Infrastructure as Code Jobs in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 233 189 111
Rank change year-on-year -44 -78 +32
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 523 1,002 1,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.20% 1.39% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.72% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 321 763 843
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,751 £77,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £93,778 £87,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% -6.67% +3.45%

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 38,206 58,112 47,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 87.75% 80.35% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 19,715 38,455 27,527
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,609 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,951 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,251
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 -83 156 £70,000 +11.50% 164
South East +40 145 £77,500 +29.17% 139
North West -68 94 £71,250 +9.62% 96
Midlands -10 66 £65,000 - 55
East of England +24 57 £62,500 -7.41% 35
South West -27 54 £72,500 +3.57% 84
Yorkshire -11 53 £70,000 +16.67% 47
West Midlands -2 46 £65,000 -7.14% 37
Scotland +79 38 £74,500 -12.35% 60
East Midlands +8 20 £65,000 +13.04% 18
North East +11 9 £65,000 +3.53% 24
Wales +20 7 £57,500 -4.17% 16
Isle of Man +12 2 £34,500 - 1
Northern Ireland +31 1 £43,092 -28.18% 21
Infrastructure as Code
UK

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (3.63%) Apache Spark
2 14 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.49%) Apache
4 12 (2.29%) Confluence
5 10 (1.91%) SharePoint
6 8 (1.53%) Appian
7 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.76%) IBM Domino
8 4 (0.76%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.57%) nginx
10 2 (0.38%) CMS
11 1 (0.19%) CICS
11 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.38%) Simulink
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 323 (61.76%) AWS
2 276 (52.77%) Azure
3 101 (19.31%) GCP
4 96 (18.36%) Azure DevOps
5 67 (12.81%) SaaS
6 66 (12.62%) Pulumi
7 55 (10.52%) PaaS
8 54 (10.33%) Serverless
9 51 (9.75%) GitHub
10 50 (9.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 48 (9.18%) IaaS
12 37 (7.07%) Power Platform
13 34 (6.50%) AWS Lambda
14 33 (6.31%) Entra ID
15 32 (6.12%) Amazon S3
16 31 (5.93%) Amazon EC2
17 28 (5.35%) Power Automate
18 27 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
19 26 (4.97%) Azure Monitor
19 26 (4.97%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 65 (12.43%) Broadband
2 38 (7.27%) VPN
3 36 (6.88%) Firewall
4 35 (6.69%) WAN
5 32 (6.12%) DNS
6 18 (3.44%) LAN
7 17 (3.25%) SD-WAN
8 10 (1.91%) Network Security
9 7 (1.34%) TCP/IP
10 6 (1.15%) Internet
11 5 (0.96%) DHCP
11 5 (0.96%) SAN
11 5 (0.96%) VLAN
12 4 (0.76%) IPv4
13 3 (0.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 3 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
14 2 (0.38%) MQTT
14 2 (0.38%) OSPF
14 2 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
14 2 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (17.59%) NoSQL
2 72 (13.77%) Relational Database
3 66 (12.62%) RDBMS
4 34 (6.50%) SQL Server
5 31 (5.93%) Data Lake
6 29 (5.54%) MySQL
7 19 (3.63%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (3.63%) Big Data
7 19 (3.63%) Power BI
8 12 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (2.10%) Hadoop
10 10 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (1.34%) DynamoDB
11 7 (1.34%) MongoDB
11 7 (1.34%) Tableau
12 6 (1.15%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.76%) Qlik Sense
14 3 (0.57%) Airbyte
15 2 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
15 2 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 71 (13.58%) Jenkins
2 65 (12.43%) Git
2 65 (12.43%) Jaeger
3 41 (7.84%) GitLab
4 18 (3.44%) SonarQube
5 16 (3.06%) JIRA
6 12 (2.29%) JUnit
7 11 (2.10%) Selenium
8 9 (1.72%) CircleCI
8 9 (1.72%) Maven
8 9 (1.72%) Robot Framework
8 9 (1.72%) Snyk
8 9 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (1.72%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.96%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.76%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.76%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.76%) Subversion
11 2 (0.38%) Gatling
General
1 102 (19.50%) Social Skills
2 96 (18.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 73 (13.96%) Finance
4 32 (6.12%) Law
5 28 (5.35%) Banking
6 27 (5.16%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (2.68%) Automotive
7 14 (2.68%) Public Sector
8 13 (2.49%) Advertising
8 13 (2.49%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.53%) Retail
10 6 (1.15%) Legal
11 5 (0.96%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.96%) Marketing
12 4 (0.76%) Electronics
12 4 (0.76%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.57%) Agriculture
13 3 (0.57%) Games
13 3 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.38%) Billing
Job Titles
1 128 (24.47%) Lead
2 90 (17.21%) Cloud Engineer
3 88 (16.83%) Senior
4 68 (13.00%) Team Leader
5 64 (12.24%) DevOps Engineer
6 60 (11.47%) Architect
7 40 (7.65%) Software Engineer
8 35 (6.69%) Azure Engineer
9 34 (6.50%) Cloud Architect
10 32 (6.12%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 31 (5.93%) Developer
12 29 (5.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 23 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
14 19 (3.63%) Senior Software Engineer
15 18 (3.44%) AWS Engineer
15 18 (3.44%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
16 14 (2.68%) Administrator
16 14 (2.68%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 13 (2.49%) Full-Stack Developer
17 13 (2.49%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (15.68%) Elastic Stack
2 68 (13.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 43 (8.22%) .NET
4 32 (6.12%) Kafka
4 32 (6.12%) React
5 24 (4.59%) ARM Templates
5 24 (4.59%) REST
6 20 (3.82%) Node.js
7 17 (3.25%) RESTful
7 17 (3.25%) Spring
7 17 (3.25%) Spring Boot
8 13 (2.49%) .NET Core
9 12 (2.29%) AngularJS
9 12 (2.29%) SOAP
9 12 (2.29%) YAML
10 10 (1.91%) HTML5 Canvas
10 10 (1.91%) OAuth
11 9 (1.72%) .NET Framework
11 9 (1.72%) SAML
11 9 (1.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 85 (16.25%) Cloud Native
2 51 (9.75%) Public Cloud
3 43 (8.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 30 (5.74%) Data Centre
5 26 (4.97%) Product Ownership
6 21 (4.02%) Private Cloud
7 20 (3.82%) Management Information System
8 15 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.87%) NHS
9 14 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.91%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.72%) IoT
13 8 (1.53%) Data Structures
13 8 (1.53%) Low-Code
13 8 (1.53%) Security Posture
14 7 (1.34%) Virtual Team
15 6 (1.15%) PKI
16 5 (0.96%) CMDB
16 5 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 159 (30.40%) Linux
2 75 (14.34%) Unix
3 45 (8.60%) Windows
4 19 (3.63%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.34%) Debian
6 7 (1.34%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.76%) VMS
8 3 (0.57%) Android
8 3 (0.57%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.38%) AIX
9 2 (0.38%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (68.26%) DevOps
2 283 (54.11%) CI/CD
3 219 (41.87%) Agile
4 149 (28.49%) Containerisation
5 143 (27.34%) Roadmaps
6 133 (25.43%) Mentoring
7 101 (19.31%) High Availability
8 97 (18.55%) Continuous Integration
9 81 (15.49%) Software Engineering
10 80 (15.30%) Performance Optimisation
10 80 (15.30%) Problem-Solving
11 78 (14.91%) Task Automation
12 74 (14.15%) Cost Optimisation
12 74 (14.15%) Resource Management
13 72 (13.77%) Microservices
14 70 (13.38%) GitOps
15 68 (13.00%) Product Management
16 65 (12.43%) Budget Control
17 64 (12.24%) Test Automation
18 63 (12.05%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 239 (45.70%) Python
2 124 (23.71%) JavaScript
3 120 (22.94%) Bash
4 119 (22.75%) Java
5 96 (18.36%) Go
6 95 (18.16%) SQL
7 92 (17.59%) PowerShell
8 46 (8.80%) C#
9 38 (7.27%) Bicep
10 27 (5.16%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.91%) Ruby
12 9 (1.72%) R
13 6 (1.15%) PHP
14 4 (0.76%) Julia
14 4 (0.76%) Perl
14 4 (0.76%) Rust
14 4 (0.76%) VBA
15 3 (0.57%) Groovy
15 3 (0.57%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 104 (19.89%) AWS Certification
2 68 (13.00%) Security Cleared
3 65 (12.43%) Azure Certification
4 44 (8.41%) SC Cleared
5 43 (8.22%) Degree
6 29 (5.54%) DV Cleared
7 23 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.68%) DBS Check
9 12 (2.29%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.34%) CCNP
11 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (1.15%) CCNA
13 4 (0.76%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.57%) CISSP
15 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.02%) GDPR
2 16 (3.06%) QA
3 11 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 9 (1.72%) NIST
5 5 (0.96%) HIPAA
5 5 (0.96%) SOC 2
6 4 (0.76%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.38%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.38%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 182 (34.80%) Docker
2 40 (7.65%) Virtual Machines
3 28 (5.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.49%) Active Directory
5 9 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (1.34%) vSphere
7 6 (1.15%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.57%) LXC
8 3 (0.57%) vCloud
9 2 (0.38%) HDFS
10 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 374 (71.51%) Terraform
2 212 (40.54%) Kubernetes
3 178 (34.03%) Ansible
4 98 (18.74%) Prometheus
5 71 (13.58%) Argo
6 65 (12.43%) Kustomize
7 38 (7.27%) Grafana
8 18 (3.44%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (3.06%) Puppet
10 9 (1.72%) Istio
11 7 (1.34%) Docker Swarm
11 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (1.34%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.57%) Control-M
12 3 (0.57%) Kibana
12 3 (0.57%) Rundeck
12 3 (0.57%) Salt
13 2 (0.38%) Graylog
13 2 (0.38%) Hadoop YARN
13 2 (0.38%) MaaS360
Vendors
1 101 (19.31%) Microsoft
2 97 (18.55%) Google
3 42 (8.03%) VMware
4 28 (5.35%) Databricks
5 20 (3.82%) Cisco
6 15 (2.87%) Fortinet
7 14 (2.68%) Aruba
7 14 (2.68%) Meraki
7 14 (2.68%) Palo Alto
8 13 (2.49%) Mellanox
8 13 (2.49%) NVIDIA
8 13 (2.49%) Splunk
9 10 (1.91%) Oracle
10 9 (1.72%) UiPath
11 8 (1.53%) BiZZdesign
11 8 (1.53%) Black Duck
11 8 (1.53%) IBM
11 8 (1.53%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.34%) Atlassian
13 6 (1.15%) ServiceNow