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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 216 188
Rank change year-on-year +107 -28 -62
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,145 468 903
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.57% 1.38% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 1.57% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 830 329 704
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £43,520
25th Percentile £55,750 £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 £77,813
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 51,477 29,874 51,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.56% 88.02% 79.34%
Number of salaries quoted 36,161 16,209 34,136
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,119
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £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 £66,215 £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% - -8.33%

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 25 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 25 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 +94 384 £70,000 - 209
South East +43 235 £67,500 -12.90% 136
North West +80 226 £74,301 +6.14% 112
South West +38 189 £75,000 - 87
Midlands +35 141 £75,000 +15.38% 54
Yorkshire -2 90 £72,500 +3.57% 55
West Midlands +15 85 £80,000 +23.08% 39
North East +9 68 £55,000 -18.52% 42
Northern Ireland -19 57 £73,801 +71.27% 16
East Midlands +7 56 £67,500 +3.85% 15
Wales -5 56 £70,000 +21.74% 17
East of England +8 50 £63,750 +2.00% 18
Scotland +23 42 £69,746 -3.47% 32
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 (2.45%) Apache
1 28 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (2.27%) Apache Spark
3 18 (1.57%) Confluence
4 11 (0.96%) Jupyter
5 9 (0.79%) IIS
6 5 (0.44%) CMS
7 4 (0.35%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.26%) WordPress
9 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.087%) Documentum
10 1 (0.087%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.087%) JBoss
10 1 (0.087%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.17%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.087%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 635 (55.46%) Azure
2 598 (52.23%) AWS
3 213 (18.60%) GitHub
4 204 (17.82%) Azure DevOps
5 185 (16.16%) GCP
6 181 (15.81%) Serverless
7 138 (12.05%) AWS CloudFormation
8 135 (11.79%) GitHub Actions
9 101 (8.82%) Amazon S3
10 94 (8.21%) AWS Lambda
11 90 (7.86%) PaaS
12 77 (6.72%) Amazon EC2
12 77 (6.72%) Amazon EKS
13 75 (6.55%) Microsoft 365
14 70 (6.11%) Amazon ECS
15 65 (5.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 65 (5.68%) Azure AKS
16 64 (5.59%) Cloud Computing
16 64 (5.59%) SaaS
17 58 (5.07%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 104 (9.08%) Firewall
2 77 (6.72%) WAN
3 69 (6.03%) LAN
4 62 (5.41%) DNS
4 62 (5.41%) VPN
5 37 (3.23%) TCP/IP
6 36 (3.14%) Network Security
7 24 (2.10%) DHCP
8 18 (1.57%) BGP
8 18 (1.57%) VLAN
9 16 (1.40%) Broadband
10 15 (1.31%) HTTP
11 11 (0.96%) Cisco ASA
11 11 (0.96%) SAN
12 10 (0.87%) SD-WAN
13 9 (0.79%) Software-Defined Networking
14 7 (0.61%) Ethernet VPN
14 7 (0.61%) OSPF
15 6 (0.52%) MQTT
15 6 (0.52%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (6.81%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (4.80%) Amazon RDS
3 48 (4.19%) NoSQL
4 42 (3.67%) MongoDB
5 41 (3.58%) SQL Server
6 39 (3.41%) DynamoDB
7 35 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
8 30 (2.62%) Relational Database
9 27 (2.36%) MySQL
10 23 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
11 20 (1.75%) Data Lake
12 17 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
13 16 (1.40%) Metadata
13 16 (1.40%) Redis
14 13 (1.14%) Big Data
14 13 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (1.05%) Spark SQL
16 10 (0.87%) BigQuery
16 10 (0.87%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 177 (15.46%) Git
2 137 (11.97%) GitLab
3 126 (11.00%) Jenkins
4 31 (2.71%) JIRA
5 15 (1.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 15 (1.31%) SonarQube
6 13 (1.14%) Bitbucket
6 13 (1.14%) Cucumber
7 10 (0.87%) Cypress.io
7 10 (0.87%) NUnit
7 10 (0.87%) Selenium
8 8 (0.70%) MSI
9 7 (0.61%) Artifactory
9 7 (0.61%) JMeter
9 7 (0.61%) Robot Framework
10 6 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
10 6 (0.52%) Subversion
10 6 (0.52%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.52%) Terragrunt
10 6 (0.52%) TestRail
General
1 328 (28.65%) Social Skills
2 193 (16.86%) Finance
3 111 (9.69%) Public Sector
4 81 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (6.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 68 (5.94%) Law
7 59 (5.15%) Presentation Skills
8 27 (2.36%) Retail
8 27 (2.36%) Telecoms
9 25 (2.18%) Aerospace
10 22 (1.92%) Manufacturing
11 21 (1.83%) Banking
12 16 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
12 16 (1.40%) Games
13 13 (1.14%) Marketing
14 11 (0.96%) Advertising
15 10 (0.87%) Legal
16 8 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.61%) Local Government
18 5 (0.44%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 246 (21.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 223 (19.48%) Senior
3 193 (16.86%) Lead
4 144 (12.58%) Architect
5 133 (11.62%) Cloud Engineer
6 106 (9.26%) Developer
6 106 (9.26%) Platform Engineer
7 101 (8.82%) Azure Engineer
8 75 (6.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 71 (6.20%) Software Engineer
10 58 (5.07%) Systems Architect
11 56 (4.89%) Data Engineer
12 51 (4.45%) AWS Engineer
13 50 (4.37%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 49 (4.28%) Senior DevOps
15 44 (3.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 42 (3.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 39 (3.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 38 (3.32%) Technical Leader
19 36 (3.14%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (9.78%) React
2 90 (7.86%) Node.js
3 89 (7.77%) .NET
4 88 (7.69%) REST
5 68 (5.94%) Spring Boot
6 65 (5.68%) Spring
7 57 (4.98%) ARM Templates
8 55 (4.80%) Kafka
9 54 (4.72%) RESTful
10 51 (4.45%) AWS CDK
11 47 (4.10%) YAML
12 39 (3.41%) PySpark
13 38 (3.32%) Elastic Stack
14 36 (3.14%) AngularJS
15 31 (2.71%) Next.js
16 30 (2.62%) ASP.NET
17 29 (2.53%) RabbitMQ
17 29 (2.53%) Vue
18 28 (2.45%) ASP.NET Core
19 26 (2.27%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 273 (23.84%) Cloud Native
2 88 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (6.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 54 (4.72%) Product Ownership
5 42 (3.67%) Onboarding
6 37 (3.23%) Public Cloud
7 33 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
7 33 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
8 29 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
9 28 (2.45%) Security Posture
10 26 (2.27%) Data Centre
10 26 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (1.66%) Data Structures
11 19 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
11 19 (1.66%) Private Cloud
12 16 (1.40%) Replication
13 15 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
13 15 (1.31%) Virtual Team
14 14 (1.22%) Mainframe
14 14 (1.22%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 209 (18.25%) Linux
2 116 (10.13%) Windows
3 55 (4.80%) Windows Server
4 32 (2.79%) CentOS
5 29 (2.53%) Ubuntu
6 24 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 20 (1.75%) Unix
8 18 (1.57%) VMS
9 7 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.52%) Debian
11 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.17%) AIX
12 2 (0.17%) Android
12 2 (0.17%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.087%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.087%) Rocky
13 1 (0.087%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 829 (72.40%) CI/CD
2 680 (59.39%) DevOps
3 392 (34.24%) Containerisation
4 384 (33.54%) Agile
5 342 (29.87%) Observability
6 281 (24.54%) Platform Engineering
7 269 (23.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 258 (22.53%) Mentoring
9 226 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
10 216 (18.86%) AI
11 206 (17.99%) Software Engineering
12 195 (17.03%) Microservices
13 186 (16.24%) Test Automation
14 184 (16.07%) Technical Leadership
15 155 (13.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 154 (13.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 145 (12.66%) Roadmaps
18 136 (11.88%) Cloud Security
19 128 (11.18%) DevSecOps
20 113 (9.87%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 456 (39.83%) Python
2 207 (18.08%) Bash
3 183 (15.98%) PowerShell
4 162 (14.15%) SQL
5 147 (12.84%) Java
6 129 (11.27%) Bicep
7 123 (10.74%) TypeScript
8 105 (9.17%) JavaScript
9 82 (7.16%) C#
10 65 (5.68%) Go
11 22 (1.92%) Ruby
12 19 (1.66%) Groovy
12 19 (1.66%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (1.31%) PHP
14 9 (0.79%) Rust
15 8 (0.70%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.61%) C++
17 6 (0.52%) COBOL
17 6 (0.52%) Scala
18 5 (0.44%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 292 (25.50%) Security Cleared
2 178 (15.55%) SC Cleared
3 115 (10.04%) DV Cleared
4 85 (7.42%) Degree
5 62 (5.41%) Azure Certification
6 44 (3.84%) AWS Certification
7 39 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (0.87%) DBS Check
12 9 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (0.61%) CCNA
13 7 (0.61%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.52%) ICAEW
14 6 (0.52%) RHCSA
15 5 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.44%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (6.03%) QA
2 59 (5.15%) GRC
3 39 (3.41%) Data Quality
4 33 (2.88%) Accessibility
5 23 (2.01%) WCAG
6 20 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.57%) GDPR
7 18 (1.57%) NCSC
8 16 (1.40%) PCI DSS
9 14 (1.22%) NIST
10 12 (1.05%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.52%) Government Security Classifications
11 6 (0.52%) SLA
12 5 (0.44%) 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 (0.087%) GxP
System Software
1 335 (29.26%) Docker
2 71 (6.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 65 (5.68%) Active Directory
4 32 (2.79%) vSphere
5 18 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.79%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.79%) 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 (0.35%) Squid
10 1 (0.087%) KVM
10 1 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 778 (67.95%) Terraform
2 436 (38.08%) Kubernetes
3 233 (20.35%) Ansible
4 127 (11.09%) Grafana
5 99 (8.65%) Prometheus
6 37 (3.23%) Puppet
7 34 (2.97%) Argo
8 27 (2.36%) Progress Chef
9 18 (1.57%) Istio
10 16 (1.40%) Packer
11 13 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
11 13 (1.14%) vCenter Server
12 12 (1.05%) Nagios
13 10 (0.87%) Kibana
14 9 (0.79%) Podman
15 8 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
15 8 (0.70%) Kustomize
15 8 (0.70%) Proxmox
15 8 (0.70%) Rancher
16 7 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 264 (23.06%) Microsoft
2 84 (7.34%) VMware
3 60 (5.24%) Google
4 51 (4.45%) Red Hat
5 42 (3.67%) Splunk
6 38 (3.32%) Databricks
7 30 (2.62%) Cisco
8 21 (1.83%) Palo Alto
9 16 (1.40%) Oracle
10 14 (1.22%) Dynatrace
11 13 (1.14%) F5
12 12 (1.05%) ScienceLogic
13 11 (0.96%) Atlassian
13 11 (0.96%) Fortinet
14 8 (0.70%) CrowdStrike
14 8 (0.70%) OpenAI
15 7 (0.61%) HubSpot
15 7 (0.61%) IBM
15 7 (0.61%) New Relic
15 7 (0.61%) Tenable