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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 158 125
Rank change year-on-year +81 -33 -33
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,419 1,001 1,573
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.12% 2.03% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 2.28% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,575 701 989
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,125 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.04%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,039 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.06% +7.69% -4.41%

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 83,236 43,812 63,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 88.75% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 57,755 24,707 35,897
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £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 £77,500
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% -2.78%

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 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 16 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 +79 2,107 £77,500 - 3,325
UK excluding London +111 1,319 £70,039 +0.06% 1,704
London +32 917 £90,000 +2.86% 1,868
Work from Home +57 790 £75,000 - 1,479
North of England +85 463 £70,079 +0.11% 519
North West +98 258 £72,500 +11.54% 297
South East +48 243 £67,500 -15.63% 309
South West +44 236 £75,000 - 257
Midlands +46 147 £75,000 +15.38% 208
Yorkshire +8 103 £75,000 +7.14% 152
North East +18 102 £59,000 -18.62% 71
West Midlands +8 90 £85,000 +31.78% 123
Wales -12 74 £70,000 +21.74% 43
Northern Ireland -20 62 £71,991 +67.07% 58
East Midlands +7 57 £67,500 +3.85% 85
East of England -10 56 £65,000 - 117
Scotland +15 50 £72,500 +3.57% 199

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 (2.40%) Apache
2 57 (2.36%) Apache Spark
3 54 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (1.20%) Confluence
6 13 (0.54%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.41%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.37%) IIS
9 7 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.25%) CMS
11 4 (0.17%) nginx
12 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.12%) Camunda
12 3 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.12%) WordPress
13 2 (0.083%) Cloud Foundry
14 1 (0.041%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.041%) Documentum
14 1 (0.041%) Headless CMS
14 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 (0.083%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.083%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.041%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) Summit
4 2 (0.083%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.041%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.041%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,366 (56.47%) AWS
2 1,297 (53.62%) Azure
3 475 (19.64%) GCP
4 434 (17.94%) GitHub
5 392 (16.21%) AWS CloudFormation
6 378 (15.63%) Serverless
7 315 (13.02%) Azure DevOps
8 245 (10.13%) GitHub Actions
9 211 (8.72%) AWS Lambda
10 206 (8.52%) Amazon S3
11 173 (7.15%) PaaS
12 153 (6.32%) Amazon EKS
13 146 (6.04%) Amazon ECS
14 144 (5.95%) Amazon EC2
15 141 (5.83%) Azure AKS
16 133 (5.50%) SaaS
17 128 (5.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 127 (5.25%) IaaS
19 123 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
20 119 (4.92%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 171 (7.07%) Firewall
2 130 (5.37%) DNS
3 127 (5.25%) VPN
4 121 (5.00%) WAN
5 112 (4.63%) Network Security
6 96 (3.97%) LAN
7 68 (2.81%) TCP/IP
8 55 (2.27%) BGP
9 50 (2.07%) DHCP
10 43 (1.78%) Broadband
11 40 (1.65%) OSPF
12 32 (1.32%) VLAN
13 29 (1.20%) SD-WAN
14 28 (1.16%) Software-Defined Networking
14 28 (1.16%) VXLAN
15 19 (0.79%) Wireless
16 16 (0.66%) Ethernet VPN
16 16 (0.66%) HTTP
17 14 (0.58%) SAN
18 10 (0.41%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
2 162 (6.70%) NoSQL
3 111 (4.59%) Amazon RDS
4 106 (4.38%) MongoDB
5 86 (3.56%) SQL Server
6 79 (3.27%) DynamoDB
7 72 (2.98%) MySQL
8 63 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 58 (2.40%) Data Lake
10 51 (2.11%) Metadata
11 50 (2.07%) Relational Database
12 49 (2.03%) Redis
13 44 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
14 36 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
15 31 (1.28%) Big Data
16 30 (1.24%) Delta Lake
17 29 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
18 24 (0.99%) BigQuery
19 22 (0.91%) Data Vault
19 22 (0.91%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 331 (13.68%) Git
2 289 (11.95%) GitLab
3 262 (10.83%) Jenkins
4 58 (2.40%) JIRA
5 50 (2.07%) Cucumber
6 32 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 25 (1.03%) TeamCity
8 23 (0.95%) Bitbucket
8 23 (0.95%) CircleCI
9 22 (0.91%) Selenium
10 21 (0.87%) Claude Code
11 18 (0.74%) SonarQube
12 15 (0.62%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.54%) Subversion
14 12 (0.50%) Maven
14 12 (0.50%) NUnit
15 10 (0.41%) Snyk
16 9 (0.37%) MLflow
16 9 (0.37%) MSI
16 9 (0.37%) Vite
General
1 685 (28.32%) Social Skills
2 562 (23.23%) Finance
3 245 (10.13%) Public Sector
4 183 (7.57%) Analytical Skills
5 155 (6.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 140 (5.79%) Banking
7 121 (5.00%) Law
8 75 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
9 68 (2.81%) Retail
10 60 (2.48%) Aerospace
11 41 (1.69%) Marketing
12 37 (1.53%) Games
12 37 (1.53%) Legal
13 30 (1.24%) Manufacturing
14 25 (1.03%) Telecoms
15 20 (0.83%) Financial Institution
16 17 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
16 17 (0.70%) Local Government
17 15 (0.62%) Aviation
17 15 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 575 (23.77%) Senior
2 410 (16.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 334 (13.81%) Lead
4 330 (13.64%) Architect
5 293 (12.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 252 (10.42%) Platform Engineer
7 211 (8.72%) Developer
8 193 (7.98%) Azure Engineer
9 172 (7.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 155 (6.41%) Software Engineer
11 149 (6.16%) AWS Engineer
12 126 (5.21%) Principal Engineer
13 120 (4.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 118 (4.88%) Data Engineer
15 97 (4.01%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 95 (3.93%) Security Engineer
17 79 (3.27%) Senior Developer
18 73 (3.02%) Azure Platform Engineer
18 73 (3.02%) Senior DevOps
19 72 (2.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,632 (67.47%) Terraform
2 201 (8.31%) Kafka
2 201 (8.31%) React
3 179 (7.40%) .NET
4 163 (6.74%) Spring
5 162 (6.70%) Spring Boot
6 159 (6.57%) Node.js
7 149 (6.16%) RESTful
8 147 (6.08%) REST
9 89 (3.68%) AWS CDK
10 76 (3.14%) PySpark
11 65 (2.69%) AngularJS
12 64 (2.65%) ARM Templates
13 63 (2.60%) YAML
14 60 (2.48%) RabbitMQ
15 58 (2.40%) Next.js
16 52 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
17 45 (1.86%) OAuth
18 44 (1.82%) LangChain
19 43 (1.78%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 739 (30.55%) Cloud Native
2 276 (11.41%) Distributed Systems
3 132 (5.46%) Hybrid Cloud
4 128 (5.29%) Public Cloud
5 124 (5.13%) Onboarding
6 95 (3.93%) Data Centre
7 80 (3.31%) Product Ownership
8 77 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
9 66 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
10 61 (2.52%) Security Posture
11 56 (2.32%) Enterprise Cloud
12 49 (2.03%) Virtual Team
13 47 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
14 43 (1.78%) AI Agents
14 43 (1.78%) e-Learning
14 43 (1.78%) Private Cloud
15 41 (1.69%) Management Information System
16 37 (1.53%) PKI
17 35 (1.45%) Video\Live Streaming
18 31 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 402 (16.62%) Linux
2 216 (8.93%) Windows
3 97 (4.01%) Windows Server
4 59 (2.44%) CentOS
5 45 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (1.61%) Ubuntu
6 39 (1.61%) Unix
7 22 (0.91%) VMS
8 7 (0.29%) Debian
9 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.12%) AIX
11 3 (0.12%) Android
11 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.083%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.083%) Rocky
12 2 (0.083%) Solaris
13 1 (0.041%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.041%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,706 (70.53%) CI/CD
2 1,307 (54.03%) DevOps
3 704 (29.10%) Containerisation
4 697 (28.81%) Agile
5 678 (28.03%) Observability
6 579 (23.94%) Platform Engineering
7 545 (22.53%) AI
8 534 (22.08%) Mentoring
9 527 (21.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 521 (21.54%) Software Engineering
11 447 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
12 422 (17.45%) Microservices
13 413 (17.07%) Technical Leadership
14 384 (15.87%) Test Automation
15 381 (15.75%) Cloud Security
16 358 (14.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 350 (14.47%) Roadmaps
18 280 (11.58%) Event-Driven
19 273 (11.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 254 (10.50%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,051 (43.45%) Python
2 389 (16.08%) Java
3 376 (15.54%) Bash
4 373 (15.42%) SQL
5 343 (14.18%) PowerShell
6 227 (9.38%) Bicep
6 227 (9.38%) TypeScript
7 195 (8.06%) JavaScript
8 187 (7.73%) C#
9 157 (6.49%) Go
10 47 (1.94%) Ruby
11 41 (1.69%) Scala
12 34 (1.41%) PHP
13 32 (1.32%) Groovy
14 29 (1.20%) Rust
15 25 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
16 24 (0.99%) Shell Script
17 22 (0.91%) C++
18 20 (0.83%) Perl
19 13 (0.54%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 608 (25.13%) Security Cleared
2 385 (15.92%) SC Cleared
3 210 (8.68%) AWS Certification
4 197 (8.14%) DV Cleared
5 185 (7.65%) Degree
6 152 (6.28%) Azure Certification
7 93 (3.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 86 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 64 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 60 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
11 39 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
12 35 (1.45%) CCNP
13 29 (1.20%) Master's Degree
14 24 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
15 22 (0.91%) CISSP
16 21 (0.87%) 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
1 126 (5.21%) QA
2 104 (4.30%) Data Quality
3 72 (2.98%) GRC
4 66 (2.73%) GDPR
5 57 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (1.90%) Accessibility
7 34 (1.41%) NIST
8 30 (1.24%) NCSC
9 28 (1.16%) SOC 2
10 24 (0.99%) SLA
11 21 (0.87%) WCAG
12 20 (0.83%) PCI DSS
13 9 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.29%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.21%) ISO 20022
17 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 2 (0.083%) IFRS
18 2 (0.083%) ISO 9001
18 2 (0.083%) Solvency II
System Software
1 637 (26.33%) Docker
2 133 (5.50%) Active Directory
2 133 (5.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (1.86%) vSphere
4 41 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
6 23 (0.95%) Hyper-V
7 18 (0.74%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.37%) KVM
8 9 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.33%) Firmware
9 8 (0.33%) Squid
10 7 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.12%) iptables
12 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.083%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 887 (36.67%) Kubernetes
2 487 (20.13%) Ansible
3 235 (9.71%) Grafana
4 175 (7.23%) Prometheus
5 75 (3.10%) Argo
6 64 (2.65%) Puppet
7 45 (1.86%) Progress Chef
8 40 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
9 36 (1.49%) Istio
10 33 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
11 28 (1.16%) Packer
12 23 (0.95%) FortiGate
13 20 (0.83%) Rancher
14 18 (0.74%) vCenter Server
15 17 (0.70%) Nagios
16 14 (0.58%) Cilium
17 13 (0.54%) Kustomize
18 12 (0.50%) linkerd
18 12 (0.50%) logstash
18 12 (0.50%) Podman
Vendors
1 559 (23.11%) Microsoft
2 164 (6.78%) VMware
3 150 (6.20%) Google
4 105 (4.34%) Databricks
5 88 (3.64%) Splunk
6 82 (3.39%) Red Hat
7 75 (3.10%) Cisco
8 73 (3.02%) Oracle
9 42 (1.74%) OpenAI
10 41 (1.69%) Fortinet
11 40 (1.65%) Palo Alto
12 39 (1.61%) Dynatrace
13 28 (1.16%) ServiceNow
14 26 (1.07%) Zscaler
15 15 (0.62%) Atlassian
15 15 (0.62%) Okta
15 15 (0.62%) SAP
16 14 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
17 13 (0.54%) New Relic
17 13 (0.54%) SolarWinds