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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 168 189
Rank change year-on-year +10 +21 -41
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 700 437 1,001
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.13% 1.68% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.84% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 503 327 761
10th Percentile £46,446 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 £88,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -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 44,972 23,726 55,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 72.73% 91.23% 84.41%
Number of salaries quoted 27,377 13,696 40,514
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £37,505 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,751 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.54%

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 15 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 15 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 -20 257 £67,500 - 144
South East -8 145 £71,250 -5.00% 118
North West -2 130 £74,051 +2.14% 73
South West -20 100 £62,500 -13.18% 78
Yorkshire -21 94 £65,000 +8.33% 44
Midlands -2 82 £67,500 -3.57% 44
Scotland -9 55 £60,000 -14.89% 20
East Midlands -14 42 £67,500 +3.85% 12
West Midlands -14 38 £66,500 -5.00% 32
East of England -5 33 £62,500 -9.09% 38
North East -10 33 £48,445 -15.01% 27
Wales -7 23 £61,248 -3.17% 9
Northern Ireland -35 8 £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 12 (1.71%) IIS
2 11 (1.57%) Apache
3 10 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.29%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.86%) Confluence
6 3 (0.43%) CMS
7 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 428 (61.14%) AWS
2 397 (56.71%) Azure
3 184 (26.29%) Azure DevOps
4 164 (23.43%) GitHub
5 153 (21.86%) Serverless
6 135 (19.29%) GCP
7 124 (17.71%) GitHub Actions
8 111 (15.86%) AWS CloudFormation
9 90 (12.86%) AWS Lambda
10 74 (10.57%) Amazon S3
11 73 (10.43%) Amazon EKS
12 58 (8.29%) PaaS
13 52 (7.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 50 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
15 46 (6.57%) dbt
15 46 (6.57%) Entra ID
16 43 (6.14%) Amazon EC2
16 43 (6.14%) SaaS
17 40 (5.71%) Datadog
18 38 (5.43%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 96 (13.71%) Firewall
2 52 (7.43%) DNS
3 48 (6.86%) TCP/IP
4 27 (3.86%) VPN
5 19 (2.71%) HTTP
6 18 (2.57%) Network Security
7 15 (2.14%) DHCP
8 14 (2.00%) Cisco ASA
9 11 (1.57%) WAN
10 10 (1.43%) Broadband
11 9 (1.29%) LAN
11 9 (1.29%) VLAN
12 7 (1.00%) BGP
12 7 (1.00%) Internet
13 6 (0.86%) AMQP
14 5 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
14 5 (0.71%) SAN
14 5 (0.71%) Unified Communications
14 5 (0.71%) WebEx
15 4 (0.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (9.14%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (7.71%) Amazon RDS
3 39 (5.57%) NoSQL
4 35 (5.00%) DynamoDB
4 35 (5.00%) SQL Server
5 25 (3.57%) MongoDB
6 23 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (2.71%) Redis
8 18 (2.57%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (2.00%) MySQL
10 10 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (1.29%) BigQuery
11 9 (1.29%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.29%) Spark SQL
12 8 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (1.00%) Big Data
13 7 (1.00%) InfluxDB
14 6 (0.86%) Cloudera CDH
14 6 (0.86%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.86%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 108 (15.43%) Git
2 92 (13.14%) Jenkins
3 73 (10.43%) GitLab
4 20 (2.86%) JIRA
5 17 (2.43%) Cucumber
6 15 (2.14%) Bitbucket
6 15 (2.14%) Selenium
7 13 (1.86%) Robot Framework
8 11 (1.57%) JMeter
9 10 (1.43%) Locust
10 8 (1.14%) Snyk
10 8 (1.14%) SonarQube
11 7 (1.00%) CircleCI
11 7 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
11 7 (1.00%) Subversion
12 6 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.86%) NUnit
13 5 (0.71%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.71%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.71%) TestRail
General
1 183 (26.14%) Social Skills
2 104 (14.86%) Finance
3 70 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 39 (5.57%) Telecoms
6 28 (4.00%) Law
6 28 (4.00%) Retail
7 24 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (2.57%) Aerospace
9 17 (2.43%) Banking
9 17 (2.43%) Billing
9 17 (2.43%) Games
10 15 (2.14%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.86%) Marketing
12 11 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.14%) Advertising
15 7 (1.00%) Electronics
16 5 (0.71%) Legal
16 5 (0.71%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 166 (23.71%) Senior
2 124 (17.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 119 (17.00%) Lead
4 93 (13.29%) Cloud Engineer
5 83 (11.86%) Azure Engineer
6 74 (10.57%) Developer
7 47 (6.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 47 (6.71%) Software Engineer
8 46 (6.57%) Platform Engineer
9 32 (4.57%) Architect
10 30 (4.29%) Senior DevOps
11 28 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
11 28 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 25 (3.57%) Data Engineer
13 23 (3.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 23 (3.29%) Lead DevOps
14 22 (3.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 20 (2.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 18 (2.57%) Full-Stack Developer
16 18 (2.57%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (13.71%) React
2 71 (10.14%) Node.js
3 59 (8.43%) .NET
4 52 (7.43%) RESTful
5 51 (7.29%) REST
6 43 (6.14%) AWS CDK
7 40 (5.71%) YAML
8 37 (5.29%) ARM Templates
8 37 (5.29%) Django
9 36 (5.14%) OAuth
10 34 (4.86%) Elastic Stack
11 26 (3.71%) Spring
12 25 (3.57%) ASP.NET
12 25 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
13 23 (3.29%) ASP.NET Core
13 23 (3.29%) JSON
14 22 (3.14%) FastAPI
14 22 (3.14%) Vue
15 21 (3.00%) GraphQL
15 21 (3.00%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 130 (18.57%) Cloud Native
2 40 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 40 (5.71%) Product Ownership
3 37 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (2.71%) Public Cloud
5 17 (2.43%) Linux Command Line
6 15 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
6 15 (2.14%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.86%) Data Structures
7 13 (1.86%) Security Posture
8 12 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (1.57%) Legacy Applications
9 11 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.43%) Mobile App
11 9 (1.29%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.29%) Private Cloud
12 8 (1.14%) Replication
12 8 (1.14%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 156 (22.29%) Linux
2 67 (9.57%) Windows
3 28 (4.00%) Windows Server
4 26 (3.71%) Unix
5 17 (2.43%) Ubuntu
6 12 (1.71%) CentOS
7 10 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (1.43%) VMS
8 8 (1.14%) Debian
9 6 (0.86%) Android
9 6 (0.86%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 511 (73.00%) CI/CD
2 480 (68.57%) DevOps
3 252 (36.00%) Agile
4 195 (27.86%) Containerisation
4 195 (27.86%) Observability
5 171 (24.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 165 (23.57%) Problem-Solving
7 148 (21.14%) Mentoring
8 130 (18.57%) Test Automation
9 115 (16.43%) Platform Engineering
10 106 (15.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 106 (15.14%) Software Engineering
11 103 (14.71%) Microservices
12 94 (13.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 80 (11.43%) Deployment Automation
14 77 (11.00%) Incident Response
15 72 (10.29%) AI
16 71 (10.14%) Cloud Security
17 69 (9.86%) DevSecOps
18 67 (9.57%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 308 (44.00%) Python
2 146 (20.86%) PowerShell
3 141 (20.14%) Bash
4 118 (16.86%) SQL
5 82 (11.71%) Java
6 81 (11.57%) TypeScript
7 74 (10.57%) Bicep
8 69 (9.86%) JavaScript
9 56 (8.00%) Go
10 48 (6.86%) C#
11 12 (1.71%) C
12 9 (1.29%) C++
13 8 (1.14%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.86%) Groovy
14 6 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.71%) Perl
16 4 (0.57%) Ruby
17 3 (0.43%) Scala
17 3 (0.43%) Shell Script
18 2 (0.29%) Rust
Qualifications
1 126 (18.00%) Security Cleared
2 77 (11.00%) SC Cleared
3 51 (7.29%) DV Cleared
4 41 (5.86%) Degree
5 35 (5.00%) AWS Certification
6 26 (3.71%) Azure Certification
7 19 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (2.14%) AWS Certified Developer
9 10 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.43%) DBS Check
9 10 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.71%) CISSP
11 4 (0.57%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.57%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.43%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (6.29%) QA
2 25 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 25 (3.57%) GDPR
3 14 (2.00%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.86%) WCAG
5 11 (1.57%) NIST
6 8 (1.14%) SOC 2
7 6 (0.86%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.57%) NCSC
10 3 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.43%) GRC
11 2 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 216 (30.86%) Docker
2 36 (5.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (4.29%) Active Directory
4 17 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (2.14%) vSphere
6 9 (1.29%) VMware NSX
7 8 (1.14%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.86%) iptables
9 5 (0.71%) Firmware
9 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 5 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.14%) KVM
11 1 (0.14%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 498 (71.14%) Terraform
2 243 (34.71%) Kubernetes
3 162 (23.14%) Ansible
4 108 (15.43%) Grafana
5 81 (11.57%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.86%) Puppet
7 17 (2.43%) Argo
8 11 (1.57%) Rancher
9 10 (1.43%) Progress Chef
10 9 (1.29%) Nagios
11 8 (1.14%) AWS Copilot
11 8 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (1.14%) Proxmox
12 7 (1.00%) Packer
12 7 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (1.00%) vCenter Server
12 7 (1.00%) yum
13 5 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.71%) Cisco CUCM
14 4 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 131 (18.71%) Microsoft
2 52 (7.43%) VMware
3 43 (6.14%) Google
4 29 (4.14%) Red Hat
5 25 (3.57%) Cisco
6 22 (3.14%) Splunk
7 17 (2.43%) Databricks
8 15 (2.14%) CrowdStrike
8 15 (2.14%) Palo Alto
9 14 (2.00%) Dynatrace
10 10 (1.43%) Ab Initio
11 9 (1.29%) Salesforce
12 8 (1.14%) Black Duck
12 8 (1.14%) Coverity
12 8 (1.14%) Fortinet
13 7 (1.00%) F5
13 7 (1.00%) Juniper
13 7 (1.00%) SaltStack
14 6 (0.86%) AppDynamics
14 6 (0.86%) Dell