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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 186 194
Rank change year-on-year +25 +8 -49
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 717 422 1,023
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.10% 1.55% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 1.70% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 510 312 784
10th Percentile £46,446 £43,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,875 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,450 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,751 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -3.23% +9.81% -5.90%

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 46,931 24,830 57,120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 71.85% 91.28% 83.93%
Number of salaries quoted 28,906 13,894 40,971
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £37,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,438 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £58,396 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.67% +9.09% -10.57%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 +1 262 £67,500 -2.17% 157
South East +14 147 £70,000 -6.67% 148
North West +8 141 £74,651 +2.97% 75
South West -12 104 £65,000 -9.71% 77
Midlands +9 90 £69,000 -1.43% 44
Yorkshire -31 90 £65,000 +7.50% 43
Scotland -17 47 £60,000 -19.93% 20
East Midlands -9 44 £67,500 +3.85% 14
West Midlands -9 44 £70,000 - 30
East of England +10 42 £60,100 -10.96% 35
North East -17 31 £48,445 -19.59% 39
Wales -10 22 £60,000 -5.14% 7
Northern Ireland -37 6 £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 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
1 12 (1.67%) IIS
2 11 (1.53%) Apache
2 11 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (1.39%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.70%) CMS
4 5 (0.70%) Confluence
5 4 (0.56%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.28%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 427 (59.55%) AWS
2 403 (56.21%) Azure
3 180 (25.10%) Azure DevOps
4 159 (22.18%) GitHub
5 141 (19.67%) Serverless
6 127 (17.71%) GCP
7 126 (17.57%) GitHub Actions
8 104 (14.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 80 (11.16%) AWS Lambda
10 69 (9.62%) Amazon S3
11 68 (9.48%) Amazon EKS
12 56 (7.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 48 (6.69%) PaaS
14 45 (6.28%) Amazon EC2
15 40 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
15 40 (5.58%) Entra ID
16 37 (5.16%) Azure Monitor
17 36 (5.02%) Datadog
18 35 (4.88%) Azure AKS
19 34 (4.74%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 101 (14.09%) Firewall
2 54 (7.53%) DNS
3 41 (5.72%) TCP/IP
4 28 (3.91%) VPN
5 23 (3.21%) Network Security
6 20 (2.79%) DHCP
6 20 (2.79%) HTTP
7 14 (1.95%) Cisco ASA
8 13 (1.81%) WAN
9 11 (1.53%) BGP
9 11 (1.53%) Broadband
9 11 (1.53%) VLAN
10 10 (1.39%) LAN
11 7 (0.98%) Internet
11 7 (0.98%) SAN
12 5 (0.70%) AMQP
12 5 (0.70%) Cisco Firepower
12 5 (0.70%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.70%) WebEx
13 4 (0.56%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (7.39%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (6.42%) Amazon RDS
3 38 (5.30%) NoSQL
4 34 (4.74%) DynamoDB
5 33 (4.60%) SQL Server
6 25 (3.49%) MongoDB
7 24 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (1.67%) Spark SQL
10 11 (1.53%) BigQuery
10 11 (1.53%) Metadata
11 10 (1.39%) MySQL
12 9 (1.26%) Big Data
12 9 (1.26%) Relational Database
13 8 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (1.12%) Data Lake
13 8 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (1.12%) InfluxDB
13 8 (1.12%) Redis
14 5 (0.70%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 111 (15.48%) Git
2 99 (13.81%) Jenkins
3 81 (11.30%) GitLab
4 18 (2.51%) JIRA
5 15 (2.09%) Bitbucket
6 11 (1.53%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.39%) Selenium
8 8 (1.12%) Robot Framework
8 8 (1.12%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.98%) CircleCI
9 7 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
9 7 (0.98%) Subversion
10 6 (0.84%) Artifactory
10 6 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (0.84%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.84%) NUnit
11 5 (0.70%) JMeter
11 5 (0.70%) TestRail
12 4 (0.56%) Locust
13 3 (0.42%) Snyk
General
1 176 (24.55%) Social Skills
2 107 (14.92%) Finance
3 58 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (7.81%) Public Sector
5 41 (5.72%) Telecoms
6 30 (4.18%) Law
7 28 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 27 (3.77%) Retail
9 19 (2.65%) Banking
10 16 (2.23%) Aerospace
10 16 (2.23%) Billing
10 16 (2.23%) Games
11 14 (1.95%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.81%) Marketing
13 12 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.12%) Advertising
16 7 (0.98%) Electronics
17 4 (0.56%) Automotive
17 4 (0.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 164 (22.87%) Senior
2 136 (18.97%) DevOps Engineer
3 127 (17.71%) Lead
4 96 (13.39%) Cloud Engineer
5 85 (11.85%) Azure Engineer
6 73 (10.18%) Developer
7 53 (7.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 52 (7.25%) Platform Engineer
9 42 (5.86%) Software Engineer
10 41 (5.72%) Architect
11 32 (4.46%) AWS Engineer
11 32 (4.46%) Data Engineer
12 31 (4.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 31 (4.32%) Senior DevOps
13 28 (3.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 27 (3.77%) Lead DevOps
15 23 (3.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 22 (3.07%) Lead Developer
16 22 (3.07%) Team Leader
17 21 (2.93%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (12.27%) React
2 75 (10.46%) Node.js
3 60 (8.37%) .NET
4 53 (7.39%) REST
5 47 (6.56%) AWS CDK
5 47 (6.56%) RESTful
6 40 (5.58%) YAML
7 37 (5.16%) ARM Templates
8 36 (5.02%) Elastic Stack
9 31 (4.32%) OAuth
10 26 (3.63%) ASP.NET
11 24 (3.35%) ASP.NET Core
11 24 (3.35%) Spring
12 21 (2.93%) JSON
12 21 (2.93%) RabbitMQ
13 19 (2.65%) AngularJS
13 19 (2.65%) Django
13 19 (2.65%) Next.js
14 18 (2.51%) .NET Core
14 18 (2.51%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 140 (19.53%) Cloud Native
2 42 (5.86%) Product Ownership
3 41 (5.72%) Hybrid Cloud
4 36 (5.02%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (3.07%) Public Cloud
7 17 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (2.37%) Linux Command Line
7 17 (2.37%) Onboarding
8 15 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (1.95%) Legacy Applications
9 14 (1.95%) Security Posture
9 14 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.67%) Data Centre
11 11 (1.53%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.53%) Replication
12 10 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.39%) Mobile App
12 10 (1.39%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 152 (21.20%) Linux
2 68 (9.48%) Windows
3 30 (4.18%) Windows Server
4 20 (2.79%) Unix
5 17 (2.37%) Ubuntu
6 12 (1.67%) CentOS
7 9 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.26%) VMS
8 7 (0.98%) Debian
9 5 (0.70%) Android
9 5 (0.70%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 525 (73.22%) CI/CD
2 474 (66.11%) DevOps
3 246 (34.31%) Agile
4 205 (28.59%) Observability
5 203 (28.31%) Containerisation
6 172 (23.99%) Continuous Improvement
7 160 (22.32%) Mentoring
8 156 (21.76%) Problem-Solving
9 139 (19.39%) Test Automation
10 134 (18.69%) Platform Engineering
11 114 (15.90%) Microservices
12 103 (14.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 103 (14.37%) Software Engineering
13 100 (13.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 89 (12.41%) AI
15 86 (11.99%) Deployment Automation
16 80 (11.16%) Incident Response
17 76 (10.60%) DevSecOps
18 74 (10.32%) Cloud Security
19 64 (8.93%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 314 (43.79%) Python
2 158 (22.04%) Bash
3 149 (20.78%) PowerShell
4 120 (16.74%) SQL
5 82 (11.44%) TypeScript
6 77 (10.74%) Java
7 73 (10.18%) Bicep
8 66 (9.21%) JavaScript
9 56 (7.81%) Go
10 50 (6.97%) C#
11 13 (1.81%) C
12 12 (1.67%) Groovy
13 8 (1.12%) C++
14 7 (0.98%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.70%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.56%) Perl
17 4 (0.56%) Ruby
17 4 (0.56%) Rust
18 3 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 127 (17.71%) Security Cleared
2 78 (10.88%) SC Cleared
3 52 (7.25%) Degree
4 48 (6.69%) DV Cleared
5 36 (5.02%) AWS Certification
6 29 (4.04%) Azure Certification
7 24 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.81%) AWS Certified Developer
8 13 (1.81%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.70%) CISSP
12 4 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.56%) Network+ Certification
12 4 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.42%) ICAEW
13 3 (0.42%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.16%) QA
2 27 (3.77%) GDPR
3 21 (2.93%) Accessibility
4 19 (2.65%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.39%) SOC 2
7 9 (1.26%) NIST
7 9 (1.26%) WCAG
8 6 (0.84%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.56%) NCSC
10 3 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.42%) GRC
10 3 (0.42%) SLA
11 2 (0.28%) IFRS
11 2 (0.28%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 205 (28.59%) Docker
2 39 (5.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (4.32%) Active Directory
4 15 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (2.09%) vSphere
5 9 (1.26%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.98%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.98%) iptables
7 5 (0.70%) Firmware
7 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 497 (69.32%) Terraform
2 254 (35.43%) Kubernetes
3 155 (21.62%) Ansible
4 109 (15.20%) Grafana
5 86 (11.99%) Prometheus
6 23 (3.21%) Puppet
7 18 (2.51%) Argo
8 16 (2.23%) Progress Chef
9 11 (1.53%) Rancher
10 9 (1.26%) Nagios
11 8 (1.12%) Packer
11 8 (1.12%) Proxmox
11 8 (1.12%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.98%) yum
13 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
14 5 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.70%) Cisco CUCM
14 5 (0.70%) Istio
14 5 (0.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 131 (18.27%) Microsoft
2 54 (7.53%) VMware
3 32 (4.46%) Google
4 31 (4.32%) Red Hat
5 30 (4.18%) Cisco
6 27 (3.77%) Databricks
7 23 (3.21%) Splunk
8 16 (2.23%) CrowdStrike
9 15 (2.09%) Palo Alto
10 14 (1.95%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.12%) Ab Initio
11 8 (1.12%) Fortinet
11 8 (1.12%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.98%) Juniper
13 6 (0.84%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.84%) Dell
13 6 (0.84%) F5
13 6 (0.84%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.84%) NetApp
13 6 (0.84%) SolarWinds