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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 210 147
Rank change year-on-year +107 -63 -39
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,294 465 909
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.55% 1.35% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 1.56% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 879 331 604
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%

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 58,301 29,869 43,377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.01% 86.65% 78.29%
Number of salaries quoted 41,307 16,135 23,985
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 +87 453 £70,239 +0.34% 406
North West +95 252 £72,500 +11.54% 226
South East +58 244 £67,500 -18.18% 271
South West +35 228 £75,000 - 206
Midlands +26 144 £77,500 +19.23% 145
Yorkshire +9 101 £75,000 +7.14% 123
North East +20 100 £59,000 -18.62% 57
West Midlands +10 87 £85,000 +31.78% 88
Wales -11 71 £70,000 +21.74% 35
Northern Ireland -26 62 £71,991 +67.07% 51
East Midlands +7 57 £67,500 +3.85% 57
East of England -6 54 £62,500 -3.85% 94
Scotland +15 50 £72,500 +3.57% 181
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 41 (3.17%) Apache Spark
2 35 (2.70%) Apache
3 33 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (1.55%) Confluence
6 13 (1.00%) Jupyter
7 9 (0.70%) IIS
8 6 (0.46%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.39%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.23%) CMS
10 3 (0.23%) nginx
10 3 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.23%) WordPress
11 1 (0.077%) Documentum
11 1 (0.077%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.15%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.077%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.077%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 700 (54.10%) Azure
2 682 (52.70%) AWS
3 229 (17.70%) GitHub
4 215 (16.62%) GCP
5 198 (15.30%) Serverless
6 191 (14.76%) Azure DevOps
7 172 (13.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 133 (10.28%) GitHub Actions
9 116 (8.96%) AWS Lambda
10 111 (8.58%) Amazon S3
11 89 (6.88%) Amazon EC2
12 85 (6.57%) Amazon EKS
13 82 (6.34%) PaaS
14 81 (6.26%) Amazon ECS
14 81 (6.26%) Microsoft 365
15 71 (5.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 67 (5.18%) Azure AKS
16 67 (5.18%) Cloud Computing
17 66 (5.10%) SaaS
18 60 (4.64%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 92 (7.11%) Firewall
2 87 (6.72%) WAN
3 75 (5.80%) LAN
3 75 (5.80%) VPN
4 66 (5.10%) DNS
5 39 (3.01%) Network Security
6 37 (2.86%) TCP/IP
7 34 (2.63%) DHCP
8 23 (1.78%) BGP
9 16 (1.24%) VLAN
10 14 (1.08%) SD-WAN
10 14 (1.08%) Software-Defined Networking
11 13 (1.00%) OSPF
12 12 (0.93%) Broadband
12 12 (0.93%) SAN
13 10 (0.77%) Wireless
14 9 (0.70%) Ethernet VPN
15 8 (0.62%) HTTP
16 7 (0.54%) MQTT
17 6 (0.46%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (6.88%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
2 58 (4.48%) NoSQL
3 54 (4.17%) MongoDB
4 48 (3.71%) DynamoDB
5 46 (3.55%) SQL Server
6 42 (3.25%) MySQL
7 36 (2.78%) Relational Database
8 35 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
9 32 (2.47%) Data Lake
10 31 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
11 20 (1.55%) Big Data
12 18 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
13 17 (1.31%) Redis
14 16 (1.24%) Metadata
15 15 (1.16%) Power BI
16 14 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
16 14 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
16 14 (1.08%) Hadoop
17 12 (0.93%) Flink
Development Applications
1 200 (15.46%) Git
2 140 (10.82%) GitLab
3 128 (9.89%) Jenkins
4 43 (3.32%) JIRA
5 18 (1.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 18 (1.39%) SonarQube
6 15 (1.16%) Cypress.io
7 13 (1.00%) Selenium
8 11 (0.85%) Bitbucket
9 10 (0.77%) Cucumber
9 10 (0.77%) NUnit
10 9 (0.70%) MSI
11 8 (0.62%) Artifactory
11 8 (0.62%) Terragrunt
12 7 (0.54%) Robot Framework
12 7 (0.54%) Subversion
13 6 (0.46%) Claude Code
13 6 (0.46%) git-flow
13 6 (0.46%) TestRail
14 5 (0.39%) Snyk
General
1 382 (29.52%) Social Skills
2 231 (17.85%) Finance
3 146 (11.28%) Public Sector
4 95 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
5 93 (7.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 79 (6.11%) Law
7 69 (5.33%) Presentation Skills
8 48 (3.71%) Aerospace
9 27 (2.09%) Banking
9 27 (2.09%) Retail
10 23 (1.78%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.55%) Marketing
12 16 (1.24%) Legal
13 15 (1.16%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.00%) Aviation
14 13 (1.00%) Local Government
15 12 (0.93%) Games
16 11 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (0.85%) Military
17 9 (0.70%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 267 (20.63%) Senior
2 262 (20.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 215 (16.62%) Lead
4 163 (12.60%) Architect
5 160 (12.36%) Cloud Engineer
6 131 (10.12%) Platform Engineer
7 123 (9.51%) Developer
8 104 (8.04%) Azure Engineer
8 104 (8.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 89 (6.88%) Software Engineer
10 71 (5.49%) Data Engineer
11 63 (4.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 62 (4.79%) Systems Architect
13 60 (4.64%) AWS Engineer
14 56 (4.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 48 (3.71%) Senior DevOps
16 47 (3.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 46 (3.55%) Azure Platform Engineer
17 46 (3.55%) Technical Leader
18 45 (3.48%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 873 (67.47%) Terraform
2 127 (9.81%) React
3 96 (7.42%) .NET
3 96 (7.42%) REST
4 94 (7.26%) Node.js
5 91 (7.03%) Spring Boot
6 88 (6.80%) Spring
7 73 (5.64%) Kafka
8 66 (5.10%) RESTful
9 54 (4.17%) AWS CDK
10 50 (3.86%) ARM Templates
11 46 (3.55%) AngularJS
12 41 (3.17%) PySpark
13 38 (2.94%) YAML
14 34 (2.63%) CSS
14 34 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
14 34 (2.63%) Vue
15 33 (2.55%) ASP.NET
15 33 (2.55%) Next.js
16 32 (2.47%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 335 (25.89%) Cloud Native
2 100 (7.73%) Distributed Systems
3 90 (6.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 73 (5.64%) Onboarding
5 61 (4.71%) Product Ownership
6 46 (3.55%) Public Cloud
7 45 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
8 39 (3.01%) Data Centre
9 37 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
10 36 (2.78%) Security Posture
11 33 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
12 32 (2.47%) Private Cloud
13 25 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
14 23 (1.78%) Data Structures
14 23 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
15 22 (1.70%) Virtual Team
16 19 (1.47%) Management Information System
17 16 (1.24%) Mainframe
18 14 (1.08%) PKI
18 14 (1.08%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 240 (18.55%) Linux
2 128 (9.89%) Windows
3 58 (4.48%) Windows Server
4 36 (2.78%) CentOS
5 32 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 27 (2.09%) Unix
7 24 (1.85%) Ubuntu
8 15 (1.16%) VMS
9 6 (0.46%) Debian
10 5 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.23%) AIX
13 2 (0.15%) Solaris
14 1 (0.077%) Android
14 1 (0.077%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.077%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.077%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 933 (72.10%) CI/CD
2 741 (57.26%) DevOps
3 439 (33.93%) Containerisation
4 430 (33.23%) Agile
5 370 (28.59%) Observability
6 320 (24.73%) Platform Engineering
7 308 (23.80%) Continuous Improvement
8 295 (22.80%) Mentoring
9 290 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
10 271 (20.94%) Software Engineering
11 254 (19.63%) AI
12 231 (17.85%) Technical Leadership
13 217 (16.77%) Microservices
14 202 (15.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 190 (14.68%) Test Automation
16 169 (13.06%) Cloud Security
16 169 (13.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 163 (12.60%) Roadmaps
18 145 (11.21%) DevSecOps
19 135 (10.43%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 525 (40.57%) Python
2 224 (17.31%) Bash
3 186 (14.37%) SQL
4 185 (14.30%) Java
4 185 (14.30%) PowerShell
5 134 (10.36%) TypeScript
6 132 (10.20%) Bicep
7 111 (8.58%) JavaScript
8 88 (6.80%) C#
9 63 (4.87%) Go
10 24 (1.85%) Ruby
11 23 (1.78%) Groovy
12 20 (1.55%) Kusto Query Language
13 17 (1.31%) Rust
14 15 (1.16%) PHP
15 14 (1.08%) Shell Script
16 11 (0.85%) Scala
17 7 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
18 6 (0.46%) COBOL
19 5 (0.39%) C++
Qualifications
1 387 (29.91%) Security Cleared
2 247 (19.09%) SC Cleared
3 159 (12.29%) DV Cleared
4 99 (7.65%) Degree
5 76 (5.87%) Azure Certification
6 65 (5.02%) AWS Certification
7 44 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 32 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
12 15 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.85%) CCNA
14 9 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 7 (0.54%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.54%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.46%) CCNP
16 6 (0.46%) ICAEW
16 6 (0.46%) Master's Degree
16 6 (0.46%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (6.34%) QA
2 62 (4.79%) GRC
3 49 (3.79%) Data Quality
4 38 (2.94%) Accessibility
5 26 (2.01%) NCSC
6 24 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.62%) WCAG
8 17 (1.31%) GDPR
8 17 (1.31%) NIST
9 15 (1.16%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.77%) SLA
11 9 (0.70%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.15%) IFRS
13 2 (0.15%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.15%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.077%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.077%) HIPAA
System Software
1 381 (29.44%) Docker
2 85 (6.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 79 (6.11%) Active Directory
4 33 (2.55%) vSphere
5 25 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (1.39%) Hyper-V
8 12 (0.93%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.46%) Firmware
10 5 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.31%) KVM
11 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.31%) Squid
11 4 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.23%) iptables
13 2 (0.15%) Lustre
14 1 (0.077%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 500 (38.64%) Kubernetes
2 273 (21.10%) Ansible
3 113 (8.73%) Grafana
4 91 (7.03%) Prometheus
5 46 (3.55%) Puppet
6 40 (3.09%) Argo
7 32 (2.47%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.62%) Istio
9 16 (1.24%) Packer
10 14 (1.08%) vCenter Server
11 13 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.93%) Podman
13 11 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
14 10 (0.77%) Kibana
14 10 (0.77%) Kustomize
15 9 (0.70%) Rancher
16 8 (0.62%) Nessus
16 8 (0.62%) ZABBIX
17 7 (0.54%) FortiGate
17 7 (0.54%) yum
Vendors
1 302 (23.34%) Microsoft
2 98 (7.57%) VMware
3 66 (5.10%) Google
4 53 (4.10%) Red Hat
5 51 (3.94%) Databricks
6 50 (3.86%) Splunk
7 30 (2.32%) Oracle
8 29 (2.24%) Cisco
9 14 (1.08%) Fortinet
9 14 (1.08%) OpenAI
9 14 (1.08%) ServiceNow
10 13 (1.00%) Atlassian
11 12 (0.93%) New Relic
11 12 (0.93%) ScienceLogic
12 11 (0.85%) Palo Alto
13 10 (0.77%) F5
14 9 (0.70%) Dynatrace
14 9 (0.70%) Meraki
15 8 (0.62%) IBM
16 7 (0.54%) SAP