Infrastructure as Code Jobs in the North West

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 124 90
Rank change year-on-year -76 -34 -5
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 96 190 292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.21% 1.91% 3.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 2.32% 3.95%
Number of salaries quoted 75 151 191
10th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £42,874
25th Percentile £61,250 £56,219 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -6.40% +11.56%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £81,875
90th Percentile £88,750 £88,750 £95,250
England median annual salary £77,500 £70,576 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.81% -5.90% +3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,621 8,207 7,390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.95% 82.31% 95.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,953 6,214 3,885
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,400
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the North West

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the North West.

Salary trend for Infrastructure as Code in the North West

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the North West over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the North West

Infrastructure as Code
Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Manchester -12 73 £74,870 +15.18% 184
Cumbria - 12 £72,500 - 1
Cheshire +9 6 £73,500 - 20
Merseyside +34 5 £66,250 -5.36% 20
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.04%) CMS
1 1 (1.04%) Confluence
1 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 56 (58.33%) Azure
2 46 (47.92%) AWS
3 19 (19.79%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (19.79%) GitHub
4 12 (12.50%) GCP
5 10 (10.42%) SaaS
6 9 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (7.29%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (7.29%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (6.25%) PaaS
10 5 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (5.21%) Amazon EventBridge
10 5 (5.21%) Amazon S3
10 5 (5.21%) Entra ID
10 5 (5.21%) IaaS
11 4 (4.17%) Apigee
11 4 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.21%) VPN
2 3 (3.13%) Broadband
2 3 (3.13%) DNS
2 3 (3.13%) Firewall
3 2 (2.08%) SD-WAN
3 2 (2.08%) WAN
4 1 (1.04%) HTTP
4 1 (1.04%) Internet
4 1 (1.04%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.38%) NoSQL
2 8 (8.33%) MySQL
3 5 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (4.17%) BigQuery
4 4 (4.17%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.13%) Power BI
5 3 (3.13%) RDBMS
5 3 (3.13%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.08%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.04%) Big Data
7 1 (1.04%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (1.04%) DocumentDB
7 1 (1.04%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.04%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (23.96%) Jenkins
2 11 (11.46%) Git
3 10 (10.42%) TeamCity
4 7 (7.29%) GitLab
5 3 (3.13%) CircleCI
5 3 (3.13%) Jaeger
5 3 (3.13%) JUnit
5 3 (3.13%) Maven
5 3 (3.13%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.08%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.08%) Storybook
7 1 (1.04%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (1.04%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.04%) JIRA
7 1 (1.04%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.04%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.04%) Travis CI
General
1 35 (36.46%) Finance
2 25 (26.04%) Social Skills
3 15 (15.63%) Banking
4 3 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.08%) Automotive
5 2 (2.08%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.04%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.04%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.04%) Aviation
6 1 (1.04%) Electronics
6 1 (1.04%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.04%) Games
6 1 (1.04%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.04%) Local Government
6 1 (1.04%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.04%) Marketing
6 1 (1.04%) Retail
6 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (28.13%) Lead
2 21 (21.88%) DevOps Engineer
3 19 (19.79%) Cloud Engineer
4 18 (18.75%) Senior
5 15 (15.63%) Azure Engineer
5 15 (15.63%) Software Engineer
6 14 (14.58%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (8.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 8 (8.33%) Security Engineer
7 8 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
8 7 (7.29%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (7.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (6.25%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (6.25%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (6.25%) Developer
9 6 (6.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 6 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.21%) Team Leader
11 4 (4.17%) Architect
11 4 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.50%) .NET
2 11 (11.46%) ARM Templates
3 10 (10.42%) React
4 8 (8.33%) ADO
4 8 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (7.29%) Kafka
5 7 (7.29%) RESTful
6 6 (6.25%) Spring
6 6 (6.25%) Spring Boot
7 5 (5.21%) AngularJS
7 5 (5.21%) CSS
7 5 (5.21%) HTML
8 4 (4.17%) .NET Core
9 3 (3.13%) Hibernate
9 3 (3.13%) Jest
9 3 (3.13%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (3.13%) Vue
10 2 (2.08%) Laravel
10 2 (2.08%) Node.js
10 2 (2.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 11 (11.46%) Product Ownership
3 10 (10.42%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (9.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (8.33%) Public Cloud
5 8 (8.33%) Security Posture
6 6 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (4.17%) Data Centre
8 2 (2.08%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (2.08%) NHS
8 2 (2.08%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.04%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.04%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.04%) IoT
9 1 (1.04%) Legacy Code
9 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.04%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 26 (27.08%) Linux
2 7 (7.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (7.29%) Windows
3 6 (6.25%) Unix
4 3 (3.13%) Debian
4 3 (3.13%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.04%) CentOS
5 1 (1.04%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (66.67%) DevOps
2 57 (59.38%) CI/CD
3 27 (28.13%) Agile
4 26 (27.08%) Roadmaps
5 24 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 21 (21.88%) Software Engineering
7 20 (20.83%) Platform Engineering
8 18 (18.75%) Microservices
9 17 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 15 (15.63%) Cloud Security
11 15 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (15.63%) Mentoring
12 14 (14.58%) Configuration Management
13 13 (13.54%) Continuous Integration
14 11 (11.46%) Event-Driven
15 9 (9.38%) TDD
16 8 (8.33%) SDLC
16 8 (8.33%) Strategic Roadmap
17 7 (7.29%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 36 (37.50%) Python
2 21 (21.88%) Bash
3 17 (17.71%) Java
4 16 (16.67%) Bicep
4 16 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 14 (14.58%) SQL
6 13 (13.54%) PowerShell
7 12 (12.50%) Go
8 10 (10.42%) Ruby
9 9 (9.38%) TypeScript
10 7 (7.29%) C#
11 2 (2.08%) PHP
11 2 (2.08%) Rust
12 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (15.63%) Azure Certification
2 6 (6.25%) Degree
2 6 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.21%) AWS Certification
3 5 (5.21%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.08%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.08%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.04%) CCSP
6 1 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.04%) CISSP
6 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.25%) QA
2 5 (5.21%) GDPR
3 4 (4.17%) HIPAA
3 4 (4.17%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.08%) NIST
4 2 (2.08%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 33 (34.38%) Docker
2 14 (14.58%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 79 (82.29%) Terraform
2 42 (43.75%) Kubernetes
3 32 (33.33%) Ansible
4 14 (14.58%) Puppet
5 10 (10.42%) Grafana
5 10 (10.42%) Progress Chef
6 8 (8.33%) Prometheus
7 4 (4.17%) Argo
7 4 (4.17%) Istio
7 4 (4.17%) Kibana
8 3 (3.13%) Kustomize
8 3 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (2.08%) Salt
10 1 (1.04%) Automic
10 1 (1.04%) Consul
10 1 (1.04%) Karpenter
10 1 (1.04%) Proxmox
10 1 (1.04%) Rancher
Vendors
1 11 (11.46%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.29%) Google
3 2 (2.08%) Databricks
3 2 (2.08%) Meraki
3 2 (2.08%) Splunk
4 1 (1.04%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.04%) Confluent
4 1 (1.04%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.04%) Hitachi
4 1 (1.04%) New Relic
4 1 (1.04%) Oracle
4 1 (1.04%) Ping Identity
4 1 (1.04%) SAP