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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 159 93
Rank change year-on-year +5 -66 +60
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 564 746 979
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.54% 1.58% 3.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 1.95% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 414 446 744
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,479 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +5.35% -0.54% +0.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% -

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 30,524 38,256 28,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.33% 81.00% 93.89%
Number of salaries quoted 18,378 18,422 20,969
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £38,870
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 19 November 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 19 November 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 +6 191 £70,000 +16.67% 185
South East +20 125 £76,250 +24.49% 177
North West -6 84 £65,250 +4.40% 128
Yorkshire +1 82 £70,000 +27.27% 43
Midlands +24 67 £65,000 -1.52% 67
Scotland +2 67 £70,039 +0.06% 46
South West -43 58 £62,500 -10.71% 102
West Midlands +14 47 £65,000 -5.80% 40
East of England +22 32 £67,500 -6.90% 37
North East -5 25 £71,289 +42.58% 14
East Midlands +27 20 £65,000 +56.63% 27
Wales +15 19 £60,000 +9.99% 14
Northern Ireland +2 7 £73,801 -13.18% 18
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 23 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (3.55%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.66%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (2.13%) Apache
6 11 (1.95%) Appian
7 8 (1.42%) Confluence
8 4 (0.71%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.35%) IIS
9 2 (0.35%) nginx
10 1 (0.18%) CMS
10 1 (0.18%) SAS
10 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.35%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 390 (69.15%) Azure
2 333 (59.04%) AWS
3 152 (26.95%) Azure DevOps
4 104 (18.44%) GCP
5 103 (18.26%) GitHub
6 91 (16.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 87 (15.43%) Serverless
8 67 (11.88%) GitHub Actions
9 66 (11.70%) SaaS
10 57 (10.11%) Microsoft 365
11 53 (9.40%) PaaS
12 51 (9.04%) Amazon S3
12 51 (9.04%) AWS Lambda
12 51 (9.04%) Entra ID
13 36 (6.38%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (5.85%) Azure Monitor
15 32 (5.67%) dbt
15 32 (5.67%) IaaS
16 28 (4.96%) Amazon EC2
17 25 (4.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 44 (7.80%) Firewall
2 40 (7.09%) DNS
3 35 (6.21%) VPN
4 28 (4.96%) TCP/IP
5 26 (4.61%) WAN
6 20 (3.55%) LAN
7 15 (2.66%) Network Security
8 12 (2.13%) DHCP
9 11 (1.95%) SD-WAN
9 11 (1.95%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (1.42%) SAN
11 7 (1.24%) Unified Communications
11 7 (1.24%) VoIP
12 6 (1.06%) VLAN
13 5 (0.89%) AMQP
14 4 (0.71%) BGP
14 4 (0.71%) HTTP
15 3 (0.53%) Internet
15 3 (0.53%) OSPF
15 3 (0.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (5.67%) SQL Server
2 31 (5.50%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (4.08%) Redis
5 22 (3.90%) NoSQL
6 21 (3.72%) DynamoDB
7 16 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (2.84%) Elasticsearch
8 15 (2.66%) Big Data
9 14 (2.48%) Data Lake
10 12 (2.13%) MySQL
11 8 (1.42%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.24%) Airbyte
12 7 (1.24%) MongoDB
13 6 (1.06%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
15 4 (0.71%) InfluxDB
16 3 (0.53%) Apache Iceberg
16 3 (0.53%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 56 (9.93%) Jenkins
2 48 (8.51%) GitLab
3 47 (8.33%) Git
4 28 (4.96%) Selenium
5 25 (4.43%) Robot Framework
6 24 (4.26%) Snyk
7 19 (3.37%) JIRA
8 11 (1.95%) TeamCity
9 10 (1.77%) CircleCI
9 10 (1.77%) SonarQube
10 9 (1.60%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.42%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.42%) JMeter
12 7 (1.24%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.24%) Octopus Deploy
13 6 (1.06%) git-flow
13 6 (1.06%) Locust
14 5 (0.89%) MLflow
15 3 (0.53%) MSTest
15 3 (0.53%) NUnit
General
1 152 (26.95%) Social Skills
2 113 (20.04%) Finance
3 44 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (5.85%) Law
5 23 (4.08%) Public Sector
6 17 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (2.84%) Telecoms
8 15 (2.66%) Retail
9 14 (2.48%) Legal
10 10 (1.77%) Automotive
10 10 (1.77%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.77%) Games
11 8 (1.42%) Advertising
11 8 (1.42%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (0.89%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.89%) Marketing
14 4 (0.71%) Billing
15 3 (0.53%) Banking
15 3 (0.53%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 125 (22.16%) Senior
2 77 (13.65%) Cloud Engineer
3 73 (12.94%) Lead
4 71 (12.59%) DevOps Engineer
5 63 (11.17%) Developer
6 61 (10.82%) Architect
7 46 (8.16%) Platform Engineer
8 37 (6.56%) Azure Engineer
9 26 (4.61%) Software Engineer
10 25 (4.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 22 (3.90%) Cloud Architect
12 19 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
12 19 (3.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 18 (3.19%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 17 (3.01%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 17 (3.01%) Lead DevOps
14 17 (3.01%) Python Developer
15 16 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
16 15 (2.66%) Security Engineer
16 15 (2.66%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (11.17%) React
2 59 (10.46%) .NET
3 38 (6.74%) Django
4 28 (4.96%) ARM Templates
5 27 (4.79%) Node.js
6 26 (4.61%) RESTful
7 24 (4.26%) REST
8 23 (4.08%) Kafka
9 22 (3.90%) YAML
10 20 (3.55%) Flask
11 19 (3.37%) CSS
11 19 (3.37%) OAuth
12 18 (3.19%) Elastic Stack
12 18 (3.19%) FastAPI
12 18 (3.19%) HTML
13 17 (3.01%) Vue
14 15 (2.66%) AngularJS
15 14 (2.48%) .NET Core
15 14 (2.48%) .NET Framework
16 12 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 135 (23.94%) Cloud Native
2 43 (7.62%) Product Ownership
3 29 (5.14%) Public Cloud
4 24 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 21 (3.72%) Data Centre
6 19 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (3.01%) Security Posture
8 16 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (2.66%) Linux Command Line
10 13 (2.30%) Onboarding
10 13 (2.30%) Private Cloud
11 12 (2.13%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.95%) Low-Code
13 9 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (1.42%) Operational Technology
15 6 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (1.06%) Management Information System
16 5 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 84 (14.89%) Linux
2 42 (7.45%) Windows
3 18 (3.19%) Unix
4 14 (2.48%) Ubuntu
5 13 (2.30%) Debian
6 12 (2.13%) Windows Server
7 11 (1.95%) VMS
8 4 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.53%) CentOS
10 2 (0.35%) AIX
11 1 (0.18%) Android
11 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 397 (70.39%) DevOps
2 369 (65.43%) CI/CD
3 219 (38.83%) Agile
4 119 (21.10%) Mentoring
5 118 (20.92%) Containerisation
5 118 (20.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 115 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
7 91 (16.13%) Observability
8 82 (14.54%) Test Automation
9 79 (14.01%) Software Engineering
10 78 (13.83%) Platform Engineering
11 76 (13.48%) Roadmaps
12 73 (12.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 70 (12.41%) Coaching
14 67 (11.88%) AI
15 61 (10.82%) Microservices
15 61 (10.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 57 (10.11%) Analytics
17 55 (9.75%) Scrum
17 55 (9.75%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 217 (38.48%) Python
2 107 (18.97%) PowerShell
3 94 (16.67%) SQL
4 79 (14.01%) Bicep
5 71 (12.59%) Bash
6 58 (10.28%) C#
7 53 (9.40%) JavaScript
8 49 (8.69%) Java
9 47 (8.33%) TypeScript
10 22 (3.90%) Go
11 6 (1.06%) C++
12 4 (0.71%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.53%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.53%) Scala
14 2 (0.35%) Groovy
14 2 (0.35%) Ruby
14 2 (0.35%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.35%) VB
14 2 (0.35%) XAML
Qualifications
1 101 (17.91%) Security Cleared
2 70 (12.41%) SC Cleared
3 44 (7.80%) DV Cleared
4 43 (7.62%) Azure Certification
5 35 (6.21%) AWS Certification
6 33 (5.85%) Degree
7 16 (2.84%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (2.48%) Master's Degree
10 13 (2.30%) CCNP
11 12 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (1.24%) PMI Certification
13 7 (1.24%) PMP
14 5 (0.89%) CCNA
15 4 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.71%) ISTQB
16 3 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
16 3 (0.53%) CISSP
16 3 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.61%) NIST
2 24 (4.26%) QA
3 22 (3.90%) GDPR
4 17 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.13%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.24%) WCAG
7 5 (0.89%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.53%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.35%) GRC
9 2 (0.35%) NCSC
9 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 171 (30.32%) Docker
2 26 (4.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (4.43%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (3.90%) Active Directory
4 22 (3.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (1.77%) Hyper-V
6 9 (1.60%) vSphere
7 4 (0.71%) Firmware
7 4 (0.71%) vCloud
7 4 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.53%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.18%) HDFS
9 1 (0.18%) iptables
9 1 (0.18%) KVM
9 1 (0.18%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 399 (70.74%) Terraform
2 170 (30.14%) Kubernetes
3 115 (20.39%) Ansible
4 48 (8.51%) Grafana
5 40 (7.09%) Prometheus
6 26 (4.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (1.95%) Docker Swarm
8 10 (1.77%) AWS Copilot
9 9 (1.60%) Argo
10 6 (1.06%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.06%) Puppet
11 5 (0.89%) MaaS360
11 5 (0.89%) SCCM
12 4 (0.71%) Control-M
12 4 (0.71%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.71%) Rundeck
12 4 (0.71%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.53%) Dell DRAC
14 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 137 (24.29%) Microsoft
2 47 (8.33%) VMware
3 40 (7.09%) Google
4 23 (4.08%) Black Duck
5 18 (3.19%) Cisco
5 18 (3.19%) Coverity
6 15 (2.66%) Palo Alto
7 13 (2.30%) Databricks
7 13 (2.30%) Splunk
8 11 (1.95%) BiZZdesign
8 11 (1.95%) UiPath
9 10 (1.77%) Fortinet
9 10 (1.77%) Salesforce
10 9 (1.60%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.42%) Ab Initio
12 7 (1.24%) Oracle
12 7 (1.24%) SolarWinds
13 6 (1.06%) Aruba
13 6 (1.06%) Blue Prism
13 6 (1.06%) CrowdStrike