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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 163 190
Rank change year-on-year +4 +27 -37
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 653 456 936
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.18% 1.76% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 1.91% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 479 353 716
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £51,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £88,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%

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 41,386 23,826 52,633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 74.48% 91.89% 85.13%
Number of salaries quoted 24,810 13,495 38,783
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,945 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.42%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 March 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 March 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 -17 227 £67,500 - 159
South East +7 141 £70,000 -5.08% 123
North West -21 107 £73,801 +1.79% 84
South West -8 92 £62,500 -13.18% 88
Yorkshire -11 90 £62,500 +8.70% 47
Midlands -17 72 £67,500 +3.85% 47
Scotland -10 56 £60,000 -14.89% 22
West Midlands -12 35 £66,500 -5.00% 41
East Midlands -16 35 £67,500 +3.85% 6
East of England -2 34 £62,500 -13.79% 35
North East -10 30 £48,445 -15.75% 28
Wales -9 21 £68,500 +25.57% 12
Northern Ireland -29 10 £95,000 - 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 12 (1.84%) IIS
2 11 (1.68%) Apache
3 10 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.23%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.07%) Confluence
6 3 (0.46%) CMS
6 3 (0.46%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.46%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Appian
8 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 411 (62.94%) AWS
2 385 (58.96%) Azure
3 183 (28.02%) Azure DevOps
4 160 (24.50%) GitHub
5 143 (21.90%) Serverless
6 133 (20.37%) GCP
7 119 (18.22%) GitHub Actions
8 110 (16.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 82 (12.56%) AWS Lambda
10 69 (10.57%) Amazon S3
11 61 (9.34%) PaaS
12 60 (9.19%) Amazon EKS
13 52 (7.96%) Amazon ECS
14 50 (7.66%) dbt
15 48 (7.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 45 (6.89%) SaaS
17 43 (6.58%) Entra ID
18 35 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
19 34 (5.21%) Amazon EC2
20 33 (5.05%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 87 (13.32%) Firewall
2 53 (8.12%) DNS
2 53 (8.12%) TCP/IP
3 25 (3.83%) VPN
4 19 (2.91%) HTTP
5 18 (2.76%) Network Security
6 13 (1.99%) Cisco ASA
6 13 (1.99%) DHCP
7 10 (1.53%) Broadband
7 10 (1.53%) WAN
8 9 (1.38%) VLAN
9 8 (1.23%) LAN
10 7 (1.07%) BGP
10 7 (1.07%) Internet
11 5 (0.77%) AMQP
11 5 (0.77%) SAN
12 4 (0.61%) Cisco Firepower
12 4 (0.61%) Unified Communications
12 4 (0.61%) WebEx
12 4 (0.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (10.11%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (8.42%) Amazon RDS
3 38 (5.82%) NoSQL
4 34 (5.21%) SQL Server
5 33 (5.05%) DynamoDB
6 27 (4.13%) Redis
7 23 (3.52%) Elasticsearch
8 22 (3.37%) MongoDB
9 18 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (2.30%) MySQL
11 9 (1.38%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (0.92%) Big Data
13 6 (0.92%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.92%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.92%) Metadata
13 6 (0.92%) Spark SQL
14 5 (0.77%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (0.77%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 97 (14.85%) Git
2 83 (12.71%) Jenkins
3 64 (9.80%) GitLab
4 22 (3.37%) Selenium
5 20 (3.06%) Robot Framework
6 16 (2.45%) JIRA
6 16 (2.45%) Snyk
7 12 (1.84%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.68%) Cucumber
9 10 (1.53%) JMeter
10 9 (1.38%) Locust
11 8 (1.23%) CircleCI
11 8 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.92%) git-flow
12 6 (0.92%) Subversion
13 5 (0.77%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.61%) Cypress.io
14 4 (0.61%) NUnit
14 4 (0.61%) TestRail
General
1 181 (27.72%) Social Skills
2 101 (15.47%) Finance
3 73 (11.18%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (7.20%) Public Sector
5 40 (6.13%) Telecoms
6 30 (4.59%) Law
7 25 (3.83%) Retail
8 22 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.60%) Billing
10 16 (2.45%) Games
10 16 (2.45%) Manufacturing
11 15 (2.30%) Marketing
12 14 (2.14%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.99%) Banking
14 9 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.23%) Advertising
15 8 (1.23%) Electronics
16 7 (1.07%) Legal
17 5 (0.77%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 160 (24.50%) Senior
2 109 (16.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 101 (15.47%) Lead
4 80 (12.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 78 (11.94%) Developer
6 74 (11.33%) Azure Engineer
7 51 (7.81%) Platform Engineer
8 42 (6.43%) Software Engineer
9 36 (5.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 34 (5.21%) Architect
11 25 (3.83%) Senior DevOps
12 24 (3.68%) AWS Engineer
12 24 (3.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 21 (3.22%) Full-Stack Developer
13 21 (3.22%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 20 (3.06%) Lead DevOps
14 20 (3.06%) Python Developer
15 19 (2.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 19 (2.91%) DevSecOps Engineer
16 18 (2.76%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (14.85%) React
2 64 (9.80%) Node.js
3 55 (8.42%) .NET
4 49 (7.50%) RESTful
5 43 (6.58%) REST
6 42 (6.43%) Django
7 40 (6.13%) AWS CDK
8 36 (5.51%) OAuth
8 36 (5.51%) YAML
9 30 (4.59%) Elastic Stack
10 29 (4.44%) ARM Templates
11 26 (3.98%) CSS
11 26 (3.98%) Spring
12 25 (3.83%) HTML
12 25 (3.83%) Vue
13 23 (3.52%) FastAPI
14 22 (3.37%) ASP.NET
14 22 (3.37%) GraphQL
14 22 (3.37%) RabbitMQ
15 21 (3.22%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 123 (18.84%) Cloud Native
2 41 (6.28%) Product Ownership
3 30 (4.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 25 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (3.22%) Linux Command Line
6 19 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (2.45%) Security Posture
8 15 (2.30%) Data Structures
9 14 (2.14%) Onboarding
10 13 (1.99%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.53%) Data Centre
12 10 (1.53%) Legacy Applications
12 10 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (1.23%) Mobile App
14 8 (1.23%) Private Cloud
14 8 (1.23%) Video\Live Streaming
15 7 (1.07%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 150 (22.97%) Linux
2 63 (9.65%) Windows
3 31 (4.75%) Unix
4 23 (3.52%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.14%) Ubuntu
6 11 (1.68%) CentOS
6 11 (1.68%) VMS
7 9 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (1.07%) Debian
9 5 (0.77%) Android
9 5 (0.77%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 481 (73.66%) CI/CD
2 453 (69.37%) DevOps
3 244 (37.37%) Agile
4 177 (27.11%) Containerisation
5 171 (26.19%) Observability
6 160 (24.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 159 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
8 144 (22.05%) Mentoring
9 120 (18.38%) Test Automation
10 112 (17.15%) Platform Engineering
11 97 (14.85%) Software Engineering
12 91 (13.94%) Microservices
13 90 (13.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 88 (13.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 75 (11.49%) DevSecOps
16 74 (11.33%) Incident Response
17 69 (10.57%) Cloud Security
18 67 (10.26%) Coaching
19 65 (9.95%) AI
19 65 (9.95%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 279 (42.73%) Python
2 133 (20.37%) PowerShell
3 126 (19.30%) Bash
4 102 (15.62%) SQL
5 76 (11.64%) TypeScript
6 75 (11.49%) Java
7 71 (10.87%) Bicep
8 68 (10.41%) JavaScript
9 53 (8.12%) Go
10 48 (7.35%) C#
11 11 (1.68%) C
12 9 (1.38%) C++
13 8 (1.23%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.61%) Ruby
16 3 (0.46%) Scala
17 2 (0.31%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.31%) VB
18 1 (0.15%) Perl
18 1 (0.15%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 122 (18.68%) Security Cleared
2 69 (10.57%) SC Cleared
3 57 (8.73%) DV Cleared
4 35 (5.36%) Degree
5 34 (5.21%) AWS Certification
6 25 (3.83%) Azure Certification
7 15 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.14%) AWS Certified Developer
9 13 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 9 (1.38%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.77%) CISSP
12 5 (0.77%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.61%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (0.46%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.46%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.31%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (6.28%) QA
2 25 (3.83%) GDPR
3 24 (3.68%) Accessibility
4 16 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.84%) WCAG
6 11 (1.68%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.68%) NIST
7 8 (1.23%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.77%) NCSC
8 5 (0.77%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.46%) GRC
10 2 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 209 (32.01%) Docker
2 30 (4.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (3.83%) Active Directory
4 16 (2.45%) vSphere
5 15 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (1.68%) VMware NSX
7 8 (1.23%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.77%) Firmware
8 5 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.61%) iptables
9 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.15%) KVM
10 1 (0.15%) QEMU
10 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 455 (69.68%) Terraform
2 212 (32.47%) Kubernetes
3 150 (22.97%) Ansible
4 97 (14.85%) Grafana
5 76 (11.64%) Prometheus
6 17 (2.60%) Puppet
7 15 (2.30%) Argo
8 14 (2.14%) AWS Copilot
9 10 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (1.38%) Nagios
10 9 (1.38%) Progress Chef
10 9 (1.38%) Rancher
11 8 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (1.07%) Proxmox
12 7 (1.07%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.92%) yum
14 5 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.61%) Cisco CUCM
15 4 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
15 4 (0.61%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 117 (17.92%) Microsoft
2 50 (7.66%) Google
3 49 (7.50%) VMware
4 25 (3.83%) Red Hat
5 24 (3.68%) Cisco
6 22 (3.37%) Splunk
7 16 (2.45%) Black Duck
7 16 (2.45%) Coverity
8 14 (2.14%) CrowdStrike
8 14 (2.14%) Palo Alto
9 13 (1.99%) Databricks
9 13 (1.99%) Dynatrace
10 11 (1.68%) Ab Initio
11 9 (1.38%) Salesforce
12 8 (1.23%) Fortinet
13 7 (1.07%) F5
13 7 (1.07%) Juniper
14 6 (0.92%) Dell
14 6 (0.92%) SaltStack
14 6 (0.92%) SolarWinds