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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 156 173
Rank change year-on-year +79 +17 -67
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,961 992 1,697
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.07% 2.19% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 2.37% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,331 657 1,304
10th Percentile £48,890 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £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 69,638 41,796 87,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.33% 92.22% 82.12%
Number of salaries quoted 48,019 22,539 62,354
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,679 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.36% - -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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +75 1,790 £77,500 -1.66% 472
UK excluding London +82 931 £70,000 - 375
London +34 869 £87,500 -2.78% 197
Work from Home +79 703 £70,079 -9.58% 264
North of England +71 330 £67,500 -3.57% 102
South East +36 211 £70,000 -9.68% 131
North West +68 199 £72,500 - 59
South West +22 152 £75,000 +7.14% 58
Midlands +45 122 £74,250 +14.23% 40
Yorkshire -1 84 £65,576 -6.32% 24
West Midlands +18 70 £80,000 +14.29% 29
East of England +12 54 £60,100 -7.54% 17
East Midlands +1 52 £67,500 +3.85% 11
North East -8 47 £55,000 -14.06% 20
Scotland +5 34 £60,000 -20.19% 16
Wales -23 30 £70,000 +27.27% 10
Northern Ireland -33 3 £84,401 +95.86% 8

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 53 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (2.19%) Apache
3 41 (2.09%) Apache Spark
4 38 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 23 (1.17%) Confluence
6 14 (0.71%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.51%) IIS
8 9 (0.46%) Jupyter
8 9 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.25%) CMS
10 4 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.15%) WordPress
12 2 (0.10%) Camunda
12 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.051%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.051%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.051%) nginx
13 1 (0.051%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.051%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (0.92%) PlantUML
2 8 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.20%) Weka
4 2 (0.10%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.051%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.051%) Maya
5 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.051%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.051%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,144 (58.34%) AWS
2 1,034 (52.73%) Azure
3 374 (19.07%) GitHub
4 346 (17.64%) Serverless
5 338 (17.24%) GCP
6 310 (15.81%) Azure DevOps
7 307 (15.66%) AWS CloudFormation
8 222 (11.32%) GitHub Actions
9 192 (9.79%) AWS Lambda
10 190 (9.69%) Amazon S3
11 171 (8.72%) PaaS
12 133 (6.78%) Amazon EKS
13 131 (6.68%) IaaS
14 130 (6.63%) SaaS
15 128 (6.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 128 (6.53%) Amazon EC2
16 123 (6.27%) Entra ID
17 117 (5.97%) Azure AKS
18 102 (5.20%) Datadog
19 101 (5.15%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 181 (9.23%) Firewall
2 106 (5.41%) DNS
3 103 (5.25%) VPN
4 77 (3.93%) Network Security
5 70 (3.57%) Broadband
6 68 (3.47%) TCP/IP
7 50 (2.55%) WAN
8 41 (2.09%) BGP
9 34 (1.73%) DHCP
9 34 (1.73%) VLAN
10 28 (1.43%) LAN
11 23 (1.17%) HTTP
11 23 (1.17%) OSPF
12 20 (1.02%) Software-Defined Networking
13 19 (0.97%) SD-WAN
14 18 (0.92%) VXLAN
15 15 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
16 14 (0.71%) DSL
17 10 (0.51%) IPv4
18 9 (0.46%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
2 137 (6.99%) NoSQL
3 99 (5.05%) Amazon RDS
4 88 (4.49%) MongoDB
5 71 (3.62%) DynamoDB
6 67 (3.42%) SQL Server
7 55 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 54 (2.75%) Relational Database
9 52 (2.65%) Data Lake
10 49 (2.50%) Metadata
11 40 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
12 36 (1.84%) MySQL
13 30 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
14 29 (1.48%) Redis
15 28 (1.43%) BigQuery
16 26 (1.33%) Delta Lake
16 26 (1.33%) Power BI
17 21 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
18 20 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
18 20 (1.02%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 269 (13.72%) GitLab
2 258 (13.16%) Git
3 241 (12.29%) Jenkins
4 46 (2.35%) CircleCI
5 38 (1.94%) Cucumber
5 38 (1.94%) JIRA
6 34 (1.73%) Bitbucket
7 25 (1.27%) TeamCity
8 16 (0.82%) SonarQube
9 15 (0.76%) Selenium
10 14 (0.71%) Jaeger
11 13 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 13 (0.66%) Subversion
12 12 (0.61%) MLflow
13 11 (0.56%) Claude Code
14 10 (0.51%) Maven
14 10 (0.51%) NUnit
15 9 (0.46%) JMeter
15 9 (0.46%) Vite
16 8 (0.41%) Cypress.io
General
1 480 (24.48%) Social Skills
2 404 (20.60%) Finance
3 140 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 137 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
5 113 (5.76%) Banking
6 98 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 65 (3.31%) Law
8 59 (3.01%) Retail
9 44 (2.24%) Games
10 39 (1.99%) Telecoms
11 30 (1.53%) Aerospace
11 30 (1.53%) Manufacturing
12 26 (1.33%) Legal
13 23 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
14 22 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
15 17 (0.87%) Advertising
16 16 (0.82%) Financial Institution
16 16 (0.82%) Marketing
17 14 (0.71%) Billing
18 10 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 448 (22.85%) Senior
2 325 (16.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 278 (14.18%) Cloud Engineer
4 270 (13.77%) Lead
5 209 (10.66%) Platform Engineer
6 207 (10.56%) Architect
7 184 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
8 181 (9.23%) Developer
9 146 (7.45%) AWS Engineer
10 126 (6.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 104 (5.30%) Software Engineer
12 100 (5.10%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 99 (5.05%) Data Engineer
14 86 (4.39%) Security Engineer
15 81 (4.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 73 (3.72%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 72 (3.67%) Principal Engineer
18 64 (3.26%) Senior DevOps
19 62 (3.16%) Senior Developer
20 59 (3.01%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (7.90%) React
2 141 (7.19%) Kafka
3 134 (6.83%) .NET
4 132 (6.73%) Node.js
4 132 (6.73%) REST
5 109 (5.56%) RESTful
6 96 (4.90%) Spring
7 94 (4.79%) Spring Boot
8 85 (4.33%) YAML
9 81 (4.13%) AWS CDK
10 71 (3.62%) Elastic Stack
11 67 (3.42%) PySpark
12 66 (3.37%) ARM Templates
13 57 (2.91%) RabbitMQ
14 54 (2.75%) OAuth
15 48 (2.45%) Next.js
16 47 (2.40%) AngularJS
17 41 (2.09%) JSON
18 38 (1.94%) OpenTelemetry
19 37 (1.89%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 547 (27.89%) Cloud Native
2 183 (9.33%) Distributed Systems
3 106 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 99 (5.05%) Public Cloud
5 72 (3.67%) Onboarding
6 71 (3.62%) Data Centre
7 68 (3.47%) Product Ownership
8 65 (3.31%) Security Posture
9 59 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
10 48 (2.45%) Video\Live Streaming
11 43 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
12 36 (1.84%) Low-Code
13 33 (1.68%) Enterprise Cloud
14 30 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
15 29 (1.48%) PKI
16 26 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
16 26 (1.33%) Management Information System
17 24 (1.22%) Blockchain
17 24 (1.22%) e-Learning
17 24 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 354 (18.05%) Linux
2 192 (9.79%) Windows
3 87 (4.44%) Windows Server
4 46 (2.35%) Ubuntu
5 44 (2.24%) Unix
6 42 (2.14%) CentOS
7 33 (1.68%) VMS
8 27 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (0.76%) Android
10 14 (0.71%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.36%) Debian
13 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.10%) Rocky
15 1 (0.051%) AIX
15 1 (0.051%) SUSE
15 1 (0.051%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,393 (71.04%) CI/CD
2 1,116 (56.91%) DevOps
3 552 (28.15%) Agile
4 550 (28.05%) Observability
5 535 (27.28%) Containerisation
6 438 (22.34%) Platform Engineering
7 418 (21.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 418 (21.32%) Mentoring
8 408 (20.81%) AI
9 365 (18.61%) Software Engineering
10 341 (17.39%) Test Automation
11 331 (16.88%) Microservices
12 308 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
13 283 (14.43%) Cloud Security
13 283 (14.43%) Technical Leadership
14 258 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 239 (12.19%) Analytics
16 219 (11.17%) Roadmaps
17 212 (10.81%) DevSecOps
18 200 (10.20%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 885 (45.13%) Python
2 352 (17.95%) Bash
3 313 (15.96%) SQL
4 311 (15.86%) PowerShell
5 287 (14.64%) Java
6 193 (9.84%) Bicep
7 190 (9.69%) TypeScript
8 181 (9.23%) JavaScript
9 179 (9.13%) Go
10 148 (7.55%) C#
11 29 (1.48%) Rust
12 27 (1.38%) C++
12 27 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
13 26 (1.33%) Scala
14 25 (1.27%) PHP
14 25 (1.27%) Ruby
15 19 (0.97%) Groovy
16 11 (0.56%) Kotlin
17 10 (0.51%) Perl
18 9 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 413 (21.06%) Security Cleared
2 258 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 168 (8.57%) Degree
4 146 (7.45%) AWS Certification
5 116 (5.92%) Azure Certification
6 106 (5.41%) DV Cleared
7 64 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 58 (2.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 54 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 37 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.33%) OSCP
12 22 (1.12%) CCNP
13 20 (1.02%) CISSP
13 20 (1.02%) Master's Degree
14 17 (0.87%) CCNA
15 16 (0.82%) DBS Check
16 14 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 13 (0.66%) RHCSA
18 11 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
19 10 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (5.15%) QA
2 87 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 62 (3.16%) GDPR
4 52 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (2.35%) SOC 2
6 35 (1.78%) NIST
7 33 (1.68%) Accessibility
8 31 (1.58%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.92%) WCAG
10 15 (0.76%) SLA
11 14 (0.71%) NCSC
12 11 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
12 11 (0.56%) GRC
13 5 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
15 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.10%) IFRS
16 2 (0.10%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.10%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.10%) Solvency II
System Software
1 516 (26.31%) Docker
2 126 (6.43%) Active Directory
3 115 (5.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (2.35%) vSphere
5 39 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (1.07%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.97%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.41%) Squid
11 7 (0.36%) iptables
12 6 (0.31%) Firmware
12 6 (0.31%) KVM
12 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
14 1 (0.051%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,363 (69.51%) Terraform
2 746 (38.04%) Kubernetes
3 403 (20.55%) Ansible
4 233 (11.88%) Grafana
5 209 (10.66%) Prometheus
6 68 (3.47%) Argo
7 46 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
8 45 (2.29%) Puppet
9 40 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
10 29 (1.48%) Progress Chef
11 27 (1.38%) Packer
12 22 (1.12%) Istio
12 22 (1.12%) Nagios
13 19 (0.97%) Kustomize
14 16 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 15 (0.76%) vCenter Server
15 15 (0.76%) ZABBIX
16 14 (0.71%) Rancher
17 12 (0.61%) Cilium
18 11 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 372 (18.97%) Microsoft
2 150 (7.65%) VMware
3 102 (5.20%) Google
4 81 (4.13%) Databricks
5 78 (3.98%) Red Hat
6 66 (3.37%) Splunk
7 60 (3.06%) Cisco
8 48 (2.45%) Palo Alto
9 42 (2.14%) Oracle
10 32 (1.63%) OpenAI
11 29 (1.48%) Fortinet
12 25 (1.27%) Zscaler
13 23 (1.17%) Dynatrace
14 17 (0.87%) CrowdStrike
15 14 (0.71%) Salesforce
16 13 (0.66%) Foundry
17 12 (0.61%) F5
17 12 (0.61%) ScienceLogic
18 11 (0.56%) ServiceNow
18 11 (0.56%) SolarWinds