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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 159 169
Rank change year-on-year +61 +10 -61
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,694 932 1,675
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.84% 2.11% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.49% 2.27% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,112 661 1,319
10th Percentile £49,440 £48,500 £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 £96,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £108,625 £110,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,450 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.21% +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 67,959 41,142 82,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.66% 93.29% 84.82%
Number of salaries quoted 43,928 22,326 59,700
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,269 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% +5.94% -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 20 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 20 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 1,530 £77,500 - 764
UK excluding London +53 773 £68,450 -2.21% 536
London +37 770 £87,500 -2.78% 336
Work from Home +80 609 £70,000 -6.67% 430
North of England +44 283 £67,249 -3.93% 171
South East +41 170 £70,000 -8.20% 169
North West +54 160 £72,000 -0.69% 90
South West -15 108 £69,200 -3.88% 85
Midlands +24 107 £69,000 -1.43% 37
Yorkshire -14 88 £65,576 +0.89% 45
West Midlands -9 56 £72,500 +3.57% 20
East Midlands +4 49 £67,500 +3.85% 17
Scotland +13 44 £60,000 -19.93% 22
East of England +1 41 £60,100 -7.54% 48
North East -14 35 £50,000 -17.01% 36
Wales -14 18 £60,000 -2.64% 8
Northern Ireland -33 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 48 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (2.24%) Apache
3 31 (1.83%) 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 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.059%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.059%) Camunda
13 1 (0.059%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.059%) nginx
13 1 (0.059%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.059%) OpenStack
13 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
1 989 (58.38%) AWS
2 911 (53.78%) Azure
3 332 (19.60%) GitHub
4 316 (18.65%) GCP
5 308 (18.18%) Serverless
6 297 (17.53%) Azure DevOps
7 266 (15.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 220 (12.99%) GitHub Actions
9 179 (10.57%) AWS Lambda
10 155 (9.15%) Amazon S3
11 130 (7.67%) PaaS
12 122 (7.20%) Amazon EKS
13 115 (6.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 115 (6.79%) Entra ID
14 109 (6.43%) SaaS
15 101 (5.96%) Amazon EC2
15 101 (5.96%) Datadog
16 100 (5.90%) IaaS
17 89 (5.25%) Azure AKS
18 87 (5.14%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 176 (10.39%) Firewall
2 96 (5.67%) DNS
3 73 (4.31%) VPN
4 68 (4.01%) TCP/IP
5 58 (3.42%) Broadband
6 53 (3.13%) Network Security
7 46 (2.72%) WAN
8 36 (2.13%) DHCP
9 32 (1.89%) BGP
10 26 (1.53%) 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%) VXLAN
17 9 (0.53%) Internet
18 8 (0.47%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (7.32%) NoSQL
2 118 (6.97%) PostgreSQL
3 89 (5.25%) Amazon RDS
4 74 (4.37%) MongoDB
5 68 (4.01%) DynamoDB
6 65 (3.84%) SQL Server
7 52 (3.07%) Relational Database
8 51 (3.01%) Data Lake
9 47 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
10 38 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
11 35 (2.07%) Metadata
12 31 (1.83%) BigQuery
13 28 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
14 27 (1.59%) MySQL
15 20 (1.18%) Delta Lake
15 20 (1.18%) Redis
16 19 (1.12%) Power BI
17 18 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
17 18 (1.06%) RDBMS
18 16 (0.94%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 232 (13.70%) GitLab
2 228 (13.46%) Git
3 224 (13.22%) 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 (0.94%) Selenium
9 16 (0.94%) SonarQube
9 16 (0.94%) TeamCity
10 12 (0.71%) Subversion
11 11 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 11 (0.65%) MLflow
12 9 (0.53%) Maven
12 9 (0.53%) NUnit
12 9 (0.53%) Storybook
13 8 (0.47%) JMeter
13 8 (0.47%) Robot Framework
14 7 (0.41%) Vite
General
1 417 (24.62%) Social Skills
2 362 (21.37%) Finance
3 117 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (6.38%) Public Sector
5 101 (5.96%) Banking
6 77 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 62 (3.66%) Retail
8 52 (3.07%) Law
9 47 (2.77%) Telecoms
10 36 (2.13%) Games
11 30 (1.77%) Manufacturing
12 23 (1.36%) Aerospace
13 22 (1.30%) Marketing
14 20 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (1.18%) Legal
15 19 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
16 18 (1.06%) Advertising
16 18 (1.06%) Billing
17 16 (0.94%) Financial Institution
18 12 (0.71%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 379 (22.37%) Senior
2 273 (16.12%) DevOps Engineer
3 250 (14.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 238 (14.05%) Lead
5 168 (9.92%) Azure Engineer
6 165 (9.74%) Platform Engineer
7 158 (9.33%) Architect
7 158 (9.33%) Developer
8 125 (7.38%) AWS Engineer
9 119 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 88 (5.19%) Data Engineer
10 88 (5.19%) Software Engineer
11 76 (4.49%) Security Engineer
12 73 (4.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 69 (4.07%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 63 (3.72%) Senior DevOps
15 55 (3.25%) Principal Engineer
15 55 (3.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 53 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 50 (2.95%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (8.21%) React
2 121 (7.14%) Node.js
3 118 (6.97%) .NET
3 118 (6.97%) Kafka
4 110 (6.49%) REST
5 101 (5.96%) RESTful
6 81 (4.78%) YAML
7 80 (4.72%) AWS CDK
8 73 (4.31%) Spring
9 68 (4.01%) Elastic Stack
10 67 (3.96%) Spring Boot
11 64 (3.78%) OAuth
12 54 (3.19%) ARM Templates
13 52 (3.07%) PySpark
14 51 (3.01%) RabbitMQ
15 41 (2.42%) JSON
16 38 (2.24%) ASP.NET
17 37 (2.18%) AngularJS
18 36 (2.13%) ASP.NET Core
18 36 (2.13%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 411 (24.26%) Cloud Native
2 133 (7.85%) Distributed Systems
3 90 (5.31%) Hybrid Cloud
4 73 (4.31%) Public Cloud
5 60 (3.54%) Product Ownership
6 55 (3.25%) Data Centre
7 52 (3.07%) Security Posture
8 47 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
9 43 (2.54%) Onboarding
10 35 (2.07%) Video\Live Streaming
11 32 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
12 30 (1.77%) Low-Code
13 25 (1.48%) Blockchain
13 25 (1.48%) Management Information System
13 25 (1.48%) Mobile App
13 25 (1.48%) PKI
14 24 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
14 24 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
15 23 (1.36%) Web3
16 21 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 332 (19.60%) Linux
2 163 (9.62%) Windows
3 79 (4.66%) Windows Server
4 56 (3.31%) Unix
5 41 (2.42%) Ubuntu
6 32 (1.89%) CentOS
7 26 (1.53%) 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 1,188 (70.13%) CI/CD
2 1,009 (59.56%) DevOps
3 469 (27.69%) Agile
4 461 (27.21%) Observability
5 459 (27.10%) Containerisation
6 367 (21.66%) Continuous Improvement
7 351 (20.72%) Mentoring
8 340 (20.07%) Platform Engineering
9 309 (18.24%) AI
10 308 (18.18%) Test Automation
11 288 (17.00%) Software Engineering
12 270 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
13 262 (15.47%) Microservices
14 228 (13.46%) Cloud Security
14 228 (13.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 213 (12.57%) Technical Leadership
16 198 (11.69%) Analytics
17 184 (10.86%) DevSecOps
18 177 (10.45%) High Availability
19 170 (10.04%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 773 (45.63%) Python
2 300 (17.71%) Bash
3 268 (15.82%) PowerShell
4 265 (15.64%) SQL
5 239 (14.11%) Java
6 171 (10.09%) Go
7 166 (9.80%) JavaScript
8 160 (9.45%) TypeScript
9 139 (8.21%) Bicep
10 123 (7.26%) C#
11 29 (1.71%) Rust
12 28 (1.65%) C++
13 22 (1.30%) Scala
14 16 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
15 15 (0.89%) Groovy
16 14 (0.83%) PHP
17 13 (0.77%) C
18 12 (0.71%) Kotlin
19 9 (0.53%) Shell Script
20 8 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 327 (19.30%) Security Cleared
2 201 (11.87%) SC Cleared
3 152 (8.97%) Degree
4 135 (7.97%) AWS Certification
5 93 (5.49%) DV Cleared
6 89 (5.25%) Azure Certification
7 57 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 37 (2.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 31 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 28 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
10 28 (1.65%) OSCP
11 22 (1.30%) CISSP
12 16 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
12 16 (0.94%) CCNP
12 16 (0.94%) 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%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 10 (0.59%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (4.96%) QA
2 70 (4.13%) Data Quality
3 63 (3.72%) GDPR
4 51 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 48 (2.83%) SOC 2
6 40 (2.36%) NIST
7 31 (1.83%) Accessibility
8 29 (1.71%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.77%) SLA
10 12 (0.71%) 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
1 474 (27.98%) Docker
2 104 (6.14%) Active Directory
3 83 (4.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
5 30 (1.77%) vSphere
6 20 (1.18%) VMware NSX
7 18 (1.06%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.47%) 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 1,171 (69.13%) Terraform
2 653 (38.55%) Kubernetes
3 362 (21.37%) Ansible
4 218 (12.87%) Grafana
5 206 (12.16%) Prometheus
6 58 (3.42%) Argo
7 42 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 42 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
8 39 (2.30%) Puppet
9 25 (1.48%) Progress Chef
10 22 (1.30%) Kustomize
11 19 (1.12%) Nagios
12 18 (1.06%) Rancher
13 17 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 17 (1.00%) Istio
13 17 (1.00%) Packer
14 12 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
15 10 (0.59%) vCenter Server
15 10 (0.59%) ZABBIX
16 9 (0.53%) yum
Vendors
1 314 (18.54%) Microsoft
2 119 (7.02%) VMware
3 108 (6.38%) Google
4 74 (4.37%) Databricks
5 67 (3.96%) Red Hat
6 57 (3.36%) Cisco
7 48 (2.83%) Splunk
8 46 (2.72%) Palo Alto
9 24 (1.42%) Zscaler
10 22 (1.30%) OpenAI
10 22 (1.30%) Salesforce
11 21 (1.24%) CrowdStrike
11 21 (1.24%) Dynatrace
12 20 (1.18%) Fortinet
13 19 (1.12%) Oracle
14 12 (0.71%) CheckPoint
14 12 (0.71%) F5
15 11 (0.65%) Atlassian
15 11 (0.65%) Foundry
15 11 (0.65%) Juniper