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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 215 194
Rank change year-on-year +61 -21 -52
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 750 421 1,004
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.14% 1.47% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 1.59% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 550 298 782
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,375 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,813 £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 £94,144 £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 46,644 26,450 57,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.94% 92.04% 83.41%
Number of salaries quoted 29,912 13,669 40,959
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

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 15 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 15 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 +31 273 £67,249 -3.93% 169
South East +33 168 £70,000 -6.67% 144
North West +50 153 £72,000 -0.69% 84
South West -8 103 £69,200 -3.88% 74
Midlands +19 101 £68,000 -2.86% 35
Yorkshire -25 86 £65,576 +1.67% 46
West Midlands -9 51 £70,079 +0.11% 20
East Midlands +13 48 £67,500 +3.85% 15
Scotland +6 43 £60,000 -19.93% 22
East of England +11 41 £60,100 -10.96% 25
North East -12 34 £49,222 -18.30% 39
Wales -16 19 £60,500 -4.35% 8
Northern Ireland -31 5 £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 14 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (1.60%) Apache
2 12 (1.60%) Apache Spark
2 12 (1.60%) IIS
2 12 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.07%) Confluence
4 5 (0.67%) CMS
5 4 (0.53%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 441 (58.80%) AWS
2 412 (54.93%) Azure
3 177 (23.60%) Azure DevOps
4 158 (21.07%) GitHub
5 147 (19.60%) Serverless
6 125 (16.67%) GCP
7 123 (16.40%) GitHub Actions
8 101 (13.47%) AWS CloudFormation
9 79 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
10 75 (10.00%) Amazon S3
11 67 (8.93%) Amazon EKS
12 57 (7.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 54 (7.20%) PaaS
14 52 (6.93%) Amazon EC2
15 45 (6.00%) Amazon ECS
16 39 (5.20%) Entra ID
17 38 (5.07%) Azure AKS
17 38 (5.07%) Azure Monitor
18 37 (4.93%) Datadog
18 37 (4.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 103 (13.73%) Firewall
2 56 (7.47%) DNS
3 39 (5.20%) TCP/IP
4 26 (3.47%) VPN
5 23 (3.07%) Network Security
6 21 (2.80%) DHCP
7 16 (2.13%) BGP
7 16 (2.13%) HTTP
8 15 (2.00%) Cisco ASA
9 13 (1.73%) WAN
10 12 (1.60%) VLAN
11 11 (1.47%) Broadband
12 10 (1.33%) LAN
13 7 (0.93%) Internet
13 7 (0.93%) SAN
14 6 (0.80%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (0.80%) OSPF
14 6 (0.80%) Unified Communications
14 6 (0.80%) WebEx
15 5 (0.67%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (7.47%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (6.13%) Amazon RDS
3 37 (4.93%) NoSQL
4 35 (4.67%) DynamoDB
5 32 (4.27%) SQL Server
6 31 (4.13%) MongoDB
7 23 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (2.00%) Spark SQL
9 14 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (1.87%) Relational Database
10 12 (1.60%) BigQuery
11 11 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (1.47%) Metadata
12 10 (1.33%) Data Lake
13 9 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.20%) Big Data
13 9 (1.20%) Redis
14 8 (1.07%) MySQL
15 7 (0.93%) InfluxDB
16 5 (0.67%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 124 (16.53%) Git
2 98 (13.07%) Jenkins
3 90 (12.00%) GitLab
4 18 (2.40%) JIRA
5 15 (2.00%) Bitbucket
6 12 (1.60%) SonarQube
7 11 (1.47%) Cucumber
8 9 (1.20%) Selenium
9 7 (0.93%) CircleCI
9 7 (0.93%) Robot Framework
9 7 (0.93%) Subversion
10 6 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (0.80%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.80%) NUnit
10 6 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
11 5 (0.67%) Artifactory
11 5 (0.67%) JMeter
12 4 (0.53%) Locust
12 4 (0.53%) TestRail
13 3 (0.40%) Snyk
General
1 181 (24.13%) Social Skills
2 104 (13.87%) Finance
3 59 (7.87%) Public Sector
4 56 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (4.93%) Telecoms
6 28 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (3.60%) Retail
8 23 (3.07%) Law
9 21 (2.80%) Banking
10 19 (2.53%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.13%) Aerospace
11 16 (2.13%) Games
12 15 (2.00%) Billing
13 14 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (1.73%) Marketing
15 11 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (1.07%) Advertising
17 6 (0.80%) Electronics
18 5 (0.67%) Legal
19 4 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 171 (22.80%) Senior
2 141 (18.80%) DevOps Engineer
3 129 (17.20%) Lead
4 95 (12.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 87 (11.60%) Azure Engineer
6 70 (9.33%) Developer
7 62 (8.27%) Platform Engineer
8 57 (7.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 51 (6.80%) Software Engineer
10 42 (5.60%) Architect
11 37 (4.93%) Data Engineer
12 36 (4.80%) AWS Engineer
13 33 (4.40%) Senior DevOps
14 32 (4.27%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 31 (4.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 25 (3.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 24 (3.20%) Lead DevOps
18 23 (3.07%) DevSecOps Engineer
18 23 (3.07%) Technical Leader
19 22 (2.93%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (11.60%) React
2 74 (9.87%) Node.js
3 67 (8.93%) .NET
4 60 (8.00%) REST
5 47 (6.27%) AWS CDK
6 45 (6.00%) RESTful
7 42 (5.60%) YAML
8 37 (4.93%) ARM Templates
9 33 (4.40%) Elastic Stack
10 30 (4.00%) ASP.NET
11 29 (3.87%) OAuth
12 28 (3.73%) ASP.NET Core
13 27 (3.60%) Kafka
14 26 (3.47%) Spring
15 21 (2.80%) AngularJS
15 21 (2.80%) PySpark
16 20 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
16 20 (2.67%) Spring Boot
17 19 (2.53%) JSON
18 18 (2.40%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 139 (18.53%) Cloud Native
2 47 (6.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 42 (5.60%) Product Ownership
4 40 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
5 25 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (3.07%) Public Cloud
7 19 (2.53%) Data Centre
7 19 (2.53%) Onboarding
8 18 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
9 17 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
10 15 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
10 15 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.73%) Private Cloud
12 12 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.60%) Replication
12 12 (1.60%) Security Posture
13 10 (1.33%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
13 10 (1.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 170 (22.67%) Linux
2 77 (10.27%) Windows
3 38 (5.07%) Windows Server
4 24 (3.20%) Ubuntu
5 20 (2.67%) Unix
6 16 (2.13%) CentOS
7 11 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (1.20%) VMS
9 7 (0.93%) Debian
10 6 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.67%) Android
11 5 (0.67%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 553 (73.73%) CI/CD
2 486 (64.80%) DevOps
3 258 (34.40%) Agile
4 219 (29.20%) Observability
5 209 (27.87%) Containerisation
6 176 (23.47%) Continuous Improvement
7 169 (22.53%) Mentoring
8 153 (20.40%) Problem-Solving
9 148 (19.73%) Platform Engineering
10 147 (19.60%) Test Automation
11 124 (16.53%) Microservices
12 113 (15.07%) AI
13 110 (14.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 109 (14.53%) Software Engineering
15 101 (13.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 88 (11.73%) Deployment Automation
17 78 (10.40%) DevSecOps
18 75 (10.00%) Cloud Security
19 74 (9.87%) Incident Response
19 74 (9.87%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 331 (44.13%) Python
2 168 (22.40%) Bash
3 153 (20.40%) PowerShell
4 116 (15.47%) SQL
5 92 (12.27%) TypeScript
6 82 (10.93%) Java
7 74 (9.87%) JavaScript
8 63 (8.40%) Bicep
9 55 (7.33%) C#
10 53 (7.07%) Go
11 13 (1.73%) C
11 13 (1.73%) Groovy
12 9 (1.20%) C++
12 9 (1.20%) Rust
13 6 (0.80%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.80%) PHP
13 6 (0.80%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.53%) Perl
14 4 (0.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 146 (19.47%) Security Cleared
2 91 (12.13%) SC Cleared
3 63 (8.40%) Degree
4 49 (6.53%) DV Cleared
5 36 (4.80%) AWS Certification
6 30 (4.00%) Azure Certification
7 28 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.73%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.47%) AWS Certified Developer
10 10 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.67%) CISSP
12 4 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.53%) ICAEW
12 4 (0.53%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.53%) Network+ Certification
13 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.47%) QA
2 25 (3.33%) GDPR
3 18 (2.40%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.40%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.20%) SOC 2
5 9 (1.20%) WCAG
6 8 (1.07%) NIST
7 7 (0.93%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.53%) NCSC
9 3 (0.40%) SLA
10 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.27%) IFRS
10 2 (0.27%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
System Software
1 212 (28.27%) Docker
2 44 (5.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (4.13%) Active Directory
4 18 (2.40%) vSphere
5 15 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (1.33%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.93%) iptables
8 6 (0.80%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.53%) Firmware
10 1 (0.13%) Squid
10 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 526 (70.13%) Terraform
2 269 (35.87%) Kubernetes
3 172 (22.93%) Ansible
4 108 (14.40%) Grafana
5 85 (11.33%) Prometheus
6 28 (3.73%) Puppet
7 17 (2.27%) Argo
7 17 (2.27%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.60%) Nagios
9 11 (1.47%) Rancher
10 10 (1.33%) vCenter Server
11 9 (1.20%) Packer
11 9 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (1.07%) Proxmox
13 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.93%) Podman
13 7 (0.93%) yum
14 6 (0.80%) Cisco CUCM
15 5 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.67%) Istio
Vendors
1 131 (17.47%) Microsoft
2 56 (7.47%) VMware
3 37 (4.93%) Red Hat
4 31 (4.13%) Cisco
4 31 (4.13%) Google
5 30 (4.00%) Databricks
6 25 (3.33%) Splunk
7 20 (2.67%) Palo Alto
8 14 (1.87%) CrowdStrike
8 14 (1.87%) Dynatrace
9 10 (1.33%) F5
10 9 (1.20%) Fortinet
10 9 (1.20%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.93%) Juniper
11 7 (0.93%) NetApp
12 6 (0.80%) Ab Initio
12 6 (0.80%) Dell
12 6 (0.80%) HubSpot
12 6 (0.80%) SolarWinds
12 6 (0.80%) Tenable