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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 204 154
Rank change year-on-year +100 -50 -44
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,308 469 906
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.57% 1.36% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 1.57% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 891 334 602
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -3.45%

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 58,272 29,903 43,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.13% 86.57% 78.29%
Number of salaries quoted 41,325 16,223 24,261
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -3.37%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £89,800 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 +90 457 £70,400 +0.57% 283
North West +86 256 £72,500 +11.54% 151
South East +65 248 £67,500 -18.18% 220
South West +35 231 £75,000 - 155
Midlands +37 145 £75,000 +15.38% 103
Yorkshire -10 101 £73,750 +5.36% 83
North East +20 100 £59,000 -18.62% 50
West Midlands +5 88 £85,000 +31.78% 66
Wales -12 71 £70,000 +21.74% 27
Northern Ireland -21 62 £71,991 +67.07% 30
East Midlands +4 57 £67,500 +3.85% 37
East of England -6 55 £63,750 -1.92% 61
Scotland +17 51 £72,500 +3.57% 125
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 41 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 36 (2.75%) Apache
3 34 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (1.53%) Confluence
6 13 (0.99%) Jupyter
7 9 (0.69%) IIS
8 6 (0.46%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.38%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.23%) CMS
10 3 (0.23%) nginx
10 3 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.23%) WordPress
11 1 (0.076%) Documentum
11 1 (0.076%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.15%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.076%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.076%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 708 (54.13%) Azure
2 692 (52.91%) AWS
3 231 (17.66%) GitHub
4 217 (16.59%) GCP
5 200 (15.29%) Serverless
6 195 (14.91%) Azure DevOps
7 176 (13.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 135 (10.32%) GitHub Actions
9 118 (9.02%) AWS Lambda
10 115 (8.79%) Amazon S3
11 92 (7.03%) Amazon EC2
12 88 (6.73%) Amazon EKS
13 84 (6.42%) Amazon ECS
14 82 (6.27%) PaaS
15 81 (6.19%) Microsoft 365
16 73 (5.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 67 (5.12%) Azure AKS
17 67 (5.12%) Cloud Computing
18 66 (5.05%) SaaS
19 60 (4.59%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 96 (7.34%) Firewall
2 87 (6.65%) WAN
3 76 (5.81%) VPN
4 75 (5.73%) LAN
5 68 (5.20%) DNS
6 40 (3.06%) Network Security
7 38 (2.91%) TCP/IP
8 34 (2.60%) DHCP
9 24 (1.83%) BGP
10 16 (1.22%) VLAN
11 14 (1.07%) SD-WAN
11 14 (1.07%) Software-Defined Networking
12 13 (0.99%) Broadband
12 13 (0.99%) OSPF
13 12 (0.92%) SAN
14 10 (0.76%) Wireless
15 9 (0.69%) Ethernet VPN
16 8 (0.61%) HTTP
17 7 (0.54%) MQTT
18 6 (0.46%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (6.88%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (4.66%) Amazon RDS
3 58 (4.43%) NoSQL
4 55 (4.20%) MongoDB
5 48 (3.67%) DynamoDB
6 46 (3.52%) SQL Server
7 42 (3.21%) MySQL
8 36 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 36 (2.75%) Relational Database
9 32 (2.45%) Data Lake
10 31 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
11 20 (1.53%) Big Data
12 18 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
13 17 (1.30%) Redis
14 16 (1.22%) Metadata
15 15 (1.15%) Power BI
16 14 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
16 14 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
16 14 (1.07%) Hadoop
17 13 (0.99%) Flink
Development Applications
1 201 (15.37%) Git
2 142 (10.86%) GitLab
3 128 (9.79%) Jenkins
4 43 (3.29%) JIRA
5 18 (1.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 18 (1.38%) SonarQube
6 15 (1.15%) Cypress.io
7 13 (0.99%) Selenium
8 11 (0.84%) Bitbucket
9 10 (0.76%) Cucumber
9 10 (0.76%) NUnit
10 9 (0.69%) MSI
11 8 (0.61%) Artifactory
11 8 (0.61%) Terragrunt
12 7 (0.54%) Robot Framework
12 7 (0.54%) Subversion
13 6 (0.46%) Claude Code
13 6 (0.46%) git-flow
13 6 (0.46%) TestRail
14 5 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 385 (29.43%) Social Skills
2 233 (17.81%) Finance
3 147 (11.24%) Public Sector
4 97 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
5 93 (7.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 79 (6.04%) Law
7 69 (5.28%) Presentation Skills
8 47 (3.59%) Aerospace
9 27 (2.06%) Banking
9 27 (2.06%) Retail
10 23 (1.76%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.53%) Marketing
12 17 (1.30%) Legal
13 16 (1.22%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.07%) Games
15 13 (0.99%) Aviation
15 13 (0.99%) Local Government
16 11 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (0.84%) Military
17 9 (0.69%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 271 (20.72%) Senior
2 264 (20.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 217 (16.59%) Lead
4 164 (12.54%) Architect
5 162 (12.39%) Cloud Engineer
6 132 (10.09%) Platform Engineer
7 125 (9.56%) Developer
8 106 (8.10%) Azure Engineer
9 103 (7.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 90 (6.88%) Software Engineer
11 72 (5.50%) Data Engineer
12 64 (4.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 62 (4.74%) Systems Architect
14 61 (4.66%) AWS Engineer
15 56 (4.28%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 48 (3.67%) Senior DevOps
17 47 (3.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 46 (3.52%) Azure Platform Engineer
18 46 (3.52%) Technical Leader
19 45 (3.44%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 882 (67.43%) Terraform
2 127 (9.71%) React
3 98 (7.49%) REST
4 96 (7.34%) .NET
5 95 (7.26%) Node.js
6 91 (6.96%) Spring Boot
7 88 (6.73%) Spring
8 74 (5.66%) Kafka
9 67 (5.12%) RESTful
10 55 (4.20%) AWS CDK
11 50 (3.82%) ARM Templates
12 46 (3.52%) AngularJS
13 42 (3.21%) PySpark
14 40 (3.06%) YAML
15 34 (2.60%) CSS
15 34 (2.60%) RabbitMQ
15 34 (2.60%) Vue
16 33 (2.52%) ASP.NET
16 33 (2.52%) Elastic Stack
16 33 (2.52%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 336 (25.69%) Cloud Native
2 101 (7.72%) Distributed Systems
3 90 (6.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 73 (5.58%) Onboarding
5 62 (4.74%) Product Ownership
6 47 (3.59%) Public Cloud
7 45 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
8 40 (3.06%) Data Centre
9 37 (2.83%) Greenfield Project
10 36 (2.75%) Security Posture
11 33 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
12 31 (2.37%) Private Cloud
13 26 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
14 24 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
15 23 (1.76%) Data Structures
16 22 (1.68%) Virtual Team
17 19 (1.45%) Management Information System
18 16 (1.22%) Mainframe
19 14 (1.07%) PKI
19 14 (1.07%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 241 (18.43%) Linux
2 128 (9.79%) Windows
3 58 (4.43%) Windows Server
4 36 (2.75%) CentOS
5 31 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 28 (2.14%) Unix
7 24 (1.83%) Ubuntu
8 15 (1.15%) VMS
9 6 (0.46%) Debian
10 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.23%) AIX
13 2 (0.15%) Solaris
14 1 (0.076%) Android
14 1 (0.076%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.076%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.076%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 944 (72.17%) CI/CD
2 749 (57.26%) DevOps
3 442 (33.79%) Containerisation
4 431 (32.95%) Agile
5 376 (28.75%) Observability
6 322 (24.62%) Platform Engineering
7 309 (23.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 297 (22.71%) Mentoring
9 290 (22.17%) Problem-Solving
10 274 (20.95%) Software Engineering
11 257 (19.65%) AI
12 232 (17.74%) Technical Leadership
13 219 (16.74%) Microservices
14 202 (15.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 193 (14.76%) Test Automation
16 171 (13.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 170 (13.00%) Cloud Security
18 164 (12.54%) Roadmaps
19 145 (11.09%) DevSecOps
20 136 (10.40%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 532 (40.67%) Python
2 227 (17.35%) Bash
3 189 (14.45%) SQL
4 188 (14.37%) PowerShell
5 186 (14.22%) Java
6 135 (10.32%) Bicep
7 134 (10.24%) TypeScript
8 112 (8.56%) JavaScript
9 88 (6.73%) C#
10 64 (4.89%) Go
11 24 (1.83%) Ruby
12 23 (1.76%) Groovy
13 20 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
14 17 (1.30%) Rust
15 15 (1.15%) PHP
16 14 (1.07%) Shell Script
17 11 (0.84%) Scala
18 7 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
19 6 (0.46%) COBOL
20 5 (0.38%) C++
Qualifications
1 390 (29.82%) Security Cleared
2 249 (19.04%) SC Cleared
3 161 (12.31%) DV Cleared
4 99 (7.57%) Degree
5 76 (5.81%) Azure Certification
6 65 (4.97%) AWS Certification
7 44 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 32 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
12 15 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.84%) CCNA
14 9 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 7 (0.54%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.54%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.46%) CCNP
16 6 (0.46%) ICAEW
16 6 (0.46%) Master's Degree
16 6 (0.46%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (6.35%) QA
2 62 (4.74%) GRC
3 50 (3.82%) Data Quality
4 39 (2.98%) Accessibility
5 26 (1.99%) NCSC
6 25 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.61%) WCAG
8 17 (1.30%) GDPR
8 17 (1.30%) NIST
9 15 (1.15%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.76%) SLA
10 10 (0.76%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.15%) IFRS
12 2 (0.15%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.15%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.076%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.076%) HIPAA
System Software
1 385 (29.43%) Docker
2 84 (6.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 79 (6.04%) Active Directory
4 32 (2.45%) vSphere
5 25 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (1.38%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.84%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.46%) Firmware
10 5 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.31%) KVM
11 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.31%) Squid
11 4 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.23%) iptables
13 2 (0.15%) Lustre
14 1 (0.076%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 504 (38.53%) Kubernetes
2 273 (20.87%) Ansible
3 116 (8.87%) Grafana
4 93 (7.11%) Prometheus
5 46 (3.52%) Puppet
6 41 (3.13%) Argo
7 32 (2.45%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.61%) Istio
9 16 (1.22%) Packer
10 14 (1.07%) vCenter Server
11 13 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.92%) Podman
13 11 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
14 10 (0.76%) Kibana
14 10 (0.76%) Kustomize
15 9 (0.69%) Rancher
16 8 (0.61%) Nessus
16 8 (0.61%) ZABBIX
17 7 (0.54%) FortiGate
17 7 (0.54%) yum
Vendors
1 305 (23.32%) Microsoft
2 97 (7.42%) VMware
3 67 (5.12%) Google
4 53 (4.05%) Red Hat
5 51 (3.90%) Databricks
6 50 (3.82%) Splunk
7 31 (2.37%) Cisco
8 30 (2.29%) Oracle
9 15 (1.15%) Fortinet
10 14 (1.07%) OpenAI
10 14 (1.07%) ServiceNow
11 13 (0.99%) Atlassian
11 13 (0.99%) Palo Alto
12 12 (0.92%) New Relic
12 12 (0.92%) ScienceLogic
13 11 (0.84%) F5
14 9 (0.69%) Dynatrace
14 9 (0.69%) Meraki
15 8 (0.61%) IBM
16 7 (0.54%) SAP