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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 212 210
Rank change year-on-year +81 -2 -70
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 895 432 1,012
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.33% 1.44% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 1.59% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 684 288 783
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,100 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,750 £55,938 £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 £83,875 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,810 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.83% +12.59% -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 46,973 27,249 63,266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 69.67% 91.04% 79.87%
Number of salaries quoted 32,876 13,820 44,168
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,772 £32,851 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +66 329 £67,500 -3.57% 100
South East +50 205 £70,000 -9.68% 137
North West +75 198 £72,500 - 59
South West +18 133 £75,000 +7.14% 56
Midlands +36 117 £72,500 +11.54% 42
Yorkshire -5 85 £65,576 -6.32% 20
West Midlands +17 67 £80,000 +23.08% 29
East of England +9 51 £60,100 -7.54% 19
East Midlands +6 50 £67,500 +3.85% 13
North East -9 46 £55,000 -14.06% 21
Scotland +12 36 £60,000 -20.19% 11
Wales -26 25 £70,000 +21.74% 8
Northern Ireland -30 3 £84,401 +95.86% 37
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 20 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (2.12%) Apache
2 19 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (2.01%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.68%) Confluence
5 9 (1.01%) IIS
6 8 (0.89%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.56%) CMS
8 4 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.34%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.34%) WordPress
10 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.11%) Lightworks
1 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 520 (58.10%) AWS
2 475 (53.07%) Azure
3 191 (21.34%) GitHub
4 181 (20.22%) Azure DevOps
5 169 (18.88%) Serverless
6 138 (15.42%) GCP
7 130 (14.53%) GitHub Actions
8 110 (12.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 92 (10.28%) Amazon S3
10 87 (9.72%) AWS Lambda
11 78 (8.72%) PaaS
12 73 (8.16%) Amazon EKS
13 68 (7.60%) Amazon EC2
14 60 (6.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 59 (6.59%) Amazon ECS
16 57 (6.37%) Azure AKS
17 54 (6.03%) IaaS
17 54 (6.03%) SaaS
18 50 (5.59%) Entra ID
19 49 (5.47%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 109 (12.18%) Firewall
2 57 (6.37%) DNS
3 45 (5.03%) VPN
4 37 (4.13%) TCP/IP
5 27 (3.02%) Network Security
6 19 (2.12%) DHCP
7 18 (2.01%) Broadband
8 17 (1.90%) BGP
8 17 (1.90%) HTTP
8 17 (1.90%) VLAN
9 14 (1.56%) Cisco ASA
9 14 (1.56%) WAN
10 9 (1.01%) LAN
10 9 (1.01%) SAN
11 6 (0.67%) Cisco Firepower
11 6 (0.67%) Ethernet VPN
11 6 (0.67%) OSPF
11 6 (0.67%) Software-Defined Networking
11 6 (0.67%) Unified Communications
11 6 (0.67%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (5.59%) Amazon RDS
3 39 (4.36%) NoSQL
4 38 (4.25%) MongoDB
5 34 (3.80%) DynamoDB
6 33 (3.69%) SQL Server
7 27 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (2.35%) Relational Database
9 18 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (1.56%) Metadata
10 14 (1.56%) Redis
11 13 (1.45%) Data Lake
11 13 (1.45%) Spark SQL
12 12 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (1.23%) MySQL
14 10 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (1.12%) Big Data
14 10 (1.12%) BigQuery
14 10 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (0.67%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 138 (15.42%) Git
2 112 (12.51%) GitLab
3 111 (12.40%) Jenkins
4 24 (2.68%) JIRA
5 14 (1.56%) Bitbucket
6 13 (1.45%) Cucumber
7 12 (1.34%) SonarQube
8 8 (0.89%) NUnit
9 7 (0.78%) Artifactory
9 7 (0.78%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.78%) JMeter
9 7 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
9 7 (0.78%) Selenium
10 6 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.56%) MSI
11 5 (0.56%) Robot Framework
11 5 (0.56%) Subversion
11 5 (0.56%) TestRail
12 4 (0.45%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 215 (24.02%) Social Skills
2 101 (11.28%) Finance
3 79 (8.83%) Public Sector
4 66 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (5.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (3.69%) Telecoms
7 29 (3.24%) Law
8 25 (2.79%) Retail
9 22 (2.46%) Manufacturing
10 21 (2.35%) Banking
11 20 (2.23%) Aerospace
12 17 (1.90%) Games
13 16 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.34%) Billing
15 10 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (1.01%) Marketing
17 7 (0.78%) Advertising
17 7 (0.78%) Legal
18 5 (0.56%) Local Government
19 4 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 189 (21.12%) Senior
2 180 (20.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 150 (16.76%) Lead
4 116 (12.96%) Cloud Engineer
5 92 (10.28%) Azure Engineer
6 89 (9.94%) Developer
7 83 (9.27%) Platform Engineer
8 62 (6.93%) Architect
9 60 (6.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 60 (6.70%) Software Engineer
10 45 (5.03%) AWS Engineer
11 43 (4.80%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 39 (4.36%) Data Engineer
13 36 (4.02%) Senior DevOps
14 35 (3.91%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 33 (3.69%) Technical Leader
16 30 (3.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 29 (3.24%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 29 (3.24%) Site Engineer
18 28 (3.13%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (10.95%) React
2 87 (9.72%) Node.js
3 77 (8.60%) .NET
4 74 (8.27%) REST
5 49 (5.47%) ARM Templates
6 46 (5.14%) YAML
7 45 (5.03%) AWS CDK
8 41 (4.58%) RESTful
9 39 (4.36%) Elastic Stack
9 39 (4.36%) Spring
10 38 (4.25%) Kafka
11 36 (4.02%) Spring Boot
12 31 (3.46%) PySpark
13 28 (3.13%) AngularJS
13 28 (3.13%) ASP.NET
13 28 (3.13%) Vue
14 26 (2.91%) ASP.NET Core
15 24 (2.68%) Next.js
16 23 (2.57%) CSS
16 23 (2.57%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 204 (22.79%) Cloud Native
2 66 (7.37%) Hybrid Cloud
3 65 (7.26%) Distributed Systems
4 47 (5.25%) Product Ownership
5 29 (3.24%) Public Cloud
6 28 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
7 26 (2.91%) Onboarding
8 24 (2.68%) Data Centre
9 20 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
9 20 (2.23%) Security Posture
10 19 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
12 17 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
13 15 (1.68%) Data Structures
14 14 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
14 14 (1.56%) Private Cloud
14 14 (1.56%) Replication
15 13 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
15 13 (1.45%) Video\Live Streaming
16 11 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 181 (20.22%) Linux
2 93 (10.39%) Windows
3 50 (5.59%) Windows Server
4 31 (3.46%) Ubuntu
5 23 (2.57%) CentOS
6 17 (1.90%) Unix
7 15 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (1.45%) VMS
9 8 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.78%) Debian
11 5 (0.56%) Android
11 5 (0.56%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.11%) AIX
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 664 (74.19%) CI/CD
2 550 (61.45%) DevOps
3 309 (34.53%) Agile
4 282 (31.51%) Observability
5 256 (28.60%) Containerisation
6 211 (23.58%) Mentoring
6 211 (23.58%) Platform Engineering
7 205 (22.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 171 (19.11%) AI
8 171 (19.11%) Problem-Solving
9 158 (17.65%) Test Automation
10 154 (17.21%) Microservices
11 138 (15.42%) Software Engineering
12 124 (13.85%) Technical Leadership
13 123 (13.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 122 (13.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 104 (11.62%) Cloud Security
16 99 (11.06%) DevSecOps
17 90 (10.06%) Full-Stack Development
18 89 (9.94%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 386 (43.13%) Python
2 194 (21.68%) Bash
3 168 (18.77%) PowerShell
4 135 (15.08%) SQL
5 116 (12.96%) TypeScript
6 102 (11.40%) Java
7 96 (10.73%) Bicep
8 93 (10.39%) JavaScript
9 71 (7.93%) C#
10 60 (6.70%) Go
11 18 (2.01%) Groovy
12 13 (1.45%) Ruby
13 11 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (1.23%) PHP
14 10 (1.12%) C
15 9 (1.01%) Rust
16 8 (0.89%) C++
17 6 (0.67%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.45%) Apex Code
18 4 (0.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 200 (22.35%) Security Cleared
2 132 (14.75%) SC Cleared
3 70 (7.82%) Degree
4 62 (6.93%) DV Cleared
5 48 (5.36%) Azure Certification
6 36 (4.02%) AWS Certification
7 31 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (1.56%) DBS Check
10 12 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.67%) ICAEW
12 6 (0.67%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.56%) CCNA
13 5 (0.56%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.56%) RHCSA
13 5 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.45%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (5.81%) QA
2 25 (2.79%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.57%) Accessibility
4 18 (2.01%) GDPR
5 16 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.68%) WCAG
7 10 (1.12%) NCSC
8 9 (1.01%) NIST
8 9 (1.01%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.01%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.45%) SLA
11 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.22%) IFRS
11 2 (0.22%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.22%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.11%) GRC
System Software
1 256 (28.60%) Docker
2 60 (6.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 52 (5.81%) Active Directory
4 28 (3.13%) vSphere
5 20 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (1.34%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.78%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.78%) iptables
7 7 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.45%) Firmware
9 4 (0.45%) Squid
10 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 639 (71.40%) Terraform
2 332 (37.09%) Kubernetes
3 194 (21.68%) Ansible
4 120 (13.41%) Grafana
5 96 (10.73%) Prometheus
6 30 (3.35%) Puppet
7 27 (3.02%) Argo
8 22 (2.46%) Progress Chef
9 14 (1.56%) vCenter Server
10 13 (1.45%) Nagios
10 13 (1.45%) Packer
11 11 (1.23%) Istio
11 11 (1.23%) Proxmox
12 10 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
12 10 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (1.01%) Podman
14 7 (0.78%) Kibana
14 7 (0.78%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.78%) Rancher
14 7 (0.78%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 168 (18.77%) Microsoft
2 78 (8.72%) VMware
3 47 (5.25%) Red Hat
4 38 (4.25%) Google
5 33 (3.69%) Splunk
6 30 (3.35%) Databricks
7 29 (3.24%) Cisco
8 20 (2.23%) Palo Alto
9 12 (1.34%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.34%) Oracle
10 10 (1.12%) F5
11 9 (1.01%) CrowdStrike
11 9 (1.01%) Fortinet
12 8 (0.89%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.78%) HubSpot
13 7 (0.78%) NetApp
13 7 (0.78%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.67%) Juniper
14 6 (0.67%) ScienceLogic
14 6 (0.67%) SolarWinds