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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 223 175
Rank change year-on-year +121 -48 -64
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,279 463 860
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.65% 1.33% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 1.52% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 888 336 647
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £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 54,441 30,367 46,953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.44% 87.40% 78.59%
Number of salaries quoted 38,235 16,502 29,487
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,683 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -4.63% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +85 436 £70,000 - 237
South East +67 253 £67,500 -12.90% 186
North West +97 243 £72,500 +3.57% 131
South West +48 221 £75,000 - 146
Midlands +42 147 £77,500 +19.23% 68
Yorkshire +8 103 £72,500 +3.57% 67
West Midlands +18 91 £80,000 +23.08% 41
North East +15 90 £57,000 -17.09% 39
Wales -10 65 £70,000 +16.67% 30
Northern Ireland -19 59 £71,991 +67.07% 21
East Midlands +11 56 £67,500 +3.85% 27
East of England +4 56 £70,000 +7.69% 33
Scotland +24 53 £71,991 +6.65% 69
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 40 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 35 (2.74%) Apache
3 34 (2.66%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (1.56%) Confluence
6 13 (1.02%) Jupyter
7 9 (0.70%) IIS
8 5 (0.39%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.31%) CMS
10 3 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.23%) nginx
10 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.23%) WordPress
11 1 (0.078%) Documentum
11 1 (0.078%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.078%) JBoss
Applications
1 8 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.16%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.078%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.078%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 693 (54.18%) Azure
2 686 (53.64%) AWS
3 230 (17.98%) GitHub
4 211 (16.50%) GCP
5 203 (15.87%) Azure DevOps
6 200 (15.64%) Serverless
7 167 (13.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 139 (10.87%) GitHub Actions
9 112 (8.76%) Amazon S3
10 110 (8.60%) AWS Lambda
11 87 (6.80%) Amazon EC2
12 86 (6.72%) PaaS
13 82 (6.41%) Amazon ECS
13 82 (6.41%) Amazon EKS
14 79 (6.18%) Microsoft 365
15 72 (5.63%) SaaS
16 69 (5.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 66 (5.16%) Azure AKS
18 63 (4.93%) Cloud Computing
19 60 (4.69%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 96 (7.51%) Firewall
2 81 (6.33%) WAN
3 73 (5.71%) LAN
4 65 (5.08%) VPN
5 58 (4.53%) DNS
6 38 (2.97%) Network Security
6 38 (2.97%) TCP/IP
7 27 (2.11%) DHCP
8 19 (1.49%) BGP
9 18 (1.41%) VLAN
10 15 (1.17%) Broadband
11 13 (1.02%) Software-Defined Networking
12 12 (0.94%) SAN
13 11 (0.86%) Cisco ASA
14 10 (0.78%) HTTP
14 10 (0.78%) SD-WAN
15 9 (0.70%) OSPF
16 7 (0.55%) MQTT
16 7 (0.55%) Unified Communications
16 7 (0.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (6.57%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (4.38%) Amazon RDS
3 53 (4.14%) NoSQL
4 49 (3.83%) SQL Server
5 48 (3.75%) DynamoDB
6 46 (3.60%) MongoDB
7 37 (2.89%) Relational Database
8 35 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
9 33 (2.58%) MySQL
10 29 (2.27%) Data Lake
10 29 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
11 19 (1.49%) Big Data
12 16 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
12 16 (1.25%) Metadata
13 15 (1.17%) Power BI
14 14 (1.09%) Redis
15 13 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (1.02%) Hadoop
16 12 (0.94%) Flink
Development Applications
1 195 (15.25%) Git
2 141 (11.02%) GitLab
3 127 (9.93%) Jenkins
4 41 (3.21%) JIRA
5 16 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 16 (1.25%) SonarQube
6 14 (1.09%) Cypress.io
7 13 (1.02%) Bitbucket
7 13 (1.02%) Cucumber
7 13 (1.02%) NUnit
8 12 (0.94%) Selenium
9 9 (0.70%) MSI
10 8 (0.63%) Terragrunt
11 7 (0.55%) Artifactory
11 7 (0.55%) JMeter
11 7 (0.55%) Robot Framework
12 6 (0.47%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.47%) git-flow
12 6 (0.47%) TeamCity
12 6 (0.47%) TestRail
General
1 376 (29.40%) Social Skills
2 223 (17.44%) Finance
3 131 (10.24%) Public Sector
4 99 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
5 90 (7.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 75 (5.86%) Law
7 66 (5.16%) Presentation Skills
8 41 (3.21%) Aerospace
9 28 (2.19%) Retail
10 23 (1.80%) Banking
10 23 (1.80%) Manufacturing
10 23 (1.80%) Marketing
11 22 (1.72%) Telecoms
12 17 (1.33%) Legal
13 16 (1.25%) Games
14 13 (1.02%) Aviation
14 13 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (1.02%) Local Government
15 11 (0.86%) Military
16 10 (0.78%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 261 (20.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 256 (20.02%) Senior
3 218 (17.04%) Lead
4 154 (12.04%) Architect
5 153 (11.96%) Cloud Engineer
6 121 (9.46%) Developer
7 118 (9.23%) Platform Engineer
8 99 (7.74%) Azure Engineer
9 92 (7.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 89 (6.96%) Software Engineer
11 71 (5.55%) Data Engineer
12 59 (4.61%) Systems Architect
13 58 (4.53%) AWS Engineer
14 55 (4.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 49 (3.83%) Senior DevOps
16 47 (3.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 45 (3.52%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 45 (3.52%) Technical Leader
18 41 (3.21%) Lead DevOps
19 40 (3.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (10.24%) React
2 106 (8.29%) .NET
3 100 (7.82%) REST
4 95 (7.43%) Node.js
5 77 (6.02%) Spring Boot
6 74 (5.79%) Spring
7 64 (5.00%) Kafka
8 62 (4.85%) RESTful
9 60 (4.69%) AWS CDK
10 54 (4.22%) ARM Templates
11 46 (3.60%) YAML
12 45 (3.52%) AngularJS
13 43 (3.36%) PySpark
14 38 (2.97%) Next.js
15 36 (2.81%) ASP.NET
16 34 (2.66%) ASP.NET Core
16 34 (2.66%) Elastic Stack
16 34 (2.66%) Vue
17 32 (2.50%) CSS
18 30 (2.35%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 313 (24.47%) Cloud Native
2 98 (7.66%) Distributed Systems
3 85 (6.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 65 (5.08%) Onboarding
5 58 (4.53%) Product Ownership
6 47 (3.67%) Public Cloud
7 44 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
8 38 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
9 35 (2.74%) Data Centre
10 34 (2.66%) Security Posture
11 29 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
12 27 (2.11%) Private Cloud
13 24 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
14 23 (1.80%) Data Structures
15 20 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
16 17 (1.33%) Replication
16 17 (1.33%) Virtual Team
17 15 (1.17%) Mainframe
17 15 (1.17%) Management Information System
18 13 (1.02%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 230 (17.98%) Linux
2 128 (10.01%) Windows
3 61 (4.77%) Windows Server
4 34 (2.66%) CentOS
5 27 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (2.11%) Ubuntu
5 27 (2.11%) Unix
6 15 (1.17%) VMS
7 5 (0.39%) Debian
7 5 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.16%) AIX
9 2 (0.16%) Android
9 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.16%) Solaris
10 1 (0.078%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.078%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 923 (72.17%) CI/CD
2 743 (58.09%) DevOps
3 432 (33.78%) Containerisation
4 421 (32.92%) Agile
5 382 (29.87%) Observability
6 314 (24.55%) Continuous Improvement
7 312 (24.39%) Platform Engineering
8 295 (23.06%) Mentoring
9 270 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
10 259 (20.25%) Software Engineering
11 243 (19.00%) AI
12 222 (17.36%) Technical Leadership
13 215 (16.81%) Microservices
14 197 (15.40%) Test Automation
15 184 (14.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 177 (13.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 154 (12.04%) Roadmaps
18 151 (11.81%) Cloud Security
19 140 (10.95%) DevSecOps
20 132 (10.32%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 518 (40.50%) Python
2 217 (16.97%) Bash
3 187 (14.62%) SQL
4 185 (14.46%) PowerShell
5 177 (13.84%) Java
6 136 (10.63%) TypeScript
7 132 (10.32%) Bicep
8 115 (8.99%) JavaScript
9 94 (7.35%) C#
10 64 (5.00%) Go
11 25 (1.95%) Ruby
12 22 (1.72%) Groovy
13 21 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
14 15 (1.17%) PHP
15 11 (0.86%) Rust
15 11 (0.86%) Scala
16 10 (0.78%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.55%) C++
17 7 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
18 6 (0.47%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 358 (27.99%) Security Cleared
2 227 (17.75%) SC Cleared
3 146 (11.42%) DV Cleared
4 102 (7.97%) Degree
5 69 (5.39%) Azure Certification
6 56 (4.38%) AWS Certification
7 45 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
11 14 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 14 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 9 (0.70%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
13 7 (0.55%) CCNA
13 7 (0.55%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.47%) ICAEW
14 6 (0.47%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.47%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (6.25%) QA
2 60 (4.69%) GRC
3 51 (3.99%) Data Quality
4 40 (3.13%) Accessibility
5 23 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (1.80%) NCSC
5 23 (1.80%) WCAG
6 19 (1.49%) GDPR
7 17 (1.33%) NIST
8 15 (1.17%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.86%) SOC 2
10 7 (0.55%) SLA
11 6 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.16%) IFRS
12 2 (0.16%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.16%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.078%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.078%) HIPAA
System Software
1 373 (29.16%) Docker
2 79 (6.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 74 (5.79%) Active Directory
4 31 (2.42%) vSphere
5 19 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (1.17%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.86%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 7 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.47%) Firmware
11 5 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.31%) iptables
12 4 (0.31%) KVM
12 4 (0.31%) Squid
13 2 (0.16%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 866 (67.71%) Terraform
2 487 (38.08%) Kubernetes
3 259 (20.25%) Ansible
4 122 (9.54%) Grafana
5 94 (7.35%) Prometheus
6 44 (3.44%) Puppet
7 37 (2.89%) Argo
8 30 (2.35%) Progress Chef
9 19 (1.49%) Istio
10 15 (1.17%) Packer
11 14 (1.09%) vCenter Server
12 11 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (0.86%) Nagios
13 10 (0.78%) Kibana
14 9 (0.70%) Kustomize
14 9 (0.70%) Podman
15 8 (0.63%) Nessus
15 8 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
15 8 (0.63%) ZABBIX
16 7 (0.55%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 289 (22.60%) Microsoft
2 91 (7.11%) VMware
3 70 (5.47%) Google
4 60 (4.69%) Red Hat
5 51 (3.99%) Splunk
6 46 (3.60%) Databricks
7 29 (2.27%) Cisco
8 28 (2.19%) Oracle
9 19 (1.49%) Palo Alto
10 15 (1.17%) Dynatrace
11 13 (1.02%) Atlassian
11 13 (1.02%) OpenAI
12 12 (0.94%) F5
12 12 (0.94%) Fortinet
12 12 (0.94%) ScienceLogic
12 12 (0.94%) ServiceNow
13 11 (0.86%) New Relic
14 8 (0.63%) IBM
14 8 (0.63%) NetApp
15 7 (0.55%) SAP