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

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 100 91
Rank change year-on-year -70 -9 +22
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,700 3,440 5,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.73% 3.31% 3.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 3.46% 3.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,312 2,083 2,807
10th Percentile £49,250 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,051 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £94,375 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £102,500
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 84,360 99,485 147,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.62% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 59,619 58,411 83,272
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 April 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 April 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 1,496 £72,500 -3.33% 437
UK excluding London -68 1,025 £65,000 -6.40% 264
Work from Home -56 781 £70,576 -5.90% 272
London -53 566 £87,500 +9.38% 209
North of England -24 339 £62,783 -7.87% 70
South West -24 196 £75,000 +11.11% 41
North West -25 189 £65,000 -6.40% 42
South East -108 167 £67,500 -10.00% 56
Midlands +4 152 £65,000 -7.14% 45
Yorkshire -12 107 £60,000 -11.11% 19
West Midlands +28 102 £67,500 -3.57% 29
Scotland -93 89 £68,250 +9.20% 18
East Midlands -9 50 £57,500 -17.86% 16
East of England -18 50 £67,500 -6.90% 11
North East +13 45 £62,783 +2.50% 9
Wales -29 19 £62,500 -8.76% 7
Northern Ireland +7 9 £60,000 +9.09% 18
Isle of Man - 3 - - 1
Channel Islands - 2 £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 76 (4.47%) Apache
1 76 (4.47%) Apache Spark
2 45 (2.65%) Confluence
3 31 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 28 (1.65%) nginx
5 17 (1.00%) Cloud Foundry
5 17 (1.00%) Jupyter
6 10 (0.59%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.53%) Drupal
8 8 (0.47%) CMS
9 6 (0.35%) IIS
9 6 (0.35%) WordPress
10 4 (0.24%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.18%) JBoss
12 2 (0.12%) Liferay
12 2 (0.12%) Magnolia
12 2 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.059%) Moodle
13 1 (0.059%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.59%) Simulink
3 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.059%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.059%) Notion
6 1 (0.059%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.059%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.059%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.24%) NetSuite
1 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.059%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.059%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,010 (59.41%) AWS
2 974 (57.29%) Azure
3 336 (19.76%) GCP
4 334 (19.65%) Azure DevOps
5 281 (16.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 248 (14.59%) Serverless
7 211 (12.41%) PaaS
8 206 (12.12%) GitHub
9 178 (10.47%) Amazon S3
10 171 (10.06%) AWS Lambda
11 164 (9.65%) IaaS
12 151 (8.88%) Amazon EC2
13 117 (6.88%) SaaS
14 89 (5.24%) Amazon EKS
15 84 (4.94%) GitHub Actions
16 80 (4.71%) Cloud Computing
17 79 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
18 75 (4.41%) OpenShift
19 74 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 68 (4.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 132 (7.76%) Firewall
2 125 (7.35%) DNS
3 64 (3.76%) TCP/IP
4 61 (3.59%) VPN
5 58 (3.41%) DHCP
6 54 (3.18%) Network Security
7 43 (2.53%) HTTP
8 40 (2.35%) Internet
9 34 (2.00%) WAN
10 24 (1.41%) AMQP
11 21 (1.24%) LAN
12 17 (1.00%) Kerberos
13 14 (0.82%) IPv4
13 14 (0.82%) NGFW
14 13 (0.76%) SSL
15 12 (0.71%) Unified Communications
16 11 (0.65%) OSPF
16 11 (0.65%) SD-WAN
16 11 (0.65%) SNMP
16 11 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (6.35%) Amazon RDS
2 92 (5.41%) MySQL
3 78 (4.59%) SQL Server
4 76 (4.47%) NoSQL
5 75 (4.41%) Big Data
6 50 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
7 49 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
7 49 (2.88%) Relational Database
8 42 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
8 42 (2.47%) Hadoop
9 41 (2.41%) MongoDB
10 40 (2.35%) BigQuery
10 40 (2.35%) DynamoDB
11 36 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
12 33 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
13 30 (1.76%) RDBMS
14 29 (1.71%) Power BI
15 28 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
15 28 (1.65%) Data Lake
16 25 (1.47%) Presto
Development Applications
1 253 (14.88%) Jenkins
2 246 (14.47%) Git
3 170 (10.00%) GitLab
4 61 (3.59%) JIRA
5 35 (2.06%) CircleCI
6 33 (1.94%) Bitbucket
7 32 (1.88%) TeamCity
8 29 (1.71%) Postman
9 28 (1.65%) SonarQube
10 25 (1.47%) Artifactory
11 19 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 17 (1.00%) IBM UrbanCode
12 17 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
12 17 (1.00%) Selenium
13 16 (0.94%) Subversion
13 16 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
14 15 (0.88%) NUnit
14 15 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
15 13 (0.76%) Vagrant
16 9 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 403 (23.71%) Finance
2 373 (21.94%) Social Skills
3 167 (9.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 117 (6.88%) Public Sector
5 101 (5.94%) Banking
6 90 (5.29%) Law
7 87 (5.12%) Analytical Skills
8 77 (4.53%) Retail
9 58 (3.41%) Marketing
10 46 (2.71%) Legal
11 44 (2.59%) Aerospace
12 27 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
13 25 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
14 24 (1.41%) Tech for Good
15 23 (1.35%) Telecoms
16 20 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
17 15 (0.88%) Health Technology
18 12 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
19 11 (0.65%) Electronics
19 11 (0.65%) Games
Job Titles
1 445 (26.18%) Senior
2 399 (23.47%) DevOps Engineer
3 271 (15.94%) Cloud Engineer
4 234 (13.76%) Lead
5 226 (13.29%) Architect
6 180 (10.59%) Azure Engineer
7 177 (10.41%) AWS Engineer
8 167 (9.82%) Software Engineer
9 144 (8.47%) Platform Engineer
10 132 (7.76%) Developer
11 127 (7.47%) Senior DevOps
12 124 (7.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 122 (7.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 121 (7.12%) Cloud Architect
15 97 (5.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 82 (4.82%) Senior Cloud Engineer
16 82 (4.82%) Solutions Architect
17 77 (4.53%) AWS DevOps
18 72 (4.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 70 (4.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (7.94%) React
2 114 (6.71%) Node.js
3 110 (6.47%) ARM Templates
4 104 (6.12%) .NET
5 85 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
6 84 (4.94%) YAML
7 77 (4.53%) JSON
8 74 (4.35%) HTML
8 74 (4.35%) Spring
9 65 (3.82%) Kafka
9 65 (3.82%) REST
10 56 (3.29%) Spring Boot
11 55 (3.24%) AngularJS
11 55 (3.24%) AWS CDK
12 51 (3.00%) RabbitMQ
13 50 (2.94%) CSS
14 44 (2.59%) OpenID
15 40 (2.35%) SAML
16 39 (2.29%) RESTful
16 39 (2.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 281 (16.53%) Public Cloud
2 244 (14.35%) Cloud Native
3 97 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 85 (5.00%) Data Centre
5 83 (4.88%) Private Cloud
6 60 (3.53%) Management Information System
7 50 (2.94%) Product Ownership
8 48 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
9 47 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
10 38 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
11 35 (2.06%) Cyberattack
12 33 (1.94%) Virtual Team
13 30 (1.76%) PKI
14 28 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
15 26 (1.53%) IoT
16 25 (1.47%) Clustering
17 24 (1.41%) Onboarding
18 23 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
19 22 (1.29%) Blog
20 18 (1.06%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 415 (24.41%) Linux
2 212 (12.47%) Windows
3 68 (4.00%) Windows Server
4 67 (3.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (2.47%) CentOS
6 40 (2.35%) Ubuntu
7 26 (1.53%) Debian
8 21 (1.24%) Unix
9 20 (1.18%) Android
10 17 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
11 16 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
12 11 (0.65%) Oracle Linux
13 10 (0.59%) Apple iOS
14 9 (0.53%) Solaris
15 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
16 6 (0.35%) VMS
17 4 (0.24%) Windows 10
18 3 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
18 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
19 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,096 (64.47%) DevOps
2 863 (50.76%) CI/CD
3 685 (40.29%) Agile
4 415 (24.41%) Containerisation
5 343 (20.18%) Software Engineering
6 319 (18.76%) Problem-Solving
7 209 (12.29%) Platform Engineering
8 204 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 199 (11.71%) Microservices
10 187 (11.00%) Mentoring
11 186 (10.94%) Continuous Integration
11 186 (10.94%) Scrum
12 168 (9.88%) SDLC
13 155 (9.12%) Continuous Improvement
14 153 (9.00%) Configuration Management
14 153 (9.00%) Migration
15 150 (8.82%) Roadmaps
16 149 (8.76%) Cloud Security
17 144 (8.47%) Computer Science
18 132 (7.76%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 592 (34.82%) Python
2 318 (18.71%) PowerShell
3 269 (15.82%) Java
4 244 (14.35%) Bash
5 198 (11.65%) SQL
6 166 (9.76%) JavaScript
7 164 (9.65%) C#
8 131 (7.71%) TypeScript
9 124 (7.29%) Bicep
9 124 (7.29%) Go
10 74 (4.35%) PHP
11 53 (3.12%) Shell Script
12 45 (2.65%) Ruby
13 36 (2.12%) Groovy
14 32 (1.88%) Perl
15 31 (1.82%) C++
16 24 (1.41%) Kotlin
17 18 (1.06%) Scala
18 16 (0.94%) VB
19 14 (0.82%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 286 (16.82%) Security Cleared
2 207 (12.18%) Degree
3 176 (10.35%) SC Cleared
4 144 (8.47%) AWS Certification
5 132 (7.76%) Azure Certification
6 120 (7.06%) DV Cleared
7 118 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 77 (4.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 43 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 28 (1.65%) Master's Degree
11 24 (1.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 15 (0.88%) PMI Certification
13 14 (0.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 11 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.59%) PhD
16 9 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
17 8 (0.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 8 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
18 5 (0.29%) CCIE
18 5 (0.29%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (2.82%) QA
2 44 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (1.41%) NIST
4 16 (0.94%) GDPR
5 14 (0.82%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 11 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (0.59%) SLA
9 8 (0.47%) Data Quality
9 8 (0.47%) NCSC
10 5 (0.29%) GRC
11 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (0.24%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.059%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.059%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.059%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.059%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.059%) SEPA
13 1 (0.059%) WCAG
System Software
1 487 (28.65%) Docker
2 80 (4.71%) Active Directory
3 70 (4.12%) Virtual Machines
4 67 (3.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 39 (2.29%) VMware ESXi
6 33 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
7 27 (1.59%) vSphere
8 12 (0.71%) Hyper-V
9 9 (0.53%) VMware NSX
10 7 (0.41%) KVM
11 6 (0.35%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.18%) Ceph
12 3 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.18%) VirtualBox
13 2 (0.12%) Firmware
13 2 (0.12%) Varnish
14 1 (0.059%) LXC
14 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 1,185 (69.71%) Terraform
2 672 (39.53%) Kubernetes
3 405 (23.82%) Ansible
4 139 (8.18%) Puppet
5 120 (7.06%) Grafana
6 105 (6.18%) Prometheus
7 82 (4.82%) Progress Chef
8 29 (1.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 28 (1.65%) HAProxy
9 28 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
10 26 (1.53%) Packer
11 24 (1.41%) Salt
12 20 (1.18%) logstash
13 19 (1.12%) Nagios
14 18 (1.06%) SCCM
15 17 (1.00%) Docker Swarm
16 16 (0.94%) Istio
16 16 (0.94%) SCOM
17 15 (0.88%) Kibana
18 14 (0.82%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 269 (15.82%) Microsoft
2 189 (11.12%) Google
3 73 (4.29%) VMware
4 60 (3.53%) Citrix
5 50 (2.94%) Red Hat
6 43 (2.53%) Splunk
7 35 (2.06%) Databricks
8 34 (2.00%) SaltStack
9 27 (1.59%) Cisco
10 23 (1.35%) New Relic
11 22 (1.29%) Atlassian
12 20 (1.18%) IBM
13 18 (1.06%) Oracle
14 16 (0.94%) Meraki
15 12 (0.71%) Adobe
15 12 (0.71%) Apple
16 11 (0.65%) Serena
17 10 (0.59%) ServiceNow
17 10 (0.59%) Xilinx
18 9 (0.53%) Palo Alto