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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 142 163
Rank change year-on-year +38 +21 -57
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,589 910 1,701
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.77% 2.15% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 2.32% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,028 654 1,333
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £49,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,688 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +9.15% -5.33%
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £111,625 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,450 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.21% +7.69% -6.40%

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 67,199 39,303 82,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.71% 92.91% 85.63%
Number of salaries quoted 41,762 22,588 59,681
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +44 1,426 £77,500 - 630
London +45 725 £87,500 -2.78% 254
UK excluding London +34 718 £68,450 -2.21% 428
Work from Home +46 586 £70,000 -6.67% 309
North of England +3 264 £67,500 -0.74% 140
South East +13 147 £70,000 -6.67% 125
North West +8 141 £74,651 +2.97% 66
South West -16 104 £65,000 -9.71% 68
Yorkshire -27 92 £65,000 +7.92% 36
Midlands +5 90 £69,000 -1.43% 41
Scotland -19 46 £60,000 -17.53% 20
East Midlands -12 44 £67,500 +3.85% 14
West Midlands -17 44 £70,000 - 27
East of England +4 42 £60,100 -10.96% 32
North East -15 31 £48,445 -19.59% 38
Wales -11 22 £60,000 -5.14% 6
Northern Ireland -36 6 £95,000 - 5

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 46 (2.89%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (2.20%) Apache
3 28 (1.76%) Apache Spark
4 24 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.94%) Confluence
5 15 (0.94%) IIS
6 11 (0.69%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.31%) CMS
9 4 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.063%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.063%) Camunda
11 1 (0.063%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.063%) nginx
11 1 (0.063%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.063%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.063%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.50%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.25%) Weka
3 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.063%) Maya
4 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.063%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.063%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.063%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.063%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 943 (59.35%) AWS
2 871 (54.81%) Azure
3 320 (20.14%) GCP
4 318 (20.01%) GitHub
5 295 (18.57%) Azure DevOps
6 285 (17.94%) Serverless
7 255 (16.05%) AWS CloudFormation
8 222 (13.97%) GitHub Actions
9 167 (10.51%) AWS Lambda
10 142 (8.94%) Amazon S3
11 123 (7.74%) Amazon EKS
12 116 (7.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 116 (7.30%) PaaS
13 114 (7.17%) Entra ID
14 101 (6.36%) Datadog
14 101 (6.36%) SaaS
15 89 (5.60%) Amazon EC2
15 89 (5.60%) IaaS
16 83 (5.22%) Microsoft 365
17 80 (5.03%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 174 (10.95%) Firewall
2 92 (5.79%) DNS
3 77 (4.85%) VPN
4 70 (4.41%) TCP/IP
5 48 (3.02%) Network Security
5 48 (3.02%) WAN
6 47 (2.96%) Broadband
7 35 (2.20%) DHCP
8 27 (1.70%) HTTP
8 27 (1.70%) LAN
9 24 (1.51%) BGP
10 16 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
10 16 (1.01%) VLAN
11 15 (0.94%) DSL
11 15 (0.94%) SD-WAN
12 12 (0.76%) Software-Defined Networking
13 11 (0.69%) Internet
14 10 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
15 7 (0.44%) SAN
15 7 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (7.74%) NoSQL
2 107 (6.73%) PostgreSQL
3 87 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
4 63 (3.96%) DynamoDB
5 62 (3.90%) SQL Server
6 55 (3.46%) MongoDB
7 49 (3.08%) Data Lake
7 49 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
8 48 (3.02%) Relational Database
9 36 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
10 33 (2.08%) Metadata
10 33 (2.08%) MySQL
11 30 (1.89%) BigQuery
12 25 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
13 22 (1.38%) Power BI
14 21 (1.32%) Delta Lake
15 19 (1.20%) RDBMS
16 18 (1.13%) Redis
17 17 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
18 15 (0.94%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 223 (14.03%) Jenkins
2 215 (13.53%) GitLab
3 207 (13.03%) Git
4 39 (2.45%) CircleCI
5 38 (2.39%) Bitbucket
6 35 (2.20%) JIRA
7 24 (1.51%) Cucumber
8 21 (1.32%) Jaeger
9 18 (1.13%) Selenium
10 16 (1.01%) TeamCity
11 15 (0.94%) SonarQube
12 14 (0.88%) MLflow
13 13 (0.82%) Subversion
14 12 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 10 (0.63%) Robot Framework
16 9 (0.57%) JMeter
16 9 (0.57%) NUnit
16 9 (0.57%) Storybook
16 9 (0.57%) Vite
17 8 (0.50%) Maven
General
1 402 (25.30%) Social Skills
2 364 (22.91%) Finance
3 122 (7.68%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (6.36%) Public Sector
5 94 (5.92%) Banking
6 80 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 62 (3.90%) Retail
8 61 (3.84%) Law
9 56 (3.52%) Telecoms
10 27 (1.70%) Manufacturing
11 26 (1.64%) Games
11 26 (1.64%) Marketing
12 22 (1.38%) Aerospace
13 21 (1.32%) Advertising
14 20 (1.26%) Billing
15 19 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
16 18 (1.13%) Legal
17 17 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (1.07%) Financial Institution
18 16 (1.01%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 350 (22.03%) Senior
2 261 (16.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 245 (15.42%) Cloud Engineer
4 230 (14.47%) Lead
5 157 (9.88%) Azure Engineer
6 149 (9.38%) Developer
7 141 (8.87%) Platform Engineer
8 139 (8.75%) Architect
9 119 (7.49%) AWS Engineer
10 117 (7.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 82 (5.16%) Data Engineer
12 75 (4.72%) Software Engineer
13 72 (4.53%) Security Engineer
14 62 (3.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 62 (3.90%) Senior DevOps
15 59 (3.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 52 (3.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 48 (3.02%) Cloud Security Engineer
18 46 (2.89%) Python Engineer
19 45 (2.83%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (8.50%) React
2 118 (7.43%) Node.js
3 103 (6.48%) .NET
4 101 (6.36%) Kafka
5 99 (6.23%) REST
6 95 (5.98%) RESTful
7 76 (4.78%) AWS CDK
8 74 (4.66%) Elastic Stack
9 68 (4.28%) Spring
9 68 (4.28%) YAML
10 66 (4.15%) OAuth
11 62 (3.90%) Spring Boot
12 50 (3.15%) ARM Templates
12 50 (3.15%) RabbitMQ
13 41 (2.58%) PySpark
14 38 (2.39%) Next.js
15 37 (2.33%) OpenTelemetry
16 33 (2.08%) .NET Core
16 33 (2.08%) JSON
16 33 (2.08%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 383 (24.10%) Cloud Native
2 104 (6.54%) Distributed Systems
3 89 (5.60%) Hybrid Cloud
4 69 (4.34%) Public Cloud
5 60 (3.78%) Product Ownership
6 58 (3.65%) Security Posture
7 44 (2.77%) Data Centre
8 43 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
8 43 (2.71%) Onboarding
9 33 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
10 26 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
10 26 (1.64%) Management Information System
11 25 (1.57%) Mobile App
11 25 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (1.51%) Blockchain
12 24 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
13 23 (1.45%) Video\Live Streaming
14 22 (1.38%) PKI
14 22 (1.38%) Web3
15 21 (1.32%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 316 (19.89%) Linux
2 156 (9.82%) Windows
3 67 (4.22%) Windows Server
4 59 (3.71%) Unix
5 35 (2.20%) Ubuntu
6 29 (1.83%) CentOS
7 27 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 27 (1.70%) VMS
8 15 (0.94%) Android
9 14 (0.88%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.44%) Debian
11 5 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.25%) SUSE
13 2 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.063%) Rocky
14 1 (0.063%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,095 (68.91%) CI/CD
2 973 (61.23%) DevOps
3 453 (28.51%) Containerisation
4 441 (27.75%) Agile
5 426 (26.81%) Observability
6 353 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 319 (20.08%) Mentoring
8 293 (18.44%) Platform Engineering
9 277 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
10 275 (17.31%) Test Automation
11 258 (16.24%) AI
12 254 (15.98%) Software Engineering
13 237 (14.92%) Microservices
14 217 (13.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 216 (13.59%) Cloud Security
16 195 (12.27%) Analytics
17 178 (11.20%) DevSecOps
17 178 (11.20%) Technical Leadership
18 173 (10.89%) Incident Response
19 167 (10.51%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 726 (45.69%) Python
2 301 (18.94%) Bash
3 265 (16.68%) SQL
4 257 (16.17%) PowerShell
5 227 (14.29%) Java
6 164 (10.32%) Go
7 145 (9.13%) JavaScript
8 143 (9.00%) Bicep
9 138 (8.68%) TypeScript
10 112 (7.05%) C#
11 26 (1.64%) C++
12 24 (1.51%) Rust
13 21 (1.32%) Scala
14 20 (1.26%) Kusto Query Language
15 13 (0.82%) C
15 13 (0.82%) Kotlin
16 11 (0.69%) Groovy
17 9 (0.57%) Apex Code
18 8 (0.50%) PHP
18 8 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 289 (18.19%) Security Cleared
2 174 (10.95%) SC Cleared
3 148 (9.31%) Degree
4 125 (7.87%) AWS Certification
5 91 (5.73%) DV Cleared
6 84 (5.29%) Azure Certification
7 59 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 30 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 29 (1.83%) OSCP
11 27 (1.70%) CISSP
12 23 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (1.13%) AWS Certified Developer
14 15 (0.94%) DBS Check
15 13 (0.82%) CCNP
16 12 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 12 (0.76%) CCNA
16 12 (0.76%) Master's Degree
17 11 (0.69%) CCSK
18 10 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (5.03%) QA
2 70 (4.41%) Data Quality
3 69 (4.34%) GDPR
4 50 (3.15%) SOC 2
5 49 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (2.64%) NIST
7 35 (2.20%) Accessibility
8 33 (2.08%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.76%) SLA
10 11 (0.69%) WCAG
11 10 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.57%) NCSC
13 7 (0.44%) GRC
14 5 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.13%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.13%) IFRS
15 2 (0.13%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.13%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.13%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 472 (29.70%) Docker
2 101 (6.36%) Active Directory
3 80 (5.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (1.64%) vSphere
6 20 (1.26%) Hyper-V
7 18 (1.13%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.57%) Firmware
8 9 (0.57%) KVM
9 7 (0.44%) iptables
10 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.25%) Squid
12 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.13%) GPFS
13 2 (0.13%) Lustre
13 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.063%) vCloud
14 1 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,101 (69.29%) Terraform
2 629 (39.58%) Kubernetes
3 347 (21.84%) Ansible
4 218 (13.72%) Grafana
5 207 (13.03%) Prometheus
6 63 (3.96%) Argo
7 41 (2.58%) Single Sign-On
8 39 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 35 (2.20%) Puppet
10 23 (1.45%) Kustomize
11 21 (1.32%) Progress Chef
12 20 (1.26%) Rancher
13 17 (1.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 17 (1.07%) Nagios
14 16 (1.01%) Istio
15 15 (0.94%) Packer
16 12 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
17 9 (0.57%) logstash
17 9 (0.57%) yum
18 8 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 293 (18.44%) Microsoft
2 117 (7.36%) VMware
3 113 (7.11%) Google
4 69 (4.34%) Databricks
5 62 (3.90%) Red Hat
6 52 (3.27%) Cisco
7 50 (3.15%) Splunk
8 39 (2.45%) Palo Alto
9 23 (1.45%) CrowdStrike
9 23 (1.45%) Zscaler
10 21 (1.32%) OpenAI
11 20 (1.26%) Dynatrace
11 20 (1.26%) Salesforce
12 17 (1.07%) Oracle
13 14 (0.88%) Fortinet
13 14 (0.88%) SAP
14 13 (0.82%) Atlassian
14 13 (0.82%) Juniper
15 11 (0.69%) SolarWinds
16 10 (0.63%) Palantir