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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 171 186
Rank change year-on-year +15 +15 -39
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 693 439 986
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.20% 1.70% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 1.86% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 510 333 751
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £51,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,200 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% +7.69% -5.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,780 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.03% +4.52% -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 42,578 23,603 54,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 73.54% 91.34% 84.73%
Number of salaries quoted 26,003 13,643 39,783
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,900 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,321 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% +8.64% -8.41%
75th Percentile £68,666 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.50% +9.09% -11.00%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -16 251 £70,000 +3.70% 159
South East +4 148 £70,000 -6.67% 123
North West -9 123 £73,801 +1.79% 84
South West -3 97 £62,500 -13.18% 88
Yorkshire -13 95 £65,000 +8.33% 47
Midlands -15 78 £67,500 +3.85% 47
Scotland -11 55 £60,000 -14.89% 22
East Midlands -14 39 £67,500 +3.85% 6
West Midlands -16 37 £65,500 -6.43% 41
East of England -6 34 £62,500 -10.71% 35
North East -4 33 £48,445 -15.75% 28
Wales -11 23 £61,496 +2.49% 12
Northern Ireland -33 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 11 (1.59%) Apache
1 11 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
1 11 (1.59%) IIS
2 9 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.15%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.87%) Confluence
5 3 (0.43%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.29%) CMS
7 1 (0.14%) Appian
7 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 435 (62.77%) AWS
2 396 (57.14%) Azure
3 185 (26.70%) Azure DevOps
4 169 (24.39%) GitHub
5 153 (22.08%) Serverless
6 137 (19.77%) GCP
7 123 (17.75%) GitHub Actions
8 112 (16.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 89 (12.84%) AWS Lambda
10 76 (10.97%) Amazon S3
11 70 (10.10%) Amazon EKS
12 64 (9.24%) PaaS
13 56 (8.08%) Amazon ECS
14 52 (7.50%) dbt
15 50 (7.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 44 (6.35%) Entra ID
17 43 (6.20%) SaaS
18 42 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
19 37 (5.34%) Datadog
20 34 (4.91%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 94 (13.56%) Firewall
2 55 (7.94%) DNS
3 53 (7.65%) TCP/IP
4 27 (3.90%) VPN
5 19 (2.74%) HTTP
6 18 (2.60%) Network Security
7 14 (2.02%) Cisco ASA
7 14 (2.02%) DHCP
8 11 (1.59%) WAN
9 10 (1.44%) Broadband
9 10 (1.44%) VLAN
10 9 (1.30%) LAN
11 7 (1.01%) BGP
11 7 (1.01%) Internet
12 6 (0.87%) SAN
13 5 (0.72%) AMQP
13 5 (0.72%) Cisco Firepower
13 5 (0.72%) Unified Communications
13 5 (0.72%) WebEx
14 4 (0.58%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (10.10%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (8.37%) Amazon RDS
3 39 (5.63%) NoSQL
4 35 (5.05%) SQL Server
5 34 (4.91%) DynamoDB
6 26 (3.75%) Redis
7 23 (3.32%) Elasticsearch
7 23 (3.32%) MongoDB
8 22 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (1.88%) MySQL
10 10 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (1.44%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (1.30%) BigQuery
12 7 (1.01%) InfluxDB
12 7 (1.01%) Spark SQL
13 6 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (0.87%) Big Data
13 6 (0.87%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.87%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 110 (15.87%) Git
2 95 (13.71%) Jenkins
3 72 (10.39%) GitLab
4 21 (3.03%) Selenium
5 19 (2.74%) JIRA
5 19 (2.74%) Robot Framework
6 17 (2.45%) Cucumber
7 14 (2.02%) Bitbucket
7 14 (2.02%) Snyk
8 11 (1.59%) JMeter
9 10 (1.44%) Locust
10 9 (1.30%) Octopus Deploy
11 8 (1.15%) SonarQube
12 7 (1.01%) CircleCI
13 6 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.87%) NUnit
13 6 (0.87%) Subversion
14 5 (0.72%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.72%) TeamCity
14 5 (0.72%) TestRail
General
1 184 (26.55%) Social Skills
2 102 (14.72%) Finance
3 72 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (7.36%) Public Sector
5 41 (5.92%) Telecoms
6 29 (4.18%) Law
7 28 (4.04%) Retail
8 24 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (2.60%) Manufacturing
10 17 (2.45%) Billing
10 17 (2.45%) Games
11 16 (2.31%) Aerospace
11 16 (2.31%) Banking
12 15 (2.16%) Marketing
13 11 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.30%) Electronics
14 9 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.15%) Advertising
16 6 (0.87%) Legal
17 5 (0.72%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 165 (23.81%) Senior
2 123 (17.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 112 (16.16%) Lead
4 87 (12.55%) Cloud Engineer
5 81 (11.69%) Developer
6 79 (11.40%) Azure Engineer
7 52 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
8 44 (6.35%) Software Engineer
9 42 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 34 (4.91%) Architect
11 28 (4.04%) AWS Engineer
11 28 (4.04%) Senior DevOps
12 27 (3.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 24 (3.46%) Data Engineer
14 22 (3.17%) Full-Stack Developer
14 22 (3.17%) Lead DevOps
15 21 (3.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 21 (3.03%) Python Developer
16 20 (2.89%) DevSecOps Engineer
16 20 (2.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (14.14%) React
2 68 (9.81%) Node.js
3 58 (8.37%) .NET
4 52 (7.50%) RESTful
5 51 (7.36%) REST
6 46 (6.64%) Django
7 42 (6.06%) AWS CDK
8 41 (5.92%) YAML
9 36 (5.19%) OAuth
10 35 (5.05%) Elastic Stack
11 32 (4.62%) ARM Templates
12 27 (3.90%) Spring
13 26 (3.75%) FastAPI
13 26 (3.75%) Vue
14 25 (3.61%) CSS
14 25 (3.61%) HTML
14 25 (3.61%) JSON
14 25 (3.61%) RabbitMQ
15 24 (3.46%) ASP.NET
15 24 (3.46%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 129 (18.61%) Cloud Native
2 40 (5.77%) Product Ownership
3 37 (5.34%) Hybrid Cloud
4 35 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
5 22 (3.17%) Linux Command Line
6 18 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
7 15 (2.16%) Data Structures
7 15 (2.16%) Onboarding
7 15 (2.16%) Public Cloud
8 14 (2.02%) Security Posture
9 11 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
10 10 (1.44%) Mobile App
11 9 (1.30%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.30%) Private Cloud
12 8 (1.15%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.15%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 160 (23.09%) Linux
2 67 (9.67%) Windows
3 31 (4.47%) Unix
4 27 (3.90%) Windows Server
5 16 (2.31%) Ubuntu
6 12 (1.73%) CentOS
7 10 (1.44%) VMS
8 9 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (1.01%) Debian
10 6 (0.87%) Android
10 6 (0.87%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 509 (73.45%) CI/CD
2 474 (68.40%) DevOps
3 255 (36.80%) Agile
4 188 (27.13%) Containerisation
5 185 (26.70%) Observability
6 168 (24.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 167 (24.10%) Problem-Solving
8 146 (21.07%) Mentoring
9 130 (18.76%) Test Automation
10 119 (17.17%) Platform Engineering
11 102 (14.72%) Software Engineering
12 99 (14.29%) Microservices
13 98 (14.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 93 (13.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 75 (10.82%) Deployment Automation
15 75 (10.82%) Incident Response
16 74 (10.68%) DevSecOps
17 70 (10.10%) Cloud Security
18 69 (9.96%) AI
19 64 (9.24%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 308 (44.44%) Python
2 141 (20.35%) PowerShell
3 134 (19.34%) Bash
4 116 (16.74%) SQL
5 81 (11.69%) TypeScript
6 80 (11.54%) Java
7 76 (10.97%) Bicep
8 72 (10.39%) JavaScript
9 54 (7.79%) Go
10 48 (6.93%) C#
11 11 (1.59%) C
12 9 (1.30%) C++
13 8 (1.15%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.87%) Groovy
15 5 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.72%) Perl
16 4 (0.58%) Ruby
17 3 (0.43%) Scala
17 3 (0.43%) Shell Script
18 2 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 135 (19.48%) Security Cleared
2 81 (11.69%) SC Cleared
3 57 (8.23%) DV Cleared
4 37 (5.34%) Degree
5 36 (5.19%) AWS Certification
6 27 (3.90%) Azure Certification
7 16 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (2.16%) AWS Certified Developer
9 14 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 9 (1.30%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.72%) CISSP
12 5 (0.72%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.58%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.43%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (6.49%) QA
2 24 (3.46%) Accessibility
2 24 (3.46%) GDPR
3 15 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.88%) Data Quality
5 12 (1.73%) WCAG
6 10 (1.44%) NIST
7 9 (1.30%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.72%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.58%) NCSC
10 3 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.43%) GRC
10 3 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 223 (32.18%) Docker
2 35 (5.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (3.90%) Active Directory
4 16 (2.31%) vSphere
5 15 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (1.44%) VMware NSX
7 8 (1.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.72%) Firmware
8 5 (0.72%) iptables
8 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.14%) KVM
10 1 (0.14%) QEMU
10 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 494 (71.28%) Terraform
2 235 (33.91%) Kubernetes
3 164 (23.67%) Ansible
4 104 (15.01%) Grafana
5 78 (11.26%) Prometheus
6 18 (2.60%) Puppet
7 16 (2.31%) Argo
8 14 (2.02%) AWS Copilot
9 10 (1.44%) Progress Chef
10 9 (1.30%) Nagios
10 9 (1.30%) Rancher
11 8 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (1.15%) Proxmox
11 8 (1.15%) vCenter Server
12 7 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.87%) Packer
13 6 (0.87%) yum
14 5 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.72%) Cisco CUCM
15 4 (0.58%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 125 (18.04%) Microsoft
2 54 (7.79%) VMware
3 47 (6.78%) Google
4 27 (3.90%) Red Hat
5 26 (3.75%) Cisco
6 23 (3.32%) Splunk
7 16 (2.31%) Palo Alto
8 15 (2.16%) Databricks
9 14 (2.02%) Black Duck
9 14 (2.02%) Coverity
9 14 (2.02%) CrowdStrike
10 13 (1.88%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.44%) Ab Initio
12 9 (1.30%) Fortinet
12 9 (1.30%) Salesforce
13 7 (1.01%) F5
13 7 (1.01%) Juniper
14 6 (0.87%) AppDynamics
14 6 (0.87%) SaltStack
14 6 (0.87%) SAP