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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 155 126
Rank change year-on-year +78 -29 -38
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,510 1,008 1,570
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.14% 2.03% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% 2.29% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,609 714 951
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,813 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +4.62% -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 85,859 44,048 62,135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.76% 81.73%
Number of salaries quoted 59,233 24,687 33,999
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,090
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 27 September 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 27 September 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 +79 2,179 £77,500 +3.33% 2,475
UK excluding London +111 1,372 £70,000 +2.94% 1,330
London +30 945 £90,000 +5.88% 1,348
Work from Home +53 808 £75,000 +0.67% 1,094
North of England +108 489 £70,000 - 393
North West +102 270 £72,500 +16.00% 235
South East +48 248 £67,500 -14.29% 269
South West +43 244 £75,000 +7.14% 218
Midlands +28 152 £75,000 +15.83% 151
North East +23 118 £60,000 -17.24% 62
Yorkshire +3 107 £68,250 -2.50% 99
West Midlands +7 94 £85,000 +36.55% 93
Wales -6 79 £70,000 +19.15% 39
Northern Ireland -31 62 £71,991 +67.07% 41
East Midlands +2 58 £65,000 - 58
East of England -9 56 £65,000 - 87
Scotland +23 54 £72,500 +7.41% 141

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 62 (2.47%) Apache
2 60 (2.39%) Apache Spark
3 57 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
4 36 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (1.12%) Confluence
6 15 (0.60%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.52%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.36%) CMS
9 8 (0.32%) IIS
10 7 (0.28%) nginx
10 7 (0.28%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.20%) Camunda
12 4 (0.16%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.12%) WordPress
14 2 (0.080%) Cloud Foundry
15 1 (0.040%) Apache Solr
15 1 (0.040%) NServiceBus
15 1 (0.040%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 21 (0.84%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.080%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.040%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.040%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) Summit
4 2 (0.080%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.080%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.080%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.080%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.040%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1,422 (56.65%) AWS
2 1,354 (53.94%) Azure
3 515 (20.52%) GCP
4 456 (18.17%) GitHub
5 403 (16.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 387 (15.42%) Serverless
7 329 (13.11%) Azure DevOps
8 252 (10.04%) GitHub Actions
9 214 (8.53%) AWS Lambda
10 213 (8.49%) Amazon S3
11 184 (7.33%) PaaS
12 157 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
13 152 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
14 149 (5.94%) Amazon ECS
15 142 (5.66%) Azure AKS
16 139 (5.54%) SaaS
17 137 (5.46%) Cloud Computing
17 137 (5.46%) Entra ID
18 133 (5.30%) IaaS
19 129 (5.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 176 (7.01%) Firewall
2 137 (5.46%) DNS
3 135 (5.38%) VPN
4 118 (4.70%) Network Security
5 117 (4.66%) WAN
6 91 (3.63%) LAN
7 67 (2.67%) TCP/IP
8 54 (2.15%) BGP
9 52 (2.07%) DHCP
10 43 (1.71%) Internet
11 42 (1.67%) Broadband
12 39 (1.55%) OSPF
13 31 (1.24%) VLAN
14 28 (1.12%) VXLAN
15 26 (1.04%) Software-Defined Networking
16 24 (0.96%) SD-WAN
17 16 (0.64%) SAN
17 16 (0.64%) Wireless
18 15 (0.60%) Ethernet VPN
18 15 (0.60%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
2 163 (6.49%) NoSQL
3 117 (4.66%) Amazon RDS
4 106 (4.22%) MongoDB
5 90 (3.59%) SQL Server
6 78 (3.11%) DynamoDB
7 74 (2.95%) MySQL
8 71 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
9 63 (2.51%) Data Lake
10 53 (2.11%) Metadata
10 53 (2.11%) Redis
11 49 (1.95%) Relational Database
12 44 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
13 35 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
14 31 (1.24%) Big Data
15 30 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
15 30 (1.20%) Delta Lake
15 30 (1.20%) Power BI
16 25 (1.00%) BigQuery
17 23 (0.92%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 373 (14.86%) Git
2 309 (12.31%) GitLab
3 270 (10.76%) Jenkins
4 58 (2.31%) JIRA
5 50 (1.99%) Cucumber
6 35 (1.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 26 (1.04%) TeamCity
8 24 (0.96%) Bitbucket
8 24 (0.96%) Claude Code
9 20 (0.80%) CircleCI
9 20 (0.80%) Selenium
10 19 (0.76%) SonarQube
11 15 (0.60%) Cypress.io
12 14 (0.56%) Subversion
13 12 (0.48%) Maven
13 12 (0.48%) Snyk
14 11 (0.44%) Artifactory
14 11 (0.44%) NUnit
15 9 (0.36%) JUnit
15 9 (0.36%) MSI
General
1 708 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 576 (22.95%) Finance
3 284 (11.31%) Public Sector
4 227 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
5 167 (6.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 142 (5.66%) Banking
7 121 (4.82%) Law
8 74 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
9 71 (2.83%) Retail
10 62 (2.47%) Aerospace
11 41 (1.63%) Marketing
12 37 (1.47%) Legal
13 34 (1.35%) Games
14 26 (1.04%) Manufacturing
15 22 (0.88%) Financial Institution
16 21 (0.84%) Telecoms
17 17 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
18 15 (0.60%) Aviation
18 15 (0.60%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 595 (23.71%) Senior
2 473 (18.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 351 (13.98%) Architect
4 344 (13.71%) Lead
5 295 (11.75%) Cloud Engineer
6 255 (10.16%) Platform Engineer
7 206 (8.21%) Developer
8 196 (7.81%) Azure Engineer
9 180 (7.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 160 (6.37%) Software Engineer
11 153 (6.10%) AWS Engineer
12 135 (5.38%) Principal Engineer
13 127 (5.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 119 (4.74%) Data Engineer
15 99 (3.94%) Security Engineer
16 97 (3.86%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 79 (3.15%) Senior Developer
17 79 (3.15%) Senior DevOps
18 78 (3.11%) Azure Platform Engineer
19 76 (3.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,664 (66.29%) Terraform
2 206 (8.21%) Kafka
2 206 (8.21%) React
3 183 (7.29%) .NET
4 172 (6.85%) Spring
4 172 (6.85%) Spring Boot
5 157 (6.25%) Node.js
6 152 (6.06%) RESTful
7 150 (5.98%) REST
8 88 (3.51%) AWS CDK
9 77 (3.07%) PySpark
10 66 (2.63%) AngularJS
11 64 (2.55%) ARM Templates
12 62 (2.47%) Next.js
13 60 (2.39%) RabbitMQ
13 60 (2.39%) YAML
14 57 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
15 47 (1.87%) LangChain
16 46 (1.83%) OAuth
17 40 (1.59%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 759 (30.24%) Cloud Native
2 281 (11.20%) Distributed Systems
3 138 (5.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 131 (5.22%) Onboarding
4 131 (5.22%) Public Cloud
5 93 (3.71%) Data Centre
6 87 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
7 76 (3.03%) Product Ownership
8 68 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
9 67 (2.67%) Security Posture
10 64 (2.55%) Linux Command Line
11 58 (2.31%) Enterprise Cloud
12 52 (2.07%) Management Information System
13 51 (2.03%) Virtual Team
14 48 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
15 45 (1.79%) e-Learning
16 44 (1.75%) AI Agents
17 43 (1.71%) Private Cloud
18 41 (1.63%) PKI
19 35 (1.39%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 453 (18.05%) Linux
2 227 (9.04%) Windows
3 102 (4.06%) Windows Server
4 61 (2.43%) CentOS
5 49 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 47 (1.87%) Unix
7 39 (1.55%) Ubuntu
8 21 (0.84%) VMS
9 7 (0.28%) Debian
10 6 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.16%) AIX
13 3 (0.12%) Android
13 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
14 2 (0.080%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.080%) Rocky
14 2 (0.080%) Solaris
15 1 (0.040%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.040%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.040%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,796 (71.55%) CI/CD
2 1,392 (55.46%) DevOps
3 757 (30.16%) Containerisation
4 727 (28.96%) Agile
5 688 (27.41%) Observability
6 637 (25.38%) Platform Engineering
7 586 (23.35%) Mentoring
8 566 (22.55%) AI
9 548 (21.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 530 (21.12%) Software Engineering
11 464 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
12 437 (17.41%) Microservices
13 430 (17.13%) Cloud Security
14 422 (16.81%) Technical Leadership
15 403 (16.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 389 (15.50%) Test Automation
17 364 (14.50%) Roadmaps
18 315 (12.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 288 (11.47%) Event-Driven
20 280 (11.16%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,075 (42.83%) Python
2 407 (16.22%) Java
3 390 (15.54%) Bash
4 379 (15.10%) SQL
5 358 (14.26%) PowerShell
6 241 (9.60%) Bicep
7 225 (8.96%) TypeScript
8 191 (7.61%) JavaScript
9 187 (7.45%) C#
10 158 (6.29%) Go
11 59 (2.35%) Shell Script
12 50 (1.99%) Ruby
13 41 (1.63%) Scala
14 36 (1.43%) Groovy
15 35 (1.39%) PHP
16 29 (1.16%) Rust
17 25 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
18 22 (0.88%) C++
19 20 (0.80%) Perl
20 14 (0.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 654 (26.06%) Security Cleared
2 413 (16.45%) SC Cleared
3 223 (8.88%) AWS Certification
4 214 (8.53%) DV Cleared
5 177 (7.05%) Degree
6 161 (6.41%) Azure Certification
7 98 (3.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 82 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 55 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
11 43 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
12 30 (1.20%) CCNP
13 28 (1.12%) Master's Degree
13 28 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
14 27 (1.08%) CISSP
15 20 (0.80%) CCNA
16 17 (0.68%) SnowPro
17 14 (0.56%) DBS Check
17 14 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 13 (0.52%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (4.90%) QA
2 105 (4.18%) Data Quality
3 72 (2.87%) GDPR
3 72 (2.87%) GRC
4 62 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 49 (1.95%) Accessibility
6 37 (1.47%) NIST
7 30 (1.20%) NCSC
7 30 (1.20%) SOC 2
8 23 (0.92%) SLA
9 22 (0.88%) PCI DSS
10 20 (0.80%) WCAG
11 13 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.28%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 5 (0.20%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.12%) ISO 9001
15 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.080%) IFRS
System Software
1 687 (27.37%) Docker
2 138 (5.50%) Active Directory
3 131 (5.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
5 45 (1.79%) vSphere
6 28 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
7 20 (0.80%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.80%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.36%) KVM
10 8 (0.32%) Squid
10 8 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (0.28%) Firmware
12 4 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.12%) iptables
14 2 (0.080%) Lustre
14 2 (0.080%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 911 (36.29%) Kubernetes
2 504 (20.08%) Ansible
3 246 (9.80%) Grafana
4 181 (7.21%) Prometheus
5 76 (3.03%) Argo
6 72 (2.87%) Puppet
7 48 (1.91%) Progress Chef
8 43 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
9 37 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 35 (1.39%) Istio
11 30 (1.20%) Packer
12 24 (0.96%) FortiGate
12 24 (0.96%) Rancher
13 22 (0.88%) vCenter Server
14 16 (0.64%) Nagios
15 14 (0.56%) Cilium
16 13 (0.52%) Kustomize
16 13 (0.52%) logstash
17 12 (0.48%) Podman
17 12 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 624 (24.86%) Microsoft
2 190 (7.57%) Google
3 165 (6.57%) VMware
4 111 (4.42%) Databricks
5 87 (3.47%) Splunk
6 79 (3.15%) Red Hat
7 77 (3.07%) Oracle
8 70 (2.79%) Cisco
9 49 (1.95%) Dynatrace
10 41 (1.63%) OpenAI
11 36 (1.43%) Fortinet
12 35 (1.39%) Palo Alto
13 33 (1.31%) ServiceNow
14 26 (1.04%) Zscaler
15 15 (0.60%) Atlassian
15 15 (0.60%) Okta
15 15 (0.60%) SAP
16 14 (0.56%) SolarWinds
17 13 (0.52%) F5
17 13 (0.52%) New Relic