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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 157 119
Rank change year-on-year +81 -38 -34
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,522 1,009 1,549
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.13% 2.04% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% 2.28% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,618 719 935
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £44,145
25th Percentile £60,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.04%
75th Percentile £91,250 £93,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.19% +5.38% -3.70%

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 86,399 44,171 61,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 89.11% 81.89%
Number of salaries quoted 59,417 24,443 33,150
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.30% -2.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 October 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 October 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 +80 2,185 £77,500 +3.33% 3,189
UK excluding London +106 1,374 £70,000 +2.19% 2,208
London +30 952 £90,000 +5.88% 1,619
Work from Home +56 808 £75,000 +0.67% 1,964
North of England +95 487 £69,305 -0.99% 533
North West +102 266 £71,500 +10.00% 304
South East +48 246 £67,500 -16.92% 347
South West +50 244 £75,000 +7.14% 296
Midlands +34 152 £75,000 +15.38% 246
North East +25 126 £60,000 -17.24% 97
Yorkshire -5 104 £67,750 -3.21% 138
West Midlands +6 95 £83,774 +29.88% 139
Wales -6 81 £70,000 +19.15% 160
Northern Ireland -30 61 £71,991 +67.07% 113
East of England -17 58 £75,000 +15.38% 149
East Midlands 0 57 £65,000 - 107
Scotland +8 54 £72,500 +7.41% 383

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 66 (2.62%) Apache
2 65 (2.58%) Apache Spark
3 57 (2.26%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 30 (1.19%) Confluence
6 16 (0.63%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.52%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.36%) CMS
8 9 (0.36%) nginx
9 8 (0.32%) IIS
9 8 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.20%) Camunda
11 4 (0.16%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.12%) WordPress
13 2 (0.079%) Cloud Foundry
14 1 (0.040%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.040%) NServiceBus
14 1 (0.040%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 21 (0.83%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.079%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.040%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.040%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.040%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) Summit
4 2 (0.079%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.079%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.079%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.040%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1,421 (56.34%) AWS
2 1,366 (54.16%) Azure
3 517 (20.50%) GCP
4 463 (18.36%) GitHub
5 409 (16.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 385 (15.27%) Serverless
7 329 (13.05%) Azure DevOps
8 251 (9.95%) GitHub Actions
9 208 (8.25%) Amazon S3
9 208 (8.25%) AWS Lambda
10 187 (7.41%) PaaS
11 149 (5.91%) Amazon EKS
12 148 (5.87%) Amazon ECS
13 145 (5.75%) Amazon EC2
14 143 (5.67%) SaaS
15 141 (5.59%) Azure AKS
16 137 (5.43%) Cloud Computing
17 136 (5.39%) IaaS
18 135 (5.35%) Entra ID
19 130 (5.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 178 (7.06%) Firewall
2 141 (5.59%) VPN
3 140 (5.55%) DNS
4 120 (4.76%) Network Security
5 115 (4.56%) WAN
6 88 (3.49%) LAN
7 68 (2.70%) TCP/IP
8 56 (2.22%) BGP
9 53 (2.10%) DHCP
10 43 (1.70%) Internet
11 42 (1.67%) Broadband
12 39 (1.55%) OSPF
13 31 (1.23%) VLAN
14 28 (1.11%) VXLAN
15 26 (1.03%) Software-Defined Networking
16 23 (0.91%) SD-WAN
17 18 (0.71%) SAN
18 16 (0.63%) Wireless
19 15 (0.59%) Ethernet VPN
20 14 (0.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (8.01%) PostgreSQL
2 165 (6.54%) NoSQL
3 119 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
4 111 (4.40%) MongoDB
5 89 (3.53%) SQL Server
6 78 (3.09%) DynamoDB
7 75 (2.97%) MySQL
8 70 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 66 (2.62%) Data Lake
10 52 (2.06%) Metadata
10 52 (2.06%) Redis
11 50 (1.98%) Relational Database
12 43 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
13 35 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
14 32 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
15 31 (1.23%) Big Data
15 31 (1.23%) Power BI
16 30 (1.19%) Delta Lake
17 23 (0.91%) BigQuery
17 23 (0.91%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 374 (14.83%) Git
2 313 (12.41%) GitLab
3 270 (10.71%) Jenkins
4 55 (2.18%) JIRA
5 47 (1.86%) Cucumber
6 34 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 30 (1.19%) TeamCity
8 26 (1.03%) Claude Code
9 22 (0.87%) Bitbucket
10 20 (0.79%) CircleCI
11 18 (0.71%) Selenium
12 14 (0.56%) Cypress.io
12 14 (0.56%) Subversion
13 13 (0.52%) SonarQube
14 12 (0.48%) Snyk
15 11 (0.44%) Maven
16 9 (0.36%) Artifactory
16 9 (0.36%) JUnit
16 9 (0.36%) MSI
16 9 (0.36%) NUnit
General
1 709 (28.11%) Social Skills
2 577 (22.88%) Finance
3 294 (11.66%) Public Sector
4 239 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
5 169 (6.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 139 (5.51%) Banking
7 118 (4.68%) Law
8 73 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
9 69 (2.74%) Retail
10 62 (2.46%) Aerospace
11 41 (1.63%) Marketing
12 37 (1.47%) Legal
13 33 (1.31%) Games
14 25 (0.99%) Manufacturing
15 24 (0.95%) Financial Institution
16 21 (0.83%) Telecoms
17 17 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
18 15 (0.59%) Aviation
19 14 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 609 (24.15%) Senior
2 480 (19.03%) DevOps Engineer
3 352 (13.96%) Architect
4 343 (13.60%) Lead
5 294 (11.66%) Cloud Engineer
6 257 (10.19%) Platform Engineer
7 204 (8.09%) Developer
8 198 (7.85%) Azure Engineer
9 190 (7.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 166 (6.58%) Software Engineer
11 150 (5.95%) AWS Engineer
12 135 (5.35%) Principal Engineer
13 127 (5.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 116 (4.60%) Data Engineer
15 99 (3.93%) Security Engineer
16 98 (3.89%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 83 (3.29%) Senior DevOps
18 80 (3.17%) Senior Developer
18 80 (3.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 79 (3.13%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,667 (66.10%) Terraform
2 212 (8.41%) React
3 206 (8.17%) Kafka
4 184 (7.30%) .NET
5 174 (6.90%) Spring Boot
6 172 (6.82%) Spring
7 155 (6.15%) Node.js
8 152 (6.03%) RESTful
9 143 (5.67%) REST
10 86 (3.41%) AWS CDK
11 76 (3.01%) PySpark
12 65 (2.58%) ARM Templates
13 64 (2.54%) AngularJS
14 62 (2.46%) Next.js
15 56 (2.22%) YAML
16 55 (2.18%) RabbitMQ
17 52 (2.06%) Elastic Stack
17 52 (2.06%) LangChain
18 46 (1.82%) FastAPI
19 43 (1.70%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 763 (30.25%) Cloud Native
2 281 (11.14%) Distributed Systems
3 139 (5.51%) Hybrid Cloud
4 133 (5.27%) Public Cloud
5 132 (5.23%) Onboarding
6 91 (3.61%) Data Centre
7 85 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
8 74 (2.93%) Product Ownership
9 70 (2.78%) Security Posture
10 69 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
11 65 (2.58%) Linux Command Line
12 59 (2.34%) Enterprise Cloud
13 54 (2.14%) Management Information System
14 52 (2.06%) AI Agents
14 52 (2.06%) Virtual Team
15 49 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
16 47 (1.86%) e-Learning
17 44 (1.74%) Private Cloud
18 40 (1.59%) PKI
19 35 (1.39%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 455 (18.04%) Linux
2 229 (9.08%) Windows
3 101 (4.00%) Windows Server
4 60 (2.38%) CentOS
5 52 (2.06%) Unix
6 49 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 35 (1.39%) Ubuntu
8 21 (0.83%) VMS
9 8 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.28%) Debian
11 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.16%) AIX
13 3 (0.12%) Rocky
14 2 (0.079%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.079%) Solaris
15 1 (0.040%) Android
15 1 (0.040%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.040%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.040%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.040%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,809 (71.73%) CI/CD
2 1,402 (55.59%) DevOps
3 753 (29.86%) Containerisation
4 740 (29.34%) Agile
5 690 (27.36%) Observability
6 646 (25.61%) Platform Engineering
7 600 (23.79%) Mentoring
8 581 (23.04%) AI
9 557 (22.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 536 (21.25%) Software Engineering
11 481 (19.07%) Problem-Solving
12 444 (17.61%) Microservices
13 434 (17.21%) Cloud Security
14 425 (16.85%) Technical Leadership
15 417 (16.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 395 (15.66%) Test Automation
17 365 (14.47%) Roadmaps
18 314 (12.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 288 (11.42%) Event-Driven
20 279 (11.06%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,078 (42.74%) Python
2 405 (16.06%) Java
3 393 (15.58%) Bash
4 375 (14.87%) SQL
5 361 (14.31%) PowerShell
6 243 (9.64%) Bicep
7 229 (9.08%) TypeScript
8 186 (7.38%) C#
8 186 (7.38%) JavaScript
9 161 (6.38%) Go
10 57 (2.26%) Shell Script
11 50 (1.98%) Ruby
12 40 (1.59%) Scala
13 35 (1.39%) PHP
14 31 (1.23%) Groovy
15 29 (1.15%) Rust
16 25 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
17 21 (0.83%) C++
18 16 (0.63%) Perl
19 13 (0.52%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 656 (26.01%) Security Cleared
2 423 (16.77%) SC Cleared
3 222 (8.80%) AWS Certification
4 211 (8.37%) DV Cleared
5 172 (6.82%) Degree
6 160 (6.34%) Azure Certification
7 100 (3.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 83 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 67 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 58 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
11 44 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
12 30 (1.19%) CCNP
12 30 (1.19%) CISSP
13 28 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
14 27 (1.07%) Master's Degree
15 21 (0.83%) CCNA
16 17 (0.67%) SnowPro
17 15 (0.59%) DBS Check
18 13 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 13 (0.52%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (4.72%) QA
2 105 (4.16%) Data Quality
3 74 (2.93%) GDPR
4 71 (2.82%) GRC
5 63 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 51 (2.02%) Accessibility
7 41 (1.63%) NIST
8 31 (1.23%) SOC 2
9 30 (1.19%) NCSC
10 27 (1.07%) PCI DSS
11 23 (0.91%) SLA
12 20 (0.79%) WCAG
13 15 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.28%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.20%) ISO 20022
17 3 (0.12%) ISO 9001
17 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 2 (0.079%) Solvency II
System Software
1 693 (27.48%) Docker
2 134 (5.31%) Active Directory
3 132 (5.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 48 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
4 48 (1.90%) vSphere
5 30 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 20 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.79%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.36%) KVM
9 8 (0.32%) Squid
9 8 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
10 7 (0.28%) Firmware
11 4 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.079%) iptables
12 2 (0.079%) Lustre
12 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 907 (35.96%) Kubernetes
2 504 (19.98%) Ansible
3 247 (9.79%) Grafana
4 182 (7.22%) Prometheus
5 77 (3.05%) Argo
6 75 (2.97%) Puppet
7 52 (2.06%) Progress Chef
8 37 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
9 36 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
10 33 (1.31%) Istio
11 26 (1.03%) Packer
12 25 (0.99%) FortiGate
13 24 (0.95%) Rancher
14 22 (0.87%) vCenter Server
15 16 (0.63%) Nagios
16 15 (0.59%) Cilium
17 13 (0.52%) Kustomize
17 13 (0.52%) Podman
18 12 (0.48%) linkerd
18 12 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 626 (24.82%) Microsoft
2 192 (7.61%) Google
3 164 (6.50%) VMware
4 116 (4.60%) Databricks
5 87 (3.45%) Splunk
6 78 (3.09%) Red Hat
7 75 (2.97%) Oracle
8 70 (2.78%) Cisco
9 49 (1.94%) Dynatrace
10 46 (1.82%) OpenAI
11 37 (1.47%) Fortinet
12 35 (1.39%) Palo Alto
13 33 (1.31%) ServiceNow
14 25 (0.99%) Zscaler
15 16 (0.63%) SolarWinds
16 15 (0.59%) Mistral
16 15 (0.59%) SAP
17 14 (0.56%) F5
18 13 (0.52%) Atlassian
18 13 (0.52%) New Relic