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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 166 190
Rank change year-on-year +10 +24 -39
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 684 443 963
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.19% 1.71% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 1.87% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 502 339 734
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,000 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,729 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,875 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -0.66% +4.14% -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 42,363 23,649 53,873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 73.79% 91.37% 84.81%
Number of salaries quoted 25,776 13,566 39,462
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.41%
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,938 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

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 April 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 April 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 -19 248 £70,000 +3.70% 159
South East +7 149 £70,000 -5.08% 123
North West -7 120 £73,801 +1.79% 84
South West -5 97 £62,500 -13.18% 88
Yorkshire -10 96 £65,000 +13.04% 47
Midlands -8 74 £67,500 +3.85% 47
Scotland -12 54 £60,000 -14.89% 22
East Midlands -19 37 £67,500 +3.85% 6
West Midlands -21 35 £65,500 -6.43% 41
East of England -9 33 £62,500 -12.28% 35
North East -8 32 £48,445 -15.75% 28
Wales -8 21 £68,500 +14.17% 12
Northern Ireland -31 11 £95,000 - 7
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 11 (1.61%) Apache
1 11 (1.61%) IIS
2 9 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.17%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.02%) Confluence
5 3 (0.44%) CMS
5 3 (0.44%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.15%) Appian
7 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 433 (63.30%) AWS
2 391 (57.16%) Azure
3 183 (26.75%) Azure DevOps
4 166 (24.27%) GitHub
5 152 (22.22%) Serverless
6 139 (20.32%) GCP
7 121 (17.69%) GitHub Actions
8 112 (16.37%) AWS CloudFormation
9 87 (12.72%) AWS Lambda
10 74 (10.82%) Amazon S3
11 70 (10.23%) Amazon EKS
12 63 (9.21%) PaaS
13 54 (7.89%) Amazon ECS
14 51 (7.46%) dbt
15 49 (7.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 43 (6.29%) Entra ID
17 42 (6.14%) SaaS
18 40 (5.85%) Amazon EC2
19 36 (5.26%) Datadog
20 33 (4.82%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 92 (13.45%) Firewall
2 55 (8.04%) DNS
3 53 (7.75%) TCP/IP
4 27 (3.95%) VPN
5 19 (2.78%) HTTP
5 19 (2.78%) Network Security
6 14 (2.05%) Cisco ASA
7 13 (1.90%) DHCP
8 11 (1.61%) WAN
9 10 (1.46%) Broadband
9 10 (1.46%) VLAN
10 9 (1.32%) LAN
11 7 (1.02%) BGP
11 7 (1.02%) Internet
12 5 (0.73%) AMQP
12 5 (0.73%) Cisco Firepower
12 5 (0.73%) SAN
12 5 (0.73%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.73%) WebEx
13 4 (0.58%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (10.23%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
3 39 (5.70%) NoSQL
4 35 (5.12%) SQL Server
5 33 (4.82%) DynamoDB
6 26 (3.80%) Redis
7 23 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
7 23 (3.36%) MongoDB
8 20 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (1.90%) MySQL
10 10 (1.46%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (1.17%) BigQuery
12 7 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (1.02%) InfluxDB
12 7 (1.02%) Spark SQL
13 6 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (0.88%) Big Data
13 6 (0.88%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.88%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 109 (15.94%) Git
2 94 (13.74%) Jenkins
3 73 (10.67%) GitLab
4 23 (3.36%) Selenium
5 21 (3.07%) Robot Framework
6 20 (2.92%) JIRA
7 17 (2.49%) Cucumber
8 16 (2.34%) Snyk
9 14 (2.05%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.61%) JMeter
11 10 (1.46%) Locust
12 8 (1.17%) CircleCI
12 8 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
12 8 (1.17%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.88%) NUnit
13 6 (0.88%) Subversion
14 5 (0.73%) Artifactory
14 5 (0.73%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.73%) TeamCity
General
1 187 (27.34%) Social Skills
2 102 (14.91%) Finance
3 72 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (7.31%) Public Sector
5 41 (5.99%) Telecoms
6 30 (4.39%) Law
7 27 (3.95%) Retail
8 23 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (2.63%) Manufacturing
10 17 (2.49%) Billing
10 17 (2.49%) Games
11 16 (2.34%) Aerospace
11 16 (2.34%) Marketing
12 15 (2.19%) Banking
13 10 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.32%) Electronics
14 9 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.17%) Advertising
16 6 (0.88%) Legal
17 5 (0.73%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 163 (23.83%) Senior
2 121 (17.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 109 (15.94%) Lead
4 84 (12.28%) Cloud Engineer
5 81 (11.84%) Developer
6 76 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
7 52 (7.60%) Platform Engineer
8 43 (6.29%) Software Engineer
9 41 (5.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 35 (5.12%) Architect
11 28 (4.09%) AWS Engineer
12 27 (3.95%) Senior DevOps
13 25 (3.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 23 (3.36%) Lead DevOps
15 22 (3.22%) Data Engineer
15 22 (3.22%) Full-Stack Developer
16 21 (3.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 21 (3.07%) Python Developer
17 20 (2.92%) DevSecOps Engineer
17 20 (2.92%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (14.33%) React
2 67 (9.80%) Node.js
3 56 (8.19%) .NET
4 52 (7.60%) RESTful
5 51 (7.46%) REST
6 46 (6.73%) Django
7 41 (5.99%) AWS CDK
8 40 (5.85%) YAML
9 36 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
9 36 (5.26%) OAuth
10 31 (4.53%) ARM Templates
11 27 (3.95%) Spring
12 26 (3.80%) FastAPI
12 26 (3.80%) Vue
13 25 (3.65%) CSS
13 25 (3.65%) HTML
13 25 (3.65%) JSON
13 25 (3.65%) RabbitMQ
14 24 (3.51%) ASP.NET
14 24 (3.51%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 128 (18.71%) Cloud Native
2 41 (5.99%) Product Ownership
3 36 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 33 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (3.07%) Linux Command Line
6 19 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
7 15 (2.19%) Data Structures
7 15 (2.19%) Onboarding
7 15 (2.19%) Public Cloud
8 14 (2.05%) Security Posture
9 11 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.46%) Legacy Applications
10 10 (1.46%) Mobile App
11 9 (1.32%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.32%) Private Cloud
12 8 (1.17%) Video\Live Streaming
13 7 (1.02%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 161 (23.54%) Linux
2 67 (9.80%) Windows
3 31 (4.53%) Unix
4 26 (3.80%) Windows Server
5 16 (2.34%) Ubuntu
6 12 (1.75%) CentOS
7 10 (1.46%) VMS
8 9 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (1.02%) Debian
10 6 (0.88%) Android
10 6 (0.88%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 505 (73.83%) CI/CD
2 469 (68.57%) DevOps
3 255 (37.28%) Agile
4 186 (27.19%) Containerisation
5 181 (26.46%) Observability
6 167 (24.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 163 (23.83%) Problem-Solving
8 146 (21.35%) Mentoring
9 132 (19.30%) Test Automation
10 118 (17.25%) Platform Engineering
11 99 (14.47%) Software Engineering
12 98 (14.33%) Microservices
13 96 (14.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 92 (13.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 77 (11.26%) DevSecOps
16 76 (11.11%) Incident Response
17 72 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
18 71 (10.38%) Cloud Security
19 67 (9.80%) Scrum
20 66 (9.65%) AI
Programming Languages
1 302 (44.15%) Python
2 135 (19.74%) PowerShell
3 131 (19.15%) Bash
4 111 (16.23%) SQL
5 80 (11.70%) Java
5 80 (11.70%) TypeScript
6 73 (10.67%) Bicep
7 71 (10.38%) JavaScript
8 54 (7.89%) Go
9 48 (7.02%) C#
10 11 (1.61%) C
11 9 (1.32%) C++
12 8 (1.17%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.88%) Groovy
14 5 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.73%) Perl
15 4 (0.58%) Ruby
16 3 (0.44%) Scala
16 3 (0.44%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 135 (19.74%) Security Cleared
2 79 (11.55%) SC Cleared
3 59 (8.63%) DV Cleared
4 37 (5.41%) Degree
5 36 (5.26%) AWS Certification
6 27 (3.95%) Azure Certification
7 16 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (2.19%) AWS Certified Developer
9 14 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 9 (1.32%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.73%) CISSP
12 5 (0.73%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.58%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.44%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (6.73%) QA
2 26 (3.80%) GDPR
3 25 (3.65%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.90%) WCAG
6 12 (1.75%) Data Quality
7 10 (1.46%) NIST
8 9 (1.32%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.73%) NCSC
9 5 (0.73%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.44%) GRC
10 3 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 219 (32.02%) Docker
2 34 (4.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (3.80%) Active Directory
4 16 (2.34%) vSphere
5 15 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (1.46%) VMware NSX
7 8 (1.17%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.73%) Firmware
8 5 (0.73%) iptables
8 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.15%) KVM
10 1 (0.15%) QEMU
10 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 485 (70.91%) Terraform
2 233 (34.06%) Kubernetes
3 165 (24.12%) Ansible
4 103 (15.06%) Grafana
5 77 (11.26%) Prometheus
6 17 (2.49%) Puppet
7 16 (2.34%) Argo
8 14 (2.05%) AWS Copilot
9 9 (1.32%) Nagios
9 9 (1.32%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.32%) Rancher
10 8 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (1.17%) Proxmox
10 8 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.17%) vCenter Server
11 6 (0.88%) Packer
11 6 (0.88%) yum
12 5 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.73%) Cisco CUCM
13 4 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 120 (17.54%) Microsoft
2 53 (7.75%) VMware
3 49 (7.16%) Google
4 27 (3.95%) Red Hat
5 26 (3.80%) Cisco
6 24 (3.51%) Splunk
7 16 (2.34%) Black Duck
7 16 (2.34%) Coverity
7 16 (2.34%) Palo Alto
8 14 (2.05%) CrowdStrike
8 14 (2.05%) Databricks
9 13 (1.90%) Dynatrace
10 10 (1.46%) Ab Initio
11 9 (1.32%) Fortinet
11 9 (1.32%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.02%) F5
12 7 (1.02%) Juniper
13 6 (0.88%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.88%) SaltStack
13 6 (0.88%) SolarWinds