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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 127 94
Rank change year-on-year +4 -33 +4
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,114 1,269 1,640
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.88% 2.30% 3.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 2.55% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 787 778 1,319
10th Percentile £46,500 £45,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.33%
75th Percentile £88,125 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £66,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +6.06% +0.99% -2.15%

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 48,455 49,716 46,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.91% 90.02% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 28,359 24,660 35,854
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,552
25th Percentile £36,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.91% +4.76% -4.50%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 -5 931 £73,500 +1.38% 952
UK excluding London +6 558 £70,000 +6.06% 509
Work from Home +21 476 £72,500 +0.71% 472
London -2 432 £81,500 -9.44% 548
North of England -7 189 £70,000 +13.85% 160
South East +1 109 £75,000 +15.38% 155
Yorkshire -10 89 £70,000 +27.27% 44
Scotland +18 77 £70,039 +3.76% 20
North West -5 75 £68,750 +1.85% 92
South West -31 66 £62,500 -10.71% 76
Midlands +11 61 £67,500 +2.27% 46
West Midlands -1 39 £67,500 +1.12% 31
East of England +26 27 £67,500 -6.90% 29
North East 0 25 £67,539 +35.08% 25
Wales +20 23 £61,496 +2.49% 19
East Midlands +1 20 £67,500 +3.85% 15
Northern Ireland -8 8 £95,000 +11.76% 13

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 44 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (3.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 34 (3.05%) Apache
4 24 (2.15%) SharePoint
5 20 (1.80%) Apache Spark
6 18 (1.62%) Confluence
7 8 (0.72%) IIS
8 6 (0.54%) Appian
9 5 (0.45%) nginx
10 4 (0.36%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.090%) CMS
11 1 (0.090%) SAS
11 1 (0.090%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.090%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.090%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.090%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.090%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.090%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.090%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 704 (63.20%) Azure
2 656 (58.89%) AWS
3 287 (25.76%) Azure DevOps
4 261 (23.43%) GitHub
5 234 (21.01%) GCP
6 190 (17.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 187 (16.79%) Serverless
8 171 (15.35%) GitHub Actions
9 129 (11.58%) AWS Lambda
10 107 (9.61%) Amazon S3
11 103 (9.25%) SaaS
12 99 (8.89%) PaaS
13 92 (8.26%) Microsoft 365
14 91 (8.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 89 (7.99%) Entra ID
16 87 (7.81%) Azure Monitor
17 75 (6.73%) Amazon EKS
18 71 (6.37%) Amazon ECS
19 68 (6.10%) Amazon EC2
20 63 (5.66%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 120 (10.77%) Firewall
2 80 (7.18%) DNS
3 68 (6.10%) VPN
4 57 (5.12%) TCP/IP
5 52 (4.67%) WAN
6 35 (3.14%) DHCP
7 34 (3.05%) Network Security
8 33 (2.96%) LAN
9 26 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (1.26%) BGP
10 14 (1.26%) SD-WAN
11 13 (1.17%) Internet
12 12 (1.08%) VLAN
13 11 (0.99%) VoIP
14 10 (0.90%) Broadband
14 10 (0.90%) Wireless
15 9 (0.81%) SAN
16 7 (0.63%) OSPF
16 7 (0.63%) Unified Communications
17 6 (0.54%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (6.46%) PostgreSQL
2 67 (6.01%) Amazon RDS
3 60 (5.39%) NoSQL
4 47 (4.22%) SQL Server
5 42 (3.77%) DynamoDB
6 40 (3.59%) Data Lake
7 32 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
8 28 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
8 28 (2.51%) Redis
9 27 (2.42%) BigQuery
9 27 (2.42%) MongoDB
10 26 (2.33%) MySQL
11 19 (1.71%) Relational Database
12 17 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
13 15 (1.35%) Power BI
14 13 (1.17%) Big Data
15 12 (1.08%) Delta Lake
16 9 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
16 9 (0.81%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 177 (15.89%) Jenkins
2 155 (13.91%) Git
3 120 (10.77%) GitLab
4 34 (3.05%) JIRA
5 27 (2.42%) Selenium
6 25 (2.24%) Robot Framework
7 21 (1.89%) Snyk
8 17 (1.53%) Bitbucket
8 17 (1.53%) TeamCity
9 16 (1.44%) MLflow
10 14 (1.26%) CircleCI
11 13 (1.17%) SonarQube
12 10 (0.90%) Artifactory
12 10 (0.90%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.90%) JMeter
13 9 (0.81%) Jaeger
14 8 (0.72%) Locust
15 6 (0.54%) git-flow
15 6 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
16 5 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 303 (27.20%) Social Skills
2 283 (25.40%) Finance
3 90 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (5.21%) Banking
5 57 (5.12%) Law
5 57 (5.12%) Public Sector
6 42 (3.77%) Retail
7 40 (3.59%) Telecoms
8 35 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 27 (2.42%) Financial Institution
10 24 (2.15%) Games
11 20 (1.80%) Legal
11 20 (1.80%) Marketing
12 18 (1.62%) Manufacturing
13 17 (1.53%) Billing
14 14 (1.26%) Advertising
14 14 (1.26%) Back Office
15 13 (1.17%) Electronics
16 12 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 247 (22.17%) Senior
2 178 (15.98%) DevOps Engineer
3 170 (15.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 117 (10.50%) Lead
5 112 (10.05%) Azure Engineer
6 107 (9.61%) Developer
7 104 (9.34%) Platform Engineer
8 99 (8.89%) Architect
9 71 (6.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 58 (5.21%) AWS Engineer
11 40 (3.59%) Data Engineer
11 40 (3.59%) Senior DevOps
12 39 (3.50%) Software Engineer
13 38 (3.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 36 (3.23%) Lead DevOps
15 35 (3.14%) Support Engineer
16 33 (2.96%) Security Engineer
16 33 (2.96%) Senior Cloud Engineer
17 26 (2.33%) GCP Engineer
18 25 (2.24%) Cloud Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (9.07%) React
2 79 (7.09%) .NET
3 65 (5.83%) Node.js
3 65 (5.83%) RESTful
4 54 (4.85%) Elastic Stack
5 47 (4.22%) Kafka
6 46 (4.13%) ARM Templates
6 46 (4.13%) YAML
7 40 (3.59%) OAuth
8 39 (3.50%) Django
9 36 (3.23%) AWS CDK
10 33 (2.96%) REST
11 31 (2.78%) FastAPI
11 31 (2.78%) Spring
12 30 (2.69%) .NET Core
13 28 (2.51%) Spring Boot
14 27 (2.42%) CSS
15 26 (2.33%) HTML
16 21 (1.89%) Vue
17 20 (1.80%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 244 (21.90%) Cloud Native
2 69 (6.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 56 (5.03%) Data Centre
4 55 (4.94%) Public Cloud
5 45 (4.04%) Product Ownership
6 41 (3.68%) Security Posture
7 39 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
8 31 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
9 28 (2.51%) Management Information System
10 26 (2.33%) Onboarding
11 23 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
12 18 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
13 17 (1.53%) PKI
14 16 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (1.35%) Low-Code
16 13 (1.17%) Data Structures
17 11 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
18 10 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
18 10 (0.90%) Private Cloud
18 10 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 254 (22.80%) Linux
2 139 (12.48%) Windows
3 57 (5.12%) Unix
4 46 (4.13%) Windows Server
5 29 (2.60%) VMS
6 23 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 23 (2.06%) Ubuntu
7 14 (1.26%) Debian
8 9 (0.81%) CentOS
9 5 (0.45%) Android
9 5 (0.45%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.36%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.27%) Solaris
11 3 (0.27%) SUSE
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.090%) AIX
13 1 (0.090%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 757 (67.95%) DevOps
2 749 (67.24%) CI/CD
3 347 (31.15%) Agile
4 289 (25.94%) Containerisation
5 242 (21.72%) Continuous Improvement
6 230 (20.65%) Observability
7 228 (20.47%) Problem-Solving
8 189 (16.97%) Mentoring
9 168 (15.08%) Platform Engineering
10 163 (14.63%) AI
10 163 (14.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 153 (13.73%) Cloud Security
12 148 (13.29%) Analytics
13 140 (12.57%) Software Engineering
14 126 (11.31%) Incident Response
14 126 (11.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 122 (10.95%) Test Automation
16 118 (10.59%) Roadmaps
17 113 (10.14%) Microservices
18 112 (10.05%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 496 (44.52%) Python
2 225 (20.20%) PowerShell
3 210 (18.85%) Bash
4 181 (16.25%) SQL
5 148 (13.29%) Bicep
6 107 (9.61%) Java
7 90 (8.08%) JavaScript
8 85 (7.63%) TypeScript
9 82 (7.36%) C#
10 77 (6.91%) Go
11 13 (1.17%) C++
12 12 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
12 12 (1.08%) Shell Script
13 11 (0.99%) Scala
14 8 (0.72%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.63%) C
16 5 (0.45%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.45%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
17 4 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 212 (19.03%) Security Cleared
2 139 (12.48%) SC Cleared
3 101 (9.07%) AWS Certification
4 88 (7.90%) Azure Certification
5 84 (7.54%) DV Cleared
6 78 (7.00%) Degree
7 38 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (3.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 32 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (2.42%) CISSP
11 22 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (1.71%) CCNP
12 19 (1.71%) Master's Degree
13 13 (1.17%) AWS Certified Developer
13 13 (1.17%) OSCP
14 9 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (0.81%) CISM
15 7 (0.63%) MCP
15 7 (0.63%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (5.57%) GDPR
2 59 (5.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 46 (4.13%) NIST
4 37 (3.32%) QA
5 30 (2.69%) Data Quality
6 29 (2.60%) Accessibility
6 29 (2.60%) SOC 2
7 21 (1.89%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 12 (1.08%) SLA
10 11 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (0.72%) WCAG
12 6 (0.54%) GRC
13 5 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.45%) NCSC
14 4 (0.36%) EU AI Act
15 2 (0.18%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.18%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 379 (34.02%) Docker
2 73 (6.55%) Active Directory
3 71 (6.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (2.60%) Hyper-V
6 25 (2.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (1.44%) vSphere
8 11 (0.99%) Firmware
8 11 (0.99%) NFS
8 11 (0.99%) vCloud
9 8 (0.72%) KVM
9 8 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.54%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.36%) XenApp
11 4 (0.36%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.18%) GPFS
13 2 (0.18%) Lustre
13 2 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.18%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 816 (73.25%) Terraform
2 435 (39.05%) Kubernetes
3 284 (25.49%) Ansible
4 151 (13.55%) Grafana
5 136 (12.21%) Prometheus
6 47 (4.22%) Microsoft Intune
7 35 (3.14%) Argo
8 19 (1.71%) SCCM
9 18 (1.62%) Puppet
10 14 (1.26%) Docker Swarm
10 14 (1.26%) Rancher
11 12 (1.08%) AWS Copilot
11 12 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
12 11 (0.99%) Progress Chef
13 9 (0.81%) SCOM
14 7 (0.63%) Kustomize
15 5 (0.45%) Istio
15 5 (0.45%) linkerd
15 5 (0.45%) logstash
15 5 (0.45%) MaaS360
Vendors
1 237 (21.27%) Microsoft
2 103 (9.25%) VMware
3 89 (7.99%) Google
4 48 (4.31%) Cisco
5 41 (3.68%) Databricks
6 38 (3.41%) Splunk
7 33 (2.96%) Red Hat
8 26 (2.33%) Palo Alto
9 21 (1.89%) Black Duck
10 20 (1.80%) Coverity
11 16 (1.44%) Salesforce
11 16 (1.44%) Zscaler
12 15 (1.35%) Oracle
13 14 (1.26%) Ab Initio
14 13 (1.17%) SAP
15 12 (1.08%) Atlassian
16 11 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
16 11 (0.99%) SolarWinds
17 10 (0.90%) Juniper
17 10 (0.90%) New Relic