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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 157 168
Rank change year-on-year +81 +11 -67
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,044 1,000 1,700
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.12% 2.13% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 2.33% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,386 675 1,308
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,988 £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 71,035 42,845 86,740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.51% 91.34% 82.14%
Number of salaries quoted 49,086 23,535 61,317
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.00% - -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 2 July 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 July 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 +74 1,846 £77,500 -1.66% 835
UK excluding London +95 996 £70,000 - 548
London +33 875 £89,500 -0.56% 409
Work from Home +80 731 £70,079 -9.58% 447
North of England +78 356 £67,500 -3.57% 137
South East +55 217 £70,000 -9.68% 175
North West +81 215 £72,500 - 81
South West +34 164 £75,000 +3.45% 109
Midlands +36 126 £74,250 +14.23% 56
Yorkshire -1 91 £65,576 -6.32% 35
West Midlands +8 73 £80,000 +23.08% 39
East Midlands +15 53 £67,500 +3.85% 17
East of England +5 52 £60,100 -7.54% 18
North East -10 50 £55,000 -14.06% 22
Scotland +15 37 £62,500 -16.67% 28
Wales -18 34 £70,079 +24.58% 11
Northern Ireland -29 16 £84,401 +95.86% 22

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 54 (2.64%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (2.15%) Apache
3 42 (2.05%) Apache Spark
4 39 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 26 (1.27%) Confluence
6 13 (0.64%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.49%) IIS
8 9 (0.44%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.24%) CMS
11 4 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.15%) WordPress
13 2 (0.098%) Camunda
13 2 (0.098%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.049%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.049%) Documentum
14 1 (0.049%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.049%) nginx
14 1 (0.049%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 19 (0.93%) PlantUML
2 9 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.20%) Weka
4 2 (0.098%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.098%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.098%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.049%) Maya
5 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.098%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.098%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.049%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.049%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,183 (57.88%) AWS
2 1,090 (53.33%) Azure
3 387 (18.93%) GitHub
4 358 (17.51%) Serverless
5 352 (17.22%) GCP
6 323 (15.80%) AWS CloudFormation
7 319 (15.61%) Azure DevOps
8 230 (11.25%) GitHub Actions
9 199 (9.74%) AWS Lambda
10 195 (9.54%) Amazon S3
11 183 (8.95%) PaaS
12 142 (6.95%) Amazon EKS
13 136 (6.65%) IaaS
14 132 (6.46%) Amazon EC2
15 130 (6.36%) SaaS
16 127 (6.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 123 (6.02%) Entra ID
18 115 (5.63%) Azure AKS
19 107 (5.23%) Amazon ECS
19 107 (5.23%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 187 (9.15%) Firewall
2 108 (5.28%) DNS
2 108 (5.28%) VPN
3 84 (4.11%) Network Security
4 70 (3.42%) Broadband
4 70 (3.42%) TCP/IP
5 65 (3.18%) WAN
6 43 (2.10%) LAN
7 42 (2.05%) BGP
8 35 (1.71%) VLAN
9 33 (1.61%) DHCP
10 24 (1.17%) HTTP
10 24 (1.17%) OSPF
11 21 (1.03%) Software-Defined Networking
12 20 (0.98%) SD-WAN
13 19 (0.93%) VXLAN
14 15 (0.73%) Cisco ASA
15 14 (0.68%) DSL
16 11 (0.54%) SAN
17 10 (0.49%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (7.53%) PostgreSQL
2 138 (6.75%) NoSQL
3 99 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
4 88 (4.31%) MongoDB
5 71 (3.47%) DynamoDB
6 70 (3.42%) SQL Server
7 57 (2.79%) Relational Database
8 56 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
9 50 (2.45%) Data Lake
10 49 (2.40%) Metadata
11 40 (1.96%) MySQL
12 39 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
13 31 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
14 30 (1.47%) Redis
15 27 (1.32%) BigQuery
16 25 (1.22%) Delta Lake
17 24 (1.17%) Power BI
18 21 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
18 21 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
18 21 (1.03%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 279 (13.65%) GitLab
2 270 (13.21%) Git
3 252 (12.33%) Jenkins
4 45 (2.20%) CircleCI
5 41 (2.01%) JIRA
6 39 (1.91%) Cucumber
7 35 (1.71%) Bitbucket
8 25 (1.22%) TeamCity
9 18 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 17 (0.83%) SonarQube
11 15 (0.73%) Selenium
12 14 (0.68%) Jaeger
12 14 (0.68%) Subversion
13 12 (0.59%) MLflow
14 11 (0.54%) Claude Code
15 10 (0.49%) Maven
15 10 (0.49%) NUnit
16 9 (0.44%) JMeter
16 9 (0.44%) Vite
17 8 (0.39%) Cypress.io
General
1 510 (24.95%) Social Skills
2 435 (21.28%) Finance
3 157 (7.68%) Public Sector
4 144 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
5 112 (5.48%) Banking
6 99 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 79 (3.86%) Law
8 60 (2.94%) Retail
9 44 (2.15%) Games
10 40 (1.96%) Telecoms
11 31 (1.52%) Aerospace
12 30 (1.47%) Manufacturing
13 27 (1.32%) Legal
14 24 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
14 24 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
15 22 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
16 17 (0.83%) Advertising
17 16 (0.78%) Financial Institution
17 16 (0.78%) Marketing
18 12 (0.59%) Billing
Job Titles
1 472 (23.09%) Senior
2 351 (17.17%) DevOps Engineer
3 291 (14.24%) Lead
4 282 (13.80%) Cloud Engineer
5 226 (11.06%) Architect
6 221 (10.81%) Platform Engineer
7 188 (9.20%) Azure Engineer
8 181 (8.86%) Developer
9 144 (7.05%) AWS Engineer
10 129 (6.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 108 (5.28%) Software Engineer
12 101 (4.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 99 (4.84%) Data Engineer
14 89 (4.35%) Security Engineer
15 81 (3.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 80 (3.91%) Principal Engineer
16 80 (3.91%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 74 (3.62%) Senior DevOps
18 64 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 62 (3.03%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (7.78%) React
2 143 (7.00%) .NET
2 143 (7.00%) Kafka
3 139 (6.80%) Node.js
4 137 (6.70%) REST
5 114 (5.58%) RESTful
6 102 (4.99%) Spring
7 100 (4.89%) Spring Boot
8 86 (4.21%) AWS CDK
9 84 (4.11%) YAML
10 75 (3.67%) Elastic Stack
11 67 (3.28%) ARM Templates
12 66 (3.23%) PySpark
13 58 (2.84%) RabbitMQ
14 54 (2.64%) OAuth
15 51 (2.50%) AngularJS
16 49 (2.40%) Next.js
17 42 (2.05%) JSON
18 39 (1.91%) OpenTelemetry
19 38 (1.86%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 572 (27.98%) Cloud Native
2 192 (9.39%) Distributed Systems
3 107 (5.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 102 (4.99%) Public Cloud
5 76 (3.72%) Onboarding
6 73 (3.57%) Data Centre
7 71 (3.47%) Product Ownership
8 66 (3.23%) Security Posture
9 62 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
10 48 (2.35%) Video\Live Streaming
11 47 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
12 37 (1.81%) Low-Code
13 36 (1.76%) Enterprise Cloud
14 30 (1.47%) PKI
14 30 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
15 28 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
16 27 (1.32%) Management Information System
17 26 (1.27%) e-Learning
17 26 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
18 24 (1.17%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 370 (18.10%) Linux
2 198 (9.69%) Windows
3 88 (4.31%) Windows Server
4 47 (2.30%) CentOS
4 47 (2.30%) Ubuntu
5 44 (2.15%) Unix
6 32 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 32 (1.57%) VMS
7 13 (0.64%) Android
8 12 (0.59%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.39%) Debian
9 8 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.098%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.098%) Rocky
12 1 (0.049%) AIX
12 1 (0.049%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.049%) SUSE
12 1 (0.049%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,444 (70.65%) CI/CD
2 1,168 (57.14%) DevOps
3 575 (28.13%) Agile
3 575 (28.13%) Containerisation
4 566 (27.69%) Observability
5 466 (22.80%) Platform Engineering
6 442 (21.62%) Mentoring
7 438 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 416 (20.35%) AI
9 379 (18.54%) Software Engineering
10 355 (17.37%) Test Automation
11 344 (16.83%) Microservices
12 328 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
13 300 (14.68%) Technical Leadership
14 292 (14.29%) Cloud Security
15 266 (13.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 241 (11.79%) Roadmaps
17 237 (11.59%) Analytics
18 222 (10.86%) DevSecOps
19 208 (10.18%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 919 (44.96%) Python
2 358 (17.51%) Bash
3 318 (15.56%) PowerShell
3 318 (15.56%) SQL
4 305 (14.92%) Java
5 201 (9.83%) Bicep
6 193 (9.44%) TypeScript
7 192 (9.39%) JavaScript
8 184 (9.00%) Go
9 154 (7.53%) C#
10 31 (1.52%) Ruby
11 30 (1.47%) Rust
12 28 (1.37%) C++
13 27 (1.32%) PHP
14 26 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
15 25 (1.22%) Scala
16 20 (0.98%) Groovy
17 12 (0.59%) Perl
18 11 (0.54%) Kotlin
19 10 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 444 (21.72%) Security Cleared
2 273 (13.36%) SC Cleared
3 171 (8.37%) Degree
4 150 (7.34%) AWS Certification
5 120 (5.87%) DV Cleared
6 116 (5.68%) Azure Certification
7 66 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 63 (3.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 53 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 39 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.27%) OSCP
12 24 (1.17%) CCNP
13 22 (1.08%) Master's Degree
14 20 (0.98%) CISSP
15 18 (0.88%) CCNA
16 15 (0.73%) DBS Check
17 14 (0.68%) RHCSA
18 13 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 12 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
20 10 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (5.28%) QA
2 86 (4.21%) Data Quality
3 65 (3.18%) GDPR
4 53 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (2.25%) SOC 2
6 37 (1.81%) NIST
7 34 (1.66%) Accessibility
7 34 (1.66%) PCI DSS
8 25 (1.22%) GRC
9 20 (0.98%) WCAG
10 15 (0.73%) NCSC
11 14 (0.68%) SLA
12 11 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
15 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.098%) IFRS
16 2 (0.098%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.098%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.098%) Solvency II
System Software
1 537 (26.27%) Docker
2 126 (6.16%) Active Directory
3 119 (5.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (2.25%) vSphere
5 38 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (1.03%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.93%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.39%) Squid
11 7 (0.34%) Firmware
11 7 (0.34%) iptables
12 6 (0.29%) KVM
12 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.098%) VMware ESXi
14 1 (0.049%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,415 (69.23%) Terraform
2 783 (38.31%) Kubernetes
3 427 (20.89%) Ansible
4 236 (11.55%) Grafana
5 210 (10.27%) Prometheus
6 71 (3.47%) Argo
7 50 (2.45%) Puppet
8 45 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
9 40 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
10 31 (1.52%) Progress Chef
11 28 (1.37%) Packer
12 22 (1.08%) Istio
12 22 (1.08%) Nagios
13 19 (0.93%) Kustomize
14 15 (0.73%) Rancher
14 15 (0.73%) vCenter Server
14 15 (0.73%) ZABBIX
15 14 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 12 (0.59%) Cilium
17 11 (0.54%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 394 (19.28%) Microsoft
2 153 (7.49%) VMware
3 102 (4.99%) Google
4 80 (3.91%) Databricks
5 79 (3.86%) Red Hat
6 68 (3.33%) Splunk
7 62 (3.03%) Cisco
8 49 (2.40%) Palo Alto
9 46 (2.25%) Oracle
10 32 (1.57%) OpenAI
11 31 (1.52%) Fortinet
12 24 (1.17%) Dynatrace
12 24 (1.17%) Zscaler
13 17 (0.83%) CrowdStrike
14 14 (0.68%) Salesforce
15 12 (0.59%) F5
15 12 (0.59%) Foundry
15 12 (0.59%) ScienceLogic
15 12 (0.59%) ServiceNow
16 11 (0.54%) SolarWinds