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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 157 122
Rank change year-on-year +80 -35 -35
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,474 1,011 1,581
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.13% 2.06% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% 2.32% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,596 714 991
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £45,000
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% -6.04%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,239 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.34% +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 84,797 43,558 63,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.01% 88.68% 81.33%
Number of salaries quoted 58,554 24,566 35,554
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,781 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
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 21 September 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 21 September 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 +74 2,157 £77,500 +3.33% 3,166
UK excluding London +110 1,357 £70,239 +0.34% 1,592
London +27 935 £90,000 +5.88% 1,837
Work from Home +48 793 £75,000 - 1,465
North of England +93 481 £70,000 - 460
North West +92 264 £72,500 +11.54% 264
South East +48 247 £67,500 -20.59% 288
South West +47 240 £75,000 - 254
Midlands +33 153 £75,000 +15.83% 180
North East +22 112 £59,000 -18.62% 67
Yorkshire +1 108 £73,750 +5.36% 129
West Midlands +2 94 £85,000 +36.55% 102
Wales -6 77 £70,000 +21.74% 42
Northern Ireland -29 62 £71,991 +67.07% 63
East Midlands +8 59 £67,500 +3.85% 78
East of England -14 56 £65,000 - 112
Scotland +21 53 £72,500 +3.57% 198

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 60 (2.43%) Apache
2 58 (2.34%) Apache Spark
3 55 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (1.17%) Confluence
6 14 (0.57%) Jupyter
7 11 (0.44%) SharePoint
8 8 (0.32%) CMS
8 8 (0.32%) IIS
9 7 (0.28%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.24%) nginx
11 4 (0.16%) Camunda
12 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.12%) WordPress
13 2 (0.081%) Cloud Foundry
14 1 (0.040%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.040%) NetWeaver
14 1 (0.040%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 21 (0.85%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.081%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.081%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.040%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) Summit
4 2 (0.081%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.040%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.040%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.040%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,392 (56.27%) AWS
2 1,335 (53.96%) Azure
3 494 (19.97%) GCP
4 446 (18.03%) GitHub
5 392 (15.84%) AWS CloudFormation
6 382 (15.44%) Serverless
7 324 (13.10%) Azure DevOps
8 250 (10.11%) GitHub Actions
9 213 (8.61%) AWS Lambda
10 208 (8.41%) Amazon S3
11 176 (7.11%) PaaS
12 154 (6.22%) Amazon EKS
13 147 (5.94%) Amazon EC2
14 145 (5.86%) Amazon ECS
15 143 (5.78%) Azure AKS
16 134 (5.42%) SaaS
17 130 (5.25%) IaaS
18 128 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 127 (5.13%) Entra ID
20 125 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 174 (7.03%) Firewall
2 135 (5.46%) DNS
3 129 (5.21%) VPN
4 119 (4.81%) WAN
5 113 (4.57%) Network Security
6 92 (3.72%) LAN
7 67 (2.71%) TCP/IP
8 54 (2.18%) BGP
9 51 (2.06%) DHCP
10 42 (1.70%) Broadband
11 39 (1.58%) OSPF
12 32 (1.29%) VLAN
13 29 (1.17%) Internet
14 28 (1.13%) VXLAN
15 26 (1.05%) Software-Defined Networking
16 25 (1.01%) SD-WAN
17 16 (0.65%) Ethernet VPN
17 16 (0.65%) Wireless
18 15 (0.61%) HTTP
18 15 (0.61%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (7.68%) PostgreSQL
2 161 (6.51%) NoSQL
3 116 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
4 105 (4.24%) MongoDB
5 88 (3.56%) SQL Server
6 78 (3.15%) DynamoDB
7 72 (2.91%) MySQL
8 68 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
9 61 (2.47%) Data Lake
10 52 (2.10%) Redis
11 51 (2.06%) Metadata
12 49 (1.98%) Relational Database
13 44 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
14 35 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
15 31 (1.25%) Big Data
16 30 (1.21%) Delta Lake
17 29 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
18 25 (1.01%) BigQuery
18 25 (1.01%) Power BI
19 22 (0.89%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 359 (14.51%) Git
2 296 (11.96%) GitLab
3 268 (10.83%) Jenkins
4 58 (2.34%) JIRA
5 49 (1.98%) Cucumber
6 35 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 25 (1.01%) TeamCity
8 24 (0.97%) Bitbucket
9 23 (0.93%) Claude Code
10 22 (0.89%) Selenium
11 20 (0.81%) CircleCI
12 19 (0.77%) SonarQube
13 14 (0.57%) Cypress.io
14 13 (0.53%) Subversion
15 12 (0.49%) Maven
15 12 (0.49%) NUnit
15 12 (0.49%) Snyk
16 9 (0.36%) MLflow
16 9 (0.36%) MSI
16 9 (0.36%) Vite
General
1 688 (27.81%) Social Skills
2 569 (23.00%) Finance
3 259 (10.47%) Public Sector
4 211 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
5 160 (6.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 138 (5.58%) Banking
7 120 (4.85%) Law
8 74 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
9 68 (2.75%) Retail
10 62 (2.51%) Aerospace
11 42 (1.70%) Marketing
12 37 (1.50%) Legal
13 35 (1.41%) Games
14 29 (1.17%) Manufacturing
15 24 (0.97%) Telecoms
16 20 (0.81%) Financial Institution
17 17 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
18 16 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
18 16 (0.65%) Local Government
19 15 (0.61%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 579 (23.40%) Senior
2 452 (18.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 337 (13.62%) Lead
4 335 (13.54%) Architect
5 294 (11.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 256 (10.35%) Platform Engineer
7 207 (8.37%) Developer
8 200 (8.08%) Azure Engineer
9 174 (7.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 158 (6.39%) Software Engineer
11 150 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
12 133 (5.38%) Principal Engineer
13 125 (5.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 119 (4.81%) Data Engineer
15 97 (3.92%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 96 (3.88%) Security Engineer
17 77 (3.11%) Azure Platform Engineer
17 77 (3.11%) Senior Developer
18 76 (3.07%) Senior DevOps
19 73 (2.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,656 (66.94%) Terraform
2 204 (8.25%) Kafka
2 204 (8.25%) React
3 184 (7.44%) .NET
4 167 (6.75%) Spring
5 166 (6.71%) Spring Boot
6 160 (6.47%) Node.js
7 150 (6.06%) RESTful
8 148 (5.98%) REST
9 89 (3.60%) AWS CDK
10 76 (3.07%) PySpark
11 66 (2.67%) AngularJS
11 66 (2.67%) ARM Templates
12 62 (2.51%) YAML
13 60 (2.43%) Next.js
14 59 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
15 54 (2.18%) Elastic Stack
16 48 (1.94%) OAuth
17 46 (1.86%) LangChain
18 43 (1.74%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 747 (30.19%) Cloud Native
2 279 (11.28%) Distributed Systems
3 134 (5.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 129 (5.21%) Public Cloud
5 128 (5.17%) Onboarding
6 93 (3.76%) Data Centre
7 78 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
8 77 (3.11%) Product Ownership
9 65 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
10 62 (2.51%) Security Posture
11 58 (2.34%) Enterprise Cloud
12 53 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
13 51 (2.06%) Virtual Team
14 48 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
15 44 (1.78%) AI Agents
16 43 (1.74%) e-Learning
16 43 (1.74%) Private Cloud
17 41 (1.66%) Management Information System
18 40 (1.62%) PKI
19 34 (1.37%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 433 (17.50%) Linux
2 220 (8.89%) Windows
3 99 (4.00%) Windows Server
4 61 (2.47%) CentOS
5 49 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 43 (1.74%) Unix
7 39 (1.58%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.89%) VMS
9 7 (0.28%) Debian
10 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.12%) AIX
11 3 (0.12%) Android
11 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.081%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.081%) Rocky
12 2 (0.081%) Solaris
13 1 (0.040%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.040%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,760 (71.14%) CI/CD
2 1,359 (54.93%) DevOps
3 733 (29.63%) Containerisation
4 707 (28.58%) Agile
5 690 (27.89%) Observability
6 619 (25.02%) Platform Engineering
7 561 (22.68%) Mentoring
8 551 (22.27%) AI
9 538 (21.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 520 (21.02%) Software Engineering
11 454 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
12 428 (17.30%) Microservices
13 415 (16.77%) Technical Leadership
14 402 (16.25%) Cloud Security
15 390 (15.76%) Test Automation
16 384 (15.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 354 (14.31%) Roadmaps
18 304 (12.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 283 (11.44%) Event-Driven
20 262 (10.59%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,070 (43.25%) Python
2 394 (15.93%) Java
3 384 (15.52%) Bash
4 378 (15.28%) SQL
5 355 (14.35%) PowerShell
6 237 (9.58%) Bicep
7 228 (9.22%) TypeScript
8 197 (7.96%) JavaScript
9 189 (7.64%) C#
10 156 (6.31%) Go
11 47 (1.90%) Ruby
12 46 (1.86%) Shell Script
13 41 (1.66%) Scala
14 36 (1.46%) Groovy
15 34 (1.37%) PHP
16 29 (1.17%) Rust
17 25 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
18 22 (0.89%) C++
19 20 (0.81%) Perl
20 13 (0.53%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 629 (25.42%) Security Cleared
2 397 (16.05%) SC Cleared
3 213 (8.61%) AWS Certification
4 209 (8.45%) DV Cleared
5 183 (7.40%) Degree
6 155 (6.27%) Azure Certification
7 95 (3.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 86 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 57 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
11 40 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
12 32 (1.29%) CCNP
13 29 (1.17%) Master's Degree
14 24 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
15 23 (0.93%) CISSP
16 22 (0.89%) CCNA
17 17 (0.69%) SnowPro
18 14 (0.57%) DBS Check
18 14 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 12 (0.49%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (4.93%) QA
2 104 (4.20%) Data Quality
3 72 (2.91%) GRC
4 65 (2.63%) GDPR
5 57 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (1.82%) Accessibility
7 34 (1.37%) NIST
8 30 (1.21%) NCSC
9 27 (1.09%) SOC 2
10 24 (0.97%) SLA
11 20 (0.81%) WCAG
12 19 (0.77%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.28%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.20%) ISO 20022
17 3 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 2 (0.081%) IFRS
18 2 (0.081%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 671 (27.12%) Docker
2 136 (5.50%) Active Directory
3 131 (5.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (1.86%) vSphere
5 43 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
6 27 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
7 22 (0.89%) Hyper-V
8 17 (0.69%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.36%) KVM
9 9 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.32%) Firmware
10 8 (0.32%) Squid
10 8 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.12%) iptables
12 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.081%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 896 (36.22%) Kubernetes
2 498 (20.13%) Ansible
3 238 (9.62%) Grafana
4 179 (7.24%) Prometheus
5 74 (2.99%) Argo
6 66 (2.67%) Puppet
7 46 (1.86%) Progress Chef
8 39 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
9 36 (1.46%) Istio
9 36 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
10 28 (1.13%) Packer
11 24 (0.97%) FortiGate
12 23 (0.93%) Rancher
13 19 (0.77%) vCenter Server
14 16 (0.65%) Nagios
15 14 (0.57%) Cilium
16 13 (0.53%) Kustomize
17 12 (0.49%) linkerd
17 12 (0.49%) Podman
17 12 (0.49%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 598 (24.17%) Microsoft
2 175 (7.07%) Google
3 163 (6.59%) VMware
4 109 (4.41%) Databricks
5 87 (3.52%) Splunk
6 81 (3.27%) Red Hat
7 73 (2.95%) Oracle
8 72 (2.91%) Cisco
9 42 (1.70%) Dynatrace
9 42 (1.70%) OpenAI
10 38 (1.54%) Fortinet
10 38 (1.54%) Palo Alto
11 33 (1.33%) ServiceNow
12 26 (1.05%) Zscaler
13 15 (0.61%) Atlassian
13 15 (0.61%) Okta
13 15 (0.61%) SAP
14 13 (0.53%) F5
14 13 (0.53%) New Relic
14 13 (0.53%) SolarWinds