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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 156 176
Rank change year-on-year +74 +20 -68
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,878 973 1,697
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.01% 2.18% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 2.36% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,272 636 1,291
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £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 £88,125
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 68,162 41,264 88,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.90% 92.57% 81.89%
Number of salaries quoted 46,887 22,044 62,842
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,607
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 £91,991
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 17 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 17 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 +69 1,718 £77,500 -1.66% 1,218
UK excluding London +77 891 £70,000 - 1,204
London +29 833 £87,500 -2.78% 337
Work from Home +89 679 £70,000 -8.41% 1,090
North of England +72 330 £67,500 -3.57% 268
South East +53 201 £70,000 -9.68% 300
North West +68 199 £72,500 - 129
South West +24 133 £72,500 +3.57% 129
Midlands +42 118 £70,079 +7.81% 137
Yorkshire -5 86 £65,576 -6.32% 82
West Midlands +20 69 £77,500 +14.81% 76
East of England +11 50 £60,100 -7.54% 124
East Midlands +3 49 £67,500 +3.85% 61
North East -12 45 £55,000 -15.38% 57
Scotland +6 35 £60,000 -20.19% 107
Wales -24 24 £70,000 +21.74% 75
Northern Ireland -28 3 £84,401 +95.86% 82

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 52 (2.77%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (2.29%) Apache
3 40 (2.13%) Apache Spark
4 32 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 23 (1.22%) Confluence
6 14 (0.75%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.59%) IIS
8 10 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.43%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.27%) CMS
11 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.11%) Camunda
13 2 (0.11%) WordPress
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%) NServiceBus
14 1 (0.053%) OpenStack
Applications
1 16 (0.85%) PlantUML
2 7 (0.37%) 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
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
Cloud Services
1 1,098 (58.47%) AWS
2 994 (52.93%) Azure
3 363 (19.33%) GitHub
4 334 (17.78%) Serverless
5 329 (17.52%) GCP
6 305 (16.24%) Azure DevOps
7 289 (15.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 221 (11.77%) GitHub Actions
9 190 (10.12%) AWS Lambda
10 183 (9.74%) Amazon S3
11 160 (8.52%) PaaS
12 131 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
13 128 (6.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 125 (6.66%) SaaS
15 123 (6.55%) Amazon EC2
16 122 (6.50%) IaaS
17 116 (6.18%) Entra ID
18 109 (5.80%) Azure AKS
19 101 (5.38%) Datadog
20 97 (5.17%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 180 (9.58%) Firewall
2 100 (5.32%) DNS
3 89 (4.74%) VPN
4 75 (3.99%) Broadband
5 67 (3.57%) Network Security
6 66 (3.51%) TCP/IP
7 49 (2.61%) WAN
8 40 (2.13%) BGP
9 31 (1.65%) DHCP
9 31 (1.65%) VLAN
10 27 (1.44%) LAN
11 24 (1.28%) HTTP
12 21 (1.12%) OSPF
13 20 (1.06%) Software-Defined Networking
14 19 (1.01%) SD-WAN
15 16 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
15 16 (0.85%) VXLAN
16 15 (0.80%) DSL
17 10 (0.53%) IPv4
18 9 (0.48%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (7.61%) PostgreSQL
2 136 (7.24%) NoSQL
3 96 (5.11%) Amazon RDS
4 87 (4.63%) MongoDB
5 66 (3.51%) DynamoDB
6 65 (3.46%) SQL Server
7 60 (3.19%) Relational Database
8 53 (2.82%) Data Lake
9 49 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
10 45 (2.40%) Metadata
11 42 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
12 31 (1.65%) MySQL
13 28 (1.49%) BigQuery
14 27 (1.44%) Redis
15 26 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
16 24 (1.28%) Power BI
17 23 (1.22%) Delta Lake
18 21 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
18 21 (1.12%) RDBMS
19 20 (1.06%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 266 (14.16%) GitLab
2 245 (13.05%) Git
3 238 (12.67%) Jenkins
4 46 (2.45%) CircleCI
5 37 (1.97%) JIRA
6 36 (1.92%) Cucumber
7 33 (1.76%) Bitbucket
8 23 (1.22%) TeamCity
9 20 (1.06%) Jaeger
10 15 (0.80%) SonarQube
11 14 (0.75%) Selenium
12 13 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 11 (0.59%) MLflow
14 10 (0.53%) Maven
14 10 (0.53%) NUnit
14 10 (0.53%) Subversion
15 9 (0.48%) JMeter
15 9 (0.48%) Vite
16 7 (0.37%) Artifactory
16 7 (0.37%) Claude Code
General
1 449 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 376 (20.02%) Finance
3 135 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (6.87%) Public Sector
5 112 (5.96%) Banking
6 93 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (3.19%) Retail
8 57 (3.04%) Law
9 43 (2.29%) Games
10 41 (2.18%) Telecoms
11 30 (1.60%) Manufacturing
12 27 (1.44%) Aerospace
13 23 (1.22%) Legal
14 20 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
14 20 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
15 19 (1.01%) Advertising
16 16 (0.85%) Financial Institution
16 16 (0.85%) Marketing
17 15 (0.80%) Billing
18 11 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 426 (22.68%) Senior
2 314 (16.72%) DevOps Engineer
3 271 (14.43%) Cloud Engineer
4 262 (13.95%) Lead
5 203 (10.81%) Platform Engineer
6 184 (9.80%) Architect
7 180 (9.58%) Azure Engineer
8 175 (9.32%) Developer
9 143 (7.61%) AWS Engineer
10 117 (6.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 99 (5.27%) Software Engineer
12 98 (5.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 98 (5.22%) Data Engineer
13 84 (4.47%) Security Engineer
14 77 (4.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 70 (3.73%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 69 (3.67%) Principal Engineer
17 64 (3.41%) Senior DevOps
18 63 (3.35%) Senior Developer
19 57 (3.04%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (7.88%) React
2 137 (7.29%) Kafka
3 130 (6.92%) REST
4 127 (6.76%) .NET
5 126 (6.71%) Node.js
6 104 (5.54%) RESTful
7 93 (4.95%) Spring
8 88 (4.69%) Spring Boot
9 86 (4.58%) YAML
10 80 (4.26%) AWS CDK
11 74 (3.94%) Elastic Stack
12 64 (3.41%) PySpark
13 62 (3.30%) ARM Templates
14 57 (3.04%) OAuth
15 56 (2.98%) RabbitMQ
16 44 (2.34%) AngularJS
16 44 (2.34%) Next.js
17 42 (2.24%) OpenTelemetry
18 41 (2.18%) JSON
19 38 (2.02%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 513 (27.32%) Cloud Native
2 169 (9.00%) Distributed Systems
3 101 (5.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 86 (4.58%) Public Cloud
5 66 (3.51%) Product Ownership
6 64 (3.41%) Data Centre
7 58 (3.09%) Onboarding
7 58 (3.09%) Security Posture
8 55 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
9 48 (2.56%) Video\Live Streaming
10 37 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
11 36 (1.92%) Low-Code
12 27 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
12 27 (1.44%) PKI
12 27 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
13 26 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
14 25 (1.33%) Blockchain
15 23 (1.22%) Management Information System
15 23 (1.22%) Web3
16 22 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 348 (18.53%) Linux
2 174 (9.27%) Windows
3 86 (4.58%) Windows Server
4 50 (2.66%) Unix
5 47 (2.50%) Ubuntu
6 41 (2.18%) CentOS
7 28 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 28 (1.49%) VMS
8 15 (0.80%) Android
9 14 (0.75%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.43%) Debian
10 8 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.053%) AIX
13 1 (0.053%) Rocky
13 1 (0.053%) SUSE
13 1 (0.053%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,338 (71.25%) CI/CD
2 1,080 (57.51%) DevOps
3 532 (28.33%) Observability
4 522 (27.80%) Agile
5 517 (27.53%) Containerisation
6 417 (22.20%) Platform Engineering
7 399 (21.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 394 (20.98%) Mentoring
9 376 (20.02%) AI
10 341 (18.16%) Software Engineering
11 331 (17.63%) Test Automation
12 307 (16.35%) Microservices
13 293 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
14 261 (13.90%) Technical Leadership
15 256 (13.63%) Cloud Security
16 239 (12.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 225 (11.98%) Analytics
18 205 (10.92%) Roadmaps
19 199 (10.60%) DevSecOps
20 185 (9.85%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 851 (45.31%) Python
2 333 (17.73%) Bash
3 297 (15.81%) SQL
4 294 (15.65%) PowerShell
5 268 (14.27%) Java
6 185 (9.85%) Go
7 178 (9.48%) TypeScript
8 176 (9.37%) JavaScript
9 174 (9.27%) Bicep
10 136 (7.24%) C#
11 31 (1.65%) Rust
12 26 (1.38%) C++
12 26 (1.38%) Scala
13 21 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
14 19 (1.01%) PHP
15 18 (0.96%) Groovy
16 15 (0.80%) Ruby
17 10 (0.53%) C
17 10 (0.53%) Kotlin
18 9 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 384 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 248 (13.21%) SC Cleared
3 159 (8.47%) Degree
4 139 (7.40%) AWS Certification
5 105 (5.59%) Azure Certification
6 102 (5.43%) DV Cleared
7 60 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 46 (2.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 45 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 34 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
11 27 (1.44%) OSCP
12 20 (1.06%) CCNP
12 20 (1.06%) CISSP
13 16 (0.85%) DBS Check
13 16 (0.85%) Master's Degree
14 15 (0.80%) CCNA
15 13 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 13 (0.69%) RHCSA
16 10 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
17 9 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (4.85%) QA
2 83 (4.42%) Data Quality
3 60 (3.19%) GDPR
4 51 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 45 (2.40%) SOC 2
6 35 (1.86%) NIST
7 33 (1.76%) Accessibility
8 29 (1.54%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.91%) WCAG
10 14 (0.75%) SLA
11 13 (0.69%) NCSC
12 10 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.53%) GRC
13 5 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
15 2 (0.11%) IFRS
15 2 (0.11%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.11%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 508 (27.05%) Docker
2 115 (6.12%) Active Directory
3 101 (5.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (2.08%) vSphere
5 38 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (1.12%) VMware NSX
7 19 (1.01%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.43%) Squid
10 7 (0.37%) iptables
11 6 (0.32%) Firmware
11 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.27%) KVM
13 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,307 (69.60%) Terraform
2 719 (38.29%) Kubernetes
3 394 (20.98%) Ansible
4 229 (12.19%) Grafana
5 217 (11.55%) Prometheus
6 72 (3.83%) Argo
7 45 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
8 42 (2.24%) Puppet
9 40 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
10 28 (1.49%) Progress Chef
11 27 (1.44%) Packer
12 25 (1.33%) Kustomize
13 21 (1.12%) Istio
13 21 (1.12%) Nagios
14 17 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 14 (0.75%) vCenter Server
15 14 (0.75%) ZABBIX
16 12 (0.64%) Cilium
17 11 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
17 11 (0.59%) Rancher
Vendors
1 352 (18.74%) Microsoft
2 137 (7.29%) VMware
3 108 (5.75%) Google
4 77 (4.10%) Databricks
5 76 (4.05%) Red Hat
6 61 (3.25%) Splunk
7 58 (3.09%) Cisco
8 47 (2.50%) Palo Alto
9 34 (1.81%) Oracle
10 28 (1.49%) OpenAI
11 27 (1.44%) Fortinet
12 26 (1.38%) Zscaler
13 21 (1.12%) Dynatrace
14 17 (0.91%) CrowdStrike
15 14 (0.75%) Salesforce
16 13 (0.69%) Foundry
17 12 (0.64%) CheckPoint
17 12 (0.64%) F5
18 11 (0.59%) Atlassian
18 11 (0.59%) ServiceNow