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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 161 124
Rank change year-on-year +88 -37 -36
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,515 1,004 1,541
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.16% 2.05% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 2.31% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,617 708 952
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £44,764
25th Percentile £60,993 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £88,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,400 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.57% +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 85,252 43,434 61,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.68% 81.27%
Number of salaries quoted 58,899 24,470 34,327
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £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 23 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 23 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 +81 2,190 £78,063 +4.08% 2,736
UK excluding London +114 1,375 £70,400 +0.57% 1,414
London +29 951 £90,000 +5.88% 1,547
Work from Home +54 809 £75,000 - 1,180
North of England +97 488 £70,000 - 418
North West +104 269 £72,500 +16.00% 244
South East +59 249 £67,500 -18.18% 278
South West +46 246 £75,000 - 225
Midlands +24 155 £75,000 +15.83% 160
North East +18 113 £59,000 -18.62% 65
Yorkshire +2 109 £73,750 +5.36% 111
West Midlands +14 96 £85,000 +36.55% 94
Wales -12 77 £70,000 +21.74% 38
Northern Ireland -30 62 £71,991 +67.07% 36
East Midlands +7 59 £67,500 +3.85% 66
East of England -15 56 £65,000 - 98
Scotland +21 54 £72,500 +7.41% 170

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 (2.39%) Apache
2 58 (2.31%) Apache Spark
3 55 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
4 34 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 31 (1.23%) Confluence
6 14 (0.56%) Jupyter
7 12 (0.48%) SharePoint
8 8 (0.32%) CMS
8 8 (0.32%) IIS
9 7 (0.28%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.24%) nginx
11 4 (0.16%) Camunda
12 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.12%) WordPress
13 2 (0.080%) Cloud Foundry
14 1 (0.040%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.040%) NServiceBus
14 1 (0.040%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 21 (0.83%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.080%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.080%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.040%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) Summit
4 2 (0.080%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.080%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.080%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.080%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.040%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1,413 (56.18%) AWS
2 1,360 (54.08%) Azure
3 506 (20.12%) GCP
4 459 (18.25%) GitHub
5 398 (15.83%) AWS CloudFormation
6 389 (15.47%) Serverless
7 335 (13.32%) Azure DevOps
8 254 (10.10%) GitHub Actions
9 212 (8.43%) AWS Lambda
10 208 (8.27%) Amazon S3
11 184 (7.32%) PaaS
12 154 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
13 148 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
14 146 (5.81%) Amazon ECS
15 144 (5.73%) Azure AKS
16 143 (5.69%) SaaS
17 135 (5.37%) Entra ID
18 133 (5.29%) IaaS
19 130 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 129 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 179 (7.12%) Firewall
2 135 (5.37%) DNS
3 133 (5.29%) VPN
4 120 (4.77%) WAN
5 117 (4.65%) Network Security
6 93 (3.70%) LAN
7 66 (2.62%) TCP/IP
8 53 (2.11%) BGP
9 52 (2.07%) DHCP
10 42 (1.67%) Broadband
11 39 (1.55%) OSPF
12 34 (1.35%) Internet
13 32 (1.27%) VLAN
14 28 (1.11%) VXLAN
15 27 (1.07%) Software-Defined Networking
16 26 (1.03%) SD-WAN
17 17 (0.68%) Wireless
18 15 (0.60%) Ethernet VPN
18 15 (0.60%) HTTP
18 15 (0.60%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (7.75%) PostgreSQL
2 164 (6.52%) NoSQL
3 117 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
4 105 (4.17%) MongoDB
5 89 (3.54%) SQL Server
6 79 (3.14%) DynamoDB
7 73 (2.90%) MySQL
8 70 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 62 (2.47%) Data Lake
10 54 (2.15%) Redis
11 53 (2.11%) Metadata
12 51 (2.03%) Relational Database
13 44 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
14 35 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
15 31 (1.23%) Big Data
16 30 (1.19%) Delta Lake
17 29 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
18 26 (1.03%) Power BI
19 25 (0.99%) BigQuery
20 22 (0.87%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 366 (14.55%) Git
2 302 (12.01%) GitLab
3 272 (10.82%) Jenkins
4 61 (2.43%) JIRA
5 51 (2.03%) Cucumber
6 35 (1.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 26 (1.03%) TeamCity
8 24 (0.95%) Bitbucket
9 23 (0.91%) Claude Code
10 21 (0.83%) Selenium
11 20 (0.80%) CircleCI
12 19 (0.76%) SonarQube
13 14 (0.56%) Cypress.io
13 14 (0.56%) Subversion
14 12 (0.48%) Maven
14 12 (0.48%) Snyk
15 11 (0.44%) Artifactory
15 11 (0.44%) NUnit
16 9 (0.36%) MLflow
16 9 (0.36%) MSI
General
1 706 (28.07%) Social Skills
2 580 (23.06%) Finance
3 272 (10.82%) Public Sector
4 218 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
5 162 (6.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 140 (5.57%) Banking
7 121 (4.81%) Law
8 74 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
9 69 (2.74%) Retail
10 62 (2.47%) Aerospace
11 42 (1.67%) Marketing
12 37 (1.47%) Legal
13 35 (1.39%) Games
14 29 (1.15%) Manufacturing
15 24 (0.95%) Telecoms
16 22 (0.87%) Financial Institution
17 17 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
18 16 (0.64%) Local Government
19 15 (0.60%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 598 (23.78%) Senior
2 461 (18.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 347 (13.80%) Architect
4 339 (13.48%) Lead
5 296 (11.77%) Cloud Engineer
6 259 (10.30%) Platform Engineer
7 209 (8.31%) Developer
8 203 (8.07%) Azure Engineer
9 182 (7.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 160 (6.36%) Software Engineer
11 149 (5.92%) AWS Engineer
12 134 (5.33%) Principal Engineer
13 128 (5.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 119 (4.73%) Data Engineer
15 98 (3.90%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 97 (3.86%) Security Engineer
17 79 (3.14%) Azure Platform Engineer
17 79 (3.14%) Senior Developer
18 77 (3.06%) Senior DevOps
19 74 (2.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,681 (66.84%) Terraform
2 206 (8.19%) React
3 205 (8.15%) Kafka
4 184 (7.32%) .NET
5 170 (6.76%) Spring
6 169 (6.72%) Spring Boot
7 160 (6.36%) Node.js
8 153 (6.08%) REST
9 149 (5.92%) RESTful
10 89 (3.54%) AWS CDK
11 77 (3.06%) PySpark
12 66 (2.62%) AngularJS
13 65 (2.58%) ARM Templates
14 60 (2.39%) Next.js
14 60 (2.39%) YAML
15 59 (2.35%) RabbitMQ
16 57 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
17 50 (1.99%) OAuth
18 46 (1.83%) LangChain
19 43 (1.71%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 759 (30.18%) Cloud Native
2 287 (11.41%) Distributed Systems
3 137 (5.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 132 (5.25%) Public Cloud
5 130 (5.17%) Onboarding
6 94 (3.74%) Data Centre
7 85 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
8 77 (3.06%) Product Ownership
9 67 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
10 65 (2.58%) Security Posture
11 57 (2.27%) Enterprise Cloud
12 56 (2.23%) Linux Command Line
13 52 (2.07%) Management Information System
14 51 (2.03%) Virtual Team
15 48 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
16 45 (1.79%) e-Learning
17 44 (1.75%) AI Agents
17 44 (1.75%) Private Cloud
18 41 (1.63%) PKI
19 35 (1.39%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 448 (17.81%) Linux
2 226 (8.99%) Windows
3 100 (3.98%) Windows Server
4 61 (2.43%) CentOS
5 49 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 46 (1.83%) Unix
7 39 (1.55%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.87%) VMS
9 7 (0.28%) Debian
10 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.12%) AIX
11 3 (0.12%) Android
11 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.080%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.080%) Rocky
12 2 (0.080%) Solaris
13 1 (0.040%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.040%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.040%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,791 (71.21%) CI/CD
2 1,385 (55.07%) DevOps
3 747 (29.70%) Containerisation
4 721 (28.67%) Agile
5 697 (27.71%) Observability
6 627 (24.93%) Platform Engineering
7 573 (22.78%) Mentoring
8 566 (22.50%) AI
9 553 (21.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 532 (21.15%) Software Engineering
11 464 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
12 434 (17.26%) Microservices
13 422 (16.78%) Technical Leadership
14 419 (16.66%) Cloud Security
15 400 (15.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 394 (15.67%) Test Automation
17 366 (14.55%) Roadmaps
18 310 (12.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 293 (11.65%) Event-Driven
20 271 (10.78%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,085 (43.14%) Python
2 406 (16.14%) Java
3 392 (15.59%) Bash
4 385 (15.31%) SQL
5 362 (14.39%) PowerShell
6 246 (9.78%) Bicep
7 230 (9.15%) TypeScript
8 197 (7.83%) JavaScript
9 188 (7.48%) C#
10 158 (6.28%) Go
11 51 (2.03%) Shell Script
12 48 (1.91%) Ruby
13 41 (1.63%) Scala
14 36 (1.43%) Groovy
15 35 (1.39%) PHP
16 29 (1.15%) Rust
17 25 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
18 22 (0.87%) C++
19 20 (0.80%) Perl
20 14 (0.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 650 (25.84%) Security Cleared
2 409 (16.26%) SC Cleared
3 218 (8.67%) AWS Certification
4 215 (8.55%) DV Cleared
5 184 (7.32%) Degree
6 162 (6.44%) Azure Certification
7 97 (3.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 86 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 58 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
11 41 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
12 32 (1.27%) CCNP
13 29 (1.15%) Master's Degree
14 28 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
15 24 (0.95%) CISSP
16 22 (0.87%) CCNA
17 17 (0.68%) SnowPro
18 14 (0.56%) DBS Check
18 14 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 13 (0.52%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (4.93%) QA
2 105 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 72 (2.86%) GRC
4 67 (2.66%) GDPR
5 58 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (1.83%) Accessibility
7 36 (1.43%) NIST
8 30 (1.19%) NCSC
9 28 (1.11%) SOC 2
10 24 (0.95%) SLA
11 21 (0.83%) PCI DSS
12 20 (0.80%) WCAG
13 11 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.28%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.20%) ISO 20022
17 4 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 2 (0.080%) IFRS
19 2 (0.080%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 680 (27.04%) Docker
2 138 (5.49%) Active Directory
3 134 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
4 46 (1.83%) vSphere
5 28 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 22 (0.87%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.80%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.36%) KVM
9 9 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.32%) Firmware
10 8 (0.32%) Squid
11 4 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.12%) iptables
12 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.080%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 911 (36.22%) Kubernetes
2 507 (20.16%) Ansible
3 247 (9.82%) Grafana
4 181 (7.20%) Prometheus
5 75 (2.98%) Argo
6 72 (2.86%) Puppet
7 47 (1.87%) Progress Chef
8 41 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
9 37 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 35 (1.39%) Istio
11 30 (1.19%) Packer
12 24 (0.95%) FortiGate
12 24 (0.95%) Rancher
13 22 (0.87%) vCenter Server
14 16 (0.64%) Nagios
15 14 (0.56%) Cilium
16 13 (0.52%) Kustomize
16 13 (0.52%) logstash
17 12 (0.48%) Podman
17 12 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 618 (24.57%) Microsoft
2 182 (7.24%) Google
3 166 (6.60%) VMware
4 110 (4.37%) Databricks
5 87 (3.46%) Splunk
6 81 (3.22%) Red Hat
7 75 (2.98%) Oracle
8 74 (2.94%) Cisco
9 49 (1.95%) Dynatrace
10 42 (1.67%) OpenAI
11 39 (1.55%) Fortinet
12 38 (1.51%) Palo Alto
13 33 (1.31%) ServiceNow
14 26 (1.03%) Zscaler
15 15 (0.60%) Atlassian
15 15 (0.60%) Okta
15 15 (0.60%) SAP
16 13 (0.52%) F5
16 13 (0.52%) New Relic
16 13 (0.52%) SolarWinds