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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 157 157
Rank change year-on-year +81 0 -54
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,150 1,028 1,580
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.15% 2.09% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% 2.32% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,465 699 1,197
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,250 £61,438 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,550 £108,750 £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 73,727 44,243 76,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 89.97% 81.83%
Number of salaries quoted 51,045 24,911 52,533
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.73%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £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 22 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 22 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 +75 1,893 £77,500 - 939
UK excluding London +106 1,106 £70,000 - 581
London +25 875 £90,000 - 487
Work from Home +84 780 £71,500 -7.74% 480
North of England +88 374 £70,000 - 196
South East +54 230 £67,500 -12.90% 153
North West +86 226 £72,500 +3.57% 107
South West +30 178 £75,000 - 87
Midlands +39 132 £77,500 +19.23% 60
Yorkshire -5 90 £68,750 -1.79% 56
West Midlands +19 79 £80,000 +23.08% 42
North East -2 58 £55,000 -18.52% 33
Northern Ireland -17 57 £73,801 +71.27% 16
East Midlands +10 53 £67,500 +3.85% 18
Wales -12 53 £70,539 +22.68% 18
East of England +14 51 £62,500 - 16
Scotland +19 40 £67,500 -6.57% 39

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 54 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (2.00%) Apache
3 42 (1.95%) Apache Spark
4 34 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 26 (1.21%) Confluence
6 10 (0.47%) Jupyter
6 10 (0.47%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.42%) IIS
8 5 (0.23%) CMS
9 4 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.14%) WordPress
11 2 (0.093%) Camunda
11 2 (0.093%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.047%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.047%) Documentum
12 1 (0.047%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.047%) nginx
12 1 (0.047%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 20 (0.93%) PlantUML
2 11 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.093%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.093%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.093%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.047%) Maya
5 1 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.047%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.14%) Summit
4 2 (0.093%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.093%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.047%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 1,205 (56.05%) AWS
2 1,182 (54.98%) Azure
3 384 (17.86%) GitHub
4 378 (17.58%) GCP
5 359 (16.70%) Serverless
6 329 (15.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 313 (14.56%) Azure DevOps
8 219 (10.19%) GitHub Actions
9 196 (9.12%) AWS Lambda
10 193 (8.98%) Amazon S3
11 181 (8.42%) PaaS
12 141 (6.56%) Amazon EKS
13 135 (6.28%) Amazon EC2
14 129 (6.00%) SaaS
15 127 (5.91%) IaaS
16 123 (5.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 123 (5.72%) Amazon ECS
17 119 (5.53%) Microsoft 365
18 117 (5.44%) Azure AKS
19 116 (5.40%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 181 (8.42%) Firewall
2 114 (5.30%) WAN
3 112 (5.21%) VPN
4 111 (5.16%) DNS
5 101 (4.70%) Network Security
6 91 (4.23%) LAN
7 72 (3.35%) TCP/IP
8 57 (2.65%) Broadband
9 50 (2.33%) BGP
10 36 (1.67%) VLAN
11 32 (1.49%) DHCP
12 31 (1.44%) OSPF
13 25 (1.16%) VXLAN
14 23 (1.07%) HTTP
14 23 (1.07%) SD-WAN
15 22 (1.02%) Software-Defined Networking
16 13 (0.60%) Cisco ASA
17 12 (0.56%) Ethernet VPN
18 11 (0.51%) Wireless
19 10 (0.47%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
2 141 (6.56%) NoSQL
3 98 (4.56%) Amazon RDS
4 91 (4.23%) MongoDB
5 70 (3.26%) DynamoDB
5 70 (3.26%) SQL Server
6 53 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 52 (2.42%) Data Lake
8 51 (2.37%) Metadata
9 50 (2.33%) Relational Database
10 48 (2.23%) MySQL
11 37 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
12 35 (1.63%) Redis
13 32 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
14 25 (1.16%) Delta Lake
15 23 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
15 23 (1.07%) BigQuery
16 22 (1.02%) Big Data
17 21 (0.98%) Power BI
18 19 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 290 (13.49%) GitLab
2 280 (13.02%) Git
3 249 (11.58%) Jenkins
4 43 (2.00%) Cucumber
5 42 (1.95%) JIRA
6 40 (1.86%) CircleCI
7 31 (1.44%) Bitbucket
8 27 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 24 (1.12%) TeamCity
10 16 (0.74%) Claude Code
10 16 (0.74%) Selenium
11 15 (0.70%) SonarQube
12 12 (0.56%) Subversion
13 10 (0.47%) MLflow
14 9 (0.42%) JMeter
14 9 (0.42%) Maven
14 9 (0.42%) NUnit
15 8 (0.37%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.37%) Vite
16 7 (0.33%) Artifactory
General
1 577 (26.84%) Social Skills
2 485 (22.56%) Finance
3 186 (8.65%) Public Sector
4 156 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
5 116 (5.40%) Banking
6 101 (4.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 96 (4.47%) Law
8 68 (3.16%) Retail
9 67 (3.12%) Presentation Skills
10 43 (2.00%) Games
11 36 (1.67%) Telecoms
12 32 (1.49%) Aerospace
13 30 (1.40%) Manufacturing
14 26 (1.21%) Legal
15 22 (1.02%) Marketing
16 21 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
16 21 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
17 20 (0.93%) Advertising
18 18 (0.84%) Financial Institution
19 10 (0.47%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 494 (22.98%) Senior
2 377 (17.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 299 (13.91%) Lead
4 287 (13.35%) Architect
5 271 (12.60%) Cloud Engineer
6 222 (10.33%) Platform Engineer
7 188 (8.74%) Azure Engineer
8 187 (8.70%) Developer
9 138 (6.42%) AWS Engineer
10 126 (5.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 112 (5.21%) Software Engineer
12 104 (4.84%) Data Engineer
13 103 (4.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 95 (4.42%) Principal Engineer
15 87 (4.05%) Security Engineer
16 82 (3.81%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 79 (3.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 77 (3.58%) Senior DevOps
19 69 (3.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 69 (3.21%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (7.77%) React
2 157 (7.30%) Kafka
3 148 (6.88%) .NET
4 137 (6.37%) Node.js
4 137 (6.37%) REST
5 124 (5.77%) Spring
5 124 (5.77%) Spring Boot
6 121 (5.63%) RESTful
7 88 (4.09%) AWS CDK
8 81 (3.77%) YAML
9 71 (3.30%) ARM Templates
10 67 (3.12%) PySpark
11 60 (2.79%) Elastic Stack
12 55 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
13 51 (2.37%) OAuth
14 50 (2.33%) AngularJS
15 48 (2.23%) Next.js
16 41 (1.91%) JSON
17 39 (1.81%) FastAPI
18 35 (1.63%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 609 (28.33%) Cloud Native
2 220 (10.23%) Distributed Systems
3 110 (5.12%) Hybrid Cloud
4 103 (4.79%) Public Cloud
5 97 (4.51%) Onboarding
6 78 (3.63%) Data Centre
7 77 (3.58%) Product Ownership
8 65 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
9 59 (2.74%) Security Posture
10 51 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
11 49 (2.28%) Video\Live Streaming
12 45 (2.09%) Enterprise Cloud
13 40 (1.86%) Low-Code
14 35 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
15 31 (1.44%) e-Learning
15 31 (1.44%) PKI
16 28 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
17 27 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
18 26 (1.21%) Management Information System
19 25 (1.16%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 358 (16.65%) Linux
2 202 (9.40%) Windows
3 86 (4.00%) Windows Server
4 53 (2.47%) CentOS
5 42 (1.95%) Ubuntu
6 37 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 31 (1.44%) Unix
8 27 (1.26%) VMS
9 9 (0.42%) Android
10 8 (0.37%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.28%) Debian
11 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.093%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.047%) AIX
14 1 (0.047%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.047%) Rocky
14 1 (0.047%) SUSE
14 1 (0.047%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,508 (70.14%) CI/CD
2 1,201 (55.86%) DevOps
3 643 (29.91%) Containerisation
4 591 (27.49%) Agile
5 587 (27.30%) Observability
6 491 (22.84%) Platform Engineering
7 458 (21.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 458 (21.30%) Mentoring
8 447 (20.79%) AI
9 412 (19.16%) Software Engineering
10 364 (16.93%) Microservices
11 358 (16.65%) Test Automation
12 352 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
13 337 (15.67%) Technical Leadership
14 301 (14.00%) Cloud Security
15 298 (13.86%) Roadmaps
16 283 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 234 (10.88%) Analytics
17 234 (10.88%) Event-Driven
18 230 (10.70%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 938 (43.63%) Python
2 352 (16.37%) Bash
3 334 (15.53%) SQL
4 323 (15.02%) Java
5 314 (14.60%) PowerShell
6 213 (9.91%) Bicep
7 194 (9.02%) TypeScript
8 180 (8.37%) JavaScript
9 167 (7.77%) Go
10 161 (7.49%) C#
11 42 (1.95%) Ruby
12 38 (1.77%) PHP
13 28 (1.30%) Rust
14 26 (1.21%) C++
15 25 (1.16%) Scala
16 24 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
17 20 (0.93%) Groovy
17 20 (0.93%) Perl
18 11 (0.51%) Kotlin
18 11 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 471 (21.91%) Security Cleared
2 286 (13.30%) SC Cleared
3 178 (8.28%) Degree
4 144 (6.70%) AWS Certification
5 142 (6.60%) DV Cleared
6 120 (5.58%) Azure Certification
7 77 (3.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 69 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 53 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 47 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
11 31 (1.44%) CCNP
12 26 (1.21%) Master's Degree
13 23 (1.07%) CISSP
13 23 (1.07%) OSCP
14 18 (0.84%) CCNA
15 14 (0.65%) DBS Check
15 14 (0.65%) RHCSA
16 13 (0.60%) CCIE
16 13 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
17 11 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (5.26%) QA
2 92 (4.28%) Data Quality
3 69 (3.21%) GRC
4 63 (2.93%) GDPR
5 50 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 43 (2.00%) SOC 2
7 38 (1.77%) Accessibility
8 37 (1.72%) PCI DSS
9 34 (1.58%) NIST
10 23 (1.07%) WCAG
11 18 (0.84%) NCSC
12 11 (0.51%) SLA
13 9 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.093%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.093%) IFRS
16 2 (0.093%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.093%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.093%) Solvency II
System Software
1 552 (25.67%) Docker
2 122 (5.67%) Active Directory
3 118 (5.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (2.00%) vSphere
5 33 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.79%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.65%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.37%) Squid
10 7 (0.33%) Firmware
11 6 (0.28%) iptables
11 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.23%) KVM
13 3 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,450 (67.44%) Terraform
2 804 (37.40%) Kubernetes
3 429 (19.95%) Ansible
4 236 (10.98%) Grafana
5 189 (8.79%) Prometheus
6 62 (2.88%) Argo
7 45 (2.09%) Puppet
8 42 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
9 39 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
10 28 (1.30%) Packer
10 28 (1.30%) Progress Chef
11 26 (1.21%) Istio
12 23 (1.07%) Nagios
13 15 (0.70%) FortiGate
14 13 (0.60%) vCenter Server
15 12 (0.56%) Cilium
15 12 (0.56%) Rancher
16 11 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 11 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
16 11 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 460 (21.40%) Microsoft
2 146 (6.79%) VMware
3 106 (4.93%) Google
4 81 (3.77%) Databricks
5 77 (3.58%) Red Hat
6 73 (3.40%) Splunk
7 67 (3.12%) Cisco
8 52 (2.42%) Palo Alto
9 48 (2.23%) Oracle
10 36 (1.67%) Fortinet
11 33 (1.53%) OpenAI
12 28 (1.30%) Zscaler
13 26 (1.21%) Dynatrace
14 17 (0.79%) CrowdStrike
15 14 (0.65%) F5
16 13 (0.60%) Rapid7
16 13 (0.60%) Salesforce
17 12 (0.56%) ScienceLogic
17 12 (0.56%) ServiceNow
18 11 (0.51%) Okta