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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 161 154
Rank change year-on-year +84 -7 -52
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,333 1,042 1,417
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.20% 2.09% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.00% 2.34% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,555 729 1,029
10th Percentile £48,917 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,250 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,600 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,079 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% +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 77,887 44,584 67,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.57% 89.31% 81.13%
Number of salaries quoted 53,644 25,395 43,808
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,170 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -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 10 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 10 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 +74 2,049 £77,500 - 1,505
UK excluding London +111 1,256 £70,079 +0.11% 818
London +27 914 £90,000 - 830
Work from Home +80 826 £72,500 -8.01% 706
North of England +93 425 £70,400 +0.57% 263
South East +62 249 £67,500 -12.90% 188
North West +92 242 £74,651 +6.64% 146
South West +47 214 £75,000 -2.48% 149
Midlands +42 149 £77,500 +19.23% 66
Yorkshire -5 98 £75,000 +7.14% 74
West Midlands +18 91 £80,000 +23.08% 40
North East +14 85 £56,500 -19.29% 43
Wales +1 65 £70,000 +21.74% 32
East Midlands +16 58 £67,500 +3.85% 26
Northern Ireland -17 58 £72,896 +69.17% 19
East of England -8 55 £67,500 +5.88% 34
Scotland +26 51 £71,991 +6.65% 71

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 61 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
2 56 (2.40%) Apache Spark
3 53 (2.27%) Apache
4 30 (1.29%) Confluence
4 30 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.51%) Jupyter
6 11 (0.47%) IIS
7 10 (0.43%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.17%) Camunda
8 4 (0.17%) CMS
8 4 (0.17%) nginx
9 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.13%) WordPress
10 2 (0.086%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.086%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.043%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.043%) Documentum
11 1 (0.043%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.043%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 21 (0.90%) PlantUML
2 9 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.086%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.086%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.086%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.043%) Maya
6 1 (0.043%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.13%) Summit
4 2 (0.086%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.086%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.043%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,339 (57.39%) AWS
2 1,273 (54.56%) Azure
3 447 (19.16%) GCP
4 409 (17.53%) GitHub
5 378 (16.20%) Serverless
6 373 (15.99%) AWS CloudFormation
7 315 (13.50%) Azure DevOps
8 225 (9.64%) GitHub Actions
9 207 (8.87%) AWS Lambda
10 204 (8.74%) Amazon S3
11 185 (7.93%) PaaS
12 145 (6.22%) Amazon EC2
13 141 (6.04%) Amazon ECS
14 139 (5.96%) Amazon EKS
15 135 (5.79%) SaaS
16 127 (5.44%) IaaS
17 123 (5.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 123 (5.27%) Microsoft 365
18 118 (5.06%) Azure AKS
19 112 (4.80%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 178 (7.63%) Firewall
2 117 (5.02%) DNS
3 115 (4.93%) WAN
4 110 (4.71%) Network Security
5 108 (4.63%) VPN
6 96 (4.11%) LAN
7 80 (3.43%) TCP/IP
8 54 (2.31%) Broadband
9 50 (2.14%) BGP
10 41 (1.76%) DHCP
11 35 (1.50%) OSPF
12 34 (1.46%) VLAN
13 26 (1.11%) VXLAN
14 25 (1.07%) Software-Defined Networking
15 24 (1.03%) SD-WAN
16 19 (0.81%) HTTP
17 15 (0.64%) Wireless
18 13 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
18 13 (0.56%) SAN
19 12 (0.51%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
2 147 (6.30%) NoSQL
3 107 (4.59%) Amazon RDS
4 97 (4.16%) MongoDB
5 81 (3.47%) SQL Server
6 77 (3.30%) DynamoDB
7 60 (2.57%) Data Lake
7 60 (2.57%) MySQL
8 55 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
8 55 (2.36%) Relational Database
9 53 (2.27%) Metadata
10 42 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
11 39 (1.67%) Redis
12 35 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
13 29 (1.24%) Delta Lake
14 27 (1.16%) BigQuery
15 26 (1.11%) Big Data
16 25 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
16 25 (1.07%) Power BI
17 22 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 308 (13.20%) Git
2 287 (12.30%) GitLab
3 252 (10.80%) Jenkins
4 53 (2.27%) JIRA
5 43 (1.84%) Cucumber
6 33 (1.41%) CircleCI
7 32 (1.37%) Bitbucket
8 30 (1.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 27 (1.16%) TeamCity
10 21 (0.90%) Selenium
11 18 (0.77%) Claude Code
12 16 (0.69%) SonarQube
13 14 (0.60%) NUnit
14 12 (0.51%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.51%) MLflow
14 12 (0.51%) Subversion
15 11 (0.47%) Maven
16 9 (0.39%) JMeter
16 9 (0.39%) MSI
16 9 (0.39%) Snyk
General
1 642 (27.52%) Social Skills
2 532 (22.80%) Finance
3 207 (8.87%) Public Sector
4 177 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
5 141 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 121 (5.19%) Banking
7 116 (4.97%) Law
8 70 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
9 68 (2.91%) Retail
10 46 (1.97%) Aerospace
11 45 (1.93%) Games
12 43 (1.84%) Marketing
13 37 (1.59%) Legal
14 34 (1.46%) Telecoms
15 30 (1.29%) Manufacturing
16 21 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
17 19 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
18 18 (0.77%) Advertising
19 17 (0.73%) Aviation
20 16 (0.69%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 532 (22.80%) Senior
2 398 (17.06%) DevOps Engineer
3 343 (14.70%) Lead
4 309 (13.24%) Architect
5 280 (12.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 234 (10.03%) Platform Engineer
7 205 (8.79%) Developer
8 181 (7.76%) Azure Engineer
9 143 (6.13%) Software Engineer
10 136 (5.83%) AWS Engineer
11 132 (5.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 121 (5.19%) Data Engineer
13 111 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
14 105 (4.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 89 (3.81%) Security Engineer
16 86 (3.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 79 (3.39%) Senior DevOps
18 75 (3.21%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 74 (3.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 68 (2.91%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (8.19%) React
2 176 (7.54%) .NET
2 176 (7.54%) Kafka
3 151 (6.47%) Node.js
3 151 (6.47%) REST
4 142 (6.09%) Spring
5 140 (6.00%) Spring Boot
6 133 (5.70%) RESTful
7 95 (4.07%) AWS CDK
8 77 (3.30%) YAML
9 74 (3.17%) PySpark
10 71 (3.04%) ARM Templates
11 61 (2.61%) AngularJS
12 58 (2.49%) RabbitMQ
13 56 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
13 56 (2.40%) Next.js
14 51 (2.19%) OAuth
15 43 (1.84%) ASP.NET
16 41 (1.76%) CSS
17 40 (1.71%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 677 (29.02%) Cloud Native
2 248 (10.63%) Distributed Systems
3 118 (5.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 117 (5.02%) Onboarding
5 109 (4.67%) Public Cloud
6 87 (3.73%) Data Centre
7 79 (3.39%) Product Ownership
8 69 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
9 67 (2.87%) Security Posture
10 61 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
11 51 (2.19%) Enterprise Cloud
12 47 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
13 45 (1.93%) Video\Live Streaming
14 39 (1.67%) Low-Code
15 36 (1.54%) Management Information System
16 35 (1.50%) Virtual Team
17 34 (1.46%) Private Cloud
18 32 (1.37%) e-Learning
19 31 (1.33%) PKI
20 28 (1.20%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 391 (16.76%) Linux
2 221 (9.47%) Windows
3 97 (4.16%) Windows Server
4 56 (2.40%) CentOS
5 41 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (1.76%) Ubuntu
5 41 (1.76%) Unix
6 22 (0.94%) VMS
7 8 (0.34%) Android
8 7 (0.30%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.21%) Debian
9 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.086%) AIX
10 2 (0.086%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.086%) Solaris
11 1 (0.043%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.043%) Rocky
11 1 (0.043%) SUSE
11 1 (0.043%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,643 (70.42%) CI/CD
2 1,292 (55.38%) DevOps
3 691 (29.62%) Containerisation
4 659 (28.25%) Agile
5 648 (27.78%) Observability
6 543 (23.27%) Platform Engineering
7 515 (22.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 512 (21.95%) Mentoring
9 498 (21.35%) AI
10 478 (20.49%) Software Engineering
11 400 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
12 399 (17.10%) Microservices
13 391 (16.76%) Technical Leadership
14 374 (16.03%) Test Automation
15 341 (14.62%) Cloud Security
16 333 (14.27%) Roadmaps
17 307 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 257 (11.02%) Analytics
19 255 (10.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 253 (10.84%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 1,010 (43.29%) Python
2 368 (15.77%) Java
3 360 (15.43%) SQL
4 354 (15.17%) Bash
5 327 (14.02%) PowerShell
6 221 (9.47%) Bicep
7 215 (9.22%) TypeScript
8 195 (8.36%) JavaScript
9 181 (7.76%) C#
10 165 (7.07%) Go
11 46 (1.97%) Ruby
12 37 (1.59%) PHP
12 37 (1.59%) Scala
13 25 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
13 25 (1.07%) Rust
14 22 (0.94%) C++
15 21 (0.90%) Groovy
15 21 (0.90%) Perl
16 13 (0.56%) Shell Script
17 11 (0.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 551 (23.62%) Security Cleared
2 347 (14.87%) SC Cleared
3 198 (8.49%) Degree
4 179 (7.67%) AWS Certification
5 178 (7.63%) DV Cleared
6 139 (5.96%) Azure Certification
7 82 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 82 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 54 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 51 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
10 35 (1.50%) CCNP
11 29 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 28 (1.20%) Master's Degree
13 22 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
14 21 (0.90%) CISSP
15 20 (0.86%) OSCP
16 18 (0.77%) CCNA
17 16 (0.69%) DBS Check
18 14 (0.60%) RHCSA
18 14 (0.60%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (5.36%) QA
2 102 (4.37%) Data Quality
3 69 (2.96%) GRC
4 68 (2.91%) GDPR
5 57 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (2.01%) Accessibility
7 38 (1.63%) NIST
8 36 (1.54%) SOC 2
9 28 (1.20%) PCI DSS
10 25 (1.07%) NCSC
11 24 (1.03%) WCAG
12 16 (0.69%) SLA
13 9 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.21%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.086%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.086%) IFRS
16 2 (0.086%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.086%) Solvency II
System Software
1 621 (26.62%) Docker
2 132 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 127 (5.44%) Active Directory
4 46 (1.97%) vSphere
5 33 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (1.03%) Hyper-V
7 19 (0.81%) VMware NSX
8 18 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.39%) KVM
11 8 (0.34%) Firmware
11 8 (0.34%) Squid
11 8 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.21%) iptables
14 3 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.043%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 1,565 (67.08%) Terraform
2 870 (37.29%) Kubernetes
3 469 (20.10%) Ansible
4 240 (10.29%) Grafana
5 178 (7.63%) Prometheus
6 68 (2.91%) Argo
7 56 (2.40%) Puppet
8 36 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
9 35 (1.50%) Progress Chef
10 33 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
11 28 (1.20%) Istio
12 27 (1.16%) Packer
13 24 (1.03%) Nagios
14 16 (0.69%) FortiGate
14 16 (0.69%) vCenter Server
15 12 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 12 (0.51%) Cilium
15 12 (0.51%) Rancher
15 12 (0.51%) ZABBIX
16 11 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 505 (21.65%) Microsoft
2 160 (6.86%) VMware
3 137 (5.87%) Google
4 101 (4.33%) Databricks
5 89 (3.81%) Red Hat
6 87 (3.73%) Splunk
7 70 (3.00%) Cisco
8 62 (2.66%) Oracle
9 49 (2.10%) Palo Alto
10 40 (1.71%) OpenAI
11 39 (1.67%) Fortinet
12 38 (1.63%) Dynatrace
13 25 (1.07%) Zscaler
14 22 (0.94%) ServiceNow
15 16 (0.69%) CrowdStrike
16 15 (0.64%) SAP
17 14 (0.60%) Atlassian
17 14 (0.60%) F5
18 13 (0.56%) Rapid7
19 12 (0.51%) ScienceLogic