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 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 156 149
Rank change year-on-year +4 -7 -2
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 608 596 966
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.28% 1.82% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 2.01% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 430 360 763
10th Percentile £46,125 £40,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £55,750 £51,196 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,729 £66,175 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.86% +1.81% -2.67%
75th Percentile £79,697 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £88,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £73,801 £74,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -0.94% +2.76% -3.33%

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 36,473 29,681 43,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 76.97% 90.70% 86.83%
Number of salaries quoted 21,404 13,454 33,036
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,500 £83,750 £78,479
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 -6 212 £67,500 +7.14% 100
South East +21 121 £75,000 +13.21% 131
Yorkshire -15 94 £62,500 +13.64% 31
North West -10 88 £70,539 +4.50% 56
South West -21 81 £62,500 -13.18% 59
Scotland -6 75 £71,940 +2.04% 19
Midlands +6 62 £65,500 +0.77% 35
West Midlands -7 34 £62,500 -7.41% 28
North East -3 30 £60,000 +9.09% 13
East of England +22 29 £71,250 -1.72% 9
East Midlands +5 26 £67,500 +3.85% 8
Wales +13 21 £61,000 +30.55% 6
Northern Ireland -18 9 £95,000 +11.76% 3
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 (3.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.80%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.97%) Apache
4 9 (1.48%) IIS
5 8 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.32%) Apache Spark
6 7 (1.15%) Confluence
7 3 (0.49%) Appian
7 3 (0.49%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.33%) CMS
8 2 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 393 (64.64%) Azure
2 363 (59.70%) AWS
3 184 (30.26%) Azure DevOps
4 145 (23.85%) GitHub
5 124 (20.39%) Serverless
6 115 (18.91%) GCP
7 104 (17.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 104 (17.11%) GitHub Actions
8 78 (12.83%) AWS Lambda
9 66 (10.86%) Entra ID
10 61 (10.03%) Amazon S3
11 58 (9.54%) PaaS
12 52 (8.55%) SaaS
13 48 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
13 48 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
14 46 (7.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 44 (7.24%) Amazon ECS
15 44 (7.24%) dbt
16 43 (7.07%) Azure Monitor
17 36 (5.92%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 77 (12.66%) Firewall
2 52 (8.55%) DNS
3 38 (6.25%) TCP/IP
4 37 (6.09%) VPN
5 17 (2.80%) DHCP
5 17 (2.80%) Network Security
6 16 (2.63%) WAN
7 13 (2.14%) HTTP
8 9 (1.48%) BGP
8 9 (1.48%) LAN
9 8 (1.32%) Internet
9 8 (1.32%) VLAN
10 7 (1.15%) SAN
10 7 (1.15%) SD-WAN
10 7 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.82%) AMQP
11 5 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (0.66%) Broadband
12 4 (0.66%) Wireless
13 3 (0.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (8.39%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (7.57%) Amazon RDS
3 35 (5.76%) NoSQL
4 33 (5.43%) DynamoDB
5 31 (5.10%) SQL Server
6 24 (3.95%) Redis
7 19 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (2.63%) MongoDB
9 15 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (2.47%) MySQL
10 9 (1.48%) Big Data
11 7 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (0.99%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.99%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.99%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.82%) Airbyte
13 5 (0.82%) Cloudera CDH
13 5 (0.82%) Relational Database
14 4 (0.66%) InfluxDB
14 4 (0.66%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 78 (12.83%) Jenkins
2 75 (12.34%) Git
3 51 (8.39%) GitLab
4 22 (3.62%) Selenium
5 21 (3.45%) Robot Framework
6 18 (2.96%) Snyk
7 14 (2.30%) JIRA
8 11 (1.81%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.81%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.15%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
9 7 (1.15%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (0.99%) git-flow
10 6 (0.99%) JMeter
10 6 (0.99%) Locust
10 6 (0.99%) Subversion
11 5 (0.82%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.66%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.66%) MLflow
General
1 179 (29.44%) Social Skills
2 126 (20.72%) Finance
3 53 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 31 (5.10%) Law
6 30 (4.93%) Telecoms
7 20 (3.29%) Retail
8 17 (2.80%) Billing
9 13 (2.14%) Manufacturing
10 12 (1.97%) Aerospace
10 12 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (1.81%) Marketing
12 10 (1.64%) Games
12 10 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.32%) Banking
13 8 (1.32%) Legal
14 7 (1.15%) Advertising
14 7 (1.15%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.99%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 152 (25.00%) Senior
2 86 (14.14%) Cloud Engineer
3 84 (13.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 77 (12.66%) Lead
5 69 (11.35%) Developer
6 64 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
7 51 (8.39%) Platform Engineer
8 36 (5.92%) Architect
9 35 (5.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 34 (5.59%) Software Engineer
11 21 (3.45%) Senior DevOps
12 20 (3.29%) AWS Engineer
13 19 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
14 17 (2.80%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 17 (2.80%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 17 (2.80%) Python Developer
14 17 (2.80%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 16 (2.63%) .NET Developer
16 15 (2.47%) Operations Engineer
16 15 (2.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (14.47%) React
2 53 (8.72%) .NET
3 52 (8.55%) Node.js
4 47 (7.73%) RESTful
5 35 (5.76%) Django
6 30 (4.93%) YAML
7 29 (4.77%) AWS CDK
7 29 (4.77%) REST
8 27 (4.44%) OAuth
9 25 (4.11%) Elastic Stack
10 24 (3.95%) ARM Templates
11 23 (3.78%) Vue
12 22 (3.62%) CSS
12 22 (3.62%) GraphQL
13 21 (3.45%) HTML
14 20 (3.29%) AngularJS
14 20 (3.29%) Spring
15 19 (3.13%) ASP.NET
15 19 (3.13%) FastAPI
15 19 (3.13%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 127 (20.89%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.73%) Product Ownership
3 25 (4.11%) Enterprise Software
3 25 (4.11%) Security Posture
4 20 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (2.80%) Data Centre
5 17 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
7 14 (2.30%) Public Cloud
8 13 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.81%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.81%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.82%) Private Cloud
13 4 (0.66%) Client/Server
13 4 (0.66%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.66%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 128 (21.05%) Linux
2 52 (8.55%) Windows
3 24 (3.95%) Unix
4 16 (2.63%) VMS
5 15 (2.47%) Ubuntu
5 15 (2.47%) Windows Server
6 12 (1.97%) Debian
7 8 (1.32%) CentOS
8 7 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.66%) Android
9 4 (0.66%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (71.55%) DevOps
2 433 (71.22%) CI/CD
3 233 (38.32%) Agile
4 148 (24.34%) Containerisation
5 143 (23.52%) Problem-Solving
6 135 (22.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 125 (20.56%) Mentoring
8 121 (19.90%) Observability
9 94 (15.46%) Platform Engineering
10 92 (15.13%) Coaching
11 88 (14.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 87 (14.31%) Software Engineering
12 87 (14.31%) Test Automation
13 74 (12.17%) Microservices
14 72 (11.84%) Roadmaps
15 70 (11.51%) AI
15 70 (11.51%) DevSecOps
16 68 (11.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 67 (11.02%) Cloud Security
18 66 (10.86%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 253 (41.61%) Python
2 133 (21.88%) PowerShell
3 116 (19.08%) Bash
4 91 (14.97%) SQL
5 82 (13.49%) Bicep
6 70 (11.51%) TypeScript
7 62 (10.20%) Java
8 61 (10.03%) JavaScript
9 51 (8.39%) C#
10 45 (7.40%) Go
11 9 (1.48%) C
12 7 (1.15%) C++
13 5 (0.82%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.49%) Scala
16 2 (0.33%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.33%) VB
17 1 (0.16%) Perl
17 1 (0.16%) PHP
17 1 (0.16%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 105 (17.27%) Security Cleared
2 63 (10.36%) SC Cleared
3 48 (7.89%) DV Cleared
4 40 (6.58%) AWS Certification
5 29 (4.77%) Azure Certification
6 27 (4.44%) Degree
7 14 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.81%) AWS Certified Developer
10 8 (1.32%) Master's Degree
11 7 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.99%) CCNP
12 6 (0.99%) CISSP
13 5 (0.82%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.66%) Network+ Certification
14 4 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 3 (0.49%) PMI Certification
15 3 (0.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.44%) QA
2 24 (3.95%) GDPR
3 23 (3.78%) NIST
4 20 (3.29%) Accessibility
5 17 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.32%) WCAG
7 7 (1.15%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.82%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.82%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.49%) NCSC
10 2 (0.33%) GRC
11 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 188 (30.92%) Docker
2 27 (4.44%) Active Directory
2 27 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (4.11%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (3.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (1.97%) vSphere
6 10 (1.64%) VMware NSX
7 7 (1.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.82%) Firmware
9 3 (0.49%) iptables
9 3 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.16%) HDFS
11 1 (0.16%) KVM
11 1 (0.16%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 435 (71.55%) Terraform
2 189 (31.09%) Kubernetes
3 136 (22.37%) Ansible
4 71 (11.68%) Grafana
5 59 (9.70%) Prometheus
6 24 (3.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (2.47%) Argo
8 13 (2.14%) Puppet
9 10 (1.64%) AWS Copilot
10 9 (1.48%) Rancher
11 7 (1.15%) Progress Chef
11 7 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.99%) vCenter Server
12 6 (0.99%) yum
13 5 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.82%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.82%) Proxmox
14 4 (0.66%) Kubeflow
14 4 (0.66%) Nagios
14 4 (0.66%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 120 (19.74%) Microsoft
2 46 (7.57%) VMware
3 40 (6.58%) Google
4 19 (3.13%) Cisco
5 18 (2.96%) Black Duck
5 18 (2.96%) Coverity
6 15 (2.47%) CrowdStrike
6 15 (2.47%) Splunk
7 14 (2.30%) Ab Initio
7 14 (2.30%) Red Hat
8 12 (1.97%) Databricks
8 12 (1.97%) Palo Alto
9 9 (1.48%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.48%) SolarWinds
10 7 (1.15%) Fortinet
11 6 (0.99%) Dell
11 6 (0.99%) SaltStack
11 6 (0.99%) SAP
12 5 (0.82%) CyberArk
12 5 (0.82%) Meraki