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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 160 166
Rank change year-on-year +64 +6 -59
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,705 926 1,680
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.85% 2.11% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.51% 2.26% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,118 655 1,324
10th Percentile £48,848 £48,600 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +9.81% -5.90%
75th Percentile £90,469 £96,250 £89,063
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,750 £107,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -6.40%

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 67,989 40,970 82,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 93.29% 84.80%
Number of salaries quoted 43,964 22,120 59,644
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,033 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% +5.51% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,887 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.18% +3.77% -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 21 May 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 May 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 +62 1,538 £77,500 - 732
UK excluding London +66 782 £67,500 -3.57% 529
London +34 770 £87,500 -2.78% 327
Work from Home +84 614 £70,000 -6.67% 434
North of England +45 287 £67,249 -3.93% 154
South East +40 173 £70,000 -9.68% 176
North West +59 163 £72,250 -0.34% 84
South West -6 109 £70,000 - 86
Midlands +26 106 £69,000 -1.43% 32
Yorkshire -11 88 £65,576 +1.67% 35
West Midlands -17 56 £72,500 +3.57% 18
East Midlands +11 48 £67,500 +3.85% 14
Scotland +10 45 £60,000 -19.93% 24
East of England +6 42 £60,100 -7.54% 44
North East -14 36 £50,000 -20.63% 35
Wales -19 18 £60,000 -2.64% 10
Northern Ireland -35 5 £95,000 - 13

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 48 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (2.23%) Apache
3 31 (1.82%) Apache Spark
4 26 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 19 (1.11%) Confluence
6 15 (0.88%) IIS
7 13 (0.76%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.29%) CMS
10 4 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.059%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.059%) Camunda
13 1 (0.059%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.059%) nginx
13 1 (0.059%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.059%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.65%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.23%) Weka
3 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.059%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.059%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.059%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.059%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.059%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 996 (58.42%) AWS
2 920 (53.96%) Azure
3 334 (19.59%) GitHub
4 315 (18.48%) GCP
5 310 (18.18%) Serverless
6 300 (17.60%) Azure DevOps
7 266 (15.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 220 (12.90%) GitHub Actions
9 180 (10.56%) AWS Lambda
10 156 (9.15%) Amazon S3
11 131 (7.68%) PaaS
12 122 (7.16%) Amazon EKS
13 118 (6.92%) Entra ID
14 116 (6.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 111 (6.51%) SaaS
16 103 (6.04%) Datadog
17 102 (5.98%) Amazon EC2
18 101 (5.92%) IaaS
19 91 (5.34%) Azure AKS
20 90 (5.28%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 176 (10.32%) Firewall
2 97 (5.69%) DNS
3 74 (4.34%) VPN
4 68 (3.99%) TCP/IP
5 58 (3.40%) Broadband
6 54 (3.17%) Network Security
7 46 (2.70%) WAN
8 36 (2.11%) DHCP
9 32 (1.88%) BGP
10 26 (1.52%) LAN
11 23 (1.35%) HTTP
12 18 (1.06%) SD-WAN
12 18 (1.06%) VLAN
13 17 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
13 17 (1.00%) Software-Defined Networking
14 15 (0.88%) DSL
15 14 (0.82%) OSPF
16 10 (0.59%) VXLAN
17 9 (0.53%) Internet
18 8 (0.47%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (7.45%) NoSQL
2 121 (7.10%) PostgreSQL
3 90 (5.28%) Amazon RDS
4 74 (4.34%) MongoDB
5 69 (4.05%) DynamoDB
6 65 (3.81%) SQL Server
7 53 (3.11%) Relational Database
8 51 (2.99%) Data Lake
9 47 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
10 38 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
11 35 (2.05%) Metadata
12 30 (1.76%) BigQuery
13 28 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
14 27 (1.58%) MySQL
15 20 (1.17%) Delta Lake
15 20 (1.17%) Power BI
15 20 (1.17%) Redis
16 18 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
16 18 (1.06%) RDBMS
17 16 (0.94%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 235 (13.78%) GitLab
2 231 (13.55%) Git
3 226 (13.26%) Jenkins
4 45 (2.64%) CircleCI
5 35 (2.05%) Bitbucket
6 32 (1.88%) JIRA
7 30 (1.76%) Cucumber
8 20 (1.17%) Jaeger
9 17 (1.00%) TeamCity
10 16 (0.94%) Selenium
10 16 (0.94%) SonarQube
11 12 (0.70%) Subversion
12 11 (0.65%) MLflow
13 10 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 9 (0.53%) JMeter
14 9 (0.53%) Maven
14 9 (0.53%) NUnit
14 9 (0.53%) Storybook
15 8 (0.47%) Robot Framework
16 7 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 425 (24.93%) Social Skills
2 367 (21.52%) Finance
3 118 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (6.33%) Public Sector
5 103 (6.04%) Banking
6 77 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 62 (3.64%) Retail
8 53 (3.11%) Law
9 47 (2.76%) Telecoms
10 36 (2.11%) Games
11 32 (1.88%) Manufacturing
12 23 (1.35%) Aerospace
13 22 (1.29%) Marketing
14 21 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
15 20 (1.17%) Legal
16 19 (1.11%) Advertising
16 19 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
17 18 (1.06%) Billing
18 16 (0.94%) Financial Institution
19 12 (0.70%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 381 (22.35%) Senior
2 271 (15.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 251 (14.72%) Cloud Engineer
4 239 (14.02%) Lead
5 169 (9.91%) Platform Engineer
6 168 (9.85%) Azure Engineer
7 160 (9.38%) Developer
8 157 (9.21%) Architect
9 126 (7.39%) AWS Engineer
10 118 (6.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 91 (5.34%) Software Engineer
12 88 (5.16%) Data Engineer
13 77 (4.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 74 (4.34%) Security Engineer
15 69 (4.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 63 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
17 56 (3.28%) Principal Engineer
17 56 (3.28%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 53 (3.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 50 (2.93%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (8.27%) React
2 122 (7.16%) Node.js
3 121 (7.10%) Kafka
4 119 (6.98%) .NET
5 111 (6.51%) REST
6 101 (5.92%) RESTful
7 82 (4.81%) YAML
8 80 (4.69%) AWS CDK
9 75 (4.40%) Spring
10 69 (4.05%) Spring Boot
11 67 (3.93%) Elastic Stack
12 64 (3.75%) OAuth
13 54 (3.17%) ARM Templates
14 52 (3.05%) PySpark
15 51 (2.99%) RabbitMQ
16 42 (2.46%) JSON
17 39 (2.29%) ASP.NET
18 38 (2.23%) AngularJS
19 37 (2.17%) ASP.NET Core
19 37 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 413 (24.22%) Cloud Native
2 136 (7.98%) Distributed Systems
3 89 (5.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 75 (4.40%) Public Cloud
5 60 (3.52%) Product Ownership
6 56 (3.28%) Data Centre
7 52 (3.05%) Security Posture
8 48 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
9 42 (2.46%) Onboarding
10 35 (2.05%) Video\Live Streaming
11 32 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
12 30 (1.76%) Low-Code
13 25 (1.47%) Blockchain
13 25 (1.47%) Management Information System
13 25 (1.47%) Mobile App
13 25 (1.47%) PKI
14 24 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
14 24 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
15 23 (1.35%) Web3
16 22 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 332 (19.47%) Linux
2 163 (9.56%) Windows
3 80 (4.69%) Windows Server
4 55 (3.23%) Unix
5 41 (2.40%) Ubuntu
6 32 (1.88%) CentOS
7 25 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 25 (1.47%) VMS
8 15 (0.88%) Android
9 14 (0.82%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.41%) Debian
10 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.18%) SUSE
13 2 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.059%) Rocky
14 1 (0.059%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,199 (70.32%) CI/CD
2 1,012 (59.35%) DevOps
3 471 (27.62%) Agile
4 464 (27.21%) Observability
5 462 (27.10%) Containerisation
6 368 (21.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 355 (20.82%) Mentoring
8 349 (20.47%) Platform Engineering
9 311 (18.24%) AI
9 311 (18.24%) Test Automation
10 291 (17.07%) Software Engineering
11 273 (16.01%) Problem-Solving
12 268 (15.72%) Microservices
13 228 (13.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 226 (13.26%) Cloud Security
15 214 (12.55%) Technical Leadership
16 200 (11.73%) Analytics
17 183 (10.73%) DevSecOps
18 179 (10.50%) High Availability
19 170 (9.97%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 777 (45.57%) Python
2 299 (17.54%) Bash
3 271 (15.89%) PowerShell
4 269 (15.78%) SQL
5 242 (14.19%) Java
6 171 (10.03%) Go
7 168 (9.85%) JavaScript
8 163 (9.56%) TypeScript
9 139 (8.15%) Bicep
10 125 (7.33%) C#
11 29 (1.70%) C++
11 29 (1.70%) Rust
12 22 (1.29%) Scala
13 15 (0.88%) Groovy
13 15 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
14 14 (0.82%) PHP
15 13 (0.76%) C
16 12 (0.70%) Kotlin
17 9 (0.53%) Shell Script
18 8 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 326 (19.12%) Security Cleared
2 203 (11.91%) SC Cleared
3 158 (9.27%) Degree
4 136 (7.98%) AWS Certification
5 92 (5.40%) DV Cleared
6 90 (5.28%) Azure Certification
7 60 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 38 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 31 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 28 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
10 28 (1.64%) OSCP
11 21 (1.23%) CISSP
12 16 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
12 16 (0.94%) CCNP
12 16 (0.94%) DBS Check
13 14 (0.82%) Master's Degree
14 13 (0.76%) CCNA
15 12 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 10 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 10 (0.59%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (5.10%) QA
2 70 (4.11%) Data Quality
3 65 (3.81%) GDPR
4 51 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 48 (2.82%) SOC 2
6 39 (2.29%) NIST
7 31 (1.82%) Accessibility
8 30 (1.76%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.76%) SLA
10 12 (0.70%) WCAG
11 7 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.41%) GRC
12 6 (0.35%) NCSC
13 4 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.12%) IFRS
14 2 (0.12%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.12%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.12%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.059%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 476 (27.92%) Docker
2 106 (6.22%) Active Directory
3 84 (4.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
5 30 (1.76%) vSphere
6 20 (1.17%) VMware NSX
7 18 (1.06%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.47%) Firmware
9 7 (0.41%) iptables
9 7 (0.41%) KVM
10 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 6 (0.35%) Squid
10 6 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,180 (69.21%) Terraform
2 652 (38.24%) Kubernetes
3 364 (21.35%) Ansible
4 219 (12.84%) Grafana
5 206 (12.08%) Prometheus
6 61 (3.58%) Argo
7 42 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
7 42 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
8 39 (2.29%) Puppet
9 25 (1.47%) Progress Chef
10 22 (1.29%) Kustomize
11 19 (1.11%) Nagios
12 18 (1.06%) Packer
12 18 (1.06%) Rancher
13 17 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 17 (1.00%) Istio
14 12 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
15 10 (0.59%) vCenter Server
15 10 (0.59%) ZABBIX
16 9 (0.53%) yum
Vendors
1 318 (18.65%) Microsoft
2 121 (7.10%) VMware
3 107 (6.28%) Google
4 74 (4.34%) Databricks
5 67 (3.93%) Red Hat
6 57 (3.34%) Cisco
7 49 (2.87%) Splunk
8 46 (2.70%) Palo Alto
9 24 (1.41%) Zscaler
10 23 (1.35%) Dynatrace
11 22 (1.29%) OpenAI
11 22 (1.29%) Salesforce
12 21 (1.23%) Oracle
13 20 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
13 20 (1.17%) Fortinet
14 12 (0.70%) CheckPoint
14 12 (0.70%) F5
15 11 (0.65%) Atlassian
15 11 (0.65%) Foundry
15 11 (0.65%) Juniper