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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 161 129
Rank change year-on-year +10 -32 +10
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 582 625 900
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.35% 1.75% 2.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.96% 2.73%
Number of salaries quoted 411 381 694
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -2.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £73,651 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +1.59% - -3.33%

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 33,727 31,866 32,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.14% 89.24% 88.17%
Number of salaries quoted 19,446 14,308 24,680
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £27,965
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -7.20%

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 January 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 January 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 -10 201 £70,000 +12.00% 211
South East +21 109 £75,000 +15.38% 268
Yorkshire -11 88 £70,000 +30.23% 91
North West -3 87 £70,000 +1.82% 90
South West -17 81 £62,500 -13.18% 137
Scotland +12 75 £71,940 +12.85% 32
Midlands +16 59 £66,250 +0.38% 107
West Midlands +5 36 £62,500 -6.37% 35
East of England +31 27 £75,000 +3.45% 108
North East -5 26 £65,000 +39.78% 31
Wales +21 23 £61,496 +31.62% 46
East Midlands +1 21 £67,750 +4.23% 67
Northern Ireland -9 9 £95,000 +11.76% 20
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 21 (3.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.92%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.23%) Apache
4 10 (1.72%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.37%) Confluence
6 7 (1.20%) IIS
7 3 (0.52%) Appian
7 3 (0.52%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) CMS
8 1 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 380 (65.29%) Azure
2 341 (58.59%) AWS
3 178 (30.58%) Azure DevOps
4 131 (22.51%) GitHub
5 121 (20.79%) Serverless
6 106 (18.21%) GCP
7 99 (17.01%) AWS CloudFormation
8 87 (14.95%) GitHub Actions
9 77 (13.23%) AWS Lambda
10 59 (10.14%) Amazon S3
11 55 (9.45%) SaaS
12 51 (8.76%) Entra ID
12 51 (8.76%) Microsoft 365
13 47 (8.08%) PaaS
14 45 (7.73%) dbt
15 44 (7.56%) Amazon ECS
16 41 (7.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 40 (6.87%) Azure Monitor
18 36 (6.19%) Amazon EKS
19 33 (5.67%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 59 (10.14%) Firewall
2 43 (7.39%) DNS
3 35 (6.01%) VPN
4 32 (5.50%) TCP/IP
5 18 (3.09%) WAN
6 15 (2.58%) DHCP
7 12 (2.06%) LAN
7 12 (2.06%) Network Security
8 9 (1.55%) SD-WAN
8 9 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (1.37%) AMQP
9 8 (1.37%) BGP
9 8 (1.37%) Internet
10 7 (1.20%) HTTP
10 7 (1.20%) SAN
11 6 (1.03%) Unified Communications
11 6 (1.03%) VLAN
11 6 (1.03%) VoIP
12 4 (0.69%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (0.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (7.39%) Amazon RDS
3 35 (6.01%) NoSQL
4 31 (5.33%) DynamoDB
4 31 (5.33%) SQL Server
5 23 (3.95%) Redis
6 19 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (2.92%) MongoDB
8 15 (2.58%) MySQL
9 10 (1.72%) Big Data
10 9 (1.55%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.55%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.20%) InfluxDB
13 6 (1.03%) BigQuery
13 6 (1.03%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.86%) Airbyte
14 5 (0.86%) Cloudera CDH
15 4 (0.69%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 75 (12.89%) Git
2 71 (12.20%) Jenkins
3 49 (8.42%) GitLab
4 22 (3.78%) Selenium
5 21 (3.61%) Robot Framework
6 18 (3.09%) Snyk
7 15 (2.58%) JIRA
8 11 (1.89%) Bitbucket
9 9 (1.55%) CircleCI
10 8 (1.37%) TeamCity
11 7 (1.20%) Cucumber
12 6 (1.03%) git-flow
12 6 (1.03%) JMeter
12 6 (1.03%) Locust
12 6 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
13 5 (0.86%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.86%) Subversion
14 4 (0.69%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.69%) MLflow
General
1 172 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 124 (21.31%) Finance
3 42 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (4.64%) Law
4 27 (4.64%) Public Sector
5 26 (4.47%) Telecoms
6 17 (2.92%) Retail
7 13 (2.23%) Billing
8 12 (2.06%) Games
9 11 (1.89%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.89%) Manufacturing
9 11 (1.89%) Marketing
10 8 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.37%) Legal
11 7 (1.20%) Banking
11 7 (1.20%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.03%) Automotive
12 6 (1.03%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 148 (25.43%) Senior
2 78 (13.40%) Cloud Engineer
3 73 (12.54%) Developer
3 73 (12.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 73 (12.54%) Lead
4 53 (9.11%) Azure Engineer
5 50 (8.59%) Platform Engineer
6 38 (6.53%) Architect
7 28 (4.81%) Software Engineer
8 27 (4.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 18 (3.09%) Full-Stack Developer
10 17 (2.92%) .NET Developer
10 17 (2.92%) AWS Engineer
10 17 (2.92%) Lead DevOps
10 17 (2.92%) Python Developer
10 17 (2.92%) Senior DevOps
10 17 (2.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 16 (2.75%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 14 (2.41%) Data Engineer
12 14 (2.41%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (14.43%) React
2 58 (9.97%) .NET
3 46 (7.90%) RESTful
4 43 (7.39%) Node.js
5 35 (6.01%) Django
6 29 (4.98%) YAML
7 27 (4.64%) REST
8 26 (4.47%) AWS CDK
8 26 (4.47%) OAuth
9 24 (4.12%) ARM Templates
10 22 (3.78%) CSS
10 22 (3.78%) Vue
11 21 (3.61%) .NET Core
11 21 (3.61%) AngularJS
11 21 (3.61%) HTML
12 20 (3.44%) ASP.NET
12 20 (3.44%) GraphQL
12 20 (3.44%) Spring
13 19 (3.26%) Elastic Stack
13 19 (3.26%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 128 (21.99%) Cloud Native
2 44 (7.56%) Product Ownership
3 26 (4.47%) Security Posture
4 19 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (2.92%) Data Centre
5 17 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 16 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.75%) Public Cloud
7 15 (2.58%) Linux Command Line
8 13 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.89%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.20%) Operational Technology
11 6 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (1.03%) Onboarding
12 5 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.86%) Private Cloud
13 4 (0.69%) ARM Cortex
13 4 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 123 (21.13%) Linux
2 48 (8.25%) Windows
3 24 (4.12%) Unix
4 15 (2.58%) Ubuntu
5 13 (2.23%) Debian
6 12 (2.06%) VMS
6 12 (2.06%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.20%) CentOS
7 7 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.69%) Android
8 4 (0.69%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 419 (71.99%) DevOps
2 410 (70.45%) CI/CD
3 234 (40.21%) Agile
4 136 (23.37%) Containerisation
5 132 (22.68%) Continuous Improvement
6 131 (22.51%) Problem-Solving
7 118 (20.27%) Mentoring
8 112 (19.24%) Observability
9 88 (15.12%) Platform Engineering
10 84 (14.43%) Test Automation
11 83 (14.26%) Coaching
12 81 (13.92%) Software Engineering
13 80 (13.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 71 (12.20%) Microservices
15 69 (11.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 68 (11.68%) Roadmaps
17 65 (11.17%) Asset Management
18 63 (10.82%) Analytics
19 62 (10.65%) AI
19 62 (10.65%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 239 (41.07%) Python
2 122 (20.96%) PowerShell
3 101 (17.35%) SQL
4 95 (16.32%) Bash
5 84 (14.43%) Bicep
6 65 (11.17%) Java
6 65 (11.17%) TypeScript
7 60 (10.31%) JavaScript
8 55 (9.45%) C#
9 39 (6.70%) Go
10 9 (1.55%) C
11 6 (1.03%) C++
12 5 (0.86%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.69%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.34%) Scala
14 2 (0.34%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.34%) VB
14 2 (0.34%) XAML
15 1 (0.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 97 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 60 (10.31%) SC Cleared
3 48 (8.25%) DV Cleared
4 39 (6.70%) AWS Certification
5 30 (5.15%) Azure Certification
6 27 (4.64%) Degree
7 14 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.89%) AWS Certified Developer
9 11 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (1.72%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.55%) CCNP
12 6 (1.03%) CISSP
12 6 (1.03%) PMI Certification
12 6 (1.03%) PMP
13 5 (0.86%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.34%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.30%) NIST
1 25 (4.30%) QA
2 24 (4.12%) GDPR
3 20 (3.44%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.37%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.20%) WCAG
7 4 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.69%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.52%) NCSC
9 2 (0.34%) GRC
9 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 185 (31.79%) Docker
2 23 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (3.78%) Active Directory
3 22 (3.78%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (3.61%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (1.72%) vSphere
6 9 (1.55%) VMware NSX
7 8 (1.37%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.69%) Firmware
8 4 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.34%) iptables
11 1 (0.17%) HDFS
11 1 (0.17%) KVM
11 1 (0.17%) QEMU
11 1 (0.17%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 418 (71.82%) Terraform
2 188 (32.30%) Kubernetes
3 130 (22.34%) Ansible
4 61 (10.48%) Grafana
5 52 (8.93%) Prometheus
6 24 (4.12%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (2.23%) Argo
8 10 (1.72%) AWS Copilot
8 10 (1.72%) Puppet
9 8 (1.37%) Progress Chef
9 8 (1.37%) Rancher
10 7 (1.20%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.86%) yum
12 4 (0.69%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.69%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.52%) Dell DRAC
13 3 (0.52%) MaaS360
13 3 (0.52%) SCCM
13 3 (0.52%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.34%) Control-M
Vendors
1 124 (21.31%) Microsoft
2 42 (7.22%) VMware
3 41 (7.04%) Google
4 18 (3.09%) Black Duck
4 18 (3.09%) Coverity
5 17 (2.92%) Cisco
6 15 (2.58%) Splunk
7 14 (2.41%) Ab Initio
7 14 (2.41%) Red Hat
8 13 (2.23%) Databricks
9 12 (2.06%) CrowdStrike
10 9 (1.55%) Palo Alto
11 8 (1.37%) Salesforce
12 6 (1.03%) Dell
12 6 (1.03%) SaltStack
12 6 (1.03%) SAP
13 5 (0.86%) Fortinet
13 5 (0.86%) SolarWinds
14 4 (0.69%) Atlassian
14 4 (0.69%) ServiceNow