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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 160 147
Rank change year-on-year +84 -13 -52
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,386 1,019 1,447
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.19% 2.04% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.00% 2.30% 2.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,583 713 997
10th Percentile £49,375 £52,300 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,250 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £93,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £104,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -5.11%

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 79,636 44,374 67,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 88.88% 80.70%
Number of salaries quoted 55,106 25,202 42,338
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,650 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 25 August 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 August 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 +82 2,087 £77,500 - 642
UK excluding London +112 1,305 £70,000 - 545
London +27 913 £90,000 +2.86% 242
Work from Home +67 823 £72,500 -3.33% 358
North of England +92 453 £70,000 - 166
North West +78 250 £72,500 +3.57% 91
South East +62 250 £67,500 -12.90% 147
South West +49 224 £75,000 - 128
Midlands +45 148 £75,000 +15.38% 44
Yorkshire +5 105 £73,750 +5.36% 47
North East +23 98 £59,000 -18.62% 28
West Midlands +8 91 £83,774 +29.38% 24
Wales -11 67 £70,000 +16.67% 13
Northern Ireland -25 62 £71,991 +67.07% 7
East Midlands +15 57 £67,500 +3.85% 20
East of England 0 57 £67,500 +3.85% 15
Scotland +23 56 £72,246 +3.21% 30

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 59 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
2 58 (2.43%) Apache Spark
3 55 (2.31%) Apache
4 29 (1.22%) Confluence
4 29 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.54%) Jupyter
6 10 (0.42%) IIS
7 9 (0.38%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.25%) CMS
9 4 (0.17%) Camunda
9 4 (0.17%) nginx
9 4 (0.17%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.13%) WordPress
11 2 (0.084%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.042%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.042%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.042%) JBoss
12 1 (0.042%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 22 (0.92%) PlantUML
2 10 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.084%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.084%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.084%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.042%) Maya
6 1 (0.042%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.13%) Summit
4 2 (0.084%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,353 (56.71%) AWS
2 1,279 (53.60%) Azure
3 459 (19.24%) GCP
4 418 (17.52%) GitHub
5 382 (16.01%) AWS CloudFormation
6 376 (15.76%) Serverless
7 318 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
8 230 (9.64%) GitHub Actions
9 210 (8.80%) AWS Lambda
10 206 (8.63%) Amazon S3
11 179 (7.50%) PaaS
12 146 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
13 142 (5.95%) Amazon ECS
13 142 (5.95%) Amazon EKS
14 136 (5.70%) SaaS
15 131 (5.49%) Azure AKS
16 126 (5.28%) IaaS
17 125 (5.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 125 (5.24%) Microsoft 365
18 113 (4.74%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 176 (7.38%) Firewall
2 121 (5.07%) DNS
3 116 (4.86%) WAN
4 114 (4.78%) VPN
5 113 (4.74%) Network Security
6 96 (4.02%) LAN
7 72 (3.02%) TCP/IP
8 54 (2.26%) BGP
9 49 (2.05%) Broadband
10 46 (1.93%) DHCP
11 38 (1.59%) OSPF
12 32 (1.34%) VLAN
13 28 (1.17%) VXLAN
14 26 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
15 25 (1.05%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.67%) Wireless
17 14 (0.59%) Ethernet VPN
17 14 (0.59%) HTTP
17 14 (0.59%) SAN
18 10 (0.42%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
2 149 (6.24%) NoSQL
3 105 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
4 99 (4.15%) MongoDB
5 84 (3.52%) SQL Server
6 79 (3.31%) DynamoDB
7 66 (2.77%) Data Lake
8 64 (2.68%) MySQL
9 57 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
10 53 (2.22%) Relational Database
11 51 (2.14%) Metadata
12 46 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
13 35 (1.47%) Redis
14 33 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
15 31 (1.30%) Delta Lake
16 29 (1.22%) Big Data
17 28 (1.17%) BigQuery
18 25 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
19 23 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
19 23 (0.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 315 (13.20%) Git
2 285 (11.94%) GitLab
3 252 (10.56%) Jenkins
4 55 (2.31%) JIRA
5 48 (2.01%) Cucumber
6 33 (1.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 29 (1.22%) Bitbucket
8 28 (1.17%) CircleCI
9 26 (1.09%) TeamCity
10 21 (0.88%) Selenium
11 18 (0.75%) Claude Code
11 18 (0.75%) SonarQube
12 15 (0.63%) Cypress.io
12 15 (0.63%) NUnit
13 12 (0.50%) MLflow
14 11 (0.46%) Maven
14 11 (0.46%) Subversion
15 10 (0.42%) Snyk
16 9 (0.38%) JMeter
16 9 (0.38%) MSI
General
1 658 (27.58%) Social Skills
2 553 (23.18%) Finance
3 223 (9.35%) Public Sector
4 182 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
5 147 (6.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 133 (5.57%) Banking
7 119 (4.99%) Law
8 74 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
9 63 (2.64%) Retail
10 50 (2.10%) Aerospace
11 47 (1.97%) Games
12 43 (1.80%) Marketing
13 40 (1.68%) Legal
14 32 (1.34%) Manufacturing
15 26 (1.09%) Telecoms
16 21 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (0.75%) Aviation
18 17 (0.71%) Financial Institution
18 17 (0.71%) Local Government
19 16 (0.67%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 548 (22.97%) Senior
2 403 (16.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 343 (14.38%) Lead
4 325 (13.62%) Architect
5 283 (11.86%) Cloud Engineer
6 243 (10.18%) Platform Engineer
7 204 (8.55%) Developer
8 185 (7.75%) Azure Engineer
9 151 (6.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 147 (6.16%) Software Engineer
11 138 (5.78%) AWS Engineer
12 124 (5.20%) Data Engineer
13 120 (5.03%) Principal Engineer
14 112 (4.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 93 (3.90%) Security Engineer
16 89 (3.73%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 77 (3.23%) Senior DevOps
18 74 (3.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 73 (3.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 72 (3.02%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,609 (67.44%) Terraform
2 191 (8.01%) React
3 184 (7.71%) Kafka
4 181 (7.59%) .NET
5 156 (6.54%) REST
6 155 (6.50%) Node.js
7 150 (6.29%) Spring
8 148 (6.20%) Spring Boot
9 140 (5.87%) RESTful
10 92 (3.86%) AWS CDK
11 78 (3.27%) PySpark
12 73 (3.06%) YAML
13 67 (2.81%) ARM Templates
14 62 (2.60%) AngularJS
15 57 (2.39%) Next.js
16 56 (2.35%) RabbitMQ
17 50 (2.10%) OAuth
18 48 (2.01%) Elastic Stack
19 44 (1.84%) ASP.NET
20 41 (1.72%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 707 (29.63%) Cloud Native
2 258 (10.81%) Distributed Systems
3 127 (5.32%) Hybrid Cloud
4 124 (5.20%) Public Cloud
5 121 (5.07%) Onboarding
6 92 (3.86%) Data Centre
7 85 (3.56%) Product Ownership
8 67 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
9 63 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
9 63 (2.64%) Security Posture
10 56 (2.35%) Enterprise Cloud
11 45 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
12 41 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
13 40 (1.68%) Private Cloud
13 40 (1.68%) Virtual Team
14 38 (1.59%) Management Information System
15 37 (1.55%) e-Learning
16 36 (1.51%) Low-Code
17 35 (1.47%) PKI
18 32 (1.34%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 390 (16.35%) Linux
2 223 (9.35%) Windows
3 99 (4.15%) Windows Server
4 59 (2.47%) CentOS
5 40 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (1.63%) Ubuntu
7 38 (1.59%) Unix
8 22 (0.92%) VMS
9 5 (0.21%) Android
9 5 (0.21%) Debian
9 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.17%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.13%) AIX
12 2 (0.084%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.084%) Solaris
13 1 (0.042%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.042%) Rocky
13 1 (0.042%) SUSE
13 1 (0.042%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,675 (70.20%) CI/CD
2 1,300 (54.48%) DevOps
3 711 (29.80%) Containerisation
4 665 (27.87%) Agile
5 661 (27.70%) Observability
6 564 (23.64%) Platform Engineering
7 532 (22.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 520 (21.79%) Mentoring
9 509 (21.33%) AI
10 503 (21.08%) Software Engineering
11 422 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
12 412 (17.27%) Microservices
13 401 (16.81%) Technical Leadership
14 389 (16.30%) Test Automation
15 355 (14.88%) Cloud Security
16 340 (14.25%) Roadmaps
17 331 (13.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 267 (11.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 264 (11.06%) Analytics
20 262 (10.98%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 1,034 (43.34%) Python
2 378 (15.84%) Java
3 368 (15.42%) SQL
4 365 (15.30%) Bash
5 339 (14.21%) PowerShell
6 231 (9.68%) Bicep
7 218 (9.14%) TypeScript
8 191 (8.01%) JavaScript
9 181 (7.59%) C#
10 159 (6.66%) Go
11 47 (1.97%) Ruby
12 41 (1.72%) Scala
13 36 (1.51%) PHP
14 25 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
14 25 (1.05%) Rust
15 24 (1.01%) Groovy
16 22 (0.92%) C++
17 21 (0.88%) Perl
18 15 (0.63%) Shell Script
19 11 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 571 (23.93%) Security Cleared
2 358 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 200 (8.38%) Degree
4 196 (8.21%) AWS Certification
5 190 (7.96%) DV Cleared
6 151 (6.33%) Azure Certification
7 90 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 89 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 60 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 53 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
11 35 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
11 35 (1.47%) CCNP
12 30 (1.26%) Master's Degree
13 23 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
14 20 (0.84%) CISSP
15 19 (0.80%) CCNA
16 17 (0.71%) OSCP
17 16 (0.67%) SnowPro
18 14 (0.59%) CCIE
18 14 (0.59%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (5.32%) QA
2 107 (4.48%) Data Quality
3 73 (3.06%) GRC
4 72 (3.02%) GDPR
5 58 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 49 (2.05%) Accessibility
7 35 (1.47%) NIST
8 33 (1.38%) SOC 2
9 28 (1.17%) NCSC
10 25 (1.05%) WCAG
11 24 (1.01%) PCI DSS
12 22 (0.92%) SLA
13 10 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.29%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
18 2 (0.084%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 2 (0.084%) IFRS
18 2 (0.084%) Solvency II
System Software
1 621 (26.03%) Docker
2 135 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 133 (5.57%) Active Directory
4 44 (1.84%) vSphere
5 37 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (1.09%) Hyper-V
7 24 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (0.75%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.38%) KVM
11 8 (0.34%) Squid
12 7 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
13 6 (0.25%) Firmware
14 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.17%) iptables
16 3 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 2 (0.084%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 877 (36.76%) Kubernetes
2 487 (20.41%) Ansible
3 236 (9.89%) Grafana
4 166 (6.96%) Prometheus
5 69 (2.89%) Argo
6 59 (2.47%) Puppet
7 40 (1.68%) Progress Chef
8 34 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
9 33 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 30 (1.26%) Istio
11 27 (1.13%) Packer
12 21 (0.88%) Nagios
13 19 (0.80%) FortiGate
14 17 (0.71%) vCenter Server
15 14 (0.59%) Cilium
16 12 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 12 (0.50%) Kustomize
16 12 (0.50%) ZABBIX
17 11 (0.46%) Rancher
18 10 (0.42%) linkerd
Vendors
1 535 (22.42%) Microsoft
2 162 (6.79%) VMware
3 143 (5.99%) Google
4 105 (4.40%) Databricks
5 84 (3.52%) Splunk
6 83 (3.48%) Red Hat
7 72 (3.02%) Cisco
8 68 (2.85%) Oracle
9 45 (1.89%) Palo Alto
10 42 (1.76%) OpenAI
11 39 (1.63%) Dynatrace
11 39 (1.63%) Fortinet
12 25 (1.05%) Zscaler
13 23 (0.96%) ServiceNow
14 17 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
15 16 (0.67%) SAP
16 15 (0.63%) Atlassian
17 13 (0.54%) Okta
17 13 (0.54%) Rapid7
18 12 (0.50%) ScienceLogic