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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 155 163
Rank change year-on-year +54 +8 -54
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,631 910 1,694
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.79% 2.09% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 2.25% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,063 661 1,322
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £49,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +9.81% -5.90%
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £113,750 £109,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -6.40%

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 68,019 40,426 81,982
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.51% 93.00% 85.53%
Number of salaries quoted 42,516 22,659 59,588
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,580 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% +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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +58 1,464 £77,500 - 772
London +40 742 £87,500 -2.78% 283
UK excluding London +47 738 £70,000 - 566
Work from Home +71 594 £70,000 -6.67% 453
North of England +13 266 £67,500 -3.57% 174
South East +23 155 £70,000 -6.67% 172
North West +15 145 £74,651 +2.97% 82
South West -10 105 £65,000 -9.71% 82
Midlands +15 97 £70,000 - 43
Yorkshire -21 88 £72,500 +16.97% 45
West Midlands -3 50 £70,000 - 25
Scotland -4 47 £60,000 -19.93% 23
East Midlands -7 45 £67,750 +4.23% 18
East of England +16 43 £60,100 -10.96% 56
North East -6 33 £48,445 -19.59% 47
Wales -11 22 £60,000 -5.14% 14
Northern Ireland -34 6 £95,000 - 9

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 49 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (2.15%) Apache
3 29 (1.78%) Apache Spark
4 24 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.98%) Confluence
6 15 (0.92%) IIS
7 12 (0.74%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.31%) CMS
10 4 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.061%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.061%) Camunda
12 1 (0.061%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.061%) nginx
12 1 (0.061%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.061%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.061%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (0.55%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.25%) Weka
3 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.061%) Maya
4 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.061%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.061%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.061%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.061%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 960 (58.86%) AWS
2 899 (55.12%) Azure
3 331 (20.29%) GCP
4 323 (19.80%) GitHub
5 301 (18.45%) Azure DevOps
6 290 (17.78%) Serverless
7 259 (15.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 227 (13.92%) GitHub Actions
9 169 (10.36%) AWS Lambda
10 142 (8.71%) Amazon S3
11 123 (7.54%) Amazon EKS
12 121 (7.42%) PaaS
13 116 (7.11%) Entra ID
14 115 (7.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 105 (6.44%) SaaS
16 101 (6.19%) Datadog
17 93 (5.70%) IaaS
18 91 (5.58%) Amazon EC2
19 84 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
20 82 (5.03%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 175 (10.73%) Firewall
2 93 (5.70%) DNS
3 76 (4.66%) VPN
4 70 (4.29%) TCP/IP
5 49 (3.00%) Network Security
6 47 (2.88%) Broadband
7 46 (2.82%) WAN
8 35 (2.15%) DHCP
9 27 (1.66%) HTTP
10 26 (1.59%) LAN
11 24 (1.47%) BGP
12 16 (0.98%) Cisco ASA
12 16 (0.98%) SD-WAN
12 16 (0.98%) VLAN
13 15 (0.92%) DSL
14 13 (0.80%) Software-Defined Networking
15 11 (0.67%) Internet
16 9 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
17 7 (0.43%) SAN
17 7 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (7.60%) NoSQL
2 110 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
3 88 (5.40%) Amazon RDS
4 63 (3.86%) DynamoDB
4 63 (3.86%) SQL Server
5 58 (3.56%) MongoDB
6 49 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
6 49 (3.00%) Relational Database
7 48 (2.94%) Data Lake
8 37 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
9 34 (2.08%) Metadata
10 33 (2.02%) MySQL
11 32 (1.96%) BigQuery
12 26 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
13 22 (1.35%) Delta Lake
13 22 (1.35%) Power BI
14 19 (1.16%) RDBMS
15 18 (1.10%) Redis
16 17 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
17 16 (0.98%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 226 (13.86%) Jenkins
2 221 (13.55%) GitLab
3 215 (13.18%) Git
4 41 (2.51%) CircleCI
5 39 (2.39%) Bitbucket
6 36 (2.21%) JIRA
7 25 (1.53%) Cucumber
8 21 (1.29%) Jaeger
9 18 (1.10%) Selenium
10 17 (1.04%) SonarQube
11 16 (0.98%) TeamCity
12 14 (0.86%) MLflow
13 13 (0.80%) Subversion
14 12 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 10 (0.61%) Robot Framework
16 9 (0.55%) JMeter
16 9 (0.55%) Maven
16 9 (0.55%) NUnit
16 9 (0.55%) Storybook
16 9 (0.55%) Vite
General
1 407 (24.95%) Social Skills
2 367 (22.50%) Finance
3 122 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 96 (5.89%) Banking
6 79 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 63 (3.86%) Retail
8 59 (3.62%) Law
9 58 (3.56%) Telecoms
10 29 (1.78%) Manufacturing
11 27 (1.66%) Games
12 26 (1.59%) Marketing
13 22 (1.35%) Aerospace
14 21 (1.29%) Advertising
15 20 (1.23%) Billing
15 20 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
16 19 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (1.10%) Financial Institution
17 18 (1.10%) Legal
18 16 (0.98%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 362 (22.19%) Senior
2 269 (16.49%) DevOps Engineer
3 248 (15.21%) Cloud Engineer
4 233 (14.29%) Lead
5 167 (10.24%) Azure Engineer
6 151 (9.26%) Platform Engineer
7 147 (9.01%) Developer
8 144 (8.83%) Architect
9 127 (7.79%) AWS Engineer
10 119 (7.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 85 (5.21%) Data Engineer
12 79 (4.84%) Software Engineer
13 72 (4.41%) Security Engineer
14 65 (3.99%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 65 (3.99%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 64 (3.92%) Senior DevOps
16 54 (3.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 48 (2.94%) Cloud Security Engineer
17 48 (2.94%) Python Engineer
18 46 (2.82%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (8.09%) React
2 118 (7.23%) Node.js
3 107 (6.56%) .NET
4 105 (6.44%) Kafka
5 103 (6.32%) REST
6 96 (5.89%) RESTful
7 77 (4.72%) AWS CDK
8 75 (4.60%) Elastic Stack
9 71 (4.35%) YAML
10 69 (4.23%) Spring
11 68 (4.17%) OAuth
12 63 (3.86%) Spring Boot
13 54 (3.31%) ARM Templates
14 50 (3.07%) RabbitMQ
15 44 (2.70%) PySpark
16 38 (2.33%) Next.js
17 36 (2.21%) OpenTelemetry
18 34 (2.08%) JSON
18 34 (2.08%) SAML
19 32 (1.96%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 388 (23.79%) Cloud Native
2 110 (6.74%) Distributed Systems
3 91 (5.58%) Hybrid Cloud
4 74 (4.54%) Public Cloud
5 60 (3.68%) Product Ownership
6 58 (3.56%) Security Posture
7 48 (2.94%) Data Centre
8 44 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
9 43 (2.64%) Onboarding
10 34 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
11 26 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
11 26 (1.59%) Management Information System
12 25 (1.53%) Mobile App
12 25 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
13 24 (1.47%) Blockchain
13 24 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
13 24 (1.47%) Video\Live Streaming
14 22 (1.35%) Low-Code
14 22 (1.35%) PKI
14 22 (1.35%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 328 (20.11%) Linux
2 161 (9.87%) Windows
3 70 (4.29%) Windows Server
4 59 (3.62%) Unix
5 38 (2.33%) Ubuntu
6 31 (1.90%) CentOS
7 28 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 28 (1.72%) VMS
8 15 (0.92%) Android
9 14 (0.86%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.43%) Debian
11 6 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.25%) SUSE
13 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.061%) Rocky
15 1 (0.061%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,127 (69.10%) CI/CD
2 996 (61.07%) DevOps
3 462 (28.33%) Containerisation
4 447 (27.41%) Agile
5 440 (26.98%) Observability
6 359 (22.01%) Continuous Improvement
7 321 (19.68%) Mentoring
8 308 (18.88%) Platform Engineering
9 280 (17.17%) Test Automation
10 279 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
11 268 (16.43%) AI
12 262 (16.06%) Software Engineering
13 243 (14.90%) Microservices
14 224 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 220 (13.49%) Cloud Security
16 200 (12.26%) Analytics
17 184 (11.28%) Technical Leadership
18 182 (11.16%) DevSecOps
19 172 (10.55%) Incident Response
20 171 (10.48%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 744 (45.62%) Python
2 306 (18.76%) Bash
3 269 (16.49%) SQL
4 265 (16.25%) PowerShell
5 230 (14.10%) Java
6 166 (10.18%) Go
7 149 (9.14%) JavaScript
8 146 (8.95%) Bicep
9 143 (8.77%) TypeScript
10 116 (7.11%) C#
11 27 (1.66%) C++
12 26 (1.59%) Rust
13 22 (1.35%) Scala
14 20 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
15 13 (0.80%) C
15 13 (0.80%) Groovy
15 13 (0.80%) Kotlin
16 9 (0.55%) Apex Code
16 9 (0.55%) PHP
17 8 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 304 (18.64%) Security Cleared
2 183 (11.22%) SC Cleared
3 152 (9.32%) Degree
4 126 (7.73%) AWS Certification
5 96 (5.89%) DV Cleared
6 87 (5.33%) Azure Certification
7 60 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 31 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 29 (1.78%) OSCP
11 27 (1.66%) CISSP
12 24 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
13 17 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
14 15 (0.92%) DBS Check
15 14 (0.86%) CCNP
16 13 (0.80%) Master's Degree
17 12 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 12 (0.74%) CCNA
18 11 (0.67%) CCSK
19 10 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (4.97%) QA
2 71 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 71 (4.35%) GDPR
3 50 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 50 (3.07%) SOC 2
4 42 (2.58%) NIST
5 35 (2.15%) Accessibility
6 32 (1.96%) PCI DSS
7 12 (0.74%) SLA
8 11 (0.67%) WCAG
9 10 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.55%) NCSC
11 7 (0.43%) GRC
12 5 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.12%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.12%) IFRS
13 2 (0.12%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.12%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 477 (29.25%) Docker
2 103 (6.32%) Active Directory
3 81 (4.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (1.66%) vSphere
6 19 (1.16%) Hyper-V
7 18 (1.10%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.55%) Firmware
8 9 (0.55%) KVM
9 7 (0.43%) iptables
10 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.25%) Squid
12 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.12%) GPFS
13 2 (0.12%) Lustre
13 2 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.061%) vCloud
14 1 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,134 (69.53%) Terraform
2 643 (39.42%) Kubernetes
3 364 (22.32%) Ansible
4 220 (13.49%) Grafana
5 210 (12.88%) Prometheus
6 62 (3.80%) Argo
7 42 (2.58%) Single Sign-On
8 40 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 38 (2.33%) Puppet
10 23 (1.41%) Kustomize
10 23 (1.41%) Progress Chef
11 20 (1.23%) Rancher
12 18 (1.10%) Nagios
13 17 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 16 (0.98%) Istio
15 15 (0.92%) Packer
16 13 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
17 9 (0.55%) logstash
17 9 (0.55%) vCenter Server
17 9 (0.55%) yum
Vendors
1 298 (18.27%) Microsoft
2 120 (7.36%) VMware
3 115 (7.05%) Google
4 70 (4.29%) Databricks
5 64 (3.92%) Red Hat
6 54 (3.31%) Cisco
7 51 (3.13%) Splunk
8 40 (2.45%) Palo Alto
9 23 (1.41%) CrowdStrike
9 23 (1.41%) Zscaler
10 22 (1.35%) OpenAI
11 21 (1.29%) Salesforce
12 20 (1.23%) Dynatrace
13 17 (1.04%) Oracle
14 15 (0.92%) Fortinet
15 14 (0.86%) SAP
16 13 (0.80%) Atlassian
16 13 (0.80%) Juniper
17 11 (0.67%) SolarWinds
18 10 (0.61%) CheckPoint