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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 209 178
Rank change year-on-year +104 -31 -56
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,217 476 850
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.62% 1.38% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 1.58% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 870 337 658
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £42,468
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,688 £83,750 £77,500
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 53,026 30,167 46,794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.56% 87.61% 78.54%
Number of salaries quoted 37,265 16,507 30,128
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 3 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 3 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 +93 412 £70,400 +0.57% 229
South East +62 247 £67,500 -12.90% 155
North West +90 236 £75,000 +7.14% 126
South West +39 206 £75,000 -2.48% 137
Midlands +44 145 £75,000 +15.38% 57
Yorkshire +1 95 £75,000 +7.14% 65
West Midlands +12 89 £80,000 +23.08% 41
North East +14 81 £56,500 -16.30% 38
Wales -6 60 £70,000 +21.74% 26
Northern Ireland -24 58 £72,896 +69.17% 29
East Midlands +17 56 £67,500 +3.85% 16
East of England -6 50 £67,500 +8.00% 25
Scotland +21 48 £71,991 +2.84% 49
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 32 (2.63%) Apache Spark
2 31 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (2.47%) Apache
4 27 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (1.64%) Confluence
6 12 (0.99%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.66%) IIS
8 5 (0.41%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.33%) CMS
10 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.25%) WordPress
11 2 (0.16%) nginx
11 2 (0.16%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.082%) Documentum
12 1 (0.082%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.082%) JBoss
Applications
1 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.16%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.082%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 666 (54.72%) Azure
2 653 (53.66%) AWS
3 225 (18.49%) GitHub
4 204 (16.76%) Azure DevOps
5 200 (16.43%) GCP
6 191 (15.69%) Serverless
7 157 (12.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 141 (11.59%) GitHub Actions
9 107 (8.79%) Amazon S3
10 100 (8.22%) AWS Lambda
11 90 (7.40%) PaaS
12 81 (6.66%) Amazon EC2
12 81 (6.66%) Amazon ECS
13 80 (6.57%) Amazon EKS
14 77 (6.33%) Microsoft 365
15 68 (5.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 68 (5.59%) SaaS
16 65 (5.34%) Cloud Computing
17 63 (5.18%) Azure AKS
18 58 (4.77%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 103 (8.46%) Firewall
2 78 (6.41%) WAN
3 71 (5.83%) LAN
4 63 (5.18%) VPN
5 60 (4.93%) DNS
6 42 (3.45%) TCP/IP
7 39 (3.20%) Network Security
8 24 (1.97%) DHCP
9 19 (1.56%) VLAN
10 18 (1.48%) BGP
11 14 (1.15%) Broadband
11 14 (1.15%) HTTP
12 13 (1.07%) SAN
13 12 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
14 11 (0.90%) Software-Defined Networking
15 9 (0.74%) SD-WAN
16 8 (0.66%) OSPF
17 7 (0.58%) MQTT
17 7 (0.58%) Unified Communications
17 7 (0.58%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (6.57%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (4.85%) Amazon RDS
3 49 (4.03%) NoSQL
4 44 (3.62%) DynamoDB
4 44 (3.62%) SQL Server
5 43 (3.53%) MongoDB
6 36 (2.96%) Azure SQL Database
7 34 (2.79%) Relational Database
8 31 (2.55%) MySQL
9 26 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
10 23 (1.89%) Data Lake
11 18 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
12 16 (1.31%) Redis
13 15 (1.23%) Big Data
14 14 (1.15%) Metadata
15 13 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
16 12 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (0.99%) Power BI
16 12 (0.99%) Spark SQL
17 10 (0.82%) Flink
Development Applications
1 188 (15.45%) Git
2 144 (11.83%) GitLab
3 130 (10.68%) Jenkins
4 37 (3.04%) JIRA
5 17 (1.40%) SonarQube
6 16 (1.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 13 (1.07%) Bitbucket
7 13 (1.07%) Cucumber
7 13 (1.07%) NUnit
8 12 (0.99%) Cypress.io
8 12 (0.99%) Selenium
9 9 (0.74%) MSI
10 7 (0.58%) Artifactory
10 7 (0.58%) JMeter
10 7 (0.58%) Robot Framework
10 7 (0.58%) Terragrunt
11 6 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
11 6 (0.49%) Subversion
11 6 (0.49%) TeamCity
11 6 (0.49%) TestRail
General
1 364 (29.91%) Social Skills
2 203 (16.68%) Finance
3 119 (9.78%) Public Sector
4 89 (7.31%) Analytical Skills
5 85 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 72 (5.92%) Law
7 62 (5.09%) Presentation Skills
8 33 (2.71%) Aerospace
9 29 (2.38%) Retail
10 26 (2.14%) Telecoms
11 23 (1.89%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.81%) Banking
13 18 (1.48%) Marketing
14 16 (1.31%) Games
15 15 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (0.99%) Advertising
16 12 (0.99%) Legal
17 10 (0.82%) Aviation
18 8 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
18 8 (0.66%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 262 (21.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 239 (19.64%) Senior
3 210 (17.26%) Lead
4 148 (12.16%) Architect
5 141 (11.59%) Cloud Engineer
6 115 (9.45%) Developer
7 112 (9.20%) Platform Engineer
8 97 (7.97%) Azure Engineer
9 79 (6.49%) Software Engineer
10 76 (6.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 63 (5.18%) Data Engineer
12 58 (4.77%) Systems Architect
13 54 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
14 53 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 50 (4.11%) Senior DevOps
16 46 (3.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 44 (3.62%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 43 (3.53%) Technical Leader
19 40 (3.29%) Lead DevOps
20 38 (3.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (10.02%) React
2 98 (8.05%) .NET
3 96 (7.89%) REST
4 94 (7.72%) Node.js
5 75 (6.16%) Spring Boot
6 72 (5.92%) Spring
7 60 (4.93%) Kafka
8 59 (4.85%) RESTful
9 57 (4.68%) ARM Templates
9 57 (4.68%) AWS CDK
10 46 (3.78%) YAML
11 42 (3.45%) PySpark
12 40 (3.29%) AngularJS
13 38 (3.12%) Elastic Stack
14 35 (2.88%) Next.js
15 33 (2.71%) ASP.NET
16 32 (2.63%) Vue
17 31 (2.55%) ASP.NET Core
18 29 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
19 28 (2.30%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 294 (24.16%) Cloud Native
2 94 (7.72%) Distributed Systems
3 77 (6.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 55 (4.52%) Product Ownership
5 54 (4.44%) Onboarding
6 42 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
7 38 (3.12%) Greenfield Project
7 38 (3.12%) Public Cloud
8 31 (2.55%) Data Centre
8 31 (2.55%) Security Posture
9 28 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
10 25 (2.05%) Private Cloud
10 25 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (1.81%) Data Structures
12 19 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
13 17 (1.40%) Replication
14 16 (1.31%) Virtual Team
15 14 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
15 14 (1.15%) Mainframe
16 12 (0.99%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 224 (18.41%) Linux
2 119 (9.78%) Windows
3 56 (4.60%) Windows Server
4 34 (2.79%) CentOS
5 28 (2.30%) Ubuntu
6 27 (2.22%) Unix
7 26 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 16 (1.31%) VMS
9 6 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.41%) Debian
10 5 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.16%) AIX
11 2 (0.16%) Android
11 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.082%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.082%) Rocky
12 1 (0.082%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 885 (72.72%) CI/CD
2 727 (59.74%) DevOps
3 415 (34.10%) Containerisation
4 406 (33.36%) Agile
5 371 (30.48%) Observability
6 301 (24.73%) Platform Engineering
7 293 (24.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 279 (22.93%) Mentoring
9 253 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
10 233 (19.15%) Software Engineering
11 228 (18.73%) AI
12 206 (16.93%) Microservices
12 206 (16.93%) Technical Leadership
13 191 (15.69%) Test Automation
14 173 (14.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 163 (13.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 150 (12.33%) Roadmaps
17 141 (11.59%) Cloud Security
18 132 (10.85%) DevSecOps
19 121 (9.94%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 492 (40.43%) Python
2 210 (17.26%) Bash
3 182 (14.95%) PowerShell
4 177 (14.54%) SQL
5 164 (13.48%) Java
6 133 (10.93%) TypeScript
7 130 (10.68%) Bicep
8 114 (9.37%) JavaScript
9 87 (7.15%) C#
10 69 (5.67%) Go
11 23 (1.89%) Ruby
12 20 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
13 19 (1.56%) Groovy
14 15 (1.23%) PHP
15 11 (0.90%) Rust
16 10 (0.82%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.66%) Scala
18 7 (0.58%) C++
19 6 (0.49%) COBOL
19 6 (0.49%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 330 (27.12%) Security Cleared
2 206 (16.93%) SC Cleared
3 135 (11.09%) DV Cleared
4 97 (7.97%) Degree
5 65 (5.34%) Azure Certification
6 52 (4.27%) AWS Certification
7 44 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 15 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
12 13 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (0.90%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 7 (0.58%) CCNA
15 7 (0.58%) Master's Degree
16 6 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.49%) ICAEW
16 6 (0.49%) RHCSA
17 5 (0.41%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (6.16%) QA
2 59 (4.85%) GRC
3 44 (3.62%) Data Quality
4 36 (2.96%) Accessibility
5 23 (1.89%) WCAG
6 22 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.73%) NCSC
8 18 (1.48%) GDPR
9 17 (1.40%) NIST
10 16 (1.31%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.99%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.49%) Government Security Classifications
12 6 (0.49%) SLA
13 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.16%) IFRS
13 2 (0.16%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.16%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.082%) GxP
System Software
1 363 (29.83%) Docker
2 74 (6.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 67 (5.51%) Active Directory
4 32 (2.63%) vSphere
5 17 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.99%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.74%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 7 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.49%) Firmware
11 5 (0.41%) iptables
12 4 (0.33%) KVM
12 4 (0.33%) Squid
13 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 830 (68.20%) Terraform
2 463 (38.04%) Kubernetes
3 250 (20.54%) Ansible
4 129 (10.60%) Grafana
5 100 (8.22%) Prometheus
6 39 (3.20%) Puppet
7 36 (2.96%) Argo
8 26 (2.14%) Progress Chef
9 20 (1.64%) Istio
10 15 (1.23%) Packer
11 13 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.99%) Nagios
12 12 (0.99%) vCenter Server
13 10 (0.82%) Kibana
13 10 (0.82%) Podman
14 8 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
14 8 (0.66%) Kustomize
14 8 (0.66%) Nessus
14 8 (0.66%) Proxmox
14 8 (0.66%) Rancher
Vendors
1 273 (22.43%) Microsoft
2 87 (7.15%) VMware
3 67 (5.51%) Google
4 56 (4.60%) Red Hat
5 48 (3.94%) Splunk
6 43 (3.53%) Databricks
7 31 (2.55%) Cisco
8 22 (1.81%) Oracle
9 21 (1.73%) Palo Alto
10 15 (1.23%) Dynatrace
11 13 (1.07%) F5
12 12 (0.99%) Atlassian
12 12 (0.99%) Fortinet
12 12 (0.99%) ScienceLogic
13 10 (0.82%) New Relic
13 10 (0.82%) OpenAI
14 8 (0.66%) IBM
14 8 (0.66%) NetApp
14 8 (0.66%) Tenable
15 7 (0.58%) Salesforce