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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 75 88
Rank change year-on-year -3 +13 -15
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 71 73 126
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.75% 3.40% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 3.55% 3.26%
Number of salaries quoted 53 61 105
10th Percentile £52,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £71,991 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% +14.67% -3.41%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,000 £98,474 £89,500
North West median annual salary £72,500 £72,246 £62,783
% change year-on-year +0.35% +15.07% -3.41%

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 3,027 2,058 3,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.45% 95.72% 87.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,003 1,246 3,160
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £30,125
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,692 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -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 19 March 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 19 March 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 - 6 £67,500 - 2
Salford - 4 £73,801 - 1
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 (8.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.63%) Apache
2 4 (5.63%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.41%) CMS
3 1 (1.41%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.41%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 50 (70.42%) AWS
2 32 (45.07%) Azure
3 23 (32.39%) GCP
4 22 (30.99%) AWS CloudFormation
5 21 (29.58%) Serverless
6 19 (26.76%) GitHub
7 16 (22.54%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (12.68%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (12.68%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (11.27%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (9.86%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (9.86%) Amazon S3
10 7 (9.86%) Azure AKS
10 7 (9.86%) OpenShift
11 6 (8.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (8.45%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (7.04%) Entra ID
13 4 (5.63%) PaaS
13 4 (5.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.86%) Firewall
2 5 (7.04%) TCP/IP
3 4 (5.63%) AMQP
3 4 (5.63%) SAN
4 3 (4.23%) VPN
5 2 (2.82%) DNS
5 2 (2.82%) Network Security
6 1 (1.41%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.49%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (12.68%) MongoDB
3 6 (8.45%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (7.04%) MySQL
5 4 (5.63%) Big Data
5 4 (5.63%) Cloudera CDH
5 4 (5.63%) Hadoop
6 3 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (4.23%) DynamoDB
6 3 (4.23%) NoSQL
6 3 (4.23%) Redis
6 3 (4.23%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.41%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.41%) Flink
7 1 (1.41%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 9 (12.68%) GitLab
2 8 (11.27%) Jenkins
3 7 (9.86%) Git
4 5 (7.04%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (4.23%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.82%) Vagrant
7 1 (1.41%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.41%) JIRA
7 1 (1.41%) JMeter
7 1 (1.41%) Locust
General
1 19 (26.76%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.90%) Finance
3 4 (5.63%) Aerospace
3 4 (5.63%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.82%) Electronics
4 2 (2.82%) Law
4 2 (2.82%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.82%) Marketing
4 2 (2.82%) Retail
4 2 (2.82%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 23 (32.39%) Senior
2 13 (18.31%) Cloud Engineer
3 11 (15.49%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (14.08%) Software Engineer
5 8 (11.27%) Architect
6 7 (9.86%) Lead
6 7 (9.86%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (8.45%) GCP Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (5.63%) Developer
9 4 (5.63%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) Java Developer
10 3 (4.23%) Network Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) Security Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) Senior DevOps
10 3 (4.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) Senior Network Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.31%) Spring
1 13 (18.31%) Spring Boot
2 11 (15.49%) Node.js
3 8 (11.27%) React
3 8 (11.27%) REST
4 6 (8.45%) Django
4 6 (8.45%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (7.04%) .NET
5 5 (7.04%) AngularJS
6 4 (5.63%) ARM Templates
6 4 (5.63%) AWS CDK
6 4 (5.63%) FastAPI
6 4 (5.63%) gRPC
6 4 (5.63%) Material-UI
6 4 (5.63%) OpenAPI
6 4 (5.63%) Swagger
7 3 (4.23%) NestJS
7 3 (4.23%) RESTful
7 3 (4.23%) YAML
8 2 (2.82%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 24 (33.80%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.04%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.23%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (4.23%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.82%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.82%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.82%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.41%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.41%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 19 (26.76%) Linux
2 6 (8.45%) Debian
2 6 (8.45%) Ubuntu
2 6 (8.45%) Windows
3 4 (5.63%) CentOS
3 4 (5.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.23%) Unix
4 3 (4.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (73.24%) CI/CD
2 48 (67.61%) DevOps
3 31 (43.66%) Agile
4 25 (35.21%) Containerisation
5 18 (25.35%) Observability
6 17 (23.94%) Platform Engineering
7 16 (22.54%) Scrum
8 15 (21.13%) Mentoring
8 15 (21.13%) Software Engineering
9 14 (19.72%) Microservices
10 13 (18.31%) Test Automation
11 12 (16.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (15.49%) Collaborative Culture
12 11 (15.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 11 (15.49%) Roadmaps
12 11 (15.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 11 (15.49%) TDD
13 10 (14.08%) Infrastructure Automation
14 9 (12.68%) AI
14 9 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 32 (45.07%) Python
2 20 (28.17%) Java
3 10 (14.08%) JavaScript
4 9 (12.68%) PowerShell
5 8 (11.27%) Bicep
5 8 (11.27%) TypeScript
6 7 (9.86%) SQL
7 4 (5.63%) C#
7 4 (5.63%) Go
Qualifications
1 16 (22.54%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.90%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.27%) DV Cleared
4 7 (9.86%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.23%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (2.82%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.41%) NIST
2 1 (1.41%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.41%) QA
2 1 (1.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (36.62%) Docker
2 5 (7.04%) VMware NSX
2 5 (7.04%) vSphere
3 3 (4.23%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.82%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 52 (73.24%) Terraform
2 40 (56.34%) Kubernetes
3 20 (28.17%) Ansible
4 4 (5.63%) Puppet
5 3 (4.23%) Rancher
6 2 (2.82%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.82%) Packer
6 2 (2.82%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.41%) Grafana
7 1 (1.41%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (15.49%) Google
2 10 (14.08%) VMware
3 9 (12.68%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.63%) Red Hat
4 4 (5.63%) SaltStack
5 2 (2.82%) Oracle
5 2 (2.82%) SAP
6 1 (1.41%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.41%) Databricks
6 1 (1.41%) F5
6 1 (1.41%) Foundry
6 1 (1.41%) HP
6 1 (1.41%) Pega
6 1 (1.41%) Splunk
6 1 (1.41%) WSO2