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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 156 174
Rank change year-on-year +76 +18 -66
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,903 985 1,701
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.02% 2.19% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 2.37% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,288 650 1,295
10th Percentile £48,848 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,250 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £78,810 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +12.59% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £87,500
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 68,746 41,496 89,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.03% 92.46% 81.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,319 22,262 63,244
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,000
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 20 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 20 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 +71 1,743 £77,500 -1.66% 490
UK excluding London +90 900 £70,000 - 401
London +29 848 £87,500 -2.78% 214
Work from Home +81 678 £70,000 -9.68% 272
North of England +74 326 £67,500 -3.57% 99
South East +50 206 £70,000 -9.68% 139
North West +76 197 £72,500 - 56
South West +17 139 £75,000 +7.14% 58
Midlands +34 118 £73,000 +12.31% 41
Yorkshire -5 84 £65,576 -6.32% 25
West Midlands +14 67 £80,000 +14.29% 28
East of England +15 53 £60,100 -7.54% 17
East Midlands -2 51 £67,500 +3.85% 13
North East -12 45 £55,000 -14.06% 18
Scotland +7 33 £60,000 -20.19% 10
Wales -26 26 £70,000 +27.27% 9
Northern Ireland -29 3 £84,401 +95.86% 38

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 53 (2.79%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (2.21%) Apache
3 40 (2.10%) Apache Spark
4 33 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
5 23 (1.21%) Confluence
6 13 (0.68%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.53%) IIS
8 9 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.42%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.26%) CMS
11 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.16%) WordPress
13 2 (0.11%) Camunda
13 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.053%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.053%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.053%) NetWeaver
14 1 (0.053%) nginx
14 1 (0.053%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (0.84%) PlantUML
2 8 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.21%) Weka
4 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.053%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.053%) Maya
5 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.053%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.053%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.053%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,115 (58.59%) AWS
2 998 (52.44%) Azure
3 360 (18.92%) GitHub
4 333 (17.50%) Serverless
5 332 (17.45%) GCP
6 300 (15.76%) Azure DevOps
7 294 (15.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 217 (11.40%) GitHub Actions
9 185 (9.72%) AWS Lambda
10 180 (9.46%) Amazon S3
11 164 (8.62%) PaaS
12 129 (6.78%) Amazon EKS
13 126 (6.62%) SaaS
14 125 (6.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 125 (6.57%) IaaS
15 123 (6.46%) Amazon EC2
16 119 (6.25%) Entra ID
17 111 (5.83%) Azure AKS
18 101 (5.31%) Datadog
19 98 (5.15%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 178 (9.35%) Firewall
2 102 (5.36%) DNS
3 94 (4.94%) VPN
4 75 (3.94%) Broadband
5 74 (3.89%) Network Security
6 65 (3.42%) TCP/IP
7 49 (2.57%) WAN
8 40 (2.10%) BGP
9 32 (1.68%) DHCP
9 32 (1.68%) VLAN
10 27 (1.42%) LAN
11 23 (1.21%) HTTP
12 22 (1.16%) OSPF
13 20 (1.05%) Software-Defined Networking
14 19 (1.00%) SD-WAN
15 17 (0.89%) VXLAN
16 15 (0.79%) Cisco ASA
16 15 (0.79%) DSL
17 10 (0.53%) IPv4
18 9 (0.47%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (7.62%) PostgreSQL
2 138 (7.25%) NoSQL
3 93 (4.89%) Amazon RDS
4 89 (4.68%) MongoDB
5 66 (3.47%) DynamoDB
6 64 (3.36%) SQL Server
7 59 (3.10%) Relational Database
8 52 (2.73%) Data Lake
9 51 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
10 46 (2.42%) Metadata
11 40 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
12 32 (1.68%) MySQL
13 29 (1.52%) BigQuery
13 29 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
13 29 (1.52%) Redis
14 25 (1.31%) Power BI
15 24 (1.26%) Delta Lake
16 21 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
16 21 (1.10%) RDBMS
17 20 (1.05%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 266 (13.98%) GitLab
2 248 (13.03%) Git
3 235 (12.35%) Jenkins
4 45 (2.36%) CircleCI
5 38 (2.00%) JIRA
6 37 (1.94%) Cucumber
7 34 (1.79%) Bitbucket
8 25 (1.31%) TeamCity
9 20 (1.05%) Jaeger
10 16 (0.84%) SonarQube
11 14 (0.74%) Selenium
12 13 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 13 (0.68%) MLflow
13 12 (0.63%) Subversion
14 10 (0.53%) Maven
14 10 (0.53%) NUnit
15 9 (0.47%) JMeter
15 9 (0.47%) Vite
16 8 (0.42%) Claude Code
17 7 (0.37%) Cypress.io
General
1 455 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 386 (20.28%) Finance
3 133 (6.99%) Public Sector
4 132 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
5 110 (5.78%) Banking
6 97 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (3.15%) Law
8 59 (3.10%) Retail
9 44 (2.31%) Games
10 39 (2.05%) Telecoms
11 30 (1.58%) Manufacturing
12 27 (1.42%) Aerospace
13 23 (1.21%) Legal
14 21 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
15 20 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
16 16 (0.84%) Advertising
16 16 (0.84%) Financial Institution
16 16 (0.84%) Marketing
17 15 (0.79%) Billing
18 11 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 434 (22.81%) Senior
2 319 (16.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 277 (14.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 268 (14.08%) Lead
5 209 (10.98%) Platform Engineer
6 191 (10.04%) Architect
7 180 (9.46%) Azure Engineer
8 173 (9.09%) Developer
9 143 (7.51%) AWS Engineer
10 120 (6.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 101 (5.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 99 (5.20%) Data Engineer
13 98 (5.15%) Software Engineer
14 86 (4.52%) Security Engineer
15 77 (4.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 73 (3.84%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 69 (3.63%) Principal Engineer
18 64 (3.36%) Senior DevOps
19 61 (3.21%) Senior Developer
20 59 (3.10%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (7.72%) React
2 136 (7.15%) Kafka
3 127 (6.67%) .NET
3 127 (6.67%) REST
4 126 (6.62%) Node.js
5 104 (5.47%) RESTful
6 92 (4.83%) Spring
7 88 (4.62%) Spring Boot
8 84 (4.41%) YAML
9 77 (4.05%) AWS CDK
10 75 (3.94%) Elastic Stack
11 64 (3.36%) PySpark
12 63 (3.31%) ARM Templates
13 54 (2.84%) RabbitMQ
14 53 (2.79%) OAuth
15 45 (2.36%) Next.js
16 44 (2.31%) AngularJS
17 43 (2.26%) OpenTelemetry
18 40 (2.10%) JSON
19 36 (1.89%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 523 (27.48%) Cloud Native
2 174 (9.14%) Distributed Systems
3 102 (5.36%) Hybrid Cloud
4 90 (4.73%) Public Cloud
5 67 (3.52%) Data Centre
6 66 (3.47%) Product Ownership
7 65 (3.42%) Onboarding
8 62 (3.26%) Security Posture
9 55 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
10 48 (2.52%) Video\Live Streaming
11 40 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
12 36 (1.89%) Low-Code
13 29 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
13 29 (1.52%) PKI
14 27 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
15 26 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
16 25 (1.31%) Management Information System
17 24 (1.26%) Blockchain
18 23 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
19 22 (1.16%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 355 (18.65%) Linux
2 182 (9.56%) Windows
3 86 (4.52%) Windows Server
4 50 (2.63%) Unix
5 46 (2.42%) Ubuntu
6 40 (2.10%) CentOS
7 29 (1.52%) VMS
8 27 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (0.79%) Android
10 14 (0.74%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.37%) Debian
13 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.053%) AIX
15 1 (0.053%) Rocky
15 1 (0.053%) SUSE
15 1 (0.053%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,348 (70.84%) CI/CD
2 1,089 (57.23%) DevOps
3 535 (28.11%) Agile
4 531 (27.90%) Observability
5 523 (27.48%) Containerisation
6 424 (22.28%) Platform Engineering
7 405 (21.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 404 (21.23%) Mentoring
9 388 (20.39%) AI
10 344 (18.08%) Software Engineering
11 332 (17.45%) Test Automation
12 315 (16.55%) Microservices
13 290 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
14 267 (14.03%) Cloud Security
15 265 (13.93%) Technical Leadership
16 250 (13.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 229 (12.03%) Analytics
18 211 (11.09%) Roadmaps
19 205 (10.77%) DevSecOps
20 186 (9.77%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 868 (45.61%) Python
2 343 (18.02%) Bash
3 300 (15.76%) SQL
4 299 (15.71%) PowerShell
5 277 (14.56%) Java
6 184 (9.67%) Go
7 183 (9.62%) TypeScript
8 181 (9.51%) JavaScript
9 179 (9.41%) Bicep
10 142 (7.46%) C#
11 30 (1.58%) Rust
12 26 (1.37%) C++
13 25 (1.31%) Scala
14 22 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
15 21 (1.10%) PHP
16 19 (1.00%) Groovy
17 18 (0.95%) Ruby
18 11 (0.58%) Kotlin
19 10 (0.53%) C
20 9 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 394 (20.70%) Security Cleared
2 249 (13.08%) SC Cleared
3 165 (8.67%) Degree
4 144 (7.57%) AWS Certification
5 107 (5.62%) Azure Certification
6 104 (5.47%) DV Cleared
7 65 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 51 (2.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 48 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 36 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
11 27 (1.42%) OSCP
12 21 (1.10%) CCNP
12 21 (1.10%) CISSP
13 18 (0.95%) Master's Degree
14 16 (0.84%) CCNA
14 16 (0.84%) DBS Check
15 13 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 13 (0.68%) RHCSA
16 10 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
17 9 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (4.99%) QA
2 82 (4.31%) Data Quality
3 60 (3.15%) GDPR
4 51 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 45 (2.36%) SOC 2
6 36 (1.89%) NIST
7 32 (1.68%) Accessibility
8 31 (1.63%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.89%) WCAG
10 15 (0.79%) SLA
11 13 (0.68%) NCSC
12 11 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.53%) GRC
14 5 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
16 2 (0.11%) IFRS
16 2 (0.11%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.11%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 511 (26.85%) Docker
2 119 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 107 (5.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (2.21%) vSphere
5 39 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (1.10%) VMware NSX
7 19 (1.00%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.42%) Squid
11 7 (0.37%) iptables
12 6 (0.32%) Firmware
12 6 (0.32%) KVM
12 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
14 1 (0.053%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,325 (69.63%) Terraform
2 734 (38.57%) Kubernetes
3 401 (21.07%) Ansible
4 230 (12.09%) Grafana
5 214 (11.25%) Prometheus
6 73 (3.84%) Argo
7 44 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
8 43 (2.26%) Puppet
9 41 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
10 29 (1.52%) Progress Chef
11 27 (1.42%) Packer
12 25 (1.31%) Kustomize
13 21 (1.10%) Istio
13 21 (1.10%) Nagios
14 17 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 15 (0.79%) ZABBIX
16 14 (0.74%) vCenter Server
17 13 (0.68%) Rancher
18 12 (0.63%) Cilium
19 11 (0.58%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 356 (18.71%) Microsoft
2 142 (7.46%) VMware
3 109 (5.73%) Google
4 79 (4.15%) Databricks
5 75 (3.94%) Red Hat
6 62 (3.26%) Splunk
7 58 (3.05%) Cisco
8 47 (2.47%) Palo Alto
9 35 (1.84%) Oracle
10 29 (1.52%) OpenAI
11 28 (1.47%) Fortinet
12 25 (1.31%) Zscaler
13 23 (1.21%) Dynatrace
14 17 (0.89%) CrowdStrike
15 13 (0.68%) Salesforce
16 12 (0.63%) F5
16 12 (0.63%) Foundry
17 11 (0.58%) CheckPoint
17 11 (0.58%) ServiceNow
18 10 (0.53%) Atlassian