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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 210 201
Rank change year-on-year +62 -9 -64
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 833 408 988
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.24% 1.41% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 1.54% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 636 274 774
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,750 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,769 £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 47,892 26,573 59,124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 71.06% 91.98% 81.83%
Number of salaries quoted 31,314 13,143 42,035
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,052
25th Percentile £38,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,610 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.15% +4.75% -9.69%

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 30 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 30 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 +49 316 £67,500 -3.57% 138
South East +48 188 £70,000 -6.67% 122
North West +59 186 £74,651 +2.97% 75
South West +2 113 £72,500 +0.71% 59
Midlands +34 112 £68,000 -2.86% 43
Yorkshire -13 89 £65,576 -3.57% 30
West Midlands +1 61 £72,500 +3.57% 31
East Midlands +17 51 £67,500 +3.85% 12
East of England +11 49 £60,100 -7.54% 25
North East -11 41 £55,000 -15.38% 33
Scotland +9 38 £60,000 -20.38% 25
Wales -23 16 £65,000 +13.04% 8
Northern Ireland -36 4 £95,000 - 8
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 20 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.16%) Apache
2 18 (2.16%) Apache Spark
3 14 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.44%) IIS
5 11 (1.32%) Confluence
6 7 (0.84%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.60%) CMS
8 4 (0.48%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.36%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.12%) Lightworks
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 493 (59.18%) AWS
2 446 (53.54%) Azure
3 171 (20.53%) Azure DevOps
4 168 (20.17%) GitHub
5 157 (18.85%) Serverless
6 137 (16.45%) GCP
7 121 (14.53%) GitHub Actions
8 104 (12.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 90 (10.80%) Amazon S3
10 84 (10.08%) AWS Lambda
11 72 (8.64%) Amazon EKS
12 64 (7.68%) PaaS
13 63 (7.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 63 (7.56%) Amazon EC2
14 52 (6.24%) Amazon ECS
15 49 (5.88%) SaaS
16 48 (5.76%) Azure AKS
17 47 (5.64%) Entra ID
18 45 (5.40%) IaaS
19 40 (4.80%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 106 (12.73%) Firewall
2 59 (7.08%) DNS
3 40 (4.80%) TCP/IP
4 31 (3.72%) VPN
5 24 (2.88%) Network Security
6 22 (2.64%) DHCP
7 17 (2.04%) HTTP
8 16 (1.92%) BGP
9 15 (1.80%) Broadband
9 15 (1.80%) Cisco ASA
10 14 (1.68%) VLAN
11 12 (1.44%) WAN
12 9 (1.08%) LAN
12 9 (1.08%) SAN
13 7 (0.84%) Internet
14 6 (0.72%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (0.72%) OSPF
14 6 (0.72%) Unified Communications
14 6 (0.72%) WebEx
15 5 (0.60%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (7.44%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
3 40 (4.80%) NoSQL
4 38 (4.56%) DynamoDB
5 34 (4.08%) MongoDB
6 33 (3.96%) SQL Server
7 20 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
8 18 (2.16%) Relational Database
9 15 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
10 14 (1.68%) Metadata
10 14 (1.68%) Spark SQL
11 13 (1.56%) Data Lake
12 11 (1.32%) Big Data
12 11 (1.32%) BigQuery
13 10 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (1.20%) Redis
14 7 (0.84%) MySQL
15 6 (0.72%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 131 (15.73%) Git
2 103 (12.36%) GitLab
2 103 (12.36%) Jenkins
3 20 (2.40%) JIRA
4 15 (1.80%) Bitbucket
5 13 (1.56%) Cucumber
6 12 (1.44%) SonarQube
7 9 (1.08%) Selenium
8 7 (0.84%) CircleCI
8 7 (0.84%) JMeter
8 7 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
8 7 (0.84%) Robot Framework
9 6 (0.72%) Artifactory
9 6 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (0.72%) NUnit
9 6 (0.72%) Subversion
10 5 (0.60%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.48%) Locust
11 4 (0.48%) TestRail
11 4 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 204 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 105 (12.61%) Finance
3 70 (8.40%) Public Sector
4 64 (7.68%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (4.44%) Telecoms
6 30 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (3.12%) Retail
8 24 (2.88%) Law
9 23 (2.76%) Manufacturing
10 22 (2.64%) Banking
11 17 (2.04%) Aerospace
12 15 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (1.80%) Games
13 14 (1.68%) Billing
14 13 (1.56%) Marketing
15 11 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (1.20%) Advertising
17 6 (0.72%) Electronics
17 6 (0.72%) Legal
18 5 (0.60%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 183 (21.97%) Senior
2 165 (19.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 139 (16.69%) Lead
4 115 (13.81%) Cloud Engineer
5 88 (10.56%) Azure Engineer
6 76 (9.12%) Developer
7 68 (8.16%) Platform Engineer
8 61 (7.32%) Software Engineer
9 60 (7.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 50 (6.00%) Architect
11 43 (5.16%) AWS Engineer
12 39 (4.68%) Data Engineer
12 39 (4.68%) Senior DevOps
13 36 (4.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 31 (3.72%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 31 (3.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 28 (3.36%) Technical Leader
16 25 (3.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
16 25 (3.00%) Lead DevOps
16 25 (3.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (11.16%) React
2 82 (9.84%) Node.js
3 73 (8.76%) .NET
4 64 (7.68%) REST
5 47 (5.64%) AWS CDK
5 47 (5.64%) YAML
6 40 (4.80%) ARM Templates
6 40 (4.80%) RESTful
7 35 (4.20%) Spring
8 34 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
9 33 (3.96%) Kafka
10 31 (3.72%) ASP.NET
11 29 (3.48%) ASP.NET Core
11 29 (3.48%) Spring Boot
12 28 (3.36%) PySpark
13 27 (3.24%) OAuth
14 24 (2.88%) AngularJS
15 22 (2.64%) Vue
16 19 (2.28%) CSS
16 19 (2.28%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 166 (19.93%) Cloud Native
2 57 (6.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 54 (6.48%) Distributed Systems
4 43 (5.16%) Product Ownership
5 25 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (2.76%) Public Cloud
7 21 (2.52%) Data Centre
8 18 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (2.16%) Linux Command Line
8 18 (2.16%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.68%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.68%) Legacy Applications
10 14 (1.68%) Private Cloud
11 13 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.56%) Replication
12 12 (1.44%) Security Posture
13 11 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
13 11 (1.32%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 182 (21.85%) Linux
2 85 (10.20%) Windows
3 47 (5.64%) Windows Server
4 29 (3.48%) Ubuntu
5 20 (2.40%) CentOS
6 18 (2.16%) Unix
7 14 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.96%) VMS
9 7 (0.84%) Debian
9 7 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.60%) Android
10 5 (0.60%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 616 (73.95%) CI/CD
2 522 (62.67%) DevOps
3 275 (33.01%) Agile
4 243 (29.17%) Observability
5 238 (28.57%) Containerisation
6 191 (22.93%) Mentoring
7 181 (21.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 180 (21.61%) Platform Engineering
9 161 (19.33%) Problem-Solving
10 155 (18.61%) Test Automation
11 140 (16.81%) Microservices
12 139 (16.69%) AI
13 123 (14.77%) Software Engineering
14 118 (14.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 115 (13.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 100 (12.00%) Technical Leadership
17 90 (10.80%) Cloud Security
18 86 (10.32%) DevSecOps
19 78 (9.36%) Full-Stack Development
20 77 (9.24%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 363 (43.58%) Python
2 183 (21.97%) Bash
3 163 (19.57%) PowerShell
4 123 (14.77%) SQL
5 107 (12.85%) TypeScript
6 91 (10.92%) Java
7 82 (9.84%) JavaScript
8 69 (8.28%) Bicep
9 59 (7.08%) C#
10 55 (6.60%) Go
11 14 (1.68%) Groovy
12 13 (1.56%) C
13 9 (1.08%) C++
13 9 (1.08%) PHP
13 9 (1.08%) Rust
14 6 (0.72%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.60%) Ruby
16 4 (0.48%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.48%) Perl
17 3 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 173 (20.77%) Security Cleared
2 111 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 69 (8.28%) Degree
4 59 (7.08%) DV Cleared
5 37 (4.44%) AWS Certification
5 37 (4.44%) Azure Certification
6 31 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.68%) DBS Check
8 12 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
11 7 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.72%) ICAEW
12 6 (0.72%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.60%) OSCP
14 4 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (0.48%) CCNA
14 4 (0.48%) CISSP
14 4 (0.48%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.48%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.52%) QA
2 23 (2.76%) Data Quality
3 22 (2.64%) GDPR
4 17 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.20%) WCAG
7 9 (1.08%) NIST
7 9 (1.08%) SOC 2
8 7 (0.84%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.48%) SLA
10 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.36%) NCSC
11 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.24%) IFRS
11 2 (0.24%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.24%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
System Software
1 241 (28.93%) Docker
2 50 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (4.92%) Active Directory
4 21 (2.52%) vSphere
5 18 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (1.56%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.84%) iptables
8 6 (0.72%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.48%) Firmware
10 3 (0.36%) Squid
11 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 588 (70.59%) Terraform
2 305 (36.61%) Kubernetes
3 193 (23.17%) Ansible
4 113 (13.57%) Grafana
5 88 (10.56%) Prometheus
6 29 (3.48%) Puppet
7 21 (2.52%) Argo
8 18 (2.16%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.56%) Nagios
10 12 (1.44%) vCenter Server
11 11 (1.32%) Packer
12 10 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
13 9 (1.08%) Proxmox
13 9 (1.08%) Rancher
13 9 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.96%) Istio
14 8 (0.96%) Podman
15 6 (0.72%) Cisco CUCM
15 6 (0.72%) Kibana
15 6 (0.72%) yum
Vendors
1 149 (17.89%) Microsoft
2 65 (7.80%) VMware
3 42 (5.04%) Red Hat
4 33 (3.96%) Google
5 31 (3.72%) Cisco
5 31 (3.72%) Databricks
6 28 (3.36%) Splunk
7 20 (2.40%) Palo Alto
8 12 (1.44%) CrowdStrike
8 12 (1.44%) Dynatrace
9 10 (1.20%) F5
10 9 (1.08%) Fortinet
10 9 (1.08%) Oracle
11 8 (0.96%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.84%) HubSpot
12 7 (0.84%) Juniper
12 7 (0.84%) NetApp
13 6 (0.72%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.72%) Dell
13 6 (0.72%) SolarWinds