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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 159 161
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 -13
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 619 562 930
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.25% 1.82% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 2.00% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 443 351 726
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,125 £51,250 £54,228
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.74% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £91,250 £91,934
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.60% +3.45% -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 37,761 28,168 44,277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 76.41% 91.34% 86.98%
Number of salaries quoted 22,245 13,020 33,660
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% -8.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £78,750
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 24 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 24 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 -16 214 £65,500 +0.77% 133
South East -1 129 £72,500 +3.57% 126
Yorkshire -14 93 £62,500 +8.70% 38
North West -11 89 £71,500 +5.93% 76
South West -20 85 £62,500 -11.97% 55
Scotland -14 67 £70,079 +0.11% 17
Midlands -1 65 £67,000 +3.08% 33
North East -3 32 £48,445 -14.26% 19
West Midlands -13 32 £65,000 - 27
East Midlands +1 31 £67,750 +4.23% 6
East of England +19 30 £62,500 -13.79% 11
Wales +9 21 £61,496 +25.24% 5
Northern Ireland -28 10 £95,000 +11.76% 4
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 19 (3.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (2.10%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.94%) Apache
4 9 (1.45%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.45%) IIS
5 7 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.97%) Confluence
7 3 (0.48%) Appian
7 3 (0.48%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.32%) CMS
8 2 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 387 (62.52%) Azure
2 379 (61.23%) AWS
3 182 (29.40%) Azure DevOps
4 154 (24.88%) GitHub
5 125 (20.19%) Serverless
6 122 (19.71%) GCP
7 115 (18.58%) GitHub Actions
8 111 (17.93%) AWS CloudFormation
9 78 (12.60%) AWS Lambda
10 62 (10.02%) Amazon S3
10 62 (10.02%) PaaS
11 58 (9.37%) Entra ID
12 51 (8.24%) Amazon EKS
13 49 (7.92%) Amazon ECS
14 48 (7.75%) dbt
15 46 (7.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 46 (7.43%) SaaS
16 42 (6.79%) Microsoft 365
17 39 (6.30%) Azure Monitor
18 34 (5.49%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 81 (13.09%) Firewall
2 55 (8.89%) DNS
3 48 (7.75%) TCP/IP
4 33 (5.33%) VPN
5 17 (2.75%) DHCP
5 17 (2.75%) HTTP
6 16 (2.58%) Network Security
7 15 (2.42%) WAN
8 9 (1.45%) LAN
9 8 (1.29%) BGP
9 8 (1.29%) VLAN
10 7 (1.13%) Cisco ASA
10 7 (1.13%) Internet
10 7 (1.13%) SAN
11 5 (0.81%) AMQP
11 5 (0.81%) Broadband
11 5 (0.81%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.65%) Wireless
13 3 (0.48%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (8.08%) Amazon RDS
3 34 (5.49%) NoSQL
4 32 (5.17%) DynamoDB
5 29 (4.68%) SQL Server
6 28 (4.52%) Redis
7 23 (3.72%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (2.58%) MongoDB
9 15 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (2.42%) MySQL
10 8 (1.29%) Big Data
11 7 (1.13%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (0.97%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.97%) Relational Database
13 5 (0.81%) Airbyte
13 5 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.81%) Cloudera CDH
13 5 (0.81%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.81%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.81%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 82 (13.25%) Jenkins
2 81 (13.09%) Git
3 57 (9.21%) GitLab
4 22 (3.55%) Selenium
5 21 (3.39%) Robot Framework
6 18 (2.91%) Snyk
7 15 (2.42%) JIRA
8 11 (1.78%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.78%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (1.13%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.13%) Octopus Deploy
10 6 (0.97%) git-flow
10 6 (0.97%) JMeter
10 6 (0.97%) Locust
10 6 (0.97%) Subversion
10 6 (0.97%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.81%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.65%) MLflow
13 3 (0.48%) TestRail
General
1 179 (28.92%) Social Skills
2 118 (19.06%) Finance
3 60 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (6.30%) Public Sector
5 36 (5.82%) Law
6 35 (5.65%) Telecoms
7 21 (3.39%) Retail
8 17 (2.75%) Billing
9 14 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (2.10%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.94%) Aerospace
11 12 (1.94%) Marketing
12 10 (1.62%) Games
13 9 (1.45%) Banking
14 8 (1.29%) Advertising
14 8 (1.29%) Legal
15 7 (1.13%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.97%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 152 (24.56%) Senior
2 93 (15.02%) DevOps Engineer
3 85 (13.73%) Cloud Engineer
4 81 (13.09%) Lead
5 67 (10.82%) Developer
6 63 (10.18%) Azure Engineer
7 54 (8.72%) Platform Engineer
8 37 (5.98%) Software Engineer
9 36 (5.82%) Architect
10 35 (5.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 22 (3.55%) AWS Engineer
11 22 (3.55%) Senior DevOps
12 21 (3.39%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 18 (2.91%) Full-Stack Developer
14 17 (2.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 17 (2.75%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 17 (2.75%) Python Developer
15 16 (2.58%) .NET Developer
15 16 (2.58%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 15 (2.42%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (14.54%) React
2 53 (8.56%) Node.js
3 47 (7.59%) .NET
4 46 (7.43%) RESTful
5 39 (6.30%) Django
6 33 (5.33%) AWS CDK
7 30 (4.85%) OAuth
8 29 (4.68%) Elastic Stack
8 29 (4.68%) YAML
9 28 (4.52%) REST
10 25 (4.04%) ARM Templates
11 23 (3.72%) Vue
12 22 (3.55%) CSS
13 21 (3.39%) GraphQL
13 21 (3.39%) HTML
14 20 (3.23%) JSON
14 20 (3.23%) Spring
15 19 (3.07%) FastAPI
16 18 (2.91%) OpenAPI
16 18 (2.91%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 126 (20.36%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.27%) Product Ownership
3 25 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
4 23 (3.72%) Security Posture
5 22 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 19 (3.07%) Linux Command Line
7 18 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (2.10%) Data Centre
9 12 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.94%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.78%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.78%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (0.97%) Private Cloud
14 4 (0.65%) ARM Cortex
14 4 (0.65%) Low-Code
14 4 (0.65%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 138 (22.29%) Linux
2 54 (8.72%) Windows
3 29 (4.68%) Unix
4 17 (2.75%) Windows Server
5 15 (2.42%) Ubuntu
6 13 (2.10%) VMS
7 10 (1.62%) CentOS
7 10 (1.62%) Debian
8 9 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.65%) Android
9 4 (0.65%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (72.37%) CI/CD
2 441 (71.24%) DevOps
3 237 (38.29%) Agile
4 163 (26.33%) Containerisation
5 149 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
6 141 (22.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 140 (22.62%) Observability
8 131 (21.16%) Mentoring
9 97 (15.67%) Platform Engineering
10 90 (14.54%) Test Automation
11 89 (14.38%) Software Engineering
12 87 (14.05%) Coaching
13 86 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 78 (12.60%) Microservices
15 77 (12.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 73 (11.79%) DevSecOps
17 70 (11.31%) Cloud Security
18 66 (10.66%) AI
18 66 (10.66%) Incident Response
18 66 (10.66%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 262 (42.33%) Python
2 129 (20.84%) PowerShell
3 122 (19.71%) Bash
4 89 (14.38%) SQL
5 75 (12.12%) Bicep
6 74 (11.95%) TypeScript
7 69 (11.15%) Java
8 61 (9.85%) JavaScript
9 50 (8.08%) Go
10 44 (7.11%) C#
11 9 (1.45%) C
12 8 (1.29%) C++
13 6 (0.97%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.48%) Scala
16 2 (0.32%) Ruby
16 2 (0.32%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.32%) VB
17 1 (0.16%) Perl
17 1 (0.16%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 118 (19.06%) Security Cleared
2 69 (11.15%) SC Cleared
3 52 (8.40%) DV Cleared
4 40 (6.46%) AWS Certification
5 30 (4.85%) Degree
6 27 (4.36%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (1.78%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (1.29%) DBS Check
10 7 (1.13%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.97%) CISSP
12 5 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.65%) CCNP
13 4 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (0.48%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 2 (0.32%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.36%) QA
2 24 (3.88%) GDPR
3 20 (3.23%) NIST
4 19 (3.07%) Accessibility
5 17 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.29%) WCAG
7 7 (1.13%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.81%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.81%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.48%) NCSC
10 2 (0.32%) GRC
11 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 198 (31.99%) Docker
2 27 (4.36%) Active Directory
2 27 (4.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (3.55%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (2.42%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (2.10%) vSphere
6 10 (1.62%) VMware NSX
7 7 (1.13%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.97%) Firmware
9 4 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.48%) iptables
11 1 (0.16%) KVM
11 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.16%) QEMU
11 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 434 (70.11%) Terraform
2 195 (31.50%) Kubernetes
3 143 (23.10%) Ansible
4 80 (12.92%) Grafana
5 66 (10.66%) Prometheus
6 20 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (2.42%) Argo
7 15 (2.42%) Puppet
8 14 (2.26%) AWS Copilot
9 9 (1.45%) Rancher
10 8 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (1.13%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.97%) Nagios
12 6 (0.97%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.97%) vCenter Server
12 6 (0.97%) yum
13 5 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.65%) Kubeflow
14 4 (0.65%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 116 (18.74%) Microsoft
2 47 (7.59%) VMware
3 44 (7.11%) Google
4 21 (3.39%) Cisco
5 18 (2.91%) Black Duck
5 18 (2.91%) Coverity
5 18 (2.91%) Red Hat
5 18 (2.91%) Splunk
6 14 (2.26%) Ab Initio
6 14 (2.26%) CrowdStrike
7 12 (1.94%) Databricks
7 12 (1.94%) Palo Alto
8 9 (1.45%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.29%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.29%) SolarWinds
10 7 (1.13%) Dell
10 7 (1.13%) Fortinet
11 6 (0.97%) SaltStack
11 6 (0.97%) SAP
12 5 (0.81%) CyberArk