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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 193 154
Rank change year-on-year +91 -39 -54
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,422 491 784
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.63% 1.44% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 1.65% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 954 350 484
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,500 £40,000
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% -3.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%

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 61,886 29,671 39,606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.92% 87.01% 79.62%
Number of salaries quoted 43,417 16,236 19,810
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.02% -11.32% -1.85%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £82,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% 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 16 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 16 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 +82 497 £68,250 -2.50% 109
North West +94 269 £70,400 +8.31% 65
South West +58 257 £75,000 +7.14% 77
South East +41 256 £67,500 -16.92% 96
Midlands +36 156 £73,500 +13.08% 43
North East +16 133 £60,000 -12.73% 21
Yorkshire -4 104 £67,750 -3.21% 25
West Midlands +8 102 £80,000 +23.55% 29
Wales -6 87 £67,500 +12.50% 15
East of England -22 63 £75,000 +15.38% 16
Northern Ireland -30 61 £71,991 +23.17% 5
Scotland +8 56 £72,500 +3.57% 29
East Midlands -1 54 £65,000 - 14
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 49 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 48 (3.38%) Apache
3 36 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (1.41%) Confluence
4 20 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.20%) Jupyter
6 8 (0.56%) nginx
7 7 (0.49%) IIS
7 7 (0.49%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.35%) CMS
8 5 (0.35%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.21%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.21%) WordPress
10 2 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.070%) Documentum
11 1 (0.070%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 6 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.070%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 1 (0.070%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 780 (54.85%) Azure
2 736 (51.76%) AWS
3 257 (18.07%) GCP
4 243 (17.09%) GitHub
5 187 (13.15%) AWS CloudFormation
6 186 (13.08%) Serverless
7 183 (12.87%) Azure DevOps
8 136 (9.56%) GitHub Actions
9 116 (8.16%) Amazon S3
10 114 (8.02%) AWS Lambda
11 104 (7.31%) Cloud Computing
12 86 (6.05%) Amazon ECS
12 86 (6.05%) PaaS
13 84 (5.91%) Amazon EC2
13 84 (5.91%) Amazon EKS
14 79 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 79 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
15 77 (5.41%) SaaS
16 68 (4.78%) Azure AKS
16 68 (4.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 97 (6.82%) Firewall
2 89 (6.26%) VPN
3 86 (6.05%) WAN
4 72 (5.06%) LAN
5 68 (4.78%) DNS
6 38 (2.67%) Network Security
6 38 (2.67%) TCP/IP
7 35 (2.46%) Internet
8 31 (2.18%) DHCP
9 24 (1.69%) BGP
10 17 (1.20%) VLAN
11 15 (1.05%) Software-Defined Networking
12 14 (0.98%) SD-WAN
13 13 (0.91%) OSPF
14 11 (0.77%) Ethernet VPN
15 10 (0.70%) SAN
15 10 (0.70%) Wireless
16 9 (0.63%) Broadband
17 8 (0.56%) HTTP
18 7 (0.49%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (6.96%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (4.57%) NoSQL
3 59 (4.15%) MongoDB
4 57 (4.01%) Amazon RDS
5 48 (3.38%) MySQL
6 47 (3.31%) SQL Server
7 43 (3.02%) DynamoDB
8 41 (2.88%) Data Lake
9 35 (2.46%) Relational Database
10 32 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
11 24 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
11 24 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
12 22 (1.55%) Power BI
13 20 (1.41%) Big Data
14 18 (1.27%) Redis
15 16 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
16 15 (1.05%) Hadoop
16 15 (1.05%) Metadata
17 13 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
17 13 (0.91%) Flink
Development Applications
1 247 (17.37%) Git
2 175 (12.31%) GitLab
3 141 (9.92%) Jenkins
4 37 (2.60%) JIRA
5 24 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 14 (0.98%) Cypress.io
7 13 (0.91%) SonarQube
8 11 (0.77%) Selenium
9 9 (0.63%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.63%) Claude Code
9 9 (0.63%) MSI
10 8 (0.56%) Subversion
10 8 (0.56%) Terragrunt
11 7 (0.49%) Artifactory
11 7 (0.49%) git-flow
11 7 (0.49%) NUnit
12 6 (0.42%) Robot Framework
13 5 (0.35%) JUnit
13 5 (0.35%) Snyk
13 5 (0.35%) TestRail
General
1 408 (28.69%) Social Skills
2 225 (15.82%) Finance
3 218 (15.33%) Public Sector
4 147 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 106 (7.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 78 (5.49%) Law
7 69 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
8 51 (3.59%) Aerospace
9 27 (1.90%) Banking
10 25 (1.76%) Retail
11 19 (1.34%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.27%) Marketing
13 15 (1.05%) Legal
14 14 (0.98%) Aviation
15 13 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (0.84%) Military
16 12 (0.84%) Telecoms
17 10 (0.70%) Local Government
18 9 (0.63%) Advertising
19 5 (0.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 354 (24.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 325 (22.86%) Senior
3 214 (15.05%) Lead
4 166 (11.67%) Architect
5 163 (11.46%) Cloud Engineer
6 138 (9.70%) Platform Engineer
7 135 (9.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 126 (8.86%) Developer
9 107 (7.52%) Azure Engineer
10 96 (6.75%) Software Engineer
11 82 (5.77%) Senior DevOps
12 80 (5.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 70 (4.92%) Data Engineer
14 67 (4.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 66 (4.64%) AWS Engineer
16 62 (4.36%) Systems Architect
17 60 (4.22%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 57 (4.01%) Principal Engineer
19 48 (3.38%) Azure Platform Engineer
20 46 (3.23%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 909 (63.92%) Terraform
2 138 (9.70%) React
3 113 (7.95%) Spring Boot
4 107 (7.52%) Spring
5 99 (6.96%) .NET
6 96 (6.75%) REST
7 88 (6.19%) Node.js
8 83 (5.84%) Kafka
9 72 (5.06%) RESTful
10 50 (3.52%) AWS CDK
11 46 (3.23%) AngularJS
11 46 (3.23%) ARM Templates
12 40 (2.81%) PySpark
13 36 (2.53%) Next.js
14 35 (2.46%) CSS
15 34 (2.39%) LangChain
15 34 (2.39%) RabbitMQ
16 33 (2.32%) Vue
17 30 (2.11%) Elastic Stack
17 30 (2.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 367 (25.81%) Cloud Native
2 97 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
3 86 (6.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 79 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 57 (4.01%) Product Ownership
6 55 (3.87%) Linux Command Line
7 44 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
8 43 (3.02%) Data Centre
8 43 (3.02%) Security Posture
9 40 (2.81%) Public Cloud
10 38 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
11 35 (2.46%) Private Cloud
12 34 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
13 28 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
14 27 (1.90%) Virtual Team
15 21 (1.48%) Data Structures
15 21 (1.48%) Management Information System
16 17 (1.20%) AI Agents
16 17 (1.20%) Mainframe
17 12 (0.84%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 316 (22.22%) Linux
2 134 (9.42%) Windows
3 54 (3.80%) Windows Server
4 43 (3.02%) CentOS
5 42 (2.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (2.74%) Unix
7 24 (1.69%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.98%) VMS
9 7 (0.49%) Debian
10 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.28%) AIX
11 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.14%) Rocky
12 2 (0.14%) Solaris
13 1 (0.070%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,037 (72.93%) CI/CD
2 849 (59.70%) DevOps
3 499 (35.09%) Containerisation
4 471 (33.12%) Agile
5 411 (28.90%) Platform Engineering
6 377 (26.51%) Observability
7 348 (24.47%) Mentoring
8 331 (23.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 311 (21.87%) Problem-Solving
10 289 (20.32%) Software Engineering
11 280 (19.69%) AI
12 276 (19.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 273 (19.20%) Technical Leadership
14 231 (16.24%) Microservices
15 222 (15.61%) Cloud Security
16 212 (14.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 192 (13.50%) Test Automation
18 187 (13.15%) DevSecOps
19 173 (12.17%) Roadmaps
20 146 (10.27%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 560 (39.38%) Python
2 242 (17.02%) Bash
3 218 (15.33%) Java
4 190 (13.36%) PowerShell
5 172 (12.10%) SQL
6 139 (9.77%) Bicep
7 138 (9.70%) TypeScript
8 106 (7.45%) JavaScript
9 94 (6.61%) C#
10 75 (5.27%) Go
11 48 (3.38%) Shell Script
12 26 (1.83%) Ruby
13 21 (1.48%) Rust
14 20 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
15 18 (1.27%) Groovy
16 15 (1.05%) PHP
17 11 (0.77%) Scala
18 7 (0.49%) Search Processing Language
19 6 (0.42%) COBOL
19 6 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 463 (32.56%) Security Cleared
2 295 (20.75%) SC Cleared
3 193 (13.57%) DV Cleared
4 97 (6.82%) Degree
5 87 (6.12%) Azure Certification
6 78 (5.49%) AWS Certification
7 40 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 37 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 30 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
12 15 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 10 (0.70%) CCNA
14 7 (0.49%) CCNP
14 7 (0.49%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.49%) PMI Certification
15 6 (0.42%) RHCSA
16 5 (0.35%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (5.41%) QA
2 62 (4.36%) GRC
3 51 (3.59%) Data Quality
4 41 (2.88%) Accessibility
5 32 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (1.90%) NCSC
7 24 (1.69%) NIST
8 19 (1.34%) WCAG
9 17 (1.20%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.70%) GDPR
12 9 (0.63%) SLA
13 8 (0.56%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
15 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.14%) RMADS
16 1 (0.070%) HIPAA
16 1 (0.070%) ISO 9001
16 1 (0.070%) Solvency II
System Software
1 448 (31.50%) Docker
2 85 (5.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 73 (5.13%) Active Directory
4 30 (2.11%) vSphere
5 26 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (1.34%) VMware NSX
7 18 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (1.20%) Hyper-V
9 15 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.35%) Firmware
11 4 (0.28%) KVM
11 4 (0.28%) Squid
12 3 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.14%) Lustre
13 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.070%) iptables
14 1 (0.070%) LXC
14 1 (0.070%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 542 (38.12%) Kubernetes
2 304 (21.38%) Ansible
3 122 (8.58%) Grafana
4 107 (7.52%) Prometheus
5 57 (4.01%) Puppet
6 46 (3.23%) Argo
7 34 (2.39%) Progress Chef
8 22 (1.55%) Istio
9 21 (1.48%) vCenter Server
10 17 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
11 16 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
12 14 (0.98%) Podman
13 13 (0.91%) Packer
14 12 (0.84%) Kustomize
15 10 (0.70%) Kibana
15 10 (0.70%) Rancher
16 8 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
16 8 (0.56%) linkerd
16 8 (0.56%) logstash
16 8 (0.56%) yum
Vendors
1 374 (26.30%) Microsoft
2 108 (7.59%) Google
3 98 (6.89%) VMware
4 57 (4.01%) Databricks
4 57 (4.01%) Red Hat
5 56 (3.94%) Splunk
6 30 (2.11%) Oracle
7 25 (1.76%) Cisco
8 19 (1.34%) OpenAI
9 15 (1.05%) Fortinet
10 14 (0.98%) ServiceNow
11 12 (0.84%) Atlassian
11 12 (0.84%) New Relic
11 12 (0.84%) ScienceLogic
12 11 (0.77%) F5
13 9 (0.63%) Meraki
14 8 (0.56%) NVIDIA
14 8 (0.56%) Palo Alto
14 8 (0.56%) SaltStack
14 8 (0.56%) Thales