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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 152 98
Rank change year-on-year -23 -54 +53
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 535 767 998
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.55% 1.59% 3.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 1.99% 3.34%
Number of salaries quoted 382 469 777
10th Percentile £46,500 £40,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £73,801 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.43% -6.67% -

All Process and 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 29,654 38,493 29,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.14% 79.90% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 16,561 19,080 22,191
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,974 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.86% +2.86% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,070
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

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 October 2025.

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 October 2025. 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 -35 167 £70,000 +16.67% 213
South East -1 132 £77,500 +31.08% 384
North West -35 77 £65,250 +4.40% 126
Yorkshire -4 70 £70,000 +27.27% 63
Midlands +11 68 £65,000 -1.52% 46
Scotland 0 60 £70,039 -12.45% 26
South West -47 52 £70,000 - 81
West Midlands +12 47 £65,000 -7.14% 31
East of England +18 37 £65,000 -10.34% 26
East Midlands +11 21 £65,000 +51.76% 15
North East -3 20 £72,500 +44.28% 26
Wales +18 15 £60,000 - 15
Northern Ireland +5 6 £73,801 -13.18% 10
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 23 (4.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (3.74%) SharePoint
3 17 (3.18%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (2.24%) Apache
6 11 (2.06%) Appian
6 11 (2.06%) Confluence
7 4 (0.75%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.56%) nginx
9 1 (0.19%) CMS
9 1 (0.19%) IIS
9 1 (0.19%) SAS
9 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.37%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 360 (67.29%) Azure
2 322 (60.19%) AWS
3 147 (27.48%) Azure DevOps
4 101 (18.88%) GCP
5 81 (15.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 78 (14.58%) GitHub
7 73 (13.64%) SaaS
8 71 (13.27%) Serverless
9 66 (12.34%) PaaS
10 56 (10.47%) Entra ID
11 55 (10.28%) Microsoft 365
12 47 (8.79%) GitHub Actions
13 45 (8.41%) IaaS
14 44 (8.22%) Amazon S3
15 41 (7.66%) AWS Lambda
16 40 (7.48%) Azure Monitor
17 39 (7.29%) Power Platform
18 37 (6.92%) Amazon ECS
19 34 (6.36%) Amazon EC2
20 33 (6.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 52 (9.72%) DNS
2 51 (9.53%) Firewall
3 45 (8.41%) VPN
4 42 (7.85%) WAN
5 25 (4.67%) SD-WAN
5 25 (4.67%) TCP/IP
6 23 (4.30%) LAN
7 13 (2.43%) DHCP
8 12 (2.24%) Network Security
9 11 (2.06%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (1.50%) SAN
11 7 (1.31%) Unified Communications
11 7 (1.31%) VoIP
12 6 (1.12%) VLAN
13 4 (0.75%) AMQP
13 4 (0.75%) BGP
14 3 (0.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 3 (0.56%) Internet
14 3 (0.56%) IPsec
14 3 (0.56%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (6.17%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (5.61%) Data Lake
2 30 (5.61%) SQL Server
3 26 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (4.49%) MySQL
5 22 (4.11%) Redis
6 21 (3.93%) NoSQL
7 18 (3.36%) Big Data
8 17 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (3.18%) Power BI
9 16 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (2.43%) DynamoDB
11 9 (1.68%) Hadoop
12 8 (1.50%) Relational Database
13 7 (1.31%) MongoDB
14 6 (1.12%) Airbyte
15 4 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
16 3 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
16 3 (0.56%) InfluxDB
17 2 (0.37%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 54 (10.09%) Git
2 52 (9.72%) Jenkins
3 46 (8.60%) GitLab
4 27 (5.05%) Selenium
5 23 (4.30%) Robot Framework
5 23 (4.30%) Snyk
6 18 (3.36%) JIRA
7 11 (2.06%) CircleCI
8 10 (1.87%) TeamCity
9 9 (1.68%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.68%) SonarQube
10 8 (1.50%) JMeter
11 6 (1.12%) Artifactory
11 6 (1.12%) Bitbucket
11 6 (1.12%) Locust
11 6 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.75%) git-flow
12 4 (0.75%) MLflow
13 3 (0.56%) MSTest
13 3 (0.56%) NUnit
General
1 128 (23.93%) Social Skills
2 92 (17.20%) Finance
3 36 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (6.73%) Law
4 21 (3.93%) Public Sector
5 20 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (2.43%) Automotive
7 12 (2.24%) Legal
8 10 (1.87%) Games
8 10 (1.87%) Retail
8 10 (1.87%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.68%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.31%) Advertising
11 6 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.12%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.75%) Marketing
13 3 (0.56%) Agriculture
13 3 (0.56%) Banking
13 3 (0.56%) Billing
14 2 (0.37%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 116 (21.68%) Senior
2 74 (13.83%) Architect
3 71 (13.27%) Lead
4 67 (12.52%) Cloud Engineer
5 65 (12.15%) DevOps Engineer
6 56 (10.47%) Developer
7 44 (8.22%) Platform Engineer
8 32 (5.98%) Cloud Architect
9 29 (5.42%) Azure Engineer
10 28 (5.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 24 (4.49%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 21 (3.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 20 (3.74%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 19 (3.55%) Full-Stack Developer
14 19 (3.55%) Software Engineer
15 17 (3.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 17 (3.18%) Site Engineer
15 17 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
16 15 (2.80%) Senior DevOps
16 15 (2.80%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (11.21%) .NET
2 52 (9.72%) React
3 31 (5.79%) Django
4 29 (5.42%) Kafka
5 24 (4.49%) ARM Templates
6 23 (4.30%) REST
7 18 (3.36%) YAML
8 17 (3.18%) RESTful
9 15 (2.80%) .NET Framework
9 15 (2.80%) CSS
9 15 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
10 14 (2.62%) Flask
10 14 (2.62%) HTML
10 14 (2.62%) Node.js
11 13 (2.43%) AngularJS
11 13 (2.43%) OAuth
12 12 (2.24%) FastAPI
12 12 (2.24%) Vue
13 11 (2.06%) Apache NiFi
13 11 (2.06%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 124 (23.18%) Cloud Native
2 41 (7.66%) Product Ownership
3 35 (6.54%) Data Centre
4 31 (5.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 30 (5.61%) Public Cloud
6 19 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
8 15 (2.80%) Private Cloud
9 14 (2.62%) NHS
9 14 (2.62%) Security Posture
10 12 (2.24%) Management Information System
11 11 (2.06%) Low-Code
11 11 (2.06%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.87%) Data Structures
13 9 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (1.50%) Operational Technology
15 5 (0.93%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 86 (16.07%) Linux
2 42 (7.85%) Windows
3 19 (3.55%) Unix
4 14 (2.62%) Ubuntu
4 14 (2.62%) Windows Server
5 13 (2.43%) Debian
6 10 (1.87%) VMS
7 3 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.37%) AIX
8 2 (0.37%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (70.84%) DevOps
2 349 (65.23%) CI/CD
3 215 (40.19%) Agile
4 103 (19.25%) Containerisation
5 102 (19.07%) Mentoring
6 98 (18.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 93 (17.38%) Problem-Solving
8 91 (17.01%) Roadmaps
9 84 (15.70%) AI
10 81 (15.14%) Observability
11 80 (14.95%) Test Automation
12 74 (13.83%) Platform Engineering
13 69 (12.90%) Analytics
13 69 (12.90%) Software Engineering
14 65 (12.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 62 (11.59%) Migration
16 58 (10.84%) Microservices
17 56 (10.47%) Technical Leadership
18 55 (10.28%) Coaching
18 55 (10.28%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 200 (37.38%) Python
2 106 (19.81%) PowerShell
3 95 (17.76%) SQL
4 75 (14.02%) Bicep
5 64 (11.96%) Bash
6 58 (10.84%) C#
7 56 (10.47%) JavaScript
8 47 (8.79%) Java
9 40 (7.48%) TypeScript
10 22 (4.11%) Go
11 5 (0.93%) C++
12 4 (0.75%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.56%) Ruby
13 3 (0.56%) VB
14 2 (0.37%) Groovy
14 2 (0.37%) Julia
14 2 (0.37%) R
14 2 (0.37%) Scala
14 2 (0.37%) VBA
14 2 (0.37%) XAML
Qualifications
1 99 (18.50%) Security Cleared
2 70 (13.08%) SC Cleared
3 60 (11.21%) Azure Certification
4 41 (7.66%) AWS Certification
5 39 (7.29%) DV Cleared
6 37 (6.92%) Degree
7 20 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (3.36%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (3.18%) Master's Degree
10 15 (2.80%) CCNP
10 15 (2.80%) DBS Check
11 14 (2.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (1.31%) CCNA
13 7 (1.31%) PMI Certification
13 7 (1.31%) PMP
14 4 (0.75%) ISTQB
15 3 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.56%) CISSP
16 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.49%) GDPR
2 23 (4.30%) NIST
2 23 (4.30%) QA
3 15 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.68%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 7 (1.31%) WCAG
6 3 (0.56%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.56%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.56%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.37%) NCSC
7 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 155 (28.97%) Docker
2 37 (6.92%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (4.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (3.93%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (3.36%) Active Directory
6 9 (1.68%) vSphere
7 7 (1.31%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.75%) vCloud
8 4 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.56%) Firmware
9 3 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.56%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.19%) HDFS
10 1 (0.19%) iptables
10 1 (0.19%) KVM
10 1 (0.19%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 364 (68.04%) Terraform
2 167 (31.21%) Kubernetes
3 117 (21.87%) Ansible
4 47 (8.79%) Grafana
5 43 (8.04%) Prometheus
6 24 (4.49%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (2.80%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.87%) AWS Copilot
8 10 (1.87%) Docker Swarm
9 6 (1.12%) Argo
9 6 (1.12%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.93%) MaaS360
10 5 (0.93%) Puppet
10 5 (0.93%) SCCM
11 4 (0.75%) Rundeck
11 4 (0.75%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.56%) Control-M
12 3 (0.56%) Dell DRAC
12 3 (0.56%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 120 (22.43%) Microsoft
2 43 (8.04%) Google
3 42 (7.85%) VMware
4 25 (4.67%) Databricks
5 24 (4.49%) Cisco
6 22 (4.11%) Black Duck
7 20 (3.74%) Palo Alto
8 17 (3.18%) Coverity
8 17 (3.18%) Meraki
9 16 (2.99%) Fortinet
10 13 (2.43%) Splunk
11 11 (2.06%) Aruba
11 11 (2.06%) BiZZdesign
11 11 (2.06%) UiPath
12 10 (1.87%) Mellanox
12 10 (1.87%) NVIDIA
12 10 (1.87%) Salesforce
13 8 (1.50%) Red Hat
14 7 (1.31%) Oracle
14 7 (1.31%) SolarWinds