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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 217 184
Rank change year-on-year +109 -33 -62
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,162 468 888
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.58% 1.37% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 1.56% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 842 329 691
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £43,421
25th Percentile £55,188 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,751 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -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 51,923 29,990 50,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.51% 87.88% 79.06%
Number of salaries quoted 36,516 16,273 33,193
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.66%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 +88 394 £70,239 +0.34% 218
South East +69 238 £67,500 -12.90% 126
North West +91 232 £74,651 +6.64% 116
South West +37 191 £75,000 - 94
Midlands +34 139 £77,500 +19.23% 54
Yorkshire -3 92 £72,500 +3.57% 58
West Midlands +25 85 £80,000 +23.08% 38
North East +12 70 £55,000 -18.52% 44
Wales -8 59 £70,039 +21.81% 20
Northern Ireland -18 57 £73,801 +71.27% 15
East Midlands +13 54 £67,500 +3.85% 16
East of England +5 51 £63,750 +2.00% 20
Scotland +21 42 £69,746 -0.36% 36
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 28 (2.41%) Apache
1 28 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (2.32%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (2.24%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.55%) Confluence
5 11 (0.95%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.60%) IIS
7 5 (0.43%) CMS
7 5 (0.43%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.26%) WordPress
10 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.086%) Documentum
11 1 (0.086%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.086%) JBoss
11 1 (0.086%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.17%) Lightworks
1 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.086%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.086%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 641 (55.16%) Azure
2 608 (52.32%) AWS
3 215 (18.50%) GitHub
4 203 (17.47%) Azure DevOps
5 189 (16.27%) GCP
6 184 (15.83%) Serverless
7 141 (12.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 134 (11.53%) GitHub Actions
9 102 (8.78%) Amazon S3
10 96 (8.26%) AWS Lambda
11 91 (7.83%) PaaS
12 76 (6.54%) Amazon EC2
12 76 (6.54%) Amazon EKS
12 76 (6.54%) Microsoft 365
13 71 (6.11%) Amazon ECS
14 65 (5.59%) Azure AKS
14 65 (5.59%) Cloud Computing
15 64 (5.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 64 (5.51%) SaaS
16 58 (4.99%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 104 (8.95%) Firewall
2 76 (6.54%) WAN
3 69 (5.94%) LAN
4 63 (5.42%) VPN
5 60 (5.16%) DNS
6 39 (3.36%) TCP/IP
7 36 (3.10%) Network Security
8 22 (1.89%) DHCP
9 18 (1.55%) BGP
9 18 (1.55%) VLAN
10 16 (1.38%) Broadband
11 15 (1.29%) HTTP
12 11 (0.95%) Cisco ASA
12 11 (0.95%) SAN
13 9 (0.77%) SD-WAN
13 9 (0.77%) Software-Defined Networking
14 7 (0.60%) Ethernet VPN
14 7 (0.60%) OSPF
15 6 (0.52%) Cisco Firepower
15 6 (0.52%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (6.80%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (4.73%) Amazon RDS
3 47 (4.04%) NoSQL
4 42 (3.61%) MongoDB
5 41 (3.53%) SQL Server
6 40 (3.44%) DynamoDB
7 36 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
8 31 (2.67%) Relational Database
9 28 (2.41%) MySQL
10 23 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
11 20 (1.72%) Data Lake
12 17 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
13 16 (1.38%) Metadata
13 16 (1.38%) Redis
14 13 (1.12%) Big Data
14 13 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (1.03%) Spark SQL
16 10 (0.86%) BigQuery
16 10 (0.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 180 (15.49%) Git
2 138 (11.88%) GitLab
3 127 (10.93%) Jenkins
4 32 (2.75%) JIRA
5 16 (1.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 15 (1.29%) SonarQube
7 13 (1.12%) Bitbucket
7 13 (1.12%) Cucumber
8 10 (0.86%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.86%) NUnit
8 10 (0.86%) Selenium
9 8 (0.69%) MSI
10 7 (0.60%) Artifactory
10 7 (0.60%) JMeter
10 7 (0.60%) Robot Framework
11 6 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
11 6 (0.52%) Subversion
11 6 (0.52%) TeamCity
11 6 (0.52%) Terragrunt
11 6 (0.52%) TestRail
General
1 336 (28.92%) Social Skills
2 195 (16.78%) Finance
3 114 (9.81%) Public Sector
4 81 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (6.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 68 (5.85%) Law
7 60 (5.16%) Presentation Skills
8 28 (2.41%) Retail
9 27 (2.32%) Telecoms
10 26 (2.24%) Aerospace
11 22 (1.89%) Manufacturing
12 21 (1.81%) Banking
13 16 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
13 16 (1.38%) Games
14 13 (1.12%) Marketing
15 11 (0.95%) Advertising
15 11 (0.95%) Legal
16 8 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (0.69%) Local Government
17 6 (0.52%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 254 (21.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 229 (19.71%) Senior
3 196 (16.87%) Lead
4 145 (12.48%) Architect
5 136 (11.70%) Cloud Engineer
6 108 (9.29%) Platform Engineer
7 107 (9.21%) Developer
8 100 (8.61%) Azure Engineer
9 75 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 73 (6.28%) Software Engineer
11 58 (4.99%) Systems Architect
12 57 (4.91%) Data Engineer
13 51 (4.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 51 (4.39%) Senior DevOps
14 50 (4.30%) AWS Engineer
15 46 (3.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 43 (3.70%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 39 (3.36%) Technical Leader
18 37 (3.18%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 37 (3.18%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (9.81%) React
2 90 (7.75%) Node.js
2 90 (7.75%) REST
3 89 (7.66%) .NET
4 73 (6.28%) Spring Boot
5 70 (6.02%) Spring
6 57 (4.91%) ARM Templates
7 55 (4.73%) Kafka
7 55 (4.73%) RESTful
8 51 (4.39%) AWS CDK
9 45 (3.87%) YAML
10 40 (3.44%) PySpark
11 38 (3.27%) Elastic Stack
12 37 (3.18%) AngularJS
13 31 (2.67%) Next.js
13 31 (2.67%) Vue
14 30 (2.58%) ASP.NET
15 29 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
16 28 (2.41%) ASP.NET Core
17 26 (2.24%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 276 (23.75%) Cloud Native
2 90 (7.75%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (6.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 54 (4.65%) Product Ownership
5 43 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 37 (3.18%) Public Cloud
7 34 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
7 34 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
8 29 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
9 28 (2.41%) Security Posture
10 27 (2.32%) Data Centre
11 26 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
12 20 (1.72%) Private Cloud
13 19 (1.64%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
14 16 (1.38%) Replication
14 16 (1.38%) Virtual Team
15 15 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
16 14 (1.20%) Mainframe
16 14 (1.20%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 210 (18.07%) Linux
2 114 (9.81%) Windows
3 54 (4.65%) Windows Server
4 34 (2.93%) CentOS
5 29 (2.50%) Ubuntu
6 26 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 22 (1.89%) Unix
8 17 (1.46%) VMS
9 7 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.52%) Debian
11 5 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.17%) AIX
12 2 (0.17%) Android
12 2 (0.17%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.086%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.086%) Rocky
13 1 (0.086%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 845 (72.72%) CI/CD
2 695 (59.81%) DevOps
3 399 (34.34%) Containerisation
4 386 (33.22%) Agile
5 344 (29.60%) Observability
6 288 (24.78%) Platform Engineering
7 271 (23.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 264 (22.72%) Mentoring
9 230 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
10 218 (18.76%) AI
11 212 (18.24%) Software Engineering
12 197 (16.95%) Microservices
13 190 (16.35%) Technical Leadership
14 184 (15.83%) Test Automation
15 164 (14.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 154 (13.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 146 (12.56%) Roadmaps
18 137 (11.79%) Cloud Security
19 127 (10.93%) DevSecOps
20 114 (9.81%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 465 (40.02%) Python
2 204 (17.56%) Bash
3 181 (15.58%) PowerShell
4 167 (14.37%) SQL
5 153 (13.17%) Java
6 130 (11.19%) Bicep
7 126 (10.84%) TypeScript
8 106 (9.12%) JavaScript
9 82 (7.06%) C#
10 66 (5.68%) Go
11 23 (1.98%) Ruby
12 19 (1.64%) Groovy
12 19 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (1.29%) PHP
14 9 (0.77%) Rust
15 8 (0.69%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.60%) C++
17 6 (0.52%) COBOL
17 6 (0.52%) Scala
18 5 (0.43%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 302 (25.99%) Security Cleared
2 184 (15.83%) SC Cleared
3 123 (10.59%) DV Cleared
4 86 (7.40%) Degree
5 62 (5.34%) Azure Certification
6 45 (3.87%) AWS Certification
7 40 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (0.86%) DBS Check
11 10 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 7 (0.60%) CCNA
12 7 (0.60%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.52%) ICAEW
13 6 (0.52%) RHCSA
14 5 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.43%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (6.02%) QA
2 59 (5.08%) GRC
3 40 (3.44%) Data Quality
4 33 (2.84%) Accessibility
5 23 (1.98%) WCAG
6 20 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.55%) GDPR
7 18 (1.55%) NCSC
8 16 (1.38%) PCI DSS
9 14 (1.20%) NIST
10 12 (1.03%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.52%) Government Security Classifications
11 6 (0.52%) SLA
12 5 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.17%) IFRS
13 2 (0.17%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.17%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.086%) GxP
System Software
1 343 (29.52%) Docker
2 71 (6.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 65 (5.59%) Active Directory
4 32 (2.75%) vSphere
5 18 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.77%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.77%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.52%) Firmware
8 6 (0.52%) iptables
8 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.34%) Squid
10 1 (0.086%) KVM
10 1 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 791 (68.07%) Terraform
2 441 (37.95%) Kubernetes
3 240 (20.65%) Ansible
4 125 (10.76%) Grafana
5 98 (8.43%) Prometheus
6 37 (3.18%) Puppet
7 34 (2.93%) Argo
8 27 (2.32%) Progress Chef
9 18 (1.55%) Istio
10 16 (1.38%) Packer
11 13 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
11 13 (1.12%) vCenter Server
12 12 (1.03%) Nagios
13 10 (0.86%) Kibana
14 9 (0.77%) Podman
15 8 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
15 8 (0.69%) Kustomize
15 8 (0.69%) Proxmox
15 8 (0.69%) Rancher
16 7 (0.60%) linkerd
Vendors
1 265 (22.81%) Microsoft
2 84 (7.23%) VMware
3 62 (5.34%) Google
4 51 (4.39%) Red Hat
5 43 (3.70%) Splunk
6 39 (3.36%) Databricks
7 30 (2.58%) Cisco
8 21 (1.81%) Palo Alto
9 17 (1.46%) Oracle
10 13 (1.12%) Dynatrace
10 13 (1.12%) F5
11 12 (1.03%) ScienceLogic
12 11 (0.95%) Atlassian
12 11 (0.95%) Fortinet
13 8 (0.69%) IBM
13 8 (0.69%) New Relic
13 8 (0.69%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.60%) HubSpot
14 7 (0.60%) Salesforce
14 7 (0.60%) Tenable