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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 217 176
Rank change year-on-year +115 -41 -67
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,303 460 852
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.67% 1.32% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 1.52% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 911 334 633
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -5.99%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,500 £78,750
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 55,038 30,334 46,537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.39% 87.27% 78.38%
Number of salaries quoted 38,742 16,516 29,114
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £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 18 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 18 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 +100 450 £70,000 - 235
South East +76 253 £67,500 -12.90% 190
North West +98 250 £72,500 +3.57% 137
South West +52 226 £75,000 - 122
Midlands +43 147 £77,500 +19.23% 72
Yorkshire +16 106 £72,500 +3.57% 58
North East +16 94 £57,000 -21.38% 40
West Midlands +18 90 £81,887 +25.98% 39
Wales -6 67 £70,000 +16.67% 20
Northern Ireland -27 60 £71,991 +67.07% 19
East of England -4 58 £65,000 - 45
East Midlands +16 57 £67,500 +3.85% 33
Scotland +18 53 £72,500 +7.41% 61
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 39 (2.99%) Apache Spark
2 35 (2.69%) Apache
3 34 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (1.53%) Confluence
6 13 (1.00%) Jupyter
7 9 (0.69%) IIS
8 5 (0.38%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.31%) CMS
10 3 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.23%) nginx
10 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.23%) WordPress
11 1 (0.077%) Documentum
11 1 (0.077%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.077%) JBoss
Applications
1 8 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.15%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.077%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.077%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.077%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 700 (53.72%) Azure
2 696 (53.42%) AWS
3 236 (18.11%) GitHub
4 214 (16.42%) GCP
5 205 (15.73%) Serverless
6 203 (15.58%) Azure DevOps
7 173 (13.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 141 (10.82%) GitHub Actions
9 115 (8.83%) AWS Lambda
10 114 (8.75%) Amazon S3
11 88 (6.75%) Amazon EC2
12 86 (6.60%) PaaS
13 85 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
14 84 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
15 81 (6.22%) Microsoft 365
16 72 (5.53%) SaaS
17 71 (5.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 67 (5.14%) Azure AKS
19 64 (4.91%) Cloud Computing
20 60 (4.60%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 99 (7.60%) Firewall
2 81 (6.22%) WAN
3 73 (5.60%) LAN
4 67 (5.14%) VPN
5 61 (4.68%) DNS
6 41 (3.15%) TCP/IP
7 38 (2.92%) Network Security
8 30 (2.30%) DHCP
9 19 (1.46%) BGP
10 17 (1.30%) VLAN
11 14 (1.07%) Broadband
12 13 (1.00%) Software-Defined Networking
13 12 (0.92%) SAN
14 10 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
14 10 (0.77%) HTTP
14 10 (0.77%) SD-WAN
15 9 (0.69%) OSPF
16 7 (0.54%) Ethernet VPN
16 7 (0.54%) MQTT
16 7 (0.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (6.68%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (4.45%) Amazon RDS
3 54 (4.14%) NoSQL
4 50 (3.84%) MongoDB
5 49 (3.76%) SQL Server
6 48 (3.68%) DynamoDB
7 37 (2.84%) Relational Database
8 35 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 35 (2.69%) MySQL
9 31 (2.38%) Data Lake
9 31 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (1.46%) Big Data
11 18 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
12 17 (1.30%) Metadata
13 15 (1.15%) Power BI
13 15 (1.15%) Redis
14 14 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (1.00%) Hadoop
16 12 (0.92%) Flink
Development Applications
1 199 (15.27%) Git
2 144 (11.05%) GitLab
3 132 (10.13%) Jenkins
4 40 (3.07%) JIRA
5 19 (1.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 17 (1.30%) SonarQube
7 15 (1.15%) Cypress.io
8 13 (1.00%) Bitbucket
8 13 (1.00%) Cucumber
8 13 (1.00%) NUnit
9 12 (0.92%) Selenium
10 9 (0.69%) MSI
11 8 (0.61%) Terragrunt
12 7 (0.54%) Artifactory
12 7 (0.54%) JMeter
12 7 (0.54%) Robot Framework
13 6 (0.46%) Claude Code
13 6 (0.46%) git-flow
13 6 (0.46%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.46%) TestRail
General
1 381 (29.24%) Social Skills
2 226 (17.34%) Finance
3 140 (10.74%) Public Sector
4 99 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
5 92 (7.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 77 (5.91%) Law
7 67 (5.14%) Presentation Skills
8 42 (3.22%) Aerospace
9 27 (2.07%) Retail
10 25 (1.92%) Banking
11 23 (1.77%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.69%) Marketing
13 21 (1.61%) Telecoms
14 17 (1.30%) Legal
15 16 (1.23%) Games
16 13 (1.00%) Aviation
16 13 (1.00%) Local Government
17 12 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
18 11 (0.84%) Military
19 10 (0.77%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 274 (21.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 261 (20.03%) Senior
3 222 (17.04%) Lead
4 158 (12.13%) Architect
5 155 (11.90%) Cloud Engineer
6 124 (9.52%) Developer
7 121 (9.29%) Platform Engineer
8 102 (7.83%) Azure Engineer
9 93 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 88 (6.75%) Software Engineer
11 71 (5.45%) Data Engineer
12 60 (4.60%) AWS Engineer
12 60 (4.60%) Systems Architect
13 56 (4.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 51 (3.91%) Senior DevOps
15 49 (3.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 47 (3.61%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 46 (3.53%) Lead DevOps
18 45 (3.45%) Principal Engineer
18 45 (3.45%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (9.98%) React
2 104 (7.98%) .NET
3 101 (7.75%) REST
4 95 (7.29%) Node.js
5 86 (6.60%) Spring Boot
6 83 (6.37%) Spring
7 66 (5.07%) Kafka
8 65 (4.99%) RESTful
9 59 (4.53%) AWS CDK
10 52 (3.99%) ARM Templates
11 46 (3.53%) AngularJS
11 46 (3.53%) YAML
12 42 (3.22%) PySpark
13 38 (2.92%) Next.js
14 36 (2.76%) ASP.NET
15 34 (2.61%) ASP.NET Core
15 34 (2.61%) Elastic Stack
15 34 (2.61%) Vue
16 32 (2.46%) CSS
17 31 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 321 (24.64%) Cloud Native
2 100 (7.67%) Distributed Systems
3 88 (6.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 67 (5.14%) Onboarding
5 60 (4.60%) Product Ownership
6 48 (3.68%) Public Cloud
7 45 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
8 37 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
9 35 (2.69%) Data Centre
10 34 (2.61%) Security Posture
11 31 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
12 28 (2.15%) Private Cloud
13 25 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
14 23 (1.77%) Data Structures
15 22 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
16 18 (1.38%) Virtual Team
17 16 (1.23%) Mainframe
17 16 (1.23%) Replication
18 15 (1.15%) Management Information System
19 14 (1.07%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 239 (18.34%) Linux
2 130 (9.98%) Windows
3 62 (4.76%) Windows Server
4 36 (2.76%) CentOS
5 29 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (2.23%) Unix
6 26 (2.00%) Ubuntu
7 15 (1.15%) VMS
8 5 (0.38%) Debian
8 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.23%) AIX
11 2 (0.15%) Android
11 2 (0.15%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.15%) Solaris
12 1 (0.077%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.077%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 945 (72.52%) CI/CD
2 760 (58.33%) DevOps
3 444 (34.08%) Containerisation
4 427 (32.77%) Agile
5 384 (29.47%) Observability
6 320 (24.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 319 (24.48%) Platform Engineering
8 301 (23.10%) Mentoring
9 280 (21.49%) Problem-Solving
10 262 (20.11%) Software Engineering
11 245 (18.80%) AI
12 230 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
13 222 (17.04%) Microservices
14 199 (15.27%) Test Automation
15 191 (14.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 185 (14.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 156 (11.97%) Cloud Security
17 156 (11.97%) Roadmaps
18 143 (10.97%) DevSecOps
19 137 (10.51%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 525 (40.29%) Python
2 225 (17.27%) Bash
3 188 (14.43%) PowerShell
4 187 (14.35%) SQL
5 184 (14.12%) Java
6 137 (10.51%) TypeScript
7 134 (10.28%) Bicep
8 115 (8.83%) JavaScript
9 94 (7.21%) C#
10 65 (4.99%) Go
11 25 (1.92%) Ruby
12 22 (1.69%) Groovy
13 21 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
14 15 (1.15%) PHP
15 13 (1.00%) Rust
16 10 (0.77%) Scala
16 10 (0.77%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.54%) C++
17 7 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
18 6 (0.46%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 371 (28.47%) Security Cleared
2 235 (18.04%) SC Cleared
3 157 (12.05%) DV Cleared
4 101 (7.75%) Degree
5 72 (5.53%) Azure Certification
6 59 (4.53%) AWS Certification
7 45 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
11 16 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 14 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 9 (0.69%) DBS Check
14 7 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
14 7 (0.54%) CCNA
14 7 (0.54%) PMI Certification
15 6 (0.46%) ICAEW
15 6 (0.46%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.46%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (6.22%) QA
2 61 (4.68%) GRC
3 51 (3.91%) Data Quality
4 42 (3.22%) Accessibility
5 24 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (1.84%) NCSC
5 24 (1.84%) WCAG
6 19 (1.46%) GDPR
7 17 (1.30%) NIST
8 15 (1.15%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.84%) SOC 2
10 7 (0.54%) SLA
11 6 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.15%) IFRS
12 2 (0.15%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.15%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.077%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.077%) HIPAA
System Software
1 386 (29.62%) Docker
2 81 (6.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 77 (5.91%) Active Directory
4 30 (2.30%) vSphere
5 21 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (1.38%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.84%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.38%) Firmware
10 5 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.31%) iptables
11 4 (0.31%) KVM
11 4 (0.31%) Squid
12 2 (0.15%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 889 (68.23%) Terraform
2 503 (38.60%) Kubernetes
3 273 (20.95%) Ansible
4 121 (9.29%) Grafana
5 94 (7.21%) Prometheus
6 44 (3.38%) Puppet
7 37 (2.84%) Argo
8 31 (2.38%) Progress Chef
9 19 (1.46%) Istio
10 15 (1.15%) Packer
11 14 (1.07%) vCenter Server
12 12 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
13 10 (0.77%) Kibana
13 10 (0.77%) Nagios
14 9 (0.69%) Kustomize
14 9 (0.69%) Podman
14 9 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
15 8 (0.61%) Nessus
15 8 (0.61%) ZABBIX
16 7 (0.54%) Rancher
Vendors
1 295 (22.64%) Microsoft
2 94 (7.21%) VMware
3 71 (5.45%) Google
4 58 (4.45%) Red Hat
5 50 (3.84%) Splunk
6 47 (3.61%) Databricks
7 29 (2.23%) Oracle
8 28 (2.15%) Cisco
9 18 (1.38%) Palo Alto
10 14 (1.07%) Dynatrace
10 14 (1.07%) OpenAI
11 13 (1.00%) Atlassian
12 12 (0.92%) F5
12 12 (0.92%) Fortinet
12 12 (0.92%) ScienceLogic
12 12 (0.92%) ServiceNow
13 11 (0.84%) New Relic
14 8 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
14 8 (0.61%) IBM
15 7 (0.54%) Tenable