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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 154 158
Rank change year-on-year +78 +4 -55
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,154 1,035 1,567
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.15% 2.11% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% 2.34% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,465 705 1,187
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,625 £56,388
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,200 £107,800 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

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 73,858 44,154 75,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.61% 89.93% 81.83%
Number of salaries quoted 51,064 24,939 51,848
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,599 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,043 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.01% +0.08% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 23 July 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 July 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 +74 1,898 £77,500 - 962
UK excluding London +112 1,112 £70,000 - 591
London +27 877 £90,000 - 498
Work from Home +77 776 £71,500 -7.74% 488
North of England +92 375 £70,000 - 205
South East +55 228 £67,500 -12.90% 143
North West +85 225 £73,401 +4.86% 113
South West +38 181 £75,000 - 95
Midlands +36 134 £77,500 +19.23% 59
Yorkshire +5 90 £68,750 -1.79% 59
West Midlands +5 81 £81,887 +25.98% 40
North East -2 60 £55,000 -18.52% 33
Northern Ireland -19 57 £73,801 +71.27% 15
Wales -3 55 £70,039 +21.81% 15
East Midlands +8 53 £67,500 +3.85% 19
East of England +14 51 £62,500 - 19
Scotland +23 40 £67,500 -6.57% 42

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 55 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (2.04%) Apache
3 43 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 33 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (1.25%) Confluence
6 11 (0.51%) Jupyter
7 9 (0.42%) IIS
7 9 (0.42%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.23%) CMS
9 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.14%) WordPress
11 2 (0.093%) Camunda
11 2 (0.093%) nginx
11 2 (0.093%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.046%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.046%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.046%) JBoss
12 1 (0.046%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 20 (0.93%) PlantUML
2 11 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.093%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.093%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.093%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.046%) Maya
5 1 (0.046%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.046%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.14%) Summit
4 2 (0.093%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.093%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,209 (56.13%) AWS
2 1,182 (54.87%) Azure
3 387 (17.97%) GitHub
4 380 (17.64%) GCP
5 361 (16.76%) Serverless
6 331 (15.37%) AWS CloudFormation
7 313 (14.53%) Azure DevOps
8 222 (10.31%) GitHub Actions
9 200 (9.29%) AWS Lambda
10 195 (9.05%) Amazon S3
11 180 (8.36%) PaaS
12 140 (6.50%) Amazon EKS
13 138 (6.41%) Amazon EC2
14 127 (5.90%) IaaS
15 126 (5.85%) SaaS
16 124 (5.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 122 (5.66%) Amazon ECS
18 120 (5.57%) Microsoft 365
19 115 (5.34%) Azure AKS
20 112 (5.20%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 177 (8.22%) Firewall
2 114 (5.29%) WAN
3 111 (5.15%) DNS
4 109 (5.06%) VPN
5 103 (4.78%) Network Security
6 91 (4.22%) LAN
7 71 (3.30%) TCP/IP
8 57 (2.65%) Broadband
9 49 (2.27%) BGP
10 35 (1.62%) VLAN
11 32 (1.49%) DHCP
12 31 (1.44%) OSPF
13 25 (1.16%) VXLAN
14 23 (1.07%) HTTP
14 23 (1.07%) SD-WAN
15 21 (0.97%) Software-Defined Networking
16 13 (0.60%) Cisco ASA
17 12 (0.56%) Ethernet VPN
18 11 (0.51%) Wireless
19 10 (0.46%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (7.61%) PostgreSQL
2 143 (6.64%) NoSQL
3 100 (4.64%) Amazon RDS
4 92 (4.27%) MongoDB
5 72 (3.34%) DynamoDB
6 70 (3.25%) SQL Server
7 53 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
7 53 (2.46%) Data Lake
8 51 (2.37%) Metadata
9 49 (2.27%) Relational Database
10 48 (2.23%) MySQL
11 36 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
12 34 (1.58%) Redis
13 31 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
14 25 (1.16%) Delta Lake
15 24 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
16 23 (1.07%) Big Data
16 23 (1.07%) BigQuery
16 23 (1.07%) Power BI
17 19 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 290 (13.46%) GitLab
2 283 (13.14%) Git
3 252 (11.70%) Jenkins
4 43 (2.00%) Cucumber
4 43 (2.00%) JIRA
5 40 (1.86%) CircleCI
6 32 (1.49%) Bitbucket
7 27 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 25 (1.16%) TeamCity
9 17 (0.79%) Selenium
10 16 (0.74%) Claude Code
11 15 (0.70%) SonarQube
12 12 (0.56%) Subversion
13 10 (0.46%) Maven
13 10 (0.46%) MLflow
14 9 (0.42%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.42%) JMeter
15 8 (0.37%) MSI
15 8 (0.37%) NUnit
15 8 (0.37%) Vite
General
1 579 (26.88%) Social Skills
2 484 (22.47%) Finance
3 187 (8.68%) Public Sector
4 161 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
5 115 (5.34%) Banking
6 104 (4.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 96 (4.46%) Law
8 67 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
9 66 (3.06%) Retail
10 44 (2.04%) Games
11 37 (1.72%) Telecoms
12 32 (1.49%) Aerospace
13 30 (1.39%) Manufacturing
14 25 (1.16%) Legal
15 22 (1.02%) Marketing
16 21 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
16 21 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
17 20 (0.93%) Advertising
18 16 (0.74%) Financial Institution
19 10 (0.46%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 497 (23.07%) Senior
2 380 (17.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 298 (13.83%) Lead
4 287 (13.32%) Architect
5 269 (12.49%) Cloud Engineer
6 222 (10.31%) Platform Engineer
7 189 (8.77%) Developer
8 185 (8.59%) Azure Engineer
9 135 (6.27%) AWS Engineer
10 119 (5.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 114 (5.29%) Software Engineer
12 105 (4.87%) Data Engineer
13 103 (4.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 95 (4.41%) Principal Engineer
15 86 (3.99%) Security Engineer
16 82 (3.81%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 79 (3.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 77 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
19 69 (3.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 69 (3.20%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (7.85%) React
2 160 (7.43%) Kafka
3 151 (7.01%) .NET
4 138 (6.41%) Node.js
5 137 (6.36%) REST
6 126 (5.85%) Spring
6 126 (5.85%) Spring Boot
7 124 (5.76%) RESTful
8 87 (4.04%) AWS CDK
9 81 (3.76%) YAML
10 71 (3.30%) ARM Templates
11 69 (3.20%) PySpark
12 60 (2.79%) Elastic Stack
13 56 (2.60%) RabbitMQ
14 52 (2.41%) OAuth
15 51 (2.37%) AngularJS
16 49 (2.27%) Next.js
17 41 (1.90%) JSON
18 39 (1.81%) FastAPI
19 36 (1.67%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 613 (28.46%) Cloud Native
2 222 (10.31%) Distributed Systems
3 110 (5.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 103 (4.78%) Public Cloud
5 96 (4.46%) Onboarding
6 79 (3.67%) Data Centre
6 79 (3.67%) Product Ownership
7 63 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
8 60 (2.79%) Security Posture
9 53 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
10 49 (2.27%) Video\Live Streaming
11 45 (2.09%) Enterprise Cloud
12 40 (1.86%) Low-Code
13 38 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
14 32 (1.49%) PKI
15 31 (1.44%) e-Learning
16 28 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
17 26 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
17 26 (1.21%) Management Information System
17 26 (1.21%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 360 (16.71%) Linux
2 204 (9.47%) Windows
3 87 (4.04%) Windows Server
4 52 (2.41%) CentOS
5 41 (1.90%) Ubuntu
6 38 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 31 (1.44%) Unix
8 26 (1.21%) VMS
9 8 (0.37%) Android
10 7 (0.32%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.28%) Debian
11 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.093%) AIX
13 2 (0.093%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.046%) Rocky
14 1 (0.046%) Solaris
14 1 (0.046%) SUSE
14 1 (0.046%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,515 (70.33%) CI/CD
2 1,206 (55.99%) DevOps
3 648 (30.08%) Containerisation
4 596 (27.67%) Agile
5 590 (27.39%) Observability
6 491 (22.79%) Platform Engineering
7 459 (21.31%) Mentoring
8 456 (21.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 453 (21.03%) AI
10 415 (19.27%) Software Engineering
11 367 (17.04%) Microservices
12 362 (16.81%) Test Automation
13 353 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
14 340 (15.78%) Technical Leadership
15 303 (14.07%) Cloud Security
16 302 (14.02%) Roadmaps
17 277 (12.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 237 (11.00%) Event-Driven
19 233 (10.82%) DevSecOps
20 232 (10.77%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 943 (43.78%) Python
2 351 (16.30%) Bash
3 337 (15.65%) SQL
4 321 (14.90%) Java
5 312 (14.48%) PowerShell
6 213 (9.89%) Bicep
7 197 (9.15%) TypeScript
8 184 (8.54%) JavaScript
9 167 (7.75%) Go
10 163 (7.57%) C#
11 43 (2.00%) Ruby
12 38 (1.76%) PHP
13 28 (1.30%) Rust
14 25 (1.16%) C++
14 25 (1.16%) Scala
15 24 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
16 20 (0.93%) Groovy
16 20 (0.93%) Perl
17 11 (0.51%) Kotlin
17 11 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 475 (22.05%) Security Cleared
2 291 (13.51%) SC Cleared
3 181 (8.40%) Degree
4 147 (6.82%) AWS Certification
5 142 (6.59%) DV Cleared
6 122 (5.66%) Azure Certification
7 78 (3.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 70 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 53 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 47 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
11 31 (1.44%) CCNP
12 27 (1.25%) Master's Degree
13 23 (1.07%) CISSP
13 23 (1.07%) OSCP
14 18 (0.84%) CCNA
15 14 (0.65%) DBS Check
15 14 (0.65%) RHCSA
16 13 (0.60%) CCIE
16 13 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
17 10 (0.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (5.25%) QA
2 92 (4.27%) Data Quality
3 69 (3.20%) GRC
4 64 (2.97%) GDPR
5 50 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (1.90%) SOC 2
7 39 (1.81%) Accessibility
8 35 (1.62%) PCI DSS
9 34 (1.58%) NIST
10 25 (1.16%) WCAG
11 19 (0.88%) NCSC
12 11 (0.51%) SLA
13 8 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.093%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.093%) IFRS
16 2 (0.093%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.093%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.093%) Solvency II
System Software
1 558 (25.91%) Docker
2 119 (5.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 118 (5.48%) Active Directory
4 43 (2.00%) vSphere
5 34 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.79%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.65%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.37%) Squid
10 7 (0.32%) Firmware
11 6 (0.28%) iptables
11 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.23%) KVM
13 3 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,451 (67.36%) Terraform
2 808 (37.51%) Kubernetes
3 429 (19.92%) Ansible
4 237 (11.00%) Grafana
5 189 (8.77%) Prometheus
6 61 (2.83%) Argo
7 47 (2.18%) Puppet
8 39 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
9 38 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
10 30 (1.39%) Progress Chef
11 28 (1.30%) Packer
12 25 (1.16%) Istio
13 22 (1.02%) Nagios
14 15 (0.70%) FortiGate
15 13 (0.60%) vCenter Server
16 12 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 12 (0.56%) Cilium
16 12 (0.56%) Rancher
17 11 (0.51%) ZABBIX
18 10 (0.46%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 466 (21.63%) Microsoft
2 147 (6.82%) VMware
3 107 (4.97%) Google
4 82 (3.81%) Databricks
5 79 (3.67%) Red Hat
6 74 (3.44%) Splunk
7 67 (3.11%) Cisco
8 52 (2.41%) Palo Alto
9 50 (2.32%) Oracle
10 36 (1.67%) Fortinet
11 33 (1.53%) OpenAI
12 28 (1.30%) Zscaler
13 27 (1.25%) Dynatrace
14 17 (0.79%) CrowdStrike
15 14 (0.65%) F5
16 13 (0.60%) Salesforce
16 13 (0.60%) ServiceNow
17 12 (0.56%) Rapid7
17 12 (0.56%) ScienceLogic
18 11 (0.51%) Okta