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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 80 55
Rank change year-on-year -13 -25 +13
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 58 97 131
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.54% 2.57% 5.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.89% 3.02% 5.46%
Number of salaries quoted 51 50 113
10th Percentile £52,750 £46,875 £46,306
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,500 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% -5.89% -2.15%
75th Percentile £81,875 £75,938 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,419
North West median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% -

All Process and 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 2,004 3,207 2,398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 87.70% 85.00% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,195 1,502 1,948
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,991 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,725 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%

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 22 October 2025.

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 22 October 2025. 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
Salford +14 1 £73,801 +13.54% 2
Oldham - 1 £65,000 - 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 2 (3.45%) Apache
1 2 (3.45%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.72%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 36 (62.07%) AWS
2 35 (60.34%) Azure
3 16 (27.59%) AWS CloudFormation
3 16 (27.59%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (24.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 10 (17.24%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (15.52%) GitHub
7 8 (13.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (12.07%) AWS CodeBuild
8 7 (12.07%) GCP
8 7 (12.07%) Route 53
8 7 (12.07%) SaaS
8 7 (12.07%) Serverless
9 6 (10.34%) PaaS
10 5 (8.62%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (8.62%) Power Automate
11 4 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (6.90%) Copilot Studio
11 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.90%) Firewall
2 3 (5.17%) DNS
2 3 (5.17%) WAN
3 2 (3.45%) SAN
4 1 (1.72%) AMQP
4 1 (1.72%) Network Security
4 1 (1.72%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.17%) Big Data
2 3 (5.17%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.45%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.45%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.45%) MySQL
4 1 (1.72%) Cloudera CDH
4 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.72%) Power BI
4 1 (1.72%) Redis
4 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (24.14%) Jenkins
2 12 (20.69%) GitLab
3 7 (12.07%) CircleCI
4 2 (3.45%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.45%) Gatling
4 2 (3.45%) Git
4 2 (3.45%) JMeter
4 2 (3.45%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (3.45%) Selenium
5 1 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 8 (13.79%) Finance
2 7 (12.07%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.45%) Electronics
4 2 (3.45%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.45%) Marketing
4 2 (3.45%) Retail
4 2 (3.45%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.72%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.72%) Digital Health
5 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 15 (25.86%) Cloud Engineer
1 15 (25.86%) Senior
2 10 (17.24%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (13.79%) Architect
3 8 (13.79%) Developer
4 7 (12.07%) Lead
4 7 (12.07%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (10.34%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 6 (10.34%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (8.62%) AWS Architect
6 5 (8.62%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) AWS Solution Architect
7 4 (6.90%) Backend Developer
8 3 (5.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.17%) Software Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (3.45%) Java Developer
9 2 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.24%) .NET
2 8 (13.79%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (10.34%) ARM Templates
4 5 (8.62%) React
4 5 (8.62%) Spring
5 4 (6.90%) Spring Boot
6 3 (5.17%) .NET Core
6 3 (5.17%) AngularJS
6 3 (5.17%) Node.js
6 3 (5.17%) REST
7 2 (3.45%) Django
7 2 (3.45%) FastAPI
7 2 (3.45%) Middleware
7 2 (3.45%) Playwright
7 2 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.72%) Apache Camel
8 1 (1.72%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (1.72%) JWT
8 1 (1.72%) Material-UI
8 1 (1.72%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 20 (34.48%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.34%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (6.90%) AI Agents
3 4 (6.90%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.72%) NHS
5 1 (1.72%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (22.41%) Linux
2 8 (13.79%) Debian
2 8 (13.79%) Ubuntu
3 3 (5.17%) Windows
4 2 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.45%) Unix
4 2 (3.45%) VMS
5 1 (1.72%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (74.14%) DevOps
2 37 (63.79%) CI/CD
3 25 (43.10%) Agile
4 17 (29.31%) Containerisation
5 13 (22.41%) Configuration Management
6 12 (20.69%) Platform Engineering
7 11 (18.97%) Infrastructure Automation
7 11 (18.97%) Microservices
8 10 (17.24%) AI
9 9 (15.52%) Software Engineering
10 8 (13.79%) Cloud Security
10 8 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (13.79%) Mentoring
11 7 (12.07%) Auto-Scaling
11 7 (12.07%) Clean Code
11 7 (12.07%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (12.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 7 (12.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 7 (12.07%) Test Automation
12 6 (10.34%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 18 (31.03%) Python
2 10 (17.24%) Bash
2 10 (17.24%) C#
3 9 (15.52%) PowerShell
4 7 (12.07%) JavaScript
5 6 (10.34%) Bicep
5 6 (10.34%) SQL
6 5 (8.62%) Java
7 3 (5.17%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.72%) Go
8 1 (1.72%) Scala
8 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.07%) Azure Certification
3 6 (10.34%) SC Cleared
4 5 (8.62%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (3.45%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.72%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.72%) Degree
6 1 (1.72%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.72%) GDPR
1 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.72%) NIST
1 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 19 (32.76%) Docker
2 4 (6.90%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (5.17%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.72%) HDFS
4 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.72%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (70.69%) Terraform
2 25 (43.10%) Kubernetes
3 17 (29.31%) Ansible
4 11 (18.97%) Prometheus
5 9 (15.52%) Grafana
6 1 (1.72%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (1.72%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.72%) Puppet
6 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.79%) Splunk
3 4 (6.90%) Foundry
3 4 (6.90%) VMware
4 3 (5.17%) Databricks
4 3 (5.17%) Google
5 2 (3.45%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.45%) SAP
6 1 (1.72%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.72%) Dell
6 1 (1.72%) Meraki
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle
6 1 (1.72%) Pega
6 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.72%) SaltStack
6 1 (1.72%) WSO2