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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 220 197
Rank change year-on-year +75 -23 -58
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 824 410 994
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.23% 1.45% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 1.57% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 620 276 781
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,750 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,000 £79,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,764 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -3.23% +9.81% -5.90%

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 47,821 26,051 58,333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 71.10% 91.99% 82.10%
Number of salaries quoted 31,091 12,779 41,663
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,375 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.78% +6.14% -9.84%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +63 306 £67,249 -3.93% 152
South East +52 187 £70,000 -6.67% 127
North West +54 178 £73,401 +1.24% 83
South West -6 112 £72,500 +3.57% 60
Midlands +32 111 £67,750 -3.21% 40
Yorkshire -5 90 £65,576 -1.39% 34
West Midlands -3 60 £72,500 +3.57% 27
East Midlands +4 51 £67,500 +3.85% 13
East of England -3 46 £60,100 -7.54% 24
Scotland +8 44 £60,000 -20.38% 21
North East -9 38 £52,500 -20.48% 35
Wales -28 17 £61,250 +2.08% 10
Northern Ireland -34 4 £95,000 - 9
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 17 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (1.82%) Apache
2 15 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 14 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.46%) IIS
5 11 (1.33%) Confluence
6 5 (0.61%) CMS
7 4 (0.49%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.49%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.36%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.12%) Lightworks
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 484 (58.74%) AWS
2 445 (54.00%) Azure
3 179 (21.72%) Azure DevOps
4 170 (20.63%) GitHub
5 155 (18.81%) Serverless
6 134 (16.26%) GCP
7 124 (15.05%) GitHub Actions
8 107 (12.99%) AWS CloudFormation
9 87 (10.56%) Amazon S3
10 84 (10.19%) AWS Lambda
11 70 (8.50%) Amazon EKS
12 63 (7.65%) PaaS
13 62 (7.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 60 (7.28%) Amazon EC2
15 51 (6.19%) Amazon ECS
16 46 (5.58%) Azure AKS
16 46 (5.58%) SaaS
17 45 (5.46%) Entra ID
18 44 (5.34%) IaaS
19 42 (5.10%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 107 (12.99%) Firewall
2 59 (7.16%) DNS
3 40 (4.85%) TCP/IP
4 30 (3.64%) VPN
5 24 (2.91%) Network Security
6 22 (2.67%) DHCP
7 17 (2.06%) HTTP
8 16 (1.94%) BGP
9 15 (1.82%) Cisco ASA
10 14 (1.70%) Broadband
10 14 (1.70%) VLAN
11 12 (1.46%) WAN
12 9 (1.09%) LAN
12 9 (1.09%) SAN
13 7 (0.85%) Internet
14 6 (0.73%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (0.73%) OSPF
14 6 (0.73%) Unified Communications
14 6 (0.73%) WebEx
15 5 (0.61%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (7.65%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (5.83%) Amazon RDS
3 41 (4.98%) NoSQL
4 39 (4.73%) DynamoDB
5 35 (4.25%) SQL Server
6 34 (4.13%) MongoDB
7 22 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (2.06%) Relational Database
9 15 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
10 14 (1.70%) Spark SQL
11 13 (1.58%) Metadata
12 11 (1.33%) BigQuery
12 11 (1.33%) Data Lake
12 11 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.21%) Big Data
13 10 (1.21%) Redis
14 8 (0.97%) MySQL
15 7 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
16 6 (0.73%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 135 (16.38%) Git
2 104 (12.62%) Jenkins
3 101 (12.26%) GitLab
4 20 (2.43%) JIRA
5 16 (1.94%) Bitbucket
6 13 (1.58%) Cucumber
7 12 (1.46%) SonarQube
8 9 (1.09%) Selenium
9 7 (0.85%) CircleCI
9 7 (0.85%) JMeter
9 7 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
9 7 (0.85%) Robot Framework
9 7 (0.85%) Subversion
10 6 (0.73%) Artifactory
10 6 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (0.73%) NUnit
11 5 (0.61%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.49%) Locust
12 4 (0.49%) TestRail
12 4 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 201 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 108 (13.11%) Finance
3 68 (8.25%) Public Sector
4 60 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (4.49%) Telecoms
6 29 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (3.16%) Retail
8 24 (2.91%) Law
9 23 (2.79%) Manufacturing
10 22 (2.67%) Banking
11 18 (2.18%) Aerospace
12 17 (2.06%) Games
13 15 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
14 14 (1.70%) Billing
15 13 (1.58%) Marketing
16 11 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (1.21%) Advertising
18 6 (0.73%) Electronics
19 5 (0.61%) Legal
19 5 (0.61%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 184 (22.33%) Senior
2 161 (19.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 135 (16.38%) Lead
4 115 (13.96%) Cloud Engineer
5 93 (11.29%) Azure Engineer
6 77 (9.34%) Developer
7 67 (8.13%) Platform Engineer
8 62 (7.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 59 (7.16%) Software Engineer
10 46 (5.58%) Architect
11 41 (4.98%) AWS Engineer
12 39 (4.73%) Senior DevOps
13 37 (4.49%) Data Engineer
14 36 (4.37%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 31 (3.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 31 (3.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 26 (3.16%) Technical Leader
17 25 (3.03%) DevSecOps Engineer
17 25 (3.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 24 (2.91%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (11.17%) React
2 80 (9.71%) Node.js
3 74 (8.98%) .NET
4 63 (7.65%) REST
5 49 (5.95%) AWS CDK
6 48 (5.83%) YAML
7 44 (5.34%) RESTful
8 40 (4.85%) ARM Templates
9 34 (4.13%) Elastic Stack
9 34 (4.13%) Spring
10 32 (3.88%) ASP.NET
10 32 (3.88%) Kafka
11 30 (3.64%) ASP.NET Core
11 30 (3.64%) OAuth
12 28 (3.40%) Spring Boot
13 25 (3.03%) PySpark
14 23 (2.79%) AngularJS
15 19 (2.31%) CSS
15 19 (2.31%) JSON
15 19 (2.31%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 158 (19.17%) Cloud Native
2 54 (6.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 51 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
4 42 (5.10%) Product Ownership
5 25 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (3.03%) Public Cloud
6 21 (2.55%) Data Centre
7 18 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
7 18 (2.18%) Linux Command Line
7 18 (2.18%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
8 15 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (1.70%) Private Cloud
10 13 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (1.58%) Replication
11 12 (1.46%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
13 10 (1.21%) Security Posture
13 10 (1.21%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 183 (22.21%) Linux
2 86 (10.44%) Windows
3 47 (5.70%) Windows Server
4 28 (3.40%) Ubuntu
5 20 (2.43%) CentOS
5 20 (2.43%) Unix
6 14 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.09%) VMS
8 7 (0.85%) Debian
8 7 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.61%) Android
9 5 (0.61%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 611 (74.15%) CI/CD
2 522 (63.35%) DevOps
3 277 (33.62%) Agile
4 241 (29.25%) Observability
5 234 (28.40%) Containerisation
6 189 (22.94%) Mentoring
7 182 (22.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 178 (21.60%) Platform Engineering
9 165 (20.02%) Problem-Solving
10 154 (18.69%) Test Automation
11 138 (16.75%) Microservices
12 135 (16.38%) AI
13 122 (14.81%) Software Engineering
14 121 (14.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 113 (13.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 96 (11.65%) Technical Leadership
17 88 (10.68%) Cloud Security
18 84 (10.19%) DevSecOps
19 82 (9.95%) Deployment Automation
20 77 (9.34%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 360 (43.69%) Python
2 183 (22.21%) Bash
3 167 (20.27%) PowerShell
4 124 (15.05%) SQL
5 104 (12.62%) TypeScript
6 91 (11.04%) Java
7 82 (9.95%) JavaScript
8 70 (8.50%) Bicep
9 59 (7.16%) C#
10 57 (6.92%) Go
11 14 (1.70%) Groovy
12 13 (1.58%) C
13 9 (1.09%) C++
13 9 (1.09%) PHP
13 9 (1.09%) Rust
14 6 (0.73%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.61%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.49%) Perl
16 4 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 167 (20.27%) Security Cleared
2 106 (12.86%) SC Cleared
3 70 (8.50%) Degree
4 59 (7.16%) DV Cleared
5 39 (4.73%) AWS Certification
6 35 (4.25%) Azure Certification
7 32 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.70%) DBS Check
9 12 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.21%) AWS Certified Developer
10 10 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.73%) ICAEW
12 6 (0.73%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.61%) OSCP
14 4 (0.49%) CCNA
14 4 (0.49%) CISSP
14 4 (0.49%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.49%) Network+ Certification
14 4 (0.49%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.58%) QA
2 23 (2.79%) GDPR
3 21 (2.55%) Data Quality
4 19 (2.31%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.21%) WCAG
7 9 (1.09%) NIST
7 9 (1.09%) SOC 2
8 7 (0.85%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.36%) NCSC
9 3 (0.36%) SLA
10 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.24%) IFRS
10 2 (0.24%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.24%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.12%) GRC
System Software
1 236 (28.64%) Docker
2 50 (6.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (4.85%) Active Directory
4 21 (2.55%) vSphere
5 18 (2.18%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (1.58%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.85%) iptables
8 6 (0.73%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.49%) Firmware
10 3 (0.36%) Squid
11 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 586 (71.12%) Terraform
2 302 (36.65%) Kubernetes
3 192 (23.30%) Ansible
4 114 (13.83%) Grafana
5 89 (10.80%) Prometheus
6 29 (3.52%) Puppet
7 22 (2.67%) Argo
8 18 (2.18%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.58%) Nagios
10 12 (1.46%) vCenter Server
11 11 (1.33%) Packer
11 11 (1.33%) Rancher
12 10 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
13 9 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.97%) Istio
14 8 (0.97%) Podman
14 8 (0.97%) Proxmox
15 7 (0.85%) yum
16 6 (0.73%) Cisco CUCM
16 6 (0.73%) Kibana
Vendors
1 149 (18.08%) Microsoft
2 65 (7.89%) VMware
3 41 (4.98%) Red Hat
4 32 (3.88%) Google
5 31 (3.76%) Cisco
6 30 (3.64%) Databricks
6 30 (3.64%) Splunk
7 20 (2.43%) Palo Alto
8 13 (1.58%) CrowdStrike
8 13 (1.58%) Dynatrace
9 10 (1.21%) F5
10 9 (1.09%) Fortinet
10 9 (1.09%) Oracle
10 9 (1.09%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.85%) HubSpot
11 7 (0.85%) Juniper
11 7 (0.85%) NetApp
12 6 (0.73%) AppDynamics
12 6 (0.73%) Dell
12 6 (0.73%) SolarWinds