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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 167 187
Rank change year-on-year +9 +20 -42
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 640 482 913
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.20% 1.75% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 1.90% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 468 351 696
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,785 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 £90,000
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 40,195 25,394 50,694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 75.10% 92.08% 85.67%
Number of salaries quoted 23,951 13,564 37,864
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £27,300
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £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 £66,250 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -9 219 £65,000 -3.04% 154
South East +13 137 £70,000 -3.45% 140
North West -16 97 £73,801 +2.15% 77
Yorkshire -10 90 £62,500 +19.05% 49
South West -7 87 £62,500 -10.71% 83
Midlands -3 70 £67,500 +3.85% 44
Scotland -11 60 £66,250 -3.64% 27
East of England +5 35 £65,000 -10.34% 42
West Midlands -1 35 £66,500 -5.00% 30
East Midlands -8 33 £67,500 +3.85% 14
North East -10 32 £48,445 -15.75% 28
Wales -2 22 £64,998 +32.37% 14
Northern Ireland -31 10 £95,000 +11.76% 8
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 13 (2.03%) Apache
1 13 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (1.72%) IIS
3 9 (1.41%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.09%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.78%) Confluence
7 3 (0.47%) CMS
7 3 (0.47%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.31%) Appian
8 2 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 397 (62.03%) AWS
2 382 (59.69%) Azure
3 184 (28.75%) Azure DevOps
4 160 (25.00%) GitHub
5 138 (21.56%) Serverless
6 129 (20.16%) GCP
7 121 (18.91%) GitHub Actions
8 109 (17.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 83 (12.97%) AWS Lambda
10 68 (10.63%) Amazon S3
11 60 (9.38%) PaaS
12 59 (9.22%) Amazon EKS
13 52 (8.13%) Amazon ECS
14 51 (7.97%) dbt
15 48 (7.50%) Entra ID
16 47 (7.34%) SaaS
17 45 (7.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 38 (5.94%) Azure Monitor
19 36 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
20 33 (5.16%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 86 (13.44%) Firewall
2 52 (8.13%) TCP/IP
3 51 (7.97%) DNS
4 27 (4.22%) VPN
5 19 (2.97%) HTTP
5 19 (2.97%) Network Security
6 13 (2.03%) Cisco ASA
6 13 (2.03%) DHCP
7 12 (1.88%) WAN
8 10 (1.56%) VLAN
9 9 (1.41%) Broadband
9 9 (1.41%) LAN
10 8 (1.25%) BGP
11 7 (1.09%) Internet
12 6 (0.94%) SAN
13 5 (0.78%) AMQP
13 5 (0.78%) Unified Communications
14 4 (0.63%) Cisco Firepower
14 4 (0.63%) WebEx
14 4 (0.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (8.44%) Amazon RDS
3 36 (5.63%) NoSQL
4 33 (5.16%) SQL Server
5 32 (5.00%) DynamoDB
6 28 (4.38%) Redis
7 23 (3.59%) Elasticsearch
8 21 (3.28%) MongoDB
9 18 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (2.34%) MySQL
11 8 (1.25%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.09%) BigQuery
12 7 (1.09%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.94%) Big Data
13 6 (0.94%) Metadata
14 5 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (0.78%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.78%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 92 (14.38%) Git
2 81 (12.66%) Jenkins
3 62 (9.69%) GitLab
4 22 (3.44%) Selenium
5 21 (3.28%) Robot Framework
6 17 (2.66%) Snyk
7 14 (2.19%) JIRA
8 13 (2.03%) Bitbucket
9 10 (1.56%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.41%) JMeter
10 9 (1.41%) Locust
11 8 (1.25%) CircleCI
11 8 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.94%) git-flow
12 6 (0.94%) Subversion
12 6 (0.94%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.63%) MLflow
13 4 (0.63%) TestRail
14 3 (0.47%) SonarQube
General
1 181 (28.28%) Social Skills
2 109 (17.03%) Finance
3 71 (11.09%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (6.88%) Public Sector
5 42 (6.56%) Telecoms
6 31 (4.84%) Law
7 25 (3.91%) Retail
8 20 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (2.50%) Billing
10 15 (2.34%) Marketing
11 14 (2.19%) Games
12 13 (2.03%) Aerospace
12 13 (2.03%) Banking
12 13 (2.03%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.25%) Advertising
16 7 (1.09%) Electronics
17 6 (0.94%) Legal
18 5 (0.78%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 159 (24.84%) Senior
2 104 (16.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 92 (14.38%) Lead
4 75 (11.72%) Cloud Engineer
5 72 (11.25%) Developer
6 69 (10.78%) Azure Engineer
7 50 (7.81%) Platform Engineer
8 40 (6.25%) Software Engineer
9 35 (5.47%) Architect
9 35 (5.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 23 (3.59%) Senior DevOps
11 22 (3.44%) AWS Engineer
11 22 (3.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 21 (3.28%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 18 (2.81%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 18 (2.81%) Lead DevOps
13 18 (2.81%) Python Developer
14 17 (2.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 17 (2.66%) Data Engineer
14 17 (2.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (14.84%) React
2 60 (9.38%) Node.js
3 54 (8.44%) .NET
4 49 (7.66%) RESTful
5 41 (6.41%) Django
6 39 (6.09%) REST
7 38 (5.94%) AWS CDK
8 35 (5.47%) OAuth
9 34 (5.31%) YAML
10 31 (4.84%) Elastic Stack
11 27 (4.22%) ARM Templates
12 23 (3.59%) CSS
12 23 (3.59%) JSON
12 23 (3.59%) Spring
12 23 (3.59%) Vue
13 22 (3.44%) FastAPI
13 22 (3.44%) GraphQL
13 22 (3.44%) HTML
13 22 (3.44%) RabbitMQ
14 21 (3.28%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 122 (19.06%) Cloud Native
2 43 (6.72%) Product Ownership
3 27 (4.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
6 18 (2.81%) Security Posture
7 15 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
8 14 (2.19%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.88%) Data Centre
9 12 (1.88%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.72%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
12 9 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (1.09%) Low-Code
14 7 (1.09%) Private Cloud
14 7 (1.09%) Video\Live Streaming
15 6 (0.94%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 145 (22.66%) Linux
2 60 (9.38%) Windows
3 31 (4.84%) Unix
4 22 (3.44%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.19%) Ubuntu
6 11 (1.72%) CentOS
6 11 (1.72%) VMS
7 9 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (1.09%) Debian
9 5 (0.78%) Android
9 5 (0.78%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 468 (73.13%) CI/CD
2 453 (70.78%) DevOps
3 238 (37.19%) Agile
4 174 (27.19%) Containerisation
5 165 (25.78%) Observability
6 154 (24.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 154 (24.06%) Problem-Solving
7 139 (21.72%) Mentoring
8 108 (16.88%) Test Automation
9 106 (16.56%) Platform Engineering
10 94 (14.69%) Software Engineering
11 86 (13.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 86 (13.44%) Microservices
11 86 (13.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 76 (11.88%) Incident Response
13 74 (11.56%) Coaching
14 73 (11.41%) DevSecOps
15 69 (10.78%) Cloud Security
16 66 (10.31%) AI
17 64 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 275 (42.97%) Python
2 132 (20.63%) PowerShell
3 124 (19.38%) Bash
4 95 (14.84%) SQL
5 74 (11.56%) TypeScript
6 73 (11.41%) Java
7 71 (11.09%) Bicep
8 64 (10.00%) JavaScript
9 53 (8.28%) Go
10 47 (7.34%) C#
11 10 (1.56%) C
12 8 (1.25%) Apex Code
12 8 (1.25%) C++
13 5 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.63%) Ruby
15 3 (0.47%) Scala
16 2 (0.31%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.31%) VB
17 1 (0.16%) Perl
17 1 (0.16%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 119 (18.59%) Security Cleared
2 67 (10.47%) SC Cleared
3 57 (8.91%) DV Cleared
4 35 (5.47%) AWS Certification
5 33 (5.16%) Degree
6 26 (4.06%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (1.88%) AWS Certified Developer
9 11 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.41%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.78%) CISSP
11 5 (0.78%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.63%) Network+ Certification
12 4 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.47%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 2 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.31%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.78%) QA
2 25 (3.91%) GDPR
3 23 (3.59%) Accessibility
4 16 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (2.19%) NIST
6 11 (1.72%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.72%) WCAG
7 7 (1.09%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.78%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.63%) NCSC
10 3 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.47%) GRC
11 2 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 199 (31.09%) Docker
2 29 (4.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (3.44%) Active Directory
4 17 (2.66%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (2.50%) vSphere
6 10 (1.56%) VMware NSX
7 9 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (1.09%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.78%) Firmware
10 4 (0.63%) iptables
10 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 4 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.16%) KVM
11 1 (0.16%) QEMU
11 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 445 (69.53%) Terraform
2 204 (31.88%) Kubernetes
3 145 (22.66%) Ansible
4 96 (15.00%) Grafana
5 75 (11.72%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.50%) Puppet
7 15 (2.34%) Argo
8 14 (2.19%) AWS Copilot
8 14 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (1.41%) Nagios
9 9 (1.41%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.41%) Rancher
10 8 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (1.09%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.09%) vCenter Server
12 6 (0.94%) yum
13 5 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.63%) Cisco CUCM
14 4 (0.63%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 120 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 49 (7.66%) Google
2 49 (7.66%) VMware
3 25 (3.91%) Cisco
4 24 (3.75%) Red Hat
5 22 (3.44%) Splunk
6 17 (2.66%) Black Duck
6 17 (2.66%) Coverity
7 15 (2.34%) Palo Alto
8 13 (2.03%) Ab Initio
8 13 (2.03%) CrowdStrike
8 13 (2.03%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.88%) Databricks
10 10 (1.56%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.25%) Fortinet
12 7 (1.09%) F5
12 7 (1.09%) Juniper
12 7 (1.09%) SolarWinds
13 6 (0.94%) Dell
13 6 (0.94%) SAP