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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 150 166
Rank change year-on-year +53 +16 -57
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,692 930 1,673
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.84% 2.11% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% 2.26% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,110 659 1,319
10th Percentile £49,329 £48,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,250 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +9.81% -5.90%
75th Percentile £90,988 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £108,875 £110,250 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.14% +7.69% -6.40%

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 67,796 41,102 82,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.66% 93.28% 84.85%
Number of salaries quoted 43,826 22,293 59,720
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -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 19 May 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 19 May 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 +60 1,527 £77,500 - 746
London +36 770 £87,500 -2.78% 325
UK excluding London +57 769 £68,500 -2.14% 534
Work from Home +89 608 £70,000 -6.67% 419
North of England +42 279 £67,249 -3.93% 170
South East +36 171 £70,000 -6.67% 172
North West +54 158 £71,750 -1.03% 89
South West -10 107 £68,400 -4.99% 81
Midlands +28 106 £70,000 - 36
Yorkshire -21 87 £65,576 +0.89% 43
West Midlands +6 56 £72,500 +3.57% 19
East Midlands +8 48 £67,500 +3.85% 17
Scotland +8 44 £60,000 -19.93% 25
East of England +3 42 £60,100 -7.54% 46
North East -14 34 £50,000 -17.01% 38
Wales -21 18 £60,000 -2.64% 9
Northern Ireland -35 5 £95,000 - 5

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 47 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (2.25%) Apache
3 30 (1.77%) Apache Spark
4 25 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 19 (1.12%) Confluence
6 15 (0.89%) IIS
7 13 (0.77%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.30%) CMS
10 4 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.059%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.059%) Camunda
12 1 (0.059%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.059%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.059%) nginx
12 1 (0.059%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.059%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.65%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.24%) Weka
3 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.059%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.059%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.059%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.059%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.059%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 988 (58.39%) AWS
2 911 (53.84%) Azure
3 330 (19.50%) GitHub
4 317 (18.74%) GCP
5 306 (18.09%) Serverless
6 296 (17.49%) Azure DevOps
7 263 (15.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 220 (13.00%) GitHub Actions
9 178 (10.52%) AWS Lambda
10 154 (9.10%) Amazon S3
11 129 (7.62%) PaaS
12 122 (7.21%) Amazon EKS
13 115 (6.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 115 (6.80%) Entra ID
14 107 (6.32%) SaaS
15 102 (6.03%) Datadog
16 100 (5.91%) IaaS
17 98 (5.79%) Amazon EC2
18 87 (5.14%) Azure AKS
18 87 (5.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 179 (10.58%) Firewall
2 96 (5.67%) DNS
3 73 (4.31%) VPN
4 68 (4.02%) TCP/IP
5 58 (3.43%) Broadband
6 52 (3.07%) Network Security
7 47 (2.78%) WAN
8 36 (2.13%) DHCP
9 32 (1.89%) BGP
10 27 (1.60%) LAN
11 23 (1.36%) HTTP
12 18 (1.06%) SD-WAN
12 18 (1.06%) VLAN
13 17 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
13 17 (1.00%) Software-Defined Networking
14 15 (0.89%) DSL
15 14 (0.83%) OSPF
16 10 (0.59%) Internet
16 10 (0.59%) VXLAN
17 8 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (7.39%) NoSQL
2 117 (6.91%) PostgreSQL
3 89 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
4 74 (4.37%) MongoDB
5 67 (3.96%) DynamoDB
6 65 (3.84%) SQL Server
7 52 (3.07%) Relational Database
8 50 (2.96%) Data Lake
9 47 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
10 38 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
11 35 (2.07%) Metadata
12 31 (1.83%) BigQuery
13 28 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
14 27 (1.60%) MySQL
15 21 (1.24%) Delta Lake
16 20 (1.18%) Power BI
16 20 (1.18%) Redis
17 18 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
17 18 (1.06%) RDBMS
18 17 (1.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 233 (13.77%) GitLab
2 227 (13.42%) Git
3 224 (13.24%) Jenkins
4 44 (2.60%) CircleCI
5 35 (2.07%) Bitbucket
6 32 (1.89%) JIRA
7 28 (1.65%) Cucumber
8 20 (1.18%) Jaeger
9 16 (0.95%) Selenium
9 16 (0.95%) SonarQube
9 16 (0.95%) TeamCity
10 12 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 12 (0.71%) MLflow
10 12 (0.71%) Subversion
11 9 (0.53%) Maven
11 9 (0.53%) NUnit
11 9 (0.53%) Storybook
12 8 (0.47%) JMeter
12 8 (0.47%) Robot Framework
13 7 (0.41%) Vite
General
1 416 (24.59%) Social Skills
2 366 (21.63%) Finance
3 120 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (6.38%) Public Sector
5 102 (6.03%) Banking
6 76 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 63 (3.72%) Retail
8 52 (3.07%) Law
9 49 (2.90%) Telecoms
10 36 (2.13%) Games
11 31 (1.83%) Manufacturing
12 23 (1.36%) Aerospace
12 23 (1.36%) Marketing
13 20 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
14 19 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
14 19 (1.12%) Legal
15 18 (1.06%) Advertising
15 18 (1.06%) Billing
16 16 (0.95%) Financial Institution
17 13 (0.77%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 379 (22.40%) Senior
2 270 (15.96%) DevOps Engineer
3 247 (14.60%) Cloud Engineer
4 238 (14.07%) Lead
5 170 (10.05%) Azure Engineer
6 164 (9.69%) Platform Engineer
7 157 (9.28%) Architect
8 156 (9.22%) Developer
9 126 (7.45%) AWS Engineer
10 120 (7.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 90 (5.32%) Data Engineer
12 88 (5.20%) Software Engineer
13 77 (4.55%) Security Engineer
14 73 (4.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 69 (4.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 63 (3.72%) Senior DevOps
17 55 (3.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 54 (3.19%) Principal Engineer
19 53 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 49 (2.90%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (8.16%) React
2 122 (7.21%) Node.js
3 119 (7.03%) Kafka
4 117 (6.91%) .NET
5 109 (6.44%) REST
6 102 (6.03%) RESTful
7 80 (4.73%) AWS CDK
7 80 (4.73%) YAML
8 73 (4.31%) Spring
9 69 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
10 67 (3.96%) Spring Boot
11 63 (3.72%) OAuth
12 54 (3.19%) ARM Templates
13 52 (3.07%) PySpark
14 51 (3.01%) RabbitMQ
15 39 (2.30%) JSON
16 38 (2.25%) ASP.NET
17 36 (2.13%) AngularJS
17 36 (2.13%) ASP.NET Core
17 36 (2.13%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 412 (24.35%) Cloud Native
2 132 (7.80%) Distributed Systems
3 92 (5.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 74 (4.37%) Public Cloud
5 60 (3.55%) Product Ownership
6 56 (3.31%) Data Centre
7 54 (3.19%) Security Posture
8 47 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
9 43 (2.54%) Onboarding
10 35 (2.07%) Video\Live Streaming
11 33 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
12 30 (1.77%) Low-Code
13 26 (1.54%) Management Information System
14 25 (1.48%) Blockchain
14 25 (1.48%) Mobile App
14 25 (1.48%) PKI
15 24 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
15 24 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
16 23 (1.36%) Web3
17 21 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 329 (19.44%) Linux
2 166 (9.81%) Windows
3 79 (4.67%) Windows Server
4 58 (3.43%) Unix
5 40 (2.36%) Ubuntu
6 32 (1.89%) CentOS
7 26 (1.54%) VMS
8 25 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (0.89%) Android
10 14 (0.83%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.41%) Debian
11 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.18%) SUSE
14 2 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.059%) Rocky
15 1 (0.059%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,184 (69.98%) CI/CD
2 1,008 (59.57%) DevOps
3 469 (27.72%) Agile
4 458 (27.07%) Observability
5 457 (27.01%) Containerisation
6 372 (21.99%) Continuous Improvement
7 348 (20.57%) Mentoring
8 335 (19.80%) Platform Engineering
9 310 (18.32%) AI
10 307 (18.14%) Test Automation
11 286 (16.90%) Software Engineering
12 273 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
13 262 (15.48%) Microservices
14 230 (13.59%) Cloud Security
14 230 (13.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 209 (12.35%) Technical Leadership
16 199 (11.76%) Analytics
17 183 (10.82%) DevSecOps
18 178 (10.52%) High Availability
19 172 (10.17%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 774 (45.74%) Python
2 303 (17.91%) Bash
3 270 (15.96%) PowerShell
4 265 (15.66%) SQL
5 239 (14.13%) Java
6 171 (10.11%) Go
7 165 (9.75%) JavaScript
8 158 (9.34%) TypeScript
9 138 (8.16%) Bicep
10 122 (7.21%) C#
11 29 (1.71%) Rust
12 28 (1.65%) C++
13 22 (1.30%) Scala
14 16 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
15 14 (0.83%) PHP
16 13 (0.77%) C
16 13 (0.77%) Groovy
17 12 (0.71%) Kotlin
18 9 (0.53%) Shell Script
19 8 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 323 (19.09%) Security Cleared
2 196 (11.58%) SC Cleared
3 155 (9.16%) Degree
4 134 (7.92%) AWS Certification
5 93 (5.50%) DV Cleared
6 89 (5.26%) Azure Certification
7 59 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 37 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 31 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 28 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
10 28 (1.65%) OSCP
11 24 (1.42%) CISSP
12 16 (0.95%) AWS Certified Developer
12 16 (0.95%) CCNP
12 16 (0.95%) DBS Check
13 13 (0.77%) CCNA
13 13 (0.77%) Master's Degree
14 12 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 10 (0.59%) CCSK
15 10 (0.59%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (4.91%) QA
2 69 (4.08%) Data Quality
3 65 (3.84%) GDPR
4 52 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 48 (2.84%) SOC 2
6 41 (2.42%) NIST
7 31 (1.83%) Accessibility
8 30 (1.77%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.77%) SLA
10 11 (0.65%) WCAG
11 8 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.41%) GRC
12 7 (0.41%) NCSC
13 3 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.12%) IFRS
14 2 (0.12%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.12%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.12%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.059%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 471 (27.84%) Docker
2 105 (6.21%) Active Directory
3 83 (4.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (1.71%) vSphere
6 20 (1.18%) VMware NSX
7 19 (1.12%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.53%) Firmware
9 7 (0.41%) iptables
9 7 (0.41%) KVM
10 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 6 (0.35%) Squid
10 6 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,165 (68.85%) Terraform
2 652 (38.53%) Kubernetes
3 363 (21.45%) Ansible
4 219 (12.94%) Grafana
5 208 (12.29%) Prometheus
6 58 (3.43%) Argo
7 43 (2.54%) Microsoft Intune
8 42 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
9 39 (2.30%) Puppet
10 23 (1.36%) Progress Chef
11 22 (1.30%) Kustomize
12 19 (1.12%) Nagios
13 18 (1.06%) Rancher
14 17 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 17 (1.00%) Packer
15 16 (0.95%) Istio
16 12 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
17 10 (0.59%) vCenter Server
17 10 (0.59%) ZABBIX
18 9 (0.53%) yum
Vendors
1 312 (18.44%) Microsoft
2 118 (6.97%) VMware
3 109 (6.44%) Google
4 76 (4.49%) Databricks
5 66 (3.90%) Red Hat
6 58 (3.43%) Cisco
7 49 (2.90%) Splunk
8 47 (2.78%) Palo Alto
9 24 (1.42%) Zscaler
10 22 (1.30%) Salesforce
11 21 (1.24%) CrowdStrike
11 21 (1.24%) Dynatrace
11 21 (1.24%) OpenAI
12 20 (1.18%) Fortinet
13 19 (1.12%) Oracle
14 12 (0.71%) CheckPoint
14 12 (0.71%) F5
14 12 (0.71%) Juniper
15 11 (0.65%) Foundry
15 11 (0.65%) SAP