Infrastructure as Code Jobs

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Infrastructure as Code skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 176 102 89
Rank change year-on-year -74 -13 +27
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,719 3,084 6,590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.63% 3.25% 3.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% 3.41% 4.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,305 1,892 2,775
10th Percentile £48,250 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,101 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £88,750 £92,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £69,447 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.40% +15.75% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Infrastructure as Code is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,980 90,493 162,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.59% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,356 54,578 82,967
10th Percentile £29,284 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code.

Salary trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Top 19 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
England -62 1,538 £70,000 -6.67% 504
UK excluding London -76 1,023 £65,000 -6.40% 289
Work from Home -65 769 £70,000 -6.67% 285
London -45 592 £87,500 +9.38% 247
North of England -29 348 £62,783 -9.60% 65
North West -39 194 £64,250 -8.21% 37
South East -121 181 £67,000 -10.67% 60
South West -35 180 £70,000 +3.70% 55
Midlands +16 162 £67,500 -3.57% 52
West Midlands +17 117 £70,000 - 40
Yorkshire -19 108 £60,000 -11.11% 24
Scotland -95 78 £70,576 +10.71% 29
North East +9 48 £62,783 -3.41% 4
East of England -28 46 £67,500 +11.11% 21
East Midlands -15 45 £57,500 - 12
Wales -52 16 £60,000 -12.40% 5
Northern Ireland -1 9 £60,000 +9.09% 5
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 -

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 84 (4.89%) Apache Spark
2 79 (4.60%) Apache
3 44 (2.56%) Confluence
4 34 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 30 (1.75%) nginx
7 17 (0.99%) Cloud Foundry
8 16 (0.93%) Jupyter
9 10 (0.58%) SharePoint
10 8 (0.47%) Drupal
11 6 (0.35%) JBoss
12 5 (0.29%) CMS
12 5 (0.29%) IIS
12 5 (0.29%) WordPress
13 2 (0.12%) Liferay
13 2 (0.12%) Magnolia
13 2 (0.12%) Moodle
13 2 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
14 1 (0.058%) Apache Pulsar
14 1 (0.058%) OpenStack
Applications
1 20 (1.16%) Simulink
2 14 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.058%) Notion
6 1 (0.058%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.23%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.058%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.058%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,055 (61.37%) AWS
2 999 (58.12%) Azure
3 358 (20.83%) GCP
4 309 (17.98%) Azure DevOps
5 257 (14.95%) AWS CloudFormation
6 250 (14.54%) Serverless
7 206 (11.98%) GitHub
8 179 (10.41%) PaaS
9 172 (10.01%) Amazon S3
10 171 (9.95%) AWS Lambda
11 147 (8.55%) Amazon EC2
12 136 (7.91%) IaaS
13 128 (7.45%) SaaS
14 90 (5.24%) GitHub Actions
15 88 (5.12%) Cloud Computing
16 87 (5.06%) Amazon EKS
17 86 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 79 (4.60%) Entra ID
19 76 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
19 76 (4.42%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 141 (8.20%) Firewall
2 105 (6.11%) DNS
3 54 (3.14%) VPN
4 52 (3.03%) Network Security
5 39 (2.27%) WAN
6 34 (1.98%) DHCP
7 33 (1.92%) Internet
7 33 (1.92%) TCP/IP
8 29 (1.69%) AMQP
9 23 (1.34%) LAN
10 17 (0.99%) Kerberos
11 16 (0.93%) SSL
12 15 (0.87%) IPv4
13 14 (0.81%) HTTP
14 13 (0.76%) SD-WAN
15 12 (0.70%) Unified Communications
15 12 (0.70%) VSAN
16 10 (0.58%) OSPF
16 10 (0.58%) SNMP
16 10 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
2 95 (5.53%) MySQL
3 91 (5.29%) NoSQL
4 76 (4.42%) SQL Server
5 71 (4.13%) Big Data
6 51 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
7 50 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
8 49 (2.85%) MongoDB
9 47 (2.73%) Hadoop
10 46 (2.68%) Relational Database
11 44 (2.56%) DynamoDB
12 42 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
13 39 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
14 35 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
15 33 (1.92%) BigQuery
16 32 (1.86%) Amazon Aurora
17 29 (1.69%) Cloudera CDH
17 29 (1.69%) RDBMS
18 28 (1.63%) Presto
19 26 (1.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 265 (15.42%) Git
2 226 (13.15%) Jenkins
3 167 (9.71%) GitLab
4 73 (4.25%) JIRA
5 42 (2.44%) CircleCI
6 37 (2.15%) Bitbucket
7 31 (1.80%) TeamCity
8 30 (1.75%) Postman
9 29 (1.69%) SonarQube
10 24 (1.40%) Artifactory
10 24 (1.40%) Vagrant
11 18 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 17 (0.99%) Terragrunt
13 16 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
13 16 (0.93%) Subversion
14 15 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
15 14 (0.81%) Selenium
15 14 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
16 13 (0.76%) NUnit
17 12 (0.70%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 391 (22.75%) Social Skills
2 337 (19.60%) Finance
3 154 (8.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 132 (7.68%) Public Sector
5 94 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
6 86 (5.00%) Law
7 78 (4.54%) Banking
8 67 (3.90%) Retail
9 56 (3.26%) Marketing
10 54 (3.14%) Aerospace
11 50 (2.91%) Legal
12 28 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
13 24 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
14 23 (1.34%) Tech for Good
15 22 (1.28%) Telecoms
16 16 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
16 16 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
17 15 (0.87%) Electronics
17 15 (0.87%) Health Technology
18 13 (0.76%) Games
Job Titles
1 423 (24.61%) Senior
2 380 (22.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 273 (15.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 251 (14.60%) Lead
5 207 (12.04%) Architect
6 200 (11.63%) Software Engineer
7 175 (10.18%) AWS Engineer
8 162 (9.42%) Azure Engineer
9 145 (8.44%) Developer
10 132 (7.68%) Platform Engineer
11 124 (7.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 123 (7.16%) Senior DevOps
13 115 (6.69%) Cloud Architect
14 114 (6.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 92 (5.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 73 (4.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
17 67 (3.90%) Consultant
18 66 (3.84%) Full Stack Developer
19 65 (3.78%) AWS DevOps
20 64 (3.72%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (8.73%) React
2 136 (7.91%) Node.js
3 123 (7.16%) ARM Templates
4 100 (5.82%) .NET
5 82 (4.77%) Spring
6 72 (4.19%) REST
6 72 (4.19%) YAML
7 68 (3.96%) Elastic Stack
8 66 (3.84%) JSON
9 64 (3.72%) Spring Boot
10 63 (3.66%) Kafka
11 61 (3.55%) CSS
12 59 (3.43%) AngularJS
13 57 (3.32%) HTML
14 55 (3.20%) AWS CDK
15 51 (2.97%) RabbitMQ
16 49 (2.85%) Swagger
17 42 (2.44%) RESTful
18 38 (2.21%) OpenAPI
19 36 (2.09%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 255 (14.83%) Cloud Native
2 246 (14.31%) Public Cloud
3 91 (5.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 89 (5.18%) Data Centre
5 76 (4.42%) Private Cloud
6 62 (3.61%) Management Information System
7 60 (3.49%) Product Ownership
8 52 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
9 49 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
10 40 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
11 36 (2.09%) PKI
12 29 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
12 29 (1.69%) Virtual Team
13 26 (1.51%) Clustering
13 26 (1.51%) IoT
14 24 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
15 22 (1.28%) Blog
16 21 (1.22%) Onboarding
17 20 (1.16%) PropTech
17 20 (1.16%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 424 (24.67%) Linux
2 203 (11.81%) Windows
3 85 (4.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 70 (4.07%) Windows Server
5 57 (3.32%) Ubuntu
6 56 (3.26%) CentOS
7 29 (1.69%) Debian
8 28 (1.63%) Unix
9 25 (1.45%) Android
10 20 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
11 18 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
12 12 (0.70%) Oracle Linux
13 10 (0.58%) Solaris
14 9 (0.52%) Windows 10
15 8 (0.47%) VMS
16 7 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
16 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
17 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
18 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
19 1 (0.058%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,092 (63.53%) DevOps
2 889 (51.72%) CI/CD
3 677 (39.38%) Agile
4 414 (24.08%) Containerisation
5 368 (21.41%) Software Engineering
6 324 (18.85%) Problem-Solving
7 217 (12.62%) Microservices
8 209 (12.16%) Mentoring
9 207 (12.04%) Platform Engineering
10 201 (11.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 200 (11.63%) Scrum
12 191 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
13 174 (10.12%) Continuous Improvement
14 166 (9.66%) Migration
15 163 (9.48%) Computer Science
16 145 (8.44%) Configuration Management
17 138 (8.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 136 (7.91%) Roadmaps
19 131 (7.62%) Test Automation
20 128 (7.45%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 623 (36.24%) Python
2 308 (17.92%) PowerShell
3 305 (17.74%) Java
4 226 (13.15%) Bash
5 222 (12.91%) SQL
6 208 (12.10%) JavaScript
7 171 (9.95%) C#
8 148 (8.61%) TypeScript
9 135 (7.85%) Go
10 115 (6.69%) Bicep
11 77 (4.48%) PHP
12 52 (3.03%) Kotlin
13 50 (2.91%) C++
14 48 (2.79%) Ruby
15 45 (2.62%) Shell Script
16 31 (1.80%) Scala
17 27 (1.57%) Groovy
18 23 (1.34%) Perl
19 19 (1.11%) VB
20 17 (0.99%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 294 (17.10%) Security Cleared
2 229 (13.32%) Degree
3 210 (12.22%) SC Cleared
4 151 (8.78%) AWS Certification
5 147 (8.55%) Azure Certification
6 139 (8.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 90 (5.24%) DV Cleared
8 55 (3.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 46 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 27 (1.57%) Master's Degree
11 23 (1.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 17 (0.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 13 (0.76%) PMI Certification
14 11 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.52%) PhD
16 8 (0.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 8 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
17 5 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
17 5 (0.29%) CCIE
17 5 (0.29%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (3.78%) QA
2 55 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 42 (2.44%) NIST
4 18 (1.05%) GDPR
5 16 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 16 (0.93%) PCI DSS
6 13 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
6 13 (0.76%) SLA
7 8 (0.47%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.41%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.29%) GRC
9 5 (0.29%) NCSC
10 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.17%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.058%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.058%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.058%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.058%) SEPA
12 1 (0.058%) WCAG
System Software
1 480 (27.92%) Docker
2 98 (5.70%) Virtual Machines
3 86 (5.00%) Active Directory
4 59 (3.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 36 (2.09%) Virtual Desktop
6 31 (1.80%) VMware ESXi
7 24 (1.40%) vSphere
8 12 (0.70%) VMware NSX
9 10 (0.58%) Hyper-V
10 8 (0.47%) Ceph
11 7 (0.41%) KVM
12 5 (0.29%) DFS Replication
12 5 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.23%) XenApp
13 4 (0.23%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.17%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.12%) Firmware
15 2 (0.12%) Varnish
16 1 (0.058%) LXC
16 1 (0.058%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 1,166 (67.83%) Terraform
2 676 (39.33%) Kubernetes
3 404 (23.50%) Ansible
4 123 (7.16%) Puppet
5 101 (5.88%) Grafana
6 91 (5.29%) Prometheus
7 67 (3.90%) Progress Chef
8 35 (2.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 32 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
10 25 (1.45%) HAProxy
11 23 (1.34%) Packer
11 23 (1.34%) SCCM
12 21 (1.22%) Docker Swarm
13 19 (1.11%) logstash
13 19 (1.11%) Nagios
13 19 (1.11%) SCOM
14 17 (0.99%) WSUS
15 14 (0.81%) Kibana
16 13 (0.76%) Argo
16 13 (0.76%) Salt
Vendors
1 305 (17.74%) Microsoft
2 192 (11.17%) Google
3 67 (3.90%) VMware
4 58 (3.37%) Red Hat
5 46 (2.68%) Splunk
6 43 (2.50%) Citrix
7 37 (2.15%) Databricks
7 37 (2.15%) SaltStack
8 27 (1.57%) Cisco
8 27 (1.57%) New Relic
9 26 (1.51%) Atlassian
10 25 (1.45%) ServiceNow
11 21 (1.22%) Oracle
12 20 (1.16%) Xilinx
13 16 (0.93%) Meraki
14 15 (0.87%) Black Duck
15 13 (0.76%) IBM
15 13 (0.76%) Zscaler
16 12 (0.70%) Adobe
16 12 (0.70%) OpenAI