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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 128 110
Rank change year-on-year +11 -18 -9
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,190 1,215 1,645
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.95% 2.28% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 2.51% 3.09%
Number of salaries quoted 816 741 1,332
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,651 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.59% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £111,250 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -2.67%

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 49,245 48,425 53,180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.71% 90.86% 89.54%
Number of salaries quoted 28,981 23,503 40,689
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -7.20%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 18 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 18 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 +8 992 £73,901 +1.93% 899
UK excluding London +10 582 £70,000 +3.70% 782
Work from Home +33 506 £72,750 +0.34% 410
London +14 463 £84,250 -6.39% 229
North of England -10 201 £70,000 +12.00% 187
South East +21 109 £75,000 +15.38% 233
Yorkshire -11 88 £70,000 +30.23% 79
North West -3 87 £70,000 +1.82% 81
South West -17 81 £62,500 -13.18% 118
Scotland +12 75 £71,940 +12.85% 29
Midlands +16 59 £66,250 +0.38% 90
West Midlands +5 36 £62,500 -6.37% 35
East of England +31 27 £75,000 +3.45% 84
North East -5 26 £65,000 +39.78% 28
Wales +21 23 £61,496 +31.62% 38
East Midlands +1 21 £67,750 +4.23% 52
Northern Ireland -9 9 £95,000 +11.76% 17

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 45 (3.78%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (3.11%) Apache
2 37 (3.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 23 (1.93%) SharePoint
4 21 (1.76%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.34%) Confluence
6 9 (0.76%) IIS
7 3 (0.25%) Appian
7 3 (0.25%) nginx
7 3 (0.25%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.084%) CMS
8 1 (0.084%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.084%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.084%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.17%) Weka
3 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.084%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.084%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.084%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.084%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 710 (59.66%) AWS
1 710 (59.66%) Azure
2 298 (25.04%) Azure DevOps
3 277 (23.28%) GitHub
4 249 (20.92%) GCP
5 213 (17.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 210 (17.65%) Serverless
7 186 (15.63%) GitHub Actions
8 145 (12.18%) AWS Lambda
9 114 (9.58%) Amazon S3
10 108 (9.08%) SaaS
11 103 (8.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 103 (8.66%) PaaS
12 102 (8.57%) Entra ID
13 93 (7.82%) Azure Monitor
14 92 (7.73%) Amazon EKS
15 91 (7.65%) Microsoft 365
16 77 (6.47%) Amazon ECS
17 73 (6.13%) Amazon EC2
18 67 (5.63%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 131 (11.01%) Firewall
2 79 (6.64%) DNS
3 74 (6.22%) VPN
4 54 (4.54%) TCP/IP
5 48 (4.03%) WAN
6 35 (2.94%) DHCP
7 32 (2.69%) Network Security
8 26 (2.18%) LAN
9 24 (2.02%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (1.34%) BGP
10 16 (1.34%) Broadband
10 16 (1.34%) Internet
11 13 (1.09%) SD-WAN
12 12 (1.01%) VLAN
13 9 (0.76%) SAN
13 9 (0.76%) VoIP
13 9 (0.76%) Wireless
14 8 (0.67%) AMQP
15 7 (0.59%) HTTP
15 7 (0.59%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (6.55%) PostgreSQL
2 77 (6.47%) Amazon RDS
3 76 (6.39%) NoSQL
4 47 (3.95%) SQL Server
5 45 (3.78%) DynamoDB
6 40 (3.36%) Data Lake
7 35 (2.94%) MongoDB
8 34 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
9 30 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
10 29 (2.44%) BigQuery
10 29 (2.44%) MySQL
11 27 (2.27%) Redis
12 25 (2.10%) Relational Database
13 18 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
14 17 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
15 16 (1.34%) Big Data
16 15 (1.26%) Power BI
17 14 (1.18%) Delta Lake
18 13 (1.09%) RDBMS
19 12 (1.01%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 195 (16.39%) Jenkins
2 170 (14.29%) Git
3 124 (10.42%) GitLab
4 32 (2.69%) JIRA
5 27 (2.27%) Selenium
6 24 (2.02%) Robot Framework
7 21 (1.76%) Bitbucket
8 18 (1.51%) Snyk
8 18 (1.51%) TeamCity
9 17 (1.43%) MLflow
10 15 (1.26%) Jaeger
11 14 (1.18%) CircleCI
11 14 (1.18%) SonarQube
12 12 (1.01%) Cucumber
13 11 (0.92%) JMeter
14 9 (0.76%) Artifactory
14 9 (0.76%) Subversion
15 8 (0.67%) Locust
16 7 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
16 7 (0.59%) Vite
General
1 322 (27.06%) Social Skills
2 304 (25.55%) Finance
3 90 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (5.13%) Banking
5 60 (5.04%) Public Sector
6 58 (4.87%) Law
7 43 (3.61%) Telecoms
8 41 (3.45%) Retail
9 40 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 28 (2.35%) Financial Institution
11 24 (2.02%) Games
12 21 (1.76%) Marketing
13 20 (1.68%) Legal
14 19 (1.60%) Billing
15 17 (1.43%) Manufacturing
16 14 (1.18%) Back Office
17 13 (1.09%) Advertising
18 12 (1.01%) Aerospace
18 12 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
18 12 (1.01%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 262 (22.02%) Senior
2 193 (16.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 189 (15.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 134 (11.26%) Lead
5 116 (9.75%) Developer
6 114 (9.58%) Azure Engineer
7 112 (9.41%) Platform Engineer
8 100 (8.40%) Architect
9 73 (6.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 67 (5.63%) AWS Engineer
11 46 (3.87%) Senior DevOps
11 46 (3.87%) Software Engineer
12 44 (3.70%) Data Engineer
13 43 (3.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 37 (3.11%) Security Engineer
15 35 (2.94%) Lead DevOps
16 33 (2.77%) Support Engineer
17 31 (2.61%) GCP Engineer
17 31 (2.61%) Senior Cloud Engineer
18 29 (2.44%) Cloud Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (9.33%) React
2 86 (7.23%) .NET
3 77 (6.47%) Node.js
4 74 (6.22%) RESTful
5 64 (5.38%) Elastic Stack
6 50 (4.20%) Kafka
7 47 (3.95%) YAML
8 46 (3.87%) AWS CDK
9 44 (3.70%) OAuth
9 44 (3.70%) REST
10 42 (3.53%) Spring
11 41 (3.45%) ARM Templates
12 40 (3.36%) Django
13 38 (3.19%) Spring Boot
14 34 (2.86%) .NET Core
14 34 (2.86%) FastAPI
15 29 (2.44%) CSS
16 28 (2.35%) HTML
17 25 (2.10%) RabbitMQ
18 24 (2.02%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 260 (21.85%) Cloud Native
2 71 (5.97%) Hybrid Cloud
3 61 (5.13%) Public Cloud
4 52 (4.37%) Data Centre
5 47 (3.95%) Product Ownership
6 46 (3.87%) Security Posture
7 42 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
8 35 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
9 29 (2.44%) Onboarding
10 28 (2.35%) Management Information System
11 23 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
12 21 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
13 18 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
14 17 (1.43%) PKI
15 14 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
16 13 (1.09%) Data Structures
16 13 (1.09%) Hedge funds
17 12 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
17 12 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
17 12 (1.01%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 285 (23.95%) Linux
2 142 (11.93%) Windows
3 64 (5.38%) Unix
4 44 (3.70%) Windows Server
5 34 (2.86%) VMS
6 28 (2.35%) Ubuntu
7 23 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (1.26%) Debian
9 14 (1.18%) CentOS
10 9 (0.76%) Android
10 9 (0.76%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.34%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.25%) SUSE
12 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.17%) Solaris
13 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.084%) AIX
14 1 (0.084%) Rocky
14 1 (0.084%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 804 (67.56%) CI/CD
2 792 (66.55%) DevOps
3 364 (30.59%) Agile
4 309 (25.97%) Containerisation
5 261 (21.93%) Continuous Improvement
6 253 (21.26%) Observability
7 244 (20.50%) Problem-Solving
8 213 (17.90%) Mentoring
9 183 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
10 168 (14.12%) AI
10 168 (14.12%) Cloud Security
11 165 (13.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 157 (13.19%) Analytics
13 155 (13.03%) Software Engineering
14 136 (11.43%) Test Automation
15 131 (11.01%) Incident Response
16 129 (10.84%) Microservices
17 123 (10.34%) Roadmaps
18 122 (10.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 120 (10.08%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 534 (44.87%) Python
2 226 (18.99%) Bash
2 226 (18.99%) PowerShell
3 181 (15.21%) SQL
4 147 (12.35%) Bicep
5 140 (11.76%) Java
6 111 (9.33%) JavaScript
7 100 (8.40%) Go
8 98 (8.24%) TypeScript
9 90 (7.56%) C#
10 15 (1.26%) C++
11 14 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
12 12 (1.01%) Scala
12 12 (1.01%) Shell Script
13 10 (0.84%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.76%) C
15 7 (0.59%) Rust
16 6 (0.50%) Google Apps Script
17 5 (0.42%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 238 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 143 (12.02%) SC Cleared
3 119 (10.00%) AWS Certification
4 93 (7.82%) DV Cleared
5 88 (7.39%) Azure Certification
6 86 (7.23%) Degree
7 38 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 37 (3.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 35 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (2.18%) CISSP
11 20 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (1.51%) Master's Degree
13 17 (1.43%) CCNP
14 14 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
14 14 (1.18%) OSCP
15 9 (0.76%) CISM
16 8 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
17 7 (0.59%) CCSK
17 7 (0.59%) MCP
17 7 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (5.04%) GDPR
1 60 (5.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 46 (3.87%) NIST
3 41 (3.45%) QA
4 36 (3.03%) Data Quality
5 31 (2.61%) SOC 2
6 30 (2.52%) Accessibility
7 22 (1.85%) PCI DSS
8 14 (1.18%) SLA
9 13 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (0.67%) WCAG
12 6 (0.50%) GRC
13 5 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.42%) NCSC
14 4 (0.34%) EU AI Act
15 2 (0.17%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.17%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.17%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 405 (34.03%) Docker
2 80 (6.72%) Active Directory
3 68 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (2.10%) Hyper-V
6 24 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (1.34%) vSphere
8 11 (0.92%) Firmware
8 11 (0.92%) VMware NSX
9 10 (0.84%) KVM
9 10 (0.84%) vCloud
10 9 (0.76%) NFS
11 8 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.25%) XenApp
12 3 (0.25%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.17%) GPFS
13 2 (0.17%) iptables
13 2 (0.17%) Lustre
13 2 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 867 (72.86%) Terraform
2 472 (39.66%) Kubernetes
3 306 (25.71%) Ansible
4 168 (14.12%) Grafana
5 158 (13.28%) Prometheus
6 47 (3.95%) Argo
6 47 (3.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 26 (2.18%) Puppet
8 19 (1.60%) Rancher
9 16 (1.34%) SCCM
9 16 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (1.26%) Docker Swarm
11 13 (1.09%) Kustomize
11 13 (1.09%) Progress Chef
12 12 (1.01%) AWS Copilot
13 9 (0.76%) SCOM
14 7 (0.59%) yum
15 6 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (0.50%) logstash
15 6 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 235 (19.75%) Microsoft
2 103 (8.66%) Google
3 101 (8.49%) VMware
4 46 (3.87%) Cisco
5 39 (3.28%) Databricks
5 39 (3.28%) Splunk
6 34 (2.86%) Red Hat
7 29 (2.44%) Palo Alto
8 19 (1.60%) Zscaler
9 18 (1.51%) Black Duck
9 18 (1.51%) Coverity
10 17 (1.43%) Salesforce
11 16 (1.34%) Oracle
12 14 (1.18%) Ab Initio
13 13 (1.09%) Atlassian
14 12 (1.01%) CrowdStrike
14 12 (1.01%) Foundry
14 12 (1.01%) SAP
15 11 (0.92%) Juniper
15 11 (0.92%) SolarWinds