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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 102 93
Rank change year-on-year -68 -9 +21
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,729 3,348 5,826
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.74% 3.30% 3.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 3.46% 3.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,327 2,021 2,754
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £106,250 £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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
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 9 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 9 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 -63 1,529 £70,576 -5.90% 472
UK excluding London -63 1,044 £65,000 -6.40% 285
Work from Home -60 777 £70,000 -6.67% 294
London -50 574 £87,500 +9.38% 213
North of England -23 343 £62,783 -9.60% 77
South West -20 203 £75,000 +11.11% 48
North West -31 191 £65,000 -6.40% 41
South East -119 174 £67,500 -10.00% 60
Midlands -2 154 £65,000 -7.14% 53
Yorkshire -15 108 £60,000 -13.19% 26
West Midlands +16 105 £70,000 - 37
Scotland -94 90 £69,000 +10.40% 19
East of England -10 50 £67,500 -8.47% 13
East Midlands -12 49 £57,500 -17.86% 16
North East +15 46 £62,783 -3.41% 10
Wales -42 18 £60,000 +0.33% 6
Northern Ireland +5 9 £60,000 +9.09% 12
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 74 (4.28%) Apache Spark
2 71 (4.11%) Apache
3 45 (2.60%) Confluence
4 32 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
5 29 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (1.68%) nginx
6 17 (0.98%) Cloud Foundry
6 17 (0.98%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.58%) SharePoint
8 8 (0.46%) Drupal
9 6 (0.35%) IIS
10 5 (0.29%) CMS
10 5 (0.29%) WordPress
11 4 (0.23%) JBoss
12 3 (0.17%) NServiceBus
13 2 (0.12%) Liferay
13 2 (0.12%) Magnolia
13 2 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
14 1 (0.058%) Jetty
14 1 (0.058%) Moodle
Applications
1 15 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.81%) Simulink
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 6 (0.35%) 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 1,046 (60.50%) AWS
2 993 (57.43%) Azure
3 341 (19.72%) GCP
4 331 (19.14%) Azure DevOps
5 279 (16.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 251 (14.52%) Serverless
7 206 (11.91%) GitHub
7 206 (11.91%) PaaS
8 173 (10.01%) Amazon S3
9 172 (9.95%) AWS Lambda
10 159 (9.20%) IaaS
11 148 (8.56%) Amazon EC2
12 120 (6.94%) SaaS
13 88 (5.09%) Amazon EKS
14 85 (4.92%) GitHub Actions
15 78 (4.51%) OpenShift
16 77 (4.45%) Cloud Computing
17 76 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
18 73 (4.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 73 (4.22%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 139 (8.04%) Firewall
2 129 (7.46%) DNS
3 64 (3.70%) TCP/IP
4 59 (3.41%) VPN
5 58 (3.35%) DHCP
6 55 (3.18%) Network Security
7 43 (2.49%) HTTP
8 39 (2.26%) Internet
9 37 (2.14%) WAN
10 26 (1.50%) AMQP
11 21 (1.21%) LAN
12 17 (0.98%) Kerberos
13 15 (0.87%) IPv4
14 14 (0.81%) SSL
15 13 (0.75%) SD-WAN
16 12 (0.69%) NGFW
16 12 (0.69%) Unified Communications
17 11 (0.64%) OSPF
17 11 (0.64%) SNMP
17 11 (0.64%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (6.07%) Amazon RDS
2 87 (5.03%) MySQL
3 79 (4.57%) NoSQL
3 79 (4.57%) SQL Server
4 71 (4.11%) Big Data
5 50 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
6 46 (2.66%) MongoDB
7 45 (2.60%) Hadoop
7 45 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
8 44 (2.54%) Relational Database
9 43 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
10 41 (2.37%) DynamoDB
11 38 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
12 36 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
13 33 (1.91%) BigQuery
14 30 (1.74%) Amazon Aurora
14 30 (1.74%) RDBMS
15 26 (1.50%) Cloudera CDH
16 25 (1.45%) Presto
17 22 (1.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 255 (14.75%) Git
2 243 (14.05%) Jenkins
3 179 (10.35%) GitLab
4 61 (3.53%) JIRA
5 38 (2.20%) CircleCI
6 34 (1.97%) Bitbucket
6 34 (1.97%) TeamCity
7 30 (1.74%) SonarQube
8 29 (1.68%) Postman
9 24 (1.39%) Artifactory
10 19 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 18 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
11 18 (1.04%) Vagrant
12 17 (0.98%) IBM UrbanCode
12 17 (0.98%) Selenium
13 16 (0.93%) Subversion
14 15 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
14 15 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
15 14 (0.81%) NUnit
16 9 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 398 (23.02%) Finance
2 384 (22.21%) Social Skills
3 174 (10.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 128 (7.40%) Public Sector
5 95 (5.49%) Law
6 91 (5.26%) Banking
7 88 (5.09%) Analytical Skills
8 67 (3.88%) Retail
9 59 (3.41%) Marketing
10 49 (2.83%) Aerospace
11 46 (2.66%) Legal
12 30 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
13 24 (1.39%) Telecoms
14 23 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
14 23 (1.33%) Tech for Good
15 18 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (0.87%) Health Technology
17 14 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
18 12 (0.69%) Games
19 11 (0.64%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 450 (26.03%) Senior
2 403 (23.31%) DevOps Engineer
3 275 (15.91%) Cloud Engineer
4 243 (14.05%) Lead
5 223 (12.90%) Architect
6 185 (10.70%) Software Engineer
7 183 (10.58%) AWS Engineer
8 181 (10.47%) Azure Engineer
9 145 (8.39%) Platform Engineer
10 131 (7.58%) Developer
11 127 (7.35%) Senior DevOps
12 126 (7.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 121 (7.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 120 (6.94%) Cloud Architect
15 100 (5.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 83 (4.80%) Senior Cloud Engineer
17 78 (4.51%) Solutions Architect
18 73 (4.22%) AWS DevOps
18 73 (4.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 69 (3.99%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (8.16%) React
2 122 (7.06%) Node.js
3 105 (6.07%) ARM Templates
4 104 (6.02%) .NET
5 86 (4.97%) Elastic Stack
6 84 (4.86%) YAML
7 78 (4.51%) Spring
8 77 (4.45%) HTML
9 75 (4.34%) JSON
10 67 (3.88%) REST
11 61 (3.53%) Kafka
12 60 (3.47%) Spring Boot
13 58 (3.35%) AWS CDK
14 55 (3.18%) AngularJS
15 53 (3.07%) CSS
16 50 (2.89%) RabbitMQ
17 46 (2.66%) OpenID
18 44 (2.54%) Swagger
19 42 (2.43%) SAML
20 40 (2.31%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 284 (16.43%) Public Cloud
2 253 (14.63%) Cloud Native
3 94 (5.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 86 (4.97%) Data Centre
5 82 (4.74%) Private Cloud
6 59 (3.41%) Management Information System
7 54 (3.12%) Distributed Systems
8 51 (2.95%) Product Ownership
9 49 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
10 40 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
11 35 (2.02%) Cyberattack
12 32 (1.85%) PKI
13 31 (1.79%) Virtual Team
14 28 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
15 26 (1.50%) Clustering
15 26 (1.50%) IoT
16 25 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
17 23 (1.33%) Onboarding
18 22 (1.27%) Blog
19 18 (1.04%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 438 (25.33%) Linux
2 217 (12.55%) Windows
3 76 (4.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 69 (3.99%) Windows Server
5 49 (2.83%) CentOS
6 46 (2.66%) Ubuntu
7 28 (1.62%) Unix
8 27 (1.56%) Debian
9 22 (1.27%) Android
10 17 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
11 16 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
12 12 (0.69%) Oracle Linux
13 10 (0.58%) Solaris
14 7 (0.40%) Apple iOS
14 7 (0.40%) VMS
14 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.29%) Windows 10
16 3 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
16 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
17 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,113 (64.37%) DevOps
2 886 (51.24%) CI/CD
3 698 (40.37%) Agile
4 422 (24.41%) Containerisation
5 359 (20.76%) Software Engineering
6 319 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
7 214 (12.38%) Platform Engineering
8 211 (12.20%) Microservices
9 206 (11.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 194 (11.22%) Scrum
11 193 (11.16%) Continuous Integration
11 193 (11.16%) Mentoring
12 167 (9.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 163 (9.43%) SDLC
14 155 (8.96%) Roadmaps
15 154 (8.91%) Migration
16 152 (8.79%) Configuration Management
17 150 (8.68%) Cloud Security
18 147 (8.50%) Computer Science
19 136 (7.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 606 (35.05%) Python
2 319 (18.45%) PowerShell
3 291 (16.83%) Java
4 247 (14.29%) Bash
5 211 (12.20%) SQL
6 177 (10.24%) JavaScript
7 166 (9.60%) C#
8 136 (7.87%) TypeScript
9 131 (7.58%) Go
10 116 (6.71%) Bicep
11 73 (4.22%) PHP
12 50 (2.89%) Shell Script
13 42 (2.43%) Ruby
14 39 (2.26%) C++
15 34 (1.97%) Groovy
16 33 (1.91%) Kotlin
17 31 (1.79%) Perl
18 21 (1.21%) Scala
19 16 (0.93%) VB
20 14 (0.81%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 301 (17.41%) Security Cleared
2 211 (12.20%) Degree
3 185 (10.70%) SC Cleared
4 149 (8.62%) AWS Certification
5 130 (7.52%) Azure Certification
6 121 (7.00%) DV Cleared
7 120 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 79 (4.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 45 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (1.50%) Master's Degree
11 22 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 15 (0.87%) PMI Certification
13 14 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 11 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.58%) PhD
16 8 (0.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 8 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
17 7 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
18 5 (0.29%) CCIE
18 5 (0.29%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (3.07%) QA
2 47 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (1.74%) NIST
4 15 (0.87%) GDPR
5 14 (0.81%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.75%) PCI DSS
7 12 (0.69%) SLA
8 10 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.46%) Data Quality
9 8 (0.46%) NCSC
10 5 (0.29%) GRC
10 5 (0.29%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
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%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.058%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.058%) SEPA
12 1 (0.058%) WCAG
System Software
1 495 (28.63%) Docker
2 82 (4.74%) Active Directory
3 76 (4.40%) Virtual Machines
4 66 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 39 (2.26%) VMware ESXi
6 33 (1.91%) Virtual Desktop
7 27 (1.56%) vSphere
8 11 (0.64%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.52%) Hyper-V
10 7 (0.40%) Ceph
10 7 (0.40%) KVM
11 6 (0.35%) DFS Replication
12 5 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.17%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.12%) Firmware
14 2 (0.12%) Varnish
15 1 (0.058%) LXC
15 1 (0.058%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.058%) XenApp
15 1 (0.058%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1,198 (69.29%) Terraform
2 686 (39.68%) Kubernetes
3 419 (24.23%) Ansible
4 141 (8.16%) Puppet
5 124 (7.17%) Grafana
6 111 (6.42%) Prometheus
7 81 (4.68%) Progress Chef
8 31 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 28 (1.62%) HAProxy
9 28 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
10 26 (1.50%) Packer
11 23 (1.33%) Salt
12 20 (1.16%) Docker Swarm
12 20 (1.16%) logstash
13 19 (1.10%) Nagios
14 18 (1.04%) Istio
14 18 (1.04%) SCCM
15 16 (0.93%) Kibana
15 16 (0.93%) SCOM
16 14 (0.81%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 279 (16.14%) Microsoft
2 185 (10.70%) Google
3 73 (4.22%) VMware
4 54 (3.12%) Red Hat
5 53 (3.07%) Citrix
6 46 (2.66%) Splunk
7 35 (2.02%) SaltStack
8 33 (1.91%) Databricks
9 27 (1.56%) Cisco
10 23 (1.33%) Atlassian
10 23 (1.33%) New Relic
11 20 (1.16%) Oracle
12 19 (1.10%) IBM
13 16 (0.93%) Meraki
14 14 (0.81%) Xilinx
15 12 (0.69%) Adobe
15 12 (0.69%) Apple
15 12 (0.69%) Serena
16 11 (0.64%) ServiceNow
17 10 (0.58%) Zscaler