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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 92 77
Rank change year-on-year +48 -15 -14
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 194 74 140
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.84% 2.97% 3.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 3.26% 3.81%
Number of salaries quoted 151 61 97
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,301 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £88,000
North West median annual salary £73,401 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.86% +3.70% -6.25%

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 5,089 2,272 3,674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.37% 91.21% 82.08%
Number of salaries quoted 4,008 1,315 2,394
10th Percentile £33,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £42,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £69,950
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £83,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 - 9 £65,000 -
Stockport - 4 £75,000 - 3
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 6 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.03%) Apache
2 2 (1.03%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.52%) CMS
3 1 (0.52%) Confluence
3 1 (0.52%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 105 (54.12%) AWS
2 87 (44.85%) Azure
3 46 (23.71%) GitHub
4 39 (20.10%) GCP
5 31 (15.98%) Serverless
6 29 (14.95%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (13.40%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (12.37%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (7.22%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (6.70%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (6.70%) SaaS
11 12 (6.19%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (6.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 11 (5.67%) Amazon S3
12 11 (5.67%) Pulumi
13 9 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (4.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (4.12%) OpenShift
14 8 (4.12%) Snowflake
15 6 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 23 (11.86%) Firewall
2 8 (4.12%) TCP/IP
3 7 (3.61%) Network Security
3 7 (3.61%) SAN
4 6 (3.09%) DNS
5 4 (2.06%) DHCP
5 4 (2.06%) VPN
6 3 (1.55%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (1.03%) AMQP
7 2 (1.03%) BGP
7 2 (1.03%) DMZ
7 2 (1.03%) IPsec
7 2 (1.03%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.03%) WAN
8 1 (0.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (4.64%) MongoDB
3 8 (4.12%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.58%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.06%) Flink
6 3 (1.55%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.55%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.55%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.03%) Big Data
7 2 (1.03%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (1.03%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.03%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.52%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.52%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.52%) Power BI
8 1 (0.52%) Redis
8 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (10.82%) GitLab
2 20 (10.31%) Jenkins
3 19 (9.79%) Git
4 3 (1.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (1.55%) JIRA
5 2 (1.03%) Vite
6 1 (0.52%) MLflow
6 1 (0.52%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.52%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 40 (20.62%) Social Skills
2 20 (10.31%) Finance
3 13 (6.70%) Public Sector
4 9 (4.64%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.03%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.03%) Local Government
7 1 (0.52%) Legal
7 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (43.81%) Senior
2 54 (27.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 44 (22.68%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (12.89%) Platform Engineer
5 22 (11.34%) Automation Engineer
5 22 (11.34%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 21 (10.82%) Lead
6 21 (10.82%) Senior DevOps
6 21 (10.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 19 (9.79%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 15 (7.73%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 15 (7.73%) Software Engineer
9 13 (6.70%) Developer
9 13 (6.70%) Senior Developer
10 12 (6.19%) Data Engineer
10 12 (6.19%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 12 (6.19%) Security Engineer
11 11 (5.67%) Cloud Automation Engineer
11 11 (5.67%) DevOps Automation Engineer
11 11 (5.67%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (14.43%) Spring
2 27 (13.92%) Spring Boot
3 20 (10.31%) React
4 12 (6.19%) .NET
5 10 (5.15%) FastAPI
5 10 (5.15%) Node.js
6 8 (4.12%) PySpark
7 7 (3.61%) AWS CDK
7 7 (3.61%) JWT
7 7 (3.61%) Kafka
7 7 (3.61%) OAuth
8 6 (3.09%) ARM Templates
8 6 (3.09%) Django
8 6 (3.09%) OAuth2
8 6 (3.09%) OpenID
8 6 (3.09%) SAML
9 5 (2.58%) Vue
10 4 (2.06%) Great Expectations
10 4 (2.06%) REST
10 4 (2.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (26.29%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.25%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.15%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (4.64%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.12%) Enterprise Cloud
6 7 (3.61%) Data Centre
6 7 (3.61%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.06%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.55%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.55%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.03%) Online Gambling
10 1 (0.52%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.52%) Blog
10 1 (0.52%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.52%) NHS
10 1 (0.52%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.52%) Replication
10 1 (0.52%) Sports Betting
10 1 (0.52%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 29 (14.95%) Linux
2 6 (3.09%) Windows
3 5 (2.58%) CentOS
3 5 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.06%) Unix
4 4 (2.06%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.55%) Debian
5 3 (1.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (76.29%) CI/CD
2 129 (66.49%) DevOps
3 66 (34.02%) Platform Engineering
4 59 (30.41%) Containerisation
5 53 (27.32%) Observability
6 49 (25.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 48 (24.74%) Agile
8 45 (23.20%) AI
9 43 (22.16%) Mentoring
10 39 (20.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 33 (17.01%) Software Engineering
12 27 (13.92%) Collaborative Culture
12 27 (13.92%) Technical Leadership
13 25 (12.89%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (11.86%) Event-Driven
14 23 (11.86%) Infrastructure Automation
14 23 (11.86%) Microservices
15 22 (11.34%) Cost Optimisation
15 22 (11.34%) TDD
16 21 (10.82%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 109 (56.19%) Python
2 43 (22.16%) Java
3 37 (19.07%) Bash
4 28 (14.43%) PowerShell
5 24 (12.37%) SQL
6 20 (10.31%) Go
7 17 (8.76%) TypeScript
8 15 (7.73%) Bicep
9 14 (7.22%) C#
10 7 (3.61%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.52%) Ruby
11 1 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 49 (25.26%) Security Cleared
2 28 (14.43%) SC Cleared
3 26 (13.40%) DV Cleared
4 10 (5.15%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.61%) Degree
6 6 (3.09%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.03%) CCIE
8 2 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.64%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.55%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 60 (30.93%) Docker
2 14 (7.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.61%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.03%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 142 (73.20%) Terraform
2 89 (45.88%) Kubernetes
3 47 (24.23%) Ansible
4 17 (8.76%) Grafana
5 16 (8.25%) Prometheus
6 9 (4.64%) Puppet
7 7 (3.61%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.58%) Istio
9 4 (2.06%) Argo
9 4 (2.06%) linkerd
10 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.03%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.52%) AWS Copilot
11 1 (0.52%) Packer
11 1 (0.52%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (11.86%) Google
2 21 (10.82%) Microsoft
3 15 (7.73%) VMware
4 5 (2.58%) Databricks
4 5 (2.58%) Splunk
5 4 (2.06%) Cisco
6 3 (1.55%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (1.55%) New Relic
7 2 (1.03%) F5
7 2 (1.03%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.03%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.03%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.03%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.03%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle