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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 152 124
Rank change year-on-year +79 -28 -38
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,536 1,017 1,495
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.15% 2.06% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.93% 2.31% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,633 729 909
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £42,900
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £91,250 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -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 86,418 43,977 59,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.19% 88.96% 82.26%
Number of salaries quoted 59,113 24,503 32,039
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
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 10 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 10 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 +81 2,192 £77,500 +3.33% 2,704
UK excluding London +100 1,391 £70,000 - 1,251
London +27 945 £90,000 +5.88% 1,573
Work from Home +49 810 £75,000 - 1,152
North of England +100 486 £69,305 -0.99% 386
North West +101 261 £70,400 +8.31% 218
South West +56 253 £75,000 +7.14% 182
South East +49 253 £67,500 -16.92% 237
Midlands +33 152 £75,000 +15.38% 135
North East +17 129 £60,000 -17.24% 63
Yorkshire +3 105 £68,000 -2.86% 108
West Midlands +5 99 £80,000 +23.55% 75
Wales -10 82 £70,000 +16.67% 37
Northern Ireland -26 61 £71,991 +23.17% 25
East of England -15 59 £75,000 +15.38% 95
Scotland +15 56 £72,500 +3.57% 161
East Midlands -1 53 £63,750 -1.92% 60

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 71 (2.80%) Apache
2 66 (2.60%) Apache Spark
3 57 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (1.14%) Confluence
6 17 (0.67%) Jupyter
7 12 (0.47%) SharePoint
8 11 (0.43%) nginx
9 10 (0.39%) CMS
10 8 (0.32%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.28%) IIS
12 5 (0.20%) Camunda
12 5 (0.20%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.12%) WordPress
14 2 (0.079%) Cloud Foundry
15 1 (0.039%) Apache Solr
15 1 (0.039%) NServiceBus
15 1 (0.039%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 20 (0.79%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.079%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.039%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.039%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) Summit
4 2 (0.079%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.079%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.039%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 1 (0.039%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.039%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1,416 (55.84%) AWS
2 1,359 (53.59%) Azure
3 519 (20.47%) GCP
4 469 (18.49%) GitHub
5 402 (15.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 386 (15.22%) Serverless
7 325 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
8 254 (10.02%) GitHub Actions
9 207 (8.16%) Amazon S3
9 207 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
10 185 (7.29%) PaaS
11 153 (6.03%) SaaS
12 148 (5.84%) Amazon EKS
13 145 (5.72%) Amazon ECS
14 144 (5.68%) Amazon EC2
15 139 (5.48%) Entra ID
16 138 (5.44%) Azure AKS
17 137 (5.40%) Cloud Computing
18 131 (5.17%) IaaS
19 128 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 179 (7.06%) Firewall
2 145 (5.72%) VPN
3 140 (5.52%) DNS
4 126 (4.97%) Network Security
5 115 (4.53%) WAN
6 87 (3.43%) LAN
7 70 (2.76%) TCP/IP
8 58 (2.29%) BGP
9 49 (1.93%) DHCP
10 43 (1.70%) Internet
11 42 (1.66%) Broadband
12 39 (1.54%) OSPF
13 34 (1.34%) VLAN
14 29 (1.14%) VXLAN
15 25 (0.99%) Software-Defined Networking
16 22 (0.87%) SD-WAN
17 16 (0.63%) Ethernet VPN
17 16 (0.63%) SAN
17 16 (0.63%) Wireless
18 13 (0.51%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
2 165 (6.51%) NoSQL
3 121 (4.77%) Amazon RDS
4 110 (4.34%) MongoDB
5 89 (3.51%) SQL Server
6 77 (3.04%) MySQL
7 74 (2.92%) DynamoDB
8 68 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
9 65 (2.56%) Data Lake
10 51 (2.01%) Metadata
10 51 (2.01%) Redis
11 49 (1.93%) Relational Database
12 41 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
13 35 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
13 35 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
14 34 (1.34%) Power BI
15 31 (1.22%) Big Data
16 28 (1.10%) Delta Lake
17 23 (0.91%) Data Vault
18 22 (0.87%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 370 (14.59%) Git
2 323 (12.74%) GitLab
3 270 (10.65%) Jenkins
4 53 (2.09%) JIRA
5 49 (1.93%) Cucumber
6 34 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 33 (1.30%) TeamCity
8 26 (1.03%) Claude Code
9 19 (0.75%) Bitbucket
10 18 (0.71%) CircleCI
10 18 (0.71%) Selenium
11 15 (0.59%) Cypress.io
11 15 (0.59%) SonarQube
12 13 (0.51%) Snyk
12 13 (0.51%) Subversion
13 9 (0.35%) Artifactory
13 9 (0.35%) Maven
13 9 (0.35%) NUnit
13 9 (0.35%) Terragrunt
13 9 (0.35%) Vite
General
1 715 (28.19%) Social Skills
2 580 (22.87%) Finance
3 310 (12.22%) Public Sector
4 239 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
5 173 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 139 (5.48%) Banking
7 119 (4.69%) Law
8 73 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
9 67 (2.64%) Retail
10 61 (2.41%) Aerospace
11 42 (1.66%) Marketing
12 38 (1.50%) Legal
13 32 (1.26%) Games
14 28 (1.10%) Financial Institution
15 23 (0.91%) Manufacturing
16 22 (0.87%) Telecoms
17 17 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
18 15 (0.59%) Aviation
18 15 (0.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 618 (24.37%) Senior
2 493 (19.44%) DevOps Engineer
3 348 (13.72%) Architect
4 341 (13.45%) Lead
5 291 (11.47%) Cloud Engineer
6 257 (10.13%) Platform Engineer
7 207 (8.16%) Developer
8 199 (7.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 195 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
10 172 (6.78%) Software Engineer
11 148 (5.84%) AWS Engineer
12 137 (5.40%) Principal Engineer
13 125 (4.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 118 (4.65%) Data Engineer
15 104 (4.10%) Security Engineer
16 97 (3.82%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 92 (3.63%) Senior DevOps
18 89 (3.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 80 (3.15%) Senior Developer
20 79 (3.12%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,668 (65.77%) Terraform
2 208 (8.20%) React
3 205 (8.08%) Kafka
4 186 (7.33%) .NET
5 175 (6.90%) Spring Boot
6 173 (6.82%) Spring
7 152 (5.99%) RESTful
8 151 (5.95%) Node.js
9 145 (5.72%) REST
10 85 (3.35%) AWS CDK
11 72 (2.84%) PySpark
12 66 (2.60%) AngularJS
13 61 (2.41%) Next.js
14 60 (2.37%) ARM Templates
15 56 (2.21%) Elastic Stack
16 55 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
17 52 (2.05%) LangChain
17 52 (2.05%) YAML
18 47 (1.85%) FastAPI
19 41 (1.62%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 771 (30.40%) Cloud Native
2 285 (11.24%) Distributed Systems
3 138 (5.44%) Onboarding
4 135 (5.32%) Hybrid Cloud
5 131 (5.17%) Public Cloud
6 93 (3.67%) Data Centre
7 86 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
8 77 (3.04%) Product Ownership
8 77 (3.04%) Security Posture
9 68 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
10 65 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
11 60 (2.37%) Enterprise Cloud
12 59 (2.33%) Management Information System
13 55 (2.17%) AI Agents
14 51 (2.01%) Virtual Team
15 48 (1.89%) e-Learning
15 48 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
16 45 (1.77%) Private Cloud
17 39 (1.54%) PKI
18 35 (1.38%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 474 (18.69%) Linux
2 234 (9.23%) Windows
3 97 (3.82%) Windows Server
4 64 (2.52%) CentOS
5 53 (2.09%) Unix
6 50 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 35 (1.38%) Ubuntu
8 21 (0.83%) VMS
9 8 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.28%) Debian
11 5 (0.20%) Rocky
11 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.16%) AIX
13 2 (0.079%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.079%) Solaris
14 1 (0.039%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.039%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.039%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.039%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,815 (71.57%) CI/CD
2 1,407 (55.48%) DevOps
3 753 (29.69%) Containerisation
4 751 (29.61%) Agile
5 681 (26.85%) Observability
6 660 (26.03%) Platform Engineering
7 598 (23.58%) Mentoring
8 592 (23.34%) AI
9 561 (22.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 548 (21.61%) Software Engineering
11 481 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
12 445 (17.55%) Microservices
13 439 (17.31%) Cloud Security
14 437 (17.23%) Technical Leadership
15 428 (16.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 403 (15.89%) Test Automation
17 362 (14.27%) Roadmaps
18 311 (12.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 285 (11.24%) Event-Driven
20 283 (11.16%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,083 (42.71%) Python
2 411 (16.21%) Java
3 402 (15.85%) Bash
4 370 (14.59%) SQL
5 361 (14.24%) PowerShell
6 238 (9.38%) Bicep
7 227 (8.95%) TypeScript
8 191 (7.53%) C#
9 184 (7.26%) JavaScript
10 162 (6.39%) Go
11 59 (2.33%) Shell Script
12 49 (1.93%) Ruby
13 39 (1.54%) Scala
14 36 (1.42%) PHP
15 31 (1.22%) Groovy
16 29 (1.14%) Rust
17 23 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
18 19 (0.75%) C++
19 17 (0.67%) Perl
20 13 (0.51%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 676 (26.66%) Security Cleared
2 429 (16.92%) SC Cleared
3 224 (8.83%) AWS Certification
4 223 (8.79%) DV Cleared
5 172 (6.78%) Degree
6 161 (6.35%) Azure Certification
7 101 (3.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 80 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 60 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
11 45 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
12 34 (1.34%) CISSP
13 30 (1.18%) CCNP
13 30 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
14 28 (1.10%) Master's Degree
15 19 (0.75%) CCNA
16 17 (0.67%) SnowPro
17 14 (0.55%) DBS Check
18 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 12 (0.47%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (4.77%) QA
2 107 (4.22%) Data Quality
3 74 (2.92%) GDPR
4 71 (2.80%) GRC
5 67 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 53 (2.09%) Accessibility
7 45 (1.77%) NIST
8 34 (1.34%) SOC 2
9 31 (1.22%) NCSC
10 29 (1.14%) PCI DSS
11 23 (0.91%) SLA
12 20 (0.79%) WCAG
13 16 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (0.28%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
17 5 (0.20%) ISO 20022
18 3 (0.12%) ISO 9001
18 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 2 (0.079%) RMADS
System Software
1 690 (27.21%) Docker
2 137 (5.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 130 (5.13%) Active Directory
4 49 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (1.89%) vSphere
6 29 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 24 (0.95%) VMware NSX
8 21 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
9 20 (0.79%) Hyper-V
10 10 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
11 9 (0.35%) KVM
12 7 (0.28%) Firmware
12 7 (0.28%) Squid
13 4 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.079%) Lustre
16 1 (0.039%) iptables
16 1 (0.039%) LXC
Systems Management
1 912 (35.96%) Kubernetes
2 518 (20.43%) Ansible
3 256 (10.09%) Grafana
4 183 (7.22%) Prometheus
5 80 (3.15%) Puppet
6 78 (3.08%) Argo
7 52 (2.05%) Progress Chef
8 37 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
9 36 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
10 35 (1.38%) Istio
11 28 (1.10%) Packer
11 28 (1.10%) vCenter Server
12 24 (0.95%) FortiGate
13 22 (0.87%) Rancher
14 17 (0.67%) Cilium
15 16 (0.63%) Nagios
16 15 (0.59%) Kustomize
16 15 (0.59%) logstash
17 13 (0.51%) Kibana
17 13 (0.51%) Podman
Vendors
1 636 (25.08%) Microsoft
2 195 (7.69%) Google
3 169 (6.66%) VMware
4 112 (4.42%) Databricks
5 89 (3.51%) Splunk
6 83 (3.27%) Red Hat
7 72 (2.84%) Cisco
7 72 (2.84%) Oracle
8 51 (2.01%) Dynatrace
9 44 (1.74%) OpenAI
10 39 (1.54%) Fortinet
11 36 (1.42%) Palo Alto
12 32 (1.26%) ServiceNow
13 24 (0.95%) Zscaler
14 15 (0.59%) Atlassian
14 15 (0.59%) F5
14 15 (0.59%) Mistral
14 15 (0.59%) SAP
15 14 (0.55%) SolarWinds
16 13 (0.51%) New Relic