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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 210 153
Rank change year-on-year +108 -57 -53
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,385 464 866
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.60% 1.34% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 1.54% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 917 326 544
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.72% +6.92% -3.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.04%

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 61,006 30,204 42,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.54% 87.28% 79.23%
Number of salaries quoted 42,966 16,026 21,678
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,465
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.93% -2.56%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 +100 493 £69,305 -0.99% 443
North West +98 271 £71,991 +10.76% 274
South East +59 248 £67,500 -16.92% 292
South West +52 247 £75,000 +7.14% 249
Midlands +28 154 £75,000 +15.38% 185
North East +23 126 £60,000 -17.24% 67
Yorkshire +6 105 £68,000 -2.86% 105
West Midlands +5 96 £84,387 +30.83% 109
Wales -8 80 £70,000 +19.15% 46
Northern Ireland -30 61 £71,991 +67.07% 32
East Midlands 0 58 £65,000 - 76
East of England -18 57 £70,000 +7.69% 112
Scotland +14 54 £72,500 +7.41% 176
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 47 (3.39%) Apache Spark
2 42 (3.03%) Apache
3 36 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (1.44%) Confluence
6 16 (1.16%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.58%) IIS
8 7 (0.51%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.43%) nginx
9 6 (0.43%) SharePoint
10 5 (0.36%) CMS
11 3 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.22%) WordPress
12 2 (0.14%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.072%) Documentum
13 1 (0.072%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.14%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.072%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 764 (55.16%) Azure
2 736 (53.14%) AWS
3 260 (18.77%) GCP
4 239 (17.26%) GitHub
5 190 (13.72%) AWS CloudFormation
6 189 (13.65%) Azure DevOps
7 188 (13.57%) Serverless
8 140 (10.11%) GitHub Actions
9 113 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
10 111 (8.01%) Amazon S3
11 102 (7.36%) Cloud Computing
12 87 (6.28%) Amazon ECS
13 86 (6.21%) Amazon EC2
14 85 (6.14%) PaaS
15 84 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
16 80 (5.78%) Microsoft 365
17 78 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 71 (5.13%) SaaS
19 69 (4.98%) Azure AKS
20 65 (4.69%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 98 (7.08%) Firewall
2 88 (6.35%) VPN
3 87 (6.28%) WAN
4 73 (5.27%) LAN
5 68 (4.91%) DNS
6 39 (2.82%) Network Security
7 38 (2.74%) TCP/IP
8 35 (2.53%) Internet
9 33 (2.38%) DHCP
10 24 (1.73%) BGP
11 15 (1.08%) SD-WAN
11 15 (1.08%) Software-Defined Networking
11 15 (1.08%) VLAN
12 13 (0.94%) OSPF
13 12 (0.87%) SAN
14 10 (0.72%) Ethernet VPN
14 10 (0.72%) Wireless
15 9 (0.65%) Broadband
16 8 (0.58%) HTTP
17 7 (0.51%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (6.71%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (4.48%) NoSQL
3 58 (4.19%) MongoDB
4 57 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
5 48 (3.47%) DynamoDB
6 47 (3.39%) MySQL
7 46 (3.32%) SQL Server
8 40 (2.89%) Data Lake
9 35 (2.53%) Relational Database
10 33 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
11 28 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
12 21 (1.52%) Big Data
13 19 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
14 18 (1.30%) Power BI
14 18 (1.30%) Redis
15 16 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
15 16 (1.16%) Metadata
16 15 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
16 15 (1.08%) Hadoop
17 12 (0.87%) Flink
Development Applications
1 245 (17.69%) Git
2 165 (11.91%) GitLab
3 134 (9.68%) Jenkins
4 38 (2.74%) JIRA
5 21 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 15 (1.08%) Cypress.io
7 13 (0.94%) SonarQube
8 12 (0.87%) Selenium
9 10 (0.72%) Bitbucket
10 9 (0.65%) MSI
11 8 (0.58%) Subversion
11 8 (0.58%) Terragrunt
12 7 (0.51%) Artifactory
12 7 (0.51%) Claude Code
12 7 (0.51%) NUnit
12 7 (0.51%) Robot Framework
13 6 (0.43%) git-flow
13 6 (0.43%) TestRail
14 5 (0.36%) JUnit
14 5 (0.36%) Snyk
General
1 403 (29.10%) Social Skills
2 232 (16.75%) Finance
3 181 (13.07%) Public Sector
4 142 (10.25%) Analytical Skills
5 99 (7.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 78 (5.63%) Law
7 69 (4.98%) Presentation Skills
8 52 (3.75%) Aerospace
9 27 (1.95%) Banking
9 27 (1.95%) Retail
10 19 (1.37%) Manufacturing
11 18 (1.30%) Marketing
12 15 (1.08%) Legal
13 14 (1.01%) Aviation
14 13 (0.94%) Telecoms
15 12 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (0.79%) Military
17 10 (0.72%) Local Government
18 9 (0.65%) Advertising
19 6 (0.43%) Games
Job Titles
1 316 (22.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 298 (21.52%) Senior
3 214 (15.45%) Lead
4 170 (12.27%) Architect
5 169 (12.20%) Cloud Engineer
6 135 (9.75%) Platform Engineer
7 125 (9.03%) Developer
8 123 (8.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 106 (7.65%) Azure Engineer
10 91 (6.57%) Software Engineer
11 71 (5.13%) Data Engineer
12 66 (4.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 64 (4.62%) AWS Engineer
14 62 (4.48%) Systems Architect
15 61 (4.40%) Senior DevOps
16 60 (4.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 58 (4.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 51 (3.68%) Principal Engineer
19 47 (3.39%) Azure Platform Engineer
20 45 (3.25%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 900 (64.98%) Terraform
2 137 (9.89%) React
3 101 (7.29%) Spring Boot
4 97 (7.00%) Spring
5 96 (6.93%) .NET
6 91 (6.57%) Node.js
7 90 (6.50%) REST
8 79 (5.70%) Kafka
9 68 (4.91%) RESTful
10 52 (3.75%) ARM Templates
11 51 (3.68%) AWS CDK
12 46 (3.32%) AngularJS
13 41 (2.96%) PySpark
14 37 (2.67%) Next.js
15 34 (2.45%) LangChain
16 32 (2.31%) CSS
16 32 (2.31%) RabbitMQ
16 32 (2.31%) Vue
17 30 (2.17%) Web Services
18 29 (2.09%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 362 (26.14%) Cloud Native
2 99 (7.15%) Distributed Systems
3 89 (6.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 76 (5.49%) Onboarding
5 58 (4.19%) Product Ownership
6 57 (4.12%) Linux Command Line
7 45 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
8 43 (3.10%) Public Cloud
9 40 (2.89%) Security Posture
10 39 (2.82%) Data Centre
11 37 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
11 37 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
12 35 (2.53%) Private Cloud
13 28 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
14 25 (1.81%) Virtual Team
15 21 (1.52%) Data Structures
15 21 (1.52%) Management Information System
16 18 (1.30%) AI Agents
17 17 (1.23%) Mainframe
18 12 (0.87%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 294 (21.23%) Linux
2 131 (9.46%) Windows
3 58 (4.19%) Windows Server
4 40 (2.89%) CentOS
4 40 (2.89%) Unix
5 38 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (1.73%) Ubuntu
7 14 (1.01%) VMS
8 7 (0.51%) Debian
9 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.29%) AIX
10 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.14%) Rocky
11 2 (0.14%) Solaris
12 1 (0.072%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,010 (72.92%) CI/CD
2 822 (59.35%) DevOps
3 496 (35.81%) Containerisation
4 463 (33.43%) Agile
5 383 (27.65%) Observability
6 371 (26.79%) Platform Engineering
7 352 (25.42%) Mentoring
8 329 (23.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 316 (22.82%) Problem-Solving
10 279 (20.14%) Software Engineering
11 274 (19.78%) AI
12 263 (18.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 251 (18.12%) Technical Leadership
14 229 (16.53%) Microservices
15 218 (15.74%) Cloud Security
16 211 (15.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 187 (13.50%) Test Automation
18 184 (13.29%) DevSecOps
19 173 (12.49%) Roadmaps
20 148 (10.69%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 556 (40.14%) Python
2 241 (17.40%) Bash
3 195 (14.08%) Java
4 194 (14.01%) PowerShell
5 179 (12.92%) SQL
6 138 (9.96%) Bicep
6 138 (9.96%) TypeScript
7 107 (7.73%) JavaScript
8 87 (6.28%) C#
9 70 (5.05%) Go
10 50 (3.61%) Shell Script
11 24 (1.73%) Ruby
12 20 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
13 19 (1.37%) Groovy
14 18 (1.30%) Rust
15 15 (1.08%) PHP
16 11 (0.79%) Scala
17 7 (0.51%) Search Processing Language
18 6 (0.43%) COBOL
19 5 (0.36%) C++
Qualifications
1 433 (31.26%) Security Cleared
2 280 (20.22%) SC Cleared
3 175 (12.64%) DV Cleared
4 96 (6.93%) Degree
5 84 (6.06%) Azure Certification
6 78 (5.63%) AWS Certification
7 42 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 30 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
12 15 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 10 (0.72%) CCNA
15 7 (0.51%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.51%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.43%) CCNP
16 6 (0.43%) ICAEW
16 6 (0.43%) RHCSA
17 5 (0.36%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (5.27%) QA
2 62 (4.48%) GRC
3 49 (3.54%) Data Quality
4 39 (2.82%) Accessibility
5 28 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (1.95%) NCSC
7 23 (1.66%) NIST
8 20 (1.44%) WCAG
9 18 (1.30%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.94%) GDPR
11 11 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.65%) SLA
13 8 (0.58%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
15 2 (0.14%) IFRS
15 2 (0.14%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.14%) RMADS
15 2 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 436 (31.48%) Docker
2 82 (5.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 77 (5.56%) Active Directory
4 30 (2.17%) vSphere
5 28 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (1.23%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.94%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.36%) Firmware
11 4 (0.29%) KVM
11 4 (0.29%) Squid
12 2 (0.14%) iptables
12 2 (0.14%) Lustre
12 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.072%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 526 (37.98%) Kubernetes
2 286 (20.65%) Ansible
3 118 (8.52%) Grafana
4 101 (7.29%) Prometheus
5 51 (3.68%) Puppet
6 43 (3.10%) Argo
7 34 (2.45%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.52%) Istio
9 16 (1.16%) vCenter Server
10 15 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
10 15 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
11 13 (0.94%) Packer
11 13 (0.94%) Podman
12 11 (0.79%) Rancher
13 10 (0.72%) Kibana
13 10 (0.72%) Kustomize
14 8 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
14 8 (0.58%) linkerd
14 8 (0.58%) logstash
14 8 (0.58%) yum
Vendors
1 352 (25.42%) Microsoft
2 105 (7.58%) Google
3 95 (6.86%) VMware
4 57 (4.12%) Databricks
5 54 (3.90%) Red Hat
6 53 (3.83%) Splunk
7 30 (2.17%) Oracle
8 25 (1.81%) Cisco
9 19 (1.37%) OpenAI
10 14 (1.01%) Fortinet
10 14 (1.01%) ServiceNow
11 12 (0.87%) Atlassian
11 12 (0.87%) New Relic
11 12 (0.87%) ScienceLogic
12 10 (0.72%) F5
13 9 (0.65%) Meraki
14 8 (0.58%) Palo Alto
15 7 (0.51%) Dynatrace
15 7 (0.51%) SaltStack
15 7 (0.51%) Thales