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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 217 196
Rank change year-on-year +101 -21 -69
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,072 455 991
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.50% 1.35% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 1.52% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 789 319 776
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,934 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,750 £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 £82,500 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £94,022 £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 50,529 29,863 58,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.59% 88.35% 79.99%
Number of salaries quoted 35,494 16,025 40,293
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £79,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,201 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.89% +4.00% -8.84%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +88 363 £70,000 - 148
South East +65 224 £70,000 -9.68% 130
North West +81 218 £72,500 - 88
South West +37 174 £75,000 +7.14% 84
Midlands +42 131 £75,000 +15.38% 54
Yorkshire 0 91 £67,500 -3.57% 36
West Midlands +4 78 £80,000 +23.08% 37
North East -8 54 £55,000 -15.38% 24
East Midlands 0 53 £67,500 +3.85% 17
East of England +8 51 £62,500 - 11
Northern Ireland -14 51 £73,801 +71.27% 17
Wales -12 48 £70,079 +21.88% 17
Scotland +15 38 £65,000 -13.04% 24
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 27 (2.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (2.05%) Apache
4 19 (1.77%) Apache Spark
5 17 (1.59%) Confluence
6 10 (0.93%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.65%) IIS
8 5 (0.47%) CMS
9 4 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.28%) WordPress
11 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.19%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.093%) Documentum
12 1 (0.093%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.19%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.093%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 593 (55.32%) Azure
2 562 (52.43%) AWS
3 212 (19.78%) GitHub
4 199 (18.56%) Azure DevOps
5 176 (16.42%) Serverless
6 161 (15.02%) GCP
7 137 (12.78%) GitHub Actions
8 125 (11.66%) AWS CloudFormation
9 97 (9.05%) Amazon S3
10 88 (8.21%) AWS Lambda
10 88 (8.21%) PaaS
11 75 (7.00%) Amazon EKS
12 71 (6.62%) Amazon EC2
13 69 (6.44%) Microsoft 365
14 63 (5.88%) Azure AKS
15 60 (5.60%) Amazon ECS
16 59 (5.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 58 (5.41%) IaaS
17 58 (5.41%) SaaS
18 57 (5.32%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 106 (9.89%) Firewall
2 69 (6.44%) WAN
3 61 (5.69%) LAN
4 60 (5.60%) DNS
4 60 (5.60%) VPN
5 36 (3.36%) TCP/IP
6 33 (3.08%) Network Security
7 22 (2.05%) DHCP
8 18 (1.68%) VLAN
9 17 (1.59%) BGP
10 16 (1.49%) Broadband
11 15 (1.40%) HTTP
12 11 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
13 10 (0.93%) SAN
14 9 (0.84%) SD-WAN
15 8 (0.75%) Software-Defined Networking
16 7 (0.65%) Ethernet VPN
17 6 (0.56%) Cisco Firepower
17 6 (0.56%) MQTT
17 6 (0.56%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (7.00%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (4.57%) Amazon RDS
3 46 (4.29%) NoSQL
4 41 (3.82%) MongoDB
5 38 (3.54%) SQL Server
6 37 (3.45%) DynamoDB
7 34 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 29 (2.71%) Relational Database
9 23 (2.15%) MySQL
10 18 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
11 17 (1.59%) Redis
12 16 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
13 15 (1.40%) Data Lake
13 15 (1.40%) Metadata
14 13 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
14 13 (1.21%) Spark SQL
15 11 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (0.93%) Big Data
17 8 (0.75%) Power BI
18 7 (0.65%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 163 (15.21%) Git
2 131 (12.22%) GitLab
3 120 (11.19%) Jenkins
4 29 (2.71%) JIRA
5 14 (1.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 14 (1.31%) Cucumber
5 14 (1.31%) SonarQube
6 13 (1.21%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.75%) Cypress.io
7 8 (0.75%) NUnit
7 8 (0.75%) Selenium
8 7 (0.65%) Artifactory
8 7 (0.65%) JMeter
8 7 (0.65%) MSI
9 6 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
9 6 (0.56%) Robot Framework
9 6 (0.56%) Subversion
9 6 (0.56%) TestRail
10 5 (0.47%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.47%) Terragrunt
General
1 298 (27.80%) Social Skills
2 174 (16.23%) Finance
3 106 (9.89%) Public Sector
4 71 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (6.06%) Law
6 64 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 51 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
8 27 (2.52%) Retail
8 27 (2.52%) Telecoms
9 23 (2.15%) Aerospace
10 22 (2.05%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.87%) Banking
12 17 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
13 16 (1.49%) Games
14 9 (0.84%) Advertising
15 8 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.75%) Marketing
16 7 (0.65%) Legal
17 6 (0.56%) Billing
18 5 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 228 (21.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 214 (19.96%) Senior
3 173 (16.14%) Lead
4 129 (12.03%) Architect
5 125 (11.66%) Cloud Engineer
6 103 (9.61%) Developer
7 99 (9.24%) Azure Engineer
7 99 (9.24%) Platform Engineer
8 73 (6.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 67 (6.25%) Software Engineer
10 51 (4.76%) Systems Architect
11 50 (4.66%) Senior DevOps
12 47 (4.38%) Data Engineer
13 46 (4.29%) AWS Engineer
14 45 (4.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 42 (3.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 39 (3.64%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 38 (3.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 35 (3.26%) Technical Leader
19 32 (2.99%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (9.98%) React
2 93 (8.68%) Node.js
3 88 (8.21%) REST
4 83 (7.74%) .NET
5 62 (5.78%) Spring Boot
6 60 (5.60%) Spring
7 56 (5.22%) ARM Templates
8 53 (4.94%) RESTful
9 50 (4.66%) Kafka
10 49 (4.57%) AWS CDK
11 46 (4.29%) YAML
12 39 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
13 36 (3.36%) PySpark
14 34 (3.17%) AngularJS
15 29 (2.71%) ASP.NET
15 29 (2.71%) Next.js
15 29 (2.71%) RabbitMQ
15 29 (2.71%) Vue
16 27 (2.52%) ASP.NET Core
17 24 (2.24%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 245 (22.85%) Cloud Native
2 79 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
3 70 (6.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 55 (5.13%) Product Ownership
5 37 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 34 (3.17%) Public Cloud
7 31 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
8 29 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
9 28 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
10 26 (2.43%) Security Posture
11 25 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (2.24%) Data Centre
13 19 (1.77%) Private Cloud
14 18 (1.68%) Data Structures
14 18 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
15 15 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
15 15 (1.40%) Replication
16 14 (1.31%) Virtual Team
17 13 (1.21%) Video\Live Streaming
18 12 (1.12%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 199 (18.56%) Linux
2 108 (10.07%) Windows
3 50 (4.66%) Windows Server
4 31 (2.89%) CentOS
5 29 (2.71%) Ubuntu
6 22 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 18 (1.68%) VMS
8 16 (1.49%) Unix
9 7 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.56%) Debian
11 5 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.28%) Android
12 3 (0.28%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.093%) AIX
13 1 (0.093%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.093%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 774 (72.20%) CI/CD
2 636 (59.33%) DevOps
3 360 (33.58%) Containerisation
4 359 (33.49%) Agile
5 317 (29.57%) Observability
6 263 (24.53%) Platform Engineering
7 245 (22.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 239 (22.29%) Mentoring
9 206 (19.22%) Problem-Solving
10 204 (19.03%) AI
11 185 (17.26%) Microservices
12 178 (16.60%) Software Engineering
13 175 (16.32%) Test Automation
14 165 (15.39%) Technical Leadership
15 146 (13.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 143 (13.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 132 (12.31%) Roadmaps
18 127 (11.85%) Cloud Security
19 119 (11.10%) DevSecOps
20 105 (9.79%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 428 (39.93%) Python
2 206 (19.22%) Bash
3 181 (16.88%) PowerShell
4 151 (14.09%) SQL
5 134 (12.50%) Java
6 123 (11.47%) Bicep
7 121 (11.29%) TypeScript
8 99 (9.24%) JavaScript
9 78 (7.28%) C#
10 62 (5.78%) Go
11 20 (1.87%) Ruby
12 19 (1.77%) Groovy
12 19 (1.77%) Kusto Query Language
13 14 (1.31%) PHP
14 9 (0.84%) Rust
15 8 (0.75%) C++
16 6 (0.56%) COBOL
16 6 (0.56%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.47%) C
17 5 (0.47%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 264 (24.63%) Security Cleared
2 160 (14.93%) SC Cleared
3 103 (9.61%) DV Cleared
4 77 (7.18%) Degree
5 57 (5.32%) Azure Certification
6 37 (3.45%) AWS Certification
7 35 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (0.93%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.65%) CCNA
13 7 (0.65%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (0.56%) ICAEW
14 6 (0.56%) RHCSA
15 5 (0.47%) ISTQB
16 4 (0.37%) OSCP
16 4 (0.37%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (5.97%) QA
2 52 (4.85%) GRC
3 33 (3.08%) Data Quality
4 28 (2.61%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.87%) WCAG
6 18 (1.68%) GDPR
7 17 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 16 (1.49%) PCI DSS
9 15 (1.40%) NCSC
10 12 (1.12%) NIST
10 12 (1.12%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
12 5 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.47%) SLA
13 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.19%) IFRS
13 2 (0.19%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.19%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.093%) GxP
System Software
1 309 (28.82%) Docker
2 70 (6.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 66 (6.16%) Active Directory
4 33 (3.08%) vSphere
5 19 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (1.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.84%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.75%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.56%) iptables
9 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.47%) Firmware
11 4 (0.37%) Squid
12 1 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 739 (68.94%) Terraform
2 410 (38.25%) Kubernetes
3 224 (20.90%) Ansible
4 124 (11.57%) Grafana
5 97 (9.05%) Prometheus
6 33 (3.08%) Puppet
7 32 (2.99%) Argo
8 23 (2.15%) Progress Chef
9 16 (1.49%) Packer
10 15 (1.40%) Istio
11 14 (1.31%) vCenter Server
12 12 (1.12%) Nagios
13 11 (1.03%) Proxmox
14 10 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
14 10 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
15 9 (0.84%) Kibana
15 9 (0.84%) Podman
16 8 (0.75%) Rancher
17 7 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
17 7 (0.65%) logstash
Vendors
1 242 (22.57%) Microsoft
2 86 (8.02%) VMware
3 49 (4.57%) Google
4 48 (4.48%) Red Hat
5 39 (3.64%) Splunk
6 34 (3.17%) Databricks
7 30 (2.80%) Cisco
8 21 (1.96%) Palo Alto
9 14 (1.31%) Oracle
10 13 (1.21%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.12%) F5
11 12 (1.12%) ScienceLogic
12 10 (0.93%) Fortinet
13 9 (0.84%) Atlassian
14 8 (0.75%) CrowdStrike
14 8 (0.75%) OpenAI
15 7 (0.65%) HubSpot
15 7 (0.65%) IBM
15 7 (0.65%) NetApp
15 7 (0.65%) Salesforce