Infrastructure as Code Job Trends in Salford

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
Manchester > Salford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Salford requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 32 9
Rank change year-on-year +18 -23 -
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 3 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Salford 3.37% 0.66% 5.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.05% 0.78% 5.26%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £66,635 - £50,125
25th Percentile £67,452 £62,500 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £65,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +13.54% +20.93% -
75th Percentile £78,790 £67,500 £58,438
90th Percentile - - £59,375
Manchester median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,351
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.36% -2.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Salford

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 Salford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 74 128 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Salford 83.15% 84.21% 97.44%
Number of salaries quoted 48 43 34
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,400 £41,250
25th Percentile £30,750 £42,000 £42,664
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £59,430 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -24.28% +15.96% +7.89%
75th Percentile £55,938 £74,144 £63,174
90th Percentile £78,455 £80,000 £75,625
Manchester median annual salary £51,625 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.14% -8.33% +9.09%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Salford

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure as Code relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Salford.

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in Salford

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend in Salford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Salford citing Infrastructure as Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Salford citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Salford 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) dbt
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECR
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) PaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Pulumi
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (33.33%) Datadog
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) Locust
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Django
2 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Clean Code
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Service-Level Objective
2 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Application Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) FinOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) QA
1 1 (33.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google