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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 136 150
Rank change year-on-year +28 +14 -45
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,397 981 1,645
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.85% 2.32% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 2.48% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 926 703 1,320
10th Percentile £47,125 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,901 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.74% +4.62% -3.70%

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 58,555 39,559 74,495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.69% 93.50% 87.13%
Number of salaries quoted 35,503 22,222 56,291
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,910 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 +21 1,206 £75,000 - 683
UK excluding London +11 638 £67,500 -0.74% 499
London +36 603 £85,000 -5.56% 272
Work from Home +48 557 £70,000 -6.67% 384
North of England -14 217 £65,250 -3.00% 167
South East +6 136 £70,000 -3.45% 132
North West -19 101 £72,500 - 87
South West -10 90 £62,500 -10.71% 84
Yorkshire -14 87 £62,500 +16.28% 52
Midlands -11 69 £67,500 +3.85% 41
Scotland -8 59 £60,000 -12.73% 24
East of England +5 35 £65,000 -10.34% 40
East Midlands -26 34 £67,500 +3.85% 5
West Midlands -6 33 £66,500 -5.00% 35
North East -13 29 £48,445 -15.75% 28
Wales -7 22 £64,998 +32.37% 10
Northern Ireland -30 10 £95,000 +11.76% 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 52 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (2.86%) Apache
3 30 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (1.79%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.15%) IIS
6 15 (1.07%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.86%) Confluence
7 12 (0.86%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.21%) CMS
8 3 (0.21%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.14%) Appian
9 2 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.072%) Camunda
10 1 (0.072%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.072%) nginx
10 1 (0.072%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.072%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.29%) PlantUML
1 4 (0.29%) Weka
2 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.072%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.072%) Maya
4 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.072%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.072%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.072%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.072%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 863 (61.78%) AWS
2 776 (55.55%) Azure
3 318 (22.76%) GCP
4 307 (21.98%) GitHub
5 287 (20.54%) Azure DevOps
6 264 (18.90%) Serverless
7 258 (18.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 217 (15.53%) GitHub Actions
9 166 (11.88%) AWS Lambda
10 140 (10.02%) Amazon S3
11 128 (9.16%) PaaS
12 123 (8.80%) Amazon EKS
13 119 (8.52%) SaaS
14 111 (7.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 106 (7.59%) Entra ID
16 91 (6.51%) Datadog
17 90 (6.44%) Amazon ECS
17 90 (6.44%) Microsoft 365
18 86 (6.16%) Amazon EC2
19 80 (5.73%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 162 (11.60%) Firewall
2 86 (6.16%) DNS
3 79 (5.65%) TCP/IP
4 70 (5.01%) VPN
5 38 (2.72%) Broadband
5 38 (2.72%) Network Security
6 36 (2.58%) WAN
7 33 (2.36%) DHCP
8 21 (1.50%) HTTP
9 17 (1.22%) BGP
10 16 (1.15%) LAN
10 16 (1.15%) VLAN
11 15 (1.07%) Cisco ASA
11 15 (1.07%) DSL
11 15 (1.07%) Internet
12 11 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (0.50%) SD-WAN
13 7 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
14 6 (0.43%) Wireless
15 5 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (7.80%) NoSQL
2 106 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
3 98 (7.02%) Amazon RDS
4 57 (4.08%) SQL Server
5 54 (3.87%) DynamoDB
6 43 (3.08%) Relational Database
7 42 (3.01%) Data Lake
7 42 (3.01%) MongoDB
8 41 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
9 37 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
9 37 (2.65%) Redis
10 34 (2.43%) MySQL
11 29 (2.08%) BigQuery
12 26 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
13 22 (1.57%) Metadata
13 22 (1.57%) Power BI
14 19 (1.36%) RDBMS
15 17 (1.22%) Delta Lake
16 16 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
17 15 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 209 (14.96%) Jenkins
2 184 (13.17%) GitLab
3 181 (12.96%) Git
4 33 (2.36%) CircleCI
5 30 (2.15%) Bitbucket
6 29 (2.08%) JIRA
7 27 (1.93%) Selenium
8 24 (1.72%) Robot Framework
9 21 (1.50%) Cucumber
9 21 (1.50%) Jaeger
10 17 (1.22%) Snyk
11 16 (1.15%) TeamCity
12 15 (1.07%) JMeter
12 15 (1.07%) MLflow
13 12 (0.86%) Locust
14 11 (0.79%) SonarQube
15 10 (0.72%) Subversion
16 9 (0.64%) Storybook
17 8 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 8 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 377 (26.99%) Social Skills
2 335 (23.98%) Finance
3 136 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (6.73%) Banking
5 89 (6.37%) Public Sector
6 78 (5.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 68 (4.87%) Law
8 59 (4.22%) Retail
9 57 (4.08%) Telecoms
10 31 (2.22%) Financial Institution
11 28 (2.00%) Marketing
12 22 (1.57%) Games
12 22 (1.57%) Manufacturing
13 20 (1.43%) Back Office
13 20 (1.43%) Billing
14 18 (1.29%) Advertising
15 16 (1.15%) Aerospace
15 16 (1.15%) Legal
16 15 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
17 13 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 313 (22.41%) Senior
2 227 (16.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 206 (14.75%) Cloud Engineer
4 179 (12.81%) Lead
5 131 (9.38%) Developer
6 128 (9.16%) Azure Engineer
7 126 (9.02%) Platform Engineer
8 120 (8.59%) Architect
9 99 (7.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 98 (7.02%) AWS Engineer
11 67 (4.80%) Software Engineer
12 60 (4.29%) Data Engineer
13 55 (3.94%) Senior DevOps
14 54 (3.87%) Security Engineer
15 47 (3.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 43 (3.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 43 (3.08%) Cloud Security Engineer
17 41 (2.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 40 (2.86%) Lead DevOps
19 38 (2.72%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (9.02%) React
2 100 (7.16%) Node.js
3 88 (6.30%) .NET
4 86 (6.16%) RESTful
5 81 (5.80%) Elastic Stack
6 77 (5.51%) Kafka
7 73 (5.23%) REST
8 70 (5.01%) AWS CDK
9 63 (4.51%) Spring
10 59 (4.22%) Spring Boot
11 56 (4.01%) OAuth
11 56 (4.01%) YAML
12 48 (3.44%) Django
13 42 (3.01%) RabbitMQ
14 39 (2.79%) ARM Templates
15 36 (2.58%) FastAPI
16 35 (2.51%) .NET Core
16 35 (2.51%) CSS
17 33 (2.36%) SAML
18 31 (2.22%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 314 (22.48%) Cloud Native
2 78 (5.58%) Hybrid Cloud
3 62 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
4 61 (4.37%) Security Posture
5 58 (4.15%) Public Cloud
6 54 (3.87%) Product Ownership
7 40 (2.86%) Data Centre
8 39 (2.79%) Onboarding
9 37 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
10 32 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
11 30 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
12 27 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
13 23 (1.65%) Management Information System
14 21 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
15 20 (1.43%) Mobile App
16 19 (1.36%) PKI
17 18 (1.29%) Cloud Security Posture
17 18 (1.29%) Hedge funds
17 18 (1.29%) Low-Code
18 17 (1.22%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 320 (22.91%) Linux
2 161 (11.52%) Windows
3 82 (5.87%) Unix
4 60 (4.29%) Windows Server
5 33 (2.36%) VMS
6 29 (2.08%) Ubuntu
7 23 (1.65%) CentOS
8 22 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (1.07%) Android
10 14 (1.00%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.57%) Debian
12 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.29%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.29%) SUSE
14 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.072%) Rocky
15 1 (0.072%) Solaris
15 1 (0.072%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 965 (69.08%) CI/CD
2 895 (64.07%) DevOps
3 421 (30.14%) Agile
4 392 (28.06%) Containerisation
5 352 (25.20%) Observability
6 324 (23.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 283 (20.26%) Mentoring
8 278 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
9 230 (16.46%) Platform Engineering
10 222 (15.89%) Software Engineering
11 216 (15.46%) Test Automation
12 215 (15.39%) AI
13 193 (13.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 190 (13.60%) Cloud Security
15 182 (13.03%) Microservices
16 175 (12.53%) Analytics
16 175 (12.53%) Incident Response
17 158 (11.31%) DevSecOps
18 146 (10.45%) High Availability
19 142 (10.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 639 (45.74%) Python
2 269 (19.26%) Bash
3 232 (16.61%) PowerShell
4 220 (15.75%) SQL
5 195 (13.96%) Java
6 146 (10.45%) Go
7 128 (9.16%) Bicep
7 128 (9.16%) JavaScript
8 108 (7.73%) TypeScript
9 85 (6.08%) C#
10 20 (1.43%) C++
11 19 (1.36%) Rust
12 18 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
13 16 (1.15%) Scala
14 15 (1.07%) Kotlin
15 10 (0.72%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.72%) C
16 8 (0.57%) Ruby
17 7 (0.50%) Google Apps Script
18 5 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 268 (19.18%) Security Cleared
2 157 (11.24%) SC Cleared
3 116 (8.30%) AWS Certification
4 115 (8.23%) Degree
5 105 (7.52%) DV Cleared
6 73 (5.23%) Azure Certification
7 47 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 33 (2.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 29 (2.08%) CISSP
11 28 (2.00%) OSCP
12 17 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
13 11 (0.79%) CCSK
13 11 (0.79%) DBS Check
13 11 (0.79%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 10 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 7 (0.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 7 (0.50%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (5.23%) QA
2 70 (5.01%) GDPR
3 58 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 54 (3.87%) Data Quality
5 51 (3.65%) SOC 2
6 45 (3.22%) NIST
7 40 (2.86%) PCI DSS
8 39 (2.79%) Accessibility
9 17 (1.22%) SLA
10 14 (1.00%) WCAG
11 12 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.57%) NCSC
13 7 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (0.50%) GRC
14 4 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.29%) 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
1 460 (32.93%) Docker
2 85 (6.08%) Active Directory
3 68 (4.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (1.72%) Hyper-V
6 22 (1.57%) vSphere
7 16 (1.15%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.79%) Firmware
9 10 (0.72%) KVM
9 10 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
10 9 (0.64%) vCloud
11 4 (0.29%) iptables
11 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.14%) GPFS
12 2 (0.14%) Lustre
12 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.072%) QEMU
13 1 (0.072%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 980 (70.15%) Terraform
2 547 (39.16%) Kubernetes
3 328 (23.48%) Ansible
4 209 (14.96%) Grafana
5 201 (14.39%) Prometheus
6 54 (3.87%) Argo
7 44 (3.15%) Microsoft Intune
8 32 (2.29%) Puppet
9 30 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (1.36%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.22%) AWS Copilot
12 16 (1.15%) Rancher
13 15 (1.07%) Nagios
14 14 (1.00%) Docker Swarm
14 14 (1.00%) Progress Chef
15 12 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 10 (0.72%) SCCM
17 9 (0.64%) Istio
18 8 (0.57%) linkerd
18 8 (0.57%) yum
Vendors
1 239 (17.11%) Microsoft
2 132 (9.45%) Google
3 104 (7.44%) VMware
4 49 (3.51%) Databricks
5 48 (3.44%) Splunk
6 46 (3.29%) Red Hat
7 44 (3.15%) Cisco
8 38 (2.72%) Palo Alto
9 21 (1.50%) Salesforce
10 20 (1.43%) Zscaler
11 19 (1.36%) Dynatrace
12 17 (1.22%) Black Duck
12 17 (1.22%) Coverity
13 16 (1.15%) CrowdStrike
13 16 (1.15%) Juniper
14 13 (0.93%) Atlassian
14 13 (0.93%) Foundry
14 13 (0.93%) OpenAI
15 12 (0.86%) Palantir
15 12 (0.86%) SAP