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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 131 159
Rank change year-on-year +24 +28 -54
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,464 943 1,664
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.83% 2.31% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 2.48% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 963 695 1,332
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,821 £60,000 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.66% +4.14% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £94,063
90th Percentile £107,500 £113,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,729 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +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 61,153 38,054 77,716
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.62% 93.06% 86.41%
Number of salaries quoted 37,653 22,322 57,935
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,097
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.41%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 +24 1,282 £75,000 -3.23% 672
UK excluding London +10 684 £68,729 -1.82% 486
London +38 632 £85,000 -5.56% 278
Work from Home +46 574 £70,000 -7.63% 338
North of England -19 248 £70,000 +3.70% 159
South East +7 149 £70,000 -5.08% 123
North West -7 120 £73,801 +1.79% 84
South West -5 97 £62,500 -13.18% 88
Yorkshire -10 96 £65,000 +13.04% 47
Midlands -8 74 £67,500 +3.85% 47
Scotland -12 54 £60,000 -14.89% 22
East Midlands -19 37 £67,500 +3.85% 6
West Midlands -21 35 £65,500 -6.43% 41
East of England -9 33 £62,500 -12.28% 35
North East -8 32 £48,445 -15.75% 28
Wales -8 21 £68,500 +14.17% 12
Northern Ireland -31 11 £95,000 - 7

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 47 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (2.53%) Apache
3 25 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 24 (1.64%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.02%) Confluence
5 15 (1.02%) IIS
6 10 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
6 10 (0.68%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.20%) CMS
7 3 (0.20%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.068%) Appian
9 1 (0.068%) Camunda
9 1 (0.068%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.068%) nginx
9 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.068%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.27%) PlantUML
1 4 (0.27%) Weka
2 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.068%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.068%) Maya
4 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.068%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.068%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.068%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.068%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 907 (61.95%) AWS
2 805 (54.99%) Azure
3 332 (22.68%) GCP
4 312 (21.31%) GitHub
5 290 (19.81%) Azure DevOps
6 279 (19.06%) Serverless
7 259 (17.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 218 (14.89%) GitHub Actions
9 169 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
10 142 (9.70%) Amazon S3
11 131 (8.95%) Amazon EKS
12 125 (8.54%) PaaS
13 118 (8.06%) SaaS
14 112 (7.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 107 (7.31%) Entra ID
16 98 (6.69%) Datadog
17 91 (6.22%) Amazon ECS
18 88 (6.01%) Amazon EC2
19 83 (5.67%) Microsoft 365
20 79 (5.40%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 170 (11.61%) Firewall
2 89 (6.08%) DNS
3 82 (5.60%) TCP/IP
4 73 (4.99%) VPN
5 42 (2.87%) WAN
6 41 (2.80%) Network Security
7 38 (2.60%) Broadband
8 30 (2.05%) DHCP
9 22 (1.50%) HTTP
10 21 (1.43%) LAN
11 19 (1.30%) BGP
12 17 (1.16%) VLAN
13 16 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
14 15 (1.02%) DSL
15 13 (0.89%) Internet
16 11 (0.75%) SD-WAN
17 9 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
18 8 (0.55%) Software-Defined Networking
18 8 (0.55%) Wireless
19 5 (0.34%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (7.72%) NoSQL
2 111 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
3 98 (6.69%) Amazon RDS
4 61 (4.17%) SQL Server
5 55 (3.76%) DynamoDB
6 45 (3.07%) Relational Database
7 43 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
7 43 (2.94%) MongoDB
8 42 (2.87%) Data Lake
9 40 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
10 38 (2.60%) Redis
11 32 (2.19%) MySQL
12 29 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
13 28 (1.91%) BigQuery
14 23 (1.57%) Metadata
15 22 (1.50%) Power BI
16 19 (1.30%) RDBMS
17 17 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
17 17 (1.16%) Delta Lake
18 15 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 215 (14.69%) Jenkins
2 197 (13.46%) GitLab
3 195 (13.32%) Git
4 37 (2.53%) JIRA
5 33 (2.25%) CircleCI
6 32 (2.19%) Bitbucket
7 30 (2.05%) Selenium
8 28 (1.91%) Cucumber
9 24 (1.64%) Robot Framework
10 21 (1.43%) Jaeger
11 18 (1.23%) TeamCity
12 17 (1.16%) JMeter
12 17 (1.16%) SonarQube
13 16 (1.09%) Snyk
14 14 (0.96%) MLflow
15 13 (0.89%) Locust
16 10 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 10 (0.68%) Subversion
17 9 (0.61%) NUnit
17 9 (0.61%) Storybook
General
1 393 (26.84%) Social Skills
2 345 (23.57%) Finance
3 132 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (6.76%) Banking
5 89 (6.08%) Public Sector
6 83 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 70 (4.78%) Law
8 66 (4.51%) Retail
9 60 (4.10%) Telecoms
10 30 (2.05%) Financial Institution
11 29 (1.98%) Marketing
12 26 (1.78%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.50%) Billing
13 22 (1.50%) Games
14 21 (1.43%) Back Office
15 19 (1.30%) Advertising
15 19 (1.30%) Aerospace
16 17 (1.16%) Legal
17 15 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
17 15 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 324 (22.13%) Senior
2 242 (16.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 217 (14.82%) Cloud Engineer
4 196 (13.39%) Lead
5 143 (9.77%) Developer
6 138 (9.43%) Azure Engineer
7 128 (8.74%) Platform Engineer
8 117 (7.99%) Architect
9 109 (7.45%) AWS Engineer
10 102 (6.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 70 (4.78%) Software Engineer
12 64 (4.37%) Data Engineer
13 60 (4.10%) Security Engineer
14 58 (3.96%) Senior DevOps
15 49 (3.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 47 (3.21%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 46 (3.14%) Cloud Security Engineer
18 45 (3.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 43 (2.94%) Lead DevOps
19 43 (2.94%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (8.95%) React
2 104 (7.10%) Node.js
3 95 (6.49%) .NET
4 90 (6.15%) REST
5 89 (6.08%) RESTful
6 81 (5.53%) Elastic Stack
6 81 (5.53%) Kafka
7 71 (4.85%) AWS CDK
8 66 (4.51%) Spring
9 61 (4.17%) OAuth
9 61 (4.17%) YAML
10 59 (4.03%) Spring Boot
11 53 (3.62%) Django
12 46 (3.14%) RabbitMQ
13 43 (2.94%) ARM Templates
14 39 (2.66%) FastAPI
15 37 (2.53%) CSS
16 35 (2.39%) .NET Core
17 33 (2.25%) HTML
17 33 (2.25%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 333 (22.75%) Cloud Native
2 81 (5.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 80 (5.46%) Distributed Systems
4 61 (4.17%) Public Cloud
5 60 (4.10%) Security Posture
6 57 (3.89%) Product Ownership
7 44 (3.01%) Data Centre
8 39 (2.66%) Onboarding
9 34 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
9 34 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
10 31 (2.12%) Linux Command Line
11 26 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.64%) Management Information System
12 24 (1.64%) Mobile App
12 24 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
13 20 (1.37%) PKI
14 18 (1.23%) Blockchain
14 18 (1.23%) Blog
14 18 (1.23%) Cloud Security Posture
14 18 (1.23%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 333 (22.75%) Linux
2 165 (11.27%) Windows
3 81 (5.53%) Unix
4 61 (4.17%) Windows Server
5 35 (2.39%) Ubuntu
6 30 (2.05%) VMS
7 26 (1.78%) CentOS
8 25 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 17 (1.16%) Android
10 16 (1.09%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.55%) Debian
12 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.27%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.27%) SUSE
14 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.068%) Rocky
15 1 (0.068%) Solaris
15 1 (0.068%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,012 (69.13%) CI/CD
2 925 (63.18%) DevOps
3 436 (29.78%) Agile
4 406 (27.73%) Containerisation
5 381 (26.02%) Observability
6 340 (23.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 291 (19.88%) Mentoring
8 282 (19.26%) Problem-Solving
9 241 (16.46%) Test Automation
10 240 (16.39%) Platform Engineering
11 231 (15.78%) Software Engineering
12 222 (15.16%) AI
13 200 (13.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 199 (13.59%) Cloud Security
15 192 (13.11%) Microservices
16 175 (11.95%) Incident Response
17 173 (11.82%) Analytics
18 165 (11.27%) DevSecOps
19 149 (10.18%) High Availability
20 147 (10.04%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 672 (45.90%) Python
2 273 (18.65%) Bash
3 237 (16.19%) SQL
4 235 (16.05%) PowerShell
5 207 (14.14%) Java
6 152 (10.38%) Go
7 141 (9.63%) JavaScript
8 134 (9.15%) Bicep
9 120 (8.20%) TypeScript
10 93 (6.35%) C#
11 22 (1.50%) C++
12 19 (1.30%) Rust
13 18 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
14 17 (1.16%) Scala
15 16 (1.09%) Kotlin
16 11 (0.75%) C
17 10 (0.68%) Apex Code
18 8 (0.55%) Ruby
19 7 (0.48%) Perl
19 7 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 283 (19.33%) Security Cleared
2 166 (11.34%) SC Cleared
3 129 (8.81%) Degree
4 123 (8.40%) AWS Certification
5 106 (7.24%) DV Cleared
6 80 (5.46%) Azure Certification
7 52 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 33 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 31 (2.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 29 (1.98%) OSCP
11 28 (1.91%) CISSP
12 19 (1.30%) AWS Certified Developer
13 14 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.82%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 11 (0.75%) CCSK
15 11 (0.75%) DBS Check
16 10 (0.68%) CCNP
16 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 7 (0.48%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (5.46%) QA
2 71 (4.85%) GDPR
3 59 (4.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 57 (3.89%) Data Quality
5 55 (3.76%) SOC 2
6 45 (3.07%) NIST
7 40 (2.73%) Accessibility
7 40 (2.73%) PCI DSS
8 17 (1.16%) SLA
9 16 (1.09%) WCAG
10 11 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.61%) NCSC
12 8 (0.55%) GRC
13 6 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.27%) EU AI Act
15 2 (0.14%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.14%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 471 (32.17%) Docker
2 88 (6.01%) Active Directory
3 71 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (1.64%) Hyper-V
6 23 (1.57%) vSphere
7 15 (1.02%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.68%) Firmware
8 10 (0.68%) KVM
9 6 (0.41%) vCloud
10 5 (0.34%) iptables
10 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.14%) GPFS
12 2 (0.14%) Lustre
12 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.068%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,034 (70.63%) Terraform
2 574 (39.21%) Kubernetes
3 345 (23.57%) Ansible
4 215 (14.69%) Grafana
5 199 (13.59%) Prometheus
6 57 (3.89%) Argo
7 40 (2.73%) Microsoft Intune
8 35 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
9 30 (2.05%) Puppet
10 19 (1.30%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.16%) AWS Copilot
12 16 (1.09%) Rancher
13 15 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 15 (1.02%) Nagios
14 14 (0.96%) Docker Swarm
14 14 (0.96%) Progress Chef
15 12 (0.82%) Istio
16 8 (0.55%) linkerd
16 8 (0.55%) logstash
16 8 (0.55%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 252 (17.21%) Microsoft
2 131 (8.95%) Google
3 108 (7.38%) VMware
4 52 (3.55%) Red Hat
5 51 (3.48%) Databricks
6 49 (3.35%) Cisco
6 49 (3.35%) Splunk
7 41 (2.80%) Palo Alto
8 22 (1.50%) Zscaler
9 21 (1.43%) Salesforce
10 19 (1.30%) Dynatrace
11 16 (1.09%) Black Duck
11 16 (1.09%) Coverity
11 16 (1.09%) CrowdStrike
12 15 (1.02%) Atlassian
12 15 (1.02%) Juniper
12 15 (1.02%) OpenAI
13 14 (0.96%) Fortinet
14 13 (0.89%) Oracle
15 12 (0.82%) SAP