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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 222 197
Rank change year-on-year +105 -25 -72
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,066 455 984
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.50% 1.35% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 1.53% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 789 319 767
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,300
25th Percentile £55,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,751 £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 50,249 29,752 58,902
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.69% 88.49% 80.20%
Number of salaries quoted 35,358 15,903 40,637
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,254 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.72%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 +83 369 £70,000 - 121
South East +53 227 £70,000 -9.68% 130
North West +77 223 £73,401 +1.24% 69
South West +36 179 £75,000 +7.14% 73
Midlands +33 130 £75,000 +15.38% 49
Yorkshire +10 92 £66,538 -4.95% 31
West Midlands +15 76 £80,000 +23.08% 31
East Midlands +7 54 £67,500 +3.85% 18
North East -3 54 £55,000 -15.38% 21
East of England +11 53 £60,100 -5.73% 13
Wales -9 45 £70,539 +25.40% 15
Scotland +8 38 £65,000 -13.04% 25
Northern Ireland -30 32 £73,801 +71.27% 17
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 28 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (2.16%) Apache
2 23 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (1.97%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.69%) Confluence
5 10 (0.94%) Jupyter
6 8 (0.75%) IIS
7 5 (0.47%) CMS
8 4 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.28%) WordPress
10 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.19%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.094%) Documentum
11 1 (0.094%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.19%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.094%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 580 (54.41%) Azure
2 571 (53.56%) AWS
3 218 (20.45%) GitHub
4 201 (18.86%) Azure DevOps
5 182 (17.07%) Serverless
6 169 (15.85%) GCP
7 140 (13.13%) GitHub Actions
8 126 (11.82%) AWS CloudFormation
9 99 (9.29%) Amazon S3
10 90 (8.44%) AWS Lambda
10 90 (8.44%) PaaS
11 77 (7.22%) Amazon EKS
12 72 (6.75%) Amazon EC2
13 70 (6.57%) Microsoft 365
14 63 (5.91%) Azure AKS
15 61 (5.72%) Amazon ECS
16 60 (5.63%) IaaS
17 59 (5.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 57 (5.35%) SaaS
19 53 (4.97%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 113 (10.60%) Firewall
2 63 (5.91%) DNS
3 60 (5.63%) VPN
4 49 (4.60%) WAN
5 41 (3.85%) LAN
6 39 (3.66%) TCP/IP
7 33 (3.10%) Network Security
8 23 (2.16%) DHCP
9 19 (1.78%) BGP
9 19 (1.78%) VLAN
10 17 (1.59%) HTTP
11 16 (1.50%) Broadband
12 13 (1.22%) Cisco ASA
13 11 (1.03%) SAN
14 9 (0.84%) SD-WAN
15 8 (0.75%) Software-Defined Networking
16 7 (0.66%) Ethernet VPN
17 6 (0.56%) Cisco Firepower
17 6 (0.56%) MQTT
17 6 (0.56%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (7.13%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
3 45 (4.22%) NoSQL
4 43 (4.03%) MongoDB
5 38 (3.56%) DynamoDB
6 36 (3.38%) SQL Server
7 34 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
8 28 (2.63%) Relational Database
9 22 (2.06%) MySQL
10 18 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
11 17 (1.59%) Redis
12 15 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
12 15 (1.41%) Data Lake
12 15 (1.41%) Metadata
13 14 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
14 13 (1.22%) Spark SQL
15 11 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (1.03%) Big Data
16 8 (0.75%) InfluxDB
16 8 (0.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 169 (15.85%) Git
2 132 (12.38%) GitLab
3 128 (12.01%) Jenkins
4 30 (2.81%) JIRA
5 15 (1.41%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 14 (1.31%) Cucumber
6 14 (1.31%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.84%) Cypress.io
7 9 (0.84%) Selenium
8 8 (0.75%) NUnit
8 8 (0.75%) Subversion
9 7 (0.66%) Artifactory
9 7 (0.66%) JMeter
9 7 (0.66%) MSI
9 7 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
9 7 (0.66%) Robot Framework
9 7 (0.66%) TestRail
10 5 (0.47%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.47%) Terragrunt
General
1 285 (26.74%) Social Skills
2 157 (14.73%) Finance
3 108 (10.13%) Public Sector
4 70 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (6.29%) Law
6 64 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
7 31 (2.91%) Telecoms
8 27 (2.53%) Retail
9 26 (2.44%) Aerospace
10 22 (2.06%) Manufacturing
11 21 (1.97%) Banking
12 17 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
12 17 (1.59%) Games
13 10 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (0.94%) Marketing
14 9 (0.84%) Advertising
15 7 (0.66%) Billing
15 7 (0.66%) Legal
16 5 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 228 (21.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 219 (20.54%) Senior
3 175 (16.42%) Lead
4 126 (11.82%) Cloud Engineer
5 108 (10.13%) Architect
6 102 (9.57%) Developer
7 99 (9.29%) Azure Engineer
7 99 (9.29%) Platform Engineer
8 73 (6.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 68 (6.38%) Software Engineer
10 51 (4.78%) Senior DevOps
11 46 (4.32%) AWS Engineer
12 45 (4.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 45 (4.22%) Data Engineer
13 43 (4.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 39 (3.66%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 38 (3.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 36 (3.38%) Technical Leader
17 32 (3.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
18 31 (2.91%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (10.23%) React
2 97 (9.10%) Node.js
3 89 (8.35%) REST
4 82 (7.69%) .NET
5 65 (6.10%) Spring Boot
6 63 (5.91%) Spring
7 55 (5.16%) ARM Templates
8 52 (4.88%) RESTful
9 50 (4.69%) AWS CDK
10 48 (4.50%) Kafka
11 46 (4.32%) YAML
12 43 (4.03%) Elastic Stack
13 35 (3.28%) AngularJS
13 35 (3.28%) PySpark
14 30 (2.81%) RabbitMQ
15 29 (2.72%) ASP.NET
15 29 (2.72%) Next.js
16 28 (2.63%) Vue
17 27 (2.53%) ASP.NET Core
18 24 (2.25%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 248 (23.26%) Cloud Native
2 78 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
3 70 (6.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 56 (5.25%) Product Ownership
5 37 (3.47%) Onboarding
6 36 (3.38%) Public Cloud
7 32 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
8 28 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
8 28 (2.63%) Security Posture
9 27 (2.53%) Data Centre
9 27 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (1.78%) Private Cloud
12 18 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
13 17 (1.59%) Data Structures
14 15 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
14 15 (1.41%) Replication
15 13 (1.22%) Video\Live Streaming
15 13 (1.22%) Virtual Team
16 12 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 209 (19.61%) Linux
2 112 (10.51%) Windows
3 52 (4.88%) Windows Server
4 34 (3.19%) CentOS
5 32 (3.00%) Ubuntu
6 24 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (1.78%) VMS
8 17 (1.59%) Unix
9 8 (0.75%) Debian
9 8 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.28%) Android
11 3 (0.28%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.094%) AIX
12 1 (0.094%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.094%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 784 (73.55%) CI/CD
2 645 (60.51%) DevOps
3 366 (34.33%) Agile
4 348 (32.65%) Containerisation
5 316 (29.64%) Observability
6 262 (24.58%) Platform Engineering
7 247 (23.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 243 (22.80%) Mentoring
9 207 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
10 202 (18.95%) AI
11 190 (17.82%) Microservices
12 181 (16.98%) Test Automation
13 177 (16.60%) Software Engineering
14 165 (15.48%) Technical Leadership
15 149 (13.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 145 (13.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 126 (11.82%) Cloud Security
18 120 (11.26%) DevSecOps
19 111 (10.41%) Roadmaps
20 107 (10.04%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 440 (41.28%) Python
2 214 (20.08%) Bash
3 188 (17.64%) PowerShell
4 150 (14.07%) SQL
5 140 (13.13%) Java
6 123 (11.54%) Bicep
6 123 (11.54%) TypeScript
7 104 (9.76%) JavaScript
8 77 (7.22%) C#
9 67 (6.29%) Go
10 20 (1.88%) Ruby
11 19 (1.78%) Groovy
11 19 (1.78%) Kusto Query Language
12 14 (1.31%) PHP
13 9 (0.84%) Rust
14 8 (0.75%) C++
15 7 (0.66%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.56%) C
16 6 (0.56%) COBOL
17 5 (0.47%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 267 (25.05%) Security Cleared
2 159 (14.92%) SC Cleared
3 102 (9.57%) DV Cleared
4 75 (7.04%) Degree
5 59 (5.53%) Azure Certification
6 38 (3.56%) AWS Certification
7 34 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.13%) DBS Check
11 9 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 7 (0.66%) CCNA
12 7 (0.66%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.56%) ICAEW
13 6 (0.56%) RHCSA
14 5 (0.47%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.38%) Network+ Certification
15 4 (0.38%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (6.10%) QA
2 32 (3.00%) Data Quality
2 32 (3.00%) GRC
3 28 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 20 (1.88%) WCAG
5 18 (1.69%) GDPR
6 17 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (1.50%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.41%) NCSC
9 12 (1.13%) NIST
9 12 (1.13%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
11 5 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.47%) SLA
12 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.19%) IFRS
12 2 (0.19%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.19%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.094%) GxP
System Software
1 316 (29.64%) Docker
2 74 (6.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 66 (6.19%) Active Directory
4 35 (3.28%) vSphere
5 22 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (1.13%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.75%) Hyper-V
9 7 (0.66%) iptables
10 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 6 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.47%) Firmware
12 4 (0.38%) Squid
13 1 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 747 (70.08%) Terraform
2 421 (39.49%) Kubernetes
3 234 (21.95%) Ansible
4 127 (11.91%) Grafana
5 98 (9.19%) Prometheus
6 38 (3.56%) Puppet
7 32 (3.00%) Argo
8 24 (2.25%) Progress Chef
9 16 (1.50%) vCenter Server
10 15 (1.41%) Packer
11 14 (1.31%) Istio
12 13 (1.22%) Nagios
13 11 (1.03%) Proxmox
13 11 (1.03%) Rancher
14 10 (0.94%) Kibana
14 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
14 10 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
15 9 (0.84%) Podman
16 8 (0.75%) logstash
16 8 (0.75%) yum
Vendors
1 223 (20.92%) Microsoft
2 91 (8.54%) VMware
3 51 (4.78%) Google
3 51 (4.78%) Red Hat
4 41 (3.85%) Splunk
5 33 (3.10%) Databricks
6 32 (3.00%) Cisco
7 21 (1.97%) Palo Alto
8 14 (1.31%) Oracle
9 13 (1.22%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.13%) F5
10 12 (1.13%) ScienceLogic
11 10 (0.94%) Atlassian
11 10 (0.94%) Fortinet
12 9 (0.84%) CrowdStrike
13 8 (0.75%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.66%) HubSpot
14 7 (0.66%) NetApp
14 7 (0.66%) Salesforce
15 6 (0.56%) Juniper