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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 143 163
Rank change year-on-year +39 +20 -55
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,598 908 1,700
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.77% 2.14% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 2.30% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,034 657 1,327
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £49,050
25th Percentile £60,000 £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 £96,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £114,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,450 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.21% +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 67,443 39,485 82,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.64% 92.88% 85.58%
Number of salaries quoted 41,986 22,655 59,675
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,668 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,599 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,001 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 3 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 3 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 +47 1,434 £77,500 - 736
London +44 728 £87,500 -2.78% 291
UK excluding London +37 723 £68,450 -2.21% 501
Work from Home +61 589 £70,039 -6.61% 367
North of England +6 265 £67,500 -2.17% 161
South East +19 148 £70,000 -6.67% 146
North West +15 143 £74,651 +2.97% 74
South West -15 104 £65,000 -9.71% 78
Midlands +12 92 £69,000 -1.43% 50
Yorkshire -26 91 £65,000 +7.50% 48
Scotland -9 47 £60,000 -19.93% 19
West Midlands -6 46 £70,000 - 31
East Midlands -5 44 £67,500 +3.85% 19
East of England +9 42 £60,100 -10.96% 41
North East -12 31 £48,445 -19.59% 39
Wales -11 22 £60,000 -5.14% 9
Northern Ireland -30 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 47 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (2.13%) Apache
3 28 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 24 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.94%) Confluence
5 15 (0.94%) IIS
6 11 (0.69%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.31%) CMS
9 4 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.063%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.063%) Camunda
11 1 (0.063%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.063%) nginx
11 1 (0.063%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.063%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.063%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.50%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.25%) Weka
3 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.063%) Maya
4 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.063%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.063%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.063%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.063%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 944 (59.07%) AWS
2 879 (55.01%) Azure
3 320 (20.03%) GCP
4 317 (19.84%) GitHub
5 295 (18.46%) Azure DevOps
6 283 (17.71%) Serverless
7 256 (16.02%) AWS CloudFormation
8 223 (13.95%) GitHub Actions
9 165 (10.33%) AWS Lambda
10 141 (8.82%) Amazon S3
11 123 (7.70%) Amazon EKS
12 117 (7.32%) PaaS
13 116 (7.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 115 (7.20%) Entra ID
15 100 (6.26%) Datadog
15 100 (6.26%) SaaS
16 90 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
17 89 (5.57%) IaaS
18 82 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
19 80 (5.01%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 173 (10.83%) Firewall
2 92 (5.76%) DNS
3 76 (4.76%) VPN
4 70 (4.38%) TCP/IP
5 48 (3.00%) Broadband
6 47 (2.94%) Network Security
7 46 (2.88%) WAN
8 35 (2.19%) DHCP
9 27 (1.69%) HTTP
10 25 (1.56%) LAN
11 24 (1.50%) BGP
12 16 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
12 16 (1.00%) VLAN
13 15 (0.94%) DSL
13 15 (0.94%) SD-WAN
14 12 (0.75%) Software-Defined Networking
15 11 (0.69%) Internet
16 9 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
17 7 (0.44%) SAN
18 6 (0.38%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (7.76%) NoSQL
2 108 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
3 87 (5.44%) Amazon RDS
4 63 (3.94%) DynamoDB
5 62 (3.88%) SQL Server
6 57 (3.57%) MongoDB
7 48 (3.00%) Data Lake
7 48 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
7 48 (3.00%) Relational Database
8 36 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
9 34 (2.13%) Metadata
10 33 (2.07%) MySQL
11 31 (1.94%) BigQuery
12 25 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
13 22 (1.38%) Power BI
14 21 (1.31%) Delta Lake
15 19 (1.19%) RDBMS
16 18 (1.13%) Redis
17 16 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
18 15 (0.94%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 224 (14.02%) Jenkins
2 216 (13.52%) GitLab
3 207 (12.95%) Git
4 39 (2.44%) CircleCI
5 38 (2.38%) Bitbucket
6 35 (2.19%) JIRA
7 25 (1.56%) Cucumber
8 21 (1.31%) Jaeger
9 18 (1.13%) Selenium
10 16 (1.00%) TeamCity
11 15 (0.94%) SonarQube
12 14 (0.88%) MLflow
13 13 (0.81%) Subversion
14 12 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 10 (0.63%) Robot Framework
16 9 (0.56%) JMeter
16 9 (0.56%) NUnit
16 9 (0.56%) Storybook
16 9 (0.56%) Vite
17 8 (0.50%) Maven
General
1 402 (25.16%) Social Skills
2 367 (22.97%) Finance
3 120 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (6.32%) Public Sector
5 96 (6.01%) Banking
6 80 (5.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 63 (3.94%) Retail
8 61 (3.82%) Law
9 57 (3.57%) Telecoms
10 28 (1.75%) Manufacturing
11 27 (1.69%) Games
12 26 (1.63%) Marketing
13 22 (1.38%) Aerospace
14 21 (1.31%) Advertising
15 20 (1.25%) Billing
16 19 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (1.13%) Financial Institution
18 17 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
18 17 (1.06%) Legal
19 16 (1.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 352 (22.03%) Senior
2 261 (16.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 247 (15.46%) Cloud Engineer
4 232 (14.52%) Lead
5 160 (10.01%) Azure Engineer
6 149 (9.32%) Developer
7 142 (8.89%) Architect
7 142 (8.89%) Platform Engineer
8 120 (7.51%) AWS Engineer
9 118 (7.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 82 (5.13%) Data Engineer
11 76 (4.76%) Software Engineer
12 72 (4.51%) Security Engineer
13 62 (3.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 62 (3.88%) Senior DevOps
14 61 (3.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 52 (3.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 48 (3.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
17 46 (2.88%) Consultant
17 46 (2.88%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (8.39%) React
2 117 (7.32%) Node.js
3 106 (6.63%) .NET
4 104 (6.51%) Kafka
5 99 (6.20%) REST
6 96 (6.01%) RESTful
7 77 (4.82%) AWS CDK
8 74 (4.63%) Elastic Stack
9 69 (4.32%) Spring
10 68 (4.26%) YAML
11 66 (4.13%) OAuth
12 63 (3.94%) Spring Boot
13 50 (3.13%) ARM Templates
13 50 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
14 42 (2.63%) PySpark
15 38 (2.38%) Next.js
16 37 (2.32%) OpenTelemetry
17 33 (2.07%) .NET Core
17 33 (2.07%) JSON
17 33 (2.07%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 389 (24.34%) Cloud Native
2 109 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
3 90 (5.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 70 (4.38%) Public Cloud
5 60 (3.75%) Product Ownership
6 58 (3.63%) Security Posture
7 45 (2.82%) Data Centre
8 43 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
8 43 (2.69%) Onboarding
9 34 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
10 26 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
10 26 (1.63%) Management Information System
11 25 (1.56%) Mobile App
11 25 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (1.50%) Blockchain
12 24 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
12 24 (1.50%) Video\Live Streaming
13 22 (1.38%) Low-Code
13 22 (1.38%) PKI
13 22 (1.38%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 318 (19.90%) Linux
2 157 (9.82%) Windows
3 67 (4.19%) Windows Server
4 59 (3.69%) Unix
5 35 (2.19%) Ubuntu
6 29 (1.81%) CentOS
7 27 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 27 (1.69%) VMS
8 15 (0.94%) Android
9 14 (0.88%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.44%) Debian
11 5 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.25%) SUSE
13 2 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.063%) Rocky
14 1 (0.063%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,104 (69.09%) CI/CD
2 977 (61.14%) DevOps
3 454 (28.41%) Containerisation
4 446 (27.91%) Agile
5 430 (26.91%) Observability
6 357 (22.34%) Continuous Improvement
7 321 (20.09%) Mentoring
8 295 (18.46%) Platform Engineering
9 278 (17.40%) Test Automation
10 277 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
11 263 (16.46%) AI
12 257 (16.08%) Software Engineering
13 241 (15.08%) Microservices
14 218 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 217 (13.58%) Cloud Security
16 197 (12.33%) Analytics
17 182 (11.39%) Technical Leadership
18 178 (11.14%) DevSecOps
19 173 (10.83%) Incident Response
20 168 (10.51%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 726 (45.43%) Python
2 301 (18.84%) Bash
3 265 (16.58%) SQL
4 256 (16.02%) PowerShell
5 228 (14.27%) Java
6 165 (10.33%) Go
7 148 (9.26%) JavaScript
8 144 (9.01%) Bicep
9 141 (8.82%) TypeScript
10 115 (7.20%) C#
11 26 (1.63%) C++
12 24 (1.50%) Rust
13 21 (1.31%) Scala
14 20 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
15 13 (0.81%) C
15 13 (0.81%) Kotlin
16 12 (0.75%) Groovy
17 9 (0.56%) Apex Code
18 8 (0.50%) Ruby
18 8 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 292 (18.27%) Security Cleared
2 176 (11.01%) SC Cleared
3 150 (9.39%) Degree
4 126 (7.88%) AWS Certification
5 91 (5.69%) DV Cleared
6 85 (5.32%) Azure Certification
7 60 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 30 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 29 (1.81%) OSCP
11 27 (1.69%) CISSP
12 23 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (1.13%) AWS Certified Developer
14 15 (0.94%) DBS Check
15 13 (0.81%) CCNP
15 13 (0.81%) Master's Degree
16 12 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 12 (0.75%) CCNA
17 11 (0.69%) CCSK
18 10 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (5.07%) QA
2 69 (4.32%) Data Quality
3 68 (4.26%) GDPR
4 50 (3.13%) SOC 2
5 49 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (2.57%) NIST
7 35 (2.19%) Accessibility
8 32 (2.00%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.75%) SLA
10 11 (0.69%) WCAG
11 10 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.56%) NCSC
13 7 (0.44%) GRC
14 5 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.13%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.13%) IFRS
15 2 (0.13%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.13%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.13%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 472 (29.54%) Docker
2 102 (6.38%) Active Directory
3 79 (4.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (1.63%) vSphere
6 19 (1.19%) Hyper-V
7 18 (1.13%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.56%) Firmware
8 9 (0.56%) KVM
9 7 (0.44%) iptables
10 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.25%) Squid
12 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.13%) GPFS
13 2 (0.13%) Lustre
13 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.063%) vCloud
14 1 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,104 (69.09%) Terraform
2 634 (39.67%) Kubernetes
3 346 (21.65%) Ansible
4 218 (13.64%) Grafana
5 207 (12.95%) Prometheus
6 63 (3.94%) Argo
7 41 (2.57%) Single Sign-On
8 40 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
9 35 (2.19%) Puppet
10 23 (1.44%) Kustomize
11 22 (1.38%) Progress Chef
12 20 (1.25%) Rancher
13 17 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 17 (1.06%) Nagios
14 16 (1.00%) Istio
15 15 (0.94%) Packer
16 12 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
17 9 (0.56%) logstash
17 9 (0.56%) yum
18 8 (0.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 294 (18.40%) Microsoft
2 117 (7.32%) VMware
3 113 (7.07%) Google
4 71 (4.44%) Databricks
5 62 (3.88%) Red Hat
6 52 (3.25%) Cisco
7 50 (3.13%) Splunk
8 39 (2.44%) Palo Alto
9 23 (1.44%) CrowdStrike
9 23 (1.44%) Zscaler
10 21 (1.31%) OpenAI
11 20 (1.25%) Dynatrace
11 20 (1.25%) Salesforce
12 17 (1.06%) Oracle
13 14 (0.88%) Fortinet
13 14 (0.88%) SAP
14 13 (0.81%) Atlassian
14 13 (0.81%) Juniper
15 11 (0.69%) SolarWinds
16 10 (0.63%) Palantir