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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 156 157
Rank change year-on-year +80 +1 -54
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,167 1,032 1,535
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.16% 2.10% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.93% 2.34% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,464 703 1,156
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,250 £61,438 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,275 £107,250 £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 74,007 44,123 74,573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.62% 89.89% 81.72%
Number of salaries quoted 51,106 24,962 50,806
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 24 July 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 24 July 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 +77 1,908 £77,500 - 1,073
UK excluding London +107 1,127 £70,000 - 675
London +29 874 £90,000 - 532
Work from Home +72 776 £71,991 -7.11% 545
North of England +89 377 £70,039 +0.06% 240
South East +53 232 £67,500 -12.90% 152
North West +82 225 £74,651 +6.64% 130
South West +39 184 £75,000 - 112
Midlands +34 139 £75,000 +15.38% 72
Yorkshire +1 91 £71,250 +1.79% 62
West Midlands +5 83 £80,000 +23.08% 52
North East +6 61 £55,000 -18.52% 48
Northern Ireland -18 57 £73,801 +71.27% 18
East Midlands +12 56 £67,500 +3.85% 20
Wales -7 55 £70,039 +21.81% 22
East of England +8 51 £62,500 - 24
Scotland +19 41 £67,500 -6.57% 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 55 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (2.08%) Apache
3 44 (2.03%) Apache Spark
4 33 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (1.25%) Confluence
6 11 (0.51%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.46%) IIS
8 9 (0.42%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.23%) CMS
10 4 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.14%) WordPress
12 2 (0.092%) Camunda
12 2 (0.092%) nginx
12 2 (0.092%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.046%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.046%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.046%) Documentum
13 1 (0.046%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 20 (0.92%) PlantUML
2 11 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.092%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.092%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.092%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.046%) Maya
5 1 (0.046%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.046%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.14%) Summit
4 2 (0.092%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.092%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,217 (56.16%) AWS
2 1,197 (55.24%) Azure
3 390 (18.00%) GCP
4 383 (17.67%) GitHub
5 361 (16.66%) Serverless
6 331 (15.27%) AWS CloudFormation
7 314 (14.49%) Azure DevOps
8 217 (10.01%) GitHub Actions
9 200 (9.23%) AWS Lambda
10 194 (8.95%) Amazon S3
11 182 (8.40%) PaaS
12 138 (6.37%) Amazon EKS
13 136 (6.28%) Amazon EC2
14 129 (5.95%) IaaS
14 129 (5.95%) SaaS
15 123 (5.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 123 (5.68%) Amazon ECS
16 121 (5.58%) Microsoft 365
17 116 (5.35%) Azure AKS
18 109 (5.03%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 174 (8.03%) Firewall
2 113 (5.21%) WAN
3 112 (5.17%) DNS
4 106 (4.89%) VPN
5 105 (4.85%) Network Security
6 91 (4.20%) LAN
7 71 (3.28%) TCP/IP
8 57 (2.63%) Broadband
9 48 (2.22%) BGP
10 34 (1.57%) DHCP
10 34 (1.57%) VLAN
11 31 (1.43%) OSPF
12 25 (1.15%) VXLAN
13 23 (1.06%) SD-WAN
14 22 (1.02%) Software-Defined Networking
15 21 (0.97%) HTTP
16 13 (0.60%) Cisco ASA
17 12 (0.55%) Ethernet VPN
17 12 (0.55%) Wireless
18 11 (0.51%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (7.61%) PostgreSQL
2 143 (6.60%) NoSQL
3 99 (4.57%) Amazon RDS
4 93 (4.29%) MongoDB
5 74 (3.41%) DynamoDB
6 72 (3.32%) SQL Server
7 54 (2.49%) Data Lake
8 53 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
9 52 (2.40%) Metadata
10 50 (2.31%) MySQL
11 49 (2.26%) Relational Database
12 38 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
13 36 (1.66%) Redis
14 31 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
15 26 (1.20%) Delta Lake
16 24 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
16 24 (1.11%) BigQuery
17 23 (1.06%) Big Data
17 23 (1.06%) Power BI
18 21 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 287 (13.24%) Git
2 284 (13.11%) GitLab
3 246 (11.35%) Jenkins
4 44 (2.03%) JIRA
5 41 (1.89%) Cucumber
6 39 (1.80%) CircleCI
7 32 (1.48%) Bitbucket
8 27 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 26 (1.20%) TeamCity
10 18 (0.83%) Selenium
11 17 (0.78%) Claude Code
12 14 (0.65%) SonarQube
13 12 (0.55%) Subversion
14 11 (0.51%) MLflow
15 10 (0.46%) Maven
16 9 (0.42%) Cypress.io
16 9 (0.42%) JMeter
16 9 (0.42%) NUnit
17 8 (0.37%) MSI
17 8 (0.37%) Vite
General
1 585 (27.00%) Social Skills
2 488 (22.52%) Finance
3 186 (8.58%) Public Sector
4 164 (7.57%) Analytical Skills
5 113 (5.21%) Banking
6 110 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 97 (4.48%) Law
8 68 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
9 64 (2.95%) Retail
10 45 (2.08%) Games
11 35 (1.62%) Telecoms
12 33 (1.52%) Aerospace
13 30 (1.38%) Legal
13 30 (1.38%) Manufacturing
14 26 (1.20%) Marketing
15 21 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
15 21 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
16 20 (0.92%) Advertising
17 15 (0.69%) Financial Institution
18 10 (0.46%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 506 (23.35%) Senior
2 377 (17.40%) DevOps Engineer
3 306 (14.12%) Lead
4 291 (13.43%) Architect
5 269 (12.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 221 (10.20%) Platform Engineer
7 190 (8.77%) Developer
8 185 (8.54%) Azure Engineer
9 132 (6.09%) AWS Engineer
10 119 (5.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 119 (5.49%) Software Engineer
11 108 (4.98%) Data Engineer
12 101 (4.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 95 (4.38%) Principal Engineer
14 86 (3.97%) Security Engineer
15 82 (3.78%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 79 (3.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 76 (3.51%) Senior DevOps
18 69 (3.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 69 (3.18%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (7.89%) React
2 162 (7.48%) Kafka
3 154 (7.11%) .NET
4 140 (6.46%) Node.js
5 138 (6.37%) REST
6 127 (5.86%) Spring
6 127 (5.86%) Spring Boot
7 124 (5.72%) RESTful
8 86 (3.97%) AWS CDK
9 80 (3.69%) YAML
10 71 (3.28%) ARM Templates
11 70 (3.23%) PySpark
12 57 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
13 56 (2.58%) Elastic Stack
14 51 (2.35%) AngularJS
14 51 (2.35%) OAuth
15 50 (2.31%) Next.js
16 42 (1.94%) JSON
17 39 (1.80%) FastAPI
18 36 (1.66%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 616 (28.43%) Cloud Native
2 227 (10.48%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (4.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 103 (4.75%) Public Cloud
5 96 (4.43%) Onboarding
6 79 (3.65%) Data Centre
6 79 (3.65%) Product Ownership
7 61 (2.81%) Security Posture
8 59 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
9 54 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
10 49 (2.26%) Video\Live Streaming
11 46 (2.12%) Enterprise Cloud
12 40 (1.85%) Low-Code
13 39 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
14 31 (1.43%) PKI
15 30 (1.38%) e-Learning
16 28 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
17 27 (1.25%) Private Cloud
18 26 (1.20%) Management Information System
18 26 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 360 (16.61%) Linux
2 207 (9.55%) Windows
3 90 (4.15%) Windows Server
4 52 (2.40%) CentOS
5 41 (1.89%) Ubuntu
6 38 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 33 (1.52%) Unix
8 25 (1.15%) VMS
9 8 (0.37%) Android
10 7 (0.32%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.28%) Debian
11 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.092%) AIX
13 2 (0.092%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.046%) Rocky
14 1 (0.046%) Solaris
14 1 (0.046%) SUSE
14 1 (0.046%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,523 (70.28%) CI/CD
2 1,211 (55.88%) DevOps
3 649 (29.95%) Containerisation
4 603 (27.83%) Agile
5 597 (27.55%) Observability
6 494 (22.80%) Platform Engineering
7 465 (21.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 460 (21.23%) AI
8 460 (21.23%) Mentoring
9 420 (19.38%) Software Engineering
10 371 (17.12%) Microservices
11 367 (16.94%) Test Automation
12 359 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
13 345 (15.92%) Technical Leadership
14 306 (14.12%) Roadmaps
15 302 (13.94%) Cloud Security
16 277 (12.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 240 (11.08%) Event-Driven
18 233 (10.75%) Analytics
19 232 (10.71%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 944 (43.56%) Python
2 347 (16.01%) Bash
3 339 (15.64%) SQL
4 325 (15.00%) Java
5 316 (14.58%) PowerShell
6 216 (9.97%) Bicep
7 199 (9.18%) TypeScript
8 186 (8.58%) JavaScript
9 166 (7.66%) Go
10 164 (7.57%) C#
11 42 (1.94%) Ruby
12 38 (1.75%) PHP
13 27 (1.25%) Scala
14 26 (1.20%) Rust
15 24 (1.11%) C++
16 23 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
17 20 (0.92%) Groovy
17 20 (0.92%) Perl
18 11 (0.51%) Kotlin
18 11 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 481 (22.20%) Security Cleared
2 297 (13.71%) SC Cleared
3 183 (8.44%) Degree
4 149 (6.88%) AWS Certification
5 144 (6.65%) DV Cleared
6 125 (5.77%) Azure Certification
7 78 (3.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 73 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 55 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 47 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
11 31 (1.43%) CCNP
12 27 (1.25%) Master's Degree
13 23 (1.06%) CISSP
14 22 (1.02%) OSCP
15 18 (0.83%) CCNA
16 14 (0.65%) DBS Check
16 14 (0.65%) RHCSA
16 14 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
17 13 (0.60%) CCIE
18 11 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (5.31%) QA
2 94 (4.34%) Data Quality
3 69 (3.18%) GRC
4 62 (2.86%) GDPR
5 50 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (1.89%) Accessibility
7 38 (1.75%) SOC 2
8 34 (1.57%) NIST
9 32 (1.48%) PCI DSS
10 25 (1.15%) WCAG
11 20 (0.92%) NCSC
12 11 (0.51%) SLA
13 8 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.092%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.092%) IFRS
16 2 (0.092%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.092%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.092%) Solvency II
System Software
1 562 (25.93%) Docker
2 121 (5.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 117 (5.40%) Active Directory
4 43 (1.98%) vSphere
5 33 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.88%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.65%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.37%) Squid
10 7 (0.32%) Firmware
11 6 (0.28%) iptables
11 6 (0.28%) KVM
11 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.092%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,458 (67.28%) Terraform
2 816 (37.66%) Kubernetes
3 428 (19.75%) Ansible
4 235 (10.84%) Grafana
5 186 (8.58%) Prometheus
6 63 (2.91%) Argo
7 48 (2.22%) Puppet
8 38 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
9 37 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
10 32 (1.48%) Progress Chef
11 28 (1.29%) Packer
12 26 (1.20%) Istio
13 22 (1.02%) Nagios
14 15 (0.69%) FortiGate
15 13 (0.60%) vCenter Server
16 12 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 12 (0.55%) Cilium
16 12 (0.55%) Rancher
17 11 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
17 11 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 472 (21.78%) Microsoft
2 148 (6.83%) VMware
3 110 (5.08%) Google
4 87 (4.01%) Databricks
5 79 (3.65%) Red Hat
6 75 (3.46%) Splunk
7 67 (3.09%) Cisco
8 51 (2.35%) Oracle
8 51 (2.35%) Palo Alto
9 36 (1.66%) Fortinet
10 34 (1.57%) OpenAI
11 28 (1.29%) Dynatrace
12 27 (1.25%) Zscaler
13 17 (0.78%) CrowdStrike
14 14 (0.65%) F5
15 13 (0.60%) Salesforce
15 13 (0.60%) ServiceNow
16 12 (0.55%) Rapid7
16 12 (0.55%) ScienceLogic
17 11 (0.51%) Okta