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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 217 152
Rank change year-on-year +114 -65 -44
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,308 459 908
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.57% 1.34% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 1.55% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 886 327 602
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,239 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.34% +7.69% -4.41%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%

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 58,541 29,655 43,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.09% 86.65% 78.26%
Number of salaries quoted 41,477 15,958 23,760
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +93 458 £70,239 +0.34% 517
North West +91 254 £72,500 +11.54% 292
South East +57 243 £67,500 -18.18% 300
South West +37 235 £75,000 - 245
Midlands +26 145 £77,500 +19.23% 201
Yorkshire -3 104 £73,750 +5.36% 150
North East +19 100 £59,000 -18.62% 75
West Midlands +6 88 £85,000 +31.78% 121
Wales -12 71 £70,000 +21.74% 43
Northern Ireland -23 62 £71,991 +67.07% 57
East Midlands +10 57 £67,500 +3.85% 80
East of England -6 56 £65,000 - 120
Scotland +12 50 £72,500 +3.57% 200
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 42 (3.21%) Apache Spark
2 37 (2.83%) Apache
3 33 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (1.53%) Confluence
6 13 (0.99%) Jupyter
7 9 (0.69%) IIS
8 6 (0.46%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.38%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.23%) CMS
10 3 (0.23%) nginx
10 3 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.23%) WordPress
11 1 (0.076%) Documentum
11 1 (0.076%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.15%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.076%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.076%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 707 (54.05%) Azure
2 689 (52.68%) AWS
3 232 (17.74%) GitHub
4 219 (16.74%) GCP
5 199 (15.21%) Serverless
6 192 (14.68%) Azure DevOps
7 178 (13.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 136 (10.40%) GitHub Actions
9 117 (8.94%) AWS Lambda
10 111 (8.49%) Amazon S3
11 90 (6.88%) Amazon EC2
12 87 (6.65%) Amazon EKS
13 83 (6.35%) PaaS
14 81 (6.19%) Amazon ECS
14 81 (6.19%) Microsoft 365
15 72 (5.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 68 (5.20%) Azure AKS
17 67 (5.12%) Cloud Computing
17 67 (5.12%) SaaS
18 60 (4.59%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 94 (7.19%) Firewall
2 89 (6.80%) WAN
3 77 (5.89%) VPN
4 75 (5.73%) LAN
5 66 (5.05%) DNS
6 40 (3.06%) Network Security
7 37 (2.83%) TCP/IP
8 34 (2.60%) DHCP
9 24 (1.83%) BGP
10 17 (1.30%) VLAN
11 15 (1.15%) SD-WAN
11 15 (1.15%) Software-Defined Networking
12 13 (0.99%) OSPF
13 12 (0.92%) SAN
14 10 (0.76%) Broadband
14 10 (0.76%) Ethernet VPN
14 10 (0.76%) Wireless
15 8 (0.61%) HTTP
16 7 (0.54%) AMQP
16 7 (0.54%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (6.73%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (4.51%) NoSQL
3 58 (4.43%) Amazon RDS
4 53 (4.05%) MongoDB
5 49 (3.75%) DynamoDB
6 47 (3.59%) SQL Server
7 43 (3.29%) MySQL
8 36 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 36 (2.75%) Relational Database
9 32 (2.45%) Data Lake
10 31 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
11 21 (1.61%) Big Data
12 18 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
13 17 (1.30%) Redis
14 16 (1.22%) Metadata
15 15 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
15 15 (1.15%) Hadoop
15 15 (1.15%) Power BI
16 14 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
17 12 (0.92%) Flink
Development Applications
1 202 (15.44%) Git
2 144 (11.01%) GitLab
3 132 (10.09%) Jenkins
4 43 (3.29%) JIRA
5 18 (1.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 18 (1.38%) SonarQube
6 15 (1.15%) Cypress.io
7 13 (0.99%) Selenium
8 12 (0.92%) Bitbucket
9 10 (0.76%) Cucumber
9 10 (0.76%) NUnit
10 9 (0.69%) MSI
11 8 (0.61%) Artifactory
11 8 (0.61%) Terragrunt
12 7 (0.54%) Robot Framework
12 7 (0.54%) Subversion
13 6 (0.46%) Claude Code
13 6 (0.46%) git-flow
13 6 (0.46%) TestRail
14 5 (0.38%) Snyk
General
1 389 (29.74%) Social Skills
2 234 (17.89%) Finance
3 148 (11.31%) Public Sector
4 95 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
5 93 (7.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 79 (6.04%) Law
7 69 (5.28%) Presentation Skills
8 51 (3.90%) Aerospace
9 28 (2.14%) Retail
10 27 (2.06%) Banking
11 24 (1.83%) Manufacturing
12 20 (1.53%) Marketing
13 16 (1.22%) Legal
14 15 (1.15%) Telecoms
15 13 (0.99%) Aviation
15 13 (0.99%) Local Government
16 11 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (0.84%) Military
17 10 (0.76%) Games
18 9 (0.69%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 268 (20.49%) Senior
2 266 (20.34%) DevOps Engineer
3 216 (16.51%) Lead
4 164 (12.54%) Architect
5 163 (12.46%) Cloud Engineer
6 133 (10.17%) Platform Engineer
7 125 (9.56%) Developer
8 107 (8.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 104 (7.95%) Azure Engineer
10 90 (6.88%) Software Engineer
11 71 (5.43%) Data Engineer
12 64 (4.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 63 (4.82%) AWS Engineer
14 62 (4.74%) Systems Architect
15 56 (4.28%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 48 (3.67%) Senior DevOps
17 47 (3.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 46 (3.52%) Azure Platform Engineer
18 46 (3.52%) Technical Leader
19 45 (3.44%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 884 (67.58%) Terraform
2 129 (9.86%) React
3 97 (7.42%) .NET
4 95 (7.26%) Node.js
4 95 (7.26%) REST
5 92 (7.03%) Spring Boot
6 89 (6.80%) Spring
7 73 (5.58%) Kafka
8 67 (5.12%) RESTful
9 54 (4.13%) AWS CDK
10 50 (3.82%) ARM Templates
11 48 (3.67%) AngularJS
12 41 (3.13%) PySpark
13 38 (2.91%) YAML
14 35 (2.68%) RabbitMQ
14 35 (2.68%) Vue
15 34 (2.60%) CSS
16 33 (2.52%) ASP.NET
16 33 (2.52%) Next.js
17 32 (2.45%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 341 (26.07%) Cloud Native
2 101 (7.72%) Distributed Systems
3 91 (6.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 73 (5.58%) Onboarding
5 60 (4.59%) Product Ownership
6 47 (3.59%) Public Cloud
7 45 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
8 39 (2.98%) Data Centre
9 37 (2.83%) Greenfield Project
10 36 (2.75%) Security Posture
11 34 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
12 32 (2.45%) Private Cloud
13 25 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
14 24 (1.83%) Data Structures
15 23 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
16 22 (1.68%) Virtual Team
17 19 (1.45%) Management Information System
18 16 (1.22%) Mainframe
19 14 (1.07%) PKI
19 14 (1.07%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 244 (18.65%) Linux
2 128 (9.79%) Windows
3 58 (4.43%) Windows Server
4 37 (2.83%) CentOS
5 33 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 27 (2.06%) Unix
7 25 (1.91%) Ubuntu
8 15 (1.15%) VMS
9 7 (0.54%) Debian
10 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.23%) AIX
13 2 (0.15%) Rocky
13 2 (0.15%) Solaris
14 1 (0.076%) Android
14 1 (0.076%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.076%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 943 (72.09%) CI/CD
2 750 (57.34%) DevOps
3 445 (34.02%) Containerisation
4 439 (33.56%) Agile
5 373 (28.52%) Observability
6 323 (24.69%) Platform Engineering
7 311 (23.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 296 (22.63%) Mentoring
9 294 (22.48%) Problem-Solving
10 273 (20.87%) Software Engineering
11 255 (19.50%) AI
12 233 (17.81%) Technical Leadership
13 221 (16.90%) Microservices
14 207 (15.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 189 (14.45%) Test Automation
16 171 (13.07%) Cloud Security
17 170 (13.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 165 (12.61%) Roadmaps
19 145 (11.09%) DevSecOps
20 135 (10.32%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 532 (40.67%) Python
2 227 (17.35%) Bash
3 188 (14.37%) Java
3 188 (14.37%) PowerShell
3 188 (14.37%) SQL
4 134 (10.24%) TypeScript
5 132 (10.09%) Bicep
6 112 (8.56%) JavaScript
7 89 (6.80%) C#
8 62 (4.74%) Go
9 24 (1.83%) Groovy
9 24 (1.83%) Ruby
10 20 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
11 18 (1.38%) Rust
12 15 (1.15%) PHP
13 14 (1.07%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.84%) Scala
15 7 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
16 6 (0.46%) COBOL
17 5 (0.38%) C++
Qualifications
1 395 (30.20%) Security Cleared
2 251 (19.19%) SC Cleared
3 164 (12.54%) DV Cleared
4 100 (7.65%) Degree
5 77 (5.89%) Azure Certification
6 65 (4.97%) AWS Certification
7 44 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 32 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
12 15 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.84%) CCNA
14 9 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 7 (0.54%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.54%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.46%) CCNP
16 6 (0.46%) ICAEW
16 6 (0.46%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (6.12%) QA
2 62 (4.74%) GRC
3 49 (3.75%) Data Quality
4 38 (2.91%) Accessibility
5 26 (1.99%) NCSC
6 24 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.61%) WCAG
8 17 (1.30%) GDPR
8 17 (1.30%) NIST
9 15 (1.15%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.76%) SLA
11 9 (0.69%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.15%) IFRS
13 2 (0.15%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.15%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.076%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.076%) HIPAA
System Software
1 387 (29.59%) Docker
2 85 (6.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 79 (6.04%) Active Directory
4 33 (2.52%) vSphere
5 25 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (1.38%) Hyper-V
8 12 (0.92%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.46%) Firmware
10 5 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.31%) KVM
11 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.31%) Squid
11 4 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.23%) iptables
13 2 (0.15%) Lustre
14 1 (0.076%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 512 (39.14%) Kubernetes
2 279 (21.33%) Ansible
3 115 (8.79%) Grafana
4 93 (7.11%) Prometheus
5 47 (3.59%) Puppet
6 42 (3.21%) Argo
7 33 (2.52%) Progress Chef
8 22 (1.68%) Istio
9 16 (1.22%) Packer
10 14 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (1.07%) vCenter Server
11 12 (0.92%) Podman
11 12 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
12 10 (0.76%) Kibana
12 10 (0.76%) Kustomize
12 10 (0.76%) Rancher
13 8 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
13 8 (0.61%) linkerd
13 8 (0.61%) Nessus
13 8 (0.61%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 305 (23.32%) Microsoft
2 98 (7.49%) VMware
3 67 (5.12%) Google
4 55 (4.20%) Red Hat
5 51 (3.90%) Databricks
6 50 (3.82%) Splunk
7 30 (2.29%) Oracle
8 29 (2.22%) Cisco
9 14 (1.07%) Fortinet
9 14 (1.07%) OpenAI
9 14 (1.07%) ServiceNow
10 13 (0.99%) Atlassian
11 12 (0.92%) New Relic
11 12 (0.92%) ScienceLogic
12 11 (0.84%) Palo Alto
13 10 (0.76%) F5
14 9 (0.69%) Dynatrace
14 9 (0.69%) Meraki
15 8 (0.61%) IBM
16 7 (0.54%) SAP