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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 153 166
Rank change year-on-year +75 +13 -62
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,003 993 1,704
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.09% 2.15% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% 2.34% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,365 667 1,311
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £87,500
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 70,466 42,382 86,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.43% 91.66% 82.23%
Number of salaries quoted 48,630 23,044 61,478
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.12%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.34% - -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 29 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 29 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 +77 1,824 £77,500 -1.66% 614
UK excluding London +93 962 £70,000 - 451
London +34 871 £87,500 -2.78% 283
Work from Home +80 711 £70,000 -8.41% 319
North of England +61 351 £67,500 -3.57% 116
South East +49 213 £70,000 -9.68% 150
North West +74 211 £72,500 - 68
South West +19 160 £75,000 +3.45% 82
Midlands +31 123 £73,500 +13.08% 46
Yorkshire +4 91 £65,576 -6.32% 31
West Midlands +14 71 £80,000 +23.08% 33
East Midlands +15 52 £67,500 +3.85% 13
East of England +9 52 £60,100 -7.54% 18
North East -9 49 £55,000 -14.06% 18
Scotland +17 34 £60,000 -20.00% 19
Wales -16 31 £70,039 +27.34% 11
Northern Ireland -29 3 £84,401 +95.86% 18

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 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (2.20%) Apache
3 42 (2.10%) Apache Spark
4 38 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 25 (1.25%) Confluence
6 13 (0.65%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.50%) IIS
8 9 (0.45%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.25%) CMS
11 4 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.15%) WordPress
13 2 (0.100%) Camunda
13 2 (0.100%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.050%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.050%) Documentum
14 1 (0.050%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.050%) nginx
14 1 (0.050%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 18 (0.90%) PlantUML
2 8 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.20%) Weka
4 2 (0.100%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.100%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.050%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.050%) Maya
5 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.100%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.100%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.050%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.050%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,171 (58.46%) AWS
2 1,058 (52.82%) Azure
3 385 (19.22%) GitHub
4 351 (17.52%) Serverless
5 349 (17.42%) GCP
6 315 (15.73%) AWS CloudFormation
6 315 (15.73%) Azure DevOps
7 227 (11.33%) GitHub Actions
8 196 (9.79%) AWS Lambda
9 193 (9.64%) Amazon S3
10 179 (8.94%) PaaS
11 141 (7.04%) Amazon EKS
12 136 (6.79%) IaaS
13 131 (6.54%) Amazon EC2
13 131 (6.54%) SaaS
14 126 (6.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 122 (6.09%) Entra ID
16 116 (5.79%) Azure AKS
17 107 (5.34%) Amazon ECS
18 100 (4.99%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 186 (9.29%) Firewall
2 109 (5.44%) DNS
3 106 (5.29%) VPN
4 83 (4.14%) Network Security
5 70 (3.49%) Broadband
6 68 (3.39%) TCP/IP
7 51 (2.55%) WAN
8 42 (2.10%) BGP
9 35 (1.75%) VLAN
10 34 (1.70%) DHCP
11 29 (1.45%) LAN
12 24 (1.20%) OSPF
13 23 (1.15%) HTTP
14 21 (1.05%) Software-Defined Networking
15 20 (1.00%) SD-WAN
16 19 (0.95%) VXLAN
17 15 (0.75%) Cisco ASA
18 14 (0.70%) DSL
19 10 (0.50%) IPv4
19 10 (0.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (7.64%) PostgreSQL
2 138 (6.89%) NoSQL
3 97 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
4 89 (4.44%) MongoDB
5 71 (3.54%) DynamoDB
6 69 (3.44%) SQL Server
7 57 (2.85%) Azure SQL Database
8 55 (2.75%) Relational Database
9 51 (2.55%) Data Lake
10 49 (2.45%) Metadata
11 39 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
12 37 (1.85%) MySQL
13 31 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
14 30 (1.50%) Redis
15 28 (1.40%) BigQuery
16 26 (1.30%) Delta Lake
17 24 (1.20%) Power BI
18 21 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
18 21 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
18 21 (1.05%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 276 (13.78%) GitLab
2 269 (13.43%) Git
3 252 (12.58%) Jenkins
4 45 (2.25%) CircleCI
5 40 (2.00%) JIRA
6 38 (1.90%) Cucumber
7 34 (1.70%) Bitbucket
8 25 (1.25%) TeamCity
9 17 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 16 (0.80%) SonarQube
11 15 (0.75%) Selenium
12 14 (0.70%) Jaeger
12 14 (0.70%) Subversion
13 12 (0.60%) MLflow
14 11 (0.55%) Claude Code
15 10 (0.50%) Maven
15 10 (0.50%) NUnit
16 9 (0.45%) JMeter
16 9 (0.45%) Vite
17 8 (0.40%) Cypress.io
General
1 489 (24.41%) Social Skills
2 414 (20.67%) Finance
3 154 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 142 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
5 112 (5.59%) Banking
6 98 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 65 (3.25%) Law
8 59 (2.95%) Retail
9 44 (2.20%) Games
10 40 (2.00%) Telecoms
11 31 (1.55%) Aerospace
12 30 (1.50%) Manufacturing
13 27 (1.35%) Legal
14 24 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
15 22 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
16 17 (0.85%) Advertising
17 16 (0.80%) Financial Institution
17 16 (0.80%) Marketing
18 13 (0.65%) Billing
19 10 (0.50%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 464 (23.17%) Senior
2 345 (17.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 281 (14.03%) Cloud Engineer
4 279 (13.93%) Lead
5 214 (10.68%) Platform Engineer
6 210 (10.48%) Architect
7 184 (9.19%) Azure Engineer
8 181 (9.04%) Developer
9 144 (7.19%) AWS Engineer
10 129 (6.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 105 (5.24%) Software Engineer
12 100 (4.99%) Data Engineer
13 99 (4.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 89 (4.44%) Security Engineer
15 79 (3.94%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 78 (3.89%) Principal Engineer
16 78 (3.89%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 71 (3.54%) Senior DevOps
18 62 (3.10%) Senior Cloud Engineer
19 61 (3.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (7.74%) React
2 140 (6.99%) Kafka
3 138 (6.89%) .NET
4 134 (6.69%) REST
5 133 (6.64%) Node.js
6 110 (5.49%) RESTful
7 100 (4.99%) Spring
8 98 (4.89%) Spring Boot
9 84 (4.19%) YAML
10 83 (4.14%) AWS CDK
11 73 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
12 67 (3.34%) PySpark
13 66 (3.30%) ARM Templates
14 57 (2.85%) RabbitMQ
15 53 (2.65%) OAuth
16 50 (2.50%) AngularJS
17 48 (2.40%) Next.js
18 41 (2.05%) JSON
19 39 (1.95%) FastAPI
20 38 (1.90%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 562 (28.06%) Cloud Native
2 187 (9.34%) Distributed Systems
3 106 (5.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 100 (4.99%) Public Cloud
5 74 (3.69%) Onboarding
6 72 (3.59%) Data Centre
7 68 (3.39%) Product Ownership
8 66 (3.30%) Security Posture
9 60 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
10 48 (2.40%) Video\Live Streaming
11 43 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
12 37 (1.85%) Low-Code
13 35 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
14 30 (1.50%) PKI
14 30 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
15 28 (1.40%) Management Information System
16 26 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
17 25 (1.25%) e-Learning
18 24 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
19 23 (1.15%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 367 (18.32%) Linux
2 194 (9.69%) Windows
3 87 (4.34%) Windows Server
4 47 (2.35%) CentOS
4 47 (2.35%) Ubuntu
5 45 (2.25%) Unix
6 32 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 32 (1.60%) VMS
7 13 (0.65%) Android
8 12 (0.60%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.40%) Debian
9 8 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.100%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.100%) Rocky
12 1 (0.050%) AIX
12 1 (0.050%) SUSE
12 1 (0.050%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,421 (70.94%) CI/CD
2 1,146 (57.21%) DevOps
3 567 (28.31%) Agile
4 560 (27.96%) Observability
5 551 (27.51%) Containerisation
6 455 (22.72%) Platform Engineering
7 428 (21.37%) Continuous Improvement
7 428 (21.37%) Mentoring
8 416 (20.77%) AI
9 367 (18.32%) Software Engineering
10 345 (17.22%) Test Automation
11 338 (16.87%) Microservices
12 322 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
13 291 (14.53%) Technical Leadership
14 289 (14.43%) Cloud Security
15 266 (13.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 237 (11.83%) Analytics
17 224 (11.18%) Roadmaps
18 216 (10.78%) DevSecOps
19 201 (10.03%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 909 (45.38%) Python
2 355 (17.72%) Bash
3 317 (15.83%) SQL
4 313 (15.63%) PowerShell
5 298 (14.88%) Java
6 197 (9.84%) Bicep
7 191 (9.54%) TypeScript
8 186 (9.29%) JavaScript
9 184 (9.19%) Go
10 149 (7.44%) C#
11 30 (1.50%) Ruby
12 29 (1.45%) Rust
13 28 (1.40%) C++
14 27 (1.35%) PHP
15 26 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
15 26 (1.30%) Scala
16 20 (1.00%) Groovy
17 12 (0.60%) Perl
18 11 (0.55%) Kotlin
19 10 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 440 (21.97%) Security Cleared
2 270 (13.48%) SC Cleared
3 168 (8.39%) Degree
4 147 (7.34%) AWS Certification
5 118 (5.89%) DV Cleared
6 116 (5.79%) Azure Certification
7 65 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 61 (3.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 53 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 39 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.30%) OSCP
12 24 (1.20%) CCNP
13 21 (1.05%) CISSP
14 20 (1.00%) Master's Degree
15 18 (0.90%) CCNA
16 15 (0.75%) DBS Check
17 14 (0.70%) RHCSA
18 13 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 11 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
20 10 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (5.09%) QA
2 86 (4.29%) Data Quality
3 64 (3.20%) GDPR
4 53 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (2.30%) SOC 2
6 36 (1.80%) NIST
7 33 (1.65%) PCI DSS
8 32 (1.60%) Accessibility
9 18 (0.90%) WCAG
10 14 (0.70%) NCSC
10 14 (0.70%) SLA
11 11 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.55%) GRC
12 5 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
14 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.100%) IFRS
15 2 (0.100%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.100%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.100%) Solvency II
System Software
1 528 (26.36%) Docker
2 125 (6.24%) Active Directory
3 116 (5.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (2.30%) vSphere
5 38 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (1.05%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.95%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.40%) Squid
11 7 (0.35%) iptables
12 6 (0.30%) Firmware
12 6 (0.30%) KVM
12 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.100%) VMware ESXi
14 1 (0.050%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,394 (69.60%) Terraform
2 772 (38.54%) Kubernetes
3 420 (20.97%) Ansible
4 234 (11.68%) Grafana
5 208 (10.38%) Prometheus
6 69 (3.44%) Argo
7 48 (2.40%) Puppet
8 45 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
9 40 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
10 30 (1.50%) Progress Chef
11 28 (1.40%) Packer
12 22 (1.10%) Istio
12 22 (1.10%) Nagios
13 19 (0.95%) Kustomize
14 16 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 15 (0.75%) Rancher
15 15 (0.75%) vCenter Server
15 15 (0.75%) ZABBIX
16 12 (0.60%) Cilium
17 11 (0.55%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 374 (18.67%) Microsoft
2 151 (7.54%) VMware
3 103 (5.14%) Google
4 81 (4.04%) Databricks
5 79 (3.94%) Red Hat
6 66 (3.30%) Splunk
7 61 (3.05%) Cisco
8 49 (2.45%) Palo Alto
9 44 (2.20%) Oracle
10 32 (1.60%) OpenAI
11 31 (1.55%) Fortinet
12 25 (1.25%) Zscaler
13 24 (1.20%) Dynatrace
14 17 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
15 14 (0.70%) Salesforce
16 12 (0.60%) F5
16 12 (0.60%) Foundry
16 12 (0.60%) ScienceLogic
17 11 (0.55%) ServiceNow
17 11 (0.55%) SolarWinds