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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 155 98
Rank change year-on-year +1 -57 +58
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 564 753 967
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.53% 1.59% 3.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 1.96% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 414 452 736
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,750 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% -0.54% +0.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% -

All Process and 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 30,587 38,330 28,153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.21% 81.06% 93.89%
Number of salaries quoted 18,445 18,495 20,846
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025. 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 -1 191 £70,000 +16.67% 163
South East +29 127 £77,500 +29.17% 187
North West +1 84 £65,250 +3.98% 111
Yorkshire -1 82 £70,000 +27.27% 38
Scotland +3 67 £70,039 +0.06% 44
Midlands +33 66 £65,000 -1.52% 62
South West -44 57 £62,500 -10.71% 100
West Midlands +16 47 £65,000 -5.80% 36
East of England +26 32 £66,500 -8.28% 35
North East -1 25 £71,289 +42.58% 14
East Midlands +25 19 £65,000 +56.63% 26
Wales +17 19 £60,000 +9.99% 15
Northern Ireland +4 7 £73,801 -13.18% 17
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 23 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (3.55%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.30%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.95%) Apache
4 11 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.42%) Appian
5 8 (1.42%) Confluence
6 4 (0.71%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.35%) IIS
7 2 (0.35%) nginx
8 1 (0.18%) CMS
8 1 (0.18%) SAS
8 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.35%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 389 (68.97%) Azure
2 333 (59.04%) AWS
3 149 (26.42%) Azure DevOps
4 104 (18.44%) GCP
4 104 (18.44%) GitHub
5 91 (16.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 87 (15.43%) Serverless
7 68 (12.06%) GitHub Actions
8 66 (11.70%) SaaS
9 58 (10.28%) Microsoft 365
10 52 (9.22%) PaaS
11 51 (9.04%) AWS Lambda
11 51 (9.04%) Entra ID
12 48 (8.51%) Amazon S3
13 36 (6.38%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (5.85%) Azure Monitor
14 33 (5.85%) dbt
15 31 (5.50%) IaaS
16 28 (4.96%) Amazon EC2
17 25 (4.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 46 (8.16%) Firewall
2 40 (7.09%) DNS
3 36 (6.38%) VPN
4 28 (4.96%) TCP/IP
5 27 (4.79%) WAN
6 21 (3.72%) LAN
7 15 (2.66%) Network Security
8 12 (2.13%) DHCP
9 11 (1.95%) SD-WAN
9 11 (1.95%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (1.42%) SAN
11 7 (1.24%) Unified Communications
11 7 (1.24%) VoIP
12 6 (1.06%) VLAN
13 5 (0.89%) AMQP
14 4 (0.71%) BGP
14 4 (0.71%) HTTP
14 4 (0.71%) Wireless
15 3 (0.53%) Internet
15 3 (0.53%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (5.50%) Amazon RDS
1 31 (5.50%) SQL Server
2 30 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (4.08%) Redis
4 22 (3.90%) NoSQL
5 21 (3.72%) DynamoDB
6 16 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (2.84%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (2.66%) Big Data
8 13 (2.30%) Data Lake
9 12 (2.13%) MySQL
10 8 (1.42%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.24%) Airbyte
11 7 (1.24%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.06%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (0.71%) InfluxDB
15 3 (0.53%) Apache Iceberg
15 3 (0.53%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 57 (10.11%) Jenkins
2 49 (8.69%) GitLab
3 47 (8.33%) Git
4 25 (4.43%) Selenium
5 22 (3.90%) Robot Framework
6 21 (3.72%) Snyk
7 19 (3.37%) JIRA
8 11 (1.95%) TeamCity
9 10 (1.77%) CircleCI
9 10 (1.77%) SonarQube
10 9 (1.60%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.42%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.42%) JMeter
12 7 (1.24%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.24%) Octopus Deploy
13 6 (1.06%) git-flow
13 6 (1.06%) Locust
14 5 (0.89%) MLflow
15 3 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 3 (0.53%) NUnit
General
1 151 (26.77%) Social Skills
2 114 (20.21%) Finance
3 43 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (6.03%) Law
5 23 (4.08%) Public Sector
6 17 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (2.84%) Retail
7 16 (2.84%) Telecoms
8 14 (2.48%) Legal
9 10 (1.77%) Automotive
9 10 (1.77%) Financial Institution
9 10 (1.77%) Games
10 8 (1.42%) Advertising
10 8 (1.42%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.89%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.89%) Marketing
13 4 (0.71%) Billing
14 3 (0.53%) Banking
14 3 (0.53%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 127 (22.52%) Senior
2 77 (13.65%) Cloud Engineer
3 74 (13.12%) Lead
4 71 (12.59%) DevOps Engineer
5 63 (11.17%) Developer
6 58 (10.28%) Architect
7 46 (8.16%) Platform Engineer
8 37 (6.56%) Azure Engineer
9 26 (4.61%) Software Engineer
10 25 (4.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 22 (3.90%) Cloud Architect
12 19 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
12 19 (3.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 18 (3.19%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 17 (3.01%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 17 (3.01%) Lead DevOps
14 17 (3.01%) Python Developer
15 16 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
16 15 (2.66%) Security Engineer
16 15 (2.66%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (11.17%) React
2 59 (10.46%) .NET
3 38 (6.74%) Django
4 28 (4.96%) ARM Templates
5 27 (4.79%) Node.js
6 26 (4.61%) RESTful
7 23 (4.08%) REST
8 21 (3.72%) YAML
9 20 (3.55%) Flask
9 20 (3.55%) Kafka
10 19 (3.37%) CSS
10 19 (3.37%) OAuth
11 18 (3.19%) Elastic Stack
11 18 (3.19%) FastAPI
11 18 (3.19%) HTML
12 17 (3.01%) Vue
13 15 (2.66%) AngularJS
14 14 (2.48%) .NET Core
14 14 (2.48%) .NET Framework
15 12 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 132 (23.40%) Cloud Native
2 43 (7.62%) Product Ownership
3 29 (5.14%) Public Cloud
4 24 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 21 (3.72%) Data Centre
6 18 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (3.01%) Security Posture
8 16 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (2.66%) Linux Command Line
10 13 (2.30%) Onboarding
10 13 (2.30%) Private Cloud
11 11 (1.95%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.42%) Low-Code
13 8 (1.42%) Operational Technology
14 6 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (1.06%) Management Information System
15 5 (0.89%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 85 (15.07%) Linux
2 43 (7.62%) Windows
3 18 (3.19%) Unix
4 14 (2.48%) Ubuntu
5 13 (2.30%) Debian
6 12 (2.13%) Windows Server
7 11 (1.95%) VMS
8 4 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.53%) CentOS
10 2 (0.35%) AIX
11 1 (0.18%) Android
11 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (69.86%) DevOps
2 370 (65.60%) CI/CD
3 218 (38.65%) Agile
4 122 (21.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 119 (21.10%) Containerisation
6 118 (20.92%) Mentoring
7 115 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
8 91 (16.13%) Observability
9 79 (14.01%) Test Automation
10 78 (13.83%) Platform Engineering
11 77 (13.65%) Software Engineering
12 76 (13.48%) Roadmaps
13 74 (13.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 69 (12.23%) Coaching
15 68 (12.06%) AI
16 61 (10.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 58 (10.28%) Microservices
18 57 (10.11%) Analytics
19 56 (9.93%) Scrum
20 52 (9.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 215 (38.12%) Python
2 109 (19.33%) PowerShell
3 94 (16.67%) SQL
4 79 (14.01%) Bicep
5 72 (12.77%) Bash
6 58 (10.28%) C#
7 53 (9.40%) JavaScript
8 49 (8.69%) Java
9 47 (8.33%) TypeScript
10 22 (3.90%) Go
11 6 (1.06%) C++
12 4 (0.71%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.53%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.53%) Scala
14 2 (0.35%) Groovy
14 2 (0.35%) Ruby
14 2 (0.35%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.35%) VB
14 2 (0.35%) XAML
Qualifications
1 99 (17.55%) Security Cleared
2 69 (12.23%) SC Cleared
3 43 (7.62%) Azure Certification
3 43 (7.62%) DV Cleared
4 35 (6.21%) AWS Certification
5 33 (5.85%) Degree
6 16 (2.84%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.48%) Master's Degree
9 13 (2.30%) CCNP
10 12 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (1.24%) PMI Certification
12 7 (1.24%) PMP
13 5 (0.89%) CCNA
14 4 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.71%) ISTQB
15 3 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.53%) CISSP
15 3 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.61%) NIST
2 24 (4.26%) QA
3 23 (4.08%) GDPR
4 18 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.30%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.24%) WCAG
7 6 (1.06%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.53%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.35%) GRC
9 2 (0.35%) NCSC
9 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 172 (30.50%) Docker
2 25 (4.43%) Virtual Machines
2 25 (4.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (4.08%) Active Directory
4 22 (3.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (1.95%) Hyper-V
6 9 (1.60%) vSphere
7 4 (0.71%) Firmware
7 4 (0.71%) vCloud
7 4 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.53%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.18%) HDFS
9 1 (0.18%) iptables
9 1 (0.18%) KVM
9 1 (0.18%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 398 (70.57%) Terraform
2 171 (30.32%) Kubernetes
3 113 (20.04%) Ansible
4 48 (8.51%) Grafana
5 40 (7.09%) Prometheus
6 26 (4.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (1.95%) Docker Swarm
8 10 (1.77%) AWS Copilot
9 9 (1.60%) Argo
10 6 (1.06%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.06%) Puppet
11 5 (0.89%) MaaS360
11 5 (0.89%) SCCM
12 4 (0.71%) Control-M
12 4 (0.71%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.71%) Rundeck
12 4 (0.71%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.53%) Dell DRAC
14 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 138 (24.47%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.98%) VMware
3 40 (7.09%) Google
4 20 (3.55%) Black Duck
5 18 (3.19%) Cisco
6 17 (3.01%) Coverity
7 15 (2.66%) Palo Alto
8 13 (2.30%) Databricks
8 13 (2.30%) Splunk
9 10 (1.77%) Fortinet
10 9 (1.60%) Red Hat
10 9 (1.60%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.42%) Ab Initio
11 8 (1.42%) BiZZdesign
11 8 (1.42%) UiPath
12 7 (1.24%) Oracle
12 7 (1.24%) SolarWinds
13 6 (1.06%) Aruba
13 6 (1.06%) CrowdStrike
14 5 (0.89%) Mellanox