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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 164 144
Rank change year-on-year +10 -20 -2
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 586 604 993
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.29% 1.76% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 1.95% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 414 359 783
10th Percentile £45,375 £40,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,958 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.16% +3.85% -2.67%
75th Percentile £78,790 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £88,750 £91,934
UK median annual salary £73,801 £73,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year +0.07% +1.72% -3.33%

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 35,085 30,981 42,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 77.39% 90.17% 87.36%
Number of salaries quoted 20,379 13,689 32,501
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £34,750 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 2 February 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 2 February 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 -13 206 £67,500 +7.14% 116
South East +18 110 £75,000 +13.21% 162
Yorkshire -9 90 £62,500 +13.64% 45
North West -2 87 £70,039 +3.76% 63
South West -24 77 £62,500 -13.18% 85
Scotland -1 75 £71,940 +4.64% 20
Midlands +3 58 £66,250 +0.38% 39
West Midlands -2 32 £65,000 -5.45% 25
East of England +25 30 £76,250 +5.17% 34
North East -6 29 £62,500 +28.21% 8
East Midlands +8 24 £67,500 +3.85% 13
Wales +19 23 £61,496 +31.62% 8
Northern Ireland -12 9 £95,000 +11.76% 2
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 21 (3.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.88%) Apache
4 9 (1.54%) IIS
5 8 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.37%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.37%) Confluence
6 3 (0.51%) Appian
6 3 (0.51%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.34%) CMS
7 2 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 379 (64.68%) Azure
2 350 (59.73%) AWS
3 177 (30.20%) Azure DevOps
4 137 (23.38%) GitHub
5 122 (20.82%) Serverless
6 111 (18.94%) GCP
7 100 (17.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 95 (16.21%) GitHub Actions
9 78 (13.31%) AWS Lambda
10 61 (10.41%) Entra ID
11 59 (10.07%) Amazon S3
12 56 (9.56%) SaaS
13 52 (8.87%) PaaS
14 48 (8.19%) Microsoft 365
15 44 (7.51%) Amazon ECS
15 44 (7.51%) dbt
16 42 (7.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 42 (7.17%) Amazon EKS
16 42 (7.17%) Azure Monitor
17 32 (5.46%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 68 (11.60%) Firewall
2 49 (8.36%) DNS
3 37 (6.31%) TCP/IP
4 36 (6.14%) VPN
5 18 (3.07%) DHCP
6 17 (2.90%) WAN
7 14 (2.39%) Network Security
8 11 (1.88%) HTTP
9 10 (1.71%) LAN
10 8 (1.37%) Internet
10 8 (1.37%) SD-WAN
10 8 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (1.19%) BGP
11 7 (1.19%) VLAN
12 6 (1.02%) AMQP
12 6 (1.02%) SAN
13 4 (0.68%) Broadband
13 4 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
13 4 (0.68%) Unified Communications
13 4 (0.68%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (8.87%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (7.51%) Amazon RDS
3 37 (6.31%) NoSQL
4 33 (5.63%) DynamoDB
5 31 (5.29%) SQL Server
6 24 (4.10%) Redis
7 19 (3.24%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (2.90%) MongoDB
9 15 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (2.56%) MySQL
10 9 (1.54%) Big Data
11 7 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.19%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.19%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.02%) BigQuery
12 6 (1.02%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.85%) Airbyte
13 5 (0.85%) Cloudera CDH
13 5 (0.85%) InfluxDB
14 4 (0.68%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 74 (12.63%) Jenkins
2 72 (12.29%) Git
3 47 (8.02%) GitLab
4 22 (3.75%) Selenium
5 21 (3.58%) Robot Framework
6 18 (3.07%) Snyk
7 15 (2.56%) JIRA
8 11 (1.88%) Bitbucket
9 10 (1.71%) CircleCI
10 8 (1.37%) TeamCity
11 7 (1.19%) Cucumber
12 6 (1.02%) git-flow
12 6 (1.02%) JMeter
12 6 (1.02%) Locust
12 6 (1.02%) Octopus Deploy
13 5 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.85%) Subversion
14 4 (0.68%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.68%) MLflow
14 4 (0.68%) SonarQube
General
1 171 (29.18%) Social Skills
2 125 (21.33%) Finance
3 46 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (5.63%) Public Sector
5 29 (4.95%) Law
6 28 (4.78%) Telecoms
7 19 (3.24%) Retail
8 15 (2.56%) Billing
9 12 (2.05%) Games
10 11 (1.88%) Aerospace
10 11 (1.88%) Manufacturing
10 11 (1.88%) Marketing
11 10 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.37%) Legal
14 7 (1.19%) Banking
14 7 (1.19%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.02%) Electronics
16 5 (0.85%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 148 (25.26%) Senior
2 82 (13.99%) Cloud Engineer
3 76 (12.97%) DevOps Engineer
4 73 (12.46%) Developer
5 71 (12.12%) Lead
6 58 (9.90%) Azure Engineer
7 50 (8.53%) Platform Engineer
8 34 (5.80%) Architect
8 34 (5.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 31 (5.29%) Software Engineer
10 20 (3.41%) Senior DevOps
11 19 (3.24%) Full-Stack Developer
12 18 (3.07%) AWS Engineer
13 17 (2.90%) Python Developer
14 16 (2.73%) .NET Developer
14 16 (2.73%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 15 (2.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 15 (2.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 15 (2.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 15 (2.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (14.85%) React
2 55 (9.39%) .NET
3 50 (8.53%) Node.js
4 46 (7.85%) RESTful
5 35 (5.97%) Django
6 29 (4.95%) YAML
7 28 (4.78%) REST
8 27 (4.61%) AWS CDK
9 26 (4.44%) OAuth
10 23 (3.92%) Vue
11 22 (3.75%) ARM Templates
11 22 (3.75%) CSS
11 22 (3.75%) Elastic Stack
12 21 (3.58%) GraphQL
12 21 (3.58%) HTML
13 20 (3.41%) AngularJS
13 20 (3.41%) Spring
14 19 (3.24%) .NET Core
14 19 (3.24%) ASP.NET
14 19 (3.24%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 126 (21.50%) Cloud Native
2 47 (8.02%) Product Ownership
3 25 (4.27%) Security Posture
4 24 (4.10%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
6 16 (2.73%) Data Centre
6 16 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
7 14 (2.39%) Public Cloud
8 13 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.88%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.88%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.85%) Operational Technology
12 5 (0.85%) Private Cloud
13 4 (0.68%) Client/Server
13 4 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (0.68%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 122 (20.82%) Linux
2 49 (8.36%) Windows
3 23 (3.92%) Unix
4 15 (2.56%) VMS
5 14 (2.39%) Ubuntu
6 12 (2.05%) Debian
6 12 (2.05%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.19%) CentOS
8 6 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.68%) Android
9 4 (0.68%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 421 (71.84%) DevOps
2 417 (71.16%) CI/CD
3 228 (38.91%) Agile
4 137 (23.38%) Containerisation
5 132 (22.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 132 (22.53%) Problem-Solving
6 122 (20.82%) Mentoring
7 116 (19.80%) Observability
8 90 (15.36%) Platform Engineering
9 89 (15.19%) Coaching
10 87 (14.85%) Test Automation
11 85 (14.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 85 (14.51%) Software Engineering
12 73 (12.46%) Microservices
13 69 (11.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 68 (11.60%) AI
15 67 (11.43%) Roadmaps
16 66 (11.26%) DevSecOps
17 65 (11.09%) Asset Management
18 63 (10.75%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 245 (41.81%) Python
2 129 (22.01%) PowerShell
3 113 (19.28%) Bash
4 95 (16.21%) SQL
5 78 (13.31%) Bicep
6 69 (11.77%) TypeScript
7 64 (10.92%) Java
8 58 (9.90%) JavaScript
9 53 (9.04%) C#
10 42 (7.17%) Go
11 9 (1.54%) C
12 6 (1.02%) C++
13 4 (0.68%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.51%) Scala
15 2 (0.34%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.34%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.34%) VB
15 2 (0.34%) XAML
16 1 (0.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 95 (16.21%) Security Cleared
2 58 (9.90%) SC Cleared
3 44 (7.51%) DV Cleared
4 38 (6.48%) AWS Certification
5 26 (4.44%) Azure Certification
6 25 (4.27%) Degree
7 12 (2.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (1.88%) AWS Certified Developer
8 11 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.37%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.19%) CCNP
11 6 (1.02%) CISSP
12 5 (0.85%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.68%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.68%) PMP
14 3 (0.51%) Network+ Certification
14 3 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.10%) GDPR
1 24 (4.10%) QA
2 23 (3.92%) NIST
3 21 (3.58%) Accessibility
4 16 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.37%) WCAG
6 7 (1.19%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.68%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.68%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.51%) NCSC
10 2 (0.34%) GRC
11 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 183 (31.23%) Docker
2 27 (4.61%) Active Directory
3 24 (4.10%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (4.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (3.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (1.88%) vSphere
6 9 (1.54%) VMware NSX
7 7 (1.19%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.68%) Firmware
9 3 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.34%) iptables
10 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.17%) HDFS
11 1 (0.17%) KVM
11 1 (0.17%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 421 (71.84%) Terraform
2 185 (31.57%) Kubernetes
3 131 (22.35%) Ansible
4 65 (11.09%) Grafana
5 54 (9.22%) Prometheus
6 24 (4.10%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (2.22%) Argo
8 10 (1.71%) AWS Copilot
8 10 (1.71%) Puppet
9 8 (1.37%) Rancher
10 7 (1.19%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.85%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.85%) yum
12 4 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.68%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.68%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.51%) Dell DRAC
13 3 (0.51%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 117 (19.97%) Microsoft
2 42 (7.17%) VMware
3 41 (7.00%) Google
4 18 (3.07%) Black Duck
4 18 (3.07%) Coverity
5 15 (2.56%) Cisco
5 15 (2.56%) CrowdStrike
6 14 (2.39%) Ab Initio
6 14 (2.39%) Splunk
7 12 (2.05%) Databricks
7 12 (2.05%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.54%) Palo Alto
9 8 (1.37%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.19%) SolarWinds
11 6 (1.02%) SaltStack
11 6 (1.02%) SAP
12 5 (0.85%) CyberArk
12 5 (0.85%) Dell
12 5 (0.85%) Fortinet
13 4 (0.68%) Meraki