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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 211 202
Rank change year-on-year +85 -9 -63
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 932 453 999
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.36% 1.48% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 1.63% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 708 306 784
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,750 £57,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £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 47,994 27,715 61,724
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.17% 90.69% 80.08%
Number of salaries quoted 33,712 14,205 43,019
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,999 £32,851 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,681 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.36% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,250 £78,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 +74 332 £67,500 -3.57% 106
South East +37 211 £70,000 -9.68% 148
North West +70 200 £72,500 - 61
South West +22 152 £75,000 +3.45% 63
Midlands +43 122 £74,250 +14.23% 48
Yorkshire -5 85 £65,576 -6.32% 27
West Midlands +17 70 £80,000 +14.29% 35
East of England +8 53 £60,100 -7.54% 17
East Midlands +10 52 £67,500 +3.85% 13
North East -6 47 £55,000 -12.70% 19
Scotland +4 34 £60,000 -20.19% 16
Wales -25 30 £70,000 +27.27% 9
Northern Ireland -33 3 £84,401 +95.86% 7
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 27 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (2.15%) Apache
2 20 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (2.04%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.72%) Confluence
5 9 (0.97%) Jupyter
6 8 (0.86%) IIS
7 5 (0.54%) CMS
8 4 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.32%) WordPress
10 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.21%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.11%) Lightworks
1 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 531 (56.97%) AWS
2 497 (53.33%) Azure
3 200 (21.46%) GitHub
4 190 (20.39%) Azure DevOps
5 178 (19.10%) Serverless
6 142 (15.24%) GCP
7 134 (14.38%) GitHub Actions
8 115 (12.34%) AWS CloudFormation
9 99 (10.62%) Amazon S3
10 91 (9.76%) AWS Lambda
11 84 (9.01%) PaaS
12 76 (8.15%) Amazon EKS
13 71 (7.62%) Amazon EC2
14 62 (6.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 62 (6.65%) Azure AKS
15 59 (6.33%) IaaS
16 58 (6.22%) Amazon ECS
17 54 (5.79%) Azure Monitor
17 54 (5.79%) Entra ID
17 54 (5.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 109 (11.70%) Firewall
2 59 (6.33%) DNS
3 53 (5.69%) VPN
4 37 (3.97%) TCP/IP
5 28 (3.00%) Network Security
6 22 (2.36%) DHCP
7 18 (1.93%) VLAN
8 16 (1.72%) BGP
8 16 (1.72%) Broadband
8 16 (1.72%) HTTP
9 14 (1.50%) WAN
10 13 (1.39%) Cisco ASA
11 10 (1.07%) SAN
12 9 (0.97%) LAN
13 6 (0.64%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.64%) Ethernet VPN
13 6 (0.64%) OSPF
13 6 (0.64%) Software-Defined Networking
13 6 (0.64%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.64%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (5.58%) Amazon RDS
3 41 (4.40%) NoSQL
4 39 (4.18%) MongoDB
5 38 (4.08%) DynamoDB
6 34 (3.65%) Azure SQL Database
6 34 (3.65%) SQL Server
7 20 (2.15%) Relational Database
8 17 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (1.61%) MySQL
9 15 (1.61%) Redis
10 14 (1.50%) Metadata
11 13 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
11 13 (1.39%) Data Lake
11 13 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (1.39%) Spark SQL
12 10 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (1.07%) Big Data
13 9 (0.97%) BigQuery
14 7 (0.75%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 147 (15.77%) Git
2 117 (12.55%) GitLab
3 115 (12.34%) Jenkins
4 26 (2.79%) JIRA
5 15 (1.61%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.50%) Cucumber
7 13 (1.39%) SonarQube
8 8 (0.86%) Cypress.io
8 8 (0.86%) NUnit
8 8 (0.86%) Selenium
9 7 (0.75%) Artifactory
9 7 (0.75%) JMeter
10 6 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
10 6 (0.64%) Robot Framework
10 6 (0.64%) Subversion
10 6 (0.64%) TestRail
11 5 (0.54%) MSI
12 4 (0.43%) Jasmine
12 4 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 229 (24.57%) Social Skills
2 106 (11.37%) Finance
3 83 (8.91%) Public Sector
4 66 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (6.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (3.86%) Law
7 31 (3.33%) Telecoms
8 25 (2.68%) Retail
9 23 (2.47%) Aerospace
10 22 (2.36%) Manufacturing
11 21 (2.25%) Banking
12 18 (1.93%) Games
13 17 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (1.18%) Billing
15 10 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (0.86%) Marketing
17 7 (0.75%) Advertising
17 7 (0.75%) Legal
18 5 (0.54%) Local Government
19 4 (0.43%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 197 (21.14%) Senior
2 186 (19.96%) DevOps Engineer
3 149 (15.99%) Lead
4 120 (12.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 94 (10.09%) Azure Engineer
6 92 (9.87%) Developer
7 88 (9.44%) Platform Engineer
8 68 (7.30%) Architect
8 68 (7.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 62 (6.65%) Software Engineer
10 47 (5.04%) AWS Engineer
11 44 (4.72%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 40 (4.29%) Data Engineer
13 38 (4.08%) Senior DevOps
14 37 (3.97%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 33 (3.54%) Technical Leader
16 31 (3.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 30 (3.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 30 (3.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 29 (3.11%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (10.94%) React
2 91 (9.76%) Node.js
3 80 (8.58%) .NET
4 77 (8.26%) REST
5 51 (5.47%) ARM Templates
6 47 (5.04%) AWS CDK
7 46 (4.94%) YAML
8 45 (4.83%) RESTful
9 41 (4.40%) Kafka
10 40 (4.29%) Spring
11 39 (4.18%) Elastic Stack
11 39 (4.18%) Spring Boot
12 33 (3.54%) PySpark
13 31 (3.33%) AngularJS
14 29 (3.11%) ASP.NET
15 28 (3.00%) Vue
16 27 (2.90%) ASP.NET Core
17 26 (2.79%) Next.js
18 25 (2.68%) RabbitMQ
19 22 (2.36%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 214 (22.96%) Cloud Native
2 67 (7.19%) Distributed Systems
2 67 (7.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 49 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 35 (3.76%) Public Cloud
5 29 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
5 29 (3.11%) Onboarding
6 27 (2.90%) Security Posture
7 25 (2.68%) Data Centre
8 23 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
9 21 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
11 16 (1.72%) Private Cloud
12 15 (1.61%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.61%) Replication
13 13 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
13 13 (1.39%) Video\Live Streaming
14 12 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (1.29%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 185 (19.85%) Linux
2 104 (11.16%) Windows
3 51 (5.47%) Windows Server
4 31 (3.33%) Ubuntu
5 24 (2.58%) CentOS
6 19 (2.04%) VMS
7 16 (1.72%) Unix
8 15 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.75%) Debian
11 5 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.32%) Android
12 3 (0.32%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.11%) AIX
13 1 (0.11%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 695 (74.57%) CI/CD
2 572 (61.37%) DevOps
3 327 (35.09%) Agile
4 297 (31.87%) Observability
5 264 (28.33%) Containerisation
6 230 (24.68%) Platform Engineering
7 220 (23.61%) Mentoring
8 213 (22.85%) Continuous Improvement
9 188 (20.17%) AI
10 180 (19.31%) Problem-Solving
11 165 (17.70%) Microservices
12 162 (17.38%) Test Automation
13 150 (16.09%) Software Engineering
14 135 (14.48%) Technical Leadership
15 134 (14.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 123 (13.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 119 (12.77%) Cloud Security
18 109 (11.70%) DevSecOps
19 98 (10.52%) Analytics
20 92 (9.87%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 397 (42.60%) Python
2 208 (22.32%) Bash
3 181 (19.42%) PowerShell
4 144 (15.45%) SQL
5 119 (12.77%) TypeScript
6 110 (11.80%) Bicep
7 108 (11.59%) Java
8 92 (9.87%) JavaScript
9 74 (7.94%) C#
10 58 (6.22%) Go
11 18 (1.93%) Groovy
11 18 (1.93%) Kusto Query Language
12 16 (1.72%) Ruby
13 12 (1.29%) PHP
14 9 (0.97%) Rust
15 8 (0.86%) C
15 8 (0.86%) C++
16 6 (0.64%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.43%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.43%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 216 (23.18%) Security Cleared
2 138 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 72 (7.73%) Degree
4 66 (7.08%) DV Cleared
5 56 (6.01%) Azure Certification
6 37 (3.97%) AWS Certification
7 31 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.39%) DBS Check
11 9 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.64%) CCNA
13 6 (0.64%) ICAEW
13 6 (0.64%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.54%) ISTQB
14 5 (0.54%) RHCSA
15 4 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
15 4 (0.43%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (6.12%) QA
2 27 (2.90%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.47%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.82%) GDPR
5 16 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (1.72%) WCAG
6 11 (1.18%) NCSC
6 11 (1.18%) SOC 2
7 10 (1.07%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.97%) NIST
9 5 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.54%) SLA
10 4 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.21%) IFRS
11 2 (0.21%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.21%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.11%) GRC
12 1 (0.11%) GxP
System Software
1 262 (28.11%) Docker
2 69 (7.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 63 (6.76%) Active Directory
4 35 (3.76%) vSphere
5 21 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (1.29%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.75%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.75%) iptables
9 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.43%) Firmware
10 4 (0.43%) Squid
11 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 670 (71.89%) Terraform
2 349 (37.45%) Kubernetes
3 199 (21.35%) Ansible
4 123 (13.20%) Grafana
5 95 (10.19%) Prometheus
6 32 (3.43%) Puppet
7 26 (2.79%) Argo
8 22 (2.36%) Progress Chef
9 15 (1.61%) vCenter Server
10 13 (1.39%) Nagios
10 13 (1.39%) Packer
11 12 (1.29%) Istio
12 11 (1.18%) Proxmox
13 10 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
13 10 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.97%) Kibana
14 9 (0.97%) Podman
14 9 (0.97%) Rancher
15 7 (0.75%) logstash
15 7 (0.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 177 (18.99%) Microsoft
2 86 (9.23%) VMware
3 49 (5.26%) Red Hat
4 37 (3.97%) Google
5 36 (3.86%) Splunk
6 31 (3.33%) Databricks
7 29 (3.11%) Cisco
8 20 (2.15%) Palo Alto
9 13 (1.39%) Oracle
10 12 (1.29%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.29%) ScienceLogic
11 10 (1.07%) F5
12 9 (0.97%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.97%) CrowdStrike
12 9 (0.97%) Fortinet
13 7 (0.75%) HubSpot
13 7 (0.75%) NetApp
13 7 (0.75%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.64%) Juniper
14 6 (0.64%) SolarWinds