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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 156 156
Rank change year-on-year +80 0 -52
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,216 1,030 1,468
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.18% 2.09% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.96% 2.33% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,502 704 1,093
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £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 £107,850 £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 74,889 44,229 70,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 89.64% 81.30%
Number of salaries quoted 51,640 25,065 47,390
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 29 July 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 29 July 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 +72 1,950 £77,500 - 978
UK excluding London +112 1,167 £70,000 - 584
London +27 887 £90,000 - 505
Work from Home +76 786 £72,500 -8.01% 501
North of England +91 397 £70,400 +0.57% 222
South East +52 241 £67,500 -12.90% 127
North West +79 231 £75,000 +7.14% 120
South West +36 190 £75,000 - 94
Midlands +34 139 £77,500 +19.23% 56
Yorkshire +6 92 £72,500 +3.57% 57
West Midlands +10 85 £80,000 +23.08% 39
North East +10 74 £55,750 -17.41% 45
Wales -4 59 £70,039 +21.81% 19
Northern Ireland -17 57 £73,801 +71.27% 16
East Midlands +9 54 £67,500 +3.85% 17
East of England -5 50 £63,750 +2.00% 20
Scotland +20 43 £69,746 -0.36% 31

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 57 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 46 (2.08%) Apache
4 33 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (1.26%) Confluence
6 11 (0.50%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.45%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.41%) IIS
9 5 (0.23%) CMS
10 4 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.14%) Camunda
11 3 (0.14%) nginx
11 3 (0.14%) WordPress
12 2 (0.090%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.090%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.045%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.045%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.045%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.045%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 20 (0.90%) PlantUML
2 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.090%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.090%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.090%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.090%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.045%) Maya
5 1 (0.045%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.14%) Summit
4 2 (0.090%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.090%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,253 (56.54%) AWS
2 1,223 (55.19%) Azure
3 404 (18.23%) GCP
4 394 (17.78%) GitHub
5 369 (16.65%) Serverless
6 350 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 319 (14.40%) Azure DevOps
8 221 (9.97%) GitHub Actions
9 202 (9.12%) AWS Lambda
10 196 (8.84%) Amazon S3
11 187 (8.44%) PaaS
12 139 (6.27%) Amazon EKS
13 138 (6.23%) Amazon EC2
14 132 (5.96%) SaaS
15 128 (5.78%) Amazon ECS
16 127 (5.73%) IaaS
17 124 (5.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 123 (5.55%) Microsoft 365
19 118 (5.32%) Azure AKS
20 109 (4.92%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 177 (7.99%) Firewall
2 114 (5.14%) WAN
3 111 (5.01%) DNS
4 109 (4.92%) VPN
5 104 (4.69%) Network Security
6 93 (4.20%) LAN
7 73 (3.29%) TCP/IP
8 53 (2.39%) Broadband
9 49 (2.21%) BGP
10 34 (1.53%) DHCP
11 33 (1.49%) OSPF
11 33 (1.49%) VLAN
12 26 (1.17%) VXLAN
13 23 (1.04%) SD-WAN
14 22 (0.99%) HTTP
14 22 (0.99%) Software-Defined Networking
15 13 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
15 13 (0.59%) Wireless
16 12 (0.54%) Ethernet VPN
17 11 (0.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
2 143 (6.45%) NoSQL
3 101 (4.56%) Amazon RDS
4 93 (4.20%) MongoDB
5 76 (3.43%) SQL Server
6 74 (3.34%) DynamoDB
7 55 (2.48%) Data Lake
8 54 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
9 52 (2.35%) Relational Database
10 51 (2.30%) MySQL
11 49 (2.21%) Metadata
12 38 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
13 36 (1.62%) Redis
14 31 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
15 27 (1.22%) Delta Lake
16 25 (1.13%) BigQuery
17 24 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
17 24 (1.08%) Big Data
18 23 (1.04%) Power BI
19 21 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 295 (13.31%) Git
2 288 (13.00%) GitLab
3 251 (11.33%) Jenkins
4 45 (2.03%) JIRA
5 43 (1.94%) Cucumber
6 35 (1.58%) CircleCI
7 31 (1.40%) Bitbucket
8 30 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 27 (1.22%) TeamCity
10 19 (0.86%) Selenium
11 17 (0.77%) Claude Code
12 15 (0.68%) SonarQube
13 12 (0.54%) Subversion
14 11 (0.50%) MLflow
14 11 (0.50%) NUnit
15 10 (0.45%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.45%) Maven
16 9 (0.41%) JMeter
17 8 (0.36%) MSI
17 8 (0.36%) Vite
General
1 599 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 498 (22.47%) Finance
3 190 (8.57%) Public Sector
4 163 (7.36%) Analytical Skills
5 117 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 114 (5.14%) Banking
7 103 (4.65%) Law
8 69 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
9 65 (2.93%) Retail
10 44 (1.99%) Games
11 36 (1.62%) Telecoms
12 34 (1.53%) Aerospace
13 31 (1.40%) Legal
13 31 (1.40%) Manufacturing
14 29 (1.31%) Marketing
15 22 (0.99%) Advertising
16 21 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
17 20 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
18 14 (0.63%) Financial Institution
19 11 (0.50%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 511 (23.06%) Senior
2 390 (17.60%) DevOps Engineer
3 317 (14.31%) Lead
4 296 (13.36%) Architect
5 269 (12.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 221 (9.97%) Platform Engineer
7 193 (8.71%) Developer
8 183 (8.26%) Azure Engineer
9 132 (5.96%) AWS Engineer
10 125 (5.64%) Software Engineer
11 116 (5.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 113 (5.10%) Data Engineer
13 105 (4.74%) Principal Engineer
14 101 (4.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 87 (3.93%) Security Engineer
16 82 (3.70%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 78 (3.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 77 (3.47%) Senior DevOps
19 70 (3.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 69 (3.11%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (8.17%) React
2 166 (7.49%) Kafka
3 162 (7.31%) .NET
4 146 (6.59%) Node.js
5 145 (6.54%) REST
6 136 (6.14%) Spring
7 135 (6.09%) Spring Boot
8 122 (5.51%) RESTful
9 90 (4.06%) AWS CDK
10 79 (3.56%) YAML
11 72 (3.25%) PySpark
12 71 (3.20%) ARM Templates
13 57 (2.57%) Elastic Stack
13 57 (2.57%) RabbitMQ
14 55 (2.48%) AngularJS
15 52 (2.35%) Next.js
15 52 (2.35%) OAuth
16 41 (1.85%) JSON
17 39 (1.76%) ASP.NET
17 39 (1.76%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 641 (28.93%) Cloud Native
2 235 (10.60%) Distributed Systems
3 110 (4.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 107 (4.83%) Public Cloud
5 97 (4.38%) Onboarding
6 80 (3.61%) Data Centre
7 77 (3.47%) Product Ownership
8 62 (2.80%) Security Posture
9 60 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
10 57 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
11 47 (2.12%) Enterprise Cloud
12 45 (2.03%) Video\Live Streaming
13 40 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
13 40 (1.81%) Low-Code
14 32 (1.44%) e-Learning
14 32 (1.44%) Virtual Team
15 31 (1.40%) PKI
16 28 (1.26%) Management Information System
16 28 (1.26%) Private Cloud
17 27 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 367 (16.56%) Linux
2 206 (9.30%) Windows
3 90 (4.06%) Windows Server
4 55 (2.48%) CentOS
5 41 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (1.85%) Ubuntu
6 35 (1.58%) Unix
7 24 (1.08%) VMS
8 8 (0.36%) Android
9 7 (0.32%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.23%) Debian
11 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.090%) AIX
12 2 (0.090%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.045%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.045%) Rocky
13 1 (0.045%) Solaris
13 1 (0.045%) SUSE
13 1 (0.045%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,571 (70.89%) CI/CD
2 1,249 (56.36%) DevOps
3 662 (29.87%) Containerisation
4 626 (28.25%) Agile
5 612 (27.62%) Observability
6 508 (22.92%) Platform Engineering
7 482 (21.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 476 (21.48%) Mentoring
9 470 (21.21%) AI
10 442 (19.95%) Software Engineering
11 380 (17.15%) Microservices
12 371 (16.74%) Test Automation
13 366 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
14 353 (15.93%) Technical Leadership
15 317 (14.31%) Cloud Security
16 313 (14.12%) Roadmaps
17 276 (12.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 245 (11.06%) Event-Driven
19 239 (10.79%) Analytics
20 236 (10.65%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 964 (43.50%) Python
2 350 (15.79%) SQL
3 343 (15.48%) Bash
4 342 (15.43%) Java
5 309 (13.94%) PowerShell
6 217 (9.79%) Bicep
7 206 (9.30%) TypeScript
8 192 (8.66%) JavaScript
9 171 (7.72%) C#
10 168 (7.58%) Go
11 44 (1.99%) Ruby
12 37 (1.67%) PHP
13 30 (1.35%) Scala
14 25 (1.13%) Rust
15 23 (1.04%) C++
15 23 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
16 20 (0.90%) Groovy
16 20 (0.90%) Perl
17 12 (0.54%) Shell Script
18 11 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 501 (22.61%) Security Cleared
2 310 (13.99%) SC Cleared
3 184 (8.30%) Degree
4 161 (7.27%) AWS Certification
5 154 (6.95%) DV Cleared
6 129 (5.82%) Azure Certification
7 82 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 75 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 54 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 49 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
11 33 (1.49%) CCNP
12 26 (1.17%) Master's Degree
13 22 (0.99%) CISSP
13 22 (0.99%) OSCP
14 18 (0.81%) CCNA
15 15 (0.68%) DBS Check
15 15 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
16 14 (0.63%) RHCSA
17 13 (0.59%) CCIE
18 12 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (5.37%) QA
2 96 (4.33%) Data Quality
3 69 (3.11%) GRC
4 66 (2.98%) GDPR
5 52 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (1.90%) Accessibility
7 37 (1.67%) SOC 2
8 36 (1.62%) NIST
9 29 (1.31%) PCI DSS
10 25 (1.13%) WCAG
11 21 (0.95%) NCSC
12 12 (0.54%) SLA
13 8 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.090%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.090%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.090%) IFRS
16 2 (0.090%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.090%) Solvency II
System Software
1 584 (26.35%) Docker
2 120 (5.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 119 (5.37%) Active Directory
4 43 (1.94%) vSphere
5 33 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.90%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.63%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.36%) Firmware
10 8 (0.36%) Squid
11 6 (0.27%) KVM
11 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.23%) iptables
13 3 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.090%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,496 (67.51%) Terraform
2 832 (37.55%) Kubernetes
3 439 (19.81%) Ansible
4 234 (10.56%) Grafana
5 185 (8.35%) Prometheus
6 65 (2.93%) Argo
7 48 (2.17%) Puppet
8 37 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 35 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
10 32 (1.44%) Progress Chef
11 28 (1.26%) Packer
12 27 (1.22%) Istio
13 23 (1.04%) Nagios
14 16 (0.72%) FortiGate
15 12 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 12 (0.54%) Cilium
15 12 (0.54%) Rancher
15 12 (0.54%) vCenter Server
16 11 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
16 11 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 483 (21.80%) Microsoft
2 147 (6.63%) VMware
3 115 (5.19%) Google
4 92 (4.15%) Databricks
5 82 (3.70%) Red Hat
6 79 (3.56%) Splunk
7 69 (3.11%) Cisco
8 52 (2.35%) Oracle
8 52 (2.35%) Palo Alto
9 38 (1.71%) Fortinet
10 35 (1.58%) OpenAI
11 29 (1.31%) Dynatrace
12 28 (1.26%) Zscaler
13 15 (0.68%) CrowdStrike
13 15 (0.68%) F5
13 15 (0.68%) ServiceNow
14 13 (0.59%) Atlassian
15 12 (0.54%) Rapid7
15 12 (0.54%) Salesforce
15 12 (0.54%) ScienceLogic