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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 214 198
Rank change year-on-year +101 -16 -71
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,054 460 996
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.49% 1.38% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 1.56% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 780 323 779
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,737 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,750 £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 £82,500 £82,751 £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 49,875 29,577 59,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.70% 88.77% 80.32%
Number of salaries quoted 35,066 15,786 41,368
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,959 £32,951 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,274 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 9 July 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 9 July 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 +80 367 £67,500 -3.57% 148
South East +47 224 £70,000 -9.68% 135
North West +84 223 £73,401 +1.24% 89
South West +31 175 £75,000 +3.45% 119
Midlands +36 131 £75,000 +15.38% 54
Yorkshire +4 92 £65,576 -6.32% 39
West Midlands +9 77 £80,000 +23.08% 35
East Midlands +8 54 £67,500 +3.85% 19
East of England +7 53 £60,100 -7.54% 20
North East -2 52 £55,000 -14.06% 20
Wales -16 41 £70,039 +24.51% 18
Scotland +8 37 £62,500 -16.39% 43
Northern Ireland -29 33 £84,401 +95.86% 19
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 28 (2.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (1.99%) Apache
2 21 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.61%) Confluence
5 9 (0.85%) Jupyter
6 8 (0.76%) IIS
7 5 (0.47%) CMS
8 4 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.28%) WordPress
10 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.19%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.095%) Documentum
11 1 (0.095%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.19%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.095%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 574 (54.46%) Azure
2 566 (53.70%) AWS
3 213 (20.21%) GitHub
4 200 (18.98%) Azure DevOps
5 184 (17.46%) Serverless
6 163 (15.46%) GCP
7 139 (13.19%) GitHub Actions
8 125 (11.86%) AWS CloudFormation
9 99 (9.39%) Amazon S3
10 92 (8.73%) AWS Lambda
11 90 (8.54%) PaaS
12 79 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
13 72 (6.83%) Amazon EC2
14 69 (6.55%) Microsoft 365
15 63 (5.98%) Azure AKS
16 62 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
17 60 (5.69%) IaaS
18 59 (5.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 56 (5.31%) SaaS
20 53 (5.03%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 112 (10.63%) Firewall
2 61 (5.79%) DNS
3 60 (5.69%) VPN
4 49 (4.65%) WAN
5 41 (3.89%) LAN
6 38 (3.61%) TCP/IP
7 33 (3.13%) Network Security
8 22 (2.09%) DHCP
9 19 (1.80%) BGP
9 19 (1.80%) VLAN
10 17 (1.61%) HTTP
11 16 (1.52%) Broadband
12 13 (1.23%) Cisco ASA
13 11 (1.04%) SAN
14 9 (0.85%) SD-WAN
15 8 (0.76%) Software-Defined Networking
16 7 (0.66%) Ethernet VPN
17 6 (0.57%) Cisco Firepower
17 6 (0.57%) MQTT
17 6 (0.57%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
3 45 (4.27%) NoSQL
4 41 (3.89%) MongoDB
5 38 (3.61%) DynamoDB
6 36 (3.42%) SQL Server
7 34 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 25 (2.37%) Relational Database
9 21 (1.99%) MySQL
10 17 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
11 16 (1.52%) Redis
12 14 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (1.33%) Data Lake
12 14 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
12 14 (1.33%) Metadata
13 13 (1.23%) Spark SQL
14 11 (1.04%) Big Data
15 10 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (0.76%) InfluxDB
16 8 (0.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 162 (15.37%) Git
2 128 (12.14%) GitLab
3 126 (11.95%) Jenkins
4 29 (2.75%) JIRA
5 15 (1.42%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.33%) Cucumber
6 14 (1.33%) SonarQube
7 12 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 9 (0.85%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.85%) Selenium
9 8 (0.76%) NUnit
10 7 (0.66%) Artifactory
10 7 (0.66%) JMeter
10 7 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
10 7 (0.66%) Robot Framework
10 7 (0.66%) Subversion
10 7 (0.66%) TestRail
11 6 (0.57%) MSI
12 5 (0.47%) Terragrunt
13 4 (0.38%) Locust
General
1 283 (26.85%) Social Skills
2 156 (14.80%) Finance
3 101 (9.58%) Public Sector
4 70 (6.64%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (6.36%) Law
6 61 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
7 31 (2.94%) Telecoms
8 27 (2.56%) Retail
9 26 (2.47%) Aerospace
10 22 (2.09%) Banking
10 22 (2.09%) Manufacturing
11 17 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
11 17 (1.61%) Games
12 11 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (0.95%) Advertising
13 10 (0.95%) Marketing
14 7 (0.66%) Legal
15 6 (0.57%) Billing
16 5 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 225 (21.35%) DevOps Engineer
2 218 (20.68%) Senior
3 174 (16.51%) Lead
4 127 (12.05%) Cloud Engineer
5 106 (10.06%) Architect
6 99 (9.39%) Azure Engineer
7 98 (9.30%) Developer
7 98 (9.30%) Platform Engineer
8 72 (6.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 70 (6.64%) Software Engineer
10 51 (4.84%) Senior DevOps
11 47 (4.46%) AWS Engineer
12 44 (4.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 44 (4.17%) Data Engineer
13 43 (4.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 39 (3.70%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 38 (3.61%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 36 (3.42%) Technical Leader
17 32 (3.04%) Azure Platform Engineer
18 31 (2.94%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (10.25%) React
2 96 (9.11%) Node.js
3 85 (8.06%) REST
4 81 (7.69%) .NET
5 62 (5.88%) Spring
5 62 (5.88%) Spring Boot
6 55 (5.22%) ARM Templates
7 50 (4.74%) RESTful
8 49 (4.65%) AWS CDK
9 46 (4.36%) YAML
10 45 (4.27%) Kafka
11 43 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
12 35 (3.32%) AngularJS
13 34 (3.23%) PySpark
14 29 (2.75%) ASP.NET
14 29 (2.75%) RabbitMQ
15 28 (2.66%) Next.js
15 28 (2.66%) Vue
16 27 (2.56%) ASP.NET Core
17 23 (2.18%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 240 (22.77%) Cloud Native
2 76 (7.21%) Distributed Systems
3 70 (6.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 54 (5.12%) Product Ownership
5 36 (3.42%) Onboarding
5 36 (3.42%) Public Cloud
6 33 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
7 28 (2.66%) Security Posture
8 27 (2.56%) Data Centre
8 27 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
9 25 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
10 24 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
11 18 (1.71%) Private Cloud
12 16 (1.52%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.42%) Replication
14 14 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
15 13 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
15 13 (1.23%) Video\Live Streaming
16 12 (1.14%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 205 (19.45%) Linux
2 110 (10.44%) Windows
3 51 (4.84%) Windows Server
4 32 (3.04%) CentOS
4 32 (3.04%) Ubuntu
5 22 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.80%) VMS
7 17 (1.61%) Unix
8 8 (0.76%) Debian
8 8 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.28%) Android
10 3 (0.28%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.095%) AIX
11 1 (0.095%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.095%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 772 (73.24%) CI/CD
2 637 (60.44%) DevOps
3 356 (33.78%) Agile
4 341 (32.35%) Containerisation
5 314 (29.79%) Observability
6 259 (24.57%) Platform Engineering
7 244 (23.15%) Mentoring
8 243 (23.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 205 (19.45%) Problem-Solving
10 197 (18.69%) AI
11 186 (17.65%) Microservices
12 179 (16.98%) Test Automation
13 171 (16.22%) Software Engineering
14 159 (15.09%) Technical Leadership
15 146 (13.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 143 (13.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 125 (11.86%) Cloud Security
18 118 (11.20%) DevSecOps
19 109 (10.34%) Roadmaps
20 105 (9.96%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 434 (41.18%) Python
2 212 (20.11%) Bash
3 187 (17.74%) PowerShell
4 148 (14.04%) SQL
5 136 (12.90%) Java
6 122 (11.57%) TypeScript
7 120 (11.39%) Bicep
8 102 (9.68%) JavaScript
9 76 (7.21%) C#
10 65 (6.17%) Go
11 19 (1.80%) Groovy
11 19 (1.80%) Kusto Query Language
12 18 (1.71%) Ruby
13 13 (1.23%) PHP
14 9 (0.85%) Rust
15 8 (0.76%) C++
16 7 (0.66%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.57%) C
18 5 (0.47%) COBOL
18 5 (0.47%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 260 (24.67%) Security Cleared
2 154 (14.61%) SC Cleared
3 97 (9.20%) DV Cleared
4 74 (7.02%) Degree
5 58 (5.50%) Azure Certification
6 38 (3.61%) AWS Certification
7 34 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.23%) DBS Check
11 12 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (0.66%) CCNA
13 7 (0.66%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.57%) ICAEW
14 6 (0.57%) RHCSA
15 5 (0.47%) ISTQB
16 4 (0.38%) Network+ Certification
16 4 (0.38%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (5.98%) QA
2 32 (3.04%) GRC
3 30 (2.85%) Data Quality
4 25 (2.37%) Accessibility
5 18 (1.71%) WCAG
6 17 (1.61%) GDPR
6 17 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.42%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.23%) NCSC
9 12 (1.14%) NIST
9 12 (1.14%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
10 5 (0.47%) SLA
11 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.19%) IFRS
11 2 (0.19%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.19%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.095%) GxP
System Software
1 307 (29.13%) Docker
2 73 (6.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 65 (6.17%) Active Directory
4 35 (3.32%) vSphere
5 22 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (1.14%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.66%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.66%) iptables
9 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.47%) Firmware
11 4 (0.38%) Squid
12 1 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 736 (69.83%) Terraform
2 412 (39.09%) Kubernetes
3 232 (22.01%) Ansible
4 126 (11.95%) Grafana
5 97 (9.20%) Prometheus
6 36 (3.42%) Puppet
7 30 (2.85%) Argo
8 24 (2.28%) Progress Chef
9 16 (1.52%) vCenter Server
10 15 (1.42%) Packer
11 13 (1.23%) Istio
11 13 (1.23%) Nagios
12 11 (1.04%) Proxmox
13 10 (0.95%) Kibana
13 10 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
13 10 (0.95%) Rancher
13 10 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.85%) Podman
15 8 (0.76%) logstash
16 7 (0.66%) yum
Vendors
1 220 (20.87%) Microsoft
2 90 (8.54%) VMware
3 51 (4.84%) Red Hat
4 45 (4.27%) Google
5 41 (3.89%) Splunk
6 33 (3.13%) Databricks
7 32 (3.04%) Cisco
8 21 (1.99%) Palo Alto
9 14 (1.33%) Oracle
10 13 (1.23%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.14%) F5
11 12 (1.14%) ScienceLogic
12 10 (0.95%) Atlassian
12 10 (0.95%) Fortinet
13 9 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (0.66%) HubSpot
14 7 (0.66%) NetApp
14 7 (0.66%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.66%) Salesforce
15 6 (0.57%) Juniper