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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 134 152
Rank change year-on-year +27 +18 -49
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,392 984 1,649
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.85% 2.31% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 2.48% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 925 703 1,321
10th Percentile £47,050 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,764 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £67,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.37% +4.23% -3.70%

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 58,352 39,745 74,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.73% 93.47% 87.16%
Number of salaries quoted 35,337 22,215 56,156
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,029
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,424 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 +24 1,204 £75,000 - 663
UK excluding London +7 636 £67,500 -0.37% 486
London +34 601 £85,000 -5.56% 264
Work from Home +45 556 £70,000 -6.67% 376
North of England -13 217 £65,000 -2.54% 155
South East +2 135 £70,000 -3.45% 136
North West -9 100 £72,500 +0.35% 78
South West -6 89 £62,500 -10.71% 84
Yorkshire -7 88 £62,500 +19.05% 48
Midlands -4 71 £67,500 +3.85% 42
Scotland -14 57 £65,000 -5.45% 21
East of England +5 35 £65,000 -10.34% 35
West Midlands -13 35 £66,500 -5.00% 36
East Midlands -19 34 £67,500 +3.85% 5
North East -11 29 £48,445 -15.75% 29
Wales -1 22 £64,998 +32.37% 11
Northern Ireland -30 10 £95,000 +11.76% 7

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 52 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (2.87%) Apache
3 29 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (1.80%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.15%) IIS
6 15 (1.08%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.86%) Confluence
7 12 (0.86%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.22%) CMS
8 3 (0.22%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.14%) Appian
9 2 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.072%) Camunda
10 1 (0.072%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.072%) nginx
10 1 (0.072%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.072%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.29%) PlantUML
1 4 (0.29%) Weka
2 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.072%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.072%) Maya
4 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.072%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.072%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.072%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.072%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 861 (61.85%) AWS
2 772 (55.46%) Azure
3 314 (22.56%) GCP
4 306 (21.98%) GitHub
5 289 (20.76%) Azure DevOps
6 265 (19.04%) Serverless
7 259 (18.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 218 (15.66%) GitHub Actions
9 167 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
10 140 (10.06%) Amazon S3
11 128 (9.20%) PaaS
12 123 (8.84%) Amazon EKS
13 121 (8.69%) SaaS
14 112 (8.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 106 (7.61%) Entra ID
16 91 (6.54%) Datadog
17 90 (6.47%) Microsoft 365
18 89 (6.39%) Amazon ECS
19 86 (6.18%) Amazon EC2
20 80 (5.75%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 162 (11.64%) Firewall
2 85 (6.11%) DNS
3 77 (5.53%) TCP/IP
4 70 (5.03%) VPN
5 39 (2.80%) Network Security
6 37 (2.66%) Broadband
6 37 (2.66%) WAN
7 33 (2.37%) DHCP
8 20 (1.44%) HTTP
9 17 (1.22%) BGP
9 17 (1.22%) VLAN
10 15 (1.08%) Cisco ASA
10 15 (1.08%) DSL
10 15 (1.08%) Internet
10 15 (1.08%) LAN
11 11 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (0.50%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
13 6 (0.43%) Wireless
14 5 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (7.83%) NoSQL
2 105 (7.54%) PostgreSQL
3 98 (7.04%) Amazon RDS
4 57 (4.09%) SQL Server
5 54 (3.88%) DynamoDB
6 43 (3.09%) Relational Database
7 42 (3.02%) Data Lake
8 41 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
8 41 (2.95%) MongoDB
9 37 (2.66%) Redis
10 36 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
11 33 (2.37%) MySQL
12 29 (2.08%) BigQuery
13 26 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
14 22 (1.58%) Metadata
14 22 (1.58%) Power BI
15 19 (1.36%) RDBMS
16 17 (1.22%) Delta Lake
17 16 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
18 15 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 209 (15.01%) Jenkins
2 181 (13.00%) GitLab
3 180 (12.93%) Git
4 32 (2.30%) CircleCI
5 30 (2.16%) Bitbucket
6 29 (2.08%) JIRA
7 28 (2.01%) Selenium
8 24 (1.72%) Robot Framework
9 21 (1.51%) Cucumber
9 21 (1.51%) Jaeger
10 17 (1.22%) Snyk
11 16 (1.15%) TeamCity
12 15 (1.08%) JMeter
12 15 (1.08%) MLflow
13 12 (0.86%) Locust
14 11 (0.79%) SonarQube
15 10 (0.72%) Subversion
16 9 (0.65%) Storybook
17 8 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 8 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 376 (27.01%) Social Skills
2 335 (24.07%) Finance
3 136 (9.77%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (6.68%) Banking
5 87 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 75 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 67 (4.81%) Law
8 59 (4.24%) Retail
9 57 (4.09%) Telecoms
10 32 (2.30%) Financial Institution
11 28 (2.01%) Marketing
12 22 (1.58%) Manufacturing
13 21 (1.51%) Games
14 20 (1.44%) Back Office
14 20 (1.44%) Billing
15 18 (1.29%) Advertising
16 16 (1.15%) Aerospace
17 15 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
17 15 (1.08%) Legal
18 14 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 313 (22.49%) Senior
2 224 (16.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 206 (14.80%) Cloud Engineer
4 178 (12.79%) Lead
5 130 (9.34%) Developer
6 128 (9.20%) Azure Engineer
7 126 (9.05%) Platform Engineer
8 119 (8.55%) Architect
9 98 (7.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 97 (6.97%) AWS Engineer
11 67 (4.81%) Software Engineer
12 60 (4.31%) Data Engineer
13 55 (3.95%) Senior DevOps
14 54 (3.88%) Security Engineer
15 47 (3.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 43 (3.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 43 (3.09%) Cloud Security Engineer
17 41 (2.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 39 (2.80%) Lead DevOps
19 37 (2.66%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (9.05%) React
2 100 (7.18%) Node.js
3 88 (6.32%) .NET
4 86 (6.18%) RESTful
5 81 (5.82%) Elastic Stack
6 77 (5.53%) Kafka
7 72 (5.17%) REST
8 70 (5.03%) AWS CDK
9 63 (4.53%) Spring
10 59 (4.24%) Spring Boot
11 56 (4.02%) OAuth
11 56 (4.02%) YAML
12 48 (3.45%) Django
13 42 (3.02%) RabbitMQ
14 38 (2.73%) ARM Templates
15 36 (2.59%) FastAPI
16 35 (2.51%) .NET Core
16 35 (2.51%) CSS
17 33 (2.37%) SAML
18 31 (2.23%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 315 (22.63%) Cloud Native
2 77 (5.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 62 (4.45%) Distributed Systems
4 61 (4.38%) Security Posture
5 57 (4.09%) Public Cloud
6 52 (3.74%) Product Ownership
7 41 (2.95%) Data Centre
8 39 (2.80%) Onboarding
9 37 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
10 32 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
11 30 (2.16%) Linux Command Line
12 27 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
13 23 (1.65%) Management Information System
14 20 (1.44%) Mobile App
14 20 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
15 19 (1.36%) PKI
16 18 (1.29%) Cloud Security Posture
16 18 (1.29%) Hedge funds
17 17 (1.22%) Blog
17 17 (1.22%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 320 (22.99%) Linux
2 161 (11.57%) Windows
3 82 (5.89%) Unix
4 59 (4.24%) Windows Server
5 33 (2.37%) VMS
6 29 (2.08%) Ubuntu
7 22 (1.58%) CentOS
7 22 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (1.08%) Android
9 14 (1.01%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.57%) Debian
11 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.29%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.29%) SUSE
13 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.072%) Rocky
14 1 (0.072%) Solaris
14 1 (0.072%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 963 (69.18%) CI/CD
2 894 (64.22%) DevOps
3 418 (30.03%) Agile
4 389 (27.95%) Containerisation
5 350 (25.14%) Observability
6 323 (23.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 282 (20.26%) Mentoring
8 277 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
9 229 (16.45%) Platform Engineering
10 221 (15.88%) Software Engineering
11 215 (15.45%) Test Automation
12 213 (15.30%) AI
13 192 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 191 (13.72%) Cloud Security
15 182 (13.07%) Microservices
16 175 (12.57%) Analytics
16 175 (12.57%) Incident Response
17 157 (11.28%) DevSecOps
18 146 (10.49%) High Availability
19 141 (10.13%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 637 (45.76%) Python
2 268 (19.25%) Bash
3 231 (16.59%) PowerShell
4 219 (15.73%) SQL
5 196 (14.08%) Java
6 146 (10.49%) Go
7 128 (9.20%) JavaScript
8 127 (9.12%) Bicep
9 108 (7.76%) TypeScript
10 85 (6.11%) C#
11 20 (1.44%) C++
12 19 (1.36%) Rust
13 18 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
14 16 (1.15%) Scala
15 15 (1.08%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.72%) Apex Code
16 10 (0.72%) C
17 8 (0.57%) Ruby
18 7 (0.50%) Google Apps Script
19 5 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 268 (19.25%) Security Cleared
2 157 (11.28%) SC Cleared
3 116 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 115 (8.26%) Degree
5 105 (7.54%) DV Cleared
6 75 (5.39%) Azure Certification
7 48 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 33 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 29 (2.08%) CISSP
11 28 (2.01%) OSCP
12 17 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
13 11 (0.79%) CCSK
13 11 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (0.79%) DBS Check
13 11 (0.79%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 8 (0.57%) CCNP
17 7 (0.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (5.10%) QA
2 70 (5.03%) GDPR
3 58 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 54 (3.88%) Data Quality
5 51 (3.66%) SOC 2
6 45 (3.23%) NIST
7 40 (2.87%) PCI DSS
8 39 (2.80%) Accessibility
9 17 (1.22%) SLA
10 14 (1.01%) WCAG
11 12 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (0.50%) GRC
12 7 (0.50%) NCSC
13 4 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.29%) EU AI Act
14 2 (0.14%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.14%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 459 (32.97%) Docker
2 84 (6.03%) Active Directory
3 68 (4.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (1.72%) Hyper-V
6 22 (1.58%) vSphere
7 16 (1.15%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.86%) Firmware
9 10 (0.72%) KVM
9 10 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
10 9 (0.65%) vCloud
11 4 (0.29%) iptables
11 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.14%) GPFS
12 2 (0.14%) Lustre
12 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.072%) QEMU
13 1 (0.072%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 977 (70.19%) Terraform
2 545 (39.15%) Kubernetes
3 327 (23.49%) Ansible
4 209 (15.01%) Grafana
5 201 (14.44%) Prometheus
6 54 (3.88%) Argo
7 44 (3.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 32 (2.30%) Puppet
9 30 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (1.36%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.22%) AWS Copilot
12 16 (1.15%) Rancher
13 14 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
13 14 (1.01%) Nagios
13 14 (1.01%) Progress Chef
14 12 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 10 (0.72%) SCCM
16 9 (0.65%) Istio
17 8 (0.57%) linkerd
17 8 (0.57%) yum
Vendors
1 239 (17.17%) Microsoft
2 130 (9.34%) Google
3 104 (7.47%) VMware
4 49 (3.52%) Databricks
5 47 (3.38%) Splunk
6 45 (3.23%) Red Hat
7 44 (3.16%) Cisco
8 39 (2.80%) Palo Alto
9 21 (1.51%) Salesforce
9 21 (1.51%) Zscaler
10 19 (1.36%) Dynatrace
11 17 (1.22%) Black Duck
11 17 (1.22%) Coverity
12 16 (1.15%) CrowdStrike
12 16 (1.15%) Juniper
13 13 (0.93%) Atlassian
13 13 (0.93%) Foundry
13 13 (0.93%) OpenAI
14 12 (0.86%) Palantir
14 12 (0.86%) SAP