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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 212 174
Rank change year-on-year +112 -38 -66
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,305 469 873
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.64% 1.35% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 1.55% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 909 339 633
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £40,221
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -5.11%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -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 55,855 30,207 46,903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.31% 86.92% 78.21%
Number of salaries quoted 39,473 16,517 28,640
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,200 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 +92 453 £70,000 - 165
North West +78 250 £72,500 +3.57% 88
South East +62 250 £67,500 -12.90% 146
South West +49 224 £75,000 - 125
Midlands +45 148 £75,000 +15.38% 43
Yorkshire +5 105 £73,750 +5.36% 48
North East +23 98 £59,000 -18.62% 30
West Midlands +8 91 £83,774 +29.38% 23
Wales -11 67 £70,000 +16.67% 13
Northern Ireland -25 62 £71,991 +67.07% 7
East Midlands +15 57 £67,500 +3.85% 20
East of England 0 57 £67,500 +3.85% 14
Scotland +23 56 £72,246 +3.21% 28
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 40 (3.07%) Apache Spark
2 35 (2.68%) Apache
2 35 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (1.53%) Confluence
5 13 (1.00%) Jupyter
6 10 (0.77%) IIS
7 5 (0.38%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.31%) CMS
8 4 (0.31%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.23%) nginx
9 3 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.23%) WordPress
10 1 (0.077%) Documentum
10 1 (0.077%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.077%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.15%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.077%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.077%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.077%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 702 (53.79%) Azure
2 693 (53.10%) AWS
3 234 (17.93%) GitHub
4 215 (16.48%) GCP
5 203 (15.56%) Serverless
6 200 (15.33%) Azure DevOps
7 173 (13.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 139 (10.65%) GitHub Actions
9 114 (8.74%) AWS Lambda
10 113 (8.66%) Amazon S3
11 89 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
12 85 (6.51%) PaaS
13 84 (6.44%) Amazon EKS
14 83 (6.36%) Amazon ECS
15 80 (6.13%) Microsoft 365
16 72 (5.52%) SaaS
17 71 (5.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 68 (5.21%) Azure AKS
19 66 (5.06%) Cloud Computing
20 60 (4.60%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 99 (7.59%) Firewall
2 84 (6.44%) WAN
3 74 (5.67%) LAN
4 70 (5.36%) VPN
5 62 (4.75%) DNS
6 40 (3.07%) Network Security
7 39 (2.99%) TCP/IP
8 32 (2.45%) DHCP
9 21 (1.61%) BGP
10 16 (1.23%) VLAN
11 14 (1.07%) Broadband
12 13 (1.00%) Software-Defined Networking
13 12 (0.92%) SAN
14 11 (0.84%) OSPF
14 11 (0.84%) SD-WAN
15 8 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
15 8 (0.61%) Ethernet VPN
15 8 (0.61%) HTTP
15 8 (0.61%) Wireless
16 7 (0.54%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
3 54 (4.14%) NoSQL
4 49 (3.75%) MongoDB
4 49 (3.75%) SQL Server
5 47 (3.60%) DynamoDB
6 38 (2.91%) Relational Database
7 36 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 35 (2.68%) MySQL
9 32 (2.45%) Data Lake
9 32 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (1.46%) Big Data
11 18 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
12 17 (1.30%) Metadata
13 15 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (1.15%) Power BI
13 15 (1.15%) Redis
14 14 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (1.00%) Flink
15 13 (1.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 199 (15.25%) Git
2 143 (10.96%) GitLab
3 131 (10.04%) Jenkins
4 41 (3.14%) JIRA
5 18 (1.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 18 (1.38%) SonarQube
6 15 (1.15%) Cypress.io
7 13 (1.00%) Bitbucket
7 13 (1.00%) Cucumber
7 13 (1.00%) NUnit
8 12 (0.92%) Selenium
9 9 (0.69%) MSI
10 8 (0.61%) Terragrunt
11 7 (0.54%) Artifactory
11 7 (0.54%) JMeter
11 7 (0.54%) Robot Framework
12 6 (0.46%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.46%) git-flow
12 6 (0.46%) TeamCity
12 6 (0.46%) TestRail
General
1 386 (29.58%) Social Skills
2 229 (17.55%) Finance
3 142 (10.88%) Public Sector
4 97 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
5 94 (7.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 77 (5.90%) Law
7 69 (5.29%) Presentation Skills
8 42 (3.22%) Aerospace
9 26 (1.99%) Retail
10 24 (1.84%) Banking
10 24 (1.84%) Manufacturing
11 21 (1.61%) Marketing
12 17 (1.30%) Legal
12 17 (1.30%) Telecoms
13 16 (1.23%) Games
14 13 (1.00%) Aviation
14 13 (1.00%) Local Government
15 11 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (0.84%) Military
16 9 (0.69%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 270 (20.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 260 (19.92%) Senior
3 223 (17.09%) Lead
4 162 (12.41%) Architect
5 153 (11.72%) Cloud Engineer
6 124 (9.50%) Platform Engineer
7 123 (9.43%) Developer
8 101 (7.74%) Azure Engineer
9 96 (7.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 88 (6.74%) Software Engineer
11 74 (5.67%) Data Engineer
12 62 (4.75%) Systems Architect
13 59 (4.52%) AWS Engineer
14 57 (4.37%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 50 (3.83%) Senior DevOps
16 49 (3.75%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 48 (3.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 47 (3.60%) Lead DevOps
19 46 (3.52%) Technical Leader
20 45 (3.45%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 887 (67.97%) Terraform
2 129 (9.89%) React
3 104 (7.97%) .NET
4 100 (7.66%) REST
5 95 (7.28%) Node.js
6 86 (6.59%) Spring Boot
7 83 (6.36%) Spring
8 67 (5.13%) Kafka
9 64 (4.90%) RESTful
10 58 (4.44%) AWS CDK
11 51 (3.91%) ARM Templates
12 46 (3.52%) AngularJS
13 45 (3.45%) YAML
14 43 (3.30%) PySpark
15 37 (2.84%) Next.js
16 36 (2.76%) ASP.NET
17 34 (2.61%) ASP.NET Core
17 34 (2.61%) Vue
18 33 (2.53%) CSS
19 32 (2.45%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 321 (24.60%) Cloud Native
2 100 (7.66%) Distributed Systems
3 89 (6.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 69 (5.29%) Onboarding
5 60 (4.60%) Product Ownership
6 48 (3.68%) Public Cloud
7 45 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
8 37 (2.84%) Data Centre
9 36 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
10 34 (2.61%) Security Posture
11 30 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
11 30 (2.30%) Private Cloud
12 24 (1.84%) Data Structures
12 24 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
14 18 (1.38%) Virtual Team
15 17 (1.30%) Management Information System
16 16 (1.23%) Mainframe
17 15 (1.15%) Replication
18 14 (1.07%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 235 (18.01%) Linux
2 131 (10.04%) Windows
3 61 (4.67%) Windows Server
4 35 (2.68%) CentOS
5 28 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (2.15%) Unix
6 25 (1.92%) Ubuntu
7 15 (1.15%) VMS
8 5 (0.38%) Debian
8 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.23%) AIX
11 2 (0.15%) Android
11 2 (0.15%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.15%) Solaris
12 1 (0.077%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.077%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 947 (72.57%) CI/CD
2 757 (58.01%) DevOps
3 446 (34.18%) Containerisation
4 429 (32.87%) Agile
5 382 (29.27%) Observability
6 321 (24.60%) Platform Engineering
7 315 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 299 (22.91%) Mentoring
9 280 (21.46%) Problem-Solving
10 264 (20.23%) Software Engineering
11 246 (18.85%) AI
12 230 (17.62%) Technical Leadership
13 220 (16.86%) Microservices
14 204 (15.63%) Test Automation
15 194 (14.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 181 (13.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 161 (12.34%) Roadmaps
18 156 (11.95%) Cloud Security
19 143 (10.96%) DevSecOps
20 141 (10.80%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 529 (40.54%) Python
2 223 (17.09%) Bash
3 189 (14.48%) SQL
4 188 (14.41%) PowerShell
5 184 (14.10%) Java
6 136 (10.42%) TypeScript
7 135 (10.34%) Bicep
8 112 (8.58%) JavaScript
9 93 (7.13%) C#
10 63 (4.83%) Go
11 25 (1.92%) Ruby
12 23 (1.76%) Groovy
13 21 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
14 15 (1.15%) PHP
15 13 (1.00%) Rust
16 11 (0.84%) Scala
16 11 (0.84%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
18 6 (0.46%) C++
18 6 (0.46%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 372 (28.51%) Security Cleared
2 237 (18.16%) SC Cleared
3 155 (11.88%) DV Cleared
4 102 (7.82%) Degree
5 73 (5.59%) Azure Certification
6 61 (4.67%) AWS Certification
7 45 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
11 16 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 16 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 9 (0.69%) CCNA
13 8 (0.61%) DBS Check
14 7 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
14 7 (0.54%) PMI Certification
15 6 (0.46%) ICAEW
15 6 (0.46%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.46%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (6.21%) QA
2 63 (4.83%) GRC
3 53 (4.06%) Data Quality
4 42 (3.22%) Accessibility
5 25 (1.92%) NCSC
6 24 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (1.84%) WCAG
7 19 (1.46%) GDPR
8 17 (1.30%) NIST
9 15 (1.15%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.84%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.69%) SLA
12 6 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.15%) IFRS
13 2 (0.15%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.15%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.077%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.077%) HIPAA
System Software
1 383 (29.35%) Docker
2 83 (6.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 79 (6.05%) Active Directory
4 31 (2.38%) vSphere
5 23 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (1.38%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.84%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 5 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.31%) Firmware
10 4 (0.31%) iptables
10 4 (0.31%) KVM
10 4 (0.31%) Squid
11 2 (0.15%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 503 (38.54%) Kubernetes
2 272 (20.84%) Ansible
3 116 (8.89%) Grafana
4 90 (6.90%) Prometheus
5 44 (3.37%) Puppet
6 37 (2.84%) Argo
7 33 (2.53%) Progress Chef
8 19 (1.46%) Istio
9 15 (1.15%) Packer
10 14 (1.07%) vCenter Server
11 12 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
12 10 (0.77%) Kibana
13 9 (0.69%) Kustomize
13 9 (0.69%) Nagios
13 9 (0.69%) Podman
14 8 (0.61%) Nessus
14 8 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.61%) ZABBIX
15 7 (0.54%) logstash
15 7 (0.54%) Rancher
Vendors
1 300 (22.99%) Microsoft
2 96 (7.36%) VMware
3 71 (5.44%) Google
4 54 (4.14%) Red Hat
5 48 (3.68%) Databricks
5 48 (3.68%) Splunk
6 29 (2.22%) Oracle
7 28 (2.15%) Cisco
8 16 (1.23%) Palo Alto
9 14 (1.07%) OpenAI
10 13 (1.00%) Atlassian
11 12 (0.92%) Dynatrace
11 12 (0.92%) Fortinet
11 12 (0.92%) ScienceLogic
11 12 (0.92%) ServiceNow
12 11 (0.84%) F5
12 11 (0.84%) New Relic
13 8 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
13 8 (0.61%) IBM
14 7 (0.54%) SAP