Infrastructure as Code Jobs in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 245 206 131
Rank change year-on-year -39 -75 -1
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 472 1,014 1,593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.20% 1.36% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.65% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 274 774 862
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £44,354
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -6.40% +15.75%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,769 £87,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% -6.67% +7.14%

All Process and 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 36,483 61,419 55,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.65% 82.37% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 17,392 42,187 28,711
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London

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 30 May 2025.

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 30 May 2025. 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 -65 157 £70,000 +11.50% 1,319
South East +41 127 £75,000 +11.11% 1,710
North West -77 95 £72,500 +14.17% 634
South West +5 54 £71,991 +2.01% 703
Yorkshire +8 52 £68,000 +13.33% 533
East of England +50 49 £65,000 -3.70% 838
Midlands -17 44 £70,000 +7.27% 1,038
Scotland +74 36 £75,360 +6.78% 248
West Midlands -20 29 £70,000 - 559
East Midlands +16 15 £65,000 +13.04% 408
North East +10 10 £65,000 +3.53% 154
Wales +37 6 £57,500 -4.17% 151
Isle of Man +13 2 £34,500 -
Northern Ireland +35 1 - - 79
Infrastructure as Code
UK

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (3.60%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.33%) Apache
4 10 (2.12%) Confluence
5 6 (1.27%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.06%) Appian
7 4 (0.85%) IBM Domino
8 3 (0.64%) CMS
8 3 (0.64%) nginx
8 3 (0.64%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.42%) Luigi
9 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.21%) CICS
10 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.21%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.42%) Simulink
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 1 (0.21%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 282 (59.75%) AWS
2 223 (47.25%) Azure
3 89 (18.86%) GCP
4 77 (16.31%) Azure DevOps
5 70 (14.83%) Pulumi
6 56 (11.86%) GitHub
7 54 (11.44%) SaaS
8 50 (10.59%) Serverless
9 44 (9.32%) PaaS
10 36 (7.63%) IaaS
11 35 (7.42%) AWS CloudFormation
12 34 (7.20%) AWS Lambda
13 33 (6.99%) Entra ID
14 31 (6.57%) Power Platform
15 28 (5.93%) Azure Monitor
16 27 (5.72%) Amazon S3
17 26 (5.51%) Amazon EC2
18 22 (4.66%) Azure Key Vault
18 22 (4.66%) Power Automate
19 21 (4.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 65 (13.77%) Broadband
2 40 (8.47%) VPN
3 37 (7.84%) DNS
4 36 (7.63%) Firewall
5 29 (6.14%) WAN
6 15 (3.18%) SD-WAN
7 12 (2.54%) LAN
8 11 (2.33%) 5G
8 11 (2.33%) Bluetooth
8 11 (2.33%) LTE
8 11 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (1.27%) Network Security
10 5 (1.06%) Internet
10 5 (1.06%) IPv4
10 5 (1.06%) SAN
11 4 (0.85%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.85%) VLAN
12 3 (0.64%) DHCP
13 2 (0.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 2 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (19.92%) NoSQL
2 71 (15.04%) Relational Database
3 66 (13.98%) RDBMS
4 32 (6.78%) MySQL
5 30 (6.36%) Data Lake
6 25 (5.30%) SQL Server
7 21 (4.45%) Power BI
8 16 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (2.75%) Big Data
11 12 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (2.33%) Hadoop
13 9 (1.91%) BigQuery
14 8 (1.69%) Tableau
15 7 (1.48%) DynamoDB
16 6 (1.27%) MongoDB
17 4 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
17 4 (0.85%) Qlik Sense
18 3 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
18 3 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 70 (14.83%) Jenkins
2 65 (13.77%) Jaeger
3 61 (12.92%) Git
4 27 (5.72%) GitLab
5 15 (3.18%) SonarQube
6 14 (2.97%) TeamCity
7 12 (2.54%) JIRA
8 10 (2.12%) JUnit
9 9 (1.91%) CircleCI
9 9 (1.91%) Maven
9 9 (1.91%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (1.27%) Robot Framework
10 6 (1.27%) Selenium
10 6 (1.27%) Snyk
11 4 (0.85%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.85%) Subversion
12 3 (0.64%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.64%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.42%) Storybook
General
1 112 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 101 (21.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 75 (15.89%) Finance
4 32 (6.78%) Banking
5 29 (6.14%) Law
6 22 (4.66%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (3.39%) Telecoms
8 15 (3.18%) Electronics
9 14 (2.97%) Public Sector
10 11 (2.33%) Automotive
11 8 (1.69%) Advertising
12 5 (1.06%) Marketing
13 4 (0.85%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.85%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.64%) Games
14 3 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.64%) Retail
15 2 (0.42%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.42%) Local Government
15 2 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 135 (28.60%) Lead
2 86 (18.22%) Senior
3 79 (16.74%) Cloud Engineer
4 69 (14.62%) DevOps Engineer
5 67 (14.19%) Team Leader
6 40 (8.47%) Architect
7 38 (8.05%) Software Engineer
8 37 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 34 (7.20%) Azure Engineer
10 31 (6.57%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 28 (5.93%) Developer
12 23 (4.87%) Cloud Architect
12 23 (4.87%) Platform Engineer
13 22 (4.66%) AWS Engineer
14 17 (3.60%) Senior Software Engineer
15 15 (3.18%) Senior DevOps
15 15 (3.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 13 (2.75%) AWS DevOps
16 13 (2.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 12 (2.54%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (16.74%) Elastic Stack
2 67 (14.19%) OpenTelemetry
3 32 (6.78%) React
4 31 (6.57%) .NET
5 29 (6.14%) Kafka
6 24 (5.08%) Node.js
6 24 (5.08%) REST
7 20 (4.24%) ARM Templates
8 17 (3.60%) Spring
8 17 (3.60%) Spring Boot
9 16 (3.39%) RESTful
10 14 (2.97%) YAML
11 11 (2.33%) SOAP
12 10 (2.12%) AngularJS
12 10 (2.12%) Web Services
13 9 (1.91%) .NET Core
13 9 (1.91%) GraphQL
13 9 (1.91%) Hibernate
14 8 (1.69%) ADO
15 7 (1.48%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 61 (12.92%) Cloud Native
2 41 (8.69%) Public Cloud
3 39 (8.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 26 (5.51%) Product Ownership
5 21 (4.45%) Data Centre
6 20 (4.24%) Management Information System
7 18 (3.81%) IoT
8 17 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (3.60%) Private Cloud
9 15 (3.18%) NHS
10 13 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (2.33%) NB-IoT
12 10 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.69%) Security Posture
14 7 (1.48%) PKI
14 7 (1.48%) Virtual Team
15 6 (1.27%) Data Structures
15 6 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
16 5 (1.06%) Algorithms
16 5 (1.06%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 167 (35.38%) Linux
2 77 (16.31%) Unix
3 53 (11.23%) Windows
4 25 (5.30%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.85%) Debian
6 4 (0.85%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.64%) Android
7 3 (0.64%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.64%) VMS
8 2 (0.42%) CentOS
9 1 (0.21%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (67.16%) DevOps
2 250 (52.97%) CI/CD
3 190 (40.25%) Agile
4 140 (29.66%) Containerisation
5 138 (29.24%) Roadmaps
6 119 (25.21%) Mentoring
7 104 (22.03%) High Availability
8 96 (20.34%) Continuous Integration
9 82 (17.37%) Task Automation
10 78 (16.53%) Software Engineering
11 77 (16.31%) Performance Optimisation
12 72 (15.25%) GitOps
13 71 (15.04%) Cost Optimisation
14 70 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
15 69 (14.62%) Resource Management
16 67 (14.19%) Microservices
17 66 (13.98%) Product Management
18 65 (13.77%) Budget Control
19 63 (13.35%) Platform Engineering
20 61 (12.92%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 239 (50.64%) Python
2 129 (27.33%) Bash
3 118 (25.00%) Java
3 118 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 93 (19.70%) Go
5 91 (19.28%) PowerShell
6 87 (18.43%) SQL
7 39 (8.26%) Bicep
8 33 (6.99%) C#
9 29 (6.14%) TypeScript
10 14 (2.97%) Ruby
11 9 (1.91%) R
12 8 (1.69%) PHP
13 4 (0.85%) Julia
13 4 (0.85%) Perl
13 4 (0.85%) VBA
14 3 (0.64%) C
14 3 (0.64%) Rust
14 3 (0.64%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.42%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 97 (20.55%) AWS Certification
2 57 (12.08%) Azure Certification
3 54 (11.44%) Security Cleared
4 51 (10.81%) Degree
5 33 (6.99%) SC Cleared
6 26 (5.51%) DV Cleared
7 22 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.97%) DBS Check
9 11 (2.33%) CompTIA Security+
9 11 (2.33%) Master's Degree
9 11 (2.33%) Network+ Certification
10 7 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.85%) CCNA
12 4 (0.85%) CCNP
13 3 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (0.42%) CISSP
14 2 (0.42%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.03%) GDPR
2 13 (2.75%) QA
3 9 (1.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (1.48%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.48%) HIPAA
4 7 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.48%) SOC 2
5 5 (1.06%) NIST
6 2 (0.42%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 172 (36.44%) Docker
2 43 (9.11%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (6.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (3.81%) vSphere
5 12 (2.54%) Active Directory
6 10 (2.12%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.64%) LXC
8 2 (0.42%) HDFS
9 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 344 (72.88%) Terraform
2 200 (42.37%) Kubernetes
3 176 (37.29%) Ansible
4 90 (19.07%) Prometheus
5 71 (15.04%) Argo
6 65 (13.77%) Kustomize
7 32 (6.78%) Grafana
8 31 (6.57%) Puppet
9 18 (3.81%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (2.54%) Progress Chef
11 10 (2.12%) Istio
12 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.85%) Kibana
14 3 (0.64%) vCenter Server
15 2 (0.42%) Graylog
15 2 (0.42%) Hadoop YARN
15 2 (0.42%) Podman
15 2 (0.42%) Proxmox
15 2 (0.42%) Rancher
Vendors
1 94 (19.92%) Google
2 80 (16.95%) Microsoft
3 41 (8.69%) VMware
4 30 (6.36%) Databricks
5 16 (3.39%) Cisco
6 14 (2.97%) Meraki
7 13 (2.75%) Fortinet
8 11 (2.33%) Aruba
8 11 (2.33%) Atlassian
8 11 (2.33%) Mellanox
8 11 (2.33%) NVIDIA
8 11 (2.33%) Palo Alto
9 10 (2.12%) Splunk
10 9 (1.91%) Oracle
11 8 (1.69%) IBM
12 7 (1.48%) UiPath
13 5 (1.06%) BiZZdesign
13 5 (1.06%) Black Duck
13 5 (1.06%) Salesforce
13 5 (1.06%) ServiceNow