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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 155 172
Rank change year-on-year +76 +17 -60
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,885 977 1,698
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.01% 2.18% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 2.36% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,277 641 1,294
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,250 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £78,810 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +12.59% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £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 68,264 41,362 89,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.88% 92.48% 81.88%
Number of salaries quoted 46,974 22,138 63,125
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £91,991
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £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 18 June 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 June 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 1,724 £77,500 -1.66% 496
UK excluding London +81 895 £70,000 - 400
London +28 837 £87,500 -2.78% 215
Work from Home +87 682 £70,000 -9.68% 268
North of England +66 329 £67,500 -3.57% 101
South East +50 205 £70,000 -9.68% 134
North West +75 198 £72,500 - 59
South West +18 133 £75,000 +7.14% 56
Midlands +36 117 £72,500 +11.54% 43
Yorkshire -5 85 £65,576 -6.32% 21
West Midlands +17 67 £80,000 +23.08% 29
East of England +9 51 £60,100 -7.54% 20
East Midlands +6 50 £67,500 +3.85% 14
North East -9 46 £55,000 -14.06% 21
Scotland +12 36 £60,000 -20.19% 11
Wales -26 25 £70,000 +21.74% 8
Northern Ireland -30 3 £84,401 +95.86% 36

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 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (2.23%) Apache
3 39 (2.07%) Apache Spark
4 32 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 23 (1.22%) Confluence
6 14 (0.74%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.58%) IIS
8 10 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.42%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.27%) CMS
11 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.16%) WordPress
13 2 (0.11%) Camunda
14 1 (0.053%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.053%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.053%) NetWeaver
14 1 (0.053%) nginx
14 1 (0.053%) NServiceBus
14 1 (0.053%) OpenStack
Applications
1 16 (0.85%) PlantUML
2 8 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.21%) Weka
4 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.053%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.053%) Maya
5 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.053%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.053%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1,103 (58.51%) AWS
2 997 (52.89%) Azure
3 360 (19.10%) GitHub
4 331 (17.56%) GCP
5 327 (17.35%) Serverless
6 302 (16.02%) Azure DevOps
7 288 (15.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 218 (11.56%) GitHub Actions
9 183 (9.71%) AWS Lambda
10 179 (9.50%) Amazon S3
11 161 (8.54%) PaaS
12 126 (6.68%) Amazon EKS
13 125 (6.63%) SaaS
14 124 (6.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 123 (6.53%) Amazon EC2
15 123 (6.53%) IaaS
16 118 (6.26%) Entra ID
17 110 (5.84%) Azure AKS
18 102 (5.41%) Datadog
19 97 (5.15%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 180 (9.55%) Firewall
2 101 (5.36%) DNS
3 92 (4.88%) VPN
4 75 (3.98%) Broadband
5 69 (3.66%) Network Security
6 66 (3.50%) TCP/IP
7 49 (2.60%) WAN
8 40 (2.12%) BGP
9 31 (1.64%) DHCP
9 31 (1.64%) VLAN
10 27 (1.43%) LAN
11 24 (1.27%) HTTP
12 21 (1.11%) OSPF
13 20 (1.06%) Software-Defined Networking
14 19 (1.01%) SD-WAN
15 16 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
15 16 (0.85%) VXLAN
16 15 (0.80%) DSL
17 10 (0.53%) IPv4
18 9 (0.48%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
2 135 (7.16%) NoSQL
3 94 (4.99%) Amazon RDS
4 87 (4.62%) MongoDB
5 65 (3.45%) DynamoDB
5 65 (3.45%) SQL Server
6 59 (3.13%) Relational Database
7 52 (2.76%) Data Lake
8 48 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 45 (2.39%) Metadata
10 42 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
11 31 (1.64%) MySQL
12 28 (1.49%) BigQuery
12 28 (1.49%) Redis
13 26 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
14 24 (1.27%) Power BI
15 22 (1.17%) Delta Lake
16 21 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
16 21 (1.11%) RDBMS
17 19 (1.01%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 264 (14.01%) GitLab
2 242 (12.84%) Git
3 237 (12.57%) Jenkins
4 46 (2.44%) CircleCI
5 37 (1.96%) JIRA
6 36 (1.91%) Cucumber
7 33 (1.75%) Bitbucket
8 25 (1.33%) TeamCity
9 20 (1.06%) Jaeger
10 15 (0.80%) SonarQube
11 14 (0.74%) Selenium
12 13 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 11 (0.58%) MLflow
14 10 (0.53%) Maven
14 10 (0.53%) NUnit
14 10 (0.53%) Subversion
15 9 (0.48%) JMeter
15 9 (0.48%) Vite
16 7 (0.37%) Artifactory
16 7 (0.37%) Claude Code
General
1 452 (23.98%) Social Skills
2 381 (20.21%) Finance
3 135 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 111 (5.89%) Banking
6 95 (5.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (3.13%) Retail
8 57 (3.02%) Law
9 43 (2.28%) Games
10 41 (2.18%) Telecoms
11 30 (1.59%) Manufacturing
12 26 (1.38%) Aerospace
13 23 (1.22%) Legal
14 21 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
15 20 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
16 16 (0.85%) Advertising
16 16 (0.85%) Financial Institution
16 16 (0.85%) Marketing
17 15 (0.80%) Billing
18 11 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 428 (22.71%) Senior
2 315 (16.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 274 (14.54%) Cloud Engineer
4 265 (14.06%) Lead
5 204 (10.82%) Platform Engineer
6 188 (9.97%) Architect
7 181 (9.60%) Azure Engineer
8 174 (9.23%) Developer
9 142 (7.53%) AWS Engineer
10 116 (6.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 99 (5.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 97 (5.15%) Data Engineer
12 97 (5.15%) Software Engineer
13 85 (4.51%) Security Engineer
14 77 (4.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 71 (3.77%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 69 (3.66%) Principal Engineer
17 64 (3.40%) Senior DevOps
18 63 (3.34%) Senior Developer
19 59 (3.13%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (7.80%) React
2 137 (7.27%) Kafka
3 128 (6.79%) REST
4 127 (6.74%) Node.js
5 126 (6.68%) .NET
6 102 (5.41%) RESTful
7 91 (4.83%) Spring
8 87 (4.62%) Spring Boot
9 86 (4.56%) YAML
10 75 (3.98%) AWS CDK
10 75 (3.98%) Elastic Stack
11 63 (3.34%) ARM Templates
11 63 (3.34%) PySpark
12 56 (2.97%) OAuth
13 55 (2.92%) RabbitMQ
14 45 (2.39%) Next.js
15 43 (2.28%) AngularJS
16 42 (2.23%) OpenTelemetry
17 41 (2.18%) JSON
18 38 (2.02%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 518 (27.48%) Cloud Native
2 171 (9.07%) Distributed Systems
3 103 (5.46%) Hybrid Cloud
4 86 (4.56%) Public Cloud
5 66 (3.50%) Product Ownership
6 65 (3.45%) Data Centre
7 60 (3.18%) Security Posture
8 59 (3.13%) Onboarding
9 54 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
10 48 (2.55%) Video\Live Streaming
11 38 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
12 36 (1.91%) Low-Code
13 28 (1.49%) PKI
14 27 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
15 26 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
15 26 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
16 25 (1.33%) Blockchain
17 24 (1.27%) Management Information System
18 23 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
18 23 (1.22%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 350 (18.57%) Linux
2 176 (9.34%) Windows
3 86 (4.56%) Windows Server
4 50 (2.65%) Unix
5 46 (2.44%) Ubuntu
6 40 (2.12%) CentOS
7 28 (1.49%) VMS
8 27 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (0.80%) Android
10 14 (0.74%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.37%) Debian
13 5 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.053%) AIX
15 1 (0.053%) Rocky
15 1 (0.053%) SUSE
15 1 (0.053%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,340 (71.09%) CI/CD
2 1,080 (57.29%) DevOps
3 530 (28.12%) Observability
4 529 (28.06%) Agile
5 519 (27.53%) Containerisation
6 419 (22.23%) Platform Engineering
7 406 (21.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 399 (21.17%) Mentoring
9 381 (20.21%) AI
10 343 (18.20%) Software Engineering
11 331 (17.56%) Test Automation
12 308 (16.34%) Microservices
13 292 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
14 264 (14.01%) Technical Leadership
15 260 (13.79%) Cloud Security
16 238 (12.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 225 (11.94%) Analytics
18 207 (10.98%) Roadmaps
19 202 (10.72%) DevSecOps
20 185 (9.81%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 854 (45.31%) Python
2 334 (17.72%) Bash
3 296 (15.70%) PowerShell
4 295 (15.65%) SQL
5 271 (14.38%) Java
6 186 (9.87%) Go
7 180 (9.55%) TypeScript
8 179 (9.50%) JavaScript
9 177 (9.39%) Bicep
10 140 (7.43%) C#
11 32 (1.70%) Rust
12 28 (1.49%) C++
13 25 (1.33%) Scala
14 21 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
15 19 (1.01%) Groovy
15 19 (1.01%) PHP
16 16 (0.85%) Ruby
17 11 (0.58%) Kotlin
18 10 (0.53%) C
19 9 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 386 (20.48%) Security Cleared
2 248 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 162 (8.59%) Degree
4 140 (7.43%) AWS Certification
5 104 (5.52%) Azure Certification
6 102 (5.41%) DV Cleared
7 62 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 47 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 45 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 34 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
11 27 (1.43%) OSCP
12 20 (1.06%) CCNP
12 20 (1.06%) CISSP
13 16 (0.85%) DBS Check
13 16 (0.85%) Master's Degree
14 15 (0.80%) CCNA
15 13 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 13 (0.69%) RHCSA
16 10 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
17 9 (0.48%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (4.88%) QA
2 82 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 61 (3.24%) GDPR
4 52 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 45 (2.39%) SOC 2
6 36 (1.91%) NIST
7 34 (1.80%) Accessibility
8 30 (1.59%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.90%) WCAG
10 15 (0.80%) SLA
11 13 (0.69%) NCSC
12 10 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.53%) GRC
13 5 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
15 2 (0.11%) IFRS
15 2 (0.11%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.11%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 510 (27.06%) Docker
2 116 (6.15%) Active Directory
3 103 (5.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (2.07%) vSphere
5 38 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (1.11%) VMware NSX
7 19 (1.01%) Hyper-V
8 10 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.42%) Squid
11 7 (0.37%) iptables
12 6 (0.32%) Firmware
12 6 (0.32%) KVM
12 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,312 (69.60%) Terraform
2 724 (38.41%) Kubernetes
3 396 (21.01%) Ansible
4 231 (12.25%) Grafana
5 218 (11.56%) Prometheus
6 72 (3.82%) Argo
7 45 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
8 41 (2.18%) Microsoft Intune
8 41 (2.18%) Puppet
9 29 (1.54%) Progress Chef
10 27 (1.43%) Packer
11 25 (1.33%) Kustomize
12 21 (1.11%) Istio
12 21 (1.11%) Nagios
13 17 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 15 (0.80%) ZABBIX
15 14 (0.74%) vCenter Server
16 12 (0.64%) Cilium
17 11 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
17 11 (0.58%) Rancher
Vendors
1 355 (18.83%) Microsoft
2 139 (7.37%) VMware
3 109 (5.78%) Google
4 76 (4.03%) Databricks
5 75 (3.98%) Red Hat
6 62 (3.29%) Splunk
7 58 (3.08%) Cisco
8 47 (2.49%) Palo Alto
9 34 (1.80%) Oracle
10 29 (1.54%) OpenAI
11 27 (1.43%) Fortinet
12 26 (1.38%) Zscaler
13 22 (1.17%) Dynatrace
14 17 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
15 13 (0.69%) Foundry
15 13 (0.69%) Salesforce
16 12 (0.64%) CheckPoint
16 12 (0.64%) F5
17 11 (0.58%) Atlassian
17 11 (0.58%) ServiceNow