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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 154 169
Rank change year-on-year +76 +15 -70
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,136 1,021 1,683
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.18% 2.09% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 2.31% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,436 694 1,281
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,000 £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 £91,000 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 72,315 44,278 84,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.86% 90.47% 82.35%
Number of salaries quoted 49,904 24,657 59,064
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,772 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.54% - -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 10 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 10 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 +74 1,912 £77,500 - 710
UK excluding London +107 1,053 £70,000 - 496
London +36 905 £87,500 -2.78% 333
Work from Home +86 761 £71,000 -5.79% 378
North of England +78 367 £70,000 - 144
South East +44 226 £70,000 -9.68% 136
North West +79 223 £73,401 +1.24% 85
South West +39 176 £75,000 +3.45% 90
Midlands +36 129 £75,000 +15.38% 53
Yorkshire +7 91 £67,500 -3.57% 35
West Midlands +19 75 £80,000 +23.08% 34
East Midlands +14 54 £67,500 +3.85% 19
North East -4 53 £55,000 -14.06% 24
East of England +13 52 £60,100 -7.54% 15
Wales -14 41 £70,039 +24.51% 18
Scotland +15 37 £62,500 -16.39% 30
Northern Ireland -30 32 £73,801 +71.27% 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 53 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (2.11%) Apache
3 42 (1.97%) Apache Spark
4 38 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 26 (1.22%) Confluence
6 12 (0.56%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.47%) IIS
8 9 (0.42%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.23%) CMS
11 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.14%) WordPress
13 2 (0.094%) Camunda
13 2 (0.094%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.047%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.047%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.047%) nginx
14 1 (0.047%) NServiceBus
14 1 (0.047%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (0.94%) PlantUML
2 10 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.19%) Weka
4 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.094%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.094%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.094%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.047%) Maya
6 1 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.047%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.094%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.094%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.094%) Summit
4 1 (0.047%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 1,210 (56.65%) AWS
2 1,154 (54.03%) Azure
3 395 (18.49%) GitHub
4 373 (17.46%) GCP
5 362 (16.95%) Serverless
6 330 (15.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 320 (14.98%) Azure DevOps
8 228 (10.67%) GitHub Actions
9 197 (9.22%) AWS Lambda
10 191 (8.94%) Amazon S3
11 185 (8.66%) PaaS
12 145 (6.79%) Amazon EKS
13 136 (6.37%) IaaS
14 132 (6.18%) Amazon EC2
15 131 (6.13%) SaaS
16 124 (5.81%) Microsoft 365
17 123 (5.76%) Entra ID
18 122 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 116 (5.43%) Azure AKS
20 114 (5.34%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 189 (8.85%) Firewall
2 115 (5.38%) DNS
3 113 (5.29%) VPN
4 95 (4.45%) Network Security
5 85 (3.98%) WAN
6 71 (3.32%) TCP/IP
7 69 (3.23%) Broadband
8 61 (2.86%) LAN
9 48 (2.25%) BGP
10 38 (1.78%) VLAN
11 33 (1.54%) DHCP
12 27 (1.26%) OSPF
13 24 (1.12%) HTTP
14 23 (1.08%) SD-WAN
14 23 (1.08%) Software-Defined Networking
15 21 (0.98%) VXLAN
16 15 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
17 13 (0.61%) DSL
18 11 (0.51%) SAN
19 10 (0.47%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
2 147 (6.88%) NoSQL
3 96 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
4 92 (4.31%) MongoDB
5 71 (3.32%) DynamoDB
5 71 (3.32%) SQL Server
6 60 (2.81%) Relational Database
7 56 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
8 53 (2.48%) Data Lake
9 51 (2.39%) Metadata
10 45 (2.11%) MySQL
11 37 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
12 32 (1.50%) Redis
13 31 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
14 26 (1.22%) Delta Lake
15 25 (1.17%) BigQuery
16 24 (1.12%) Power BI
17 22 (1.03%) Big Data
18 21 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
18 21 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 285 (13.34%) GitLab
2 283 (13.25%) Git
3 257 (12.03%) Jenkins
4 44 (2.06%) CircleCI
5 43 (2.01%) JIRA
6 41 (1.92%) Cucumber
7 35 (1.64%) Bitbucket
8 26 (1.22%) TeamCity
9 25 (1.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 18 (0.84%) Selenium
11 17 (0.80%) SonarQube
12 15 (0.70%) Claude Code
12 15 (0.70%) Subversion
13 13 (0.61%) Jaeger
14 10 (0.47%) JMeter
14 10 (0.47%) Maven
14 10 (0.47%) MLflow
14 10 (0.47%) NUnit
15 9 (0.42%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.42%) Vite
General
1 551 (25.80%) Social Skills
2 468 (21.91%) Finance
3 177 (8.29%) Public Sector
4 148 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
5 115 (5.38%) Banking
6 107 (5.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 98 (4.59%) Law
8 66 (3.09%) Retail
9 44 (2.06%) Games
10 41 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
11 40 (1.87%) Telecoms
12 34 (1.59%) Aerospace
13 30 (1.40%) Manufacturing
14 28 (1.31%) Legal
15 24 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
16 22 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
17 20 (0.94%) Marketing
18 19 (0.89%) Advertising
19 17 (0.80%) Financial Institution
20 10 (0.47%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 498 (23.31%) Senior
2 367 (17.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 300 (14.04%) Lead
4 284 (13.30%) Cloud Engineer
5 259 (12.13%) Architect
6 222 (10.39%) Platform Engineer
7 192 (8.99%) Azure Engineer
8 185 (8.66%) Developer
9 139 (6.51%) AWS Engineer
10 133 (6.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 114 (5.34%) Software Engineer
12 104 (4.87%) Data Engineer
13 100 (4.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 90 (4.21%) Principal Engineer
14 90 (4.21%) Security Engineer
15 83 (3.89%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 81 (3.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 77 (3.60%) Senior DevOps
18 67 (3.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 65 (3.04%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (7.63%) React
2 149 (6.98%) Kafka
3 148 (6.93%) .NET
4 142 (6.65%) Node.js
5 138 (6.46%) REST
6 118 (5.52%) RESTful
7 117 (5.48%) Spring
8 116 (5.43%) Spring Boot
9 89 (4.17%) AWS CDK
10 82 (3.84%) YAML
11 75 (3.51%) Elastic Stack
12 69 (3.23%) ARM Templates
13 68 (3.18%) PySpark
14 59 (2.76%) RabbitMQ
15 52 (2.43%) OAuth
16 51 (2.39%) AngularJS
17 50 (2.34%) Next.js
18 42 (1.97%) JSON
19 39 (1.83%) FastAPI
20 38 (1.78%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 601 (28.14%) Cloud Native
2 205 (9.60%) Distributed Systems
3 110 (5.15%) Hybrid Cloud
4 105 (4.92%) Public Cloud
5 90 (4.21%) Onboarding
6 79 (3.70%) Data Centre
6 79 (3.70%) Product Ownership
7 65 (3.04%) Security Posture
8 64 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
9 50 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
10 48 (2.25%) Video\Live Streaming
11 43 (2.01%) Enterprise Cloud
12 38 (1.78%) Low-Code
13 32 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
13 32 (1.50%) PKI
14 31 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
15 28 (1.31%) e-Learning
16 27 (1.26%) Management Information System
17 26 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
17 26 (1.22%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 381 (17.84%) Linux
2 209 (9.78%) Windows
3 90 (4.21%) Windows Server
4 54 (2.53%) CentOS
5 48 (2.25%) Ubuntu
6 43 (2.01%) Unix
7 38 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 31 (1.45%) VMS
9 11 (0.51%) Android
10 10 (0.47%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.37%) Debian
11 8 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.094%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.094%) Rocky
14 1 (0.047%) AIX
14 1 (0.047%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.047%) SUSE
14 1 (0.047%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,498 (70.13%) CI/CD
2 1,201 (56.23%) DevOps
3 623 (29.17%) Containerisation
4 599 (28.04%) Agile
5 575 (26.92%) Observability
6 483 (22.61%) Platform Engineering
7 461 (21.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 460 (21.54%) Mentoring
9 436 (20.41%) AI
10 396 (18.54%) Software Engineering
11 363 (16.99%) Test Automation
12 362 (16.95%) Microservices
13 348 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
14 323 (15.12%) Technical Leadership
15 305 (14.28%) Cloud Security
16 283 (13.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 270 (12.64%) Roadmaps
18 241 (11.28%) Analytics
19 228 (10.67%) DevSecOps
20 223 (10.44%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 957 (44.80%) Python
2 369 (17.28%) Bash
3 331 (15.50%) Java
4 330 (15.45%) SQL
5 327 (15.31%) PowerShell
6 208 (9.74%) Bicep
7 199 (9.32%) JavaScript
8 194 (9.08%) TypeScript
9 188 (8.80%) Go
10 160 (7.49%) C#
11 38 (1.78%) Ruby
12 35 (1.64%) PHP
13 30 (1.40%) Rust
14 29 (1.36%) C++
15 26 (1.22%) Scala
16 25 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
17 20 (0.94%) Groovy
18 18 (0.84%) Perl
19 12 (0.56%) Kotlin
20 10 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 484 (22.66%) Security Cleared
2 285 (13.34%) SC Cleared
3 175 (8.19%) Degree
4 153 (7.16%) AWS Certification
5 141 (6.60%) DV Cleared
6 121 (5.66%) Azure Certification
7 73 (3.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 69 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 56 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 44 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
11 27 (1.26%) CCNP
12 25 (1.17%) OSCP
13 24 (1.12%) Master's Degree
14 23 (1.08%) CISSP
15 18 (0.84%) CCNA
16 15 (0.70%) DBS Check
17 14 (0.66%) RHCSA
18 13 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
19 12 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
20 11 (0.51%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (5.29%) QA
2 91 (4.26%) Data Quality
3 63 (2.95%) GDPR
4 52 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 45 (2.11%) SOC 2
6 42 (1.97%) GRC
7 38 (1.78%) NIST
8 37 (1.73%) PCI DSS
9 34 (1.59%) Accessibility
10 20 (0.94%) WCAG
11 16 (0.75%) NCSC
12 12 (0.56%) SLA
13 11 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.094%) IFRS
16 2 (0.094%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.094%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.094%) Solvency II
System Software
1 565 (26.45%) Docker
2 127 (5.95%) Active Directory
3 124 (5.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (2.15%) vSphere
5 39 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (0.98%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.89%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.37%) Squid
11 7 (0.33%) Firmware
11 7 (0.33%) iptables
11 7 (0.33%) KVM
12 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.094%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,465 (68.59%) Terraform
2 826 (38.67%) Kubernetes
3 448 (20.97%) Ansible
4 243 (11.38%) Grafana
5 208 (9.74%) Prometheus
6 74 (3.46%) Argo
7 54 (2.53%) Puppet
8 44 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
9 41 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
10 31 (1.45%) Progress Chef
11 29 (1.36%) Packer
12 25 (1.17%) Istio
13 22 (1.03%) Nagios
14 20 (0.94%) Kustomize
15 16 (0.75%) Rancher
15 16 (0.75%) vCenter Server
16 15 (0.70%) ZABBIX
17 14 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 13 (0.61%) FortiGate
19 12 (0.56%) Cilium
Vendors
1 431 (20.18%) Microsoft
2 159 (7.44%) VMware
3 109 (5.10%) Google
4 82 (3.84%) Databricks
5 80 (3.75%) Red Hat
6 73 (3.42%) Splunk
7 66 (3.09%) Cisco
8 51 (2.39%) Palo Alto
9 47 (2.20%) Oracle
10 34 (1.59%) Fortinet
10 34 (1.59%) OpenAI
11 27 (1.26%) Zscaler
12 25 (1.17%) Dynatrace
13 18 (0.84%) CrowdStrike
14 14 (0.66%) F5
14 14 (0.66%) Salesforce
15 12 (0.56%) ScienceLogic
15 12 (0.56%) ServiceNow
16 11 (0.51%) Rapid7
16 11 (0.51%) SolarWinds