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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 163 183
Rank change year-on-year +3 +20 -37
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 616 496 930
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.18% 1.76% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.91% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 449 356 712
10th Percentile £46,000 £41,422 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £51,250 £54,978
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,500 £79,625
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,125 £90,000
UK median annual salary £73,801 £74,935 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.51% +3.36% -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 39,358 25,982 49,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 75.31% 92.28% 86.04%
Number of salaries quoted 23,331 13,399 37,530
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -11 212 £65,000 - 157
South East +10 132 £72,500 +3.20% 160
Yorkshire -10 90 £62,500 +19.05% 54
North West -17 89 £73,801 +5.43% 81
South West -7 84 £62,500 -10.71% 98
Midlands -2 68 £67,500 +3.85% 56
Scotland -11 59 £67,500 - 18
West Midlands -17 34 £67,500 -3.57% 37
North East -6 33 £48,445 -13.10% 22
East Midlands -10 32 £67,500 +3.85% 19
East of England +9 30 £60,100 -17.10% 54
Wales +5 22 £64,998 +32.37% 15
Northern Ireland -24 10 £95,000 +11.76% 7
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 13 (2.11%) Apache
1 13 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (1.62%) IIS
3 9 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.14%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.81%) Confluence
6 3 (0.49%) Appian
6 3 (0.49%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.32%) CMS
7 2 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 384 (62.34%) AWS
2 367 (59.58%) Azure
3 175 (28.41%) Azure DevOps
4 155 (25.16%) GitHub
5 135 (21.92%) Serverless
6 127 (20.62%) GCP
7 118 (19.16%) GitHub Actions
8 105 (17.05%) AWS CloudFormation
9 82 (13.31%) AWS Lambda
10 66 (10.71%) Amazon S3
11 61 (9.90%) PaaS
12 55 (8.93%) Amazon EKS
13 51 (8.28%) dbt
14 49 (7.95%) Amazon ECS
15 47 (7.63%) Entra ID
16 46 (7.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 46 (7.47%) SaaS
17 37 (6.01%) Azure Monitor
18 35 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
19 33 (5.36%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 80 (12.99%) Firewall
2 51 (8.28%) TCP/IP
3 49 (7.95%) DNS
4 26 (4.22%) VPN
5 19 (3.08%) HTTP
6 18 (2.92%) Network Security
7 13 (2.11%) DHCP
8 11 (1.79%) WAN
9 10 (1.62%) Cisco ASA
10 9 (1.46%) VLAN
11 8 (1.30%) LAN
12 7 (1.14%) BGP
12 7 (1.14%) Internet
13 6 (0.97%) Broadband
13 6 (0.97%) SAN
14 5 (0.81%) AMQP
15 4 (0.65%) Unified Communications
15 4 (0.65%) Wireless
16 3 (0.49%) WebEx
16 3 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (9.90%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (8.28%) Amazon RDS
3 35 (5.68%) NoSQL
4 33 (5.36%) DynamoDB
5 29 (4.71%) Redis
5 29 (4.71%) SQL Server
6 23 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
7 18 (2.92%) MongoDB
8 16 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (2.44%) MySQL
10 7 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.14%) Big Data
10 7 (1.14%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.14%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.14%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (0.97%) Metadata
12 5 (0.81%) Airbyte
12 5 (0.81%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.81%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 89 (14.45%) Git
2 84 (13.64%) Jenkins
3 57 (9.25%) GitLab
4 23 (3.73%) Selenium
5 22 (3.57%) Robot Framework
6 18 (2.92%) Snyk
7 14 (2.27%) JIRA
8 12 (1.95%) Bitbucket
9 10 (1.62%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.46%) JMeter
10 9 (1.46%) Locust
11 8 (1.30%) CircleCI
12 7 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
13 6 (0.97%) git-flow
13 6 (0.97%) Subversion
13 6 (0.97%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.65%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.65%) TestRail
15 3 (0.49%) MLflow
General
1 177 (28.73%) Social Skills
2 105 (17.05%) Finance
3 65 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (6.66%) Public Sector
5 39 (6.33%) Telecoms
6 32 (5.19%) Law
7 24 (3.90%) Retail
8 20 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (2.60%) Billing
10 14 (2.27%) Marketing
11 13 (2.11%) Aerospace
11 13 (2.11%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.79%) Banking
12 11 (1.79%) Games
13 10 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.30%) Advertising
16 7 (1.14%) Electronics
17 6 (0.97%) Legal
18 5 (0.81%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 153 (24.84%) Senior
2 98 (15.91%) DevOps Engineer
3 86 (13.96%) Lead
4 75 (12.18%) Cloud Engineer
5 68 (11.04%) Developer
6 63 (10.23%) Azure Engineer
7 49 (7.95%) Platform Engineer
8 38 (6.17%) Software Engineer
9 33 (5.36%) Architect
9 33 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 24 (3.90%) Senior DevOps
11 23 (3.73%) AWS Engineer
12 21 (3.41%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 18 (2.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 18 (2.92%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 17 (2.76%) Full-Stack Developer
14 17 (2.76%) Security Engineer
14 17 (2.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 17 (2.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 16 (2.60%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (14.77%) React
2 57 (9.25%) Node.js
3 49 (7.95%) .NET
4 46 (7.47%) RESTful
5 40 (6.49%) Django
6 36 (5.84%) AWS CDK
7 33 (5.36%) OAuth
7 33 (5.36%) REST
8 30 (4.87%) Elastic Stack
8 30 (4.87%) YAML
9 25 (4.06%) ARM Templates
10 23 (3.73%) Vue
11 22 (3.57%) CSS
11 22 (3.57%) GraphQL
11 22 (3.57%) Spring
12 21 (3.41%) FastAPI
12 21 (3.41%) HTML
12 21 (3.41%) RabbitMQ
13 20 (3.25%) JSON
14 18 (2.92%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 124 (20.13%) Cloud Native
2 40 (6.49%) Product Ownership
3 26 (4.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
4 20 (3.25%) Security Posture
5 19 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (3.08%) Linux Command Line
6 14 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (2.11%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.79%) Data Structures
8 11 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.62%) Data Centre
9 10 (1.62%) Legacy Applications
9 10 (1.62%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.14%) Private Cloud
12 6 (0.97%) Mobile App
12 6 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.81%) Low-Code
14 4 (0.65%) ARM Cortex
Operating Systems
1 140 (22.73%) Linux
2 58 (9.42%) Windows
3 30 (4.87%) Unix
4 21 (3.41%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.27%) Ubuntu
6 11 (1.79%) CentOS
6 11 (1.79%) VMS
7 9 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (1.14%) Debian
9 5 (0.81%) Android
9 5 (0.81%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 452 (73.38%) CI/CD
2 438 (71.10%) DevOps
3 234 (37.99%) Agile
4 168 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 153 (24.84%) Observability
6 152 (24.68%) Problem-Solving
7 144 (23.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 135 (21.92%) Mentoring
9 100 (16.23%) Test Automation
10 98 (15.91%) Platform Engineering
11 89 (14.45%) Software Engineering
12 84 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 81 (13.15%) Microservices
14 79 (12.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 74 (12.01%) DevSecOps
16 73 (11.85%) Coaching
17 71 (11.53%) Incident Response
18 70 (11.36%) Cloud Security
19 62 (10.06%) Deployment Automation
20 60 (9.74%) AI
Programming Languages
1 264 (42.86%) Python
2 128 (20.78%) PowerShell
3 121 (19.64%) Bash
4 90 (14.61%) SQL
5 73 (11.85%) TypeScript
6 71 (11.53%) Java
7 66 (10.71%) Bicep
8 62 (10.06%) JavaScript
9 51 (8.28%) Go
10 44 (7.14%) C#
11 10 (1.62%) C
12 8 (1.30%) C++
13 7 (1.14%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.49%) Ruby
15 3 (0.49%) Scala
16 2 (0.32%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.32%) VB
17 1 (0.16%) Perl
17 1 (0.16%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 117 (18.99%) Security Cleared
2 67 (10.88%) SC Cleared
3 54 (8.77%) DV Cleared
4 37 (6.01%) AWS Certification
5 30 (4.87%) Degree
6 27 (4.38%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (1.95%) AWS Certified Developer
9 11 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.46%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.97%) CISSP
12 5 (0.81%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 2 (0.32%) GCIH
15 2 (0.32%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.19%) QA
2 25 (4.06%) GDPR
3 22 (3.57%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.44%) NIST
6 11 (1.79%) WCAG
7 10 (1.62%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.97%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.81%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.65%) NCSC
11 3 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.49%) GRC
12 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 198 (32.14%) Docker
2 28 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (3.57%) Active Directory
4 17 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (2.44%) vSphere
6 10 (1.62%) VMware NSX
7 9 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (1.14%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.81%) Firmware
10 4 (0.65%) iptables
11 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.16%) KVM
12 1 (0.16%) QEMU
12 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 429 (69.64%) Terraform
2 200 (32.47%) Kubernetes
3 144 (23.38%) Ansible
4 91 (14.77%) Grafana
5 72 (11.69%) Prometheus
6 17 (2.76%) Puppet
7 14 (2.27%) Argo
7 14 (2.27%) AWS Copilot
7 14 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (1.46%) Nagios
8 9 (1.46%) Progress Chef
8 9 (1.46%) Rancher
9 8 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (1.14%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.14%) vCenter Server
11 6 (0.97%) yum
12 5 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.65%) SolarWinds Orion
14 3 (0.49%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 113 (18.34%) Microsoft
2 49 (7.95%) Google
2 49 (7.95%) VMware
3 22 (3.57%) Red Hat
4 21 (3.41%) Cisco
4 21 (3.41%) Splunk
5 18 (2.92%) Black Duck
5 18 (2.92%) Coverity
6 13 (2.11%) Ab Initio
7 12 (1.95%) CrowdStrike
8 11 (1.79%) Databricks
8 11 (1.79%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.79%) Palo Alto
9 9 (1.46%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.14%) SolarWinds
11 6 (0.97%) Dell
11 6 (0.97%) Fortinet
11 6 (0.97%) SaltStack
11 6 (0.97%) SAP
12 5 (0.81%) Juniper