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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 212 151
Rank change year-on-year +111 -61 -42
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,319 463 917
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.58% 1.35% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 1.55% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 892 329 605
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,039 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.06% +7.69% -4.41%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £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 58,718 29,796 43,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.21% 86.74% 78.53%
Number of salaries quoted 41,569 16,132 23,550
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 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +85 463 £70,079 +0.11% 516
North West +98 258 £72,500 +11.54% 291
South East +48 243 £67,500 -15.63% 303
South West +44 236 £75,000 - 251
Midlands +46 147 £75,000 +15.38% 208
Yorkshire +8 103 £75,000 +7.14% 151
North East +18 102 £59,000 -18.62% 74
West Midlands +8 90 £85,000 +31.78% 127
Wales -12 74 £70,000 +21.74% 43
Northern Ireland -20 62 £71,991 +67.07% 74
East Midlands +7 57 £67,500 +3.85% 81
East of England -10 56 £65,000 - 119
Scotland +15 50 £72,500 +3.57% 199
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 42 (3.18%) Apache Spark
2 37 (2.81%) Apache
3 32 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (1.52%) Confluence
6 13 (0.99%) Jupyter
7 9 (0.68%) IIS
8 6 (0.45%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.38%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.23%) CMS
10 3 (0.23%) nginx
10 3 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.23%) WordPress
11 1 (0.076%) Documentum
11 1 (0.076%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.15%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.076%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.076%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 716 (54.28%) Azure
2 698 (52.92%) AWS
3 234 (17.74%) GitHub
4 225 (17.06%) GCP
5 199 (15.09%) Serverless
6 190 (14.40%) Azure DevOps
7 181 (13.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 138 (10.46%) GitHub Actions
9 117 (8.87%) AWS Lambda
10 113 (8.57%) Amazon S3
11 90 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
12 88 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
13 83 (6.29%) PaaS
14 82 (6.22%) Amazon ECS
15 80 (6.07%) Microsoft 365
16 74 (5.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 69 (5.23%) Azure AKS
17 69 (5.23%) Cloud Computing
18 67 (5.08%) SaaS
19 60 (4.55%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 97 (7.35%) Firewall
2 88 (6.67%) WAN
3 81 (6.14%) VPN
4 74 (5.61%) LAN
5 70 (5.31%) DNS
6 40 (3.03%) Network Security
7 39 (2.96%) TCP/IP
8 35 (2.65%) DHCP
9 24 (1.82%) BGP
10 16 (1.21%) VLAN
11 15 (1.14%) SD-WAN
11 15 (1.14%) Software-Defined Networking
12 13 (0.99%) OSPF
13 12 (0.91%) SAN
14 10 (0.76%) Broadband
14 10 (0.76%) Ethernet VPN
14 10 (0.76%) Wireless
15 8 (0.61%) HTTP
16 7 (0.53%) AMQP
16 7 (0.53%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (6.97%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (4.70%) NoSQL
3 59 (4.47%) Amazon RDS
4 56 (4.25%) MongoDB
5 49 (3.71%) DynamoDB
6 46 (3.49%) SQL Server
7 45 (3.41%) MySQL
8 36 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
8 36 (2.73%) Relational Database
9 32 (2.43%) Data Lake
10 29 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
11 21 (1.59%) Big Data
12 18 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
12 18 (1.36%) Redis
13 16 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
13 16 (1.21%) Metadata
14 15 (1.14%) Hadoop
14 15 (1.14%) Power BI
15 14 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (0.91%) Flink
Development Applications
1 208 (15.77%) Git
2 147 (11.14%) GitLab
3 133 (10.08%) Jenkins
4 43 (3.26%) JIRA
5 18 (1.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 18 (1.36%) SonarQube
6 15 (1.14%) Cypress.io
7 13 (0.99%) Selenium
8 12 (0.91%) Bitbucket
9 10 (0.76%) Cucumber
9 10 (0.76%) NUnit
10 9 (0.68%) MSI
11 8 (0.61%) Artifactory
11 8 (0.61%) Terragrunt
12 7 (0.53%) Robot Framework
12 7 (0.53%) Subversion
13 6 (0.45%) Claude Code
13 6 (0.45%) git-flow
13 6 (0.45%) TestRail
14 5 (0.38%) Snyk
General
1 396 (30.02%) Social Skills
2 233 (17.66%) Finance
3 151 (11.45%) Public Sector
4 98 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
5 93 (7.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 79 (5.99%) Law
7 69 (5.23%) Presentation Skills
8 51 (3.87%) Aerospace
9 27 (2.05%) Banking
9 27 (2.05%) Retail
10 24 (1.82%) Manufacturing
11 19 (1.44%) Marketing
12 16 (1.21%) Legal
13 14 (1.06%) Telecoms
14 13 (0.99%) Aviation
14 13 (0.99%) Local Government
15 12 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (0.83%) Military
17 10 (0.76%) Games
18 9 (0.68%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 272 (20.62%) Senior
2 266 (20.17%) DevOps Engineer
3 215 (16.30%) Lead
4 166 (12.59%) Architect
5 165 (12.51%) Cloud Engineer
6 132 (10.01%) Platform Engineer
7 129 (9.78%) Developer
8 108 (8.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 103 (7.81%) Azure Engineer
10 89 (6.75%) Software Engineer
11 71 (5.38%) Data Engineer
12 65 (4.93%) AWS Engineer
13 63 (4.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 62 (4.70%) Systems Architect
15 56 (4.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 49 (3.71%) Senior DevOps
17 47 (3.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 46 (3.49%) Technical Leader
19 45 (3.41%) Lead DevOps
19 45 (3.41%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 890 (67.48%) Terraform
2 130 (9.86%) React
3 95 (7.20%) .NET
3 95 (7.20%) Node.js
3 95 (7.20%) REST
4 94 (7.13%) Spring Boot
5 91 (6.90%) Spring
6 75 (5.69%) Kafka
7 69 (5.23%) RESTful
8 54 (4.09%) AWS CDK
9 51 (3.87%) ARM Templates
10 48 (3.64%) AngularJS
11 40 (3.03%) PySpark
12 37 (2.81%) YAML
13 36 (2.73%) RabbitMQ
14 35 (2.65%) CSS
14 35 (2.65%) Next.js
14 35 (2.65%) Vue
15 32 (2.43%) ASP.NET
15 32 (2.43%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 345 (26.16%) Cloud Native
2 104 (7.88%) Distributed Systems
3 92 (6.97%) Hybrid Cloud
4 72 (5.46%) Onboarding
5 62 (4.70%) Product Ownership
6 47 (3.56%) Public Cloud
7 45 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
8 39 (2.96%) Data Centre
9 37 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
9 37 (2.81%) Security Posture
10 36 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
11 33 (2.50%) Private Cloud
12 27 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
13 25 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
14 24 (1.82%) Data Structures
14 24 (1.82%) Virtual Team
15 19 (1.44%) Management Information System
16 16 (1.21%) Mainframe
17 14 (1.06%) AI Agents
17 14 (1.06%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 251 (19.03%) Linux
2 129 (9.78%) Windows
3 59 (4.47%) Windows Server
4 37 (2.81%) CentOS
5 34 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 30 (2.27%) Unix
7 26 (1.97%) Ubuntu
8 15 (1.14%) VMS
9 7 (0.53%) Debian
10 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.23%) AIX
13 2 (0.15%) Rocky
13 2 (0.15%) Solaris
14 1 (0.076%) Android
14 1 (0.076%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.076%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 948 (71.87%) CI/CD
2 755 (57.24%) DevOps
3 449 (34.04%) Containerisation
4 444 (33.66%) Agile
5 376 (28.51%) Observability
6 326 (24.72%) Platform Engineering
7 312 (23.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 304 (23.05%) Mentoring
9 298 (22.59%) Problem-Solving
10 274 (20.77%) Software Engineering
11 257 (19.48%) AI
12 236 (17.89%) Technical Leadership
13 224 (16.98%) Microservices
14 211 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 186 (14.10%) Test Automation
16 177 (13.42%) Cloud Security
17 173 (13.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 169 (12.81%) Roadmaps
19 148 (11.22%) DevSecOps
20 137 (10.39%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 537 (40.71%) Python
2 230 (17.44%) Bash
3 190 (14.40%) Java
3 190 (14.40%) PowerShell
4 187 (14.18%) SQL
5 136 (10.31%) TypeScript
6 134 (10.16%) Bicep
7 112 (8.49%) JavaScript
8 89 (6.75%) C#
9 64 (4.85%) Go
10 24 (1.82%) Groovy
11 23 (1.74%) Ruby
12 20 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
13 18 (1.36%) Rust
14 17 (1.29%) Shell Script
15 15 (1.14%) PHP
16 11 (0.83%) Scala
17 7 (0.53%) Search Processing Language
18 6 (0.45%) COBOL
19 5 (0.38%) C++
Qualifications
1 400 (30.33%) Security Cleared
2 256 (19.41%) SC Cleared
3 164 (12.43%) DV Cleared
4 99 (7.51%) Degree
5 79 (5.99%) Azure Certification
6 67 (5.08%) AWS Certification
7 44 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 32 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 28 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
12 15 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.83%) CCNA
14 10 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 7 (0.53%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.53%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.45%) CCNP
16 6 (0.45%) ICAEW
16 6 (0.45%) Master's Degree
16 6 (0.45%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (6.14%) QA
2 62 (4.70%) GRC
3 49 (3.71%) Data Quality
4 39 (2.96%) Accessibility
5 26 (1.97%) NCSC
6 25 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.59%) WCAG
8 18 (1.36%) NIST
9 16 (1.21%) GDPR
10 15 (1.14%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.76%) SLA
12 9 (0.68%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.15%) IFRS
14 2 (0.15%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.15%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.076%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 1 (0.076%) HIPAA
System Software
1 393 (29.80%) Docker
2 85 (6.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 80 (6.07%) Active Directory
4 32 (2.43%) vSphere
5 26 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (1.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (1.36%) Hyper-V
8 12 (0.91%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.45%) Firmware
10 5 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.30%) KVM
11 4 (0.30%) Squid
12 3 (0.23%) iptables
12 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.15%) Lustre
14 1 (0.076%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 517 (39.20%) Kubernetes
2 281 (21.30%) Ansible
3 115 (8.72%) Grafana
4 95 (7.20%) Prometheus
5 47 (3.56%) Puppet
6 42 (3.18%) Argo
7 33 (2.50%) Progress Chef
8 22 (1.67%) Istio
9 16 (1.21%) Packer
10 14 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (1.06%) vCenter Server
11 13 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (0.91%) Podman
13 10 (0.76%) Kibana
13 10 (0.76%) Kustomize
13 10 (0.76%) Rancher
14 8 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
14 8 (0.61%) linkerd
14 8 (0.61%) logstash
14 8 (0.61%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 309 (23.43%) Microsoft
2 98 (7.43%) VMware
3 71 (5.38%) Google
4 54 (4.09%) Red Hat
5 52 (3.94%) Splunk
6 50 (3.79%) Databricks
7 30 (2.27%) Oracle
8 28 (2.12%) Cisco
9 15 (1.14%) OpenAI
10 14 (1.06%) Fortinet
10 14 (1.06%) ServiceNow
11 13 (0.99%) Atlassian
12 12 (0.91%) New Relic
12 12 (0.91%) ScienceLogic
13 10 (0.76%) F5
13 10 (0.76%) Palo Alto
14 9 (0.68%) Meraki
15 8 (0.61%) IBM
16 7 (0.53%) HubSpot
16 7 (0.53%) SAP