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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 157 141
Rank change year-on-year +82 -16 -50
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,417 1,018 1,475
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.20% 2.05% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.01% 2.31% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,593 719 980
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,450 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -5.11%

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 80,423 44,076 65,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.05% 88.58% 80.81%
Number of salaries quoted 55,931 25,099 39,866
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,341
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.38% -6.10%
75th Percentile £79,938 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,350
% change year-on-year +15.79% -7.50% -5.93%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 +82 2,113 £77,500 - 2,234
UK excluding London +109 1,320 £70,000 - 1,201
London +30 920 £90,000 +2.86% 1,321
Work from Home +61 814 £73,500 -2.00% 1,018
North of England +93 462 £70,000 - 348
North West +86 256 £72,500 +5.45% 186
South East +67 251 £67,500 -14.29% 231
South West +48 232 £75,000 - 205
Midlands +35 147 £75,000 +15.38% 118
Yorkshire -11 105 £73,750 +5.36% 115
North East +24 101 £59,000 -18.62% 47
West Midlands +13 88 £85,000 +30.77% 60
Wales -7 67 £70,000 +19.15% 27
Northern Ireland -33 62 £71,991 +67.07% 60
East Midlands +20 59 £67,500 +3.85% 58
East of England -14 57 £70,000 +7.69% 84
Scotland +27 54 £72,246 +7.03% 136

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 58 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
2 55 (2.28%) Apache
2 55 (2.28%) Apache Spark
3 31 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 28 (1.16%) Confluence
5 13 (0.54%) Jupyter
6 11 (0.46%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.37%) IIS
8 7 (0.29%) CMS
9 5 (0.21%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.17%) Camunda
10 4 (0.17%) nginx
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.12%) WordPress
12 2 (0.083%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.083%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.041%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.041%) Documentum
13 1 (0.041%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 21 (0.87%) PlantUML
2 11 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.083%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.083%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.041%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) Summit
4 2 (0.083%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.041%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,374 (56.85%) AWS
2 1,291 (53.41%) Azure
3 470 (19.45%) GCP
4 425 (17.58%) GitHub
5 390 (16.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 379 (15.68%) Serverless
7 324 (13.41%) Azure DevOps
8 235 (9.72%) GitHub Actions
9 214 (8.85%) AWS Lambda
10 210 (8.69%) Amazon S3
11 173 (7.16%) PaaS
12 149 (6.16%) Amazon EC2
12 149 (6.16%) Amazon EKS
13 144 (5.96%) Amazon ECS
14 138 (5.71%) Azure AKS
15 131 (5.42%) SaaS
16 126 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 124 (5.13%) IaaS
17 124 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
18 114 (4.72%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 173 (7.16%) Firewall
2 128 (5.30%) DNS
3 122 (5.05%) VPN
4 117 (4.84%) WAN
5 112 (4.63%) Network Security
6 97 (4.01%) LAN
7 69 (2.85%) TCP/IP
8 55 (2.28%) BGP
9 48 (1.99%) Broadband
9 48 (1.99%) DHCP
10 40 (1.65%) OSPF
11 31 (1.28%) VLAN
12 28 (1.16%) VXLAN
13 27 (1.12%) SD-WAN
14 26 (1.08%) Software-Defined Networking
15 19 (0.79%) Wireless
16 15 (0.62%) HTTP
17 14 (0.58%) Ethernet VPN
17 14 (0.58%) SAN
18 10 (0.41%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (7.61%) PostgreSQL
2 152 (6.29%) NoSQL
3 111 (4.59%) Amazon RDS
4 103 (4.26%) MongoDB
5 87 (3.60%) SQL Server
6 79 (3.27%) DynamoDB
7 68 (2.81%) MySQL
8 61 (2.52%) Data Lake
9 60 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
10 52 (2.15%) Metadata
10 52 (2.15%) Relational Database
11 46 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
12 39 (1.61%) Redis
13 33 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
14 31 (1.28%) Delta Lake
15 29 (1.20%) Big Data
16 28 (1.16%) BigQuery
17 26 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
18 22 (0.91%) Data Vault
18 22 (0.91%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 323 (13.36%) Git
2 292 (12.08%) GitLab
3 260 (10.76%) Jenkins
4 55 (2.28%) JIRA
5 47 (1.94%) Cucumber
6 33 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 27 (1.12%) CircleCI
8 26 (1.08%) Bitbucket
8 26 (1.08%) TeamCity
9 23 (0.95%) Selenium
10 19 (0.79%) Claude Code
11 18 (0.74%) SonarQube
12 16 (0.66%) Cypress.io
13 15 (0.62%) NUnit
14 12 (0.50%) Maven
14 12 (0.50%) Subversion
15 11 (0.46%) MLflow
16 10 (0.41%) Snyk
17 9 (0.37%) MSI
18 8 (0.33%) Artifactory
General
1 671 (27.76%) Social Skills
2 559 (23.13%) Finance
3 230 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 182 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
5 151 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 138 (5.71%) Banking
7 121 (5.01%) Law
8 73 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
9 62 (2.57%) Retail
10 51 (2.11%) Aerospace
11 44 (1.82%) Games
12 42 (1.74%) Marketing
13 40 (1.65%) Legal
14 32 (1.32%) Manufacturing
15 26 (1.08%) Telecoms
16 20 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (0.74%) Aviation
17 18 (0.74%) Financial Institution
18 17 (0.70%) Local Government
19 16 (0.66%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 558 (23.09%) Senior
2 412 (17.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 343 (14.19%) Lead
4 327 (13.53%) Architect
5 289 (11.96%) Cloud Engineer
6 249 (10.30%) Platform Engineer
7 208 (8.61%) Developer
8 191 (7.90%) Azure Engineer
9 162 (6.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 150 (6.21%) Software Engineer
11 143 (5.92%) AWS Engineer
12 123 (5.09%) Data Engineer
13 122 (5.05%) Principal Engineer
14 116 (4.80%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 93 (3.85%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 92 (3.81%) Security Engineer
17 78 (3.23%) Senior DevOps
18 75 (3.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 74 (3.06%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 73 (3.02%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,631 (67.48%) Terraform
2 200 (8.27%) React
3 192 (7.94%) Kafka
4 183 (7.57%) .NET
5 158 (6.54%) Node.js
6 154 (6.37%) REST
7 153 (6.33%) Spring
8 151 (6.25%) Spring Boot
9 145 (6.00%) RESTful
10 93 (3.85%) AWS CDK
11 79 (3.27%) PySpark
12 69 (2.85%) YAML
13 66 (2.73%) ARM Templates
14 63 (2.61%) AngularJS
15 59 (2.44%) Next.js
15 59 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
16 53 (2.19%) Elastic Stack
17 48 (1.99%) OAuth
18 44 (1.82%) ASP.NET
19 42 (1.74%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 726 (30.04%) Cloud Native
2 264 (10.92%) Distributed Systems
3 132 (5.46%) Hybrid Cloud
4 125 (5.17%) Public Cloud
5 124 (5.13%) Onboarding
6 94 (3.89%) Data Centre
7 88 (3.64%) Product Ownership
8 70 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
9 65 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
10 62 (2.57%) Security Posture
11 58 (2.40%) Enterprise Cloud
12 48 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
13 42 (1.74%) Virtual Team
14 41 (1.70%) Private Cloud
15 40 (1.65%) Video\Live Streaming
16 39 (1.61%) e-Learning
16 39 (1.61%) Management Information System
17 37 (1.53%) AI Agents
18 36 (1.49%) PKI
19 35 (1.45%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 392 (16.22%) Linux
2 222 (9.18%) Windows
3 96 (3.97%) Windows Server
4 60 (2.48%) CentOS
5 40 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (1.57%) Ubuntu
7 37 (1.53%) Unix
8 22 (0.91%) VMS
9 5 (0.21%) Debian
9 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.17%) Android
10 4 (0.17%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.12%) AIX
12 2 (0.083%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.083%) Solaris
13 1 (0.041%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.041%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.041%) SUSE
13 1 (0.041%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,701 (70.38%) CI/CD
2 1,309 (54.16%) DevOps
3 712 (29.46%) Containerisation
4 686 (28.38%) Observability
5 678 (28.05%) Agile
6 580 (24.00%) Platform Engineering
7 537 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 526 (21.76%) AI
8 526 (21.76%) Mentoring
9 516 (21.35%) Software Engineering
10 436 (18.04%) Problem-Solving
11 417 (17.25%) Microservices
12 406 (16.80%) Technical Leadership
13 397 (16.43%) Test Automation
14 369 (15.27%) Cloud Security
15 345 (14.27%) Roadmaps
16 341 (14.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 273 (11.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 266 (11.01%) Event-Driven
19 265 (10.96%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,046 (43.28%) Python
2 379 (15.68%) Java
3 372 (15.39%) Bash
3 372 (15.39%) SQL
4 341 (14.11%) PowerShell
5 228 (9.43%) Bicep
6 226 (9.35%) TypeScript
7 197 (8.15%) JavaScript
8 185 (7.65%) C#
9 159 (6.58%) Go
10 47 (1.94%) Ruby
11 41 (1.70%) Scala
12 36 (1.49%) PHP
13 28 (1.16%) Rust
14 27 (1.12%) Groovy
15 24 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
16 21 (0.87%) C++
16 21 (0.87%) Perl
17 16 (0.66%) Shell Script
18 12 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 587 (24.29%) Security Cleared
2 368 (15.23%) SC Cleared
3 202 (8.36%) AWS Certification
4 193 (7.99%) Degree
5 191 (7.90%) DV Cleared
6 151 (6.25%) Azure Certification
7 92 (3.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 86 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 63 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 57 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
11 38 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
12 36 (1.49%) CCNP
13 29 (1.20%) Master's Degree
14 24 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
15 21 (0.87%) CISSP
16 19 (0.79%) CCNA
17 17 (0.70%) SnowPro
18 15 (0.62%) DBS Check
19 14 (0.58%) CCIE
19 14 (0.58%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (5.42%) QA
2 106 (4.39%) Data Quality
3 72 (2.98%) GRC
4 69 (2.85%) GDPR
5 58 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (1.94%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.37%) NIST
8 31 (1.28%) SOC 2
9 28 (1.16%) NCSC
10 23 (0.95%) PCI DSS
10 23 (0.95%) SLA
11 22 (0.91%) WCAG
12 10 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.29%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.12%) ISO 20022
17 2 (0.083%) IFRS
17 2 (0.083%) ISO 9001
17 2 (0.083%) Solvency II
System Software
1 630 (26.07%) Docker
2 132 (5.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 131 (5.42%) Active Directory
4 44 (1.82%) vSphere
5 39 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (0.99%) Hyper-V
6 24 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (0.70%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (0.37%) KVM
10 8 (0.33%) Firmware
10 8 (0.33%) Squid
11 7 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.17%) iptables
12 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.083%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 886 (36.66%) Kubernetes
2 487 (20.15%) Ansible
3 240 (9.93%) Grafana
4 172 (7.12%) Prometheus
5 72 (2.98%) Argo
6 60 (2.48%) Puppet
7 40 (1.65%) Progress Chef
8 37 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
9 35 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 34 (1.41%) Istio
11 27 (1.12%) Packer
12 20 (0.83%) FortiGate
13 19 (0.79%) Nagios
13 19 (0.79%) vCenter Server
14 15 (0.62%) Rancher
15 14 (0.58%) Cilium
16 13 (0.54%) Kustomize
17 12 (0.50%) ZABBIX
18 11 (0.46%) Kibana
18 11 (0.46%) linkerd
Vendors
1 543 (22.47%) Microsoft
2 162 (6.70%) VMware
3 148 (6.12%) Google
4 104 (4.30%) Databricks
5 85 (3.52%) Splunk
6 83 (3.43%) Red Hat
7 73 (3.02%) Cisco
8 69 (2.85%) Oracle
9 43 (1.78%) OpenAI
9 43 (1.78%) Palo Alto
10 42 (1.74%) Fortinet
11 41 (1.70%) Dynatrace
12 28 (1.16%) ServiceNow
13 25 (1.03%) Zscaler
14 16 (0.66%) Atlassian
14 16 (0.66%) CrowdStrike
14 16 (0.66%) SAP
15 14 (0.58%) Okta
16 13 (0.54%) F5
16 13 (0.54%) Rapid7