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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 190 194
Rank change year-on-year +27 +4 -51
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 705 428 1,003
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.08% 1.58% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 1.73% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 502 317 767
10th Percentile £46,446 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £71,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +9.15% -5.33%

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 46,868 24,770 56,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 72.07% 91.25% 83.94%
Number of salaries quoted 28,736 13,852 40,821
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,475 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,568 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.93%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +2 257 £67,249 -0.74% 154
South East -6 142 £70,000 -6.67% 157
North West +7 134 £72,500 - 87
South West -7 105 £65,000 -9.71% 82
Yorkshire -29 92 £65,000 +8.33% 30
Midlands +5 86 £68,000 -2.86% 43
Scotland -9 50 £60,000 -15.49% 19
West Midlands -10 42 £70,000 - 32
East Midlands -12 42 £67,500 +3.85% 11
East of England +1 40 £60,100 -10.96% 27
North East -22 31 £48,445 -15.01% 37
Wales -12 22 £60,000 -5.14% 14
Northern Ireland -35 6 £95,000 - 9
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 12 (1.70%) Apache
1 12 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
1 12 (1.70%) IIS
2 11 (1.56%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.71%) Confluence
5 4 (0.57%) CMS
6 3 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.28%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 417 (59.15%) AWS
2 398 (56.45%) Azure
3 183 (25.96%) Azure DevOps
4 162 (22.98%) GitHub
5 140 (19.86%) Serverless
6 128 (18.16%) GitHub Actions
7 127 (18.01%) GCP
8 99 (14.04%) AWS CloudFormation
9 82 (11.63%) AWS Lambda
10 72 (10.21%) Amazon S3
11 67 (9.50%) Amazon EKS
12 55 (7.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 49 (6.95%) PaaS
14 44 (6.24%) Amazon EC2
15 41 (5.82%) Entra ID
16 39 (5.53%) Azure Monitor
17 38 (5.39%) Amazon ECS
18 35 (4.96%) IaaS
19 34 (4.82%) Azure AKS
19 34 (4.82%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 101 (14.33%) Firewall
2 53 (7.52%) DNS
3 41 (5.82%) TCP/IP
4 30 (4.26%) VPN
5 23 (3.26%) Network Security
6 20 (2.84%) HTTP
7 18 (2.55%) DHCP
8 14 (1.99%) Cisco ASA
8 14 (1.99%) WAN
9 11 (1.56%) BGP
9 11 (1.56%) LAN
9 11 (1.56%) VLAN
10 10 (1.42%) Broadband
11 7 (0.99%) Internet
12 6 (0.85%) SAN
13 5 (0.71%) AMQP
13 5 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
13 5 (0.71%) Unified Communications
13 5 (0.71%) WebEx
14 4 (0.57%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
3 37 (5.25%) NoSQL
4 34 (4.82%) DynamoDB
5 31 (4.40%) SQL Server
6 25 (3.55%) MongoDB
7 24 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (1.56%) BigQuery
9 11 (1.56%) Spark SQL
10 10 (1.42%) Metadata
10 10 (1.42%) MySQL
11 9 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (1.28%) Big Data
12 8 (1.13%) Data Lake
12 8 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (1.13%) InfluxDB
12 8 (1.13%) Redis
12 8 (1.13%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 112 (15.89%) Git
2 97 (13.76%) Jenkins
3 79 (11.21%) GitLab
4 18 (2.55%) JIRA
5 15 (2.13%) Bitbucket
6 11 (1.56%) Cucumber
6 11 (1.56%) Selenium
7 9 (1.28%) Robot Framework
8 8 (1.13%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.99%) CircleCI
9 7 (0.99%) Octopus Deploy
9 7 (0.99%) Subversion
10 6 (0.85%) Artifactory
10 6 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (0.85%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.85%) NUnit
11 5 (0.71%) JMeter
11 5 (0.71%) TestRail
12 4 (0.57%) Locust
12 4 (0.57%) Snyk
General
1 179 (25.39%) Social Skills
2 104 (14.75%) Finance
3 62 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (7.80%) Public Sector
5 41 (5.82%) Telecoms
6 30 (4.26%) Law
7 28 (3.97%) Retail
8 26 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (2.55%) Banking
10 16 (2.27%) Aerospace
10 16 (2.27%) Billing
10 16 (2.27%) Games
11 14 (1.99%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.84%) Marketing
13 12 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.13%) Advertising
16 7 (0.99%) Electronics
17 5 (0.71%) Legal
18 4 (0.57%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 158 (22.41%) Senior
2 133 (18.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 123 (17.45%) Lead
4 93 (13.19%) Cloud Engineer
5 85 (12.06%) Azure Engineer
6 70 (9.93%) Developer
7 51 (7.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 49 (6.95%) Platform Engineer
9 42 (5.96%) Software Engineer
10 41 (5.82%) Architect
11 31 (4.40%) AWS Engineer
11 31 (4.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 30 (4.26%) Data Engineer
12 30 (4.26%) Senior DevOps
13 26 (3.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 26 (3.69%) Lead DevOps
14 22 (3.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 22 (3.12%) Team Leader
15 21 (2.98%) Lead Developer
16 19 (2.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (12.34%) React
2 73 (10.35%) Node.js
3 58 (8.23%) .NET
4 51 (7.23%) REST
5 47 (6.67%) RESTful
6 45 (6.38%) AWS CDK
7 42 (5.96%) YAML
8 37 (5.25%) ARM Templates
9 35 (4.96%) Elastic Stack
10 33 (4.68%) OAuth
11 25 (3.55%) ASP.NET
12 24 (3.40%) Spring
13 23 (3.26%) ASP.NET Core
14 22 (3.12%) JSON
15 21 (2.98%) Django
15 21 (2.98%) RabbitMQ
16 19 (2.70%) GraphQL
17 18 (2.55%) .NET Core
17 18 (2.55%) Spring Boot
17 18 (2.55%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 135 (19.15%) Cloud Native
2 43 (6.10%) Product Ownership
3 40 (5.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 33 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (2.98%) Public Cloud
7 17 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
7 17 (2.41%) Onboarding
8 16 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (1.99%) Legacy Applications
11 13 (1.84%) Security Posture
11 13 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.70%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.56%) Data Centre
13 11 (1.56%) Replication
14 10 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (1.42%) Mobile App
15 9 (1.28%) Private Cloud
16 8 (1.13%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 148 (20.99%) Linux
2 67 (9.50%) Windows
3 30 (4.26%) Windows Server
4 19 (2.70%) Unix
5 17 (2.41%) Ubuntu
6 12 (1.70%) CentOS
7 9 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.28%) VMS
8 7 (0.99%) Debian
9 5 (0.71%) Android
9 5 (0.71%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 516 (73.19%) CI/CD
2 475 (67.38%) DevOps
3 243 (34.47%) Agile
4 203 (28.79%) Containerisation
5 200 (28.37%) Observability
6 173 (24.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 159 (22.55%) Mentoring
7 159 (22.55%) Problem-Solving
8 134 (19.01%) Test Automation
9 128 (18.16%) Platform Engineering
10 109 (15.46%) Microservices
11 104 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 100 (14.18%) Software Engineering
13 96 (13.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 85 (12.06%) AI
15 84 (11.91%) Deployment Automation
16 82 (11.63%) Incident Response
17 73 (10.35%) DevSecOps
18 71 (10.07%) Cloud Security
19 65 (9.22%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 306 (43.40%) Python
2 153 (21.70%) Bash
3 148 (20.99%) PowerShell
4 120 (17.02%) SQL
5 79 (11.21%) TypeScript
6 75 (10.64%) Java
7 74 (10.50%) Bicep
8 65 (9.22%) JavaScript
9 56 (7.94%) Go
10 49 (6.95%) C#
11 13 (1.84%) C
12 10 (1.42%) Groovy
13 9 (1.28%) C++
14 7 (0.99%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.71%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.57%) Perl
17 4 (0.57%) Ruby
18 3 (0.43%) Rust
18 3 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 120 (17.02%) Security Cleared
2 72 (10.21%) SC Cleared
3 49 (6.95%) Degree
4 48 (6.81%) DV Cleared
5 36 (5.11%) AWS Certification
6 30 (4.26%) Azure Certification
7 22 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.84%) AWS Certified Developer
8 13 (1.84%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.85%) CISSP
12 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.57%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.57%) Network+ Certification
12 4 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.28%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.96%) QA
2 27 (3.83%) GDPR
3 20 (2.84%) Accessibility
4 18 (2.55%) Data Quality
5 15 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.42%) NIST
7 9 (1.28%) SOC 2
8 8 (1.13%) WCAG
9 6 (0.85%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.57%) NCSC
11 3 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.43%) GRC
11 3 (0.43%) SLA
12 2 (0.28%) IFRS
12 2 (0.28%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 200 (28.37%) Docker
2 38 (5.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (4.40%) Active Directory
4 17 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (1.99%) vSphere
6 9 (1.28%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.99%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.99%) iptables
8 5 (0.71%) Firmware
8 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 486 (68.94%) Terraform
2 248 (35.18%) Kubernetes
3 155 (21.99%) Ansible
4 106 (15.04%) Grafana
5 84 (11.91%) Prometheus
6 21 (2.98%) Puppet
7 18 (2.55%) Argo
8 14 (1.99%) Progress Chef
9 11 (1.56%) Rancher
10 9 (1.28%) Nagios
11 8 (1.13%) Packer
11 8 (1.13%) Proxmox
11 8 (1.13%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
12 7 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.99%) yum
13 5 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.71%) Cisco CUCM
13 5 (0.71%) Istio
13 5 (0.71%) Kibana
Vendors
1 134 (19.01%) Microsoft
2 53 (7.52%) VMware
3 33 (4.68%) Google
4 31 (4.40%) Red Hat
5 30 (4.26%) Cisco
6 24 (3.40%) Databricks
6 24 (3.40%) Splunk
7 16 (2.27%) CrowdStrike
8 15 (2.13%) Palo Alto
9 14 (1.99%) Dynatrace
10 9 (1.28%) Ab Initio
11 8 (1.13%) Fortinet
11 8 (1.13%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.99%) Juniper
13 6 (0.85%) AppDynamics
13 6 (0.85%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.85%) Dell
13 6 (0.85%) F5
13 6 (0.85%) NetApp
13 6 (0.85%) SolarWinds