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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 201 157
Rank change year-on-year +100 -44 -58
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,382 481 823
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.60% 1.38% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 1.58% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 918 342 515
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £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 60,983 30,361 40,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.59% 87.20% 79.59%
Number of salaries quoted 42,823 16,189 20,594
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,733 £30,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £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 £63,750 £67,594
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +94 486 £68,250 -2.50% 417
North West +102 261 £70,400 +8.31% 239
South West +58 255 £75,000 +7.14% 199
South East +50 248 £67,500 -16.92% 252
Midlands +34 151 £75,000 +15.38% 138
North East +23 130 £60,000 -17.24% 65
Yorkshire 0 104 £66,750 -4.64% 116
West Midlands +9 97 £80,000 +23.55% 80
Wales -10 80 £70,000 +16.67% 41
Northern Ireland -27 61 £71,991 +23.17% 27
East of England -18 59 £75,000 +15.38% 102
East Midlands +1 54 £63,750 -1.92% 58
Scotland +13 53 £72,500 +3.57% 178
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 50 (3.62%) Apache Spark
2 47 (3.40%) Apache
3 34 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (1.45%) Confluence
6 17 (1.23%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.51%) IIS
7 7 (0.51%) nginx
7 7 (0.51%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.43%) CMS
9 5 (0.36%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.22%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.22%) WordPress
11 1 (0.072%) Documentum
11 1 (0.072%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 6 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 760 (54.99%) Azure
2 726 (52.53%) AWS
3 258 (18.67%) GCP
4 232 (16.79%) GitHub
5 186 (13.46%) AWS CloudFormation
5 186 (13.46%) Serverless
6 182 (13.17%) Azure DevOps
7 134 (9.70%) GitHub Actions
8 111 (8.03%) AWS Lambda
9 109 (7.89%) Amazon S3
10 103 (7.45%) Cloud Computing
11 84 (6.08%) Amazon EC2
11 84 (6.08%) Amazon ECS
12 83 (6.01%) Amazon EKS
13 82 (5.93%) PaaS
14 79 (5.72%) Microsoft 365
15 76 (5.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 76 (5.50%) SaaS
16 70 (5.07%) Azure AKS
17 62 (4.49%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 94 (6.80%) Firewall
2 88 (6.37%) VPN
3 87 (6.30%) WAN
4 73 (5.28%) LAN
5 67 (4.85%) DNS
6 40 (2.89%) Network Security
7 38 (2.75%) TCP/IP
8 35 (2.53%) Internet
9 31 (2.24%) DHCP
10 24 (1.74%) BGP
11 15 (1.09%) SD-WAN
11 15 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
11 15 (1.09%) VLAN
12 13 (0.94%) OSPF
13 10 (0.72%) Ethernet VPN
13 10 (0.72%) SAN
13 10 (0.72%) Wireless
14 9 (0.65%) Broadband
15 8 (0.58%) AMQP
15 8 (0.58%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (6.80%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (4.49%) NoSQL
3 58 (4.20%) MongoDB
4 56 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
5 47 (3.40%) MySQL
6 45 (3.26%) DynamoDB
6 45 (3.26%) SQL Server
7 40 (2.89%) Data Lake
8 34 (2.46%) Relational Database
9 31 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
10 24 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
11 22 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
11 22 (1.59%) Big Data
12 19 (1.37%) Power BI
13 18 (1.30%) Redis
14 17 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
15 16 (1.16%) Hadoop
15 16 (1.16%) Metadata
16 12 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (0.87%) Flink
Development Applications
1 243 (17.58%) Git
2 170 (12.30%) GitLab
3 133 (9.62%) Jenkins
4 37 (2.68%) JIRA
5 21 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 15 (1.09%) Cypress.io
7 13 (0.94%) SonarQube
8 12 (0.87%) Selenium
9 10 (0.72%) Bitbucket
10 9 (0.65%) MSI
10 9 (0.65%) Subversion
11 8 (0.58%) Terragrunt
12 7 (0.51%) Artifactory
12 7 (0.51%) Claude Code
12 7 (0.51%) NUnit
12 7 (0.51%) Robot Framework
13 6 (0.43%) git-flow
13 6 (0.43%) TestRail
14 5 (0.36%) JUnit
14 5 (0.36%) Snyk
General
1 402 (29.09%) Social Skills
2 230 (16.64%) Finance
3 190 (13.75%) Public Sector
4 144 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
5 103 (7.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 78 (5.64%) Law
7 69 (4.99%) Presentation Skills
8 52 (3.76%) Aerospace
9 27 (1.95%) Banking
10 25 (1.81%) Retail
11 19 (1.37%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.30%) Marketing
13 15 (1.09%) Legal
14 14 (1.01%) Aviation
15 13 (0.94%) Telecoms
16 12 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (0.80%) Military
18 10 (0.72%) Local Government
19 9 (0.65%) Advertising
20 5 (0.36%) Games
Job Titles
1 319 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 297 (21.49%) Senior
3 211 (15.27%) Lead
4 170 (12.30%) Architect
5 164 (11.87%) Cloud Engineer
6 137 (9.91%) Platform Engineer
7 130 (9.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 126 (9.12%) Developer
9 107 (7.74%) Azure Engineer
10 93 (6.73%) Software Engineer
11 68 (4.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 68 (4.92%) Data Engineer
12 64 (4.63%) AWS Engineer
13 62 (4.49%) Senior DevOps
13 62 (4.49%) Systems Architect
14 60 (4.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 60 (4.34%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 52 (3.76%) Principal Engineer
16 49 (3.55%) Azure Platform Engineer
17 44 (3.18%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 882 (63.82%) Terraform
2 138 (9.99%) React
3 103 (7.45%) Spring Boot
4 98 (7.09%) .NET
5 97 (7.02%) Spring
6 92 (6.66%) REST
7 88 (6.37%) Node.js
8 78 (5.64%) Kafka
9 70 (5.07%) RESTful
10 51 (3.69%) AWS CDK
11 47 (3.40%) AngularJS
11 47 (3.40%) ARM Templates
12 39 (2.82%) PySpark
13 37 (2.68%) Next.js
14 34 (2.46%) LangChain
14 34 (2.46%) RabbitMQ
15 33 (2.39%) CSS
16 32 (2.32%) Vue
17 31 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
18 30 (2.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 365 (26.41%) Cloud Native
2 96 (6.95%) Distributed Systems
3 88 (6.37%) Hybrid Cloud
4 76 (5.50%) Onboarding
5 60 (4.34%) Product Ownership
6 55 (3.98%) Linux Command Line
7 44 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
8 42 (3.04%) Public Cloud
9 41 (2.97%) Security Posture
10 40 (2.89%) Data Centre
11 39 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
12 36 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
13 34 (2.46%) Private Cloud
14 28 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
15 26 (1.88%) Virtual Team
16 23 (1.66%) Data Structures
17 20 (1.45%) Management Information System
18 17 (1.23%) AI Agents
18 17 (1.23%) Mainframe
19 12 (0.87%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 302 (21.85%) Linux
2 132 (9.55%) Windows
3 54 (3.91%) Windows Server
4 41 (2.97%) CentOS
5 40 (2.89%) Unix
6 38 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 24 (1.74%) Ubuntu
8 14 (1.01%) VMS
9 8 (0.58%) Debian
10 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.29%) AIX
11 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.14%) Rocky
12 2 (0.14%) Solaris
13 1 (0.072%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,005 (72.72%) CI/CD
2 816 (59.04%) DevOps
3 492 (35.60%) Containerisation
4 474 (34.30%) Agile
5 385 (27.86%) Platform Engineering
6 373 (26.99%) Observability
7 347 (25.11%) Mentoring
8 331 (23.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 311 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
10 280 (20.26%) Software Engineering
11 275 (19.90%) AI
12 270 (19.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 257 (18.60%) Technical Leadership
14 230 (16.64%) Microservices
15 220 (15.92%) Cloud Security
16 209 (15.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 189 (13.68%) Test Automation
18 186 (13.46%) DevSecOps
19 171 (12.37%) Roadmaps
20 144 (10.42%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 548 (39.65%) Python
2 241 (17.44%) Bash
3 202 (14.62%) Java
4 186 (13.46%) PowerShell
5 167 (12.08%) SQL
6 137 (9.91%) TypeScript
7 135 (9.77%) Bicep
8 108 (7.81%) JavaScript
9 90 (6.51%) C#
10 73 (5.28%) Go
11 50 (3.62%) Shell Script
12 24 (1.74%) Ruby
13 19 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
13 19 (1.37%) Rust
14 18 (1.30%) Groovy
15 15 (1.09%) PHP
16 11 (0.80%) Scala
17 7 (0.51%) Search Processing Language
18 6 (0.43%) COBOL
19 5 (0.36%) C++
Qualifications
1 445 (32.20%) Security Cleared
2 284 (20.55%) SC Cleared
3 182 (13.17%) DV Cleared
4 99 (7.16%) Degree
5 85 (6.15%) Azure Certification
6 78 (5.64%) AWS Certification
7 41 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 30 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
12 15 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 10 (0.72%) CCNA
15 7 (0.51%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.51%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.43%) CCNP
16 6 (0.43%) ICAEW
16 6 (0.43%) Master's Degree
16 6 (0.43%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (5.50%) QA
2 62 (4.49%) GRC
3 49 (3.55%) Data Quality
4 40 (2.89%) Accessibility
5 30 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (1.95%) NCSC
7 23 (1.66%) NIST
8 20 (1.45%) WCAG
9 17 (1.23%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
10 12 (0.87%) GDPR
11 9 (0.65%) SLA
12 8 (0.58%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.14%) IFRS
14 2 (0.14%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.14%) RMADS
14 2 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 432 (31.26%) Docker
2 83 (6.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 73 (5.28%) Active Directory
4 30 (2.17%) vSphere
5 27 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (1.23%) Hyper-V
8 16 (1.16%) VMware NSX
9 10 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.36%) Firmware
11 4 (0.29%) KVM
11 4 (0.29%) Squid
12 2 (0.14%) Lustre
12 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.072%) iptables
13 1 (0.072%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 527 (38.13%) Kubernetes
2 291 (21.06%) Ansible
3 118 (8.54%) Grafana
4 101 (7.31%) Prometheus
5 56 (4.05%) Puppet
6 46 (3.33%) Argo
7 33 (2.39%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.52%) Istio
9 19 (1.37%) vCenter Server
10 16 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
11 15 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
12 13 (0.94%) Packer
12 13 (0.94%) Podman
13 12 (0.87%) Rancher
14 11 (0.80%) Kibana
14 11 (0.80%) Kustomize
15 9 (0.65%) logstash
15 9 (0.65%) yum
16 8 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
16 8 (0.58%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 351 (25.40%) Microsoft
2 106 (7.67%) Google
3 95 (6.87%) VMware
4 56 (4.05%) Databricks
4 56 (4.05%) Red Hat
5 55 (3.98%) Splunk
6 30 (2.17%) Oracle
7 25 (1.81%) Cisco
8 19 (1.37%) OpenAI
9 15 (1.09%) Fortinet
10 14 (1.01%) ServiceNow
11 13 (0.94%) Atlassian
12 12 (0.87%) New Relic
12 12 (0.87%) ScienceLogic
13 11 (0.80%) F5
14 9 (0.65%) Meraki
15 8 (0.58%) BMC
15 8 (0.58%) Palo Alto
15 8 (0.58%) SaltStack
16 7 (0.51%) SAP