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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 208 191
Rank change year-on-year +53 -17 -53
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 773 431 993
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.16% 1.47% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 1.60% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 570 306 785
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,450 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% +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 47,254 26,994 57,538
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.81% 92.05% 83.01%
Number of salaries quoted 30,481 13,823 41,125
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,003
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 £58,269 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.97% +5.94% -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 20 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 20 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 +44 283 £67,249 -3.93% 171
South East +41 170 £70,000 -8.20% 170
North West +54 160 £72,000 -0.69% 90
South West -15 108 £69,200 -3.88% 84
Midlands +24 107 £69,000 -1.43% 37
Yorkshire -14 88 £65,576 +0.89% 45
West Midlands -9 56 £72,500 +3.57% 20
East Midlands +4 49 £67,500 +3.85% 17
Scotland +13 44 £60,000 -19.93% 22
East of England +1 41 £60,100 -7.54% 48
North East -14 35 £50,000 -17.01% 36
Wales -14 18 £60,000 -2.64% 8
Northern Ireland -33 5 £95,000 - 5
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 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (1.68%) Apache
2 13 (1.68%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.55%) IIS
3 12 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.16%) Confluence
5 5 (0.65%) CMS
6 4 (0.52%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.39%) 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
1 456 (58.99%) AWS
2 425 (54.98%) Azure
3 177 (22.90%) Azure DevOps
4 162 (20.96%) GitHub
5 152 (19.66%) Serverless
6 129 (16.69%) GCP
7 123 (15.91%) GitHub Actions
8 103 (13.32%) AWS CloudFormation
9 83 (10.74%) AWS Lambda
10 81 (10.48%) Amazon S3
11 68 (8.80%) Amazon EKS
12 58 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 56 (7.24%) PaaS
14 55 (7.12%) Amazon EC2
15 47 (6.08%) Amazon ECS
16 40 (5.17%) Entra ID
16 40 (5.17%) SaaS
17 39 (5.05%) Azure AKS
18 38 (4.92%) Azure Monitor
19 37 (4.79%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 103 (13.32%) Firewall
2 56 (7.24%) DNS
3 39 (5.05%) TCP/IP
4 26 (3.36%) VPN
5 23 (2.98%) Network Security
6 21 (2.72%) DHCP
7 16 (2.07%) BGP
7 16 (2.07%) HTTP
8 15 (1.94%) Cisco ASA
9 13 (1.68%) Broadband
10 12 (1.55%) VLAN
10 12 (1.55%) WAN
11 9 (1.16%) 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 58 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (6.21%) Amazon RDS
3 37 (4.79%) DynamoDB
3 37 (4.79%) NoSQL
4 32 (4.14%) MongoDB
4 32 (4.14%) SQL Server
5 23 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (1.94%) Relational Database
7 14 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (1.81%) Spark SQL
8 12 (1.55%) Metadata
9 11 (1.42%) BigQuery
9 11 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (1.29%) Data Lake
11 9 (1.16%) Big Data
12 8 (1.03%) Redis
13 7 (0.91%) InfluxDB
13 7 (0.91%) MySQL
14 5 (0.65%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 127 (16.43%) Git
2 99 (12.81%) Jenkins
3 91 (11.77%) GitLab
4 18 (2.33%) JIRA
5 15 (1.94%) Bitbucket
6 12 (1.55%) SonarQube
7 11 (1.42%) Cucumber
8 9 (1.16%) Selenium
9 7 (0.91%) CircleCI
9 7 (0.91%) Robot Framework
9 7 (0.91%) Subversion
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%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.65%) JMeter
12 4 (0.52%) Locust
12 4 (0.52%) TestRail
12 4 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 185 (23.93%) Social Skills
2 104 (13.45%) Finance
3 61 (7.89%) Public Sector
4 56 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (4.79%) Telecoms
6 29 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (3.36%) Retail
8 23 (2.98%) Law
9 22 (2.85%) Banking
10 20 (2.59%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.20%) Aerospace
12 16 (2.07%) Games
13 15 (1.94%) Billing
14 14 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
15 13 (1.68%) Marketing
16 11 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (1.03%) Advertising
18 6 (0.78%) Electronics
19 5 (0.65%) Legal
20 4 (0.52%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 173 (22.38%) Senior
2 146 (18.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 131 (16.95%) Lead
4 104 (13.45%) Cloud Engineer
5 90 (11.64%) Azure Engineer
6 73 (9.44%) Developer
7 64 (8.28%) Platform Engineer
8 58 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 53 (6.86%) Software Engineer
10 46 (5.95%) Architect
11 37 (4.79%) AWS Engineer
12 35 (4.53%) Data Engineer
13 33 (4.27%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 33 (4.27%) Senior DevOps
14 32 (4.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 25 (3.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 25 (3.23%) Technical Leader
16 24 (3.10%) DevSecOps Engineer
17 23 (2.98%) Lead Developer
17 23 (2.98%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (11.51%) React
2 76 (9.83%) Node.js
3 69 (8.93%) .NET
4 60 (7.76%) REST
5 49 (6.34%) AWS CDK
6 45 (5.82%) RESTful
7 44 (5.69%) YAML
8 38 (4.92%) ARM Templates
9 33 (4.27%) Elastic Stack
10 31 (4.01%) ASP.NET
11 30 (3.88%) OAuth
12 29 (3.75%) ASP.NET Core
12 29 (3.75%) Kafka
13 28 (3.62%) Spring
14 23 (2.98%) PySpark
15 22 (2.85%) AngularJS
15 22 (2.85%) Spring Boot
16 20 (2.59%) RabbitMQ
17 19 (2.46%) JSON
18 18 (2.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 144 (18.63%) Cloud Native
2 50 (6.47%) Hybrid Cloud
3 43 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 42 (5.43%) Product Ownership
5 25 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (2.98%) Public Cloud
7 19 (2.46%) Data Centre
7 19 (2.46%) Onboarding
8 18 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
9 17 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
10 15 (1.94%) Legacy Applications
10 15 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.68%) Private Cloud
12 12 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.55%) Replication
13 11 (1.42%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.42%) Security Posture
14 10 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
14 10 (1.29%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 173 (22.38%) Linux
2 78 (10.09%) Windows
3 40 (5.17%) Windows Server
4 25 (3.23%) Ubuntu
5 20 (2.59%) Unix
6 16 (2.07%) CentOS
7 11 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (1.16%) 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
1 571 (73.87%) CI/CD
2 497 (64.29%) DevOps
3 266 (34.41%) Agile
4 224 (28.98%) Observability
5 214 (27.68%) Containerisation
6 178 (23.03%) Mentoring
7 175 (22.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 159 (20.57%) Platform Engineering
9 153 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
10 149 (19.28%) Test Automation
11 127 (16.43%) Microservices
12 119 (15.39%) AI
13 114 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 114 (14.75%) Software Engineering
14 102 (13.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 86 (11.13%) Deployment Automation
16 85 (11.00%) Technical Leadership
17 79 (10.22%) DevSecOps
18 78 (10.09%) Cloud Security
19 76 (9.83%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 340 (43.98%) Python
2 171 (22.12%) Bash
3 154 (19.92%) PowerShell
4 115 (14.88%) SQL
5 97 (12.55%) TypeScript
6 85 (11.00%) Java
7 77 (9.96%) JavaScript
8 64 (8.28%) Bicep
9 57 (7.37%) C#
10 53 (6.86%) Go
11 14 (1.81%) Groovy
12 13 (1.68%) C
13 9 (1.16%) C++
13 9 (1.16%) Rust
14 7 (0.91%) PHP
15 6 (0.78%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.65%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (0.52%) Perl
17 4 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 153 (19.79%) Security Cleared
2 98 (12.68%) SC Cleared
3 63 (8.15%) Degree
4 51 (6.60%) DV Cleared
5 39 (5.05%) AWS Certification
6 31 (4.01%) Azure Certification
7 28 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.81%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.42%) AWS Certified Developer
9 11 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.29%) 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 43 (5.56%) QA
2 24 (3.10%) GDPR
3 18 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.33%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.29%) WCAG
6 9 (1.16%) NIST
6 9 (1.16%) SOC 2
7 7 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.52%) NCSC
9 3 (0.39%) SLA
10 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.26%) IFRS
10 2 (0.26%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
System Software
1 219 (28.33%) Docker
2 44 (5.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (4.27%) Active Directory
4 19 (2.46%) vSphere
5 15 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (1.42%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.91%) iptables
8 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.65%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.52%) Firmware
11 2 (0.26%) Squid
12 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 543 (70.25%) Terraform
2 275 (35.58%) Kubernetes
3 179 (23.16%) Ansible
4 109 (14.10%) Grafana
5 86 (11.13%) Prometheus
6 28 (3.62%) Puppet
7 18 (2.33%) Progress Chef
8 17 (2.20%) Argo
9 12 (1.55%) Nagios
10 11 (1.42%) Rancher
11 10 (1.29%) Packer
11 10 (1.29%) vCenter Server
12 8 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (1.03%) Proxmox
12 8 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.91%) Podman
13 7 (0.91%) yum
14 6 (0.78%) Cisco CUCM
14 6 (0.78%) Istio
15 5 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 138 (17.85%) Microsoft
2 58 (7.50%) VMware
3 39 (5.05%) Red Hat
4 31 (4.01%) Cisco
5 30 (3.88%) Databricks
5 30 (3.88%) Google
6 26 (3.36%) Splunk
7 20 (2.59%) Palo Alto
8 14 (1.81%) CrowdStrike
8 14 (1.81%) Dynatrace
9 10 (1.29%) F5
10 9 (1.16%) Fortinet
10 9 (1.16%) 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