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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 157 123
Rank change year-on-year +80 -34 -36
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,471 1,019 1,584
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.13% 2.07% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 2.33% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,600 722 993
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £45,100
25th Percentile £60,188 £61,250 £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 £107,375 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,400 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.57% +7.69% -5.11%

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 84,898 43,727 63,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.69% 81.28%
Number of salaries quoted 58,675 24,676 35,715
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £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 £96,313 £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 20 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 20 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 +71 2,156 £77,500 +3.33% 2,640
UK excluding London +97 1,350 £70,400 +0.57% 1,357
London +28 939 £90,000 +5.88% 1,508
Work from Home +47 794 £75,000 - 1,209
North of England +83 479 £70,000 - 386
North West +95 263 £72,500 +11.54% 219
South East +48 247 £67,500 -20.59% 268
South West +45 239 £75,000 - 208
Midlands +33 151 £75,000 +15.83% 155
North East +20 113 £59,000 -18.62% 63
Yorkshire 0 106 £73,750 +5.36% 105
West Midlands 0 93 £85,000 +36.55% 89
Wales -3 76 £70,000 +21.74% 34
Northern Ireland -29 62 £71,991 +67.07% 50
East Midlands +4 58 £67,500 +3.85% 66
East of England -12 56 £65,000 - 93
Scotland +18 52 £72,500 +3.57% 168

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 (2.43%) Apache
2 58 (2.35%) Apache Spark
3 55 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (1.17%) Confluence
6 14 (0.57%) Jupyter
7 11 (0.45%) 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 (0.081%) Cloud Foundry
14 1 (0.040%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.040%) NetWeaver
14 1 (0.040%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 21 (0.85%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.081%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.081%) 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 (0.081%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.040%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.040%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.040%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,388 (56.17%) AWS
2 1,330 (53.82%) Azure
3 488 (19.75%) GCP
4 447 (18.09%) GitHub
5 393 (15.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 382 (15.46%) Serverless
7 324 (13.11%) Azure DevOps
8 250 (10.12%) GitHub Actions
9 213 (8.62%) AWS Lambda
10 208 (8.42%) Amazon S3
11 176 (7.12%) PaaS
12 154 (6.23%) Amazon EKS
13 147 (5.95%) Amazon EC2
14 145 (5.87%) Amazon ECS
15 144 (5.83%) Azure AKS
16 135 (5.46%) SaaS
17 130 (5.26%) IaaS
18 128 (5.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 127 (5.14%) Entra ID
20 125 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 174 (7.04%) Firewall
2 135 (5.46%) DNS
3 129 (5.22%) VPN
4 120 (4.86%) WAN
5 113 (4.57%) Network Security
6 93 (3.76%) LAN
7 67 (2.71%) TCP/IP
8 54 (2.19%) BGP
9 51 (2.06%) DHCP
10 42 (1.70%) Broadband
11 39 (1.58%) OSPF
12 32 (1.30%) VLAN
13 28 (1.13%) VXLAN
14 26 (1.05%) SD-WAN
14 26 (1.05%) Software-Defined Networking
15 20 (0.81%) Internet
16 17 (0.69%) Wireless
17 16 (0.65%) Ethernet VPN
18 15 (0.61%) HTTP
18 15 (0.61%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 161 (6.52%) NoSQL
3 116 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
4 105 (4.25%) MongoDB
5 88 (3.56%) SQL Server
6 78 (3.16%) DynamoDB
7 72 (2.91%) MySQL
8 68 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
9 60 (2.43%) Data Lake
10 52 (2.10%) Redis
11 51 (2.06%) Metadata
12 49 (1.98%) Relational Database
13 44 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
14 36 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
15 31 (1.25%) Big Data
16 30 (1.21%) Delta Lake
17 29 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
18 25 (1.01%) BigQuery
18 25 (1.01%) Power BI
19 22 (0.89%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 350 (14.16%) Git
2 297 (12.02%) GitLab
3 269 (10.89%) Jenkins
4 59 (2.39%) JIRA
5 50 (2.02%) Cucumber
6 36 (1.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 25 (1.01%) TeamCity
8 24 (0.97%) Bitbucket
9 23 (0.93%) Claude Code
10 22 (0.89%) Selenium
11 20 (0.81%) CircleCI
12 19 (0.77%) SonarQube
13 15 (0.61%) Cypress.io
14 13 (0.53%) Subversion
15 12 (0.49%) Maven
15 12 (0.49%) NUnit
15 12 (0.49%) Snyk
16 9 (0.36%) MLflow
16 9 (0.36%) MSI
16 9 (0.36%) Vite
General
1 692 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 570 (23.07%) Finance
3 259 (10.48%) Public Sector
4 202 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
5 160 (6.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 138 (5.58%) Banking
7 120 (4.86%) Law
8 75 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
9 68 (2.75%) Retail
10 62 (2.51%) Aerospace
11 42 (1.70%) Marketing
12 37 (1.50%) Legal
13 36 (1.46%) Games
14 29 (1.17%) Manufacturing
15 24 (0.97%) Telecoms
16 20 (0.81%) Financial Institution
17 17 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
18 16 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
18 16 (0.65%) Local Government
19 15 (0.61%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 578 (23.39%) Senior
2 445 (18.01%) DevOps Engineer
3 339 (13.72%) Lead
4 335 (13.56%) Architect
5 295 (11.94%) Cloud Engineer
6 255 (10.32%) Platform Engineer
7 207 (8.38%) Developer
8 199 (8.05%) Azure Engineer
9 174 (7.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 158 (6.39%) Software Engineer
11 151 (6.11%) AWS Engineer
12 133 (5.38%) Principal Engineer
13 124 (5.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 119 (4.82%) Data Engineer
15 96 (3.89%) Security Engineer
15 96 (3.89%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 77 (3.12%) Senior Developer
17 76 (3.08%) Azure Platform Engineer
17 76 (3.08%) Senior DevOps
18 73 (2.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,657 (67.06%) Terraform
2 204 (8.26%) Kafka
2 204 (8.26%) React
3 184 (7.45%) .NET
4 167 (6.76%) Spring
5 166 (6.72%) Spring Boot
6 160 (6.48%) Node.js
7 150 (6.07%) RESTful
8 149 (6.03%) REST
9 89 (3.60%) AWS CDK
10 76 (3.08%) PySpark
11 66 (2.67%) AngularJS
11 66 (2.67%) ARM Templates
12 62 (2.51%) YAML
13 60 (2.43%) Next.js
14 59 (2.39%) RabbitMQ
15 54 (2.19%) Elastic Stack
16 48 (1.94%) OAuth
17 46 (1.86%) LangChain
18 43 (1.74%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 748 (30.27%) Cloud Native
2 279 (11.29%) Distributed Systems
3 134 (5.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 129 (5.22%) Public Cloud
5 128 (5.18%) Onboarding
6 95 (3.84%) Data Centre
7 78 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
7 78 (3.16%) Product Ownership
8 65 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
9 63 (2.55%) Security Posture
10 58 (2.35%) Enterprise Cloud
11 51 (2.06%) Virtual Team
12 48 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
13 44 (1.78%) AI Agents
13 44 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
14 43 (1.74%) e-Learning
14 43 (1.74%) Private Cloud
15 42 (1.70%) Management Information System
16 40 (1.62%) PKI
17 34 (1.38%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 427 (17.28%) Linux
2 224 (9.07%) Windows
3 101 (4.09%) Windows Server
4 62 (2.51%) CentOS
5 50 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 43 (1.74%) Unix
7 40 (1.62%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.89%) 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 (0.081%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.081%) Rocky
12 2 (0.081%) Solaris
13 1 (0.040%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.040%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,754 (70.98%) CI/CD
2 1,353 (54.76%) DevOps
3 727 (29.42%) Containerisation
4 708 (28.65%) Agile
5 692 (28.00%) Observability
6 609 (24.65%) Platform Engineering
7 553 (22.38%) AI
8 552 (22.34%) Mentoring
9 538 (21.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 520 (21.04%) Software Engineering
11 455 (18.41%) Problem-Solving
12 428 (17.32%) Microservices
13 417 (16.88%) Technical Leadership
14 395 (15.99%) Cloud Security
15 391 (15.82%) Test Automation
16 374 (15.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 354 (14.33%) Roadmaps
18 295 (11.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 283 (11.45%) Event-Driven
20 260 (10.52%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,071 (43.34%) Python
2 394 (15.94%) Java
3 384 (15.54%) Bash
4 378 (15.30%) SQL
5 356 (14.41%) PowerShell
6 236 (9.55%) Bicep
7 228 (9.23%) TypeScript
8 197 (7.97%) JavaScript
9 189 (7.65%) C#
10 156 (6.31%) Go
11 47 (1.90%) Ruby
12 41 (1.66%) Scala
13 37 (1.50%) Shell Script
14 36 (1.46%) Groovy
15 34 (1.38%) PHP
16 29 (1.17%) Rust
17 25 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
18 22 (0.89%) C++
19 20 (0.81%) Perl
20 13 (0.53%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 630 (25.50%) Security Cleared
2 398 (16.11%) SC Cleared
3 214 (8.66%) AWS Certification
4 209 (8.46%) DV Cleared
5 184 (7.45%) Degree
6 156 (6.31%) Azure Certification
7 95 (3.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 86 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 58 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
11 40 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
12 33 (1.34%) CCNP
13 29 (1.17%) Master's Degree
14 24 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
15 23 (0.93%) CISSP
16 22 (0.89%) CCNA
17 17 (0.69%) SnowPro
18 14 (0.57%) DBS Check
18 14 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 12 (0.49%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (4.98%) QA
2 104 (4.21%) Data Quality
3 72 (2.91%) GRC
4 66 (2.67%) GDPR
5 57 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (1.86%) Accessibility
7 34 (1.38%) NIST
8 30 (1.21%) NCSC
9 27 (1.09%) SOC 2
10 24 (0.97%) SLA
11 21 (0.85%) WCAG
12 19 (0.77%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.28%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.20%) ISO 20022
17 3 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 2 (0.081%) IFRS
18 2 (0.081%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 664 (26.87%) Docker
2 137 (5.54%) Active Directory
3 132 (5.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (1.86%) vSphere
5 44 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
6 27 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
7 23 (0.93%) Hyper-V
8 17 (0.69%) 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 (0.081%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 898 (36.34%) Kubernetes
2 499 (20.19%) Ansible
3 239 (9.67%) Grafana
4 179 (7.24%) Prometheus
5 75 (3.04%) Argo
6 66 (2.67%) Puppet
7 46 (1.86%) Progress Chef
8 39 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
9 37 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
10 36 (1.46%) Istio
11 28 (1.13%) Packer
12 24 (0.97%) FortiGate
13 23 (0.93%) Rancher
14 19 (0.77%) vCenter Server
15 16 (0.65%) Nagios
16 14 (0.57%) Cilium
17 13 (0.53%) Kustomize
18 12 (0.49%) linkerd
18 12 (0.49%) Podman
18 12 (0.49%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 589 (23.84%) Microsoft
2 166 (6.72%) Google
3 164 (6.64%) VMware
4 108 (4.37%) Databricks
5 87 (3.52%) Splunk
6 81 (3.28%) Red Hat
7 73 (2.95%) Cisco
7 73 (2.95%) Oracle
8 42 (1.70%) Dynatrace
8 42 (1.70%) OpenAI
9 39 (1.58%) Fortinet
9 39 (1.58%) Palo Alto
10 33 (1.34%) ServiceNow
11 26 (1.05%) Zscaler
12 15 (0.61%) Atlassian
12 15 (0.61%) Okta
12 15 (0.61%) SAP
13 13 (0.53%) F5
13 13 (0.53%) New Relic
13 13 (0.53%) SolarWinds