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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 92 79
Rank change year-on-year +31 -13 -15
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 141 72 154
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.36% 3.27% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% 3.42% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 102 55 123
10th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £45,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,651 £74,870 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -0.29% +19.25% -10.31%
75th Percentile £84,688 £82,751 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,000 £88,750
North West median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £63,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% +14.17% -9.29%

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 4,311 2,108 4,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.15% 95.73% 84.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3,188 1,191 3,492
10th Percentile £32,845 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £81,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 31 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 31 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 - 10 £65,000 -
Cheadle - 1 £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 (4.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.13%) Apache
2 3 (2.13%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.71%) CMS
3 1 (0.71%) Confluence
3 1 (0.71%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 86 (60.99%) AWS
2 69 (48.94%) Azure
3 40 (28.37%) GitHub
4 33 (23.40%) GCP
5 30 (21.28%) Serverless
6 24 (17.02%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (13.48%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (10.64%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (7.80%) Amazon S3
10 10 (7.09%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (7.09%) Pulumi
10 10 (7.09%) SaaS
11 9 (6.38%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (5.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 8 (5.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (4.96%) Entra ID
14 6 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (4.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 18 (12.77%) Firewall
2 7 (4.96%) SAN
3 6 (4.26%) DNS
3 6 (4.26%) VPN
4 5 (3.55%) Network Security
5 4 (2.84%) DHCP
6 3 (2.13%) AMQP
6 3 (2.13%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.71%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.09%) MongoDB
1 10 (7.09%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.55%) NoSQL
2 5 (3.55%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.84%) DynamoDB
3 4 (2.84%) Flink
4 3 (2.13%) Big Data
4 3 (2.13%) Cloudera CDH
4 3 (2.13%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.13%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.42%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.42%) MySQL
6 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.71%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (11.35%) GitLab
1 16 (11.35%) Jenkins
2 11 (7.80%) Git
3 3 (2.13%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.42%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.42%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.71%) JIRA
5 1 (0.71%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (21.28%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.06%) Finance
3 11 (7.80%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.13%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.71%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 63 (44.68%) Senior
2 37 (26.24%) Cloud Engineer
3 19 (13.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (10.64%) Lead
5 13 (9.22%) Platform Engineer
5 13 (9.22%) Software Engineer
6 11 (7.80%) Architect
6 11 (7.80%) GCP Engineer
6 11 (7.80%) Security Engineer
6 11 (7.80%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 10 (7.09%) Data Engineer
7 10 (7.09%) Developer
7 10 (7.09%) Senior Developer
8 9 (6.38%) Senior Data Engineer
9 8 (5.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 7 (4.96%) Automation Engineer
10 7 (4.96%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (4.96%) Cloud Automation Engineer
10 7 (4.96%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 7 (4.96%) Senior Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.77%) Spring
2 17 (12.06%) Spring Boot
3 13 (9.22%) Node.js
3 13 (9.22%) React
4 10 (7.09%) .NET
5 8 (5.67%) JWT
5 8 (5.67%) OAuth
6 7 (4.96%) Django
6 7 (4.96%) FastAPI
6 7 (4.96%) Kafka
6 7 (4.96%) PySpark
7 6 (4.26%) AWS CDK
7 6 (4.26%) OAuth2
7 6 (4.26%) OpenID
7 6 (4.26%) REST
7 6 (4.26%) SAML
8 5 (3.55%) ARM Templates
9 4 (2.84%) AngularJS
9 4 (2.84%) Great Expectations
9 4 (2.84%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (27.66%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.80%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (7.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (5.67%) Enterprise Cloud
4 7 (4.96%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.55%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.55%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.13%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.42%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.71%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.71%) NHS
8 1 (0.71%) Online Gambling
8 1 (0.71%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.64%) Linux
2 8 (5.67%) Windows
3 5 (3.55%) Debian
3 5 (3.55%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.84%) CentOS
4 4 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.84%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.71%) Unix
5 1 (0.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (78.72%) CI/CD
2 88 (62.41%) DevOps
3 44 (31.21%) Agile
4 42 (29.79%) Platform Engineering
5 39 (27.66%) Containerisation
6 37 (26.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 37 (26.24%) Observability
7 33 (23.40%) AI
8 31 (21.99%) Mentoring
9 24 (17.02%) Collaborative Culture
10 21 (14.89%) Decision-Making
10 21 (14.89%) Event-Driven
10 21 (14.89%) Software Engineering
10 21 (14.89%) Test Automation
11 20 (14.18%) Scrum
11 20 (14.18%) TDD
12 19 (13.48%) Analytics
13 18 (12.77%) Cost Optimisation
13 18 (12.77%) Infrastructure Automation
13 18 (12.77%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 72 (51.06%) Python
2 28 (19.86%) Java
3 26 (18.44%) PowerShell
4 21 (14.89%) Bash
4 21 (14.89%) SQL
5 15 (10.64%) Bicep
6 13 (9.22%) TypeScript
7 10 (7.09%) C#
8 8 (5.67%) JavaScript
9 7 (4.96%) Go
Qualifications
1 25 (17.73%) Security Cleared
2 20 (14.18%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.51%) Azure Certification
4 9 (6.38%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.96%) Degree
6 3 (2.13%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (29.08%) Docker
2 13 (9.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.96%) Active Directory
4 5 (3.55%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.13%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 104 (73.76%) Terraform
2 66 (46.81%) Kubernetes
3 29 (20.57%) Ansible
4 9 (6.38%) Grafana
5 8 (5.67%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.84%) Puppet
7 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.13%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.42%) Argo
8 2 (1.42%) Istio
8 2 (1.42%) Packer
8 2 (1.42%) Rancher
9 1 (0.71%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.71%) linkerd
Vendors
1 20 (14.18%) Microsoft
2 17 (12.06%) VMware
3 15 (10.64%) Google
4 4 (2.84%) Databricks
5 3 (2.13%) LogicMonitor
5 3 (2.13%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.13%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.42%) Cisco
6 2 (1.42%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.71%) F5
7 1 (0.71%) HP
7 1 (0.71%) Oracle