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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 152 158
Rank change year-on-year +76 +6 -56
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,209 1,041 1,489
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.18% 2.11% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.96% 2.35% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,495 712 1,112
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,250 £61,250 £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 £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,550 £106,250 £103,750
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 74,612 44,363 71,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.65% 89.74% 81.45%
Number of salaries quoted 51,478 25,172 48,522
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
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 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £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 27 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 27 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 +75 1,943 £77,500 - 901
UK excluding London +114 1,156 £70,000 - 542
London +27 886 £90,000 - 474
Work from Home +76 785 £72,500 -6.45% 449
North of England +90 393 £70,079 +0.11% 199
South East +57 236 £67,500 -12.90% 130
North West +80 232 £74,651 +6.64% 104
South West +38 190 £75,000 - 85
Midlands +38 140 £75,000 +15.38% 50
Yorkshire -1 91 £72,500 +3.57% 56
West Midlands +14 85 £80,000 +23.08% 36
North East +10 70 £55,000 -18.52% 39
Wales -4 58 £70,000 +21.74% 18
Northern Ireland -15 57 £73,801 +71.27% 12
East Midlands +10 55 £67,500 +3.85% 14
East of England +4 49 £62,500 - 17
Scotland +18 42 £69,746 -3.47% 32

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 56 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
2 47 (2.13%) Apache Spark
3 46 (2.08%) Apache
4 34 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (1.22%) Confluence
6 11 (0.50%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.45%) IIS
7 10 (0.45%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.23%) CMS
9 4 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.14%) Camunda
10 3 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.14%) WordPress
11 2 (0.091%) nginx
11 2 (0.091%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.045%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.045%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.045%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.045%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 20 (0.91%) PlantUML
2 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.091%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.091%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.091%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.045%) Maya
5 1 (0.045%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.045%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.14%) Summit
4 2 (0.091%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.091%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,243 (56.27%) AWS
2 1,218 (55.14%) Azure
3 403 (18.24%) GCP
4 392 (17.75%) GitHub
5 368 (16.66%) Serverless
6 340 (15.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 318 (14.40%) Azure DevOps
8 220 (9.96%) GitHub Actions
9 203 (9.19%) AWS Lambda
10 198 (8.96%) Amazon S3
11 182 (8.24%) PaaS
12 140 (6.34%) Amazon EKS
13 139 (6.29%) Amazon EC2
14 131 (5.93%) SaaS
15 127 (5.75%) IaaS
16 126 (5.70%) Amazon ECS
17 124 (5.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 122 (5.52%) Microsoft 365
19 119 (5.39%) Azure AKS
20 110 (4.98%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 177 (8.01%) Firewall
2 114 (5.16%) WAN
3 112 (5.07%) DNS
4 108 (4.89%) VPN
5 106 (4.80%) Network Security
6 93 (4.21%) LAN
7 72 (3.26%) TCP/IP
8 57 (2.58%) Broadband
9 50 (2.26%) BGP
10 35 (1.58%) VLAN
11 34 (1.54%) DHCP
12 33 (1.49%) OSPF
13 26 (1.18%) VXLAN
14 23 (1.04%) SD-WAN
15 22 (1.00%) HTTP
15 22 (1.00%) Software-Defined Networking
16 13 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
16 13 (0.59%) Wireless
17 12 (0.54%) Ethernet VPN
18 11 (0.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (7.61%) PostgreSQL
2 142 (6.43%) NoSQL
3 103 (4.66%) Amazon RDS
4 93 (4.21%) MongoDB
5 77 (3.49%) SQL Server
6 75 (3.40%) DynamoDB
7 55 (2.49%) Data Lake
8 54 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
9 52 (2.35%) Metadata
9 52 (2.35%) MySQL
10 51 (2.31%) Relational Database
11 40 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
12 36 (1.63%) Redis
13 31 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
14 26 (1.18%) Delta Lake
15 25 (1.13%) BigQuery
16 24 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
16 24 (1.09%) Big Data
17 23 (1.04%) Power BI
18 21 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 293 (13.26%) Git
2 288 (13.04%) GitLab
3 250 (11.32%) Jenkins
4 43 (1.95%) JIRA
5 41 (1.86%) Cucumber
6 38 (1.72%) CircleCI
7 31 (1.40%) Bitbucket
8 29 (1.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 26 (1.18%) TeamCity
10 19 (0.86%) Selenium
11 17 (0.77%) Claude Code
12 15 (0.68%) SonarQube
13 12 (0.54%) Subversion
14 11 (0.50%) MLflow
14 11 (0.50%) NUnit
15 10 (0.45%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.45%) Maven
16 9 (0.41%) JMeter
17 8 (0.36%) MSI
17 8 (0.36%) Vite
General
1 598 (27.07%) Social Skills
2 495 (22.41%) Finance
3 192 (8.69%) Public Sector
4 167 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
5 116 (5.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 112 (5.07%) Banking
7 101 (4.57%) Law
8 69 (3.12%) Presentation Skills
9 64 (2.90%) Retail
10 44 (1.99%) Games
11 36 (1.63%) Telecoms
12 33 (1.49%) Aerospace
13 31 (1.40%) Legal
14 30 (1.36%) Manufacturing
15 29 (1.31%) Marketing
16 22 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
17 21 (0.95%) Advertising
17 21 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
18 14 (0.63%) Financial Institution
19 10 (0.45%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 512 (23.18%) Senior
2 388 (17.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 315 (14.26%) Lead
4 295 (13.35%) Architect
5 268 (12.13%) Cloud Engineer
6 221 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
7 193 (8.74%) Developer
8 184 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
9 132 (5.98%) AWS Engineer
10 123 (5.57%) Software Engineer
11 117 (5.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 113 (5.12%) Data Engineer
13 101 (4.57%) Principal Engineer
14 100 (4.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 86 (3.89%) Security Engineer
16 83 (3.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 79 (3.58%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 78 (3.53%) Senior DevOps
19 71 (3.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 69 (3.12%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (8.01%) React
2 165 (7.47%) Kafka
3 160 (7.24%) .NET
4 144 (6.52%) Node.js
4 144 (6.52%) REST
5 132 (5.98%) Spring
6 131 (5.93%) Spring Boot
7 124 (5.61%) RESTful
8 88 (3.98%) AWS CDK
9 79 (3.58%) YAML
10 71 (3.21%) ARM Templates
10 71 (3.21%) PySpark
11 58 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
11 58 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
12 54 (2.44%) AngularJS
13 52 (2.35%) Next.js
13 52 (2.35%) OAuth
14 42 (1.90%) JSON
15 39 (1.77%) FastAPI
16 37 (1.67%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 635 (28.75%) Cloud Native
2 232 (10.50%) Distributed Systems
3 110 (4.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 105 (4.75%) Public Cloud
5 98 (4.44%) Onboarding
6 80 (3.62%) Data Centre
7 77 (3.49%) Product Ownership
8 62 (2.81%) Security Posture
9 59 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
10 56 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
11 49 (2.22%) Video\Live Streaming
12 47 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
13 40 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
13 40 (1.81%) Low-Code
14 31 (1.40%) PKI
15 30 (1.36%) e-Learning
16 28 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
16 28 (1.27%) Virtual Team
17 27 (1.22%) Private Cloud
18 26 (1.18%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 365 (16.52%) Linux
2 208 (9.42%) Windows
3 91 (4.12%) Windows Server
4 54 (2.44%) CentOS
5 41 (1.86%) Ubuntu
6 40 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 33 (1.49%) Unix
8 25 (1.13%) VMS
9 8 (0.36%) Android
10 7 (0.32%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.27%) Debian
12 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.091%) AIX
13 2 (0.091%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.045%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.045%) Rocky
14 1 (0.045%) Solaris
14 1 (0.045%) SUSE
14 1 (0.045%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,562 (70.71%) CI/CD
2 1,241 (56.18%) DevOps
3 663 (30.01%) Containerisation
4 615 (27.84%) Agile
5 608 (27.52%) Observability
6 503 (22.77%) Platform Engineering
7 480 (21.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 476 (21.55%) Mentoring
9 473 (21.41%) AI
10 439 (19.87%) Software Engineering
11 379 (17.16%) Microservices
12 373 (16.89%) Test Automation
13 363 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
14 355 (16.07%) Technical Leadership
15 312 (14.12%) Cloud Security
15 312 (14.12%) Roadmaps
16 278 (12.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 243 (11.00%) Event-Driven
18 239 (10.82%) Analytics
19 234 (10.59%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 961 (43.50%) Python
2 346 (15.66%) SQL
3 342 (15.48%) Bash
4 337 (15.26%) Java
5 313 (14.17%) PowerShell
6 215 (9.73%) Bicep
7 203 (9.19%) TypeScript
8 191 (8.65%) JavaScript
9 170 (7.70%) C#
10 169 (7.65%) Go
11 43 (1.95%) Ruby
12 38 (1.72%) PHP
13 29 (1.31%) Scala
14 26 (1.18%) Rust
15 24 (1.09%) C++
16 23 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
17 20 (0.91%) Groovy
17 20 (0.91%) Perl
18 11 (0.50%) Kotlin
18 11 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 498 (22.54%) Security Cleared
2 307 (13.90%) SC Cleared
3 186 (8.42%) Degree
4 157 (7.11%) AWS Certification
5 152 (6.88%) DV Cleared
6 129 (5.84%) Azure Certification
7 80 (3.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 76 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 54 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 49 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
11 33 (1.49%) CCNP
12 27 (1.22%) Master's Degree
13 23 (1.04%) CISSP
14 22 (1.00%) OSCP
15 18 (0.81%) CCNA
16 15 (0.68%) DBS Check
17 14 (0.63%) RHCSA
17 14 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
18 13 (0.59%) CCIE
19 11 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (5.39%) QA
2 97 (4.39%) Data Quality
3 69 (3.12%) GRC
4 65 (2.94%) GDPR
5 53 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (1.90%) Accessibility
7 39 (1.77%) SOC 2
8 37 (1.67%) NIST
9 31 (1.40%) PCI DSS
10 25 (1.13%) WCAG
11 21 (0.95%) NCSC
12 12 (0.54%) SLA
13 8 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.091%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.091%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.091%) IFRS
16 2 (0.091%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.091%) Solvency II
System Software
1 581 (26.30%) Docker
2 121 (5.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 118 (5.34%) Active Directory
4 43 (1.95%) vSphere
5 33 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.86%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.63%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.36%) Firmware
9 8 (0.36%) Squid
10 6 (0.27%) iptables
10 6 (0.27%) KVM
10 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.091%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,481 (67.04%) Terraform
2 831 (37.62%) Kubernetes
3 437 (19.78%) Ansible
4 236 (10.68%) Grafana
5 188 (8.51%) Prometheus
6 64 (2.90%) Argo
7 48 (2.17%) Puppet
8 37 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 36 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
10 32 (1.45%) Progress Chef
11 28 (1.27%) Packer
12 26 (1.18%) Istio
13 22 (1.00%) Nagios
14 16 (0.72%) FortiGate
15 13 (0.59%) vCenter Server
16 12 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 12 (0.54%) Cilium
16 12 (0.54%) Rancher
17 11 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
17 11 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 481 (21.77%) Microsoft
2 148 (6.70%) VMware
3 113 (5.12%) Google
4 89 (4.03%) Databricks
5 80 (3.62%) Red Hat
6 77 (3.49%) Splunk
7 69 (3.12%) Cisco
8 52 (2.35%) Palo Alto
9 51 (2.31%) Oracle
10 38 (1.72%) Fortinet
11 34 (1.54%) OpenAI
12 28 (1.27%) Zscaler
13 27 (1.22%) Dynatrace
14 15 (0.68%) CrowdStrike
14 15 (0.68%) F5
15 14 (0.63%) ServiceNow
16 13 (0.59%) Salesforce
17 12 (0.54%) Rapid7
17 12 (0.54%) ScienceLogic
18 11 (0.50%) Okta