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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 135 160
Rank change year-on-year +27 +25 -54
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,511 938 1,688
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.78% 2.28% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 2.45% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 980 684 1,334
10th Percentile £48,750 £46,770 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,200 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.57% +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 64,151 38,285 80,022
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.65% 92.95% 86.03%
Number of salaries quoted 39,600 22,564 59,023
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -7.94%

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 14 April 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 14 April 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 +27 1,334 £75,000 -3.23% 675
UK excluding London +8 703 £68,200 -2.57% 450
London +39 665 £85,000 -5.56% 291
Work from Home +45 588 £70,000 -7.11% 329
North of England -5 257 £67,500 - 151
South East -1 147 £72,500 -3.33% 121
North West -1 130 £74,301 +2.48% 79
South West -12 101 £62,500 -13.18% 76
Yorkshire -25 93 £65,000 +8.33% 45
Midlands +1 82 £67,500 -3.57% 41
Scotland 0 55 £60,000 -14.89% 19
East Midlands -19 42 £67,500 +3.85% 9
West Midlands -12 38 £66,500 -5.00% 32
North East -13 34 £48,445 -15.01% 27
East of England -11 33 £62,500 -9.09% 38
Wales -8 23 £61,248 -3.17% 9
Northern Ireland -38 8 £95,000 - 6

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 47 (3.11%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (2.38%) Apache
3 25 (1.65%) Apache Spark
4 24 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (1.06%) Confluence
5 16 (1.06%) IIS
6 11 (0.73%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.20%) CMS
9 2 (0.13%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.066%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.066%) Camunda
10 1 (0.066%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.066%) nginx
10 1 (0.066%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.33%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.26%) Weka
3 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.066%) Maya
5 1 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.066%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.066%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.066%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.066%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.066%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 918 (60.75%) AWS
2 824 (54.53%) Azure
3 331 (21.91%) GCP
4 313 (20.71%) GitHub
5 291 (19.26%) Azure DevOps
6 284 (18.80%) Serverless
7 260 (17.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 219 (14.49%) GitHub Actions
9 173 (11.45%) AWS Lambda
10 142 (9.40%) Amazon S3
11 131 (8.67%) Amazon EKS
12 119 (7.88%) PaaS
13 116 (7.68%) SaaS
14 114 (7.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 111 (7.35%) Entra ID
16 103 (6.82%) Datadog
17 90 (5.96%) Amazon EC2
18 84 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
19 81 (5.36%) Microsoft 365
20 78 (5.16%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 176 (11.65%) Firewall
2 87 (5.76%) DNS
3 78 (5.16%) TCP/IP
4 74 (4.90%) VPN
5 43 (2.85%) Network Security
5 43 (2.85%) WAN
6 38 (2.51%) Broadband
7 32 (2.12%) DHCP
8 23 (1.52%) HTTP
8 23 (1.52%) LAN
9 21 (1.39%) BGP
10 16 (1.06%) Cisco ASA
10 16 (1.06%) VLAN
11 15 (0.99%) DSL
12 12 (0.79%) Internet
12 12 (0.79%) SD-WAN
13 10 (0.66%) Software-Defined Networking
14 9 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.53%) Wireless
16 6 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (7.81%) NoSQL
2 105 (6.95%) PostgreSQL
3 93 (6.15%) Amazon RDS
4 62 (4.10%) SQL Server
5 59 (3.90%) DynamoDB
6 46 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
6 46 (3.04%) MongoDB
7 45 (2.98%) Relational Database
8 43 (2.85%) Data Lake
9 34 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
10 33 (2.18%) MySQL
11 32 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
12 30 (1.99%) Redis
13 28 (1.85%) BigQuery
14 24 (1.59%) Metadata
15 22 (1.46%) Power BI
16 19 (1.26%) RDBMS
17 18 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
17 18 (1.19%) Delta Lake
18 15 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 214 (14.16%) Jenkins
2 201 (13.30%) Git
3 200 (13.24%) GitLab
4 36 (2.38%) JIRA
5 35 (2.32%) Bitbucket
6 34 (2.25%) CircleCI
7 28 (1.85%) Cucumber
8 24 (1.59%) Selenium
9 21 (1.39%) Jaeger
10 19 (1.26%) TeamCity
11 17 (1.13%) JMeter
11 17 (1.13%) Robot Framework
11 17 (1.13%) SonarQube
12 14 (0.93%) MLflow
13 13 (0.86%) Locust
14 12 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 12 (0.79%) Subversion
15 9 (0.60%) NUnit
15 9 (0.60%) Snyk
15 9 (0.60%) Storybook
General
1 396 (26.21%) Social Skills
2 354 (23.43%) Finance
3 131 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (6.75%) Banking
5 92 (6.09%) Public Sector
6 86 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 71 (4.70%) Retail
8 68 (4.50%) Law
9 58 (3.84%) Telecoms
10 30 (1.99%) Financial Institution
11 26 (1.72%) Manufacturing
11 26 (1.72%) Marketing
12 23 (1.52%) Aerospace
13 22 (1.46%) Back Office
13 22 (1.46%) Billing
13 22 (1.46%) Games
14 19 (1.26%) Advertising
15 16 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
15 16 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (1.06%) Legal
Job Titles
1 338 (22.37%) Senior
2 246 (16.28%) DevOps Engineer
3 225 (14.89%) Cloud Engineer
4 213 (14.10%) Lead
5 146 (9.66%) Azure Engineer
6 141 (9.33%) Developer
7 127 (8.41%) Platform Engineer
8 122 (8.07%) Architect
9 113 (7.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 111 (7.35%) AWS Engineer
11 74 (4.90%) Software Engineer
12 67 (4.43%) Data Engineer
13 62 (4.10%) Security Engineer
13 62 (4.10%) Senior DevOps
14 53 (3.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 53 (3.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 50 (3.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 47 (3.11%) Cloud Security Engineer
17 44 (2.91%) Python Engineer
18 42 (2.78%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (8.87%) React
2 111 (7.35%) Node.js
3 100 (6.62%) .NET
4 92 (6.09%) RESTful
5 91 (6.02%) REST
6 84 (5.56%) Kafka
7 78 (5.16%) Elastic Stack
8 73 (4.83%) AWS CDK
9 68 (4.50%) Spring
10 65 (4.30%) OAuth
11 64 (4.24%) YAML
12 61 (4.04%) Spring Boot
13 48 (3.18%) ARM Templates
14 47 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
15 42 (2.78%) Django
16 36 (2.38%) FastAPI
17 35 (2.32%) .NET Core
18 34 (2.25%) OpenTelemetry
18 34 (2.25%) PySpark
19 33 (2.18%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 348 (23.03%) Cloud Native
2 89 (5.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 86 (5.69%) Distributed Systems
4 64 (4.24%) Public Cloud
5 59 (3.90%) Security Posture
6 58 (3.84%) Product Ownership
7 46 (3.04%) Data Centre
8 39 (2.58%) Onboarding
9 35 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
10 33 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
11 26 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
12 25 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
12 25 (1.65%) Management Information System
12 25 (1.65%) Mobile App
12 25 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (1.46%) PKI
14 21 (1.39%) Blockchain
15 19 (1.26%) Web3
16 18 (1.19%) Cloud Security Posture
16 18 (1.19%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 329 (21.77%) Linux
2 165 (10.92%) Windows
3 74 (4.90%) Unix
4 65 (4.30%) Windows Server
5 37 (2.45%) Ubuntu
6 29 (1.92%) VMS
7 27 (1.79%) CentOS
7 27 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 17 (1.13%) Android
9 16 (1.06%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.60%) Debian
11 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.26%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.26%) SUSE
13 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.066%) Rocky
14 1 (0.066%) Solaris
14 1 (0.066%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,036 (68.56%) CI/CD
2 947 (62.67%) DevOps
3 442 (29.25%) Agile
4 429 (28.39%) Containerisation
5 399 (26.41%) Observability
6 345 (22.83%) Continuous Improvement
7 300 (19.85%) Mentoring
8 288 (19.06%) Problem-Solving
9 248 (16.41%) Platform Engineering
10 246 (16.28%) Test Automation
11 241 (15.95%) Software Engineering
12 231 (15.29%) AI
13 219 (14.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 208 (13.77%) Microservices
15 207 (13.70%) Cloud Security
16 181 (11.98%) Analytics
17 174 (11.52%) Incident Response
18 164 (10.85%) DevSecOps
19 159 (10.52%) High Availability
20 155 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 685 (45.33%) Python
2 280 (18.53%) Bash
3 251 (16.61%) SQL
4 247 (16.35%) PowerShell
5 221 (14.63%) Java
6 158 (10.46%) Go
7 144 (9.53%) JavaScript
8 138 (9.13%) Bicep
9 127 (8.41%) TypeScript
10 96 (6.35%) C#
11 25 (1.65%) C++
12 21 (1.39%) Rust
13 20 (1.32%) Kusto Query Language
14 17 (1.13%) Kotlin
14 17 (1.13%) Scala
15 12 (0.79%) C
16 10 (0.66%) Apex Code
17 9 (0.60%) Ruby
18 8 (0.53%) Google Apps Script
19 7 (0.46%) Perl
Qualifications
1 279 (18.46%) Security Cleared
2 164 (10.85%) SC Cleared
3 133 (8.80%) Degree
4 122 (8.07%) AWS Certification
5 99 (6.55%) DV Cleared
6 78 (5.16%) Azure Certification
7 56 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (2.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 31 (2.05%) OSCP
9 30 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 27 (1.79%) CISSP
11 20 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
12 17 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
13 12 (0.79%) DBS Check
14 11 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 11 (0.73%) CCNP
14 11 (0.73%) CCSK
14 11 (0.73%) Master's Degree
15 10 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 9 (0.60%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (5.23%) QA
2 69 (4.57%) GDPR
3 60 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 59 (3.90%) Data Quality
5 56 (3.71%) SOC 2
6 46 (3.04%) NIST
7 41 (2.71%) PCI DSS
8 40 (2.65%) Accessibility
9 16 (1.06%) WCAG
10 15 (0.99%) SLA
11 11 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.60%) GRC
13 8 (0.53%) NCSC
14 5 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
15 4 (0.26%) EU AI Act
16 2 (0.13%) Def Stans
16 2 (0.13%) JSP 440
16 2 (0.13%) NIST 800
16 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 474 (31.37%) Docker
2 92 (6.09%) Active Directory
3 73 (4.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (1.59%) vSphere
6 22 (1.46%) Hyper-V
7 16 (1.06%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.73%) KVM
9 9 (0.60%) Firmware
10 6 (0.40%) iptables
11 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 5 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.26%) vCloud
13 2 (0.13%) GPFS
13 2 (0.13%) Lustre
13 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.13%) Squid
14 1 (0.066%) QEMU
14 1 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,066 (70.55%) Terraform
2 601 (39.77%) Kubernetes
3 348 (23.03%) Ansible
4 218 (14.43%) Grafana
5 201 (13.30%) Prometheus
6 60 (3.97%) Argo
7 41 (2.71%) Microsoft Intune
8 35 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
9 32 (2.12%) Puppet
10 19 (1.26%) Kustomize
10 19 (1.26%) Rancher
11 16 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 15 (0.99%) Nagios
12 15 (0.99%) Progress Chef
13 14 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
14 12 (0.79%) Istio
15 11 (0.73%) Packer
16 10 (0.66%) AWS Copilot
17 9 (0.60%) yum
18 8 (0.53%) Mesos
Vendors
1 269 (17.80%) Microsoft
2 124 (8.21%) Google
3 110 (7.28%) VMware
4 56 (3.71%) Databricks
4 56 (3.71%) Red Hat
5 49 (3.24%) Splunk
6 48 (3.18%) Cisco
7 39 (2.58%) Palo Alto
8 23 (1.52%) Zscaler
9 21 (1.39%) Salesforce
10 19 (1.26%) CrowdStrike
10 19 (1.26%) Dynatrace
11 17 (1.13%) OpenAI
12 16 (1.06%) Oracle
13 14 (0.93%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.93%) Juniper
14 13 (0.86%) Fortinet
15 11 (0.73%) New Relic
16 10 (0.66%) CyberArk
16 10 (0.66%) Foundry