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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 158 126
Rank change year-on-year +83 -32 -38
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,553 1,005 1,544
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.16% 2.03% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.96% 2.28% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,631 715 933
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £44,738
25th Percentile £60,993 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.04%
75th Percentile £91,250 £94,375 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £69,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.45% +6.15% -3.70%

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 86,281 44,107 61,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.16% 89.14% 81.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,444 24,402 33,284
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,274
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.62% -2.88%
75th Percentile £79,091 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 +80 2,217 £77,500 +3.33% 2,467
UK excluding London +108 1,391 £70,000 +1.45% 1,311
London +30 963 £90,000 +5.88% 1,309
Work from Home +51 823 £75,000 +3.45% 1,089
North of England +97 498 £70,000 - 396
North West +104 273 £72,245 +13.33% 248
South East +47 251 £67,500 -15.63% 203
South West +49 248 £75,000 +7.14% 230
Midlands +32 154 £75,000 +15.83% 172
North East +22 124 £60,000 -17.24% 60
Yorkshire +7 107 £68,903 -1.57% 91
West Midlands +2 96 £84,387 +35.56% 102
Wales -6 80 £70,000 +19.15% 48
Northern Ireland -30 61 £71,991 +67.07% 34
East Midlands +5 58 £65,000 - 70
East of England -5 58 £75,000 +15.38% 91
Scotland +22 53 £72,500 +7.41% 146

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 64 (2.51%) Apache
2 63 (2.47%) Apache Spark
3 57 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 30 (1.18%) Confluence
6 15 (0.59%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.51%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.35%) CMS
9 8 (0.31%) IIS
9 8 (0.31%) nginx
9 8 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.20%) Camunda
11 4 (0.16%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.12%) WordPress
13 2 (0.078%) Cloud Foundry
14 1 (0.039%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.039%) NServiceBus
14 1 (0.039%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 21 (0.82%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.078%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.039%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.039%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) Summit
4 2 (0.078%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.078%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.078%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.039%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1,438 (56.33%) AWS
2 1,370 (53.66%) Azure
3 525 (20.56%) GCP
4 464 (18.17%) GitHub
5 408 (15.98%) AWS CloudFormation
6 394 (15.43%) Serverless
7 333 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
8 257 (10.07%) GitHub Actions
9 215 (8.42%) AWS Lambda
10 214 (8.38%) Amazon S3
11 185 (7.25%) PaaS
12 158 (6.19%) Amazon EKS
13 152 (5.95%) Amazon EC2
14 151 (5.91%) Amazon ECS
15 144 (5.64%) SaaS
16 143 (5.60%) Azure AKS
17 139 (5.44%) Entra ID
18 137 (5.37%) Cloud Computing
19 135 (5.29%) IaaS
20 132 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 180 (7.05%) Firewall
2 140 (5.48%) VPN
3 139 (5.44%) DNS
4 120 (4.70%) Network Security
5 118 (4.62%) WAN
6 91 (3.56%) LAN
7 67 (2.62%) TCP/IP
8 55 (2.15%) BGP
9 52 (2.04%) DHCP
10 43 (1.68%) Internet
11 42 (1.65%) Broadband
12 39 (1.53%) OSPF
13 31 (1.21%) VLAN
14 28 (1.10%) VXLAN
15 26 (1.02%) Software-Defined Networking
16 24 (0.94%) SD-WAN
17 16 (0.63%) SAN
17 16 (0.63%) Wireless
18 15 (0.59%) Ethernet VPN
18 15 (0.59%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (7.79%) PostgreSQL
2 165 (6.46%) NoSQL
3 120 (4.70%) Amazon RDS
4 106 (4.15%) MongoDB
5 90 (3.53%) SQL Server
6 79 (3.09%) DynamoDB
7 74 (2.90%) MySQL
8 72 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
9 65 (2.55%) Data Lake
10 53 (2.08%) Metadata
11 52 (2.04%) Redis
12 51 (2.00%) Relational Database
13 44 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
14 34 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
15 31 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
15 31 (1.21%) Big Data
16 30 (1.18%) Delta Lake
16 30 (1.18%) Power BI
17 25 (0.98%) BigQuery
18 23 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 375 (14.69%) Git
2 314 (12.30%) GitLab
3 275 (10.77%) Jenkins
4 60 (2.35%) JIRA
5 52 (2.04%) Cucumber
6 34 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 30 (1.18%) TeamCity
8 24 (0.94%) Bitbucket
8 24 (0.94%) Claude Code
9 20 (0.78%) CircleCI
10 19 (0.74%) Selenium
10 19 (0.74%) SonarQube
11 15 (0.59%) Cypress.io
12 14 (0.55%) Subversion
13 13 (0.51%) Artifactory
14 12 (0.47%) Maven
14 12 (0.47%) Snyk
15 11 (0.43%) NUnit
16 9 (0.35%) JUnit
16 9 (0.35%) MSI
General
1 717 (28.08%) Social Skills
2 583 (22.84%) Finance
3 292 (11.44%) Public Sector
4 235 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
5 170 (6.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 143 (5.60%) Banking
7 122 (4.78%) Law
8 75 (2.94%) Retail
9 73 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
10 64 (2.51%) Aerospace
11 41 (1.61%) Marketing
12 38 (1.49%) Legal
13 33 (1.29%) Games
14 26 (1.02%) Manufacturing
15 24 (0.94%) Financial Institution
16 21 (0.82%) Telecoms
17 18 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
18 17 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
19 16 (0.63%) Aviation
20 15 (0.59%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 615 (24.09%) Senior
2 486 (19.04%) DevOps Engineer
3 354 (13.87%) Architect
4 347 (13.59%) Lead
5 298 (11.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 259 (10.14%) Platform Engineer
7 207 (8.11%) Developer
8 197 (7.72%) Azure Engineer
9 193 (7.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 166 (6.50%) Software Engineer
11 153 (5.99%) AWS Engineer
12 137 (5.37%) Principal Engineer
13 127 (4.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 119 (4.66%) Data Engineer
15 102 (4.00%) Security Engineer
16 99 (3.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 87 (3.41%) Senior DevOps
18 83 (3.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 79 (3.09%) Senior Developer
20 78 (3.06%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,690 (66.20%) Terraform
2 209 (8.19%) React
3 208 (8.15%) Kafka
4 187 (7.32%) .NET
5 173 (6.78%) Spring
5 173 (6.78%) Spring Boot
6 158 (6.19%) Node.js
7 154 (6.03%) RESTful
8 153 (5.99%) REST
9 87 (3.41%) AWS CDK
10 77 (3.02%) PySpark
11 69 (2.70%) AngularJS
12 64 (2.51%) ARM Templates
13 63 (2.47%) Next.js
14 60 (2.35%) RabbitMQ
14 60 (2.35%) YAML
15 57 (2.23%) Elastic Stack
16 47 (1.84%) LangChain
17 46 (1.80%) OAuth
18 42 (1.65%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 772 (30.24%) Cloud Native
2 288 (11.28%) Distributed Systems
3 140 (5.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 132 (5.17%) Onboarding
5 131 (5.13%) Public Cloud
6 94 (3.68%) Data Centre
7 88 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
8 78 (3.06%) Product Ownership
9 71 (2.78%) Security Posture
10 69 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
11 64 (2.51%) Linux Command Line
12 60 (2.35%) Enterprise Cloud
13 53 (2.08%) Management Information System
14 51 (2.00%) Virtual Team
15 49 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
16 47 (1.84%) e-Learning
17 46 (1.80%) AI Agents
18 45 (1.76%) Private Cloud
19 41 (1.61%) PKI
20 35 (1.37%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 467 (18.29%) Linux
2 229 (8.97%) Windows
3 100 (3.92%) Windows Server
4 60 (2.35%) CentOS
5 52 (2.04%) Unix
6 49 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 38 (1.49%) Ubuntu
8 21 (0.82%) VMS
9 7 (0.27%) Debian
10 6 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.16%) AIX
13 3 (0.12%) Android
13 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
14 2 (0.078%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.078%) Rocky
14 2 (0.078%) Solaris
15 1 (0.039%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.039%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.039%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,826 (71.52%) CI/CD
2 1,419 (55.58%) DevOps
3 763 (29.89%) Containerisation
4 741 (29.02%) Agile
5 691 (27.07%) Observability
6 645 (25.26%) Platform Engineering
7 597 (23.38%) Mentoring
8 578 (22.64%) AI
9 562 (22.01%) Continuous Improvement
10 538 (21.07%) Software Engineering
11 477 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
12 446 (17.47%) Microservices
13 435 (17.04%) Cloud Security
14 431 (16.88%) Technical Leadership
15 418 (16.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 403 (15.79%) Test Automation
17 369 (14.45%) Roadmaps
18 316 (12.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 291 (11.40%) Event-Driven
20 283 (11.08%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,088 (42.62%) Python
2 414 (16.22%) Java
3 396 (15.51%) Bash
4 382 (14.96%) SQL
5 361 (14.14%) PowerShell
6 244 (9.56%) Bicep
7 230 (9.01%) TypeScript
8 192 (7.52%) JavaScript
9 189 (7.40%) C#
10 164 (6.42%) Go
11 59 (2.31%) Shell Script
12 50 (1.96%) Ruby
13 41 (1.61%) Scala
14 37 (1.45%) Groovy
15 35 (1.37%) PHP
16 29 (1.14%) Rust
17 25 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
18 22 (0.86%) C++
19 20 (0.78%) Perl
20 14 (0.55%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 667 (26.13%) Security Cleared
2 426 (16.69%) SC Cleared
3 227 (8.89%) AWS Certification
4 214 (8.38%) DV Cleared
5 174 (6.82%) Degree
6 163 (6.38%) Azure Certification
7 100 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 81 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 67 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 57 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
11 44 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
12 30 (1.18%) CCNP
13 28 (1.10%) CISSP
13 28 (1.10%) Master's Degree
13 28 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
14 21 (0.82%) CCNA
15 17 (0.67%) SnowPro
16 15 (0.59%) DBS Check
17 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 13 (0.51%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (4.82%) QA
2 106 (4.15%) Data Quality
3 74 (2.90%) GDPR
4 72 (2.82%) GRC
5 62 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 51 (2.00%) Accessibility
7 40 (1.57%) NIST
8 31 (1.21%) SOC 2
9 30 (1.18%) NCSC
10 24 (0.94%) PCI DSS
11 23 (0.90%) SLA
12 20 (0.78%) WCAG
13 14 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.27%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.20%) ISO 20022
17 3 (0.12%) ISO 9001
17 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 2 (0.078%) Solvency II
System Software
1 693 (27.14%) Docker
2 136 (5.33%) Active Directory
3 131 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 47 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
5 46 (1.80%) vSphere
6 30 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 20 (0.78%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.78%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.35%) KVM
10 8 (0.31%) Squid
10 8 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (0.27%) Firmware
12 4 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.12%) iptables
14 2 (0.078%) Lustre
14 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 921 (36.08%) Kubernetes
2 514 (20.13%) Ansible
3 250 (9.79%) Grafana
4 184 (7.21%) Prometheus
5 76 (2.98%) Argo
6 73 (2.86%) Puppet
7 50 (1.96%) Progress Chef
8 42 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
9 37 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 35 (1.37%) Istio
11 30 (1.18%) Packer
12 25 (0.98%) FortiGate
13 24 (0.94%) Rancher
14 23 (0.90%) vCenter Server
15 16 (0.63%) Nagios
16 15 (0.59%) Cilium
17 13 (0.51%) Kustomize
17 13 (0.51%) logstash
17 13 (0.51%) Podman
18 12 (0.47%) Kibana
Vendors
1 631 (24.72%) Microsoft
2 194 (7.60%) Google
3 166 (6.50%) VMware
4 114 (4.47%) Databricks
5 87 (3.41%) Splunk
6 80 (3.13%) Red Hat
7 76 (2.98%) Oracle
8 71 (2.78%) Cisco
9 49 (1.92%) Dynatrace
10 41 (1.61%) OpenAI
11 37 (1.45%) Fortinet
12 35 (1.37%) Palo Alto
13 33 (1.29%) ServiceNow
14 27 (1.06%) Zscaler
15 15 (0.59%) Atlassian
15 15 (0.59%) SAP
16 14 (0.55%) F5
16 14 (0.55%) Okta
16 14 (0.55%) SolarWinds
17 13 (0.51%) CrowdStrike