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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 158 97
Rank change year-on-year +7 -61 +59
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 566 768 965
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.53% 1.59% 3.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 1.96% 3.40%
Number of salaries quoted 417 468 738
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £56,250 £48,750 £54,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -0.54% +0.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £72,500 £71,991 £75,000
% change year-on-year +0.71% -4.01% -

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 30,561 39,252 28,341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.72% 81.41% 93.88%
Number of salaries quoted 18,580 19,304 21,029
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,837
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,150 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +3.14% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 November 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 22 November 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 +6 191 £70,000 +16.67% 177
South East +26 126 £78,250 +25.20% 214
North West +7 84 £65,250 +0.38% 123
Yorkshire +7 83 £70,000 +27.27% 38
Midlands +37 69 £65,000 -1.52% 65
Scotland +11 68 £70,039 +9.87% 43
South West -44 58 £62,500 -10.71% 100
West Midlands +22 47 £65,000 -4.41% 37
East of England +21 30 £66,500 -8.28% 36
North East +4 24 £70,079 +40.16% 16
East Midlands +32 20 £65,000 +56.63% 27
Wales +19 19 £60,000 +9.99% 16
Northern Ireland +6 7 £73,801 -13.18% 15
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 (4.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (3.53%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.94%) Apache
3 11 (1.94%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.41%) Confluence
6 6 (1.06%) Appian
7 4 (0.71%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.35%) IIS
8 2 (0.35%) nginx
9 1 (0.18%) CMS
9 1 (0.18%) SAS
9 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.35%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 393 (69.43%) Azure
2 332 (58.66%) AWS
3 154 (27.21%) Azure DevOps
4 107 (18.90%) GitHub
5 105 (18.55%) GCP
6 91 (16.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 87 (15.37%) Serverless
8 71 (12.54%) GitHub Actions
9 67 (11.84%) SaaS
10 59 (10.42%) Microsoft 365
11 52 (9.19%) PaaS
12 51 (9.01%) AWS Lambda
12 51 (9.01%) Entra ID
13 46 (8.13%) Amazon S3
14 36 (6.36%) Amazon ECS
15 35 (6.18%) dbt
16 34 (6.01%) Azure Monitor
17 31 (5.48%) IaaS
18 27 (4.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 27 (4.77%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 45 (7.95%) Firewall
2 39 (6.89%) DNS
3 35 (6.18%) VPN
4 28 (4.95%) TCP/IP
5 27 (4.77%) WAN
6 21 (3.71%) LAN
7 15 (2.65%) Network Security
8 12 (2.12%) DHCP
9 11 (1.94%) SD-WAN
9 11 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (1.41%) SAN
11 7 (1.24%) Unified Communications
11 7 (1.24%) VoIP
12 6 (1.06%) VLAN
13 5 (0.88%) AMQP
14 4 (0.71%) BGP
14 4 (0.71%) HTTP
14 4 (0.71%) Wireless
15 3 (0.53%) IPsec
15 3 (0.53%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (5.65%) SQL Server
2 31 (5.48%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (5.30%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (4.06%) NoSQL
4 23 (4.06%) Redis
5 21 (3.71%) DynamoDB
6 17 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
8 15 (2.65%) Big Data
9 13 (2.30%) Data Lake
10 12 (2.12%) MySQL
11 8 (1.41%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.24%) Airbyte
12 7 (1.24%) MongoDB
13 6 (1.06%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
15 4 (0.71%) InfluxDB
16 3 (0.53%) Apache Iceberg
16 3 (0.53%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 58 (10.25%) Jenkins
2 49 (8.66%) GitLab
3 48 (8.48%) Git
4 23 (4.06%) Selenium
5 20 (3.53%) Robot Framework
6 19 (3.36%) JIRA
6 19 (3.36%) Snyk
7 11 (1.94%) TeamCity
8 10 (1.77%) CircleCI
8 10 (1.77%) SonarQube
9 9 (1.59%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.41%) Bitbucket
10 8 (1.41%) JMeter
11 7 (1.24%) Artifactory
11 7 (1.24%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (1.06%) git-flow
12 6 (1.06%) Locust
13 5 (0.88%) MLflow
14 4 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 3 (0.53%) MSTest
General
1 149 (26.33%) Social Skills
2 115 (20.32%) Finance
3 43 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (5.83%) Law
5 22 (3.89%) Public Sector
6 16 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (2.83%) Retail
6 16 (2.83%) Telecoms
7 14 (2.47%) Legal
8 10 (1.77%) Automotive
8 10 (1.77%) Financial Institution
8 10 (1.77%) Games
9 8 (1.41%) Advertising
9 8 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.41%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.88%) Aerospace
10 5 (0.88%) Billing
11 4 (0.71%) Marketing
12 3 (0.53%) Banking
12 3 (0.53%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 131 (23.14%) Senior
2 75 (13.25%) Cloud Engineer
3 74 (13.07%) Lead
4 71 (12.54%) DevOps Engineer
5 64 (11.31%) Developer
6 59 (10.42%) Architect
7 46 (8.13%) Platform Engineer
8 40 (7.07%) Azure Engineer
9 25 (4.42%) Software Engineer
10 24 (4.24%) Cloud Architect
10 24 (4.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 19 (3.36%) Full-Stack Developer
11 19 (3.36%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 19 (3.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 17 (3.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 17 (3.00%) Python Developer
13 16 (2.83%) Lead DevOps
13 16 (2.83%) Security Engineer
13 16 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
14 15 (2.65%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (11.13%) React
2 60 (10.60%) .NET
3 38 (6.71%) Django
4 31 (5.48%) ARM Templates
5 28 (4.95%) RESTful
6 27 (4.77%) Node.js
7 22 (3.89%) REST
7 22 (3.89%) YAML
8 21 (3.71%) OAuth
9 20 (3.53%) Flask
10 19 (3.36%) CSS
11 18 (3.18%) Elastic Stack
11 18 (3.18%) FastAPI
11 18 (3.18%) HTML
11 18 (3.18%) Kafka
12 17 (3.00%) Vue
13 15 (2.65%) .NET Core
13 15 (2.65%) AngularJS
14 14 (2.47%) .NET Framework
15 12 (2.12%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 132 (23.32%) Cloud Native
2 42 (7.42%) Product Ownership
3 29 (5.12%) Public Cloud
4 25 (4.42%) Hybrid Cloud
5 21 (3.71%) Data Centre
6 18 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (3.18%) Security Posture
7 17 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
10 14 (2.47%) Onboarding
11 12 (2.12%) Private Cloud
12 11 (1.94%) Data Structures
13 9 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (1.41%) Operational Technology
15 6 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (1.06%) Low-Code
15 6 (1.06%) Management Information System
16 5 (0.88%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 85 (15.02%) Linux
2 43 (7.60%) Windows
3 18 (3.18%) Unix
4 14 (2.47%) Ubuntu
5 13 (2.30%) Debian
6 12 (2.12%) Windows Server
7 11 (1.94%) VMS
8 4 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.53%) CentOS
10 2 (0.35%) AIX
11 1 (0.18%) Android
11 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (69.79%) DevOps
2 370 (65.37%) CI/CD
3 220 (38.87%) Agile
4 124 (21.91%) Continuous Improvement
5 120 (21.20%) Containerisation
6 117 (20.67%) Mentoring
7 114 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
8 91 (16.08%) Observability
9 79 (13.96%) Platform Engineering
10 77 (13.60%) Test Automation
11 74 (13.07%) Software Engineering
12 73 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 73 (12.90%) Roadmaps
13 72 (12.72%) Coaching
14 68 (12.01%) AI
15 60 (10.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 59 (10.42%) Analytics
17 57 (10.07%) Scrum
18 56 (9.89%) Microservices
19 50 (8.83%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 212 (37.46%) Python
2 112 (19.79%) PowerShell
3 96 (16.96%) SQL
4 82 (14.49%) Bicep
5 72 (12.72%) Bash
6 59 (10.42%) C#
7 53 (9.36%) JavaScript
8 47 (8.30%) Java
9 46 (8.13%) TypeScript
10 22 (3.89%) Go
11 6 (1.06%) C++
12 4 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.71%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.53%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.53%) Scala
14 2 (0.35%) Groovy
14 2 (0.35%) Ruby
14 2 (0.35%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.35%) VB
14 2 (0.35%) XAML
Qualifications
1 100 (17.67%) Security Cleared
2 70 (12.37%) SC Cleared
3 45 (7.95%) Azure Certification
4 43 (7.60%) DV Cleared
5 37 (6.54%) AWS Certification
6 33 (5.83%) Degree
7 16 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (2.47%) Master's Degree
10 13 (2.30%) CCNP
11 12 (2.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (1.24%) PMI Certification
13 7 (1.24%) PMP
14 5 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.88%) CCNA
15 4 (0.71%) CISSP
15 4 (0.71%) ISTQB
16 3 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
16 3 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.77%) NIST
2 24 (4.24%) GDPR
3 23 (4.06%) QA
4 18 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (2.47%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.24%) WCAG
7 6 (1.06%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.53%) NCSC
8 3 (0.53%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.35%) GRC
9 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 173 (30.57%) Docker
2 25 (4.42%) Virtual Machines
3 23 (4.06%) Active Directory
3 23 (4.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (3.89%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (1.94%) Hyper-V
6 9 (1.59%) vSphere
7 4 (0.71%) Firmware
7 4 (0.71%) vCloud
7 4 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.53%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.18%) HDFS
9 1 (0.18%) iptables
9 1 (0.18%) KVM
9 1 (0.18%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 398 (70.32%) Terraform
2 171 (30.21%) Kubernetes
3 109 (19.26%) Ansible
4 47 (8.30%) Grafana
5 39 (6.89%) Prometheus
6 26 (4.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (1.94%) Docker Swarm
8 10 (1.77%) AWS Copilot
9 9 (1.59%) Argo
10 5 (0.88%) MaaS360
10 5 (0.88%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.88%) Puppet
10 5 (0.88%) SCCM
11 4 (0.71%) Control-M
11 4 (0.71%) Kubeflow
11 4 (0.71%) Rundeck
11 4 (0.71%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.53%) Dell DRAC
13 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 140 (24.73%) Microsoft
2 43 (7.60%) VMware
3 41 (7.24%) Google
4 18 (3.18%) Black Duck
4 18 (3.18%) Cisco
5 17 (3.00%) Coverity
6 15 (2.65%) Palo Alto
7 13 (2.30%) Databricks
7 13 (2.30%) Splunk
8 10 (1.77%) Fortinet
9 9 (1.59%) Ab Initio
9 9 (1.59%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.59%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.24%) CrowdStrike
10 7 (1.24%) Oracle
10 7 (1.24%) SolarWinds
11 6 (1.06%) Aruba
11 6 (1.06%) BiZZdesign
11 6 (1.06%) UiPath
12 5 (0.88%) Atlassian