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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 150 166
Rank change year-on-year +52 +16 -58
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,657 931 1,702
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.82% 2.13% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 2.28% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,086 666 1,327
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,063 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +9.81% -5.90%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,938 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £113,125 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.14% +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 67,438 40,826 82,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.22% 93.31% 85.22%
Number of salaries quoted 42,850 22,742 59,687
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,491 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 10 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 10 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 +50 1,498 £77,500 - 678
London +37 761 £85,000 -5.56% 285
UK excluding London +49 750 £68,500 -2.14% 456
Work from Home +66 592 £70,000 -6.67% 340
North of England +12 273 £67,374 -3.75% 164
South East +25 162 £70,000 -6.67% 137
North West +41 153 £74,301 +2.48% 80
South West -13 105 £66,250 -7.97% 65
Midlands +32 100 £70,000 - 40
Yorkshire -32 86 £65,288 +2.41% 47
West Midlands -5 54 £70,000 - 25
Scotland +1 46 £60,000 -19.93% 19
East Midlands +2 44 £67,750 +4.23% 15
East of England +17 42 £60,100 -10.96% 23
North East -18 34 £48,445 -19.59% 37
Wales -13 19 £60,500 -4.35% 8
Northern Ireland -32 6 £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 50 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (2.11%) Apache
3 28 (1.69%) Apache Spark
4 24 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (1.09%) Confluence
6 15 (0.91%) IIS
7 13 (0.78%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.30%) CMS
10 4 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.060%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.060%) Camunda
12 1 (0.060%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.060%) nginx
12 1 (0.060%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.060%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.060%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (0.54%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.24%) Weka
3 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.060%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.060%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.060%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.060%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.060%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 976 (58.90%) AWS
2 908 (54.80%) Azure
3 327 (19.73%) GitHub
4 324 (19.55%) GCP
5 302 (18.23%) Azure DevOps
6 294 (17.74%) Serverless
7 255 (15.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 221 (13.34%) GitHub Actions
9 169 (10.20%) AWS Lambda
10 145 (8.75%) Amazon S3
11 122 (7.36%) PaaS
12 117 (7.06%) Amazon EKS
13 115 (6.94%) Entra ID
14 114 (6.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 104 (6.28%) SaaS
16 101 (6.10%) Datadog
17 94 (5.67%) IaaS
18 92 (5.55%) Amazon EC2
19 88 (5.31%) Azure AKS
20 86 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 178 (10.74%) Firewall
2 94 (5.67%) DNS
3 76 (4.59%) VPN
4 70 (4.22%) TCP/IP
5 54 (3.26%) Broadband
6 50 (3.02%) Network Security
7 48 (2.90%) WAN
8 36 (2.17%) DHCP
9 27 (1.63%) HTTP
9 27 (1.63%) LAN
10 25 (1.51%) BGP
11 17 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
11 17 (1.03%) SD-WAN
11 17 (1.03%) VLAN
12 15 (0.91%) DSL
12 15 (0.91%) Software-Defined Networking
13 11 (0.66%) Internet
14 8 (0.48%) OSPF
14 8 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
14 8 (0.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (7.60%) NoSQL
2 119 (7.18%) PostgreSQL
3 86 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
4 71 (4.28%) MongoDB
5 64 (3.86%) SQL Server
6 61 (3.68%) DynamoDB
7 53 (3.20%) Data Lake
8 52 (3.14%) Relational Database
9 47 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
10 39 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
11 34 (2.05%) Metadata
12 32 (1.93%) BigQuery
13 31 (1.87%) MySQL
14 27 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
15 22 (1.33%) Delta Lake
15 22 (1.33%) Power BI
16 18 (1.09%) RDBMS
16 18 (1.09%) Redis
17 17 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
18 15 (0.91%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 228 (13.76%) Jenkins
2 225 (13.58%) GitLab
3 222 (13.40%) Git
4 42 (2.53%) CircleCI
5 37 (2.23%) JIRA
6 36 (2.17%) Bitbucket
7 27 (1.63%) Cucumber
8 20 (1.21%) Jaeger
9 18 (1.09%) Selenium
10 16 (0.97%) SonarQube
11 14 (0.84%) TeamCity
12 13 (0.78%) MLflow
12 13 (0.78%) Subversion
13 12 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 9 (0.54%) Maven
14 9 (0.54%) NUnit
14 9 (0.54%) Robot Framework
14 9 (0.54%) Storybook
14 9 (0.54%) Vite
15 8 (0.48%) JMeter
General
1 410 (24.74%) Social Skills
2 361 (21.79%) Finance
3 118 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (6.34%) Public Sector
5 96 (5.79%) Banking
6 74 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 58 (3.50%) Retail
8 57 (3.44%) Law
8 57 (3.44%) Telecoms
9 36 (2.17%) Games
10 30 (1.81%) Manufacturing
11 25 (1.51%) Marketing
12 22 (1.33%) Aerospace
13 20 (1.21%) Billing
13 20 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
14 19 (1.15%) Advertising
14 19 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
14 19 (1.15%) Legal
15 17 (1.03%) Financial Institution
16 15 (0.91%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 371 (22.39%) Senior
2 268 (16.17%) DevOps Engineer
3 248 (14.97%) Cloud Engineer
4 232 (14.00%) Lead
5 171 (10.32%) Azure Engineer
6 161 (9.72%) Platform Engineer
7 153 (9.23%) Developer
8 148 (8.93%) Architect
9 124 (7.48%) AWS Engineer
10 120 (7.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 88 (5.31%) Data Engineer
12 80 (4.83%) Software Engineer
13 73 (4.41%) Security Engineer
14 70 (4.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 67 (4.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 62 (3.74%) Senior DevOps
17 52 (3.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 51 (3.08%) Senior Platform Engineer
19 49 (2.96%) Python Engineer
20 47 (2.84%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (8.09%) React
2 115 (6.94%) Node.js
3 114 (6.88%) Kafka
4 112 (6.76%) .NET
5 103 (6.22%) REST
6 102 (6.16%) RESTful
7 78 (4.71%) AWS CDK
8 73 (4.41%) Elastic Stack
8 73 (4.41%) YAML
9 72 (4.35%) Spring
10 66 (3.98%) Spring Boot
11 65 (3.92%) OAuth
12 53 (3.20%) ARM Templates
13 49 (2.96%) RabbitMQ
14 48 (2.90%) PySpark
15 38 (2.29%) Next.js
16 35 (2.11%) JSON
16 35 (2.11%) OpenTelemetry
16 35 (2.11%) SAML
17 33 (1.99%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 402 (24.26%) Cloud Native
2 120 (7.24%) Distributed Systems
3 90 (5.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 73 (4.41%) Public Cloud
5 60 (3.62%) Product Ownership
6 57 (3.44%) Security Posture
7 49 (2.96%) Data Centre
8 46 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
9 42 (2.53%) Onboarding
10 33 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
11 32 (1.93%) Video\Live Streaming
12 31 (1.87%) Low-Code
13 25 (1.51%) Management Information System
13 25 (1.51%) Mobile App
14 24 (1.45%) Blockchain
14 24 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
15 23 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
15 23 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
16 22 (1.33%) Web3
17 21 (1.27%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 328 (19.79%) Linux
2 163 (9.84%) Windows
3 73 (4.41%) Windows Server
4 59 (3.56%) Unix
5 35 (2.11%) Ubuntu
6 29 (1.75%) VMS
7 28 (1.69%) CentOS
8 26 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (0.91%) Android
10 14 (0.84%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.36%) Debian
11 6 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.24%) SUSE
13 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.060%) Rocky
15 1 (0.060%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,156 (69.76%) CI/CD
2 999 (60.29%) DevOps
3 459 (27.70%) Containerisation
4 455 (27.46%) Agile
5 450 (27.16%) Observability
6 370 (22.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 328 (19.79%) Mentoring
8 319 (19.25%) Platform Engineering
9 299 (18.04%) Test Automation
10 291 (17.56%) AI
11 275 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
12 271 (16.35%) Software Engineering
13 248 (14.97%) Microservices
14 225 (13.58%) Cloud Security
15 222 (13.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 200 (12.07%) Analytics
17 189 (11.41%) Technical Leadership
18 183 (11.04%) DevSecOps
19 174 (10.50%) High Availability
20 170 (10.26%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 764 (46.11%) Python
2 308 (18.59%) Bash
3 271 (16.35%) PowerShell
4 268 (16.17%) SQL
5 234 (14.12%) Java
6 170 (10.26%) Go
7 154 (9.29%) JavaScript
8 147 (8.87%) TypeScript
9 144 (8.69%) Bicep
10 120 (7.24%) C#
11 27 (1.63%) C++
11 27 (1.63%) Rust
12 23 (1.39%) Scala
13 19 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
14 13 (0.78%) C
14 13 (0.78%) Groovy
15 12 (0.72%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.60%) PHP
17 8 (0.48%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 309 (18.65%) Security Cleared
2 188 (11.35%) SC Cleared
3 153 (9.23%) Degree
4 126 (7.60%) AWS Certification
5 94 (5.67%) DV Cleared
6 89 (5.37%) Azure Certification
7 61 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 31 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 29 (1.75%) OSCP
11 27 (1.63%) CISSP
12 26 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
13 17 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
14 15 (0.91%) CCNP
15 14 (0.84%) DBS Check
16 13 (0.78%) Master's Degree
17 12 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 12 (0.72%) CCNA
18 11 (0.66%) CCSK
19 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (4.95%) QA
2 72 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 68 (4.10%) GDPR
4 48 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 48 (2.90%) SOC 2
5 40 (2.41%) NIST
6 34 (2.05%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.81%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.72%) SLA
9 11 (0.66%) WCAG
10 9 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.54%) NCSC
11 5 (0.30%) GRC
12 4 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.12%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.12%) IFRS
13 2 (0.12%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.12%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.12%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 475 (28.67%) Docker
2 105 (6.34%) Active Directory
3 81 (4.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (1.69%) vSphere
6 20 (1.21%) Hyper-V
7 19 (1.15%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.54%) Firmware
9 7 (0.42%) iptables
9 7 (0.42%) KVM
10 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 6 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.30%) Squid
12 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.12%) GPFS
13 2 (0.12%) Lustre
13 2 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.060%) vCloud
14 1 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,145 (69.10%) Terraform
2 646 (38.99%) Kubernetes
3 365 (22.03%) Ansible
4 223 (13.46%) Grafana
5 210 (12.67%) Prometheus
6 59 (3.56%) Argo
7 42 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
8 41 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
9 37 (2.23%) Puppet
10 23 (1.39%) Progress Chef
11 22 (1.33%) Kustomize
12 20 (1.21%) Rancher
13 18 (1.09%) Nagios
14 17 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 16 (0.97%) Istio
15 16 (0.97%) Packer
16 13 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
17 9 (0.54%) logstash
17 9 (0.54%) vCenter Server
17 9 (0.54%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 310 (18.71%) Microsoft
2 121 (7.30%) VMware
3 110 (6.64%) Google
4 75 (4.53%) Databricks
5 65 (3.92%) Red Hat
6 56 (3.38%) Cisco
7 50 (3.02%) Splunk
8 43 (2.60%) Palo Alto
9 24 (1.45%) Zscaler
10 22 (1.33%) CrowdStrike
10 22 (1.33%) OpenAI
11 21 (1.27%) Salesforce
12 20 (1.21%) Dynatrace
13 18 (1.09%) Fortinet
14 17 (1.03%) Oracle
15 13 (0.78%) Juniper
15 13 (0.78%) SAP
16 12 (0.72%) Atlassian
17 11 (0.66%) CheckPoint
18 10 (0.60%) Palantir