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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 211 176
Rank change year-on-year +113 -35 -68
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,308 468 873
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.64% 1.34% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 1.55% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 911 339 633
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £40,221
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -5.11%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -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 55,965 30,247 46,875
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.32% 86.87% 78.17%
Number of salaries quoted 39,546 16,569 28,629
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,971
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 26 August 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 26 August 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 +88 451 £70,000 - 159
South East +55 251 £67,500 -12.90% 80
North West +92 248 £72,500 +3.57% 85
South West +47 226 £75,000 - 119
Midlands +37 147 £75,000 +15.38% 41
Yorkshire +10 105 £73,750 +5.36% 47
North East +18 98 £59,000 -18.62% 28
West Midlands +13 90 £84,387 +30.33% 20
Wales -3 69 £70,000 +16.67% 12
Northern Ireland -27 62 £71,991 +67.07% 8
East of England -2 58 £70,000 +7.69% 16
East Midlands +19 57 £67,500 +3.85% 21
Scotland +25 56 £72,246 +3.21% 43
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 40 (3.06%) Apache Spark
2 35 (2.68%) Apache
2 35 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (1.53%) Confluence
5 13 (0.99%) Jupyter
6 10 (0.76%) IIS
7 5 (0.38%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.38%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.31%) CMS
9 3 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.23%) nginx
9 3 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.23%) WordPress
10 1 (0.076%) Documentum
10 1 (0.076%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.076%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.15%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.076%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.076%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 706 (53.98%) Azure
2 693 (52.98%) AWS
3 235 (17.97%) GitHub
4 217 (16.59%) GCP
5 200 (15.29%) Azure DevOps
5 200 (15.29%) Serverless
6 175 (13.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 139 (10.63%) GitHub Actions
8 114 (8.72%) AWS Lambda
9 113 (8.64%) Amazon S3
10 89 (6.80%) Amazon EC2
11 85 (6.50%) PaaS
12 84 (6.42%) Amazon EKS
13 83 (6.35%) Amazon ECS
14 80 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
15 72 (5.50%) SaaS
16 71 (5.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 68 (5.20%) Azure AKS
18 66 (5.05%) Cloud Computing
19 60 (4.59%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 99 (7.57%) Firewall
2 84 (6.42%) WAN
3 74 (5.66%) LAN
4 70 (5.35%) VPN
5 63 (4.82%) DNS
6 40 (3.06%) Network Security
6 40 (3.06%) TCP/IP
7 32 (2.45%) DHCP
8 21 (1.61%) BGP
9 16 (1.22%) VLAN
10 14 (1.07%) Broadband
11 13 (0.99%) Software-Defined Networking
12 12 (0.92%) SAN
13 11 (0.84%) OSPF
13 11 (0.84%) SD-WAN
14 9 (0.69%) HTTP
15 8 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
15 8 (0.61%) Ethernet VPN
15 8 (0.61%) Wireless
16 7 (0.54%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (6.88%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (4.43%) Amazon RDS
3 57 (4.36%) NoSQL
4 52 (3.98%) MongoDB
5 49 (3.75%) SQL Server
6 47 (3.59%) DynamoDB
7 38 (2.91%) MySQL
7 38 (2.91%) Relational Database
8 36 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
9 32 (2.45%) Data Lake
9 32 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (1.45%) Big Data
11 18 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
12 17 (1.30%) Metadata
13 15 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (1.15%) Power BI
13 15 (1.15%) Redis
14 14 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (0.99%) Flink
15 13 (0.99%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 202 (15.44%) Git
2 144 (11.01%) GitLab
3 132 (10.09%) Jenkins
4 41 (3.13%) JIRA
5 18 (1.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 18 (1.38%) SonarQube
6 15 (1.15%) Cypress.io
7 13 (0.99%) Bitbucket
7 13 (0.99%) Cucumber
7 13 (0.99%) NUnit
7 13 (0.99%) Selenium
8 9 (0.69%) MSI
9 8 (0.61%) Terragrunt
10 7 (0.54%) Artifactory
10 7 (0.54%) JMeter
10 7 (0.54%) Robot Framework
11 6 (0.46%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.46%) git-flow
11 6 (0.46%) TeamCity
11 6 (0.46%) TestRail
General
1 385 (29.43%) Social Skills
2 229 (17.51%) Finance
3 144 (11.01%) Public Sector
4 99 (7.57%) Analytical Skills
5 94 (7.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 77 (5.89%) Law
7 69 (5.28%) Presentation Skills
8 42 (3.21%) Aerospace
9 26 (1.99%) Banking
9 26 (1.99%) Retail
10 24 (1.83%) Manufacturing
11 21 (1.61%) Marketing
12 18 (1.38%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.30%) Legal
14 16 (1.22%) Games
15 13 (0.99%) Aviation
15 13 (0.99%) Local Government
16 11 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (0.84%) Military
17 9 (0.69%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 271 (20.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 264 (20.18%) Senior
3 222 (16.97%) Lead
4 162 (12.39%) Architect
5 153 (11.70%) Cloud Engineer
6 125 (9.56%) Developer
6 125 (9.56%) Platform Engineer
7 102 (7.80%) Azure Engineer
8 96 (7.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 87 (6.65%) Software Engineer
10 74 (5.66%) Data Engineer
11 62 (4.74%) Systems Architect
12 59 (4.51%) AWS Engineer
13 58 (4.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 51 (3.90%) Senior DevOps
15 50 (3.82%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 49 (3.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 47 (3.59%) Lead DevOps
18 46 (3.52%) Technical Leader
19 45 (3.44%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 888 (67.89%) Terraform
2 129 (9.86%) React
3 104 (7.95%) .NET
4 100 (7.65%) REST
5 95 (7.26%) Node.js
6 86 (6.57%) Spring Boot
7 83 (6.35%) Spring
8 70 (5.35%) Kafka
9 67 (5.12%) RESTful
10 58 (4.43%) AWS CDK
11 51 (3.90%) ARM Templates
12 46 (3.52%) AngularJS
13 45 (3.44%) YAML
14 43 (3.29%) PySpark
15 37 (2.83%) Next.js
16 36 (2.75%) ASP.NET
17 34 (2.60%) ASP.NET Core
17 34 (2.60%) CSS
17 34 (2.60%) Vue
18 33 (2.52%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 325 (24.85%) Cloud Native
2 102 (7.80%) Distributed Systems
3 89 (6.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 69 (5.28%) Onboarding
5 62 (4.74%) Product Ownership
6 48 (3.67%) Public Cloud
7 45 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
8 37 (2.83%) Data Centre
8 37 (2.83%) Greenfield Project
9 34 (2.60%) Security Posture
10 32 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
11 30 (2.29%) Private Cloud
12 26 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
13 24 (1.83%) Data Structures
14 22 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
15 20 (1.53%) Virtual Team
16 17 (1.30%) Management Information System
17 16 (1.22%) Mainframe
18 15 (1.15%) Replication
19 14 (1.07%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 236 (18.04%) Linux
2 131 (10.02%) Windows
3 61 (4.66%) Windows Server
4 35 (2.68%) CentOS
5 28 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (2.14%) Unix
6 25 (1.91%) Ubuntu
7 15 (1.15%) VMS
8 5 (0.38%) Debian
8 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.23%) AIX
11 2 (0.15%) Android
11 2 (0.15%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.15%) Solaris
12 1 (0.076%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.076%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 949 (72.55%) CI/CD
2 758 (57.95%) DevOps
3 448 (34.25%) Containerisation
4 430 (32.87%) Agile
5 384 (29.36%) Observability
6 323 (24.69%) Platform Engineering
7 313 (23.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 299 (22.86%) Mentoring
9 281 (21.48%) Problem-Solving
10 267 (20.41%) Software Engineering
11 247 (18.88%) AI
12 231 (17.66%) Technical Leadership
13 222 (16.97%) Microservices
14 203 (15.52%) Test Automation
15 194 (14.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 181 (13.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 163 (12.46%) Roadmaps
18 156 (11.93%) Cloud Security
19 143 (10.93%) DevSecOps
20 141 (10.78%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 529 (40.44%) Python
2 224 (17.13%) Bash
3 190 (14.53%) SQL
4 188 (14.37%) PowerShell
5 183 (13.99%) Java
6 136 (10.40%) TypeScript
7 135 (10.32%) Bicep
8 113 (8.64%) JavaScript
9 93 (7.11%) C#
10 63 (4.82%) Go
11 25 (1.91%) Ruby
12 23 (1.76%) Groovy
13 21 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
14 15 (1.15%) PHP
15 13 (0.99%) Rust
16 12 (0.92%) Shell Script
17 11 (0.84%) Scala
18 7 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
19 6 (0.46%) COBOL
20 5 (0.38%) C++
Qualifications
1 373 (28.52%) Security Cleared
2 238 (18.20%) SC Cleared
3 155 (11.85%) DV Cleared
4 102 (7.80%) Degree
5 73 (5.58%) Azure Certification
6 61 (4.66%) AWS Certification
7 45 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
11 16 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 16 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 9 (0.69%) CCNA
13 8 (0.61%) DBS Check
14 7 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
14 7 (0.54%) PMI Certification
15 6 (0.46%) ICAEW
15 6 (0.46%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.46%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (6.42%) QA
2 63 (4.82%) GRC
3 53 (4.05%) Data Quality
4 42 (3.21%) Accessibility
5 25 (1.91%) NCSC
6 24 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (1.83%) WCAG
7 19 (1.45%) GDPR
8 17 (1.30%) NIST
9 15 (1.15%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.84%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.69%) SLA
12 6 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.15%) IFRS
13 2 (0.15%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.15%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.076%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.076%) HIPAA
System Software
1 384 (29.36%) Docker
2 83 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 79 (6.04%) Active Directory
4 31 (2.37%) vSphere
5 23 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (1.38%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.84%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 5 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.31%) Firmware
10 4 (0.31%) iptables
10 4 (0.31%) KVM
10 4 (0.31%) Squid
11 2 (0.15%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 504 (38.53%) Kubernetes
2 272 (20.80%) Ansible
3 119 (9.10%) Grafana
4 92 (7.03%) Prometheus
5 44 (3.36%) Puppet
6 37 (2.83%) Argo
7 33 (2.52%) Progress Chef
8 19 (1.45%) Istio
9 15 (1.15%) Packer
10 14 (1.07%) vCenter Server
11 12 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
12 10 (0.76%) Kibana
13 9 (0.69%) Kustomize
13 9 (0.69%) Podman
14 8 (0.61%) Nagios
14 8 (0.61%) Nessus
14 8 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.61%) ZABBIX
15 7 (0.54%) logstash
15 7 (0.54%) Rancher
Vendors
1 301 (23.01%) Microsoft
2 96 (7.34%) VMware
3 71 (5.43%) Google
4 54 (4.13%) Red Hat
5 50 (3.82%) Splunk
6 48 (3.67%) Databricks
7 29 (2.22%) Oracle
8 28 (2.14%) Cisco
9 16 (1.22%) Palo Alto
10 14 (1.07%) OpenAI
11 13 (0.99%) Atlassian
12 12 (0.92%) Dynatrace
12 12 (0.92%) Fortinet
12 12 (0.92%) ScienceLogic
12 12 (0.92%) ServiceNow
13 11 (0.84%) F5
13 11 (0.84%) New Relic
14 8 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
14 8 (0.61%) IBM
15 7 (0.54%) Tenable