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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 163 157
Rank change year-on-year +12 -6 -8
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 622 587 959
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.30% 1.82% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 2.01% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 443 356 755
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £55,750 £51,237 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,400 £66,693 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +2.61% -2.67%
75th Percentile £79,520 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £89,375 £91,934
UK median annual salary £73,801 £74,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.27% +3.10% -3.33%

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 36,818 29,273 43,693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 76.74% 90.90% 86.88%
Number of salaries quoted 21,678 13,146 33,379
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £78,550
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,504 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.10% +10.01% -12.00%

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 -13 215 £67,500 +6.30% 125
South East +13 125 £75,000 +7.14% 143
Yorkshire -24 93 £62,500 +13.64% 46
North West -6 92 £71,500 +5.93% 65
South West -12 84 £62,500 -13.18% 59
Scotland -6 71 £70,079 -0.60% 20
Midlands +12 66 £65,250 +0.38% 40
West Midlands -3 35 £65,000 - 29
East of England +30 31 £65,000 -10.34% 11
North East -5 30 £49,222 -10.51% 14
East Midlands +13 29 £67,500 +3.85% 11
Wales +9 22 £61,248 +31.08% 7
Northern Ireland -23 10 £95,000 +11.76% 3
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 21 (3.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.93%) Apache
4 9 (1.45%) IIS
5 8 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.29%) Apache Spark
6 7 (1.13%) Confluence
7 3 (0.48%) Appian
7 3 (0.48%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.32%) CMS
8 2 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 395 (63.50%) Azure
2 378 (60.77%) AWS
3 184 (29.58%) Azure DevOps
4 149 (23.95%) GitHub
5 126 (20.26%) Serverless
6 122 (19.61%) GCP
7 110 (17.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 109 (17.52%) GitHub Actions
9 78 (12.54%) AWS Lambda
10 63 (10.13%) Entra ID
11 62 (9.97%) Amazon S3
11 62 (9.97%) PaaS
12 51 (8.20%) Amazon EKS
12 51 (8.20%) SaaS
13 49 (7.88%) Amazon ECS
14 48 (7.72%) dbt
15 47 (7.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 45 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
17 42 (6.75%) Azure Monitor
18 35 (5.63%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 81 (13.02%) Firewall
2 54 (8.68%) DNS
3 45 (7.23%) TCP/IP
4 36 (5.79%) VPN
5 17 (2.73%) DHCP
5 17 (2.73%) Network Security
5 17 (2.73%) WAN
6 15 (2.41%) HTTP
7 10 (1.61%) LAN
8 9 (1.45%) BGP
8 9 (1.45%) VLAN
9 8 (1.29%) Internet
10 7 (1.13%) SAN
10 7 (1.13%) SD-WAN
10 7 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.96%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (0.80%) AMQP
12 5 (0.80%) Broadband
13 4 (0.64%) Unified Communications
13 4 (0.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (8.84%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (8.04%) Amazon RDS
3 35 (5.63%) NoSQL
4 32 (5.14%) DynamoDB
5 31 (4.98%) SQL Server
6 28 (4.50%) Redis
7 23 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (2.57%) MongoDB
9 15 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (2.41%) MySQL
10 9 (1.45%) Big Data
11 7 (1.13%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (0.96%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.96%) Hadoop
12 6 (0.96%) Relational Database
13 5 (0.80%) Airbyte
13 5 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.80%) Cloudera CDH
13 5 (0.80%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.80%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 80 (12.86%) Jenkins
2 77 (12.38%) Git
3 53 (8.52%) GitLab
4 22 (3.54%) Selenium
5 21 (3.38%) Robot Framework
6 18 (2.89%) Snyk
7 15 (2.41%) JIRA
8 11 (1.77%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.77%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.13%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.13%) Octopus Deploy
9 7 (1.13%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (0.96%) git-flow
10 6 (0.96%) JMeter
10 6 (0.96%) Locust
10 6 (0.96%) Subversion
11 5 (0.80%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.64%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.64%) MLflow
General
1 180 (28.94%) Social Skills
2 122 (19.61%) Finance
3 56 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (6.27%) Public Sector
5 33 (5.31%) Law
5 33 (5.31%) Telecoms
6 22 (3.54%) Retail
7 17 (2.73%) Billing
8 14 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (2.09%) Manufacturing
10 12 (1.93%) Aerospace
10 12 (1.93%) Marketing
11 10 (1.61%) Games
12 9 (1.45%) Banking
13 8 (1.29%) Legal
14 7 (1.13%) Advertising
14 7 (1.13%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.96%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 157 (25.24%) Senior
2 88 (14.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 85 (13.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 78 (12.54%) Lead
5 71 (11.41%) Developer
6 63 (10.13%) Azure Engineer
7 55 (8.84%) Platform Engineer
8 36 (5.79%) Software Engineer
9 35 (5.63%) Architect
9 35 (5.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 22 (3.54%) Senior DevOps
11 21 (3.38%) AWS Engineer
11 21 (3.38%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 19 (3.05%) Full-Stack Developer
13 17 (2.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 17 (2.73%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 17 (2.73%) Python Developer
14 16 (2.57%) .NET Developer
15 15 (2.41%) Operations Engineer
15 15 (2.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (14.63%) React
2 54 (8.68%) .NET
3 53 (8.52%) Node.js
4 47 (7.56%) RESTful
5 39 (6.27%) Django
6 31 (4.98%) AWS CDK
7 29 (4.66%) REST
7 29 (4.66%) YAML
8 28 (4.50%) OAuth
9 27 (4.34%) Elastic Stack
10 25 (4.02%) ARM Templates
11 23 (3.70%) Vue
12 22 (3.54%) CSS
12 22 (3.54%) GraphQL
13 21 (3.38%) HTML
14 20 (3.22%) AngularJS
14 20 (3.22%) Spring
15 19 (3.05%) ASP.NET
15 19 (3.05%) FastAPI
15 19 (3.05%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 128 (20.58%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.40%) Product Ownership
3 26 (4.18%) Enterprise Software
4 24 (3.86%) Security Posture
5 22 (3.54%) Hybrid Cloud
6 20 (3.22%) Linux Command Line
7 18 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (2.57%) Data Centre
9 14 (2.25%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.93%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
11 11 (1.77%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
13 6 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (0.96%) Private Cloud
13 6 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
15 4 (0.64%) Client/Server
15 4 (0.64%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 136 (21.86%) Linux
2 54 (8.68%) Windows
3 28 (4.50%) Unix
4 17 (2.73%) Windows Server
5 16 (2.57%) Ubuntu
6 15 (2.41%) VMS
7 12 (1.93%) Debian
8 9 (1.45%) CentOS
9 8 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.64%) Android
10 4 (0.64%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (71.70%) DevOps
2 444 (71.38%) CI/CD
3 240 (38.59%) Agile
4 157 (25.24%) Containerisation
5 146 (23.47%) Problem-Solving
6 139 (22.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 133 (21.38%) Observability
8 130 (20.90%) Mentoring
9 98 (15.76%) Platform Engineering
10 90 (14.47%) Coaching
10 90 (14.47%) Software Engineering
10 90 (14.47%) Test Automation
11 87 (13.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 77 (12.38%) Microservices
13 74 (11.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 71 (11.41%) AI
14 71 (11.41%) DevSecOps
15 70 (11.25%) Roadmaps
16 68 (10.93%) Cloud Security
17 65 (10.45%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 261 (41.96%) Python
2 131 (21.06%) PowerShell
3 118 (18.97%) Bash
4 90 (14.47%) SQL
5 79 (12.70%) Bicep
6 73 (11.74%) TypeScript
7 68 (10.93%) Java
8 61 (9.81%) JavaScript
9 50 (8.04%) C#
10 48 (7.72%) Go
11 9 (1.45%) C
12 7 (1.13%) C++
13 6 (0.96%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.64%) Scala
15 2 (0.32%) Ruby
15 2 (0.32%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.32%) VB
16 1 (0.16%) Perl
16 1 (0.16%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 113 (18.17%) Security Cleared
2 68 (10.93%) SC Cleared
3 50 (8.04%) DV Cleared
4 41 (6.59%) AWS Certification
5 30 (4.82%) Degree
6 29 (4.66%) Azure Certification
7 14 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.77%) AWS Certified Developer
10 8 (1.29%) Master's Degree
11 7 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.13%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.96%) CCNP
12 6 (0.96%) CISSP
13 4 (0.64%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (0.48%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.48%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.50%) QA
2 24 (3.86%) GDPR
3 22 (3.54%) NIST
4 20 (3.22%) Accessibility
5 17 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.29%) WCAG
7 7 (1.13%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.80%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.80%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.48%) NCSC
10 2 (0.32%) GRC
11 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 195 (31.35%) Docker
2 28 (4.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (4.34%) Active Directory
4 24 (3.86%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (2.89%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (2.09%) vSphere
7 10 (1.61%) VMware NSX
8 7 (1.13%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.96%) Firmware
10 4 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.48%) iptables
12 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.16%) HDFS
13 1 (0.16%) KVM
13 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.16%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 441 (70.90%) Terraform
2 193 (31.03%) Kubernetes
3 141 (22.67%) Ansible
4 76 (12.22%) Grafana
5 63 (10.13%) Prometheus
6 22 (3.54%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (2.41%) Argo
8 14 (2.25%) AWS Copilot
8 14 (2.25%) Puppet
9 9 (1.45%) Rancher
10 7 (1.13%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.96%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.96%) vCenter Server
11 6 (0.96%) yum
12 5 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.80%) Nagios
13 4 (0.64%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.64%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 121 (19.45%) Microsoft
2 48 (7.72%) VMware
3 44 (7.07%) Google
4 21 (3.38%) Cisco
5 18 (2.89%) Black Duck
5 18 (2.89%) Coverity
6 17 (2.73%) Splunk
7 16 (2.57%) Red Hat
8 15 (2.41%) CrowdStrike
9 14 (2.25%) Ab Initio
10 13 (2.09%) Palo Alto
11 11 (1.77%) Databricks
12 10 (1.61%) Salesforce
13 9 (1.45%) SolarWinds
14 8 (1.29%) Fortinet
15 7 (1.13%) Dell
16 6 (0.96%) Dynatrace
16 6 (0.96%) SaltStack
16 6 (0.96%) SAP
17 5 (0.80%) Meraki