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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 157 103
Rank change year-on-year +1 -54 +43
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 576 685 899
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.37% 1.79% 3.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 2.04% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 417 431 697
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £47,022
25th Percentile £56,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +0.99% -2.15%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £72,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -0.69% - -3.33%

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 33,832 33,523 26,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 80.58% 87.75% 93.67%
Number of salaries quoted 19,348 15,680 19,684
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £41,250 £38,585
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,924 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.05% +4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -3.23%

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 -11 199 £70,000 +15.77% 101
South East +19 112 £75,000 +15.38% 136
Yorkshire -6 90 £70,000 +27.27% 36
North West +4 82 £70,000 +3.70% 50
Scotland +19 77 £70,039 +9.87% 11
South West -42 66 £63,225 -9.68% 63
Midlands +12 65 £65,500 +0.77% 27
West Midlands +15 44 £65,000 -1.52% 15
East of England +28 29 £66,500 -8.28% 13
North East +1 27 £65,000 +30.00% 16
Wales +12 22 £60,500 +0.83% 16
East Midlands +3 19 £67,500 +17.39% 12
Northern Ireland -6 8 £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 24 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (3.65%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.26%) Apache
4 11 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.74%) Apache Spark
6 9 (1.56%) Confluence
7 6 (1.04%) Appian
7 6 (1.04%) IIS
8 4 (0.69%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) SAS
9 1 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 401 (69.62%) Azure
2 335 (58.16%) AWS
3 187 (32.47%) Azure DevOps
4 121 (21.01%) GitHub
5 104 (18.06%) Serverless
6 99 (17.19%) AWS CloudFormation
7 95 (16.49%) GCP
8 81 (14.06%) GitHub Actions
9 66 (11.46%) AWS Lambda
10 60 (10.42%) Microsoft 365
11 57 (9.90%) Amazon S3
12 53 (9.20%) SaaS
13 48 (8.33%) Entra ID
14 45 (7.81%) dbt
15 41 (7.12%) PaaS
16 40 (6.94%) Amazon ECS
17 39 (6.77%) Azure Monitor
18 36 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 33 (5.73%) Azure Data Factory
20 27 (4.69%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (8.16%) Firewall
2 41 (7.12%) DNS
3 33 (5.73%) VPN
4 32 (5.56%) TCP/IP
5 20 (3.47%) WAN
6 15 (2.60%) DHCP
7 14 (2.43%) LAN
8 11 (1.91%) SD-WAN
8 11 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (1.74%) Network Security
10 7 (1.22%) SAN
10 7 (1.22%) Unified Communications
10 7 (1.22%) VoIP
11 6 (1.04%) AMQP
11 6 (1.04%) BGP
11 6 (1.04%) VLAN
12 5 (0.87%) HTTP
13 4 (0.69%) Wireless
14 3 (0.52%) IPsec
14 3 (0.52%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (7.29%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (6.08%) Amazon RDS
3 32 (5.56%) NoSQL
3 32 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 30 (5.21%) DynamoDB
5 23 (3.99%) Redis
6 18 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (2.43%) MySQL
8 11 (1.91%) Data Lake
9 10 (1.74%) MongoDB
10 8 (1.39%) Big Data
10 8 (1.39%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.22%) Airbyte
12 6 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.04%) InfluxDB
13 5 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.69%) Apache Iceberg
14 4 (0.69%) Hadoop
15 3 (0.52%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 67 (11.63%) Git
2 64 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 53 (9.20%) GitLab
4 26 (4.51%) Selenium
5 23 (3.99%) Robot Framework
6 21 (3.65%) Snyk
7 18 (3.13%) JIRA
8 10 (1.74%) TeamCity
9 9 (1.56%) Bitbucket
9 9 (1.56%) CircleCI
9 9 (1.56%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.56%) SonarQube
10 8 (1.39%) JMeter
11 7 (1.22%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (1.04%) Artifactory
12 6 (1.04%) git-flow
12 6 (1.04%) Locust
13 5 (0.87%) MLflow
14 4 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 3 (0.52%) NUnit
General
1 165 (28.65%) Social Skills
2 128 (22.22%) Finance
3 43 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (5.03%) Law
5 25 (4.34%) Public Sector
6 22 (3.82%) Telecoms
7 14 (2.43%) Retail
8 12 (2.08%) Games
9 11 (1.91%) Legal
9 11 (1.91%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.56%) Marketing
11 8 (1.39%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.22%) Advertising
12 7 (1.22%) Billing
12 7 (1.22%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.04%) Automotive
13 6 (1.04%) Electronics
14 4 (0.69%) Banking
Job Titles
1 141 (24.48%) Senior
2 74 (12.85%) DevOps Engineer
3 73 (12.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 69 (11.98%) Developer
4 69 (11.98%) Lead
5 53 (9.20%) Azure Engineer
6 46 (7.99%) Platform Engineer
7 44 (7.64%) Architect
8 28 (4.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 23 (3.99%) Software Engineer
10 18 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
10 18 (3.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 17 (2.95%) Lead DevOps
11 17 (2.95%) Python Developer
12 15 (2.60%) .NET Developer
12 15 (2.60%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (2.60%) Data Engineer
12 15 (2.60%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 15 (2.60%) Senior DevOps
13 14 (2.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (13.89%) React
2 62 (10.76%) .NET
3 42 (7.29%) RESTful
4 35 (6.08%) Node.js
5 34 (5.90%) Django
6 31 (5.38%) OAuth
7 30 (5.21%) ARM Templates
8 28 (4.86%) YAML
9 23 (3.99%) REST
10 22 (3.82%) .NET Core
10 22 (3.82%) AWS CDK
11 20 (3.47%) CSS
11 20 (3.47%) Vue
12 19 (3.30%) GraphQL
12 19 (3.30%) HTML
13 18 (3.13%) ASP.NET
13 18 (3.13%) FastAPI
14 17 (2.95%) AngularJS
14 17 (2.95%) OAuth2
15 16 (2.78%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 133 (23.09%) Cloud Native
2 42 (7.29%) Product Ownership
3 22 (3.82%) Security Posture
4 20 (3.47%) Data Centre
5 19 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 18 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
7 15 (2.60%) Public Cloud
8 14 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (1.91%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.91%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.39%) Operational Technology
11 7 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.04%) Low-Code
13 5 (0.87%) AI Agents
14 4 (0.69%) ARM Cortex
14 4 (0.69%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 106 (18.40%) Linux
2 50 (8.68%) Windows
3 21 (3.65%) Unix
4 14 (2.43%) Windows Server
5 13 (2.26%) Ubuntu
6 12 (2.08%) Debian
6 12 (2.08%) VMS
7 5 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.69%) CentOS
9 1 (0.17%) Android
9 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (72.57%) DevOps
2 398 (69.10%) CI/CD
3 234 (40.63%) Agile
4 133 (23.09%) Containerisation
5 128 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 124 (21.53%) Problem-Solving
7 115 (19.97%) Mentoring
8 101 (17.53%) Observability
9 87 (15.10%) Test Automation
10 83 (14.41%) Coaching
11 81 (14.06%) Platform Engineering
12 80 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 77 (13.37%) Software Engineering
14 70 (12.15%) Microservices
15 67 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 65 (11.28%) Asset Management
16 65 (11.28%) Roadmaps
17 64 (11.11%) AI
18 63 (10.94%) Analytics
19 62 (10.76%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 225 (39.06%) Python
2 124 (21.53%) PowerShell
3 111 (19.27%) SQL
4 88 (15.28%) Bicep
5 80 (13.89%) Bash
6 58 (10.07%) C#
7 56 (9.72%) JavaScript
7 56 (9.72%) TypeScript
8 55 (9.55%) Java
9 26 (4.51%) Go
10 6 (1.04%) C++
11 5 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.69%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.69%) C
12 4 (0.69%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.52%) Scala
14 2 (0.35%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.35%) XAML
15 1 (0.17%) Perl
15 1 (0.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 94 (16.32%) Security Cleared
2 62 (10.76%) SC Cleared
3 45 (7.81%) DV Cleared
4 37 (6.42%) AWS Certification
5 32 (5.56%) Azure Certification
6 30 (5.21%) Degree
7 14 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (2.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.91%) AWS Certified Developer
10 11 (1.91%) CCNP
10 11 (1.91%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.22%) CISSP
11 7 (1.22%) PMI Certification
11 7 (1.22%) PMP
12 4 (0.69%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.52%) CCNA
13 3 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.51%) NIST
2 25 (4.34%) GDPR
3 24 (4.17%) QA
4 19 (3.30%) Accessibility
5 16 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.39%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.22%) WCAG
8 4 (0.69%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.35%) GRC
10 2 (0.35%) NCSC
10 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 188 (32.64%) Docker
2 26 (4.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (3.82%) Virtual Desktop
4 21 (3.65%) Active Directory
5 19 (3.30%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (2.08%) Hyper-V
7 9 (1.56%) vSphere
8 6 (1.04%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.69%) Firmware
9 4 (0.69%) vCloud
9 4 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.17%) HDFS
11 1 (0.17%) iptables
11 1 (0.17%) KVM
11 1 (0.17%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 409 (71.01%) Terraform
2 175 (30.38%) Kubernetes
3 122 (21.18%) Ansible
4 52 (9.03%) Grafana
5 43 (7.47%) Prometheus
6 26 (4.51%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (1.91%) Docker Swarm
8 10 (1.74%) Argo
8 10 (1.74%) AWS Copilot
9 7 (1.22%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.04%) Puppet
11 5 (0.87%) MaaS360
11 5 (0.87%) Rancher
11 5 (0.87%) SCCM
12 4 (0.69%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.69%) Rundeck
12 4 (0.69%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.52%) Control-M
13 3 (0.52%) Dell DRAC
13 3 (0.52%) yum
Vendors
1 135 (23.44%) Microsoft
2 47 (8.16%) VMware
3 34 (5.90%) Google
4 21 (3.65%) Black Duck
5 20 (3.47%) Coverity
6 16 (2.78%) Cisco
7 15 (2.60%) Databricks
8 14 (2.43%) Ab Initio
9 13 (2.26%) Splunk
10 11 (1.91%) CrowdStrike
10 11 (1.91%) Red Hat
11 10 (1.74%) Palo Alto
12 9 (1.56%) Salesforce
13 6 (1.04%) BiZZdesign
13 6 (1.04%) SAP
13 6 (1.04%) UiPath
14 5 (0.87%) Blue Prism
14 5 (0.87%) Dell
14 5 (0.87%) McAfee
14 5 (0.87%) Oracle