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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 217 204
Rank change year-on-year +90 -13 -67
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 900 437 1,012
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.33% 1.45% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 1.60% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 688 293 783
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 47,304 27,370 63,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 69.82% 91.01% 79.70%
Number of salaries quoted 33,151 13,928 44,255
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,984 £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% -9.54%

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 20 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 20 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 +74 326 £67,500 -3.57% 111
South East +50 206 £70,000 -9.68% 146
North West +76 197 £72,500 - 66
South West +17 139 £75,000 +7.14% 82
Midlands +34 118 £73,000 +12.31% 42
Yorkshire -5 84 £65,576 -6.32% 27
West Midlands +14 67 £80,000 +14.29% 30
East of England +15 53 £60,100 -7.54% 17
East Midlands -2 51 £67,500 +3.85% 12
North East -12 45 £55,000 -14.06% 18
Scotland +7 33 £60,000 -20.19% 12
Wales -26 26 £70,000 +27.27% 9
Northern Ireland -29 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 21 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (2.11%) Apache
2 19 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.67%) Confluence
5 8 (0.89%) IIS
5 8 (0.89%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.56%) CMS
7 4 (0.44%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.33%) WordPress
9 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
10 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
1 520 (57.78%) AWS
2 475 (52.78%) Azure
3 190 (21.11%) GitHub
4 180 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 170 (18.89%) Serverless
6 138 (15.33%) GCP
7 129 (14.33%) GitHub Actions
8 111 (12.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 93 (10.33%) Amazon S3
10 87 (9.67%) AWS Lambda
11 80 (8.89%) PaaS
12 73 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
13 69 (7.67%) Amazon EC2
14 61 (6.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 58 (6.44%) Azure AKS
16 57 (6.33%) Amazon ECS
17 55 (6.11%) IaaS
18 54 (6.00%) SaaS
19 51 (5.67%) Azure Monitor
19 51 (5.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 108 (12.00%) Firewall
2 57 (6.33%) DNS
3 47 (5.22%) VPN
4 36 (4.00%) TCP/IP
5 28 (3.11%) Network Security
6 20 (2.22%) DHCP
7 18 (2.00%) Broadband
8 17 (1.89%) VLAN
9 16 (1.78%) BGP
9 16 (1.78%) HTTP
10 14 (1.56%) WAN
11 13 (1.44%) Cisco ASA
12 9 (1.00%) LAN
12 9 (1.00%) SAN
13 6 (0.67%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.67%) Ethernet VPN
13 6 (0.67%) OSPF
13 6 (0.67%) Software-Defined Networking
13 6 (0.67%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.67%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (7.67%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 40 (4.44%) MongoDB
3 40 (4.44%) NoSQL
4 35 (3.89%) DynamoDB
5 32 (3.56%) SQL Server
6 30 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 21 (2.33%) Relational Database
8 17 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (1.67%) Redis
10 14 (1.56%) Metadata
11 13 (1.44%) Data Lake
11 13 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (1.44%) Spark SQL
12 12 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (1.33%) MySQL
13 10 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.11%) Big Data
13 10 (1.11%) BigQuery
14 7 (0.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 141 (15.67%) Git
2 115 (12.78%) GitLab
3 110 (12.22%) Jenkins
4 25 (2.78%) JIRA
5 15 (1.67%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.56%) Cucumber
7 13 (1.44%) SonarQube
8 8 (0.89%) NUnit
9 7 (0.78%) Artifactory
9 7 (0.78%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.78%) JMeter
9 7 (0.78%) Selenium
10 6 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
11 5 (0.56%) MSI
11 5 (0.56%) Robot Framework
11 5 (0.56%) Subversion
11 5 (0.56%) TestRail
12 4 (0.44%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.44%) TeamCity
General
1 216 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 99 (11.00%) Finance
3 78 (8.67%) Public Sector
4 64 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (3.44%) Law
6 31 (3.44%) Telecoms
7 25 (2.78%) Retail
8 22 (2.44%) Manufacturing
9 20 (2.22%) Aerospace
9 20 (2.22%) Banking
10 18 (2.00%) Games
11 16 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.33%) Billing
13 10 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (0.89%) Marketing
15 7 (0.78%) Advertising
15 7 (0.78%) Legal
16 5 (0.56%) Local Government
17 4 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 190 (21.11%) Senior
2 181 (20.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 151 (16.78%) Lead
4 118 (13.11%) Cloud Engineer
5 92 (10.22%) Azure Engineer
6 90 (10.00%) Developer
7 86 (9.56%) Platform Engineer
8 64 (7.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 61 (6.78%) Software Engineer
10 60 (6.67%) Architect
11 46 (5.11%) AWS Engineer
12 45 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 40 (4.44%) Data Engineer
14 36 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 36 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
15 33 (3.67%) Technical Leader
16 30 (3.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 30 (3.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 29 (3.22%) Site Engineer
18 28 (3.11%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (10.78%) React
2 87 (9.67%) Node.js
3 77 (8.56%) .NET
4 74 (8.22%) REST
5 49 (5.44%) ARM Templates
6 45 (5.00%) YAML
7 44 (4.89%) AWS CDK
8 42 (4.67%) RESTful
9 39 (4.33%) Elastic Stack
9 39 (4.33%) Spring
10 38 (4.22%) Kafka
11 36 (4.00%) Spring Boot
12 32 (3.56%) PySpark
13 29 (3.22%) AngularJS
14 28 (3.11%) ASP.NET
15 27 (3.00%) Vue
16 26 (2.89%) ASP.NET Core
17 24 (2.67%) Next.js
18 23 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
19 22 (2.44%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 204 (22.67%) Cloud Native
2 65 (7.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 64 (7.11%) Distributed Systems
4 47 (5.22%) Product Ownership
5 32 (3.56%) Public Cloud
6 29 (3.22%) Enterprise Software
7 26 (2.89%) Onboarding
8 24 (2.67%) Data Centre
9 22 (2.44%) Security Posture
10 20 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
10 20 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
12 18 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
13 14 (1.56%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
13 14 (1.56%) Private Cloud
13 14 (1.56%) Replication
14 13 (1.44%) Video\Live Streaming
15 12 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
16 11 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 183 (20.33%) Linux
2 97 (10.78%) Windows
3 50 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 31 (3.44%) Ubuntu
5 23 (2.56%) CentOS
6 17 (1.89%) Unix
7 15 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (1.67%) VMS
8 8 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (0.78%) Debian
10 5 (0.56%) Android
10 5 (0.56%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.11%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 668 (74.22%) CI/CD
2 555 (61.67%) DevOps
3 311 (34.56%) Agile
4 284 (31.56%) Observability
5 257 (28.56%) Containerisation
6 214 (23.78%) Platform Engineering
7 212 (23.56%) Mentoring
8 205 (22.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 174 (19.33%) AI
10 170 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
11 158 (17.56%) Microservices
12 157 (17.44%) Test Automation
13 140 (15.56%) Software Engineering
14 130 (14.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 124 (13.78%) Technical Leadership
16 120 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 108 (12.00%) Cloud Security
18 101 (11.22%) DevSecOps
19 92 (10.22%) Analytics
20 90 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 389 (43.22%) Python
2 198 (22.00%) Bash
3 170 (18.89%) PowerShell
4 136 (15.11%) SQL
5 117 (13.00%) TypeScript
6 103 (11.44%) Java
7 97 (10.78%) Bicep
8 91 (10.11%) JavaScript
9 71 (7.89%) C#
10 59 (6.56%) Go
11 18 (2.00%) Groovy
12 13 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
12 13 (1.44%) Ruby
13 11 (1.22%) PHP
14 10 (1.11%) C
15 9 (1.00%) Rust
16 8 (0.89%) C++
17 6 (0.67%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.44%) Apex Code
18 4 (0.44%) Perl
Qualifications
1 203 (22.56%) Security Cleared
2 132 (14.67%) SC Cleared
3 71 (7.89%) Degree
4 64 (7.11%) DV Cleared
5 50 (5.56%) Azure Certification
6 36 (4.00%) AWS Certification
7 31 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (1.56%) DBS Check
10 12 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 9 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.67%) CCNA
12 6 (0.67%) ICAEW
12 6 (0.67%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.56%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.56%) RHCSA
13 5 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.44%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (5.78%) QA
2 25 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 22 (2.44%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.89%) GDPR
5 16 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.67%) WCAG
7 10 (1.11%) NCSC
7 10 (1.11%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.11%) SOC 2
8 9 (1.00%) NIST
9 5 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.56%) SLA
10 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.22%) IFRS
10 2 (0.22%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.22%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.11%) GRC
System Software
1 256 (28.44%) Docker
2 62 (6.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (6.11%) Active Directory
4 31 (3.44%) vSphere
5 21 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (1.33%) VMware NSX
7 9 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.78%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.78%) iptables
9 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.44%) Firmware
10 4 (0.44%) Squid
11 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 646 (71.78%) Terraform
2 337 (37.44%) Kubernetes
3 198 (22.00%) Ansible
4 120 (13.33%) Grafana
5 95 (10.56%) Prometheus
6 30 (3.33%) Puppet
7 27 (3.00%) Argo
8 22 (2.44%) Progress Chef
9 14 (1.56%) vCenter Server
10 13 (1.44%) Nagios
10 13 (1.44%) Packer
11 11 (1.22%) Istio
11 11 (1.22%) Proxmox
12 10 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
12 10 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (1.00%) Podman
14 8 (0.89%) Kibana
14 8 (0.89%) Rancher
15 7 (0.78%) Kustomize
15 7 (0.78%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 169 (18.78%) Microsoft
2 79 (8.78%) VMware
3 47 (5.22%) Red Hat
4 39 (4.33%) Google
5 33 (3.67%) Splunk
6 31 (3.44%) Databricks
7 29 (3.22%) Cisco
8 20 (2.22%) Palo Alto
9 12 (1.33%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.33%) Oracle
10 10 (1.11%) F5
11 9 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
11 9 (1.00%) Fortinet
12 8 (0.89%) Atlassian
12 8 (0.89%) ScienceLogic
13 7 (0.78%) HubSpot
13 7 (0.78%) NetApp
13 7 (0.78%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.67%) Juniper
14 6 (0.67%) SolarWinds