Infrastructure as Code Job Trends in the City of London

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 48 59
Rank change year-on-year -27 +11 -18
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 56 142 121
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 2.66% 5.24% 4.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 5.49% 4.51%
Number of salaries quoted 42 115 115
10th Percentile £53,750 £61,250 £60,080
25th Percentile £66,250 £65,625 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -2.94% +3.03%
75th Percentile £94,688 £106,250 £106,250
90th Percentile £112,250 £123,750 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% -8.33% +9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,841 2,588 2,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 87.50% 95.46% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,362 1,685 2,414
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,325
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure as Code relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in the City of London

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Infrastructure as Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the City of London

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.36%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 39 (69.64%) Azure
2 23 (41.07%) AWS
3 22 (39.29%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (19.64%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (17.86%) GitHub
7 9 (16.07%) Serverless
8 8 (14.29%) Amazon S3
8 8 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (10.71%) GCP
9 6 (10.71%) Power Platform
10 5 (8.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (8.93%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (8.93%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (8.93%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (8.93%) Entra ID
10 5 (8.93%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (7.14%) OpenShift
11 4 (7.14%) SaaS
11 4 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.50%) Firewall
2 5 (8.93%) LAN
2 5 (8.93%) WAN
3 4 (7.14%) Network Security
3 4 (7.14%) VoIP
4 1 (1.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (5.36%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (5.36%) DynamoDB
2 3 (5.36%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (3.57%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.57%) Metadata
3 2 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.79%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.14%) GitLab
3 3 (5.36%) Git
4 2 (3.57%) Balsamiq
4 2 (3.57%) JIRA
5 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.79%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.79%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 22 (39.29%) Finance
2 19 (33.93%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.93%) Advertising
4 5 (8.93%) Banking
5 4 (7.14%) Legal
6 2 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.79%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.79%) Retail
7 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (30.36%) Senior
2 13 (23.21%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (17.86%) Lead
4 9 (16.07%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Architect
7 4 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Administrator
8 3 (5.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Lead DevOps
8 3 (5.36%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.36%) Technical Leader
9 2 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
9 2 (3.57%) Gen AI Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
9 2 (3.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.07%) .NET
2 4 (7.14%) ARM Templates
2 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (3.57%) JWT
3 2 (3.57%) Node.js
3 2 (3.57%) OAuth
3 2 (3.57%) React
3 2 (3.57%) YAML
4 1 (1.79%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.79%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.79%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.79%) CSS
4 1 (1.79%) HTML
4 1 (1.79%) Kafka
4 1 (1.79%) Loki
4 1 (1.79%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.79%) RESTful
4 1 (1.79%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.64%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.14%) Low-Code
2 4 (7.14%) PKI
2 4 (7.14%) Public Cloud
3 3 (5.36%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) Replication
5 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.86%) Linux
2 8 (14.29%) Windows
3 7 (12.50%) Unix
4 2 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.57%) VMS
5 1 (1.79%) AIX
5 1 (1.79%) Debian
5 1 (1.79%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (82.14%) DevOps
2 33 (58.93%) CI/CD
3 17 (30.36%) Mentoring
4 16 (28.57%) Observability
5 14 (25.00%) Agile
6 10 (17.86%) Coaching
6 10 (17.86%) Containerisation
7 9 (16.07%) AI
7 9 (16.07%) Analytics
7 9 (16.07%) High Availability
7 9 (16.07%) Roadmaps
8 8 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
8 8 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (12.50%) ITIL
9 7 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 7 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (12.50%) User Experience
10 6 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (10.71%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 17 (30.36%) Python
2 14 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 11 (19.64%) Bicep
4 10 (17.86%) Bash
5 8 (14.29%) SQL
6 6 (10.71%) C#
7 3 (5.36%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.57%) Ruby
8 2 (3.57%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (1.79%) Java
9 1 (1.79%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.79%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (8.93%) AWS Certification
1 5 (8.93%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.14%) Degree
3 3 (5.36%) DV Cleared
3 3 (5.36%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.36%) SnowPro
4 2 (3.57%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.57%) MCP
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) GDPR
2 2 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.57%) QA
3 1 (1.79%) Basel III
3 1 (1.79%) MiFID
3 1 (1.79%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.79%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (23.21%) Docker
2 5 (8.93%) Active Directory
3 4 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (7.14%) XenApp
3 4 (7.14%) XenDesktop
4 2 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.79%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.79%) KVM
5 1 (1.79%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 32 (57.14%) Terraform
2 16 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 13 (23.21%) Ansible
4 12 (21.43%) Grafana
5 7 (12.50%) Prometheus
6 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (7.14%) Progress Chef
7 4 (7.14%) SCCM
7 4 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (3.57%) Argo
8 2 (3.57%) Puppet
8 2 (3.57%) SCOM
9 1 (1.79%) Podman
9 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 14 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.93%) Citrix
3 4 (7.14%) AppDynamics
3 4 (7.14%) Splunk
4 3 (5.36%) New Relic
5 2 (3.57%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.57%) SolarWinds
5 2 (3.57%) VMware
6 1 (1.79%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.79%) Cisco
6 1 (1.79%) Google
6 1 (1.79%) Meraki
6 1 (1.79%) OneLogin
6 1 (1.79%) Oracle
6 1 (1.79%) Refinitiv