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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 136 159
Rank change year-on-year +28 +23 -53
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,534 932 1,716
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.78% 2.24% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 2.41% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 991 680 1,353
10th Percentile £48,890 £47,450 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £94,083 £92,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £112,625 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,450 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.21% +7.69% -5.65%

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 64,999 38,652 81,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.50% 92.94% 86.02%
Number of salaries quoted 40,056 22,591 59,648
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,757
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.20%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -8.26%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 +33 1,355 £75,000 -3.23% 640
UK excluding London +20 708 £68,450 -2.21% 425
London +46 679 £85,000 -5.56% 295
Work from Home +49 591 £70,079 -7.01% 341
North of England -4 260 £67,500 - 145
South East -2 144 £71,250 -5.00% 114
North West +2 132 £74,051 +2.14% 79
South West -7 103 £63,225 -12.18% 70
Yorkshire -21 96 £65,000 +15.56% 43
Midlands -12 83 £67,500 -3.57% 36
Scotland -8 56 £60,000 -14.89% 20
East Midlands -14 42 £67,750 +4.23% 6
West Midlands -18 39 £67,500 -3.57% 30
East of England -5 34 £61,300 -10.84% 28
North East -18 32 £48,445 -15.75% 23
Wales -10 23 £61,248 -3.17% 7
Northern Ireland -31 8 £95,000 - 14

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 49 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (2.48%) Apache
3 27 (1.76%) Apache Spark
4 25 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (1.04%) IIS
6 15 (0.98%) Confluence
7 11 (0.72%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.20%) CMS
10 2 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.065%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.065%) Camunda
11 1 (0.065%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.065%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.065%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.39%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.26%) Weka
3 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.065%) Maya
5 1 (0.065%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.065%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.065%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.065%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.065%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.065%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 928 (60.50%) AWS
2 845 (55.08%) Azure
3 335 (21.84%) GCP
4 311 (20.27%) GitHub
5 298 (19.43%) Azure DevOps
6 288 (18.77%) Serverless
7 259 (16.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 218 (14.21%) GitHub Actions
9 173 (11.28%) AWS Lambda
10 141 (9.19%) Amazon S3
11 130 (8.47%) Amazon EKS
12 123 (8.02%) PaaS
13 117 (7.63%) SaaS
14 113 (7.37%) Entra ID
15 111 (7.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 102 (6.65%) Datadog
17 89 (5.80%) Amazon EC2
18 84 (5.48%) Amazon ECS
19 82 (5.35%) IaaS
19 82 (5.35%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 180 (11.73%) Firewall
2 90 (5.87%) DNS
3 81 (5.28%) TCP/IP
4 76 (4.95%) VPN
5 48 (3.13%) Network Security
6 45 (2.93%) WAN
7 38 (2.48%) Broadband
8 35 (2.28%) DHCP
9 26 (1.69%) LAN
10 24 (1.56%) HTTP
11 23 (1.50%) BGP
12 16 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
12 16 (1.04%) VLAN
13 15 (0.98%) DSL
14 14 (0.91%) SD-WAN
15 12 (0.78%) Internet
16 11 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
17 10 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
18 8 (0.52%) Wireless
19 6 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (7.50%) NoSQL
2 109 (7.11%) PostgreSQL
3 93 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
4 64 (4.17%) SQL Server
5 59 (3.85%) DynamoDB
6 49 (3.19%) MongoDB
7 48 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
8 46 (3.00%) Relational Database
9 45 (2.93%) Data Lake
10 33 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
10 33 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
11 32 (2.09%) MySQL
12 29 (1.89%) BigQuery
13 28 (1.83%) Redis
14 27 (1.76%) Metadata
15 23 (1.50%) Power BI
16 20 (1.30%) Delta Lake
17 19 (1.24%) RDBMS
18 18 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
19 15 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 215 (14.02%) Jenkins
2 205 (13.36%) Git
3 201 (13.10%) GitLab
4 35 (2.28%) Bitbucket
4 35 (2.28%) JIRA
5 34 (2.22%) CircleCI
6 28 (1.83%) Cucumber
7 23 (1.50%) Selenium
8 21 (1.37%) Jaeger
9 19 (1.24%) TeamCity
10 17 (1.11%) JMeter
10 17 (1.11%) SonarQube
11 16 (1.04%) Robot Framework
12 15 (0.98%) MLflow
13 13 (0.85%) Locust
14 12 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 12 (0.78%) Subversion
15 9 (0.59%) NUnit
15 9 (0.59%) Storybook
15 9 (0.59%) Vite
General
1 403 (26.27%) Social Skills
2 363 (23.66%) Finance
3 130 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (6.65%) Banking
5 92 (6.00%) Public Sector
6 86 (5.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 73 (4.76%) Retail
8 68 (4.43%) Law
9 57 (3.72%) Telecoms
10 29 (1.89%) Financial Institution
11 26 (1.69%) Manufacturing
11 26 (1.69%) Marketing
12 23 (1.50%) Aerospace
13 22 (1.43%) Back Office
14 21 (1.37%) Games
15 20 (1.30%) Billing
16 19 (1.24%) Advertising
17 18 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
18 16 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
18 16 (1.04%) Legal
Job Titles
1 344 (22.43%) Senior
2 248 (16.17%) DevOps Engineer
3 231 (15.06%) Cloud Engineer
4 217 (14.15%) Lead
5 153 (9.97%) Azure Engineer
6 139 (9.06%) Developer
7 127 (8.28%) Architect
8 126 (8.21%) Platform Engineer
9 117 (7.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 112 (7.30%) AWS Engineer
11 74 (4.82%) Software Engineer
12 69 (4.50%) Data Engineer
13 65 (4.24%) Security Engineer
14 63 (4.11%) Senior DevOps
15 56 (3.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 54 (3.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 51 (3.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 49 (3.19%) Cloud Security Engineer
19 44 (2.87%) Python Engineer
20 42 (2.74%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (8.80%) React
2 113 (7.37%) Node.js
3 98 (6.39%) .NET
4 92 (6.00%) REST
5 91 (5.93%) RESTful
6 86 (5.61%) Kafka
7 77 (5.02%) Elastic Stack
8 72 (4.69%) AWS CDK
9 68 (4.43%) Spring
10 67 (4.37%) YAML
11 66 (4.30%) OAuth
12 61 (3.98%) Spring Boot
13 50 (3.26%) ARM Templates
14 46 (3.00%) RabbitMQ
15 41 (2.67%) Django
16 37 (2.41%) FastAPI
17 35 (2.28%) .NET Core
17 35 (2.28%) OpenTelemetry
17 35 (2.28%) PySpark
18 34 (2.22%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 356 (23.21%) Cloud Native
2 91 (5.93%) Hybrid Cloud
3 88 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
4 65 (4.24%) Public Cloud
5 59 (3.85%) Security Posture
6 58 (3.78%) Product Ownership
7 45 (2.93%) Data Centre
8 40 (2.61%) Onboarding
9 37 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
10 33 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
11 26 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
11 26 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
12 25 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
12 25 (1.63%) Management Information System
12 25 (1.63%) Mobile App
13 23 (1.50%) PKI
14 21 (1.37%) Blockchain
15 19 (1.24%) Web3
16 18 (1.17%) Cloud Security Posture
16 18 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 327 (21.32%) Linux
2 166 (10.82%) Windows
3 71 (4.63%) Unix
4 68 (4.43%) Windows Server
5 38 (2.48%) Ubuntu
6 29 (1.89%) VMS
7 28 (1.83%) CentOS
8 27 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 17 (1.11%) Android
10 16 (1.04%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.59%) Debian
12 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.26%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.26%) SUSE
14 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.065%) Rocky
15 1 (0.065%) Solaris
15 1 (0.065%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,049 (68.38%) CI/CD
2 959 (62.52%) DevOps
3 446 (29.07%) Agile
4 435 (28.36%) Containerisation
5 407 (26.53%) Observability
6 350 (22.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 306 (19.95%) Mentoring
8 291 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
9 259 (16.88%) Platform Engineering
10 252 (16.43%) Test Automation
11 242 (15.78%) Software Engineering
12 236 (15.38%) AI
13 225 (14.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 215 (14.02%) Microservices
15 211 (13.75%) Cloud Security
16 188 (12.26%) Analytics
17 174 (11.34%) Incident Response
18 166 (10.82%) DevSecOps
19 160 (10.43%) Technical Leadership
20 159 (10.37%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 696 (45.37%) Python
2 283 (18.45%) Bash
3 254 (16.56%) SQL
4 251 (16.36%) PowerShell
5 225 (14.67%) Java
6 158 (10.30%) Go
7 148 (9.65%) JavaScript
8 145 (9.45%) Bicep
9 130 (8.47%) TypeScript
10 97 (6.32%) C#
11 27 (1.76%) C++
12 21 (1.37%) Rust
13 20 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
14 18 (1.17%) Scala
15 17 (1.11%) Kotlin
16 12 (0.78%) C
17 9 (0.59%) Apex Code
17 9 (0.59%) Ruby
18 8 (0.52%) Google Apps Script
18 8 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 288 (18.77%) Security Cleared
2 168 (10.95%) SC Cleared
3 136 (8.87%) Degree
4 127 (8.28%) AWS Certification
5 99 (6.45%) DV Cleared
6 81 (5.28%) Azure Certification
7 55 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 31 (2.02%) OSCP
9 30 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
10 27 (1.76%) CISSP
11 20 (1.30%) AWS Certified Developer
12 18 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.85%) DBS Check
14 12 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 12 (0.78%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.72%) CCNP
15 11 (0.72%) CCSK
16 10 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 9 (0.59%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (5.08%) QA
2 70 (4.56%) GDPR
3 62 (4.04%) Data Quality
4 61 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 56 (3.65%) SOC 2
6 47 (3.06%) NIST
7 41 (2.67%) Accessibility
7 41 (2.67%) PCI DSS
8 16 (1.04%) SLA
8 16 (1.04%) WCAG
9 11 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.65%) GRC
11 8 (0.52%) NCSC
12 5 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.26%) EU AI Act
14 2 (0.13%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.13%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.13%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 475 (30.96%) Docker
2 96 (6.26%) Active Directory
3 75 (4.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (1.50%) vSphere
6 22 (1.43%) Hyper-V
7 16 (1.04%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.72%) KVM
9 10 (0.65%) Firmware
10 6 (0.39%) iptables
11 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 5 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.26%) vCloud
13 2 (0.13%) GPFS
13 2 (0.13%) Lustre
13 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.13%) Squid
14 1 (0.065%) QEMU
14 1 (0.065%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,080 (70.40%) Terraform
2 609 (39.70%) Kubernetes
3 350 (22.82%) Ansible
4 219 (14.28%) Grafana
5 202 (13.17%) Prometheus
6 62 (4.04%) Argo
7 42 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
8 36 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
9 34 (2.22%) Puppet
10 21 (1.37%) Kustomize
11 19 (1.24%) Rancher
12 17 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 16 (1.04%) Progress Chef
14 15 (0.98%) Nagios
15 14 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
15 14 (0.91%) Istio
16 11 (0.72%) Packer
17 10 (0.65%) AWS Copilot
18 9 (0.59%) Cilium
18 9 (0.59%) logstash
Vendors
1 276 (17.99%) Microsoft
2 123 (8.02%) Google
3 112 (7.30%) VMware
4 60 (3.91%) Databricks
4 60 (3.91%) Red Hat
5 51 (3.32%) Cisco
6 48 (3.13%) Splunk
7 38 (2.48%) Palo Alto
8 23 (1.50%) Zscaler
9 20 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
9 20 (1.30%) Dynatrace
9 20 (1.30%) Salesforce
10 18 (1.17%) OpenAI
11 16 (1.04%) Oracle
12 15 (0.98%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.91%) Juniper
14 13 (0.85%) Fortinet
15 11 (0.72%) New Relic
15 11 (0.72%) SolarWinds
16 10 (0.65%) Foundry