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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 154 92
Rank change year-on-year -1 -62 +60
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 562 765 945
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.50% 1.63% 3.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 1.97% 3.44%
Number of salaries quoted 419 469 735
10th Percentile £46,450 £40,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £54,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,958 £65,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -1.89% +1.92%
75th Percentile £81,125 £77,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £72,500 £71,991 £75,000
% change year-on-year +0.71% -4.01% -

All Process and 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 30,751 38,829 27,473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.23% 82.70% 93.85%
Number of salaries quoted 18,778 18,883 20,474
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,714 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +4.22% -0.94%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 2025. 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 0 190 £70,000 +16.67% 77
South East +25 121 £78,500 +23.14% 197
North West +17 83 £65,250 +0.38% 47
Yorkshire -12 82 £70,000 +27.27% 19
Midlands +18 69 £65,000 -1.52% 46
Scotland +8 66 £70,039 +3.76% 31
South West -41 60 £62,500 -10.71% 77
West Midlands +28 47 £65,000 -4.41% 24
East of England +32 30 £66,500 -8.28% 16
North East +6 25 £70,079 +40.16% 11
East Midlands +27 20 £65,000 +54.76% 20
Wales +16 20 £60,500 +10.90% 14
Northern Ireland +3 8 £73,801 -13.18% 7
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 23 (4.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (3.56%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.96%) Apache
4 9 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.42%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.42%) Confluence
6 6 (1.07%) Appian
7 4 (0.71%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.36%) IIS
8 2 (0.36%) nginx
9 1 (0.18%) CMS
9 1 (0.18%) SAS
9 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 392 (69.75%) Azure
2 329 (58.54%) AWS
3 156 (27.76%) Azure DevOps
4 107 (19.04%) GitHub
5 102 (18.15%) GCP
6 90 (16.01%) AWS CloudFormation
7 89 (15.84%) Serverless
8 71 (12.63%) GitHub Actions
9 66 (11.74%) SaaS
10 59 (10.50%) Microsoft 365
11 52 (9.25%) AWS Lambda
12 51 (9.07%) PaaS
13 50 (8.90%) Entra ID
14 47 (8.36%) Amazon S3
15 36 (6.41%) Amazon ECS
16 35 (6.23%) dbt
17 34 (6.05%) Azure Monitor
18 30 (5.34%) IaaS
19 28 (4.98%) Amazon EC2
20 27 (4.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 45 (8.01%) Firewall
2 39 (6.94%) DNS
3 35 (6.23%) VPN
4 28 (4.98%) TCP/IP
5 27 (4.80%) WAN
6 21 (3.74%) LAN
7 15 (2.67%) Network Security
8 12 (2.14%) DHCP
9 11 (1.96%) SD-WAN
9 11 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (1.42%) SAN
11 7 (1.25%) Unified Communications
11 7 (1.25%) VoIP
12 6 (1.07%) VLAN
13 5 (0.89%) AMQP
14 4 (0.71%) BGP
14 4 (0.71%) HTTP
14 4 (0.71%) Wireless
15 3 (0.53%) IPsec
15 3 (0.53%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (5.52%) Amazon RDS
1 31 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
1 31 (5.52%) SQL Server
2 23 (4.09%) Redis
3 20 (3.56%) DynamoDB
4 19 (3.38%) NoSQL
5 16 (2.85%) Elasticsearch
6 14 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (2.14%) Big Data
7 12 (2.14%) MySQL
8 10 (1.78%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.42%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.25%) Airbyte
10 7 (1.25%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.89%) InfluxDB
12 4 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.53%) Apache Iceberg
13 3 (0.53%) Data Vault
13 3 (0.53%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 60 (10.68%) Jenkins
2 50 (8.90%) GitLab
3 48 (8.54%) Git
4 23 (4.09%) Selenium
5 20 (3.56%) Robot Framework
6 19 (3.38%) JIRA
6 19 (3.38%) Snyk
7 11 (1.96%) TeamCity
8 10 (1.78%) CircleCI
8 10 (1.78%) SonarQube
9 9 (1.60%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.42%) Bitbucket
10 8 (1.42%) JMeter
11 7 (1.25%) Artifactory
11 7 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (1.07%) git-flow
12 6 (1.07%) Locust
13 5 (0.89%) MLflow
14 4 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 3 (0.53%) MSTest
General
1 142 (25.27%) Social Skills
2 115 (20.46%) Finance
3 43 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (5.34%) Law
5 21 (3.74%) Public Sector
6 16 (2.85%) Retail
6 16 (2.85%) Telecoms
7 15 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.31%) Legal
9 10 (1.78%) Games
10 9 (1.60%) Automotive
10 9 (1.60%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.42%) Advertising
11 8 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.42%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.89%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.89%) Billing
13 4 (0.71%) Marketing
14 3 (0.53%) Banking
14 3 (0.53%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 128 (22.78%) Senior
2 76 (13.52%) Lead
3 74 (13.17%) DevOps Engineer
4 73 (12.99%) Cloud Engineer
5 64 (11.39%) Developer
6 58 (10.32%) Architect
7 47 (8.36%) Platform Engineer
8 41 (7.30%) Azure Engineer
9 24 (4.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 24 (4.27%) Software Engineer
10 23 (4.09%) Cloud Architect
11 19 (3.38%) Full-Stack Developer
12 18 (3.20%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 18 (3.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 17 (3.02%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 17 (3.02%) Lead DevOps
14 16 (2.85%) Python Developer
15 15 (2.67%) Security Engineer
15 15 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
16 14 (2.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (11.39%) React
2 58 (10.32%) .NET
3 38 (6.76%) Django
4 31 (5.52%) ARM Templates
5 28 (4.98%) RESTful
6 27 (4.80%) Node.js
7 22 (3.91%) REST
7 22 (3.91%) YAML
8 21 (3.74%) OAuth
9 20 (3.56%) Flask
10 19 (3.38%) CSS
11 18 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
11 18 (3.20%) FastAPI
11 18 (3.20%) HTML
11 18 (3.20%) Vue
12 16 (2.85%) AngularJS
12 16 (2.85%) Kafka
13 15 (2.67%) .NET Core
14 14 (2.49%) .NET Framework
15 13 (2.31%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 131 (23.31%) Cloud Native
2 41 (7.30%) Product Ownership
3 29 (5.16%) Public Cloud
4 23 (4.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 21 (3.74%) Data Centre
6 18 (3.20%) Security Posture
7 17 (3.02%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
10 14 (2.49%) Onboarding
11 12 (2.14%) Private Cloud
12 11 (1.96%) Data Structures
13 9 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (1.42%) Operational Technology
15 6 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (1.07%) Low-Code
16 5 (0.89%) AI Agents
17 4 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 86 (15.30%) Linux
2 43 (7.65%) Windows
3 18 (3.20%) Unix
4 14 (2.49%) Ubuntu
5 13 (2.31%) Debian
6 12 (2.14%) Windows Server
7 11 (1.96%) VMS
8 4 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.53%) CentOS
10 2 (0.36%) AIX
11 1 (0.18%) Android
11 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (69.93%) DevOps
2 370 (65.84%) CI/CD
3 218 (38.79%) Agile
4 124 (22.06%) Continuous Improvement
5 120 (21.35%) Containerisation
6 117 (20.82%) Mentoring
7 114 (20.28%) Problem-Solving
8 92 (16.37%) Observability
9 77 (13.70%) Test Automation
10 76 (13.52%) Platform Engineering
11 74 (13.17%) Roadmaps
11 74 (13.17%) Software Engineering
12 73 (12.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 72 (12.81%) Coaching
14 65 (11.57%) AI
15 60 (10.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 57 (10.14%) Scrum
17 56 (9.96%) Analytics
17 56 (9.96%) Microservices
18 50 (8.90%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 215 (38.26%) Python
2 112 (19.93%) PowerShell
3 92 (16.37%) SQL
4 82 (14.59%) Bicep
5 73 (12.99%) Bash
6 57 (10.14%) C#
7 53 (9.43%) JavaScript
8 49 (8.72%) Java
9 47 (8.36%) TypeScript
10 23 (4.09%) Go
11 6 (1.07%) C++
12 4 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.71%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.53%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.53%) Scala
14 2 (0.36%) Groovy
14 2 (0.36%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.36%) VB
14 2 (0.36%) XAML
15 1 (0.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 101 (17.97%) Security Cleared
2 70 (12.46%) SC Cleared
3 44 (7.83%) DV Cleared
4 41 (7.30%) Azure Certification
5 34 (6.05%) AWS Certification
6 30 (5.34%) Degree
7 16 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (2.31%) CCNP
9 12 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.96%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.25%) PMI Certification
11 7 (1.25%) PMP
12 5 (0.89%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.89%) CCNA
13 4 (0.71%) CISSP
13 4 (0.71%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.80%) NIST
2 23 (4.09%) QA
3 21 (3.74%) GDPR
4 17 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (2.49%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.25%) WCAG
7 6 (1.07%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.53%) NCSC
8 3 (0.53%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.36%) GRC
9 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 177 (31.49%) Docker
2 25 (4.45%) Virtual Machines
3 23 (4.09%) Active Directory
3 23 (4.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (3.91%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (1.96%) Hyper-V
6 9 (1.60%) vSphere
7 4 (0.71%) Firmware
7 4 (0.71%) vCloud
7 4 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.53%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.18%) HDFS
9 1 (0.18%) iptables
9 1 (0.18%) KVM
9 1 (0.18%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 397 (70.64%) Terraform
2 171 (30.43%) Kubernetes
3 111 (19.75%) Ansible
4 49 (8.72%) Grafana
5 41 (7.30%) Prometheus
6 26 (4.63%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (2.14%) Docker Swarm
8 10 (1.78%) AWS Copilot
9 8 (1.42%) Argo
10 6 (1.07%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.89%) MaaS360
11 5 (0.89%) Puppet
11 5 (0.89%) SCCM
12 4 (0.71%) Control-M
12 4 (0.71%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.71%) Rundeck
12 4 (0.71%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.53%) Dell DRAC
14 2 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 139 (24.73%) Microsoft
2 43 (7.65%) VMware
3 38 (6.76%) Google
4 18 (3.20%) Black Duck
4 18 (3.20%) Cisco
5 17 (3.02%) Coverity
6 15 (2.67%) Palo Alto
7 13 (2.31%) Databricks
7 13 (2.31%) Splunk
8 10 (1.78%) Fortinet
9 9 (1.60%) Ab Initio
9 9 (1.60%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.60%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.25%) CrowdStrike
10 7 (1.25%) Oracle
10 7 (1.25%) SolarWinds
11 6 (1.07%) Aruba
11 6 (1.07%) BiZZdesign
11 6 (1.07%) UiPath
12 5 (0.89%) Atlassian