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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 76 79
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 -5
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 99 76 150
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.88% 3.62% 3.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.59% 3.80% 3.53%
Number of salaries quoted 60 62 121
10th Percentile £50,800 £50,375 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,813 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,401 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +15.18% -6.40%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,313 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,250 £98,474 £90,000
North West median annual salary £74,651 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.97% +11.54% -6.40%

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 3,826 2,001 4,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.79% 95.38% 86.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,622 1,273 3,404
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,938 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £54,850
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.83% -4.61%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £69,829
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% -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 1 May 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 1 May 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 - 7 £67,500 - 1
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 5 (5.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.04%) Apache
2 4 (4.04%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.01%) CMS
3 1 (1.01%) Confluence
3 1 (1.01%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 61 (61.62%) AWS
2 48 (48.48%) Azure
3 28 (28.28%) GitHub
4 26 (26.26%) Serverless
5 24 (24.24%) AWS CloudFormation
5 24 (24.24%) GCP
6 16 (16.16%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (16.16%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (10.10%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (8.08%) Azure AKS
10 7 (7.07%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (7.07%) Entra ID
10 7 (7.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 7 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (7.07%) OpenShift
11 6 (6.06%) Amazon S3
12 5 (5.05%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (5.05%) Datadog
12 5 (5.05%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.13%) Firewall
2 6 (6.06%) DNS
3 5 (5.05%) SAN
4 4 (4.04%) AMQP
4 4 (4.04%) DHCP
4 4 (4.04%) VPN
5 3 (3.03%) Network Security
5 3 (3.03%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.01%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (7.07%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.05%) DynamoDB
4 4 (4.04%) Big Data
4 4 (4.04%) Cloudera CDH
4 4 (4.04%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (4.04%) Flink
4 4 (4.04%) Hadoop
4 4 (4.04%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.03%) MySQL
5 3 (3.03%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.02%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.01%) Redis
7 1 (1.01%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 10 (10.10%) GitLab
2 9 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 8 (8.08%) Git
4 3 (3.03%) Bitbucket
4 3 (3.03%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (2.02%) JIRA
5 2 (2.02%) Vagrant
6 1 (1.01%) PyCharm
6 1 (1.01%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.17%) Finance
3 7 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.07%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.04%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.02%) Law
6 1 (1.01%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (42.42%) Senior
2 21 (21.21%) Cloud Engineer
3 13 (13.13%) Software Engineer
4 12 (12.12%) Lead
5 10 (10.10%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (8.08%) Architect
7 8 (8.08%) Data Engineer
7 8 (8.08%) GCP Engineer
8 7 (7.07%) Senior Data Engineer
9 6 (6.06%) Developer
9 6 (6.06%) Senior Developer
10 5 (5.05%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (5.05%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 5 (5.05%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (4.04%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 4 (4.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (4.04%) Network Engineer
11 4 (4.04%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 4 (4.04%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.15%) Node.js
2 13 (13.13%) Spring
3 12 (12.12%) Spring Boot
4 11 (11.11%) React
5 8 (8.08%) .NET
6 7 (7.07%) REST
7 6 (6.06%) ARM Templates
7 6 (6.06%) AWS CDK
8 5 (5.05%) Django
8 5 (5.05%) Kafka
9 4 (4.04%) AngularJS
9 4 (4.04%) Backbone.js
9 4 (4.04%) FastAPI
9 4 (4.04%) Material-UI
9 4 (4.04%) OpenAPI
9 4 (4.04%) Pandas
9 4 (4.04%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (4.04%) RESTful
9 4 (4.04%) Swagger
9 4 (4.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (28.28%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.10%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (6.06%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (6.06%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.03%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.03%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.02%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.01%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.01%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.01%) Online Gambling
7 1 (1.01%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.01%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.15%) Linux
2 8 (8.08%) Windows
3 6 (6.06%) Debian
3 6 (6.06%) Ubuntu
4 4 (4.04%) CentOS
4 4 (4.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.04%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.01%) Unix
5 1 (1.01%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 64 (64.65%) DevOps
3 37 (37.37%) Agile
4 29 (29.29%) Containerisation
5 28 (28.28%) Continuous Improvement
5 28 (28.28%) Observability
6 22 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
7 21 (21.21%) Software Engineering
8 20 (20.20%) AI
8 20 (20.20%) Mentoring
9 19 (19.19%) Collaborative Culture
9 19 (19.19%) Test Automation
10 18 (18.18%) Scrum
11 17 (17.17%) Decision-Making
12 16 (16.16%) Microservices
13 15 (15.15%) Deployment Automation
13 15 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (14.14%) Cost Optimisation
14 14 (14.14%) Event-Driven
14 14 (14.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 53 (53.54%) Python
2 22 (22.22%) Java
3 19 (19.19%) PowerShell
3 19 (19.19%) SQL
4 12 (12.12%) Bash
4 12 (12.12%) Bicep
5 10 (10.10%) TypeScript
6 8 (8.08%) C#
7 7 (7.07%) JavaScript
8 4 (4.04%) Go
Qualifications
1 14 (14.14%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.12%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 6 (6.06%) DV Cleared
5 5 (5.05%) Degree
6 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.02%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.08%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.01%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (29.29%) Docker
2 8 (8.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.07%) Active Directory
4 4 (4.04%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.03%) VMware NSX
5 3 (3.03%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 68 (68.69%) Terraform
2 48 (48.48%) Kubernetes
3 23 (23.23%) Ansible
4 5 (5.05%) Grafana
5 4 (4.04%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.04%) Puppet
6 3 (3.03%) Rancher
7 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.02%) Packer
7 2 (2.02%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.01%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (1.01%) Istio
8 1 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.11%) Google
2 11 (11.11%) VMware
3 4 (4.04%) Red Hat
3 4 (4.04%) SaltStack
4 3 (3.03%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (2.02%) Cisco
5 2 (2.02%) Databricks
5 2 (2.02%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.01%) F5
6 1 (1.01%) HP
6 1 (1.01%) Oracle