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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 155 171
Rank change year-on-year +74 +16 -60
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,866 964 1,701
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.01% 2.17% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 2.34% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,260 633 1,298
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £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 £90,000 £96,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £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 67,552 41,143 88,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.85% 92.63% 82.27%
Number of salaries quoted 46,362 21,911 62,510
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,556
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 June 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 June 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 +70 1,705 £77,500 - 506
UK excluding London +78 877 £70,000 - 382
London +36 835 £87,500 -2.78% 209
Work from Home +93 673 £70,000 -7.11% 313
North of England +72 327 £67,500 -3.57% 102
South East +52 200 £70,000 -9.68% 135
North West +73 197 £74,301 +2.48% 61
South West +16 124 £72,500 +3.57% 60
Midlands +46 118 £70,079 +7.81% 41
Yorkshire -7 87 £65,576 -2.49% 23
West Midlands +16 69 £77,500 +14.81% 27
East Midlands +11 49 £67,500 +3.85% 14
East of England +9 49 £60,100 -7.54% 23
North East -5 43 £55,000 -15.38% 18
Scotland +13 35 £60,000 -20.38% 12
Wales -27 24 £70,000 +21.74% 6
Northern Ireland -28 3 £84,401 +95.86% 11

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 52 (2.79%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (2.25%) Apache
3 39 (2.09%) Apache Spark
4 31 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 21 (1.13%) Confluence
6 14 (0.75%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.64%) IIS
8 10 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.43%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.27%) CMS
11 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.11%) Camunda
13 2 (0.11%) WordPress
14 1 (0.054%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.054%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.054%) NetWeaver
14 1 (0.054%) nginx
14 1 (0.054%) NServiceBus
14 1 (0.054%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (0.80%) PlantUML
2 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.21%) Weka
4 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.054%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.054%) Maya
5 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.054%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.054%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1,095 (58.68%) AWS
2 981 (52.57%) Azure
3 360 (19.29%) GitHub
4 332 (17.79%) GCP
5 330 (17.68%) Serverless
6 297 (15.92%) Azure DevOps
7 287 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 222 (11.90%) GitHub Actions
9 190 (10.18%) AWS Lambda
10 180 (9.65%) Amazon S3
11 157 (8.41%) PaaS
12 129 (6.91%) Amazon EKS
13 127 (6.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 127 (6.81%) SaaS
14 122 (6.54%) Amazon EC2
15 118 (6.32%) IaaS
16 117 (6.27%) Entra ID
17 105 (5.63%) Azure AKS
18 100 (5.36%) Datadog
19 96 (5.14%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 181 (9.70%) Firewall
2 100 (5.36%) DNS
3 87 (4.66%) VPN
4 75 (4.02%) Broadband
5 67 (3.59%) Network Security
5 67 (3.59%) TCP/IP
6 50 (2.68%) WAN
7 41 (2.20%) BGP
8 31 (1.66%) DHCP
9 30 (1.61%) VLAN
10 27 (1.45%) LAN
11 24 (1.29%) HTTP
12 21 (1.13%) OSPF
13 20 (1.07%) SD-WAN
13 20 (1.07%) Software-Defined Networking
14 17 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
15 16 (0.86%) DSL
15 16 (0.86%) VXLAN
16 10 (0.54%) IPv4
17 9 (0.48%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (7.61%) PostgreSQL
2 135 (7.23%) NoSQL
3 95 (5.09%) Amazon RDS
4 88 (4.72%) MongoDB
5 65 (3.48%) DynamoDB
6 64 (3.43%) SQL Server
7 59 (3.16%) Relational Database
8 52 (2.79%) Data Lake
9 46 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
10 43 (2.30%) Metadata
11 41 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
12 32 (1.71%) MySQL
13 29 (1.55%) BigQuery
14 27 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
14 27 (1.45%) Redis
15 24 (1.29%) Power BI
16 22 (1.18%) Delta Lake
17 20 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
17 20 (1.07%) RDBMS
18 19 (1.02%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 266 (14.26%) GitLab
2 241 (12.92%) Git
3 237 (12.70%) Jenkins
4 44 (2.36%) CircleCI
5 36 (1.93%) Cucumber
6 35 (1.88%) JIRA
7 33 (1.77%) Bitbucket
8 23 (1.23%) TeamCity
9 20 (1.07%) Jaeger
10 15 (0.80%) SonarQube
11 14 (0.75%) Selenium
12 13 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 11 (0.59%) MLflow
14 10 (0.54%) NUnit
14 10 (0.54%) Subversion
15 9 (0.48%) JMeter
15 9 (0.48%) Maven
15 9 (0.48%) Vite
16 7 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
16 7 (0.38%) Storybook
General
1 447 (23.95%) Social Skills
2 376 (20.15%) Finance
3 135 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (6.86%) Public Sector
5 114 (6.11%) Banking
6 89 (4.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 63 (3.38%) Retail
8 57 (3.05%) Law
9 43 (2.30%) Games
9 43 (2.30%) Telecoms
10 30 (1.61%) Manufacturing
11 25 (1.34%) Aerospace
12 24 (1.29%) Legal
13 20 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
13 20 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
14 19 (1.02%) Advertising
15 18 (0.96%) Financial Institution
15 18 (0.96%) Marketing
16 15 (0.80%) Billing
17 12 (0.64%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 423 (22.67%) Senior
2 312 (16.72%) DevOps Engineer
3 272 (14.58%) Cloud Engineer
4 260 (13.93%) Lead
5 201 (10.77%) Platform Engineer
6 179 (9.59%) Architect
6 179 (9.59%) Azure Engineer
7 170 (9.11%) Developer
8 143 (7.66%) AWS Engineer
9 118 (6.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 98 (5.25%) Data Engineer
10 98 (5.25%) Software Engineer
11 97 (5.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 85 (4.56%) Security Engineer
13 77 (4.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 70 (3.75%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 69 (3.70%) Principal Engineer
16 65 (3.48%) Senior DevOps
17 61 (3.27%) Senior Developer
18 56 (3.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (7.93%) React
2 135 (7.23%) Kafka
3 128 (6.86%) Node.js
4 126 (6.75%) REST
5 123 (6.59%) .NET
6 99 (5.31%) RESTful
7 92 (4.93%) Spring
8 87 (4.66%) Spring Boot
9 85 (4.56%) YAML
10 80 (4.29%) AWS CDK
11 74 (3.97%) Elastic Stack
12 63 (3.38%) PySpark
13 59 (3.16%) ARM Templates
14 57 (3.05%) OAuth
15 53 (2.84%) RabbitMQ
16 44 (2.36%) Next.js
17 42 (2.25%) AngularJS
17 42 (2.25%) OpenTelemetry
18 41 (2.20%) JSON
19 38 (2.04%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 506 (27.12%) Cloud Native
2 170 (9.11%) Distributed Systems
3 100 (5.36%) Hybrid Cloud
4 84 (4.50%) Public Cloud
5 65 (3.48%) Data Centre
6 64 (3.43%) Product Ownership
7 57 (3.05%) Security Posture
8 55 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
9 54 (2.89%) Onboarding
10 48 (2.57%) Video\Live Streaming
11 36 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
11 36 (1.93%) Low-Code
12 27 (1.45%) PKI
13 26 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
13 26 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
13 26 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
14 24 (1.29%) Blockchain
15 23 (1.23%) Management Information System
15 23 (1.23%) Mobile App
16 22 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 349 (18.70%) Linux
2 171 (9.16%) Windows
3 86 (4.61%) Windows Server
4 50 (2.68%) Unix
5 46 (2.47%) Ubuntu
6 41 (2.20%) CentOS
7 27 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 26 (1.39%) VMS
9 15 (0.80%) Android
10 14 (0.75%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.38%) Debian
13 5 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.054%) AIX
15 1 (0.054%) Rocky
15 1 (0.054%) SUSE
15 1 (0.054%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,326 (71.06%) CI/CD
2 1,071 (57.40%) DevOps
3 525 (28.14%) Observability
4 513 (27.49%) Agile
5 510 (27.33%) Containerisation
6 413 (22.13%) Platform Engineering
7 396 (21.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 394 (21.11%) Mentoring
9 368 (19.72%) AI
10 337 (18.06%) Software Engineering
11 329 (17.63%) Test Automation
12 301 (16.13%) Microservices
13 287 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
14 254 (13.61%) Cloud Security
14 254 (13.61%) Technical Leadership
15 241 (12.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 220 (11.79%) Analytics
17 199 (10.66%) Roadmaps
18 196 (10.50%) DevSecOps
19 182 (9.75%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 844 (45.23%) Python
2 330 (17.68%) Bash
3 293 (15.70%) SQL
4 291 (15.59%) PowerShell
5 267 (14.31%) Java
6 184 (9.86%) Go
7 177 (9.49%) TypeScript
8 175 (9.38%) JavaScript
9 164 (8.79%) Bicep
10 132 (7.07%) C#
11 32 (1.71%) Rust
12 26 (1.39%) C++
13 24 (1.29%) Scala
14 19 (1.02%) PHP
15 18 (0.96%) Groovy
15 18 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
16 15 (0.80%) Ruby
17 11 (0.59%) C
18 10 (0.54%) Kotlin
19 9 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 378 (20.26%) Security Cleared
2 244 (13.08%) SC Cleared
3 160 (8.57%) Degree
4 139 (7.45%) AWS Certification
5 101 (5.41%) Azure Certification
6 100 (5.36%) DV Cleared
7 60 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 45 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 42 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 34 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (1.50%) OSCP
12 20 (1.07%) CCNP
13 19 (1.02%) CISSP
14 16 (0.86%) DBS Check
14 16 (0.86%) Master's Degree
15 15 (0.80%) CCNA
16 13 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 13 (0.70%) RHCSA
17 9 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
17 9 (0.48%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (4.93%) QA
2 80 (4.29%) Data Quality
3 60 (3.22%) GDPR
4 51 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 47 (2.52%) SOC 2
6 37 (1.98%) NIST
7 32 (1.71%) Accessibility
8 31 (1.66%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.80%) WCAG
10 14 (0.75%) SLA
11 10 (0.54%) GRC
11 10 (0.54%) NCSC
12 9 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
15 2 (0.11%) IFRS
15 2 (0.11%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.11%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 503 (26.96%) Docker
2 113 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 98 (5.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
4 37 (1.98%) vSphere
5 22 (1.18%) VMware NSX
6 19 (1.02%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
8 8 (0.43%) Squid
9 7 (0.38%) iptables
9 7 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.32%) Firmware
10 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 5 (0.27%) KVM
12 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,293 (69.29%) Terraform
2 712 (38.16%) Kubernetes
3 392 (21.01%) Ansible
4 228 (12.22%) Grafana
5 215 (11.52%) Prometheus
6 72 (3.86%) Argo
7 45 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
8 40 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 40 (2.14%) Puppet
9 27 (1.45%) Packer
9 27 (1.45%) Progress Chef
10 25 (1.34%) Kustomize
11 22 (1.18%) Nagios
12 20 (1.07%) Istio
13 17 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 14 (0.75%) vCenter Server
14 14 (0.75%) ZABBIX
15 12 (0.64%) Cilium
16 11 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
16 11 (0.59%) Rancher
Vendors
1 345 (18.49%) Microsoft
2 135 (7.23%) VMware
3 109 (5.84%) Google
4 76 (4.07%) Red Hat
5 75 (4.02%) Databricks
6 61 (3.27%) Splunk
7 58 (3.11%) Cisco
8 47 (2.52%) Palo Alto
9 33 (1.77%) Oracle
10 27 (1.45%) Fortinet
10 27 (1.45%) OpenAI
11 26 (1.39%) Zscaler
12 21 (1.13%) Dynatrace
13 18 (0.96%) CrowdStrike
14 15 (0.80%) Salesforce
15 13 (0.70%) CheckPoint
15 13 (0.70%) Foundry
16 12 (0.64%) F5
17 11 (0.59%) Rapid7
17 11 (0.59%) ServiceNow