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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 158 126
Rank change year-on-year +85 -32 -37
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,495 1,003 1,567
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.15% 2.05% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 2.31% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,603 707 977
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £45,300
25th Percentile £60,621 £61,125 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.04%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,239 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.34% +7.69% -3.70%

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 84,843 43,391 61,954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.02% 88.66% 81.33%
Number of salaries quoted 58,659 24,441 34,825
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,250
25th Percentile £41,969 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 2,175 £77,500 +3.33% 2,473
UK excluding London +106 1,369 £70,239 +0.34% 1,368
London +26 941 £90,000 +5.88% 1,315
Work from Home +48 803 £75,000 - 1,113
North of England +94 486 £70,000 - 416
North West +93 267 £72,500 +11.54% 239
South East +57 248 £67,500 -20.59% 269
South West +46 244 £75,000 - 217
Midlands +35 155 £75,000 +15.83% 155
North East +21 113 £59,000 -18.62% 65
Yorkshire -2 109 £73,750 +5.36% 113
West Midlands +2 96 £85,000 +36.55% 93
Wales -7 77 £70,000 +21.74% 43
Northern Ireland -31 62 £71,991 +67.07% 41
East Midlands +12 59 £67,500 +3.85% 62
East of England -4 56 £65,000 - 79
Scotland +14 53 £72,500 +3.57% 154

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 (2.40%) Apache
2 58 (2.32%) Apache Spark
3 55 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
4 34 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 30 (1.20%) Confluence
6 14 (0.56%) Jupyter
7 12 (0.48%) SharePoint
8 8 (0.32%) CMS
8 8 (0.32%) IIS
9 7 (0.28%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.24%) nginx
11 4 (0.16%) Camunda
12 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.12%) WordPress
13 2 (0.080%) Cloud Foundry
14 1 (0.040%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.040%) Documentum
14 1 (0.040%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 21 (0.84%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.080%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.080%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.040%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) Summit
4 2 (0.080%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.080%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.080%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.080%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.040%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1,401 (56.15%) AWS
2 1,354 (54.27%) Azure
3 501 (20.08%) GCP
4 457 (18.32%) GitHub
5 393 (15.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 386 (15.47%) Serverless
7 333 (13.35%) Azure DevOps
8 253 (10.14%) GitHub Actions
9 212 (8.50%) AWS Lambda
10 208 (8.34%) Amazon S3
11 180 (7.21%) PaaS
12 153 (6.13%) Amazon EKS
13 147 (5.89%) Amazon EC2
14 145 (5.81%) Amazon ECS
15 144 (5.77%) Azure AKS
16 140 (5.61%) SaaS
17 135 (5.41%) Entra ID
18 133 (5.33%) IaaS
19 129 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 129 (5.17%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 178 (7.13%) Firewall
2 135 (5.41%) DNS
3 132 (5.29%) VPN
4 120 (4.81%) WAN
5 115 (4.61%) Network Security
6 93 (3.73%) LAN
7 65 (2.61%) TCP/IP
8 52 (2.08%) BGP
8 52 (2.08%) DHCP
9 42 (1.68%) Broadband
10 39 (1.56%) OSPF
11 34 (1.36%) Internet
12 32 (1.28%) VLAN
13 28 (1.12%) VXLAN
14 27 (1.08%) Software-Defined Networking
15 26 (1.04%) SD-WAN
16 17 (0.68%) Wireless
17 15 (0.60%) Ethernet VPN
17 15 (0.60%) HTTP
17 15 (0.60%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (7.74%) PostgreSQL
2 162 (6.49%) NoSQL
3 116 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
4 105 (4.21%) MongoDB
5 89 (3.57%) SQL Server
6 78 (3.13%) DynamoDB
7 73 (2.93%) MySQL
8 69 (2.77%) Azure SQL Database
9 62 (2.48%) Data Lake
10 54 (2.16%) Redis
11 53 (2.12%) Metadata
12 51 (2.04%) Relational Database
13 44 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
14 35 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
15 31 (1.24%) Big Data
16 30 (1.20%) Delta Lake
17 29 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
18 26 (1.04%) Power BI
19 25 (1.00%) BigQuery
20 22 (0.88%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 366 (14.67%) Git
2 298 (11.94%) GitLab
3 270 (10.82%) Jenkins
4 60 (2.40%) JIRA
5 49 (1.96%) Cucumber
6 35 (1.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 24 (0.96%) Bitbucket
7 24 (0.96%) TeamCity
8 23 (0.92%) Claude Code
9 21 (0.84%) Selenium
10 20 (0.80%) CircleCI
11 19 (0.76%) SonarQube
12 14 (0.56%) Cypress.io
12 14 (0.56%) Subversion
13 12 (0.48%) Maven
13 12 (0.48%) Snyk
14 11 (0.44%) NUnit
15 10 (0.40%) Artifactory
16 9 (0.36%) MLflow
16 9 (0.36%) MSI
General
1 701 (28.10%) Social Skills
2 576 (23.09%) Finance
3 271 (10.86%) Public Sector
4 217 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 161 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 138 (5.53%) Banking
7 120 (4.81%) Law
8 74 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
9 68 (2.73%) Retail
10 62 (2.48%) Aerospace
11 42 (1.68%) Marketing
12 36 (1.44%) Legal
13 35 (1.40%) Games
14 29 (1.16%) Manufacturing
15 24 (0.96%) Telecoms
16 20 (0.80%) Financial Institution
17 17 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
18 16 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
18 16 (0.64%) Local Government
19 15 (0.60%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 589 (23.61%) Senior
2 458 (18.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 345 (13.83%) Architect
4 338 (13.55%) Lead
5 294 (11.78%) Cloud Engineer
6 258 (10.34%) Platform Engineer
7 208 (8.34%) Developer
8 201 (8.06%) Azure Engineer
9 178 (7.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 158 (6.33%) Software Engineer
11 149 (5.97%) AWS Engineer
12 133 (5.33%) Principal Engineer
13 127 (5.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 119 (4.77%) Data Engineer
15 98 (3.93%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 96 (3.85%) Security Engineer
17 78 (3.13%) Azure Platform Engineer
17 78 (3.13%) Senior Developer
18 76 (3.05%) Senior DevOps
19 73 (2.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,667 (66.81%) Terraform
2 205 (8.22%) React
3 203 (8.14%) Kafka
4 183 (7.33%) .NET
5 168 (6.73%) Spring
6 167 (6.69%) Spring Boot
7 160 (6.41%) Node.js
8 153 (6.13%) REST
9 149 (5.97%) RESTful
10 89 (3.57%) AWS CDK
11 77 (3.09%) PySpark
12 66 (2.65%) AngularJS
13 65 (2.61%) ARM Templates
14 60 (2.40%) Next.js
14 60 (2.40%) YAML
15 59 (2.36%) RabbitMQ
16 56 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
17 50 (2.00%) OAuth
18 46 (1.84%) LangChain
19 43 (1.72%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 753 (30.18%) Cloud Native
2 283 (11.34%) Distributed Systems
3 137 (5.49%) Hybrid Cloud
4 130 (5.21%) Public Cloud
5 129 (5.17%) Onboarding
6 94 (3.77%) Data Centre
7 84 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
8 77 (3.09%) Product Ownership
9 67 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
10 63 (2.53%) Security Posture
11 57 (2.28%) Enterprise Cloud
12 56 (2.24%) Linux Command Line
13 51 (2.04%) Virtual Team
14 49 (1.96%) Management Information System
15 48 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
16 44 (1.76%) AI Agents
16 44 (1.76%) Private Cloud
17 43 (1.72%) e-Learning
18 41 (1.64%) PKI
19 35 (1.40%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 442 (17.72%) Linux
2 222 (8.90%) Windows
3 100 (4.01%) Windows Server
4 61 (2.44%) CentOS
5 49 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 45 (1.80%) Unix
7 39 (1.56%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.88%) VMS
9 7 (0.28%) Debian
10 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.12%) AIX
11 3 (0.12%) Android
11 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.080%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.080%) Rocky
12 2 (0.080%) Solaris
13 1 (0.040%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.040%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.040%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,779 (71.30%) CI/CD
2 1,379 (55.27%) DevOps
3 743 (29.78%) Containerisation
4 716 (28.70%) Agile
5 696 (27.90%) Observability
6 626 (25.09%) Platform Engineering
7 570 (22.85%) Mentoring
8 562 (22.53%) AI
9 552 (22.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 529 (21.20%) Software Engineering
11 461 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
12 430 (17.23%) Microservices
13 418 (16.75%) Technical Leadership
14 416 (16.67%) Cloud Security
15 395 (15.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 392 (15.71%) Test Automation
17 363 (14.55%) Roadmaps
18 309 (12.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 291 (11.66%) Event-Driven
20 270 (10.82%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,074 (43.05%) Python
2 397 (15.91%) Java
3 387 (15.51%) Bash
4 381 (15.27%) SQL
5 357 (14.31%) PowerShell
6 244 (9.78%) Bicep
7 229 (9.18%) TypeScript
8 197 (7.90%) JavaScript
9 188 (7.54%) C#
10 156 (6.25%) Go
11 51 (2.04%) Shell Script
12 47 (1.88%) Ruby
13 41 (1.64%) Scala
14 36 (1.44%) Groovy
15 34 (1.36%) PHP
16 29 (1.16%) Rust
17 25 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
18 22 (0.88%) C++
19 20 (0.80%) Perl
20 13 (0.52%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 645 (25.85%) Security Cleared
2 408 (16.35%) SC Cleared
3 216 (8.66%) AWS Certification
4 211 (8.46%) DV Cleared
5 184 (7.37%) Degree
6 161 (6.45%) Azure Certification
7 95 (3.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 86 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 57 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
11 41 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
12 32 (1.28%) CCNP
13 29 (1.16%) Master's Degree
14 28 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
15 23 (0.92%) CISSP
16 22 (0.88%) CCNA
17 17 (0.68%) SnowPro
18 14 (0.56%) DBS Check
18 14 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 12 (0.48%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (4.97%) QA
2 105 (4.21%) Data Quality
3 72 (2.89%) GRC
4 65 (2.61%) GDPR
5 57 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (1.84%) Accessibility
7 34 (1.36%) NIST
8 30 (1.20%) NCSC
9 27 (1.08%) SOC 2
10 24 (0.96%) SLA
11 20 (0.80%) WCAG
12 19 (0.76%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.28%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.20%) ISO 20022
17 4 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 2 (0.080%) ISO 9001
19 2 (0.080%) Solvency II
System Software
1 678 (27.17%) Docker
2 138 (5.53%) Active Directory
3 131 (5.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (1.84%) vSphere
5 45 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
6 28 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
7 22 (0.88%) Hyper-V
8 17 (0.68%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.36%) KVM
9 9 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.32%) Firmware
10 8 (0.32%) Squid
10 8 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.12%) iptables
12 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.080%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 904 (36.23%) Kubernetes
2 501 (20.08%) Ansible
3 245 (9.82%) Grafana
4 180 (7.21%) Prometheus
5 75 (3.01%) Argo
6 69 (2.77%) Puppet
7 47 (1.88%) Progress Chef
8 41 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
9 37 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
10 35 (1.40%) Istio
11 29 (1.16%) Packer
12 24 (0.96%) FortiGate
12 24 (0.96%) Rancher
13 19 (0.76%) vCenter Server
14 16 (0.64%) Nagios
15 13 (0.52%) Cilium
15 13 (0.52%) Kustomize
15 13 (0.52%) logstash
16 12 (0.48%) linkerd
16 12 (0.48%) Podman
Vendors
1 614 (24.61%) Microsoft
2 181 (7.25%) Google
3 163 (6.53%) VMware
4 110 (4.41%) Databricks
5 87 (3.49%) Splunk
6 81 (3.25%) Red Hat
7 74 (2.97%) Cisco
7 74 (2.97%) Oracle
8 49 (1.96%) Dynatrace
9 42 (1.68%) OpenAI
10 39 (1.56%) Fortinet
11 38 (1.52%) Palo Alto
12 33 (1.32%) ServiceNow
13 26 (1.04%) Zscaler
14 15 (0.60%) Atlassian
14 15 (0.60%) Okta
14 15 (0.60%) SAP
15 13 (0.52%) F5
15 13 (0.52%) New Relic
15 13 (0.52%) SolarWinds