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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 135 151
Rank change year-on-year +24 +16 -47
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,409 961 1,659
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.84% 2.32% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 2.49% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 929 708 1,340
10th Percentile £46,750 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,254 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 59,482 38,652 75,963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.48% 93.43% 86.89%
Number of salaries quoted 36,105 22,218 57,058
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.41%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 +26 1,217 £75,000 - 669
UK excluding London -2 647 £67,500 -3.57% 503
London +35 607 £85,000 -5.56% 264
Work from Home +39 562 £70,000 -7.11% 335
North of England -15 222 £66,500 -1.48% 161
South East +4 139 £70,000 -5.08% 130
North West -17 103 £72,500 - 85
South West -7 90 £62,500 -11.97% 94
Yorkshire -10 89 £62,500 +8.70% 50
Midlands -10 70 £67,500 +3.85% 45
Scotland -6 59 £60,000 -14.89% 24
East of England 0 35 £65,000 -10.34% 36
West Midlands -13 34 £67,500 -3.57% 40
East Midlands -14 34 £67,500 +3.85% 5
North East -7 30 £48,445 -15.75% 26
Wales -1 22 £64,998 +19.15% 14
Northern Ireland -31 10 £95,000 +11.76% 7

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 49 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (2.70%) Apache
3 31 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 24 (1.70%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.14%) IIS
6 15 (1.06%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.85%) Confluence
8 10 (0.71%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.21%) CMS
9 3 (0.21%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.14%) Appian
10 2 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.071%) Camunda
11 1 (0.071%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.071%) nginx
11 1 (0.071%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.071%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.28%) PlantUML
1 4 (0.28%) Weka
2 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.071%) Maya
4 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.071%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.071%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.071%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.071%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 870 (61.75%) AWS
2 788 (55.93%) Azure
3 320 (22.71%) GCP
4 307 (21.79%) GitHub
5 290 (20.58%) Azure DevOps
6 268 (19.02%) Serverless
7 257 (18.24%) AWS CloudFormation
8 216 (15.33%) GitHub Actions
9 166 (11.78%) AWS Lambda
10 140 (9.94%) Amazon S3
11 127 (9.01%) PaaS
12 123 (8.73%) Amazon EKS
13 119 (8.45%) SaaS
14 113 (8.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 106 (7.52%) Entra ID
16 92 (6.53%) Datadog
17 90 (6.39%) Amazon ECS
17 90 (6.39%) Microsoft 365
18 85 (6.03%) Amazon EC2
19 80 (5.68%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 163 (11.57%) Firewall
2 87 (6.17%) DNS
3 81 (5.75%) TCP/IP
4 70 (4.97%) VPN
5 39 (2.77%) Network Security
6 38 (2.70%) Broadband
6 38 (2.70%) WAN
7 32 (2.27%) DHCP
8 21 (1.49%) HTTP
9 19 (1.35%) BGP
10 18 (1.28%) LAN
11 16 (1.14%) VLAN
12 15 (1.06%) Cisco ASA
12 15 (1.06%) DSL
13 14 (0.99%) Internet
14 10 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
15 9 (0.64%) SD-WAN
16 8 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
16 8 (0.57%) Wireless
17 5 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (7.88%) NoSQL
2 105 (7.45%) PostgreSQL
3 98 (6.96%) Amazon RDS
4 58 (4.12%) SQL Server
5 54 (3.83%) DynamoDB
6 43 (3.05%) Relational Database
7 42 (2.98%) MongoDB
8 41 (2.91%) Data Lake
8 41 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
9 39 (2.77%) Elasticsearch
10 38 (2.70%) Redis
11 34 (2.41%) MySQL
12 28 (1.99%) Azure SQL Database
13 26 (1.85%) BigQuery
14 22 (1.56%) Metadata
14 22 (1.56%) Power BI
15 19 (1.35%) RDBMS
16 17 (1.21%) Delta Lake
17 15 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
17 15 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 210 (14.90%) Jenkins
2 186 (13.20%) GitLab
3 182 (12.92%) Git
4 33 (2.34%) CircleCI
5 30 (2.13%) Bitbucket
5 30 (2.13%) JIRA
6 29 (2.06%) Selenium
7 24 (1.70%) Robot Framework
8 22 (1.56%) Cucumber
9 21 (1.49%) Jaeger
10 17 (1.21%) Snyk
10 17 (1.21%) TeamCity
11 16 (1.14%) JMeter
12 15 (1.06%) MLflow
13 12 (0.85%) Locust
14 11 (0.78%) SonarQube
15 10 (0.71%) Subversion
16 9 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 9 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
16 9 (0.64%) Storybook
General
1 382 (27.11%) Social Skills
2 338 (23.99%) Finance
3 133 (9.44%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (6.74%) Banking
5 88 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 79 (5.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 69 (4.90%) Law
8 59 (4.19%) Retail
9 58 (4.12%) Telecoms
10 31 (2.20%) Financial Institution
11 28 (1.99%) Marketing
12 23 (1.63%) Games
12 23 (1.63%) Manufacturing
13 20 (1.42%) Back Office
13 20 (1.42%) Billing
14 19 (1.35%) Advertising
15 18 (1.28%) Legal
16 16 (1.14%) Aerospace
17 15 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
18 13 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 316 (22.43%) Senior
2 229 (16.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 208 (14.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 181 (12.85%) Lead
5 133 (9.44%) Developer
6 132 (9.37%) Azure Engineer
7 123 (8.73%) Platform Engineer
8 118 (8.37%) Architect
9 99 (7.03%) AWS Engineer
9 99 (7.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 68 (4.83%) Software Engineer
11 60 (4.26%) Data Engineer
12 55 (3.90%) Senior DevOps
13 54 (3.83%) Security Engineer
14 47 (3.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 44 (3.12%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 43 (3.05%) Cloud Security Engineer
17 41 (2.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 40 (2.84%) Lead DevOps
19 39 (2.77%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (9.01%) React
2 100 (7.10%) Node.js
3 90 (6.39%) .NET
4 87 (6.17%) RESTful
5 78 (5.54%) Elastic Stack
5 78 (5.54%) Kafka
6 77 (5.46%) REST
7 69 (4.90%) AWS CDK
8 64 (4.54%) Spring
9 59 (4.19%) Spring Boot
10 58 (4.12%) OAuth
11 57 (4.05%) YAML
12 48 (3.41%) Django
13 42 (2.98%) RabbitMQ
14 41 (2.91%) ARM Templates
15 37 (2.63%) CSS
16 36 (2.56%) FastAPI
17 35 (2.48%) .NET Core
18 32 (2.27%) HTML
18 32 (2.27%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 317 (22.50%) Cloud Native
2 76 (5.39%) Hybrid Cloud
3 62 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
4 61 (4.33%) Security Posture
5 59 (4.19%) Public Cloud
6 56 (3.97%) Product Ownership
7 44 (3.12%) Data Centre
8 38 (2.70%) Onboarding
9 36 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
10 32 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
11 31 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
12 27 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
13 24 (1.70%) Management Information System
14 21 (1.49%) PKI
14 21 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
15 20 (1.42%) Mobile App
16 18 (1.28%) Cloud Security Posture
16 18 (1.28%) Hedge funds
16 18 (1.28%) Low-Code
17 17 (1.21%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 324 (23.00%) Linux
2 164 (11.64%) Windows
3 82 (5.82%) Unix
4 59 (4.19%) Windows Server
5 32 (2.27%) VMS
6 30 (2.13%) Ubuntu
7 24 (1.70%) CentOS
7 24 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (1.06%) Android
9 14 (0.99%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.57%) Debian
11 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.28%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.28%) SUSE
13 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.071%) Rocky
14 1 (0.071%) Solaris
14 1 (0.071%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 973 (69.06%) CI/CD
2 903 (64.09%) DevOps
3 424 (30.09%) Agile
4 395 (28.03%) Containerisation
5 359 (25.48%) Observability
6 326 (23.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 284 (20.16%) Mentoring
8 282 (20.01%) Problem-Solving
9 228 (16.18%) Platform Engineering
10 224 (15.90%) Software Engineering
11 223 (15.83%) Test Automation
12 217 (15.40%) AI
13 192 (13.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 189 (13.41%) Cloud Security
15 182 (12.92%) Microservices
16 174 (12.35%) Incident Response
17 173 (12.28%) Analytics
18 158 (11.21%) DevSecOps
19 149 (10.57%) High Availability
20 144 (10.22%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 644 (45.71%) Python
2 270 (19.16%) Bash
3 236 (16.75%) PowerShell
4 225 (15.97%) SQL
5 196 (13.91%) Java
6 147 (10.43%) Go
7 131 (9.30%) JavaScript
8 129 (9.16%) Bicep
9 111 (7.88%) TypeScript
10 88 (6.25%) C#
11 21 (1.49%) C++
12 19 (1.35%) Rust
13 18 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
14 16 (1.14%) Scala
15 15 (1.06%) Kotlin
16 11 (0.78%) C
17 10 (0.71%) Apex Code
18 8 (0.57%) Ruby
19 7 (0.50%) Google Apps Script
20 5 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 268 (19.02%) Security Cleared
2 159 (11.28%) SC Cleared
3 119 (8.45%) AWS Certification
3 119 (8.45%) Degree
4 102 (7.24%) DV Cleared
5 75 (5.32%) Azure Certification
6 49 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 36 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (2.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 28 (1.99%) CISSP
9 28 (1.99%) OSCP
10 17 (1.21%) AWS Certified Developer
11 13 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
12 12 (0.85%) Master's Degree
13 11 (0.78%) CCSK
13 11 (0.78%) DBS Check
14 10 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 10 (0.71%) CCNP
15 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 7 (0.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (5.32%) QA
2 71 (5.04%) GDPR
3 58 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 54 (3.83%) Data Quality
5 51 (3.62%) SOC 2
6 45 (3.19%) NIST
7 40 (2.84%) Accessibility
7 40 (2.84%) PCI DSS
8 17 (1.21%) SLA
9 15 (1.06%) WCAG
10 11 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.57%) NCSC
12 7 (0.50%) GRC
13 6 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.28%) EU AI Act
15 2 (0.14%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.14%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 462 (32.79%) Docker
2 84 (5.96%) Active Directory
3 68 (4.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (1.77%) Hyper-V
6 23 (1.63%) vSphere
7 16 (1.14%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.78%) Firmware
9 10 (0.71%) KVM
9 10 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
10 9 (0.64%) vCloud
11 4 (0.28%) iptables
11 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.14%) GPFS
12 2 (0.14%) Lustre
12 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.071%) QEMU
13 1 (0.071%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 988 (70.12%) Terraform
2 548 (38.89%) Kubernetes
3 328 (23.28%) Ansible
4 211 (14.98%) Grafana
5 199 (14.12%) Prometheus
6 55 (3.90%) Argo
7 44 (3.12%) Microsoft Intune
8 33 (2.34%) Puppet
9 29 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (1.35%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.21%) AWS Copilot
12 16 (1.14%) Rancher
13 15 (1.06%) Nagios
14 14 (0.99%) Docker Swarm
14 14 (0.99%) Progress Chef
15 12 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 10 (0.71%) Istio
17 9 (0.64%) SCCM
18 8 (0.57%) Mesos
18 8 (0.57%) yum
Vendors
1 241 (17.10%) Microsoft
2 129 (9.16%) Google
3 104 (7.38%) VMware
4 50 (3.55%) Databricks
5 48 (3.41%) Red Hat
5 48 (3.41%) Splunk
6 47 (3.34%) Cisco
7 39 (2.77%) Palo Alto
8 21 (1.49%) Salesforce
9 20 (1.42%) Zscaler
10 19 (1.35%) Dynatrace
11 17 (1.21%) Black Duck
11 17 (1.21%) Coverity
12 16 (1.14%) CrowdStrike
13 15 (1.06%) Juniper
14 13 (0.92%) Atlassian
14 13 (0.92%) OpenAI
15 12 (0.85%) Fortinet
15 12 (0.85%) Oracle
15 12 (0.85%) SAP