Infrastructure as Code Jobs in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 199 132
Rank change year-on-year -41 -67 +1
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 472 1,021 1,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.21% 1.38% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 1.67% 2.88%
Number of salaries quoted 273 782 871
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -6.40% +15.75%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,772 £87,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £78,810 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +12.59% -6.67% +7.14%

All Process and 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 36,163 61,036 55,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.74% 82.48% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 17,188 42,006 28,807
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,336 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London

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 29 May 2025.

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 29 May 2025. 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 -63 155 £70,000 +11.50% 267
South East +44 127 £75,000 +11.11% 117
North West -79 95 £72,500 +12.84% 167
South West +12 56 £70,996 +0.60% 96
Yorkshire +3 51 £67,250 +12.08% 84
East of England +44 49 £65,000 -3.70% 37
Midlands -43 44 £70,000 +7.61% 56
Scotland +78 36 £75,360 +6.78% 49
West Midlands -24 29 £70,000 - 39
East Midlands +5 15 £65,000 +13.04% 16
North East +8 9 £66,019 +5.15% 17
Wales +35 6 £57,500 -4.17% 10
Isle of Man +13 2 £34,500 -
Northern Ireland +36 1 - - 26
Infrastructure as Code
UK

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (3.60%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.33%) Apache
4 10 (2.12%) Confluence
5 6 (1.27%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.06%) Appian
7 4 (0.85%) IBM Domino
8 3 (0.64%) CMS
8 3 (0.64%) nginx
8 3 (0.64%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.42%) Luigi
9 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.21%) CICS
10 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.21%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.42%) Simulink
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 1 (0.21%) PeopleSoft HCM
1 1 (0.21%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 284 (60.17%) AWS
2 224 (47.46%) Azure
3 89 (18.86%) GCP
4 77 (16.31%) Azure DevOps
5 70 (14.83%) Pulumi
6 55 (11.65%) GitHub
6 55 (11.65%) SaaS
7 51 (10.81%) Serverless
8 44 (9.32%) PaaS
9 37 (7.84%) AWS CloudFormation
10 36 (7.63%) IaaS
11 35 (7.42%) AWS Lambda
12 33 (6.99%) Entra ID
13 31 (6.57%) Power Platform
14 28 (5.93%) Amazon S3
14 28 (5.93%) Azure Monitor
15 27 (5.72%) Amazon EC2
16 22 (4.66%) Azure Key Vault
16 22 (4.66%) Power Automate
17 20 (4.24%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 65 (13.77%) Broadband
2 40 (8.47%) VPN
3 37 (7.84%) DNS
3 37 (7.84%) Firewall
4 28 (5.93%) WAN
5 15 (3.18%) SD-WAN
6 11 (2.33%) 5G
6 11 (2.33%) Bluetooth
6 11 (2.33%) LAN
6 11 (2.33%) LTE
6 11 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.27%) Network Security
8 5 (1.06%) Internet
8 5 (1.06%) IPv4
9 4 (0.85%) SAN
9 4 (0.85%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.85%) VLAN
10 3 (0.64%) DHCP
11 2 (0.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 2 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (19.92%) NoSQL
2 71 (15.04%) Relational Database
3 66 (13.98%) RDBMS
4 32 (6.78%) MySQL
5 30 (6.36%) Data Lake
6 24 (5.08%) SQL Server
7 21 (4.45%) Power BI
8 17 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (2.97%) Big Data
11 12 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (2.33%) Hadoop
13 9 (1.91%) BigQuery
14 8 (1.69%) Tableau
15 7 (1.48%) DynamoDB
16 6 (1.27%) MongoDB
17 4 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
17 4 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
17 4 (0.85%) Qlik Sense
18 3 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 70 (14.83%) Jenkins
2 65 (13.77%) Jaeger
3 61 (12.92%) Git
4 27 (5.72%) GitLab
5 14 (2.97%) SonarQube
6 13 (2.75%) TeamCity
7 11 (2.33%) JIRA
8 10 (2.12%) JUnit
9 9 (1.91%) CircleCI
9 9 (1.91%) Maven
9 9 (1.91%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (1.27%) Robot Framework
10 6 (1.27%) Selenium
10 6 (1.27%) Snyk
11 4 (0.85%) Subversion
12 3 (0.64%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.64%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
13 2 (0.42%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.42%) Checkstyle
General
1 112 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 100 (21.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 74 (15.68%) Finance
4 32 (6.78%) Banking
5 28 (5.93%) Law
6 22 (4.66%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (3.39%) Telecoms
8 15 (3.18%) Electronics
8 15 (3.18%) Public Sector
9 11 (2.33%) Automotive
10 8 (1.69%) Advertising
11 5 (1.06%) Marketing
12 4 (0.85%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.85%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.85%) Retail
13 3 (0.64%) Games
13 3 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.42%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.42%) Local Government
14 2 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 134 (28.39%) Lead
2 86 (18.22%) Senior
3 79 (16.74%) Cloud Engineer
4 69 (14.62%) DevOps Engineer
5 68 (14.41%) Team Leader
6 42 (8.90%) Architect
7 38 (8.05%) Software Engineer
8 37 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 34 (7.20%) Azure Engineer
10 31 (6.57%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 26 (5.51%) Developer
12 24 (5.08%) Cloud Architect
13 23 (4.87%) Platform Engineer
14 22 (4.66%) AWS Engineer
15 17 (3.60%) Senior Software Engineer
16 15 (3.18%) Senior DevOps
16 15 (3.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 13 (2.75%) AWS DevOps
17 13 (2.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 12 (2.54%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (16.53%) Elastic Stack
2 67 (14.19%) OpenTelemetry
3 31 (6.57%) .NET
3 31 (6.57%) React
4 29 (6.14%) Kafka
5 24 (5.08%) REST
6 23 (4.87%) Node.js
7 21 (4.45%) ARM Templates
8 17 (3.60%) Spring
8 17 (3.60%) Spring Boot
9 15 (3.18%) RESTful
10 14 (2.97%) YAML
11 11 (2.33%) SOAP
12 10 (2.12%) AngularJS
12 10 (2.12%) Web Services
13 9 (1.91%) .NET Core
13 9 (1.91%) GraphQL
13 9 (1.91%) Hibernate
14 8 (1.69%) ADO
15 7 (1.48%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 60 (12.71%) Cloud Native
2 41 (8.69%) Public Cloud
3 38 (8.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 25 (5.30%) Product Ownership
5 21 (4.45%) Data Centre
6 20 (4.24%) Management Information System
7 18 (3.81%) IoT
8 17 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (3.60%) Private Cloud
9 15 (3.18%) NHS
10 13 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (2.33%) NB-IoT
12 10 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.69%) Security Posture
14 7 (1.48%) PKI
14 7 (1.48%) Virtual Team
15 6 (1.27%) Data Structures
15 6 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
16 5 (1.06%) Algorithms
16 5 (1.06%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 166 (35.17%) Linux
2 77 (16.31%) Unix
3 52 (11.02%) Windows
4 25 (5.30%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.85%) Debian
6 4 (0.85%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.64%) Android
7 3 (0.64%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.64%) VMS
8 2 (0.42%) CentOS
9 1 (0.21%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (67.58%) DevOps
2 249 (52.75%) CI/CD
3 191 (40.47%) Agile
4 141 (29.87%) Containerisation
5 137 (29.03%) Roadmaps
6 119 (25.21%) Mentoring
7 105 (22.25%) High Availability
8 95 (20.13%) Continuous Integration
9 82 (17.37%) Task Automation
10 77 (16.31%) Performance Optimisation
10 77 (16.31%) Software Engineering
11 72 (15.25%) Cost Optimisation
12 71 (15.04%) GitOps
12 71 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
13 69 (14.62%) Resource Management
14 66 (13.98%) Microservices
14 66 (13.98%) Product Management
15 65 (13.77%) Budget Control
16 63 (13.35%) Platform Engineering
17 62 (13.14%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 238 (50.42%) Python
2 129 (27.33%) Bash
3 118 (25.00%) Java
4 117 (24.79%) JavaScript
5 93 (19.70%) Go
6 91 (19.28%) PowerShell
7 87 (18.43%) SQL
8 39 (8.26%) Bicep
9 32 (6.78%) C#
10 29 (6.14%) TypeScript
11 14 (2.97%) Ruby
12 9 (1.91%) R
13 8 (1.69%) PHP
14 4 (0.85%) Julia
14 4 (0.85%) Perl
14 4 (0.85%) VBA
15 3 (0.64%) C
15 3 (0.64%) Rust
15 3 (0.64%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.42%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 100 (21.19%) AWS Certification
2 58 (12.29%) Azure Certification
3 54 (11.44%) Security Cleared
4 51 (10.81%) Degree
5 32 (6.78%) SC Cleared
6 27 (5.72%) DV Cleared
7 22 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.97%) DBS Check
9 11 (2.33%) CompTIA Security+
9 11 (2.33%) Master's Degree
9 11 (2.33%) Network+ Certification
10 8 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 4 (0.85%) CCNA
13 4 (0.85%) CCNP
14 2 (0.42%) CISSP
14 2 (0.42%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.03%) GDPR
2 13 (2.75%) QA
3 9 (1.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (1.48%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.48%) HIPAA
4 7 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.48%) SOC 2
5 5 (1.06%) NIST
6 2 (0.42%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 172 (36.44%) Docker
2 43 (9.11%) Virtual Machines
3 31 (6.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (3.60%) vSphere
5 12 (2.54%) Active Directory
6 10 (2.12%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.64%) LXC
8 2 (0.42%) HDFS
9 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 345 (73.09%) Terraform
2 200 (42.37%) Kubernetes
3 175 (37.08%) Ansible
4 90 (19.07%) Prometheus
5 71 (15.04%) Argo
6 65 (13.77%) Kustomize
7 32 (6.78%) Puppet
8 31 (6.57%) Grafana
9 18 (3.81%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (2.75%) Progress Chef
11 10 (2.12%) Istio
12 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.85%) Kibana
14 3 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.64%) vCenter Server
15 2 (0.42%) Graylog
15 2 (0.42%) Hadoop YARN
15 2 (0.42%) Proxmox
15 2 (0.42%) Rancher
15 2 (0.42%) Salt
Vendors
1 93 (19.70%) Google
2 81 (17.16%) Microsoft
3 40 (8.47%) VMware
4 30 (6.36%) Databricks
5 15 (3.18%) Cisco
6 14 (2.97%) Meraki
7 12 (2.54%) Fortinet
8 10 (2.12%) Aruba
8 10 (2.12%) Atlassian
8 10 (2.12%) Mellanox
8 10 (2.12%) NVIDIA
8 10 (2.12%) Palo Alto
8 10 (2.12%) Splunk
9 9 (1.91%) Oracle
10 8 (1.69%) IBM
11 7 (1.48%) UiPath
12 5 (1.06%) BiZZdesign
12 5 (1.06%) Black Duck
12 5 (1.06%) SAP
12 5 (1.06%) ServiceNow