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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 212 176
Rank change year-on-year +106 -36 -56
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,210 475 875
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.62% 1.39% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% 1.58% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 873 336 680
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,875 £42,489
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,750 £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 52,784 30,055 48,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.58% 87.64% 78.72%
Number of salaries quoted 37,119 16,409 31,592
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -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% - -8.41%

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 1 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 1 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 +89 408 £70,400 +0.57% 242
South East +56 249 £67,500 -12.90% 151
North West +91 234 £74,651 +6.64% 139
South West +41 202 £75,000 -2.48% 134
Midlands +35 145 £75,000 +15.38% 54
Yorkshire +5 95 £73,750 +5.36% 64
West Midlands +13 89 £80,000 +23.08% 38
North East +14 79 £56,500 -16.30% 39
Wales -9 60 £70,000 +21.74% 32
Northern Ireland -20 58 £72,896 +69.17% 24
East Midlands +9 56 £67,500 +3.85% 16
East of England +1 50 £63,750 +2.00% 26
Scotland +24 47 £71,991 +2.84% 45
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 32 (2.64%) Apache Spark
2 31 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (2.48%) Apache
4 27 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (1.65%) Confluence
6 12 (0.99%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.66%) IIS
8 5 (0.41%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.33%) CMS
10 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.25%) WordPress
11 2 (0.17%) nginx
11 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.083%) Documentum
12 1 (0.083%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.083%) JBoss
Applications
1 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.17%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.083%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 665 (54.96%) Azure
2 646 (53.39%) AWS
3 224 (18.51%) GitHub
4 206 (17.02%) Azure DevOps
5 198 (16.36%) GCP
6 191 (15.79%) Serverless
7 152 (12.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 140 (11.57%) GitHub Actions
9 107 (8.84%) Amazon S3
10 101 (8.35%) AWS Lambda
11 92 (7.60%) PaaS
12 81 (6.69%) Amazon ECS
13 80 (6.61%) Amazon EC2
14 78 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
15 77 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
16 69 (5.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 68 (5.62%) SaaS
18 65 (5.37%) Cloud Computing
19 64 (5.29%) Azure AKS
20 59 (4.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 104 (8.60%) Firewall
2 78 (6.45%) WAN
3 71 (5.87%) LAN
4 63 (5.21%) VPN
5 59 (4.88%) DNS
6 41 (3.39%) TCP/IP
7 39 (3.22%) Network Security
8 23 (1.90%) DHCP
9 19 (1.57%) BGP
9 19 (1.57%) VLAN
10 14 (1.16%) Broadband
11 13 (1.07%) HTTP
12 12 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
12 12 (0.99%) SAN
13 11 (0.91%) Software-Defined Networking
14 9 (0.74%) SD-WAN
15 8 (0.66%) OSPF
16 7 (0.58%) Cisco Firepower
16 7 (0.58%) MQTT
16 7 (0.58%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (6.61%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (4.79%) Amazon RDS
3 49 (4.05%) NoSQL
4 44 (3.64%) DynamoDB
5 43 (3.55%) MongoDB
5 43 (3.55%) SQL Server
6 36 (2.98%) Azure SQL Database
7 33 (2.73%) Relational Database
8 29 (2.40%) MySQL
9 23 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
10 22 (1.82%) Data Lake
11 18 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
12 16 (1.32%) Redis
13 15 (1.24%) Big Data
14 14 (1.16%) Metadata
15 13 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
16 12 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (0.99%) Spark SQL
17 11 (0.91%) Power BI
18 10 (0.83%) Flink
Development Applications
1 188 (15.54%) Git
2 143 (11.82%) GitLab
3 130 (10.74%) Jenkins
4 37 (3.06%) JIRA
5 17 (1.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 15 (1.24%) SonarQube
7 13 (1.07%) Bitbucket
7 13 (1.07%) Cucumber
8 10 (0.83%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.83%) NUnit
8 10 (0.83%) Selenium
9 9 (0.74%) MSI
10 7 (0.58%) Artifactory
10 7 (0.58%) JMeter
10 7 (0.58%) Robot Framework
10 7 (0.58%) Terragrunt
11 6 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
11 6 (0.50%) Subversion
11 6 (0.50%) TeamCity
11 6 (0.50%) TestRail
General
1 358 (29.59%) Social Skills
2 201 (16.61%) Finance
3 119 (9.83%) Public Sector
4 88 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
5 84 (6.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 70 (5.79%) Law
7 61 (5.04%) Presentation Skills
8 31 (2.56%) Aerospace
9 29 (2.40%) Retail
10 26 (2.15%) Telecoms
11 23 (1.90%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.82%) Banking
13 17 (1.40%) Marketing
14 16 (1.32%) Games
15 15 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (0.99%) Advertising
17 11 (0.91%) Legal
18 9 (0.74%) Aviation
19 8 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
19 8 (0.66%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 260 (21.49%) DevOps Engineer
2 236 (19.50%) Senior
3 209 (17.27%) Lead
4 146 (12.07%) Architect
5 144 (11.90%) Cloud Engineer
6 113 (9.34%) Developer
7 112 (9.26%) Platform Engineer
8 100 (8.26%) Azure Engineer
9 76 (6.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 76 (6.28%) Software Engineer
10 63 (5.21%) Data Engineer
11 58 (4.79%) Systems Architect
12 54 (4.46%) AWS Engineer
13 53 (4.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 49 (4.05%) Senior DevOps
15 45 (3.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 44 (3.64%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 43 (3.55%) Technical Leader
18 40 (3.31%) Lead DevOps
19 38 (3.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (9.83%) React
2 95 (7.85%) REST
3 94 (7.77%) .NET
4 92 (7.60%) Node.js
5 75 (6.20%) Spring Boot
6 72 (5.95%) Spring
7 60 (4.96%) Kafka
8 57 (4.71%) ARM Templates
8 57 (4.71%) AWS CDK
8 57 (4.71%) RESTful
9 46 (3.80%) YAML
10 42 (3.47%) PySpark
11 38 (3.14%) AngularJS
12 36 (2.98%) Elastic Stack
13 35 (2.89%) Next.js
14 32 (2.64%) ASP.NET
14 32 (2.64%) Vue
15 30 (2.48%) ASP.NET Core
16 29 (2.40%) RabbitMQ
17 28 (2.31%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 291 (24.05%) Cloud Native
2 95 (7.85%) Distributed Systems
3 77 (6.36%) Hybrid Cloud
4 55 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 51 (4.21%) Onboarding
6 39 (3.22%) Legacy Systems
7 38 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
8 37 (3.06%) Public Cloud
9 31 (2.56%) Data Centre
10 30 (2.48%) Security Posture
11 28 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
12 25 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
13 24 (1.98%) Private Cloud
14 22 (1.82%) Data Structures
15 19 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
16 17 (1.40%) Replication
17 16 (1.32%) Virtual Team
18 15 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
19 14 (1.16%) Mainframe
20 12 (0.99%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 221 (18.26%) Linux
2 118 (9.75%) Windows
3 55 (4.55%) Windows Server
4 34 (2.81%) CentOS
5 28 (2.31%) Ubuntu
6 27 (2.23%) Unix
7 26 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 16 (1.32%) VMS
9 6 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.41%) Debian
10 5 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.17%) AIX
11 2 (0.17%) Android
11 2 (0.17%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.083%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.083%) Rocky
12 1 (0.083%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 880 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 723 (59.75%) DevOps
3 412 (34.05%) Containerisation
4 401 (33.14%) Agile
5 366 (30.25%) Observability
6 298 (24.63%) Platform Engineering
7 289 (23.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 275 (22.73%) Mentoring
9 250 (20.66%) Problem-Solving
10 228 (18.84%) AI
11 227 (18.76%) Software Engineering
12 204 (16.86%) Microservices
12 204 (16.86%) Technical Leadership
13 188 (15.54%) Test Automation
14 170 (14.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 163 (13.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 149 (12.31%) Roadmaps
17 141 (11.65%) Cloud Security
18 132 (10.91%) DevSecOps
19 120 (9.92%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 486 (40.17%) Python
2 209 (17.27%) Bash
3 183 (15.12%) PowerShell
4 175 (14.46%) SQL
5 161 (13.31%) Java
6 132 (10.91%) Bicep
6 132 (10.91%) TypeScript
7 112 (9.26%) JavaScript
8 86 (7.11%) C#
9 66 (5.45%) Go
10 23 (1.90%) Ruby
11 19 (1.57%) Groovy
11 19 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
12 15 (1.24%) PHP
13 11 (0.91%) Rust
14 10 (0.83%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.58%) C++
15 7 (0.58%) Scala
16 6 (0.50%) COBOL
17 5 (0.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 324 (26.78%) Security Cleared
2 202 (16.69%) SC Cleared
3 134 (11.07%) DV Cleared
4 93 (7.69%) Degree
5 65 (5.37%) Azure Certification
6 51 (4.21%) AWS Certification
7 43 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 14 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
12 13 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (0.91%) DBS Check
14 7 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 7 (0.58%) CCNA
14 7 (0.58%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.50%) ICAEW
15 6 (0.50%) RHCSA
16 5 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
16 5 (0.41%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (6.20%) QA
2 59 (4.88%) GRC
3 43 (3.55%) Data Quality
4 35 (2.89%) Accessibility
5 23 (1.90%) WCAG
6 22 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.65%) NCSC
8 18 (1.49%) GDPR
9 16 (1.32%) PCI DSS
10 15 (1.24%) NIST
11 12 (0.99%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.50%) Government Security Classifications
12 6 (0.50%) SLA
13 2 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.17%) IFRS
13 2 (0.17%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.17%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.083%) GxP
System Software
1 360 (29.75%) Docker
2 73 (6.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 65 (5.37%) Active Directory
4 32 (2.64%) vSphere
5 17 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (0.91%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.74%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 7 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.50%) Firmware
11 5 (0.41%) iptables
12 4 (0.33%) Squid
13 3 (0.25%) KVM
14 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 829 (68.51%) Terraform
2 457 (37.77%) Kubernetes
3 248 (20.50%) Ansible
4 126 (10.41%) Grafana
5 98 (8.10%) Prometheus
6 39 (3.22%) Puppet
7 36 (2.98%) Argo
8 26 (2.15%) Progress Chef
9 19 (1.57%) Istio
10 15 (1.24%) Packer
11 13 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.99%) Nagios
12 12 (0.99%) vCenter Server
13 10 (0.83%) Kibana
13 10 (0.83%) Podman
14 8 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
14 8 (0.66%) Kustomize
14 8 (0.66%) Nessus
14 8 (0.66%) Proxmox
14 8 (0.66%) Rancher
Vendors
1 271 (22.40%) Microsoft
2 86 (7.11%) VMware
3 67 (5.54%) Google
4 52 (4.30%) Red Hat
5 46 (3.80%) Splunk
6 42 (3.47%) Databricks
7 32 (2.64%) Cisco
8 22 (1.82%) Palo Alto
9 20 (1.65%) Oracle
10 15 (1.24%) Dynatrace
11 13 (1.07%) F5
11 13 (1.07%) Fortinet
12 12 (0.99%) Atlassian
12 12 (0.99%) ScienceLogic
13 10 (0.83%) OpenAI
14 9 (0.74%) New Relic
15 8 (0.66%) IBM
15 8 (0.66%) NetApp
15 8 (0.66%) Tenable
16 7 (0.58%) Salesforce