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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 161 126
Rank change year-on-year +86 -35 -38
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,550 1,003 1,550
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.16% 2.02% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 2.27% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,630 711 937
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £44,738
25th Percentile £60,436 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.04%
75th Percentile £91,250 £93,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £69,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.72% +6.92% -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 86,437 44,202 61,341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.18% 89.12% 81.82%
Number of salaries quoted 59,483 24,460 33,440
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,465
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.93% -2.56%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 +83 2,213 £77,500 +3.33% 2,914
UK excluding London +108 1,385 £70,000 +0.72% 1,532
London +31 967 £90,000 +5.88% 1,617
Work from Home +53 819 £75,000 +1.35% 1,295
North of England +100 493 £69,305 -0.99% 444
North West +98 271 £71,991 +10.76% 277
South East +59 248 £67,500 -16.92% 293
South West +52 247 £75,000 +7.14% 253
Midlands +28 154 £75,000 +15.38% 184
North East +23 126 £60,000 -17.24% 66
Yorkshire +6 105 £68,000 -2.86% 105
West Midlands +5 96 £84,387 +30.83% 109
Wales -8 80 £70,000 +19.15% 42
Northern Ireland -30 61 £71,991 +67.07% 35
East Midlands 0 58 £65,000 - 75
East of England -18 57 £70,000 +7.69% 114
Scotland +14 54 £72,500 +7.41% 175

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 65 (2.55%) Apache
2 64 (2.51%) Apache Spark
3 58 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 30 (1.18%) Confluence
6 16 (0.63%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.51%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.35%) CMS
8 9 (0.35%) nginx
9 8 (0.31%) IIS
9 8 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.20%) Camunda
11 4 (0.16%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.12%) WordPress
13 2 (0.078%) Cloud Foundry
14 1 (0.039%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.039%) NServiceBus
14 1 (0.039%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 21 (0.82%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.078%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.039%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.039%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) Summit
4 2 (0.078%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.078%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.078%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.039%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1,436 (56.31%) AWS
2 1,374 (53.88%) Azure
3 525 (20.59%) GCP
4 466 (18.27%) GitHub
5 412 (16.16%) AWS CloudFormation
6 388 (15.22%) Serverless
7 332 (13.02%) Azure DevOps
8 256 (10.04%) GitHub Actions
9 210 (8.24%) AWS Lambda
10 209 (8.20%) Amazon S3
11 188 (7.37%) PaaS
12 154 (6.04%) Amazon EKS
13 151 (5.92%) Amazon ECS
14 147 (5.76%) Amazon EC2
15 145 (5.69%) SaaS
16 143 (5.61%) Azure AKS
17 137 (5.37%) Cloud Computing
17 137 (5.37%) Entra ID
17 137 (5.37%) IaaS
18 131 (5.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 180 (7.06%) Firewall
2 143 (5.61%) VPN
3 138 (5.41%) DNS
4 121 (4.75%) Network Security
5 118 (4.63%) WAN
6 91 (3.57%) LAN
7 67 (2.63%) TCP/IP
8 56 (2.20%) BGP
9 51 (2.00%) DHCP
10 43 (1.69%) Internet
11 42 (1.65%) Broadband
12 39 (1.53%) OSPF
13 31 (1.22%) VLAN
14 28 (1.10%) VXLAN
15 26 (1.02%) Software-Defined Networking
16 24 (0.94%) SD-WAN
17 16 (0.63%) SAN
17 16 (0.63%) Wireless
18 15 (0.59%) Ethernet VPN
18 15 (0.59%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (7.96%) PostgreSQL
2 165 (6.47%) NoSQL
3 120 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
4 110 (4.31%) MongoDB
5 88 (3.45%) SQL Server
6 79 (3.10%) DynamoDB
7 73 (2.86%) MySQL
8 70 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
9 66 (2.59%) Data Lake
10 52 (2.04%) Metadata
10 52 (2.04%) Redis
11 51 (2.00%) Relational Database
12 44 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
13 34 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
14 31 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
14 31 (1.22%) Big Data
15 30 (1.18%) Delta Lake
15 30 (1.18%) Power BI
16 25 (0.98%) BigQuery
17 23 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 375 (14.71%) Git
2 318 (12.47%) GitLab
3 275 (10.78%) Jenkins
4 55 (2.16%) JIRA
5 47 (1.84%) Cucumber
6 34 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 31 (1.22%) TeamCity
8 24 (0.94%) Claude Code
9 22 (0.86%) Bitbucket
10 20 (0.78%) CircleCI
11 19 (0.75%) Selenium
12 15 (0.59%) Cypress.io
13 14 (0.55%) SonarQube
13 14 (0.55%) Subversion
14 12 (0.47%) Maven
14 12 (0.47%) Snyk
15 9 (0.35%) MLflow
15 9 (0.35%) MSI
15 9 (0.35%) NUnit
15 9 (0.35%) Vite
General
1 714 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 584 (22.90%) Finance
3 293 (11.49%) Public Sector
4 239 (9.37%) Analytical Skills
5 170 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 141 (5.53%) Banking
7 121 (4.75%) Law
8 75 (2.94%) Retail
9 73 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
10 64 (2.51%) Aerospace
11 41 (1.61%) Marketing
12 38 (1.49%) Legal
13 33 (1.29%) Games
14 25 (0.98%) Financial Institution
14 25 (0.98%) Manufacturing
15 21 (0.82%) Telecoms
16 17 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
16 17 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
17 16 (0.63%) Aviation
18 14 (0.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 617 (24.20%) Senior
2 480 (18.82%) DevOps Engineer
3 354 (13.88%) Architect
4 346 (13.57%) Lead
5 299 (11.73%) Cloud Engineer
6 260 (10.20%) Platform Engineer
7 208 (8.16%) Developer
8 198 (7.76%) Azure Engineer
9 193 (7.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 167 (6.55%) Software Engineer
11 151 (5.92%) AWS Engineer
12 137 (5.37%) Principal Engineer
13 128 (5.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 118 (4.63%) Data Engineer
15 103 (4.04%) Security Engineer
16 99 (3.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 85 (3.33%) Senior DevOps
18 81 (3.18%) Senior Developer
18 81 (3.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 79 (3.10%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,690 (66.27%) Terraform
2 214 (8.39%) React
3 207 (8.12%) Kafka
4 185 (7.25%) .NET
5 173 (6.78%) Spring
5 173 (6.78%) Spring Boot
6 157 (6.16%) Node.js
7 152 (5.96%) RESTful
8 147 (5.76%) REST
9 86 (3.37%) AWS CDK
10 77 (3.02%) PySpark
11 66 (2.59%) AngularJS
11 66 (2.59%) ARM Templates
12 63 (2.47%) Next.js
13 56 (2.20%) YAML
14 55 (2.16%) RabbitMQ
15 53 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
15 53 (2.08%) LangChain
16 47 (1.84%) FastAPI
17 45 (1.76%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 772 (30.27%) Cloud Native
2 285 (11.18%) Distributed Systems
3 140 (5.49%) Hybrid Cloud
4 132 (5.18%) Onboarding
5 131 (5.14%) Public Cloud
6 94 (3.69%) Data Centre
7 87 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
8 77 (3.02%) Product Ownership
9 72 (2.82%) Security Posture
10 69 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
11 64 (2.51%) Linux Command Line
12 59 (2.31%) Enterprise Cloud
13 54 (2.12%) Management Information System
14 53 (2.08%) AI Agents
15 51 (2.00%) Virtual Team
16 49 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
17 47 (1.84%) e-Learning
18 45 (1.76%) Private Cloud
19 41 (1.61%) PKI
20 35 (1.37%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 462 (18.12%) Linux
2 229 (8.98%) Windows
3 99 (3.88%) Windows Server
4 60 (2.35%) CentOS
5 52 (2.04%) Unix
6 49 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 37 (1.45%) Ubuntu
8 21 (0.82%) VMS
9 7 (0.27%) Debian
10 6 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.16%) AIX
13 2 (0.078%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.078%) Android
13 2 (0.078%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.078%) Rocky
13 2 (0.078%) Solaris
14 1 (0.039%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.039%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.039%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,828 (71.69%) CI/CD
2 1,412 (55.37%) DevOps
3 762 (29.88%) Containerisation
4 744 (29.18%) Agile
5 697 (27.33%) Observability
6 646 (25.33%) Platform Engineering
7 601 (23.57%) Mentoring
8 583 (22.86%) AI
9 563 (22.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 544 (21.33%) Software Engineering
11 482 (18.90%) Problem-Solving
12 447 (17.53%) Microservices
13 439 (17.22%) Cloud Security
14 429 (16.82%) Technical Leadership
15 421 (16.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 399 (15.65%) Test Automation
17 369 (14.47%) Roadmaps
18 316 (12.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 290 (11.37%) Event-Driven
20 284 (11.14%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,090 (42.75%) Python
2 409 (16.04%) Java
3 397 (15.57%) Bash
4 379 (14.86%) SQL
5 364 (14.27%) PowerShell
6 244 (9.57%) Bicep
7 233 (9.14%) TypeScript
8 190 (7.45%) JavaScript
9 189 (7.41%) C#
10 165 (6.47%) Go
11 58 (2.27%) Shell Script
12 50 (1.96%) Ruby
13 41 (1.61%) Scala
14 35 (1.37%) PHP
15 32 (1.25%) Groovy
16 29 (1.14%) Rust
17 25 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
18 22 (0.86%) C++
19 17 (0.67%) Perl
20 14 (0.55%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 665 (26.08%) Security Cleared
2 425 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 226 (8.86%) AWS Certification
4 214 (8.39%) DV Cleared
5 175 (6.86%) Degree
6 161 (6.31%) Azure Certification
7 100 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 83 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 67 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 58 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
11 44 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
12 30 (1.18%) CCNP
12 30 (1.18%) CISSP
13 28 (1.10%) Master's Degree
13 28 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
14 21 (0.82%) CCNA
15 17 (0.67%) SnowPro
16 15 (0.59%) DBS Check
17 14 (0.55%) OSCP
18 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (4.59%) QA
2 105 (4.12%) Data Quality
3 74 (2.90%) GDPR
4 72 (2.82%) GRC
5 63 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 51 (2.00%) Accessibility
7 43 (1.69%) NIST
8 32 (1.25%) SOC 2
9 30 (1.18%) NCSC
10 27 (1.06%) PCI DSS
11 23 (0.90%) SLA
12 20 (0.78%) WCAG
13 14 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.27%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.20%) ISO 20022
17 3 (0.12%) ISO 9001
17 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 2 (0.078%) Solvency II
System Software
1 700 (27.45%) Docker
2 135 (5.29%) Active Directory
3 131 (5.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 47 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
5 46 (1.80%) vSphere
6 30 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 20 (0.78%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.78%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.35%) KVM
10 8 (0.31%) Squid
10 8 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (0.27%) Firmware
12 4 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.078%) iptables
13 2 (0.078%) Lustre
13 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 920 (36.08%) Kubernetes
2 509 (19.96%) Ansible
3 250 (9.80%) Grafana
4 184 (7.22%) Prometheus
5 76 (2.98%) Argo
6 73 (2.86%) Puppet
7 50 (1.96%) Progress Chef
8 42 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
9 37 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 34 (1.33%) Istio
11 26 (1.02%) Packer
12 25 (0.98%) FortiGate
13 24 (0.94%) Rancher
14 23 (0.90%) vCenter Server
15 16 (0.63%) Cilium
15 16 (0.63%) Nagios
16 13 (0.51%) Kustomize
16 13 (0.51%) logstash
16 13 (0.51%) Podman
17 12 (0.47%) linkerd
Vendors
1 631 (24.75%) Microsoft
2 194 (7.61%) Google
3 166 (6.51%) VMware
4 115 (4.51%) Databricks
5 87 (3.41%) Splunk
6 80 (3.14%) Red Hat
7 76 (2.98%) Oracle
8 71 (2.78%) Cisco
9 49 (1.92%) Dynatrace
10 47 (1.84%) OpenAI
11 37 (1.45%) Fortinet
12 35 (1.37%) Palo Alto
13 33 (1.29%) ServiceNow
14 27 (1.06%) Zscaler
15 15 (0.59%) Mistral
15 15 (0.59%) SAP
16 14 (0.55%) Atlassian
16 14 (0.55%) F5
16 14 (0.55%) SolarWinds
17 13 (0.51%) New Relic