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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 223 199
Rank change year-on-year +106 -24 -70
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,075 454 988
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.50% 1.34% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 1.52% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 788 318 773
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,901 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,751 £77,500
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 50,483 29,861 58,680
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.57% 88.38% 80.05%
Number of salaries quoted 35,473 15,986 40,466
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.84%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +81 365 £70,000 - 249
South East +60 225 £70,000 -9.68% 224
North West +71 220 £72,500 - 139
South West +31 175 £75,000 +7.14% 144
Midlands +34 130 £75,000 +15.38% 118
Yorkshire +1 91 £67,500 -3.57% 73
West Midlands +7 77 £80,000 +23.08% 64
North East -12 54 £55,000 -15.38% 37
East Midlands +11 53 £67,500 +3.85% 54
East of England +1 51 £62,500 - 83
Northern Ireland -11 51 £73,801 +71.27% 40
Wales -13 47 £70,039 +21.81% 50
Scotland +18 38 £65,000 -13.04% 90
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 27 (2.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (2.14%) Apache
2 23 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (1.95%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.58%) Confluence
5 10 (0.93%) Jupyter
6 8 (0.74%) IIS
7 5 (0.47%) CMS
8 4 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.28%) WordPress
10 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.19%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.093%) Documentum
11 1 (0.093%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.19%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.093%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 596 (55.44%) Azure
2 564 (52.47%) AWS
3 213 (19.81%) GitHub
4 200 (18.60%) Azure DevOps
5 178 (16.56%) Serverless
6 163 (15.16%) GCP
7 138 (12.84%) GitHub Actions
8 127 (11.81%) AWS CloudFormation
9 97 (9.02%) Amazon S3
10 90 (8.37%) AWS Lambda
11 89 (8.28%) PaaS
12 77 (7.16%) Amazon EKS
13 71 (6.60%) Amazon EC2
14 69 (6.42%) Microsoft 365
15 63 (5.86%) Azure AKS
16 60 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
17 59 (5.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 59 (5.49%) IaaS
18 58 (5.40%) SaaS
19 57 (5.30%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 106 (9.86%) Firewall
2 69 (6.42%) WAN
3 61 (5.67%) LAN
4 60 (5.58%) DNS
5 59 (5.49%) VPN
6 36 (3.35%) TCP/IP
7 32 (2.98%) Network Security
8 22 (2.05%) DHCP
9 18 (1.67%) VLAN
10 17 (1.58%) BGP
11 16 (1.49%) Broadband
12 15 (1.40%) HTTP
13 11 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
14 10 (0.93%) SAN
15 9 (0.84%) SD-WAN
16 8 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
17 7 (0.65%) Ethernet VPN
18 6 (0.56%) Cisco Firepower
18 6 (0.56%) MQTT
18 6 (0.56%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (4.56%) Amazon RDS
3 48 (4.47%) NoSQL
4 42 (3.91%) MongoDB
5 38 (3.53%) DynamoDB
6 37 (3.44%) SQL Server
7 34 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
8 28 (2.60%) Relational Database
9 23 (2.14%) MySQL
10 18 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
11 17 (1.58%) Redis
12 16 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
13 15 (1.40%) Data Lake
13 15 (1.40%) Metadata
14 14 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (1.21%) Spark SQL
16 12 (1.12%) Big Data
17 11 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
18 8 (0.74%) InfluxDB
18 8 (0.74%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 165 (15.35%) Git
2 133 (12.37%) GitLab
3 122 (11.35%) Jenkins
4 29 (2.70%) JIRA
5 14 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 14 (1.30%) Bitbucket
5 14 (1.30%) Cucumber
5 14 (1.30%) SonarQube
6 9 (0.84%) Cypress.io
6 9 (0.84%) Selenium
7 8 (0.74%) NUnit
8 7 (0.65%) Artifactory
8 7 (0.65%) JMeter
8 7 (0.65%) MSI
8 7 (0.65%) Robot Framework
8 7 (0.65%) TestRail
9 6 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
9 6 (0.56%) Subversion
10 5 (0.47%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.47%) Terragrunt
General
1 300 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 174 (16.19%) Finance
3 106 (9.86%) Public Sector
4 71 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (6.05%) Law
6 64 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 51 (4.74%) Presentation Skills
8 27 (2.51%) Retail
8 27 (2.51%) Telecoms
9 24 (2.23%) Aerospace
10 22 (2.05%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.86%) Banking
12 17 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
13 16 (1.49%) Games
14 9 (0.84%) Advertising
15 8 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.74%) Marketing
16 7 (0.65%) Legal
17 6 (0.56%) Billing
18 5 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 228 (21.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 215 (20.00%) Senior
3 172 (16.00%) Lead
4 128 (11.91%) Architect
5 127 (11.81%) Cloud Engineer
6 103 (9.58%) Developer
7 99 (9.21%) Azure Engineer
7 99 (9.21%) Platform Engineer
8 73 (6.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 69 (6.42%) Software Engineer
10 51 (4.74%) Senior DevOps
10 51 (4.74%) Systems Architect
11 47 (4.37%) Data Engineer
12 46 (4.28%) AWS Engineer
13 45 (4.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 43 (4.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 39 (3.63%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 38 (3.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 34 (3.16%) Technical Leader
18 32 (2.98%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (10.23%) React
2 96 (8.93%) Node.js
3 89 (8.28%) REST
4 84 (7.81%) .NET
5 65 (6.05%) Spring Boot
6 63 (5.86%) Spring
7 56 (5.21%) ARM Templates
8 54 (5.02%) RESTful
9 50 (4.65%) Kafka
10 49 (4.56%) AWS CDK
11 47 (4.37%) YAML
12 40 (3.72%) Elastic Stack
13 36 (3.35%) AngularJS
13 36 (3.35%) PySpark
14 31 (2.88%) RabbitMQ
15 30 (2.79%) ASP.NET
16 29 (2.70%) Next.js
16 29 (2.70%) Vue
17 28 (2.60%) ASP.NET Core
18 24 (2.23%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 247 (22.98%) Cloud Native
2 79 (7.35%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (6.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 56 (5.21%) Product Ownership
5 37 (3.44%) Onboarding
6 36 (3.35%) Public Cloud
7 31 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
8 29 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
9 28 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
10 26 (2.42%) Security Posture
10 26 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
11 24 (2.23%) Data Centre
12 19 (1.77%) Private Cloud
13 18 (1.67%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
14 15 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
14 15 (1.40%) Replication
15 14 (1.30%) Virtual Team
16 13 (1.21%) Video\Live Streaming
17 12 (1.12%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 203 (18.88%) Linux
2 110 (10.23%) Windows
3 50 (4.65%) Windows Server
4 34 (3.16%) CentOS
5 31 (2.88%) Ubuntu
6 24 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 18 (1.67%) VMS
8 16 (1.49%) Unix
9 8 (0.74%) Debian
10 7 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.28%) Android
12 3 (0.28%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.093%) AIX
13 1 (0.093%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.093%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 777 (72.28%) CI/CD
2 638 (59.35%) DevOps
3 362 (33.67%) Containerisation
4 361 (33.58%) Agile
5 316 (29.40%) Observability
6 262 (24.37%) Platform Engineering
7 243 (22.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 238 (22.14%) Mentoring
9 207 (19.26%) Problem-Solving
10 203 (18.88%) AI
11 189 (17.58%) Microservices
12 181 (16.84%) Software Engineering
13 178 (16.56%) Test Automation
14 164 (15.26%) Technical Leadership
15 147 (13.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 144 (13.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 132 (12.28%) Roadmaps
18 125 (11.63%) Cloud Security
19 118 (10.98%) DevSecOps
20 106 (9.86%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 432 (40.19%) Python
2 208 (19.35%) Bash
3 184 (17.12%) PowerShell
4 152 (14.14%) SQL
5 138 (12.84%) Java
6 123 (11.44%) Bicep
7 121 (11.26%) TypeScript
8 102 (9.49%) JavaScript
9 79 (7.35%) C#
10 63 (5.86%) Go
11 20 (1.86%) Ruby
12 19 (1.77%) Groovy
12 19 (1.77%) Kusto Query Language
13 14 (1.30%) PHP
14 9 (0.84%) Rust
15 8 (0.74%) C++
16 6 (0.56%) COBOL
16 6 (0.56%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.47%) C
17 5 (0.47%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 263 (24.47%) Security Cleared
2 159 (14.79%) SC Cleared
3 102 (9.49%) DV Cleared
4 77 (7.16%) Degree
5 57 (5.30%) Azure Certification
6 37 (3.44%) AWS Certification
7 35 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (0.93%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (0.65%) CCNA
13 7 (0.65%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.56%) ICAEW
14 6 (0.56%) RHCSA
15 5 (0.47%) ISTQB
16 4 (0.37%) PhD
16 4 (0.37%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (5.95%) QA
2 52 (4.84%) GRC
3 32 (2.98%) Data Quality
4 28 (2.60%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.86%) WCAG
6 18 (1.67%) GDPR
7 17 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 16 (1.49%) PCI DSS
9 15 (1.40%) NCSC
10 12 (1.12%) NIST
10 12 (1.12%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
12 5 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.47%) SLA
13 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.19%) IFRS
13 2 (0.19%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.19%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.093%) GxP
System Software
1 310 (28.84%) Docker
2 70 (6.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 65 (6.05%) Active Directory
4 33 (3.07%) vSphere
5 20 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (1.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.84%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.74%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.56%) iptables
9 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.47%) Firmware
11 4 (0.37%) Squid
12 1 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 742 (69.02%) Terraform
2 414 (38.51%) Kubernetes
3 227 (21.12%) Ansible
4 125 (11.63%) Grafana
5 97 (9.02%) Prometheus
6 35 (3.26%) Puppet
7 31 (2.88%) Argo
8 23 (2.14%) Progress Chef
9 16 (1.49%) Packer
10 15 (1.40%) vCenter Server
11 14 (1.30%) Istio
12 12 (1.12%) Nagios
13 11 (1.02%) Proxmox
14 10 (0.93%) Kibana
14 10 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
14 10 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
15 9 (0.84%) Podman
15 9 (0.84%) Rancher
16 8 (0.74%) logstash
17 7 (0.65%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 241 (22.42%) Microsoft
2 86 (8.00%) VMware
3 51 (4.74%) Google
3 51 (4.74%) Red Hat
4 41 (3.81%) Splunk
5 34 (3.16%) Databricks
6 30 (2.79%) Cisco
7 21 (1.95%) Palo Alto
8 14 (1.30%) Oracle
9 13 (1.21%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.12%) F5
10 12 (1.12%) ScienceLogic
11 10 (0.93%) Atlassian
11 10 (0.93%) Fortinet
12 9 (0.84%) CrowdStrike
13 8 (0.74%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.65%) HubSpot
14 7 (0.65%) NetApp
14 7 (0.65%) Salesforce
15 6 (0.56%) Juniper