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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 156 93
Rank change year-on-year +4 -63 +60
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 570 752 1,009
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.56% 1.57% 3.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 1.95% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 417 452 761
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £56,250 £49,875 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -0.54% +0.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% -

All Process and 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 30,554 38,491 28,864
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.64% 80.51% 93.86%
Number of salaries quoted 18,282 18,678 21,385
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,714 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +4.22% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 2025. 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 -1 190 £70,000 +16.67% 160
South East +19 128 £77,500 +29.17% 191
Yorkshire +8 83 £70,000 +27.27% 40
North West +4 83 £65,000 +4.00% 106
Midlands +26 67 £65,000 -1.52% 56
Scotland -2 67 £70,039 +0.06% 38
South West -45 59 £62,500 -10.71% 94
West Midlands +24 47 £65,000 -7.14% 36
East of England +28 35 £66,500 -8.28% 36
North East +1 24 £71,289 +42.58% 14
East Midlands +28 20 £65,000 +56.63% 20
Wales +19 19 £60,000 +9.99% 14
Northern Ireland +5 7 £73,801 -13.18% 19
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 23 (4.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (3.51%) SharePoint
3 19 (3.33%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (2.11%) Apache
6 11 (1.93%) Appian
7 9 (1.58%) Confluence
8 4 (0.70%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.35%) IIS
9 2 (0.35%) nginx
10 1 (0.18%) CMS
10 1 (0.18%) SAS
10 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.35%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 396 (69.47%) Azure
2 338 (59.30%) AWS
3 153 (26.84%) Azure DevOps
4 109 (19.12%) GCP
5 102 (17.89%) GitHub
6 92 (16.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 89 (15.61%) Serverless
8 66 (11.58%) GitHub Actions
9 65 (11.40%) SaaS
10 60 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
11 53 (9.30%) Amazon S3
11 53 (9.30%) AWS Lambda
11 53 (9.30%) PaaS
12 51 (8.95%) Entra ID
13 37 (6.49%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (5.79%) Azure Monitor
15 32 (5.61%) dbt
15 32 (5.61%) IaaS
16 30 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
17 25 (4.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 44 (7.72%) Firewall
2 40 (7.02%) DNS
3 35 (6.14%) VPN
4 28 (4.91%) TCP/IP
5 26 (4.56%) WAN
6 20 (3.51%) LAN
7 15 (2.63%) Network Security
8 12 (2.11%) DHCP
9 11 (1.93%) SD-WAN
9 11 (1.93%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (1.40%) SAN
11 7 (1.23%) Unified Communications
11 7 (1.23%) VoIP
12 6 (1.05%) VLAN
13 5 (0.88%) AMQP
14 4 (0.70%) BGP
14 4 (0.70%) HTTP
15 3 (0.53%) Internet
15 3 (0.53%) OSPF
15 3 (0.53%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (5.61%) Amazon RDS
1 32 (5.61%) SQL Server
2 30 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (4.56%) NoSQL
4 22 (3.86%) Redis
5 21 (3.68%) DynamoDB
6 20 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (3.33%) Big Data
8 17 (2.98%) Data Lake
9 16 (2.81%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (1.93%) MySQL
11 10 (1.75%) Hadoop
12 8 (1.40%) Relational Database
13 7 (1.23%) MongoDB
14 6 (1.05%) Airbyte
15 5 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
16 4 (0.70%) Amazon Aurora
16 4 (0.70%) InfluxDB
17 3 (0.53%) Apache Iceberg
17 3 (0.53%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 56 (9.82%) Jenkins
2 50 (8.77%) GitLab
3 46 (8.07%) Git
4 29 (5.09%) Selenium
5 25 (4.39%) Robot Framework
6 24 (4.21%) Snyk
7 19 (3.33%) JIRA
8 11 (1.93%) TeamCity
9 10 (1.75%) CircleCI
9 10 (1.75%) SonarQube
10 9 (1.58%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.40%) JMeter
12 7 (1.23%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.23%) Bitbucket
12 7 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
13 6 (1.05%) Locust
14 5 (0.88%) git-flow
14 5 (0.88%) MLflow
15 3 (0.53%) MSTest
15 3 (0.53%) NUnit
General
1 152 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 111 (19.47%) Finance
3 43 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (7.02%) Law
5 23 (4.04%) Public Sector
6 17 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (2.81%) Telecoms
8 15 (2.63%) Retail
9 14 (2.46%) Legal
10 10 (1.75%) Automotive
10 10 (1.75%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.75%) Games
11 8 (1.40%) Advertising
11 8 (1.40%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (0.88%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.88%) Marketing
14 4 (0.70%) Billing
15 3 (0.53%) Banking
15 3 (0.53%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 123 (21.58%) Senior
2 76 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 74 (12.98%) Lead
4 72 (12.63%) DevOps Engineer
5 63 (11.05%) Developer
6 62 (10.88%) Architect
7 46 (8.07%) Platform Engineer
8 37 (6.49%) Azure Engineer
9 26 (4.56%) Software Engineer
10 25 (4.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 22 (3.86%) Cloud Architect
12 19 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
12 19 (3.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 18 (3.16%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 17 (2.98%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 17 (2.98%) Lead DevOps
14 17 (2.98%) Python Developer
15 16 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
16 15 (2.63%) Security Engineer
16 15 (2.63%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (11.58%) React
2 62 (10.88%) .NET
3 38 (6.67%) Django
4 28 (4.91%) ARM Templates
4 28 (4.91%) Kafka
5 26 (4.56%) Node.js
5 26 (4.56%) RESTful
6 23 (4.04%) REST
7 22 (3.86%) YAML
8 20 (3.51%) Flask
9 19 (3.33%) CSS
9 19 (3.33%) OAuth
10 18 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
10 18 (3.16%) FastAPI
10 18 (3.16%) HTML
11 17 (2.98%) Vue
12 15 (2.63%) AngularJS
13 14 (2.46%) .NET Core
13 14 (2.46%) .NET Framework
14 12 (2.11%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 141 (24.74%) Cloud Native
2 43 (7.54%) Product Ownership
3 29 (5.09%) Public Cloud
4 25 (4.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 21 (3.68%) Data Centre
6 19 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (2.81%) Security Posture
9 15 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
10 13 (2.28%) Private Cloud
11 12 (2.11%) Data Structures
11 12 (2.11%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.93%) Low-Code
13 10 (1.75%) Management Information System
14 9 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (1.40%) Operational Technology
16 6 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
17 5 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 85 (14.91%) Linux
2 42 (7.37%) Windows
3 18 (3.16%) Unix
4 14 (2.46%) Ubuntu
5 13 (2.28%) Debian
6 12 (2.11%) Windows Server
7 11 (1.93%) VMS
8 4 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.53%) CentOS
10 2 (0.35%) AIX
11 1 (0.18%) Android
11 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 404 (70.88%) DevOps
2 377 (66.14%) CI/CD
3 225 (39.47%) Agile
4 120 (21.05%) Mentoring
5 119 (20.88%) Containerisation
6 116 (20.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 113 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
8 90 (15.79%) Observability
9 85 (14.91%) Test Automation
10 81 (14.21%) Platform Engineering
11 80 (14.04%) Software Engineering
12 76 (13.33%) Roadmaps
13 74 (12.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 71 (12.46%) AI
15 70 (12.28%) Coaching
16 63 (11.05%) Microservices
17 62 (10.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 61 (10.70%) Analytics
19 60 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
20 58 (10.18%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 216 (37.89%) Python
2 106 (18.60%) PowerShell
3 96 (16.84%) SQL
4 79 (13.86%) Bicep
5 71 (12.46%) Bash
6 61 (10.70%) C#
7 55 (9.65%) JavaScript
8 50 (8.77%) Java
9 46 (8.07%) TypeScript
10 22 (3.86%) Go
11 6 (1.05%) C++
12 4 (0.70%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.53%) Scala
14 2 (0.35%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.35%) Groovy
14 2 (0.35%) Ruby
14 2 (0.35%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.35%) VB
14 2 (0.35%) XAML
Qualifications
1 102 (17.89%) Security Cleared
2 71 (12.46%) SC Cleared
3 47 (8.25%) Azure Certification
4 44 (7.72%) DV Cleared
5 40 (7.02%) AWS Certification
6 37 (6.49%) Degree
7 19 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (3.16%) Master's Degree
9 16 (2.81%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (2.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (2.28%) CCNP
11 10 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (1.23%) PMI Certification
12 7 (1.23%) PMP
13 5 (0.88%) CCNA
13 5 (0.88%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
15 3 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.53%) CISSP
15 3 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.74%) GDPR
2 26 (4.56%) NIST
3 25 (4.39%) QA
4 18 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.11%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (1.23%) WCAG
7 5 (0.88%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.70%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.35%) GRC
10 2 (0.35%) NCSC
10 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 172 (30.18%) Docker
2 26 (4.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (4.39%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (3.86%) Active Directory
4 22 (3.86%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (1.75%) Hyper-V
6 9 (1.58%) vSphere
7 4 (0.70%) Firmware
7 4 (0.70%) vCloud
7 4 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.53%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.18%) HDFS
9 1 (0.18%) iptables
9 1 (0.18%) KVM
9 1 (0.18%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 398 (69.82%) Terraform
2 170 (29.82%) Kubernetes
3 116 (20.35%) Ansible
4 50 (8.77%) Grafana
5 42 (7.37%) Prometheus
6 26 (4.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (1.93%) Docker Swarm
8 10 (1.75%) AWS Copilot
9 9 (1.58%) Argo
10 6 (1.05%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.05%) Puppet
11 5 (0.88%) MaaS360
11 5 (0.88%) SCCM
12 4 (0.70%) Control-M
12 4 (0.70%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.70%) Rundeck
12 4 (0.70%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.53%) Dell DRAC
14 2 (0.35%) Nessus
14 2 (0.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 139 (24.39%) Microsoft
2 47 (8.25%) VMware
3 43 (7.54%) Google
4 23 (4.04%) Black Duck
5 18 (3.16%) Cisco
5 18 (3.16%) Coverity
6 15 (2.63%) Palo Alto
7 13 (2.28%) Databricks
7 13 (2.28%) Splunk
8 11 (1.93%) BiZZdesign
8 11 (1.93%) UiPath
9 10 (1.75%) Fortinet
10 9 (1.58%) Red Hat
10 9 (1.58%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.40%) Ab Initio
12 7 (1.23%) Oracle
12 7 (1.23%) SolarWinds
13 6 (1.05%) Aruba
13 6 (1.05%) Blue Prism
13 6 (1.05%) CrowdStrike