Infrastructure as Code Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 162 177
Rank change year-on-year +5 +15 -29
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 616 542 920
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.19% 1.81% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 1.96% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 446 360 706
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,125 £47,516
25th Percentile £55,750 £51,196 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,450 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,938 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £90,625
UK median annual salary £73,801 £74,870 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.43% +3.27% -3.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39,109 27,634 48,048
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 75.71% 92.20% 86.40%
Number of salaries quoted 23,201 13,546 36,192
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £66,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Infrastructure as Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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
North of England -1 211 £65,500 +0.77% 149
South East +16 132 £72,500 +3.57% 152
Yorkshire -12 90 £62,500 +19.05% 41
North West -23 88 £74,301 +6.14% 85
South West -5 85 £62,500 -10.71% 91
Midlands +5 69 £67,500 +3.85% 33
Scotland -21 59 £73,801 +15.77% 20
West Midlands -10 34 £65,500 -2.96% 25
East Midlands +2 33 £67,500 +3.85% 8
North East -6 33 £48,445 -13.10% 23
East of England +24 30 £60,100 -17.10% 43
Wales +4 22 £64,998 +32.37% 13
Northern Ireland -28 10 £95,000 +11.76% 6
Infrastructure as Code
UK

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 15 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (1.95%) Apache
3 10 (1.62%) IIS
4 9 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.46%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.81%) Confluence
7 3 (0.49%) Appian
7 3 (0.49%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.32%) CMS
8 2 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 383 (62.18%) AWS
2 376 (61.04%) Azure
3 179 (29.06%) Azure DevOps
4 155 (25.16%) GitHub
5 132 (21.43%) Serverless
6 125 (20.29%) GCP
7 119 (19.32%) GitHub Actions
8 105 (17.05%) AWS CloudFormation
9 81 (13.15%) AWS Lambda
10 65 (10.55%) Amazon S3
11 63 (10.23%) PaaS
12 54 (8.77%) Amazon EKS
13 50 (8.12%) Amazon ECS
13 50 (8.12%) dbt
13 50 (8.12%) Entra ID
14 47 (7.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 46 (7.47%) SaaS
16 38 (6.17%) Azure Monitor
16 38 (6.17%) Microsoft 365
17 34 (5.52%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 84 (13.64%) Firewall
2 51 (8.28%) DNS
2 51 (8.28%) TCP/IP
3 30 (4.87%) VPN
4 19 (3.08%) HTTP
4 19 (3.08%) Network Security
5 14 (2.27%) DHCP
5 14 (2.27%) WAN
6 10 (1.62%) Cisco ASA
6 10 (1.62%) VLAN
7 9 (1.46%) LAN
8 8 (1.30%) BGP
9 7 (1.14%) Internet
9 7 (1.14%) SAN
10 6 (0.97%) Broadband
11 5 (0.81%) AMQP
11 5 (0.81%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.81%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (9.42%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (8.28%) Amazon RDS
3 35 (5.68%) NoSQL
4 33 (5.36%) DynamoDB
5 29 (4.71%) Redis
5 29 (4.71%) SQL Server
6 23 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
7 18 (2.92%) MongoDB
8 15 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (2.44%) MySQL
9 8 (1.30%) Big Data
10 7 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (0.97%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.97%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.97%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.81%) Airbyte
12 5 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.81%) Cloudera CDH
12 5 (0.81%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.81%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 84 (13.64%) Git
1 84 (13.64%) Jenkins
2 56 (9.09%) GitLab
3 22 (3.57%) Selenium
4 21 (3.41%) Robot Framework
5 18 (2.92%) Snyk
6 14 (2.27%) JIRA
7 12 (1.95%) Bitbucket
8 9 (1.46%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.30%) CircleCI
9 8 (1.30%) JMeter
9 8 (1.30%) Locust
10 7 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 7 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
11 6 (0.97%) git-flow
11 6 (0.97%) Subversion
11 6 (0.97%) TeamCity
12 5 (0.81%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.65%) MLflow
14 3 (0.49%) TestRail
General
1 179 (29.06%) Social Skills
2 107 (17.37%) Finance
3 62 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (6.49%) Telecoms
5 39 (6.33%) Public Sector
6 33 (5.36%) Law
7 24 (3.90%) Retail
8 16 (2.60%) Billing
8 16 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (2.27%) Manufacturing
9 14 (2.27%) Marketing
10 12 (1.95%) Aerospace
10 12 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.95%) Games
11 11 (1.79%) Banking
12 10 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.30%) Advertising
14 6 (0.97%) Electronics
14 6 (0.97%) Legal
15 5 (0.81%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 154 (25.00%) Senior
2 95 (15.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 83 (13.47%) Lead
4 77 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 67 (10.88%) Developer
6 63 (10.23%) Azure Engineer
7 50 (8.12%) Platform Engineer
8 38 (6.17%) Software Engineer
9 34 (5.52%) Architect
10 32 (5.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 24 (3.90%) Senior DevOps
12 23 (3.73%) AWS Engineer
13 21 (3.41%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 18 (2.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 17 (2.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 17 (2.76%) Full-Stack Developer
15 17 (2.76%) Security Engineer
15 17 (2.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 16 (2.60%) .NET Developer
16 16 (2.60%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (14.94%) React
2 56 (9.09%) Node.js
3 48 (7.79%) .NET
4 46 (7.47%) RESTful
5 40 (6.49%) Django
6 34 (5.52%) AWS CDK
7 32 (5.19%) OAuth
8 31 (5.03%) REST
9 30 (4.87%) YAML
10 29 (4.71%) Elastic Stack
11 25 (4.06%) ARM Templates
12 23 (3.73%) Vue
13 22 (3.57%) CSS
13 22 (3.57%) GraphQL
13 22 (3.57%) Spring
14 21 (3.41%) HTML
14 21 (3.41%) JSON
15 20 (3.25%) FastAPI
16 19 (3.08%) RabbitMQ
17 18 (2.92%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 125 (20.29%) Cloud Native
2 41 (6.66%) Product Ownership
3 25 (4.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 22 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (3.41%) Security Posture
6 19 (3.08%) Linux Command Line
7 18 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (2.11%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (1.95%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.79%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.79%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.62%) Legacy Applications
12 8 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (1.14%) Private Cloud
14 5 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.81%) Low-Code
15 4 (0.65%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 138 (22.40%) Linux
2 55 (8.93%) Windows
3 30 (4.87%) Unix
4 20 (3.25%) Windows Server
5 13 (2.11%) Ubuntu
6 11 (1.79%) VMS
7 10 (1.62%) CentOS
8 9 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (1.14%) Debian
10 4 (0.65%) Android
10 4 (0.65%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 440 (71.43%) DevOps
3 232 (37.66%) Agile
4 166 (26.95%) Containerisation
5 150 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
6 148 (24.03%) Observability
7 141 (22.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 134 (21.75%) Mentoring
9 96 (15.58%) Platform Engineering
9 96 (15.58%) Test Automation
10 88 (14.29%) Software Engineering
11 83 (13.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 81 (13.15%) Microservices
13 78 (12.66%) Coaching
13 78 (12.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 73 (11.85%) DevSecOps
15 71 (11.53%) Incident Response
16 70 (11.36%) Cloud Security
17 64 (10.39%) AI
18 63 (10.23%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 264 (42.86%) Python
2 127 (20.62%) PowerShell
3 120 (19.48%) Bash
4 86 (13.96%) SQL
5 73 (11.85%) TypeScript
6 70 (11.36%) Bicep
6 70 (11.36%) Java
7 61 (9.90%) JavaScript
8 53 (8.60%) Go
9 45 (7.31%) C#
10 10 (1.62%) C
11 9 (1.46%) C++
12 6 (0.97%) Apex Code
13 5 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.49%) Scala
15 2 (0.32%) Ruby
15 2 (0.32%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.32%) VB
16 1 (0.16%) Perl
16 1 (0.16%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 118 (19.16%) Security Cleared
2 69 (11.20%) SC Cleared
3 54 (8.77%) DV Cleared
4 39 (6.33%) AWS Certification
5 30 (4.87%) Degree
6 29 (4.71%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (1.79%) AWS Certified Developer
10 9 (1.46%) DBS Check
11 7 (1.14%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.97%) CISSP
13 5 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.65%) CCNP
14 4 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
14 4 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 2 (0.32%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.87%) QA
2 25 (4.06%) GDPR
3 21 (3.41%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (2.76%) NIST
5 10 (1.62%) WCAG
6 7 (1.14%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.97%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.49%) GRC
9 3 (0.49%) NCSC
10 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 197 (31.98%) Docker
2 29 (4.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (3.73%) Active Directory
4 18 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (2.44%) vSphere
6 11 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (1.62%) VMware NSX
8 7 (1.14%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.97%) Firmware
10 4 (0.65%) iptables
11 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.16%) KVM
12 1 (0.16%) QEMU
12 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 430 (69.81%) Terraform
2 195 (31.66%) Kubernetes
3 142 (23.05%) Ansible
4 87 (14.12%) Grafana
5 70 (11.36%) Prometheus
6 17 (2.76%) Puppet
7 16 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (2.27%) Argo
8 14 (2.27%) AWS Copilot
9 9 (1.46%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.46%) Rancher
10 8 (1.30%) Nagios
10 8 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (1.14%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.97%) vCenter Server
12 6 (0.97%) yum
13 5 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.65%) SolarWinds Orion
15 3 (0.49%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 115 (18.67%) Microsoft
2 50 (8.12%) VMware
3 45 (7.31%) Google
4 24 (3.90%) Cisco
5 19 (3.08%) Red Hat
5 19 (3.08%) Splunk
6 18 (2.92%) Black Duck
6 18 (2.92%) Coverity
7 14 (2.27%) Ab Initio
8 13 (2.11%) CrowdStrike
8 13 (2.11%) Palo Alto
9 11 (1.79%) Databricks
10 9 (1.46%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.30%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.30%) SolarWinds
12 7 (1.14%) Dell
12 7 (1.14%) Fortinet
13 6 (0.97%) SaltStack
13 6 (0.97%) SAP
14 5 (0.81%) Juniper