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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 157 149
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 -1
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 597 591 978
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.28% 1.77% 1.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 1.96% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 422 353 773
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £55,750 £51,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% +3.85% -2.67%
75th Percentile £78,790 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £88,500 £92,387
UK median annual salary £73,801 £73,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year +0.07% +1.72% -3.33%

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 35,852 30,140 43,152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 77.16% 90.50% 86.88%
Number of salaries quoted 20,835 13,431 33,094
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 -15 206 £65,000 +1.56% 116
South East +6 119 £75,000 +7.14% 151
Yorkshire -14 92 £62,500 +13.64% 36
North West -7 85 £70,000 +3.70% 70
South West -18 78 £62,500 -13.18% 84
Scotland -3 75 £71,940 +2.04% 20
Midlands +6 60 £65,250 -0.38% 38
West Midlands 0 33 £60,000 -12.73% 26
East of England +28 29 £71,250 -1.72% 28
North East -3 29 £55,000 +12.82% 10
East Midlands +1 25 £67,500 +3.85% 13
Wales +18 23 £61,496 +31.62% 8
Northern Ireland -17 9 £95,000 +11.76% 3
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 (3.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.85%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.84%) Apache
4 9 (1.51%) IIS
5 8 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.34%) Apache Spark
6 7 (1.17%) Confluence
7 3 (0.50%) Appian
7 3 (0.50%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.34%) CMS
8 2 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 388 (64.99%) Azure
2 360 (60.30%) AWS
3 185 (30.99%) Azure DevOps
4 142 (23.79%) GitHub
5 123 (20.60%) Serverless
6 117 (19.60%) GCP
7 102 (17.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 102 (17.09%) GitHub Actions
8 79 (13.23%) AWS Lambda
9 64 (10.72%) Entra ID
10 60 (10.05%) Amazon S3
11 57 (9.55%) PaaS
12 52 (8.71%) SaaS
13 46 (7.71%) Amazon EKS
13 46 (7.71%) Microsoft 365
14 45 (7.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 44 (7.37%) Amazon ECS
15 44 (7.37%) Azure Monitor
15 44 (7.37%) dbt
16 36 (6.03%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (12.56%) Firewall
2 52 (8.71%) DNS
3 38 (6.37%) TCP/IP
3 38 (6.37%) VPN
4 17 (2.85%) DHCP
4 17 (2.85%) WAN
5 15 (2.51%) Network Security
6 13 (2.18%) HTTP
7 10 (1.68%) LAN
8 9 (1.51%) BGP
9 8 (1.34%) Internet
9 8 (1.34%) SD-WAN
9 8 (1.34%) VLAN
9 8 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (1.01%) SAN
11 5 (0.84%) AMQP
12 4 (0.67%) Broadband
12 4 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (0.67%) Unified Communications
12 4 (0.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (8.54%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (7.71%) Amazon RDS
3 36 (6.03%) NoSQL
4 33 (5.53%) DynamoDB
5 31 (5.19%) SQL Server
6 24 (4.02%) Redis
7 19 (3.18%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (2.68%) MongoDB
9 15 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (2.51%) MySQL
10 9 (1.51%) Big Data
11 7 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.01%) BigQuery
12 6 (1.01%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.01%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.84%) Airbyte
13 5 (0.84%) Cloudera CDH
13 5 (0.84%) Relational Database
14 4 (0.67%) InfluxDB
14 4 (0.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 79 (13.23%) Jenkins
2 72 (12.06%) Git
3 47 (7.87%) GitLab
4 22 (3.69%) Selenium
5 21 (3.52%) Robot Framework
6 18 (3.02%) Snyk
7 14 (2.35%) JIRA
8 11 (1.84%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.84%) CircleCI
9 8 (1.34%) TeamCity
10 7 (1.17%) Cucumber
11 6 (1.01%) git-flow
11 6 (1.01%) JMeter
11 6 (1.01%) Locust
11 6 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
12 5 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.84%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.84%) Subversion
13 4 (0.67%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.67%) MLflow
General
1 175 (29.31%) Social Skills
2 125 (20.94%) Finance
3 50 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (5.70%) Public Sector
5 31 (5.19%) Law
6 30 (5.03%) Telecoms
7 20 (3.35%) Retail
8 17 (2.85%) Billing
9 13 (2.18%) Manufacturing
10 11 (1.84%) Aerospace
10 11 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (1.84%) Marketing
11 10 (1.68%) Games
11 10 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.34%) Banking
12 8 (1.34%) Legal
13 7 (1.17%) Advertising
13 7 (1.17%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.01%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 150 (25.13%) Senior
2 86 (14.41%) Cloud Engineer
3 80 (13.40%) DevOps Engineer
4 72 (12.06%) Lead
5 71 (11.89%) Developer
6 62 (10.39%) Azure Engineer
7 51 (8.54%) Platform Engineer
8 35 (5.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 34 (5.70%) Architect
10 32 (5.36%) Software Engineer
11 21 (3.52%) AWS Engineer
12 20 (3.35%) Senior DevOps
13 19 (3.18%) Full-Stack Developer
14 17 (2.85%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 17 (2.85%) Python Developer
14 17 (2.85%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 16 (2.68%) .NET Developer
15 16 (2.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 15 (2.51%) Operations Engineer
17 14 (2.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (14.74%) React
2 53 (8.88%) .NET
3 52 (8.71%) Node.js
4 47 (7.87%) RESTful
5 35 (5.86%) Django
6 29 (4.86%) REST
6 29 (4.86%) YAML
7 28 (4.69%) AWS CDK
8 26 (4.36%) OAuth
9 24 (4.02%) Elastic Stack
10 23 (3.85%) ARM Templates
10 23 (3.85%) Vue
11 22 (3.69%) CSS
11 22 (3.69%) GraphQL
12 21 (3.52%) HTML
13 20 (3.35%) AngularJS
13 20 (3.35%) Spring
14 19 (3.18%) .NET Core
14 19 (3.18%) ASP.NET
14 19 (3.18%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 127 (21.27%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.87%) Product Ownership
3 25 (4.19%) Enterprise Software
3 25 (4.19%) Security Posture
4 19 (3.18%) Hybrid Cloud
5 18 (3.02%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.68%) Data Centre
6 16 (2.68%) Linux Command Line
7 14 (2.35%) Public Cloud
8 12 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.84%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.84%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.84%) Operational Technology
12 5 (0.84%) Private Cloud
13 4 (0.67%) Client/Server
13 4 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (0.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 123 (20.60%) Linux
2 48 (8.04%) Windows
3 23 (3.85%) Unix
4 16 (2.68%) VMS
5 14 (2.35%) Ubuntu
6 13 (2.18%) Windows Server
7 12 (2.01%) Debian
8 7 (1.17%) CentOS
9 6 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.67%) Android
10 4 (0.67%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 430 (72.03%) DevOps
2 428 (71.69%) CI/CD
3 227 (38.02%) Agile
4 144 (24.12%) Containerisation
5 139 (23.28%) Problem-Solving
6 133 (22.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 120 (20.10%) Mentoring
8 118 (19.77%) Observability
9 92 (15.41%) Platform Engineering
10 88 (14.74%) Coaching
11 87 (14.57%) Test Automation
12 86 (14.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 86 (14.41%) Software Engineering
13 73 (12.23%) Microservices
14 71 (11.89%) AI
14 71 (11.89%) DevSecOps
15 68 (11.39%) Roadmaps
15 68 (11.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 66 (11.06%) Cloud Security
17 65 (10.89%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 251 (42.04%) Python
2 130 (21.78%) PowerShell
3 114 (19.10%) Bash
4 91 (15.24%) SQL
5 81 (13.57%) Bicep
6 70 (11.73%) TypeScript
7 62 (10.39%) Java
8 61 (10.22%) JavaScript
9 51 (8.54%) C#
10 44 (7.37%) Go
11 9 (1.51%) C
12 7 (1.17%) C++
13 5 (0.84%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.50%) Scala
16 2 (0.34%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.34%) VB
16 2 (0.34%) XAML
17 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 96 (16.08%) Security Cleared
2 58 (9.72%) SC Cleared
3 43 (7.20%) DV Cleared
4 40 (6.70%) AWS Certification
5 29 (4.86%) Azure Certification
6 28 (4.69%) Degree
7 14 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.84%) AWS Certified Developer
10 9 (1.51%) Master's Degree
11 8 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (1.17%) CCNP
13 6 (1.01%) CISSP
14 5 (0.84%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.67%) Network+ Certification
15 4 (0.67%) PMI Certification
15 4 (0.67%) PMP
16 3 (0.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 3 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.36%) QA
2 24 (4.02%) GDPR
2 24 (4.02%) NIST
3 21 (3.52%) Accessibility
4 16 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.34%) WCAG
6 7 (1.17%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.67%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.50%) NCSC
10 2 (0.34%) GRC
11 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 184 (30.82%) Docker
2 26 (4.36%) Active Directory
3 25 (4.19%) Virtual Machines
3 25 (4.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (3.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (2.01%) vSphere
6 9 (1.51%) VMware NSX
7 7 (1.17%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.67%) Firmware
9 3 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.34%) iptables
10 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.17%) HDFS
11 1 (0.17%) KVM
11 1 (0.17%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 429 (71.86%) Terraform
2 186 (31.16%) Kubernetes
3 133 (22.28%) Ansible
4 70 (11.73%) Grafana
5 58 (9.72%) Prometheus
6 23 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (2.18%) Argo
8 11 (1.84%) Puppet
9 10 (1.68%) AWS Copilot
10 8 (1.34%) Rancher
11 7 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (1.01%) Progress Chef
12 6 (1.01%) vCenter Server
13 5 (0.84%) Proxmox
13 5 (0.84%) yum
14 4 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.67%) Kubeflow
14 4 (0.67%) SolarWinds Orion
15 3 (0.50%) Dell DRAC
15 3 (0.50%) Nagios
Vendors
1 119 (19.93%) Microsoft
2 44 (7.37%) VMware
3 41 (6.87%) Google
4 18 (3.02%) Black Duck
4 18 (3.02%) Cisco
4 18 (3.02%) Coverity
5 15 (2.51%) CrowdStrike
6 14 (2.35%) Ab Initio
6 14 (2.35%) Splunk
7 12 (2.01%) Databricks
7 12 (2.01%) Red Hat
8 11 (1.84%) Palo Alto
9 9 (1.51%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.51%) SolarWinds
10 7 (1.17%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.01%) SaltStack
11 6 (1.01%) SAP
12 5 (0.84%) CyberArk
12 5 (0.84%) Dell
12 5 (0.84%) Meraki