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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 151 166
Rank change year-on-year +51 +15 -59
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,649 924 1,700
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.82% 2.11% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 2.26% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,083 659 1,327
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £49,250
25th Percentile £60,125 £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 £91,250 £96,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £112,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,200 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.57% +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 66,794 40,810 82,365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.89% 93.32% 85.22%
Number of salaries quoted 42,940 22,598 59,746
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £79,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 12 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 12 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 +59 1,489 £77,500 - 654
London +40 758 £87,500 -2.78% 261
UK excluding London +58 744 £68,200 -2.57% 460
Work from Home +74 592 £70,000 -6.50% 324
North of England +25 273 £66,412 -5.13% 158
South East +39 160 £70,000 -6.67% 140
North West +38 153 £72,500 - 77
South West -7 103 £67,950 -5.61% 68
Midlands +20 100 £69,000 -1.43% 44
Yorkshire -27 85 £65,000 +1.96% 43
West Midlands -4 53 £70,000 - 28
Scotland +10 46 £60,000 -19.93% 17
East Midlands 0 45 £67,500 +3.85% 16
East of England +7 40 £60,100 -10.96% 22
North East -11 35 £49,222 -18.30% 38
Wales -12 19 £60,500 -4.35% 8
Northern Ireland -31 6 £95,000 - 8

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 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (2.00%) Apache
3 27 (1.64%) Apache Spark
4 25 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (1.09%) Confluence
6 15 (0.91%) IIS
7 13 (0.79%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.30%) CMS
10 4 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.061%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.061%) Camunda
12 1 (0.061%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.061%) nginx
12 1 (0.061%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.061%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.061%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (0.55%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.24%) Weka
3 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.061%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.061%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.061%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.061%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.061%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 970 (58.82%) AWS
2 902 (54.70%) Azure
3 326 (19.77%) GitHub
4 320 (19.41%) GCP
5 299 (18.13%) Azure DevOps
6 294 (17.83%) Serverless
7 255 (15.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 221 (13.40%) GitHub Actions
9 171 (10.37%) AWS Lambda
10 145 (8.79%) Amazon S3
11 122 (7.40%) PaaS
12 117 (7.10%) Amazon EKS
13 113 (6.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 113 (6.85%) Entra ID
14 103 (6.25%) SaaS
15 100 (6.06%) Datadog
16 94 (5.70%) IaaS
17 93 (5.64%) Amazon EC2
18 86 (5.22%) Azure AKS
18 86 (5.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 176 (10.67%) Firewall
2 93 (5.64%) DNS
3 73 (4.43%) VPN
4 70 (4.24%) TCP/IP
5 54 (3.27%) Broadband
6 49 (2.97%) Network Security
7 46 (2.79%) WAN
8 36 (2.18%) DHCP
9 26 (1.58%) HTTP
9 26 (1.58%) LAN
10 25 (1.52%) BGP
11 17 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
11 17 (1.03%) SD-WAN
11 17 (1.03%) VLAN
12 15 (0.91%) DSL
12 15 (0.91%) Software-Defined Networking
13 11 (0.67%) Internet
14 8 (0.49%) OSPF
14 8 (0.49%) SAN
14 8 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (7.76%) NoSQL
2 119 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
3 86 (5.22%) Amazon RDS
4 73 (4.43%) MongoDB
5 64 (3.88%) SQL Server
6 63 (3.82%) DynamoDB
7 53 (3.21%) Data Lake
7 53 (3.21%) Relational Database
8 47 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
9 39 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
10 33 (2.00%) Metadata
11 31 (1.88%) BigQuery
12 29 (1.76%) MySQL
13 27 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
14 21 (1.27%) Delta Lake
14 21 (1.27%) Power BI
15 18 (1.09%) RDBMS
15 18 (1.09%) Redis
16 17 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
17 15 (0.91%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 230 (13.95%) Jenkins
2 226 (13.71%) Git
2 226 (13.71%) GitLab
3 42 (2.55%) CircleCI
4 36 (2.18%) Bitbucket
5 35 (2.12%) JIRA
6 27 (1.64%) Cucumber
7 20 (1.21%) Jaeger
8 16 (0.97%) Selenium
8 16 (0.97%) SonarQube
9 14 (0.85%) TeamCity
10 13 (0.79%) Subversion
11 12 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 12 (0.73%) MLflow
12 9 (0.55%) Maven
12 9 (0.55%) NUnit
12 9 (0.55%) Storybook
12 9 (0.55%) Vite
13 8 (0.49%) JMeter
13 8 (0.49%) Robot Framework
General
1 407 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 360 (21.83%) Finance
3 115 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (6.37%) Public Sector
5 96 (5.82%) Banking
6 74 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (3.46%) Retail
7 57 (3.46%) Telecoms
8 55 (3.34%) Law
9 36 (2.18%) Games
10 31 (1.88%) Manufacturing
11 24 (1.46%) Marketing
12 21 (1.27%) Aerospace
13 19 (1.15%) Advertising
13 19 (1.15%) Billing
13 19 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
13 19 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
14 18 (1.09%) Legal
15 17 (1.03%) Financial Institution
16 15 (0.91%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 372 (22.56%) Senior
2 268 (16.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 245 (14.86%) Cloud Engineer
4 232 (14.07%) Lead
5 166 (10.07%) Azure Engineer
6 160 (9.70%) Platform Engineer
7 151 (9.16%) Developer
8 148 (8.98%) Architect
9 123 (7.46%) AWS Engineer
10 121 (7.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 87 (5.28%) Data Engineer
12 82 (4.97%) Software Engineer
13 72 (4.37%) Security Engineer
14 70 (4.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 66 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 62 (3.76%) Senior DevOps
17 52 (3.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 51 (3.09%) Senior Platform Engineer
19 48 (2.91%) Python Engineer
20 47 (2.85%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (8.19%) React
2 115 (6.97%) Node.js
3 113 (6.85%) .NET
4 111 (6.73%) Kafka
5 103 (6.25%) REST
6 101 (6.12%) RESTful
7 78 (4.73%) AWS CDK
8 73 (4.43%) YAML
9 72 (4.37%) Elastic Stack
10 71 (4.31%) Spring
11 65 (3.94%) Spring Boot
12 64 (3.88%) OAuth
13 50 (3.03%) ARM Templates
14 49 (2.97%) RabbitMQ
15 46 (2.79%) PySpark
16 37 (2.24%) Next.js
17 36 (2.18%) JSON
18 35 (2.12%) OpenTelemetry
19 34 (2.06%) ASP.NET
19 34 (2.06%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 399 (24.20%) Cloud Native
2 120 (7.28%) Distributed Systems
3 91 (5.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 73 (4.43%) Public Cloud
5 59 (3.58%) Product Ownership
6 56 (3.40%) Security Posture
7 50 (3.03%) Data Centre
8 46 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
9 42 (2.55%) Onboarding
10 31 (1.88%) Low-Code
10 31 (1.88%) Video\Live Streaming
11 30 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
12 25 (1.52%) Mobile App
13 24 (1.46%) Blockchain
13 24 (1.46%) Management Information System
13 24 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
14 23 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
15 22 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
15 22 (1.33%) Web3
16 21 (1.27%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 329 (19.95%) Linux
2 165 (10.01%) Windows
3 74 (4.49%) Windows Server
4 58 (3.52%) Unix
5 35 (2.12%) Ubuntu
6 28 (1.70%) CentOS
7 27 (1.64%) VMS
8 26 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (0.91%) Android
10 14 (0.85%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.36%) Debian
11 6 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.24%) SUSE
13 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.061%) Rocky
15 1 (0.061%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,150 (69.74%) CI/CD
2 993 (60.22%) DevOps
3 456 (27.65%) Containerisation
4 452 (27.41%) Agile
5 445 (26.99%) Observability
6 365 (22.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 329 (19.95%) Mentoring
8 319 (19.35%) Platform Engineering
9 297 (18.01%) Test Automation
10 293 (17.77%) AI
11 271 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
11 271 (16.43%) Software Engineering
12 246 (14.92%) Microservices
13 223 (13.52%) Cloud Security
14 222 (13.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 198 (12.01%) Analytics
16 189 (11.46%) Technical Leadership
17 183 (11.10%) DevSecOps
18 172 (10.43%) High Availability
19 168 (10.19%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 758 (45.97%) Python
2 303 (18.37%) Bash
3 269 (16.31%) PowerShell
4 265 (16.07%) SQL
5 235 (14.25%) Java
6 170 (10.31%) Go
7 154 (9.34%) JavaScript
8 147 (8.91%) TypeScript
9 144 (8.73%) Bicep
10 121 (7.34%) C#
11 28 (1.70%) C++
12 27 (1.64%) Rust
13 23 (1.39%) Scala
14 18 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
15 13 (0.79%) C
15 13 (0.79%) Groovy
16 12 (0.73%) Kotlin
17 10 (0.61%) PHP
18 8 (0.49%) Apex Code
18 8 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 309 (18.74%) Security Cleared
2 190 (11.52%) SC Cleared
3 153 (9.28%) Degree
4 126 (7.64%) AWS Certification
5 93 (5.64%) DV Cleared
6 87 (5.28%) Azure Certification
7 60 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (2.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 29 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (1.76%) OSCP
10 26 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (1.58%) CISSP
11 17 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
12 15 (0.91%) CCNP
13 14 (0.85%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.79%) Master's Degree
15 12 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 12 (0.73%) CCNA
16 10 (0.61%) CCSK
16 10 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (4.91%) QA
2 70 (4.24%) Data Quality
3 67 (4.06%) GDPR
4 48 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 47 (2.85%) SOC 2
6 41 (2.49%) NIST
7 34 (2.06%) Accessibility
8 30 (1.82%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.73%) SLA
10 11 (0.67%) WCAG
11 9 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.55%) NCSC
12 5 (0.30%) GRC
13 4 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.12%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.12%) IFRS
14 2 (0.12%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.12%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 471 (28.56%) Docker
2 103 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 81 (4.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (1.70%) vSphere
6 19 (1.15%) Hyper-V
6 19 (1.15%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.49%) Firmware
8 7 (0.42%) iptables
8 7 (0.42%) KVM
9 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.30%) Squid
11 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.12%) GPFS
12 2 (0.12%) Lustre
12 2 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.061%) vCloud
13 1 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,139 (69.07%) Terraform
2 642 (38.93%) Kubernetes
3 362 (21.95%) Ansible
4 222 (13.46%) Grafana
5 209 (12.67%) Prometheus
6 59 (3.58%) Argo
7 42 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 42 (2.55%) Single Sign-On
8 37 (2.24%) Puppet
9 23 (1.39%) Progress Chef
10 22 (1.33%) Kustomize
11 20 (1.21%) Rancher
12 18 (1.09%) Nagios
13 17 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 16 (0.97%) Istio
14 16 (0.97%) Packer
15 13 (0.79%) Docker Swarm
16 9 (0.55%) logstash
16 9 (0.55%) vCenter Server
16 9 (0.55%) yum
Vendors
1 306 (18.56%) Microsoft
2 121 (7.34%) VMware
3 110 (6.67%) Google
4 74 (4.49%) Databricks
5 65 (3.94%) Red Hat
6 56 (3.40%) Cisco
7 50 (3.03%) Splunk
8 42 (2.55%) Palo Alto
9 23 (1.39%) Zscaler
10 22 (1.33%) CrowdStrike
10 22 (1.33%) OpenAI
11 21 (1.27%) Salesforce
12 20 (1.21%) Dynatrace
13 18 (1.09%) Fortinet
14 17 (1.03%) Oracle
15 13 (0.79%) Juniper
15 13 (0.79%) SAP
16 12 (0.73%) Atlassian
17 11 (0.67%) CheckPoint
18 10 (0.61%) Palantir