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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 219 181
Rank change year-on-year +111 -38 -58
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,190 465 877
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.60% 1.36% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 1.55% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 861 326 683
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £42,415
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,751 £78,750
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% -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 52,597 30,040 49,350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.53% 87.79% 78.91%
Number of salaries quoted 37,034 16,317 32,343
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,656 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +92 401 £70,400 +0.57% 221
South East +54 245 £67,500 -12.90% 144
North West +92 232 £74,651 +6.64% 124
South West +46 199 £75,000 - 104
Midlands +30 141 £75,000 +15.38% 50
Yorkshire +7 95 £73,750 +5.36% 59
West Midlands +20 86 £80,000 +23.08% 35
North East +12 74 £55,750 -17.41% 38
Wales -8 60 £70,000 +21.74% 24
Northern Ireland -14 58 £72,896 +69.17% 16
East Midlands +13 55 £67,500 +3.85% 15
East of England 0 50 £63,750 +2.00% 26
Scotland +18 45 £71,991 +2.84% 41
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 29 (2.44%) Apache
2 28 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (2.35%) Apache Spark
3 27 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 19 (1.60%) Confluence
5 11 (0.92%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.59%) IIS
7 5 (0.42%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.34%) CMS
9 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.25%) WordPress
10 2 (0.17%) nginx
10 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.084%) Documentum
11 1 (0.084%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.084%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.17%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.084%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 655 (55.04%) Azure
2 631 (53.03%) AWS
3 223 (18.74%) GitHub
4 205 (17.23%) Azure DevOps
5 191 (16.05%) GCP
6 190 (15.97%) Serverless
7 150 (12.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 139 (11.68%) GitHub Actions
9 106 (8.91%) Amazon S3
10 101 (8.49%) AWS Lambda
11 91 (7.65%) PaaS
12 79 (6.64%) Amazon EC2
12 79 (6.64%) Amazon ECS
13 78 (6.55%) Amazon EKS
14 77 (6.47%) Microsoft 365
15 68 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 67 (5.63%) SaaS
17 65 (5.46%) Cloud Computing
18 64 (5.38%) Azure AKS
19 58 (4.87%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 104 (8.74%) Firewall
2 78 (6.55%) WAN
3 71 (5.97%) LAN
4 63 (5.29%) VPN
5 58 (4.87%) DNS
6 40 (3.36%) TCP/IP
7 39 (3.28%) Network Security
8 22 (1.85%) DHCP
9 19 (1.60%) BGP
9 19 (1.60%) VLAN
10 14 (1.18%) Broadband
11 13 (1.09%) HTTP
12 12 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
12 12 (1.01%) SAN
13 10 (0.84%) Software-Defined Networking
14 9 (0.76%) SD-WAN
15 8 (0.67%) OSPF
16 7 (0.59%) Cisco Firepower
16 7 (0.59%) Unified Communications
16 7 (0.59%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (6.72%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (4.87%) Amazon RDS
3 49 (4.12%) NoSQL
4 43 (3.61%) DynamoDB
4 43 (3.61%) MongoDB
4 43 (3.61%) SQL Server
5 36 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 33 (2.77%) Relational Database
7 29 (2.44%) MySQL
8 23 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
9 22 (1.85%) Data Lake
10 17 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
11 16 (1.34%) Redis
12 14 (1.18%) Big Data
12 14 (1.18%) Metadata
13 13 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (1.01%) Spark SQL
15 11 (0.92%) Power BI
16 10 (0.84%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 184 (15.46%) Git
2 140 (11.76%) GitLab
3 128 (10.76%) Jenkins
4 35 (2.94%) JIRA
5 17 (1.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 15 (1.26%) SonarQube
7 13 (1.09%) Bitbucket
7 13 (1.09%) Cucumber
8 10 (0.84%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.84%) NUnit
8 10 (0.84%) Selenium
9 8 (0.67%) MSI
10 7 (0.59%) Artifactory
10 7 (0.59%) JMeter
10 7 (0.59%) Robot Framework
10 7 (0.59%) Terragrunt
11 6 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
11 6 (0.50%) Subversion
11 6 (0.50%) TeamCity
11 6 (0.50%) TestRail
General
1 351 (29.50%) Social Skills
2 199 (16.72%) Finance
3 115 (9.66%) Public Sector
4 86 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (6.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 69 (5.80%) Law
7 61 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
8 29 (2.44%) Aerospace
9 28 (2.35%) Retail
10 26 (2.18%) Telecoms
11 23 (1.93%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.85%) Banking
13 16 (1.34%) Games
13 16 (1.34%) Marketing
14 15 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (1.01%) Advertising
16 11 (0.92%) Legal
17 8 (0.67%) Aviation
17 8 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (0.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 258 (21.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 233 (19.58%) Senior
3 203 (17.06%) Lead
4 145 (12.18%) Architect
5 141 (11.85%) Cloud Engineer
6 112 (9.41%) Developer
6 112 (9.41%) Platform Engineer
7 100 (8.40%) Azure Engineer
8 75 (6.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 74 (6.22%) Software Engineer
10 60 (5.04%) Data Engineer
11 58 (4.87%) Systems Architect
12 54 (4.54%) AWS Engineer
13 53 (4.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 49 (4.12%) Senior DevOps
15 45 (3.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 44 (3.70%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 41 (3.45%) Technical Leader
18 39 (3.28%) Lead DevOps
19 37 (3.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (9.92%) React
2 93 (7.82%) REST
3 92 (7.73%) .NET
3 92 (7.73%) Node.js
4 74 (6.22%) Spring Boot
5 71 (5.97%) Spring
6 57 (4.79%) ARM Templates
7 56 (4.71%) AWS CDK
7 56 (4.71%) Kafka
7 56 (4.71%) RESTful
8 46 (3.87%) YAML
9 40 (3.36%) PySpark
10 38 (3.19%) AngularJS
11 36 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
12 34 (2.86%) Next.js
13 32 (2.69%) ASP.NET
13 32 (2.69%) Vue
14 30 (2.52%) ASP.NET Core
15 29 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
16 27 (2.27%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 286 (24.03%) Cloud Native
2 93 (7.82%) Distributed Systems
3 77 (6.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 55 (4.62%) Product Ownership
5 46 (3.87%) Onboarding
6 37 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
6 37 (3.11%) Public Cloud
7 36 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
8 30 (2.52%) Data Centre
8 30 (2.52%) Security Posture
9 28 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
10 25 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
11 23 (1.93%) Private Cloud
12 20 (1.68%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
14 17 (1.43%) Replication
15 16 (1.34%) Virtual Team
16 15 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
17 14 (1.18%) Mainframe
18 12 (1.01%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 218 (18.32%) Linux
2 116 (9.75%) Windows
3 55 (4.62%) Windows Server
4 34 (2.86%) CentOS
5 28 (2.35%) Ubuntu
6 26 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 26 (2.18%) Unix
7 16 (1.34%) VMS
8 6 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.42%) Debian
9 5 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.17%) AIX
10 2 (0.17%) Android
10 2 (0.17%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.084%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.084%) Rocky
11 1 (0.084%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 864 (72.61%) CI/CD
2 713 (59.92%) DevOps
3 406 (34.12%) Containerisation
4 392 (32.94%) Agile
5 359 (30.17%) Observability
6 296 (24.87%) Platform Engineering
7 285 (23.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 268 (22.52%) Mentoring
9 245 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
10 222 (18.66%) AI
11 221 (18.57%) Software Engineering
12 201 (16.89%) Microservices
13 197 (16.55%) Technical Leadership
14 185 (15.55%) Test Automation
15 168 (14.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 161 (13.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 147 (12.35%) Roadmaps
18 140 (11.76%) Cloud Security
19 128 (10.76%) DevSecOps
20 118 (9.92%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 476 (40.00%) Python
2 207 (17.39%) Bash
3 181 (15.21%) PowerShell
4 172 (14.45%) SQL
5 157 (13.19%) Java
6 130 (10.92%) Bicep
6 130 (10.92%) TypeScript
7 109 (9.16%) JavaScript
8 85 (7.14%) C#
9 65 (5.46%) Go
10 23 (1.93%) Ruby
11 19 (1.60%) Groovy
11 19 (1.60%) Kusto Query Language
12 15 (1.26%) PHP
13 10 (0.84%) Rust
14 9 (0.76%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.59%) C++
15 7 (0.59%) Scala
16 6 (0.50%) COBOL
17 5 (0.42%) Perl
Qualifications
1 314 (26.39%) Security Cleared
2 194 (16.30%) SC Cleared
3 130 (10.92%) DV Cleared
4 89 (7.48%) Degree
5 61 (5.13%) Azure Certification
6 45 (3.78%) AWS Certification
7 41 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 13 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
12 11 (0.92%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (0.59%) CCNA
13 7 (0.59%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.50%) ICAEW
14 6 (0.50%) RHCSA
15 5 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.42%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (6.13%) QA
2 59 (4.96%) GRC
3 41 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 33 (2.77%) Accessibility
5 22 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (1.85%) WCAG
6 18 (1.51%) GDPR
6 18 (1.51%) NCSC
7 16 (1.34%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.26%) NIST
9 12 (1.01%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.50%) Government Security Classifications
10 6 (0.50%) SLA
11 2 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.17%) IFRS
11 2 (0.17%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.17%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.084%) GxP
System Software
1 355 (29.83%) Docker
2 73 (6.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 64 (5.38%) Active Directory
4 32 (2.69%) vSphere
5 17 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (0.92%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.76%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 7 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.50%) Firmware
11 5 (0.42%) iptables
12 4 (0.34%) Squid
13 3 (0.25%) KVM
14 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 819 (68.82%) Terraform
2 451 (37.90%) Kubernetes
3 243 (20.42%) Ansible
4 125 (10.50%) Grafana
5 97 (8.15%) Prometheus
6 37 (3.11%) Puppet
7 35 (2.94%) Argo
8 25 (2.10%) Progress Chef
9 19 (1.60%) Istio
10 15 (1.26%) Packer
11 13 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (1.01%) Nagios
12 12 (1.01%) vCenter Server
13 10 (0.84%) Kibana
14 9 (0.76%) Podman
15 8 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
15 8 (0.67%) Kustomize
15 8 (0.67%) Nessus
15 8 (0.67%) Proxmox
15 8 (0.67%) Rancher
Vendors
1 269 (22.61%) Microsoft
2 86 (7.23%) VMware
3 66 (5.55%) Google
4 52 (4.37%) Red Hat
5 45 (3.78%) Splunk
6 40 (3.36%) Databricks
7 32 (2.69%) Cisco
8 22 (1.85%) Palo Alto
9 19 (1.60%) Oracle
10 14 (1.18%) Dynatrace
11 13 (1.09%) F5
11 13 (1.09%) Fortinet
12 12 (1.01%) Atlassian
12 12 (1.01%) ScienceLogic
13 10 (0.84%) OpenAI
14 9 (0.76%) New Relic
15 8 (0.67%) IBM
15 8 (0.67%) NetApp
15 8 (0.67%) Tenable
16 7 (0.59%) Salesforce