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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 209 156
Rank change year-on-year +108 -53 -56
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,391 462 864
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.61% 1.34% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% 1.53% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 919 327 544
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +6.15% -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 60,833 30,130 41,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.50% 87.30% 79.19%
Number of salaries quoted 42,909 15,971 21,585
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 £88,148 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,274
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.62% -2.88%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 +97 498 £70,000 - 423
North West +104 273 £72,245 +13.33% 264
South East +47 251 £67,500 -15.63% 292
South West +49 248 £75,000 +7.14% 243
Midlands +32 154 £75,000 +15.83% 186
North East +22 124 £60,000 -17.24% 64
Yorkshire +7 107 £68,903 -1.57% 98
West Midlands +2 96 £84,387 +35.56% 107
Wales -6 80 £70,000 +19.15% 48
Northern Ireland -30 61 £71,991 +67.07% 34
East Midlands +5 58 £65,000 - 79
East of England -5 58 £75,000 +15.38% 106
Scotland +22 53 £72,500 +7.41% 172
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 46 (3.31%) Apache Spark
2 41 (2.95%) Apache
3 35 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (1.44%) Confluence
6 15 (1.08%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.58%) IIS
8 7 (0.50%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.43%) SharePoint
10 5 (0.36%) CMS
10 5 (0.36%) nginx
11 3 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.22%) WordPress
12 2 (0.14%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.072%) Documentum
13 1 (0.072%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.072%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 764 (54.92%) Azure
2 741 (53.27%) AWS
3 263 (18.91%) GCP
4 239 (17.18%) GitHub
5 196 (14.09%) Serverless
6 190 (13.66%) Azure DevOps
7 186 (13.37%) AWS CloudFormation
8 141 (10.14%) GitHub Actions
9 118 (8.48%) AWS Lambda
10 116 (8.34%) Amazon S3
11 102 (7.33%) Cloud Computing
12 91 (6.54%) Amazon EC2
13 89 (6.40%) Amazon EKS
14 87 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
15 83 (5.97%) PaaS
16 80 (5.75%) Microsoft 365
17 79 (5.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 71 (5.10%) SaaS
19 69 (4.96%) Azure AKS
20 63 (4.53%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 98 (7.05%) Firewall
2 87 (6.25%) WAN
3 86 (6.18%) VPN
4 73 (5.25%) LAN
5 68 (4.89%) DNS
6 40 (2.88%) Network Security
7 38 (2.73%) TCP/IP
8 35 (2.52%) Internet
9 33 (2.37%) DHCP
10 24 (1.73%) BGP
11 15 (1.08%) SD-WAN
11 15 (1.08%) Software-Defined Networking
11 15 (1.08%) VLAN
12 13 (0.93%) OSPF
13 12 (0.86%) SAN
14 10 (0.72%) Ethernet VPN
14 10 (0.72%) Wireless
15 9 (0.65%) Broadband
16 8 (0.58%) HTTP
17 7 (0.50%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (6.61%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (4.53%) NoSQL
3 58 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
4 56 (4.03%) MongoDB
5 48 (3.45%) DynamoDB
5 48 (3.45%) MySQL
6 47 (3.38%) SQL Server
7 39 (2.80%) Data Lake
8 35 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 35 (2.52%) Relational Database
9 28 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
10 21 (1.51%) Big Data
11 19 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
12 18 (1.29%) Power BI
12 18 (1.29%) Redis
13 16 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
13 16 (1.15%) Metadata
14 15 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (1.08%) Hadoop
15 12 (0.86%) Flink
Development Applications
1 247 (17.76%) Git
2 163 (11.72%) GitLab
3 136 (9.78%) Jenkins
4 43 (3.09%) JIRA
5 21 (1.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 18 (1.29%) SonarQube
7 15 (1.08%) Cypress.io
8 12 (0.86%) Bitbucket
8 12 (0.86%) Selenium
9 11 (0.79%) Artifactory
10 9 (0.65%) MSI
10 9 (0.65%) NUnit
11 8 (0.58%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.58%) Subversion
11 8 (0.58%) Terragrunt
12 7 (0.50%) Claude Code
12 7 (0.50%) Robot Framework
13 6 (0.43%) git-flow
13 6 (0.43%) TestRail
14 5 (0.36%) Snyk
General
1 405 (29.12%) Social Skills
2 231 (16.61%) Finance
3 180 (12.94%) Public Sector
4 139 (9.99%) Analytical Skills
5 99 (7.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 79 (5.68%) Law
7 69 (4.96%) Presentation Skills
8 52 (3.74%) Aerospace
9 27 (1.94%) Banking
9 27 (1.94%) Retail
10 20 (1.44%) Manufacturing
11 18 (1.29%) Marketing
12 15 (1.08%) Legal
13 14 (1.01%) Aviation
14 13 (0.93%) Telecoms
15 12 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (0.79%) Local Government
16 11 (0.79%) Military
17 9 (0.65%) Advertising
18 6 (0.43%) Games
Job Titles
1 320 (23.01%) DevOps Engineer
2 298 (21.42%) Senior
3 215 (15.46%) Lead
4 171 (12.29%) Architect
5 169 (12.15%) Cloud Engineer
6 134 (9.63%) Platform Engineer
7 126 (9.06%) Developer
8 123 (8.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 104 (7.48%) Azure Engineer
10 91 (6.54%) Software Engineer
11 71 (5.10%) Data Engineer
12 65 (4.67%) AWS Engineer
12 65 (4.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 62 (4.46%) Senior DevOps
13 62 (4.46%) Systems Architect
14 60 (4.31%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 59 (4.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 51 (3.67%) Principal Engineer
17 46 (3.31%) Azure Platform Engineer
18 45 (3.24%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 902 (64.85%) Terraform
2 135 (9.71%) React
3 101 (7.26%) Spring Boot
4 99 (7.12%) .NET
5 97 (6.97%) Spring
6 96 (6.90%) REST
7 92 (6.61%) Node.js
8 79 (5.68%) Kafka
9 71 (5.10%) RESTful
10 52 (3.74%) AWS CDK
11 50 (3.59%) ARM Templates
12 49 (3.52%) AngularJS
13 41 (2.95%) PySpark
14 37 (2.66%) Next.js
14 37 (2.66%) RabbitMQ
15 33 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
15 33 (2.37%) Vue
15 33 (2.37%) YAML
16 32 (2.30%) CSS
17 31 (2.23%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 364 (26.17%) Cloud Native
2 104 (7.48%) Distributed Systems
3 89 (6.40%) Hybrid Cloud
4 76 (5.46%) Onboarding
5 60 (4.31%) Product Ownership
6 57 (4.10%) Linux Command Line
7 45 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
8 43 (3.09%) Public Cloud
9 40 (2.88%) Security Posture
10 39 (2.80%) Data Centre
11 38 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
12 37 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
13 35 (2.52%) Private Cloud
14 27 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
15 25 (1.80%) Virtual Team
16 21 (1.51%) Data Structures
16 21 (1.51%) Management Information System
17 17 (1.22%) Mainframe
18 14 (1.01%) AI Agents
19 12 (0.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 300 (21.57%) Linux
2 131 (9.42%) Windows
3 58 (4.17%) Windows Server
4 40 (2.88%) CentOS
4 40 (2.88%) Unix
5 38 (2.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 25 (1.80%) Ubuntu
7 14 (1.01%) VMS
8 7 (0.50%) Debian
9 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.29%) AIX
10 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.14%) Rocky
11 2 (0.14%) Solaris
12 1 (0.072%) Android
12 1 (0.072%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.072%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,014 (72.90%) CI/CD
2 829 (59.60%) DevOps
3 497 (35.73%) Containerisation
4 464 (33.36%) Agile
5 379 (27.25%) Observability
6 370 (26.60%) Platform Engineering
7 349 (25.09%) Mentoring
8 328 (23.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 313 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
10 277 (19.91%) Software Engineering
11 271 (19.48%) AI
12 261 (18.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 252 (18.12%) Technical Leadership
14 232 (16.68%) Microservices
15 217 (15.60%) Cloud Security
16 211 (15.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 192 (13.80%) Test Automation
18 185 (13.30%) DevSecOps
19 173 (12.44%) Roadmaps
20 145 (10.42%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 557 (40.04%) Python
2 241 (17.33%) Bash
3 201 (14.45%) Java
4 192 (13.80%) PowerShell
5 183 (13.16%) SQL
6 138 (9.92%) Bicep
6 138 (9.92%) TypeScript
7 109 (7.84%) JavaScript
8 88 (6.33%) C#
9 70 (5.03%) Go
10 51 (3.67%) Shell Script
11 24 (1.73%) Groovy
11 24 (1.73%) Ruby
12 20 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
13 18 (1.29%) Rust
14 15 (1.08%) PHP
15 11 (0.79%) Scala
16 7 (0.50%) Search Processing Language
17 6 (0.43%) COBOL
18 5 (0.36%) C++
Qualifications
1 435 (31.27%) Security Cleared
2 281 (20.20%) SC Cleared
3 175 (12.58%) DV Cleared
4 94 (6.76%) Degree
5 85 (6.11%) Azure Certification
6 78 (5.61%) AWS Certification
7 40 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 30 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
12 15 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 10 (0.72%) CCNA
15 7 (0.50%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.50%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.43%) CCNP
16 6 (0.43%) ICAEW
16 6 (0.43%) RHCSA
17 5 (0.36%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (5.68%) QA
2 62 (4.46%) GRC
3 49 (3.52%) Data Quality
4 39 (2.80%) Accessibility
5 28 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (1.94%) NCSC
7 21 (1.51%) NIST
8 20 (1.44%) WCAG
9 16 (1.15%) PCI DSS
10 14 (1.01%) GDPR
11 11 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.65%) SLA
13 8 (0.58%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
15 2 (0.14%) IFRS
15 2 (0.14%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.14%) RMADS
15 2 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 432 (31.06%) Docker
2 82 (5.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 77 (5.54%) Active Directory
4 30 (2.16%) vSphere
5 28 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (1.22%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.93%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.36%) Firmware
11 4 (0.29%) KVM
11 4 (0.29%) Squid
12 3 (0.22%) iptables
13 2 (0.14%) Lustre
13 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.072%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 530 (38.10%) Kubernetes
2 292 (20.99%) Ansible
3 119 (8.55%) Grafana
4 101 (7.26%) Prometheus
5 51 (3.67%) Puppet
6 43 (3.09%) Argo
7 34 (2.44%) Progress Chef
8 22 (1.58%) Istio
9 17 (1.22%) Packer
10 16 (1.15%) vCenter Server
11 15 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
11 15 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
12 13 (0.93%) Podman
13 11 (0.79%) Rancher
14 10 (0.72%) Kibana
14 10 (0.72%) Kustomize
15 8 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
15 8 (0.58%) linkerd
15 8 (0.58%) logstash
15 8 (0.58%) yum
Vendors
1 353 (25.38%) Microsoft
2 106 (7.62%) Google
3 95 (6.83%) VMware
4 56 (4.03%) Databricks
5 54 (3.88%) Red Hat
6 53 (3.81%) Splunk
7 30 (2.16%) Oracle
8 25 (1.80%) Cisco
9 15 (1.08%) OpenAI
10 14 (1.01%) Fortinet
10 14 (1.01%) ServiceNow
11 13 (0.93%) Atlassian
12 12 (0.86%) New Relic
12 12 (0.86%) ScienceLogic
13 10 (0.72%) F5
14 9 (0.65%) Meraki
15 8 (0.58%) IBM
15 8 (0.58%) Palo Alto
16 7 (0.50%) NVIDIA
16 7 (0.50%) SAP