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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 161 142
Rank change year-on-year +85 -19 -49
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,400 1,031 1,476
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.18% 2.06% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.99% 2.32% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,591 724 984
10th Percentile £48,959 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,250 £61,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £94,063 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £105,000
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 80,366 44,460 65,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.09% 88.73% 80.84%
Number of salaries quoted 55,743 25,365 40,240
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%
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 £51,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -6.86% -7.07%

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 31 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 31 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 +75 2,096 £77,500 - 1,409
UK excluding London +103 1,311 £70,000 - 847
London +30 917 £90,000 +2.86% 781
Work from Home +59 821 £72,500 -3.33% 670
North of England +83 454 £70,000 - 252
South East +66 250 £67,500 -12.90% 187
North West +89 249 £72,500 +3.57% 130
South West +46 228 £75,000 - 156
Midlands +42 148 £75,000 +15.38% 77
Yorkshire +5 106 £72,500 +3.57% 83
North East +20 99 £59,000 -18.62% 40
West Midlands +16 89 £85,000 +30.77% 41
Wales -11 68 £70,000 +19.15% 22
Northern Ireland -28 62 £71,991 +67.07% 33
East Midlands +15 59 £67,500 +3.85% 36
East of England +9 58 £70,000 +7.69% 46
Scotland +16 55 £71,991 +2.84% 81

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 58 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
2 57 (2.38%) Apache Spark
3 55 (2.29%) Apache
4 30 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (1.17%) Confluence
6 13 (0.54%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.42%) IIS
7 10 (0.42%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.25%) CMS
9 5 (0.21%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.17%) Camunda
10 4 (0.17%) nginx
11 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.13%) WordPress
12 2 (0.083%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.042%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.042%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.042%) JBoss
13 1 (0.042%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 21 (0.88%) PlantUML
2 10 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.083%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.083%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.042%) Maya
6 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Office
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 (0.083%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,359 (56.63%) AWS
2 1,286 (53.58%) Azure
3 464 (19.33%) GCP
4 419 (17.46%) GitHub
5 384 (16.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 376 (15.67%) Serverless
7 319 (13.29%) Azure DevOps
8 230 (9.58%) GitHub Actions
9 213 (8.88%) AWS Lambda
10 209 (8.71%) Amazon S3
11 174 (7.25%) PaaS
12 149 (6.21%) Amazon EC2
13 145 (6.04%) Amazon EKS
14 144 (6.00%) Amazon ECS
15 134 (5.58%) Azure AKS
16 133 (5.54%) SaaS
17 126 (5.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 125 (5.21%) IaaS
18 125 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
19 114 (4.75%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 177 (7.38%) Firewall
2 124 (5.17%) DNS
3 119 (4.96%) VPN
4 116 (4.83%) WAN
5 113 (4.71%) Network Security
6 97 (4.04%) LAN
7 72 (3.00%) TCP/IP
8 55 (2.29%) BGP
9 49 (2.04%) Broadband
10 46 (1.92%) DHCP
11 39 (1.63%) OSPF
12 32 (1.33%) VLAN
13 28 (1.17%) VXLAN
14 26 (1.08%) SD-WAN
14 26 (1.08%) Software-Defined Networking
15 18 (0.75%) Wireless
16 15 (0.63%) HTTP
17 14 (0.58%) Ethernet VPN
17 14 (0.58%) SAN
18 10 (0.42%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (7.54%) PostgreSQL
2 151 (6.29%) NoSQL
3 109 (4.54%) Amazon RDS
4 101 (4.21%) MongoDB
5 87 (3.63%) SQL Server
6 80 (3.33%) DynamoDB
7 67 (2.79%) MySQL
8 66 (2.75%) Data Lake
9 58 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
10 53 (2.21%) Relational Database
11 52 (2.17%) Metadata
12 47 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
13 36 (1.50%) Redis
14 33 (1.38%) Delta Lake
14 33 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
15 29 (1.21%) Big Data
16 28 (1.17%) BigQuery
17 25 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
18 24 (1.00%) Power BI
19 22 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 318 (13.25%) Git
2 281 (11.71%) GitLab
3 252 (10.50%) Jenkins
4 54 (2.25%) JIRA
5 45 (1.88%) Cucumber
6 33 (1.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 27 (1.13%) Bitbucket
7 27 (1.13%) CircleCI
8 26 (1.08%) TeamCity
9 22 (0.92%) Selenium
10 19 (0.79%) 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%) MSI
17 8 (0.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 660 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 554 (23.08%) Finance
3 226 (9.42%) Public Sector
4 184 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
5 146 (6.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 137 (5.71%) Banking
7 122 (5.08%) Law
8 74 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
9 64 (2.67%) Retail
10 50 (2.08%) Aerospace
11 46 (1.92%) Games
12 43 (1.79%) Marketing
13 40 (1.67%) Legal
14 33 (1.38%) Manufacturing
15 28 (1.17%) Telecoms
16 20 (0.83%) 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
1 552 (23.00%) Senior
2 405 (16.88%) DevOps Engineer
3 339 (14.13%) Lead
4 327 (13.63%) Architect
5 285 (11.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 246 (10.25%) Platform Engineer
7 207 (8.63%) Developer
8 188 (7.83%) Azure Engineer
9 155 (6.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 148 (6.17%) Software Engineer
11 141 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
12 124 (5.17%) Data Engineer
13 121 (5.04%) Principal Engineer
14 113 (4.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 95 (3.96%) Security Engineer
16 91 (3.79%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 78 (3.25%) Senior DevOps
18 74 (3.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 74 (3.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 73 (3.04%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,618 (67.42%) Terraform
2 195 (8.13%) React
3 188 (7.83%) Kafka
4 185 (7.71%) .NET
5 158 (6.58%) REST
6 155 (6.46%) Node.js
7 149 (6.21%) Spring
8 147 (6.13%) Spring Boot
9 144 (6.00%) RESTful
10 93 (3.88%) AWS CDK
11 80 (3.33%) PySpark
12 71 (2.96%) YAML
13 67 (2.79%) ARM Templates
14 62 (2.58%) AngularJS
15 58 (2.42%) RabbitMQ
16 57 (2.38%) Next.js
17 49 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
18 48 (2.00%) OAuth
19 44 (1.83%) ASP.NET
20 41 (1.71%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 716 (29.83%) Cloud Native
2 262 (10.92%) Distributed Systems
3 131 (5.46%) Hybrid Cloud
4 124 (5.17%) Public Cloud
5 122 (5.08%) Onboarding
6 93 (3.88%) Data Centre
7 87 (3.63%) Product Ownership
8 67 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
8 67 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
9 64 (2.67%) Security Posture
10 58 (2.42%) Enterprise Cloud
11 47 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
12 42 (1.75%) Virtual Team
13 41 (1.71%) Video\Live Streaming
14 40 (1.67%) Private Cloud
15 38 (1.58%) Management Information System
16 37 (1.54%) e-Learning
17 36 (1.50%) Low-Code
18 35 (1.46%) AI Agents
18 35 (1.46%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 391 (16.29%) Linux
2 223 (9.29%) Windows
3 98 (4.08%) Windows Server
4 59 (2.46%) CentOS
5 40 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (1.58%) Ubuntu
7 37 (1.54%) Unix
8 22 (0.92%) VMS
9 5 (0.21%) Debian
9 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.17%) Android
10 4 (0.17%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.13%) AIX
12 2 (0.083%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.083%) Solaris
13 1 (0.042%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.042%) Rocky
13 1 (0.042%) SUSE
13 1 (0.042%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,682 (70.08%) CI/CD
2 1,304 (54.33%) DevOps
3 707 (29.46%) Containerisation
4 670 (27.92%) Observability
5 665 (27.71%) Agile
6 570 (23.75%) Platform Engineering
7 531 (22.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 519 (21.63%) Mentoring
9 517 (21.54%) AI
10 511 (21.29%) Software Engineering
11 425 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
12 415 (17.29%) Microservices
13 402 (16.75%) Technical Leadership
14 386 (16.08%) Test Automation
15 364 (15.17%) Cloud Security
16 344 (14.33%) Roadmaps
17 335 (13.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 269 (11.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 267 (11.13%) Event-Driven
20 266 (11.08%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,035 (43.13%) Python
2 372 (15.50%) Java
3 370 (15.42%) SQL
4 367 (15.29%) Bash
5 341 (14.21%) PowerShell
6 232 (9.67%) Bicep
7 222 (9.25%) TypeScript
8 193 (8.04%) JavaScript
9 186 (7.75%) C#
10 158 (6.58%) Go
11 47 (1.96%) Ruby
12 42 (1.75%) Scala
13 36 (1.50%) PHP
14 26 (1.08%) Rust
15 25 (1.04%) Groovy
15 25 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
16 21 (0.88%) C++
16 21 (0.88%) Perl
17 16 (0.67%) Shell Script
18 11 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 577 (24.04%) Security Cleared
2 363 (15.13%) SC Cleared
3 198 (8.25%) AWS Certification
3 198 (8.25%) Degree
4 190 (7.92%) DV Cleared
5 154 (6.42%) Azure Certification
6 90 (3.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 89 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 64 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 55 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
10 36 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 36 (1.50%) CCNP
11 30 (1.25%) Master's Degree
12 24 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
13 20 (0.83%) CISSP
14 19 (0.79%) CCNA
15 17 (0.71%) SnowPro
16 15 (0.63%) DBS Check
16 15 (0.63%) OSCP
17 14 (0.58%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (5.29%) QA
2 108 (4.50%) Data Quality
3 73 (3.04%) GRC
4 71 (2.96%) GDPR
5 60 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (1.92%) Accessibility
7 34 (1.42%) NIST
8 32 (1.33%) SOC 2
9 28 (1.17%) NCSC
10 23 (0.96%) PCI DSS
11 22 (0.92%) SLA
11 22 (0.92%) WCAG
12 10 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.29%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
17 2 (0.083%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 2 (0.083%) IFRS
17 2 (0.083%) Solvency II
System Software
1 617 (25.71%) Docker
2 134 (5.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 133 (5.54%) Active Directory
4 44 (1.83%) vSphere
5 37 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (1.04%) Hyper-V
7 24 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (0.75%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.38%) KVM
11 8 (0.33%) Squid
12 7 (0.29%) Firmware
12 7 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
13 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.17%) iptables
15 3 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 2 (0.083%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 875 (36.46%) Kubernetes
2 485 (20.21%) Ansible
3 235 (9.79%) Grafana
4 167 (6.96%) Prometheus
5 69 (2.88%) Argo
6 59 (2.46%) Puppet
7 40 (1.67%) Progress Chef
8 35 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
9 33 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 31 (1.29%) Istio
11 27 (1.13%) Packer
12 19 (0.79%) FortiGate
12 19 (0.79%) Nagios
13 17 (0.71%) vCenter Server
14 14 (0.58%) Cilium
15 12 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 12 (0.50%) Kustomize
15 12 (0.50%) Rancher
15 12 (0.50%) ZABBIX
16 10 (0.42%) Kibana
Vendors
1 542 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 163 (6.79%) VMware
3 145 (6.04%) Google
4 107 (4.46%) Databricks
5 85 (3.54%) Splunk
6 82 (3.42%) Red Hat
7 74 (3.08%) Cisco
8 68 (2.83%) Oracle
9 45 (1.88%) Palo Alto
10 43 (1.79%) OpenAI
11 41 (1.71%) Fortinet
12 39 (1.63%) Dynatrace
13 25 (1.04%) ServiceNow
13 25 (1.04%) Zscaler
14 17 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
15 16 (0.67%) SAP
16 15 (0.63%) Atlassian
17 14 (0.58%) Okta
18 13 (0.54%) F5
18 13 (0.54%) Rapid7