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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 220 200
Rank change year-on-year +74 -20 -55
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 832 409 996
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.23% 1.41% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 1.53% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 634 277 778
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,750 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,200 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,761 £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 47,902 26,728 60,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.97% 91.91% 81.23%
Number of salaries quoted 31,346 13,231 42,531
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £27,250
25th Percentile £38,250 £34,000 £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 3 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 3 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 +55 317 £67,500 -3.57% 158
South East +52 191 £70,000 -6.67% 139
North West +64 186 £74,651 +2.97% 88
South West 0 114 £72,500 +1.75% 80
Midlands +29 108 £70,079 +7.81% 44
Yorkshire -12 90 £65,576 -3.57% 36
West Midlands -3 63 £77,500 +10.71% 31
East of England +5 47 £60,100 -7.54% 31
East Midlands +15 45 £67,500 +3.85% 13
North East -14 41 £55,000 -15.38% 34
Scotland +3 38 £60,000 -20.38% 29
Wales -31 16 £65,000 +13.04% 18
Northern Ireland - 4 £95,000 - 17
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 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.16%) Apache
2 18 (2.16%) Apache Spark
3 16 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.44%) Confluence
5 10 (1.20%) IIS
6 7 (0.84%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.60%) 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
Cloud Services
1 487 (58.53%) AWS
2 443 (53.25%) Azure
3 172 (20.67%) Azure DevOps
4 168 (20.19%) GitHub
5 160 (19.23%) Serverless
6 133 (15.99%) GCP
7 119 (14.30%) GitHub Actions
8 104 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 91 (10.94%) Amazon S3
10 86 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
11 72 (8.65%) Amazon EKS
12 68 (8.17%) PaaS
13 62 (7.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 62 (7.45%) Amazon EC2
14 52 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
15 50 (6.01%) SaaS
16 48 (5.77%) Azure AKS
17 47 (5.65%) Entra ID
18 46 (5.53%) IaaS
19 41 (4.93%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 106 (12.74%) Firewall
2 57 (6.85%) DNS
3 39 (4.69%) TCP/IP
4 33 (3.97%) VPN
5 24 (2.88%) Network Security
6 21 (2.52%) DHCP
7 17 (2.04%) HTTP
8 16 (1.92%) BGP
9 15 (1.80%) Broadband
9 15 (1.80%) Cisco ASA
10 14 (1.68%) VLAN
11 12 (1.44%) WAN
12 9 (1.08%) LAN
12 9 (1.08%) SAN
13 7 (0.84%) Internet
14 6 (0.72%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (0.72%) OSPF
14 6 (0.72%) Unified Communications
14 6 (0.72%) WebEx
15 5 (0.60%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (7.57%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (5.77%) Amazon RDS
3 38 (4.57%) DynamoDB
3 38 (4.57%) NoSQL
4 34 (4.09%) MongoDB
5 32 (3.85%) SQL Server
6 20 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (2.28%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (2.16%) Relational Database
9 14 (1.68%) Metadata
9 14 (1.68%) Spark SQL
10 13 (1.56%) Data Lake
11 11 (1.32%) Big Data
11 11 (1.32%) BigQuery
12 10 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (1.08%) Redis
14 7 (0.84%) MySQL
15 5 (0.60%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 129 (15.50%) Git
2 105 (12.62%) GitLab
3 102 (12.26%) Jenkins
4 21 (2.52%) JIRA
5 16 (1.92%) Bitbucket
6 13 (1.56%) Cucumber
7 12 (1.44%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.84%) Artifactory
8 7 (0.84%) JMeter
8 7 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
8 7 (0.84%) Selenium
9 6 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (0.72%) NUnit
9 6 (0.72%) Subversion
10 5 (0.60%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.60%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.60%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.48%) Locust
11 4 (0.48%) TestRail
11 4 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 201 (24.16%) Social Skills
2 103 (12.38%) Finance
3 70 (8.41%) Public Sector
4 64 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (4.33%) Telecoms
6 32 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (3.13%) Law
7 26 (3.13%) Retail
8 22 (2.64%) Banking
8 22 (2.64%) Manufacturing
9 18 (2.16%) Aerospace
10 16 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
11 15 (1.80%) Games
12 13 (1.56%) Billing
13 12 (1.44%) Marketing
14 10 (1.20%) Advertising
15 9 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.72%) Legal
17 5 (0.60%) Electronics
17 5 (0.60%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 181 (21.75%) Senior
2 166 (19.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 138 (16.59%) Lead
4 111 (13.34%) Cloud Engineer
5 92 (11.06%) Azure Engineer
6 75 (9.01%) Developer
7 70 (8.41%) Platform Engineer
8 61 (7.33%) Software Engineer
9 60 (7.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 48 (5.77%) Architect
11 42 (5.05%) AWS Engineer
12 39 (4.69%) Data Engineer
13 38 (4.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 37 (4.45%) Senior DevOps
15 33 (3.97%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 29 (3.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 28 (3.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 28 (3.37%) Technical Leader
18 27 (3.25%) Site Engineer
19 25 (3.00%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (10.82%) React
2 80 (9.62%) Node.js
3 71 (8.53%) .NET
4 64 (7.69%) REST
5 47 (5.65%) AWS CDK
6 45 (5.41%) YAML
7 42 (5.05%) ARM Templates
8 39 (4.69%) RESTful
9 35 (4.21%) Elastic Stack
9 35 (4.21%) Spring
10 33 (3.97%) Kafka
11 31 (3.73%) ASP.NET
12 29 (3.49%) ASP.NET Core
12 29 (3.49%) Spring Boot
13 28 (3.37%) PySpark
14 27 (3.25%) OAuth
15 24 (2.88%) AngularJS
16 22 (2.64%) Vue
17 19 (2.28%) CSS
17 19 (2.28%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 167 (20.07%) Cloud Native
2 58 (6.97%) Hybrid Cloud
3 55 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
4 41 (4.93%) Product Ownership
5 25 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (3.00%) Public Cloud
6 21 (2.52%) Data Centre
7 18 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
7 18 (2.16%) Linux Command Line
7 18 (2.16%) Onboarding
8 16 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (1.68%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.68%) Legacy Applications
9 14 (1.68%) Private Cloud
10 13 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (1.56%) Replication
11 12 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.44%) Security Posture
12 11 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
12 11 (1.32%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 177 (21.27%) Linux
2 86 (10.34%) Windows
3 50 (6.01%) Windows Server
4 31 (3.73%) Ubuntu
5 22 (2.64%) CentOS
6 18 (2.16%) Unix
7 15 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (1.08%) VMS
9 8 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.84%) Debian
11 5 (0.60%) Android
11 5 (0.60%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 615 (73.92%) CI/CD
2 519 (62.38%) DevOps
3 276 (33.17%) Agile
4 247 (29.69%) Observability
5 234 (28.13%) Containerisation
6 194 (23.32%) Mentoring
7 184 (22.12%) Platform Engineering
8 181 (21.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 158 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
10 153 (18.39%) Test Automation
11 143 (17.19%) AI
12 137 (16.47%) Microservices
13 123 (14.78%) Software Engineering
14 119 (14.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 118 (14.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 100 (12.02%) Technical Leadership
17 87 (10.46%) Cloud Security
18 82 (9.86%) DevSecOps
19 77 (9.25%) Full-Stack Development
20 76 (9.13%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 364 (43.75%) Python
2 183 (22.00%) Bash
3 162 (19.47%) PowerShell
4 126 (15.14%) SQL
5 106 (12.74%) TypeScript
6 92 (11.06%) Java
7 81 (9.74%) JavaScript
8 72 (8.65%) Bicep
9 58 (6.97%) C#
10 56 (6.73%) Go
11 14 (1.68%) Groovy
12 12 (1.44%) C
13 10 (1.20%) PHP
14 9 (1.08%) Rust
15 8 (0.96%) C++
16 6 (0.72%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.60%) Ruby
18 4 (0.48%) Apex Code
18 4 (0.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 175 (21.03%) Security Cleared
2 112 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 68 (8.17%) Degree
4 58 (6.97%) DV Cleared
5 39 (4.69%) Azure Certification
6 37 (4.45%) AWS Certification
7 31 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (1.68%) DBS Check
10 10 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
11 8 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.72%) ICAEW
12 6 (0.72%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.60%) CCNA
13 5 (0.60%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.48%) Network+ Certification
14 4 (0.48%) OSCP
14 4 (0.48%) PhD
14 4 (0.48%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.53%) QA
2 23 (2.76%) Data Quality
3 22 (2.64%) GDPR
4 17 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.20%) WCAG
7 9 (1.08%) NIST
7 9 (1.08%) SOC 2
8 7 (0.84%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.48%) SLA
10 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.36%) NCSC
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%) GRC
System Software
1 236 (28.37%) Docker
2 54 (6.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (5.29%) Active Directory
4 24 (2.88%) vSphere
5 19 (2.28%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (1.56%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.84%) iptables
8 6 (0.72%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.72%) 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
1 589 (70.79%) Terraform
2 303 (36.42%) Kubernetes
3 189 (22.72%) Ansible
4 113 (13.58%) Grafana
5 89 (10.70%) Prometheus
6 29 (3.49%) Puppet
7 23 (2.76%) Argo
8 18 (2.16%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.56%) Nagios
9 13 (1.56%) vCenter Server
10 12 (1.44%) Packer
11 10 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (1.08%) Istio
12 9 (1.08%) Podman
12 9 (1.08%) Proxmox
12 9 (1.08%) Rancher
13 6 (0.72%) Cisco CUCM
13 6 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (0.72%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 150 (18.03%) Microsoft
2 69 (8.29%) VMware
3 46 (5.53%) Red Hat
4 33 (3.97%) Google
5 31 (3.73%) Cisco
5 31 (3.73%) Databricks
6 30 (3.61%) Splunk
7 20 (2.40%) Palo Alto
8 12 (1.44%) Dynatrace
9 10 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
9 10 (1.20%) F5
9 10 (1.20%) Oracle
10 9 (1.08%) Fortinet
11 8 (0.96%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.84%) HubSpot
12 7 (0.84%) Juniper
12 7 (0.84%) NetApp
13 6 (0.72%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.72%) Dell
13 6 (0.72%) SolarWinds