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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 159 161
Rank change year-on-year +82 +2 -59
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,144 1,020 1,647
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.16% 2.08% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.93% 2.31% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,454 694 1,249
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £108,750 £105,000
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 73,194 44,164 80,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.69% 90.07% 82.10%
Number of salaries quoted 50,654 24,819 55,696
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,888 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +3.43% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,840 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 18 July 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 18 July 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 +72 1,898 £77,500 - 626
UK excluding London +105 1,083 £70,000 - 428
London +30 892 £87,500 -2.78% 297
Work from Home +79 770 £71,000 -5.79% 334
North of England +74 368 £70,000 - 145
South East +50 225 £70,000 -9.68% 118
North West +85 220 £73,401 +3.02% 80
South West +39 176 £75,000 +3.45% 72
Midlands +34 131 £75,000 +15.38% 46
Yorkshire +4 92 £66,538 -4.95% 38
West Midlands +13 78 £80,000 +23.08% 32
North East -5 56 £55,000 -15.38% 27
East Midlands +20 53 £67,500 +3.85% 14
East of England +10 52 £62,500 - 9
Northern Ireland -15 51 £73,801 +71.27% 7
Wales -11 49 £70,539 +22.68% 14
Scotland +14 39 £66,250 -11.07% 21

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 53 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (2.01%) Apache
3 41 (1.91%) Apache Spark
4 36 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 26 (1.21%) Confluence
6 11 (0.51%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.47%) Jupyter
8 9 (0.42%) IIS
9 5 (0.23%) CMS
9 5 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.14%) WordPress
12 2 (0.093%) Camunda
12 2 (0.093%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.047%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.047%) Documentum
13 1 (0.047%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.047%) nginx
13 1 (0.047%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 20 (0.93%) PlantUML
2 11 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.093%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.093%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.093%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.093%) Weka
5 1 (0.047%) Maya
5 1 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.047%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.14%) Summit
4 2 (0.093%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.093%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.047%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 1,209 (56.39%) AWS
2 1,171 (54.62%) Azure
3 385 (17.96%) GitHub
4 376 (17.54%) GCP
5 361 (16.84%) Serverless
6 329 (15.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 314 (14.65%) Azure DevOps
8 221 (10.31%) GitHub Actions
9 200 (9.33%) AWS Lambda
10 194 (9.05%) Amazon S3
11 179 (8.35%) PaaS
12 143 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
13 135 (6.30%) Amazon EC2
14 130 (6.06%) IaaS
15 127 (5.92%) SaaS
16 121 (5.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 121 (5.64%) Amazon ECS
16 121 (5.64%) Microsoft 365
17 116 (5.41%) Entra ID
18 115 (5.36%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 183 (8.54%) Firewall
2 113 (5.27%) DNS
3 110 (5.13%) VPN
4 106 (4.94%) WAN
5 99 (4.62%) Network Security
6 83 (3.87%) LAN
7 70 (3.26%) TCP/IP
8 64 (2.99%) Broadband
9 48 (2.24%) BGP
10 37 (1.73%) VLAN
11 32 (1.49%) DHCP
12 29 (1.35%) OSPF
13 23 (1.07%) HTTP
13 23 (1.07%) SD-WAN
13 23 (1.07%) VXLAN
14 22 (1.03%) Software-Defined Networking
15 13 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
16 11 (0.51%) Wireless
17 10 (0.47%) DSL
17 10 (0.47%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (7.56%) PostgreSQL
2 145 (6.76%) NoSQL
3 98 (4.57%) Amazon RDS
4 91 (4.24%) MongoDB
5 73 (3.40%) DynamoDB
6 71 (3.31%) SQL Server
7 57 (2.66%) Relational Database
8 55 (2.57%) Azure SQL Database
9 54 (2.52%) Data Lake
10 50 (2.33%) Metadata
11 48 (2.24%) MySQL
12 37 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
13 35 (1.63%) Redis
14 32 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
15 25 (1.17%) Delta Lake
16 24 (1.12%) BigQuery
17 23 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
17 23 (1.07%) Power BI
18 22 (1.03%) Big Data
19 20 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 288 (13.43%) GitLab
2 280 (13.06%) Git
3 251 (11.71%) Jenkins
4 42 (1.96%) CircleCI
4 42 (1.96%) JIRA
5 41 (1.91%) Cucumber
6 31 (1.45%) Bitbucket
7 27 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 24 (1.12%) TeamCity
9 16 (0.75%) Claude Code
9 16 (0.75%) Selenium
10 15 (0.70%) SonarQube
11 12 (0.56%) Subversion
12 10 (0.47%) Maven
12 10 (0.47%) MLflow
13 9 (0.42%) JMeter
13 9 (0.42%) NUnit
14 8 (0.37%) Cypress.io
14 8 (0.37%) Jaeger
14 8 (0.37%) Vite
General
1 570 (26.59%) Social Skills
2 474 (22.11%) Finance
3 185 (8.63%) Public Sector
4 156 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
5 116 (5.41%) Banking
6 107 (4.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 96 (4.48%) Law
8 64 (2.99%) Retail
9 60 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
10 43 (2.01%) Games
11 36 (1.68%) Telecoms
12 32 (1.49%) Aerospace
13 30 (1.40%) Manufacturing
14 27 (1.26%) Legal
15 22 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
16 21 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
16 21 (0.98%) Marketing
17 20 (0.93%) Advertising
18 17 (0.79%) Financial Institution
19 10 (0.47%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 494 (23.04%) Senior
2 370 (17.26%) DevOps Engineer
3 300 (13.99%) Lead
4 281 (13.11%) Architect
5 273 (12.73%) Cloud Engineer
6 220 (10.26%) Platform Engineer
7 189 (8.82%) Azure Engineer
8 186 (8.68%) Developer
9 138 (6.44%) AWS Engineer
10 127 (5.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 114 (5.32%) Software Engineer
12 105 (4.90%) Data Engineer
13 100 (4.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 94 (4.38%) Principal Engineer
15 88 (4.10%) Security Engineer
16 81 (3.78%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 80 (3.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 76 (3.54%) Senior DevOps
19 68 (3.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 65 (3.03%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (7.88%) React
2 154 (7.18%) Kafka
3 147 (6.86%) .NET
4 143 (6.67%) Node.js
5 136 (6.34%) REST
6 122 (5.69%) RESTful
7 120 (5.60%) Spring
7 120 (5.60%) Spring Boot
8 91 (4.24%) AWS CDK
9 81 (3.78%) YAML
10 70 (3.26%) ARM Templates
11 67 (3.13%) PySpark
12 66 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
13 56 (2.61%) RabbitMQ
14 50 (2.33%) OAuth
15 49 (2.29%) AngularJS
15 49 (2.29%) Next.js
16 42 (1.96%) JSON
17 39 (1.82%) FastAPI
18 34 (1.59%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 604 (28.17%) Cloud Native
2 215 (10.03%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (5.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 101 (4.71%) Public Cloud
5 97 (4.52%) Onboarding
6 78 (3.64%) Product Ownership
7 77 (3.59%) Data Centre
8 65 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
9 60 (2.80%) Security Posture
10 50 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
11 49 (2.29%) Video\Live Streaming
12 45 (2.10%) Enterprise Cloud
13 40 (1.87%) Low-Code
14 33 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
15 31 (1.45%) PKI
16 29 (1.35%) e-Learning
16 29 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
17 27 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
18 26 (1.21%) Management Information System
19 25 (1.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 363 (16.93%) Linux
2 203 (9.47%) Windows
3 88 (4.10%) Windows Server
4 53 (2.47%) CentOS
5 42 (1.96%) Ubuntu
6 37 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 35 (1.63%) Unix
8 28 (1.31%) VMS
9 9 (0.42%) Android
10 8 (0.37%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.28%) Debian
13 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.093%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.047%) AIX
15 1 (0.047%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.047%) Rocky
15 1 (0.047%) SUSE
15 1 (0.047%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,498 (69.87%) CI/CD
2 1,203 (56.11%) DevOps
3 637 (29.71%) Containerisation
4 595 (27.75%) Agile
5 581 (27.10%) Observability
6 487 (22.71%) Platform Engineering
7 459 (21.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 459 (21.41%) Mentoring
8 445 (20.76%) AI
9 412 (19.22%) Software Engineering
10 364 (16.98%) Microservices
11 356 (16.60%) Test Automation
12 350 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
13 333 (15.53%) Technical Leadership
14 300 (13.99%) Cloud Security
15 294 (13.71%) Roadmaps
16 282 (13.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 237 (11.05%) Analytics
18 232 (10.82%) Event-Driven
19 229 (10.68%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 943 (43.98%) Python
2 358 (16.70%) Bash
3 334 (15.58%) SQL
4 327 (15.25%) Java
5 318 (14.83%) PowerShell
6 210 (9.79%) Bicep
7 198 (9.24%) TypeScript
8 189 (8.82%) JavaScript
9 176 (8.21%) Go
10 161 (7.51%) C#
11 43 (2.01%) Ruby
12 38 (1.77%) PHP
13 29 (1.35%) Rust
14 26 (1.21%) C++
14 26 (1.21%) Scala
15 24 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
16 20 (0.93%) Groovy
16 20 (0.93%) Perl
17 11 (0.51%) Kotlin
18 10 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 470 (21.92%) Security Cleared
2 285 (13.29%) SC Cleared
3 179 (8.35%) Degree
4 147 (6.86%) AWS Certification
5 141 (6.58%) DV Cleared
6 120 (5.60%) Azure Certification
7 75 (3.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 70 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 53 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 45 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
11 29 (1.35%) CCNP
12 26 (1.21%) Master's Degree
13 24 (1.12%) OSCP
14 23 (1.07%) CISSP
15 18 (0.84%) CCNA
16 14 (0.65%) DBS Check
16 14 (0.65%) RHCSA
17 13 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
18 11 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 11 (0.51%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (5.27%) QA
2 93 (4.34%) Data Quality
3 62 (2.89%) GDPR
3 62 (2.89%) GRC
4 51 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (2.01%) SOC 2
6 39 (1.82%) Accessibility
7 37 (1.73%) PCI DSS
8 36 (1.68%) NIST
9 23 (1.07%) WCAG
10 18 (0.84%) NCSC
11 11 (0.51%) SLA
12 10 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.093%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.093%) IFRS
15 2 (0.093%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.093%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.093%) Solvency II
System Software
1 556 (25.93%) Docker
2 123 (5.74%) Active Directory
3 119 (5.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 44 (2.05%) vSphere
5 35 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.89%) Hyper-V
7 16 (0.75%) VMware NSX
8 15 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.37%) Squid
11 7 (0.33%) Firmware
12 6 (0.28%) iptables
12 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.23%) KVM
14 3 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 2 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,454 (67.82%) Terraform
2 810 (37.78%) Kubernetes
3 434 (20.24%) Ansible
4 236 (11.01%) Grafana
5 195 (9.10%) Prometheus
6 68 (3.17%) Argo
7 46 (2.15%) Puppet
8 41 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
9 38 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
10 29 (1.35%) Progress Chef
11 28 (1.31%) Packer
12 25 (1.17%) Istio
13 23 (1.07%) Nagios
14 16 (0.75%) Kustomize
15 15 (0.70%) FortiGate
16 14 (0.65%) vCenter Server
17 13 (0.61%) ZABBIX
18 12 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 12 (0.56%) Cilium
18 12 (0.56%) Rancher
Vendors
1 451 (21.04%) Microsoft
2 149 (6.95%) VMware
3 109 (5.08%) Google
4 81 (3.78%) Databricks
5 77 (3.59%) Red Hat
6 73 (3.40%) Splunk
7 65 (3.03%) Cisco
8 52 (2.43%) Palo Alto
9 47 (2.19%) Oracle
10 36 (1.68%) Fortinet
11 33 (1.54%) OpenAI
12 28 (1.31%) Zscaler
13 26 (1.21%) Dynatrace
14 17 (0.79%) CrowdStrike
15 14 (0.65%) F5
16 13 (0.61%) Rapid7
16 13 (0.61%) Salesforce
17 12 (0.56%) ScienceLogic
17 12 (0.56%) ServiceNow
18 10 (0.47%) Okta