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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 157 163
Rank change year-on-year +79 +6 -61
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,147 1,026 1,667
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.17% 2.08% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 2.31% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,448 699 1,264
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,250 £62,500 £57,500
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 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £109,000 £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 72,820 44,444 83,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.76% 90.26% 82.20%
Number of salaries quoted 50,274 24,878 58,156
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
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 13 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 13 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 +76 1,916 £77,500 - 952
UK excluding London +107 1,066 £70,000 - 622
London +36 903 £87,500 -2.78% 501
Work from Home +83 758 £70,079 -8.31% 472
North of England +82 370 £68,750 -1.79% 172
South East +57 227 £70,000 -9.68% 139
North West +68 223 £73,401 +1.24% 106
South West +31 178 £75,000 +7.14% 168
Midlands +34 129 £75,000 +15.38% 59
Yorkshire +3 92 £66,538 -4.95% 40
West Midlands +13 76 £80,000 +23.08% 37
North East -5 55 £55,000 -15.38% 26
East of England +7 53 £60,100 -3.84% 18
East Midlands +5 53 £67,500 +3.85% 22
Wales -10 46 £70,079 +24.58% 17
Scotland +9 38 £65,000 -13.04% 37
Northern Ireland -28 32 £73,801 +71.27% 18

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 55 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
2 47 (2.19%) Apache
3 43 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 37 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 26 (1.21%) Confluence
6 12 (0.56%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.47%) IIS
7 10 (0.47%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.23%) CMS
10 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.14%) WordPress
12 2 (0.093%) Camunda
12 2 (0.093%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.047%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.047%) Documentum
13 1 (0.047%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.047%) nginx
13 1 (0.047%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 20 (0.93%) PlantUML
2 10 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.19%) Weka
4 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.093%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.093%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.093%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.047%) Maya
6 1 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.047%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.14%) Summit
4 2 (0.093%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.093%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.047%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 1,215 (56.59%) AWS
2 1,162 (54.12%) Azure
3 397 (18.49%) GitHub
4 378 (17.61%) GCP
5 366 (17.05%) Serverless
6 335 (15.60%) AWS CloudFormation
7 323 (15.04%) Azure DevOps
8 229 (10.67%) GitHub Actions
9 200 (9.32%) AWS Lambda
10 193 (8.99%) Amazon S3
11 185 (8.62%) PaaS
12 149 (6.94%) Amazon EKS
13 136 (6.33%) IaaS
14 133 (6.19%) SaaS
15 132 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
16 124 (5.78%) Microsoft 365
17 123 (5.73%) Entra ID
18 121 (5.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 116 (5.40%) Azure AKS
20 115 (5.36%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 189 (8.80%) Firewall
2 116 (5.40%) DNS
3 113 (5.26%) VPN
4 96 (4.47%) Network Security
5 85 (3.96%) WAN
6 72 (3.35%) TCP/IP
7 64 (2.98%) Broadband
8 61 (2.84%) LAN
9 48 (2.24%) BGP
10 38 (1.77%) VLAN
11 34 (1.58%) DHCP
12 27 (1.26%) OSPF
13 24 (1.12%) HTTP
14 23 (1.07%) SD-WAN
14 23 (1.07%) Software-Defined Networking
15 21 (0.98%) VXLAN
16 15 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
17 13 (0.61%) DSL
18 11 (0.51%) Wireless
19 10 (0.47%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (7.36%) PostgreSQL
2 143 (6.66%) NoSQL
3 95 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
4 91 (4.24%) MongoDB
5 72 (3.35%) DynamoDB
6 71 (3.31%) SQL Server
7 57 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
7 57 (2.65%) Relational Database
8 55 (2.56%) Data Lake
9 52 (2.42%) Metadata
10 47 (2.19%) MySQL
11 38 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
12 33 (1.54%) Redis
13 31 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
14 26 (1.21%) Delta Lake
15 25 (1.16%) BigQuery
16 24 (1.12%) Power BI
17 23 (1.07%) Big Data
18 22 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
18 22 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 286 (13.32%) GitLab
2 285 (13.27%) Git
3 257 (11.97%) Jenkins
4 43 (2.00%) CircleCI
4 43 (2.00%) JIRA
5 41 (1.91%) Cucumber
6 34 (1.58%) Bitbucket
7 26 (1.21%) TeamCity
8 25 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 18 (0.84%) Selenium
10 17 (0.79%) SonarQube
11 16 (0.75%) Claude Code
12 15 (0.70%) Subversion
13 10 (0.47%) JMeter
13 10 (0.47%) Maven
13 10 (0.47%) MLflow
13 10 (0.47%) NUnit
14 9 (0.42%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.42%) Vite
15 8 (0.37%) Robot Framework
General
1 554 (25.80%) Social Skills
2 468 (21.80%) Finance
3 184 (8.57%) Public Sector
4 148 (6.89%) Analytical Skills
5 114 (5.31%) Banking
6 106 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 98 (4.56%) Law
8 67 (3.12%) Retail
9 43 (2.00%) Games
10 41 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
11 40 (1.86%) Telecoms
12 35 (1.63%) Aerospace
13 30 (1.40%) Manufacturing
14 28 (1.30%) Legal
15 24 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
16 22 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
17 21 (0.98%) Marketing
18 19 (0.88%) Advertising
19 17 (0.79%) Financial Institution
20 10 (0.47%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 500 (23.29%) Senior
2 367 (17.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 298 (13.88%) Lead
4 281 (13.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 263 (12.25%) Architect
6 224 (10.43%) Platform Engineer
7 191 (8.90%) Azure Engineer
8 188 (8.76%) Developer
9 139 (6.47%) AWS Engineer
10 135 (6.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 116 (5.40%) Software Engineer
12 106 (4.94%) Data Engineer
13 101 (4.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 90 (4.19%) Principal Engineer
14 90 (4.19%) Security Engineer
15 84 (3.91%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 80 (3.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 77 (3.59%) Senior DevOps
18 67 (3.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 66 (3.07%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (7.78%) React
2 151 (7.03%) .NET
2 151 (7.03%) Kafka
3 146 (6.80%) Node.js
4 142 (6.61%) REST
5 122 (5.68%) RESTful
6 119 (5.54%) Spring
6 119 (5.54%) Spring Boot
7 94 (4.38%) AWS CDK
8 83 (3.87%) YAML
9 70 (3.26%) ARM Templates
9 70 (3.26%) Elastic Stack
10 69 (3.21%) PySpark
11 59 (2.75%) RabbitMQ
12 53 (2.47%) OAuth
13 52 (2.42%) AngularJS
14 51 (2.38%) Next.js
15 42 (1.96%) JSON
16 39 (1.82%) FastAPI
17 36 (1.68%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 606 (28.23%) Cloud Native
2 208 (9.69%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (5.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 104 (4.84%) Public Cloud
5 97 (4.52%) Onboarding
6 80 (3.73%) Product Ownership
7 79 (3.68%) Data Centre
8 65 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
8 65 (3.03%) Security Posture
9 53 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
10 48 (2.24%) Video\Live Streaming
11 45 (2.10%) Enterprise Cloud
12 39 (1.82%) Low-Code
13 32 (1.49%) PKI
13 32 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
14 31 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
15 28 (1.30%) e-Learning
16 27 (1.26%) Management Information System
16 27 (1.26%) Private Cloud
17 26 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 376 (17.51%) Linux
2 212 (9.87%) Windows
3 91 (4.24%) Windows Server
4 54 (2.52%) CentOS
5 48 (2.24%) Ubuntu
6 38 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (1.77%) Unix
7 31 (1.44%) VMS
8 11 (0.51%) Android
9 10 (0.47%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.37%) Debian
10 8 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.093%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.093%) Rocky
13 1 (0.047%) AIX
13 1 (0.047%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.047%) SUSE
13 1 (0.047%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,510 (70.33%) CI/CD
2 1,205 (56.12%) DevOps
3 622 (28.97%) Containerisation
4 604 (28.13%) Agile
5 579 (26.97%) Observability
6 490 (22.82%) Platform Engineering
7 463 (21.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 458 (21.33%) Mentoring
9 441 (20.54%) AI
10 405 (18.86%) Software Engineering
11 366 (17.05%) Microservices
12 365 (17.00%) Test Automation
13 351 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
14 328 (15.28%) Technical Leadership
15 310 (14.44%) Cloud Security
16 289 (13.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 268 (12.48%) Roadmaps
18 242 (11.27%) Analytics
19 232 (10.81%) DevSecOps
20 226 (10.53%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 962 (44.81%) Python
2 368 (17.14%) Bash
3 336 (15.65%) SQL
4 335 (15.60%) Java
5 327 (15.23%) PowerShell
6 210 (9.78%) Bicep
7 198 (9.22%) JavaScript
8 197 (9.18%) TypeScript
9 183 (8.52%) Go
10 163 (7.59%) C#
11 42 (1.96%) Ruby
12 37 (1.72%) PHP
13 29 (1.35%) Rust
14 28 (1.30%) C++
15 26 (1.21%) Scala
16 25 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
17 20 (0.93%) Groovy
17 20 (0.93%) Perl
18 12 (0.56%) Kotlin
19 10 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 488 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 288 (13.41%) SC Cleared
3 178 (8.29%) Degree
4 151 (7.03%) AWS Certification
5 141 (6.57%) DV Cleared
6 120 (5.59%) Azure Certification
7 76 (3.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 71 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 54 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 44 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
11 27 (1.26%) CCNP
12 26 (1.21%) Master's Degree
13 25 (1.16%) OSCP
14 23 (1.07%) CISSP
15 18 (0.84%) CCNA
16 15 (0.70%) DBS Check
17 14 (0.65%) RHCSA
18 13 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
19 12 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
20 11 (0.51%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (5.31%) QA
2 94 (4.38%) Data Quality
3 64 (2.98%) GDPR
4 52 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 45 (2.10%) SOC 2
6 42 (1.96%) GRC
7 38 (1.77%) NIST
8 37 (1.72%) Accessibility
8 37 (1.72%) PCI DSS
9 22 (1.02%) WCAG
10 18 (0.84%) NCSC
11 12 (0.56%) SLA
12 11 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.093%) IFRS
16 2 (0.093%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.093%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.093%) Solvency II
System Software
1 562 (26.18%) Docker
2 128 (5.96%) Active Directory
3 126 (5.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (2.14%) vSphere
5 39 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (0.98%) VMware NSX
7 20 (0.93%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.37%) Squid
11 7 (0.33%) Firmware
11 7 (0.33%) KVM
12 6 (0.28%) iptables
12 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,472 (68.56%) Terraform
2 824 (38.38%) Kubernetes
3 443 (20.63%) Ansible
4 244 (11.36%) Grafana
5 202 (9.41%) Prometheus
6 70 (3.26%) Argo
7 53 (2.47%) Puppet
8 44 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
9 41 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
10 30 (1.40%) Progress Chef
11 29 (1.35%) Packer
12 25 (1.16%) Istio
13 22 (1.02%) Nagios
14 16 (0.75%) Rancher
14 16 (0.75%) vCenter Server
15 15 (0.70%) Kustomize
15 15 (0.70%) ZABBIX
16 14 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 13 (0.61%) FortiGate
18 12 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 433 (20.17%) Microsoft
2 160 (7.45%) VMware
3 109 (5.08%) Google
4 82 (3.82%) Databricks
5 80 (3.73%) Red Hat
6 73 (3.40%) Splunk
7 66 (3.07%) Cisco
8 51 (2.38%) Palo Alto
9 47 (2.19%) Oracle
10 34 (1.58%) Fortinet
10 34 (1.58%) OpenAI
11 27 (1.26%) Zscaler
12 25 (1.16%) Dynatrace
13 18 (0.84%) CrowdStrike
14 14 (0.65%) F5
14 14 (0.65%) Salesforce
15 12 (0.56%) ScienceLogic
15 12 (0.56%) ServiceNow
16 11 (0.51%) Okta
16 11 (0.51%) SolarWinds