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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 128 99
Rank change year-on-year +13 -29 +2
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,172 1,212 1,635
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.94% 2.26% 2.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 2.49% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 814 738 1,318
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £89,688 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,375 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,037 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.42% +3.13% -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 48,808 48,616 49,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.95% 90.71% 89.93%
Number of salaries quoted 28,796 23,669 37,967
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £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 £77,715
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,971
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.83% -5.51%

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 15 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 15 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 +9 979 £73,801 +1.79% 862
UK excluding London +15 579 £70,000 +4.42% 754
Work from Home +35 503 £73,000 +0.69% 418
London +13 456 £82,625 -8.19% 220
North of England -5 201 £70,000 +12.00% 172
South East +10 109 £75,000 +15.38% 232
Yorkshire -13 89 £70,000 +33.33% 71
North West +5 86 £70,000 +3.70% 72
Scotland +17 76 £70,079 +9.93% 26
South West -27 75 £62,500 -13.18% 111
Midlands +13 60 £67,500 +2.27% 87
West Midlands +1 38 £65,250 -2.25% 39
East of England +31 28 £71,250 -1.72% 85
North East +4 26 £65,000 +39.78% 30
Wales +20 23 £61,496 +25.24% 38
East Midlands -3 20 £68,000 +4.62% 47
Northern Ireland -11 9 £95,000 +11.76% 19

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 (3.84%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (3.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 34 (2.90%) Apache
4 23 (1.96%) SharePoint
5 19 (1.62%) Apache Spark
6 16 (1.37%) Confluence
7 8 (0.68%) IIS
8 3 (0.26%) Appian
8 3 (0.26%) nginx
8 3 (0.26%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.085%) CMS
9 1 (0.085%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.085%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.085%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.26%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.17%) Weka
3 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.085%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.085%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.085%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.085%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 707 (60.32%) Azure
2 693 (59.13%) AWS
3 300 (25.60%) Azure DevOps
4 275 (23.46%) GitHub
5 244 (20.82%) GCP
6 205 (17.49%) Serverless
7 203 (17.32%) AWS CloudFormation
8 181 (15.44%) GitHub Actions
9 142 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
10 112 (9.56%) Amazon S3
11 106 (9.04%) SaaS
12 102 (8.70%) PaaS
13 99 (8.45%) Entra ID
14 98 (8.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 93 (7.94%) Azure Monitor
16 91 (7.76%) Microsoft 365
17 83 (7.08%) Amazon EKS
18 75 (6.40%) Amazon ECS
19 73 (6.23%) Amazon EC2
20 66 (5.63%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 129 (11.01%) Firewall
2 79 (6.74%) DNS
3 70 (5.97%) VPN
4 56 (4.78%) TCP/IP
5 49 (4.18%) WAN
6 35 (2.99%) DHCP
7 32 (2.73%) Network Security
8 28 (2.39%) LAN
9 24 (2.05%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (1.37%) BGP
10 16 (1.37%) Broadband
10 16 (1.37%) Internet
11 13 (1.11%) SD-WAN
11 13 (1.11%) VLAN
12 10 (0.85%) VoIP
13 9 (0.77%) SAN
13 9 (0.77%) Wireless
14 7 (0.60%) HTTP
14 7 (0.60%) OSPF
15 6 (0.51%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (6.57%) Amazon RDS
1 77 (6.57%) PostgreSQL
2 70 (5.97%) NoSQL
3 45 (3.84%) SQL Server
4 44 (3.75%) DynamoDB
5 41 (3.50%) Data Lake
6 33 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
6 33 (2.82%) MongoDB
7 30 (2.56%) BigQuery
8 28 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
8 28 (2.39%) Redis
9 26 (2.22%) MySQL
10 25 (2.13%) Relational Database
11 18 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
11 18 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
12 16 (1.37%) Power BI
13 14 (1.19%) Big Data
13 14 (1.19%) Delta Lake
14 13 (1.11%) RDBMS
15 11 (0.94%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 194 (16.55%) Jenkins
2 166 (14.16%) Git
3 123 (10.49%) GitLab
4 31 (2.65%) JIRA
5 25 (2.13%) Selenium
6 22 (1.88%) Robot Framework
7 18 (1.54%) Bitbucket
7 18 (1.54%) MLflow
7 18 (1.54%) Snyk
8 17 (1.45%) TeamCity
9 15 (1.28%) Jaeger
10 14 (1.19%) CircleCI
11 13 (1.11%) SonarQube
12 10 (0.85%) Artifactory
12 10 (0.85%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.85%) JMeter
13 8 (0.68%) Locust
13 8 (0.68%) Subversion
14 7 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
14 7 (0.60%) Vite
General
1 315 (26.88%) Social Skills
2 297 (25.34%) Finance
3 90 (7.68%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (5.20%) Banking
5 59 (5.03%) Public Sector
6 57 (4.86%) Law
7 43 (3.67%) Telecoms
8 42 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 40 (3.41%) Retail
10 28 (2.39%) Financial Institution
11 25 (2.13%) Games
12 21 (1.79%) Marketing
13 20 (1.71%) Legal
14 19 (1.62%) Billing
15 17 (1.45%) Manufacturing
16 14 (1.19%) Advertising
16 14 (1.19%) Back Office
17 13 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
18 12 (1.02%) Aerospace
18 12 (1.02%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 254 (21.67%) Senior
2 194 (16.55%) DevOps Engineer
3 186 (15.87%) Cloud Engineer
4 131 (11.18%) Lead
5 116 (9.90%) Azure Engineer
6 113 (9.64%) Developer
7 111 (9.47%) Platform Engineer
8 98 (8.36%) Architect
9 70 (5.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 66 (5.63%) AWS Engineer
11 44 (3.75%) Senior DevOps
12 43 (3.67%) Software Engineer
13 42 (3.58%) Data Engineer
13 42 (3.58%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 36 (3.07%) Security Engineer
15 35 (2.99%) Lead DevOps
16 34 (2.90%) Support Engineer
17 32 (2.73%) GCP Engineer
18 30 (2.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
19 29 (2.47%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (9.04%) React
2 80 (6.83%) .NET
3 72 (6.14%) Node.js
4 70 (5.97%) RESTful
5 62 (5.29%) Elastic Stack
6 48 (4.10%) Kafka
7 46 (3.92%) YAML
8 44 (3.75%) AWS CDK
9 43 (3.67%) ARM Templates
10 41 (3.50%) OAuth
11 40 (3.41%) Django
12 39 (3.33%) REST
13 36 (3.07%) Spring
14 34 (2.90%) FastAPI
15 33 (2.82%) .NET Core
15 33 (2.82%) Spring Boot
16 27 (2.30%) CSS
17 26 (2.22%) HTML
18 22 (1.88%) RabbitMQ
18 22 (1.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 254 (21.67%) Cloud Native
2 69 (5.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 56 (4.78%) Public Cloud
4 54 (4.61%) Data Centre
5 45 (3.84%) Product Ownership
5 45 (3.84%) Security Posture
6 40 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
7 33 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
8 29 (2.47%) Management Information System
9 27 (2.30%) Onboarding
10 22 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
11 20 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
12 18 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
13 17 (1.45%) PKI
14 13 (1.11%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.11%) Hedge funds
15 12 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
15 12 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
16 11 (0.94%) Low-Code
17 10 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 273 (23.29%) Linux
2 140 (11.95%) Windows
3 64 (5.46%) Unix
4 45 (3.84%) Windows Server
5 32 (2.73%) VMS
6 23 (1.96%) Ubuntu
7 22 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (1.11%) Debian
9 9 (0.77%) CentOS
10 7 (0.60%) Android
10 7 (0.60%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.34%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.26%) SUSE
13 2 (0.17%) Solaris
13 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.085%) AIX
14 1 (0.085%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.085%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 789 (67.32%) CI/CD
1 789 (67.32%) DevOps
2 353 (30.12%) Agile
3 303 (25.85%) Containerisation
4 253 (21.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 246 (20.99%) Observability
6 235 (20.05%) Problem-Solving
7 209 (17.83%) Mentoring
8 182 (15.53%) Platform Engineering
9 167 (14.25%) AI
10 162 (13.82%) Cloud Security
11 161 (13.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 157 (13.40%) Analytics
13 150 (12.80%) Software Engineering
14 130 (11.09%) Incident Response
15 128 (10.92%) Test Automation
16 125 (10.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 124 (10.58%) Roadmaps
18 122 (10.41%) Microservices
19 117 (9.98%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 521 (44.45%) Python
2 225 (19.20%) PowerShell
3 221 (18.86%) Bash
4 177 (15.10%) SQL
5 149 (12.71%) Bicep
6 127 (10.84%) Java
7 104 (8.87%) JavaScript
8 96 (8.19%) Go
8 96 (8.19%) TypeScript
9 85 (7.25%) C#
10 14 (1.19%) C++
11 13 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
12 12 (1.02%) Scala
13 11 (0.94%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.77%) C
14 9 (0.77%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.60%) Rust
16 5 (0.43%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.43%) Google Apps Script
16 5 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 223 (19.03%) Security Cleared
2 140 (11.95%) SC Cleared
3 114 (9.73%) AWS Certification
4 89 (7.59%) Azure Certification
5 88 (7.51%) DV Cleared
6 84 (7.17%) Degree
7 39 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 33 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (2.13%) CISSP
11 20 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (1.54%) Master's Degree
13 17 (1.45%) CCNP
14 14 (1.19%) OSCP
15 13 (1.11%) AWS Certified Developer
16 9 (0.77%) CISM
17 8 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
18 7 (0.60%) CCSK
18 7 (0.60%) MCP
18 7 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (5.20%) GDPR
2 59 (5.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 44 (3.75%) NIST
4 39 (3.33%) QA
5 35 (2.99%) Data Quality
6 30 (2.56%) SOC 2
7 29 (2.47%) Accessibility
8 22 (1.88%) PCI DSS
9 14 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (1.11%) SLA
11 12 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (0.68%) WCAG
13 6 (0.51%) GRC
14 5 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.43%) NCSC
15 4 (0.34%) EU AI Act
16 2 (0.17%) Def Stans
16 2 (0.17%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.17%) JSP 440
16 2 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 401 (34.22%) Docker
2 78 (6.66%) Active Directory
3 68 (5.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (3.07%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
6 24 (2.05%) Hyper-V
7 17 (1.45%) vSphere
8 11 (0.94%) Firmware
8 11 (0.94%) NFS
8 11 (0.94%) vCloud
8 11 (0.94%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.77%) KVM
10 8 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.34%) XenApp
11 4 (0.34%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.17%) GPFS
13 2 (0.17%) iptables
13 2 (0.17%) Lustre
13 2 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 856 (73.04%) Terraform
2 465 (39.68%) Kubernetes
3 297 (25.34%) Ansible
4 162 (13.82%) Grafana
5 156 (13.31%) Prometheus
6 47 (4.01%) Microsoft Intune
7 45 (3.84%) Argo
8 23 (1.96%) Puppet
9 18 (1.54%) SCCM
10 17 (1.45%) Rancher
11 15 (1.28%) Docker Swarm
11 15 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
12 13 (1.11%) Kustomize
12 13 (1.11%) Progress Chef
13 12 (1.02%) AWS Copilot
14 9 (0.77%) SCOM
15 7 (0.60%) yum
16 6 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 6 (0.51%) ZABBIX
17 5 (0.43%) logstash
Vendors
1 236 (20.14%) Microsoft
2 101 (8.62%) Google
3 100 (8.53%) VMware
4 47 (4.01%) Cisco
5 39 (3.33%) Databricks
6 35 (2.99%) Splunk
7 30 (2.56%) Red Hat
8 28 (2.39%) Palo Alto
9 18 (1.54%) Black Duck
9 18 (1.54%) Coverity
9 18 (1.54%) Zscaler
10 16 (1.37%) Salesforce
11 14 (1.19%) Ab Initio
11 14 (1.19%) Oracle
12 12 (1.02%) SAP
13 11 (0.94%) Atlassian
13 11 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
13 11 (0.94%) Foundry
13 11 (0.94%) SolarWinds
14 10 (0.85%) OpenAI