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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 218 203
Rank change year-on-year +75 -15 -65
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 842 408 994
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.26% 1.39% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 1.52% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 641 275 772
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,750 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,767 £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 47,086 26,868 60,362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.39% 91.75% 81.08%
Number of salaries quoted 31,492 13,351 42,577
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £27,250
25th Percentile £38,539 £33,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +57 322 £67,500 -3.57% 159
South East +40 194 £70,000 -6.67% 155
North West +61 187 £75,000 +3.45% 94
South West +6 113 £73,750 +5.36% 79
Midlands +30 111 £70,079 +7.81% 48
Yorkshire -7 93 £65,576 -3.57% 35
West Midlands +1 65 £80,000 +14.29% 35
East Midlands +6 46 £67,500 +3.85% 13
East of England +3 46 £60,100 -7.54% 35
North East -14 42 £55,000 -15.38% 30
Scotland +7 36 £60,000 -20.38% 35
Wales -26 20 £68,500 +19.13% 17
Northern Ireland -34 3 £84,401 +95.86% 19
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 20 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.14%) Apache
2 18 (2.14%) Apache Spark
3 16 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.43%) Confluence
5 10 (1.19%) IIS
6 7 (0.83%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.59%) CMS
8 4 (0.48%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.36%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.12%) Lightworks
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 497 (59.03%) AWS
2 445 (52.85%) Azure
3 174 (20.67%) GitHub
4 171 (20.31%) Azure DevOps
5 165 (19.60%) Serverless
6 134 (15.91%) GCP
7 125 (14.85%) GitHub Actions
8 109 (12.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 92 (10.93%) Amazon S3
10 89 (10.57%) AWS Lambda
11 73 (8.67%) Amazon EKS
12 70 (8.31%) PaaS
13 64 (7.60%) Amazon EC2
14 61 (7.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 54 (6.41%) Amazon ECS
16 51 (6.06%) SaaS
17 50 (5.94%) Azure AKS
18 48 (5.70%) Entra ID
19 47 (5.58%) IaaS
20 40 (4.75%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 106 (12.59%) Firewall
2 56 (6.65%) DNS
3 38 (4.51%) TCP/IP
4 34 (4.04%) VPN
5 24 (2.85%) Network Security
6 20 (2.38%) DHCP
7 17 (2.02%) BGP
7 17 (2.02%) HTTP
8 15 (1.78%) Broadband
8 15 (1.78%) Cisco ASA
9 14 (1.66%) VLAN
10 13 (1.54%) WAN
11 9 (1.07%) LAN
11 9 (1.07%) SAN
12 7 (0.83%) Internet
13 6 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.71%) OSPF
13 6 (0.71%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.71%) WebEx
14 5 (0.59%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (5.70%) Amazon RDS
3 38 (4.51%) NoSQL
4 37 (4.39%) DynamoDB
5 35 (4.16%) MongoDB
6 32 (3.80%) SQL Server
7 20 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 19 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (2.26%) Relational Database
9 14 (1.66%) Metadata
9 14 (1.66%) Spark SQL
10 13 (1.54%) Data Lake
11 11 (1.31%) Big Data
11 11 (1.31%) BigQuery
12 10 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (1.07%) Redis
14 8 (0.95%) MySQL
15 5 (0.59%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 129 (15.32%) Git
2 107 (12.71%) GitLab
2 107 (12.71%) Jenkins
3 21 (2.49%) JIRA
4 16 (1.90%) Bitbucket
5 13 (1.54%) Cucumber
6 12 (1.43%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.83%) Artifactory
7 7 (0.83%) JMeter
7 7 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
7 7 (0.83%) Selenium
8 6 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (0.71%) NUnit
8 6 (0.71%) Subversion
9 5 (0.59%) CircleCI
9 5 (0.59%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.59%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.48%) Locust
10 4 (0.48%) TestRail
10 4 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 203 (24.11%) Social Skills
2 100 (11.88%) Finance
3 74 (8.79%) Public Sector
4 65 (7.72%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (4.16%) Telecoms
6 33 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (3.09%) Law
7 26 (3.09%) Retail
8 22 (2.61%) Banking
9 21 (2.49%) Manufacturing
10 18 (2.14%) Aerospace
11 16 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (1.78%) Games
13 13 (1.54%) Billing
14 11 (1.31%) Marketing
15 10 (1.19%) Advertising
16 9 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.71%) Legal
18 5 (0.59%) Local Government
19 4 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 182 (21.62%) Senior
2 167 (19.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 138 (16.39%) Lead
4 112 (13.30%) Cloud Engineer
5 92 (10.93%) Azure Engineer
6 77 (9.14%) Developer
7 75 (8.91%) Platform Engineer
8 61 (7.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 61 (7.24%) Software Engineer
9 51 (6.06%) Architect
10 41 (4.87%) AWS Engineer
11 40 (4.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 39 (4.63%) Data Engineer
13 37 (4.39%) Senior DevOps
14 34 (4.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 29 (3.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 28 (3.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 28 (3.33%) Technical Leader
17 27 (3.21%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 27 (3.21%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (11.05%) React
2 84 (9.98%) Node.js
3 71 (8.43%) .NET
4 67 (7.96%) REST
5 49 (5.82%) AWS CDK
6 44 (5.23%) YAML
7 43 (5.11%) ARM Templates
8 39 (4.63%) RESTful
9 38 (4.51%) Spring
10 35 (4.16%) Elastic Stack
10 35 (4.16%) Kafka
11 33 (3.92%) Spring Boot
12 31 (3.68%) ASP.NET
13 29 (3.44%) ASP.NET Core
13 29 (3.44%) PySpark
14 25 (2.97%) AngularJS
14 25 (2.97%) OAuth
15 22 (2.61%) Vue
16 20 (2.38%) CSS
17 19 (2.26%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 174 (20.67%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.01%) Hybrid Cloud
3 55 (6.53%) Distributed Systems
4 43 (5.11%) Product Ownership
5 26 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (3.09%) Public Cloud
6 21 (2.49%) Data Centre
7 19 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
8 18 (2.14%) Onboarding
9 16 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.66%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.66%) Legacy Applications
10 14 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (1.66%) Private Cloud
11 13 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.54%) Replication
12 12 (1.43%) Security Posture
13 11 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
13 11 (1.31%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 178 (21.14%) Linux
2 86 (10.21%) Windows
3 50 (5.94%) Windows Server
4 31 (3.68%) Ubuntu
5 22 (2.61%) CentOS
6 18 (2.14%) Unix
7 15 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (1.07%) VMS
9 8 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.83%) Debian
11 5 (0.59%) Android
11 5 (0.59%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.12%) AIX
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 622 (73.87%) CI/CD
2 521 (61.88%) DevOps
3 280 (33.25%) Agile
4 251 (29.81%) Observability
5 238 (28.27%) Containerisation
6 193 (22.92%) Mentoring
7 190 (22.57%) Platform Engineering
8 183 (21.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 159 (18.88%) Problem-Solving
10 156 (18.53%) Test Automation
11 145 (17.22%) AI
12 142 (16.86%) Microservices
13 124 (14.73%) Software Engineering
14 121 (14.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 118 (14.01%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 103 (12.23%) Technical Leadership
17 89 (10.57%) Cloud Security
18 83 (9.86%) DevSecOps
19 80 (9.50%) Full-Stack Development
20 75 (8.91%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 367 (43.59%) Python
2 182 (21.62%) Bash
3 160 (19.00%) PowerShell
4 126 (14.96%) SQL
5 107 (12.71%) TypeScript
6 95 (11.28%) Java
7 82 (9.74%) JavaScript
8 72 (8.55%) Bicep
9 57 (6.77%) C#
10 56 (6.65%) Go
11 17 (2.02%) Groovy
12 12 (1.43%) C
13 10 (1.19%) PHP
14 9 (1.07%) Ruby
14 9 (1.07%) Rust
15 8 (0.95%) C++
16 6 (0.71%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
18 4 (0.48%) Apex Code
18 4 (0.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 182 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 119 (14.13%) SC Cleared
3 67 (7.96%) Degree
4 58 (6.89%) DV Cleared
5 40 (4.75%) Azure Certification
6 38 (4.51%) AWS Certification
7 31 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (1.66%) DBS Check
10 12 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
13 6 (0.71%) ICAEW
13 6 (0.71%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.59%) CCNA
14 5 (0.59%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.48%) Network+ Certification
15 4 (0.48%) OSCP
15 4 (0.48%) PhD
15 4 (0.48%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.58%) QA
2 23 (2.73%) Data Quality
3 21 (2.49%) GDPR
4 18 (2.14%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.31%) WCAG
7 9 (1.07%) NIST
7 9 (1.07%) SOC 2
8 7 (0.83%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.48%) NCSC
9 4 (0.48%) SLA
10 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.24%) IFRS
11 2 (0.24%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.24%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
System Software
1 240 (28.50%) Docker
2 54 (6.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (5.34%) Active Directory
4 24 (2.85%) vSphere
5 19 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (1.54%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.83%) iptables
8 6 (0.71%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.48%) Firmware
9 4 (0.48%) Squid
10 3 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 596 (70.78%) Terraform
2 307 (36.46%) Kubernetes
3 189 (22.45%) Ansible
4 112 (13.30%) Grafana
5 88 (10.45%) Prometheus
6 29 (3.44%) Puppet
7 23 (2.73%) Argo
8 20 (2.38%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.54%) Nagios
9 13 (1.54%) vCenter Server
10 12 (1.43%) Packer
11 10 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (1.07%) Istio
12 9 (1.07%) Podman
12 9 (1.07%) Proxmox
12 9 (1.07%) Rancher
13 6 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (0.71%) Kibana
13 6 (0.71%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 152 (18.05%) Microsoft
2 70 (8.31%) VMware
3 46 (5.46%) Red Hat
4 33 (3.92%) Google
5 32 (3.80%) Databricks
6 31 (3.68%) Cisco
7 30 (3.56%) Splunk
8 20 (2.38%) Palo Alto
9 13 (1.54%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.43%) Oracle
11 10 (1.19%) CrowdStrike
11 10 (1.19%) F5
12 9 (1.07%) Fortinet
13 8 (0.95%) Salesforce
14 7 (0.83%) HubSpot
14 7 (0.83%) Juniper
14 7 (0.83%) NetApp
15 6 (0.71%) Atlassian
15 6 (0.71%) Dell
15 6 (0.71%) SolarWinds