Infrastructure as Code Jobs in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 198 114
Rank change year-on-year -33 -84 +29
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 521 1,014 1,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.21% 1.35% 2.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.67% 3.08%
Number of salaries quoted 321 771 849
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +13.36%
75th Percentile £82,751 £77,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% -6.67% +3.45%

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 37,939 60,695 48,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 87.98% 80.62% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 19,563 40,558 27,972
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,125 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £69,847
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -69 160 £70,000 +11.50% 199
South East +45 142 £77,500 +29.17% 184
North West -67 98 £72,500 +11.54% 109
Midlands -8 64 £65,000 - 92
East of England +40 55 £62,500 -7.41% 59
South West -12 55 £70,000 - 93
Yorkshire -14 53 £70,000 +16.67% 68
West Midlands -3 44 £65,000 -7.14% 65
Scotland +73 37 £74,750 -12.06% 57
East Midlands +9 20 £65,000 +13.04% 26
North East +12 9 £65,000 +3.53% 22
Wales +18 8 £56,250 -2.17% 19
Isle of Man +12 2 £34,500 - 1
Northern Ireland +36 1 £43,092 -28.18% 31
Infrastructure as Code
UK

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (3.65%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (2.30%) Apache
4 11 (2.11%) Confluence
5 9 (1.73%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.34%) Appian
7 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.77%) IBM Domino
8 4 (0.77%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.58%) CMS
9 3 (0.58%) nginx
10 1 (0.19%) CICS
10 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.38%) Simulink
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 324 (62.19%) AWS
2 270 (51.82%) Azure
3 100 (19.19%) GCP
4 92 (17.66%) Azure DevOps
5 67 (12.86%) Pulumi
6 66 (12.67%) SaaS
7 56 (10.75%) Serverless
8 54 (10.36%) PaaS
9 53 (10.17%) GitHub
10 52 (9.98%) AWS CloudFormation
11 47 (9.02%) IaaS
12 36 (6.91%) AWS Lambda
12 36 (6.91%) Entra ID
13 34 (6.53%) Power Platform
14 31 (5.95%) Amazon EC2
14 31 (5.95%) Amazon S3
15 29 (5.57%) Azure Monitor
16 26 (4.99%) GitHub Actions
16 26 (4.99%) Power Automate
17 25 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 65 (12.48%) Broadband
2 39 (7.49%) VPN
3 38 (7.29%) Firewall
4 34 (6.53%) WAN
5 33 (6.33%) DNS
6 17 (3.26%) LAN
7 16 (3.07%) SD-WAN
8 10 (1.92%) Network Security
9 6 (1.15%) Internet
10 5 (0.96%) SAN
10 5 (0.96%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.77%) DHCP
11 4 (0.77%) IPv4
11 4 (0.77%) VLAN
12 3 (0.58%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 3 (0.58%) Software-Defined Networking
13 2 (0.38%) Ethernet
13 2 (0.38%) MQTT
13 2 (0.38%) OSPF
13 2 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (18.04%) NoSQL
2 71 (13.63%) Relational Database
3 66 (12.67%) RDBMS
4 33 (6.33%) SQL Server
5 31 (5.95%) Data Lake
6 29 (5.57%) MySQL
7 19 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (3.65%) Big Data
7 19 (3.65%) Power BI
8 12 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (2.11%) Hadoop
9 11 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (1.54%) DynamoDB
11 7 (1.34%) MongoDB
11 7 (1.34%) Tableau
12 6 (1.15%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.77%) Qlik Sense
14 2 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (0.38%) Impala
14 2 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 73 (14.01%) Jenkins
2 66 (12.67%) Git
3 65 (12.48%) Jaeger
4 37 (7.10%) GitLab
5 17 (3.26%) SonarQube
6 15 (2.88%) JIRA
7 12 (2.30%) JUnit
8 10 (1.92%) Selenium
9 9 (1.73%) CircleCI
9 9 (1.73%) Maven
9 9 (1.73%) Sonatype Nexus
9 9 (1.73%) TeamCity
10 8 (1.54%) Robot Framework
10 8 (1.54%) Snyk
11 4 (0.77%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.77%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.77%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.77%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.77%) Subversion
12 2 (0.38%) Checkstyle
General
1 103 (19.77%) Social Skills
2 96 (18.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 74 (14.20%) Finance
4 33 (6.33%) Law
5 29 (5.57%) Banking
6 28 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (2.69%) Automotive
7 14 (2.69%) Public Sector
8 12 (2.30%) Advertising
8 12 (2.30%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.54%) Retail
10 6 (1.15%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.15%) Legal
11 5 (0.96%) Marketing
12 4 (0.77%) Electronics
12 4 (0.77%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.58%) Agriculture
13 3 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.38%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 130 (24.95%) Lead
2 91 (17.47%) Cloud Engineer
3 86 (16.51%) Senior
4 69 (13.24%) DevOps Engineer
5 68 (13.05%) Team Leader
6 59 (11.32%) Architect
7 40 (7.68%) Software Engineer
8 34 (6.53%) Azure Engineer
8 34 (6.53%) Cloud Architect
9 32 (6.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 31 (5.95%) Developer
11 28 (5.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 23 (4.41%) Platform Engineer
13 20 (3.84%) AWS Engineer
14 19 (3.65%) Senior Software Engineer
15 17 (3.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
16 14 (2.69%) Administrator
17 13 (2.50%) Full-Stack Developer
17 13 (2.50%) Security Engineer
17 13 (2.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (15.74%) Elastic Stack
2 68 (13.05%) OpenTelemetry
3 43 (8.25%) .NET
4 33 (6.33%) React
5 32 (6.14%) Kafka
6 25 (4.80%) ARM Templates
7 24 (4.61%) REST
8 21 (4.03%) Node.js
9 17 (3.26%) RESTful
9 17 (3.26%) Spring
9 17 (3.26%) Spring Boot
10 12 (2.30%) .NET Core
10 12 (2.30%) SOAP
10 12 (2.30%) YAML
11 11 (2.11%) AngularJS
12 10 (1.92%) HTML5 Canvas
12 10 (1.92%) OAuth
13 9 (1.73%) Hibernate
13 9 (1.73%) SAML
13 9 (1.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 82 (15.74%) Cloud Native
2 51 (9.79%) Public Cloud
3 42 (8.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 27 (5.18%) Data Centre
4 27 (5.18%) Product Ownership
5 21 (4.03%) Private Cloud
6 20 (3.84%) Management Information System
7 15 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.88%) NHS
8 10 (1.92%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.73%) IoT
10 8 (1.54%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.54%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.34%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.34%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.15%) PKI
13 5 (0.96%) CMDB
13 5 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 158 (30.33%) Linux
2 75 (14.40%) Unix
3 43 (8.25%) Windows
4 18 (3.45%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.34%) Debian
6 7 (1.34%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.77%) VMS
8 3 (0.58%) Android
8 3 (0.58%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.38%) AIX
9 2 (0.38%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (68.33%) DevOps
2 283 (54.32%) CI/CD
3 219 (42.03%) Agile
4 150 (28.79%) Containerisation
5 143 (27.45%) Roadmaps
6 132 (25.34%) Mentoring
7 101 (19.39%) High Availability
8 97 (18.62%) Continuous Integration
9 85 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
10 83 (15.93%) Software Engineering
11 80 (15.36%) Performance Optimisation
12 79 (15.16%) Task Automation
13 73 (14.01%) Cost Optimisation
13 73 (14.01%) Microservices
13 73 (14.01%) Resource Management
14 71 (13.63%) GitOps
15 68 (13.05%) Product Management
16 65 (12.48%) Budget Control
17 64 (12.28%) Cloud Security
18 63 (12.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 242 (46.45%) Python
2 124 (23.80%) JavaScript
3 122 (23.42%) Bash
4 119 (22.84%) Java
5 97 (18.62%) Go
6 94 (18.04%) PowerShell
6 94 (18.04%) SQL
7 45 (8.64%) C#
8 36 (6.91%) Bicep
9 26 (4.99%) TypeScript
10 10 (1.92%) Ruby
11 9 (1.73%) R
12 7 (1.34%) PHP
13 4 (0.77%) Julia
13 4 (0.77%) Perl
13 4 (0.77%) Rust
13 4 (0.77%) VBA
14 3 (0.58%) Groovy
14 3 (0.58%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.58%) VB
Qualifications
1 104 (19.96%) AWS Certification
2 70 (13.44%) Security Cleared
3 65 (12.48%) Azure Certification
4 45 (8.64%) SC Cleared
5 42 (8.06%) Degree
6 30 (5.76%) DV Cleared
7 23 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.69%) DBS Check
9 11 (2.11%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.15%) CCNP
11 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.96%) CCNA
13 4 (0.77%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.58%) CISSP
15 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.22%) GDPR
2 16 (3.07%) QA
3 11 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 8 (1.54%) NIST
6 7 (1.34%) HIPAA
6 7 (1.34%) SOC 2
7 5 (0.96%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.38%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.38%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 183 (35.12%) Docker
2 44 (8.45%) Virtual Machines
3 27 (5.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.50%) Active Directory
5 9 (1.73%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (1.34%) vSphere
7 5 (0.96%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.58%) LXC
9 2 (0.38%) HDFS
9 2 (0.38%) vCloud
10 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 375 (71.98%) Terraform
2 214 (41.07%) Kubernetes
3 174 (33.40%) Ansible
4 97 (18.62%) Prometheus
5 72 (13.82%) Argo
6 65 (12.48%) Kustomize
7 37 (7.10%) Grafana
8 18 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (3.07%) Puppet
10 9 (1.73%) Istio
11 7 (1.34%) Progress Chef
12 6 (1.15%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.58%) Control-M
13 3 (0.58%) Kibana
13 3 (0.58%) Salt
14 2 (0.38%) Graylog
14 2 (0.38%) Hadoop YARN
14 2 (0.38%) Proxmox
14 2 (0.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 97 (18.62%) Google
2 95 (18.23%) Microsoft
3 39 (7.49%) VMware
4 30 (5.76%) Databricks
5 19 (3.65%) Cisco
6 15 (2.88%) Fortinet
7 14 (2.69%) Aruba
7 14 (2.69%) Meraki
7 14 (2.69%) Palo Alto
8 13 (2.50%) Mellanox
8 13 (2.50%) NVIDIA
8 13 (2.50%) Splunk
9 10 (1.92%) Oracle
10 8 (1.54%) Atlassian
10 8 (1.54%) IBM
10 8 (1.54%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.54%) UiPath
11 7 (1.34%) BiZZdesign
11 7 (1.34%) Black Duck
12 6 (1.15%) ServiceNow