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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 156 155
Rank change year-on-year +80 -1 -52
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,215 1,033 1,486
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.18% 2.10% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.96% 2.34% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,500 704 1,109
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,063 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £107,125 £104,000
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 74,833 44,225 71,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.70% 81.44%
Number of salaries quoted 51,638 25,059 48,434
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.66%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 28 July 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 28 July 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 1,948 £77,500 - 959
UK excluding London +109 1,162 £70,000 - 582
London +27 887 £90,000 - 490
Work from Home +76 786 £72,245 -7.56% 479
North of England +88 394 £70,239 +0.34% 218
South East +69 238 £67,500 -12.90% 126
North West +91 232 £74,651 +6.64% 116
South West +37 191 £75,000 - 94
Midlands +34 139 £77,500 +19.23% 54
Yorkshire -3 92 £72,500 +3.57% 58
West Midlands +25 85 £80,000 +23.08% 38
North East +12 70 £55,000 -18.52% 44
Wales -8 59 £70,039 +21.81% 20
Northern Ireland -18 57 £73,801 +71.27% 15
East Midlands +13 54 £67,500 +3.85% 16
East of England +5 51 £63,750 +2.00% 20
Scotland +21 42 £69,746 -0.36% 36

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 56 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
2 47 (2.12%) Apache Spark
3 46 (2.08%) Apache
4 34 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (1.22%) Confluence
6 11 (0.50%) Jupyter
6 11 (0.50%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.41%) IIS
8 5 (0.23%) CMS
9 4 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.14%) Camunda
10 3 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.14%) WordPress
11 2 (0.090%) nginx
11 2 (0.090%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.045%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.045%) Documentum
12 1 (0.045%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.045%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (0.90%) PlantUML
2 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.090%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.090%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.090%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.090%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.045%) Maya
5 1 (0.045%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.14%) Summit
4 2 (0.090%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.090%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,249 (56.39%) AWS
2 1,218 (54.99%) Azure
3 402 (18.15%) GCP
4 392 (17.70%) GitHub
5 369 (16.66%) Serverless
6 345 (15.58%) AWS CloudFormation
7 317 (14.31%) Azure DevOps
8 219 (9.89%) GitHub Actions
9 202 (9.12%) AWS Lambda
10 197 (8.89%) Amazon S3
11 185 (8.35%) PaaS
12 140 (6.32%) Amazon EKS
13 138 (6.23%) Amazon EC2
14 132 (5.96%) SaaS
15 127 (5.73%) IaaS
16 126 (5.69%) Amazon ECS
17 123 (5.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 123 (5.55%) Microsoft 365
18 119 (5.37%) Azure AKS
19 111 (5.01%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 178 (8.04%) Firewall
2 114 (5.15%) WAN
3 112 (5.06%) DNS
4 110 (4.97%) VPN
5 105 (4.74%) Network Security
6 93 (4.20%) LAN
7 74 (3.34%) TCP/IP
8 57 (2.57%) Broadband
9 50 (2.26%) BGP
10 35 (1.58%) DHCP
10 35 (1.58%) VLAN
11 33 (1.49%) OSPF
12 26 (1.17%) VXLAN
13 23 (1.04%) SD-WAN
14 22 (0.99%) HTTP
14 22 (0.99%) Software-Defined Networking
15 13 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
15 13 (0.59%) Wireless
16 12 (0.54%) Ethernet VPN
17 11 (0.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
2 143 (6.46%) NoSQL
3 102 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
4 93 (4.20%) MongoDB
5 77 (3.48%) SQL Server
6 74 (3.34%) DynamoDB
7 55 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
7 55 (2.48%) Data Lake
8 52 (2.35%) Metadata
8 52 (2.35%) MySQL
9 51 (2.30%) Relational Database
10 40 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
11 36 (1.63%) Redis
12 31 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
13 26 (1.17%) Delta Lake
14 25 (1.13%) BigQuery
15 24 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
15 24 (1.08%) Big Data
16 23 (1.04%) Power BI
17 21 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 293 (13.23%) Git
2 289 (13.05%) GitLab
3 249 (11.24%) Jenkins
4 44 (1.99%) JIRA
5 43 (1.94%) Cucumber
6 37 (1.67%) CircleCI
7 31 (1.40%) Bitbucket
8 29 (1.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 26 (1.17%) TeamCity
10 19 (0.86%) Selenium
11 17 (0.77%) Claude Code
12 15 (0.68%) SonarQube
13 12 (0.54%) Subversion
14 11 (0.50%) MLflow
14 11 (0.50%) NUnit
15 10 (0.45%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.45%) Maven
16 9 (0.41%) JMeter
17 8 (0.36%) MSI
17 8 (0.36%) Vite
General
1 599 (27.04%) Social Skills
2 495 (22.35%) Finance
3 191 (8.62%) Public Sector
4 167 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
5 116 (5.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 112 (5.06%) Banking
7 101 (4.56%) Law
8 69 (3.12%) Presentation Skills
9 65 (2.93%) Retail
10 44 (1.99%) Games
11 36 (1.63%) Telecoms
12 34 (1.53%) Aerospace
13 31 (1.40%) Legal
14 30 (1.35%) Manufacturing
15 27 (1.22%) Marketing
16 22 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
17 21 (0.95%) Advertising
17 21 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
18 15 (0.68%) Financial Institution
19 11 (0.50%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 512 (23.12%) Senior
2 388 (17.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 316 (14.27%) Lead
4 296 (13.36%) Architect
5 270 (12.19%) Cloud Engineer
6 222 (10.02%) Platform Engineer
7 193 (8.71%) Developer
8 184 (8.31%) Azure Engineer
9 132 (5.96%) AWS Engineer
10 123 (5.55%) Software Engineer
11 119 (5.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 113 (5.10%) Data Engineer
13 103 (4.65%) Principal Engineer
14 102 (4.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 86 (3.88%) Security Engineer
16 83 (3.75%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 78 (3.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 77 (3.48%) Senior DevOps
19 70 (3.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 69 (3.12%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (8.08%) React
2 166 (7.49%) Kafka
3 160 (7.22%) .NET
4 146 (6.59%) REST
5 145 (6.55%) Node.js
6 135 (6.09%) Spring
7 134 (6.05%) Spring Boot
8 124 (5.60%) RESTful
9 88 (3.97%) AWS CDK
10 78 (3.52%) YAML
11 71 (3.21%) ARM Templates
11 71 (3.21%) PySpark
12 58 (2.62%) Elastic Stack
13 57 (2.57%) RabbitMQ
14 55 (2.48%) AngularJS
15 52 (2.35%) Next.js
15 52 (2.35%) OAuth
16 42 (1.90%) JSON
17 39 (1.76%) FastAPI
18 38 (1.72%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 637 (28.76%) Cloud Native
2 235 (10.61%) Distributed Systems
3 110 (4.97%) Hybrid Cloud
4 107 (4.83%) Public Cloud
5 99 (4.47%) Onboarding
6 81 (3.66%) Data Centre
7 77 (3.48%) Product Ownership
8 61 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
8 61 (2.75%) Security Posture
9 56 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
10 49 (2.21%) Video\Live Streaming
11 47 (2.12%) Enterprise Cloud
12 40 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
12 40 (1.81%) Low-Code
13 32 (1.44%) e-Learning
14 31 (1.40%) PKI
15 30 (1.35%) Virtual Team
16 28 (1.26%) Private Cloud
16 28 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
17 27 (1.22%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 366 (16.52%) Linux
2 206 (9.30%) Windows
3 91 (4.11%) Windows Server
4 55 (2.48%) CentOS
5 42 (1.90%) Ubuntu
6 41 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 34 (1.53%) Unix
8 25 (1.13%) VMS
9 8 (0.36%) Android
10 7 (0.32%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.27%) Debian
12 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.090%) AIX
13 2 (0.090%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.045%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.045%) Rocky
14 1 (0.045%) Solaris
14 1 (0.045%) SUSE
14 1 (0.045%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,570 (70.88%) CI/CD
2 1,245 (56.21%) DevOps
3 663 (29.93%) Containerisation
4 621 (28.04%) Agile
5 608 (27.45%) Observability
6 506 (22.84%) Platform Engineering
7 480 (21.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 480 (21.67%) Mentoring
8 472 (21.31%) AI
9 441 (19.91%) Software Engineering
10 382 (17.25%) Microservices
11 373 (16.84%) Test Automation
12 364 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
13 356 (16.07%) Technical Leadership
14 314 (14.18%) Cloud Security
15 313 (14.13%) Roadmaps
16 279 (12.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 245 (11.06%) Event-Driven
18 238 (10.74%) Analytics
19 233 (10.52%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 964 (43.52%) Python
2 350 (15.80%) SQL
3 342 (15.44%) Bash
4 340 (15.35%) Java
5 312 (14.09%) PowerShell
6 216 (9.75%) Bicep
7 204 (9.21%) TypeScript
8 192 (8.67%) JavaScript
9 170 (7.67%) C#
10 168 (7.58%) Go
11 43 (1.94%) Ruby
12 38 (1.72%) PHP
13 29 (1.31%) Scala
14 26 (1.17%) Rust
15 24 (1.08%) C++
16 23 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
17 20 (0.90%) Groovy
17 20 (0.90%) Perl
18 11 (0.50%) Kotlin
18 11 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 499 (22.53%) Security Cleared
2 308 (13.91%) SC Cleared
3 186 (8.40%) Degree
4 160 (7.22%) AWS Certification
5 154 (6.95%) DV Cleared
6 129 (5.82%) Azure Certification
7 82 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 76 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 54 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 49 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
11 33 (1.49%) CCNP
12 27 (1.22%) Master's Degree
13 22 (0.99%) CISSP
13 22 (0.99%) OSCP
14 18 (0.81%) CCNA
15 15 (0.68%) DBS Check
15 15 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
16 14 (0.63%) RHCSA
17 13 (0.59%) CCIE
18 11 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (5.37%) QA
2 97 (4.38%) Data Quality
3 69 (3.12%) GRC
4 66 (2.98%) GDPR
5 53 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (1.90%) Accessibility
7 39 (1.76%) SOC 2
8 36 (1.63%) NIST
9 30 (1.35%) PCI DSS
10 25 (1.13%) WCAG
11 21 (0.95%) NCSC
12 12 (0.54%) SLA
13 8 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.090%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.090%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.090%) IFRS
16 2 (0.090%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.090%) Solvency II
System Software
1 582 (26.28%) Docker
2 121 (5.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 119 (5.37%) Active Directory
4 44 (1.99%) vSphere
5 33 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.90%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.63%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.36%) Firmware
9 8 (0.36%) Squid
10 6 (0.27%) iptables
10 6 (0.27%) KVM
10 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.090%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,489 (67.22%) Terraform
2 832 (37.56%) Kubernetes
3 440 (19.86%) Ansible
4 236 (10.65%) Grafana
5 187 (8.44%) Prometheus
6 64 (2.89%) Argo
7 48 (2.17%) Puppet
8 38 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
9 36 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
10 32 (1.44%) Progress Chef
11 28 (1.26%) Packer
12 26 (1.17%) Istio
13 23 (1.04%) Nagios
14 16 (0.72%) FortiGate
15 13 (0.59%) vCenter Server
16 12 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 12 (0.54%) Cilium
16 12 (0.54%) Rancher
17 11 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
17 11 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 482 (21.76%) Microsoft
2 148 (6.68%) VMware
3 114 (5.15%) Google
4 89 (4.02%) Databricks
5 81 (3.66%) Red Hat
6 78 (3.52%) Splunk
7 69 (3.12%) Cisco
8 52 (2.35%) Oracle
8 52 (2.35%) Palo Alto
9 38 (1.72%) Fortinet
10 34 (1.53%) OpenAI
11 28 (1.26%) Dynatrace
11 28 (1.26%) Zscaler
12 15 (0.68%) F5
12 15 (0.68%) ServiceNow
13 14 (0.63%) CrowdStrike
14 13 (0.59%) Salesforce
15 12 (0.54%) Atlassian
15 12 (0.54%) Rapid7
15 12 (0.54%) ScienceLogic