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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 219 209
Rank change year-on-year +84 -10 -65
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 857 412 997
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.30% 1.40% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 1.53% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 650 275 775
10th Percentile £47,425 £45,950 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,750 £55,625 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,450 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £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 45,890 26,873 62,108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 69.62% 91.25% 80.42%
Number of salaries quoted 31,846 13,591 43,459
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £33,250 £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 10 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 10 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 +75 322 £67,500 -3.57% 111
South East +55 197 £70,000 -6.67% 144
North West +74 192 £75,000 +3.45% 66
Midlands +48 116 £70,079 +7.81% 41
South West +10 116 £72,500 +3.57% 59
Yorkshire -11 87 £65,576 -3.57% 22
West Midlands +19 69 £75,000 +7.14% 26
East of England +11 47 £60,100 -7.54% 26
East Midlands +10 47 £67,500 +3.85% 15
North East -6 43 £55,000 -15.38% 23
Scotland +15 37 £60,000 -20.38% 20
Wales -27 22 £68,500 +19.13% 10
Northern Ireland -30 3 £84,401 +95.86% 11
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 19 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.10%) Apache
2 18 (2.10%) Apache Spark
2 18 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.52%) Confluence
4 10 (1.17%) IIS
5 7 (0.82%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.58%) CMS
7 4 (0.47%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.35%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.12%) Lightworks
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 499 (58.23%) AWS
2 451 (52.63%) Azure
3 177 (20.65%) GitHub
4 173 (20.19%) Azure DevOps
5 165 (19.25%) Serverless
6 135 (15.75%) GCP
7 125 (14.59%) GitHub Actions
8 108 (12.60%) AWS CloudFormation
9 90 (10.50%) Amazon S3
10 87 (10.15%) AWS Lambda
11 73 (8.52%) Amazon EKS
11 73 (8.52%) PaaS
12 65 (7.58%) Amazon EC2
13 59 (6.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 58 (6.77%) Amazon ECS
15 52 (6.07%) SaaS
16 51 (5.95%) Azure AKS
17 50 (5.83%) IaaS
18 49 (5.72%) Entra ID
19 43 (5.02%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 107 (12.49%) Firewall
2 55 (6.42%) DNS
3 38 (4.43%) VPN
4 37 (4.32%) TCP/IP
5 24 (2.80%) Network Security
6 19 (2.22%) DHCP
7 18 (2.10%) Broadband
8 17 (1.98%) BGP
8 17 (1.98%) HTTP
9 15 (1.75%) Cisco ASA
9 15 (1.75%) VLAN
10 13 (1.52%) WAN
11 9 (1.05%) LAN
11 9 (1.05%) SAN
12 7 (0.82%) Internet
13 6 (0.70%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.70%) OSPF
13 6 (0.70%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.70%) WebEx
14 5 (0.58%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (5.83%) Amazon RDS
3 36 (4.20%) MongoDB
4 35 (4.08%) NoSQL
5 34 (3.97%) DynamoDB
6 31 (3.62%) SQL Server
7 23 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 20 (2.33%) Relational Database
9 19 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (1.63%) Metadata
11 13 (1.52%) Data Lake
11 13 (1.52%) Spark SQL
12 11 (1.28%) Big Data
12 11 (1.28%) BigQuery
13 10 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (1.17%) Redis
14 9 (1.05%) MySQL
15 5 (0.58%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 131 (15.29%) Git
2 107 (12.49%) GitLab
2 107 (12.49%) Jenkins
3 22 (2.57%) JIRA
4 15 (1.75%) Bitbucket
5 13 (1.52%) Cucumber
6 12 (1.40%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.82%) Artifactory
7 7 (0.82%) JMeter
7 7 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
8 6 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (0.70%) NUnit
8 6 (0.70%) Selenium
8 6 (0.70%) Subversion
9 5 (0.58%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.47%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.47%) Locust
10 4 (0.47%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.47%) TestRail
10 4 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 207 (24.15%) Social Skills
2 99 (11.55%) Finance
3 74 (8.63%) Public Sector
4 65 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (3.97%) Telecoms
7 27 (3.15%) Law
8 26 (3.03%) Retail
9 22 (2.57%) Banking
10 21 (2.45%) Manufacturing
11 19 (2.22%) Aerospace
12 17 (1.98%) Games
13 16 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (1.52%) Billing
15 10 (1.17%) Advertising
15 10 (1.17%) Marketing
16 9 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.82%) Legal
18 5 (0.58%) Local Government
19 4 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 184 (21.47%) Senior
2 170 (19.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 141 (16.45%) Lead
4 116 (13.54%) Cloud Engineer
5 92 (10.74%) Azure Engineer
6 81 (9.45%) Developer
7 78 (9.10%) Platform Engineer
8 61 (7.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 58 (6.77%) Software Engineer
10 54 (6.30%) Architect
11 41 (4.78%) AWS Engineer
12 40 (4.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 38 (4.43%) Data Engineer
14 37 (4.32%) Senior DevOps
15 34 (3.97%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 29 (3.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 29 (3.38%) Technical Leader
17 28 (3.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 27 (3.15%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 27 (3.15%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (10.62%) React
2 84 (9.80%) Node.js
3 72 (8.40%) .NET
4 69 (8.05%) REST
5 46 (5.37%) AWS CDK
6 45 (5.25%) YAML
7 44 (5.13%) ARM Templates
8 39 (4.55%) RESTful
9 37 (4.32%) Spring
10 36 (4.20%) Elastic Stack
11 35 (4.08%) Kafka
12 32 (3.73%) Spring Boot
13 29 (3.38%) ASP.NET
13 29 (3.38%) PySpark
14 27 (3.15%) ASP.NET Core
15 26 (3.03%) AngularJS
16 25 (2.92%) OAuth
16 25 (2.92%) Vue
17 21 (2.45%) CSS
18 20 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 183 (21.35%) Cloud Native
2 60 (7.00%) Distributed Systems
2 60 (7.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 43 (5.02%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.38%) Public Cloud
5 26 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (2.68%) Data Centre
7 20 (2.33%) Onboarding
8 19 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
9 18 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
10 17 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.87%) Security Posture
12 14 (1.63%) Legacy Applications
12 14 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
12 14 (1.63%) Private Cloud
12 14 (1.63%) Replication
13 13 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.52%) Data Structures
13 13 (1.52%) Video\Live Streaming
14 11 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 177 (20.65%) Linux
2 88 (10.27%) Windows
3 51 (5.95%) Windows Server
4 31 (3.62%) Ubuntu
5 22 (2.57%) CentOS
6 18 (2.10%) Unix
7 15 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (1.28%) VMS
9 8 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.82%) Debian
11 5 (0.58%) Android
11 5 (0.58%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.12%) AIX
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 632 (73.75%) CI/CD
2 525 (61.26%) DevOps
3 282 (32.91%) Agile
4 262 (30.57%) Observability
5 240 (28.00%) Containerisation
6 197 (22.99%) Mentoring
7 196 (22.87%) Platform Engineering
8 189 (22.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 160 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
10 157 (18.32%) Test Automation
11 153 (17.85%) AI
12 142 (16.57%) Microservices
13 127 (14.82%) Software Engineering
14 124 (14.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 120 (14.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 110 (12.84%) Technical Leadership
17 92 (10.74%) Cloud Security
18 88 (10.27%) DevSecOps
19 84 (9.80%) Full-Stack Development
20 78 (9.10%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 371 (43.29%) Python
2 184 (21.47%) Bash
3 162 (18.90%) PowerShell
4 127 (14.82%) SQL
5 110 (12.84%) TypeScript
6 96 (11.20%) Java
7 84 (9.80%) JavaScript
8 81 (9.45%) Bicep
9 62 (7.23%) C#
10 60 (7.00%) Go
11 17 (1.98%) Groovy
12 12 (1.40%) C
13 11 (1.28%) PHP
14 9 (1.05%) Ruby
14 9 (1.05%) Rust
15 8 (0.93%) C++
15 8 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.70%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.47%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 181 (21.12%) Security Cleared
2 120 (14.00%) SC Cleared
3 66 (7.70%) Degree
4 56 (6.53%) DV Cleared
5 43 (5.02%) Azure Certification
6 37 (4.32%) AWS Certification
7 30 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (1.63%) DBS Check
10 12 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.70%) ICAEW
12 6 (0.70%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.58%) CCNA
13 5 (0.58%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.47%) Network+ Certification
14 4 (0.47%) OSCP
14 4 (0.47%) PhD
14 4 (0.47%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.48%) QA
2 23 (2.68%) Data Quality
3 21 (2.45%) GDPR
4 20 (2.33%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.40%) WCAG
7 9 (1.05%) NIST
7 9 (1.05%) SOC 2
8 7 (0.82%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.70%) NCSC
10 4 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.47%) SLA
11 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.23%) IFRS
11 2 (0.23%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.23%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
System Software
1 241 (28.12%) Docker
2 56 (6.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 48 (5.60%) Active Directory
4 26 (3.03%) vSphere
5 19 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (1.52%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.82%) iptables
8 6 (0.70%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.47%) Firmware
10 4 (0.47%) Squid
11 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 605 (70.60%) Terraform
2 313 (36.52%) Kubernetes
3 189 (22.05%) Ansible
4 113 (13.19%) Grafana
5 90 (10.50%) Prometheus
6 29 (3.38%) Puppet
7 24 (2.80%) Argo
8 20 (2.33%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.52%) Nagios
9 13 (1.52%) vCenter Server
10 12 (1.40%) Packer
11 10 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (1.05%) Istio
12 9 (1.05%) Podman
12 9 (1.05%) Proxmox
12 9 (1.05%) Rancher
13 6 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (0.70%) Kibana
13 6 (0.70%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 160 (18.67%) Microsoft
2 74 (8.63%) VMware
3 46 (5.37%) Red Hat
4 35 (4.08%) Google
5 31 (3.62%) Splunk
6 30 (3.50%) Cisco
6 30 (3.50%) Databricks
7 20 (2.33%) Palo Alto
8 13 (1.52%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.40%) Oracle
10 10 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
10 10 (1.17%) F5
11 9 (1.05%) Fortinet
12 8 (0.93%) Salesforce
13 7 (0.82%) HubSpot
13 7 (0.82%) NetApp
14 6 (0.70%) Atlassian
14 6 (0.70%) Juniper
14 6 (0.70%) SolarWinds
14 6 (0.70%) Tenable