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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 155 173
Rank change year-on-year +75 +18 -66
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,943 986 1,697
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.05% 2.18% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.80% 2.37% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,313 651 1,298
10th Percentile £48,778 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £78,810 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +12.59% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £105,000
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 69,314 41,679 88,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.17% 92.27% 81.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,751 22,444 62,987
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.41%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,159
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 23 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 23 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 +80 1,777 £77,500 -1.66% 520
UK excluding London +84 918 £70,000 - 388
London +33 864 £87,500 -2.78% 235
Work from Home +91 699 £70,079 -9.58% 273
North of England +74 328 £67,500 -3.57% 108
South East +37 209 £70,000 -9.68% 130
North West +80 197 £72,500 - 63
South West +21 148 £75,000 +7.14% 56
Midlands +29 122 £74,250 +14.23% 46
Yorkshire +2 84 £65,576 -6.32% 27
West Midlands +15 71 £80,000 +14.29% 33
East of England +9 53 £60,100 -7.54% 16
East Midlands +7 51 £67,500 +3.85% 13
North East -12 47 £55,000 -14.06% 19
Scotland +10 33 £60,000 -20.19% 13
Wales -23 27 £70,000 +27.27% 10
Northern Ireland -34 3 £84,401 +95.86% 18

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 53 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (2.21%) Apache
3 41 (2.11%) Apache Spark
4 35 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 23 (1.18%) Confluence
6 14 (0.72%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.51%) IIS
8 9 (0.46%) Jupyter
8 9 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.26%) CMS
10 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.15%) WordPress
12 2 (0.10%) Camunda
12 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.051%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.051%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.051%) NetWeaver
13 1 (0.051%) nginx
13 1 (0.051%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 18 (0.93%) PlantUML
2 8 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.21%) Weka
4 2 (0.10%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.051%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.051%) Maya
5 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.051%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.051%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,135 (58.41%) AWS
2 1,023 (52.65%) Azure
3 367 (18.89%) GitHub
4 339 (17.45%) GCP
4 339 (17.45%) Serverless
5 308 (15.85%) Azure DevOps
6 300 (15.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 217 (11.17%) GitHub Actions
8 187 (9.62%) AWS Lambda
9 183 (9.42%) Amazon S3
10 167 (8.59%) PaaS
11 131 (6.74%) Amazon EKS
11 131 (6.74%) SaaS
12 128 (6.59%) IaaS
13 126 (6.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 125 (6.43%) Amazon EC2
15 122 (6.28%) Entra ID
16 115 (5.92%) Azure AKS
17 101 (5.20%) Datadog
18 99 (5.10%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 178 (9.16%) Firewall
2 104 (5.35%) DNS
3 98 (5.04%) VPN
4 77 (3.96%) Network Security
5 76 (3.91%) Broadband
6 67 (3.45%) TCP/IP
7 49 (2.52%) WAN
8 41 (2.11%) BGP
9 33 (1.70%) DHCP
9 33 (1.70%) VLAN
10 27 (1.39%) LAN
11 23 (1.18%) HTTP
11 23 (1.18%) OSPF
12 20 (1.03%) Software-Defined Networking
13 19 (0.98%) SD-WAN
14 18 (0.93%) VXLAN
15 15 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
16 14 (0.72%) DSL
17 10 (0.51%) IPv4
18 9 (0.46%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (7.62%) PostgreSQL
2 141 (7.26%) NoSQL
3 95 (4.89%) Amazon RDS
4 89 (4.58%) MongoDB
5 68 (3.50%) DynamoDB
6 67 (3.45%) SQL Server
7 59 (3.04%) Relational Database
8 54 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 53 (2.73%) Data Lake
10 49 (2.52%) Metadata
11 40 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
12 33 (1.70%) MySQL
13 29 (1.49%) BigQuery
13 29 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
13 29 (1.49%) Redis
14 27 (1.39%) Delta Lake
15 26 (1.34%) Power BI
16 21 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
16 21 (1.08%) RDBMS
17 20 (1.03%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 269 (13.84%) GitLab
2 254 (13.07%) Git
3 237 (12.20%) Jenkins
4 45 (2.32%) CircleCI
5 38 (1.96%) Cucumber
5 38 (1.96%) JIRA
6 34 (1.75%) Bitbucket
7 25 (1.29%) TeamCity
8 20 (1.03%) Jaeger
9 16 (0.82%) SonarQube
10 15 (0.77%) Selenium
11 13 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 13 (0.67%) Subversion
12 12 (0.62%) MLflow
13 10 (0.51%) Maven
13 10 (0.51%) NUnit
14 9 (0.46%) Claude Code
14 9 (0.46%) JMeter
14 9 (0.46%) Vite
15 8 (0.41%) Cypress.io
General
1 469 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 400 (20.59%) Finance
3 137 (7.05%) Public Sector
4 135 (6.95%) Analytical Skills
5 111 (5.71%) Banking
6 101 (5.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 62 (3.19%) Law
8 59 (3.04%) Retail
9 44 (2.26%) Games
10 39 (2.01%) Telecoms
11 30 (1.54%) Manufacturing
12 29 (1.49%) Aerospace
13 25 (1.29%) Legal
14 22 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
14 22 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (0.82%) Advertising
15 16 (0.82%) Financial Institution
15 16 (0.82%) Marketing
16 14 (0.72%) Billing
17 10 (0.51%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 442 (22.75%) Senior
2 328 (16.88%) DevOps Engineer
3 278 (14.31%) Cloud Engineer
4 273 (14.05%) Lead
5 209 (10.76%) Platform Engineer
6 203 (10.45%) Architect
7 185 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
8 178 (9.16%) Developer
9 144 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
10 124 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 101 (5.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 100 (5.15%) Data Engineer
12 100 (5.15%) Software Engineer
13 85 (4.37%) Security Engineer
14 81 (4.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 73 (3.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 71 (3.65%) Principal Engineer
17 66 (3.40%) Senior DevOps
18 61 (3.14%) Senior Developer
19 59 (3.04%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (7.72%) React
2 138 (7.10%) Kafka
3 131 (6.74%) .NET
4 128 (6.59%) REST
5 127 (6.54%) Node.js
6 107 (5.51%) RESTful
7 94 (4.84%) Spring
8 90 (4.63%) Spring Boot
9 85 (4.37%) YAML
10 79 (4.07%) AWS CDK
11 77 (3.96%) Elastic Stack
12 68 (3.50%) PySpark
13 65 (3.35%) ARM Templates
14 55 (2.83%) RabbitMQ
15 53 (2.73%) OAuth
16 47 (2.42%) Next.js
17 45 (2.32%) AngularJS
18 43 (2.21%) OpenTelemetry
19 41 (2.11%) JSON
20 37 (1.90%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 539 (27.74%) Cloud Native
2 179 (9.21%) Distributed Systems
3 104 (5.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 94 (4.84%) Public Cloud
5 68 (3.50%) Onboarding
5 68 (3.50%) Product Ownership
6 67 (3.45%) Data Centre
7 63 (3.24%) Security Posture
8 58 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
9 48 (2.47%) Video\Live Streaming
10 41 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
11 36 (1.85%) Low-Code
12 33 (1.70%) Enterprise Cloud
13 29 (1.49%) PKI
13 29 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
14 26 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
14 26 (1.34%) Management Information System
15 24 (1.24%) Blockchain
15 24 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
16 23 (1.18%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 358 (18.43%) Linux
2 187 (9.62%) Windows
3 86 (4.43%) Windows Server
4 51 (2.62%) Unix
5 46 (2.37%) Ubuntu
6 41 (2.11%) CentOS
7 31 (1.60%) VMS
8 27 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (0.77%) Android
10 14 (0.72%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.36%) Debian
13 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.10%) Rocky
15 1 (0.051%) AIX
15 1 (0.051%) SUSE
15 1 (0.051%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,373 (70.66%) CI/CD
2 1,112 (57.23%) DevOps
3 549 (28.26%) Agile
4 540 (27.79%) Observability
5 536 (27.59%) Containerisation
6 432 (22.23%) Platform Engineering
7 414 (21.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 412 (21.20%) Mentoring
9 399 (20.54%) AI
10 352 (18.12%) Software Engineering
11 337 (17.34%) Test Automation
12 324 (16.68%) Microservices
13 298 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
14 276 (14.20%) Cloud Security
15 273 (14.05%) Technical Leadership
16 258 (13.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 237 (12.20%) Analytics
18 220 (11.32%) Roadmaps
19 208 (10.71%) DevSecOps
20 193 (9.93%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 885 (45.55%) Python
2 354 (18.22%) Bash
3 310 (15.95%) SQL
4 304 (15.65%) PowerShell
5 286 (14.72%) Java
6 188 (9.68%) Bicep
7 185 (9.52%) TypeScript
8 183 (9.42%) Go
8 183 (9.42%) JavaScript
9 144 (7.41%) C#
10 29 (1.49%) Rust
11 27 (1.39%) C++
11 27 (1.39%) Scala
12 24 (1.24%) Kusto Query Language
12 24 (1.24%) PHP
13 21 (1.08%) Ruby
14 19 (0.98%) Groovy
15 11 (0.57%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.51%) Perl
17 9 (0.46%) C
Qualifications
1 408 (21.00%) Security Cleared
2 255 (13.12%) SC Cleared
3 164 (8.44%) Degree
4 147 (7.57%) AWS Certification
5 113 (5.82%) Azure Certification
6 105 (5.40%) DV Cleared
7 65 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 55 (2.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 52 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 36 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.34%) OSCP
12 21 (1.08%) CCNP
12 21 (1.08%) CISSP
13 18 (0.93%) Master's Degree
14 16 (0.82%) CCNA
14 16 (0.82%) DBS Check
15 14 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 13 (0.67%) RHCSA
17 10 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
18 9 (0.46%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (5.04%) QA
2 87 (4.48%) Data Quality
3 61 (3.14%) GDPR
4 51 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (2.37%) SOC 2
6 35 (1.80%) NIST
7 32 (1.65%) Accessibility
8 31 (1.60%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.87%) WCAG
10 15 (0.77%) SLA
11 12 (0.62%) NCSC
12 11 (0.57%) GRC
13 10 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.10%) Government Security Classifications
15 2 (0.10%) IFRS
15 2 (0.10%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.10%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.10%) Solvency II
System Software
1 517 (26.61%) Docker
2 123 (6.33%) Active Directory
3 113 (5.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 44 (2.26%) vSphere
5 39 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (1.08%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.98%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.41%) Squid
11 7 (0.36%) iptables
12 6 (0.31%) Firmware
12 6 (0.31%) KVM
12 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
14 1 (0.051%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,352 (69.58%) Terraform
2 747 (38.45%) Kubernetes
3 408 (21.00%) Ansible
4 233 (11.99%) Grafana
5 216 (11.12%) Prometheus
6 74 (3.81%) Argo
7 45 (2.32%) Puppet
8 44 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
9 41 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
10 29 (1.49%) Progress Chef
11 27 (1.39%) Packer
12 25 (1.29%) Kustomize
13 21 (1.08%) Istio
13 21 (1.08%) Nagios
14 17 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 15 (0.77%) vCenter Server
15 15 (0.77%) ZABBIX
16 14 (0.72%) Rancher
17 12 (0.62%) Cilium
18 11 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 364 (18.73%) Microsoft
2 148 (7.62%) VMware
3 110 (5.66%) Google
4 82 (4.22%) Databricks
5 77 (3.96%) Red Hat
6 64 (3.29%) Splunk
7 60 (3.09%) Cisco
8 48 (2.47%) Palo Alto
9 36 (1.85%) Oracle
10 32 (1.65%) OpenAI
11 29 (1.49%) Fortinet
12 26 (1.34%) Zscaler
13 23 (1.18%) Dynatrace
14 17 (0.87%) CrowdStrike
15 14 (0.72%) Salesforce
16 13 (0.67%) Foundry
17 12 (0.62%) F5
18 11 (0.57%) Atlassian
18 11 (0.57%) CheckPoint
18 11 (0.57%) ServiceNow