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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 157 150
Rank change year-on-year +79 -7 -50
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,390 1,020 1,431
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.22% 2.05% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.03% 2.29% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,592 711 997
10th Percentile £49,000 £52,250 £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 £91,063 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £102,500
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 78,861 44,450 67,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.27% 89.12% 80.81%
Number of salaries quoted 54,468 25,168 42,663
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 £96,250 £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 21 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 21 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 +82 2,092 £77,500 - 593
UK excluding London +118 1,305 £70,000 - 487
London +28 917 £90,000 +2.86% 212
Work from Home +65 828 £72,500 -3.33% 333
North of England +99 451 £70,000 - 158
South East +67 252 £67,500 -12.90% 148
North West +83 250 £72,500 +3.57% 86
South West +44 225 £75,000 - 95
Midlands +36 147 £75,000 +15.38% 41
Yorkshire +7 105 £72,500 +3.57% 43
North East +18 96 £58,250 -19.66% 30
West Midlands +9 90 £81,887 +26.47% 23
Wales -3 67 £70,000 +16.67% 14
Northern Ireland -24 62 £71,991 +67.07% 4
East Midlands +19 57 £67,500 +3.85% 18
East of England +6 57 £67,500 +3.85% 15
Scotland +31 55 £72,246 +3.21% 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 60 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
2 58 (2.43%) 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 (0.084%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.042%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.042%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.042%) JBoss
11 1 (0.042%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 21 (0.88%) PlantUML
2 10 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.084%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.084%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.084%) 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 (0.084%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,357 (56.78%) AWS
2 1,282 (53.64%) Azure
3 457 (19.12%) GCP
4 418 (17.49%) GitHub
5 381 (15.94%) AWS CloudFormation
5 381 (15.94%) Serverless
6 318 (13.31%) Azure DevOps
7 228 (9.54%) GitHub Actions
8 213 (8.91%) AWS Lambda
9 209 (8.74%) Amazon S3
10 180 (7.53%) PaaS
11 147 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
12 144 (6.03%) Amazon EKS
13 141 (5.90%) Amazon ECS
14 136 (5.69%) SaaS
15 128 (5.36%) Azure AKS
16 127 (5.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 126 (5.27%) IaaS
17 126 (5.27%) Microsoft 365
18 113 (4.73%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 175 (7.32%) Firewall
2 119 (4.98%) DNS
3 118 (4.94%) WAN
4 112 (4.69%) VPN
5 111 (4.64%) Network Security
6 98 (4.10%) LAN
7 72 (3.01%) TCP/IP
8 53 (2.22%) BGP
9 50 (2.09%) Broadband
10 46 (1.92%) DHCP
11 37 (1.55%) OSPF
12 33 (1.38%) VLAN
13 28 (1.17%) VXLAN
14 26 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
15 24 (1.00%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.67%) Wireless
17 14 (0.59%) Ethernet VPN
17 14 (0.59%) HTTP
17 14 (0.59%) SAN
18 10 (0.42%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (7.36%) PostgreSQL
2 150 (6.28%) NoSQL
3 106 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
4 103 (4.31%) MongoDB
5 84 (3.51%) SQL Server
6 81 (3.39%) DynamoDB
7 66 (2.76%) Data Lake
8 64 (2.68%) MySQL
9 56 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
10 53 (2.22%) Relational Database
11 51 (2.13%) Metadata
12 46 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
13 35 (1.46%) Redis
14 33 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
15 30 (1.26%) Delta Lake
16 29 (1.21%) Big Data
17 28 (1.17%) BigQuery
18 25 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
19 24 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
19 24 (1.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 319 (13.35%) Git
2 289 (12.09%) GitLab
3 253 (10.59%) Jenkins
4 55 (2.30%) JIRA
5 46 (1.92%) Cucumber
6 32 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 30 (1.26%) Bitbucket
7 30 (1.26%) 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
1 665 (27.82%) Social Skills
2 553 (23.14%) Finance
3 225 (9.41%) Public Sector
4 186 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
5 145 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 133 (5.56%) Banking
7 119 (4.98%) Law
8 74 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
9 64 (2.68%) Retail
10 50 (2.09%) Aerospace
11 47 (1.97%) Games
12 44 (1.84%) Marketing
13 40 (1.67%) Legal
14 32 (1.34%) Manufacturing
15 27 (1.13%) 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 (23.22%) Senior
2 406 (16.99%) DevOps Engineer
3 340 (14.23%) Lead
4 323 (13.51%) Architect
5 284 (11.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 240 (10.04%) Platform Engineer
7 205 (8.58%) Developer
8 185 (7.74%) Azure Engineer
9 150 (6.28%) Software Engineer
10 147 (6.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 140 (5.86%) AWS Engineer
12 125 (5.23%) Data Engineer
13 119 (4.98%) Principal Engineer
14 110 (4.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 92 (3.85%) Security Engineer
16 87 (3.64%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 80 (3.35%) Senior DevOps
18 76 (3.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 74 (3.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 72 (3.01%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,611 (67.41%) Terraform
2 194 (8.12%) React
3 183 (7.66%) Kafka
4 180 (7.53%) .NET
5 156 (6.53%) Node.js
6 155 (6.49%) REST
7 151 (6.32%) Spring
8 149 (6.23%) Spring Boot
9 141 (5.90%) RESTful
10 92 (3.85%) AWS CDK
11 77 (3.22%) PySpark
12 73 (3.05%) YAML
13 68 (2.85%) ARM Templates
14 62 (2.59%) AngularJS
15 59 (2.47%) RabbitMQ
16 58 (2.43%) Next.js
17 50 (2.09%) OAuth
18 49 (2.05%) Elastic Stack
19 44 (1.84%) ASP.NET
20 42 (1.76%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 705 (29.50%) Cloud Native
2 256 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
3 125 (5.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 122 (5.10%) Public Cloud
5 121 (5.06%) Onboarding
6 92 (3.85%) Data Centre
7 84 (3.51%) Product Ownership
8 68 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
9 64 (2.68%) Security Posture
10 62 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
11 54 (2.26%) Enterprise Cloud
12 45 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
13 41 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
14 40 (1.67%) Virtual Team
15 39 (1.63%) Private Cloud
16 37 (1.55%) Management Information System
17 36 (1.51%) Low-Code
18 35 (1.46%) e-Learning
19 33 (1.38%) AI Agents
19 33 (1.38%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 392 (16.40%) Linux
2 226 (9.46%) Windows
3 101 (4.23%) Windows Server
4 59 (2.47%) CentOS
5 42 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (1.63%) Ubuntu
7 38 (1.59%) 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 (0.084%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.084%) Solaris
13 1 (0.042%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.042%) Rocky
13 1 (0.042%) SUSE
13 1 (0.042%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,679 (70.25%) CI/CD
2 1,311 (54.85%) DevOps
3 711 (29.75%) Containerisation
4 668 (27.95%) Agile
5 661 (27.66%) Observability
6 561 (23.47%) Platform Engineering
7 536 (22.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 520 (21.76%) Mentoring
9 510 (21.34%) AI
10 501 (20.96%) Software Engineering
11 425 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
12 415 (17.36%) Microservices
13 404 (16.90%) Technical Leadership
14 387 (16.19%) Test Automation
15 355 (14.85%) Cloud Security
16 337 (14.10%) Roadmaps
17 329 (13.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 268 (11.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 265 (11.09%) Event-Driven
20 262 (10.96%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,037 (43.39%) Python
2 379 (15.86%) Java
3 368 (15.40%) SQL
4 366 (15.31%) Bash
5 340 (14.23%) PowerShell
6 228 (9.54%) Bicep
7 220 (9.21%) TypeScript
8 193 (8.08%) JavaScript
9 185 (7.74%) C#
10 159 (6.65%) Go
11 47 (1.97%) Ruby
12 40 (1.67%) Scala
13 36 (1.51%) PHP
14 26 (1.09%) Rust
15 25 (1.05%) 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 (23.97%) Security Cleared
2 360 (15.06%) SC Cleared
3 204 (8.54%) Degree
4 192 (8.03%) AWS Certification
5 190 (7.95%) DV Cleared
6 148 (6.19%) Azure Certification
7 90 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 88 (3.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 59 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 53 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
11 35 (1.46%) CCNP
12 34 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
13 30 (1.26%) Master's Degree
14 23 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
15 21 (0.88%) CISSP
16 19 (0.79%) CCNA
17 18 (0.75%) OSCP
18 15 (0.63%) SnowPro
19 14 (0.59%) CCIE
19 14 (0.59%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (5.44%) QA
2 107 (4.48%) Data Quality
3 73 (3.05%) GDPR
3 73 (3.05%) GRC
4 58 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 49 (2.05%) Accessibility
6 37 (1.55%) NIST
7 33 (1.38%) SOC 2
8 27 (1.13%) NCSC
9 25 (1.05%) PCI DSS
9 25 (1.05%) 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 (0.084%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.084%) IFRS
16 2 (0.084%) Solvency II
System Software
1 629 (26.32%) Docker
2 134 (5.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 132 (5.52%) Active Directory
4 46 (1.92%) vSphere
5 37 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (1.09%) 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 (0.084%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 883 (36.95%) Kubernetes
2 486 (20.33%) Ansible
3 238 (9.96%) Grafana
4 170 (7.11%) Prometheus
5 71 (2.97%) Argo
6 60 (2.51%) Puppet
7 39 (1.63%) Progress Chef
8 34 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
9 33 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 30 (1.26%) Istio
11 27 (1.13%) Packer
12 22 (0.92%) Nagios
13 18 (0.75%) FortiGate
14 17 (0.71%) vCenter Server
15 14 (0.59%) Cilium
16 12 (0.50%) Kustomize
16 12 (0.50%) ZABBIX
17 11 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 11 (0.46%) Rancher
18 10 (0.42%) linkerd
Vendors
1 532 (22.26%) Microsoft
2 163 (6.82%) VMware
3 142 (5.94%) Google
4 105 (4.39%) Databricks
5 87 (3.64%) Splunk
6 86 (3.60%) Red Hat
7 73 (3.05%) Cisco
8 69 (2.89%) Oracle
9 46 (1.92%) Palo Alto
10 43 (1.80%) OpenAI
11 39 (1.63%) Dynatrace
11 39 (1.63%) Fortinet
12 25 (1.05%) 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