Infrastructure as Code Job Trends

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK

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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 158 154
Rank change year-on-year +82 -4 -52
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,367 1,024 1,420
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.23% 2.05% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.03% 2.30% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,565 717 1,018
10th Percentile £49,626 £51,850 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £106,250 £102,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78,105 44,566 67,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.45% 89.27% 81.06%
Number of salaries quoted 53,741 25,228 43,541
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,575 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,683 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.35% -4.63% -9.09%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Infrastructure as Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Top 17 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 14 August 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
England +76 2,079 £77,500 - 1,448
UK excluding London +121 1,279 £70,000 - 777
London +31 922 £90,000 +2.86% 813
Work from Home +78 831 £72,500 -8.01% 673
North of England +85 436 £70,000 - 237
South East +67 253 £67,500 -12.90% 186
North West +97 243 £72,500 +3.57% 133
South West +48 221 £75,000 - 140
Midlands +42 147 £77,500 +19.23% 67
Yorkshire +8 103 £72,500 +3.57% 65
West Midlands +18 91 £80,000 +23.08% 40
North East +15 90 £57,000 -17.09% 39
Wales -10 65 £70,000 +16.67% 28
Northern Ireland -19 59 £71,991 +67.07% 21
East Midlands +11 56 £67,500 +3.85% 27
East of England +4 56 £70,000 +7.69% 33
Scotland +24 53 £71,991 +6.65% 70

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 60 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
2 59 (2.49%) Apache Spark
3 55 (2.32%) Apache
4 29 (1.23%) Confluence
4 29 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.55%) Jupyter
6 9 (0.38%) IIS
6 9 (0.38%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.21%) CMS
8 4 (0.17%) Camunda
8 4 (0.17%) nginx
9 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.13%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.13%) WordPress
10 2 (0.084%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.042%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.042%) Documentum
11 1 (0.042%) JBoss
11 1 (0.042%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 21 (0.89%) PlantUML
2 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.084%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.084%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.084%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.042%) Maya
5 1 (0.042%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.13%) Summit
4 2 (0.084%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,350 (57.03%) AWS
2 1,282 (54.16%) Azure
3 454 (19.18%) GCP
4 410 (17.32%) GitHub
5 379 (16.01%) Serverless
6 378 (15.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 318 (13.43%) Azure DevOps
8 224 (9.46%) GitHub Actions
9 211 (8.91%) AWS Lambda
10 206 (8.70%) Amazon S3
11 182 (7.69%) PaaS
12 147 (6.21%) Amazon EC2
13 143 (6.04%) Amazon EKS
14 137 (5.79%) Amazon ECS
15 134 (5.66%) SaaS
16 127 (5.37%) IaaS
17 125 (5.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 124 (5.24%) Azure AKS
19 123 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
20 111 (4.69%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 174 (7.35%) Firewall
2 117 (4.94%) WAN
3 115 (4.86%) DNS
4 110 (4.65%) Network Security
5 106 (4.48%) VPN
6 97 (4.10%) LAN
7 74 (3.13%) TCP/IP
8 54 (2.28%) Broadband
9 52 (2.20%) BGP
10 41 (1.73%) DHCP
11 36 (1.52%) OSPF
12 34 (1.44%) VLAN
13 27 (1.14%) VXLAN
14 26 (1.10%) Software-Defined Networking
15 24 (1.01%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.68%) HTTP
17 15 (0.63%) Wireless
18 14 (0.59%) SAN
19 13 (0.55%) Ethernet VPN
20 12 (0.51%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (7.31%) PostgreSQL
2 148 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 103 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
4 98 (4.14%) MongoDB
5 83 (3.51%) SQL Server
6 81 (3.42%) DynamoDB
7 63 (2.66%) Data Lake
8 60 (2.53%) MySQL
9 54 (2.28%) Relational Database
10 53 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
10 53 (2.24%) Metadata
11 43 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
12 35 (1.48%) Redis
13 31 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
14 30 (1.27%) Delta Lake
15 29 (1.23%) Big Data
16 27 (1.14%) BigQuery
17 25 (1.06%) Power BI
18 22 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
18 22 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 309 (13.05%) Git
2 285 (12.04%) GitLab
3 251 (10.60%) Jenkins
4 53 (2.24%) JIRA
5 44 (1.86%) Cucumber
6 32 (1.35%) CircleCI
7 31 (1.31%) Bitbucket
8 29 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 27 (1.14%) TeamCity
10 21 (0.89%) Selenium
11 18 (0.76%) Claude Code
12 16 (0.68%) SonarQube
13 15 (0.63%) NUnit
14 14 (0.59%) Cypress.io
15 12 (0.51%) MLflow
16 11 (0.46%) Maven
16 11 (0.46%) Subversion
17 9 (0.38%) JMeter
17 9 (0.38%) MSI
17 9 (0.38%) Snyk
General
1 650 (27.46%) Social Skills
2 545 (23.02%) Finance
3 213 (9.00%) Public Sector
4 185 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
5 140 (5.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 127 (5.37%) Banking
7 117 (4.94%) Law
8 72 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
9 65 (2.75%) Retail
10 49 (2.07%) Aerospace
11 46 (1.94%) Games
12 45 (1.90%) Marketing
13 39 (1.65%) Legal
14 31 (1.31%) Manufacturing
14 31 (1.31%) Telecoms
15 21 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
16 18 (0.76%) Aviation
16 18 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (0.72%) Advertising
18 15 (0.63%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 543 (22.94%) Senior
2 394 (16.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 344 (14.53%) Lead
4 317 (13.39%) Architect
5 284 (12.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 233 (9.84%) Platform Engineer
7 204 (8.62%) Developer
8 183 (7.73%) Azure Engineer
9 148 (6.25%) Software Engineer
10 142 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 138 (5.83%) AWS Engineer
12 122 (5.15%) Data Engineer
13 112 (4.73%) Principal Engineer
14 107 (4.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 94 (3.97%) Security Engineer
16 83 (3.51%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 78 (3.30%) Senior DevOps
18 75 (3.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 74 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 69 (2.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (8.28%) React
2 178 (7.52%) .NET
2 178 (7.52%) Kafka
3 155 (6.55%) REST
4 154 (6.51%) Node.js
5 141 (5.96%) Spring
6 139 (5.87%) Spring Boot
7 134 (5.66%) RESTful
8 96 (4.06%) AWS CDK
9 76 (3.21%) PySpark
10 75 (3.17%) YAML
11 69 (2.92%) ARM Templates
12 61 (2.58%) AngularJS
13 59 (2.49%) Next.js
14 58 (2.45%) RabbitMQ
15 52 (2.20%) Elastic Stack
16 50 (2.11%) OAuth
17 44 (1.86%) ASP.NET
18 42 (1.77%) CSS
19 41 (1.73%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 693 (29.28%) Cloud Native
2 249 (10.52%) Distributed Systems
3 123 (5.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 119 (5.03%) Onboarding
4 119 (5.03%) Public Cloud
5 90 (3.80%) Data Centre
6 82 (3.46%) Product Ownership
7 68 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
7 68 (2.87%) Security Posture
8 60 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
9 52 (2.20%) Enterprise Cloud
10 46 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
11 45 (1.90%) Video\Live Streaming
12 37 (1.56%) Management Information System
12 37 (1.56%) Virtual Team
13 36 (1.52%) Low-Code
13 36 (1.52%) Private Cloud
14 33 (1.39%) e-Learning
15 31 (1.31%) AI Agents
15 31 (1.31%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 391 (16.52%) Linux
2 225 (9.51%) Windows
3 101 (4.27%) Windows Server
4 55 (2.32%) CentOS
5 42 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (1.69%) Ubuntu
7 39 (1.65%) Unix
8 22 (0.93%) VMS
9 5 (0.21%) Android
9 5 (0.21%) Debian
9 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.17%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.084%) AIX
11 2 (0.084%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.084%) Solaris
12 1 (0.042%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.042%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.042%) SUSE
12 1 (0.042%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,659 (70.09%) CI/CD
2 1,300 (54.92%) DevOps
3 697 (29.45%) Containerisation
4 658 (27.80%) Agile
5 656 (27.71%) Observability
6 545 (23.02%) Platform Engineering
7 534 (22.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 518 (21.88%) Mentoring
9 508 (21.46%) AI
10 494 (20.87%) Software Engineering
11 408 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
12 404 (17.07%) Microservices
13 402 (16.98%) Technical Leadership
14 380 (16.05%) Test Automation
15 352 (14.87%) Cloud Security
16 336 (14.20%) Roadmaps
17 317 (13.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 260 (10.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 257 (10.86%) Event-Driven
20 255 (10.77%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,030 (43.51%) Python
2 367 (15.50%) Java
3 364 (15.38%) SQL
4 358 (15.12%) Bash
5 334 (14.11%) PowerShell
6 226 (9.55%) Bicep
7 216 (9.13%) TypeScript
8 195 (8.24%) JavaScript
9 183 (7.73%) C#
10 163 (6.89%) Go
11 47 (1.99%) Ruby
12 40 (1.69%) Scala
13 37 (1.56%) PHP
14 25 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
14 25 (1.06%) Rust
15 23 (0.97%) C++
15 23 (0.97%) Groovy
16 21 (0.89%) Perl
17 13 (0.55%) Shell Script
18 12 (0.51%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 557 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 350 (14.79%) SC Cleared
3 203 (8.58%) Degree
4 184 (7.77%) AWS Certification
5 179 (7.56%) DV Cleared
6 144 (6.08%) Azure Certification
7 87 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 84 (3.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 57 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 52 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
11 36 (1.52%) CCNP
12 30 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
13 29 (1.23%) Master's Degree
14 23 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
15 21 (0.89%) CISSP
16 20 (0.84%) OSCP
17 18 (0.76%) CCNA
18 15 (0.63%) DBS Check
18 15 (0.63%) SnowPro
19 14 (0.59%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (5.41%) QA
2 105 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 73 (3.08%) GDPR
4 70 (2.96%) GRC
5 57 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 49 (2.07%) Accessibility
7 39 (1.65%) NIST
8 34 (1.44%) SOC 2
9 26 (1.10%) NCSC
9 26 (1.10%) PCI DSS
10 24 (1.01%) WCAG
11 18 (0.76%) SLA
12 10 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.30%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.084%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.084%) ISO 20022
16 2 (0.084%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.084%) Solvency II
System Software
1 615 (25.98%) Docker
2 133 (5.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 129 (5.45%) Active Directory
4 46 (1.94%) vSphere
5 33 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (1.01%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (0.76%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.38%) KVM
11 8 (0.34%) Firmware
11 8 (0.34%) Squid
11 8 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.17%) iptables
14 3 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 2 (0.084%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 1,586 (67.00%) Terraform
2 873 (36.88%) Kubernetes
3 472 (19.94%) Ansible
4 240 (10.14%) Grafana
5 176 (7.44%) Prometheus
6 70 (2.96%) Argo
7 57 (2.41%) Puppet
8 36 (1.52%) Progress Chef
9 33 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 33 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
10 29 (1.23%) Istio
11 27 (1.14%) Packer
12 22 (0.93%) Nagios
13 16 (0.68%) FortiGate
13 16 (0.68%) vCenter Server
14 14 (0.59%) Cilium
15 12 (0.51%) Kustomize
15 12 (0.51%) ZABBIX
16 11 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 11 (0.46%) Rancher
Vendors
1 520 (21.97%) Microsoft
2 161 (6.80%) VMware
3 139 (5.87%) Google
4 103 (4.35%) Databricks
5 91 (3.84%) Red Hat
6 87 (3.68%) Splunk
7 72 (3.04%) Cisco
8 66 (2.79%) Oracle
9 48 (2.03%) Palo Alto
10 42 (1.77%) OpenAI
11 39 (1.65%) Dynatrace
11 39 (1.65%) Fortinet
12 25 (1.06%) Zscaler
13 23 (0.97%) ServiceNow
14 16 (0.68%) CrowdStrike
14 16 (0.68%) SAP
15 14 (0.59%) Atlassian
16 13 (0.55%) F5
17 12 (0.51%) Rapid7
17 12 (0.51%) Salesforce