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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 129 157
Rank change year-on-year +23 +28 -52
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,476 939 1,682
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.81% 2.29% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 2.46% 2.15%
Number of salaries quoted 970 690 1,334
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,967 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £93,438
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,625 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,450 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.21% +7.69% -5.11%

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 62,259 38,133 78,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.22% 93.03% 86.30%
Number of salaries quoted 38,393 22,512 58,144
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,184
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,487 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.83% +8.50% -7.94%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 +22 1,296 £75,000 -3.23% 672
UK excluding London +18 695 £68,450 -2.21% 486
London +37 638 £85,000 -5.56% 278
Work from Home +47 576 £70,000 -7.63% 338
North of England -15 252 £70,000 +3.70% 159
South East +6 149 £70,000 -6.67% 123
North West -6 123 £73,801 +1.79% 84
South West -17 97 £62,500 -13.18% 88
Yorkshire -18 95 £65,000 +8.33% 47
Midlands -1 78 £67,500 +3.85% 47
Scotland -10 55 £60,000 -14.89% 22
East Midlands -16 39 £67,500 +3.85% 6
West Midlands -11 37 £65,500 -6.43% 41
North East -8 34 £48,445 -15.75% 28
East of England -12 34 £62,500 -10.71% 35
Wales -11 23 £61,496 +2.49% 12
Northern Ireland -29 10 £95,000 - 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 (3.32%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (2.51%) Apache
3 24 (1.63%) Apache Spark
4 23 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.02%) Confluence
5 15 (1.02%) IIS
6 10 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
6 10 (0.68%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.20%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.14%) CMS
9 1 (0.068%) Appian
9 1 (0.068%) Camunda
9 1 (0.068%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.068%) nginx
9 1 (0.068%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.27%) PlantUML
1 4 (0.27%) Weka
2 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.068%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.068%) Maya
4 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.068%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.068%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.068%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.068%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.068%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 911 (61.72%) AWS
2 809 (54.81%) Azure
3 330 (22.36%) GCP
4 313 (21.21%) GitHub
5 288 (19.51%) Azure DevOps
6 279 (18.90%) Serverless
7 259 (17.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 219 (14.84%) GitHub Actions
9 170 (11.52%) AWS Lambda
10 144 (9.76%) Amazon S3
11 128 (8.67%) Amazon EKS
12 124 (8.40%) PaaS
13 116 (7.86%) SaaS
14 113 (7.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 108 (7.32%) Entra ID
16 99 (6.71%) Datadog
17 91 (6.17%) Amazon ECS
18 90 (6.10%) Amazon EC2
19 80 (5.42%) dbt
19 80 (5.42%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 172 (11.65%) Firewall
2 87 (5.89%) DNS
3 83 (5.62%) TCP/IP
4 74 (5.01%) VPN
5 42 (2.85%) WAN
6 40 (2.71%) Network Security
7 38 (2.57%) Broadband
8 30 (2.03%) DHCP
9 23 (1.56%) HTTP
10 22 (1.49%) LAN
11 20 (1.36%) BGP
12 17 (1.15%) VLAN
13 16 (1.08%) Cisco ASA
14 15 (1.02%) DSL
15 12 (0.81%) Internet
15 12 (0.81%) SD-WAN
16 9 (0.61%) Software-Defined Networking
16 9 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
17 8 (0.54%) Wireless
18 5 (0.34%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (7.72%) NoSQL
2 112 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
3 100 (6.78%) Amazon RDS
4 61 (4.13%) SQL Server
5 57 (3.86%) DynamoDB
6 46 (3.12%) Relational Database
7 45 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
8 43 (2.91%) Data Lake
8 43 (2.91%) MongoDB
9 40 (2.71%) Elasticsearch
10 38 (2.57%) Redis
11 33 (2.24%) MySQL
12 32 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
13 29 (1.96%) BigQuery
14 23 (1.56%) Metadata
15 22 (1.49%) Power BI
16 19 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
16 19 (1.29%) RDBMS
17 17 (1.15%) Delta Lake
18 15 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 217 (14.70%) Jenkins
2 196 (13.28%) GitLab
3 194 (13.14%) Git
4 35 (2.37%) JIRA
5 33 (2.24%) CircleCI
6 32 (2.17%) Bitbucket
7 28 (1.90%) Cucumber
8 27 (1.83%) Selenium
9 21 (1.42%) Jaeger
9 21 (1.42%) Robot Framework
10 18 (1.22%) TeamCity
11 17 (1.15%) JMeter
11 17 (1.15%) SonarQube
12 14 (0.95%) MLflow
13 13 (0.88%) Locust
13 13 (0.88%) Snyk
14 10 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 10 (0.68%) Subversion
15 9 (0.61%) NUnit
15 9 (0.61%) Storybook
General
1 386 (26.15%) Social Skills
2 345 (23.37%) Finance
3 130 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (6.84%) Banking
5 92 (6.23%) Public Sector
6 85 (5.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 70 (4.74%) Law
8 67 (4.54%) Retail
9 60 (4.07%) Telecoms
10 30 (2.03%) Financial Institution
11 28 (1.90%) Manufacturing
11 28 (1.90%) Marketing
12 23 (1.56%) Games
13 22 (1.49%) Billing
14 21 (1.42%) Back Office
15 20 (1.36%) Aerospace
16 19 (1.29%) Advertising
17 17 (1.15%) Legal
18 16 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
19 15 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 329 (22.29%) Senior
2 242 (16.40%) DevOps Engineer
3 219 (14.84%) Cloud Engineer
4 201 (13.62%) Lead
5 144 (9.76%) Developer
6 140 (9.49%) Azure Engineer
7 128 (8.67%) Platform Engineer
8 118 (7.99%) Architect
9 110 (7.45%) AWS Engineer
10 104 (7.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 71 (4.81%) Software Engineer
12 67 (4.54%) Data Engineer
13 60 (4.07%) Security Engineer
14 59 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
15 50 (3.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 49 (3.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 46 (3.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 46 (3.12%) Cloud Security Engineer
18 43 (2.91%) AWS DevOps
18 43 (2.91%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (8.94%) React
2 105 (7.11%) Node.js
3 97 (6.57%) .NET
4 91 (6.17%) REST
5 90 (6.10%) RESTful
6 85 (5.76%) Kafka
7 78 (5.28%) Elastic Stack
8 72 (4.88%) AWS CDK
9 67 (4.54%) Spring
10 61 (4.13%) OAuth
10 61 (4.13%) YAML
11 60 (4.07%) Spring Boot
12 53 (3.59%) Django
13 47 (3.18%) RabbitMQ
14 44 (2.98%) ARM Templates
15 39 (2.64%) FastAPI
16 38 (2.57%) CSS
17 35 (2.37%) .NET Core
18 34 (2.30%) HTML
19 33 (2.24%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 336 (22.76%) Cloud Native
2 83 (5.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 82 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 61 (4.13%) Public Cloud
5 59 (4.00%) Security Posture
6 56 (3.79%) Product Ownership
7 45 (3.05%) Data Centre
8 39 (2.64%) Onboarding
9 34 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
10 32 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
10 32 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
11 26 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.63%) Management Information System
12 24 (1.63%) Mobile App
12 24 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
13 20 (1.36%) Blockchain
14 19 (1.29%) PKI
15 18 (1.22%) Cloud Security Posture
15 18 (1.22%) Hedge funds
15 18 (1.22%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 330 (22.36%) Linux
2 161 (10.91%) Windows
3 81 (5.49%) Unix
4 61 (4.13%) Windows Server
5 36 (2.44%) Ubuntu
6 30 (2.03%) VMS
7 26 (1.76%) CentOS
8 25 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 16 (1.08%) Android
10 15 (1.02%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.54%) Debian
12 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.27%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.27%) SUSE
14 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.068%) Rocky
15 1 (0.068%) Solaris
15 1 (0.068%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,018 (68.97%) CI/CD
2 929 (62.94%) DevOps
3 436 (29.54%) Agile
4 411 (27.85%) Containerisation
5 383 (25.95%) Observability
6 339 (22.97%) Continuous Improvement
7 289 (19.58%) Mentoring
8 285 (19.31%) Problem-Solving
9 242 (16.40%) Platform Engineering
10 240 (16.26%) Test Automation
11 235 (15.92%) Software Engineering
12 224 (15.18%) AI
13 203 (13.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 199 (13.48%) Cloud Security
15 195 (13.21%) Microservices
16 173 (11.72%) Analytics
16 173 (11.72%) Incident Response
17 162 (10.98%) DevSecOps
18 149 (10.09%) Technical Leadership
19 148 (10.03%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 676 (45.80%) Python
2 275 (18.63%) Bash
3 245 (16.60%) SQL
4 240 (16.26%) PowerShell
5 209 (14.16%) Java
6 152 (10.30%) Go
7 143 (9.69%) JavaScript
8 135 (9.15%) Bicep
9 121 (8.20%) TypeScript
10 93 (6.30%) C#
11 22 (1.49%) C++
12 19 (1.29%) Rust
13 18 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
14 16 (1.08%) Kotlin
14 16 (1.08%) Scala
15 11 (0.75%) C
16 10 (0.68%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.54%) Ruby
18 7 (0.47%) Google Apps Script
18 7 (0.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 282 (19.11%) Security Cleared
2 167 (11.31%) SC Cleared
3 127 (8.60%) Degree
4 122 (8.27%) AWS Certification
5 103 (6.98%) DV Cleared
6 77 (5.22%) Azure Certification
7 52 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 32 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 30 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 29 (1.96%) OSCP
11 27 (1.83%) CISSP
12 19 (1.29%) AWS Certified Developer
13 15 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.81%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 11 (0.75%) CCSK
15 11 (0.75%) DBS Check
16 10 (0.68%) CCNP
16 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 7 (0.47%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (5.35%) QA
2 68 (4.61%) GDPR
3 58 (3.93%) Data Quality
4 56 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 54 (3.66%) SOC 2
6 45 (3.05%) NIST
7 40 (2.71%) PCI DSS
8 39 (2.64%) Accessibility
9 17 (1.15%) SLA
10 15 (1.02%) WCAG
11 11 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.54%) GRC
12 8 (0.54%) NCSC
13 6 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.27%) 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
1 478 (32.38%) Docker
2 88 (5.96%) Active Directory
3 71 (4.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (1.63%) vSphere
6 23 (1.56%) Hyper-V
7 16 (1.08%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.68%) KVM
9 9 (0.61%) Firmware
10 6 (0.41%) iptables
11 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 5 (0.34%) vCloud
11 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.14%) GPFS
13 2 (0.14%) Lustre
13 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
14 1 (0.068%) QEMU
14 1 (0.068%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1,044 (70.73%) Terraform
2 576 (39.02%) Kubernetes
3 342 (23.17%) Ansible
4 214 (14.50%) Grafana
5 199 (13.48%) Prometheus
6 56 (3.79%) Argo
7 39 (2.64%) Microsoft Intune
8 34 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
9 30 (2.03%) Puppet
10 19 (1.29%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.15%) AWS Copilot
12 16 (1.08%) Rancher
13 15 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 15 (1.02%) Nagios
13 15 (1.02%) Progress Chef
14 14 (0.95%) Docker Swarm
15 12 (0.81%) Istio
16 9 (0.61%) Packer
17 8 (0.54%) logstash
17 8 (0.54%) Mesos
Vendors
1 259 (17.55%) Microsoft
2 129 (8.74%) Google
3 108 (7.32%) VMware
4 53 (3.59%) Databricks
4 53 (3.59%) Red Hat
5 49 (3.32%) Cisco
5 49 (3.32%) Splunk
6 40 (2.71%) Palo Alto
7 22 (1.49%) Zscaler
8 21 (1.42%) Salesforce
9 18 (1.22%) Dynatrace
10 17 (1.15%) CrowdStrike
11 16 (1.08%) OpenAI
12 15 (1.02%) Atlassian
12 15 (1.02%) Oracle
13 14 (0.95%) Fortinet
13 14 (0.95%) Juniper
14 13 (0.88%) Black Duck
14 13 (0.88%) Coverity
15 12 (0.81%) SAP