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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 216 193
Rank change year-on-year +65 -23 -59
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 798 412 994
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.19% 1.44% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 1.57% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 596 281 782
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,750 £55,000 £54,933
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,751 £79,875
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £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 47,623 26,250 57,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.95% 92.06% 82.50%
Number of salaries quoted 30,904 12,889 41,377
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,218
25th Percentile £37,973 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,645 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.66% +3.29% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%

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 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 24 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 +53 296 £67,374 -3.75% 153
South East +38 178 £70,000 -6.67% 130
North West +55 170 £72,500 - 80
South West -12 111 £72,500 +3.57% 66
Midlands +33 108 £68,000 -2.86% 31
Yorkshire -11 88 £65,576 -0.27% 38
West Midlands -1 58 £72,500 +3.57% 21
East Midlands +8 50 £67,500 +3.85% 10
Scotland +4 43 £60,000 -20.38% 19
East of England +2 42 £60,100 -7.54% 23
North East -11 38 £55,000 -16.69% 35
Wales -24 18 £60,000 - 9
Northern Ireland -35 5 £95,000 - 11
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 17 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (1.88%) Apache
2 15 (1.88%) Apache Spark
3 14 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.50%) IIS
5 11 (1.38%) Confluence
6 5 (0.63%) CMS
7 4 (0.50%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.50%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.38%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 474 (59.40%) AWS
2 437 (54.76%) Azure
3 175 (21.93%) Azure DevOps
4 164 (20.55%) GitHub
5 156 (19.55%) Serverless
6 131 (16.42%) GCP
7 122 (15.29%) GitHub Actions
8 105 (13.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 86 (10.78%) Amazon S3
9 86 (10.78%) AWS Lambda
10 69 (8.65%) Amazon EKS
11 61 (7.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 60 (7.52%) Amazon EC2
13 58 (7.27%) PaaS
14 49 (6.14%) Amazon ECS
15 44 (5.51%) Entra ID
16 43 (5.39%) SaaS
17 41 (5.14%) Azure AKS
18 39 (4.89%) Azure Monitor
18 39 (4.89%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 107 (13.41%) Firewall
2 58 (7.27%) DNS
3 39 (4.89%) TCP/IP
4 29 (3.63%) VPN
5 24 (3.01%) Network Security
6 22 (2.76%) DHCP
7 16 (2.01%) BGP
7 16 (2.01%) HTTP
8 15 (1.88%) Cisco ASA
9 13 (1.63%) Broadband
9 13 (1.63%) VLAN
10 12 (1.50%) WAN
11 9 (1.13%) LAN
12 8 (1.00%) SAN
13 7 (0.88%) Internet
14 6 (0.75%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (0.75%) OSPF
14 6 (0.75%) Unified Communications
14 6 (0.75%) WebEx
15 5 (0.63%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (7.39%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (6.02%) Amazon RDS
3 39 (4.89%) DynamoDB
4 38 (4.76%) NoSQL
5 33 (4.14%) MongoDB
5 33 (4.14%) SQL Server
6 22 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (2.01%) Relational Database
8 15 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (1.75%) Spark SQL
10 12 (1.50%) Metadata
11 11 (1.38%) BigQuery
11 11 (1.38%) Data Lake
11 11 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (1.25%) Big Data
13 8 (1.00%) MySQL
13 8 (1.00%) Redis
14 7 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (0.88%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 131 (16.42%) Git
2 102 (12.78%) Jenkins
3 98 (12.28%) GitLab
4 20 (2.51%) JIRA
5 16 (2.01%) Bitbucket
6 12 (1.50%) Cucumber
6 12 (1.50%) SonarQube
7 9 (1.13%) Selenium
8 7 (0.88%) CircleCI
8 7 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
8 7 (0.88%) Robot Framework
8 7 (0.88%) Subversion
9 6 (0.75%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.75%) JMeter
9 6 (0.75%) NUnit
10 5 (0.63%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.50%) Locust
11 4 (0.50%) TestRail
11 4 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 192 (24.06%) Social Skills
2 105 (13.16%) Finance
3 65 (8.15%) Public Sector
4 59 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (4.64%) Telecoms
6 29 (3.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (3.26%) Retail
8 23 (2.88%) Law
9 22 (2.76%) Banking
9 22 (2.76%) Manufacturing
10 18 (2.26%) Aerospace
11 16 (2.01%) Games
12 14 (1.75%) Billing
12 14 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
13 13 (1.63%) Marketing
14 11 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.13%) Advertising
16 6 (0.75%) Electronics
17 5 (0.63%) Legal
17 5 (0.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 175 (21.93%) Senior
2 150 (18.80%) DevOps Engineer
3 134 (16.79%) Lead
4 111 (13.91%) Cloud Engineer
5 92 (11.53%) Azure Engineer
6 76 (9.52%) Developer
7 67 (8.40%) Platform Engineer
8 61 (7.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 56 (7.02%) Software Engineer
10 44 (5.51%) Architect
11 41 (5.14%) AWS Engineer
12 36 (4.51%) Data Engineer
13 35 (4.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 35 (4.39%) Senior DevOps
14 33 (4.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 27 (3.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 25 (3.13%) DevSecOps Engineer
16 25 (3.13%) Technical Leader
17 24 (3.01%) Lead Developer
17 24 (3.01%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (11.28%) React
2 79 (9.90%) Node.js
3 71 (8.90%) .NET
4 62 (7.77%) REST
5 48 (6.02%) AWS CDK
6 45 (5.64%) YAML
7 44 (5.51%) RESTful
8 38 (4.76%) ARM Templates
9 34 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
10 32 (4.01%) ASP.NET
10 32 (4.01%) Kafka
11 30 (3.76%) ASP.NET Core
12 29 (3.63%) OAuth
12 29 (3.63%) Spring
13 25 (3.13%) PySpark
14 24 (3.01%) AngularJS
15 23 (2.88%) Spring Boot
16 20 (2.51%) RabbitMQ
17 19 (2.38%) Vue
18 18 (2.26%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 155 (19.42%) Cloud Native
2 52 (6.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 47 (5.89%) Distributed Systems
4 42 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 25 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (3.01%) Public Cloud
7 21 (2.63%) Data Centre
8 18 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (2.26%) Linux Command Line
8 18 (2.26%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.88%) Legacy Applications
9 15 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.75%) Private Cloud
11 13 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.50%) Data Structures
12 12 (1.50%) Replication
13 11 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
14 10 (1.25%) Security Posture
14 10 (1.25%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 178 (22.31%) Linux
2 83 (10.40%) Windows
3 45 (5.64%) Windows Server
4 27 (3.38%) Ubuntu
5 20 (2.51%) Unix
6 18 (2.26%) CentOS
7 12 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (1.13%) VMS
9 7 (0.88%) Debian
9 7 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.63%) Android
10 5 (0.63%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 592 (74.19%) CI/CD
2 507 (63.53%) DevOps
3 273 (34.21%) Agile
4 233 (29.20%) Observability
5 223 (27.94%) Containerisation
6 185 (23.18%) Mentoring
7 177 (22.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 167 (20.93%) Platform Engineering
9 158 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
10 153 (19.17%) Test Automation
11 132 (16.54%) Microservices
12 128 (16.04%) AI
13 118 (14.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 118 (14.79%) Software Engineering
14 108 (13.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 91 (11.40%) Technical Leadership
16 84 (10.53%) DevSecOps
17 83 (10.40%) Deployment Automation
18 81 (10.15%) Cloud Security
19 75 (9.40%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 351 (43.98%) Python
2 179 (22.43%) Bash
3 162 (20.30%) PowerShell
4 117 (14.66%) SQL
5 102 (12.78%) TypeScript
6 88 (11.03%) Java
7 80 (10.03%) JavaScript
8 67 (8.40%) Bicep
9 59 (7.39%) C#
10 55 (6.89%) Go
11 14 (1.75%) Groovy
12 13 (1.63%) C
13 9 (1.13%) C++
13 9 (1.13%) Rust
14 8 (1.00%) PHP
15 6 (0.75%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.63%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.50%) Perl
17 4 (0.50%) Ruby
18 3 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 157 (19.67%) Security Cleared
2 101 (12.66%) SC Cleared
3 67 (8.40%) Degree
4 52 (6.52%) DV Cleared
5 39 (4.89%) AWS Certification
6 35 (4.39%) Azure Certification
7 31 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.75%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.25%) AWS Certified Developer
10 10 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.63%) ICAEW
12 5 (0.63%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.63%) OSCP
13 4 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.50%) CCNA
13 4 (0.50%) CISSP
13 4 (0.50%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.50%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (5.64%) QA
2 23 (2.88%) GDPR
3 19 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.38%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.25%) WCAG
6 9 (1.13%) SOC 2
7 8 (1.00%) NIST
8 7 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.38%) NCSC
9 3 (0.38%) SLA
10 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.25%) IFRS
10 2 (0.25%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
System Software
1 228 (28.57%) Docker
2 48 (6.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (4.64%) Active Directory
4 21 (2.63%) vSphere
5 16 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (1.50%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.88%) iptables
8 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.63%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.50%) Firmware
11 3 (0.38%) Squid
12 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 563 (70.55%) Terraform
2 287 (35.96%) Kubernetes
3 186 (23.31%) Ansible
4 115 (14.41%) Grafana
5 91 (11.40%) Prometheus
6 29 (3.63%) Puppet
7 21 (2.63%) Argo
8 19 (2.38%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.63%) Nagios
10 11 (1.38%) Packer
10 11 (1.38%) Rancher
10 11 (1.38%) vCenter Server
11 9 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (1.00%) Podman
12 8 (1.00%) Proxmox
13 7 (0.88%) Istio
13 7 (0.88%) yum
14 6 (0.75%) Cisco CUCM
14 6 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 142 (17.79%) Microsoft
2 63 (7.89%) VMware
3 41 (5.14%) Red Hat
4 31 (3.88%) Cisco
4 31 (3.88%) Google
5 30 (3.76%) Databricks
6 28 (3.51%) Splunk
7 20 (2.51%) Palo Alto
8 14 (1.75%) Dynatrace
9 13 (1.63%) CrowdStrike
10 10 (1.25%) F5
11 9 (1.13%) Fortinet
11 9 (1.13%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.88%) HubSpot
12 7 (0.88%) Juniper
12 7 (0.88%) NetApp
12 7 (0.88%) Oracle
13 6 (0.75%) Dell
13 6 (0.75%) SolarWinds
13 6 (0.75%) Tenable