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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 212 194
Rank change year-on-year +57 -18 -56
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 769 433 993
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.16% 1.48% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 1.61% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 567 308 785
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,751 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 £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 47,160 26,962 57,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.84% 92.04% 83.04%
Number of salaries quoted 30,428 13,810 41,145
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,003
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £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 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -10.10%

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 19 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 19 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 +42 279 £67,249 -3.93% 167
South East +36 171 £70,000 -6.67% 140
North West +54 158 £71,750 -1.03% 85
South West -10 107 £68,400 -4.99% 69
Midlands +28 106 £70,000 - 30
Yorkshire -21 87 £65,576 +0.89% 43
West Midlands +6 56 £72,500 +3.57% 18
East Midlands +8 48 £67,500 +3.85% 12
Scotland +8 44 £60,000 -19.93% 26
East of England +3 42 £60,100 -7.54% 26
North East -14 34 £50,000 -17.01% 39
Wales -21 18 £60,000 -2.64% 9
Northern Ireland -35 5 £95,000 - 6
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 14 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (1.56%) Apache
2 12 (1.56%) Apache Spark
2 12 (1.56%) IIS
2 12 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.17%) Confluence
4 5 (0.65%) CMS
5 4 (0.52%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.26%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 452 (58.78%) AWS
2 423 (55.01%) Azure
3 177 (23.02%) Azure DevOps
4 160 (20.81%) GitHub
5 152 (19.77%) Serverless
6 126 (16.38%) GCP
7 122 (15.86%) GitHub Actions
8 102 (13.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 83 (10.79%) AWS Lambda
10 80 (10.40%) Amazon S3
11 68 (8.84%) Amazon EKS
12 57 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 56 (7.28%) PaaS
14 53 (6.89%) Amazon EC2
15 47 (6.11%) Amazon ECS
16 40 (5.20%) Entra ID
17 38 (4.94%) Azure AKS
17 38 (4.94%) Azure Monitor
17 38 (4.94%) SaaS
18 37 (4.81%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 105 (13.65%) Firewall
2 56 (7.28%) DNS
3 39 (5.07%) TCP/IP
4 27 (3.51%) VPN
5 23 (2.99%) Network Security
6 21 (2.73%) DHCP
7 16 (2.08%) BGP
7 16 (2.08%) HTTP
8 15 (1.95%) Cisco ASA
9 13 (1.69%) Broadband
9 13 (1.69%) WAN
10 12 (1.56%) VLAN
11 10 (1.30%) LAN
12 7 (0.91%) Internet
12 7 (0.91%) SAN
13 6 (0.78%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.78%) OSPF
13 6 (0.78%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.78%) WebEx
14 5 (0.65%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (6.24%) Amazon RDS
3 37 (4.81%) NoSQL
4 36 (4.68%) DynamoDB
5 32 (4.16%) MongoDB
5 32 (4.16%) SQL Server
6 23 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (1.95%) Relational Database
7 15 (1.95%) Spark SQL
8 14 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (1.56%) Metadata
10 11 (1.43%) BigQuery
10 11 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (1.30%) Data Lake
12 9 (1.17%) Big Data
13 8 (1.04%) Redis
14 7 (0.91%) InfluxDB
14 7 (0.91%) MySQL
15 5 (0.65%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 127 (16.51%) Git
2 98 (12.74%) Jenkins
3 91 (11.83%) GitLab
4 18 (2.34%) JIRA
5 15 (1.95%) Bitbucket
6 12 (1.56%) SonarQube
7 11 (1.43%) Cucumber
8 9 (1.17%) Selenium
9 7 (0.91%) CircleCI
9 7 (0.91%) Robot Framework
9 7 (0.91%) Subversion
10 6 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (0.78%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.78%) NUnit
10 6 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
11 5 (0.65%) Artifactory
11 5 (0.65%) JMeter
12 4 (0.52%) Locust
12 4 (0.52%) TestRail
13 3 (0.39%) MLflow
General
1 183 (23.80%) Social Skills
2 105 (13.65%) Finance
3 60 (7.80%) Public Sector
4 57 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (4.81%) Telecoms
6 28 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (3.51%) Retail
8 23 (2.99%) Law
9 22 (2.86%) Banking
10 20 (2.60%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.21%) Aerospace
12 16 (2.08%) Games
13 15 (1.95%) Billing
14 14 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
15 13 (1.69%) Marketing
16 11 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (1.04%) Advertising
18 6 (0.78%) Electronics
19 5 (0.65%) Legal
20 4 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 174 (22.63%) Senior
2 143 (18.60%) DevOps Engineer
3 131 (17.04%) Lead
4 100 (13.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 90 (11.70%) Azure Engineer
6 72 (9.36%) Developer
7 63 (8.19%) Platform Engineer
8 58 (7.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 53 (6.89%) Software Engineer
10 44 (5.72%) Architect
11 37 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
11 37 (4.81%) Data Engineer
12 33 (4.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 33 (4.29%) Senior DevOps
13 31 (4.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 25 (3.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 25 (3.25%) Technical Leader
15 24 (3.12%) DevSecOps Engineer
16 23 (2.99%) Lead DevOps
17 22 (2.86%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (11.57%) React
2 76 (9.88%) Node.js
3 69 (8.97%) .NET
4 60 (7.80%) REST
5 49 (6.37%) AWS CDK
6 45 (5.85%) RESTful
7 44 (5.72%) YAML
8 38 (4.94%) ARM Templates
9 33 (4.29%) Elastic Stack
10 31 (4.03%) ASP.NET
11 30 (3.90%) OAuth
12 29 (3.77%) ASP.NET Core
12 29 (3.77%) Kafka
13 27 (3.51%) Spring
14 22 (2.86%) PySpark
15 21 (2.73%) AngularJS
15 21 (2.73%) Spring Boot
16 20 (2.60%) RabbitMQ
17 19 (2.47%) JSON
18 18 (2.34%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 144 (18.73%) Cloud Native
2 50 (6.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 43 (5.59%) Distributed Systems
4 42 (5.46%) Product Ownership
5 25 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (2.99%) Public Cloud
7 19 (2.47%) Data Centre
7 19 (2.47%) Onboarding
8 17 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
8 17 (2.21%) Linux Command Line
9 15 (1.95%) Legacy Applications
9 15 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (1.69%) Private Cloud
11 12 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.56%) Replication
12 11 (1.43%) Security Posture
13 10 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
13 10 (1.30%) Mobile App
13 10 (1.30%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 171 (22.24%) Linux
2 79 (10.27%) Windows
3 40 (5.20%) Windows Server
4 24 (3.12%) Ubuntu
5 20 (2.60%) Unix
6 16 (2.08%) CentOS
7 11 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (1.17%) VMS
9 7 (0.91%) Debian
10 6 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.65%) Android
11 5 (0.65%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 569 (73.99%) CI/CD
2 493 (64.11%) DevOps
3 266 (34.59%) Agile
4 222 (28.87%) Observability
5 211 (27.44%) Containerisation
6 179 (23.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 176 (22.89%) Mentoring
8 155 (20.16%) Platform Engineering
9 154 (20.03%) Problem-Solving
10 148 (19.25%) Test Automation
11 126 (16.38%) Microservices
12 120 (15.60%) AI
13 114 (14.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 113 (14.69%) Software Engineering
15 102 (13.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 86 (11.18%) Deployment Automation
17 81 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
18 78 (10.14%) DevSecOps
19 77 (10.01%) Cloud Security
20 76 (9.88%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 339 (44.08%) Python
2 170 (22.11%) Bash
3 154 (20.03%) PowerShell
4 115 (14.95%) SQL
5 96 (12.48%) TypeScript
6 84 (10.92%) Java
7 77 (10.01%) JavaScript
8 64 (8.32%) Bicep
9 57 (7.41%) C#
10 53 (6.89%) Go
11 13 (1.69%) C
11 13 (1.69%) Groovy
12 9 (1.17%) C++
12 9 (1.17%) Rust
13 7 (0.91%) PHP
14 6 (0.78%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.65%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.52%) Perl
16 4 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 151 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 95 (12.35%) SC Cleared
3 63 (8.19%) Degree
4 51 (6.63%) DV Cleared
5 38 (4.94%) AWS Certification
6 31 (4.03%) Azure Certification
7 28 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.82%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.43%) AWS Certified Developer
9 11 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.65%) CISSP
12 5 (0.65%) ICAEW
13 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.52%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.52%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (0.52%) OSCP
14 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.46%) QA
2 25 (3.25%) GDPR
3 18 (2.34%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.34%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.17%) NIST
5 9 (1.17%) SOC 2
5 9 (1.17%) WCAG
6 7 (0.91%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.52%) NCSC
8 3 (0.39%) SLA
9 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.26%) IFRS
9 2 (0.26%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.13%) GRC
System Software
1 215 (27.96%) Docker
2 45 (5.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (4.42%) Active Directory
4 19 (2.47%) vSphere
5 15 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (1.43%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.91%) iptables
8 6 (0.78%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.52%) Firmware
10 2 (0.26%) Squid
11 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 540 (70.22%) Terraform
2 273 (35.50%) Kubernetes
3 178 (23.15%) Ansible
4 109 (14.17%) Grafana
5 86 (11.18%) Prometheus
6 28 (3.64%) Puppet
7 17 (2.21%) Argo
7 17 (2.21%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.56%) Nagios
9 11 (1.43%) Rancher
10 10 (1.30%) Packer
10 10 (1.30%) vCenter Server
11 8 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (1.04%) Proxmox
11 8 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.91%) Podman
12 7 (0.91%) yum
13 6 (0.78%) Cisco CUCM
14 5 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.65%) Istio
Vendors
1 138 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 58 (7.54%) VMware
3 38 (4.94%) Red Hat
4 31 (4.03%) Cisco
4 31 (4.03%) Databricks
5 30 (3.90%) Google
6 26 (3.38%) Splunk
7 20 (2.60%) Palo Alto
8 14 (1.82%) CrowdStrike
8 14 (1.82%) Dynatrace
9 10 (1.30%) F5
10 9 (1.17%) Fortinet
10 9 (1.17%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.91%) Juniper
11 7 (0.91%) NetApp
12 6 (0.78%) Ab Initio
12 6 (0.78%) AppDynamics
12 6 (0.78%) Dell
12 6 (0.78%) HubSpot
12 6 (0.78%) SolarWinds