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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 210 203
Rank change year-on-year +84 -7 -67
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 918 441 1,012
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.35% 1.45% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 1.60% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 698 297 790
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,750 £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 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,810 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.83% +12.59% -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 47,744 27,543 63,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 69.98% 90.77% 79.70%
Number of salaries quoted 33,496 14,077 44,073
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £32,851 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.41%

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 23 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 23 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 +74 328 £67,500 -3.57% 107
South East +37 209 £70,000 -9.68% 138
North West +80 197 £72,500 - 62
South West +21 148 £75,000 +7.14% 61
Midlands +29 122 £74,250 +14.23% 47
Yorkshire +2 84 £65,576 -6.32% 27
West Midlands +15 71 £80,000 +14.29% 33
East of England +9 53 £60,100 -7.54% 16
East Midlands +7 51 £67,500 +3.85% 14
North East -12 47 £55,000 -14.06% 19
Scotland +10 33 £60,000 -20.19% 14
Wales -23 27 £70,000 +27.27% 11
Northern Ireland -34 3 £84,401 +95.86% 18
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 23 (2.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (2.18%) Apache
2 20 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (2.07%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.63%) Confluence
5 9 (0.98%) Jupyter
6 8 (0.87%) IIS
7 5 (0.54%) CMS
8 4 (0.44%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.33%) WordPress
10 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.11%) Lightworks
1 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 529 (57.63%) AWS
2 487 (53.05%) Azure
3 193 (21.02%) GitHub
4 185 (20.15%) Azure DevOps
5 174 (18.95%) Serverless
6 141 (15.36%) GCP
7 129 (14.05%) GitHub Actions
8 113 (12.31%) AWS CloudFormation
9 96 (10.46%) Amazon S3
10 88 (9.59%) AWS Lambda
11 81 (8.82%) PaaS
12 74 (8.06%) Amazon EKS
13 71 (7.73%) Amazon EC2
14 62 (6.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 61 (6.64%) Azure AKS
16 57 (6.21%) Amazon ECS
17 56 (6.10%) IaaS
17 56 (6.10%) SaaS
18 52 (5.66%) Azure Monitor
18 52 (5.66%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 107 (11.66%) Firewall
2 58 (6.32%) DNS
3 50 (5.45%) VPN
4 37 (4.03%) TCP/IP
5 28 (3.05%) Network Security
6 21 (2.29%) DHCP
7 18 (1.96%) Broadband
8 17 (1.85%) VLAN
9 16 (1.74%) BGP
9 16 (1.74%) HTTP
10 14 (1.53%) WAN
11 13 (1.42%) Cisco ASA
12 9 (0.98%) LAN
12 9 (0.98%) SAN
13 6 (0.65%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.65%) Ethernet VPN
13 6 (0.65%) OSPF
13 6 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
13 6 (0.65%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.65%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (7.52%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 42 (4.58%) NoSQL
4 40 (4.36%) MongoDB
5 37 (4.03%) DynamoDB
6 33 (3.59%) SQL Server
7 32 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (2.29%) Relational Database
9 17 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (1.63%) Redis
11 14 (1.53%) Metadata
12 13 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (1.42%) Data Lake
12 13 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (1.42%) MySQL
12 13 (1.42%) Spark SQL
13 10 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.09%) Big Data
13 10 (1.09%) BigQuery
14 7 (0.76%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 145 (15.80%) Git
2 118 (12.85%) GitLab
3 112 (12.20%) Jenkins
4 25 (2.72%) JIRA
5 15 (1.63%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.53%) Cucumber
7 13 (1.42%) SonarQube
8 8 (0.87%) Cypress.io
8 8 (0.87%) NUnit
8 8 (0.87%) Selenium
9 7 (0.76%) Artifactory
9 7 (0.76%) JMeter
10 6 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
10 6 (0.65%) Robot Framework
10 6 (0.65%) Subversion
10 6 (0.65%) TestRail
11 5 (0.54%) MSI
12 4 (0.44%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 223 (24.29%) Social Skills
2 104 (11.33%) Finance
3 80 (8.71%) Public Sector
4 66 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (5.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (3.59%) Law
7 31 (3.38%) Telecoms
8 25 (2.72%) Retail
9 22 (2.40%) Aerospace
9 22 (2.40%) Manufacturing
10 21 (2.29%) Banking
11 18 (1.96%) Games
12 17 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (1.20%) Billing
14 10 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.87%) Marketing
16 7 (0.76%) Advertising
16 7 (0.76%) Legal
17 5 (0.54%) Local Government
18 4 (0.44%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 192 (20.92%) Senior
2 185 (20.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 152 (16.56%) Lead
4 120 (13.07%) Cloud Engineer
5 93 (10.13%) Azure Engineer
5 93 (10.13%) Developer
6 86 (9.37%) Platform Engineer
7 67 (7.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 66 (7.19%) Architect
9 61 (6.64%) Software Engineer
10 47 (5.12%) AWS Engineer
11 45 (4.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 40 (4.36%) Data Engineer
13 37 (4.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 37 (4.03%) Senior DevOps
14 33 (3.59%) Technical Leader
15 30 (3.27%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 30 (3.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 29 (3.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 29 (3.16%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (10.78%) React
2 87 (9.48%) Node.js
3 79 (8.61%) .NET
4 75 (8.17%) REST
5 51 (5.56%) ARM Templates
6 46 (5.01%) YAML
7 45 (4.90%) AWS CDK
8 44 (4.79%) RESTful
9 41 (4.47%) Elastic Stack
10 40 (4.36%) Spring
11 39 (4.25%) Kafka
12 37 (4.03%) Spring Boot
13 33 (3.59%) PySpark
14 30 (3.27%) AngularJS
15 29 (3.16%) ASP.NET
16 28 (3.05%) Vue
17 27 (2.94%) ASP.NET Core
18 25 (2.72%) Next.js
19 24 (2.61%) RabbitMQ
20 22 (2.40%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 209 (22.77%) Cloud Native
2 67 (7.30%) Hybrid Cloud
3 65 (7.08%) Distributed Systems
4 49 (5.34%) Product Ownership
5 33 (3.59%) Public Cloud
6 30 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (2.94%) Onboarding
8 24 (2.61%) Data Centre
8 24 (2.61%) Security Posture
9 22 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
10 21 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
11 19 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
12 18 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
13 15 (1.63%) Data Structures
14 14 (1.53%) Legacy Applications
14 14 (1.53%) Private Cloud
14 14 (1.53%) Replication
15 13 (1.42%) Video\Live Streaming
16 12 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
17 11 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 186 (20.26%) Linux
2 101 (11.00%) Windows
3 50 (5.45%) Windows Server
4 31 (3.38%) Ubuntu
5 24 (2.61%) CentOS
6 18 (1.96%) Unix
7 17 (1.85%) VMS
8 15 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.76%) Debian
11 5 (0.54%) Android
11 5 (0.54%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.11%) AIX
12 1 (0.11%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 682 (74.29%) CI/CD
2 565 (61.55%) DevOps
3 320 (34.86%) Agile
4 289 (31.48%) Observability
5 264 (28.76%) Containerisation
6 219 (23.86%) Platform Engineering
7 216 (23.53%) Mentoring
8 210 (22.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 178 (19.39%) AI
10 175 (19.06%) Problem-Solving
11 162 (17.65%) Microservices
12 160 (17.43%) Test Automation
13 142 (15.47%) Software Engineering
14 134 (14.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 127 (13.83%) Technical Leadership
16 122 (13.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 114 (12.42%) Cloud Security
18 105 (11.44%) DevSecOps
19 95 (10.35%) Analytics
20 91 (9.91%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 395 (43.03%) Python
2 206 (22.44%) Bash
3 175 (19.06%) PowerShell
4 140 (15.25%) SQL
5 117 (12.75%) TypeScript
6 106 (11.55%) Java
7 103 (11.22%) Bicep
8 92 (10.02%) JavaScript
9 73 (7.95%) C#
10 59 (6.43%) Go
11 18 (1.96%) Groovy
12 15 (1.63%) Kusto Query Language
13 13 (1.42%) Ruby
14 11 (1.20%) PHP
15 9 (0.98%) C
15 9 (0.98%) Rust
16 8 (0.87%) C++
17 6 (0.65%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.44%) Apex Code
18 4 (0.44%) Perl
Qualifications
1 211 (22.98%) Security Cleared
2 136 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 71 (7.73%) Degree
4 65 (7.08%) DV Cleared
5 53 (5.77%) Azure Certification
6 37 (4.03%) AWS Certification
7 31 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (1.53%) DBS Check
10 13 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 9 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 6 (0.65%) CCNA
12 6 (0.65%) ICAEW
12 6 (0.65%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.54%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.54%) RHCSA
13 5 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.44%) Network+ Certification
14 4 (0.44%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (5.99%) QA
2 26 (2.83%) Data Quality
3 22 (2.40%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.85%) GDPR
5 16 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.63%) WCAG
7 11 (1.20%) SOC 2
8 10 (1.09%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.98%) NCSC
9 9 (0.98%) NIST
10 5 (0.54%) SLA
11 4 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.22%) IFRS
12 2 (0.22%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.22%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.11%) GRC
13 1 (0.11%) GxP
System Software
1 261 (28.43%) Docker
2 66 (7.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 59 (6.43%) Active Directory
4 33 (3.59%) vSphere
5 21 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (1.31%) VMware NSX
7 11 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.76%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.76%) iptables
9 6 (0.65%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.44%) Firmware
10 4 (0.44%) Squid
11 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 661 (72.00%) Terraform
2 348 (37.91%) Kubernetes
3 202 (22.00%) Ansible
4 123 (13.40%) Grafana
5 97 (10.57%) Prometheus
6 32 (3.49%) Puppet
7 28 (3.05%) Argo
8 22 (2.40%) Progress Chef
9 15 (1.63%) vCenter Server
10 13 (1.42%) Nagios
10 13 (1.42%) Packer
11 11 (1.20%) Istio
11 11 (1.20%) Proxmox
12 10 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
12 10 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.98%) Kibana
13 9 (0.98%) Podman
13 9 (0.98%) Rancher
14 7 (0.76%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.76%) logstash
Vendors
1 172 (18.74%) Microsoft
2 83 (9.04%) VMware
3 49 (5.34%) Red Hat
4 40 (4.36%) Google
5 35 (3.81%) Splunk
6 31 (3.38%) Databricks
7 29 (3.16%) Cisco
8 20 (2.18%) Palo Alto
9 12 (1.31%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.31%) Oracle
10 10 (1.09%) F5
10 10 (1.09%) ScienceLogic
11 9 (0.98%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
11 9 (0.98%) Fortinet
12 7 (0.76%) HubSpot
12 7 (0.76%) NetApp
12 7 (0.76%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.65%) Juniper
13 6 (0.65%) SolarWinds