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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 159 131
Rank change year-on-year +83 -28 -38
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,427 1,019 1,539
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.14% 2.05% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.93% 2.31% 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,587 709 984
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -3.92%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £108,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -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 82,871 44,018 63,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.00% 88.61% 80.87%
Number of salaries quoted 57,674 24,857 36,941
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -3.67%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 +78 2,117 £77,500 - 1,438
UK excluding London +108 1,319 £70,000 - 859
London +31 925 £90,000 +2.86% 769
Work from Home +62 810 £74,500 -3.87% 670
North of England +93 460 £70,079 +0.11% 242
North West +90 259 £72,500 +11.54% 124
South East +58 250 £67,500 -15.63% 196
South West +40 232 £75,000 - 146
Midlands +30 146 £75,000 +15.38% 88
Yorkshire -7 102 £75,000 +7.14% 77
North East +24 99 £59,000 -18.62% 42
West Midlands +14 88 £85,000 +31.78% 49
Wales -9 71 £70,000 +21.74% 24
Northern Ireland -26 62 £71,991 +67.07% 25
East of England -4 59 £70,000 +7.69% 59
East Midlands +7 58 £67,500 +3.85% 39
Scotland +16 51 £72,500 +3.57% 90

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 58 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
2 57 (2.35%) Apache
3 56 (2.31%) Apache Spark
4 32 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (1.19%) Confluence
6 13 (0.54%) Jupyter
7 11 (0.45%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.37%) IIS
9 7 (0.29%) CMS
9 7 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.16%) Camunda
10 4 (0.16%) nginx
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.12%) WordPress
12 2 (0.082%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.082%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.041%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.041%) Documentum
13 1 (0.041%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 21 (0.87%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.082%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.082%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.041%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) Summit
4 2 (0.082%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.082%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.041%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,373 (56.57%) AWS
2 1,298 (53.48%) Azure
3 465 (19.16%) GCP
4 428 (17.63%) GitHub
5 388 (15.99%) AWS CloudFormation
6 378 (15.57%) Serverless
7 325 (13.39%) Azure DevOps
8 237 (9.77%) GitHub Actions
9 214 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
10 210 (8.65%) Amazon S3
11 172 (7.09%) PaaS
12 152 (6.26%) Amazon EKS
13 146 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
13 146 (6.02%) Amazon ECS
14 139 (5.73%) Azure AKS
15 133 (5.48%) SaaS
16 125 (5.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 125 (5.15%) IaaS
16 125 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
17 118 (4.86%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 175 (7.21%) Firewall
2 130 (5.36%) DNS
3 123 (5.07%) VPN
4 120 (4.94%) WAN
5 115 (4.74%) Network Security
6 97 (4.00%) LAN
7 68 (2.80%) TCP/IP
8 56 (2.31%) BGP
9 49 (2.02%) DHCP
10 48 (1.98%) Broadband
11 40 (1.65%) OSPF
12 32 (1.32%) VLAN
13 28 (1.15%) SD-WAN
13 28 (1.15%) VXLAN
14 27 (1.11%) Software-Defined Networking
15 19 (0.78%) Wireless
16 16 (0.66%) HTTP
17 15 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
18 14 (0.58%) SAN
19 10 (0.41%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (7.70%) PostgreSQL
2 158 (6.51%) NoSQL
3 112 (4.61%) Amazon RDS
4 107 (4.41%) MongoDB
5 87 (3.58%) SQL Server
6 79 (3.26%) DynamoDB
7 70 (2.88%) MySQL
8 61 (2.51%) Data Lake
9 60 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
10 51 (2.10%) Metadata
11 50 (2.06%) Relational Database
12 47 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
13 45 (1.85%) Redis
14 32 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
15 30 (1.24%) Big Data
15 30 (1.24%) Delta Lake
16 29 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
17 26 (1.07%) BigQuery
18 22 (0.91%) Data Vault
19 21 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 326 (13.43%) Git
2 289 (11.91%) GitLab
3 258 (10.63%) Jenkins
4 58 (2.39%) JIRA
5 48 (1.98%) Cucumber
6 33 (1.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 25 (1.03%) Bitbucket
7 25 (1.03%) TeamCity
8 24 (0.99%) CircleCI
8 24 (0.99%) Selenium
9 20 (0.82%) Claude Code
10 18 (0.74%) SonarQube
11 15 (0.62%) Cypress.io
12 14 (0.58%) NUnit
13 13 (0.54%) Subversion
14 12 (0.49%) Maven
15 10 (0.41%) MLflow
15 10 (0.41%) Snyk
16 9 (0.37%) MSI
17 8 (0.33%) Artifactory
General
1 674 (27.77%) Social Skills
2 562 (23.16%) Finance
3 236 (9.72%) Public Sector
4 184 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
5 154 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 138 (5.69%) Banking
7 119 (4.90%) Law
8 74 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
9 66 (2.72%) Retail
10 56 (2.31%) Aerospace
11 43 (1.77%) Games
12 42 (1.73%) Marketing
13 38 (1.57%) Legal
14 31 (1.28%) Manufacturing
15 26 (1.07%) Telecoms
16 19 (0.78%) Financial Institution
17 18 (0.74%) Aviation
17 18 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
18 17 (0.70%) Local Government
19 16 (0.66%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 573 (23.61%) Senior
2 413 (17.02%) DevOps Engineer
3 340 (14.01%) Lead
4 329 (13.56%) Architect
5 291 (11.99%) Cloud Engineer
6 248 (10.22%) Platform Engineer
7 209 (8.61%) Developer
8 196 (8.08%) Azure Engineer
9 167 (6.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 155 (6.39%) Software Engineer
11 146 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
12 124 (5.11%) Principal Engineer
13 123 (5.07%) Data Engineer
14 119 (4.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 96 (3.96%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 94 (3.87%) Security Engineer
17 76 (3.13%) Senior Developer
17 76 (3.13%) Senior DevOps
18 74 (3.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 73 (3.01%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,636 (67.41%) Terraform
2 203 (8.36%) Kafka
3 200 (8.24%) React
4 181 (7.46%) .NET
5 161 (6.63%) Spring
6 159 (6.55%) Node.js
6 159 (6.55%) Spring Boot
7 157 (6.47%) REST
8 148 (6.10%) RESTful
9 91 (3.75%) AWS CDK
10 78 (3.21%) PySpark
11 68 (2.80%) YAML
12 66 (2.72%) ARM Templates
13 63 (2.60%) AngularJS
14 61 (2.51%) RabbitMQ
15 57 (2.35%) Next.js
16 54 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
17 47 (1.94%) OAuth
18 43 (1.77%) ASP.NET
18 43 (1.77%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 731 (30.12%) Cloud Native
2 269 (11.08%) Distributed Systems
3 130 (5.36%) Hybrid Cloud
4 128 (5.27%) Public Cloud
5 125 (5.15%) Onboarding
6 96 (3.96%) Data Centre
7 85 (3.50%) Product Ownership
8 73 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
9 66 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
10 63 (2.60%) Security Posture
11 59 (2.43%) Enterprise Cloud
12 48 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
13 46 (1.90%) Virtual Team
14 42 (1.73%) Management Information System
15 41 (1.69%) e-Learning
15 41 (1.69%) Private Cloud
16 40 (1.65%) Video\Live Streaming
17 39 (1.61%) AI Agents
18 38 (1.57%) PKI
19 35 (1.44%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 398 (16.40%) Linux
2 219 (9.02%) Windows
3 96 (3.96%) Windows Server
4 59 (2.43%) CentOS
5 43 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (1.57%) Ubuntu
6 38 (1.57%) Unix
7 22 (0.91%) VMS
8 6 (0.25%) Debian
9 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.12%) AIX
11 3 (0.12%) Android
11 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.082%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.082%) Solaris
13 1 (0.041%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.041%) Rocky
13 1 (0.041%) SUSE
13 1 (0.041%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,712 (70.54%) CI/CD
2 1,312 (54.06%) DevOps
3 704 (29.01%) Containerisation
4 686 (28.27%) Agile
5 685 (28.22%) Observability
6 581 (23.94%) Platform Engineering
7 540 (22.25%) AI
8 531 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 527 (21.71%) Mentoring
10 525 (21.63%) Software Engineering
11 437 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
12 419 (17.26%) Microservices
13 406 (16.73%) Technical Leadership
14 396 (16.32%) Test Automation
15 377 (15.53%) Cloud Security
16 349 (14.38%) Roadmaps
17 346 (14.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 278 (11.45%) Event-Driven
19 269 (11.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 260 (10.71%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,051 (43.30%) Python
2 386 (15.90%) Java
3 376 (15.49%) SQL
4 374 (15.41%) Bash
5 344 (14.17%) PowerShell
6 231 (9.52%) Bicep
7 227 (9.35%) TypeScript
8 198 (8.16%) JavaScript
9 186 (7.66%) C#
10 157 (6.47%) Go
11 48 (1.98%) Ruby
12 41 (1.69%) Scala
13 35 (1.44%) PHP
14 30 (1.24%) Groovy
15 28 (1.15%) Rust
16 25 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
17 22 (0.91%) C++
18 21 (0.87%) Perl
19 19 (0.78%) Shell Script
20 12 (0.49%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 600 (24.72%) Security Cleared
2 378 (15.57%) SC Cleared
3 205 (8.45%) AWS Certification
4 196 (8.08%) DV Cleared
5 189 (7.79%) Degree
6 150 (6.18%) Azure Certification
7 91 (3.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 85 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 64 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
10 62 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
11 38 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
12 36 (1.48%) CCNP
13 30 (1.24%) Master's Degree
14 24 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
15 23 (0.95%) CISSP
16 22 (0.91%) CCNA
17 17 (0.70%) SnowPro
18 14 (0.58%) CCIE
18 14 (0.58%) DBS Check
18 14 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (5.48%) QA
2 104 (4.29%) Data Quality
3 72 (2.97%) GRC
4 69 (2.84%) GDPR
5 59 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (1.90%) Accessibility
7 32 (1.32%) NIST
8 31 (1.28%) SOC 2
9 29 (1.19%) NCSC
10 25 (1.03%) SLA
11 22 (0.91%) PCI DSS
12 21 (0.87%) WCAG
13 10 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.29%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 4 (0.16%) ISO 20022
18 2 (0.082%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 2 (0.082%) IFRS
18 2 (0.082%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 632 (26.04%) Docker
2 134 (5.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 132 (5.44%) Active Directory
4 46 (1.90%) vSphere
5 39 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (0.99%) Hyper-V
6 24 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (0.70%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (0.37%) KVM
10 8 (0.33%) Firmware
10 8 (0.33%) Squid
11 7 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.12%) iptables
14 2 (0.082%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 879 (36.22%) Kubernetes
2 485 (19.98%) Ansible
3 237 (9.77%) Grafana
4 173 (7.13%) Prometheus
5 73 (3.01%) Argo
6 62 (2.55%) Puppet
7 41 (1.69%) Progress Chef
8 38 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
9 35 (1.44%) Istio
10 34 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
11 28 (1.15%) Packer
12 23 (0.95%) FortiGate
13 19 (0.78%) Rancher
14 18 (0.74%) vCenter Server
15 17 (0.70%) Nagios
16 14 (0.58%) Cilium
17 13 (0.54%) Kustomize
18 12 (0.49%) Podman
18 12 (0.49%) ZABBIX
19 11 (0.45%) linkerd
Vendors
1 555 (22.87%) Microsoft
2 164 (6.76%) VMware
3 146 (6.02%) Google
4 106 (4.37%) Databricks
5 85 (3.50%) Splunk
6 82 (3.38%) Red Hat
7 79 (3.26%) Cisco
8 72 (2.97%) Oracle
9 44 (1.81%) Palo Alto
10 42 (1.73%) Dynatrace
10 42 (1.73%) Fortinet
10 42 (1.73%) OpenAI
11 30 (1.24%) ServiceNow
12 26 (1.07%) Zscaler
13 16 (0.66%) CrowdStrike
13 16 (0.66%) SAP
14 15 (0.62%) Atlassian
14 15 (0.62%) Okta
15 14 (0.58%) F5
16 13 (0.54%) New Relic