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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 160 145
Rank change year-on-year +85 -15 -47
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,402 1,025 1,454
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.20% 2.05% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.00% 2.31% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,594 718 992
10th Percentile £48,959 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,250 £61,250 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £93,750 £87,500
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% -4.41%

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 79,979 44,380 67,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.09% 88.78% 80.65%
Number of salaries quoted 55,459 25,207 42,110
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,055
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.10% -8.99%

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 28 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 28 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 +77 2,099 £77,500 - 2,154
UK excluding London +113 1,312 £70,000 - 1,136
London +30 919 £90,000 +2.86% 1,285
Work from Home +64 819 £72,500 -3.33% 1,058
North of England +94 453 £70,000 - 348
South East +61 252 £67,500 -12.90% 223
North West +80 248 £72,500 +3.57% 185
South West +43 228 £75,000 - 201
Midlands +48 148 £75,000 +15.38% 117
Yorkshire +4 106 £72,500 +3.57% 111
North East +24 99 £59,000 -18.62% 53
West Midlands +15 89 £85,000 +30.77% 58
Wales -16 68 £70,000 +19.15% 30
Northern Ireland -26 62 £71,991 +67.07% 41
East Midlands +13 59 £67,500 +3.85% 59
East of England -2 58 £70,000 +7.69% 70
Scotland +25 55 £71,991 +2.84% 112

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 58 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
2 57 (2.37%) Apache Spark
3 55 (2.29%) Apache
4 30 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (1.17%) Confluence
6 13 (0.54%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.42%) IIS
7 10 (0.42%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.25%) CMS
9 5 (0.21%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.17%) Camunda
10 4 (0.17%) nginx
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.12%) WordPress
12 2 (0.083%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.042%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.042%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.042%) JBoss
13 1 (0.042%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 21 (0.87%) PlantUML
2 10 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.083%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.083%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.042%) Maya
6 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.042%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) Summit
4 2 (0.083%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,360 (56.62%) AWS
2 1,288 (53.62%) Azure
3 463 (19.28%) GCP
4 422 (17.57%) GitHub
5 387 (16.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 377 (15.70%) Serverless
7 320 (13.32%) Azure DevOps
8 232 (9.66%) GitHub Actions
9 213 (8.87%) AWS Lambda
10 209 (8.70%) Amazon S3
11 176 (7.33%) PaaS
12 149 (6.20%) Amazon EC2
13 144 (6.00%) Amazon ECS
13 144 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
14 134 (5.58%) SaaS
15 133 (5.54%) Azure AKS
16 127 (5.29%) Microsoft 365
17 126 (5.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 126 (5.25%) IaaS
18 115 (4.79%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 176 (7.33%) Firewall
2 123 (5.12%) DNS
3 117 (4.87%) VPN
3 117 (4.87%) WAN
4 113 (4.70%) Network Security
5 97 (4.04%) LAN
6 72 (3.00%) TCP/IP
7 55 (2.29%) BGP
8 49 (2.04%) Broadband
9 46 (1.92%) DHCP
10 39 (1.62%) OSPF
11 32 (1.33%) VLAN
12 28 (1.17%) VXLAN
13 26 (1.08%) SD-WAN
13 26 (1.08%) Software-Defined Networking
14 17 (0.71%) Wireless
15 15 (0.62%) HTTP
16 14 (0.58%) Ethernet VPN
16 14 (0.58%) SAN
17 10 (0.42%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
2 152 (6.33%) NoSQL
3 108 (4.50%) Amazon RDS
4 101 (4.20%) MongoDB
5 87 (3.62%) SQL Server
6 80 (3.33%) DynamoDB
7 67 (2.79%) MySQL
8 66 (2.75%) Data Lake
9 58 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
10 53 (2.21%) Relational Database
11 51 (2.12%) Metadata
12 47 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
13 35 (1.46%) Redis
14 33 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
15 32 (1.33%) Delta Lake
16 29 (1.21%) Big Data
17 28 (1.17%) BigQuery
18 25 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
18 25 (1.04%) Power BI
19 22 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 319 (13.28%) Git
2 284 (11.82%) GitLab
3 252 (10.49%) Jenkins
4 54 (2.25%) JIRA
5 45 (1.87%) Cucumber
6 33 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 28 (1.17%) CircleCI
8 27 (1.12%) Bitbucket
9 26 (1.08%) TeamCity
10 22 (0.92%) Selenium
11 19 (0.79%) Claude Code
12 18 (0.75%) SonarQube
13 15 (0.62%) Cypress.io
13 15 (0.62%) NUnit
14 12 (0.50%) MLflow
15 11 (0.46%) Maven
15 11 (0.46%) Subversion
16 10 (0.42%) Snyk
17 9 (0.37%) MSI
18 8 (0.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 661 (27.52%) Social Skills
2 553 (23.02%) Finance
3 227 (9.45%) Public Sector
4 185 (7.70%) Analytical Skills
5 145 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 136 (5.66%) Banking
7 122 (5.08%) Law
8 74 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
9 64 (2.66%) Retail
10 50 (2.08%) Aerospace
11 47 (1.96%) Games
12 43 (1.79%) Marketing
13 40 (1.67%) Legal
14 33 (1.37%) Manufacturing
15 28 (1.17%) Telecoms
16 20 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (0.75%) Aviation
18 17 (0.71%) Financial Institution
18 17 (0.71%) Local Government
19 16 (0.67%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 556 (23.15%) Senior
2 405 (16.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 340 (14.15%) Lead
4 326 (13.57%) Architect
5 286 (11.91%) Cloud Engineer
6 246 (10.24%) Platform Engineer
7 207 (8.62%) Developer
8 189 (7.87%) Azure Engineer
9 153 (6.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 148 (6.16%) Software Engineer
11 141 (5.87%) AWS Engineer
12 124 (5.16%) Data Engineer
13 121 (5.04%) Principal Engineer
14 113 (4.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 94 (3.91%) Security Engineer
16 91 (3.79%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 78 (3.25%) Senior DevOps
18 74 (3.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 74 (3.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 73 (3.04%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,619 (67.40%) Terraform
2 195 (8.12%) React
3 188 (7.83%) Kafka
4 185 (7.70%) .NET
5 158 (6.58%) REST
6 155 (6.45%) Node.js
7 149 (6.20%) Spring
8 147 (6.12%) Spring Boot
9 144 (6.00%) RESTful
10 94 (3.91%) AWS CDK
11 79 (3.29%) PySpark
12 71 (2.96%) YAML
13 67 (2.79%) ARM Templates
14 62 (2.58%) AngularJS
15 59 (2.46%) RabbitMQ
16 57 (2.37%) Next.js
17 50 (2.08%) OAuth
18 49 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
19 44 (1.83%) ASP.NET
20 41 (1.71%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 717 (29.85%) Cloud Native
2 262 (10.91%) Distributed Systems
3 131 (5.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 125 (5.20%) Public Cloud
5 122 (5.08%) Onboarding
6 93 (3.87%) Data Centre
7 87 (3.62%) Product Ownership
8 68 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
9 67 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
10 63 (2.62%) Security Posture
11 57 (2.37%) Enterprise Cloud
12 47 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
13 42 (1.75%) Virtual Team
14 41 (1.71%) Video\Live Streaming
15 40 (1.67%) Private Cloud
16 38 (1.58%) Management Information System
17 37 (1.54%) e-Learning
18 36 (1.50%) Low-Code
19 35 (1.46%) PKI
20 34 (1.42%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 392 (16.32%) Linux
2 223 (9.28%) Windows
3 100 (4.16%) Windows Server
4 59 (2.46%) CentOS
5 40 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (1.62%) Ubuntu
7 37 (1.54%) Unix
8 22 (0.92%) VMS
9 5 (0.21%) Debian
9 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.17%) Android
10 4 (0.17%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.12%) AIX
12 2 (0.083%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.083%) Solaris
13 1 (0.042%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.042%) Rocky
13 1 (0.042%) SUSE
13 1 (0.042%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,685 (70.15%) CI/CD
2 1,308 (54.45%) DevOps
3 712 (29.64%) Containerisation
4 670 (27.89%) Observability
5 666 (27.73%) Agile
6 569 (23.69%) Platform Engineering
7 533 (22.19%) Continuous Improvement
8 523 (21.77%) Mentoring
9 516 (21.48%) AI
10 512 (21.32%) Software Engineering
11 426 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
12 416 (17.32%) Microservices
13 402 (16.74%) Technical Leadership
14 385 (16.03%) Test Automation
15 364 (15.15%) Cloud Security
16 343 (14.28%) Roadmaps
17 333 (13.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 270 (11.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 268 (11.16%) Event-Driven
20 267 (11.12%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,036 (43.13%) Python
2 373 (15.53%) Java
3 370 (15.40%) SQL
4 367 (15.28%) Bash
5 342 (14.24%) PowerShell
6 231 (9.62%) Bicep
7 223 (9.28%) TypeScript
8 194 (8.08%) JavaScript
9 186 (7.74%) C#
10 160 (6.66%) Go
11 47 (1.96%) Ruby
12 41 (1.71%) Scala
13 36 (1.50%) PHP
14 27 (1.12%) Rust
15 25 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
16 24 (1.00%) Groovy
17 21 (0.87%) C++
17 21 (0.87%) Perl
18 16 (0.67%) Shell Script
19 11 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 576 (23.98%) Security Cleared
2 362 (15.07%) SC Cleared
3 199 (8.28%) Degree
4 198 (8.24%) AWS Certification
5 191 (7.95%) DV Cleared
6 152 (6.33%) Azure Certification
7 90 (3.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 89 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
9 62 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 54 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
11 36 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 36 (1.50%) CCNP
12 30 (1.25%) Master's Degree
13 24 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
14 20 (0.83%) CISSP
15 19 (0.79%) CCNA
16 16 (0.67%) OSCP
16 16 (0.67%) SnowPro
17 15 (0.62%) DBS Check
18 14 (0.58%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (5.29%) QA
2 107 (4.45%) Data Quality
3 73 (3.04%) GRC
4 72 (3.00%) GDPR
5 60 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (1.92%) Accessibility
7 35 (1.46%) NIST
8 33 (1.37%) SOC 2
9 28 (1.17%) NCSC
10 24 (1.00%) PCI DSS
11 22 (0.92%) SLA
11 22 (0.92%) WCAG
12 10 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.29%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.12%) ISO 20022
17 2 (0.083%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 2 (0.083%) IFRS
17 2 (0.083%) Solvency II
System Software
1 618 (25.73%) Docker
2 135 (5.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 134 (5.58%) Active Directory
4 44 (1.83%) vSphere
5 37 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (1.08%) Hyper-V
7 24 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (0.75%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.37%) KVM
11 8 (0.33%) Squid
12 7 (0.29%) Firmware
12 7 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
13 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.17%) iptables
15 3 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 2 (0.083%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 877 (36.51%) Kubernetes
2 487 (20.27%) Ansible
3 236 (9.83%) Grafana
4 168 (6.99%) Prometheus
5 69 (2.87%) Argo
6 59 (2.46%) Puppet
7 40 (1.67%) Progress Chef
8 35 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
9 34 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
10 31 (1.29%) Istio
11 27 (1.12%) Packer
12 20 (0.83%) Nagios
13 19 (0.79%) FortiGate
14 17 (0.71%) vCenter Server
15 14 (0.58%) Cilium
16 12 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 12 (0.50%) Kustomize
16 12 (0.50%) ZABBIX
17 11 (0.46%) Rancher
18 10 (0.42%) linkerd
Vendors
1 540 (22.48%) Microsoft
2 164 (6.83%) VMware
3 144 (6.00%) Google
4 106 (4.41%) Databricks
5 86 (3.58%) Splunk
6 83 (3.46%) Red Hat
7 73 (3.04%) Cisco
8 68 (2.83%) Oracle
9 45 (1.87%) Palo Alto
10 43 (1.79%) OpenAI
11 40 (1.67%) Fortinet
12 39 (1.62%) Dynatrace
13 25 (1.04%) Zscaler
14 24 (1.00%) ServiceNow
15 17 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
16 16 (0.67%) SAP
17 15 (0.62%) Atlassian
18 14 (0.58%) Okta
19 13 (0.54%) F5
19 13 (0.54%) Rapid7