Infrastructure as Code Jobs

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 162 101
Rank change year-on-year +2 -61 -5
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 941 1,713 3,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.86% 1.84% 3.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 2.13% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 692 1,334 2,308
10th Percentile £46,292 £50,000 £48,091
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,597 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,640 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.33% -3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £93,778 £93,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £113,625 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +8.00%

All Process and 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 47,277 80,571 105,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.52% 86.76% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 25,823 58,144 61,428
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £99,404 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -8.26% +3.81%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code.

Salary trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 3 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Top 18 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 3 April 2025. 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 +7 864 £77,500 +6.90% 1,438
London +17 446 £90,000 - 951
UK excluding London -15 441 £70,000 +7.69% 616
Work from Home -5 372 £75,360 +6.78% 858
North of England -4 168 £67,500 +7.51% 174
North West -21 101 £72,500 +11.54% 114
South East +44 100 £73,750 +9.26% 201
South West 0 65 £71,991 -0.22% 91
Yorkshire +42 52 £57,500 -8.21% 51
Midlands -21 48 £65,000 - 38
Scotland +65 40 £70,500 +2.17% 41
West Midlands -14 39 £70,000 +3.70% 18
East of England +21 17 £71,250 +8.58% 32
North East +14 15 £57,500 -8.41% 11
East Midlands +6 9 £65,000 +8.33% 20
Wales +30 7 £60,000 -7.69% 16
Northern Ireland +32 4 - - 23
Isle of Man +11 2 £34,500 -

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (1.70%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.17%) Confluence
4 11 (1.17%) nginx
5 10 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.96%) Apache
7 5 (0.53%) NetWeaver
7 5 (0.53%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.53%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.43%) CMS
8 4 (0.43%) IBM Domino
8 4 (0.43%) IIS
8 4 (0.43%) Luigi
9 3 (0.32%) WordPress
10 2 (0.21%) CICS
10 2 (0.21%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.11%) Liferay
Applications
1 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.21%) Simulink
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.53%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 3 (0.32%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.21%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.11%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 530 (56.32%) Azure
2 504 (53.56%) AWS
3 230 (24.44%) GCP
4 142 (15.09%) Serverless
5 140 (14.88%) GitHub
6 137 (14.56%) Azure DevOps
7 114 (12.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 99 (10.52%) PaaS
9 93 (9.88%) SaaS
10 90 (9.56%) AWS Lambda
11 82 (8.71%) Amazon S3
12 61 (6.48%) Amazon EKS
13 60 (6.38%) Entra ID
14 58 (6.16%) GitHub Actions
15 57 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
16 55 (5.84%) IaaS
17 49 (5.21%) Datadog
18 46 (4.89%) Azure Monitor
19 43 (4.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 43 (4.57%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (7.01%) Firewall
2 52 (5.53%) DNS
3 49 (5.21%) VPN
4 43 (4.57%) Network Security
5 17 (1.81%) WAN
6 15 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (1.38%) TCP/IP
8 12 (1.28%) 5G
9 11 (1.17%) Bluetooth
9 11 (1.17%) LTE
10 10 (1.06%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.96%) DHCP
11 9 (0.96%) LAN
12 8 (0.85%) SAN
13 7 (0.74%) IPsec
13 7 (0.74%) IPv4
14 6 (0.64%) Internet
14 6 (0.64%) VLAN
14 6 (0.64%) Wireless
15 5 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (5.53%) NoSQL
2 49 (5.21%) SQL Server
3 40 (4.25%) DynamoDB
4 31 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
4 31 (3.29%) MySQL
5 27 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
5 27 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
6 23 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (2.23%) Big Data
8 20 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
8 20 (2.13%) MongoDB
9 19 (2.02%) BigQuery
9 19 (2.02%) Data Lake
10 15 (1.59%) Power BI
11 12 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (1.28%) Relational Database
12 11 (1.17%) Hadoop
13 10 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
13 10 (1.06%) Redis
14 9 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 150 (15.94%) Jenkins
2 122 (12.96%) Git
3 101 (10.73%) GitLab
4 34 (3.61%) SonarQube
5 31 (3.29%) Sonatype Nexus
6 30 (3.19%) Maven
7 29 (3.08%) CircleCI
8 27 (2.87%) JUnit
9 22 (2.34%) JIRA
10 19 (2.02%) Cucumber
10 19 (2.02%) TeamCity
11 14 (1.49%) IntelliJ
12 13 (1.38%) Bitbucket
12 13 (1.38%) Mockito
13 8 (0.85%) Artifactory
14 7 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
15 6 (0.64%) Terragrunt
16 5 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
17 3 (0.32%) MLflow
18 2 (0.21%) Storybook
General
1 278 (29.54%) Social Skills
2 249 (26.46%) Finance
3 88 (9.35%) Banking
4 45 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (4.46%) Public Sector
6 40 (4.25%) Law
7 37 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 28 (2.98%) Telecoms
9 27 (2.87%) Legal
10 20 (2.13%) Games
11 15 (1.59%) Advertising
11 15 (1.59%) Electronics
11 15 (1.59%) Retail
12 13 (1.38%) Marketing
13 11 (1.17%) Financial Institution
14 10 (1.06%) Investment Banking
14 10 (1.06%) Local Government
15 9 (0.96%) Front Office
16 8 (0.85%) Automotive
16 8 (0.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 191 (20.30%) Senior
2 175 (18.60%) DevOps Engineer
3 156 (16.58%) Cloud Engineer
4 136 (14.45%) Lead
5 110 (11.69%) Architect
5 110 (11.69%) Platform Engineer
6 93 (9.88%) Azure Engineer
7 81 (8.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 80 (8.50%) Software Engineer
9 64 (6.80%) Developer
10 53 (5.63%) AWS Engineer
11 50 (5.31%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 48 (5.10%) Cloud Architect
13 47 (4.99%) Senior DevOps
14 40 (4.25%) AWS DevOps
15 39 (4.14%) Data Engineer
16 38 (4.04%) Security Engineer
17 36 (3.83%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 34 (3.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 32 (3.40%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (7.23%) .NET
2 66 (7.01%) ARM Templates
3 56 (5.95%) REST
4 55 (5.84%) React
5 51 (5.42%) Elastic Stack
5 51 (5.42%) Kafka
6 49 (5.21%) Node.js
7 44 (4.68%) Spring
7 44 (4.68%) Spring Boot
8 41 (4.36%) RESTful
9 31 (3.29%) AWS CDK
10 29 (3.08%) AngularJS
11 21 (2.23%) CSS
12 19 (2.02%) HTML
12 19 (2.02%) YAML
13 18 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
14 15 (1.59%) Web Services
15 14 (1.49%) Azure Blueprints
15 14 (1.49%) GraphQL
15 14 (1.49%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 135 (14.35%) Cloud Native
2 111 (11.80%) Public Cloud
3 69 (7.33%) Management Information System
4 54 (5.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 47 (4.99%) Product Ownership
6 40 (4.25%) Distributed Systems
7 35 (3.72%) Security Posture
8 29 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
9 25 (2.66%) Data Centre
10 17 (1.81%) IoT
10 17 (1.81%) Private Cloud
11 16 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.59%) PKI
12 15 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.38%) Credit Derivative
13 13 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.38%) Onboarding
14 12 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
15 11 (1.17%) Hedge funds
15 11 (1.17%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 221 (23.49%) Linux
2 137 (14.56%) Windows
3 55 (5.84%) Windows Server
4 27 (2.87%) Unix
5 24 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (1.91%) VMS
7 12 (1.28%) CentOS
8 6 (0.64%) Android
8 6 (0.64%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.53%) AIX
10 4 (0.43%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.32%) Debian
11 3 (0.32%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.32%) zOS
12 2 (0.21%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.21%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 634 (67.38%) CI/CD
2 599 (63.66%) DevOps
3 256 (27.21%) Containerisation
4 214 (22.74%) Agile
5 167 (17.75%) Software Engineering
6 161 (17.11%) Platform Engineering
7 152 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
8 148 (15.73%) Cloud Security
9 143 (15.20%) Analytics
10 136 (14.45%) Mentoring
11 135 (14.35%) Microservices
12 116 (12.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 105 (11.16%) Deployment Automation
14 100 (10.63%) Roadmaps
15 99 (10.52%) Continuous Improvement
16 86 (9.14%) High Availability
17 85 (9.03%) Test Automation
18 81 (8.61%) Configuration Management
18 81 (8.61%) Observability
19 77 (8.18%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 436 (46.33%) Python
2 218 (23.17%) PowerShell
3 158 (16.79%) Bash
4 150 (15.94%) Java
5 124 (13.18%) SQL
6 101 (10.73%) Bicep
7 79 (8.40%) JavaScript
8 70 (7.44%) TypeScript
9 64 (6.80%) Go
10 52 (5.53%) C#
11 35 (3.72%) Ruby
12 22 (2.34%) Scala
13 19 (2.02%) C++
14 9 (0.96%) C
15 8 (0.85%) R
16 7 (0.74%) Perl
16 7 (0.74%) PHP
16 7 (0.74%) Rust
16 7 (0.74%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 123 (13.07%) Degree
2 99 (10.52%) Security Cleared
3 72 (7.65%) Azure Certification
4 68 (7.23%) AWS Certification
5 65 (6.91%) SC Cleared
6 50 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 33 (3.51%) DV Cleared
8 32 (3.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (3.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 26 (2.76%) Master's Degree
11 12 (1.28%) CISSP
12 11 (1.17%) CompTIA Security+
12 11 (1.17%) Network+ Certification
13 10 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 7 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.64%) CCSP
16 6 (0.64%) CISM
16 6 (0.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 5 (0.53%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (7.12%) GDPR
2 39 (4.14%) QA
3 33 (3.51%) NIST
4 30 (3.19%) HIPAA
4 30 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (2.34%) PCI DSS
6 19 (2.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 16 (1.70%) Data Quality
8 13 (1.38%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.74%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.11%) Basel III
12 1 (0.11%) IFRS
12 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.11%) NCSC
12 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 321 (34.11%) Docker
2 66 (7.01%) Active Directory
3 57 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 48 (5.10%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (2.55%) vSphere
6 16 (1.70%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (1.49%) Hyper-V
8 12 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.32%) LXC
10 2 (0.21%) HDFS
10 2 (0.21%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.11%) GPFS
11 1 (0.11%) Lustre
11 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 684 (72.69%) Terraform
2 424 (45.06%) Kubernetes
3 278 (29.54%) Ansible
4 81 (8.61%) Grafana
5 78 (8.29%) Prometheus
6 76 (8.08%) Puppet
7 58 (6.16%) Progress Chef
8 32 (3.40%) Istio
9 23 (2.44%) Podman
10 19 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
11 16 (1.70%) Argo
12 13 (1.38%) CASB
13 9 (0.96%) vCenter Server
14 8 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 8 (0.85%) SCCM
14 8 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
15 7 (0.74%) Kibana
15 7 (0.74%) Nagios
16 6 (0.64%) Kustomize
16 6 (0.64%) linkerd
Vendors
1 179 (19.02%) Microsoft
2 82 (8.71%) Google
3 70 (7.44%) VMware
4 39 (4.14%) Databricks
5 30 (3.19%) IBM
6 25 (2.66%) Splunk
7 22 (2.34%) Cisco
8 20 (2.13%) Oracle
8 20 (2.13%) Red Hat
9 16 (1.70%) Atlassian
10 12 (1.28%) SAP
11 10 (1.06%) SolarWinds
12 9 (0.96%) Citrix
12 9 (0.96%) Palo Alto
13 7 (0.74%) Meraki
14 6 (0.64%) Dell
14 6 (0.64%) MicroStrategy
14 6 (0.64%) ServiceNow
15 5 (0.53%) Hitachi
15 5 (0.53%) OpenAI