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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 215 176
Rank change year-on-year +111 -39 -63
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,253 468 860
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.64% 1.36% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 1.55% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 881 338 654
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £78,750
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 53,964 30,160 46,664
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.67% 87.54% 78.59%
Number of salaries quoted 37,901 16,477 29,630
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% -3.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 8 August 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 8 August 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 +92 422 £70,400 +0.57% 268
South East +64 250 £67,500 -12.90% 188
North West +93 242 £74,651 +6.64% 148
South West +43 214 £75,000 -4.83% 146
Midlands +50 150 £75,000 +15.38% 66
Yorkshire 0 97 £75,000 +7.14% 76
West Midlands +20 91 £80,000 +23.08% 42
North East +15 83 £56,500 -16.30% 44
Wales -1 65 £70,000 +21.74% 31
East Midlands +18 59 £67,500 +3.85% 24
Northern Ireland -19 58 £72,896 +69.17% 19
East of England -4 54 £65,000 +4.00% 32
Scotland +28 50 £71,991 +6.65% 67
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 36 (2.87%) Apache Spark
2 33 (2.63%) Apache
2 33 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (1.68%) Confluence
5 12 (0.96%) Jupyter
6 9 (0.72%) IIS
7 5 (0.40%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.32%) CMS
9 3 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.24%) nginx
9 3 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.24%) WordPress
10 2 (0.16%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.080%) Documentum
11 1 (0.080%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.080%) JBoss
Applications
1 7 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.16%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.080%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.080%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.080%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 686 (54.75%) Azure
2 672 (53.63%) AWS
3 229 (18.28%) GitHub
4 208 (16.60%) GCP
5 206 (16.44%) Azure DevOps
6 197 (15.72%) Serverless
7 167 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 141 (11.25%) GitHub Actions
9 109 (8.70%) Amazon S3
10 105 (8.38%) AWS Lambda
11 90 (7.18%) PaaS
12 84 (6.70%) Amazon EC2
12 84 (6.70%) Amazon ECS
13 80 (6.38%) Amazon EKS
13 80 (6.38%) Microsoft 365
14 71 (5.67%) SaaS
15 69 (5.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 66 (5.27%) Cloud Computing
17 64 (5.11%) Azure AKS
18 59 (4.71%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 101 (8.06%) Firewall
2 79 (6.30%) WAN
3 72 (5.75%) LAN
4 64 (5.11%) VPN
5 59 (4.71%) DNS
6 43 (3.43%) TCP/IP
7 39 (3.11%) Network Security
8 26 (2.08%) DHCP
9 18 (1.44%) BGP
9 18 (1.44%) VLAN
10 15 (1.20%) Broadband
11 13 (1.04%) SAN
12 12 (0.96%) Cisco ASA
12 12 (0.96%) HTTP
12 12 (0.96%) Software-Defined Networking
13 10 (0.80%) SD-WAN
14 9 (0.72%) OSPF
15 7 (0.56%) MQTT
15 7 (0.56%) Unified Communications
15 7 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (6.70%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
3 52 (4.15%) NoSQL
4 47 (3.75%) SQL Server
5 45 (3.59%) DynamoDB
5 45 (3.59%) MongoDB
6 36 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
7 34 (2.71%) Relational Database
8 32 (2.55%) MySQL
9 29 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
10 26 (2.08%) Data Lake
11 18 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
12 17 (1.36%) Redis
13 16 (1.28%) Big Data
13 16 (1.28%) Metadata
14 14 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
14 14 (1.12%) Power BI
15 13 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (0.96%) Spark SQL
17 11 (0.88%) Flink
Development Applications
1 192 (15.32%) Git
2 143 (11.41%) GitLab
3 130 (10.38%) Jenkins
4 41 (3.27%) JIRA
5 17 (1.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 16 (1.28%) SonarQube
7 14 (1.12%) Bitbucket
8 13 (1.04%) Cucumber
8 13 (1.04%) NUnit
9 12 (0.96%) Cypress.io
9 12 (0.96%) Selenium
10 9 (0.72%) MSI
11 7 (0.56%) Artifactory
11 7 (0.56%) JMeter
11 7 (0.56%) Robot Framework
11 7 (0.56%) Terragrunt
12 6 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (0.48%) Subversion
12 6 (0.48%) TeamCity
12 6 (0.48%) TestRail
General
1 371 (29.61%) Social Skills
2 212 (16.92%) Finance
3 124 (9.90%) Public Sector
4 95 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
5 92 (7.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 74 (5.91%) Law
7 64 (5.11%) Presentation Skills
8 37 (2.95%) Aerospace
9 29 (2.31%) Retail
10 25 (2.00%) Telecoms
11 22 (1.76%) Banking
11 22 (1.76%) Marketing
12 21 (1.68%) Manufacturing
13 16 (1.28%) Games
14 15 (1.20%) Legal
15 14 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (0.96%) Aviation
16 12 (0.96%) Local Government
17 10 (0.80%) Advertising
17 10 (0.80%) Military
Job Titles
1 264 (21.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 246 (19.63%) Senior
3 217 (17.32%) Lead
4 151 (12.05%) Architect
5 148 (11.81%) Cloud Engineer
6 119 (9.50%) Developer
6 119 (9.50%) Platform Engineer
7 100 (7.98%) Azure Engineer
8 84 (6.70%) Software Engineer
9 82 (6.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 68 (5.43%) Data Engineer
11 58 (4.63%) Systems Architect
12 56 (4.47%) AWS Engineer
12 56 (4.47%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 50 (3.99%) Senior DevOps
14 48 (3.83%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 47 (3.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 43 (3.43%) Technical Leader
17 41 (3.27%) Lead DevOps
17 41 (3.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (9.98%) React
2 104 (8.30%) .NET
3 96 (7.66%) REST
4 93 (7.42%) Node.js
5 77 (6.15%) Spring Boot
6 74 (5.91%) Spring
7 63 (5.03%) Kafka
8 61 (4.87%) RESTful
9 59 (4.71%) AWS CDK
10 56 (4.47%) ARM Templates
11 47 (3.75%) YAML
12 42 (3.35%) AngularJS
12 42 (3.35%) PySpark
13 37 (2.95%) Elastic Stack
14 36 (2.87%) Next.js
15 35 (2.79%) ASP.NET
16 33 (2.63%) ASP.NET Core
16 33 (2.63%) Vue
17 30 (2.39%) CSS
17 30 (2.39%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 303 (24.18%) Cloud Native
2 97 (7.74%) Distributed Systems
3 81 (6.46%) Hybrid Cloud
4 60 (4.79%) Onboarding
5 56 (4.47%) Product Ownership
6 44 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
7 41 (3.27%) Public Cloud
8 40 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
9 33 (2.63%) Data Centre
9 33 (2.63%) Security Posture
10 29 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
11 26 (2.08%) Private Cloud
11 26 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
12 23 (1.84%) Data Structures
13 22 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
14 17 (1.36%) Replication
14 17 (1.36%) Virtual Team
15 14 (1.12%) Mainframe
15 14 (1.12%) Management Information System
16 13 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 229 (18.28%) Linux
2 126 (10.06%) Windows
3 58 (4.63%) Windows Server
4 34 (2.71%) CentOS
5 29 (2.31%) Unix
6 28 (2.23%) Ubuntu
7 26 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (1.20%) VMS
9 5 (0.40%) Debian
9 5 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.16%) AIX
10 2 (0.16%) Android
10 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.16%) Solaris
11 1 (0.080%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.080%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 907 (72.39%) CI/CD
2 739 (58.98%) DevOps
3 423 (33.76%) Containerisation
4 419 (33.44%) Agile
5 381 (30.41%) Observability
6 310 (24.74%) Platform Engineering
7 302 (24.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 291 (23.22%) Mentoring
9 263 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
10 243 (19.39%) Software Engineering
11 235 (18.75%) AI
12 217 (17.32%) Technical Leadership
13 210 (16.76%) Microservices
14 192 (15.32%) Test Automation
15 176 (14.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 173 (13.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 153 (12.21%) Roadmaps
18 148 (11.81%) Cloud Security
19 137 (10.93%) DevSecOps
20 130 (10.38%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 507 (40.46%) Python
2 216 (17.24%) Bash
3 187 (14.92%) PowerShell
4 182 (14.53%) SQL
5 174 (13.89%) Java
6 132 (10.53%) TypeScript
7 131 (10.45%) Bicep
8 112 (8.94%) JavaScript
9 92 (7.34%) C#
10 66 (5.27%) Go
11 25 (2.00%) Ruby
12 20 (1.60%) Groovy
12 20 (1.60%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (1.20%) PHP
14 10 (0.80%) Rust
14 10 (0.80%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.72%) Scala
16 6 (0.48%) C++
16 6 (0.48%) COBOL
16 6 (0.48%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 347 (27.69%) Security Cleared
2 220 (17.56%) SC Cleared
3 144 (11.49%) DV Cleared
4 102 (8.14%) Degree
5 69 (5.51%) Azure Certification
6 57 (4.55%) AWS Certification
7 45 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
11 16 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 14 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (0.88%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 7 (0.56%) CCNA
16 6 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.48%) ICAEW
16 6 (0.48%) Master's Degree
16 6 (0.48%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.48%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (6.23%) QA
2 59 (4.71%) GRC
3 48 (3.83%) Data Quality
4 38 (3.03%) Accessibility
5 24 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (1.84%) WCAG
7 22 (1.76%) NCSC
8 19 (1.52%) GDPR
9 17 (1.36%) NIST
10 15 (1.20%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.96%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.56%) SLA
13 6 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.48%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.16%) IFRS
14 2 (0.16%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.16%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.080%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 1 (0.080%) HIPAA
System Software
1 371 (29.61%) Docker
2 79 (6.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 71 (5.67%) Active Directory
4 31 (2.47%) vSphere
5 18 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (1.12%) Hyper-V
8 12 (0.96%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.56%) Firmware
9 7 (0.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 7 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.40%) iptables
10 5 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.32%) KVM
11 4 (0.32%) Squid
12 1 (0.080%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 852 (68.00%) Terraform
2 475 (37.91%) Kubernetes
3 255 (20.35%) Ansible
4 127 (10.14%) Grafana
5 99 (7.90%) Prometheus
6 44 (3.51%) Puppet
7 38 (3.03%) Argo
8 29 (2.31%) Progress Chef
9 20 (1.60%) Istio
10 15 (1.20%) Packer
11 14 (1.12%) vCenter Server
12 12 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.96%) Nagios
13 10 (0.80%) Kibana
13 10 (0.80%) Podman
14 8 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
14 8 (0.64%) Kustomize
14 8 (0.64%) Nessus
14 8 (0.64%) Rancher
14 8 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 281 (22.43%) Microsoft
2 91 (7.26%) VMware
3 71 (5.67%) Google
4 58 (4.63%) Red Hat
5 50 (3.99%) Splunk
6 45 (3.59%) Databricks
7 30 (2.39%) Cisco
8 25 (2.00%) Oracle
9 20 (1.60%) Palo Alto
10 16 (1.28%) Dynatrace
11 14 (1.12%) F5
12 13 (1.04%) Atlassian
13 12 (0.96%) Fortinet
13 12 (0.96%) ScienceLogic
14 11 (0.88%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.88%) ServiceNow
15 10 (0.80%) New Relic
16 8 (0.64%) IBM
16 8 (0.64%) NetApp
17 7 (0.56%) Salesforce