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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 159 123
Rank change year-on-year +85 -36 -34
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,516 1,006 1,587
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.15% 2.04% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 2.29% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,613 710 966
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £45,250
25th Percentile £60,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £88,563
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,079 £69,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.56% +6.15% -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 85,591 43,838 62,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.02% 88.74% 81.52%
Number of salaries quoted 59,105 24,621 34,654
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,560
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.45% -4.07%
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 25 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 25 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 +77 2,190 £77,500 +3.33% 2,647
UK excluding London +106 1,379 £70,079 +1.56% 1,371
London +29 946 £90,000 +5.88% 1,495
Work from Home +55 808 £75,000 - 1,156
North of England +101 491 £70,000 - 408
North West +107 269 £72,500 +13.73% 239
South East +46 249 £67,500 -14.29% 264
South West +47 248 £75,000 +3.45% 226
Midlands +42 154 £75,000 +15.83% 148
North East +19 118 £60,000 -17.24% 62
Yorkshire +4 110 £70,000 - 110
West Midlands +7 95 £85,000 +36.55% 92
Wales -6 77 £70,000 +19.15% 42
Northern Ireland -37 62 £71,991 +67.07% 42
East Midlands +8 59 £66,250 +1.92% 56
East of England +2 56 £65,000 - 97
Scotland +17 54 £72,500 +7.41% 153

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 61 (2.42%) Apache
2 59 (2.34%) Apache Spark
3 56 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
4 34 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (1.15%) Confluence
6 15 (0.60%) Jupyter
7 12 (0.48%) SharePoint
8 8 (0.32%) CMS
8 8 (0.32%) IIS
9 7 (0.28%) nginx
9 7 (0.28%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.16%) Camunda
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.12%) WordPress
12 2 (0.079%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.040%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.040%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.040%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 21 (0.83%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.079%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.040%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.040%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) Summit
4 2 (0.079%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.079%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.079%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.040%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1,420 (56.44%) AWS
2 1,359 (54.01%) Azure
3 516 (20.51%) GCP
4 457 (18.16%) GitHub
5 399 (15.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 385 (15.30%) Serverless
7 333 (13.24%) Azure DevOps
8 254 (10.10%) GitHub Actions
9 212 (8.43%) AWS Lambda
10 210 (8.35%) Amazon S3
11 183 (7.27%) PaaS
12 155 (6.16%) Amazon EKS
13 149 (5.92%) Amazon EC2
14 147 (5.84%) Amazon ECS
15 142 (5.64%) Azure AKS
15 142 (5.64%) SaaS
16 137 (5.45%) Cloud Computing
17 134 (5.33%) Entra ID
18 133 (5.29%) IaaS
19 129 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 176 (7.00%) Firewall
2 133 (5.29%) DNS
2 133 (5.29%) VPN
3 119 (4.73%) WAN
4 117 (4.65%) Network Security
5 92 (3.66%) LAN
6 66 (2.62%) TCP/IP
7 54 (2.15%) BGP
8 51 (2.03%) DHCP
9 43 (1.71%) Internet
10 42 (1.67%) Broadband
11 39 (1.55%) OSPF
12 32 (1.27%) VLAN
13 28 (1.11%) VXLAN
14 26 (1.03%) Software-Defined Networking
15 25 (0.99%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.64%) Wireless
17 15 (0.60%) Ethernet VPN
17 15 (0.60%) HTTP
17 15 (0.60%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (7.75%) PostgreSQL
2 162 (6.44%) NoSQL
3 116 (4.61%) Amazon RDS
4 105 (4.17%) MongoDB
5 90 (3.58%) SQL Server
6 79 (3.14%) DynamoDB
7 73 (2.90%) MySQL
8 69 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
9 64 (2.54%) Data Lake
10 53 (2.11%) Metadata
10 53 (2.11%) Redis
11 51 (2.03%) Relational Database
12 43 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
13 35 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
14 31 (1.23%) Big Data
15 30 (1.19%) Delta Lake
16 29 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
17 27 (1.07%) Power BI
18 25 (0.99%) BigQuery
19 23 (0.91%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 376 (14.94%) Git
2 306 (12.16%) GitLab
3 271 (10.77%) Jenkins
4 59 (2.34%) JIRA
5 51 (2.03%) Cucumber
6 35 (1.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 26 (1.03%) TeamCity
8 24 (0.95%) Bitbucket
9 23 (0.91%) Claude Code
10 20 (0.79%) CircleCI
10 20 (0.79%) Selenium
11 19 (0.76%) SonarQube
12 14 (0.56%) Cypress.io
12 14 (0.56%) Subversion
13 12 (0.48%) Maven
13 12 (0.48%) Snyk
14 11 (0.44%) Artifactory
14 11 (0.44%) NUnit
15 9 (0.36%) MSI
15 9 (0.36%) Vite
General
1 707 (28.10%) Social Skills
2 577 (22.93%) Finance
3 278 (11.05%) Public Sector
4 226 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
5 164 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 142 (5.64%) Banking
7 121 (4.81%) Law
8 74 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
9 72 (2.86%) Retail
10 62 (2.46%) Aerospace
11 42 (1.67%) Marketing
12 37 (1.47%) Legal
13 35 (1.39%) Games
14 27 (1.07%) Manufacturing
15 23 (0.91%) Telecoms
16 22 (0.87%) Financial Institution
17 17 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
18 15 (0.60%) Aviation
18 15 (0.60%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 595 (23.65%) Senior
2 471 (18.72%) DevOps Engineer
3 350 (13.91%) Architect
4 342 (13.59%) Lead
5 296 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
6 258 (10.25%) Platform Engineer
7 208 (8.27%) Developer
8 198 (7.87%) Azure Engineer
9 181 (7.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 159 (6.32%) Software Engineer
11 150 (5.96%) AWS Engineer
12 135 (5.37%) Principal Engineer
13 127 (5.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 119 (4.73%) Data Engineer
15 98 (3.90%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 97 (3.86%) Security Engineer
17 79 (3.14%) Senior Developer
18 78 (3.10%) Azure Platform Engineer
19 77 (3.06%) Senior DevOps
20 74 (2.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,671 (66.41%) Terraform
2 205 (8.15%) Kafka
3 204 (8.11%) React
4 183 (7.27%) .NET
5 169 (6.72%) Spring
5 169 (6.72%) Spring Boot
6 158 (6.28%) Node.js
7 151 (6.00%) REST
8 150 (5.96%) RESTful
9 88 (3.50%) AWS CDK
10 77 (3.06%) PySpark
11 66 (2.62%) AngularJS
12 64 (2.54%) ARM Templates
13 60 (2.38%) Next.js
13 60 (2.38%) YAML
14 59 (2.34%) RabbitMQ
15 57 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
16 48 (1.91%) LangChain
17 47 (1.87%) OAuth
18 41 (1.63%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 759 (30.17%) Cloud Native
2 285 (11.33%) Distributed Systems
3 137 (5.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 132 (5.25%) Onboarding
5 130 (5.17%) Public Cloud
6 93 (3.70%) Data Centre
7 86 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
8 75 (2.98%) Product Ownership
9 67 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
10 66 (2.62%) Security Posture
11 64 (2.54%) Linux Command Line
12 58 (2.31%) Enterprise Cloud
13 52 (2.07%) Management Information System
14 50 (1.99%) Virtual Team
15 48 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
16 45 (1.79%) e-Learning
17 44 (1.75%) AI Agents
18 43 (1.71%) Private Cloud
19 39 (1.55%) PKI
20 35 (1.39%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 453 (18.00%) Linux
2 223 (8.86%) Windows
3 99 (3.93%) Windows Server
4 61 (2.42%) CentOS
5 48 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 46 (1.83%) Unix
7 39 (1.55%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.87%) 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 (0.079%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.079%) Rocky
12 2 (0.079%) Solaris
13 1 (0.040%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.040%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.040%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,800 (71.54%) CI/CD
2 1,393 (55.37%) DevOps
3 758 (30.13%) Containerisation
4 722 (28.70%) Agile
5 696 (27.66%) Observability
6 639 (25.40%) Platform Engineering
7 583 (23.17%) Mentoring
8 569 (22.62%) AI
9 550 (21.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 529 (21.03%) Software Engineering
11 460 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
12 434 (17.25%) Microservices
13 426 (16.93%) Cloud Security
14 421 (16.73%) Technical Leadership
15 408 (16.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 391 (15.54%) Test Automation
17 365 (14.51%) Roadmaps
18 317 (12.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 289 (11.49%) Event-Driven
20 277 (11.01%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,083 (43.04%) Python
2 405 (16.10%) Java
3 391 (15.54%) Bash
4 379 (15.06%) SQL
5 356 (14.15%) PowerShell
6 243 (9.66%) Bicep
7 225 (8.94%) TypeScript
8 192 (7.63%) JavaScript
9 187 (7.43%) C#
10 157 (6.24%) Go
11 59 (2.34%) Shell Script
12 48 (1.91%) Ruby
13 41 (1.63%) Scala
14 36 (1.43%) Groovy
15 35 (1.39%) PHP
16 29 (1.15%) Rust
17 25 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
18 22 (0.87%) C++
19 20 (0.79%) Perl
20 14 (0.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 651 (25.87%) Security Cleared
2 411 (16.34%) SC Cleared
3 219 (8.70%) AWS Certification
4 214 (8.51%) DV Cleared
5 179 (7.11%) Degree
6 162 (6.44%) Azure Certification
7 97 (3.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 83 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 56 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
11 42 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
12 30 (1.19%) CCNP
13 28 (1.11%) Master's Degree
13 28 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
14 24 (0.95%) CISSP
15 21 (0.83%) CCNA
16 17 (0.68%) SnowPro
17 14 (0.56%) DBS Check
17 14 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 13 (0.52%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (4.85%) QA
2 104 (4.13%) Data Quality
3 72 (2.86%) GRC
4 68 (2.70%) GDPR
5 59 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (1.91%) Accessibility
7 36 (1.43%) NIST
8 31 (1.23%) NCSC
9 29 (1.15%) SOC 2
10 24 (0.95%) SLA
11 21 (0.83%) PCI DSS
12 20 (0.79%) WCAG
13 12 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.28%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 5 (0.20%) ISO 20022
17 3 (0.12%) ISO 9001
17 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 2 (0.079%) Solvency II
System Software
1 686 (27.27%) Docker
2 135 (5.37%) Active Directory
3 131 (5.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 45 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
4 45 (1.79%) vSphere
5 28 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 20 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.79%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.36%) KVM
8 9 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.32%) Squid
10 7 (0.28%) Firmware
11 4 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.12%) iptables
12 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.079%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 908 (36.09%) Kubernetes
2 504 (20.03%) Ansible
3 248 (9.86%) Grafana
4 181 (7.19%) Prometheus
5 76 (3.02%) Argo
6 71 (2.82%) Puppet
7 47 (1.87%) Progress Chef
8 41 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
9 36 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
10 35 (1.39%) Istio
11 30 (1.19%) Packer
12 24 (0.95%) FortiGate
12 24 (0.95%) Rancher
13 22 (0.87%) vCenter Server
14 16 (0.64%) Nagios
15 14 (0.56%) Cilium
16 13 (0.52%) Kustomize
16 13 (0.52%) logstash
17 12 (0.48%) Podman
17 12 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 623 (24.76%) Microsoft
2 190 (7.55%) Google
3 164 (6.52%) VMware
4 111 (4.41%) Databricks
5 87 (3.46%) Splunk
6 79 (3.14%) Red Hat
7 76 (3.02%) Oracle
8 72 (2.86%) Cisco
9 49 (1.95%) Dynatrace
10 42 (1.67%) OpenAI
11 38 (1.51%) Fortinet
12 37 (1.47%) Palo Alto
13 33 (1.31%) ServiceNow
14 26 (1.03%) Zscaler
15 15 (0.60%) Atlassian
15 15 (0.60%) Okta
15 15 (0.60%) SAP
16 13 (0.52%) F5
16 13 (0.52%) New Relic
16 13 (0.52%) SolarWinds