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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 211 201
Rank change year-on-year +77 -10 -63
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 891 426 1,011
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.32% 1.43% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 1.57% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 681 281 780
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,750 £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 £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,810 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.83% +12.59% -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 46,884 27,128 63,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 69.68% 91.15% 79.89%
Number of salaries quoted 32,794 13,745 43,955
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,851 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +72 330 £67,500 -3.57% 255
South East +53 201 £70,000 -9.68% 295
North West +68 199 £72,500 - 127
South West +24 133 £72,500 +3.57% 129
Midlands +42 118 £70,079 +7.81% 141
Yorkshire -5 86 £65,576 -6.32% 76
West Midlands +20 69 £77,500 +14.81% 75
East of England +11 50 £60,100 -7.54% 136
East Midlands +3 49 £67,500 +3.85% 66
North East -12 45 £55,000 -15.38% 52
Scotland +6 35 £60,000 -20.19% 109
Wales -24 24 £70,000 +21.74% 74
Northern Ireland -28 3 £84,401 +95.86% 66
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 20 (2.24%) Apache
1 20 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.13%) Apache Spark
3 15 (1.68%) Confluence
4 9 (1.01%) IIS
5 8 (0.90%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.56%) CMS
7 4 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.34%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.22%) WordPress
10 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.11%) Lightworks
1 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 521 (58.47%) AWS
2 471 (52.86%) Azure
3 191 (21.44%) GitHub
4 182 (20.43%) Azure DevOps
5 175 (19.64%) Serverless
6 138 (15.49%) GCP
7 131 (14.70%) GitHub Actions
8 113 (12.68%) AWS CloudFormation
9 95 (10.66%) Amazon S3
10 93 (10.44%) AWS Lambda
11 77 (8.64%) Amazon EKS
11 77 (8.64%) PaaS
12 68 (7.63%) Amazon EC2
13 63 (7.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 61 (6.85%) Amazon ECS
15 56 (6.29%) Azure AKS
16 54 (6.06%) SaaS
17 53 (5.95%) IaaS
18 49 (5.50%) Entra ID
19 48 (5.39%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 109 (12.23%) Firewall
2 56 (6.29%) DNS
3 42 (4.71%) VPN
4 37 (4.15%) TCP/IP
5 26 (2.92%) Network Security
6 19 (2.13%) DHCP
7 18 (2.02%) Broadband
8 17 (1.91%) BGP
8 17 (1.91%) HTTP
8 17 (1.91%) VLAN
9 14 (1.57%) Cisco ASA
9 14 (1.57%) WAN
10 9 (1.01%) LAN
10 9 (1.01%) SAN
11 6 (0.67%) AMQP
11 6 (0.67%) Cisco Firepower
11 6 (0.67%) OSPF
11 6 (0.67%) Software-Defined Networking
11 6 (0.67%) Unified Communications
11 6 (0.67%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (7.52%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (5.84%) Amazon RDS
3 40 (4.49%) NoSQL
4 38 (4.26%) MongoDB
5 35 (3.93%) DynamoDB
6 32 (3.59%) SQL Server
7 27 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (2.36%) Relational Database
9 18 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (1.57%) Metadata
11 13 (1.46%) Data Lake
11 13 (1.46%) Redis
11 13 (1.46%) Spark SQL
12 12 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (1.23%) Big Data
14 10 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (1.12%) BigQuery
14 10 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (1.12%) MySQL
15 6 (0.67%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 140 (15.71%) Git
2 114 (12.79%) GitLab
3 113 (12.68%) Jenkins
4 24 (2.69%) JIRA
5 14 (1.57%) Bitbucket
6 13 (1.46%) Cucumber
7 12 (1.35%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.79%) Artifactory
8 7 (0.79%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.79%) JMeter
8 7 (0.79%) NUnit
8 7 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
8 7 (0.79%) Selenium
9 6 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.56%) MSI
10 5 (0.56%) Robot Framework
10 5 (0.56%) Subversion
10 5 (0.56%) TestRail
11 4 (0.45%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 214 (24.02%) Social Skills
2 100 (11.22%) Finance
3 78 (8.75%) Public Sector
4 66 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (5.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (3.70%) Telecoms
7 29 (3.25%) Law
8 25 (2.81%) Retail
9 22 (2.47%) Banking
9 22 (2.47%) Manufacturing
10 21 (2.36%) Aerospace
11 17 (1.91%) Games
12 16 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (1.35%) Billing
14 10 (1.12%) Advertising
15 9 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.01%) Marketing
16 7 (0.79%) Legal
17 5 (0.56%) Local Government
18 4 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 187 (20.99%) Senior
2 179 (20.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 146 (16.39%) Lead
4 115 (12.91%) Cloud Engineer
5 91 (10.21%) Azure Engineer
6 89 (9.99%) Developer
7 82 (9.20%) Platform Engineer
8 62 (6.96%) Software Engineer
9 61 (6.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 60 (6.73%) Architect
11 45 (5.05%) AWS Engineer
12 42 (4.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 39 (4.38%) Data Engineer
14 36 (4.04%) Senior DevOps
15 35 (3.93%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 32 (3.59%) Technical Leader
17 30 (3.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 29 (3.25%) Site Engineer
19 28 (3.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 28 (3.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (11.11%) React
2 87 (9.76%) Node.js
3 77 (8.64%) .NET
4 74 (8.31%) REST
5 49 (5.50%) AWS CDK
6 48 (5.39%) ARM Templates
7 46 (5.16%) YAML
8 43 (4.83%) RESTful
9 41 (4.60%) Spring
10 39 (4.38%) Elastic Stack
11 38 (4.26%) Kafka
12 37 (4.15%) Spring Boot
13 31 (3.48%) PySpark
14 30 (3.37%) ASP.NET
15 29 (3.25%) AngularJS
16 28 (3.14%) ASP.NET Core
17 27 (3.03%) Vue
18 24 (2.69%) RabbitMQ
19 23 (2.58%) CSS
19 23 (2.58%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 201 (22.56%) Cloud Native
2 65 (7.30%) Hybrid Cloud
3 63 (7.07%) Distributed Systems
4 47 (5.27%) Product Ownership
5 29 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
5 29 (3.25%) Public Cloud
6 25 (2.81%) Onboarding
7 24 (2.69%) Data Centre
8 19 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (2.13%) Security Posture
8 19 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
10 16 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (1.68%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.57%) Legacy Applications
12 14 (1.57%) Private Cloud
12 14 (1.57%) Replication
13 13 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.46%) Video\Live Streaming
14 11 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 182 (20.43%) Linux
2 93 (10.44%) Windows
3 50 (5.61%) Windows Server
4 32 (3.59%) Ubuntu
5 24 (2.69%) CentOS
6 17 (1.91%) Unix
7 16 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (1.46%) VMS
9 8 (0.90%) Debian
9 8 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.56%) Android
10 5 (0.56%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.11%) AIX
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 660 (74.07%) CI/CD
2 549 (61.62%) DevOps
3 305 (34.23%) Agile
4 283 (31.76%) Observability
5 255 (28.62%) Containerisation
6 209 (23.46%) Platform Engineering
7 206 (23.12%) Mentoring
8 200 (22.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 171 (19.19%) Problem-Solving
10 168 (18.86%) AI
11 158 (17.73%) Test Automation
12 154 (17.28%) Microservices
13 138 (15.49%) Software Engineering
14 124 (13.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 124 (13.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 122 (13.69%) Technical Leadership
16 101 (11.34%) Cloud Security
17 97 (10.89%) DevSecOps
18 91 (10.21%) Full-Stack Development
19 87 (9.76%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 384 (43.10%) Python
2 194 (21.77%) Bash
3 167 (18.74%) PowerShell
4 135 (15.15%) SQL
5 116 (13.02%) TypeScript
6 102 (11.45%) Java
7 93 (10.44%) Bicep
8 92 (10.33%) JavaScript
9 68 (7.63%) C#
10 59 (6.62%) Go
11 17 (1.91%) Groovy
12 12 (1.35%) Ruby
13 11 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (1.23%) PHP
14 10 (1.12%) C
15 9 (1.01%) Rust
16 8 (0.90%) C++
17 6 (0.67%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.45%) Apex Code
18 4 (0.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 199 (22.33%) Security Cleared
2 132 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 68 (7.63%) Degree
4 62 (6.96%) DV Cleared
5 48 (5.39%) Azure Certification
6 38 (4.26%) AWS Certification
7 30 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (1.57%) DBS Check
10 13 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.67%) ICAEW
12 6 (0.67%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.56%) CCNA
13 5 (0.56%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.56%) RHCSA
13 5 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.45%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (5.61%) QA
2 25 (2.81%) Data Quality
3 22 (2.47%) Accessibility
4 18 (2.02%) GDPR
5 16 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.68%) WCAG
7 10 (1.12%) NCSC
8 9 (1.01%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.90%) NIST
9 8 (0.90%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.45%) SLA
12 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.22%) IFRS
12 2 (0.22%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.22%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.11%) GRC
System Software
1 255 (28.62%) Docker
2 59 (6.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 51 (5.72%) Active Directory
4 28 (3.14%) vSphere
5 20 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (1.35%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.79%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.79%) iptables
7 7 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.45%) Firmware
9 4 (0.45%) Squid
10 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 637 (71.49%) Terraform
2 331 (37.15%) Kubernetes
3 195 (21.89%) Ansible
4 120 (13.47%) Grafana
5 96 (10.77%) Prometheus
6 31 (3.48%) Puppet
7 27 (3.03%) Argo
8 21 (2.36%) Progress Chef
9 14 (1.57%) vCenter Server
10 13 (1.46%) Nagios
10 13 (1.46%) Packer
11 11 (1.23%) Istio
12 10 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
12 10 (1.12%) Proxmox
12 10 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (1.01%) Podman
14 7 (0.79%) Kibana
14 7 (0.79%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.79%) Rancher
15 6 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 166 (18.63%) Microsoft
2 77 (8.64%) VMware
3 48 (5.39%) Red Hat
4 38 (4.26%) Google
5 33 (3.70%) Splunk
6 30 (3.37%) Databricks
7 29 (3.25%) Cisco
8 20 (2.24%) Palo Alto
9 12 (1.35%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.35%) Oracle
10 10 (1.12%) F5
11 9 (1.01%) CrowdStrike
11 9 (1.01%) Fortinet
12 8 (0.90%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.79%) HubSpot
13 7 (0.79%) NetApp
13 7 (0.79%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.67%) Juniper
14 6 (0.67%) SaltStack
14 6 (0.67%) SolarWinds