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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 162 160
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -10
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 617 579 934
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.26% 1.82% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 2.00% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 442 359 729
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £55,750 £51,196 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,450 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.31% - -2.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £91,500 £91,934
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.60% +3.45% -3.33%

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 37,517 28,930 44,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 76.52% 91.12% 86.93%
Number of salaries quoted 22,153 13,261 33,592
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £77,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,001 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -18 216 £65,500 +2.34% 125
South East -11 126 £75,000 +9.09% 126
Yorkshire -14 94 £62,500 +13.64% 42
North West -20 90 £72,000 +6.67% 67
South West -17 82 £62,500 -13.18% 48
Scotland -1 67 £70,079 +0.11% 23
Midlands +6 65 £67,000 +3.08% 37
North East -8 32 £48,445 -14.26% 16
West Midlands -18 32 £65,000 -3.70% 29
East of England +26 31 £62,500 -13.79% 8
East Midlands 0 31 £67,750 +4.23% 8
Wales +12 22 £61,248 +31.08% 5
Northern Ireland -26 10 £95,000 +11.76% 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 19 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.94%) Apache
4 9 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.46%) IIS
5 8 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.97%) Confluence
7 3 (0.49%) Appian
7 3 (0.49%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.32%) CMS
8 2 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 386 (62.56%) Azure
2 382 (61.91%) AWS
3 180 (29.17%) Azure DevOps
4 152 (24.64%) GitHub
5 125 (20.26%) Serverless
6 124 (20.10%) GCP
7 113 (18.31%) GitHub Actions
8 111 (17.99%) AWS CloudFormation
9 78 (12.64%) AWS Lambda
10 62 (10.05%) Amazon S3
11 61 (9.89%) PaaS
12 58 (9.40%) Entra ID
13 51 (8.27%) Amazon EKS
14 49 (7.94%) Amazon ECS
15 48 (7.78%) dbt
16 46 (7.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 46 (7.46%) SaaS
17 42 (6.81%) Microsoft 365
18 39 (6.32%) Azure Monitor
19 34 (5.51%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 81 (13.13%) Firewall
2 55 (8.91%) DNS
3 48 (7.78%) TCP/IP
4 34 (5.51%) VPN
5 17 (2.76%) DHCP
5 17 (2.76%) HTTP
6 16 (2.59%) Network Security
6 16 (2.59%) WAN
7 10 (1.62%) LAN
8 8 (1.30%) BGP
8 8 (1.30%) VLAN
9 7 (1.13%) Cisco ASA
9 7 (1.13%) Internet
9 7 (1.13%) SAN
10 6 (0.97%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.81%) AMQP
11 5 (0.81%) Broadband
12 4 (0.65%) Unified Communications
12 4 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (8.91%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (8.10%) Amazon RDS
3 34 (5.51%) NoSQL
4 32 (5.19%) DynamoDB
5 29 (4.70%) SQL Server
6 28 (4.54%) Redis
7 23 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (2.59%) MongoDB
9 15 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (2.43%) MySQL
10 9 (1.46%) Big Data
11 7 (1.13%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (0.97%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.97%) Hadoop
12 6 (0.97%) Relational Database
13 5 (0.81%) Airbyte
13 5 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.81%) Cloudera CDH
13 5 (0.81%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.81%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 82 (13.29%) Jenkins
2 77 (12.48%) Git
3 54 (8.75%) GitLab
4 22 (3.57%) Selenium
5 21 (3.40%) Robot Framework
6 18 (2.92%) Snyk
7 14 (2.27%) JIRA
8 11 (1.78%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.78%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (1.13%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.13%) Octopus Deploy
10 6 (0.97%) git-flow
10 6 (0.97%) JMeter
10 6 (0.97%) Locust
10 6 (0.97%) Subversion
10 6 (0.97%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.81%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.65%) MLflow
13 3 (0.49%) TestRail
General
1 179 (29.01%) Social Skills
2 119 (19.29%) Finance
3 57 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (6.32%) Public Sector
5 36 (5.83%) Law
5 36 (5.83%) Telecoms
6 22 (3.57%) Retail
7 17 (2.76%) Billing
8 14 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.11%) Manufacturing
10 12 (1.94%) Aerospace
10 12 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.94%) Marketing
11 10 (1.62%) Games
12 9 (1.46%) Banking
13 8 (1.30%) Legal
14 7 (1.13%) Advertising
14 7 (1.13%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.97%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 153 (24.80%) Senior
2 91 (14.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 84 (13.61%) Cloud Engineer
4 82 (13.29%) Lead
5 68 (11.02%) Developer
6 62 (10.05%) Azure Engineer
7 54 (8.75%) Platform Engineer
8 36 (5.83%) Architect
8 36 (5.83%) Software Engineer
9 35 (5.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 22 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
11 21 (3.40%) AWS Engineer
11 21 (3.40%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 18 (2.92%) Full-Stack Developer
13 17 (2.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 17 (2.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 17 (2.76%) Python Developer
14 16 (2.59%) .NET Developer
14 16 (2.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 15 (2.43%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (14.91%) React
2 54 (8.75%) Node.js
3 48 (7.78%) .NET
4 46 (7.46%) RESTful
5 39 (6.32%) Django
6 33 (5.35%) AWS CDK
7 29 (4.70%) Elastic Stack
7 29 (4.70%) REST
7 29 (4.70%) YAML
8 28 (4.54%) OAuth
9 24 (3.89%) ARM Templates
10 23 (3.73%) Vue
11 22 (3.57%) CSS
11 22 (3.57%) GraphQL
12 21 (3.40%) HTML
13 20 (3.24%) JSON
13 20 (3.24%) Spring
14 19 (3.08%) AngularJS
14 19 (3.08%) FastAPI
15 18 (2.92%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 126 (20.42%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.29%) Product Ownership
3 25 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
4 23 (3.73%) Security Posture
5 22 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 19 (3.08%) Linux Command Line
7 18 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (2.27%) Data Centre
9 13 (2.11%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
11 11 (1.78%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.78%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.46%) Legacy Applications
13 7 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (0.97%) Private Cloud
15 4 (0.65%) ARM Cortex
15 4 (0.65%) Low-Code
15 4 (0.65%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 137 (22.20%) Linux
2 53 (8.59%) Windows
3 29 (4.70%) Unix
4 16 (2.59%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.27%) Ubuntu
5 14 (2.27%) VMS
6 10 (1.62%) Debian
7 9 (1.46%) CentOS
8 8 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.65%) Android
9 4 (0.65%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 445 (72.12%) CI/CD
2 440 (71.31%) DevOps
3 238 (38.57%) Agile
4 160 (25.93%) Containerisation
5 146 (23.66%) Problem-Solving
6 140 (22.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 136 (22.04%) Observability
8 132 (21.39%) Mentoring
9 96 (15.56%) Platform Engineering
10 90 (14.59%) Test Automation
11 89 (14.42%) Software Engineering
12 87 (14.10%) Coaching
13 86 (13.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 79 (12.80%) Microservices
15 76 (12.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 73 (11.83%) DevSecOps
17 69 (11.18%) Cloud Security
18 67 (10.86%) Roadmaps
19 66 (10.70%) AI
19 66 (10.70%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 262 (42.46%) Python
2 127 (20.58%) PowerShell
3 119 (19.29%) Bash
4 88 (14.26%) SQL
5 75 (12.16%) Bicep
5 75 (12.16%) TypeScript
6 68 (11.02%) Java
7 62 (10.05%) JavaScript
8 50 (8.10%) Go
9 44 (7.13%) C#
10 9 (1.46%) C
11 7 (1.13%) C++
12 6 (0.97%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.65%) Scala
14 2 (0.32%) Ruby
14 2 (0.32%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.32%) VB
15 1 (0.16%) Perl
15 1 (0.16%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 114 (18.48%) Security Cleared
2 68 (11.02%) SC Cleared
3 50 (8.10%) DV Cleared
4 41 (6.65%) AWS Certification
5 31 (5.02%) Degree
6 27 (4.38%) Azure Certification
7 14 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.78%) AWS Certified Developer
10 8 (1.30%) DBS Check
10 8 (1.30%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (0.97%) CISSP
12 5 (0.81%) CCNP
13 4 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.38%) QA
2 24 (3.89%) GDPR
3 21 (3.40%) NIST
4 19 (3.08%) Accessibility
5 17 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.30%) WCAG
7 7 (1.13%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.81%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.81%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.49%) NCSC
10 2 (0.32%) GRC
11 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 194 (31.44%) Docker
2 27 (4.38%) Active Directory
2 27 (4.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (2.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (2.11%) vSphere
6 10 (1.62%) VMware NSX
7 7 (1.13%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.81%) Firmware
9 4 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.49%) iptables
11 1 (0.16%) HDFS
11 1 (0.16%) KVM
11 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.16%) QEMU
11 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 432 (70.02%) Terraform
2 191 (30.96%) Kubernetes
3 142 (23.01%) Ansible
4 78 (12.64%) Grafana
5 64 (10.37%) Prometheus
6 20 (3.24%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (2.43%) Argo
8 14 (2.27%) AWS Copilot
8 14 (2.27%) Puppet
9 9 (1.46%) Rancher
10 8 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (1.13%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.97%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.97%) vCenter Server
12 6 (0.97%) yum
13 5 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.81%) Nagios
14 4 (0.65%) Kubeflow
14 4 (0.65%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 118 (19.12%) Microsoft
2 47 (7.62%) VMware
3 44 (7.13%) Google
4 21 (3.40%) Cisco
5 18 (2.92%) Black Duck
5 18 (2.92%) Coverity
6 17 (2.76%) Splunk
7 15 (2.43%) Red Hat
8 14 (2.27%) Ab Initio
8 14 (2.27%) CrowdStrike
9 12 (1.94%) Databricks
9 12 (1.94%) Palo Alto
10 10 (1.62%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.30%) SolarWinds
12 7 (1.13%) Fortinet
13 6 (0.97%) Dell
13 6 (0.97%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.97%) SaltStack
13 6 (0.97%) SAP
14 5 (0.81%) CyberArk