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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 160 153
Rank change year-on-year +83 -7 -53
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,384 1,017 1,414
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.24% 2.04% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 2.28% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,581 714 1,012
10th Percentile £49,377 £51,550 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £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 £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £106,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +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 78,311 44,508 67,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.48% 89.25% 80.98%
Number of salaries quoted 53,938 25,218 43,343
10th Percentile £30,775 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £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 £97,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 15 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 15 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 +81 2,092 £77,500 - 2,167
UK excluding London +118 1,288 £70,000 - 1,086
London +30 929 £90,000 +2.86% 1,293
Work from Home +75 833 £72,500 -6.45% 996
North of England +92 439 £70,000 - 324
South East +76 253 £67,500 -12.90% 229
North West +92 245 £72,500 +3.57% 183
South West +46 224 £75,000 - 182
Midlands +42 147 £77,500 +19.23% 110
Yorkshire +13 104 £72,500 +3.57% 89
West Midlands +18 91 £80,000 +23.08% 65
North East +17 90 £57,000 -17.09% 52
Wales -4 67 £70,000 +16.67% 35
Northern Ireland -21 59 £71,991 +67.07% 32
East Midlands +15 56 £67,500 +3.85% 45
East of England +4 56 £70,000 +7.69% 63
Scotland +25 54 £72,246 +7.03% 115

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 60 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
2 59 (2.47%) Apache Spark
3 55 (2.31%) Apache
4 29 (1.22%) Confluence
4 29 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.55%) Jupyter
6 9 (0.38%) IIS
6 9 (0.38%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.21%) CMS
8 4 (0.17%) Camunda
8 4 (0.17%) nginx
9 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.13%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.13%) WordPress
10 2 (0.084%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.042%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.042%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.042%) JBoss
11 1 (0.042%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 21 (0.88%) PlantUML
2 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.084%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.084%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.084%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.042%) Maya
5 1 (0.042%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.13%) Summit
4 2 (0.084%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,357 (56.92%) AWS
2 1,290 (54.11%) Azure
3 458 (19.21%) GCP
4 415 (17.41%) GitHub
5 383 (16.07%) Serverless
6 380 (15.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 319 (13.38%) Azure DevOps
8 228 (9.56%) GitHub Actions
9 213 (8.93%) AWS Lambda
10 208 (8.72%) Amazon S3
11 183 (7.68%) PaaS
12 148 (6.21%) Amazon EC2
13 143 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
14 139 (5.83%) Amazon ECS
15 134 (5.62%) SaaS
16 128 (5.37%) IaaS
17 126 (5.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 126 (5.29%) Azure AKS
18 124 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
19 112 (4.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 175 (7.34%) Firewall
2 117 (4.91%) WAN
3 115 (4.82%) DNS
4 110 (4.61%) Network Security
5 107 (4.49%) VPN
6 97 (4.07%) LAN
7 74 (3.10%) TCP/IP
8 54 (2.27%) Broadband
9 52 (2.18%) BGP
10 41 (1.72%) DHCP
11 36 (1.51%) OSPF
12 34 (1.43%) VLAN
13 27 (1.13%) VXLAN
14 26 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
15 24 (1.01%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.67%) HTTP
17 15 (0.63%) Wireless
18 14 (0.59%) SAN
19 13 (0.55%) Ethernet VPN
20 12 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
2 149 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 104 (4.36%) Amazon RDS
4 99 (4.15%) MongoDB
5 83 (3.48%) SQL Server
6 81 (3.40%) DynamoDB
7 63 (2.64%) Data Lake
8 62 (2.60%) MySQL
9 54 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
9 54 (2.27%) Relational Database
10 53 (2.22%) Metadata
11 43 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
12 35 (1.47%) Redis
13 32 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
14 30 (1.26%) Delta Lake
15 29 (1.22%) Big Data
16 27 (1.13%) BigQuery
17 25 (1.05%) Power BI
18 22 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
18 22 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 314 (13.17%) Git
2 289 (12.12%) GitLab
3 255 (10.70%) Jenkins
4 53 (2.22%) JIRA
5 44 (1.85%) Cucumber
6 32 (1.34%) CircleCI
7 31 (1.30%) Bitbucket
8 30 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 27 (1.13%) TeamCity
10 21 (0.88%) Selenium
11 18 (0.76%) Claude Code
12 16 (0.67%) SonarQube
13 15 (0.63%) Cypress.io
13 15 (0.63%) NUnit
14 12 (0.50%) MLflow
15 11 (0.46%) Maven
15 11 (0.46%) Subversion
16 9 (0.38%) JMeter
16 9 (0.38%) MSI
16 9 (0.38%) Snyk
General
1 656 (27.52%) Social Skills
2 547 (22.94%) Finance
3 217 (9.10%) Public Sector
4 189 (7.93%) Analytical Skills
5 141 (5.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 130 (5.45%) Banking
7 118 (4.95%) Law
8 72 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
9 65 (2.73%) Retail
10 49 (2.06%) Aerospace
11 46 (1.93%) Games
12 45 (1.89%) Marketing
13 39 (1.64%) Legal
14 31 (1.30%) Manufacturing
14 31 (1.30%) Telecoms
15 21 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
16 18 (0.76%) Aviation
16 18 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (0.71%) Advertising
18 15 (0.63%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 546 (22.90%) Senior
2 400 (16.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 349 (14.64%) Lead
4 319 (13.38%) Architect
5 286 (12.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 233 (9.77%) Platform Engineer
7 206 (8.64%) Developer
8 184 (7.72%) Azure Engineer
9 149 (6.25%) Software Engineer
10 143 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 139 (5.83%) AWS Engineer
12 122 (5.12%) Data Engineer
13 114 (4.78%) Principal Engineer
14 107 (4.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 95 (3.98%) Security Engineer
16 83 (3.48%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 78 (3.27%) Senior DevOps
18 75 (3.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 74 (3.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 70 (2.94%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (8.26%) React
2 179 (7.51%) .NET
2 179 (7.51%) Kafka
3 155 (6.50%) Node.js
3 155 (6.50%) REST
4 144 (6.04%) Spring
5 142 (5.96%) Spring Boot
6 138 (5.79%) RESTful
7 97 (4.07%) AWS CDK
8 76 (3.19%) PySpark
9 75 (3.15%) YAML
10 70 (2.94%) ARM Templates
11 61 (2.56%) AngularJS
12 60 (2.52%) Next.js
13 59 (2.47%) RabbitMQ
14 52 (2.18%) Elastic Stack
15 51 (2.14%) OAuth
16 44 (1.85%) ASP.NET
17 42 (1.76%) CSS
18 41 (1.72%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 697 (29.24%) Cloud Native
2 250 (10.49%) Distributed Systems
3 123 (5.16%) Hybrid Cloud
4 119 (4.99%) Onboarding
4 119 (4.99%) Public Cloud
5 90 (3.78%) Data Centre
6 85 (3.57%) Product Ownership
7 69 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
8 68 (2.85%) Security Posture
9 61 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
10 53 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
11 46 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
12 45 (1.89%) Video\Live Streaming
13 38 (1.59%) Virtual Team
14 37 (1.55%) Management Information System
15 36 (1.51%) Low-Code
15 36 (1.51%) Private Cloud
16 33 (1.38%) e-Learning
17 31 (1.30%) AI Agents
17 31 (1.30%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 397 (16.65%) Linux
2 225 (9.44%) Windows
3 101 (4.24%) Windows Server
4 57 (2.39%) CentOS
5 43 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (1.68%) Ubuntu
6 40 (1.68%) Unix
7 22 (0.92%) VMS
8 5 (0.21%) Android
8 5 (0.21%) Debian
8 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.17%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.13%) AIX
11 2 (0.084%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.084%) Solaris
12 1 (0.042%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.042%) Rocky
12 1 (0.042%) SUSE
12 1 (0.042%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,673 (70.18%) CI/CD
2 1,310 (54.95%) DevOps
3 702 (29.45%) Containerisation
4 660 (27.68%) Agile
5 659 (27.64%) Observability
6 547 (22.94%) Platform Engineering
7 537 (22.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 523 (21.94%) Mentoring
9 508 (21.31%) AI
10 499 (20.93%) Software Engineering
11 414 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
12 409 (17.16%) Microservices
13 408 (17.11%) Technical Leadership
14 384 (16.11%) Test Automation
15 354 (14.85%) Cloud Security
16 337 (14.14%) Roadmaps
17 319 (13.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 262 (10.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 259 (10.86%) Event-Driven
20 256 (10.74%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,037 (43.50%) Python
2 370 (15.52%) Java
3 365 (15.31%) SQL
4 364 (15.27%) Bash
5 337 (14.14%) PowerShell
6 227 (9.52%) Bicep
7 218 (9.14%) TypeScript
8 196 (8.22%) JavaScript
9 184 (7.72%) C#
10 163 (6.84%) Go
11 48 (2.01%) Ruby
12 40 (1.68%) Scala
13 37 (1.55%) PHP
14 25 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
14 25 (1.05%) Rust
15 23 (0.96%) C++
15 23 (0.96%) Groovy
16 21 (0.88%) Perl
17 13 (0.55%) Shell Script
18 12 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 563 (23.62%) Security Cleared
2 356 (14.93%) SC Cleared
3 205 (8.60%) Degree
4 185 (7.76%) AWS Certification
5 184 (7.72%) DV Cleared
6 145 (6.08%) Azure Certification
7 88 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 84 (3.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 57 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 52 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
11 36 (1.51%) CCNP
12 31 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
13 30 (1.26%) Master's Degree
14 23 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
15 21 (0.88%) CISSP
16 20 (0.84%) OSCP
17 18 (0.76%) CCNA
18 15 (0.63%) DBS Check
18 15 (0.63%) SnowPro
19 14 (0.59%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (5.49%) QA
2 105 (4.40%) Data Quality
3 73 (3.06%) GDPR
4 70 (2.94%) GRC
5 58 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (2.10%) Accessibility
7 39 (1.64%) NIST
8 34 (1.43%) SOC 2
9 26 (1.09%) NCSC
9 26 (1.09%) PCI DSS
10 25 (1.05%) WCAG
11 18 (0.76%) SLA
12 10 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.29%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.084%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.084%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.084%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.084%) Solvency II
System Software
1 620 (26.01%) Docker
2 133 (5.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 130 (5.45%) Active Directory
4 46 (1.93%) vSphere
5 34 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (1.01%) Hyper-V
7 21 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (0.76%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.38%) KVM
11 8 (0.34%) Firmware
11 8 (0.34%) Squid
11 8 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.17%) iptables
14 3 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 2 (0.084%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 1,599 (67.07%) Terraform
2 882 (37.00%) Kubernetes
3 479 (20.09%) Ansible
4 242 (10.15%) Grafana
5 177 (7.42%) Prometheus
6 70 (2.94%) Argo
7 57 (2.39%) Puppet
8 36 (1.51%) Progress Chef
9 34 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
9 34 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
10 29 (1.22%) Istio
11 27 (1.13%) Packer
12 23 (0.96%) Nagios
13 16 (0.67%) FortiGate
13 16 (0.67%) vCenter Server
14 14 (0.59%) Cilium
15 12 (0.50%) Kustomize
15 12 (0.50%) ZABBIX
16 11 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 11 (0.46%) Rancher
Vendors
1 526 (22.06%) Microsoft
2 161 (6.75%) VMware
3 140 (5.87%) Google
4 103 (4.32%) Databricks
5 92 (3.86%) Red Hat
6 89 (3.73%) Splunk
7 73 (3.06%) Cisco
8 68 (2.85%) Oracle
9 48 (2.01%) Palo Alto
10 42 (1.76%) OpenAI
11 40 (1.68%) Fortinet
12 39 (1.64%) Dynatrace
13 25 (1.05%) Zscaler
14 23 (0.96%) ServiceNow
15 17 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
16 16 (0.67%) SAP
17 14 (0.59%) Atlassian
18 13 (0.55%) F5
18 13 (0.55%) Rapid7
19 12 (0.50%) Salesforce