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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 159 155
Rank change year-on-year +82 -4 -53
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,279 1,046 1,414
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.20% 2.10% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.98% 2.35% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,534 720 1,045
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,531 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £108,075 £102,500
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 76,352 44,509 67,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.49% 81.05%
Number of salaries quoted 52,648 25,381 44,449
10th Percentile £30,580 £28,500 £31,210
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +76 2,003 £77,500 - 1,236
UK excluding London +104 1,217 £70,000 - 731
London +26 896 £90,000 - 651
Work from Home +77 803 £72,500 -8.01% 646
North of England +93 412 £70,400 +0.57% 236
South East +62 247 £67,500 -12.90% 168
North West +90 236 £75,000 +7.14% 130
South West +39 206 £75,000 -2.48% 146
Midlands +44 145 £75,000 +15.38% 55
Yorkshire +1 95 £75,000 +7.14% 65
West Midlands +12 89 £80,000 +23.08% 39
North East +14 81 £56,500 -16.30% 41
Wales -6 60 £70,000 +21.74% 27
Northern Ireland -24 58 £72,896 +69.17% 25
East Midlands +17 56 £67,500 +3.85% 16
East of England -6 50 £67,500 +8.00% 25
Scotland +21 48 £71,991 +2.84% 52

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 62 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
2 54 (2.37%) Apache Spark
3 50 (2.19%) Apache
4 32 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (1.27%) Confluence
6 12 (0.53%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.44%) IIS
7 10 (0.44%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.18%) CMS
9 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.13%) Camunda
9 3 (0.13%) nginx
9 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.13%) WordPress
10 2 (0.088%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.088%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.044%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.044%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.044%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.044%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 20 (0.88%) PlantUML
2 10 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.088%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.088%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.088%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.044%) Maya
6 1 (0.044%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.13%) Summit
4 2 (0.088%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.088%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,305 (57.26%) AWS
2 1,248 (54.76%) Azure
3 427 (18.74%) GCP
4 401 (17.60%) GitHub
5 371 (16.28%) Serverless
6 361 (15.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 315 (13.82%) Azure DevOps
8 223 (9.78%) GitHub Actions
9 202 (8.86%) AWS Lambda
10 199 (8.73%) Amazon S3
11 183 (8.03%) PaaS
12 141 (6.19%) Amazon EC2
13 140 (6.14%) Amazon EKS
14 136 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
15 133 (5.84%) SaaS
16 125 (5.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 125 (5.48%) IaaS
17 122 (5.35%) Microsoft 365
18 116 (5.09%) Azure AKS
19 110 (4.83%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 177 (7.77%) Firewall
2 115 (5.05%) WAN
3 112 (4.91%) DNS
4 108 (4.74%) Network Security
5 106 (4.65%) VPN
6 95 (4.17%) LAN
7 78 (3.42%) TCP/IP
8 53 (2.33%) Broadband
9 49 (2.15%) BGP
10 37 (1.62%) DHCP
11 35 (1.54%) VLAN
12 34 (1.49%) OSPF
13 26 (1.14%) VXLAN
14 24 (1.05%) Software-Defined Networking
15 23 (1.01%) SD-WAN
16 21 (0.92%) HTTP
17 14 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
17 14 (0.61%) Wireless
18 13 (0.57%) SAN
19 12 (0.53%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
2 144 (6.32%) NoSQL
3 105 (4.61%) Amazon RDS
4 94 (4.12%) MongoDB
5 77 (3.38%) DynamoDB
5 77 (3.38%) SQL Server
6 57 (2.50%) Data Lake
6 57 (2.50%) MySQL
7 55 (2.41%) Relational Database
8 54 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
9 50 (2.19%) Metadata
10 41 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
11 37 (1.62%) Redis
12 33 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
13 27 (1.18%) Delta Lake
14 26 (1.14%) Big Data
14 26 (1.14%) BigQuery
15 25 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
16 24 (1.05%) Power BI
17 22 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 301 (13.21%) Git
2 292 (12.81%) GitLab
3 252 (11.06%) Jenkins
4 49 (2.15%) JIRA
5 42 (1.84%) Cucumber
6 35 (1.54%) CircleCI
7 31 (1.36%) Bitbucket
8 29 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 27 (1.18%) TeamCity
10 21 (0.92%) Selenium
11 19 (0.83%) Claude Code
12 17 (0.75%) SonarQube
13 14 (0.61%) NUnit
14 12 (0.53%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.53%) Subversion
15 11 (0.48%) MLflow
16 10 (0.44%) Maven
17 9 (0.39%) JMeter
17 9 (0.39%) MSI
18 8 (0.35%) Snyk
General
1 635 (27.86%) Social Skills
2 511 (22.42%) Finance
3 200 (8.78%) Public Sector
4 175 (7.68%) Analytical Skills
5 128 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 116 (5.09%) Banking
7 109 (4.78%) Law
8 69 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
9 67 (2.94%) Retail
10 45 (1.97%) Games
11 41 (1.80%) Aerospace
12 36 (1.58%) Marketing
12 36 (1.58%) Telecoms
13 32 (1.40%) Legal
14 31 (1.36%) Manufacturing
15 22 (0.97%) Advertising
15 22 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
16 20 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
17 15 (0.66%) Aviation
18 14 (0.61%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 527 (23.12%) Senior
2 396 (17.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 333 (14.61%) Lead
4 301 (13.21%) Architect
5 271 (11.89%) Cloud Engineer
6 224 (9.83%) Platform Engineer
7 201 (8.82%) Developer
8 178 (7.81%) Azure Engineer
9 135 (5.92%) AWS Engineer
10 131 (5.75%) Software Engineer
11 122 (5.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 120 (5.27%) Data Engineer
13 106 (4.65%) Principal Engineer
14 102 (4.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 88 (3.86%) Security Engineer
16 83 (3.64%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 77 (3.38%) Senior DevOps
18 76 (3.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 71 (3.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 69 (3.03%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (8.16%) React
2 173 (7.59%) Kafka
3 168 (7.37%) .NET
4 151 (6.63%) REST
5 150 (6.58%) Node.js
6 138 (6.06%) Spring
7 137 (6.01%) Spring Boot
8 128 (5.62%) RESTful
9 92 (4.04%) AWS CDK
10 78 (3.42%) YAML
11 74 (3.25%) PySpark
12 72 (3.16%) ARM Templates
13 58 (2.54%) AngularJS
14 57 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
14 57 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
15 56 (2.46%) Next.js
16 52 (2.28%) OAuth
17 41 (1.80%) ASP.NET
18 40 (1.76%) JSON
19 39 (1.71%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 657 (28.83%) Cloud Native
2 239 (10.49%) Distributed Systems
3 113 (4.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 109 (4.78%) Onboarding
5 105 (4.61%) Public Cloud
6 84 (3.69%) Data Centre
7 78 (3.42%) Product Ownership
8 66 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
9 61 (2.68%) Security Posture
10 59 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
11 47 (2.06%) Enterprise Cloud
12 45 (1.97%) Video\Live Streaming
13 44 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
14 39 (1.71%) Low-Code
15 33 (1.45%) Private Cloud
15 33 (1.45%) Virtual Team
16 32 (1.40%) Management Information System
17 31 (1.36%) e-Learning
17 31 (1.36%) PKI
18 28 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 383 (16.81%) Linux
2 212 (9.30%) Windows
3 94 (4.12%) Windows Server
4 56 (2.46%) CentOS
5 41 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (1.80%) Ubuntu
6 40 (1.76%) Unix
7 23 (1.01%) VMS
8 8 (0.35%) Android
9 7 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.22%) Debian
11 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.088%) AIX
12 2 (0.088%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.044%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.044%) Rocky
13 1 (0.044%) Solaris
13 1 (0.044%) SUSE
13 1 (0.044%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,613 (70.78%) CI/CD
2 1,280 (56.16%) DevOps
3 680 (29.84%) Containerisation
4 646 (28.35%) Agile
5 637 (27.95%) Observability
6 524 (22.99%) Platform Engineering
7 506 (22.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 495 (21.72%) Mentoring
9 486 (21.33%) AI
10 463 (20.32%) Software Engineering
11 389 (17.07%) Microservices
11 389 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
12 375 (16.45%) Test Automation
13 372 (16.32%) Technical Leadership
14 327 (14.35%) Roadmaps
15 323 (14.17%) Cloud Security
16 290 (12.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 249 (10.93%) Event-Driven
17 249 (10.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 245 (10.75%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 992 (43.53%) Python
2 357 (15.66%) SQL
3 352 (15.45%) Java
4 348 (15.27%) Bash
5 319 (14.00%) PowerShell
6 217 (9.52%) Bicep
7 211 (9.26%) TypeScript
8 198 (8.69%) JavaScript
9 174 (7.63%) C#
10 169 (7.42%) Go
11 44 (1.93%) Ruby
12 37 (1.62%) PHP
13 32 (1.40%) Scala
14 26 (1.14%) Rust
15 24 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
16 23 (1.01%) C++
17 21 (0.92%) Perl
18 20 (0.88%) Groovy
19 13 (0.57%) Shell Script
20 11 (0.48%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 530 (23.26%) Security Cleared
2 333 (14.61%) SC Cleared
3 195 (8.56%) Degree
4 170 (7.46%) AWS Certification
5 166 (7.28%) DV Cleared
6 134 (5.88%) Azure Certification
7 82 (3.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 80 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 54 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 49 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
11 33 (1.45%) CCNP
12 28 (1.23%) Master's Degree
13 21 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
13 21 (0.92%) CISSP
13 21 (0.92%) OSCP
14 20 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
15 18 (0.79%) CCNA
16 16 (0.70%) DBS Check
17 14 (0.61%) RHCSA
18 13 (0.57%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (5.44%) QA
2 99 (4.34%) Data Quality
3 69 (3.03%) GRC
4 66 (2.90%) GDPR
5 54 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (2.02%) Accessibility
7 39 (1.71%) NIST
8 37 (1.62%) SOC 2
9 29 (1.27%) PCI DSS
10 25 (1.10%) WCAG
11 24 (1.05%) NCSC
12 14 (0.61%) SLA
13 9 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.088%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.088%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.088%) IFRS
16 2 (0.088%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.088%) Solvency II
System Software
1 606 (26.59%) Docker
2 125 (5.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 122 (5.35%) Active Directory
4 45 (1.97%) vSphere
5 32 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (1.01%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.61%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.39%) KVM
11 8 (0.35%) Firmware
11 8 (0.35%) Squid
12 7 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.22%) iptables
14 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
15 3 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,534 (67.31%) Terraform
2 853 (37.43%) Kubernetes
3 456 (20.01%) Ansible
4 242 (10.62%) Grafana
5 185 (8.12%) Prometheus
6 66 (2.90%) Argo
7 50 (2.19%) Puppet
8 38 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 33 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
10 32 (1.40%) Progress Chef
11 28 (1.23%) Istio
12 27 (1.18%) Packer
13 24 (1.05%) Nagios
14 16 (0.70%) FortiGate
15 12 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 12 (0.53%) Cilium
15 12 (0.53%) Rancher
15 12 (0.53%) vCenter Server
15 12 (0.53%) ZABBIX
16 11 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 491 (21.54%) Microsoft
2 152 (6.67%) VMware
3 126 (5.53%) Google
4 96 (4.21%) Databricks
5 87 (3.82%) Red Hat
6 84 (3.69%) Splunk
7 70 (3.07%) Cisco
8 58 (2.54%) Oracle
9 51 (2.24%) Palo Alto
10 39 (1.71%) Fortinet
11 37 (1.62%) OpenAI
12 35 (1.54%) Dynatrace
13 26 (1.14%) Zscaler
14 18 (0.79%) ServiceNow
15 15 (0.66%) CrowdStrike
15 15 (0.66%) F5
16 13 (0.57%) Atlassian
16 13 (0.57%) Rapid7
16 13 (0.57%) SAP
17 12 (0.53%) Salesforce