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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 158 170
Rank change year-on-year +79 +12 -62
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,874 968 1,698
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.01% 2.17% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 2.35% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,266 633 1,292
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £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 £90,000 £96,250 £87,813
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% -6.81%

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 67,964 41,274 88,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.85% 92.59% 81.93%
Number of salaries quoted 46,731 22,044 62,765
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,525
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 16 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 16 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 +74 1,714 £77,500 -1.66% 790
UK excluding London +91 885 £70,000 - 510
London +35 836 £87,500 -2.78% 385
Work from Home +94 681 £70,000 -7.11% 381
North of England +72 330 £67,500 -3.57% 126
South East +51 202 £70,000 -9.68% 175
North West +72 199 £72,500 - 77
South West +21 128 £72,500 +3.57% 82
Midlands +51 117 £71,289 +9.68% 56
Yorkshire -7 86 £65,576 -2.49% 23
West Midlands +16 69 £77,500 +14.81% 38
East of England +6 49 £60,100 -7.54% 30
East Midlands +8 48 £67,500 +3.85% 18
North East -8 45 £55,000 -15.38% 26
Scotland +1 35 £60,000 -20.19% 18
Wales -26 24 £70,000 +21.74% 16
Northern Ireland -30 3 £84,401 +95.86% 16

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 42 (2.24%) Apache
3 39 (2.08%) Apache Spark
4 33 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
5 21 (1.12%) 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 1,097 (58.54%) AWS
2 987 (52.67%) Azure
3 360 (19.21%) GitHub
4 335 (17.88%) Serverless
5 330 (17.61%) GCP
6 302 (16.12%) Azure DevOps
7 287 (15.31%) AWS CloudFormation
8 220 (11.74%) GitHub Actions
9 191 (10.19%) AWS Lambda
10 183 (9.77%) Amazon S3
11 160 (8.54%) PaaS
12 130 (6.94%) Amazon EKS
13 128 (6.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 126 (6.72%) SaaS
15 123 (6.56%) Amazon EC2
16 122 (6.51%) IaaS
17 117 (6.24%) Entra ID
18 108 (5.76%) Azure AKS
19 101 (5.39%) Datadog
20 97 (5.18%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 181 (9.66%) Firewall
2 100 (5.34%) DNS
3 89 (4.75%) VPN
4 75 (4.00%) Broadband
5 67 (3.58%) Network Security
5 67 (3.58%) TCP/IP
6 50 (2.67%) WAN
7 41 (2.19%) BGP
8 31 (1.65%) DHCP
9 30 (1.60%) VLAN
10 27 (1.44%) LAN
11 24 (1.28%) HTTP
12 21 (1.12%) OSPF
13 20 (1.07%) SD-WAN
13 20 (1.07%) Software-Defined Networking
14 17 (0.91%) 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
1 141 (7.52%) PostgreSQL
2 136 (7.26%) NoSQL
3 96 (5.12%) Amazon RDS
4 87 (4.64%) MongoDB
5 66 (3.52%) DynamoDB
6 64 (3.42%) SQL Server
7 60 (3.20%) Relational Database
8 52 (2.77%) Data Lake
9 48 (2.56%) 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 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
16 24 (1.28%) Power BI
17 23 (1.23%) Delta Lake
18 21 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
18 21 (1.12%) RDBMS
19 19 (1.01%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 265 (14.14%) GitLab
2 241 (12.86%) Git
3 238 (12.70%) Jenkins
4 46 (2.45%) CircleCI
5 36 (1.92%) Cucumber
6 35 (1.87%) JIRA
7 33 (1.76%) Bitbucket
8 23 (1.23%) TeamCity
9 20 (1.07%) 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%) NUnit
14 10 (0.53%) Subversion
15 9 (0.48%) JMeter
15 9 (0.48%) Maven
15 9 (0.48%) Vite
16 7 (0.37%) Claude Code
16 7 (0.37%) Storybook
General
1 451 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 376 (20.06%) Finance
3 135 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (6.88%) Public Sector
5 114 (6.08%) Banking
6 91 (4.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 62 (3.31%) Retail
8 58 (3.09%) Law
9 43 (2.29%) Games
10 42 (2.24%) Telecoms
11 29 (1.55%) Manufacturing
12 25 (1.33%) Aerospace
13 24 (1.28%) Legal
14 20 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
14 20 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
15 19 (1.01%) Advertising
16 17 (0.91%) Financial Institution
16 17 (0.91%) Marketing
17 15 (0.80%) Billing
18 11 (0.59%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 425 (22.68%) Senior
2 313 (16.70%) DevOps Engineer
3 271 (14.46%) Cloud Engineer
4 259 (13.82%) Lead
5 203 (10.83%) Platform Engineer
6 182 (9.71%) Architect
7 180 (9.61%) Azure Engineer
8 173 (9.23%) Developer
9 144 (7.68%) AWS Engineer
10 117 (6.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 99 (5.28%) Software Engineer
12 98 (5.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 98 (5.23%) Data Engineer
13 84 (4.48%) Security Engineer
14 77 (4.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 70 (3.74%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 69 (3.68%) Principal Engineer
17 64 (3.42%) Senior DevOps
18 62 (3.31%) Senior Developer
19 57 (3.04%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (7.90%) React
2 136 (7.26%) Kafka
3 127 (6.78%) Node.js
3 127 (6.78%) REST
4 125 (6.67%) .NET
5 101 (5.39%) RESTful
6 92 (4.91%) Spring
7 87 (4.64%) Spring Boot
8 86 (4.59%) YAML
9 80 (4.27%) AWS CDK
10 74 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
11 64 (3.42%) PySpark
12 62 (3.31%) ARM Templates
13 57 (3.04%) OAuth
14 54 (2.88%) RabbitMQ
15 44 (2.35%) Next.js
16 43 (2.29%) AngularJS
17 42 (2.24%) OpenTelemetry
18 41 (2.19%) JSON
19 38 (2.03%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 510 (27.21%) Cloud Native
2 170 (9.07%) Distributed Systems
3 101 (5.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 85 (4.54%) Public Cloud
5 64 (3.42%) Data Centre
5 64 (3.42%) Product Ownership
6 58 (3.09%) Security Posture
7 55 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
8 54 (2.88%) Onboarding
9 48 (2.56%) Video\Live Streaming
10 36 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
10 36 (1.92%) Low-Code
11 27 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
11 27 (1.44%) PKI
11 27 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
12 26 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
13 25 (1.33%) Blockchain
14 23 (1.23%) Management Information System
14 23 (1.23%) Mobile App
14 23 (1.23%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 346 (18.46%) Linux
2 171 (9.12%) Windows
3 85 (4.54%) Windows Server
4 50 (2.67%) Unix
5 46 (2.45%) Ubuntu
6 40 (2.13%) CentOS
7 28 (1.49%) VMS
8 27 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (0.80%) Android
10 14 (0.75%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.37%) Debian
13 5 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.053%) AIX
15 1 (0.053%) Rocky
15 1 (0.053%) SUSE
15 1 (0.053%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,334 (71.18%) CI/CD
2 1,076 (57.42%) DevOps
3 531 (28.34%) Observability
4 517 (27.59%) Agile
5 513 (27.37%) Containerisation
6 417 (22.25%) Platform Engineering
7 398 (21.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 395 (21.08%) Mentoring
9 375 (20.01%) AI
10 340 (18.14%) Software Engineering
11 330 (17.61%) Test Automation
12 304 (16.22%) Microservices
13 291 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
14 257 (13.71%) Cloud Security
14 257 (13.71%) Technical Leadership
15 239 (12.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 224 (11.95%) Analytics
17 203 (10.83%) Roadmaps
18 196 (10.46%) DevSecOps
19 183 (9.77%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 845 (45.09%) Python
2 332 (17.72%) Bash
3 296 (15.80%) SQL
4 294 (15.69%) PowerShell
5 267 (14.25%) Java
6 185 (9.87%) Go
7 177 (9.45%) TypeScript
8 174 (9.28%) JavaScript
9 170 (9.07%) Bicep
10 134 (7.15%) C#
11 31 (1.65%) Rust
12 26 (1.39%) C++
13 25 (1.33%) Scala
14 20 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
15 19 (1.01%) PHP
16 18 (0.96%) Groovy
17 15 (0.80%) Ruby
18 10 (0.53%) C
18 10 (0.53%) Kotlin
19 9 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 381 (20.33%) Security Cleared
2 247 (13.18%) SC Cleared
3 159 (8.48%) Degree
4 140 (7.47%) AWS Certification
5 105 (5.60%) Azure Certification
6 100 (5.34%) DV Cleared
7 60 (3.20%) 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 (1.07%) CCNP
13 19 (1.01%) CISSP
14 16 (0.85%) DBS Check
14 16 (0.85%) Master's Degree
15 15 (0.80%) CCNA
16 13 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 13 (0.69%) RHCSA
17 9 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
17 9 (0.48%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (4.86%) QA
2 82 (4.38%) Data Quality
3 60 (3.20%) GDPR
4 51 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (2.45%) SOC 2
6 36 (1.92%) NIST
7 32 (1.71%) Accessibility
8 30 (1.60%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.80%) WCAG
10 14 (0.75%) SLA
11 10 (0.53%) GRC
11 10 (0.53%) NCSC
12 9 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
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
1 504 (26.89%) Docker
2 115 (6.14%) Active Directory
3 101 (5.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (2.08%) vSphere
5 38 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (1.17%) VMware NSX
7 18 (0.96%) 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 1,302 (69.48%) Terraform
2 713 (38.05%) Kubernetes
3 390 (20.81%) Ansible
4 228 (12.17%) Grafana
5 216 (11.53%) Prometheus
6 72 (3.84%) Argo
7 45 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
8 41 (2.19%) 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
1 349 (18.62%) Microsoft
2 137 (7.31%) VMware
3 109 (5.82%) Google
4 76 (4.06%) Databricks
5 75 (4.00%) Red Hat
6 60 (3.20%) Splunk
7 59 (3.15%) Cisco
8 47 (2.51%) Palo Alto
9 33 (1.76%) Oracle
10 27 (1.44%) Fortinet
10 27 (1.44%) OpenAI
11 26 (1.39%) Zscaler
12 21 (1.12%) Dynatrace
13 17 (0.91%) CrowdStrike
14 15 (0.80%) Salesforce
15 13 (0.69%) CheckPoint
15 13 (0.69%) Foundry
16 12 (0.64%) F5
17 11 (0.59%) Atlassian
17 11 (0.59%) ServiceNow