Infrastructure as Code Jobs

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 170 101
Rank change year-on-year +1 -69 -9
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 921 1,715 3,535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.78% 1.75% 3.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 2.03% 3.51%
Number of salaries quoted 671 1,323 2,151
10th Percentile £47,500 £49,400 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,250 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% -3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,625 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +7.69% -6.40% +15.75%

All Process and 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 48,105 84,479 100,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.22% 86.05% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 26,550 59,789 58,948
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.71% +2.67%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code.

Salary trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Top 18 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 26 April 2025. 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 -7 845 £77,500 +6.90% 1,561
London +30 433 £90,000 - 942
UK excluding London -17 428 £70,000 +7.69% 735
Work from Home -1 363 £75,180 +6.52% 903
North of England -30 169 £67,750 +7.91% 242
North West -46 102 £72,500 +11.54% 151
South East +47 97 £75,000 +11.11% 175
South West +9 61 £71,991 -4.01% 112
Yorkshire +24 55 £60,000 - 66
Midlands -31 42 £70,000 +7.69% 74
Scotland +83 39 £71,000 +5.19% 61
West Midlands 0 32 £70,000 - 45
East of England +27 15 £67,500 - 44
North East +19 12 £57,000 -9.21% 28
East Midlands +17 10 £65,000 +13.04% 23
Wales +30 5 £63,250 +1.20% 24
Northern Ireland +33 4 - - 19
Isle of Man +13 2 £34,500 -

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 15 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (1.63%) Confluence
3 14 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.19%) Apache
5 9 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.54%) NetWeaver
6 5 (0.54%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.43%) CMS
7 4 (0.43%) IBM Domino
7 4 (0.43%) IIS
7 4 (0.43%) Luigi
7 4 (0.43%) nginx
7 4 (0.43%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.33%) WordPress
9 2 (0.22%) CICS
9 2 (0.22%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.11%) Liferay
Applications
1 6 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.43%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.22%) Simulink
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.54%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.33%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.22%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.11%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 526 (57.11%) Azure
2 494 (53.64%) AWS
3 231 (25.08%) GCP
4 141 (15.31%) Azure DevOps
5 140 (15.20%) Serverless
6 130 (14.12%) GitHub
7 120 (13.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 97 (10.53%) SaaS
9 93 (10.10%) AWS Lambda
10 91 (9.88%) PaaS
11 76 (8.25%) Amazon S3
12 63 (6.84%) Amazon EKS
13 60 (6.51%) Amazon EC2
14 59 (6.41%) Entra ID
15 56 (6.08%) GitHub Actions
16 54 (5.86%) IaaS
17 51 (5.54%) Azure Monitor
18 47 (5.10%) Datadog
19 42 (4.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 41 (4.45%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (7.60%) Firewall
2 49 (5.32%) DNS
3 46 (4.99%) VPN
4 41 (4.45%) Network Security
5 22 (2.39%) WAN
6 15 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (1.41%) TCP/IP
8 12 (1.30%) 5G
8 12 (1.30%) LAN
8 12 (1.30%) SD-WAN
9 11 (1.19%) Bluetooth
9 11 (1.19%) LTE
10 10 (1.09%) DHCP
11 9 (0.98%) SAN
12 7 (0.76%) IPsec
13 6 (0.65%) Internet
13 6 (0.65%) IPv4
13 6 (0.65%) NAS
13 6 (0.65%) VLAN
13 6 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (5.54%) SQL Server
2 48 (5.21%) NoSQL
3 36 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
4 35 (3.80%) DynamoDB
5 29 (3.15%) MySQL
6 24 (2.61%) Data Lake
7 23 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
7 23 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
8 20 (2.17%) Big Data
9 19 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (2.06%) BigQuery
10 16 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (1.74%) MongoDB
11 12 (1.30%) Power BI
11 12 (1.30%) Relational Database
12 10 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (1.09%) Hadoop
13 9 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
14 8 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 153 (16.61%) Jenkins
2 120 (13.03%) Git
3 107 (11.62%) GitLab
4 36 (3.91%) SonarQube
5 33 (3.58%) Sonatype Nexus
6 31 (3.37%) Maven
7 28 (3.04%) CircleCI
7 28 (3.04%) JUnit
8 26 (2.82%) JIRA
9 20 (2.17%) Cucumber
9 20 (2.17%) TeamCity
10 15 (1.63%) IntelliJ
11 14 (1.52%) Bitbucket
11 14 (1.52%) Mockito
12 8 (0.87%) Artifactory
12 8 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
13 5 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
14 3 (0.33%) MLflow
14 3 (0.33%) Subversion
14 3 (0.33%) Vagrant
General
1 275 (29.86%) Social Skills
2 255 (27.69%) Finance
3 92 (9.99%) Banking
4 43 (4.67%) Law
5 40 (4.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
7 37 (4.02%) Public Sector
8 29 (3.15%) Telecoms
9 21 (2.28%) Legal
10 17 (1.85%) Advertising
11 15 (1.63%) Electronics
12 14 (1.52%) Games
12 14 (1.52%) Retail
13 11 (1.19%) Investment Banking
14 10 (1.09%) Back Office
14 10 (1.09%) Front Office
14 10 (1.09%) Local Government
14 10 (1.09%) Marketing
15 9 (0.98%) Financial Institution
16 8 (0.87%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 199 (21.61%) Senior
2 159 (17.26%) DevOps Engineer
3 158 (17.16%) Cloud Engineer
4 136 (14.77%) Lead
5 108 (11.73%) Platform Engineer
6 102 (11.07%) Architect
7 100 (10.86%) Azure Engineer
8 83 (9.01%) Software Engineer
9 79 (8.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 60 (6.51%) Developer
11 58 (6.30%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 56 (6.08%) AWS Engineer
13 49 (5.32%) Cloud Architect
14 47 (5.10%) Senior DevOps
15 44 (4.78%) AWS DevOps
16 41 (4.45%) Data Engineer
17 34 (3.69%) Python Engineer
17 34 (3.69%) Security Engineer
18 33 (3.58%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 32 (3.47%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (7.27%) .NET
2 65 (7.06%) ARM Templates
3 54 (5.86%) REST
4 52 (5.65%) React
5 50 (5.43%) Node.js
6 48 (5.21%) Elastic Stack
7 47 (5.10%) Kafka
8 45 (4.89%) Spring
8 45 (4.89%) Spring Boot
9 35 (3.80%) RESTful
10 26 (2.82%) AWS CDK
11 21 (2.28%) YAML
12 20 (2.17%) AngularJS
13 16 (1.74%) GraphQL
14 15 (1.63%) .NET Core
14 15 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
14 15 (1.63%) Web Services
15 14 (1.52%) ActiveMQ
15 14 (1.52%) Hibernate
15 14 (1.52%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 129 (14.01%) Cloud Native
2 104 (11.29%) Public Cloud
3 71 (7.71%) Management Information System
4 55 (5.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 41 (4.45%) Product Ownership
6 38 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
7 35 (3.80%) Security Posture
8 25 (2.71%) Data Centre
9 22 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (1.95%) IoT
11 17 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.85%) PKI
12 16 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (1.63%) Hedge funds
13 15 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
13 15 (1.63%) Private Cloud
14 14 (1.52%) Credit Derivative
14 14 (1.52%) Onboarding
15 12 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
16 11 (1.19%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 227 (24.65%) Linux
2 129 (14.01%) Windows
3 59 (6.41%) Windows Server
4 28 (3.04%) Unix
5 27 (2.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (1.63%) VMS
7 13 (1.41%) CentOS
8 8 (0.87%) Android
8 8 (0.87%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.54%) AIX
10 4 (0.43%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.43%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.33%) Debian
11 3 (0.33%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.33%) zOS
12 2 (0.22%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 632 (68.62%) CI/CD
2 584 (63.41%) DevOps
3 262 (28.45%) Containerisation
4 217 (23.56%) Agile
5 169 (18.35%) Software Engineering
6 166 (18.02%) Platform Engineering
7 147 (15.96%) Analytics
7 147 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
8 140 (15.20%) Cloud Security
9 139 (15.09%) Mentoring
10 137 (14.88%) Microservices
11 113 (12.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 107 (11.62%) Deployment Automation
13 103 (11.18%) Roadmaps
14 97 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
15 90 (9.77%) High Availability
16 83 (9.01%) Observability
17 82 (8.90%) Test Automation
18 80 (8.69%) Continuous Integration
19 78 (8.47%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 421 (45.71%) Python
2 205 (22.26%) PowerShell
3 156 (16.94%) Java
4 155 (16.83%) Bash
5 125 (13.57%) SQL
6 96 (10.42%) Bicep
7 74 (8.03%) JavaScript
8 71 (7.71%) Go
9 62 (6.73%) TypeScript
10 52 (5.65%) C#
11 34 (3.69%) Ruby
12 21 (2.28%) Scala
13 17 (1.85%) C++
14 10 (1.09%) C
14 10 (1.09%) R
15 8 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.87%) Perl
15 8 (0.87%) PHP
15 8 (0.87%) Rust
16 7 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 126 (13.68%) Degree
2 91 (9.88%) Security Cleared
3 73 (7.93%) Azure Certification
4 67 (7.27%) AWS Certification
5 60 (6.51%) SC Cleared
6 54 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (3.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 28 (3.04%) Master's Degree
9 27 (2.93%) DV Cleared
10 13 (1.41%) CISSP
11 12 (1.30%) Network+ Certification
12 11 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
13 10 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 7 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 7 (0.76%) CISM
15 6 (0.65%) CCSP
16 5 (0.54%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (7.60%) GDPR
2 34 (3.69%) QA
3 33 (3.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 32 (3.47%) HIPAA
4 32 (3.47%) NIST
5 23 (2.50%) PCI DSS
6 18 (1.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 15 (1.63%) SOC 2
8 8 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (0.87%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.43%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.22%) SLA
11 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.11%) Basel III
11 1 (0.11%) IFRS
11 1 (0.11%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 318 (34.53%) Docker
2 54 (5.86%) Active Directory
3 51 (5.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 48 (5.21%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (2.61%) vSphere
6 15 (1.63%) Hyper-V
6 15 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.33%) LXC
9 2 (0.22%) HDFS
9 2 (0.22%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.11%) GPFS
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 670 (72.75%) Terraform
2 419 (45.49%) Kubernetes
3 279 (30.29%) Ansible
4 89 (9.66%) Grafana
5 82 (8.90%) Prometheus
6 72 (7.82%) Puppet
7 59 (6.41%) Progress Chef
8 27 (2.93%) Istio
9 22 (2.39%) Podman
10 20 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
11 17 (1.85%) Argo
12 12 (1.30%) CASB
12 12 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.98%) SCCM
14 6 (0.65%) Consul
14 6 (0.65%) linkerd
14 6 (0.65%) Nagios
14 6 (0.65%) Packer
14 6 (0.65%) QRadar
14 6 (0.65%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 175 (19.00%) Microsoft
2 78 (8.47%) Google
3 66 (7.17%) VMware
4 40 (4.34%) Databricks
5 31 (3.37%) IBM
6 29 (3.15%) Cisco
7 26 (2.82%) Splunk
8 22 (2.39%) Red Hat
9 19 (2.06%) Oracle
10 15 (1.63%) Atlassian
11 14 (1.52%) Palo Alto
12 12 (1.30%) SAP
12 12 (1.30%) SolarWinds
13 10 (1.09%) Citrix
14 9 (0.98%) Hitachi
15 8 (0.87%) Meraki
16 7 (0.76%) ServiceNow
17 6 (0.65%) Dell
18 5 (0.54%) Fortinet
18 5 (0.54%) New Relic