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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 212 150
Rank change year-on-year +111 -62 -49
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,372 463 886
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.59% 1.34% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 1.54% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 908 325 560
10th Percentile £46,974 £48,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £68,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +4.62% -3.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -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 60,604 30,065 42,671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.39% 86.77% 79.19%
Number of salaries quoted 42,735 16,182 22,088
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%

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 27 September 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 27 September 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 +108 489 £70,000 - 396
North West +102 270 £72,500 +16.00% 238
South East +48 248 £67,500 -14.29% 272
South West +43 244 £75,000 +7.14% 221
Midlands +28 152 £75,000 +15.83% 153
North East +23 118 £60,000 -17.24% 63
Yorkshire +3 107 £68,250 -2.50% 97
West Midlands +7 94 £85,000 +36.55% 92
Wales -6 79 £70,000 +19.15% 41
Northern Ireland -31 62 £71,991 +67.07% 41
East Midlands +2 58 £65,000 - 61
East of England -9 56 £65,000 - 87
Scotland +23 54 £72,500 +7.41% 140
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 45 (3.28%) Apache Spark
2 40 (2.92%) Apache
3 35 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
4 24 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 19 (1.38%) Confluence
6 15 (1.09%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.58%) IIS
8 6 (0.44%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.44%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.36%) CMS
9 5 (0.36%) nginx
10 3 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.22%) WordPress
11 2 (0.15%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.073%) Documentum
12 1 (0.073%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.15%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.073%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 758 (55.25%) Azure
2 735 (53.57%) AWS
3 262 (19.10%) GCP
4 237 (17.27%) GitHub
5 197 (14.36%) Serverless
6 189 (13.78%) Azure DevOps
7 186 (13.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 140 (10.20%) GitHub Actions
9 118 (8.60%) AWS Lambda
10 116 (8.45%) Amazon S3
11 102 (7.43%) Cloud Computing
12 92 (6.71%) Amazon EC2
13 89 (6.49%) Amazon EKS
14 85 (6.20%) Amazon ECS
15 84 (6.12%) PaaS
16 80 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
17 77 (5.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 68 (4.96%) Azure AKS
19 66 (4.81%) SaaS
20 63 (4.59%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 97 (7.07%) Firewall
2 87 (6.34%) WAN
3 84 (6.12%) VPN
4 73 (5.32%) LAN
5 68 (4.96%) DNS
6 40 (2.92%) Network Security
7 39 (2.84%) TCP/IP
8 35 (2.55%) Internet
9 34 (2.48%) DHCP
10 24 (1.75%) BGP
11 15 (1.09%) SD-WAN
11 15 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
11 15 (1.09%) VLAN
12 13 (0.95%) OSPF
13 12 (0.87%) SAN
14 10 (0.73%) Ethernet VPN
14 10 (0.73%) Wireless
15 9 (0.66%) Broadband
16 8 (0.58%) HTTP
17 7 (0.51%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (6.63%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (4.59%) NoSQL
3 58 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
4 56 (4.08%) MongoDB
5 48 (3.50%) DynamoDB
5 48 (3.50%) MySQL
6 47 (3.43%) SQL Server
7 38 (2.77%) Data Lake
8 35 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 34 (2.48%) Relational Database
10 29 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
11 21 (1.53%) Big Data
12 19 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
13 18 (1.31%) Power BI
13 18 (1.31%) Redis
14 16 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
14 16 (1.17%) Metadata
15 15 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
15 15 (1.09%) Hadoop
16 12 (0.87%) Flink
Development Applications
1 246 (17.93%) Git
2 161 (11.73%) GitLab
3 136 (9.91%) Jenkins
4 42 (3.06%) JIRA
5 21 (1.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 18 (1.31%) SonarQube
7 15 (1.09%) Cypress.io
8 12 (0.87%) Bitbucket
8 12 (0.87%) Selenium
9 10 (0.73%) Artifactory
10 9 (0.66%) MSI
10 9 (0.66%) NUnit
11 8 (0.58%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.58%) Subversion
11 8 (0.58%) Terragrunt
12 7 (0.51%) Claude Code
12 7 (0.51%) Robot Framework
13 6 (0.44%) git-flow
13 6 (0.44%) TestRail
14 5 (0.36%) Snyk
General
1 401 (29.23%) Social Skills
2 231 (16.84%) Finance
3 173 (12.61%) Public Sector
4 136 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
5 99 (7.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 79 (5.76%) Law
7 69 (5.03%) Presentation Skills
8 50 (3.64%) Aerospace
9 28 (2.04%) Banking
10 25 (1.82%) Retail
11 20 (1.46%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.31%) Marketing
13 15 (1.09%) Legal
14 13 (0.95%) Aviation
14 13 (0.95%) Telecoms
15 12 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (0.80%) Local Government
16 11 (0.80%) Military
17 9 (0.66%) Advertising
18 7 (0.51%) Games
Job Titles
1 314 (22.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 285 (20.77%) Senior
3 215 (15.67%) Lead
4 170 (12.39%) Architect
5 168 (12.24%) Cloud Engineer
6 133 (9.69%) Platform Engineer
7 126 (9.18%) Developer
8 115 (8.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 103 (7.51%) Azure Engineer
10 88 (6.41%) Software Engineer
11 72 (5.25%) Data Engineer
12 67 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
13 65 (4.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 62 (4.52%) Systems Architect
15 58 (4.23%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 54 (3.94%) Senior DevOps
17 52 (3.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 51 (3.72%) Principal Engineer
19 46 (3.35%) Azure Platform Engineer
19 46 (3.35%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 896 (65.31%) Terraform
2 133 (9.69%) React
3 101 (7.36%) Spring Boot
4 98 (7.14%) .NET
5 97 (7.07%) Spring
6 95 (6.92%) REST
7 92 (6.71%) Node.js
8 79 (5.76%) Kafka
9 70 (5.10%) RESTful
10 53 (3.86%) AWS CDK
11 51 (3.72%) ARM Templates
12 48 (3.50%) AngularJS
13 41 (2.99%) PySpark
14 37 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
15 36 (2.62%) Next.js
16 34 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
16 34 (2.48%) YAML
17 32 (2.33%) CSS
17 32 (2.33%) Vue
18 31 (2.26%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 360 (26.24%) Cloud Native
2 103 (7.51%) Distributed Systems
3 89 (6.49%) Hybrid Cloud
4 76 (5.54%) Onboarding
5 59 (4.30%) Product Ownership
6 57 (4.15%) Linux Command Line
7 45 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
8 44 (3.21%) Public Cloud
9 39 (2.84%) Data Centre
10 38 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
10 38 (2.77%) Security Posture
11 37 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
12 33 (2.41%) Private Cloud
13 28 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
14 25 (1.82%) Virtual Team
15 21 (1.53%) Data Structures
16 20 (1.46%) Management Information System
17 17 (1.24%) Mainframe
18 14 (1.02%) AI Agents
19 12 (0.87%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 291 (21.21%) Linux
2 132 (9.62%) Windows
3 60 (4.37%) Windows Server
4 40 (2.92%) CentOS
5 37 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 36 (2.62%) Unix
7 25 (1.82%) Ubuntu
8 14 (1.02%) VMS
9 7 (0.51%) Debian
10 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.29%) AIX
11 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.15%) Rocky
12 2 (0.15%) Solaris
13 1 (0.073%) Android
13 1 (0.073%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.073%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,002 (73.03%) CI/CD
2 812 (59.18%) DevOps
3 493 (35.93%) Containerisation
4 457 (33.31%) Agile
5 379 (27.62%) Observability
6 367 (26.75%) Platform Engineering
7 342 (24.93%) Mentoring
8 321 (23.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 308 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
10 274 (19.97%) Software Engineering
11 267 (19.46%) AI
12 253 (18.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 247 (18.00%) Technical Leadership
14 229 (16.69%) Microservices
15 213 (15.52%) Cloud Security
16 211 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 184 (13.41%) DevSecOps
17 184 (13.41%) Test Automation
18 171 (12.46%) Roadmaps
19 143 (10.42%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 552 (40.23%) Python
2 236 (17.20%) Bash
3 200 (14.58%) Java
4 192 (13.99%) PowerShell
5 184 (13.41%) SQL
6 137 (9.99%) Bicep
6 137 (9.99%) TypeScript
7 109 (7.94%) JavaScript
8 88 (6.41%) C#
9 66 (4.81%) Go
10 51 (3.72%) Shell Script
11 24 (1.75%) Groovy
11 24 (1.75%) Ruby
12 20 (1.46%) Kusto Query Language
13 18 (1.31%) Rust
14 15 (1.09%) PHP
15 11 (0.80%) Scala
16 7 (0.51%) Search Processing Language
17 6 (0.44%) COBOL
18 5 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 425 (30.98%) Security Cleared
2 271 (19.75%) SC Cleared
3 175 (12.76%) DV Cleared
4 95 (6.92%) Degree
5 85 (6.20%) Azure Certification
6 77 (5.61%) AWS Certification
7 41 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 30 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.31%) TOGAF Certification
12 15 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 10 (0.73%) CCNA
15 7 (0.51%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.51%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.44%) CCNP
16 6 (0.44%) ICAEW
16 6 (0.44%) RHCSA
17 5 (0.36%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (5.76%) QA
2 62 (4.52%) GRC
3 49 (3.57%) Data Quality
4 38 (2.77%) Accessibility
5 29 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (1.97%) NCSC
7 20 (1.46%) NIST
7 20 (1.46%) WCAG
8 16 (1.17%) PCI DSS
9 15 (1.09%) GDPR
10 10 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.66%) SLA
11 9 (0.66%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
13 5 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.15%) IFRS
14 2 (0.15%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.15%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.073%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 1 (0.073%) IASME
System Software
1 430 (31.34%) Docker
2 83 (6.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 79 (5.76%) Active Directory
4 30 (2.19%) vSphere
5 28 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (1.24%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.95%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.36%) Firmware
11 4 (0.29%) KVM
11 4 (0.29%) Squid
12 3 (0.22%) iptables
13 2 (0.15%) Lustre
13 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.073%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 527 (38.41%) Kubernetes
2 289 (21.06%) Ansible
3 117 (8.53%) Grafana
4 99 (7.22%) Prometheus
5 51 (3.72%) Puppet
6 44 (3.21%) Argo
7 34 (2.48%) Progress Chef
8 22 (1.60%) Istio
9 17 (1.24%) Packer
10 16 (1.17%) vCenter Server
11 15 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
11 15 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (0.87%) Podman
13 11 (0.80%) Rancher
14 10 (0.73%) Kibana
14 10 (0.73%) Kustomize
15 8 (0.58%) logstash
15 8 (0.58%) Nessus
15 8 (0.58%) yum
15 8 (0.58%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 351 (25.58%) Microsoft
2 105 (7.65%) Google
3 96 (7.00%) VMware
4 55 (4.01%) Databricks
5 53 (3.86%) Red Hat
5 53 (3.86%) Splunk
6 31 (2.26%) Oracle
7 26 (1.90%) Cisco
8 15 (1.09%) OpenAI
9 14 (1.02%) ServiceNow
10 13 (0.95%) Atlassian
10 13 (0.95%) Fortinet
11 12 (0.87%) New Relic
11 12 (0.87%) ScienceLogic
12 10 (0.73%) F5
13 9 (0.66%) Meraki
13 9 (0.66%) Palo Alto
14 8 (0.58%) IBM
15 7 (0.51%) SaltStack
15 7 (0.51%) SAP