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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 154 171
Rank change year-on-year +74 +17 -65
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,894 985 1,703
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.02% 2.20% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 2.37% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,283 648 1,298
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,250 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £78,810 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +12.59% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,375 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

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 68,493 41,477 89,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 92.48% 81.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,109 22,216 63,180
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £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 19 June 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 19 June 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 +69 1,733 £77,500 -1.66% 559
UK excluding London +81 896 £70,000 - 424
London +31 846 £87,500 -2.78% 236
Work from Home +84 684 £70,000 -9.68% 286
North of England +73 327 £67,500 -3.57% 112
South East +44 205 £70,000 -9.68% 145
North West +74 197 £72,500 - 67
South West +18 134 £75,000 +7.14% 81
Midlands +41 117 £73,500 +13.08% 42
Yorkshire -5 84 £65,576 -6.32% 25
West Midlands +20 67 £80,000 +18.52% 29
East of England +8 52 £60,100 -7.54% 17
East Midlands +5 50 £67,500 +3.85% 13
North East -4 46 £55,000 -14.06% 20
Scotland +10 36 £60,000 -20.19% 12
Wales -27 26 £70,000 +27.27% 9
Northern Ireland -28 3 £84,401 +95.86% 16

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 53 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (2.22%) Apache
3 39 (2.06%) Apache Spark
4 33 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 23 (1.21%) Confluence
6 14 (0.74%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.58%) IIS
8 9 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.42%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.26%) CMS
11 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.16%) WordPress
13 2 (0.11%) Camunda
14 1 (0.053%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.053%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.053%) nginx
14 1 (0.053%) NServiceBus
14 1 (0.053%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.053%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (0.84%) PlantUML
2 8 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.21%) Weka
4 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.053%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.053%) Maya
5 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.053%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.053%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.053%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,109 (58.55%) AWS
2 1,002 (52.90%) Azure
3 362 (19.11%) GitHub
4 331 (17.48%) GCP
5 330 (17.42%) Serverless
6 306 (16.16%) Azure DevOps
7 291 (15.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 219 (11.56%) GitHub Actions
9 184 (9.71%) AWS Lambda
10 179 (9.45%) Amazon S3
11 164 (8.66%) PaaS
12 128 (6.76%) Amazon EKS
13 126 (6.65%) SaaS
14 125 (6.60%) IaaS
15 124 (6.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 122 (6.44%) Amazon EC2
17 119 (6.28%) Entra ID
18 111 (5.86%) Azure AKS
19 102 (5.39%) Datadog
20 98 (5.17%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 179 (9.45%) Firewall
2 101 (5.33%) DNS
3 93 (4.91%) VPN
4 75 (3.96%) Broadband
5 72 (3.80%) Network Security
6 66 (3.48%) TCP/IP
7 49 (2.59%) WAN
8 39 (2.06%) BGP
9 31 (1.64%) DHCP
9 31 (1.64%) VLAN
10 27 (1.43%) LAN
11 24 (1.27%) HTTP
12 21 (1.11%) OSPF
13 20 (1.06%) Software-Defined Networking
14 19 (1.00%) SD-WAN
15 16 (0.84%) VXLAN
16 15 (0.79%) Cisco ASA
16 15 (0.79%) DSL
17 10 (0.53%) IPv4
18 9 (0.48%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
2 135 (7.13%) NoSQL
3 92 (4.86%) Amazon RDS
4 87 (4.59%) MongoDB
5 65 (3.43%) DynamoDB
5 65 (3.43%) SQL Server
6 59 (3.12%) Relational Database
7 52 (2.75%) Data Lake
8 50 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 45 (2.38%) Metadata
10 41 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
11 31 (1.64%) MySQL
12 29 (1.53%) BigQuery
13 28 (1.48%) Redis
14 26 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
15 24 (1.27%) Power BI
16 23 (1.21%) Delta Lake
17 21 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
17 21 (1.11%) RDBMS
18 20 (1.06%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 263 (13.89%) GitLab
2 244 (12.88%) Git
3 236 (12.46%) Jenkins
4 45 (2.38%) CircleCI
5 37 (1.95%) JIRA
6 36 (1.90%) Cucumber
7 33 (1.74%) Bitbucket
8 25 (1.32%) TeamCity
9 20 (1.06%) Jaeger
10 15 (0.79%) SonarQube
11 14 (0.74%) Selenium
12 13 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 12 (0.63%) MLflow
14 10 (0.53%) Maven
14 10 (0.53%) NUnit
14 10 (0.53%) Subversion
15 9 (0.48%) JMeter
15 9 (0.48%) Vite
16 8 (0.42%) Claude Code
17 7 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 451 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 385 (20.33%) Finance
3 135 (7.13%) Analytical Skills
4 133 (7.02%) Public Sector
5 110 (5.81%) Banking
6 96 (5.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (3.12%) Law
7 59 (3.12%) Retail
8 43 (2.27%) Games
9 40 (2.11%) Telecoms
10 30 (1.58%) Manufacturing
11 27 (1.43%) Aerospace
12 23 (1.21%) Legal
13 21 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
15 16 (0.84%) Advertising
15 16 (0.84%) Financial Institution
15 16 (0.84%) Marketing
16 15 (0.79%) Billing
17 11 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 433 (22.86%) Senior
2 319 (16.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 276 (14.57%) Cloud Engineer
4 266 (14.04%) Lead
5 208 (10.98%) Platform Engineer
6 192 (10.14%) Architect
7 182 (9.61%) Azure Engineer
8 171 (9.03%) Developer
9 142 (7.50%) AWS Engineer
10 117 (6.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 100 (5.28%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 99 (5.23%) Data Engineer
13 96 (5.07%) Software Engineer
14 85 (4.49%) Security Engineer
15 78 (4.12%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 73 (3.85%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 69 (3.64%) Principal Engineer
18 64 (3.38%) Senior DevOps
19 61 (3.22%) Senior Developer
20 59 (3.12%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (7.66%) React
2 136 (7.18%) Kafka
3 127 (6.71%) .NET
3 127 (6.71%) REST
4 126 (6.65%) Node.js
5 101 (5.33%) RESTful
6 92 (4.86%) Spring
7 88 (4.65%) Spring Boot
8 86 (4.54%) YAML
9 77 (4.07%) AWS CDK
10 75 (3.96%) Elastic Stack
11 64 (3.38%) PySpark
12 63 (3.33%) ARM Templates
13 56 (2.96%) OAuth
14 54 (2.85%) RabbitMQ
15 45 (2.38%) Next.js
16 43 (2.27%) AngularJS
16 43 (2.27%) OpenTelemetry
17 41 (2.16%) JSON
18 37 (1.95%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 520 (27.46%) Cloud Native
2 172 (9.08%) Distributed Systems
3 103 (5.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 88 (4.65%) Public Cloud
5 66 (3.48%) Product Ownership
6 65 (3.43%) Data Centre
6 65 (3.43%) Onboarding
7 60 (3.17%) Security Posture
8 54 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
9 48 (2.53%) Video\Live Streaming
10 39 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
11 36 (1.90%) Low-Code
12 29 (1.53%) Enterprise Cloud
13 28 (1.48%) PKI
14 27 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
15 26 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
16 24 (1.27%) Blockchain
16 24 (1.27%) Management Information System
17 23 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
18 22 (1.16%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 351 (18.53%) Linux
2 180 (9.50%) Windows
3 86 (4.54%) Windows Server
4 50 (2.64%) Unix
5 46 (2.43%) Ubuntu
6 40 (2.11%) CentOS
7 29 (1.53%) VMS
8 27 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (0.79%) Android
10 14 (0.74%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.37%) Debian
13 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.053%) AIX
15 1 (0.053%) Rocky
15 1 (0.053%) SUSE
15 1 (0.053%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,343 (70.91%) CI/CD
2 1,085 (57.29%) DevOps
3 531 (28.04%) Observability
4 530 (27.98%) Agile
5 520 (27.46%) Containerisation
6 422 (22.28%) Platform Engineering
7 405 (21.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 402 (21.22%) Mentoring
9 386 (20.38%) AI
10 340 (17.95%) Software Engineering
11 328 (17.32%) Test Automation
12 309 (16.31%) Microservices
13 291 (15.36%) Problem-Solving
14 264 (13.94%) Cloud Security
14 264 (13.94%) Technical Leadership
15 244 (12.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 228 (12.04%) Analytics
17 210 (11.09%) Roadmaps
18 203 (10.72%) DevSecOps
19 184 (9.71%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 863 (45.56%) Python
2 339 (17.90%) Bash
3 299 (15.79%) PowerShell
4 298 (15.73%) SQL
5 274 (14.47%) Java
6 185 (9.77%) Go
7 180 (9.50%) Bicep
7 180 (9.50%) JavaScript
7 180 (9.50%) TypeScript
8 140 (7.39%) C#
9 31 (1.64%) Rust
10 27 (1.43%) C++
11 25 (1.32%) Scala
12 22 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
13 21 (1.11%) PHP
14 19 (1.00%) Groovy
15 18 (0.95%) Ruby
16 11 (0.58%) Kotlin
17 10 (0.53%) C
18 9 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 387 (20.43%) Security Cleared
2 247 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 165 (8.71%) Degree
4 144 (7.60%) AWS Certification
5 106 (5.60%) Azure Certification
6 102 (5.39%) DV Cleared
7 65 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 51 (2.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 46 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 34 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
11 27 (1.43%) OSCP
12 20 (1.06%) CCNP
12 20 (1.06%) CISSP
13 18 (0.95%) Master's Degree
14 16 (0.84%) DBS Check
15 15 (0.79%) CCNA
16 13 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 13 (0.69%) RHCSA
17 10 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
18 9 (0.48%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (4.91%) QA
2 82 (4.33%) Data Quality
3 62 (3.27%) GDPR
4 52 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 45 (2.38%) SOC 2
6 36 (1.90%) NIST
7 33 (1.74%) Accessibility
8 30 (1.58%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.90%) WCAG
10 14 (0.74%) SLA
11 13 (0.69%) NCSC
12 11 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.53%) GRC
14 5 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
16 2 (0.11%) IFRS
16 2 (0.11%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.11%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 509 (26.87%) Docker
2 118 (6.23%) Active Directory
3 105 (5.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (2.11%) vSphere
5 39 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (1.06%) VMware NSX
7 19 (1.00%) Hyper-V
8 10 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.42%) Squid
10 7 (0.37%) iptables
11 6 (0.32%) Firmware
11 6 (0.32%) KVM
11 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.053%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,320 (69.69%) Terraform
2 726 (38.33%) Kubernetes
3 398 (21.01%) Ansible
4 231 (12.20%) Grafana
5 216 (11.40%) Prometheus
6 72 (3.80%) Argo
7 44 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
8 41 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 41 (2.16%) Puppet
9 29 (1.53%) Progress Chef
10 27 (1.43%) Packer
11 25 (1.32%) Kustomize
12 21 (1.11%) Istio
12 21 (1.11%) Nagios
13 17 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 15 (0.79%) ZABBIX
15 14 (0.74%) vCenter Server
16 12 (0.63%) Cilium
17 11 (0.58%) Proxmox
17 11 (0.58%) Rancher
Vendors
1 357 (18.85%) Microsoft
2 141 (7.44%) VMware
3 108 (5.70%) Google
4 78 (4.12%) Databricks
5 75 (3.96%) Red Hat
6 62 (3.27%) Splunk
7 57 (3.01%) Cisco
8 47 (2.48%) Palo Alto
9 35 (1.85%) Oracle
10 29 (1.53%) OpenAI
11 27 (1.43%) Fortinet
12 26 (1.37%) Zscaler
13 23 (1.21%) Dynatrace
14 17 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
15 13 (0.69%) Salesforce
16 12 (0.63%) F5
16 12 (0.63%) Foundry
17 11 (0.58%) CheckPoint
17 11 (0.58%) ServiceNow
18 10 (0.53%) Rapid7