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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 211 200
Rank change year-on-year +88 -11 -65
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 976 450 1,005
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.40% 1.42% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 1.59% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 745 314 791
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,376 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,750 £56,438 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £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 48,876 28,376 61,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.22% 89.80% 80.12%
Number of salaries quoted 34,424 14,819 42,730
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £32,851 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,171 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.34% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%

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 July 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 July 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 +69 355 £67,500 -3.57% 141
North West +73 214 £72,500 - 81
South East +44 214 £70,000 -9.68% 174
South West +32 163 £75,000 +3.45% 108
Midlands +28 126 £74,250 +14.23% 61
Yorkshire +1 91 £65,576 -6.32% 36
West Midlands +6 73 £80,000 +23.08% 41
East Midlands +9 53 £67,500 +3.85% 20
East of England +8 52 £60,100 -7.54% 20
North East -11 50 £55,000 -14.06% 25
Scotland +17 35 £60,000 -20.00% 27
Wales -21 34 £70,079 +27.42% 21
Northern Ireland -28 3 £84,401 +95.86% 21
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 28 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (2.15%) Apache
3 20 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.05%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.74%) Confluence
5 9 (0.92%) Jupyter
6 8 (0.82%) IIS
7 5 (0.51%) CMS
8 4 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.31%) WordPress
10 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.20%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.10%) Documentum
11 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 552 (56.56%) AWS
2 521 (53.38%) Azure
3 207 (21.21%) GitHub
4 196 (20.08%) Azure DevOps
5 182 (18.65%) Serverless
6 151 (15.47%) GCP
7 138 (14.14%) GitHub Actions
8 123 (12.60%) AWS CloudFormation
9 99 (10.14%) Amazon S3
10 93 (9.53%) AWS Lambda
11 89 (9.12%) PaaS
12 77 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
13 72 (7.38%) Amazon EC2
14 63 (6.45%) Azure AKS
15 61 (6.25%) IaaS
16 60 (6.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 60 (6.15%) Amazon ECS
17 54 (5.53%) Entra ID
17 54 (5.53%) SaaS
18 53 (5.43%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 113 (11.58%) Firewall
2 60 (6.15%) DNS
3 58 (5.94%) VPN
4 38 (3.89%) TCP/IP
5 31 (3.18%) Network Security
6 22 (2.25%) DHCP
7 18 (1.84%) VLAN
8 17 (1.74%) HTTP
9 16 (1.64%) BGP
9 16 (1.64%) Broadband
10 15 (1.54%) WAN
11 13 (1.33%) Cisco ASA
12 11 (1.13%) SAN
13 10 (1.02%) LAN
14 7 (0.72%) Software-Defined Networking
15 6 (0.61%) Cisco Firepower
15 6 (0.61%) Ethernet VPN
15 6 (0.61%) MQTT
15 6 (0.61%) SD-WAN
15 6 (0.61%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (5.23%) Amazon RDS
3 42 (4.30%) NoSQL
4 40 (4.10%) MongoDB
5 38 (3.89%) DynamoDB
6 35 (3.59%) SQL Server
7 34 (3.48%) Azure SQL Database
8 22 (2.25%) Relational Database
9 17 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (1.64%) MySQL
10 16 (1.64%) Redis
11 14 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (1.43%) Metadata
12 13 (1.33%) Data Lake
12 13 (1.33%) Spark SQL
13 11 (1.13%) Big Data
14 10 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (0.82%) BigQuery
16 7 (0.72%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 153 (15.68%) Git
2 123 (12.60%) GitLab
2 123 (12.60%) Jenkins
3 27 (2.77%) JIRA
4 15 (1.54%) Bitbucket
5 14 (1.43%) Cucumber
5 14 (1.43%) SonarQube
6 9 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 8 (0.82%) Cypress.io
7 8 (0.82%) NUnit
7 8 (0.82%) Selenium
8 7 (0.72%) Artifactory
8 7 (0.72%) JMeter
8 7 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
8 7 (0.72%) Subversion
9 6 (0.61%) MSI
9 6 (0.61%) Robot Framework
9 6 (0.61%) TestRail
10 4 (0.41%) Jasmine
10 4 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 237 (24.28%) Social Skills
2 116 (11.89%) Finance
3 92 (9.43%) Public Sector
4 69 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (5.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (3.69%) Law
7 32 (3.28%) Telecoms
8 26 (2.66%) Retail
9 24 (2.46%) Aerospace
10 22 (2.25%) Manufacturing
11 21 (2.15%) Banking
12 18 (1.84%) Games
13 17 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (0.92%) Billing
16 8 (0.82%) Marketing
17 7 (0.72%) Advertising
17 7 (0.72%) Legal
18 5 (0.51%) Local Government
19 4 (0.41%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 211 (21.62%) Senior
2 206 (21.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 159 (16.29%) Lead
4 125 (12.81%) Cloud Engineer
5 98 (10.04%) Azure Engineer
6 95 (9.73%) Platform Engineer
7 94 (9.63%) Developer
8 70 (7.17%) Architect
8 70 (7.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 65 (6.66%) Software Engineer
10 47 (4.82%) AWS Engineer
11 45 (4.61%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 45 (4.61%) Senior DevOps
12 41 (4.20%) Data Engineer
13 37 (3.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 37 (3.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 36 (3.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 34 (3.48%) Technical Leader
16 31 (3.18%) Azure Platform Engineer
16 31 (3.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (10.76%) React
2 94 (9.63%) Node.js
3 81 (8.30%) .NET
3 81 (8.30%) REST
4 53 (5.43%) ARM Templates
5 49 (5.02%) AWS CDK
6 47 (4.82%) RESTful
6 47 (4.82%) Spring
7 46 (4.71%) Spring Boot
7 46 (4.71%) YAML
8 42 (4.30%) Kafka
9 41 (4.20%) Elastic Stack
10 34 (3.48%) AngularJS
11 33 (3.38%) PySpark
12 29 (2.97%) ASP.NET
13 28 (2.87%) Vue
14 27 (2.77%) ASP.NET Core
15 26 (2.66%) Next.js
15 26 (2.66%) RabbitMQ
16 23 (2.36%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 228 (23.36%) Cloud Native
2 71 (7.27%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (6.97%) Hybrid Cloud
4 49 (5.02%) Product Ownership
5 35 (3.59%) Public Cloud
6 31 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
7 30 (3.07%) Onboarding
8 27 (2.77%) Security Posture
9 25 (2.56%) Data Centre
9 25 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
10 24 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
11 23 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
12 18 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
13 17 (1.74%) Private Cloud
14 15 (1.54%) Data Structures
14 15 (1.54%) Replication
15 14 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
16 13 (1.33%) Video\Live Streaming
17 12 (1.23%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 196 (20.08%) Linux
2 107 (10.96%) Windows
3 51 (5.23%) Windows Server
4 32 (3.28%) Ubuntu
5 28 (2.87%) CentOS
6 19 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.95%) VMS
7 17 (1.74%) Unix
8 8 (0.82%) Debian
8 8 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.31%) Android
10 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.10%) AIX
11 1 (0.10%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 732 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 606 (62.09%) DevOps
3 339 (34.73%) Agile
4 305 (31.25%) Observability
5 285 (29.20%) Containerisation
6 244 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
7 236 (24.18%) Mentoring
8 225 (23.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 194 (19.88%) Problem-Solving
10 192 (19.67%) AI
11 172 (17.62%) Microservices
11 172 (17.62%) Test Automation
12 155 (15.88%) Software Engineering
13 145 (14.86%) Technical Leadership
14 138 (14.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 133 (13.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 122 (12.50%) Cloud Security
17 114 (11.68%) DevSecOps
18 101 (10.35%) Analytics
19 94 (9.63%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 416 (42.62%) Python
2 210 (21.52%) Bash
3 185 (18.95%) PowerShell
4 145 (14.86%) SQL
5 122 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 117 (11.99%) Java
7 116 (11.89%) Bicep
8 96 (9.84%) JavaScript
9 75 (7.68%) C#
10 62 (6.35%) Go
11 19 (1.95%) Groovy
12 18 (1.84%) Kusto Query Language
13 17 (1.74%) Ruby
14 12 (1.23%) PHP
15 9 (0.92%) Rust
16 8 (0.82%) C
16 8 (0.82%) C++
17 7 (0.72%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.41%) COBOL
18 4 (0.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 237 (24.28%) Security Cleared
2 148 (15.16%) SC Cleared
3 80 (8.20%) DV Cleared
4 74 (7.58%) Degree
5 57 (5.84%) Azure Certification
6 37 (3.79%) AWS Certification
7 33 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.33%) DBS Check
11 10 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (0.72%) CCNA
12 7 (0.72%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.61%) ICAEW
13 6 (0.61%) RHCSA
14 5 (0.51%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.41%) Network+ Certification
15 4 (0.41%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (5.94%) QA
2 28 (2.87%) Data Quality
3 25 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 18 (1.84%) WCAG
5 17 (1.74%) GDPR
5 17 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.33%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.23%) NCSC
7 12 (1.23%) SOC 2
8 11 (1.13%) NIST
9 5 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.51%) SLA
10 4 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.20%) IFRS
11 2 (0.20%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.20%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.10%) GRC
12 1 (0.10%) GxP
System Software
1 279 (28.59%) Docker
2 71 (7.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 64 (6.56%) Active Directory
4 35 (3.59%) vSphere
5 21 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (1.23%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.72%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.72%) iptables
9 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.41%) Firmware
10 4 (0.41%) Squid
11 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 702 (71.93%) Terraform
2 378 (38.73%) Kubernetes
3 214 (21.93%) Ansible
4 123 (12.60%) Grafana
5 95 (9.73%) Prometheus
6 36 (3.69%) Puppet
7 28 (2.87%) Argo
8 24 (2.46%) Progress Chef
9 15 (1.54%) vCenter Server
10 14 (1.43%) Packer
11 13 (1.33%) Nagios
12 12 (1.23%) Istio
13 11 (1.13%) Proxmox
14 10 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
14 10 (1.02%) Rancher
14 10 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
15 9 (0.92%) Kibana
15 9 (0.92%) Podman
16 7 (0.72%) logstash
16 7 (0.72%) yum
Vendors
1 183 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 88 (9.02%) VMware
3 50 (5.12%) Red Hat
4 39 (4.00%) Google
5 36 (3.69%) Splunk
6 31 (3.18%) Databricks
7 30 (3.07%) Cisco
8 21 (2.15%) Palo Alto
9 14 (1.43%) Oracle
10 13 (1.33%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.23%) ScienceLogic
12 10 (1.02%) F5
12 10 (1.02%) Fortinet
13 9 (0.92%) Atlassian
13 9 (0.92%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (0.72%) HubSpot
14 7 (0.72%) NetApp
14 7 (0.72%) Salesforce
15 6 (0.61%) Juniper
15 6 (0.61%) SolarWinds