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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 96 84
Rank change year-on-year +48 -12 -17
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 151 72 158
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.50% 3.17% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.51% 3.33% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 110 55 124
10th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £45,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,401 £74,870 £63,141
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +18.57% -9.80%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,751 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,000 £88,750
North West median annual salary £74,301 £72,500 £64,250
% change year-on-year +2.48% +12.84% -8.21%

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 4,298 2,164 4,814
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.30% 95.33% 83.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,393 1,219 3,607
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 £76,250 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £80,661
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 13 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 13 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 - 2 £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 (4.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.99%) Apache
2 3 (1.99%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.66%) CMS
3 1 (0.66%) Confluence
3 1 (0.66%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 92 (60.93%) AWS
2 73 (48.34%) Azure
3 45 (29.80%) GitHub
4 34 (22.52%) GCP
5 31 (20.53%) Serverless
6 25 (16.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 22 (14.57%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (11.26%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (9.93%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (7.28%) Amazon S3
10 11 (7.28%) Pulumi
10 11 (7.28%) SaaS
11 10 (6.62%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (6.62%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (6.62%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (5.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 8 (5.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (4.64%) Entra ID
14 6 (3.97%) Azure AKS
14 6 (3.97%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (12.58%) Firewall
2 7 (4.64%) SAN
3 6 (3.97%) DNS
3 6 (3.97%) Network Security
3 6 (3.97%) VPN
4 4 (2.65%) DHCP
5 3 (1.99%) AMQP
5 3 (1.99%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.66%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.28%) MongoDB
1 11 (7.28%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.97%) NoSQL
2 6 (3.97%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.65%) Flink
4 3 (1.99%) Big Data
4 3 (1.99%) Cloudera CDH
4 3 (1.99%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.99%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.99%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.32%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.32%) Pinecone
5 2 (1.32%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.66%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.66%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.66%) MySQL
6 1 (0.66%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (12.58%) Jenkins
2 18 (11.92%) GitLab
3 14 (9.27%) Git
4 3 (1.99%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.32%) Vagrant
5 2 (1.32%) Vite
6 1 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.66%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.66%) JIRA
6 1 (0.66%) MLflow
6 1 (0.66%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (21.19%) Social Skills
2 18 (11.92%) Finance
3 11 (7.28%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.99%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.66%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 64 (42.38%) Senior
2 40 (26.49%) Cloud Engineer
3 22 (14.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (10.60%) Lead
5 15 (9.93%) Software Engineer
6 12 (7.95%) Architect
6 12 (7.95%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (7.95%) Security Engineer
6 12 (7.95%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 11 (7.28%) Developer
7 11 (7.28%) GCP Engineer
7 11 (7.28%) Senior Developer
8 10 (6.62%) Data Engineer
9 9 (5.96%) Senior Data Engineer
10 8 (5.30%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (5.30%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (5.30%) Cloud Automation Engineer
10 8 (5.30%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 8 (5.30%) Senior Automation Engineer
11 7 (4.64%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.92%) Spring
2 17 (11.26%) Spring Boot
3 16 (10.60%) React
4 13 (8.61%) Node.js
5 11 (7.28%) .NET
6 10 (6.62%) FastAPI
7 8 (5.30%) JWT
7 8 (5.30%) OAuth
7 8 (5.30%) PySpark
8 7 (4.64%) Django
8 7 (4.64%) Kafka
9 6 (3.97%) ARM Templates
9 6 (3.97%) AWS CDK
9 6 (3.97%) OAuth2
9 6 (3.97%) OpenID
9 6 (3.97%) REST
9 6 (3.97%) SAML
10 4 (2.65%) Great Expectations
10 4 (2.65%) Vue
10 4 (2.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (30.46%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.61%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (7.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (5.30%) Enterprise Cloud
5 6 (3.97%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.31%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.31%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.99%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.32%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.32%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.66%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.66%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.66%) NHS
9 1 (0.66%) Online Gambling
9 1 (0.66%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.66%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.93%) Linux
2 7 (4.64%) Windows
3 5 (3.31%) Debian
3 5 (3.31%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.65%) CentOS
4 4 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.65%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (78.81%) CI/CD
2 95 (62.91%) DevOps
3 48 (31.79%) Agile
4 44 (29.14%) Platform Engineering
5 43 (28.48%) Observability
6 42 (27.81%) Containerisation
7 41 (27.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (25.17%) AI
9 33 (21.85%) Mentoring
10 25 (16.56%) Collaborative Culture
10 25 (16.56%) Software Engineering
11 23 (15.23%) Event-Driven
12 22 (14.57%) Decision-Making
13 21 (13.91%) Microservices
13 21 (13.91%) TDD
13 21 (13.91%) Test Automation
14 20 (13.25%) Analytics
14 20 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (13.25%) Scrum
15 19 (12.58%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 79 (52.32%) Python
2 29 (19.21%) Java
3 28 (18.54%) PowerShell
4 24 (15.89%) Bash
5 23 (15.23%) SQL
6 16 (10.60%) Bicep
6 16 (10.60%) TypeScript
7 11 (7.28%) C#
8 10 (6.62%) JavaScript
9 8 (5.30%) Go
10 1 (0.66%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (19.21%) Security Cleared
2 23 (15.23%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.61%) Azure Certification
4 10 (6.62%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.64%) Degree
6 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.99%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.96%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.32%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.66%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (29.80%) Docker
2 13 (8.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.64%) Active Directory
4 5 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.32%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 111 (73.51%) Terraform
2 70 (46.36%) Kubernetes
3 28 (18.54%) Ansible
4 11 (7.28%) Grafana
5 10 (6.62%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.65%) Argo
6 4 (2.65%) Puppet
7 3 (1.99%) Istio
7 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.99%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.32%) linkerd
8 2 (1.32%) Packer
9 1 (0.66%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.66%) Rancher
Vendors
1 22 (14.57%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.60%) Google
2 16 (10.60%) VMware
3 5 (3.31%) Databricks
4 3 (1.99%) LogicMonitor
4 3 (1.99%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.99%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.32%) Cisco
5 2 (1.32%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.32%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.66%) F5
6 1 (0.66%) HP
6 1 (0.66%) Oracle