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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 216 178
Rank change year-on-year +113 -38 -59
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,221 469 864
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.63% 1.36% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 1.56% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 870 338 658
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £42,468
25th Percentile £55,000 £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 £82,750 £83,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £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 52,983 30,143 47,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.52% 87.59% 78.57%
Number of salaries quoted 37,203 16,463 30,137
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +92 411 £70,400 +0.57% 246
South East +64 248 £67,500 -12.90% 166
North West +88 236 £75,000 +7.14% 140
South West +46 208 £75,000 -2.48% 141
Midlands +30 144 £75,000 +15.38% 55
Yorkshire -2 94 £75,000 +7.14% 66
West Midlands +9 88 £80,000 +23.08% 38
North East +16 81 £56,500 -16.30% 40
Wales +3 62 £70,000 +21.74% 25
Northern Ireland -21 58 £72,896 +69.17% 21
East Midlands +19 56 £67,500 +3.85% 17
East of England -5 52 £62,550 +0.08% 25
Scotland +20 47 £71,991 +6.65% 51
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 32 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
1 32 (2.62%) Apache Spark
2 30 (2.46%) Apache
3 27 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (1.64%) Confluence
5 12 (0.98%) Jupyter
6 8 (0.66%) IIS
7 5 (0.41%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.33%) CMS
9 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.25%) WordPress
10 2 (0.16%) nginx
10 2 (0.16%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.082%) Documentum
11 1 (0.082%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.082%) JBoss
Applications
1 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.16%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.082%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 671 (54.95%) Azure
2 656 (53.73%) AWS
3 227 (18.59%) GitHub
4 203 (16.63%) Azure DevOps
5 201 (16.46%) GCP
6 188 (15.40%) Serverless
7 156 (12.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 142 (11.63%) GitHub Actions
9 105 (8.60%) Amazon S3
10 98 (8.03%) AWS Lambda
11 89 (7.29%) PaaS
12 81 (6.63%) Amazon EC2
13 80 (6.55%) Amazon ECS
14 79 (6.47%) Microsoft 365
15 78 (6.39%) Amazon EKS
16 69 (5.65%) SaaS
17 67 (5.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 65 (5.32%) Cloud Computing
19 63 (5.16%) Azure AKS
20 57 (4.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 103 (8.44%) Firewall
2 79 (6.47%) WAN
3 72 (5.90%) LAN
4 65 (5.32%) VPN
5 61 (5.00%) DNS
6 44 (3.60%) TCP/IP
7 38 (3.11%) Network Security
8 25 (2.05%) DHCP
9 18 (1.47%) BGP
9 18 (1.47%) VLAN
10 14 (1.15%) Broadband
10 14 (1.15%) HTTP
11 13 (1.06%) SAN
12 12 (0.98%) Cisco ASA
13 11 (0.90%) Software-Defined Networking
14 10 (0.82%) SD-WAN
15 9 (0.74%) OSPF
16 7 (0.57%) MQTT
16 7 (0.57%) Unified Communications
16 7 (0.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (6.63%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (4.59%) Amazon RDS
3 50 (4.10%) NoSQL
4 45 (3.69%) SQL Server
5 44 (3.60%) DynamoDB
6 43 (3.52%) MongoDB
7 36 (2.95%) Azure SQL Database
8 34 (2.78%) Relational Database
9 31 (2.54%) MySQL
10 26 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
11 23 (1.88%) Data Lake
12 18 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
13 16 (1.31%) Redis
14 15 (1.23%) Big Data
15 14 (1.15%) Metadata
16 13 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
16 13 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
17 12 (0.98%) Power BI
17 12 (0.98%) Spark SQL
18 10 (0.82%) Flink
Development Applications
1 187 (15.32%) Git
2 142 (11.63%) GitLab
3 129 (10.57%) Jenkins
4 38 (3.11%) JIRA
5 16 (1.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 16 (1.31%) SonarQube
6 13 (1.06%) Bitbucket
6 13 (1.06%) Cucumber
6 13 (1.06%) NUnit
7 12 (0.98%) Cypress.io
7 12 (0.98%) Selenium
8 9 (0.74%) MSI
9 7 (0.57%) Artifactory
9 7 (0.57%) JMeter
9 7 (0.57%) Robot Framework
9 7 (0.57%) Terragrunt
10 6 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
10 6 (0.49%) Subversion
10 6 (0.49%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.49%) TestRail
General
1 362 (29.65%) Social Skills
2 203 (16.63%) Finance
3 119 (9.75%) Public Sector
4 90 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
5 85 (6.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 72 (5.90%) Law
7 62 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
8 34 (2.78%) Aerospace
9 29 (2.38%) Retail
10 27 (2.21%) Telecoms
11 22 (1.80%) Manufacturing
12 21 (1.72%) Banking
13 18 (1.47%) Marketing
14 16 (1.31%) Games
15 14 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (0.98%) Legal
17 11 (0.90%) Aviation
18 10 (0.82%) Advertising
19 9 (0.74%) Local Government
20 8 (0.66%) Military
Job Titles
1 261 (21.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 239 (19.57%) Senior
3 211 (17.28%) Lead
4 148 (12.12%) Architect
5 142 (11.63%) Cloud Engineer
6 117 (9.58%) Developer
7 115 (9.42%) Platform Engineer
8 98 (8.03%) Azure Engineer
9 79 (6.47%) Software Engineer
10 75 (6.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 64 (5.24%) Data Engineer
12 58 (4.75%) Systems Architect
13 55 (4.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 53 (4.34%) AWS Engineer
15 50 (4.10%) Senior DevOps
16 46 (3.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 45 (3.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 43 (3.52%) Technical Leader
19 40 (3.28%) Lead DevOps
20 39 (3.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (9.99%) React
2 99 (8.11%) .NET
3 96 (7.86%) REST
4 93 (7.62%) Node.js
5 75 (6.14%) Spring Boot
6 72 (5.90%) Spring
7 60 (4.91%) Kafka
8 59 (4.83%) RESTful
9 56 (4.59%) ARM Templates
9 56 (4.59%) AWS CDK
10 46 (3.77%) YAML
11 42 (3.44%) PySpark
12 41 (3.36%) AngularJS
13 38 (3.11%) Elastic Stack
14 35 (2.87%) Next.js
15 34 (2.78%) ASP.NET
16 33 (2.70%) Vue
17 32 (2.62%) ASP.NET Core
18 29 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
19 28 (2.29%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 294 (24.08%) Cloud Native
2 95 (7.78%) Distributed Systems
3 79 (6.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 56 (4.59%) Onboarding
5 55 (4.50%) Product Ownership
6 43 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
7 39 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
8 38 (3.11%) Public Cloud
9 33 (2.70%) Data Centre
10 31 (2.54%) Security Posture
11 27 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
12 26 (2.13%) Private Cloud
13 25 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
14 22 (1.80%) Data Structures
15 19 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
16 17 (1.39%) Replication
17 16 (1.31%) Virtual Team
18 14 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
18 14 (1.15%) Mainframe
19 12 (0.98%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 224 (18.35%) Linux
2 120 (9.83%) Windows
3 57 (4.67%) Windows Server
4 34 (2.78%) CentOS
5 28 (2.29%) Ubuntu
5 28 (2.29%) Unix
6 26 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (1.23%) VMS
8 5 (0.41%) Debian
8 5 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.16%) AIX
9 2 (0.16%) Android
9 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.082%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.082%) Rocky
10 1 (0.082%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 885 (72.48%) CI/CD
2 723 (59.21%) DevOps
3 413 (33.82%) Containerisation
4 407 (33.33%) Agile
5 369 (30.22%) Observability
6 304 (24.90%) Platform Engineering
7 292 (23.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 281 (23.01%) Mentoring
9 256 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
10 235 (19.25%) Software Engineering
11 227 (18.59%) AI
12 207 (16.95%) Technical Leadership
13 205 (16.79%) Microservices
14 191 (15.64%) Test Automation
15 172 (14.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 164 (13.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 150 (12.29%) Roadmaps
18 144 (11.79%) Cloud Security
19 131 (10.73%) DevSecOps
20 122 (9.99%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 494 (40.46%) Python
2 211 (17.28%) Bash
3 181 (14.82%) PowerShell
4 179 (14.66%) SQL
5 164 (13.43%) Java
6 131 (10.73%) TypeScript
7 130 (10.65%) Bicep
8 113 (9.25%) JavaScript
9 88 (7.21%) C#
10 69 (5.65%) Go
11 23 (1.88%) Ruby
12 20 (1.64%) Groovy
12 20 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (1.23%) PHP
14 10 (0.82%) Rust
14 10 (0.82%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.66%) Scala
16 7 (0.57%) C++
17 6 (0.49%) COBOL
17 6 (0.49%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 332 (27.19%) Security Cleared
2 208 (17.04%) SC Cleared
3 136 (11.14%) DV Cleared
4 98 (8.03%) Degree
5 66 (5.41%) Azure Certification
6 51 (4.18%) AWS Certification
7 43 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (1.31%) TOGAF Certification
11 14 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.90%) DBS Check
13 8 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 7 (0.57%) CCNA
14 7 (0.57%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
15 6 (0.49%) ICAEW
15 6 (0.49%) RHCSA
16 5 (0.41%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (6.22%) QA
2 59 (4.83%) GRC
3 44 (3.60%) Data Quality
4 36 (2.95%) Accessibility
5 23 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (1.88%) WCAG
6 21 (1.72%) NCSC
7 18 (1.47%) GDPR
8 16 (1.31%) NIST
9 15 (1.23%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.98%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.49%) Government Security Classifications
11 6 (0.49%) SLA
12 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.16%) IFRS
12 2 (0.16%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.16%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.082%) GxP
System Software
1 361 (29.57%) Docker
2 75 (6.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 68 (5.57%) Active Directory
4 31 (2.54%) vSphere
5 18 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (1.15%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.74%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.57%) Firmware
9 7 (0.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 7 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.41%) iptables
11 4 (0.33%) KVM
11 4 (0.33%) Squid
12 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 832 (68.14%) Terraform
2 460 (37.67%) Kubernetes
3 249 (20.39%) Ansible
4 128 (10.48%) Grafana
5 99 (8.11%) Prometheus
6 38 (3.11%) Puppet
7 36 (2.95%) Argo
8 27 (2.21%) Progress Chef
9 20 (1.64%) Istio
10 15 (1.23%) Packer
11 12 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (0.98%) Nagios
12 11 (0.90%) vCenter Server
13 10 (0.82%) Kibana
13 10 (0.82%) Podman
14 8 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
14 8 (0.66%) Kustomize
14 8 (0.66%) Nessus
14 8 (0.66%) Proxmox
14 8 (0.66%) Rancher
Vendors
1 273 (22.36%) Microsoft
2 88 (7.21%) VMware
3 68 (5.57%) Google
4 56 (4.59%) Red Hat
5 48 (3.93%) Splunk
6 44 (3.60%) Databricks
7 30 (2.46%) Cisco
8 23 (1.88%) Oracle
9 20 (1.64%) Palo Alto
10 15 (1.23%) Dynatrace
11 14 (1.15%) F5
12 12 (0.98%) Atlassian
12 12 (0.98%) Fortinet
12 12 (0.98%) ScienceLogic
13 10 (0.82%) New Relic
13 10 (0.82%) OpenAI
14 9 (0.74%) ServiceNow
15 8 (0.66%) IBM
15 8 (0.66%) NetApp
16 7 (0.57%) Salesforce