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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 160 154
Rank change year-on-year +85 -6 -56
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,378 1,021 1,412
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.22% 2.03% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.02% 2.28% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,582 717 1,000
10th Percentile £48,959 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,500 £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 £105,000 £106,250 £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 78,635 44,750 66,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.41% 89.19% 80.88%
Number of salaries quoted 54,192 25,377 43,044
10th Percentile £30,780 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +81 2,087 £77,500 - 1,264
UK excluding London +112 1,291 £70,000 - 760
London +29 920 £90,000 +2.86% 687
Work from Home +71 825 £72,500 -6.45% 630
North of England +93 447 £70,000 - 238
South East +62 251 £67,500 -12.90% 181
North West +88 249 £72,500 +3.57% 135
South West +47 224 £75,000 - 122
Midlands +43 145 £77,500 +19.23% 71
Yorkshire +19 106 £72,500 +3.57% 61
North East +12 92 £57,000 -21.38% 42
West Midlands +27 90 £81,887 +25.98% 40
Wales -7 67 £70,000 +16.67% 21
Northern Ireland -22 59 £71,991 +67.07% 22
East of England +4 56 £70,000 +7.69% 42
East Midlands +17 55 £67,500 +3.85% 31
Scotland +21 53 £72,500 +7.41% 67

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 60 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
2 59 (2.48%) Apache Spark
3 55 (2.31%) Apache
4 29 (1.22%) Confluence
4 29 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.55%) Jupyter
6 9 (0.38%) IIS
6 9 (0.38%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.21%) CMS
8 4 (0.17%) Camunda
8 4 (0.17%) nginx
9 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.13%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.13%) WordPress
10 2 (0.084%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.042%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.042%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.042%) JBoss
11 1 (0.042%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 21 (0.88%) PlantUML
2 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.084%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.084%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.084%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.042%) Maya
5 1 (0.042%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.13%) Summit
4 2 (0.084%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,354 (56.94%) AWS
2 1,286 (54.08%) Azure
3 455 (19.13%) GCP
4 417 (17.54%) GitHub
5 381 (16.02%) Serverless
6 378 (15.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 319 (13.41%) Azure DevOps
8 227 (9.55%) GitHub Actions
9 212 (8.92%) AWS Lambda
10 205 (8.62%) Amazon S3
11 181 (7.61%) PaaS
12 147 (6.18%) Amazon EC2
13 143 (6.01%) Amazon EKS
14 141 (5.93%) Amazon ECS
15 136 (5.72%) SaaS
16 127 (5.34%) Azure AKS
16 127 (5.34%) IaaS
17 126 (5.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 122 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
19 111 (4.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 174 (7.32%) Firewall
2 115 (4.84%) DNS
2 115 (4.84%) WAN
3 110 (4.63%) Network Security
4 107 (4.50%) VPN
5 96 (4.04%) LAN
6 74 (3.11%) TCP/IP
7 52 (2.19%) BGP
8 50 (2.10%) Broadband
9 41 (1.72%) DHCP
10 36 (1.51%) OSPF
11 33 (1.39%) VLAN
12 27 (1.14%) VXLAN
13 26 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
14 24 (1.01%) SD-WAN
15 16 (0.67%) HTTP
16 15 (0.63%) Wireless
17 14 (0.59%) SAN
18 13 (0.55%) Ethernet VPN
19 11 (0.46%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
2 148 (6.22%) NoSQL
3 105 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
4 100 (4.21%) MongoDB
5 84 (3.53%) SQL Server
6 80 (3.36%) DynamoDB
7 63 (2.65%) Data Lake
8 62 (2.61%) MySQL
9 55 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
10 52 (2.19%) Relational Database
11 49 (2.06%) Metadata
12 43 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
13 35 (1.47%) Redis
14 32 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
15 30 (1.26%) Delta Lake
16 29 (1.22%) Big Data
17 27 (1.14%) BigQuery
18 24 (1.01%) Power BI
19 22 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
20 21 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 315 (13.25%) Git
2 287 (12.07%) GitLab
3 256 (10.77%) Jenkins
4 52 (2.19%) JIRA
5 44 (1.85%) Cucumber
6 33 (1.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 31 (1.30%) Bitbucket
7 31 (1.30%) CircleCI
8 27 (1.14%) TeamCity
9 21 (0.88%) Selenium
10 18 (0.76%) Claude Code
11 16 (0.67%) SonarQube
12 15 (0.63%) Cypress.io
12 15 (0.63%) NUnit
13 12 (0.50%) MLflow
14 11 (0.46%) Maven
14 11 (0.46%) Subversion
15 9 (0.38%) JMeter
15 9 (0.38%) MSI
15 9 (0.38%) Snyk
General
1 655 (27.54%) Social Skills
2 543 (22.83%) Finance
3 220 (9.25%) Public Sector
4 185 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
5 142 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 127 (5.34%) Banking
7 120 (5.05%) Law
8 72 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
9 64 (2.69%) Retail
10 49 (2.06%) Aerospace
11 46 (1.93%) Games
12 45 (1.89%) Marketing
13 39 (1.64%) Legal
14 31 (1.30%) Manufacturing
15 30 (1.26%) Telecoms
16 21 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (0.76%) Aviation
18 17 (0.71%) Advertising
18 17 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
19 15 (0.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 546 (22.96%) Senior
2 408 (17.16%) DevOps Engineer
3 347 (14.59%) Lead
4 318 (13.37%) Architect
5 285 (11.98%) Cloud Engineer
6 235 (9.88%) Platform Engineer
7 205 (8.62%) Developer
8 185 (7.78%) Azure Engineer
9 148 (6.22%) Software Engineer
10 142 (5.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 141 (5.93%) AWS Engineer
12 123 (5.17%) Data Engineer
13 118 (4.96%) Principal Engineer
14 109 (4.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 93 (3.91%) Security Engineer
16 85 (3.57%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 79 (3.32%) Senior DevOps
18 75 (3.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 75 (3.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 70 (2.94%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (8.16%) React
2 178 (7.49%) .NET
2 178 (7.49%) Kafka
3 155 (6.52%) REST
4 154 (6.48%) Node.js
5 148 (6.22%) Spring
6 146 (6.14%) Spring Boot
7 137 (5.76%) RESTful
8 93 (3.91%) AWS CDK
9 76 (3.20%) PySpark
10 75 (3.15%) YAML
11 69 (2.90%) ARM Templates
12 61 (2.57%) AngularJS
13 59 (2.48%) Next.js
14 57 (2.40%) RabbitMQ
15 52 (2.19%) Elastic Stack
16 50 (2.10%) OAuth
17 44 (1.85%) ASP.NET
18 41 (1.72%) ASP.NET Core
18 41 (1.72%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 697 (29.31%) Cloud Native
2 251 (10.56%) Distributed Systems
3 124 (5.21%) Hybrid Cloud
4 119 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 119 (5.00%) Public Cloud
5 89 (3.74%) Data Centre
6 85 (3.57%) Product Ownership
7 68 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
8 67 (2.82%) Security Posture
9 61 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
10 53 (2.23%) Enterprise Cloud
11 45 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
12 41 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
13 39 (1.64%) Virtual Team
14 37 (1.56%) Management Information System
15 36 (1.51%) Low-Code
15 36 (1.51%) Private Cloud
16 33 (1.39%) e-Learning
17 31 (1.30%) AI Agents
17 31 (1.30%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 398 (16.74%) Linux
2 223 (9.38%) Windows
3 99 (4.16%) Windows Server
4 59 (2.48%) CentOS
5 45 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (1.68%) Unix
7 39 (1.64%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.93%) VMS
9 5 (0.21%) Android
9 5 (0.21%) Debian
9 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.17%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.13%) AIX
12 2 (0.084%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.084%) Solaris
13 1 (0.042%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.042%) Rocky
13 1 (0.042%) SUSE
13 1 (0.042%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,675 (70.44%) CI/CD
2 1,311 (55.13%) DevOps
3 701 (29.48%) Containerisation
4 658 (27.67%) Agile
5 657 (27.63%) Observability
6 555 (23.34%) Platform Engineering
7 537 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 514 (21.61%) Mentoring
9 505 (21.24%) AI
10 496 (20.86%) Software Engineering
11 416 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
12 411 (17.28%) Microservices
13 405 (17.03%) Technical Leadership
14 381 (16.02%) Test Automation
15 355 (14.93%) Cloud Security
16 334 (14.05%) Roadmaps
17 320 (13.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 268 (11.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 258 (10.85%) Event-Driven
20 255 (10.72%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,032 (43.40%) Python
2 372 (15.64%) Java
3 366 (15.39%) Bash
4 364 (15.31%) SQL
5 336 (14.13%) PowerShell
6 226 (9.50%) Bicep
7 216 (9.08%) TypeScript
8 195 (8.20%) JavaScript
9 184 (7.74%) C#
10 161 (6.77%) Go
11 47 (1.98%) Ruby
12 39 (1.64%) Scala
13 36 (1.51%) PHP
14 25 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
14 25 (1.05%) Rust
15 23 (0.97%) C++
15 23 (0.97%) Groovy
16 21 (0.88%) Perl
17 13 (0.55%) Shell Script
18 11 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 569 (23.93%) Security Cleared
2 361 (15.18%) SC Cleared
3 203 (8.54%) Degree
4 188 (7.91%) DV Cleared
5 186 (7.82%) AWS Certification
6 145 (6.10%) Azure Certification
7 88 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 84 (3.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 57 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 52 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
11 36 (1.51%) CCNP
12 32 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
13 30 (1.26%) Master's Degree
14 23 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
15 21 (0.88%) CISSP
16 19 (0.80%) OSCP
17 18 (0.76%) CCNA
18 15 (0.63%) DBS Check
18 15 (0.63%) SnowPro
19 14 (0.59%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (5.47%) QA
2 105 (4.42%) Data Quality
3 73 (3.07%) GDPR
4 70 (2.94%) GRC
5 58 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 49 (2.06%) Accessibility
7 38 (1.60%) NIST
8 34 (1.43%) SOC 2
9 26 (1.09%) NCSC
9 26 (1.09%) PCI DSS
10 25 (1.05%) WCAG
11 18 (0.76%) SLA
12 10 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.29%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.084%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.084%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.084%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.084%) Solvency II
System Software
1 625 (26.28%) Docker
2 132 (5.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 130 (5.47%) Active Directory
4 45 (1.89%) vSphere
5 33 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (1.01%) Hyper-V
7 21 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (0.76%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.38%) KVM
11 8 (0.34%) Squid
11 8 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.29%) Firmware
13 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.17%) iptables
15 3 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 2 (0.084%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 1,603 (67.41%) Terraform
2 883 (37.13%) Kubernetes
3 484 (20.35%) Ansible
4 240 (10.09%) Grafana
5 175 (7.36%) Prometheus
6 70 (2.94%) Argo
7 57 (2.40%) Puppet
8 36 (1.51%) Progress Chef
9 35 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
10 34 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
11 29 (1.22%) Istio
12 27 (1.14%) Packer
13 22 (0.93%) Nagios
14 16 (0.67%) FortiGate
14 16 (0.67%) vCenter Server
15 14 (0.59%) Cilium
16 12 (0.50%) Kustomize
16 12 (0.50%) ZABBIX
17 11 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 11 (0.46%) Rancher
Vendors
1 523 (21.99%) Microsoft
2 160 (6.73%) VMware
3 139 (5.85%) Google
4 103 (4.33%) Databricks
5 90 (3.78%) Red Hat
6 87 (3.66%) Splunk
7 71 (2.99%) Cisco
8 68 (2.86%) Oracle
9 47 (1.98%) Palo Alto
10 42 (1.77%) OpenAI
11 39 (1.64%) Fortinet
12 38 (1.60%) Dynatrace
13 25 (1.05%) Zscaler
14 23 (0.97%) ServiceNow
15 17 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
16 16 (0.67%) SAP
17 14 (0.59%) Atlassian
18 13 (0.55%) F5
18 13 (0.55%) Rapid7
19 12 (0.50%) ScienceLogic