%) DevOps
3 48 (31.37%) Agile
4 45 (29.41%) Observability
4 45 (29.41%) Platform Engineering
5 43 (28.10%) Containerisation
6 41 (26.80%) Continuous Improvement
7 40 (26.14%) AI
8 33 (21.57%) Mentoring
9 25 (16.34%) Collaborative Culture
9 25 (16.34%) Software Engineering
10 24 (15.69%) Event-Driven
11 22 (14.38%) Decision-Making
11 22 (14.38%) Microservices
12 21 (13.73%) TDD
12 21 (13.73%) Technical Leadership
12 21 (13.73%) Test Automation
13 20 (13.07%) Analytics
13 20 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (13.07%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 81 (52.94%) Python
2 29 (18.95%) Java
3 28 (18.30%) PowerShell
4 25 (16.34%) Bash
5 23 (15.03%) SQL
6 17 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 16 (10.46%) Bicep
8 11 (7.19%) C#
9 10 (6.54%) JavaScript
10 9 (5.88%) Go
11 1 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (18.95%) Security Cleared
2 23 (15.03%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.50%) Azure Certification
4 10 (6.54%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.58%) Degree
6 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.96%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.31%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.65%) SOC 2
System Software
1 46 (30.07%) Docker
2 13 (8.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.58%) Active Directory
4 5 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.31%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 113 (73.86%) Terraform
2 71 (46.41%) Kubernetes
3 28 (18.30%) Ansible
4 12 (7.84%) Grafana
5 11 (7.19%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.27%) Puppet
7 4 (2.61%) Argo
7 4 (2.61%) Istio
7 4 (2.61%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.96%) linkerd
8 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.31%) Packer
10 1 (0.65%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.65%) Rancher
Vendors
1 22 (14.38%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.11%) Google
3 16 (10.46%) VMware
4 5 (3.27%) Databricks
5 3 (1.96%) LogicMonitor
5 3 (1.96%) Red Hat
5 3 (1.96%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.31%) Cisco
6 2 (1.31%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.31%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.65%) F5
7 1 (0.65%) HP
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle