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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 168 188
Rank change year-on-year +12 +20 -40
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 674 448 964
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.18% 1.73% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 1.89% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 497 343 734
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £51,375 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,400 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,360 £72,500
% change year-on-year -0.48% +3.94% -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 42,159 23,665 53,659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 73.81% 91.40% 84.92%
Number of salaries quoted 25,612 13,580 39,288
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

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 April 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 April 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 -16 244 £67,500 - 159
South East 0 147 £70,000 -3.45% 123
North West -13 114 £72,500 - 84
Yorkshire -11 98 £65,000 +18.18% 47
South West -13 94 £62,500 -13.18% 88
Midlands -5 72 £67,500 +3.85% 47
Scotland -6 54 £60,000 -14.89% 22
East Midlands -15 36 £67,500 +3.85% 6
East of England -7 34 £62,500 -12.28% 35
West Midlands -18 34 £65,250 -6.79% 41
North East -9 32 £48,445 -15.75% 28
Wales -10 21 £68,500 +14.17% 12
Northern Ireland -28 11 £95,000 - 7
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 11 (1.63%) Apache
1 11 (1.63%) IIS
2 9 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.19%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.04%) Confluence
5 3 (0.45%) CMS
5 3 (0.45%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.15%) Appian
7 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 428 (63.50%) AWS
2 390 (57.86%) Azure
3 181 (26.85%) Azure DevOps
4 162 (24.04%) GitHub
5 150 (22.26%) Serverless
6 135 (20.03%) GCP
7 118 (17.51%) GitHub Actions
8 108 (16.02%) AWS CloudFormation
9 85 (12.61%) AWS Lambda
10 73 (10.83%) Amazon S3
11 67 (9.94%) Amazon EKS
12 62 (9.20%) PaaS
13 53 (7.86%) Amazon ECS
14 51 (7.57%) dbt
15 47 (6.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 44 (6.53%) SaaS
17 43 (6.38%) Entra ID
18 39 (5.79%) Amazon EC2
19 34 (5.04%) Datadog
20 33 (4.90%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 91 (13.50%) Firewall
2 55 (8.16%) DNS
3 53 (7.86%) TCP/IP
4 26 (3.86%) VPN
5 19 (2.82%) HTTP
5 19 (2.82%) Network Security
6 14 (2.08%) Cisco ASA
7 13 (1.93%) DHCP
8 11 (1.63%) WAN
9 10 (1.48%) Broadband
9 10 (1.48%) VLAN
10 9 (1.34%) LAN
11 7 (1.04%) BGP
11 7 (1.04%) Internet
12 5 (0.74%) AMQP
12 5 (0.74%) Cisco Firepower
12 5 (0.74%) SAN
12 5 (0.74%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.74%) WebEx
13 4 (0.59%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (10.24%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (8.31%) Amazon RDS
3 38 (5.64%) NoSQL
4 35 (5.19%) SQL Server
5 32 (4.75%) DynamoDB
6 26 (3.86%) Redis
7 23 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
7 23 (3.41%) MongoDB
8 18 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (1.93%) MySQL
10 9 (1.34%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (1.04%) Spark SQL
13 6 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (0.89%) Big Data
13 6 (0.89%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.89%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.89%) InfluxDB
13 6 (0.89%) Metadata
14 5 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 106 (15.73%) Git
2 90 (13.35%) Jenkins
3 70 (10.39%) GitLab
4 22 (3.26%) Selenium
5 20 (2.97%) JIRA
5 20 (2.97%) Robot Framework
6 17 (2.52%) Cucumber
7 16 (2.37%) Snyk
8 14 (2.08%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.63%) JMeter
10 10 (1.48%) Locust
11 8 (1.19%) CircleCI
11 8 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
12 7 (1.04%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.89%) NUnit
13 6 (0.89%) Subversion
14 5 (0.74%) Artifactory
14 5 (0.74%) git-flow
14 5 (0.74%) TeamCity
General
1 184 (27.30%) Social Skills
2 100 (14.84%) Finance
3 73 (10.83%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (7.12%) Public Sector
5 41 (6.08%) Telecoms
6 31 (4.60%) Law
7 26 (3.86%) Retail
8 23 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (2.67%) Manufacturing
10 17 (2.52%) Billing
10 17 (2.52%) Games
11 16 (2.37%) Marketing
12 15 (2.23%) Aerospace
12 15 (2.23%) Banking
13 10 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.34%) Electronics
14 9 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.19%) Advertising
16 7 (1.04%) Legal
17 5 (0.74%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 159 (23.59%) Senior
2 119 (17.66%) DevOps Engineer
3 105 (15.58%) Lead
4 83 (12.31%) Cloud Engineer
5 82 (12.17%) Developer
6 76 (11.28%) Azure Engineer
7 52 (7.72%) Platform Engineer
8 42 (6.23%) Software Engineer
9 38 (5.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 36 (5.34%) Architect
11 28 (4.15%) AWS Engineer
12 25 (3.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 25 (3.71%) Senior DevOps
13 22 (3.26%) Full-Stack Developer
13 22 (3.26%) Lead DevOps
14 21 (3.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 21 (3.12%) Python Developer
15 20 (2.97%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 20 (2.97%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 19 (2.82%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (14.54%) React
2 66 (9.79%) Node.js
3 56 (8.31%) .NET
4 51 (7.57%) REST
4 51 (7.57%) RESTful
5 45 (6.68%) Django
6 41 (6.08%) AWS CDK
7 40 (5.93%) YAML
8 36 (5.34%) OAuth
9 35 (5.19%) Elastic Stack
10 30 (4.45%) ARM Templates
11 26 (3.86%) Vue
12 25 (3.71%) CSS
12 25 (3.71%) FastAPI
12 25 (3.71%) HTML
12 25 (3.71%) JSON
12 25 (3.71%) RabbitMQ
12 25 (3.71%) Spring
13 24 (3.56%) ASP.NET
14 23 (3.41%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 125 (18.55%) Cloud Native
2 40 (5.93%) Product Ownership
3 34 (5.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 31 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (3.12%) Linux Command Line
6 19 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
8 15 (2.23%) Data Structures
8 15 (2.23%) Onboarding
8 15 (2.23%) Public Cloud
9 14 (2.08%) Security Posture
10 12 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
12 10 (1.48%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.34%) Data Centre
13 9 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (1.19%) Private Cloud
14 8 (1.19%) Video\Live Streaming
15 7 (1.04%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 157 (23.29%) Linux
2 66 (9.79%) Windows
3 31 (4.60%) Unix
4 26 (3.86%) Windows Server
5 16 (2.37%) Ubuntu
6 11 (1.63%) CentOS
7 10 (1.48%) VMS
8 9 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (1.04%) Debian
10 6 (0.89%) Android
10 6 (0.89%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 499 (74.04%) CI/CD
2 465 (68.99%) DevOps
3 252 (37.39%) Agile
4 180 (26.71%) Containerisation
5 178 (26.41%) Observability
6 165 (24.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 161 (23.89%) Problem-Solving
8 145 (21.51%) Mentoring
9 129 (19.14%) Test Automation
10 117 (17.36%) Platform Engineering
11 99 (14.69%) Software Engineering
12 96 (14.24%) Microservices
13 93 (13.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 90 (13.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 78 (11.57%) DevSecOps
16 74 (10.98%) Incident Response
17 70 (10.39%) Cloud Security
17 70 (10.39%) Deployment Automation
18 66 (9.79%) Scrum
19 64 (9.50%) AI
Programming Languages
1 292 (43.32%) Python
2 133 (19.73%) PowerShell
3 128 (18.99%) Bash
4 107 (15.88%) SQL
5 80 (11.87%) Java
6 79 (11.72%) TypeScript
7 73 (10.83%) Bicep
8 71 (10.53%) JavaScript
9 53 (7.86%) Go
10 48 (7.12%) C#
11 11 (1.63%) C
12 9 (1.34%) C++
13 8 (1.19%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.74%) Groovy
14 5 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.59%) Perl
15 4 (0.59%) Ruby
16 3 (0.45%) Scala
17 2 (0.30%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 131 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 77 (11.42%) SC Cleared
3 58 (8.61%) DV Cleared
4 38 (5.64%) Degree
5 35 (5.19%) AWS Certification
6 27 (4.01%) Azure Certification
7 17 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (2.23%) AWS Certified Developer
9 14 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 9 (1.34%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.74%) CISSP
12 5 (0.74%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.59%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.45%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.30%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (6.82%) QA
2 26 (3.86%) GDPR
3 25 (3.71%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.93%) WCAG
6 11 (1.63%) Data Quality
7 10 (1.48%) NIST
8 9 (1.34%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.74%) NCSC
9 5 (0.74%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.45%) GRC
10 3 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 213 (31.60%) Docker
2 33 (4.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (3.86%) Active Directory
4 16 (2.37%) vSphere
5 14 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (1.48%) VMware NSX
7 8 (1.19%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.74%) Firmware
8 5 (0.74%) iptables
8 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.15%) KVM
10 1 (0.15%) QEMU
10 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 472 (70.03%) Terraform
2 224 (33.23%) Kubernetes
3 160 (23.74%) Ansible
4 100 (14.84%) Grafana
5 75 (11.13%) Prometheus
6 17 (2.52%) Puppet
7 16 (2.37%) Argo
8 14 (2.08%) AWS Copilot
9 9 (1.34%) Nagios
9 9 (1.34%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.34%) Rancher
10 8 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (1.04%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.04%) vCenter Server
12 6 (0.89%) Packer
12 6 (0.89%) yum
13 5 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.74%) Cisco CUCM
14 4 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 121 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 51 (7.57%) VMware
3 49 (7.27%) Google
4 26 (3.86%) Cisco
4 26 (3.86%) Red Hat
5 23 (3.41%) Splunk
6 16 (2.37%) Black Duck
6 16 (2.37%) Coverity
6 16 (2.37%) Palo Alto
7 14 (2.08%) CrowdStrike
7 14 (2.08%) Databricks
8 13 (1.93%) Dynatrace
9 10 (1.48%) Ab Initio
10 9 (1.34%) Fortinet
10 9 (1.34%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.04%) F5
11 7 (1.04%) Juniper
12 6 (0.89%) Dell
12 6 (0.89%) SaltStack
12 6 (0.89%) SolarWinds