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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 140 169
Rank change year-on-year +29 +29 -60
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,540 921 1,674
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.72% 2.18% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 2.34% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,000 671 1,312
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £49,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +9.15% -5.33%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,125 £112,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +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 67,035 39,288 81,690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.86% 92.85% 85.64%
Number of salaries quoted 41,557 22,685 59,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.93%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +36 1,373 £77,500 - 655
UK excluding London +27 705 £67,500 -3.57% 496
London +46 693 £87,500 -2.78% 255
Work from Home +40 571 £70,000 -6.89% 350
North of England +2 257 £67,249 -0.74% 154
South East -6 142 £70,000 -6.67% 157
North West +7 134 £72,500 - 87
South West -7 105 £65,000 -9.71% 82
Yorkshire -29 92 £65,000 +8.33% 30
Midlands +5 86 £68,000 -2.86% 43
Scotland -9 50 £60,000 -15.49% 19
West Midlands -10 42 £70,000 - 32
East Midlands -12 42 £67,500 +3.85% 11
East of England +1 40 £60,100 -10.96% 27
North East -22 31 £48,445 -15.01% 37
Wales -12 22 £60,000 -5.14% 14
Northern Ireland -35 6 £95,000 - 9

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 46 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (2.34%) Apache
3 27 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 23 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (1.04%) Confluence
6 15 (0.97%) IIS
7 11 (0.71%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.26%) CMS
10 3 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.065%) Camunda
12 1 (0.065%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.065%) nginx
12 1 (0.065%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.065%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.45%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.26%) Weka
3 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.065%) Maya
5 1 (0.065%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.065%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.065%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.065%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.065%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 911 (59.16%) AWS
2 845 (54.87%) Azure
3 316 (20.52%) GCP
4 314 (20.39%) GitHub
5 295 (19.16%) Azure DevOps
6 279 (18.12%) Serverless
7 247 (16.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 219 (14.22%) GitHub Actions
9 165 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
10 140 (9.09%) Amazon S3
11 122 (7.92%) Amazon EKS
12 115 (7.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 111 (7.21%) Entra ID
13 111 (7.21%) PaaS
14 99 (6.43%) Datadog
14 99 (6.43%) SaaS
15 87 (5.65%) Amazon EC2
16 83 (5.39%) IaaS
17 81 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
18 80 (5.19%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 176 (11.43%) Firewall
2 90 (5.84%) DNS
3 75 (4.87%) VPN
4 70 (4.55%) TCP/IP
5 48 (3.12%) WAN
6 47 (3.05%) Network Security
7 38 (2.47%) Broadband
8 33 (2.14%) DHCP
9 27 (1.75%) HTTP
9 27 (1.75%) LAN
10 24 (1.56%) BGP
11 17 (1.10%) VLAN
12 16 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
13 15 (0.97%) DSL
13 15 (0.97%) SD-WAN
14 12 (0.78%) Software-Defined Networking
15 11 (0.71%) Internet
16 10 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
17 7 (0.45%) Wireless
18 6 (0.39%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (7.79%) NoSQL
2 99 (6.43%) PostgreSQL
3 85 (5.52%) Amazon RDS
4 61 (3.96%) DynamoDB
5 59 (3.83%) SQL Server
6 49 (3.18%) MongoDB
7 47 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
7 47 (3.05%) Relational Database
8 45 (2.92%) Data Lake
9 35 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
10 33 (2.14%) MySQL
11 30 (1.95%) BigQuery
12 28 (1.82%) Metadata
13 24 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
14 22 (1.43%) Power BI
15 21 (1.36%) Delta Lake
16 19 (1.23%) RDBMS
17 17 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
17 17 (1.10%) Redis
18 15 (0.97%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 216 (14.03%) Jenkins
2 208 (13.51%) Git
2 208 (13.51%) GitLab
3 38 (2.47%) CircleCI
4 37 (2.40%) Bitbucket
5 36 (2.34%) JIRA
6 23 (1.49%) Cucumber
7 21 (1.36%) Jaeger
8 19 (1.23%) Selenium
9 16 (1.04%) TeamCity
10 15 (0.97%) MLflow
10 15 (0.97%) SonarQube
11 13 (0.84%) Subversion
12 12 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 11 (0.71%) Robot Framework
14 9 (0.58%) JMeter
14 9 (0.58%) NUnit
14 9 (0.58%) Storybook
14 9 (0.58%) Vite
15 7 (0.45%) Maven
General
1 394 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 356 (23.12%) Finance
3 122 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (6.36%) Public Sector
5 93 (6.04%) Banking
6 78 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 62 (4.03%) Retail
8 61 (3.96%) Law
9 57 (3.70%) Telecoms
10 27 (1.75%) Manufacturing
11 26 (1.69%) Marketing
12 22 (1.43%) Aerospace
13 21 (1.36%) Advertising
13 21 (1.36%) Games
14 20 (1.30%) Billing
15 19 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
16 18 (1.17%) Legal
17 17 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (1.10%) Financial Institution
18 16 (1.04%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 336 (21.82%) Senior
2 256 (16.62%) DevOps Engineer
3 236 (15.32%) Cloud Engineer
4 220 (14.29%) Lead
5 155 (10.06%) Azure Engineer
6 141 (9.16%) Developer
7 136 (8.83%) Architect
8 130 (8.44%) Platform Engineer
9 115 (7.47%) AWS Engineer
10 113 (7.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 74 (4.81%) Data Engineer
11 74 (4.81%) Software Engineer
12 68 (4.42%) Security Engineer
13 61 (3.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 61 (3.96%) Senior DevOps
14 55 (3.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 51 (3.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 47 (3.05%) Cloud Security Engineer
17 45 (2.92%) Python Engineer
18 44 (2.86%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (8.64%) React
2 117 (7.60%) Node.js
3 99 (6.43%) .NET
4 96 (6.23%) REST
5 95 (6.17%) Kafka
6 89 (5.78%) RESTful
7 75 (4.87%) AWS CDK
8 74 (4.81%) Elastic Stack
9 69 (4.48%) YAML
10 67 (4.35%) OAuth
10 67 (4.35%) Spring
11 61 (3.96%) Spring Boot
12 50 (3.25%) ARM Templates
13 48 (3.12%) RabbitMQ
14 39 (2.53%) PySpark
15 37 (2.40%) Next.js
16 36 (2.34%) OpenTelemetry
17 33 (2.14%) .NET Core
17 33 (2.14%) JSON
18 32 (2.08%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 359 (23.31%) Cloud Native
2 88 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
2 88 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 67 (4.35%) Public Cloud
4 60 (3.90%) Product Ownership
5 56 (3.64%) Security Posture
6 42 (2.73%) Data Centre
6 42 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
6 42 (2.73%) Onboarding
7 33 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
8 27 (1.75%) Management Information System
9 25 (1.62%) Mobile App
10 24 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
10 24 (1.56%) Blockchain
10 24 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
10 24 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (1.43%) PKI
12 21 (1.36%) Web3
13 19 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
14 18 (1.17%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 313 (20.32%) Linux
2 156 (10.13%) Windows
3 68 (4.42%) Windows Server
4 61 (3.96%) Unix
5 35 (2.27%) Ubuntu
6 28 (1.82%) CentOS
7 27 (1.75%) VMS
8 26 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (0.97%) Android
10 14 (0.91%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.45%) Debian
12 5 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.26%) SUSE
14 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.065%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.065%) Rocky
15 1 (0.065%) Solaris
15 1 (0.065%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,056 (68.57%) CI/CD
2 958 (62.21%) DevOps
3 447 (29.03%) Containerisation
4 433 (28.12%) Agile
5 410 (26.62%) Observability
6 341 (22.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 310 (20.13%) Mentoring
8 277 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
9 271 (17.60%) Platform Engineering
10 259 (16.82%) Test Automation
11 247 (16.04%) AI
12 246 (15.97%) Software Engineering
13 229 (14.87%) Microservices
14 212 (13.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 209 (13.57%) Cloud Security
16 189 (12.27%) Analytics
17 174 (11.30%) Incident Response
17 174 (11.30%) Technical Leadership
18 170 (11.04%) DevSecOps
19 166 (10.78%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 697 (45.26%) Python
2 292 (18.96%) Bash
3 258 (16.75%) SQL
4 251 (16.30%) PowerShell
5 217 (14.09%) Java
6 159 (10.32%) Go
7 146 (9.48%) JavaScript
8 141 (9.16%) Bicep
9 136 (8.83%) TypeScript
10 106 (6.88%) C#
11 27 (1.75%) C++
12 22 (1.43%) Rust
13 20 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
14 19 (1.23%) Scala
15 13 (0.84%) C
15 13 (0.84%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.65%) Groovy
17 9 (0.58%) Apex Code
17 9 (0.58%) Ruby
18 8 (0.52%) PHP
Qualifications
1 279 (18.12%) Security Cleared
2 164 (10.65%) SC Cleared
3 143 (9.29%) Degree
4 125 (8.12%) AWS Certification
5 91 (5.91%) DV Cleared
6 82 (5.32%) Azure Certification
7 57 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 33 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 29 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (1.88%) OSCP
10 28 (1.82%) CISSP
11 23 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (1.17%) AWS Certified Developer
13 15 (0.97%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.84%) CCNP
14 13 (0.84%) Master's Degree
15 12 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 12 (0.78%) CCNA
16 11 (0.71%) CCSK
17 10 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (4.81%) QA
2 69 (4.48%) GDPR
3 65 (4.22%) Data Quality
4 51 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 49 (3.18%) SOC 2
6 43 (2.79%) NIST
7 35 (2.27%) Accessibility
8 33 (2.14%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.84%) SLA
10 10 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.65%) WCAG
11 9 (0.58%) NCSC
12 7 (0.45%) GRC
13 5 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.13%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.13%) IFRS
14 2 (0.13%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.13%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 461 (29.94%) Docker
2 98 (6.36%) Active Directory
3 77 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (1.62%) vSphere
6 19 (1.23%) Hyper-V
7 18 (1.17%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.58%) Firmware
8 9 (0.58%) KVM
9 7 (0.45%) iptables
10 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.26%) Squid
11 4 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.13%) GPFS
12 2 (0.13%) Lustre
12 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.065%) vCloud
13 1 (0.065%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,067 (69.29%) Terraform
2 615 (39.94%) Kubernetes
3 344 (22.34%) Ansible
4 214 (13.90%) Grafana
5 203 (13.18%) Prometheus
6 62 (4.03%) Argo
7 40 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 40 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
8 33 (2.14%) Puppet
9 23 (1.49%) Kustomize
10 20 (1.30%) Progress Chef
10 20 (1.30%) Rancher
11 17 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 17 (1.10%) Nagios
12 15 (0.97%) Istio
13 14 (0.91%) Packer
14 12 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
15 9 (0.58%) logstash
15 9 (0.58%) yum
16 8 (0.52%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 283 (18.38%) Microsoft
2 114 (7.40%) VMware
3 111 (7.21%) Google
4 65 (4.22%) Databricks
5 63 (4.09%) Red Hat
6 52 (3.38%) Cisco
7 51 (3.31%) Splunk
8 39 (2.53%) Palo Alto
9 23 (1.49%) CrowdStrike
9 23 (1.49%) Zscaler
10 21 (1.36%) OpenAI
11 20 (1.30%) Dynatrace
11 20 (1.30%) Salesforce
12 18 (1.17%) Oracle
13 14 (0.91%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.91%) Fortinet
14 13 (0.84%) Juniper
15 11 (0.71%) SolarWinds
16 10 (0.65%) Foundry
16 10 (0.65%) SAP