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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 157 155
Rank change year-on-year +83 -2 -53
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,346 1,033 1,424
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.21% 2.08% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.01% 2.32% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,562 723 1,024
10th Percentile £48,959 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,250 £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 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,079 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% +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 78,019 44,452 67,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.52% 89.29% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 53,759 25,267 43,796
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -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 11 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 11 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 +78 2,060 £77,500 - 1,508
UK excluding London +116 1,260 £70,079 +0.11% 819
London +28 922 £90,000 - 841
Work from Home +76 827 £72,500 -8.01% 688
North of England +91 427 £70,400 +0.57% 254
South East +57 252 £67,500 -12.90% 192
North West +84 243 £73,401 +4.86% 139
South West +49 213 £75,000 -2.48% 151
Midlands +28 148 £77,500 +19.23% 64
Yorkshire +6 98 £75,000 +7.14% 70
West Midlands +8 91 £80,000 +23.08% 40
North East +10 86 £56,500 -19.29% 45
Wales -4 65 £70,000 +21.74% 33
Northern Ireland -19 58 £72,896 +69.17% 22
East Midlands +15 57 £67,500 +3.85% 24
East of England -6 56 £70,000 +7.69% 35
Scotland +28 51 £71,991 +10.76% 73

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 61 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
2 58 (2.47%) Apache Spark
3 53 (2.26%) Apache
4 30 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (1.24%) Confluence
6 12 (0.51%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.43%) IIS
7 10 (0.43%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.17%) Camunda
8 4 (0.17%) CMS
8 4 (0.17%) nginx
9 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.13%) WordPress
10 2 (0.085%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.085%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.043%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.043%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.043%) JBoss
11 1 (0.043%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 22 (0.94%) PlantUML
2 9 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.085%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.085%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.085%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.043%) Maya
6 1 (0.043%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.13%) Summit
4 2 (0.085%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.085%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.043%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,344 (57.29%) AWS
2 1,280 (54.56%) Azure
3 449 (19.14%) GCP
4 413 (17.60%) GitHub
5 377 (16.07%) Serverless
6 375 (15.98%) AWS CloudFormation
7 318 (13.55%) Azure DevOps
8 226 (9.63%) GitHub Actions
9 206 (8.78%) AWS Lambda
10 202 (8.61%) Amazon S3
11 189 (8.06%) PaaS
12 143 (6.10%) Amazon EC2
13 141 (6.01%) Amazon ECS
14 138 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
15 137 (5.84%) SaaS
16 129 (5.50%) IaaS
17 124 (5.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 123 (5.24%) Microsoft 365
19 119 (5.07%) Azure AKS
20 112 (4.77%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 176 (7.50%) Firewall
2 117 (4.99%) DNS
3 116 (4.94%) WAN
4 109 (4.65%) Network Security
5 107 (4.56%) VPN
6 96 (4.09%) LAN
7 80 (3.41%) TCP/IP
8 54 (2.30%) Broadband
9 52 (2.22%) BGP
10 41 (1.75%) DHCP
11 36 (1.53%) OSPF
12 34 (1.45%) VLAN
13 27 (1.15%) VXLAN
14 25 (1.07%) Software-Defined Networking
15 24 (1.02%) SD-WAN
16 19 (0.81%) HTTP
17 15 (0.64%) Wireless
18 13 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
18 13 (0.55%) Ethernet VPN
18 13 (0.55%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (7.54%) PostgreSQL
2 148 (6.31%) NoSQL
3 106 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
4 97 (4.13%) MongoDB
5 82 (3.50%) SQL Server
6 78 (3.32%) DynamoDB
7 62 (2.64%) Data Lake
8 60 (2.56%) MySQL
9 55 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
9 55 (2.34%) Relational Database
10 54 (2.30%) Metadata
11 43 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
12 41 (1.75%) Redis
13 35 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
14 29 (1.24%) Delta Lake
15 27 (1.15%) Big Data
15 27 (1.15%) BigQuery
16 25 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
16 25 (1.07%) Power BI
17 22 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 307 (13.09%) Git
2 287 (12.23%) GitLab
3 253 (10.78%) Jenkins
4 53 (2.26%) JIRA
5 45 (1.92%) Cucumber
6 32 (1.36%) Bitbucket
6 32 (1.36%) CircleCI
7 30 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 27 (1.15%) TeamCity
9 21 (0.90%) Selenium
10 18 (0.77%) Claude Code
11 16 (0.68%) SonarQube
12 15 (0.64%) NUnit
13 12 (0.51%) Cypress.io
13 12 (0.51%) MLflow
14 11 (0.47%) Maven
14 11 (0.47%) Subversion
15 9 (0.38%) JMeter
15 9 (0.38%) MSI
15 9 (0.38%) Snyk
General
1 645 (27.49%) Social Skills
2 537 (22.89%) Finance
3 206 (8.78%) Public Sector
4 179 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
5 144 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 123 (5.24%) Banking
7 118 (5.03%) Law
8 70 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
9 68 (2.90%) Retail
10 46 (1.96%) Aerospace
11 45 (1.92%) Games
12 44 (1.88%) Marketing
13 37 (1.58%) Legal
14 34 (1.45%) Telecoms
15 31 (1.32%) Manufacturing
16 22 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (0.77%) Advertising
17 18 (0.77%) Aviation
17 18 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
18 17 (0.72%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 536 (22.85%) Senior
2 397 (16.92%) DevOps Engineer
3 347 (14.79%) Lead
4 313 (13.34%) Architect
5 278 (11.85%) Cloud Engineer
6 234 (9.97%) Platform Engineer
7 205 (8.74%) Developer
8 183 (7.80%) Azure Engineer
9 142 (6.05%) Software Engineer
10 135 (5.75%) AWS Engineer
11 128 (5.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 123 (5.24%) Data Engineer
13 112 (4.77%) Principal Engineer
14 106 (4.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 91 (3.88%) Security Engineer
16 86 (3.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 79 (3.37%) Senior DevOps
18 76 (3.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 74 (3.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 68 (2.90%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (8.18%) React
2 177 (7.54%) .NET
2 177 (7.54%) Kafka
3 152 (6.48%) Node.js
4 151 (6.44%) REST
5 144 (6.14%) Spring
6 142 (6.05%) Spring Boot
7 133 (5.67%) RESTful
8 95 (4.05%) AWS CDK
9 77 (3.28%) YAML
10 74 (3.15%) PySpark
11 70 (2.98%) ARM Templates
12 60 (2.56%) AngularJS
13 57 (2.43%) Next.js
13 57 (2.43%) RabbitMQ
14 54 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
15 51 (2.17%) OAuth
16 43 (1.83%) ASP.NET
17 41 (1.75%) CSS
18 40 (1.71%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 686 (29.24%) Cloud Native
2 251 (10.70%) Distributed Systems
3 120 (5.12%) Hybrid Cloud
4 119 (5.07%) Onboarding
5 112 (4.77%) Public Cloud
6 89 (3.79%) Data Centre
7 80 (3.41%) Product Ownership
8 69 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
9 67 (2.86%) Security Posture
10 62 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
11 52 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
12 46 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
13 45 (1.92%) Video\Live Streaming
14 39 (1.66%) Low-Code
14 39 (1.66%) Management Information System
15 36 (1.53%) Virtual Team
16 35 (1.49%) Private Cloud
17 34 (1.45%) e-Learning
18 31 (1.32%) PKI
19 29 (1.24%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 392 (16.71%) Linux
2 221 (9.42%) Windows
3 96 (4.09%) Windows Server
4 55 (2.34%) CentOS
5 41 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (1.75%) Unix
6 40 (1.71%) Ubuntu
7 22 (0.94%) VMS
8 7 (0.30%) Android
9 6 (0.26%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.21%) Debian
10 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.085%) AIX
12 2 (0.085%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.085%) Solaris
13 1 (0.043%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.043%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.043%) SUSE
13 1 (0.043%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,652 (70.42%) CI/CD
2 1,296 (55.24%) DevOps
3 693 (29.54%) Containerisation
4 659 (28.09%) Agile
5 648 (27.62%) Observability
6 543 (23.15%) Platform Engineering
7 520 (22.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 515 (21.95%) Mentoring
9 502 (21.40%) AI
10 486 (20.72%) Software Engineering
11 403 (17.18%) Microservices
12 397 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
13 396 (16.88%) Technical Leadership
14 375 (15.98%) Test Automation
15 345 (14.71%) Cloud Security
16 335 (14.28%) Roadmaps
17 303 (12.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 261 (11.13%) Analytics
19 259 (11.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 258 (11.00%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 1,010 (43.05%) Python
2 373 (15.90%) Java
3 364 (15.52%) SQL
4 351 (14.96%) Bash
5 330 (14.07%) PowerShell
6 221 (9.42%) Bicep
7 215 (9.16%) TypeScript
8 194 (8.27%) JavaScript
9 181 (7.72%) C#
10 163 (6.95%) Go
11 46 (1.96%) Ruby
12 38 (1.62%) Scala
13 37 (1.58%) PHP
14 25 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
14 25 (1.07%) Rust
15 22 (0.94%) C++
15 22 (0.94%) Groovy
16 21 (0.90%) Perl
17 13 (0.55%) Shell Script
18 12 (0.51%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 552 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 350 (14.92%) SC Cleared
3 203 (8.65%) Degree
4 182 (7.76%) AWS Certification
5 176 (7.50%) DV Cleared
6 144 (6.14%) Azure Certification
7 86 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 84 (3.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 56 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 52 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
11 36 (1.53%) CCNP
12 30 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
13 29 (1.24%) Master's Degree
14 23 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
15 21 (0.90%) CISSP
16 20 (0.85%) OSCP
17 18 (0.77%) CCNA
18 17 (0.72%) DBS Check
19 14 (0.60%) RHCSA
19 14 (0.60%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (5.37%) QA
2 105 (4.48%) Data Quality
3 70 (2.98%) GDPR
4 69 (2.94%) GRC
5 57 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (2.05%) Accessibility
7 39 (1.66%) NIST
8 35 (1.49%) SOC 2
9 27 (1.15%) PCI DSS
10 25 (1.07%) NCSC
11 24 (1.02%) WCAG
12 16 (0.68%) SLA
13 9 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.21%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.085%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.085%) IFRS
16 2 (0.085%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.085%) Solvency II
System Software
1 617 (26.30%) Docker
2 132 (5.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 128 (5.46%) Active Directory
4 46 (1.96%) vSphere
5 34 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (1.02%) Hyper-V
7 19 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (0.77%) 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 5 (0.21%) iptables
14 3 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.043%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 1,571 (66.97%) Terraform
2 871 (37.13%) Kubernetes
3 468 (19.95%) Ansible
4 239 (10.19%) Grafana
5 178 (7.59%) Prometheus
6 67 (2.86%) Argo
7 56 (2.39%) Puppet
8 36 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
8 36 (1.53%) Progress Chef
9 33 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
10 28 (1.19%) Packer
11 27 (1.15%) Istio
12 23 (0.98%) Nagios
13 16 (0.68%) FortiGate
13 16 (0.68%) vCenter Server
14 12 (0.51%) Cilium
14 12 (0.51%) ZABBIX
15 11 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 11 (0.47%) Kustomize
15 11 (0.47%) Rancher
Vendors
1 509 (21.70%) Microsoft
2 160 (6.82%) VMware
3 140 (5.97%) Google
4 103 (4.39%) Databricks
5 91 (3.88%) Red Hat
6 86 (3.67%) Splunk
7 72 (3.07%) Cisco
8 63 (2.69%) Oracle
9 49 (2.09%) Palo Alto
10 41 (1.75%) OpenAI
11 39 (1.66%) Fortinet
12 38 (1.62%) Dynatrace
13 25 (1.07%) Zscaler
14 23 (0.98%) ServiceNow
15 16 (0.68%) CrowdStrike
15 16 (0.68%) SAP
16 14 (0.60%) Atlassian
16 14 (0.60%) F5
17 13 (0.55%) Rapid7
18 12 (0.51%) ScienceLogic