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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 163 116
Rank change year-on-year +9 -47 +23
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 571 624 902
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.35% 1.74% 2.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 1.95% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 411 380 693
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £56,375 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,269 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.06% +3.49% -2.67%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £94,387
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year - - -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 33,283 31,985 30,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.49% 89.04% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 19,187 14,363 22,780
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 -15 196 £70,000 +12.00% 170
South East +23 111 £75,000 +15.38% 230
Yorkshire -12 88 £70,000 +33.33% 67
North West +2 83 £70,000 +3.70% 74
Scotland +20 76 £70,079 +9.93% 24
South West -19 70 £62,500 -13.18% 107
Midlands +15 61 £67,250 +1.89% 80
West Midlands +2 38 £65,250 -3.33% 32
East of England +29 27 £71,250 -1.72% 78
North East +4 25 £67,539 +45.25% 30
Wales +24 23 £61,496 +25.24% 38
East Midlands +4 21 £67,750 +4.23% 46
Northern Ireland -11 9 £95,000 +11.76% 18
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 22 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (3.15%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.10%) Apache
4 9 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.58%) Confluence
5 8 (1.40%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.05%) IIS
7 4 (0.70%) Appian
8 3 (0.53%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.18%) CMS
9 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 380 (66.55%) Azure
2 335 (58.67%) AWS
3 178 (31.17%) Azure DevOps
4 122 (21.37%) GitHub
5 116 (20.32%) Serverless
6 98 (17.16%) GCP
7 95 (16.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 80 (14.01%) GitHub Actions
9 75 (13.13%) AWS Lambda
10 60 (10.51%) Amazon S3
11 56 (9.81%) SaaS
12 53 (9.28%) Microsoft 365
13 48 (8.41%) Entra ID
14 46 (8.06%) PaaS
15 45 (7.88%) dbt
16 44 (7.71%) Amazon ECS
17 40 (7.01%) Azure Monitor
18 39 (6.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 32 (5.60%) Azure Data Factory
20 31 (5.43%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (9.11%) Firewall
2 40 (7.01%) DNS
3 33 (5.78%) VPN
4 30 (5.25%) TCP/IP
5 19 (3.33%) WAN
6 14 (2.45%) DHCP
7 13 (2.28%) LAN
8 11 (1.93%) Network Security
9 10 (1.75%) SD-WAN
9 10 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (1.40%) BGP
10 8 (1.40%) Internet
11 7 (1.23%) SAN
11 7 (1.23%) Unified Communications
11 7 (1.23%) VoIP
12 6 (1.05%) AMQP
12 6 (1.05%) VLAN
13 5 (0.88%) HTTP
14 4 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
14 4 (0.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (8.41%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (7.36%) Amazon RDS
3 32 (5.60%) NoSQL
4 30 (5.25%) DynamoDB
5 29 (5.08%) SQL Server
6 23 (4.03%) Redis
7 18 (3.15%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (2.80%) MongoDB
10 14 (2.45%) MySQL
11 10 (1.75%) Relational Database
12 9 (1.58%) Data Lake
13 8 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (1.40%) Big Data
14 6 (1.05%) Airbyte
14 6 (1.05%) BigQuery
14 6 (1.05%) InfluxDB
15 4 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (0.70%) Apache Iceberg
15 4 (0.70%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 71 (12.43%) Git
2 64 (11.21%) Jenkins
3 49 (8.58%) GitLab
4 22 (3.85%) Selenium
5 21 (3.68%) Robot Framework
6 19 (3.33%) Snyk
7 16 (2.80%) JIRA
8 9 (1.58%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.40%) CircleCI
9 8 (1.40%) TeamCity
10 6 (1.05%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.05%) git-flow
10 6 (1.05%) JMeter
10 6 (1.05%) Locust
10 6 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
10 6 (1.05%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.88%) Artifactory
11 5 (0.88%) MLflow
12 4 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.53%) MSTest
General
1 168 (29.42%) Social Skills
2 122 (21.37%) Finance
3 41 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (4.73%) Public Sector
5 25 (4.38%) Telecoms
6 24 (4.20%) Law
7 15 (2.63%) Retail
8 14 (2.45%) Billing
9 13 (2.28%) Games
10 11 (1.93%) Manufacturing
10 11 (1.93%) Marketing
11 8 (1.40%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.40%) Legal
12 7 (1.23%) Advertising
12 7 (1.23%) Banking
12 7 (1.23%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.05%) Automotive
13 6 (1.05%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 141 (24.69%) Senior
2 77 (13.49%) Cloud Engineer
3 73 (12.78%) Lead
4 71 (12.43%) Developer
4 71 (12.43%) DevOps Engineer
5 54 (9.46%) Azure Engineer
6 50 (8.76%) Platform Engineer
7 40 (7.01%) Architect
8 26 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 26 (4.55%) Software Engineer
9 18 (3.15%) Full-Stack Developer
9 18 (3.15%) Lead DevOps
10 17 (2.98%) AWS Engineer
10 17 (2.98%) Python Developer
11 16 (2.80%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 16 (2.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 15 (2.63%) .NET Developer
12 15 (2.63%) Senior DevOps
13 14 (2.45%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 13 (2.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (14.01%) React
2 54 (9.46%) .NET
3 43 (7.53%) RESTful
4 38 (6.65%) Node.js
5 35 (6.13%) Django
6 28 (4.90%) YAML
7 26 (4.55%) ARM Templates
7 26 (4.55%) OAuth
8 25 (4.38%) AWS CDK
9 23 (4.03%) REST
10 21 (3.68%) .NET Core
10 21 (3.68%) Vue
11 20 (3.50%) CSS
12 19 (3.33%) FastAPI
12 19 (3.33%) GraphQL
12 19 (3.33%) HTML
13 18 (3.15%) AngularJS
14 17 (2.98%) ASP.NET
15 16 (2.80%) JSON
15 16 (2.80%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 126 (22.07%) Cloud Native
2 41 (7.18%) Product Ownership
3 26 (4.55%) Security Posture
4 19 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 18 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
8 14 (2.45%) Public Cloud
9 12 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.93%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.40%) Operational Technology
12 7 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.05%) Onboarding
14 5 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
15 4 (0.70%) AI Agents
15 4 (0.70%) ARM Cortex
15 4 (0.70%) Client/Server
15 4 (0.70%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 112 (19.61%) Linux
2 47 (8.23%) Windows
3 23 (4.03%) Unix
4 13 (2.28%) Ubuntu
5 12 (2.10%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.93%) Debian
6 11 (1.93%) VMS
7 5 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.70%) CentOS
9 3 (0.53%) Android
9 3 (0.53%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (72.15%) DevOps
2 398 (69.70%) CI/CD
3 226 (39.58%) Agile
4 130 (22.77%) Containerisation
5 127 (22.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 126 (22.07%) Problem-Solving
7 119 (20.84%) Mentoring
8 110 (19.26%) Observability
9 87 (15.24%) Platform Engineering
10 83 (14.54%) Coaching
11 80 (14.01%) Test Automation
12 78 (13.66%) Software Engineering
13 77 (13.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 68 (11.91%) Roadmaps
15 67 (11.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 65 (11.38%) Asset Management
16 65 (11.38%) Microservices
17 62 (10.86%) Analytics
17 62 (10.86%) Deployment Automation
18 60 (10.51%) AI
Programming Languages
1 226 (39.58%) Python
2 118 (20.67%) PowerShell
3 100 (17.51%) SQL
4 86 (15.06%) Bicep
5 84 (14.71%) Bash
6 64 (11.21%) TypeScript
7 58 (10.16%) Java
8 54 (9.46%) JavaScript
9 52 (9.11%) C#
10 32 (5.60%) Go
11 9 (1.58%) C
12 6 (1.05%) C++
13 4 (0.70%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.70%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.35%) Scala
14 2 (0.35%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.35%) XAML
15 1 (0.18%) Perl
15 1 (0.18%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 91 (15.94%) Security Cleared
2 60 (10.51%) SC Cleared
3 45 (7.88%) DV Cleared
4 38 (6.65%) AWS Certification
5 31 (5.43%) Azure Certification
6 28 (4.90%) Degree
7 15 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (1.93%) AWS Certified Developer
10 11 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.93%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.75%) CCNP
12 7 (1.23%) PMI Certification
12 7 (1.23%) PMP
13 6 (1.05%) CISSP
14 4 (0.70%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.53%) CCNA
16 2 (0.35%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.55%) NIST
2 25 (4.38%) GDPR
3 22 (3.85%) QA
4 19 (3.33%) Accessibility
5 17 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.40%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.23%) WCAG
8 4 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.70%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.53%) NCSC
10 2 (0.35%) GRC
10 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 184 (32.22%) Docker
2 22 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.68%) Virtual Desktop
4 20 (3.50%) Active Directory
4 20 (3.50%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (1.58%) VMware NSX
5 9 (1.58%) vSphere
6 8 (1.40%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.70%) Firmware
7 4 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.35%) iptables
9 2 (0.35%) vCloud
10 1 (0.18%) HDFS
10 1 (0.18%) KVM
10 1 (0.18%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 410 (71.80%) Terraform
2 178 (31.17%) Kubernetes
3 122 (21.37%) Ansible
4 54 (9.46%) Grafana
5 47 (8.23%) Prometheus
6 25 (4.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (1.93%) Argo
8 10 (1.75%) AWS Copilot
9 8 (1.40%) Docker Swarm
9 8 (1.40%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.05%) Puppet
11 5 (0.88%) Rancher
12 4 (0.70%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.70%) MaaS360
12 4 (0.70%) SCCM
13 3 (0.53%) Dell DRAC
13 3 (0.53%) yum
13 3 (0.53%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.35%) Kustomize
14 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 125 (21.89%) Microsoft
2 41 (7.18%) VMware
3 38 (6.65%) Google
4 19 (3.33%) Black Duck
4 19 (3.33%) Coverity
5 17 (2.98%) Cisco
6 14 (2.45%) Ab Initio
7 13 (2.28%) Splunk
8 12 (2.10%) Databricks
9 11 (1.93%) CrowdStrike
9 11 (1.93%) Red Hat
10 9 (1.58%) Palo Alto
11 8 (1.40%) Salesforce
12 6 (1.05%) SAP
13 5 (0.88%) Dell
13 5 (0.88%) Fortinet
14 4 (0.70%) CheckPoint
14 4 (0.70%) McAfee
14 4 (0.70%) ServiceNow
14 4 (0.70%) Sophos