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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 157 129
Rank change year-on-year +79 -28 -39
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,407 1,019 1,543
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.12% 2.05% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 2.32% 2.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,572 713 984
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £108,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -3.70%

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 82,683 43,966 63,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.91% 88.62% 80.92%
Number of salaries quoted 57,515 24,838 36,851
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,500 £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 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,375 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -3.37%

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 12 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 12 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 +77 2,097 £77,500 - 1,852
UK excluding London +100 1,308 £70,000 - 993
London +30 917 £90,000 +2.86% 1,078
Work from Home +56 801 £74,500 -3.87% 1,885
North of England +90 457 £70,400 +0.57% 284
North West +86 256 £72,500 +11.54% 152
South East +65 248 £67,500 -18.18% 220
South West +35 231 £75,000 - 155
Midlands +37 145 £75,000 +15.38% 103
Yorkshire -10 101 £73,750 +5.36% 83
North East +20 100 £59,000 -18.62% 50
West Midlands +5 88 £85,000 +31.78% 66
Wales -12 71 £70,000 +21.74% 27
Northern Ireland -21 62 £71,991 +67.07% 30
East Midlands +4 57 £67,500 +3.85% 37
East of England -6 55 £63,750 -1.92% 61
Scotland +17 51 £72,500 +3.57% 125

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 57 (2.37%) Apache
1 57 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
2 56 (2.33%) Apache Spark
3 32 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 29 (1.20%) Confluence
5 13 (0.54%) Jupyter
6 11 (0.46%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.37%) IIS
8 7 (0.29%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.25%) CMS
10 4 (0.17%) nginx
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.12%) Camunda
11 3 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.12%) WordPress
12 2 (0.083%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.042%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.042%) Documentum
13 1 (0.042%) JBoss
13 1 (0.042%) 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 (0.042%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.042%) 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 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,365 (56.71%) AWS
2 1,287 (53.47%) Azure
3 464 (19.28%) GCP
4 425 (17.66%) GitHub
5 384 (15.95%) AWS CloudFormation
6 374 (15.54%) Serverless
7 319 (13.25%) Azure DevOps
8 235 (9.76%) GitHub Actions
9 214 (8.89%) AWS Lambda
10 209 (8.68%) Amazon S3
11 173 (7.19%) PaaS
12 151 (6.27%) Amazon EKS
13 147 (6.11%) Amazon ECS
14 146 (6.07%) Amazon EC2
15 137 (5.69%) Azure AKS
16 132 (5.48%) SaaS
17 126 (5.23%) IaaS
18 125 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 125 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
19 118 (4.90%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 173 (7.19%) Firewall
2 130 (5.40%) DNS
3 123 (5.11%) VPN
4 120 (4.99%) WAN
5 115 (4.78%) Network Security
6 97 (4.03%) LAN
7 69 (2.87%) TCP/IP
8 56 (2.33%) BGP
9 49 (2.04%) DHCP
10 48 (1.99%) Broadband
11 40 (1.66%) OSPF
12 32 (1.33%) VLAN
13 28 (1.16%) SD-WAN
13 28 (1.16%) VXLAN
14 27 (1.12%) Software-Defined Networking
15 19 (0.79%) Wireless
16 16 (0.66%) HTTP
17 15 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
18 14 (0.58%) SAN
19 10 (0.42%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (7.77%) PostgreSQL
2 157 (6.52%) NoSQL
3 113 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
4 107 (4.45%) MongoDB
5 84 (3.49%) SQL Server
6 79 (3.28%) DynamoDB
7 69 (2.87%) MySQL
8 60 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
8 60 (2.49%) Data Lake
9 51 (2.12%) Metadata
10 49 (2.04%) Relational Database
11 46 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
11 46 (1.91%) Redis
12 33 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
13 30 (1.25%) Big Data
13 30 (1.25%) Delta Lake
14 29 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
15 24 (1.00%) BigQuery
16 22 (0.91%) Data Vault
17 21 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 325 (13.50%) Git
2 282 (11.72%) GitLab
3 256 (10.64%) Jenkins
4 58 (2.41%) JIRA
5 48 (1.99%) Cucumber
6 33 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 25 (1.04%) TeamCity
8 24 (1.00%) Bitbucket
9 23 (0.96%) CircleCI
9 23 (0.96%) Selenium
10 20 (0.83%) Claude Code
11 18 (0.75%) SonarQube
12 15 (0.62%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.54%) Subversion
14 12 (0.50%) Maven
14 12 (0.50%) NUnit
15 10 (0.42%) MLflow
15 10 (0.42%) Snyk
16 9 (0.37%) MSI
17 8 (0.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 671 (27.88%) Social Skills
2 557 (23.14%) Finance
3 236 (9.80%) Public Sector
4 183 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
5 156 (6.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 137 (5.69%) Banking
7 120 (4.99%) Law
8 74 (3.07%) Presentation Skills
9 67 (2.78%) Retail
10 56 (2.33%) Aerospace
11 43 (1.79%) Games
12 42 (1.74%) Marketing
13 38 (1.58%) Legal
14 31 (1.29%) Manufacturing
15 25 (1.04%) Telecoms
16 19 (0.79%) Financial Institution
17 18 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
18 17 (0.71%) Aviation
18 17 (0.71%) Local Government
19 16 (0.66%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 570 (23.68%) Senior
2 406 (16.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 335 (13.92%) Lead
4 328 (13.63%) Architect
5 290 (12.05%) Cloud Engineer
6 249 (10.34%) Platform Engineer
7 205 (8.52%) Developer
8 196 (8.14%) Azure Engineer
9 165 (6.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 154 (6.40%) Software Engineer
11 145 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
12 123 (5.11%) Principal Engineer
13 121 (5.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 121 (5.03%) Data Engineer
14 97 (4.03%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 94 (3.91%) Security Engineer
16 75 (3.12%) Senior Developer
17 74 (3.07%) Azure Platform Engineer
17 74 (3.07%) Senior DevOps
18 72 (2.99%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,619 (67.26%) Terraform
2 200 (8.31%) Kafka
3 196 (8.14%) React
4 177 (7.35%) .NET
5 159 (6.61%) Spring
6 158 (6.56%) Node.js
6 158 (6.56%) Spring Boot
7 153 (6.36%) REST
8 146 (6.07%) RESTful
9 90 (3.74%) AWS CDK
10 78 (3.24%) PySpark
11 66 (2.74%) YAML
12 65 (2.70%) ARM Templates
13 61 (2.53%) AngularJS
14 59 (2.45%) RabbitMQ
15 55 (2.29%) Next.js
16 53 (2.20%) Elastic Stack
17 47 (1.95%) OAuth
18 43 (1.79%) LangChain
19 42 (1.74%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 730 (30.33%) Cloud Native
2 268 (11.13%) Distributed Systems
3 130 (5.40%) Hybrid Cloud
4 128 (5.32%) Public Cloud
5 125 (5.19%) Onboarding
6 95 (3.95%) Data Centre
7 84 (3.49%) Product Ownership
8 72 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
9 66 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
10 62 (2.58%) Security Posture
11 58 (2.41%) Enterprise Cloud
12 47 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
13 46 (1.91%) Virtual Team
14 42 (1.74%) Management Information System
15 41 (1.70%) e-Learning
15 41 (1.70%) Private Cloud
16 40 (1.66%) Video\Live Streaming
17 38 (1.58%) AI Agents
17 38 (1.58%) PKI
18 35 (1.45%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 396 (16.45%) Linux
2 217 (9.02%) Windows
3 96 (3.99%) Windows Server
4 59 (2.45%) CentOS
5 43 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (1.58%) Ubuntu
6 38 (1.58%) Unix
7 22 (0.91%) VMS
8 6 (0.25%) 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%) 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 1,696 (70.46%) CI/CD
2 1,300 (54.01%) DevOps
3 701 (29.12%) Containerisation
4 680 (28.25%) Agile
5 677 (28.13%) Observability
6 574 (23.85%) Platform Engineering
7 538 (22.35%) AI
8 525 (21.81%) Mentoring
9 524 (21.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 520 (21.60%) Software Engineering
11 437 (18.16%) Problem-Solving
12 414 (17.20%) Microservices
13 405 (16.83%) Technical Leadership
14 390 (16.20%) Test Automation
15 376 (15.62%) Cloud Security
16 346 (14.37%) Roadmaps
17 344 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 275 (11.43%) Event-Driven
19 264 (10.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 257 (10.68%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,047 (43.50%) Python
2 384 (15.95%) Java
3 374 (15.54%) Bash
4 373 (15.50%) SQL
5 345 (14.33%) PowerShell
6 228 (9.47%) Bicep
7 224 (9.31%) TypeScript
8 195 (8.10%) JavaScript
9 183 (7.60%) C#
10 157 (6.52%) Go
11 48 (1.99%) Ruby
12 41 (1.70%) Scala
13 35 (1.45%) PHP
14 30 (1.25%) Groovy
15 28 (1.16%) Rust
16 25 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
17 22 (0.91%) C++
18 21 (0.87%) Perl
19 19 (0.79%) Shell Script
20 12 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 596 (24.76%) Security Cleared
2 377 (15.66%) SC Cleared
3 206 (8.56%) AWS Certification
4 193 (8.02%) DV Cleared
5 188 (7.81%) Degree
6 151 (6.27%) Azure Certification
7 91 (3.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 85 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 64 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 62 (2.58%) Cisco Certification
11 39 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
12 36 (1.50%) CCNP
13 30 (1.25%) Master's Degree
14 24 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
15 23 (0.96%) CISSP
16 22 (0.91%) CCNA
17 17 (0.71%) SnowPro
18 14 (0.58%) CCIE
18 14 (0.58%) DBS Check
18 14 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (5.44%) QA
2 104 (4.32%) Data Quality
3 72 (2.99%) GRC
4 67 (2.78%) GDPR
5 58 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (1.91%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.37%) NIST
8 30 (1.25%) NCSC
8 30 (1.25%) SOC 2
9 24 (1.00%) SLA
10 21 (0.87%) WCAG
11 20 (0.83%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.29%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
15 4 (0.17%) ISO 20022
15 4 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.083%) IFRS
16 2 (0.083%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.083%) Solvency II
System Software
1 627 (26.05%) Docker
2 134 (5.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 132 (5.48%) Active Directory
4 46 (1.91%) vSphere
5 39 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (1.00%) Hyper-V
6 24 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (0.71%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (0.37%) KVM
10 8 (0.33%) Firmware
10 8 (0.33%) Squid
11 7 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.12%) iptables
14 2 (0.083%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 874 (36.31%) Kubernetes
2 480 (19.94%) Ansible
3 235 (9.76%) Grafana
4 171 (7.10%) Prometheus
5 73 (3.03%) Argo
6 62 (2.58%) Puppet
7 41 (1.70%) Progress Chef
8 38 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
9 35 (1.45%) Istio
10 34 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
11 28 (1.16%) Packer
12 23 (0.96%) FortiGate
13 19 (0.79%) Rancher
14 18 (0.75%) vCenter Server
15 17 (0.71%) Nagios
16 14 (0.58%) Cilium
17 13 (0.54%) Kustomize
18 12 (0.50%) Podman
18 12 (0.50%) ZABBIX
19 11 (0.46%) linkerd
Vendors
1 552 (22.93%) Microsoft
2 164 (6.81%) VMware
3 144 (5.98%) Google
4 106 (4.40%) Databricks
5 84 (3.49%) Splunk
6 81 (3.37%) Red Hat
7 78 (3.24%) Cisco
8 72 (2.99%) Oracle
9 43 (1.79%) Palo Alto
10 42 (1.74%) Fortinet
10 42 (1.74%) OpenAI
11 41 (1.70%) Dynatrace
12 29 (1.20%) ServiceNow
13 26 (1.08%) Zscaler
14 16 (0.66%) CrowdStrike
14 16 (0.66%) SAP
15 15 (0.62%) Atlassian
15 15 (0.62%) Okta
16 13 (0.54%) F5
16 13 (0.54%) New Relic