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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 156 156
Rank change year-on-year +79 0 -52
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,243 1,030 1,468
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.19% 2.09% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.97% 2.33% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,518 704 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 75,424 44,229 70,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.68% 89.64% 81.30%
Number of salaries quoted 51,991 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 30 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 30 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 1,972 £77,500 - 996
UK excluding London +112 1,183 £70,000 - 602
London +27 895 £90,000 - 511
Work from Home +76 795 £72,500 -8.01% 511
North of England +93 402 £70,079 +0.11% 230
South East +57 246 £67,500 -12.90% 132
North West +84 232 £74,651 +6.64% 127
South West +34 192 £75,000 - 98
Midlands +31 139 £77,500 +19.23% 51
Yorkshire +9 95 £72,500 +3.57% 60
West Midlands +15 85 £80,000 +23.08% 35
North East +13 75 £55,000 -18.52% 43
Wales -9 60 £70,000 +21.74% 20
Northern Ireland -15 58 £72,896 +69.17% 17
East Midlands +13 54 £67,500 +3.85% 16
East of England -9 50 £63,750 +2.00% 22
Scotland +23 45 £71,991 +2.84% 34

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 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (2.14%) Apache Spark
3 47 (2.10%) Apache
4 33 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (1.25%) Confluence
6 11 (0.49%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.45%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.40%) IIS
9 5 (0.22%) CMS
10 4 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.13%) Camunda
11 3 (0.13%) nginx
11 3 (0.13%) WordPress
12 2 (0.089%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.089%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.045%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.045%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.045%) JBoss
13 1 (0.045%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 20 (0.89%) PlantUML
2 11 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.089%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.089%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.089%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.045%) Maya
6 1 (0.045%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.13%) Summit
4 2 (0.089%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.089%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,279 (57.02%) AWS
2 1,234 (55.02%) Azure
3 413 (18.41%) GCP
4 400 (17.83%) GitHub
5 375 (16.72%) Serverless
6 357 (15.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 319 (14.22%) Azure DevOps
8 225 (10.03%) GitHub Actions
9 205 (9.14%) AWS Lambda
10 199 (8.87%) Amazon S3
11 188 (8.38%) PaaS
12 141 (6.29%) Amazon EKS
13 140 (6.24%) Amazon EC2
14 133 (5.93%) Amazon ECS
14 133 (5.93%) SaaS
15 127 (5.66%) IaaS
16 126 (5.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 124 (5.53%) Microsoft 365
18 118 (5.26%) Azure AKS
19 110 (4.90%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 178 (7.94%) Firewall
2 115 (5.13%) WAN
3 111 (4.95%) DNS
4 109 (4.86%) VPN
5 105 (4.68%) Network Security
6 94 (4.19%) LAN
7 76 (3.39%) TCP/IP
8 53 (2.36%) Broadband
9 49 (2.18%) BGP
10 34 (1.52%) DHCP
10 34 (1.52%) VLAN
11 33 (1.47%) OSPF
12 26 (1.16%) VXLAN
13 23 (1.03%) SD-WAN
14 22 (0.98%) HTTP
14 22 (0.98%) Software-Defined Networking
15 14 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
16 13 (0.58%) Wireless
17 12 (0.53%) Ethernet VPN
17 12 (0.53%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (7.53%) PostgreSQL
2 144 (6.42%) NoSQL
3 104 (4.64%) Amazon RDS
4 94 (4.19%) MongoDB
5 76 (3.39%) DynamoDB
5 76 (3.39%) SQL Server
6 55 (2.45%) Data Lake
7 54 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
8 53 (2.36%) Relational Database
9 52 (2.32%) MySQL
10 49 (2.18%) Metadata
11 38 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
12 37 (1.65%) Redis
13 32 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
14 27 (1.20%) Delta Lake
15 25 (1.11%) BigQuery
16 24 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
16 24 (1.07%) Big Data
17 23 (1.03%) Power BI
18 21 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 295 (13.15%) Git
2 288 (12.84%) GitLab
3 253 (11.28%) Jenkins
4 47 (2.10%) JIRA
5 43 (1.92%) Cucumber
6 35 (1.56%) CircleCI
7 31 (1.38%) Bitbucket
8 30 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 27 (1.20%) TeamCity
10 19 (0.85%) Selenium
11 18 (0.80%) Claude Code
12 15 (0.67%) SonarQube
13 12 (0.53%) Subversion
14 11 (0.49%) MLflow
14 11 (0.49%) NUnit
15 10 (0.45%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.45%) Maven
16 9 (0.40%) JMeter
17 8 (0.36%) MSI
17 8 (0.36%) Vite
General
1 612 (27.28%) Social Skills
2 504 (22.47%) Finance
3 194 (8.65%) Public Sector
4 170 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
5 118 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 117 (5.22%) Banking
7 105 (4.68%) Law
8 70 (3.12%) Presentation Skills
9 66 (2.94%) Retail
10 44 (1.96%) Games
11 37 (1.65%) Aerospace
11 37 (1.65%) Telecoms
12 31 (1.38%) Legal
12 31 (1.38%) Manufacturing
12 31 (1.38%) Marketing
13 22 (0.98%) Advertising
14 21 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
15 20 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
16 14 (0.62%) Financial Institution
17 13 (0.58%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 518 (23.09%) Senior
2 392 (17.48%) DevOps Engineer
3 322 (14.36%) Lead
4 300 (13.37%) Architect
5 274 (12.22%) Cloud Engineer
6 224 (9.99%) Platform Engineer
7 197 (8.78%) Developer
8 183 (8.16%) Azure Engineer
9 138 (6.15%) AWS Engineer
10 126 (5.62%) Software Engineer
11 119 (5.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 113 (5.04%) Data Engineer
13 106 (4.73%) Principal Engineer
14 104 (4.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 87 (3.88%) Security Engineer
16 82 (3.66%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 78 (3.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 77 (3.43%) Senior DevOps
19 70 (3.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 69 (3.08%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (8.16%) React
2 168 (7.49%) Kafka
3 162 (7.22%) .NET
4 147 (6.55%) Node.js
4 147 (6.55%) REST
5 139 (6.20%) Spring
6 138 (6.15%) Spring Boot
7 124 (5.53%) RESTful
8 92 (4.10%) AWS CDK
9 79 (3.52%) YAML
10 72 (3.21%) PySpark
11 71 (3.17%) ARM Templates
12 57 (2.54%) Elastic Stack
12 57 (2.54%) RabbitMQ
13 55 (2.45%) AngularJS
14 54 (2.41%) Next.js
15 52 (2.32%) OAuth
16 41 (1.83%) JSON
17 39 (1.74%) ASP.NET
17 39 (1.74%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 648 (28.89%) Cloud Native
2 239 (10.66%) Distributed Systems
3 113 (5.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 107 (4.77%) Public Cloud
5 100 (4.46%) Onboarding
6 82 (3.66%) Data Centre
7 78 (3.48%) Product Ownership
8 62 (2.76%) Security Posture
9 61 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
10 60 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
11 47 (2.10%) Enterprise Cloud
12 45 (2.01%) Video\Live Streaming
13 42 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
14 40 (1.78%) Low-Code
15 32 (1.43%) e-Learning
15 32 (1.43%) Virtual Team
16 31 (1.38%) PKI
16 31 (1.38%) Private Cloud
17 30 (1.34%) Management Information System
18 28 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 371 (16.54%) Linux
2 208 (9.27%) Windows
3 92 (4.10%) Windows Server
4 55 (2.45%) CentOS
5 41 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (1.83%) Ubuntu
6 38 (1.69%) Unix
7 24 (1.07%) VMS
8 8 (0.36%) Android
9 7 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.22%) Debian
11 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.089%) AIX
12 2 (0.089%) 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 1,584 (70.62%) CI/CD
2 1,264 (56.35%) DevOps
3 667 (29.74%) Containerisation
4 632 (28.18%) Agile
5 621 (27.69%) Observability
6 512 (22.83%) Platform Engineering
7 492 (21.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 484 (21.58%) Mentoring
9 476 (21.22%) AI
10 447 (19.93%) Software Engineering
11 383 (17.08%) Microservices
12 373 (16.63%) Problem-Solving
13 371 (16.54%) Test Automation
14 360 (16.05%) Technical Leadership
15 322 (14.36%) Cloud Security
16 320 (14.27%) Roadmaps
17 282 (12.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 247 (11.01%) Event-Driven
19 243 (10.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 240 (10.70%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 976 (43.51%) Python
2 352 (15.69%) SQL
3 345 (15.38%) Java
4 344 (15.34%) Bash
5 313 (13.95%) PowerShell
6 217 (9.67%) Bicep
7 209 (9.32%) TypeScript
8 194 (8.65%) JavaScript
9 171 (7.62%) C#
10 168 (7.49%) Go
11 44 (1.96%) Ruby
12 37 (1.65%) PHP
13 30 (1.34%) Scala
14 25 (1.11%) Rust
15 23 (1.03%) C++
15 23 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
16 21 (0.94%) Perl
17 20 (0.89%) Groovy
18 12 (0.53%) Shell Script
19 11 (0.49%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 508 (22.65%) Security Cleared
2 316 (14.09%) SC Cleared
3 186 (8.29%) Degree
4 163 (7.27%) AWS Certification
5 158 (7.04%) DV Cleared
6 129 (5.75%) Azure Certification
7 82 (3.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 75 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 54 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 49 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
11 33 (1.47%) CCNP
12 26 (1.16%) Master's Degree
13 22 (0.98%) CISSP
13 22 (0.98%) OSCP
14 18 (0.80%) CCNA
14 18 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
15 16 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
15 16 (0.71%) DBS Check
16 14 (0.62%) RHCSA
17 13 (0.58%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (5.39%) QA
2 96 (4.28%) Data Quality
3 69 (3.08%) GRC
4 67 (2.99%) GDPR
5 52 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (1.87%) Accessibility
7 37 (1.65%) SOC 2
8 36 (1.60%) NIST
9 29 (1.29%) PCI DSS
10 25 (1.11%) WCAG
11 21 (0.94%) NCSC
12 13 (0.58%) SLA
13 8 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.089%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.089%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.089%) IFRS
16 2 (0.089%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.089%) Solvency II
System Software
1 594 (26.48%) Docker
2 123 (5.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 120 (5.35%) Active Directory
4 45 (2.01%) vSphere
5 33 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (0.94%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.62%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.36%) Firmware
10 8 (0.36%) Squid
11 7 (0.31%) KVM
11 7 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.22%) iptables
13 3 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,515 (67.54%) Terraform
2 841 (37.49%) Kubernetes
3 446 (19.88%) Ansible
4 239 (10.66%) Grafana
5 186 (8.29%) Prometheus
6 65 (2.90%) Argo
7 48 (2.14%) Puppet
8 37 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
9 35 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
10 32 (1.43%) Progress Chef
11 28 (1.25%) Packer
12 27 (1.20%) Istio
13 23 (1.03%) Nagios
14 16 (0.71%) FortiGate
15 12 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 12 (0.53%) Cilium
15 12 (0.53%) Rancher
15 12 (0.53%) vCenter Server
16 11 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
16 11 (0.49%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 485 (21.62%) Microsoft
2 150 (6.69%) VMware
3 120 (5.35%) Google
4 92 (4.10%) Databricks
5 82 (3.66%) Red Hat
6 80 (3.57%) Splunk
7 70 (3.12%) Cisco
8 54 (2.41%) Oracle
9 53 (2.36%) Palo Alto
10 39 (1.74%) Fortinet
11 36 (1.60%) OpenAI
12 32 (1.43%) Dynatrace
13 28 (1.25%) Zscaler
14 17 (0.76%) ServiceNow
15 15 (0.67%) CrowdStrike
15 15 (0.67%) F5
16 13 (0.58%) Atlassian
17 12 (0.53%) Rapid7
17 12 (0.53%) Salesforce
17 12 (0.53%) SAP