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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 214 170
Rank change year-on-year +112 -44 -62
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,291 462 853
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.66% 1.32% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 1.52% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 904 336 634
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £51,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%

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 54,931 30,454 46,534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.45% 87.29% 78.40%
Number of salaries quoted 38,625 16,580 29,151
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +93 447 £70,000 - 152
South East +62 251 £67,500 -12.90% 136
North West +88 249 £72,500 +3.57% 83
South West +47 224 £75,000 - 85
Midlands +43 145 £77,500 +19.23% 33
Yorkshire +19 106 £72,500 +3.57% 39
North East +12 92 £57,000 -21.38% 30
West Midlands +27 90 £81,887 +25.98% 20
Wales -7 67 £70,000 +16.67% 15
Northern Ireland -22 59 £71,991 +67.07% 7
East of England +4 56 £70,000 +7.69% 11
East Midlands +17 55 £67,500 +3.85% 13
Scotland +21 53 £72,500 +7.41% 24
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 40 (3.10%) Apache Spark
2 35 (2.71%) Apache
3 34 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (1.55%) Confluence
6 13 (1.01%) Jupyter
7 9 (0.70%) IIS
8 5 (0.39%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.31%) CMS
10 3 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.23%) nginx
10 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.23%) WordPress
11 1 (0.077%) Documentum
11 1 (0.077%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.077%) JBoss
Applications
1 8 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.15%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.077%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.077%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.077%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 694 (53.76%) Azure
2 689 (53.37%) AWS
3 234 (18.13%) GitHub
4 211 (16.34%) GCP
5 203 (15.72%) Azure DevOps
6 202 (15.65%) Serverless
7 169 (13.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 140 (10.84%) GitHub Actions
9 113 (8.75%) AWS Lambda
10 112 (8.68%) Amazon S3
11 88 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
12 86 (6.66%) PaaS
13 84 (6.51%) Amazon ECS
13 84 (6.51%) Amazon EKS
14 79 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
15 72 (5.58%) SaaS
16 71 (5.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 66 (5.11%) Azure AKS
18 63 (4.88%) Cloud Computing
19 60 (4.65%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 96 (7.44%) Firewall
2 80 (6.20%) WAN
3 72 (5.58%) LAN
4 65 (5.03%) VPN
5 58 (4.49%) DNS
6 38 (2.94%) Network Security
6 38 (2.94%) TCP/IP
7 27 (2.09%) DHCP
8 19 (1.47%) BGP
9 17 (1.32%) VLAN
10 14 (1.08%) Broadband
11 13 (1.01%) Software-Defined Networking
12 12 (0.93%) SAN
13 10 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
13 10 (0.77%) HTTP
13 10 (0.77%) SD-WAN
14 9 (0.70%) OSPF
15 7 (0.54%) Ethernet VPN
15 7 (0.54%) MQTT
15 7 (0.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
3 54 (4.18%) NoSQL
4 49 (3.80%) SQL Server
5 48 (3.72%) DynamoDB
5 48 (3.72%) MongoDB
6 36 (2.79%) Relational Database
7 35 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 34 (2.63%) MySQL
9 29 (2.25%) Data Lake
9 29 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (1.47%) Big Data
11 16 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
12 15 (1.16%) Metadata
12 15 (1.16%) Power BI
13 14 (1.08%) Redis
14 13 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
14 13 (1.01%) Hadoop
15 12 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (0.93%) Flink
Development Applications
1 198 (15.34%) Git
2 143 (11.08%) GitLab
3 131 (10.15%) Jenkins
4 40 (3.10%) JIRA
5 19 (1.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 16 (1.24%) SonarQube
7 15 (1.16%) Cypress.io
8 13 (1.01%) Bitbucket
8 13 (1.01%) Cucumber
8 13 (1.01%) NUnit
9 12 (0.93%) Selenium
10 9 (0.70%) MSI
11 8 (0.62%) Terragrunt
12 7 (0.54%) Artifactory
12 7 (0.54%) JMeter
12 7 (0.54%) Robot Framework
13 6 (0.46%) Claude Code
13 6 (0.46%) git-flow
13 6 (0.46%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.46%) TestRail
General
1 380 (29.43%) Social Skills
2 222 (17.20%) Finance
3 136 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 99 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
5 91 (7.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 78 (6.04%) Law
7 66 (5.11%) Presentation Skills
8 41 (3.18%) Aerospace
9 27 (2.09%) Retail
10 23 (1.78%) Banking
10 23 (1.78%) Manufacturing
11 22 (1.70%) Marketing
12 21 (1.63%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.32%) Legal
14 16 (1.24%) Games
15 13 (1.01%) Aviation
15 13 (1.01%) Local Government
16 12 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (0.85%) Military
18 10 (0.77%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 272 (21.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 258 (19.98%) Senior
3 222 (17.20%) Lead
4 155 (12.01%) Architect
4 155 (12.01%) Cloud Engineer
5 123 (9.53%) Developer
6 120 (9.30%) Platform Engineer
7 100 (7.75%) Azure Engineer
8 92 (7.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 87 (6.74%) Software Engineer
10 72 (5.58%) Data Engineer
11 60 (4.65%) AWS Engineer
12 59 (4.57%) Systems Architect
13 56 (4.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 50 (3.87%) Senior DevOps
15 48 (3.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 47 (3.64%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 46 (3.56%) Lead DevOps
18 45 (3.49%) Technical Leader
19 44 (3.41%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (10.07%) React
2 104 (8.06%) .NET
3 100 (7.75%) REST
4 94 (7.28%) Node.js
5 84 (6.51%) Spring Boot
6 81 (6.27%) Spring
7 65 (5.03%) Kafka
8 64 (4.96%) RESTful
9 58 (4.49%) AWS CDK
10 53 (4.11%) ARM Templates
11 46 (3.56%) YAML
12 45 (3.49%) AngularJS
13 43 (3.33%) PySpark
14 38 (2.94%) Next.js
15 36 (2.79%) ASP.NET
16 34 (2.63%) ASP.NET Core
16 34 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
16 34 (2.63%) Vue
17 32 (2.48%) CSS
18 30 (2.32%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 318 (24.63%) Cloud Native
2 99 (7.67%) Distributed Systems
3 86 (6.66%) Hybrid Cloud
4 65 (5.03%) Onboarding
5 60 (4.65%) Product Ownership
6 47 (3.64%) Public Cloud
7 45 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
8 37 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
9 35 (2.71%) Data Centre
10 34 (2.63%) Security Posture
11 30 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
12 27 (2.09%) Private Cloud
13 25 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
14 23 (1.78%) Data Structures
15 22 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
16 18 (1.39%) Virtual Team
17 16 (1.24%) Mainframe
17 16 (1.24%) Replication
18 15 (1.16%) Management Information System
19 13 (1.01%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 235 (18.20%) Linux
2 126 (9.76%) Windows
3 59 (4.57%) Windows Server
4 36 (2.79%) CentOS
5 29 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 28 (2.17%) Unix
7 26 (2.01%) Ubuntu
8 15 (1.16%) VMS
9 5 (0.39%) Debian
9 5 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.23%) AIX
12 2 (0.15%) Android
12 2 (0.15%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.15%) Solaris
13 1 (0.077%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.077%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 937 (72.58%) CI/CD
2 754 (58.40%) DevOps
3 437 (33.85%) Containerisation
4 421 (32.61%) Agile
5 383 (29.67%) Observability
6 318 (24.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 318 (24.63%) Platform Engineering
7 295 (22.85%) Mentoring
8 273 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
9 260 (20.14%) Software Engineering
10 243 (18.82%) AI
11 227 (17.58%) Technical Leadership
12 220 (17.04%) Microservices
13 197 (15.26%) Test Automation
14 187 (14.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 184 (14.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 154 (11.93%) Cloud Security
16 154 (11.93%) Roadmaps
17 141 (10.92%) DevSecOps
18 133 (10.30%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 522 (40.43%) Python
2 222 (17.20%) Bash
3 186 (14.41%) SQL
4 184 (14.25%) PowerShell
5 182 (14.10%) Java
6 135 (10.46%) TypeScript
7 132 (10.22%) Bicep
8 115 (8.91%) JavaScript
9 94 (7.28%) C#
10 64 (4.96%) Go
11 25 (1.94%) Ruby
12 22 (1.70%) Groovy
13 21 (1.63%) Kusto Query Language
14 15 (1.16%) PHP
15 12 (0.93%) Rust
16 10 (0.77%) Scala
16 10 (0.77%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.54%) C++
17 7 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
18 6 (0.46%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 368 (28.51%) Security Cleared
2 235 (18.20%) SC Cleared
3 155 (12.01%) DV Cleared
4 101 (7.82%) Degree
5 69 (5.34%) Azure Certification
6 56 (4.34%) AWS Certification
7 45 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
11 14 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 14 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 9 (0.70%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
13 7 (0.54%) CCNA
13 7 (0.54%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.46%) ICAEW
14 6 (0.46%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.46%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (6.27%) QA
2 60 (4.65%) GRC
3 51 (3.95%) Data Quality
4 41 (3.18%) Accessibility
5 24 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (1.86%) WCAG
6 23 (1.78%) NCSC
7 19 (1.47%) GDPR
8 17 (1.32%) NIST
9 15 (1.16%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.85%) SOC 2
11 7 (0.54%) SLA
12 6 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.15%) IFRS
13 2 (0.15%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.15%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.077%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.077%) HIPAA
System Software
1 382 (29.59%) Docker
2 78 (6.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 74 (5.73%) Active Directory
4 30 (2.32%) vSphere
5 19 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (1.16%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.85%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.39%) Firmware
10 5 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.31%) iptables
11 4 (0.31%) KVM
11 4 (0.31%) Squid
12 2 (0.15%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 880 (68.16%) Terraform
2 497 (38.50%) Kubernetes
3 269 (20.84%) Ansible
4 121 (9.37%) Grafana
5 94 (7.28%) Prometheus
6 43 (3.33%) Puppet
7 37 (2.87%) Argo
8 30 (2.32%) Progress Chef
9 19 (1.47%) Istio
10 15 (1.16%) Packer
11 14 (1.08%) vCenter Server
12 12 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
13 10 (0.77%) Kibana
13 10 (0.77%) Nagios
14 9 (0.70%) Kustomize
14 9 (0.70%) Podman
14 9 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
15 8 (0.62%) Nessus
15 8 (0.62%) ZABBIX
16 7 (0.54%) logstash
Vendors
1 289 (22.39%) Microsoft
2 90 (6.97%) VMware
3 70 (5.42%) Google
4 58 (4.49%) Red Hat
5 50 (3.87%) Splunk
6 46 (3.56%) Databricks
7 29 (2.25%) Oracle
8 28 (2.17%) Cisco
9 18 (1.39%) Palo Alto
10 14 (1.08%) Dynatrace
11 13 (1.01%) Atlassian
11 13 (1.01%) OpenAI
12 12 (0.93%) F5
12 12 (0.93%) Fortinet
12 12 (0.93%) ScienceLogic
12 12 (0.93%) ServiceNow
13 11 (0.85%) New Relic
14 8 (0.62%) CrowdStrike
14 8 (0.62%) IBM
15 7 (0.54%) SAP