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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 159 185
Rank change year-on-year -1 +26 -36
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 613 505 928
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.18% 1.79% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.94% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 441 357 712
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £51,250 £54,978
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,400 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% +3.85% -2.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,500 £79,625
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,000 £90,000
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 39,289 26,041 49,864
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 75.34% 92.34% 86.07%
Number of salaries quoted 23,250 13,397 37,493
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £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 £66,250 £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% -11.41%

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 10 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 10 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 -19 208 £65,250 +0.38% 135
South East +4 134 £72,500 +3.20% 141
Yorkshire -17 89 £62,500 +19.05% 41
North West -25 86 £74,301 +6.14% 74
South West -19 84 £62,500 -10.71% 91
Midlands -7 67 £67,500 +3.85% 35
Scotland -13 59 £73,801 +15.77% 18
North East -13 33 £48,445 -13.10% 20
West Midlands -16 33 £66,500 -5.00% 28
East Midlands -4 32 £67,500 +3.85% 7
East of England +14 30 £60,100 -17.10% 42
Wales +4 22 £64,998 +32.37% 13
Northern Ireland -28 10 £95,000 +11.76% 7
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 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (1.96%) Apache
3 10 (1.63%) IIS
4 9 (1.47%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.47%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.82%) Confluence
7 3 (0.49%) Appian
7 3 (0.49%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.33%) CMS
8 2 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 381 (62.15%) AWS
2 374 (61.01%) Azure
3 177 (28.87%) Azure DevOps
4 155 (25.29%) GitHub
5 132 (21.53%) Serverless
6 126 (20.55%) GCP
7 119 (19.41%) GitHub Actions
8 103 (16.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 81 (13.21%) AWS Lambda
10 65 (10.60%) Amazon S3
11 61 (9.95%) PaaS
12 54 (8.81%) Amazon EKS
13 50 (8.16%) dbt
13 50 (8.16%) Entra ID
14 49 (7.99%) Amazon ECS
15 46 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 46 (7.50%) SaaS
16 38 (6.20%) Azure Monitor
16 38 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
17 34 (5.55%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 81 (13.21%) Firewall
2 51 (8.32%) TCP/IP
3 49 (7.99%) DNS
4 27 (4.40%) VPN
5 19 (3.10%) HTTP
6 18 (2.94%) Network Security
7 13 (2.12%) DHCP
8 11 (1.79%) WAN
9 10 (1.63%) Cisco ASA
10 9 (1.47%) VLAN
11 8 (1.31%) LAN
12 7 (1.14%) BGP
12 7 (1.14%) Internet
12 7 (1.14%) SAN
13 6 (0.98%) Broadband
14 5 (0.82%) AMQP
15 4 (0.65%) Unified Communications
15 4 (0.65%) Wireless
16 3 (0.49%) WebEx
16 3 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (9.62%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (8.32%) Amazon RDS
3 35 (5.71%) NoSQL
4 33 (5.38%) DynamoDB
5 29 (4.73%) Redis
5 29 (4.73%) SQL Server
6 23 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
7 18 (2.94%) MongoDB
8 15 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (2.45%) MySQL
9 8 (1.31%) Big Data
10 7 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.14%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.98%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.98%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.82%) Airbyte
12 5 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.82%) Cloudera CDH
12 5 (0.82%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.82%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 88 (14.36%) Git
2 83 (13.54%) Jenkins
3 55 (8.97%) GitLab
4 22 (3.59%) Selenium
5 21 (3.43%) Robot Framework
6 18 (2.94%) Snyk
7 14 (2.28%) JIRA
8 12 (1.96%) Bitbucket
9 9 (1.47%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.31%) CircleCI
10 8 (1.31%) JMeter
10 8 (1.31%) Locust
11 7 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (0.98%) git-flow
12 6 (0.98%) Subversion
12 6 (0.98%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.65%) MLflow
13 4 (0.65%) SonarQube
14 3 (0.49%) Artifactory
General
1 178 (29.04%) Social Skills
2 108 (17.62%) Finance
3 64 (10.44%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (6.36%) Public Sector
4 39 (6.36%) Telecoms
5 32 (5.22%) Law
6 24 (3.92%) Retail
7 16 (2.61%) Billing
7 16 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (2.45%) Manufacturing
9 14 (2.28%) Marketing
10 13 (2.12%) Aerospace
11 11 (1.79%) Banking
11 11 (1.79%) Games
12 10 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.31%) Advertising
15 7 (1.14%) Electronics
16 6 (0.98%) Legal
17 5 (0.82%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 153 (24.96%) Senior
2 96 (15.66%) DevOps Engineer
3 83 (13.54%) Lead
4 75 (12.23%) Cloud Engineer
5 66 (10.77%) Developer
6 63 (10.28%) Azure Engineer
7 49 (7.99%) Platform Engineer
8 39 (6.36%) Software Engineer
9 33 (5.38%) Architect
10 32 (5.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 24 (3.92%) Senior DevOps
12 23 (3.75%) AWS Engineer
13 21 (3.43%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 18 (2.94%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 18 (2.94%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 17 (2.77%) Security Engineer
15 17 (2.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 17 (2.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 16 (2.61%) .NET Developer
16 16 (2.61%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (14.68%) React
2 56 (9.14%) Node.js
3 49 (7.99%) .NET
4 46 (7.50%) RESTful
5 40 (6.53%) Django
6 34 (5.55%) AWS CDK
6 34 (5.55%) OAuth
7 32 (5.22%) REST
8 29 (4.73%) Elastic Stack
8 29 (4.73%) YAML
9 25 (4.08%) ARM Templates
10 23 (3.75%) Vue
11 22 (3.59%) CSS
11 22 (3.59%) GraphQL
11 22 (3.59%) Spring
12 21 (3.43%) FastAPI
12 21 (3.43%) HTML
12 21 (3.43%) JSON
12 21 (3.43%) RabbitMQ
13 18 (2.94%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 124 (20.23%) Cloud Native
2 41 (6.69%) Product Ownership
3 26 (4.24%) Hybrid Cloud
4 22 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (3.43%) Security Posture
6 19 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (3.10%) Linux Command Line
7 14 (2.28%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (2.12%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.79%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.79%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.63%) Data Centre
10 10 (1.63%) Legacy Applications
11 8 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.14%) Private Cloud
13 5 (0.82%) Low-Code
14 4 (0.65%) ARM Cortex
14 4 (0.65%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 139 (22.68%) Linux
2 57 (9.30%) Windows
3 30 (4.89%) Unix
4 21 (3.43%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.28%) Ubuntu
6 11 (1.79%) VMS
7 10 (1.63%) CentOS
8 9 (1.47%) 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 (73.08%) CI/CD
2 437 (71.29%) DevOps
3 229 (37.36%) Agile
4 169 (27.57%) Containerisation
5 153 (24.96%) Problem-Solving
6 150 (24.47%) Observability
7 142 (23.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 133 (21.70%) Mentoring
9 97 (15.82%) Platform Engineering
9 97 (15.82%) Test Automation
10 89 (14.52%) Software Engineering
11 82 (13.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 81 (13.21%) Microservices
13 77 (12.56%) Coaching
13 77 (12.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 74 (12.07%) DevSecOps
15 72 (11.75%) Incident Response
16 70 (11.42%) Cloud Security
17 63 (10.28%) AI
17 63 (10.28%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 264 (43.07%) Python
2 129 (21.04%) PowerShell
3 122 (19.90%) Bash
4 86 (14.03%) SQL
5 71 (11.58%) TypeScript
6 69 (11.26%) Java
7 67 (10.93%) Bicep
8 61 (9.95%) JavaScript
9 51 (8.32%) Go
10 45 (7.34%) C#
11 10 (1.63%) C
12 9 (1.47%) C++
13 7 (1.14%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.49%) Ruby
15 3 (0.49%) Scala
16 2 (0.33%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.33%) VB
17 1 (0.16%) Perl
17 1 (0.16%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 116 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 67 (10.93%) SC Cleared
3 54 (8.81%) DV Cleared
4 37 (6.04%) AWS Certification
5 31 (5.06%) Degree
6 27 (4.40%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (1.79%) AWS Certified Developer
8 11 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (1.47%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.98%) CISSP
10 6 (0.98%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
11 4 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (0.33%) GCIH
13 2 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.06%) QA
2 25 (4.08%) GDPR
3 21 (3.43%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (2.61%) NIST
6 10 (1.63%) WCAG
7 7 (1.14%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.98%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.82%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.49%) GRC
10 3 (0.49%) NCSC
11 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 197 (32.14%) Docker
2 28 (4.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (3.59%) Active Directory
4 18 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (2.45%) vSphere
6 11 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (1.63%) VMware NSX
8 7 (1.14%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.82%) 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 (70.15%) Terraform
2 195 (31.81%) Kubernetes
3 142 (23.16%) Ansible
4 89 (14.52%) Grafana
5 72 (11.75%) Prometheus
6 17 (2.77%) Puppet
7 16 (2.61%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (2.28%) Argo
8 14 (2.28%) AWS Copilot
9 9 (1.47%) Nagios
9 9 (1.47%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.47%) Rancher
10 8 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (1.14%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.98%) vCenter Server
12 6 (0.98%) yum
13 5 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.82%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.65%) SolarWinds Orion
15 3 (0.49%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 114 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 49 (7.99%) VMware
3 45 (7.34%) Google
4 22 (3.59%) Cisco
5 21 (3.43%) Red Hat
6 20 (3.26%) Splunk
7 18 (2.94%) Black Duck
7 18 (2.94%) Coverity
8 14 (2.28%) Ab Initio
9 13 (2.12%) CrowdStrike
10 12 (1.96%) Palo Alto
11 11 (1.79%) Databricks
11 11 (1.79%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.47%) Salesforce
13 7 (1.14%) Fortinet
13 7 (1.14%) SolarWinds
14 6 (0.98%) Dell
14 6 (0.98%) SaltStack
14 6 (0.98%) SAP
15 5 (0.82%) Juniper