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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 92 80
Rank change year-on-year +45 -12 -15
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 168 73 168
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.67% 3.05% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 3.25% 3.51%
Number of salaries quoted 126 58 126
10th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,401 £74,870 £63,891
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +17.18% -8.73%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,751 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,375 £88,750
North West median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +11.54% -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 4,596 2,248 4,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.10% 93.78% 83.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,641 1,300 3,542
10th Percentile £32,775 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -9.48%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £81,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £51,564 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.66% +3.13% -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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -
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 9 (5.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.79%) Apache
2 3 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.60%) CMS
3 1 (0.60%) Confluence
3 1 (0.60%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 99 (58.93%) AWS
2 79 (47.02%) Azure
3 47 (27.98%) GitHub
4 36 (21.43%) GCP
5 32 (19.05%) Serverless
6 27 (16.07%) AWS CloudFormation
7 24 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (11.31%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (7.74%) SaaS
11 12 (7.14%) Amazon S3
11 12 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (6.55%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (6.55%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (6.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 11 (6.55%) Pulumi
13 9 (5.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (4.17%) Entra ID
15 6 (3.57%) OpenShift
15 6 (3.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 23 (13.69%) Firewall
2 9 (5.36%) SAN
3 8 (4.76%) Network Security
4 6 (3.57%) DNS
4 6 (3.57%) VPN
5 4 (2.38%) DHCP
6 3 (1.79%) AMQP
6 3 (1.79%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.60%) BGP
7 1 (0.60%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.60%) DMZ
7 1 (0.60%) IPsec
7 1 (0.60%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.55%) MongoDB
1 11 (6.55%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 6 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.38%) Flink
5 3 (1.79%) Big Data
5 3 (1.79%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (1.79%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.79%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.79%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.79%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.19%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.19%) MySQL
6 2 (1.19%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.60%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.60%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.60%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 20 (11.90%) GitLab
3 16 (9.52%) Git
4 2 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (1.19%) JIRA
4 2 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.19%) Vagrant
4 2 (1.19%) Vite
5 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.60%) MLflow
5 1 (0.60%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 36 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 19 (11.31%) Finance
3 12 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 8 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.79%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.60%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 74 (44.05%) Senior
2 43 (25.60%) Cloud Engineer
3 32 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (11.31%) Platform Engineer
5 17 (10.12%) Lead
6 15 (8.93%) Automation Engineer
6 15 (8.93%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 15 (8.93%) Software Engineer
7 14 (8.33%) Security Engineer
8 13 (7.74%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 13 (7.74%) Senior DevOps
8 13 (7.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 13 (7.74%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 12 (7.14%) Developer
9 12 (7.14%) GCP Engineer
9 12 (7.14%) Senior Developer
10 11 (6.55%) Architect
11 10 (5.95%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 10 (5.95%) Data Engineer
12 9 (5.36%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (12.50%) Spring
2 20 (11.90%) Spring Boot
3 17 (10.12%) React
4 13 (7.74%) Node.js
5 11 (6.55%) .NET
5 11 (6.55%) FastAPI
6 8 (4.76%) JWT
6 8 (4.76%) OAuth
6 8 (4.76%) PySpark
7 7 (4.17%) Django
7 7 (4.17%) Kafka
8 6 (3.57%) ARM Templates
8 6 (3.57%) AWS CDK
8 6 (3.57%) OAuth2
8 6 (3.57%) OpenID
8 6 (3.57%) REST
8 6 (3.57%) SAML
9 5 (2.98%) Vue
10 4 (2.38%) AngularJS
10 4 (2.38%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 50 (29.76%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.76%) Enterprise Cloud
5 6 (3.57%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.57%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.38%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.79%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.79%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.79%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.19%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.60%) NHS
9 1 (0.60%) Online Gambling
9 1 (0.60%) Replication
9 1 (0.60%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.71%) Linux
2 7 (4.17%) Windows
3 5 (2.98%) CentOS
3 5 (2.98%) Debian
3 5 (2.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.98%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.38%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (77.38%) CI/CD
2 108 (64.29%) DevOps
3 53 (31.55%) Platform Engineering
4 50 (29.76%) Agile
5 46 (27.38%) Containerisation
6 45 (26.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 45 (26.79%) Observability
7 44 (26.19%) AI
8 38 (22.62%) Mentoring
9 26 (15.48%) Software Engineering
10 25 (14.88%) Collaborative Culture
11 24 (14.29%) Event-Driven
11 24 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
12 23 (13.69%) Microservices
12 23 (13.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 23 (13.69%) TDD
13 22 (13.10%) Test Automation
14 21 (12.50%) Decision-Making
14 21 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
15 20 (11.90%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 90 (53.57%) Python
2 34 (20.24%) Java
3 29 (17.26%) PowerShell
4 26 (15.48%) Bash
5 23 (13.69%) SQL
6 17 (10.12%) Bicep
6 17 (10.12%) TypeScript
7 13 (7.74%) C#
8 11 (6.55%) Go
9 10 (5.95%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 24 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 13 (7.74%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.17%) Degree
6 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.79%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.60%) CCIE
9 1 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.36%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.38%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.79%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 50 (29.76%) Docker
2 15 (8.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.17%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.98%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.19%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 125 (74.40%) Terraform
2 77 (45.83%) Kubernetes
3 34 (20.24%) Ansible
4 13 (7.74%) Grafana
5 12 (7.14%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.98%) Puppet
7 4 (2.38%) Argo
7 4 (2.38%) Istio
7 4 (2.38%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.79%) linkerd
8 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.19%) Packer
10 1 (0.60%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.60%) Rancher
10 1 (0.60%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 22 (13.10%) Microsoft
2 19 (11.31%) Google
3 17 (10.12%) VMware
4 5 (2.98%) Databricks
5 3 (1.79%) Cisco
5 3 (1.79%) LogicMonitor
5 3 (1.79%) Red Hat
5 3 (1.79%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.19%) F5
6 2 (1.19%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.19%) Oracle
6 2 (1.19%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.60%) HP
7 1 (0.60%) Splunk
7 1 (0.60%) Zscaler