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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 162 183
Rank change year-on-year +3 +21 -36
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 637 479 915
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.19% 1.75% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 1.90% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 468 349 696
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,400 £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 £79,569 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,756 £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 40,198 25,262 50,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 75.05% 92.09% 85.68%
Number of salaries quoted 23,968 13,537 37,874
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% -8.90%
75th Percentile £66,500 £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% -11.29%

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 18 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 18 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 -14 218 £65,000 -2.54% 150
South East +19 137 £70,000 -3.45% 140
North West -18 100 £72,500 +0.71% 78
Yorkshire -15 88 £62,500 +19.05% 46
South West -9 87 £62,500 -10.71% 73
Midlands -1 71 £67,500 +3.85% 34
Scotland -12 57 £65,000 -5.45% 23
East of England +1 35 £65,000 -10.34% 35
West Midlands -10 35 £66,500 -5.00% 29
East Midlands -10 34 £67,500 +3.85% 4
North East -9 30 £47,972 -16.57% 26
Wales -5 22 £64,998 +32.37% 12
Northern Ireland -30 10 £95,000 +11.76% 7
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 12 (1.88%) Apache
1 12 (1.88%) IIS
2 11 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.26%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.78%) Confluence
4 5 (0.78%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.47%) CMS
5 3 (0.47%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.31%) Appian
6 2 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 397 (62.32%) AWS
2 377 (59.18%) Azure
3 183 (28.73%) Azure DevOps
4 156 (24.49%) GitHub
5 139 (21.82%) Serverless
6 128 (20.09%) GCP
7 119 (18.68%) GitHub Actions
8 108 (16.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 82 (12.87%) AWS Lambda
10 68 (10.68%) Amazon S3
11 60 (9.42%) PaaS
12 59 (9.26%) Amazon EKS
13 52 (8.16%) Amazon ECS
14 50 (7.85%) dbt
15 46 (7.22%) SaaS
16 45 (7.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 45 (7.06%) Entra ID
17 36 (5.65%) Azure Monitor
18 34 (5.34%) Amazon EC2
19 33 (5.18%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 86 (13.50%) Firewall
2 52 (8.16%) TCP/IP
3 51 (8.01%) DNS
4 27 (4.24%) VPN
5 19 (2.98%) HTTP
5 19 (2.98%) Network Security
6 13 (2.04%) Cisco ASA
6 13 (2.04%) DHCP
7 12 (1.88%) WAN
8 10 (1.57%) VLAN
9 9 (1.41%) Broadband
9 9 (1.41%) LAN
10 8 (1.26%) BGP
11 7 (1.10%) Internet
12 5 (0.78%) AMQP
12 5 (0.78%) SAN
12 5 (0.78%) Unified Communications
13 4 (0.63%) Cisco Firepower
13 4 (0.63%) WebEx
13 4 (0.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (10.05%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (8.48%) Amazon RDS
3 37 (5.81%) NoSQL
4 33 (5.18%) SQL Server
5 32 (5.02%) DynamoDB
6 28 (4.40%) Redis
7 23 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
8 21 (3.30%) MongoDB
9 17 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (2.35%) MySQL
11 8 (1.26%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.10%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (0.94%) Big Data
13 6 (0.94%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.94%) Metadata
14 5 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (0.78%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (0.78%) InfluxDB
14 5 (0.78%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 93 (14.60%) Git
2 80 (12.56%) Jenkins
3 61 (9.58%) GitLab
4 22 (3.45%) Selenium
5 21 (3.30%) Robot Framework
6 17 (2.67%) Snyk
7 13 (2.04%) JIRA
8 12 (1.88%) Bitbucket
9 10 (1.57%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.41%) JMeter
10 9 (1.41%) Locust
11 8 (1.26%) CircleCI
12 7 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
13 6 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.94%) git-flow
13 6 (0.94%) Subversion
14 5 (0.78%) TeamCity
15 4 (0.63%) MLflow
15 4 (0.63%) TestRail
16 3 (0.47%) Cypress.io
General
1 179 (28.10%) Social Skills
2 103 (16.17%) Finance
3 71 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (6.91%) Public Sector
5 41 (6.44%) Telecoms
6 31 (4.87%) Law
7 25 (3.92%) Retail
8 20 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (2.51%) Billing
10 15 (2.35%) Marketing
11 14 (2.20%) Games
12 13 (2.04%) Aerospace
12 13 (2.04%) Banking
12 13 (2.04%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.26%) Advertising
16 7 (1.10%) Electronics
17 6 (0.94%) Legal
18 5 (0.78%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 160 (25.12%) Senior
2 106 (16.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 93 (14.60%) Lead
4 75 (11.77%) Cloud Engineer
5 73 (11.46%) Developer
6 70 (10.99%) Azure Engineer
7 50 (7.85%) Platform Engineer
8 41 (6.44%) Software Engineer
9 35 (5.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 34 (5.34%) Architect
11 25 (3.92%) Senior DevOps
12 23 (3.61%) AWS Engineer
12 23 (3.61%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 21 (3.30%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 18 (2.83%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 18 (2.83%) Full-Stack Developer
14 18 (2.83%) Lead DevOps
14 18 (2.83%) Python Developer
14 18 (2.83%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 17 (2.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (15.23%) React
2 62 (9.73%) Node.js
3 55 (8.63%) .NET
4 48 (7.54%) RESTful
5 41 (6.44%) Django
6 39 (6.12%) AWS CDK
6 39 (6.12%) REST
7 35 (5.49%) YAML
8 34 (5.34%) OAuth
9 30 (4.71%) Elastic Stack
10 27 (4.24%) ARM Templates
11 25 (3.92%) Spring
12 23 (3.61%) CSS
12 23 (3.61%) Vue
13 22 (3.45%) FastAPI
13 22 (3.45%) GraphQL
13 22 (3.45%) HTML
13 22 (3.45%) JSON
13 22 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
14 21 (3.30%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 122 (19.15%) Cloud Native
2 41 (6.44%) Product Ownership
3 27 (4.24%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (3.14%) Linux Command Line
6 17 (2.67%) Security Posture
7 15 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
8 14 (2.20%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.88%) Data Centre
9 12 (1.88%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.73%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.57%) Legacy Applications
12 9 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (1.10%) Low-Code
14 7 (1.10%) Mobile App
14 7 (1.10%) Private Cloud
14 7 (1.10%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 146 (22.92%) Linux
2 61 (9.58%) Windows
3 31 (4.87%) Unix
4 22 (3.45%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.20%) Ubuntu
6 11 (1.73%) CentOS
6 11 (1.73%) VMS
7 9 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (1.10%) 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 (73.47%) CI/CD
2 451 (70.80%) DevOps
3 237 (37.21%) Agile
4 175 (27.47%) Containerisation
5 164 (25.75%) Observability
6 155 (24.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 152 (23.86%) Problem-Solving
8 139 (21.82%) Mentoring
9 111 (17.43%) Test Automation
10 106 (16.64%) Platform Engineering
11 95 (14.91%) Software Engineering
12 88 (13.81%) Microservices
13 87 (13.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 86 (13.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 74 (11.62%) DevSecOps
15 74 (11.62%) Incident Response
16 71 (11.15%) Coaching
17 69 (10.83%) Cloud Security
18 64 (10.05%) AI
19 63 (9.89%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 271 (42.54%) Python
2 130 (20.41%) PowerShell
3 123 (19.31%) Bash
4 94 (14.76%) SQL
5 75 (11.77%) TypeScript
6 74 (11.62%) Java
7 70 (10.99%) Bicep
8 65 (10.20%) JavaScript
9 53 (8.32%) Go
10 47 (7.38%) C#
11 10 (1.57%) C
12 8 (1.26%) Apex Code
12 8 (1.26%) 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
1 118 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 66 (10.36%) SC Cleared
3 57 (8.95%) DV Cleared
4 35 (5.49%) AWS Certification
5 32 (5.02%) Degree
6 26 (4.08%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.04%) AWS Certified Developer
7 13 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (1.73%) 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%) GCIH
14 2 (0.31%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.81%) QA
2 24 (3.77%) GDPR
3 23 (3.61%) Accessibility
4 16 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.04%) NIST
6 11 (1.73%) WCAG
7 10 (1.57%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.10%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.78%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.63%) NCSC
11 3 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.47%) GRC
12 2 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 201 (31.55%) Docker
2 29 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (3.45%) Active Directory
4 16 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (2.51%) vSphere
5 11 (1.73%) VMware NSX
6 7 (1.10%) Hyper-V
6 7 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.78%) Firmware
8 4 (0.63%) iptables
8 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.16%) KVM
9 1 (0.16%) QEMU
9 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 442 (69.39%) Terraform
2 206 (32.34%) Kubernetes
3 144 (22.61%) Ansible
4 94 (14.76%) Grafana
5 74 (11.62%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.51%) Puppet
7 15 (2.35%) Argo
8 14 (2.20%) AWS Copilot
9 12 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (1.41%) Nagios
10 9 (1.41%) Progress Chef
10 9 (1.41%) Rancher
11 8 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (1.10%) Proxmox
12 7 (1.10%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.94%) yum
14 5 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.63%) Cisco CUCM
15 4 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
15 4 (0.63%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 117 (18.37%) Microsoft
2 49 (7.69%) VMware
3 48 (7.54%) Google
4 25 (3.92%) Cisco
5 24 (3.77%) Red Hat
6 22 (3.45%) Splunk
7 17 (2.67%) Black Duck
7 17 (2.67%) Coverity
8 15 (2.35%) Palo Alto
9 14 (2.20%) CrowdStrike
10 13 (2.04%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.88%) Ab Initio
11 12 (1.88%) Databricks
12 10 (1.57%) Salesforce
13 8 (1.26%) Fortinet
14 7 (1.10%) F5
14 7 (1.10%) Juniper
14 7 (1.10%) SolarWinds
15 6 (0.94%) Dell
15 6 (0.94%) SaltStack