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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 208 163
Rank change year-on-year +108 -45 -56
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,318 472 892
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.64% 1.35% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 1.56% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 911 339 625
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -5.11%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%

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 56,440 30,201 45,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.22% 86.63% 78.34%
Number of salaries quoted 40,032 16,583 26,983
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -6.86% -6.87%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 +93 456 £70,000 - 351
South East +59 252 £67,500 -12.90% 227
North West +87 251 £72,500 +3.57% 185
South West +49 233 £75,000 - 194
Midlands +36 147 £75,000 +15.38% 110
Yorkshire +5 106 £72,500 +3.57% 113
North East +21 99 £59,000 -18.62% 55
West Midlands +20 89 £85,000 +30.77% 58
Wales -10 68 £70,000 +19.15% 31
Northern Ireland -25 62 £71,991 +67.07% 69
East Midlands +19 58 £67,500 +3.85% 52
East of England +2 58 £70,000 +7.69% 81
Scotland +14 54 £72,246 +3.21% 140
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 40 (3.03%) Apache Spark
2 36 (2.73%) Apache
3 35 (2.66%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (1.52%) Confluence
6 13 (0.99%) Jupyter
7 9 (0.68%) IIS
8 5 (0.38%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.38%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.30%) CMS
10 3 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.23%) nginx
10 3 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.23%) WordPress
11 1 (0.076%) Documentum
11 1 (0.076%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.076%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.15%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.076%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.076%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 708 (53.72%) Azure
2 703 (53.34%) AWS
3 235 (17.83%) GitHub
4 219 (16.62%) GCP
5 203 (15.40%) Serverless
6 198 (15.02%) Azure DevOps
7 178 (13.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 139 (10.55%) GitHub Actions
9 117 (8.88%) AWS Lambda
10 115 (8.73%) Amazon S3
11 93 (7.06%) Amazon EC2
12 86 (6.53%) Amazon EKS
13 84 (6.37%) Amazon ECS
14 83 (6.30%) PaaS
15 80 (6.07%) Microsoft 365
16 72 (5.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 69 (5.24%) SaaS
18 68 (5.16%) Azure AKS
19 66 (5.01%) Cloud Computing
20 60 (4.55%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 98 (7.44%) Firewall
2 85 (6.45%) WAN
3 75 (5.69%) LAN
4 72 (5.46%) VPN
5 65 (4.93%) DNS
6 40 (3.03%) TCP/IP
7 39 (2.96%) Network Security
8 32 (2.43%) DHCP
9 22 (1.67%) BGP
10 16 (1.21%) VLAN
11 14 (1.06%) Broadband
12 13 (0.99%) Software-Defined Networking
13 12 (0.91%) OSPF
13 12 (0.91%) SAN
13 12 (0.91%) SD-WAN
14 9 (0.68%) HTTP
14 9 (0.68%) Wireless
15 8 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
15 8 (0.61%) Ethernet VPN
16 7 (0.53%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (4.63%) Amazon RDS
3 56 (4.25%) NoSQL
4 53 (4.02%) MongoDB
5 48 (3.64%) SQL Server
6 47 (3.57%) DynamoDB
7 38 (2.88%) MySQL
7 38 (2.88%) Relational Database
8 36 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
9 32 (2.43%) Data Lake
9 32 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (1.44%) Big Data
11 18 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
12 17 (1.29%) Metadata
13 15 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (1.14%) Power BI
13 15 (1.14%) Redis
14 14 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (0.99%) Flink
15 13 (0.99%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 203 (15.40%) Git
2 145 (11.00%) GitLab
3 132 (10.02%) Jenkins
4 41 (3.11%) JIRA
5 18 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 18 (1.37%) SonarQube
6 16 (1.21%) Cypress.io
7 14 (1.06%) Selenium
8 13 (0.99%) Bitbucket
8 13 (0.99%) NUnit
9 11 (0.83%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.68%) MSI
11 8 (0.61%) Robot Framework
11 8 (0.61%) Terragrunt
12 7 (0.53%) Artifactory
12 7 (0.53%) TestRail
13 6 (0.46%) Claude Code
13 6 (0.46%) git-flow
13 6 (0.46%) Subversion
13 6 (0.46%) TeamCity
General
1 388 (29.44%) Social Skills
2 233 (17.68%) Finance
3 144 (10.93%) Public Sector
4 100 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
5 92 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 79 (5.99%) Law
7 69 (5.24%) Presentation Skills
8 43 (3.26%) Aerospace
9 26 (1.97%) Banking
9 26 (1.97%) Retail
10 24 (1.82%) Manufacturing
11 21 (1.59%) Marketing
12 19 (1.44%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.29%) Legal
14 15 (1.14%) Games
15 13 (0.99%) Aviation
15 13 (0.99%) Local Government
16 11 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (0.83%) Military
17 9 (0.68%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 272 (20.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 264 (20.03%) Senior
3 220 (16.69%) Lead
4 163 (12.37%) Architect
5 159 (12.06%) Cloud Engineer
6 127 (9.64%) Platform Engineer
7 126 (9.56%) Developer
8 102 (7.74%) Azure Engineer
8 102 (7.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 88 (6.68%) Software Engineer
10 74 (5.61%) Data Engineer
11 62 (4.70%) AWS Engineer
11 62 (4.70%) Systems Architect
12 58 (4.40%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 51 (3.87%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 50 (3.79%) Senior DevOps
15 48 (3.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 47 (3.57%) Lead DevOps
16 47 (3.57%) Technical Leader
17 45 (3.41%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 893 (67.75%) Terraform
2 130 (9.86%) React
3 103 (7.81%) .NET
4 100 (7.59%) REST
5 94 (7.13%) Node.js
6 86 (6.53%) Spring Boot
7 83 (6.30%) Spring
8 70 (5.31%) Kafka
9 67 (5.08%) RESTful
10 58 (4.40%) AWS CDK
11 51 (3.87%) ARM Templates
12 47 (3.57%) AngularJS
13 44 (3.34%) YAML
14 43 (3.26%) PySpark
15 37 (2.81%) Next.js
16 36 (2.73%) ASP.NET
17 35 (2.66%) Elastic Stack
17 35 (2.66%) Vue
18 34 (2.58%) ASP.NET Core
18 34 (2.58%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 327 (24.81%) Cloud Native
2 102 (7.74%) Distributed Systems
3 92 (6.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 70 (5.31%) Onboarding
5 63 (4.78%) Product Ownership
6 47 (3.57%) Public Cloud
7 44 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
8 38 (2.88%) Data Centre
9 37 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
10 36 (2.73%) Security Posture
11 32 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
12 31 (2.35%) Private Cloud
13 26 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
14 24 (1.82%) Data Structures
14 24 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
15 20 (1.52%) Virtual Team
16 17 (1.29%) Management Information System
17 16 (1.21%) Mainframe
18 15 (1.14%) Replication
19 14 (1.06%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 240 (18.21%) Linux
2 131 (9.94%) Windows
3 60 (4.55%) Windows Server
4 36 (2.73%) CentOS
5 29 (2.20%) Unix
6 28 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 24 (1.82%) Ubuntu
8 15 (1.14%) VMS
9 5 (0.38%) Debian
9 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.23%) AIX
12 2 (0.15%) Android
12 2 (0.15%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.15%) Solaris
13 1 (0.076%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.076%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 953 (72.31%) CI/CD
2 759 (57.59%) DevOps
3 448 (33.99%) Containerisation
4 433 (32.85%) Agile
5 384 (29.14%) Observability
6 325 (24.66%) Platform Engineering
7 317 (24.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 299 (22.69%) Mentoring
9 285 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
10 269 (20.41%) Software Engineering
11 248 (18.82%) AI
12 230 (17.45%) Technical Leadership
13 222 (16.84%) Microservices
14 202 (15.33%) Test Automation
15 200 (15.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 183 (13.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 163 (12.37%) Cloud Security
18 161 (12.22%) Roadmaps
19 143 (10.85%) DevSecOps
20 139 (10.55%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 535 (40.59%) Python
2 229 (17.37%) Bash
3 190 (14.42%) SQL
4 187 (14.19%) PowerShell
5 183 (13.88%) Java
6 137 (10.39%) TypeScript
7 135 (10.24%) Bicep
8 114 (8.65%) JavaScript
9 92 (6.98%) C#
10 65 (4.93%) Go
11 25 (1.90%) Ruby
12 23 (1.75%) Groovy
13 21 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
14 16 (1.21%) Rust
15 15 (1.14%) PHP
16 12 (0.91%) Shell Script
17 11 (0.83%) Scala
18 7 (0.53%) Search Processing Language
19 6 (0.46%) COBOL
20 5 (0.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 384 (29.14%) Security Cleared
2 242 (18.36%) SC Cleared
3 159 (12.06%) DV Cleared
4 102 (7.74%) Degree
5 73 (5.54%) Azure Certification
6 62 (4.70%) AWS Certification
7 45 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
11 17 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 9 (0.68%) CCNA
15 8 (0.61%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
16 7 (0.53%) PMI Certification
17 6 (0.46%) ICAEW
17 6 (0.46%) Master's Degree
17 6 (0.46%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (6.37%) QA
2 62 (4.70%) GRC
3 53 (4.02%) Data Quality
4 40 (3.03%) Accessibility
5 25 (1.90%) NCSC
6 24 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 22 (1.67%) WCAG
8 18 (1.37%) GDPR
9 17 (1.29%) NIST
10 15 (1.14%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.76%) SOC 2
12 9 (0.68%) SLA
13 6 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.15%) IFRS
14 2 (0.15%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.15%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.076%) GxP
15 1 (0.076%) HIPAA
System Software
1 386 (29.29%) Docker
2 84 (6.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 79 (5.99%) Active Directory
4 31 (2.35%) vSphere
5 24 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (1.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (1.37%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.83%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.38%) Firmware
9 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 5 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.30%) iptables
10 4 (0.30%) KVM
10 4 (0.30%) Squid
11 2 (0.15%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 509 (38.62%) Kubernetes
2 278 (21.09%) Ansible
3 120 (9.10%) Grafana
4 94 (7.13%) Prometheus
5 46 (3.49%) Puppet
6 40 (3.03%) Argo
7 33 (2.50%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.59%) Istio
9 15 (1.14%) Packer
9 15 (1.14%) vCenter Server
10 12 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
11 11 (0.83%) Kibana
12 10 (0.76%) Kustomize
13 9 (0.68%) Podman
13 9 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.61%) logstash
14 8 (0.61%) Nessus
14 8 (0.61%) Rancher
14 8 (0.61%) ZABBIX
15 7 (0.53%) Nagios
Vendors
1 301 (22.84%) Microsoft
2 98 (7.44%) VMware
3 70 (5.31%) Google
4 55 (4.17%) Red Hat
5 50 (3.79%) Splunk
6 48 (3.64%) Databricks
7 29 (2.20%) Cisco
7 29 (2.20%) Oracle
8 16 (1.21%) Palo Alto
9 14 (1.06%) Atlassian
9 14 (1.06%) Fortinet
9 14 (1.06%) OpenAI
10 13 (0.99%) ServiceNow
11 12 (0.91%) F5
11 12 (0.91%) ScienceLogic
12 11 (0.83%) Dynatrace
12 11 (0.83%) New Relic
13 8 (0.61%) IBM
13 8 (0.61%) Meraki
14 7 (0.53%) SAP