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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 126 97
Rank change year-on-year 0 -29 +1
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,119 1,238 1,627
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.87% 2.28% 3.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 2.53% 3.35%
Number of salaries quoted 789 759 1,306
10th Percentile £46,500 £46,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £59,375 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.33%
75th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £66,693 £65,351
% change year-on-year +4.96% +2.05% -2.15%

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 48,544 49,000 48,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.18% 90.28% 90.00%
Number of salaries quoted 28,525 24,011 36,948
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 -7 935 £73,801 +1.79% 1,235
UK excluding London +2 559 £70,000 +4.96% 1,139
Work from Home +35 484 £73,000 +0.69% 565
London +5 434 £83,375 -7.36% 260
North of England -11 191 £70,000 +12.00% 232
South East +2 110 £75,000 +15.38% 353
Yorkshire -9 87 £70,000 +33.33% 100
North West -1 79 £70,000 +3.70% 90
Scotland +14 76 £70,079 +9.93% 36
South West -28 67 £62,500 -10.71% 157
Midlands +4 59 £67,500 +2.27% 130
West Midlands 0 37 £67,500 +1.12% 39
East of England +29 27 £75,000 +3.45% 164
North East -5 25 £67,539 +46.03% 43
Wales +23 23 £61,496 +12.73% 66
East Midlands +13 20 £67,500 +3.85% 85
Northern Ireland -4 8 £95,000 +11.76% 30

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 45 (4.02%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (3.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 34 (3.04%) Apache
4 24 (2.14%) SharePoint
5 19 (1.70%) Apache Spark
6 18 (1.61%) Confluence
7 8 (0.71%) IIS
8 6 (0.54%) Appian
9 4 (0.36%) nginx
9 4 (0.36%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.089%) CMS
10 1 (0.089%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.089%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.089%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.089%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.089%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.089%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.089%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 696 (62.20%) Azure
2 656 (58.62%) AWS
3 293 (26.18%) Azure DevOps
4 263 (23.50%) GitHub
5 230 (20.55%) GCP
6 189 (16.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 189 (16.89%) Serverless
7 174 (15.55%) GitHub Actions
8 132 (11.80%) AWS Lambda
9 109 (9.74%) Amazon S3
10 101 (9.03%) SaaS
11 99 (8.85%) PaaS
12 93 (8.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 93 (8.31%) Entra ID
13 91 (8.13%) Microsoft 365
14 90 (8.04%) Azure Monitor
15 78 (6.97%) Amazon EKS
16 72 (6.43%) Amazon ECS
17 69 (6.17%) Amazon EC2
18 63 (5.63%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 122 (10.90%) Firewall
2 79 (7.06%) DNS
3 70 (6.26%) VPN
4 57 (5.09%) TCP/IP
5 51 (4.56%) WAN
6 35 (3.13%) DHCP
7 31 (2.77%) LAN
7 31 (2.77%) Network Security
8 26 (2.32%) Wi-Fi
9 15 (1.34%) Internet
10 14 (1.25%) BGP
10 14 (1.25%) SD-WAN
11 12 (1.07%) VLAN
12 11 (0.98%) VoIP
13 10 (0.89%) Broadband
13 10 (0.89%) Wireless
14 8 (0.71%) SAN
15 7 (0.63%) OSPF
15 7 (0.63%) Unified Communications
16 6 (0.54%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (6.61%) PostgreSQL
2 71 (6.34%) Amazon RDS
3 61 (5.45%) NoSQL
4 46 (4.11%) SQL Server
5 42 (3.75%) DynamoDB
6 40 (3.57%) Data Lake
7 32 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
8 29 (2.59%) BigQuery
8 29 (2.59%) MongoDB
9 28 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
9 28 (2.50%) Redis
10 26 (2.32%) MySQL
11 19 (1.70%) Relational Database
12 17 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
13 16 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
13 16 (1.43%) Power BI
14 13 (1.16%) Big Data
14 13 (1.16%) Delta Lake
15 10 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
16 9 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 180 (16.09%) Jenkins
2 158 (14.12%) Git
3 116 (10.37%) GitLab
4 33 (2.95%) JIRA
5 27 (2.41%) Selenium
6 25 (2.23%) Robot Framework
7 21 (1.88%) Snyk
8 17 (1.52%) Bitbucket
8 17 (1.52%) MLflow
8 17 (1.52%) TeamCity
9 13 (1.16%) SonarQube
10 12 (1.07%) CircleCI
11 10 (0.89%) Artifactory
11 10 (0.89%) Cucumber
11 10 (0.89%) JMeter
12 9 (0.80%) Jaeger
13 8 (0.71%) Locust
14 6 (0.54%) git-flow
14 6 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
15 5 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 301 (26.90%) Social Skills
2 283 (25.29%) Finance
3 89 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (5.00%) Banking
5 55 (4.92%) Public Sector
6 54 (4.83%) Law
7 40 (3.57%) Telecoms
8 39 (3.49%) Retail
9 34 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 27 (2.41%) Financial Institution
11 25 (2.23%) Games
12 20 (1.79%) Billing
13 19 (1.70%) Legal
13 19 (1.70%) Marketing
14 17 (1.52%) Manufacturing
15 14 (1.25%) Advertising
16 13 (1.16%) Back Office
17 12 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
17 12 (1.07%) Electronics
18 10 (0.89%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 248 (22.16%) Senior
2 185 (16.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 171 (15.28%) Cloud Engineer
4 116 (10.37%) Lead
5 113 (10.10%) Azure Engineer
6 109 (9.74%) Developer
7 107 (9.56%) Platform Engineer
8 98 (8.76%) Architect
9 67 (5.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 62 (5.54%) AWS Engineer
11 43 (3.84%) Senior DevOps
12 41 (3.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 40 (3.57%) Data Engineer
14 37 (3.31%) Software Engineer
15 35 (3.13%) Support Engineer
16 34 (3.04%) Lead DevOps
17 33 (2.95%) Security Engineer
18 31 (2.77%) Senior Cloud Engineer
19 28 (2.50%) GCP Engineer
20 27 (2.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (9.03%) React
2 79 (7.06%) .NET
3 66 (5.90%) RESTful
4 65 (5.81%) Node.js
5 53 (4.74%) Elastic Stack
6 48 (4.29%) Kafka
7 45 (4.02%) ARM Templates
7 45 (4.02%) YAML
8 41 (3.66%) OAuth
9 39 (3.49%) Django
10 38 (3.40%) AWS CDK
11 34 (3.04%) REST
12 32 (2.86%) Spring
13 31 (2.77%) .NET Core
13 31 (2.77%) FastAPI
14 29 (2.59%) Spring Boot
15 27 (2.41%) CSS
16 26 (2.32%) HTML
17 21 (1.88%) Vue
18 20 (1.79%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 240 (21.45%) Cloud Native
2 68 (6.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 54 (4.83%) Public Cloud
4 53 (4.74%) Data Centre
5 44 (3.93%) Product Ownership
6 42 (3.75%) Security Posture
7 38 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
8 31 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
9 28 (2.50%) Management Information System
10 26 (2.32%) Onboarding
11 23 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
12 18 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
13 17 (1.52%) PKI
14 16 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (1.34%) Low-Code
16 13 (1.16%) Data Structures
17 12 (1.07%) Hedge funds
18 11 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
19 10 (0.89%) Private Cloud
19 10 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 259 (23.15%) Linux
2 137 (12.24%) Windows
3 57 (5.09%) Unix
4 45 (4.02%) Windows Server
5 30 (2.68%) VMS
6 23 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 22 (1.97%) Ubuntu
8 13 (1.16%) Debian
9 9 (0.80%) CentOS
10 6 (0.54%) Android
10 6 (0.54%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.36%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.27%) Solaris
13 3 (0.27%) SUSE
14 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.089%) AIX
15 1 (0.089%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 759 (67.83%) DevOps
2 752 (67.20%) CI/CD
3 340 (30.38%) Agile
4 284 (25.38%) Containerisation
5 239 (21.36%) Continuous Improvement
6 231 (20.64%) Observability
7 225 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
8 190 (16.98%) Mentoring
9 172 (15.37%) Platform Engineering
10 161 (14.39%) AI
11 157 (14.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 150 (13.40%) Analytics
12 150 (13.40%) Cloud Security
13 141 (12.60%) Software Engineering
14 126 (11.26%) Incident Response
15 124 (11.08%) Test Automation
16 122 (10.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 118 (10.55%) Roadmaps
18 112 (10.01%) DevSecOps
19 111 (9.92%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 495 (44.24%) Python
2 222 (19.84%) PowerShell
3 208 (18.59%) Bash
4 176 (15.73%) SQL
5 148 (13.23%) Bicep
6 108 (9.65%) Java
7 90 (8.04%) JavaScript
8 86 (7.69%) TypeScript
9 82 (7.33%) C#
10 80 (7.15%) Go
11 12 (1.07%) C++
11 12 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
12 11 (0.98%) Scala
12 11 (0.98%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.71%) C
13 8 (0.71%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.45%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.45%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 209 (18.68%) Security Cleared
2 135 (12.06%) SC Cleared
3 102 (9.12%) AWS Certification
4 86 (7.69%) Azure Certification
5 84 (7.51%) DV Cleared
6 79 (7.06%) Degree
7 38 (3.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (2.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 32 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (2.23%) CISSP
11 22 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (1.70%) CCNP
12 19 (1.70%) Master's Degree
13 13 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
13 13 (1.16%) OSCP
14 9 (0.80%) CISM
15 8 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
16 7 (0.63%) MCP
16 7 (0.63%) PMI Certification
16 7 (0.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (5.27%) GDPR
2 58 (5.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 44 (3.93%) NIST
4 37 (3.31%) QA
5 33 (2.95%) Data Quality
6 29 (2.59%) Accessibility
7 28 (2.50%) SOC 2
8 21 (1.88%) PCI DSS
9 13 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 13 (1.16%) SLA
10 11 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (0.71%) WCAG
12 6 (0.54%) GRC
13 5 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.45%) NCSC
14 4 (0.36%) EU AI Act
15 2 (0.18%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.18%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 377 (33.69%) Docker
2 75 (6.70%) Active Directory
3 68 (6.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (3.04%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (2.41%) Hyper-V
6 25 (2.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (1.43%) vSphere
8 11 (0.98%) Firmware
8 11 (0.98%) NFS
8 11 (0.98%) vCloud
9 8 (0.71%) KVM
9 8 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.54%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.36%) XenApp
11 4 (0.36%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.18%) GPFS
13 2 (0.18%) Lustre
13 2 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.089%) iptables
Systems Management
1 818 (73.10%) Terraform
2 433 (38.70%) Kubernetes
3 281 (25.11%) Ansible
4 150 (13.40%) Grafana
5 138 (12.33%) Prometheus
6 47 (4.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 35 (3.13%) Argo
8 19 (1.70%) SCCM
9 18 (1.61%) Puppet
10 14 (1.25%) Docker Swarm
10 14 (1.25%) Rancher
11 13 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (1.07%) AWS Copilot
13 10 (0.89%) Progress Chef
14 9 (0.80%) SCOM
15 7 (0.63%) Kustomize
16 5 (0.45%) logstash
16 5 (0.45%) MaaS360
17 4 (0.36%) Mesos
17 4 (0.36%) vRealize
Vendors
1 236 (21.09%) Microsoft
2 100 (8.94%) VMware
3 90 (8.04%) Google
4 48 (4.29%) Cisco
5 40 (3.57%) Databricks
6 35 (3.13%) Splunk
7 33 (2.95%) Red Hat
8 27 (2.41%) Palo Alto
9 21 (1.88%) Black Duck
10 20 (1.79%) Coverity
11 17 (1.52%) Zscaler
12 16 (1.43%) Salesforce
13 15 (1.34%) Oracle
14 14 (1.25%) Ab Initio
15 12 (1.07%) Atlassian
15 12 (1.07%) SAP
16 11 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
17 10 (0.89%) Commvault
17 10 (0.89%) Juniper
17 10 (0.89%) SolarWinds