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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 215 198
Rank change year-on-year +92 -17 -66
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 997 452 1,010
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.43% 1.41% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 1.57% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 747 316 793
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,461 £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 £83,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £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 49,150 28,737 61,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.41% 89.46% 80.05%
Number of salaries quoted 34,589 15,099 42,652
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,238 £32,851 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%

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 3 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 3 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 +77 357 £67,500 -3.57% 137
South East +54 217 £70,000 -9.68% 168
North West +75 216 £72,500 - 81
South West +30 164 £75,000 +3.45% 106
Midlands +41 125 £75,000 +15.38% 59
Yorkshire +5 91 £65,576 -6.32% 36
West Midlands +9 72 £80,000 +23.08% 40
East Midlands +21 53 £67,500 +3.85% 19
East of England +12 53 £60,100 -7.54% 16
North East -7 50 £55,000 -14.06% 22
Scotland +16 37 £62,500 -16.67% 31
Wales -15 34 £70,079 +24.58% 11
Northern Ireland -28 16 £84,401 +95.86% 20
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 28 (2.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (2.11%) Apache
3 20 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.01%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.71%) Confluence
5 9 (0.90%) Jupyter
6 8 (0.80%) IIS
7 5 (0.50%) CMS
8 4 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.30%) WordPress
10 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.20%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.10%) Documentum
11 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 554 (55.57%) AWS
2 541 (54.26%) Azure
3 210 (21.06%) GitHub
4 198 (19.86%) Azure DevOps
5 181 (18.15%) Serverless
6 153 (15.35%) GCP
7 140 (14.04%) GitHub Actions
8 123 (12.34%) AWS CloudFormation
9 99 (9.93%) Amazon S3
10 92 (9.23%) AWS Lambda
11 90 (9.03%) PaaS
12 77 (7.72%) Amazon EKS
13 72 (7.22%) Amazon EC2
14 63 (6.32%) Azure AKS
15 61 (6.12%) IaaS
16 60 (6.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 59 (5.92%) Amazon ECS
18 54 (5.42%) Entra ID
18 54 (5.42%) SaaS
19 53 (5.32%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 113 (11.33%) Firewall
2 60 (6.02%) DNS
3 58 (5.82%) VPN
4 38 (3.81%) TCP/IP
5 31 (3.11%) Network Security
6 30 (3.01%) WAN
7 24 (2.41%) LAN
8 22 (2.21%) DHCP
9 18 (1.81%) VLAN
10 17 (1.71%) BGP
10 17 (1.71%) HTTP
11 16 (1.60%) Broadband
12 13 (1.30%) Cisco ASA
13 11 (1.10%) SAN
14 7 (0.70%) SD-WAN
14 7 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
15 6 (0.60%) Cisco Firepower
15 6 (0.60%) Ethernet VPN
15 6 (0.60%) MQTT
15 6 (0.60%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (7.12%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (5.02%) Amazon RDS
3 42 (4.21%) NoSQL
4 40 (4.01%) MongoDB
5 38 (3.81%) DynamoDB
6 35 (3.51%) SQL Server
7 34 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
8 23 (2.31%) Relational Database
9 17 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (1.71%) MySQL
10 16 (1.60%) Redis
11 14 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (1.40%) Metadata
12 13 (1.30%) Data Lake
12 13 (1.30%) Spark SQL
13 11 (1.10%) Big Data
14 10 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (0.80%) BigQuery
16 7 (0.70%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 154 (15.45%) Git
2 125 (12.54%) GitLab
3 124 (12.44%) Jenkins
4 28 (2.81%) JIRA
5 15 (1.50%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.40%) Cucumber
6 14 (1.40%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 8 (0.80%) Cypress.io
8 8 (0.80%) NUnit
8 8 (0.80%) Selenium
9 7 (0.70%) Artifactory
9 7 (0.70%) JMeter
9 7 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
9 7 (0.70%) Subversion
10 6 (0.60%) MSI
10 6 (0.60%) Robot Framework
10 6 (0.60%) TestRail
11 4 (0.40%) Jasmine
11 4 (0.40%) TeamCity
General
1 254 (25.48%) Social Skills
2 131 (13.14%) Finance
3 93 (9.33%) Public Sector
4 69 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (5.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 50 (5.02%) Law
7 32 (3.21%) Telecoms
8 26 (2.61%) Retail
9 25 (2.51%) Aerospace
10 22 (2.21%) Manufacturing
11 21 (2.11%) Banking
12 18 (1.81%) Games
13 17 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
14 14 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (0.90%) Billing
17 8 (0.80%) Marketing
18 7 (0.70%) Advertising
18 7 (0.70%) Legal
19 5 (0.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 212 (21.26%) Senior
2 207 (20.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 162 (16.25%) Lead
4 124 (12.44%) Cloud Engineer
5 98 (9.83%) Azure Engineer
6 97 (9.73%) Platform Engineer
7 95 (9.53%) Developer
8 84 (8.43%) Architect
9 70 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 66 (6.62%) Software Engineer
11 47 (4.71%) AWS Engineer
12 46 (4.61%) Senior DevOps
13 45 (4.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 41 (4.11%) Data Engineer
15 38 (3.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 37 (3.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 37 (3.71%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 35 (3.51%) Technical Leader
18 31 (3.11%) Azure Platform Engineer
18 31 (3.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (10.63%) React
2 94 (9.43%) Node.js
3 82 (8.22%) REST
4 81 (8.12%) .NET
5 53 (5.32%) ARM Templates
6 49 (4.91%) Spring
7 48 (4.81%) AWS CDK
7 48 (4.81%) RESTful
7 48 (4.81%) Spring Boot
8 46 (4.61%) YAML
9 43 (4.31%) Kafka
10 42 (4.21%) Elastic Stack
11 34 (3.41%) AngularJS
12 33 (3.31%) PySpark
13 29 (2.91%) ASP.NET
14 28 (2.81%) Vue
15 27 (2.71%) ASP.NET Core
15 27 (2.71%) Next.js
15 27 (2.71%) RabbitMQ
16 23 (2.31%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 229 (22.97%) Cloud Native
2 72 (7.22%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (6.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 50 (5.02%) Product Ownership
5 35 (3.51%) Public Cloud
6 32 (3.21%) Onboarding
7 31 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
8 29 (2.91%) Security Posture
9 26 (2.61%) Data Centre
10 25 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
11 24 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
12 23 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
13 18 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
14 17 (1.71%) Private Cloud
15 15 (1.50%) Data Structures
15 15 (1.50%) Replication
16 14 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
17 13 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
17 13 (1.30%) Video\Live Streaming
18 12 (1.20%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 196 (19.66%) Linux
2 107 (10.73%) Windows
3 51 (5.12%) Windows Server
4 32 (3.21%) Ubuntu
5 28 (2.81%) CentOS
6 19 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.91%) VMS
7 17 (1.71%) Unix
8 8 (0.80%) Debian
8 8 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.30%) Android
10 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.10%) AIX
11 1 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.10%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 740 (74.22%) CI/CD
2 612 (61.38%) DevOps
3 343 (34.40%) Agile
4 307 (30.79%) Observability
5 302 (30.29%) Containerisation
6 248 (24.87%) Platform Engineering
7 237 (23.77%) Mentoring
8 228 (22.87%) Continuous Improvement
9 196 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
10 194 (19.46%) AI
11 175 (17.55%) Test Automation
12 174 (17.45%) Microservices
13 159 (15.95%) Software Engineering
14 146 (14.64%) Technical Leadership
15 139 (13.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 134 (13.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 122 (12.24%) Cloud Security
18 116 (11.63%) DevSecOps
19 101 (10.13%) Analytics
20 95 (9.53%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 419 (42.03%) Python
2 211 (21.16%) Bash
3 186 (18.66%) PowerShell
4 145 (14.54%) SQL
5 122 (12.24%) TypeScript
6 120 (12.04%) Java
7 116 (11.63%) Bicep
8 98 (9.83%) JavaScript
9 75 (7.52%) C#
10 61 (6.12%) Go
11 19 (1.91%) Groovy
11 19 (1.91%) Kusto Query Language
12 17 (1.71%) Ruby
13 12 (1.20%) PHP
14 9 (0.90%) Rust
15 8 (0.80%) C++
16 7 (0.70%) C
16 7 (0.70%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.50%) Search Processing Language
18 4 (0.40%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 238 (23.87%) Security Cleared
2 148 (14.84%) SC Cleared
3 81 (8.12%) DV Cleared
4 74 (7.42%) Degree
5 57 (5.72%) Azure Certification
6 37 (3.71%) AWS Certification
7 33 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.30%) DBS Check
11 11 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (0.70%) CCNA
12 7 (0.70%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.60%) ICAEW
13 6 (0.60%) RHCSA
14 5 (0.50%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.40%) Network+ Certification
15 4 (0.40%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (6.12%) QA
2 29 (2.91%) Data Quality
3 25 (2.51%) Accessibility
4 18 (1.81%) WCAG
5 17 (1.71%) GDPR
5 17 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.50%) GRC
7 13 (1.30%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.20%) NCSC
8 12 (1.20%) SOC 2
9 11 (1.10%) NIST
10 5 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.50%) SLA
11 4 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.20%) IFRS
12 2 (0.20%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.20%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.10%) GxP
System Software
1 282 (28.28%) Docker
2 71 (7.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 64 (6.42%) Active Directory
4 35 (3.51%) vSphere
5 21 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (1.20%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.70%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.70%) iptables
9 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.50%) Firmware
11 4 (0.40%) Squid
12 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 707 (70.91%) Terraform
2 382 (38.31%) Kubernetes
3 216 (21.66%) Ansible
4 124 (12.44%) Grafana
5 96 (9.63%) Prometheus
6 36 (3.61%) Puppet
7 29 (2.91%) Argo
8 24 (2.41%) Progress Chef
9 15 (1.50%) vCenter Server
10 14 (1.40%) Packer
11 13 (1.30%) Nagios
12 12 (1.20%) Istio
13 11 (1.10%) Proxmox
14 10 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
14 10 (1.00%) Rancher
14 10 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
15 9 (0.90%) Kibana
15 9 (0.90%) Podman
16 7 (0.70%) logstash
16 7 (0.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 197 (19.76%) Microsoft
2 88 (8.83%) VMware
3 50 (5.02%) Red Hat
4 40 (4.01%) Google
5 38 (3.81%) Splunk
6 31 (3.11%) Cisco
6 31 (3.11%) Databricks
7 21 (2.11%) Palo Alto
8 14 (1.40%) Oracle
9 13 (1.30%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.20%) ScienceLogic
11 11 (1.10%) F5
12 10 (1.00%) Fortinet
13 9 (0.90%) Atlassian
13 9 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (0.70%) HubSpot
14 7 (0.70%) NetApp
14 7 (0.70%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.70%) Salesforce
15 6 (0.60%) Juniper