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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 155 173
Rank change year-on-year +74 +18 -62
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,831 951 1,690
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.00% 2.15% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 2.32% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,230 621 1,298
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,450 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.21% +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 66,839 40,980 87,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.86% 92.69% 82.42%
Number of salaries quoted 45,659 21,831 62,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £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 June 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 June 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 +75 1,671 £77,500 -1.66% 558
UK excluding London +84 857 £68,450 -2.21% 415
London +33 822 £87,500 -2.78% 233
Work from Home +98 669 £70,000 -7.11% 350
North of England +75 322 £67,500 -3.57% 111
South East +55 197 £70,000 -6.67% 144
North West +74 192 £75,000 +3.45% 66
Midlands +48 116 £70,079 +7.81% 40
South West +10 116 £72,500 +3.57% 59
Yorkshire -11 87 £65,576 -3.57% 22
West Midlands +19 69 £75,000 +7.14% 26
East of England +11 47 £60,100 -7.54% 26
East Midlands +10 47 £67,500 +3.85% 14
North East -6 43 £55,000 -15.38% 23
Scotland +15 37 £60,000 -20.38% 20
Wales -27 22 £68,500 +19.13% 10
Northern Ireland -30 3 £84,401 +95.86% 10

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 51 (2.79%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (2.24%) Apache
3 37 (2.02%) Apache Spark
4 31 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 21 (1.15%) Confluence
6 14 (0.76%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.66%) IIS
8 10 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
9 7 (0.38%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.27%) CMS
11 4 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.11%) Camunda
14 1 (0.055%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.055%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.055%) NetWeaver
14 1 (0.055%) nginx
14 1 (0.055%) NServiceBus
14 1 (0.055%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.055%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (0.76%) PlantUML
2 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.22%) Weka
4 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.055%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.055%) Maya
5 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.055%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1,067 (58.27%) AWS
2 966 (52.76%) Azure
3 347 (18.95%) GitHub
4 328 (17.91%) GCP
5 325 (17.75%) Serverless
6 296 (16.17%) Azure DevOps
7 281 (15.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 216 (11.80%) GitHub Actions
9 184 (10.05%) AWS Lambda
10 174 (9.50%) Amazon S3
11 157 (8.57%) PaaS
12 127 (6.94%) Amazon EKS
13 126 (6.88%) SaaS
14 121 (6.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 120 (6.55%) Entra ID
16 119 (6.50%) IaaS
17 117 (6.39%) Amazon EC2
18 105 (5.73%) Azure AKS
19 99 (5.41%) Datadog
20 93 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 177 (9.67%) Firewall
2 96 (5.24%) DNS
3 85 (4.64%) VPN
4 74 (4.04%) Broadband
5 66 (3.60%) TCP/IP
6 61 (3.33%) Network Security
7 48 (2.62%) WAN
8 38 (2.08%) BGP
9 31 (1.69%) DHCP
10 27 (1.47%) LAN
10 27 (1.47%) VLAN
11 24 (1.31%) HTTP
12 19 (1.04%) OSPF
12 19 (1.04%) Software-Defined Networking
13 18 (0.98%) SD-WAN
14 17 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
15 16 (0.87%) DSL
16 14 (0.76%) VXLAN
17 10 (0.55%) IPv4
18 9 (0.49%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (7.37%) PostgreSQL
2 127 (6.94%) NoSQL
3 91 (4.97%) Amazon RDS
4 84 (4.59%) MongoDB
5 65 (3.55%) DynamoDB
6 63 (3.44%) SQL Server
7 59 (3.22%) Relational Database
8 52 (2.84%) Data Lake
9 45 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
10 42 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
10 42 (2.29%) Metadata
11 30 (1.64%) MySQL
12 29 (1.58%) BigQuery
13 26 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
14 23 (1.26%) Power BI
14 23 (1.26%) Redis
15 20 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
15 20 (1.09%) Delta Lake
15 20 (1.09%) RDBMS
16 18 (0.98%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 255 (13.93%) GitLab
2 234 (12.78%) Git
3 228 (12.45%) Jenkins
4 44 (2.40%) CircleCI
5 35 (1.91%) Cucumber
5 35 (1.91%) JIRA
6 34 (1.86%) Bitbucket
7 22 (1.20%) TeamCity
8 20 (1.09%) Jaeger
9 15 (0.82%) SonarQube
10 13 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 13 (0.71%) Selenium
11 11 (0.60%) MLflow
11 11 (0.60%) Subversion
12 9 (0.49%) JMeter
12 9 (0.49%) Maven
12 9 (0.49%) NUnit
13 8 (0.44%) Storybook
14 7 (0.38%) Artifactory
14 7 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 442 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 368 (20.10%) Finance
3 134 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (6.83%) Public Sector
5 111 (6.06%) Banking
6 87 (4.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 62 (3.39%) Retail
8 57 (3.11%) Law
9 43 (2.35%) Games
9 43 (2.35%) Telecoms
10 30 (1.64%) Manufacturing
11 25 (1.37%) Aerospace
12 24 (1.31%) Legal
13 20 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
13 20 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
14 19 (1.04%) Advertising
15 18 (0.98%) Financial Institution
15 18 (0.98%) Marketing
16 16 (0.87%) Billing
17 12 (0.66%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 416 (22.72%) Senior
2 304 (16.60%) DevOps Engineer
3 273 (14.91%) Cloud Engineer
4 254 (13.87%) Lead
5 192 (10.49%) Platform Engineer
6 179 (9.78%) Azure Engineer
7 172 (9.39%) Architect
8 165 (9.01%) Developer
9 140 (7.65%) AWS Engineer
10 119 (6.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 94 (5.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 94 (5.13%) Software Engineer
12 93 (5.08%) Data Engineer
13 84 (4.59%) Security Engineer
14 75 (4.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 67 (3.66%) Principal Engineer
15 67 (3.66%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 65 (3.55%) Senior DevOps
17 59 (3.22%) Senior Developer
18 55 (3.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (7.70%) React
2 130 (7.10%) Kafka
3 126 (6.88%) Node.js
4 125 (6.83%) REST
5 122 (6.66%) .NET
6 99 (5.41%) RESTful
7 87 (4.75%) Spring
8 86 (4.70%) YAML
9 81 (4.42%) Spring Boot
10 77 (4.21%) AWS CDK
11 68 (3.71%) Elastic Stack
12 60 (3.28%) OAuth
13 59 (3.22%) ARM Templates
13 59 (3.22%) PySpark
14 50 (2.73%) RabbitMQ
15 42 (2.29%) JSON
16 40 (2.18%) AngularJS
17 39 (2.13%) OpenTelemetry
18 38 (2.08%) SAML
19 37 (2.02%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 483 (26.38%) Cloud Native
2 165 (9.01%) Distributed Systems
3 96 (5.24%) Hybrid Cloud
4 84 (4.59%) Public Cloud
5 62 (3.39%) Data Centre
6 61 (3.33%) Product Ownership
7 57 (3.11%) Security Posture
8 51 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
9 49 (2.68%) Onboarding
10 48 (2.62%) Video\Live Streaming
11 36 (1.97%) Low-Code
12 33 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
13 27 (1.47%) PKI
14 26 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
15 25 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
15 25 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
16 24 (1.31%) Blockchain
16 24 (1.31%) Management Information System
16 24 (1.31%) Mobile App
17 22 (1.20%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 340 (18.57%) Linux
2 168 (9.18%) Windows
3 88 (4.81%) Windows Server
4 52 (2.84%) Unix
5 46 (2.51%) Ubuntu
6 39 (2.13%) CentOS
7 28 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 27 (1.47%) VMS
9 15 (0.82%) Android
10 14 (0.76%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.38%) Debian
13 5 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.055%) AIX
15 1 (0.055%) Rocky
15 1 (0.055%) SUSE
15 1 (0.055%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,297 (70.84%) CI/CD
2 1,047 (57.18%) DevOps
3 507 (27.69%) Observability
4 499 (27.25%) Agile
5 498 (27.20%) Containerisation
6 397 (21.68%) Platform Engineering
7 390 (21.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 384 (20.97%) Mentoring
9 361 (19.72%) AI
10 327 (17.86%) Test Automation
11 323 (17.64%) Software Engineering
12 289 (15.78%) Microservices
13 282 (15.40%) Problem-Solving
14 247 (13.49%) Cloud Security
15 244 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
16 242 (13.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 212 (11.58%) Analytics
18 193 (10.54%) DevSecOps
19 192 (10.49%) Roadmaps
20 181 (9.89%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 832 (45.44%) Python
2 323 (17.64%) Bash
3 290 (15.84%) PowerShell
4 286 (15.62%) SQL
5 260 (14.20%) Java
6 185 (10.10%) Go
7 171 (9.34%) TypeScript
8 169 (9.23%) JavaScript
9 158 (8.63%) Bicep
10 130 (7.10%) C#
11 30 (1.64%) Rust
12 27 (1.47%) C++
13 22 (1.20%) Scala
14 19 (1.04%) PHP
15 18 (0.98%) Groovy
15 18 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
16 12 (0.66%) C
16 12 (0.66%) Ruby
17 11 (0.60%) Kotlin
18 9 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 360 (19.66%) Security Cleared
2 231 (12.62%) SC Cleared
3 155 (8.47%) Degree
4 137 (7.48%) AWS Certification
5 100 (5.46%) Azure Certification
6 99 (5.41%) DV Cleared
7 58 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 43 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 40 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
10 33 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (1.53%) OSCP
12 20 (1.09%) CISSP
13 19 (1.04%) CCNP
14 16 (0.87%) DBS Check
15 15 (0.82%) CCNA
15 15 (0.82%) Master's Degree
16 12 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 12 (0.66%) RHCSA
17 10 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
18 9 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (4.92%) QA
2 77 (4.21%) Data Quality
3 63 (3.44%) GDPR
4 50 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 47 (2.57%) SOC 2
6 38 (2.08%) NIST
7 33 (1.80%) Accessibility
8 30 (1.64%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.76%) SLA
9 14 (0.76%) WCAG
10 9 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.49%) GRC
10 9 (0.49%) NCSC
11 5 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.11%) IFRS
13 2 (0.11%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.11%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.11%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.055%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 491 (26.82%) Docker
2 114 (6.23%) Active Directory
3 97 (5.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
4 37 (2.02%) vSphere
5 22 (1.20%) VMware NSX
6 19 (1.04%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.44%) Squid
8 7 (0.38%) iptables
8 7 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.33%) Firmware
9 6 (0.33%) KVM
9 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,264 (69.03%) Terraform
2 693 (37.85%) Kubernetes
3 383 (20.92%) Ansible
4 220 (12.02%) Grafana
5 208 (11.36%) Prometheus
6 69 (3.77%) Argo
7 45 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
8 41 (2.24%) Microsoft Intune
9 40 (2.18%) Puppet
10 27 (1.47%) Progress Chef
11 24 (1.31%) Kustomize
11 24 (1.31%) Packer
12 21 (1.15%) Nagios
13 20 (1.09%) Istio
14 17 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 14 (0.76%) Rancher
16 13 (0.71%) vCenter Server
16 13 (0.71%) ZABBIX
17 12 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
18 11 (0.60%) Cilium
Vendors
1 347 (18.95%) Microsoft
2 135 (7.37%) VMware
3 111 (6.06%) Google
4 75 (4.10%) Red Hat
5 73 (3.99%) Databricks
6 57 (3.11%) Cisco
6 57 (3.11%) Splunk
7 46 (2.51%) Palo Alto
8 32 (1.75%) Oracle
9 25 (1.37%) Fortinet
9 25 (1.37%) Zscaler
10 22 (1.20%) OpenAI
11 21 (1.15%) Dynatrace
12 17 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
13 16 (0.87%) Salesforce
14 13 (0.71%) CheckPoint
14 13 (0.71%) Foundry
15 12 (0.66%) F5
16 11 (0.60%) Atlassian
16 11 (0.60%) ServiceNow