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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 202 148
Rank change year-on-year +101 -54 -46
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,378 460 897
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.60% 1.33% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 1.54% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 912 323 568
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +6.15% -3.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,125 £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 60,592 29,959 42,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.43% 86.74% 79.17%
Number of salaries quoted 42,760 16,149 22,358
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 £57,965
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.11% -3.39%

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 26 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 26 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 +103 490 £70,000 - 416
North West +108 269 £72,500 +13.73% 246
South East +56 249 £67,500 -14.29% 277
South West +51 246 £75,000 +7.14% 236
Midlands +29 154 £75,000 +15.83% 167
North East +21 118 £60,000 -17.24% 64
Yorkshire -2 109 £69,250 -1.07% 108
West Midlands +11 95 £85,000 +36.55% 97
Wales -2 79 £70,000 +19.15% 41
Northern Ireland -32 62 £71,991 +67.07% 43
East Midlands +9 59 £66,250 +1.92% 70
East of England -7 56 £65,000 - 110
Scotland +17 54 £72,500 +7.41% 148
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 (3.27%) Apache Spark
2 40 (2.90%) Apache
3 35 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
4 24 (1.74%) 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%) nginx
10 4 (0.29%) CMS
11 3 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.22%) WordPress
12 1 (0.073%) Documentum
12 1 (0.073%) Headless CMS
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
1 761 (55.22%) Azure
2 738 (53.56%) AWS
3 264 (19.16%) GCP
4 239 (17.34%) GitHub
5 196 (14.22%) Serverless
6 190 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
7 186 (13.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 141 (10.23%) GitHub Actions
9 118 (8.56%) AWS Lambda
10 116 (8.42%) Amazon S3
11 102 (7.40%) Cloud Computing
12 91 (6.60%) Amazon EC2
13 89 (6.46%) Amazon EKS
14 85 (6.17%) PaaS
15 84 (6.10%) Amazon ECS
16 81 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
17 77 (5.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 68 (4.93%) Azure AKS
18 68 (4.93%) SaaS
19 63 (4.57%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 99 (7.18%) Firewall
2 88 (6.39%) WAN
3 84 (6.10%) VPN
4 74 (5.37%) LAN
5 69 (5.01%) DNS
6 40 (2.90%) Network Security
7 39 (2.83%) TCP/IP
8 35 (2.54%) Internet
9 34 (2.47%) DHCP
10 24 (1.74%) BGP
11 16 (1.16%) VLAN
12 15 (1.09%) SD-WAN
12 15 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
13 13 (0.94%) OSPF
14 12 (0.87%) SAN
15 10 (0.73%) Ethernet VPN
15 10 (0.73%) Wireless
16 9 (0.65%) Broadband
17 8 (0.58%) HTTP
18 7 (0.51%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (6.68%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (4.57%) NoSQL
3 58 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
4 56 (4.06%) MongoDB
5 48 (3.48%) DynamoDB
5 48 (3.48%) MySQL
5 48 (3.48%) SQL Server
6 38 (2.76%) Data Lake
7 35 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 35 (2.54%) Relational Database
8 29 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
9 21 (1.52%) Big Data
10 19 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
11 18 (1.31%) Power BI
11 18 (1.31%) Redis
12 16 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
12 16 (1.16%) Metadata
13 15 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (1.09%) Hadoop
14 12 (0.87%) Flink
Development Applications
1 248 (18.00%) Git
2 160 (11.61%) GitLab
3 137 (9.94%) Jenkins
4 42 (3.05%) JIRA
5 21 (1.52%) 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 (0.65%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.65%) MSI
10 9 (0.65%) NUnit
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
1 404 (29.32%) Social Skills
2 233 (16.91%) Finance
3 172 (12.48%) Public Sector
4 136 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
5 100 (7.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 79 (5.73%) Law
7 69 (5.01%) Presentation Skills
8 51 (3.70%) Aerospace
9 29 (2.10%) Banking
10 27 (1.96%) Retail
11 21 (1.52%) Manufacturing
12 19 (1.38%) Marketing
13 15 (1.09%) Legal
14 14 (1.02%) Telecoms
15 13 (0.94%) Aviation
15 13 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (0.80%) Local Government
16 11 (0.80%) Military
17 9 (0.65%) Advertising
18 7 (0.51%) Games
Job Titles
1 314 (22.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 284 (20.61%) Senior
3 216 (15.67%) Lead
4 170 (12.34%) Architect
5 168 (12.19%) Cloud Engineer
6 134 (9.72%) Platform Engineer
7 127 (9.22%) Developer
8 116 (8.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 104 (7.55%) Azure Engineer
10 87 (6.31%) Software Engineer
11 73 (5.30%) Data Engineer
12 67 (4.86%) AWS Engineer
13 65 (4.72%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 62 (4.50%) Systems Architect
15 58 (4.21%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 53 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
17 51 (3.70%) Principal Engineer
17 51 (3.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 46 (3.34%) Azure Platform Engineer
18 46 (3.34%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 904 (65.60%) Terraform
2 132 (9.58%) React
3 101 (7.33%) Spring Boot
4 97 (7.04%) .NET
4 97 (7.04%) Spring
5 94 (6.82%) REST
6 92 (6.68%) Node.js
7 79 (5.73%) Kafka
8 70 (5.08%) RESTful
9 53 (3.85%) AWS CDK
10 51 (3.70%) ARM Templates
11 48 (3.48%) AngularJS
12 41 (2.98%) PySpark
13 37 (2.69%) RabbitMQ
14 36 (2.61%) Next.js
15 34 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
15 34 (2.47%) YAML
16 32 (2.32%) CSS
16 32 (2.32%) Vue
17 31 (2.25%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 361 (26.20%) Cloud Native
2 103 (7.47%) Distributed Systems
3 91 (6.60%) Hybrid Cloud
4 77 (5.59%) Onboarding
5 60 (4.35%) Product Ownership
6 57 (4.14%) Linux Command Line
7 45 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
7 45 (3.27%) Public Cloud
8 39 (2.83%) Data Centre
9 38 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
9 38 (2.76%) Security Posture
10 37 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
11 33 (2.39%) Private Cloud
12 28 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
13 25 (1.81%) Virtual Team
14 21 (1.52%) Data Structures
15 20 (1.45%) Management Information System
16 17 (1.23%) Mainframe
17 14 (1.02%) AI Agents
18 13 (0.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 293 (21.26%) Linux
2 133 (9.65%) Windows
3 61 (4.43%) Windows Server
4 40 (2.90%) CentOS
5 37 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 35 (2.54%) Unix
7 26 (1.89%) 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 1,005 (72.93%) CI/CD
2 814 (59.07%) DevOps
3 496 (35.99%) Containerisation
4 458 (33.24%) Agile
5 383 (27.79%) Observability
6 369 (26.78%) Platform Engineering
7 343 (24.89%) Mentoring
8 324 (23.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 308 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
10 274 (19.88%) Software Engineering
11 267 (19.38%) AI
12 256 (18.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 247 (17.92%) Technical Leadership
14 228 (16.55%) Microservices
15 214 (15.53%) Cloud Security
16 213 (15.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 186 (13.50%) DevSecOps
17 186 (13.50%) Test Automation
18 171 (12.41%) Roadmaps
19 144 (10.45%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 557 (40.42%) Python
2 238 (17.27%) Bash
3 200 (14.51%) Java
4 194 (14.08%) PowerShell
5 185 (13.43%) SQL
6 138 (10.01%) Bicep
7 136 (9.87%) TypeScript
8 109 (7.91%) JavaScript
9 87 (6.31%) C#
10 65 (4.72%) Go
11 51 (3.70%) Shell Script
12 24 (1.74%) Groovy
12 24 (1.74%) Ruby
13 20 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
14 18 (1.31%) Rust
15 15 (1.09%) PHP
16 11 (0.80%) Scala
17 7 (0.51%) Search Processing Language
18 6 (0.44%) COBOL
19 5 (0.36%) C++
Qualifications
1 426 (30.91%) Security Cleared
2 272 (19.74%) SC Cleared
3 176 (12.77%) DV Cleared
4 96 (6.97%) Degree
5 85 (6.17%) Azure Certification
6 77 (5.59%) AWS Certification
7 41 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 30 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (1.52%) 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 80 (5.81%) QA
2 62 (4.50%) GRC
3 49 (3.56%) Data Quality
4 39 (2.83%) Accessibility
5 29 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (1.96%) NCSC
7 21 (1.52%) WCAG
8 20 (1.45%) NIST
9 16 (1.16%) PCI DSS
10 15 (1.09%) GDPR
11 10 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.73%) SLA
12 9 (0.65%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.15%) IFRS
15 2 (0.15%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.15%) Solvency II
16 1 (0.073%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 1 (0.073%) IASME
System Software
1 432 (31.35%) Docker
2 84 (6.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 79 (5.73%) Active Directory
4 31 (2.25%) vSphere
5 28 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (1.23%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.94%) 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
12 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.15%) Lustre
14 1 (0.073%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 531 (38.53%) Kubernetes
2 291 (21.12%) Ansible
3 119 (8.64%) Grafana
4 99 (7.18%) Prometheus
5 51 (3.70%) Puppet
6 44 (3.19%) Argo
7 34 (2.47%) Progress Chef
8 22 (1.60%) Istio
9 17 (1.23%) Packer
10 16 (1.16%) 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%) Docker Swarm
15 8 (0.58%) linkerd
15 8 (0.58%) logstash
15 8 (0.58%) yum
Vendors
1 353 (25.62%) Microsoft
2 105 (7.62%) Google
3 97 (7.04%) VMware
4 55 (3.99%) Databricks
5 54 (3.92%) Red Hat
5 54 (3.92%) Splunk
6 31 (2.25%) Oracle
7 27 (1.96%) Cisco
8 15 (1.09%) OpenAI
9 14 (1.02%) Fortinet
9 14 (1.02%) ServiceNow
10 13 (0.94%) Atlassian
11 12 (0.87%) New Relic
11 12 (0.87%) ScienceLogic
12 10 (0.73%) F5
12 10 (0.73%) Palo Alto
13 9 (0.65%) Meraki
14 8 (0.58%) IBM
15 7 (0.51%) SaltStack
15 7 (0.51%) SAP