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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 218 198
Rank change year-on-year +66 -20 -61
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 783 410 998
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.17% 1.44% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 1.56% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 582 282 789
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,075 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,751 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -3.23% +9.81% -5.90%

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 47,358 26,244 57,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.87% 92.03% 82.95%
Number of salaries quoted 30,601 12,957 41,109
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £27,007
25th Percentile £37,750 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,648 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.59% +8.45% -9.84%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 +46 290 £67,374 -3.75% 155
South East +30 174 £70,000 -6.67% 175
North West +50 166 £72,500 - 84
South West -10 109 £72,500 +3.57% 83
Midlands +18 105 £68,000 -2.86% 32
Yorkshire -12 88 £65,576 +0.89% 35
West Midlands +1 57 £71,289 +1.84% 18
East Midlands -3 48 £67,500 +3.85% 14
Scotland +5 43 £60,000 -20.38% 23
East of England +4 42 £60,100 -7.54% 42
North East -7 36 £50,000 -24.26% 36
Wales -24 18 £60,000 -2.64% 10
Northern Ireland -33 5 £95,000 - 10
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 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (1.66%) Apache
2 13 (1.66%) Apache Spark
2 13 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.53%) IIS
4 9 (1.15%) Confluence
5 5 (0.64%) CMS
6 4 (0.51%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.26%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.26%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 464 (59.26%) AWS
2 431 (55.04%) Azure
3 174 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 164 (20.95%) GitHub
5 152 (19.41%) Serverless
6 130 (16.60%) GCP
7 122 (15.58%) GitHub Actions
8 102 (13.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 82 (10.47%) AWS Lambda
10 80 (10.22%) Amazon S3
11 68 (8.68%) Amazon EKS
12 58 (7.41%) PaaS
13 57 (7.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 55 (7.02%) Amazon EC2
15 48 (6.13%) Amazon ECS
16 43 (5.49%) Entra ID
17 42 (5.36%) SaaS
18 41 (5.24%) Azure AKS
19 39 (4.98%) Azure Monitor
19 39 (4.98%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 105 (13.41%) Firewall
2 57 (7.28%) DNS
3 39 (4.98%) TCP/IP
4 27 (3.45%) VPN
5 24 (3.07%) Network Security
6 21 (2.68%) DHCP
7 16 (2.04%) BGP
7 16 (2.04%) HTTP
8 15 (1.92%) Cisco ASA
9 13 (1.66%) Broadband
10 12 (1.53%) VLAN
10 12 (1.53%) WAN
11 9 (1.15%) LAN
12 8 (1.02%) SAN
13 7 (0.89%) Internet
14 6 (0.77%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (0.77%) OSPF
14 6 (0.77%) Unified Communications
14 6 (0.77%) WebEx
15 5 (0.64%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (7.54%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (6.13%) Amazon RDS
3 38 (4.85%) NoSQL
4 37 (4.73%) DynamoDB
5 32 (4.09%) MongoDB
5 32 (4.09%) SQL Server
6 22 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (2.04%) Relational Database
8 14 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 14 (1.79%) Spark SQL
9 12 (1.53%) Metadata
10 11 (1.40%) BigQuery
10 11 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (1.28%) Data Lake
12 9 (1.15%) Big Data
13 8 (1.02%) Redis
14 7 (0.89%) InfluxDB
14 7 (0.89%) MySQL
15 5 (0.64%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 128 (16.35%) Git
2 98 (12.52%) Jenkins
3 91 (11.62%) GitLab
4 18 (2.30%) JIRA
5 15 (1.92%) Bitbucket
6 12 (1.53%) Cucumber
6 12 (1.53%) SonarQube
7 9 (1.15%) Selenium
8 7 (0.89%) CircleCI
8 7 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
8 7 (0.89%) Robot Framework
8 7 (0.89%) Subversion
9 6 (0.77%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.77%) JMeter
9 6 (0.77%) NUnit
10 5 (0.64%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.51%) Locust
11 4 (0.51%) TestRail
11 4 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 191 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 105 (13.41%) Finance
3 62 (7.92%) Public Sector
4 56 (7.15%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (4.73%) Telecoms
6 29 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (3.32%) Retail
8 23 (2.94%) Law
9 22 (2.81%) Banking
9 22 (2.81%) Manufacturing
10 17 (2.17%) Aerospace
11 16 (2.04%) Games
12 14 (1.79%) Billing
13 13 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
13 13 (1.66%) Marketing
14 11 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.15%) Advertising
16 6 (0.77%) Electronics
17 5 (0.64%) Legal
17 5 (0.64%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 173 (22.09%) Senior
2 148 (18.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 133 (16.99%) Lead
4 108 (13.79%) Cloud Engineer
5 91 (11.62%) Azure Engineer
6 75 (9.58%) Developer
7 65 (8.30%) Platform Engineer
8 58 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 55 (7.02%) Software Engineer
10 44 (5.62%) Architect
11 38 (4.85%) AWS Engineer
12 35 (4.47%) Data Engineer
12 35 (4.47%) Senior DevOps
13 34 (4.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 33 (4.21%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 27 (3.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 25 (3.19%) Technical Leader
17 24 (3.07%) DevSecOps Engineer
17 24 (3.07%) Lead Developer
18 23 (2.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (11.49%) React
2 78 (9.96%) Node.js
3 70 (8.94%) .NET
4 62 (7.92%) REST
5 48 (6.13%) AWS CDK
6 44 (5.62%) RESTful
6 44 (5.62%) YAML
7 37 (4.73%) ARM Templates
8 33 (4.21%) Elastic Stack
9 31 (3.96%) ASP.NET
9 31 (3.96%) Kafka
10 29 (3.70%) ASP.NET Core
10 29 (3.70%) OAuth
10 29 (3.70%) Spring
11 23 (2.94%) AngularJS
11 23 (2.94%) PySpark
11 23 (2.94%) Spring Boot
12 20 (2.55%) RabbitMQ
13 19 (2.43%) Vue
14 18 (2.30%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 148 (18.90%) Cloud Native
2 50 (6.39%) Hybrid Cloud
3 45 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
4 42 (5.36%) Product Ownership
5 25 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (3.07%) Public Cloud
7 20 (2.55%) Data Centre
8 18 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
8 18 (2.30%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
9 15 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.66%) Private Cloud
11 12 (1.53%) Replication
12 11 (1.40%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
13 10 (1.28%) Mobile App
13 10 (1.28%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 174 (22.22%) Linux
2 79 (10.09%) Windows
3 41 (5.24%) Windows Server
4 25 (3.19%) Ubuntu
5 20 (2.55%) Unix
6 16 (2.04%) CentOS
7 11 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (1.15%) VMS
9 7 (0.89%) Debian
10 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.64%) Android
11 5 (0.64%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 581 (74.20%) CI/CD
2 499 (63.73%) DevOps
3 264 (33.72%) Agile
4 227 (28.99%) Observability
5 216 (27.59%) Containerisation
6 182 (23.24%) Mentoring
7 174 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 165 (21.07%) Platform Engineering
9 154 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
10 151 (19.28%) Test Automation
11 131 (16.73%) Microservices
12 123 (15.71%) AI
13 117 (14.94%) Software Engineering
14 114 (14.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 106 (13.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 88 (11.24%) Technical Leadership
17 83 (10.60%) Deployment Automation
18 80 (10.22%) Cloud Security
18 80 (10.22%) DevSecOps
19 74 (9.45%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 342 (43.68%) Python
2 172 (21.97%) Bash
3 155 (19.80%) PowerShell
4 114 (14.56%) SQL
5 100 (12.77%) TypeScript
6 86 (10.98%) Java
7 79 (10.09%) JavaScript
8 65 (8.30%) Bicep
9 58 (7.41%) C#
10 54 (6.90%) Go
11 14 (1.79%) Groovy
12 13 (1.66%) C
13 9 (1.15%) C++
13 9 (1.15%) Rust
14 7 (0.89%) PHP
15 6 (0.77%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.64%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.51%) Perl
17 4 (0.51%) Ruby
18 3 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 150 (19.16%) Security Cleared
2 96 (12.26%) SC Cleared
3 67 (8.56%) Degree
4 50 (6.39%) DV Cleared
5 38 (4.85%) AWS Certification
6 33 (4.21%) Azure Certification
7 31 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.79%) DBS Check
9 10 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
9 10 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.64%) ICAEW
11 5 (0.64%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.51%) CISSP
12 4 (0.51%) Network+ Certification
12 4 (0.51%) OSCP
12 4 (0.51%) PhD
13 3 (0.38%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (5.62%) QA
2 23 (2.94%) GDPR
3 19 (2.43%) Accessibility
4 18 (2.30%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.28%) WCAG
7 9 (1.15%) SOC 2
8 8 (1.02%) NIST
9 7 (0.89%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.38%) NCSC
10 3 (0.38%) SLA
11 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.26%) IFRS
11 2 (0.26%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.13%) GRC
System Software
1 220 (28.10%) Docker
2 46 (5.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (4.47%) Active Directory
4 19 (2.43%) vSphere
5 16 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (1.40%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.89%) iptables
8 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.64%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.51%) Firmware
11 2 (0.26%) Squid
12 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 551 (70.37%) Terraform
2 278 (35.50%) Kubernetes
3 181 (23.12%) Ansible
4 111 (14.18%) Grafana
5 87 (11.11%) Prometheus
6 28 (3.58%) Puppet
7 19 (2.43%) Argo
8 18 (2.30%) Progress Chef
9 12 (1.53%) Nagios
10 11 (1.40%) Rancher
11 10 (1.28%) Packer
11 10 (1.28%) vCenter Server
12 8 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (1.02%) Proxmox
12 8 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.89%) Podman
13 7 (0.89%) yum
14 6 (0.77%) Cisco CUCM
14 6 (0.77%) Istio
15 5 (0.64%) Kibana
Vendors
1 137 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 61 (7.79%) VMware
3 39 (4.98%) Red Hat
4 31 (3.96%) Cisco
5 30 (3.83%) Databricks
5 30 (3.83%) Google
6 26 (3.32%) Splunk
7 20 (2.55%) Palo Alto
8 14 (1.79%) Dynatrace
9 13 (1.66%) CrowdStrike
10 10 (1.28%) F5
11 9 (1.15%) Fortinet
11 9 (1.15%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.89%) HubSpot
12 7 (0.89%) Juniper
12 7 (0.89%) NetApp
13 6 (0.77%) Dell
13 6 (0.77%) Oracle
13 6 (0.77%) SolarWinds
13 6 (0.77%) Tenable