Infrastructure as Code Job Trends in Scotland

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 112 201
Rank change year-on-year +18 +89 -89
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 35 37 61
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.09% 1.67% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 1.80% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 26 20 25
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,542 £57,731
25th Percentile £52,764 £52,125 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £75,180 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.19% -6.03% +33.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £83,125 £91,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £94,650 £99,389
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,258 2,057 5,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.39% 93.12% 88.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,284 838 2,564
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £28,075
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,851 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,500 £50,668 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% -3.49% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in Scotland

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Infrastructure as Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure as Code in Scotland

Infrastructure as Code
Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 June 2026. 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
Edinburgh +5 15 £65,000 -13.75% 6
South Lanarkshire - 12 £60,000 -
Glasgow +14 6 £60,000 -20.38% 7
Scottish Borders - 1 - -
Infrastructure as Code
UK

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (5.71%) Apache
1 2 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (51.43%) AWS
2 13 (37.14%) Azure
3 8 (22.86%) GCP
4 7 (20.00%) GitHub
5 5 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (8.57%) Azure AKS
6 3 (8.57%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (5.71%) Cloud Run
7 2 (5.71%) dbt
7 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (5.71%) Serverless
7 2 (5.71%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) DNS
2 3 (8.57%) Firewall
2 3 (8.57%) Network Security
3 2 (5.71%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.86%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.86%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Git
1 1 (2.86%) GitLab
1 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.86%) MLflow
1 1 (2.86%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (40.00%) Finance
2 8 (22.86%) Banking
3 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (17.14%) Public Sector
5 5 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (11.43%) Local Government
7 1 (2.86%) Advertising
7 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (40.00%) Lead
2 11 (31.43%) Technical Leader
3 10 (28.57%) Senior
4 5 (14.29%) Developer
5 4 (11.43%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Architect
6 3 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Cloud Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Site Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
8 1 (2.86%) Operations Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Senior Delivery Manager
8 1 (2.86%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (37.14%) AWS CDK
2 6 (17.14%) React
3 5 (14.29%) Node.js
4 4 (11.43%) React Native
5 3 (8.57%) OAuth
6 2 (5.71%) OAuth2
6 2 (5.71%) RESTful
7 1 (2.86%) .NET
7 1 (2.86%) GraphQL
7 1 (2.86%) J2EE
7 1 (2.86%) JSON
7 1 (2.86%) JSP
7 1 (2.86%) NumPy
7 1 (2.86%) OpenCV
7 1 (2.86%) Pandas
7 1 (2.86%) pytest
7 1 (2.86%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (2.86%) Swagger
7 1 (2.86%) WebSockets
7 1 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (54.29%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.43%) Mobile App
2 4 (11.43%) Product Ownership
2 4 (11.43%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.71%) Replication
4 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (91.43%) CI/CD
2 26 (74.29%) DevOps
3 21 (60.00%) Agile
4 18 (51.43%) Mentoring
4 18 (51.43%) Observability
5 14 (40.00%) Microservices
5 14 (40.00%) Software Engineering
6 13 (37.14%) Full-Stack Development
6 13 (37.14%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (28.57%) Code Quality
8 9 (25.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (25.71%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (17.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 5 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
10 5 (14.29%) Incident Response
10 5 (14.29%) Roadmaps
10 5 (14.29%) Secrets Management
10 5 (14.29%) Security Monitoring
10 5 (14.29%) Test Automation
10 5 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 14 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 14 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 5 (14.29%) Java
2 5 (14.29%) Python
3 4 (11.43%) SQL
4 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.86%) Bicep
5 1 (2.86%) C#
5 1 (2.86%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) Accessibility
1 3 (8.57%) GDPR
2 2 (5.71%) NCSC
3 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.86%) GRC
3 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.86%) QA
3 1 (2.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (40.00%) Terraform
2 11 (31.43%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.86%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (31.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.29%) Google
3 4 (11.43%) Pega
4 2 (5.71%) Cisco
4 2 (5.71%) Meraki
4 2 (5.71%) Oracle
5 1 (2.86%) Ab Initio