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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 218 175
Rank change year-on-year +116 -43 -65
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,260 465 861
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.63% 1.34% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 1.54% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 885 338 647
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £78,750
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 54,375 30,230 47,147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.50% 87.42% 78.71%
Number of salaries quoted 38,201 16,507 29,656
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -9.09%

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 11 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 11 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 +91 427 £70,400 +0.57% 254
South East +57 252 £67,500 -12.90% 191
North West +84 243 £73,401 +4.86% 139
South West +49 213 £75,000 -2.48% 151
Midlands +28 148 £77,500 +19.23% 64
Yorkshire +6 98 £75,000 +7.14% 70
West Midlands +8 91 £80,000 +23.08% 40
North East +10 86 £56,500 -19.29% 45
Wales -4 65 £70,000 +21.74% 33
Northern Ireland -19 58 £72,896 +69.17% 22
East Midlands +15 57 £67,500 +3.85% 24
East of England -6 56 £70,000 +7.69% 35
Scotland +28 51 £71,991 +10.76% 74
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 38 (3.02%) Apache Spark
2 33 (2.62%) Apache
2 33 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (1.59%) Confluence
5 12 (0.95%) Jupyter
6 9 (0.71%) IIS
7 5 (0.40%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.32%) CMS
9 3 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.24%) nginx
9 3 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.24%) WordPress
10 2 (0.16%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.079%) Documentum
11 1 (0.079%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.079%) JBoss
Applications
1 8 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.16%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.079%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.079%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 687 (54.52%) Azure
2 679 (53.89%) AWS
3 232 (18.41%) GitHub
4 209 (16.59%) GCP
5 204 (16.19%) Azure DevOps
6 197 (15.63%) Serverless
7 165 (13.10%) AWS CloudFormation
8 143 (11.35%) GitHub Actions
9 109 (8.65%) Amazon S3
10 106 (8.41%) AWS Lambda
11 89 (7.06%) PaaS
12 84 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
12 84 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
13 79 (6.27%) Microsoft 365
14 78 (6.19%) Amazon EKS
15 72 (5.71%) SaaS
16 68 (5.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 66 (5.24%) Cloud Computing
18 63 (5.00%) Azure AKS
19 60 (4.76%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 100 (7.94%) Firewall
2 80 (6.35%) WAN
3 72 (5.71%) LAN
4 65 (5.16%) VPN
5 60 (4.76%) DNS
6 43 (3.41%) TCP/IP
7 38 (3.02%) Network Security
8 27 (2.14%) DHCP
9 19 (1.51%) BGP
10 18 (1.43%) VLAN
11 15 (1.19%) Broadband
12 12 (0.95%) Cisco ASA
12 12 (0.95%) HTTP
12 12 (0.95%) SAN
12 12 (0.95%) Software-Defined Networking
13 10 (0.79%) SD-WAN
14 9 (0.71%) OSPF
15 7 (0.56%) MQTT
15 7 (0.56%) Unified Communications
15 7 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (4.68%) Amazon RDS
3 52 (4.13%) NoSQL
4 47 (3.73%) SQL Server
5 46 (3.65%) DynamoDB
5 46 (3.65%) MongoDB
6 36 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
7 35 (2.78%) Relational Database
8 33 (2.62%) MySQL
9 29 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
10 28 (2.22%) Data Lake
11 18 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
11 18 (1.43%) Redis
12 17 (1.35%) Big Data
13 16 (1.27%) Metadata
14 15 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
14 15 (1.19%) Power BI
15 13 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (0.95%) Flink
16 12 (0.95%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 191 (15.16%) Git
2 142 (11.27%) GitLab
3 130 (10.32%) Jenkins
4 41 (3.25%) JIRA
5 17 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 16 (1.27%) SonarQube
7 14 (1.11%) Bitbucket
8 13 (1.03%) Cucumber
8 13 (1.03%) NUnit
9 12 (0.95%) Cypress.io
9 12 (0.95%) Selenium
10 9 (0.71%) MSI
11 7 (0.56%) Artifactory
11 7 (0.56%) JMeter
11 7 (0.56%) Robot Framework
11 7 (0.56%) Terragrunt
12 6 (0.48%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.48%) TeamCity
12 6 (0.48%) TestRail
13 5 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 371 (29.44%) Social Skills
2 213 (16.90%) Finance
3 124 (9.84%) Public Sector
4 95 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
5 93 (7.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 75 (5.95%) Law
7 64 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
8 38 (3.02%) Aerospace
9 29 (2.30%) Retail
10 25 (1.98%) Telecoms
11 23 (1.83%) Manufacturing
11 23 (1.83%) Marketing
12 22 (1.75%) Banking
13 16 (1.27%) Games
14 15 (1.19%) Legal
15 13 (1.03%) Aviation
15 13 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (0.95%) Local Government
17 11 (0.87%) Military
18 10 (0.79%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 263 (20.87%) DevOps Engineer
2 249 (19.76%) Senior
3 219 (17.38%) Lead
4 150 (11.90%) Architect
5 148 (11.75%) Cloud Engineer
6 122 (9.68%) Platform Engineer
7 120 (9.52%) Developer
8 100 (7.94%) Azure Engineer
9 85 (6.75%) Software Engineer
10 82 (6.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 70 (5.56%) Data Engineer
12 58 (4.60%) Systems Architect
13 57 (4.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 55 (4.37%) AWS Engineer
15 51 (4.05%) Senior DevOps
16 48 (3.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 48 (3.81%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 44 (3.49%) Technical Leader
18 41 (3.25%) Lead DevOps
18 41 (3.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (10.00%) React
2 104 (8.25%) .NET
3 97 (7.70%) REST
4 94 (7.46%) Node.js
5 77 (6.11%) Spring Boot
6 74 (5.87%) Spring
7 64 (5.08%) Kafka
8 61 (4.84%) RESTful
9 59 (4.68%) AWS CDK
10 54 (4.29%) ARM Templates
11 47 (3.73%) YAML
12 43 (3.41%) AngularJS
13 42 (3.33%) PySpark
14 36 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
14 36 (2.86%) Next.js
15 35 (2.78%) ASP.NET
16 33 (2.62%) ASP.NET Core
16 33 (2.62%) Vue
17 31 (2.46%) CSS
18 29 (2.30%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 307 (24.37%) Cloud Native
2 98 (7.78%) Distributed Systems
3 82 (6.51%) Hybrid Cloud
4 64 (5.08%) Onboarding
5 57 (4.52%) Product Ownership
6 44 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
7 42 (3.33%) Public Cloud
8 39 (3.10%) Greenfield Project
9 34 (2.70%) Data Centre
9 34 (2.70%) Security Posture
10 30 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
11 27 (2.14%) Private Cloud
12 26 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
13 23 (1.83%) Data Structures
14 22 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
15 17 (1.35%) Replication
15 17 (1.35%) Virtual Team
16 15 (1.19%) Management Information System
17 14 (1.11%) Mainframe
18 13 (1.03%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 231 (18.33%) Linux
2 125 (9.92%) Windows
3 58 (4.60%) Windows Server
4 33 (2.62%) CentOS
5 29 (2.30%) Unix
6 27 (2.14%) Ubuntu
7 26 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (1.19%) VMS
9 5 (0.40%) Debian
9 5 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.16%) AIX
11 2 (0.16%) Android
11 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.16%) Solaris
12 1 (0.079%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.079%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 913 (72.46%) CI/CD
2 738 (58.57%) DevOps
3 425 (33.73%) Containerisation
4 417 (33.10%) Agile
5 380 (30.16%) Observability
6 313 (24.84%) Platform Engineering
7 305 (24.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 292 (23.17%) Mentoring
9 262 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
10 250 (19.84%) Software Engineering
11 239 (18.97%) AI
12 220 (17.46%) Technical Leadership
13 214 (16.98%) Microservices
14 191 (15.16%) Test Automation
15 179 (14.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 173 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 153 (12.14%) Roadmaps
18 146 (11.59%) Cloud Security
19 139 (11.03%) DevSecOps
20 133 (10.56%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 506 (40.16%) Python
2 213 (16.90%) Bash
3 184 (14.60%) PowerShell
4 183 (14.52%) SQL
5 176 (13.97%) Java
6 134 (10.63%) TypeScript
7 129 (10.24%) Bicep
8 112 (8.89%) JavaScript
9 91 (7.22%) C#
10 65 (5.16%) Go
11 24 (1.90%) Ruby
12 21 (1.67%) Groovy
12 21 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (1.19%) PHP
14 11 (0.87%) Rust
15 10 (0.79%) Scala
15 10 (0.79%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.56%) Search Processing Language
17 6 (0.48%) C++
17 6 (0.48%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 351 (27.86%) Security Cleared
2 223 (17.70%) SC Cleared
3 142 (11.27%) DV Cleared
4 103 (8.17%) Degree
5 69 (5.48%) Azure Certification
6 56 (4.44%) AWS Certification
7 45 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
11 15 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 14 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (0.87%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 7 (0.56%) CCNA
15 7 (0.56%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.48%) ICAEW
16 6 (0.48%) Master's Degree
16 6 (0.48%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (6.19%) QA
2 59 (4.68%) GRC
3 51 (4.05%) Data Quality
4 39 (3.10%) Accessibility
5 23 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (1.83%) WCAG
6 22 (1.75%) NCSC
7 19 (1.51%) GDPR
8 17 (1.35%) NIST
9 15 (1.19%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.87%) SOC 2
11 7 (0.56%) SLA
12 6 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.48%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.16%) IFRS
13 2 (0.16%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.16%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.079%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.079%) HIPAA
System Software
1 370 (29.37%) Docker
2 77 (6.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 72 (5.71%) Active Directory
4 31 (2.46%) vSphere
5 19 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (1.11%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.87%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 7 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.48%) Firmware
11 5 (0.40%) iptables
11 5 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.32%) KVM
12 4 (0.32%) Squid
13 1 (0.079%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 854 (67.78%) Terraform
2 479 (38.02%) Kubernetes
3 255 (20.24%) Ansible
4 126 (10.00%) Grafana
5 98 (7.78%) Prometheus
6 43 (3.41%) Puppet
7 36 (2.86%) Argo
8 30 (2.38%) Progress Chef
9 19 (1.51%) Istio
10 16 (1.27%) Packer
11 14 (1.11%) vCenter Server
12 12 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
13 11 (0.87%) Nagios
14 10 (0.79%) Kibana
15 9 (0.71%) Kustomize
15 9 (0.71%) Podman
16 8 (0.63%) Nessus
16 8 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
16 8 (0.63%) ZABBIX
17 7 (0.56%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 281 (22.30%) Microsoft
2 90 (7.14%) VMware
3 73 (5.79%) Google
4 60 (4.76%) Red Hat
5 50 (3.97%) Splunk
6 46 (3.65%) Databricks
7 29 (2.30%) Cisco
8 26 (2.06%) Oracle
9 20 (1.59%) Palo Alto
10 15 (1.19%) Dynatrace
11 13 (1.03%) Atlassian
11 13 (1.03%) F5
12 12 (0.95%) Fortinet
12 12 (0.95%) OpenAI
12 12 (0.95%) ScienceLogic
12 12 (0.95%) ServiceNow
13 10 (0.79%) New Relic
14 8 (0.63%) IBM
14 8 (0.63%) NetApp
15 7 (0.56%) SAP