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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 222 178
Rank change year-on-year +119 -44 -65
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,243 469 868
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.63% 1.36% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 1.56% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 879 338 661
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £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 53,769 30,137 46,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.58% 87.57% 78.49%
Number of salaries quoted 37,803 16,469 29,864
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% -3.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 7 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 7 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 +89 418 £70,400 +0.57% 270
South East +62 249 £67,500 -12.90% 186
North West +88 239 £75,000 +7.14% 147
South West +45 213 £75,000 -4.83% 147
Midlands +39 147 £77,500 +19.23% 66
Yorkshire +12 97 £75,000 +7.14% 78
West Midlands +11 90 £80,000 +23.08% 42
North East +16 82 £56,500 -16.30% 45
Wales -3 65 £70,000 +21.74% 32
Northern Ireland -21 58 £72,896 +69.17% 19
East Midlands +12 57 £67,500 +3.85% 24
East of England -6 54 £65,000 +4.00% 32
Scotland +32 49 £71,991 +10.76% 69
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 34 (2.74%) Apache Spark
2 33 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (2.49%) Apache
4 27 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 21 (1.69%) Confluence
6 12 (0.97%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.64%) IIS
8 5 (0.40%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.32%) CMS
10 3 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.24%) nginx
10 3 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.24%) WordPress
11 2 (0.16%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.080%) Documentum
12 1 (0.080%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.080%) JBoss
Applications
1 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.16%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.080%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.080%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 679 (54.63%) Azure
2 667 (53.66%) AWS
3 228 (18.34%) GitHub
4 206 (16.57%) GCP
5 204 (16.41%) Azure DevOps
6 196 (15.77%) Serverless
7 165 (13.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 140 (11.26%) GitHub Actions
9 108 (8.69%) Amazon S3
10 104 (8.37%) AWS Lambda
11 88 (7.08%) PaaS
12 84 (6.76%) Amazon EC2
13 83 (6.68%) Amazon ECS
14 80 (6.44%) Microsoft 365
15 79 (6.36%) Amazon EKS
16 69 (5.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 69 (5.55%) SaaS
17 66 (5.31%) Cloud Computing
18 64 (5.15%) Azure AKS
19 57 (4.59%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 100 (8.05%) Firewall
2 79 (6.36%) WAN
3 72 (5.79%) LAN
4 64 (5.15%) VPN
5 58 (4.67%) DNS
6 43 (3.46%) TCP/IP
7 39 (3.14%) Network Security
8 25 (2.01%) DHCP
9 18 (1.45%) BGP
9 18 (1.45%) VLAN
10 15 (1.21%) Broadband
11 13 (1.05%) SAN
12 12 (0.97%) Cisco ASA
12 12 (0.97%) HTTP
13 11 (0.88%) Software-Defined Networking
14 10 (0.80%) SD-WAN
15 9 (0.72%) OSPF
16 7 (0.56%) MQTT
16 7 (0.56%) Unified Communications
16 7 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (4.75%) Amazon RDS
3 51 (4.10%) NoSQL
4 46 (3.70%) SQL Server
5 45 (3.62%) DynamoDB
5 45 (3.62%) MongoDB
6 36 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
7 34 (2.74%) Relational Database
8 32 (2.57%) MySQL
9 28 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
10 25 (2.01%) Data Lake
11 18 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
12 17 (1.37%) Redis
13 15 (1.21%) Big Data
13 15 (1.21%) Metadata
14 14 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (1.05%) Power BI
16 12 (0.97%) Spark SQL
17 11 (0.88%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 191 (15.37%) Git
2 143 (11.50%) GitLab
3 130 (10.46%) Jenkins
4 40 (3.22%) JIRA
5 17 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 16 (1.29%) SonarQube
7 14 (1.13%) Bitbucket
8 13 (1.05%) Cucumber
8 13 (1.05%) NUnit
9 12 (0.97%) Cypress.io
9 12 (0.97%) Selenium
10 9 (0.72%) MSI
11 7 (0.56%) Artifactory
11 7 (0.56%) JMeter
11 7 (0.56%) Robot Framework
11 7 (0.56%) Terragrunt
12 6 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (0.48%) Subversion
12 6 (0.48%) TeamCity
12 6 (0.48%) TestRail
General
1 367 (29.53%) Social Skills
2 210 (16.89%) Finance
3 123 (9.90%) Public Sector
4 92 (7.40%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (7.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 73 (5.87%) Law
7 64 (5.15%) Presentation Skills
8 34 (2.74%) Aerospace
9 29 (2.33%) Retail
10 25 (2.01%) Telecoms
11 22 (1.77%) Banking
12 21 (1.69%) Manufacturing
12 21 (1.69%) Marketing
13 16 (1.29%) Games
14 15 (1.21%) Legal
15 14 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (0.97%) Local Government
17 11 (0.88%) Aviation
18 10 (0.80%) Advertising
19 8 (0.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 264 (21.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 245 (19.71%) Senior
3 214 (17.22%) Lead
4 150 (12.07%) Architect
5 146 (11.75%) Cloud Engineer
6 119 (9.57%) Developer
7 118 (9.49%) Platform Engineer
8 99 (7.96%) Azure Engineer
9 82 (6.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 82 (6.60%) Software Engineer
10 66 (5.31%) Data Engineer
11 58 (4.67%) Systems Architect
12 57 (4.59%) AWS Engineer
13 56 (4.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 50 (4.02%) Senior DevOps
15 47 (3.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 47 (3.78%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 43 (3.46%) Technical Leader
17 41 (3.30%) Lead DevOps
17 41 (3.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (10.06%) React
2 103 (8.29%) .NET
3 96 (7.72%) REST
4 93 (7.48%) Node.js
5 77 (6.19%) Spring Boot
6 74 (5.95%) Spring
7 62 (4.99%) Kafka
8 60 (4.83%) RESTful
9 58 (4.67%) AWS CDK
10 56 (4.51%) ARM Templates
11 46 (3.70%) YAML
12 42 (3.38%) AngularJS
12 42 (3.38%) PySpark
13 36 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
13 36 (2.90%) Next.js
14 34 (2.74%) ASP.NET
15 33 (2.65%) Vue
16 32 (2.57%) ASP.NET Core
17 30 (2.41%) CSS
17 30 (2.41%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 298 (23.97%) Cloud Native
2 97 (7.80%) Distributed Systems
3 81 (6.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 57 (4.59%) Onboarding
5 56 (4.51%) Product Ownership
6 43 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
7 41 (3.30%) Public Cloud
8 40 (3.22%) Greenfield Project
9 32 (2.57%) Data Centre
9 32 (2.57%) Security Posture
10 29 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
11 26 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
12 25 (2.01%) Private Cloud
13 23 (1.85%) Data Structures
14 22 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
15 17 (1.37%) Replication
15 17 (1.37%) Virtual Team
16 14 (1.13%) Mainframe
17 13 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
17 13 (1.05%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 228 (18.34%) Linux
2 125 (10.06%) Windows
3 58 (4.67%) Windows Server
4 34 (2.74%) CentOS
5 29 (2.33%) Unix
6 28 (2.25%) Ubuntu
7 26 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (1.21%) VMS
9 5 (0.40%) Debian
9 5 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.16%) AIX
10 2 (0.16%) Android
10 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.16%) Solaris
11 1 (0.080%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.080%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 901 (72.49%) CI/CD
2 735 (59.13%) DevOps
3 419 (33.71%) Containerisation
4 414 (33.31%) Agile
5 376 (30.25%) Observability
6 308 (24.78%) Platform Engineering
7 297 (23.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 289 (23.25%) Mentoring
9 259 (20.84%) Problem-Solving
10 240 (19.31%) Software Engineering
11 232 (18.66%) AI
12 214 (17.22%) Technical Leadership
13 209 (16.81%) Microservices
14 192 (15.45%) Test Automation
15 175 (14.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 172 (13.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 151 (12.15%) Roadmaps
18 147 (11.83%) Cloud Security
19 133 (10.70%) DevSecOps
20 127 (10.22%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 501 (40.31%) Python
2 213 (17.14%) Bash
3 185 (14.88%) PowerShell
4 180 (14.48%) SQL
5 172 (13.84%) Java
6 132 (10.62%) TypeScript
7 130 (10.46%) Bicep
8 111 (8.93%) JavaScript
9 90 (7.24%) C#
10 65 (5.23%) Go
11 25 (2.01%) Ruby
12 20 (1.61%) Groovy
12 20 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (1.21%) PHP
14 10 (0.80%) Rust
14 10 (0.80%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.64%) Scala
16 6 (0.48%) C++
16 6 (0.48%) COBOL
16 6 (0.48%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 344 (27.67%) Security Cleared
2 217 (17.46%) SC Cleared
3 142 (11.42%) DV Cleared
4 99 (7.96%) Degree
5 66 (5.31%) Azure Certification
6 54 (4.34%) AWS Certification
7 43 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
11 14 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.88%) DBS Check
13 8 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 7 (0.56%) CCNA
15 6 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
15 6 (0.48%) ICAEW
15 6 (0.48%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.48%) RHCSA
16 5 (0.40%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (6.11%) QA
2 59 (4.75%) GRC
3 47 (3.78%) Data Quality
4 36 (2.90%) Accessibility
5 23 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (1.85%) WCAG
6 21 (1.69%) NCSC
7 18 (1.45%) GDPR
8 16 (1.29%) NIST
9 15 (1.21%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.97%) SOC 2
11 7 (0.56%) SLA
12 6 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.48%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.16%) IFRS
13 2 (0.16%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.16%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.080%) GxP
System Software
1 368 (29.61%) Docker
2 79 (6.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (5.63%) Active Directory
4 31 (2.49%) vSphere
5 18 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (1.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (1.13%) Hyper-V
8 12 (0.97%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.56%) Firmware
9 7 (0.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 7 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.40%) iptables
10 5 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.32%) KVM
11 4 (0.32%) Squid
12 1 (0.080%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 846 (68.06%) Terraform
2 470 (37.81%) Kubernetes
3 253 (20.35%) Ansible
4 126 (10.14%) Grafana
5 98 (7.88%) Prometheus
6 43 (3.46%) Puppet
7 38 (3.06%) Argo
8 28 (2.25%) Progress Chef
9 20 (1.61%) Istio
10 15 (1.21%) Packer
11 14 (1.13%) vCenter Server
12 12 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.97%) Nagios
13 10 (0.80%) Kibana
13 10 (0.80%) Podman
14 8 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
14 8 (0.64%) Kustomize
14 8 (0.64%) Nessus
14 8 (0.64%) Rancher
14 8 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 278 (22.37%) Microsoft
2 91 (7.32%) VMware
3 71 (5.71%) Google
4 57 (4.59%) Red Hat
5 50 (4.02%) Splunk
6 45 (3.62%) Databricks
7 30 (2.41%) Cisco
8 24 (1.93%) Oracle
9 20 (1.61%) Palo Alto
10 16 (1.29%) Dynatrace
11 14 (1.13%) F5
12 13 (1.05%) Atlassian
13 12 (0.97%) Fortinet
13 12 (0.97%) ScienceLogic
14 11 (0.88%) OpenAI
15 10 (0.80%) New Relic
15 10 (0.80%) ServiceNow
16 8 (0.64%) IBM
16 8 (0.64%) NetApp
17 7 (0.56%) Salesforce