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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 187 153
Rank change year-on-year +86 -34 -54
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,424 492 798
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.64% 1.43% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 1.64% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 955 350 495
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,400 £40,000
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% -3.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%

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 61,652 29,955 39,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.90% 87.09% 79.60%
Number of salaries quoted 43,336 16,192 20,022
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,600
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.70% -2.59%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £68,484
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +89 497 £68,500 -2.14% 110
North West +96 269 £70,400 +8.31% 65
South West +53 259 £75,000 +7.14% 83
South East +46 258 £67,500 -16.92% 95
Midlands +40 156 £73,500 +13.08% 41
North East +23 132 £60,000 -17.24% 22
Yorkshire -1 105 £67,500 -3.57% 26
West Midlands +11 103 £80,000 +23.55% 27
Wales 0 85 £70,000 +16.67% 15
East of England -19 63 £70,000 +7.69% 16
Northern Ireland -29 61 £71,991 +23.17% 4
Scotland +19 56 £72,500 +3.57% 21
East Midlands +7 53 £63,750 -1.92% 14
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 50 (3.51%) Apache Spark
2 48 (3.37%) Apache
3 35 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (1.40%) Confluence
6 17 (1.19%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.56%) nginx
8 7 (0.49%) IIS
8 7 (0.49%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.35%) CMS
9 5 (0.35%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.21%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.21%) WordPress
11 2 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.070%) Documentum
12 1 (0.070%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 6 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.070%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 1 (0.070%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 781 (54.85%) Azure
2 741 (52.04%) AWS
3 259 (18.19%) GCP
4 243 (17.06%) GitHub
5 188 (13.20%) AWS CloudFormation
6 184 (12.92%) Serverless
7 183 (12.85%) Azure DevOps
8 136 (9.55%) GitHub Actions
9 113 (7.94%) Amazon S3
9 113 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
10 104 (7.30%) Cloud Computing
11 85 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
12 84 (5.90%) Amazon EC2
12 84 (5.90%) PaaS
13 81 (5.69%) Amazon EKS
14 79 (5.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 79 (5.55%) Microsoft 365
15 77 (5.41%) SaaS
16 67 (4.71%) Azure AKS
16 67 (4.71%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 98 (6.88%) Firewall
2 90 (6.32%) VPN
3 87 (6.11%) WAN
4 73 (5.13%) LAN
5 70 (4.92%) DNS
6 40 (2.81%) Network Security
6 40 (2.81%) TCP/IP
7 35 (2.46%) Internet
8 32 (2.25%) DHCP
9 25 (1.76%) BGP
10 17 (1.19%) VLAN
11 15 (1.05%) SD-WAN
11 15 (1.05%) Software-Defined Networking
12 14 (0.98%) OSPF
13 11 (0.77%) Ethernet VPN
14 10 (0.70%) SAN
14 10 (0.70%) Wireless
15 9 (0.63%) Broadband
16 8 (0.56%) HTTP
17 7 (0.49%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (6.95%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (4.56%) NoSQL
3 59 (4.14%) MongoDB
4 58 (4.07%) Amazon RDS
5 48 (3.37%) MySQL
6 47 (3.30%) SQL Server
7 44 (3.09%) DynamoDB
8 41 (2.88%) Data Lake
9 34 (2.39%) Relational Database
10 31 (2.18%) Azure SQL Database
11 24 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
11 24 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
12 23 (1.62%) Power BI
13 21 (1.47%) Big Data
14 18 (1.26%) Redis
15 17 (1.19%) Metadata
16 16 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
17 15 (1.05%) Hadoop
18 13 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
18 13 (0.91%) Flink
Development Applications
1 247 (17.35%) Git
2 176 (12.36%) GitLab
3 142 (9.97%) Jenkins
4 37 (2.60%) JIRA
5 24 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 15 (1.05%) Cypress.io
7 13 (0.91%) SonarQube
8 12 (0.84%) Selenium
9 9 (0.63%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.63%) Claude Code
9 9 (0.63%) MSI
10 8 (0.56%) Subversion
10 8 (0.56%) Terragrunt
11 7 (0.49%) Artifactory
11 7 (0.49%) git-flow
11 7 (0.49%) NUnit
11 7 (0.49%) Robot Framework
12 6 (0.42%) TestRail
13 5 (0.35%) JUnit
13 5 (0.35%) Snyk
General
1 413 (29.00%) Social Skills
2 227 (15.94%) Finance
3 215 (15.10%) Public Sector
4 146 (10.25%) Analytical Skills
5 106 (7.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 78 (5.48%) Law
7 69 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
8 51 (3.58%) Aerospace
9 27 (1.90%) Banking
10 26 (1.83%) Retail
11 19 (1.33%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.26%) Marketing
13 15 (1.05%) Legal
14 14 (0.98%) Aviation
15 13 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
15 13 (0.91%) Telecoms
16 12 (0.84%) Military
17 10 (0.70%) Local Government
18 9 (0.63%) Advertising
19 6 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 351 (24.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 322 (22.61%) Senior
3 214 (15.03%) Lead
4 169 (11.87%) Architect
5 162 (11.38%) Cloud Engineer
6 139 (9.76%) Platform Engineer
7 136 (9.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 128 (8.99%) Developer
9 106 (7.44%) Azure Engineer
10 94 (6.60%) Software Engineer
11 80 (5.62%) Senior DevOps
12 78 (5.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 71 (4.99%) Data Engineer
14 67 (4.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 66 (4.63%) AWS Engineer
16 62 (4.35%) Systems Architect
17 61 (4.28%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 58 (4.07%) Principal Engineer
19 48 (3.37%) Azure Platform Engineer
20 46 (3.23%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 908 (63.76%) Terraform
2 137 (9.62%) React
3 111 (7.79%) Spring Boot
4 105 (7.37%) Spring
5 97 (6.81%) .NET
6 94 (6.60%) REST
7 89 (6.25%) Node.js
8 82 (5.76%) Kafka
9 72 (5.06%) RESTful
10 50 (3.51%) AWS CDK
11 46 (3.23%) AngularJS
11 46 (3.23%) ARM Templates
12 40 (2.81%) PySpark
13 36 (2.53%) Next.js
14 35 (2.46%) CSS
15 34 (2.39%) LangChain
15 34 (2.39%) RabbitMQ
16 32 (2.25%) Elastic Stack
16 32 (2.25%) Vue
17 30 (2.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 369 (25.91%) Cloud Native
2 98 (6.88%) Distributed Systems
3 87 (6.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 79 (5.55%) Onboarding
5 59 (4.14%) Product Ownership
6 55 (3.86%) Linux Command Line
7 44 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
8 43 (3.02%) Data Centre
8 43 (3.02%) Security Posture
9 41 (2.88%) Public Cloud
10 39 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
11 35 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
11 35 (2.46%) Private Cloud
12 29 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
13 27 (1.90%) Virtual Team
14 22 (1.54%) Data Structures
15 21 (1.47%) Management Information System
16 17 (1.19%) AI Agents
16 17 (1.19%) Mainframe
17 12 (0.84%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 318 (22.33%) Linux
2 136 (9.55%) Windows
3 55 (3.86%) Windows Server
4 44 (3.09%) CentOS
5 42 (2.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (2.81%) Unix
7 24 (1.69%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.98%) VMS
9 7 (0.49%) Debian
10 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.28%) AIX
11 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.14%) Rocky
12 2 (0.14%) Solaris
13 1 (0.070%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,037 (72.82%) CI/CD
2 851 (59.76%) DevOps
3 501 (35.18%) Containerisation
4 474 (33.29%) Agile
5 413 (29.00%) Platform Engineering
6 376 (26.40%) Observability
7 351 (24.65%) Mentoring
8 333 (23.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 312 (21.91%) Problem-Solving
10 284 (19.94%) Software Engineering
11 281 (19.73%) AI
12 278 (19.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 273 (19.17%) Technical Leadership
14 234 (16.43%) Microservices
15 222 (15.59%) Cloud Security
16 215 (15.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 193 (13.55%) Test Automation
18 188 (13.20%) DevSecOps
19 173 (12.15%) Roadmaps
20 147 (10.32%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 562 (39.47%) Python
2 246 (17.28%) Bash
3 215 (15.10%) Java
4 189 (13.27%) PowerShell
5 172 (12.08%) SQL
6 138 (9.69%) TypeScript
7 136 (9.55%) Bicep
8 108 (7.58%) JavaScript
9 91 (6.39%) C#
10 74 (5.20%) Go
11 50 (3.51%) Shell Script
12 25 (1.76%) Ruby
13 20 (1.40%) Kusto Query Language
13 20 (1.40%) Rust
14 18 (1.26%) Groovy
15 15 (1.05%) PHP
16 11 (0.77%) Scala
17 7 (0.49%) Search Processing Language
18 6 (0.42%) COBOL
18 6 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 465 (32.65%) Security Cleared
2 296 (20.79%) SC Cleared
3 195 (13.69%) DV Cleared
4 99 (6.95%) Degree
5 87 (6.11%) Azure Certification
6 80 (5.62%) AWS Certification
7 40 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 37 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 30 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
12 15 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 10 (0.70%) CCNA
15 7 (0.49%) CCNP
15 7 (0.49%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.49%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.42%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.42%) RHCSA
17 5 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (5.41%) QA
2 62 (4.35%) GRC
3 51 (3.58%) Data Quality
4 41 (2.88%) Accessibility
5 32 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (1.90%) NCSC
7 24 (1.69%) NIST
8 19 (1.33%) WCAG
9 17 (1.19%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.77%) GDPR
12 9 (0.63%) SLA
13 8 (0.56%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
15 2 (0.14%) IFRS
15 2 (0.14%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.14%) RMADS
15 2 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 450 (31.60%) Docker
2 87 (6.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 74 (5.20%) Active Directory
4 30 (2.11%) vSphere
5 27 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (1.33%) VMware NSX
7 18 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (1.19%) Hyper-V
9 15 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.35%) Firmware
11 4 (0.28%) KVM
11 4 (0.28%) Squid
12 3 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.14%) Lustre
13 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.070%) iptables
14 1 (0.070%) LXC
14 1 (0.070%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 545 (38.27%) Kubernetes
2 307 (21.56%) Ansible
3 125 (8.78%) Grafana
4 108 (7.58%) Prometheus
5 58 (4.07%) Puppet
6 47 (3.30%) Argo
7 34 (2.39%) Progress Chef
8 23 (1.62%) Istio
9 22 (1.54%) vCenter Server
10 17 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
11 16 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
12 14 (0.98%) Podman
13 13 (0.91%) Kustomize
13 13 (0.91%) Packer
14 11 (0.77%) Kibana
15 10 (0.70%) Rancher
16 9 (0.63%) logstash
17 8 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
17 8 (0.56%) linkerd
17 8 (0.56%) yum
Vendors
1 370 (25.98%) Microsoft
2 107 (7.51%) Google
3 100 (7.02%) VMware
4 59 (4.14%) Red Hat
5 58 (4.07%) Databricks
6 57 (4.00%) Splunk
7 30 (2.11%) Oracle
8 26 (1.83%) Cisco
9 19 (1.33%) OpenAI
10 15 (1.05%) Fortinet
11 14 (0.98%) ServiceNow
12 13 (0.91%) Atlassian
13 12 (0.84%) New Relic
13 12 (0.84%) ScienceLogic
14 11 (0.77%) F5
15 9 (0.63%) Meraki
16 8 (0.56%) NVIDIA
16 8 (0.56%) Palo Alto
16 8 (0.56%) SaltStack
16 8 (0.56%) Thales