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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 214 209
Rank change year-on-year +87 -5 -74
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 923 443 1,006
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.35% 1.46% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 1.61% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 703 299 788
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,750 £57,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,810 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.83% +12.59% -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 47,953 27,584 62,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.00% 90.75% 79.80%
Number of salaries quoted 33,671 14,103 43,662
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,984 £32,851 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,500
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 24 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 24 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 +69 330 £67,500 -3.57% 100
South East +38 209 £70,000 -9.68% 134
North West +70 200 £72,500 - 58
South West +24 150 £73,750 +5.36% 57
Midlands +42 120 £75,000 +15.38% 40
Yorkshire -12 83 £65,576 -6.32% 25
West Midlands +23 70 £80,000 +14.29% 27
East of England +8 53 £60,100 -7.54% 16
East Midlands +3 50 £67,500 +3.85% 13
North East -3 47 £55,000 -14.06% 18
Scotland +6 33 £60,000 -20.19% 15
Wales -23 30 £70,000 +27.27% 10
Northern Ireland -32 3 £84,401 +95.86% 17
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 25 (2.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (2.17%) Apache
2 20 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (2.06%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.63%) Confluence
5 9 (0.98%) Jupyter
6 8 (0.87%) IIS
7 5 (0.54%) CMS
8 4 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.33%) WordPress
10 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.22%) 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 (57.53%) AWS
2 490 (53.09%) Azure
3 197 (21.34%) GitHub
4 188 (20.37%) Azure DevOps
5 179 (19.39%) Serverless
6 140 (15.17%) GCP
7 131 (14.19%) GitHub Actions
8 115 (12.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 98 (10.62%) Amazon S3
10 91 (9.86%) AWS Lambda
11 84 (9.10%) PaaS
12 75 (8.13%) Amazon EKS
13 71 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
14 62 (6.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 61 (6.61%) Azure AKS
16 59 (6.39%) IaaS
17 58 (6.28%) Amazon ECS
18 56 (6.07%) SaaS
19 54 (5.85%) Azure Monitor
20 52 (5.63%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 107 (11.59%) Firewall
2 58 (6.28%) DNS
3 52 (5.63%) VPN
4 37 (4.01%) TCP/IP
5 28 (3.03%) Network Security
6 21 (2.28%) DHCP
7 17 (1.84%) VLAN
8 16 (1.73%) BGP
8 16 (1.73%) Broadband
8 16 (1.73%) HTTP
9 14 (1.52%) WAN
10 13 (1.41%) Cisco ASA
11 9 (0.98%) LAN
11 9 (0.98%) SAN
12 6 (0.65%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (0.65%) Ethernet VPN
12 6 (0.65%) OSPF
12 6 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
12 6 (0.65%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.65%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (5.63%) Amazon RDS
3 41 (4.44%) NoSQL
4 40 (4.33%) MongoDB
5 37 (4.01%) DynamoDB
6 34 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 33 (3.58%) SQL Server
8 20 (2.17%) Relational Database
9 17 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (1.63%) MySQL
10 15 (1.63%) Redis
11 14 (1.52%) Metadata
12 13 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (1.41%) Data Lake
12 13 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (1.41%) Spark SQL
13 10 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.08%) Big Data
14 9 (0.98%) BigQuery
15 7 (0.76%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 147 (15.93%) Git
2 117 (12.68%) GitLab
3 114 (12.35%) Jenkins
4 25 (2.71%) JIRA
5 15 (1.63%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.52%) Cucumber
7 13 (1.41%) SonarQube
8 8 (0.87%) Cypress.io
8 8 (0.87%) NUnit
8 8 (0.87%) Selenium
9 7 (0.76%) Artifactory
9 7 (0.76%) JMeter
10 6 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
10 6 (0.65%) Robot Framework
10 6 (0.65%) Subversion
10 6 (0.65%) TestRail
11 5 (0.54%) MSI
12 4 (0.43%) Jasmine
12 4 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 226 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 104 (11.27%) Finance
3 83 (8.99%) Public Sector
4 66 (7.15%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (5.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (3.79%) Law
7 31 (3.36%) Telecoms
8 25 (2.71%) Retail
9 22 (2.38%) Aerospace
9 22 (2.38%) Manufacturing
10 21 (2.28%) Banking
11 18 (1.95%) Games
12 17 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (1.19%) Billing
14 10 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.87%) Marketing
16 7 (0.76%) Advertising
16 7 (0.76%) Legal
17 5 (0.54%) Local Government
18 4 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 194 (21.02%) Senior
2 183 (19.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 151 (16.36%) Lead
4 118 (12.78%) Cloud Engineer
5 94 (10.18%) Developer
6 93 (10.08%) Azure Engineer
7 85 (9.21%) Platform Engineer
8 68 (7.37%) Architect
9 67 (7.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 61 (6.61%) Software Engineer
11 47 (5.09%) AWS Engineer
12 44 (4.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 40 (4.33%) Data Engineer
14 37 (4.01%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 37 (4.01%) Senior DevOps
15 33 (3.58%) Technical Leader
16 30 (3.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 29 (3.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 29 (3.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 29 (3.14%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (10.83%) React
2 90 (9.75%) Node.js
3 79 (8.56%) .NET
4 77 (8.34%) REST
5 51 (5.53%) ARM Templates
6 47 (5.09%) AWS CDK
7 46 (4.98%) YAML
8 45 (4.88%) RESTful
9 42 (4.55%) Spring
10 41 (4.44%) Kafka
10 41 (4.44%) Spring Boot
11 39 (4.23%) Elastic Stack
12 33 (3.58%) PySpark
13 31 (3.36%) AngularJS
14 29 (3.14%) ASP.NET
15 28 (3.03%) Vue
16 27 (2.93%) ASP.NET Core
17 25 (2.71%) Next.js
17 25 (2.71%) RabbitMQ
18 22 (2.38%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 211 (22.86%) Cloud Native
2 67 (7.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 66 (7.15%) Distributed Systems
4 49 (5.31%) Product Ownership
5 35 (3.79%) Public Cloud
6 30 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
7 28 (3.03%) Onboarding
8 26 (2.82%) Security Posture
9 24 (2.60%) Data Centre
10 23 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
12 20 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
13 18 (1.95%) Linux Command Line
14 15 (1.63%) Data Structures
14 15 (1.63%) Replication
15 14 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
15 14 (1.52%) Private Cloud
16 13 (1.41%) Video\Live Streaming
17 12 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
17 12 (1.30%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 185 (20.04%) Linux
2 103 (11.16%) Windows
3 50 (5.42%) Windows Server
4 31 (3.36%) Ubuntu
5 24 (2.60%) CentOS
6 19 (2.06%) VMS
7 16 (1.73%) Unix
8 15 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.76%) Debian
11 5 (0.54%) Android
11 5 (0.54%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.11%) AIX
12 1 (0.11%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 689 (74.65%) CI/CD
2 566 (61.32%) DevOps
3 325 (35.21%) Agile
4 293 (31.74%) Observability
5 264 (28.60%) Containerisation
6 222 (24.05%) Platform Engineering
7 217 (23.51%) Mentoring
8 211 (22.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 184 (19.93%) AI
10 178 (19.28%) Problem-Solving
11 165 (17.88%) Microservices
12 161 (17.44%) Test Automation
13 146 (15.82%) Software Engineering
14 133 (14.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 132 (14.30%) Technical Leadership
16 122 (13.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 119 (12.89%) Cloud Security
18 108 (11.70%) DevSecOps
19 97 (10.51%) Analytics
20 93 (10.08%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 396 (42.90%) Python
2 208 (22.54%) Bash
3 178 (19.28%) PowerShell
4 144 (15.60%) SQL
5 118 (12.78%) TypeScript
6 109 (11.81%) Java
7 105 (11.38%) Bicep
8 90 (9.75%) JavaScript
9 74 (8.02%) C#
10 59 (6.39%) Go
11 18 (1.95%) Groovy
12 17 (1.84%) Kusto Query Language
13 16 (1.73%) Ruby
14 11 (1.19%) PHP
15 9 (0.98%) C
15 9 (0.98%) Rust
16 8 (0.87%) C++
17 6 (0.65%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.43%) COBOL
18 4 (0.43%) Perl
Qualifications
1 212 (22.97%) Security Cleared
2 136 (14.73%) SC Cleared
3 71 (7.69%) Degree
4 65 (7.04%) DV Cleared
5 55 (5.96%) Azure Certification
6 37 (4.01%) AWS Certification
7 31 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (1.52%) DBS Check
11 9 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.65%) CCNA
13 6 (0.65%) ICAEW
13 6 (0.65%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.54%) ISTQB
14 5 (0.54%) RHCSA
15 4 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
15 4 (0.43%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (5.96%) QA
2 26 (2.82%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.49%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.84%) GDPR
5 16 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (1.73%) WCAG
6 11 (1.19%) NCSC
6 11 (1.19%) SOC 2
7 10 (1.08%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.98%) NIST
9 5 (0.54%) SLA
10 4 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.22%) IFRS
11 2 (0.22%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.22%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.11%) GRC
12 1 (0.11%) GxP
System Software
1 259 (28.06%) Docker
2 68 (7.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (6.61%) Active Directory
4 35 (3.79%) vSphere
5 21 (2.28%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (1.30%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.76%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.76%) iptables
9 6 (0.65%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.43%) Firmware
10 4 (0.43%) Squid
11 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 665 (72.05%) Terraform
2 346 (37.49%) Kubernetes
3 200 (21.67%) Ansible
4 123 (13.33%) Grafana
5 95 (10.29%) Prometheus
6 32 (3.47%) Puppet
7 26 (2.82%) Argo
8 22 (2.38%) Progress Chef
9 15 (1.63%) vCenter Server
10 13 (1.41%) Nagios
10 13 (1.41%) Packer
11 11 (1.19%) Istio
11 11 (1.19%) Proxmox
12 10 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
12 10 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.98%) Kibana
13 9 (0.98%) Podman
13 9 (0.98%) Rancher
14 7 (0.76%) logstash
14 7 (0.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 175 (18.96%) Microsoft
2 85 (9.21%) VMware
3 49 (5.31%) Red Hat
4 37 (4.01%) Google
5 35 (3.79%) Splunk
6 31 (3.36%) Databricks
7 29 (3.14%) Cisco
8 20 (2.17%) Palo Alto
9 13 (1.41%) Oracle
10 12 (1.30%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.30%) ScienceLogic
11 10 (1.08%) F5
12 9 (0.98%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
12 9 (0.98%) Fortinet
13 7 (0.76%) HubSpot
13 7 (0.76%) NetApp
13 7 (0.76%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.65%) Juniper
14 6 (0.65%) SolarWinds