Infrastructure as Code Jobs

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 168 101
Rank change year-on-year -5 -67 -10
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 911 1,712 3,442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.75% 1.74% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 2.02% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 657 1,327 2,083
10th Percentile £47,500 £49,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £71,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.15% -5.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £94,375
90th Percentile £114,250 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +7.69% -6.40% +15.75%

All Process and 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 48,641 84,574 99,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.26% 86.00% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,531 59,798 58,397
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code.

Salary trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Top 18 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 April 2025. 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 -1 838 £77,500 +6.90% 971
London +27 428 £90,000 +1.98% 461
UK excluding London -33 425 £70,000 +7.69% 547
Work from Home +4 361 £75,000 +6.27% 652
North of England -36 168 £68,000 +8.31% 240
North West -48 101 £72,500 +11.54% 162
South East +47 97 £75,000 +11.11% 104
South West +8 60 £71,991 -4.01% 69
Yorkshire +26 57 £60,232 +0.39% 64
Midlands -39 43 £70,000 +7.69% 57
Scotland +76 37 £72,750 +6.59% 27
West Midlands -17 32 £70,000 +1.82% 37
East of England +22 15 £67,500 - 27
East Midlands +9 11 £65,000 +13.04% 19
North East +17 10 £60,250 -4.03% 18
Wales +26 5 £63,250 +1.20% 11
Northern Ireland +31 4 - - 14
Isle of Man +14 2 £34,500 -

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (2.63%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.87%) Confluence
3 15 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.43%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.10%) Apache
6 9 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.55%) NetWeaver
7 5 (0.55%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.44%) IBM Domino
8 4 (0.44%) IIS
8 4 (0.44%) Luigi
8 4 (0.44%) nginx
8 4 (0.44%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.33%) CMS
9 3 (0.33%) WordPress
10 2 (0.22%) CICS
10 2 (0.22%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Liferay
Applications
1 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.22%) Simulink
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.55%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.33%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.22%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.11%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 515 (56.53%) Azure
2 491 (53.90%) AWS
3 227 (24.92%) GCP
4 140 (15.37%) Serverless
5 137 (15.04%) Azure DevOps
6 131 (14.38%) GitHub
7 121 (13.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 95 (10.43%) SaaS
9 94 (10.32%) AWS Lambda
10 89 (9.77%) PaaS
11 75 (8.23%) Amazon S3
12 63 (6.92%) Amazon EKS
13 60 (6.59%) Amazon EC2
14 59 (6.48%) Entra ID
15 55 (6.04%) GitHub Actions
16 53 (5.82%) IaaS
17 49 (5.38%) Azure Monitor
18 47 (5.16%) Datadog
19 43 (4.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 40 (4.39%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 71 (7.79%) Firewall
2 49 (5.38%) DNS
3 45 (4.94%) VPN
4 39 (4.28%) Network Security
5 23 (2.52%) WAN
6 15 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (1.43%) TCP/IP
8 12 (1.32%) 5G
8 12 (1.32%) LAN
8 12 (1.32%) SD-WAN
9 11 (1.21%) Bluetooth
9 11 (1.21%) LTE
10 10 (1.10%) DHCP
10 10 (1.10%) SAN
11 7 (0.77%) IPsec
12 6 (0.66%) Internet
12 6 (0.66%) IPv4
12 6 (0.66%) NAS
12 6 (0.66%) VLAN
13 5 (0.55%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 47 (5.16%) NoSQL
3 36 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (3.73%) DynamoDB
5 29 (3.18%) MySQL
6 24 (2.63%) Data Lake
7 23 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 22 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
9 19 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
10 18 (1.98%) Big Data
10 18 (1.98%) BigQuery
11 15 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
11 15 (1.65%) MongoDB
12 12 (1.32%) Power BI
12 12 (1.32%) Relational Database
13 10 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
13 10 (1.10%) Hadoop
14 9 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
15 8 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 150 (16.47%) Jenkins
2 119 (13.06%) Git
3 106 (11.64%) GitLab
4 36 (3.95%) SonarQube
5 33 (3.62%) Sonatype Nexus
6 31 (3.40%) Maven
7 28 (3.07%) JIRA
7 28 (3.07%) JUnit
8 26 (2.85%) CircleCI
9 20 (2.20%) Cucumber
10 19 (2.09%) TeamCity
11 15 (1.65%) IntelliJ
12 14 (1.54%) Bitbucket
12 14 (1.54%) Mockito
13 8 (0.88%) Artifactory
13 8 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
15 3 (0.33%) MLflow
15 3 (0.33%) Subversion
15 3 (0.33%) Vagrant
General
1 274 (30.08%) Social Skills
2 254 (27.88%) Finance
3 92 (10.10%) Banking
4 43 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 43 (4.72%) Law
5 38 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (3.95%) Public Sector
7 29 (3.18%) Telecoms
8 20 (2.20%) Legal
9 17 (1.87%) Advertising
10 15 (1.65%) Electronics
11 14 (1.54%) Games
11 14 (1.54%) Retail
12 11 (1.21%) Investment Banking
13 10 (1.10%) Back Office
13 10 (1.10%) Front Office
13 10 (1.10%) Local Government
13 10 (1.10%) Marketing
14 9 (0.99%) Financial Institution
15 8 (0.88%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 194 (21.30%) Senior
2 158 (17.34%) Cloud Engineer
3 157 (17.23%) DevOps Engineer
4 135 (14.82%) Lead
5 104 (11.42%) Platform Engineer
6 101 (11.09%) Architect
7 99 (10.87%) Azure Engineer
8 81 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 80 (8.78%) Software Engineer
10 60 (6.59%) Developer
11 57 (6.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 56 (6.15%) AWS Engineer
13 49 (5.38%) Cloud Architect
14 46 (5.05%) Senior DevOps
15 44 (4.83%) AWS DevOps
16 40 (4.39%) Data Engineer
17 34 (3.73%) Python Engineer
18 33 (3.62%) Security Engineer
19 32 (3.51%) AWS Architect
19 32 (3.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (7.03%) ARM Templates
2 62 (6.81%) .NET
3 56 (6.15%) REST
4 50 (5.49%) Node.js
4 50 (5.49%) React
5 47 (5.16%) Elastic Stack
6 45 (4.94%) Kafka
6 45 (4.94%) Spring
6 45 (4.94%) Spring Boot
7 33 (3.62%) RESTful
8 25 (2.74%) AWS CDK
9 23 (2.52%) YAML
10 18 (1.98%) AngularJS
11 16 (1.76%) GraphQL
11 16 (1.76%) Web Services
12 14 (1.54%) .NET Core
12 14 (1.54%) ActiveMQ
12 14 (1.54%) Hibernate
12 14 (1.54%) JMS
13 13 (1.43%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 128 (14.05%) Cloud Native
2 103 (11.31%) Public Cloud
3 71 (7.79%) Management Information System
4 57 (6.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 41 (4.50%) Product Ownership
6 36 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
7 33 (3.62%) Security Posture
8 25 (2.74%) Data Centre
9 22 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (1.98%) IoT
11 17 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.87%) PKI
12 16 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (1.65%) Hedge funds
13 15 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
13 15 (1.65%) Private Cloud
14 14 (1.54%) Credit Derivative
14 14 (1.54%) Onboarding
15 11 (1.21%) NB-IoT
16 10 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 227 (24.92%) Linux
2 130 (14.27%) Windows
3 60 (6.59%) Windows Server
4 28 (3.07%) Unix
5 27 (2.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (1.65%) VMS
7 13 (1.43%) CentOS
8 8 (0.88%) Android
8 8 (0.88%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.55%) AIX
10 4 (0.44%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.44%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.33%) Debian
11 3 (0.33%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.33%) zOS
12 2 (0.22%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 622 (68.28%) CI/CD
2 577 (63.34%) DevOps
3 259 (28.43%) Containerisation
4 213 (23.38%) Agile
5 165 (18.11%) Software Engineering
6 164 (18.00%) Platform Engineering
7 148 (16.25%) Analytics
8 145 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
9 139 (15.26%) Cloud Security
10 137 (15.04%) Mentoring
11 136 (14.93%) Microservices
12 114 (12.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 105 (11.53%) Deployment Automation
14 103 (11.31%) Roadmaps
15 97 (10.65%) Continuous Improvement
16 88 (9.66%) High Availability
17 82 (9.00%) Observability
18 80 (8.78%) Continuous Integration
18 80 (8.78%) Test Automation
19 78 (8.56%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 418 (45.88%) Python
2 203 (22.28%) PowerShell
3 156 (17.12%) Java
4 152 (16.68%) Bash
5 126 (13.83%) SQL
6 93 (10.21%) Bicep
7 75 (8.23%) JavaScript
8 71 (7.79%) Go
9 61 (6.70%) TypeScript
10 49 (5.38%) C#
11 33 (3.62%) Ruby
12 21 (2.31%) Scala
13 17 (1.87%) C++
14 10 (1.10%) C
14 10 (1.10%) R
15 8 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.88%) PHP
15 8 (0.88%) Rust
16 7 (0.77%) Perl
16 7 (0.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 126 (13.83%) Degree
2 91 (9.99%) Security Cleared
3 74 (8.12%) Azure Certification
4 67 (7.35%) AWS Certification
5 60 (6.59%) SC Cleared
6 54 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (3.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (3.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 28 (3.07%) Master's Degree
9 27 (2.96%) DV Cleared
10 14 (1.54%) CISSP
11 12 (1.32%) Network+ Certification
12 11 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (1.21%) CompTIA Security+
13 7 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 7 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 7 (0.77%) CISM
14 6 (0.66%) CCSP
15 5 (0.55%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (7.57%) GDPR
2 34 (3.73%) QA
3 33 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 32 (3.51%) HIPAA
5 31 (3.40%) NIST
6 22 (2.41%) PCI DSS
7 17 (1.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 15 (1.65%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.88%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.44%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.22%) SLA
12 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.11%) Basel III
12 1 (0.11%) IFRS
12 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.11%) NCSC
12 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 313 (34.36%) Docker
2 54 (5.93%) Active Directory
3 51 (5.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 48 (5.27%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (2.63%) vSphere
6 15 (1.65%) Hyper-V
6 15 (1.65%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (1.21%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.33%) LXC
9 2 (0.22%) HDFS
9 2 (0.22%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.11%) GPFS
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 662 (72.67%) Terraform
2 415 (45.55%) Kubernetes
3 279 (30.63%) Ansible
4 88 (9.66%) Grafana
5 82 (9.00%) Prometheus
6 70 (7.68%) Puppet
7 57 (6.26%) Progress Chef
8 27 (2.96%) Istio
9 22 (2.41%) Podman
10 21 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
11 16 (1.76%) Argo
12 12 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
13 11 (1.21%) CASB
14 9 (0.99%) SCCM
15 6 (0.66%) Consul
15 6 (0.66%) Kustomize
15 6 (0.66%) linkerd
15 6 (0.66%) Packer
15 6 (0.66%) QRadar
15 6 (0.66%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 174 (19.10%) Microsoft
2 76 (8.34%) Google
3 67 (7.35%) VMware
4 41 (4.50%) Databricks
5 31 (3.40%) Cisco
5 31 (3.40%) IBM
6 27 (2.96%) Splunk
7 22 (2.41%) Red Hat
8 19 (2.09%) Oracle
9 15 (1.65%) Atlassian
9 15 (1.65%) Palo Alto
10 12 (1.32%) SAP
10 12 (1.32%) SolarWinds
11 10 (1.10%) Citrix
12 9 (0.99%) Hitachi
13 8 (0.88%) Fortinet
13 8 (0.88%) ServiceNow
14 6 (0.66%) Dell
14 6 (0.66%) Meraki
15 5 (0.55%) HP