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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 153 155
Rank change year-on-year +78 +2 -51
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,289 1,032 1,433
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.21% 2.08% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.00% 2.33% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,538 716 1,045
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,063 £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 £91,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £108,375 £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 76,247 44,374 67,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 89.45% 81.06%
Number of salaries quoted 52,515 25,244 44,456
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,246
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,246 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -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 4 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 4 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 +77 2,012 £77,500 - 1,546
UK excluding London +113 1,221 £70,000 - 857
London +26 906 £90,000 - 845
Work from Home +79 806 £72,500 -8.01% 773
North of England +92 411 £70,400 +0.57% 282
South East +64 248 £67,500 -12.90% 178
North West +88 236 £75,000 +7.14% 162
South West +46 208 £75,000 -2.48% 167
Midlands +30 144 £75,000 +15.38% 74
Yorkshire -2 94 £75,000 +7.14% 76
West Midlands +9 88 £80,000 +23.08% 51
North East +16 81 £56,500 -16.30% 44
Wales +3 62 £70,000 +21.74% 31
Northern Ireland -21 58 £72,896 +69.17% 31
East Midlands +19 56 £67,500 +3.85% 23
East of England -5 52 £62,550 +0.08% 34
Scotland +20 47 £71,991 +6.65% 63

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 63 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
2 54 (2.36%) Apache Spark
3 50 (2.18%) Apache
4 32 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (1.27%) Confluence
6 12 (0.52%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.44%) IIS
7 10 (0.44%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.17%) Camunda
8 4 (0.17%) CMS
9 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.13%) nginx
9 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.13%) WordPress
10 2 (0.087%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.087%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.044%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.044%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.044%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.044%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 21 (0.92%) PlantUML
2 10 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.087%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.087%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.087%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.044%) Maya
6 1 (0.044%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.13%) Summit
4 2 (0.087%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.087%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,309 (57.19%) AWS
2 1,258 (54.96%) Azure
3 433 (18.92%) GCP
4 404 (17.65%) GitHub
5 371 (16.21%) Serverless
6 363 (15.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 314 (13.72%) Azure DevOps
8 226 (9.87%) GitHub Actions
9 201 (8.78%) AWS Lambda
10 198 (8.65%) Amazon S3
11 185 (8.08%) PaaS
12 142 (6.20%) Amazon EC2
13 137 (5.99%) Amazon EKS
14 135 (5.90%) Amazon ECS
15 133 (5.81%) SaaS
16 124 (5.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 124 (5.42%) IaaS
16 124 (5.42%) Microsoft 365
17 118 (5.16%) Azure AKS
18 113 (4.94%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 178 (7.78%) Firewall
2 116 (5.07%) WAN
3 115 (5.02%) DNS
4 109 (4.76%) VPN
5 108 (4.72%) Network Security
6 96 (4.19%) LAN
7 81 (3.54%) TCP/IP
8 53 (2.32%) Broadband
9 50 (2.18%) BGP
10 38 (1.66%) DHCP
11 35 (1.53%) OSPF
12 34 (1.49%) VLAN
13 26 (1.14%) VXLAN
14 24 (1.05%) SD-WAN
14 24 (1.05%) Software-Defined Networking
15 21 (0.92%) HTTP
16 15 (0.66%) Wireless
17 13 (0.57%) Cisco ASA
17 13 (0.57%) SAN
18 12 (0.52%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (7.47%) PostgreSQL
2 146 (6.38%) NoSQL
3 103 (4.50%) Amazon RDS
4 94 (4.11%) MongoDB
5 80 (3.49%) SQL Server
6 77 (3.36%) DynamoDB
7 57 (2.49%) MySQL
8 56 (2.45%) Data Lake
9 55 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
9 55 (2.40%) Relational Database
10 50 (2.18%) Metadata
11 40 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
12 37 (1.62%) Redis
13 33 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
14 27 (1.18%) Delta Lake
15 26 (1.14%) BigQuery
16 25 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
16 25 (1.09%) Big Data
17 24 (1.05%) Power BI
18 23 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 300 (13.11%) Git
2 290 (12.67%) GitLab
3 252 (11.01%) Jenkins
4 50 (2.18%) JIRA
5 44 (1.92%) Cucumber
6 34 (1.49%) CircleCI
7 31 (1.35%) Bitbucket
8 29 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 27 (1.18%) TeamCity
10 21 (0.92%) Selenium
11 19 (0.83%) Claude Code
12 16 (0.70%) SonarQube
13 14 (0.61%) NUnit
14 12 (0.52%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.52%) Subversion
15 11 (0.48%) MLflow
16 10 (0.44%) Maven
17 9 (0.39%) JMeter
17 9 (0.39%) MSI
18 8 (0.35%) Snyk
General
1 632 (27.61%) Social Skills
2 515 (22.50%) Finance
3 200 (8.74%) Public Sector
4 175 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
5 131 (5.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 118 (5.16%) Banking
7 111 (4.85%) Law
8 68 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
8 68 (2.97%) Retail
9 45 (1.97%) Games
10 42 (1.83%) Aerospace
11 36 (1.57%) Marketing
11 36 (1.57%) Telecoms
12 33 (1.44%) Legal
13 30 (1.31%) Manufacturing
14 22 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
15 20 (0.87%) Advertising
16 19 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
17 16 (0.70%) Aviation
17 16 (0.70%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 529 (23.11%) Senior
2 394 (17.21%) DevOps Engineer
3 337 (14.72%) Lead
4 303 (13.24%) Architect
5 271 (11.84%) Cloud Engineer
6 229 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
7 203 (8.87%) Developer
8 180 (7.86%) Azure Engineer
9 133 (5.81%) Software Engineer
10 132 (5.77%) AWS Engineer
11 120 (5.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 119 (5.20%) Data Engineer
13 108 (4.72%) Principal Engineer
14 104 (4.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 89 (3.89%) Security Engineer
16 84 (3.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 78 (3.41%) Senior DevOps
18 75 (3.28%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 72 (3.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 69 (3.01%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (8.13%) React
2 175 (7.65%) Kafka
3 169 (7.38%) .NET
4 152 (6.64%) REST
5 149 (6.51%) Node.js
6 141 (6.16%) Spring
7 139 (6.07%) Spring Boot
8 128 (5.59%) RESTful
9 91 (3.98%) AWS CDK
10 77 (3.36%) YAML
11 73 (3.19%) PySpark
12 72 (3.15%) ARM Templates
13 59 (2.58%) AngularJS
14 58 (2.53%) RabbitMQ
15 56 (2.45%) Elastic Stack
15 56 (2.45%) Next.js
16 52 (2.27%) OAuth
17 42 (1.83%) ASP.NET
18 39 (1.70%) ASP.NET Core
18 39 (1.70%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 664 (29.01%) Cloud Native
2 243 (10.62%) Distributed Systems
3 115 (5.02%) Hybrid Cloud
4 111 (4.85%) Onboarding
5 108 (4.72%) Public Cloud
6 86 (3.76%) Data Centre
7 77 (3.36%) Product Ownership
8 67 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
9 62 (2.71%) Security Posture
10 59 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
11 49 (2.14%) Enterprise Cloud
12 45 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
12 45 (1.97%) Video\Live Streaming
13 39 (1.70%) Low-Code
14 34 (1.49%) Management Information System
14 34 (1.49%) Private Cloud
15 33 (1.44%) e-Learning
15 33 (1.44%) Virtual Team
16 31 (1.35%) PKI
17 27 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 382 (16.69%) Linux
2 214 (9.35%) Windows
3 96 (4.19%) Windows Server
4 56 (2.45%) CentOS
5 41 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (1.79%) Ubuntu
6 40 (1.75%) Unix
7 22 (0.96%) VMS
8 8 (0.35%) Android
9 7 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.22%) Debian
10 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.087%) AIX
11 2 (0.087%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.044%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.044%) Rocky
12 1 (0.044%) Solaris
12 1 (0.044%) SUSE
12 1 (0.044%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,618 (70.69%) CI/CD
2 1,278 (55.83%) DevOps
3 679 (29.66%) Containerisation
4 650 (28.40%) Agile
5 636 (27.79%) Observability
6 530 (23.15%) Platform Engineering
7 506 (22.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 499 (21.80%) Mentoring
9 487 (21.28%) AI
10 469 (20.49%) Software Engineering
11 390 (17.04%) Microservices
11 390 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
12 379 (16.56%) Test Automation
13 373 (16.30%) Technical Leadership
14 330 (14.42%) Cloud Security
15 328 (14.33%) Roadmaps
16 291 (12.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 252 (11.01%) Event-Driven
18 248 (10.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 247 (10.79%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 994 (43.43%) Python
2 359 (15.68%) SQL
3 354 (15.47%) Java
4 348 (15.20%) Bash
5 320 (13.98%) PowerShell
6 219 (9.57%) Bicep
7 209 (9.13%) TypeScript
8 196 (8.56%) JavaScript
9 175 (7.65%) C#
10 169 (7.38%) Go
11 44 (1.92%) Ruby
12 37 (1.62%) PHP
13 32 (1.40%) Scala
14 25 (1.09%) Rust
15 24 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
16 23 (1.00%) C++
17 21 (0.92%) Groovy
17 21 (0.92%) Perl
18 13 (0.57%) Shell Script
19 11 (0.48%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 531 (23.20%) Security Cleared
2 334 (14.59%) SC Cleared
3 194 (8.48%) Degree
4 171 (7.47%) AWS Certification
5 168 (7.34%) DV Cleared
6 137 (5.99%) Azure Certification
7 83 (3.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 77 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 53 (2.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 50 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
11 34 (1.49%) CCNP
12 28 (1.22%) Master's Degree
13 22 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
14 21 (0.92%) CISSP
14 21 (0.92%) OSCP
14 21 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
15 18 (0.79%) CCNA
16 16 (0.70%) DBS Check
17 14 (0.61%) RHCSA
18 13 (0.57%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (5.50%) QA
2 99 (4.33%) Data Quality
3 69 (3.01%) GRC
4 68 (2.97%) GDPR
5 55 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (2.01%) Accessibility
7 38 (1.66%) NIST
8 36 (1.57%) SOC 2
9 27 (1.18%) PCI DSS
10 25 (1.09%) WCAG
11 24 (1.05%) NCSC
12 14 (0.61%) SLA
13 9 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
17 2 (0.087%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 2 (0.087%) IFRS
17 2 (0.087%) ISO 9001
17 2 (0.087%) Solvency II
System Software
1 607 (26.52%) Docker
2 127 (5.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 124 (5.42%) Active Directory
4 44 (1.92%) vSphere
5 33 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (1.09%) Hyper-V
7 17 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.61%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.39%) Firmware
10 9 (0.39%) KVM
11 8 (0.35%) Squid
12 7 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.22%) iptables
14 4 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
15 3 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,543 (67.41%) Terraform
2 853 (37.27%) Kubernetes
3 457 (19.97%) Ansible
4 241 (10.53%) Grafana
5 184 (8.04%) Prometheus
6 66 (2.88%) Argo
7 50 (2.18%) Puppet
8 37 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
9 33 (1.44%) Progress Chef
9 33 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
10 28 (1.22%) Istio
11 27 (1.18%) Packer
12 24 (1.05%) Nagios
13 16 (0.70%) FortiGate
14 12 (0.52%) Cilium
14 12 (0.52%) Rancher
14 12 (0.52%) ZABBIX
15 11 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 11 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
15 11 (0.48%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 495 (21.63%) Microsoft
2 154 (6.73%) VMware
3 129 (5.64%) Google
4 97 (4.24%) Databricks
5 86 (3.76%) Red Hat
6 85 (3.71%) Splunk
7 69 (3.01%) Cisco
8 59 (2.58%) Oracle
9 49 (2.14%) Palo Alto
10 39 (1.70%) Fortinet
11 37 (1.62%) OpenAI
12 35 (1.53%) Dynatrace
13 26 (1.14%) Zscaler
14 20 (0.87%) ServiceNow
15 15 (0.66%) CrowdStrike
15 15 (0.66%) F5
16 14 (0.61%) SAP
17 13 (0.57%) Atlassian
17 13 (0.57%) Rapid7
18 12 (0.52%) Salesforce