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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 155 124
Rank change year-on-year +80 -31 -37
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,545 1,017 1,493
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.15% 2.06% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 2.32% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,636 727 908
10th Percentile £48,750 £49,500 £43,651
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £91,250 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +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 86,578 43,908 59,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.25% 88.94% 82.23%
Number of salaries quoted 59,120 24,542 31,807
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,054 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £78,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.02% -10.48% -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 11 October 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 11 October 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 +78 2,200 £77,500 +3.33% 2,558
UK excluding London +99 1,399 £70,000 - 1,296
London +32 946 £90,000 +5.88% 1,384
Work from Home +55 813 £75,000 +0.67% 1,122
North of England +90 491 £69,305 -0.99% 403
North West +104 264 £70,400 +8.31% 223
South West +54 253 £75,000 +7.14% 178
South East +57 252 £67,500 -18.18% 243
Midlands +27 153 £75,000 +15.38% 140
North East +19 130 £60,000 -17.24% 71
Yorkshire -8 106 £67,750 -3.21% 112
West Midlands +3 100 £80,000 +23.55% 80
Wales -6 83 £70,000 +16.67% 40
East of England -19 61 £75,000 +15.38% 106
Northern Ireland -21 61 £71,991 +23.17% 33
Scotland +16 56 £72,500 +3.57% 161
East Midlands +5 53 £63,750 -1.92% 60

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 71 (2.79%) Apache
2 66 (2.59%) Apache Spark
3 57 (2.24%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (1.14%) Confluence
6 17 (0.67%) Jupyter
7 12 (0.47%) SharePoint
8 11 (0.43%) nginx
9 9 (0.35%) CMS
10 8 (0.31%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.28%) IIS
12 5 (0.20%) Camunda
12 5 (0.20%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.12%) WordPress
14 2 (0.079%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.079%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.079%) Sitecore CMS
15 1 (0.039%) Apache Solr
15 1 (0.039%) NServiceBus
15 1 (0.039%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 20 (0.79%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.079%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.039%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.039%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) Summit
4 2 (0.079%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.079%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.039%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 1 (0.039%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.039%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1,420 (55.80%) AWS
2 1,362 (53.52%) Azure
3 519 (20.39%) GCP
4 468 (18.39%) GitHub
5 405 (15.91%) AWS CloudFormation
6 387 (15.21%) Serverless
7 325 (12.77%) Azure DevOps
8 252 (9.90%) GitHub Actions
9 208 (8.17%) Amazon S3
9 208 (8.17%) AWS Lambda
10 185 (7.27%) PaaS
11 153 (6.01%) SaaS
12 148 (5.82%) Amazon EKS
13 146 (5.74%) Amazon ECS
14 144 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
15 140 (5.50%) Azure AKS
16 139 (5.46%) Entra ID
17 138 (5.42%) Cloud Computing
18 131 (5.15%) IaaS
19 129 (5.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 179 (7.03%) Firewall
2 145 (5.70%) VPN
3 140 (5.50%) DNS
4 125 (4.91%) Network Security
5 115 (4.52%) WAN
6 87 (3.42%) LAN
7 70 (2.75%) TCP/IP
8 58 (2.28%) BGP
9 49 (1.93%) DHCP
10 43 (1.69%) Internet
11 42 (1.65%) Broadband
12 39 (1.53%) OSPF
13 34 (1.34%) VLAN
14 29 (1.14%) VXLAN
15 25 (0.98%) Software-Defined Networking
16 22 (0.86%) SD-WAN
17 16 (0.63%) Ethernet VPN
17 16 (0.63%) SAN
17 16 (0.63%) Wireless
18 13 (0.51%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 210 (8.25%) PostgreSQL
2 166 (6.52%) NoSQL
3 122 (4.79%) Amazon RDS
4 112 (4.40%) MongoDB
5 90 (3.54%) SQL Server
6 78 (3.06%) MySQL
7 74 (2.91%) DynamoDB
8 68 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 65 (2.55%) Data Lake
10 52 (2.04%) Metadata
11 51 (2.00%) Redis
12 49 (1.93%) Relational Database
13 41 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
14 36 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
15 35 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
15 35 (1.38%) Power BI
16 31 (1.22%) Big Data
17 28 (1.10%) Delta Lake
18 23 (0.90%) Data Vault
19 22 (0.86%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 370 (14.54%) Git
2 324 (12.73%) GitLab
3 271 (10.65%) Jenkins
4 53 (2.08%) JIRA
5 49 (1.93%) Cucumber
6 34 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 32 (1.26%) TeamCity
8 27 (1.06%) Claude Code
9 19 (0.75%) Bitbucket
10 18 (0.71%) CircleCI
10 18 (0.71%) Selenium
11 15 (0.59%) Cypress.io
11 15 (0.59%) SonarQube
12 13 (0.51%) Snyk
12 13 (0.51%) Subversion
13 9 (0.35%) Artifactory
13 9 (0.35%) Maven
13 9 (0.35%) NUnit
13 9 (0.35%) Terragrunt
13 9 (0.35%) Vite
General
1 717 (28.17%) Social Skills
2 579 (22.75%) Finance
3 315 (12.38%) Public Sector
4 240 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
5 173 (6.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 137 (5.38%) Banking
7 119 (4.68%) Law
8 73 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
9 65 (2.55%) Retail
10 61 (2.40%) Aerospace
11 42 (1.65%) Marketing
12 38 (1.49%) Legal
13 32 (1.26%) Games
14 28 (1.10%) Financial Institution
15 23 (0.90%) Manufacturing
16 22 (0.86%) Telecoms
17 17 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
18 15 (0.59%) Aviation
18 15 (0.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 622 (24.44%) Senior
2 502 (19.72%) DevOps Engineer
3 348 (13.67%) Architect
4 340 (13.36%) Lead
5 290 (11.39%) Cloud Engineer
6 257 (10.10%) Platform Engineer
7 208 (8.17%) Developer
8 200 (7.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 195 (7.66%) Azure Engineer
10 174 (6.84%) Software Engineer
11 149 (5.85%) AWS Engineer
12 136 (5.34%) Principal Engineer
13 125 (4.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 118 (4.64%) Data Engineer
15 103 (4.05%) Security Engineer
16 96 (3.77%) Senior DevOps
16 96 (3.77%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 93 (3.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 80 (3.14%) Senior Developer
19 79 (3.10%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,677 (65.89%) Terraform
2 208 (8.17%) React
3 205 (8.06%) Kafka
4 187 (7.35%) .NET
5 176 (6.92%) Spring Boot
6 174 (6.84%) Spring
7 152 (5.97%) Node.js
7 152 (5.97%) RESTful
8 146 (5.74%) REST
9 85 (3.34%) AWS CDK
10 73 (2.87%) PySpark
11 66 (2.59%) AngularJS
12 61 (2.40%) Next.js
13 58 (2.28%) ARM Templates
14 57 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
15 55 (2.16%) RabbitMQ
16 52 (2.04%) LangChain
17 51 (2.00%) YAML
18 47 (1.85%) FastAPI
19 41 (1.61%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 770 (30.26%) Cloud Native
2 285 (11.20%) Distributed Systems
3 138 (5.42%) Onboarding
4 135 (5.30%) Hybrid Cloud
5 131 (5.15%) Public Cloud
6 92 (3.61%) Data Centre
7 86 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
8 77 (3.03%) Security Posture
9 76 (2.99%) Product Ownership
10 68 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
11 65 (2.55%) Linux Command Line
12 62 (2.44%) Enterprise Cloud
13 59 (2.32%) Management Information System
14 55 (2.16%) AI Agents
15 51 (2.00%) Virtual Team
16 49 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
17 48 (1.89%) e-Learning
18 45 (1.77%) Private Cloud
19 38 (1.49%) PKI
20 35 (1.38%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 480 (18.86%) Linux
2 235 (9.23%) Windows
3 97 (3.81%) Windows Server
4 64 (2.51%) CentOS
5 53 (2.08%) Unix
6 50 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 36 (1.41%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.86%) VMS
9 8 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.28%) Debian
11 5 (0.20%) Rocky
11 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.16%) AIX
13 2 (0.079%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.079%) Solaris
14 1 (0.039%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.039%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.039%) macOS
14 1 (0.039%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,820 (71.51%) CI/CD
2 1,412 (55.48%) DevOps
3 757 (29.74%) Containerisation
4 750 (29.47%) Agile
5 681 (26.76%) Observability
6 665 (26.13%) Platform Engineering
7 598 (23.50%) Mentoring
8 592 (23.26%) AI
9 563 (22.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 547 (21.49%) Software Engineering
11 482 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
12 445 (17.49%) Microservices
13 442 (17.37%) Technical Leadership
14 439 (17.25%) Cloud Security
15 429 (16.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 406 (15.95%) Test Automation
17 362 (14.22%) Roadmaps
18 311 (12.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 286 (11.24%) Event-Driven
20 284 (11.16%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,088 (42.75%) Python
2 415 (16.31%) Java
3 405 (15.91%) Bash
4 371 (14.58%) SQL
5 362 (14.22%) PowerShell
6 238 (9.35%) Bicep
7 227 (8.92%) TypeScript
8 192 (7.54%) C#
9 183 (7.19%) JavaScript
10 162 (6.37%) Go
11 59 (2.32%) Shell Script
12 49 (1.93%) Ruby
13 39 (1.53%) Scala
14 36 (1.41%) PHP
15 31 (1.22%) Groovy
16 30 (1.18%) Rust
17 23 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
18 19 (0.75%) C++
19 17 (0.67%) Perl
20 13 (0.51%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 681 (26.76%) Security Cleared
2 431 (16.94%) SC Cleared
3 227 (8.92%) DV Cleared
4 223 (8.76%) AWS Certification
5 173 (6.80%) Degree
6 161 (6.33%) Azure Certification
7 101 (3.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 80 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 60 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
11 45 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
12 34 (1.34%) CISSP
13 30 (1.18%) CCNP
13 30 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
14 29 (1.14%) Master's Degree
15 19 (0.75%) CCNA
16 17 (0.67%) SnowPro
17 14 (0.55%) DBS Check
18 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 12 (0.47%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (4.75%) QA
2 108 (4.24%) Data Quality
3 74 (2.91%) GDPR
4 70 (2.75%) GRC
5 66 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 53 (2.08%) Accessibility
7 45 (1.77%) NIST
8 33 (1.30%) SOC 2
9 31 (1.22%) NCSC
10 29 (1.14%) PCI DSS
11 23 (0.90%) SLA
12 19 (0.75%) WCAG
13 16 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (0.28%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
17 5 (0.20%) ISO 20022
18 3 (0.12%) ISO 9001
18 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 2 (0.079%) RMADS
System Software
1 694 (27.27%) Docker
2 139 (5.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 130 (5.11%) Active Directory
4 49 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (1.89%) vSphere
6 29 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (1.02%) VMware NSX
8 23 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
9 20 (0.79%) Hyper-V
10 10 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
11 9 (0.35%) KVM
12 7 (0.28%) Firmware
12 7 (0.28%) Squid
13 4 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.079%) Lustre
16 1 (0.039%) iptables
16 1 (0.039%) LXC
Systems Management
1 917 (36.03%) Kubernetes
2 525 (20.63%) Ansible
3 259 (10.18%) Grafana
4 186 (7.31%) Prometheus
5 82 (3.22%) Puppet
6 78 (3.06%) Argo
7 52 (2.04%) Progress Chef
8 37 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
9 36 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
10 35 (1.38%) Istio
11 30 (1.18%) vCenter Server
12 29 (1.14%) Packer
13 24 (0.94%) FortiGate
14 22 (0.86%) Rancher
15 16 (0.63%) Cilium
15 16 (0.63%) Nagios
16 15 (0.59%) Kustomize
16 15 (0.59%) logstash
17 13 (0.51%) Kibana
17 13 (0.51%) Podman
Vendors
1 641 (25.19%) Microsoft
2 195 (7.66%) Google
3 170 (6.68%) VMware
4 112 (4.40%) Databricks
5 90 (3.54%) Splunk
6 83 (3.26%) Red Hat
7 72 (2.83%) Cisco
7 72 (2.83%) Oracle
8 51 (2.00%) Dynatrace
9 44 (1.73%) OpenAI
10 39 (1.53%) Fortinet
11 36 (1.41%) Palo Alto
12 32 (1.26%) ServiceNow
13 24 (0.94%) Zscaler
14 15 (0.59%) Atlassian
14 15 (0.59%) F5
14 15 (0.59%) Mistral
14 15 (0.59%) SAP
15 14 (0.55%) SolarWinds
16 13 (0.51%) New Relic