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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 206 152
Rank change year-on-year +106 -54 -52
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,369 460 899
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.61% 1.35% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% 1.56% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 908 325 587
10th Percentile £47,371 £48,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,239 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.34% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.04%

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 59,850 29,558 42,587
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.30% 86.62% 78.76%
Number of salaries quoted 42,238 15,999 22,774
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 +94 486 £70,000 - 394
North West +93 267 £72,500 +11.54% 224
South East +57 248 £67,500 -20.59% 268
South West +46 244 £75,000 - 198
Midlands +35 155 £75,000 +15.83% 147
North East +21 113 £59,000 -18.62% 64
Yorkshire -2 109 £73,750 +5.36% 107
West Midlands +2 96 £85,000 +36.55% 87
Wales -7 77 £70,000 +21.74% 43
Northern Ireland -31 62 £71,991 +67.07% 41
East Midlands +12 59 £67,500 +3.85% 60
East of England -4 56 £65,000 - 77
Scotland +14 53 £72,500 +3.57% 149
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 43 (3.14%) Apache Spark
2 38 (2.78%) Apache
3 33 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
4 24 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 21 (1.53%) Confluence
6 14 (1.02%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.58%) IIS
8 6 (0.44%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.44%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.29%) CMS
9 4 (0.29%) nginx
10 3 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.22%) WordPress
11 1 (0.073%) Documentum
11 1 (0.073%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.073%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.15%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.073%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 756 (55.22%) Azure
2 729 (53.25%) AWS
3 252 (18.41%) GCP
4 240 (17.53%) GitHub
5 199 (14.54%) Serverless
6 192 (14.02%) Azure DevOps
7 185 (13.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 141 (10.30%) GitHub Actions
9 116 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
10 113 (8.25%) Amazon S3
11 94 (6.87%) Cloud Computing
12 89 (6.50%) Amazon EC2
13 87 (6.36%) Amazon EKS
14 86 (6.28%) PaaS
15 82 (5.99%) Amazon ECS
16 81 (5.92%) Microsoft 365
17 77 (5.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 69 (5.04%) Azure AKS
19 68 (4.97%) SaaS
20 63 (4.60%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 100 (7.30%) Firewall
2 88 (6.43%) WAN
3 83 (6.06%) VPN
4 74 (5.41%) LAN
5 70 (5.11%) DNS
6 40 (2.92%) Network Security
7 38 (2.78%) TCP/IP
8 35 (2.56%) DHCP
9 27 (1.97%) Internet
10 24 (1.75%) BGP
11 16 (1.17%) VLAN
12 15 (1.10%) SD-WAN
12 15 (1.10%) Software-Defined Networking
13 13 (0.95%) OSPF
14 12 (0.88%) SAN
15 10 (0.73%) Ethernet VPN
15 10 (0.73%) Wireless
16 9 (0.66%) Broadband
17 8 (0.58%) HTTP
18 7 (0.51%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (6.65%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (4.60%) NoSQL
3 58 (4.24%) Amazon RDS
4 55 (4.02%) MongoDB
5 49 (3.58%) DynamoDB
6 47 (3.43%) MySQL
6 47 (3.43%) SQL Server
7 36 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
7 36 (2.63%) Data Lake
8 35 (2.56%) Relational Database
9 29 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
10 21 (1.53%) Big Data
11 18 (1.31%) Amazon Athena
11 18 (1.31%) Redis
12 16 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
12 16 (1.17%) Metadata
12 16 (1.17%) Power BI
13 15 (1.10%) Hadoop
14 14 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (0.88%) Flink
Development Applications
1 237 (17.31%) Git
2 156 (11.40%) GitLab
3 137 (10.01%) Jenkins
4 44 (3.21%) JIRA
5 21 (1.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 18 (1.31%) SonarQube
7 14 (1.02%) Cypress.io
8 12 (0.88%) Bitbucket
8 12 (0.88%) Selenium
9 10 (0.73%) Artifactory
10 9 (0.66%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.66%) MSI
10 9 (0.66%) NUnit
11 8 (0.58%) Subversion
11 8 (0.58%) Terragrunt
12 7 (0.51%) Claude Code
12 7 (0.51%) Robot Framework
13 6 (0.44%) git-flow
13 6 (0.44%) TestRail
14 5 (0.37%) Snyk
General
1 401 (29.29%) Social Skills
2 235 (17.17%) Finance
3 163 (11.91%) Public Sector
4 126 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
5 95 (6.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 79 (5.77%) Law
7 69 (5.04%) Presentation Skills
8 51 (3.73%) Aerospace
9 28 (2.05%) Banking
10 27 (1.97%) Retail
11 23 (1.68%) Manufacturing
12 19 (1.39%) Marketing
13 15 (1.10%) Legal
14 14 (1.02%) Telecoms
15 13 (0.95%) Aviation
16 12 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (0.88%) Local Government
17 11 (0.80%) Military
18 9 (0.66%) Advertising
19 8 (0.58%) Games
Job Titles
1 304 (22.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 279 (20.38%) Senior
3 217 (15.85%) Lead
4 169 (12.34%) Architect
5 167 (12.20%) Cloud Engineer
6 136 (9.93%) Platform Engineer
7 128 (9.35%) Developer
8 113 (8.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 107 (7.82%) Azure Engineer
10 89 (6.50%) Software Engineer
11 72 (5.26%) Data Engineer
12 67 (4.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 64 (4.67%) AWS Engineer
14 62 (4.53%) Systems Architect
15 58 (4.24%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 51 (3.73%) Senior DevOps
17 50 (3.65%) Principal Engineer
18 49 (3.58%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 48 (3.51%) Azure Platform Engineer
20 46 (3.36%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 906 (66.18%) Terraform
2 131 (9.57%) React
3 99 (7.23%) Spring Boot
4 96 (7.01%) .NET
4 96 (7.01%) Spring
5 95 (6.94%) Node.js
5 95 (6.94%) REST
6 77 (5.62%) Kafka
7 69 (5.04%) RESTful
8 54 (3.94%) AWS CDK
9 52 (3.80%) ARM Templates
10 48 (3.51%) AngularJS
11 41 (2.99%) PySpark
12 36 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
13 35 (2.56%) CSS
13 35 (2.56%) Next.js
13 35 (2.56%) Vue
14 34 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
14 34 (2.48%) YAML
15 31 (2.26%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 356 (26.00%) Cloud Native
2 105 (7.67%) Distributed Systems
3 90 (6.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 75 (5.48%) Onboarding
5 59 (4.31%) Product Ownership
6 49 (3.58%) Linux Command Line
7 46 (3.36%) Public Cloud
8 44 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
9 39 (2.85%) Data Centre
10 38 (2.78%) Security Posture
11 37 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
11 37 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
12 34 (2.48%) Private Cloud
13 27 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
14 25 (1.83%) Virtual Team
15 24 (1.75%) Data Structures
16 20 (1.46%) Management Information System
17 16 (1.17%) Mainframe
18 14 (1.02%) AI Agents
18 14 (1.02%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 284 (20.75%) Linux
2 130 (9.50%) Windows
3 61 (4.46%) Windows Server
4 40 (2.92%) CentOS
5 37 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 35 (2.56%) Unix
7 26 (1.90%) Ubuntu
8 15 (1.10%) VMS
9 7 (0.51%) Debian
10 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.22%) AIX
13 2 (0.15%) Rocky
13 2 (0.15%) Solaris
14 1 (0.073%) Android
14 1 (0.073%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.073%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 997 (72.83%) CI/CD
2 803 (58.66%) DevOps
3 486 (35.50%) Containerisation
4 455 (33.24%) Agile
5 381 (27.83%) Observability
6 360 (26.30%) Platform Engineering
7 334 (24.40%) Mentoring
8 322 (23.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 308 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
10 275 (20.09%) Software Engineering
11 265 (19.36%) AI
12 244 (17.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 242 (17.68%) Technical Leadership
14 227 (16.58%) Microservices
15 205 (14.97%) Cloud Security
15 205 (14.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 187 (13.66%) Test Automation
17 174 (12.71%) DevSecOps
18 171 (12.49%) Roadmaps
19 142 (10.37%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 553 (40.39%) Python
2 236 (17.24%) Bash
3 196 (14.32%) Java
4 195 (14.24%) PowerShell
5 190 (13.88%) SQL
6 139 (10.15%) Bicep
7 138 (10.08%) TypeScript
8 113 (8.25%) JavaScript
9 88 (6.43%) C#
10 65 (4.75%) Go
11 43 (3.14%) Shell Script
12 24 (1.75%) Groovy
13 23 (1.68%) Ruby
14 20 (1.46%) Kusto Query Language
15 18 (1.31%) Rust
16 15 (1.10%) PHP
17 11 (0.80%) Scala
18 7 (0.51%) Search Processing Language
19 6 (0.44%) COBOL
20 5 (0.37%) C++
Qualifications
1 419 (30.61%) Security Cleared
2 266 (19.43%) SC Cleared
3 175 (12.78%) DV Cleared
4 100 (7.30%) Degree
5 83 (6.06%) Azure Certification
6 71 (5.19%) AWS Certification
7 44 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 33 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.31%) TOGAF Certification
12 15 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 11 (0.80%) CCNA
14 7 (0.51%) DBS Check
14 7 (0.51%) PMI Certification
15 6 (0.44%) CCNP
15 6 (0.44%) ICAEW
15 6 (0.44%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.44%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (5.84%) QA
2 62 (4.53%) GRC
3 49 (3.58%) Data Quality
4 38 (2.78%) Accessibility
5 26 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (1.90%) NCSC
6 20 (1.46%) WCAG
7 19 (1.39%) NIST
8 16 (1.17%) GDPR
9 15 (1.10%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.73%) SLA
10 10 (0.73%) SOC 2
11 8 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
13 4 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.15%) IFRS
14 2 (0.15%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.15%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.073%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 1 (0.073%) HIPAA
System Software
1 425 (31.04%) Docker
2 83 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 81 (5.92%) Active Directory
4 31 (2.26%) vSphere
5 28 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (1.31%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.80%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.44%) Firmware
10 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.29%) KVM
11 4 (0.29%) Squid
12 3 (0.22%) iptables
12 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.15%) Lustre
14 1 (0.073%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 525 (38.35%) Kubernetes
2 291 (21.26%) Ansible
3 118 (8.62%) Grafana
4 99 (7.23%) Prometheus
5 50 (3.65%) Puppet
6 43 (3.14%) Argo
7 34 (2.48%) Progress Chef
8 22 (1.61%) Istio
9 17 (1.24%) Packer
10 15 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
11 14 (1.02%) vCenter Server
12 12 (0.88%) Podman
13 11 (0.80%) Rancher
14 10 (0.73%) Kibana
14 10 (0.73%) Kustomize
15 8 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
15 8 (0.58%) linkerd
15 8 (0.58%) logstash
15 8 (0.58%) yum
Vendors
1 342 (24.98%) Microsoft
2 97 (7.09%) Google
3 96 (7.01%) VMware
4 54 (3.94%) Red Hat
5 53 (3.87%) Databricks
5 53 (3.87%) Splunk
6 30 (2.19%) Oracle
7 28 (2.05%) Cisco
8 15 (1.10%) OpenAI
9 14 (1.02%) Fortinet
9 14 (1.02%) ServiceNow
10 13 (0.95%) Atlassian
11 12 (0.88%) New Relic
11 12 (0.88%) ScienceLogic
12 10 (0.73%) F5
12 10 (0.73%) Palo Alto
13 9 (0.66%) Meraki
14 8 (0.58%) IBM
15 7 (0.51%) HubSpot
15 7 (0.51%) SAP