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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 158 168
Rank change year-on-year +63 +10 -59
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,683 921 1,664
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.84% 2.10% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% 2.26% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,104 653 1,318
10th Percentile £49,564 £48,050 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,250 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +9.81% -5.90%
75th Percentile £91,053 £96,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £108,375 £111,850 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,450 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.21% +7.69% -6.40%

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 67,346 40,822 82,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.74% 93.29% 85.15%
Number of salaries quoted 43,359 22,211 59,550
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.97%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 16 May 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 16 May 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 +59 1,518 £77,500 - 686
London +40 767 £87,500 -2.78% 283
UK excluding London +59 760 £68,450 -2.21% 468
Work from Home +88 602 £70,000 -6.67% 531
North of England +36 277 £67,249 -3.93% 168
South East +38 168 £70,000 -6.67% 135
North West +51 157 £71,500 -1.38% 85
South West -6 106 £68,400 -4.99% 75
Midlands +28 103 £68,000 -2.86% 32
Yorkshire -25 86 £65,576 +1.67% 45
West Midlands -17 53 £70,079 +0.11% 19
East Midlands +6 48 £67,500 +3.85% 13
Scotland +7 44 £60,000 -19.93% 22
East of England +10 41 £60,100 -9.28% 27
North East -15 34 £49,222 -18.30% 38
Wales -13 19 £60,500 -4.35% 9
Northern Ireland -35 5 £95,000 - 5

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 47 (2.79%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (2.20%) Apache
3 30 (1.78%) Apache Spark
4 25 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (1.19%) Confluence
6 15 (0.89%) IIS
7 13 (0.77%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.30%) CMS
10 4 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.059%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.059%) Camunda
12 1 (0.059%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.059%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.059%) nginx
12 1 (0.059%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.059%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.59%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.24%) Weka
3 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.059%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.059%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.059%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.059%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.059%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 982 (58.35%) AWS
2 909 (54.01%) Azure
3 329 (19.55%) GitHub
4 314 (18.66%) GCP
5 305 (18.12%) Serverless
6 298 (17.71%) Azure DevOps
7 262 (15.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 222 (13.19%) GitHub Actions
9 176 (10.46%) AWS Lambda
10 150 (8.91%) Amazon S3
11 130 (7.72%) PaaS
12 121 (7.19%) Amazon EKS
13 116 (6.89%) Entra ID
14 115 (6.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 106 (6.30%) SaaS
16 104 (6.18%) Datadog
17 100 (5.94%) IaaS
18 98 (5.82%) Amazon EC2
19 88 (5.23%) Azure Monitor
20 87 (5.17%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 179 (10.64%) Firewall
2 96 (5.70%) DNS
3 73 (4.34%) VPN
4 67 (3.98%) TCP/IP
5 54 (3.21%) Broadband
6 51 (3.03%) Network Security
7 47 (2.79%) WAN
8 36 (2.14%) DHCP
9 31 (1.84%) BGP
10 26 (1.54%) LAN
11 23 (1.37%) HTTP
12 17 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
12 17 (1.01%) SD-WAN
12 17 (1.01%) VLAN
13 16 (0.95%) Software-Defined Networking
14 15 (0.89%) DSL
15 13 (0.77%) OSPF
16 10 (0.59%) Internet
17 9 (0.53%) VXLAN
18 8 (0.48%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (7.43%) NoSQL
2 117 (6.95%) PostgreSQL
3 87 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
4 74 (4.40%) MongoDB
5 66 (3.92%) DynamoDB
5 66 (3.92%) SQL Server
6 52 (3.09%) Relational Database
7 50 (2.97%) Data Lake
8 47 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
9 40 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
10 32 (1.90%) Metadata
11 31 (1.84%) BigQuery
12 28 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
12 28 (1.66%) MySQL
13 21 (1.25%) Delta Lake
13 21 (1.25%) Power BI
13 21 (1.25%) Redis
14 18 (1.07%) RDBMS
15 17 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
15 17 (1.01%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 232 (13.78%) GitLab
2 228 (13.55%) Git
3 225 (13.37%) Jenkins
4 44 (2.61%) CircleCI
5 36 (2.14%) Bitbucket
6 35 (2.08%) JIRA
7 28 (1.66%) Cucumber
8 20 (1.19%) Jaeger
9 16 (0.95%) Selenium
9 16 (0.95%) SonarQube
9 16 (0.95%) TeamCity
10 12 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 12 (0.71%) MLflow
10 12 (0.71%) Subversion
11 9 (0.53%) Maven
11 9 (0.53%) NUnit
11 9 (0.53%) Storybook
12 8 (0.48%) JMeter
12 8 (0.48%) Robot Framework
13 7 (0.42%) Vite
General
1 413 (24.54%) Social Skills
2 367 (21.81%) Finance
3 117 (6.95%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (6.48%) Public Sector
5 102 (6.06%) Banking
6 77 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 63 (3.74%) Retail
8 54 (3.21%) Law
9 50 (2.97%) Telecoms
10 36 (2.14%) Games
11 30 (1.78%) Manufacturing
12 23 (1.37%) Aerospace
12 23 (1.37%) Marketing
13 20 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
13 20 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
14 19 (1.13%) Billing
14 19 (1.13%) Legal
15 18 (1.07%) Advertising
16 16 (0.95%) Financial Institution
17 13 (0.77%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 383 (22.76%) Senior
2 267 (15.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 247 (14.68%) Cloud Engineer
4 235 (13.96%) Lead
5 168 (9.98%) Azure Engineer
6 166 (9.86%) Platform Engineer
7 156 (9.27%) Developer
8 151 (8.97%) Architect
9 125 (7.43%) AWS Engineer
10 120 (7.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 90 (5.35%) Data Engineer
12 87 (5.17%) Software Engineer
13 76 (4.52%) Security Engineer
14 73 (4.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 67 (3.98%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 63 (3.74%) Senior DevOps
17 56 (3.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 54 (3.21%) Principal Engineer
19 53 (3.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 49 (2.91%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (8.08%) React
2 121 (7.19%) Node.js
3 118 (7.01%) .NET
4 117 (6.95%) Kafka
5 109 (6.48%) REST
6 102 (6.06%) RESTful
7 79 (4.69%) YAML
8 78 (4.63%) AWS CDK
9 73 (4.34%) Spring
10 69 (4.10%) Elastic Stack
11 67 (3.98%) Spring Boot
12 63 (3.74%) OAuth
13 53 (3.15%) ARM Templates
14 51 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
15 50 (2.97%) PySpark
16 40 (2.38%) JSON
17 38 (2.26%) ASP.NET
18 36 (2.14%) AngularJS
18 36 (2.14%) ASP.NET Core
18 36 (2.14%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 409 (24.30%) Cloud Native
2 129 (7.66%) Distributed Systems
3 91 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 74 (4.40%) Public Cloud
5 60 (3.57%) Product Ownership
6 55 (3.27%) Data Centre
6 55 (3.27%) Security Posture
7 47 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
8 45 (2.67%) Onboarding
9 33 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
10 31 (1.84%) Low-Code
10 31 (1.84%) Video\Live Streaming
11 26 (1.54%) Management Information System
12 25 (1.49%) Blockchain
12 25 (1.49%) Mobile App
12 25 (1.49%) PKI
13 24 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
13 24 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
14 23 (1.37%) Web3
15 21 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 334 (19.85%) Linux
2 166 (9.86%) Windows
3 78 (4.63%) Windows Server
4 58 (3.45%) Unix
5 40 (2.38%) Ubuntu
6 32 (1.90%) CentOS
7 27 (1.60%) VMS
8 25 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (0.89%) Android
10 14 (0.83%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.42%) Debian
11 7 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.18%) SUSE
14 2 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.059%) Rocky
15 1 (0.059%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,174 (69.76%) CI/CD
2 1,006 (59.77%) DevOps
3 472 (28.05%) Agile
4 460 (27.33%) Observability
5 457 (27.15%) Containerisation
6 374 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 345 (20.50%) Mentoring
8 332 (19.73%) Platform Engineering
9 309 (18.36%) Test Automation
10 304 (18.06%) AI
11 284 (16.87%) Software Engineering
12 273 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
13 261 (15.51%) Microservices
14 231 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 228 (13.55%) Cloud Security
16 202 (12.00%) Analytics
17 199 (11.82%) Technical Leadership
18 184 (10.93%) DevSecOps
19 178 (10.58%) High Availability
20 170 (10.10%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 767 (45.57%) Python
2 305 (18.12%) Bash
3 270 (16.04%) PowerShell
4 269 (15.98%) SQL
5 237 (14.08%) Java
6 173 (10.28%) Go
7 164 (9.74%) JavaScript
8 154 (9.15%) TypeScript
9 139 (8.26%) Bicep
10 123 (7.31%) C#
11 29 (1.72%) Rust
12 28 (1.66%) C++
13 21 (1.25%) Scala
14 17 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
15 13 (0.77%) C
15 13 (0.77%) Groovy
15 13 (0.77%) PHP
16 12 (0.71%) Kotlin
17 9 (0.53%) Shell Script
18 8 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 321 (19.07%) Security Cleared
2 194 (11.53%) SC Cleared
3 156 (9.27%) Degree
4 132 (7.84%) AWS Certification
5 94 (5.59%) DV Cleared
6 88 (5.23%) Azure Certification
7 60 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 37 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 31 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 30 (1.78%) OSCP
11 27 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
12 26 (1.54%) CISSP
13 16 (0.95%) AWS Certified Developer
13 16 (0.95%) DBS Check
14 15 (0.89%) CCNP
15 13 (0.77%) CCNA
15 13 (0.77%) Master's Degree
16 12 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 10 (0.59%) CCSK
17 10 (0.59%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (4.87%) QA
2 68 (4.04%) Data Quality
3 66 (3.92%) GDPR
4 52 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 49 (2.91%) SOC 2
6 42 (2.50%) NIST
7 31 (1.84%) Accessibility
8 30 (1.78%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.77%) SLA
10 11 (0.65%) WCAG
11 9 (0.53%) NCSC
12 8 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.42%) GRC
14 3 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.12%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.12%) IFRS
15 2 (0.12%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.12%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.12%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 469 (27.87%) Docker
2 105 (6.24%) Active Directory
3 83 (4.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (1.72%) vSphere
6 20 (1.19%) Hyper-V
6 20 (1.19%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.53%) Firmware
8 7 (0.42%) iptables
8 7 (0.42%) KVM
9 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.36%) Squid
9 6 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.12%) GPFS
11 2 (0.12%) Lustre
11 2 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.059%) vCloud
12 1 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,166 (69.28%) Terraform
2 655 (38.92%) Kubernetes
3 364 (21.63%) Ansible
4 219 (13.01%) Grafana
5 208 (12.36%) Prometheus
6 58 (3.45%) Argo
7 43 (2.55%) Single Sign-On
8 42 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
9 39 (2.32%) Puppet
10 23 (1.37%) Progress Chef
11 22 (1.31%) Kustomize
12 19 (1.13%) Nagios
13 18 (1.07%) Rancher
14 17 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 17 (1.01%) Packer
15 16 (0.95%) Istio
16 12 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
17 10 (0.59%) vCenter Server
17 10 (0.59%) ZABBIX
18 9 (0.53%) yum
Vendors
1 315 (18.72%) Microsoft
2 117 (6.95%) VMware
3 109 (6.48%) Google
4 75 (4.46%) Databricks
5 67 (3.98%) Red Hat
6 56 (3.33%) Cisco
7 51 (3.03%) Splunk
8 46 (2.73%) Palo Alto
9 24 (1.43%) Zscaler
10 22 (1.31%) Salesforce
11 21 (1.25%) CrowdStrike
11 21 (1.25%) Dynatrace
11 21 (1.25%) OpenAI
12 19 (1.13%) Oracle
13 18 (1.07%) Fortinet
14 12 (0.71%) F5
14 12 (0.71%) Juniper
15 11 (0.65%) Atlassian
15 11 (0.65%) CheckPoint
15 11 (0.65%) Foundry