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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 131 157
Rank change year-on-year +19 +26 -51
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,429 952 1,659
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.83% 2.33% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 2.50% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 943 707 1,335
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,500 £112,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,200 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.57% +7.69% -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 60,207 38,067 76,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.10% 93.27% 86.65%
Number of salaries quoted 36,835 22,259 57,410
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.41%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 +23 1,244 £75,000 -0.66% 672
UK excluding London +12 662 £68,200 -2.57% 486
London +33 617 £85,000 -5.56% 278
Work from Home +45 566 £70,000 -7.11% 338
North of England -25 230 £67,500 - 159
South East 0 143 £70,000 -3.45% 123
North West -14 107 £73,801 +1.79% 84
South West -16 94 £62,500 -13.18% 88
Yorkshire -22 92 £65,000 +13.04% 47
Midlands -6 73 £67,500 +3.85% 47
Scotland -8 57 £60,000 -14.89% 22
East Midlands -18 36 £67,500 +3.85% 6
West Midlands -15 35 £65,500 -6.43% 41
East of England -11 34 £62,500 -12.28% 35
North East -9 31 £48,445 -15.75% 28
Wales -9 21 £68,500 +25.57% 12
Northern Ireland -29 10 £95,000 - 7

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 47 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (2.59%) Apache
3 27 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 24 (1.68%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.05%) Confluence
5 15 (1.05%) IIS
6 13 (0.91%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.21%) CMS
8 3 (0.21%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.070%) Appian
10 1 (0.070%) Camunda
10 1 (0.070%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.070%) nginx
10 1 (0.070%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.070%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.28%) PlantUML
1 4 (0.28%) Weka
2 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.070%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.070%) Maya
4 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.070%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.070%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.070%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.070%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 883 (61.79%) AWS
2 796 (55.70%) Azure
3 323 (22.60%) GCP
4 309 (21.62%) GitHub
5 289 (20.22%) Azure DevOps
6 272 (19.03%) Serverless
7 256 (17.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 218 (15.26%) GitHub Actions
9 167 (11.69%) AWS Lambda
10 140 (9.80%) Amazon S3
11 125 (8.75%) PaaS
12 122 (8.54%) Amazon EKS
12 122 (8.54%) SaaS
13 113 (7.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 104 (7.28%) Entra ID
15 95 (6.65%) Datadog
16 91 (6.37%) Amazon ECS
17 87 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
18 85 (5.95%) Amazon EC2
19 78 (5.46%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 166 (11.62%) Firewall
2 86 (6.02%) DNS
3 80 (5.60%) TCP/IP
4 70 (4.90%) VPN
5 40 (2.80%) WAN
6 39 (2.73%) Network Security
7 38 (2.66%) Broadband
8 29 (2.03%) DHCP
9 21 (1.47%) HTTP
10 19 (1.33%) BGP
10 19 (1.33%) LAN
11 17 (1.19%) VLAN
12 16 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
13 15 (1.05%) DSL
14 13 (0.91%) Internet
15 10 (0.70%) SD-WAN
16 9 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
17 8 (0.56%) Software-Defined Networking
17 8 (0.56%) Wireless
18 5 (0.35%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (7.77%) NoSQL
2 107 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
3 99 (6.93%) Amazon RDS
4 58 (4.06%) SQL Server
5 55 (3.85%) DynamoDB
6 45 (3.15%) Relational Database
7 42 (2.94%) Data Lake
7 42 (2.94%) MongoDB
8 41 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
9 39 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
10 38 (2.66%) Redis
11 34 (2.38%) MySQL
12 28 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
13 26 (1.82%) BigQuery
14 22 (1.54%) Metadata
14 22 (1.54%) Power BI
15 19 (1.33%) RDBMS
16 17 (1.19%) Delta Lake
17 15 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
17 15 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 209 (14.63%) Jenkins
2 188 (13.16%) Git
3 186 (13.02%) GitLab
4 33 (2.31%) CircleCI
5 32 (2.24%) JIRA
6 30 (2.10%) Bitbucket
7 28 (1.96%) Selenium
8 23 (1.61%) Cucumber
8 23 (1.61%) Robot Framework
9 21 (1.47%) Jaeger
10 17 (1.19%) JMeter
10 17 (1.19%) TeamCity
11 16 (1.12%) Snyk
12 14 (0.98%) MLflow
13 13 (0.91%) Locust
14 11 (0.77%) SonarQube
15 10 (0.70%) Subversion
16 9 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 9 (0.63%) Storybook
17 8 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 382 (26.73%) Social Skills
2 342 (23.93%) Finance
3 134 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (6.72%) Banking
5 88 (6.16%) Public Sector
6 80 (5.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 68 (4.76%) Law
8 60 (4.20%) Retail
8 60 (4.20%) Telecoms
9 31 (2.17%) Financial Institution
10 29 (2.03%) Marketing
11 25 (1.75%) Manufacturing
12 23 (1.61%) Games
13 22 (1.54%) Billing
14 20 (1.40%) Back Office
15 19 (1.33%) Advertising
16 18 (1.26%) Legal
17 17 (1.19%) Aerospace
18 15 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
19 14 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 318 (22.25%) Senior
2 233 (16.31%) DevOps Engineer
3 208 (14.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 189 (13.23%) Lead
5 136 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
5 136 (9.52%) Developer
6 127 (8.89%) Platform Engineer
7 118 (8.26%) Architect
8 101 (7.07%) AWS Engineer
9 100 (7.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 69 (4.83%) Software Engineer
11 61 (4.27%) Data Engineer
12 55 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
13 54 (3.78%) Security Engineer
14 47 (3.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 46 (3.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 43 (3.01%) Cloud Security Engineer
17 42 (2.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 41 (2.87%) Lead DevOps
19 40 (2.80%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (9.03%) React
2 102 (7.14%) Node.js
3 93 (6.51%) .NET
4 86 (6.02%) RESTful
5 80 (5.60%) REST
6 78 (5.46%) Elastic Stack
6 78 (5.46%) Kafka
7 71 (4.97%) AWS CDK
8 63 (4.41%) Spring
9 59 (4.13%) OAuth
10 58 (4.06%) Spring Boot
11 57 (3.99%) YAML
12 50 (3.50%) Django
13 42 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
14 41 (2.87%) ARM Templates
15 38 (2.66%) CSS
16 37 (2.59%) FastAPI
17 35 (2.45%) .NET Core
18 33 (2.31%) HTML
19 32 (2.24%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 323 (22.60%) Cloud Native
2 77 (5.39%) Hybrid Cloud
3 70 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
4 62 (4.34%) Public Cloud
5 60 (4.20%) Security Posture
6 55 (3.85%) Product Ownership
7 42 (2.94%) Data Centre
8 39 (2.73%) Onboarding
9 36 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
10 31 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
10 31 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
11 28 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.68%) Management Information System
13 22 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (1.47%) Mobile App
15 20 (1.40%) PKI
16 18 (1.26%) Cloud Security Posture
16 18 (1.26%) Hedge funds
17 17 (1.19%) Blog
17 17 (1.19%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 326 (22.81%) Linux
2 163 (11.41%) Windows
3 82 (5.74%) Unix
4 58 (4.06%) Windows Server
5 31 (2.17%) Ubuntu
5 31 (2.17%) VMS
6 24 (1.68%) CentOS
6 24 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (1.05%) Android
8 14 (0.98%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.56%) Debian
10 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.28%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.28%) SUSE
12 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.070%) Rocky
13 1 (0.070%) Solaris
13 1 (0.070%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 984 (68.86%) CI/CD
2 908 (63.54%) DevOps
3 427 (29.88%) Agile
4 399 (27.92%) Containerisation
5 370 (25.89%) Observability
6 332 (23.23%) Continuous Improvement
7 289 (20.22%) Mentoring
8 281 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
9 235 (16.45%) Platform Engineering
10 229 (16.03%) Test Automation
11 228 (15.96%) Software Engineering
12 219 (15.33%) AI
13 197 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 190 (13.30%) Cloud Security
15 184 (12.88%) Microservices
16 173 (12.11%) Analytics
16 173 (12.11%) Incident Response
17 160 (11.20%) DevSecOps
18 148 (10.36%) High Availability
19 144 (10.08%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 650 (45.49%) Python
2 272 (19.03%) Bash
3 233 (16.31%) PowerShell
4 228 (15.96%) SQL
5 198 (13.86%) Java
6 148 (10.36%) Go
7 137 (9.59%) JavaScript
8 131 (9.17%) Bicep
9 114 (7.98%) TypeScript
10 90 (6.30%) C#
11 21 (1.47%) C++
12 19 (1.33%) Rust
13 18 (1.26%) Kusto Query Language
14 16 (1.12%) Scala
15 15 (1.05%) Kotlin
16 11 (0.77%) C
17 10 (0.70%) Apex Code
18 8 (0.56%) Ruby
19 7 (0.49%) Google Apps Script
20 5 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 270 (18.89%) Security Cleared
2 161 (11.27%) SC Cleared
3 123 (8.61%) Degree
4 118 (8.26%) AWS Certification
5 103 (7.21%) DV Cleared
6 75 (5.25%) Azure Certification
7 52 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 33 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 33 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 28 (1.96%) CISSP
9 28 (1.96%) OSCP
10 18 (1.26%) AWS Certified Developer
11 14 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.77%) CCSK
12 11 (0.77%) DBS Check
12 11 (0.77%) Master's Degree
13 10 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 10 (0.70%) CCNP
13 10 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 7 (0.49%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (5.25%) QA
2 70 (4.90%) GDPR
3 58 (4.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 55 (3.85%) Data Quality
5 53 (3.71%) SOC 2
6 44 (3.08%) NIST
7 41 (2.87%) Accessibility
8 40 (2.80%) PCI DSS
9 18 (1.26%) SLA
10 16 (1.12%) WCAG
11 11 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.63%) NCSC
13 7 (0.49%) GRC
14 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
15 4 (0.28%) EU AI Act
16 2 (0.14%) Def Stans
16 2 (0.14%) JSP 440
16 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
16 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 464 (32.47%) Docker
2 84 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 69 (4.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (1.75%) Hyper-V
6 24 (1.68%) vSphere
7 16 (1.12%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.70%) Firmware
8 10 (0.70%) KVM
9 7 (0.49%) vCloud
9 7 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.28%) iptables
12 2 (0.14%) GPFS
12 2 (0.14%) Lustre
12 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.070%) QEMU
13 1 (0.070%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1,001 (70.05%) Terraform
2 550 (38.49%) Kubernetes
3 331 (23.16%) Ansible
4 213 (14.91%) Grafana
5 199 (13.93%) Prometheus
6 55 (3.85%) Argo
7 43 (3.01%) Microsoft Intune
8 31 (2.17%) Puppet
8 31 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (1.33%) Kustomize
10 17 (1.19%) AWS Copilot
11 16 (1.12%) Rancher
12 15 (1.05%) Nagios
13 14 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
13 14 (0.98%) Progress Chef
14 13 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 10 (0.70%) Istio
16 8 (0.56%) linkerd
16 8 (0.56%) Mesos
16 8 (0.56%) yum
Vendors
1 246 (17.21%) Microsoft
2 129 (9.03%) Google
3 104 (7.28%) VMware
4 50 (3.50%) Databricks
5 49 (3.43%) Red Hat
6 48 (3.36%) Cisco
6 48 (3.36%) Splunk
7 40 (2.80%) Palo Alto
8 20 (1.40%) Salesforce
8 20 (1.40%) Zscaler
9 19 (1.33%) Dynatrace
10 16 (1.12%) Black Duck
10 16 (1.12%) Coverity
10 16 (1.12%) CrowdStrike
11 15 (1.05%) Juniper
12 14 (0.98%) Fortinet
12 14 (0.98%) OpenAI
13 13 (0.91%) Atlassian
14 12 (0.84%) Oracle
14 12 (0.84%) SAP