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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 189 191
Rank change year-on-year +34 +2 -48
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 718 424 1,017
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.10% 1.56% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 1.70% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 512 310 779
10th Percentile £46,446 £43,625 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,125 £52,813 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,450 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,751 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £71,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +9.15% -5.33%

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 46,916 24,887 57,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 71.90% 91.35% 83.95%
Number of salaries quoted 28,853 13,847 40,960
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £37,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,375 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +3 264 £67,500 -0.74% 130
South East +13 147 £70,000 -6.67% 143
North West +8 141 £74,651 +2.97% 64
South West -16 104 £65,000 -9.71% 74
Yorkshire -27 92 £65,000 +7.92% 30
Midlands +5 90 £69,000 -1.43% 36
Scotland -19 46 £60,000 -17.53% 17
East Midlands -12 44 £67,500 +3.85% 11
West Midlands -17 44 £70,000 - 25
East of England +4 42 £60,100 -10.96% 34
North East -15 31 £48,445 -19.59% 36
Wales -11 22 £60,000 -5.14% 6
Northern Ireland -36 6 £95,000 - 4
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 12 (1.67%) Apache
1 12 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
1 12 (1.67%) IIS
2 11 (1.53%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.70%) CMS
3 5 (0.70%) Confluence
4 4 (0.56%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.28%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 428 (59.61%) AWS
2 404 (56.27%) Azure
3 180 (25.07%) Azure DevOps
4 159 (22.14%) GitHub
5 142 (19.78%) Serverless
6 127 (17.69%) GCP
7 125 (17.41%) GitHub Actions
8 104 (14.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 81 (11.28%) AWS Lambda
10 70 (9.75%) Amazon S3
11 68 (9.47%) Amazon EKS
12 56 (7.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 48 (6.69%) PaaS
14 44 (6.13%) Amazon EC2
15 40 (5.57%) Amazon ECS
15 40 (5.57%) Entra ID
16 37 (5.15%) Azure Monitor
17 36 (5.01%) Datadog
18 34 (4.74%) Azure AKS
18 34 (4.74%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 102 (14.21%) Firewall
2 54 (7.52%) DNS
3 41 (5.71%) TCP/IP
4 29 (4.04%) VPN
5 23 (3.20%) Network Security
6 20 (2.79%) DHCP
6 20 (2.79%) HTTP
7 14 (1.95%) Cisco ASA
7 14 (1.95%) WAN
8 11 (1.53%) BGP
8 11 (1.53%) Broadband
8 11 (1.53%) LAN
8 11 (1.53%) VLAN
9 7 (0.97%) Internet
9 7 (0.97%) SAN
10 5 (0.70%) AMQP
10 5 (0.70%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (0.70%) Unified Communications
10 5 (0.70%) WebEx
11 4 (0.56%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (6.41%) Amazon RDS
3 38 (5.29%) NoSQL
4 34 (4.74%) DynamoDB
5 33 (4.60%) SQL Server
6 25 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
6 25 (3.48%) MongoDB
7 13 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (1.67%) Spark SQL
9 11 (1.53%) BigQuery
9 11 (1.53%) Metadata
10 10 (1.39%) MySQL
11 9 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (1.25%) Big Data
11 9 (1.25%) Data Lake
11 9 (1.25%) Relational Database
12 8 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (1.11%) InfluxDB
12 8 (1.11%) Redis
13 6 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 111 (15.46%) Git
2 98 (13.65%) Jenkins
3 81 (11.28%) GitLab
4 18 (2.51%) JIRA
5 15 (2.09%) Bitbucket
6 11 (1.53%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.39%) Selenium
8 8 (1.11%) Robot Framework
8 8 (1.11%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.97%) CircleCI
9 7 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
9 7 (0.97%) Subversion
10 6 (0.84%) Artifactory
10 6 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (0.84%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.84%) NUnit
11 5 (0.70%) JMeter
11 5 (0.70%) TestRail
12 4 (0.56%) Locust
13 3 (0.42%) MLflow
General
1 178 (24.79%) Social Skills
2 106 (14.76%) Finance
3 60 (8.36%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (7.80%) Public Sector
5 41 (5.71%) Telecoms
6 30 (4.18%) Law
7 28 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 28 (3.90%) Retail
8 18 (2.51%) Banking
9 16 (2.23%) Aerospace
9 16 (2.23%) Billing
9 16 (2.23%) Games
10 14 (1.95%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.81%) Marketing
12 12 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.11%) Advertising
15 7 (0.97%) Electronics
16 5 (0.70%) Legal
17 4 (0.56%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 163 (22.70%) Senior
2 136 (18.94%) DevOps Engineer
3 127 (17.69%) Lead
4 96 (13.37%) Cloud Engineer
5 84 (11.70%) Azure Engineer
6 73 (10.17%) Developer
7 53 (7.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 51 (7.10%) Platform Engineer
9 42 (5.85%) Software Engineer
10 41 (5.71%) Architect
11 33 (4.60%) Data Engineer
12 31 (4.32%) AWS Engineer
12 31 (4.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 31 (4.32%) Senior DevOps
13 27 (3.76%) Lead DevOps
14 26 (3.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 23 (3.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 22 (3.06%) Lead Developer
16 22 (3.06%) Team Leader
17 20 (2.79%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (12.40%) React
2 75 (10.45%) Node.js
3 60 (8.36%) .NET
4 53 (7.38%) REST
5 47 (6.55%) RESTful
6 46 (6.41%) AWS CDK
7 40 (5.57%) YAML
8 37 (5.15%) ARM Templates
9 36 (5.01%) Elastic Stack
10 31 (4.32%) OAuth
11 26 (3.62%) ASP.NET
12 24 (3.34%) ASP.NET Core
12 24 (3.34%) Spring
13 21 (2.92%) JSON
13 21 (2.92%) RabbitMQ
14 20 (2.79%) Django
15 19 (2.65%) AngularJS
15 19 (2.65%) Next.js
16 18 (2.51%) .NET Core
16 18 (2.51%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 138 (19.22%) Cloud Native
2 42 (5.85%) Product Ownership
3 41 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 36 (5.01%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (3.06%) Public Cloud
7 17 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (2.37%) Linux Command Line
7 17 (2.37%) Onboarding
8 15 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (1.95%) Legacy Applications
9 14 (1.95%) Security Posture
9 14 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.67%) Data Centre
11 11 (1.53%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.53%) Replication
12 10 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.39%) Mobile App
12 10 (1.39%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 151 (21.03%) Linux
2 68 (9.47%) Windows
3 30 (4.18%) Windows Server
4 20 (2.79%) Unix
5 17 (2.37%) Ubuntu
6 12 (1.67%) CentOS
7 9 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.25%) VMS
8 7 (0.97%) Debian
9 5 (0.70%) Android
9 5 (0.70%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 525 (73.12%) CI/CD
2 474 (66.02%) DevOps
3 246 (34.26%) Agile
4 204 (28.41%) Observability
5 202 (28.13%) Containerisation
6 174 (24.23%) Continuous Improvement
7 160 (22.28%) Mentoring
8 157 (21.87%) Problem-Solving
9 139 (19.36%) Test Automation
10 133 (18.52%) Platform Engineering
11 113 (15.74%) Microservices
12 104 (14.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 101 (14.07%) Software Engineering
14 100 (13.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 89 (12.40%) AI
16 86 (11.98%) Deployment Automation
17 80 (11.14%) Incident Response
18 76 (10.58%) DevSecOps
19 73 (10.17%) Cloud Security
20 63 (8.77%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 315 (43.87%) Python
2 158 (22.01%) Bash
3 150 (20.89%) PowerShell
4 122 (16.99%) SQL
5 81 (11.28%) TypeScript
6 77 (10.72%) Java
7 73 (10.17%) Bicep
8 65 (9.05%) JavaScript
9 56 (7.80%) Go
10 50 (6.96%) C#
11 13 (1.81%) C
12 11 (1.53%) Groovy
13 8 (1.11%) C++
14 7 (0.97%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.70%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.56%) Perl
17 4 (0.56%) Ruby
17 4 (0.56%) Rust
18 3 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 125 (17.41%) Security Cleared
2 77 (10.72%) SC Cleared
3 52 (7.24%) Degree
4 48 (6.69%) DV Cleared
5 36 (5.01%) AWS Certification
6 29 (4.04%) Azure Certification
7 24 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.81%) AWS Certified Developer
8 13 (1.81%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.70%) CISSP
12 4 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.56%) Network+ Certification
12 4 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.42%) ICAEW
13 3 (0.42%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.15%) QA
2 27 (3.76%) GDPR
3 21 (2.92%) Accessibility
4 20 (2.79%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.39%) SOC 2
7 9 (1.25%) NIST
7 9 (1.25%) WCAG
8 6 (0.84%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.56%) NCSC
10 3 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.42%) GRC
10 3 (0.42%) SLA
11 2 (0.28%) IFRS
11 2 (0.28%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 206 (28.69%) Docker
2 40 (5.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (4.46%) Active Directory
4 15 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (2.09%) vSphere
5 9 (1.25%) VMware NSX
6 8 (1.11%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.97%) iptables
8 5 (0.70%) Firmware
8 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 498 (69.36%) Terraform
2 252 (35.10%) Kubernetes
3 156 (21.73%) Ansible
4 109 (15.18%) Grafana
5 86 (11.98%) Prometheus
6 23 (3.20%) Puppet
7 18 (2.51%) Argo
8 15 (2.09%) Progress Chef
9 11 (1.53%) Rancher
10 9 (1.25%) Nagios
11 8 (1.11%) Packer
11 8 (1.11%) Proxmox
11 8 (1.11%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.97%) yum
13 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
14 5 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.70%) Cisco CUCM
14 5 (0.70%) Istio
14 5 (0.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 133 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 55 (7.66%) VMware
3 32 (4.46%) Google
4 31 (4.32%) Red Hat
5 30 (4.18%) Cisco
6 27 (3.76%) Databricks
7 23 (3.20%) Splunk
8 16 (2.23%) CrowdStrike
9 15 (2.09%) Palo Alto
10 14 (1.95%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.11%) Ab Initio
11 8 (1.11%) Fortinet
11 8 (1.11%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.97%) Juniper
13 6 (0.84%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.84%) Dell
13 6 (0.84%) F5
13 6 (0.84%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.84%) NetApp
13 6 (0.84%) SolarWinds