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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 100 90
Rank change year-on-year -72 -10 +23
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,717 3,231 6,449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.67% 3.32% 3.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 3.47% 4.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,315 1,941 2,794
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £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 £93,750 £88,438
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 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -65 1,531 £70,000 -6.67% 497
UK excluding London -67 1,021 £65,000 -6.40% 313
Work from Home -61 770 £70,000 -6.67% 310
London -47 592 £86,250 +7.81% 215
North of England -34 348 £62,783 -9.60% 81
North West -27 194 £64,250 -8.21% 40
South West -38 182 £70,576 +1.62% 53
South East -116 178 £67,500 -10.00% 63
Midlands +15 156 £65,050 -7.07% 54
West Midlands +28 112 £70,000 - 42
Yorkshire -24 109 £60,000 -13.60% 34
Scotland -91 82 £70,576 +8.58% 21
North East +15 47 £62,783 +0.45% 7
East of England -30 46 £67,500 +9.76% 31
East Midlands -14 44 £57,500 -8.00% 12
Wales -50 17 £60,000 -12.40% 6
Northern Ireland 0 9 £60,000 +9.09% 7
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 83 (4.83%) Apache Spark
2 79 (4.60%) Apache
3 45 (2.62%) Confluence
4 34 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
5 32 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
6 31 (1.81%) nginx
7 17 (0.99%) Cloud Foundry
7 17 (0.99%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.58%) SharePoint
9 8 (0.47%) Drupal
10 6 (0.35%) IIS
10 6 (0.35%) JBoss
11 5 (0.29%) CMS
11 5 (0.29%) WordPress
12 2 (0.12%) Liferay
12 2 (0.12%) Magnolia
12 2 (0.12%) Moodle
12 2 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.058%) Jetty
13 1 (0.058%) OpenStack
Applications
1 18 (1.05%) Simulink
2 14 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.058%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.058%) Notion
6 1 (0.058%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.058%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.058%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.47%) 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 1,050 (61.15%) AWS
2 1,002 (58.36%) Azure
3 366 (21.32%) GCP
4 311 (18.11%) Azure DevOps
5 252 (14.68%) AWS CloudFormation
6 247 (14.39%) Serverless
7 208 (12.11%) GitHub
8 191 (11.12%) PaaS
9 173 (10.08%) Amazon S3
10 169 (9.84%) AWS Lambda
11 145 (8.44%) Amazon EC2
12 142 (8.27%) IaaS
13 122 (7.11%) SaaS
14 89 (5.18%) Cloud Computing
15 87 (5.07%) GitHub Actions
16 86 (5.01%) Amazon EKS
17 81 (4.72%) OpenShift
18 79 (4.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 78 (4.54%) Entra ID
20 75 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 141 (8.21%) Firewall
2 106 (6.17%) DNS
3 53 (3.09%) VPN
4 52 (3.03%) Network Security
5 39 (2.27%) WAN
6 34 (1.98%) DHCP
6 34 (1.98%) Internet
6 34 (1.98%) TCP/IP
7 28 (1.63%) AMQP
8 23 (1.34%) LAN
9 17 (0.99%) Kerberos
10 16 (0.93%) SSL
11 15 (0.87%) IPv4
12 14 (0.82%) HTTP
13 13 (0.76%) SD-WAN
14 12 (0.70%) Unified Communications
14 12 (0.70%) VSAN
15 11 (0.64%) SNMP
16 10 (0.58%) OSPF
16 10 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (6.17%) Amazon RDS
2 90 (5.24%) MySQL
3 84 (4.89%) NoSQL
4 75 (4.37%) SQL Server
5 70 (4.08%) Big Data
6 51 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
7 47 (2.74%) Hadoop
7 47 (2.74%) MongoDB
7 47 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
8 44 (2.56%) Relational Database
9 42 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
10 40 (2.33%) DynamoDB
11 37 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
12 36 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
13 33 (1.92%) BigQuery
14 29 (1.69%) Presto
14 29 (1.69%) RDBMS
15 28 (1.63%) Amazon Aurora
15 28 (1.63%) Cloudera CDH
16 26 (1.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 261 (15.20%) Git
2 233 (13.57%) Jenkins
3 169 (9.84%) GitLab
4 74 (4.31%) JIRA
5 41 (2.39%) CircleCI
6 37 (2.15%) Bitbucket
7 32 (1.86%) TeamCity
8 30 (1.75%) Postman
9 29 (1.69%) SonarQube
10 24 (1.40%) Artifactory
11 22 (1.28%) Vagrant
12 19 (1.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 17 (0.99%) IBM UrbanCode
13 17 (0.99%) Octopus Deploy
13 17 (0.99%) Subversion
13 17 (0.99%) Terragrunt
14 15 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
14 15 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
15 14 (0.82%) Selenium
16 13 (0.76%) NUnit
General
1 387 (22.54%) Social Skills
2 348 (20.27%) Finance
3 153 (8.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 133 (7.75%) Public Sector
5 92 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
6 89 (5.18%) Law
7 86 (5.01%) Banking
8 65 (3.79%) Retail
9 57 (3.32%) Marketing
10 53 (3.09%) Aerospace
11 48 (2.80%) Legal
12 29 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
13 28 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
14 23 (1.34%) Tech for Good
14 23 (1.34%) Telecoms
15 16 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
15 16 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (0.87%) Electronics
17 14 (0.82%) Health Technology
18 13 (0.76%) Games
Job Titles
1 436 (25.39%) Senior
2 383 (22.31%) DevOps Engineer
3 277 (16.13%) Cloud Engineer
4 249 (14.50%) Lead
5 201 (11.71%) Architect
6 198 (11.53%) Software Engineer
7 174 (10.13%) AWS Engineer
8 160 (9.32%) Azure Engineer
9 142 (8.27%) Developer
10 135 (7.86%) Platform Engineer
11 128 (7.45%) Senior DevOps
12 124 (7.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 119 (6.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 108 (6.29%) Cloud Architect
15 94 (5.47%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 78 (4.54%) Senior Cloud Engineer
17 68 (3.96%) Consultant
18 66 (3.84%) Full Stack Developer
18 66 (3.84%) Senior Software Engineer
19 65 (3.79%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (8.56%) React
2 133 (7.75%) Node.js
3 123 (7.16%) ARM Templates
4 101 (5.88%) .NET
5 81 (4.72%) Spring
6 75 (4.37%) YAML
7 71 (4.14%) Elastic Stack
7 71 (4.14%) REST
8 65 (3.79%) JSON
9 63 (3.67%) Kafka
9 63 (3.67%) Spring Boot
10 60 (3.49%) CSS
11 58 (3.38%) AngularJS
12 56 (3.26%) HTML
13 55 (3.20%) AWS CDK
14 51 (2.97%) RabbitMQ
15 48 (2.80%) Swagger
16 41 (2.39%) RESTful
17 37 (2.15%) OpenAPI
18 33 (1.92%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 262 (15.26%) Public Cloud
2 252 (14.68%) Cloud Native
3 93 (5.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 89 (5.18%) Data Centre
5 77 (4.48%) Private Cloud
6 66 (3.84%) Product Ownership
7 62 (3.61%) Management Information System
8 51 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
9 50 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
10 40 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
11 36 (2.10%) PKI
12 29 (1.69%) Virtual Team
13 27 (1.57%) Clustering
13 27 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
14 26 (1.51%) IoT
15 25 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
16 22 (1.28%) Blog
17 21 (1.22%) Onboarding
18 18 (1.05%) Client/Server
18 18 (1.05%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 424 (24.69%) Linux
2 208 (12.11%) Windows
3 82 (4.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 71 (4.14%) Windows Server
5 53 (3.09%) CentOS
6 50 (2.91%) Ubuntu
7 28 (1.63%) Debian
7 28 (1.63%) Unix
8 23 (1.34%) Android
9 20 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
10 18 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
11 12 (0.70%) Oracle Linux
12 10 (0.58%) Solaris
13 9 (0.52%) Windows 10
14 8 (0.47%) VMS
14 8 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
16 3 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
16 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
17 1 (0.058%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,101 (64.12%) DevOps
2 892 (51.95%) CI/CD
3 681 (39.66%) Agile
4 414 (24.11%) Containerisation
5 363 (21.14%) Software Engineering
6 318 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
7 213 (12.41%) Microservices
8 209 (12.17%) Mentoring
8 209 (12.17%) Platform Engineering
9 201 (11.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 200 (11.65%) Scrum
11 188 (10.95%) Continuous Integration
12 178 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
13 164 (9.55%) Migration
14 160 (9.32%) Computer Science
15 146 (8.50%) Configuration Management
16 140 (8.15%) Roadmaps
17 138 (8.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 134 (7.80%) Test Automation
19 129 (7.51%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 628 (36.58%) Python
2 307 (17.88%) Java
3 306 (17.82%) PowerShell
4 229 (13.34%) Bash
5 216 (12.58%) SQL
6 202 (11.76%) JavaScript
7 171 (9.96%) C#
8 144 (8.39%) TypeScript
9 134 (7.80%) Go
10 113 (6.58%) Bicep
11 74 (4.31%) PHP
12 49 (2.85%) Kotlin
13 48 (2.80%) Shell Script
14 47 (2.74%) C++
15 46 (2.68%) Ruby
16 32 (1.86%) Groovy
17 30 (1.75%) Scala
18 26 (1.51%) Perl
19 19 (1.11%) VB
20 17 (0.99%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 296 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 224 (13.05%) Degree
3 210 (12.23%) SC Cleared
4 149 (8.68%) AWS Certification
5 145 (8.44%) Azure Certification
6 132 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 92 (5.36%) DV Cleared
8 56 (3.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 47 (2.74%) 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%) CCIE
17 5 (0.29%) CCNA
17 5 (0.29%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (3.73%) QA
2 53 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (2.27%) NIST
4 16 (0.93%) Accessibility
4 16 (0.93%) GDPR
4 16 (0.93%) PCI DSS
5 13 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (0.76%) SLA
6 8 (0.47%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.35%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.29%) GRC
8 5 (0.29%) NCSC
9 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.12%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.058%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.058%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.058%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.058%) SEPA
11 1 (0.058%) WCAG
System Software
1 487 (28.36%) Docker
2 91 (5.30%) Virtual Machines
3 85 (4.95%) Active Directory
4 60 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 36 (2.10%) Virtual Desktop
6 33 (1.92%) 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 1,173 (68.32%) Terraform
2 683 (39.78%) Kubernetes
3 413 (24.05%) Ansible
4 127 (7.40%) Puppet
5 105 (6.12%) Grafana
6 93 (5.42%) Prometheus
7 74 (4.31%) Progress Chef
8 37 (2.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 32 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
10 27 (1.57%) HAProxy
11 24 (1.40%) Packer
11 24 (1.40%) SCCM
12 21 (1.22%) Docker Swarm
13 20 (1.16%) Nagios
13 20 (1.16%) SCOM
14 19 (1.11%) logstash
15 17 (0.99%) WSUS
16 15 (0.87%) Salt
17 14 (0.82%) Kibana
18 13 (0.76%) Argo
Vendors
1 299 (17.41%) Microsoft
2 200 (11.65%) Google
3 68 (3.96%) VMware
4 58 (3.38%) Red Hat
5 46 (2.68%) Splunk
6 44 (2.56%) Citrix
7 37 (2.15%) Databricks
8 36 (2.10%) SaltStack
9 27 (1.57%) Atlassian
9 27 (1.57%) Cisco
10 25 (1.46%) New Relic
10 25 (1.46%) ServiceNow
11 22 (1.28%) Oracle
12 19 (1.11%) IBM
13 18 (1.05%) Xilinx
14 16 (0.93%) Meraki
15 15 (0.87%) Black Duck
16 13 (0.76%) Zscaler
17 12 (0.70%) Adobe
17 12 (0.70%) OpenAI