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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 162 152
Rank change year-on-year +85 -10 -53
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,398 1,011 1,423
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.23% 2.03% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 2.27% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,595 708 998
10th Percentile £48,833 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,250 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £102,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -5.99%

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 78,808 44,479 67,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.30% 89.14% 80.83%
Number of salaries quoted 54,325 25,171 42,850
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 20 August 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 20 August 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 +80 2,100 £77,500 - 1,328
UK excluding London +115 1,308 £70,000 - 801
London +31 922 £90,000 +2.86% 706
Work from Home +79 832 £72,500 -4.92% 652
North of England +99 453 £70,000 - 248
South East +67 252 £67,500 -12.90% 196
North West +87 249 £72,500 +3.57% 143
South West +46 225 £75,000 - 137
Midlands +47 148 £75,000 +15.38% 77
Yorkshire +14 106 £72,500 +3.57% 62
North East +17 98 £57,000 -21.38% 45
West Midlands +15 90 £81,887 +26.47% 43
Wales -5 67 £70,000 +16.67% 23
Northern Ireland -25 62 £71,991 +67.07% 20
East Midlands +14 58 £67,500 +3.85% 34
East of England +3 57 £67,500 +3.85% 43
Scotland +21 55 £72,246 +3.21% 63

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 60 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
2 58 (2.42%) Apache Spark
3 56 (2.34%) Apache
4 29 (1.21%) Confluence
4 29 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.54%) Jupyter
6 9 (0.38%) IIS
6 9 (0.38%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.25%) CMS
8 4 (0.17%) Camunda
8 4 (0.17%) nginx
9 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.13%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.13%) WordPress
10 2 (0.083%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.042%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.042%) Documentum
11 1 (0.042%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.042%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 22 (0.92%) PlantUML
2 10 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.083%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.083%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.083%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.042%) Maya
6 1 (0.042%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.13%) Summit
4 2 (0.083%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,362 (56.80%) AWS
2 1,290 (53.79%) Azure
3 460 (19.18%) GCP
4 420 (17.51%) GitHub
5 384 (16.01%) AWS CloudFormation
5 384 (16.01%) Serverless
6 319 (13.30%) Azure DevOps
7 230 (9.59%) GitHub Actions
8 214 (8.92%) AWS Lambda
9 209 (8.72%) Amazon S3
10 181 (7.55%) PaaS
11 147 (6.13%) Amazon EC2
12 144 (6.01%) Amazon EKS
13 141 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
14 137 (5.71%) SaaS
15 128 (5.34%) Azure AKS
16 127 (5.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 127 (5.30%) IaaS
16 127 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
17 114 (4.75%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 176 (7.34%) Firewall
2 120 (5.00%) DNS
3 118 (4.92%) WAN
4 111 (4.63%) Network Security
4 111 (4.63%) VPN
5 98 (4.09%) LAN
6 74 (3.09%) TCP/IP
7 53 (2.21%) BGP
8 50 (2.09%) Broadband
9 45 (1.88%) DHCP
10 37 (1.54%) OSPF
11 33 (1.38%) VLAN
12 28 (1.17%) VXLAN
13 26 (1.08%) Software-Defined Networking
14 24 (1.00%) SD-WAN
15 16 (0.67%) HTTP
15 16 (0.67%) Wireless
16 14 (0.58%) Ethernet VPN
16 14 (0.58%) SAN
17 10 (0.42%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (7.42%) PostgreSQL
2 150 (6.26%) NoSQL
3 106 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
4 103 (4.30%) MongoDB
5 84 (3.50%) SQL Server
6 81 (3.38%) DynamoDB
7 66 (2.75%) Data Lake
8 64 (2.67%) MySQL
9 56 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
10 53 (2.21%) Relational Database
11 51 (2.13%) Metadata
12 46 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
13 37 (1.54%) Redis
14 33 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
15 30 (1.25%) Delta Lake
16 29 (1.21%) Big Data
17 28 (1.17%) BigQuery
18 25 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
19 24 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
19 24 (1.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 319 (13.30%) Git
2 291 (12.14%) GitLab
3 256 (10.68%) Jenkins
4 55 (2.29%) JIRA
5 46 (1.92%) Cucumber
6 32 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 30 (1.25%) Bitbucket
7 30 (1.25%) CircleCI
8 27 (1.13%) TeamCity
9 21 (0.88%) Selenium
10 18 (0.75%) Claude Code
10 18 (0.75%) SonarQube
11 15 (0.63%) Cypress.io
11 15 (0.63%) NUnit
12 12 (0.50%) MLflow
13 11 (0.46%) Maven
13 11 (0.46%) Subversion
14 9 (0.38%) JMeter
14 9 (0.38%) MSI
14 9 (0.38%) Snyk
General
1 664 (27.69%) Social Skills
2 552 (23.02%) Finance
3 225 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 186 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
5 144 (6.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 132 (5.50%) Banking
7 121 (5.05%) Law
8 75 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
9 64 (2.67%) Retail
10 50 (2.09%) Aerospace
11 47 (1.96%) Games
12 44 (1.83%) Marketing
13 39 (1.63%) Legal
14 32 (1.33%) Manufacturing
15 29 (1.21%) Telecoms
16 21 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (0.75%) Aviation
18 17 (0.71%) Advertising
18 17 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
18 17 (0.71%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 555 (23.14%) Senior
2 409 (17.06%) DevOps Engineer
3 342 (14.26%) Lead
4 324 (13.51%) Architect
5 284 (11.84%) Cloud Engineer
6 237 (9.88%) Platform Engineer
7 206 (8.59%) Developer
8 186 (7.76%) Azure Engineer
9 152 (6.34%) Software Engineer
10 146 (6.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 139 (5.80%) AWS Engineer
12 124 (5.17%) Data Engineer
13 120 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
14 109 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 93 (3.88%) Security Engineer
16 85 (3.54%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 81 (3.38%) Senior DevOps
18 77 (3.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 75 (3.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 72 (3.00%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,614 (67.31%) Terraform
2 196 (8.17%) React
3 183 (7.63%) Kafka
4 180 (7.51%) .NET
5 158 (6.59%) Node.js
6 155 (6.46%) REST
7 151 (6.30%) Spring
8 149 (6.21%) Spring Boot
9 141 (5.88%) RESTful
10 94 (3.92%) AWS CDK
11 77 (3.21%) PySpark
12 74 (3.09%) YAML
13 68 (2.84%) ARM Templates
14 62 (2.59%) AngularJS
15 59 (2.46%) Next.js
15 59 (2.46%) RabbitMQ
16 51 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
17 50 (2.09%) OAuth
18 44 (1.83%) ASP.NET
19 42 (1.75%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 706 (29.44%) Cloud Native
2 258 (10.76%) Distributed Systems
3 124 (5.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 123 (5.13%) Public Cloud
5 120 (5.00%) Onboarding
6 92 (3.84%) Data Centre
7 84 (3.50%) Product Ownership
8 68 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
9 66 (2.75%) Security Posture
10 62 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
11 54 (2.25%) Enterprise Cloud
12 46 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
13 41 (1.71%) Video\Live Streaming
14 40 (1.67%) Virtual Team
15 39 (1.63%) Private Cloud
16 37 (1.54%) Management Information System
17 36 (1.50%) Low-Code
18 35 (1.46%) e-Learning
19 33 (1.38%) PKI
20 32 (1.33%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 395 (16.47%) Linux
2 228 (9.51%) Windows
3 102 (4.25%) Windows Server
4 59 (2.46%) CentOS
5 42 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (1.63%) Ubuntu
7 38 (1.58%) Unix
8 22 (0.92%) VMS
9 5 (0.21%) Android
9 5 (0.21%) Debian
9 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.17%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.13%) AIX
12 2 (0.083%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.083%) Solaris
13 1 (0.042%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.042%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.042%) Rocky
13 1 (0.042%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,683 (70.18%) CI/CD
2 1,316 (54.88%) DevOps
3 714 (29.77%) Containerisation
4 669 (27.90%) Agile
5 661 (27.56%) Observability
6 557 (23.23%) Platform Engineering
7 539 (22.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 522 (21.77%) Mentoring
9 509 (21.23%) AI
10 503 (20.98%) Software Engineering
11 425 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
12 416 (17.35%) Microservices
13 406 (16.93%) Technical Leadership
14 389 (16.22%) Test Automation
15 357 (14.89%) Cloud Security
16 339 (14.14%) Roadmaps
17 327 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 269 (11.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 265 (11.05%) Event-Driven
20 261 (10.88%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,040 (43.37%) Python
2 379 (15.80%) Java
3 368 (15.35%) Bash
4 367 (15.30%) SQL
5 342 (14.26%) PowerShell
6 228 (9.51%) Bicep
7 221 (9.22%) TypeScript
8 193 (8.05%) JavaScript
9 185 (7.71%) C#
10 164 (6.84%) Go
11 47 (1.96%) Ruby
12 40 (1.67%) Scala
13 36 (1.50%) PHP
14 27 (1.13%) Rust
15 25 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
16 23 (0.96%) C++
16 23 (0.96%) Groovy
17 21 (0.88%) Perl
18 13 (0.54%) Shell Script
19 12 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 573 (23.89%) Security Cleared
2 360 (15.01%) SC Cleared
3 205 (8.55%) Degree
4 192 (8.01%) AWS Certification
5 190 (7.92%) DV Cleared
6 149 (6.21%) Azure Certification
7 90 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 88 (3.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 60 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 54 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
11 36 (1.50%) CCNP
12 34 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
13 30 (1.25%) Master's Degree
14 23 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
15 21 (0.88%) CISSP
16 20 (0.83%) CCNA
17 19 (0.79%) OSCP
18 15 (0.63%) SnowPro
19 14 (0.58%) DBS Check
19 14 (0.58%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (5.42%) QA
2 107 (4.46%) Data Quality
3 73 (3.04%) GDPR
3 73 (3.04%) GRC
4 58 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 50 (2.09%) Accessibility
6 38 (1.58%) NIST
7 33 (1.38%) SOC 2
8 27 (1.13%) NCSC
9 25 (1.04%) PCI DSS
9 25 (1.04%) WCAG
10 21 (0.88%) SLA
11 10 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.29%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
16 2 (0.083%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.083%) IFRS
16 2 (0.083%) Solvency II
System Software
1 632 (26.36%) Docker
2 136 (5.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 133 (5.55%) Active Directory
4 46 (1.92%) vSphere
5 37 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
6 27 (1.13%) Hyper-V
7 23 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (0.75%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.38%) KVM
11 8 (0.33%) Squid
11 8 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.29%) Firmware
13 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.17%) iptables
15 3 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 2 (0.083%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 886 (36.95%) Kubernetes
2 488 (20.35%) Ansible
3 240 (10.01%) Grafana
4 174 (7.26%) Prometheus
5 71 (2.96%) Argo
6 60 (2.50%) Puppet
7 39 (1.63%) Progress Chef
8 34 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
8 34 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
9 30 (1.25%) Istio
10 27 (1.13%) Packer
11 22 (0.92%) Nagios
12 18 (0.75%) FortiGate
13 16 (0.67%) vCenter Server
14 14 (0.58%) Cilium
15 12 (0.50%) Kustomize
15 12 (0.50%) ZABBIX
16 11 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 11 (0.46%) Rancher
17 10 (0.42%) linkerd
Vendors
1 535 (22.31%) Microsoft
2 164 (6.84%) VMware
3 141 (5.88%) Google
4 105 (4.38%) Databricks
5 87 (3.63%) Splunk
6 86 (3.59%) Red Hat
7 74 (3.09%) Cisco
8 69 (2.88%) Oracle
9 46 (1.92%) Palo Alto
10 43 (1.79%) OpenAI
11 39 (1.63%) Dynatrace
11 39 (1.63%) Fortinet
12 25 (1.04%) Zscaler
13 23 (0.96%) ServiceNow
14 17 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
15 16 (0.67%) SAP
16 15 (0.63%) Atlassian
17 13 (0.54%) Okta
17 13 (0.54%) Rapid7
18 12 (0.50%) ScienceLogic