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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 155 97
Rank change year-on-year +7 -58 +58
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 566 755 970
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.53% 1.59% 3.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 1.96% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 415 453 741
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -0.54% +0.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £72,500 £71,991 £75,000
% change year-on-year +0.71% -4.01% -

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 30,642 38,510 28,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.95% 81.16% 93.88%
Number of salaries quoted 18,535 18,640 20,971
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,809
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,800 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 21 November 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 21 November 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 -3 190 £70,000 +16.67% 169
South East +41 130 £78,250 +30.42% 224
North West +1 84 £65,250 +3.98% 116
Yorkshire +4 82 £70,000 +27.27% 37
Midlands +30 67 £65,000 -1.52% 60
Scotland +10 67 £70,039 +1.88% 44
South West -44 57 £62,500 -10.71% 101
West Midlands +18 47 £65,000 -4.41% 33
East of England +27 31 £66,500 -8.28% 33
North East -1 24 £70,079 +40.16% 16
East Midlands +32 20 £65,000 +56.63% 26
Wales +20 19 £60,000 +9.99% 16
Northern Ireland +6 7 £73,801 -13.18% 18
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 23 (4.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (3.53%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.12%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.94%) Apache
5 10 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (1.41%) Confluence
7 7 (1.24%) Appian
8 4 (0.71%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.35%) IIS
9 2 (0.35%) nginx
10 1 (0.18%) CMS
10 1 (0.18%) SAS
10 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.35%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 391 (69.08%) Azure
2 333 (58.83%) AWS
3 149 (26.33%) Azure DevOps
4 106 (18.73%) GCP
5 104 (18.37%) GitHub
6 91 (16.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 86 (15.19%) Serverless
8 68 (12.01%) GitHub Actions
9 66 (11.66%) SaaS
10 59 (10.42%) Microsoft 365
11 52 (9.19%) PaaS
12 51 (9.01%) Entra ID
13 50 (8.83%) AWS Lambda
14 46 (8.13%) Amazon S3
15 36 (6.36%) Amazon ECS
16 33 (5.83%) Azure Monitor
16 33 (5.83%) dbt
17 31 (5.48%) IaaS
18 27 (4.77%) Amazon EC2
19 25 (4.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 46 (8.13%) Firewall
2 40 (7.07%) DNS
3 36 (6.36%) VPN
4 28 (4.95%) TCP/IP
5 27 (4.77%) WAN
6 21 (3.71%) LAN
7 15 (2.65%) Network Security
8 12 (2.12%) DHCP
9 11 (1.94%) SD-WAN
9 11 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (1.41%) SAN
11 7 (1.24%) Unified Communications
11 7 (1.24%) VoIP
12 6 (1.06%) VLAN
13 5 (0.88%) AMQP
14 4 (0.71%) BGP
14 4 (0.71%) HTTP
14 4 (0.71%) Wireless
15 3 (0.53%) IPsec
15 3 (0.53%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (5.48%) SQL Server
2 30 (5.30%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (4.06%) Redis
4 22 (3.89%) NoSQL
5 20 (3.53%) DynamoDB
6 16 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (2.65%) Big Data
8 13 (2.30%) Data Lake
9 12 (2.12%) MySQL
10 8 (1.41%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.24%) Airbyte
11 7 (1.24%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.06%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (0.71%) InfluxDB
15 3 (0.53%) Apache Iceberg
15 3 (0.53%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 58 (10.25%) Jenkins
2 50 (8.83%) GitLab
3 47 (8.30%) Git
4 24 (4.24%) Selenium
5 21 (3.71%) Robot Framework
6 20 (3.53%) Snyk
7 19 (3.36%) JIRA
8 11 (1.94%) TeamCity
9 10 (1.77%) CircleCI
9 10 (1.77%) SonarQube
10 9 (1.59%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.41%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.41%) JMeter
12 7 (1.24%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.24%) Octopus Deploy
13 6 (1.06%) git-flow
13 6 (1.06%) Locust
14 5 (0.88%) MLflow
15 4 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 3 (0.53%) MSTest
General
1 150 (26.50%) Social Skills
2 113 (19.96%) Finance
3 43 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (6.01%) Law
5 22 (3.89%) Public Sector
6 17 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (2.83%) Retail
7 16 (2.83%) Telecoms
8 14 (2.47%) Legal
9 10 (1.77%) Automotive
9 10 (1.77%) Financial Institution
9 10 (1.77%) Games
10 8 (1.41%) Advertising
10 8 (1.41%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.88%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.88%) Marketing
13 4 (0.71%) Billing
14 3 (0.53%) Banking
14 3 (0.53%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 128 (22.61%) Senior
2 77 (13.60%) Cloud Engineer
3 75 (13.25%) Lead
4 71 (12.54%) DevOps Engineer
5 63 (11.13%) Developer
6 59 (10.42%) Architect
7 46 (8.13%) Platform Engineer
8 37 (6.54%) Azure Engineer
9 25 (4.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 25 (4.42%) Software Engineer
10 23 (4.06%) Cloud Architect
11 19 (3.36%) Full-Stack Developer
11 19 (3.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 18 (3.18%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 17 (3.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 17 (3.00%) Lead DevOps
13 17 (3.00%) Python Developer
14 16 (2.83%) Security Engineer
14 16 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
15 15 (2.65%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (10.95%) React
2 59 (10.42%) .NET
3 38 (6.71%) Django
4 29 (5.12%) ARM Templates
5 27 (4.77%) Node.js
6 26 (4.59%) RESTful
7 22 (3.89%) REST
8 21 (3.71%) YAML
9 20 (3.53%) Flask
10 19 (3.36%) CSS
10 19 (3.36%) Kafka
10 19 (3.36%) OAuth
11 18 (3.18%) Elastic Stack
11 18 (3.18%) FastAPI
11 18 (3.18%) HTML
12 17 (3.00%) Vue
13 15 (2.65%) AngularJS
14 14 (2.47%) .NET Core
14 14 (2.47%) .NET Framework
15 12 (2.12%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 131 (23.14%) Cloud Native
2 43 (7.60%) Product Ownership
3 29 (5.12%) Public Cloud
4 25 (4.42%) Hybrid Cloud
5 21 (3.71%) Data Centre
6 18 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (3.00%) Security Posture
8 16 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
10 14 (2.47%) Onboarding
11 13 (2.30%) Private Cloud
12 11 (1.94%) Data Structures
13 9 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (1.41%) Operational Technology
15 7 (1.24%) Low-Code
16 6 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
16 6 (1.06%) Management Information System
17 5 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 85 (15.02%) Linux
2 43 (7.60%) Windows
3 18 (3.18%) Unix
4 14 (2.47%) Ubuntu
5 13 (2.30%) Debian
6 12 (2.12%) Windows Server
7 11 (1.94%) VMS
8 4 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.53%) CentOS
10 2 (0.35%) AIX
11 1 (0.18%) Android
11 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (69.61%) DevOps
2 369 (65.19%) CI/CD
3 218 (38.52%) Agile
4 123 (21.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 119 (21.02%) Containerisation
6 117 (20.67%) Mentoring
7 116 (20.49%) Problem-Solving
8 91 (16.08%) Observability
9 78 (13.78%) Platform Engineering
9 78 (13.78%) Test Automation
10 77 (13.60%) Roadmaps
11 75 (13.25%) Software Engineering
12 74 (13.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 69 (12.19%) Coaching
14 68 (12.01%) AI
15 61 (10.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 58 (10.25%) Analytics
17 57 (10.07%) Scrum
18 56 (9.89%) Microservices
19 50 (8.83%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 214 (37.81%) Python
2 110 (19.43%) PowerShell
3 94 (16.61%) SQL
4 80 (14.13%) Bicep
5 72 (12.72%) Bash
6 58 (10.25%) C#
7 53 (9.36%) JavaScript
8 48 (8.48%) Java
9 46 (8.13%) TypeScript
10 22 (3.89%) Go
11 6 (1.06%) C++
12 4 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.71%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.53%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.53%) Scala
14 2 (0.35%) Groovy
14 2 (0.35%) Ruby
14 2 (0.35%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.35%) VB
14 2 (0.35%) XAML
Qualifications
1 100 (17.67%) Security Cleared
2 69 (12.19%) SC Cleared
3 44 (7.77%) Azure Certification
3 44 (7.77%) DV Cleared
4 36 (6.36%) AWS Certification
5 33 (5.83%) Degree
6 16 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.47%) Master's Degree
9 13 (2.30%) CCNP
10 12 (2.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (1.24%) PMI Certification
12 7 (1.24%) PMP
13 5 (0.88%) CCNA
14 4 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.71%) CISSP
14 4 (0.71%) ISTQB
15 3 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.77%) NIST
2 23 (4.06%) GDPR
2 23 (4.06%) QA
3 18 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.30%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.24%) WCAG
6 6 (1.06%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.53%) NCSC
7 3 (0.53%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.35%) GRC
8 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 172 (30.39%) Docker
2 25 (4.42%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (4.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (4.06%) Active Directory
5 22 (3.89%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (1.94%) Hyper-V
7 9 (1.59%) vSphere
8 4 (0.71%) Firmware
8 4 (0.71%) vCloud
8 4 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.53%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.18%) HDFS
10 1 (0.18%) iptables
10 1 (0.18%) KVM
10 1 (0.18%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 397 (70.14%) Terraform
2 171 (30.21%) Kubernetes
3 112 (19.79%) Ansible
4 48 (8.48%) Grafana
5 40 (7.07%) Prometheus
6 26 (4.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (1.94%) Docker Swarm
8 10 (1.77%) AWS Copilot
9 9 (1.59%) Argo
10 6 (1.06%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.06%) Puppet
11 5 (0.88%) MaaS360
11 5 (0.88%) SCCM
12 4 (0.71%) Control-M
12 4 (0.71%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.71%) Rundeck
12 4 (0.71%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.53%) Dell DRAC
14 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 139 (24.56%) Microsoft
2 44 (7.77%) VMware
3 41 (7.24%) Google
4 19 (3.36%) Black Duck
5 18 (3.18%) Cisco
6 17 (3.00%) Coverity
7 15 (2.65%) Palo Alto
8 14 (2.47%) Splunk
9 13 (2.30%) Databricks
10 10 (1.77%) Fortinet
11 9 (1.59%) Red Hat
11 9 (1.59%) Salesforce
12 8 (1.41%) Ab Initio
13 7 (1.24%) BiZZdesign
13 7 (1.24%) CrowdStrike
13 7 (1.24%) Oracle
13 7 (1.24%) SolarWinds
13 7 (1.24%) UiPath
14 6 (1.06%) Aruba
15 5 (0.88%) Atlassian