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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 149 175
Rank change year-on-year +70 +26 -67
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,909 986 1,700
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.02% 2.19% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 2.37% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,295 651 1,295
10th Percentile £48,806 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,250 £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 68,936 41,540 89,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.11% 92.39% 81.68%
Number of salaries quoted 47,487 22,330 63,275
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,824 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,000
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 21 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 21 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 +75 1,747 £77,500 -1.66% 477
UK excluding London +77 903 £70,000 - 396
London +30 849 £87,500 -2.78% 206
Work from Home +96 684 £70,000 -9.68% 265
North of England +75 327 £67,500 -3.57% 98
South East +40 206 £70,000 -9.68% 135
North West +78 197 £72,500 - 57
South West +17 139 £75,000 +7.14% 60
Midlands +40 120 £73,000 +12.31% 40
Yorkshire -5 84 £65,576 -6.32% 23
West Midlands +14 69 £80,000 +14.29% 28
East of England +13 53 £60,100 -7.54% 17
East Midlands +6 51 £67,500 +3.85% 12
North East -9 46 £55,000 -14.06% 18
Scotland -1 33 £60,000 -20.19% 10
Wales -31 26 £70,000 +27.27% 10
Northern Ireland -27 3 £84,401 +95.86% 36

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 52 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (2.20%) Apache
3 40 (2.10%) Apache Spark
4 33 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
5 23 (1.20%) Confluence
6 13 (0.68%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.52%) IIS
8 9 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.42%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.26%) CMS
11 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.16%) WordPress
13 2 (0.10%) Camunda
13 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.052%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.052%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.052%) NetWeaver
14 1 (0.052%) nginx
14 1 (0.052%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 16 (0.84%) PlantUML
2 8 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.21%) Weka
4 2 (0.10%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.052%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.052%) Maya
5 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.052%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.052%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,117 (58.51%) AWS
2 1,001 (52.44%) Azure
3 362 (18.96%) GitHub
4 332 (17.39%) GCP
4 332 (17.39%) Serverless
5 303 (15.87%) Azure DevOps
6 294 (15.40%) AWS CloudFormation
7 217 (11.37%) GitHub Actions
8 184 (9.64%) AWS Lambda
9 180 (9.43%) Amazon S3
10 165 (8.64%) PaaS
11 129 (6.76%) Amazon EKS
12 127 (6.65%) SaaS
13 125 (6.55%) IaaS
14 124 (6.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 124 (6.50%) Amazon EC2
15 120 (6.29%) Entra ID
16 112 (5.87%) Azure AKS
17 101 (5.29%) Datadog
18 98 (5.13%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 179 (9.38%) Firewall
2 103 (5.40%) DNS
3 95 (4.98%) VPN
4 75 (3.93%) Broadband
4 75 (3.93%) Network Security
5 66 (3.46%) TCP/IP
6 49 (2.57%) WAN
7 41 (2.15%) BGP
8 33 (1.73%) VLAN
9 32 (1.68%) DHCP
10 27 (1.41%) LAN
11 23 (1.20%) HTTP
11 23 (1.20%) OSPF
12 20 (1.05%) Software-Defined Networking
13 19 (1.00%) SD-WAN
14 18 (0.94%) VXLAN
15 15 (0.79%) Cisco ASA
15 15 (0.79%) DSL
16 10 (0.52%) IPv4
17 9 (0.47%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (7.60%) PostgreSQL
2 138 (7.23%) NoSQL
3 94 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
4 89 (4.66%) MongoDB
5 66 (3.46%) DynamoDB
6 64 (3.35%) SQL Server
7 59 (3.09%) Relational Database
8 52 (2.72%) Data Lake
9 51 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
10 46 (2.41%) Metadata
11 40 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
12 32 (1.68%) MySQL
13 29 (1.52%) BigQuery
13 29 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
13 29 (1.52%) Redis
14 25 (1.31%) Power BI
15 24 (1.26%) Delta Lake
16 21 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
16 21 (1.10%) RDBMS
17 20 (1.05%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 266 (13.93%) GitLab
2 248 (12.99%) Git
3 235 (12.31%) Jenkins
4 45 (2.36%) CircleCI
5 38 (1.99%) JIRA
6 37 (1.94%) Cucumber
7 34 (1.78%) Bitbucket
8 25 (1.31%) TeamCity
9 20 (1.05%) Jaeger
10 16 (0.84%) SonarQube
11 14 (0.73%) Selenium
12 13 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 12 (0.63%) MLflow
13 12 (0.63%) Subversion
14 10 (0.52%) Maven
14 10 (0.52%) NUnit
15 9 (0.47%) JMeter
15 9 (0.47%) Vite
16 8 (0.42%) Claude Code
17 7 (0.37%) Artifactory
General
1 457 (23.94%) Social Skills
2 386 (20.22%) Finance
3 133 (6.97%) Public Sector
4 132 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
5 110 (5.76%) Banking
6 97 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (3.14%) Law
8 59 (3.09%) Retail
9 44 (2.30%) Games
10 39 (2.04%) Telecoms
11 30 (1.57%) Manufacturing
12 27 (1.41%) Aerospace
13 24 (1.26%) Legal
14 21 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
15 20 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
16 16 (0.84%) Advertising
16 16 (0.84%) Financial Institution
16 16 (0.84%) Marketing
17 15 (0.79%) Billing
18 11 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 435 (22.79%) Senior
2 322 (16.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 278 (14.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 270 (14.14%) Lead
5 209 (10.95%) Platform Engineer
6 193 (10.11%) Architect
7 181 (9.48%) Azure Engineer
8 173 (9.06%) Developer
9 144 (7.54%) AWS Engineer
10 120 (6.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 101 (5.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 99 (5.19%) Data Engineer
13 98 (5.13%) Software Engineer
14 86 (4.50%) Security Engineer
15 78 (4.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 73 (3.82%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 69 (3.61%) Principal Engineer
18 64 (3.35%) Senior DevOps
19 61 (3.20%) Senior Developer
20 59 (3.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (7.70%) React
2 136 (7.12%) Kafka
3 128 (6.71%) .NET
4 127 (6.65%) REST
5 126 (6.60%) Node.js
6 104 (5.45%) RESTful
7 92 (4.82%) Spring
8 88 (4.61%) Spring Boot
9 85 (4.45%) YAML
10 76 (3.98%) AWS CDK
11 75 (3.93%) Elastic Stack
12 64 (3.35%) PySpark
13 63 (3.30%) ARM Templates
14 54 (2.83%) RabbitMQ
15 53 (2.78%) OAuth
16 45 (2.36%) Next.js
17 44 (2.30%) AngularJS
18 43 (2.25%) OpenTelemetry
19 40 (2.10%) JSON
20 36 (1.89%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 525 (27.50%) Cloud Native
2 174 (9.11%) Distributed Systems
3 102 (5.34%) Hybrid Cloud
4 91 (4.77%) Public Cloud
5 67 (3.51%) Data Centre
6 66 (3.46%) Onboarding
6 66 (3.46%) Product Ownership
7 62 (3.25%) Security Posture
8 55 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
9 48 (2.51%) Video\Live Streaming
10 40 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
11 36 (1.89%) Low-Code
12 29 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
12 29 (1.52%) PKI
13 27 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
14 26 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
14 26 (1.36%) Management Information System
15 24 (1.26%) Blockchain
16 23 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
17 22 (1.15%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 355 (18.60%) Linux
2 183 (9.59%) Windows
3 86 (4.50%) Windows Server
4 50 (2.62%) Unix
5 46 (2.41%) Ubuntu
6 40 (2.10%) CentOS
7 29 (1.52%) VMS
8 27 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (0.79%) Android
10 14 (0.73%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.37%) Debian
13 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.052%) AIX
15 1 (0.052%) Rocky
15 1 (0.052%) SUSE
15 1 (0.052%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,352 (70.82%) CI/CD
2 1,093 (57.26%) DevOps
3 536 (28.08%) Agile
4 532 (27.87%) Observability
5 525 (27.50%) Containerisation
6 426 (22.32%) Platform Engineering
7 407 (21.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 405 (21.22%) Mentoring
9 388 (20.32%) AI
10 345 (18.07%) Software Engineering
11 331 (17.34%) Test Automation
12 317 (16.61%) Microservices
13 291 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
14 269 (14.09%) Cloud Security
15 266 (13.93%) Technical Leadership
16 251 (13.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 230 (12.05%) Analytics
18 213 (11.16%) Roadmaps
19 206 (10.79%) DevSecOps
20 187 (9.80%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 870 (45.57%) Python
2 344 (18.02%) Bash
3 300 (15.72%) PowerShell
3 300 (15.72%) SQL
4 279 (14.61%) Java
5 184 (9.64%) Go
6 183 (9.59%) TypeScript
7 181 (9.48%) Bicep
7 181 (9.48%) JavaScript
8 143 (7.49%) C#
9 30 (1.57%) Rust
10 26 (1.36%) C++
11 25 (1.31%) Scala
12 22 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
13 21 (1.10%) PHP
14 19 (1.00%) Groovy
14 19 (1.00%) Ruby
15 11 (0.58%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.52%) C
17 9 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 395 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 250 (13.10%) SC Cleared
3 165 (8.64%) Degree
4 144 (7.54%) AWS Certification
5 107 (5.61%) Azure Certification
6 104 (5.45%) DV Cleared
7 65 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 52 (2.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 48 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 36 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
11 27 (1.41%) OSCP
12 21 (1.10%) CCNP
12 21 (1.10%) CISSP
13 18 (0.94%) Master's Degree
14 16 (0.84%) CCNA
14 16 (0.84%) DBS Check
15 13 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 13 (0.68%) RHCSA
16 10 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
17 9 (0.47%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (4.98%) QA
2 82 (4.30%) Data Quality
3 60 (3.14%) GDPR
4 52 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (2.41%) SOC 2
6 36 (1.89%) NIST
7 32 (1.68%) Accessibility
8 31 (1.62%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.89%) WCAG
10 15 (0.79%) SLA
11 13 (0.68%) NCSC
12 11 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.52%) GRC
14 5 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.10%) Government Security Classifications
16 2 (0.10%) IFRS
16 2 (0.10%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.10%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.10%) Solvency II
System Software
1 510 (26.72%) Docker
2 119 (6.23%) Active Directory
3 107 (5.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (2.20%) vSphere
5 39 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (1.10%) VMware NSX
7 19 (1.00%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.42%) Squid
11 7 (0.37%) 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 (0.052%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,328 (69.57%) Terraform
2 737 (38.61%) Kubernetes
3 402 (21.06%) Ansible
4 229 (12.00%) Grafana
5 213 (11.16%) Prometheus
6 73 (3.82%) Argo
7 44 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
8 43 (2.25%) Puppet
9 41 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
10 29 (1.52%) Progress Chef
11 27 (1.41%) Packer
12 25 (1.31%) Kustomize
13 21 (1.10%) Istio
13 21 (1.10%) Nagios
14 17 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 15 (0.79%) ZABBIX
16 14 (0.73%) vCenter Server
17 13 (0.68%) Rancher
18 12 (0.63%) Cilium
19 11 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 357 (18.70%) Microsoft
2 142 (7.44%) VMware
3 109 (5.71%) Google
4 78 (4.09%) Databricks
5 75 (3.93%) Red Hat
6 62 (3.25%) Splunk
7 58 (3.04%) Cisco
8 48 (2.51%) Palo Alto
9 36 (1.89%) Oracle
10 29 (1.52%) Fortinet
10 29 (1.52%) OpenAI
11 26 (1.36%) Zscaler
12 23 (1.20%) Dynatrace
13 17 (0.89%) CrowdStrike
14 13 (0.68%) Salesforce
15 12 (0.63%) F5
15 12 (0.63%) Foundry
16 11 (0.58%) CheckPoint
16 11 (0.58%) ServiceNow
17 10 (0.52%) Atlassian