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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 153 125
Rank change year-on-year +78 -28 -40
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,528 1,019 1,505
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.14% 2.05% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.93% 2.30% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,624 729 913
10th Percentile £48,750 £49,750 £43,084
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £91,250 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +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 86,265 44,296 59,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.17% 89.00% 82.18%
Number of salaries quoted 59,107 24,598 32,082
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +80 2,188 £77,500 +3.33% 2,917
UK excluding London +100 1,382 £70,000 - 1,349
London +33 946 £90,000 +5.88% 1,697
Work from Home +51 808 £75,000 - 1,237
North of England +94 486 £68,250 -2.50% 417
North West +102 261 £70,400 +8.31% 239
South West +58 255 £75,000 +7.14% 199
South East +50 248 £67,500 -16.92% 252
Midlands +34 151 £75,000 +15.38% 138
North East +23 130 £60,000 -17.24% 65
Yorkshire 0 104 £66,750 -4.64% 116
West Midlands +9 97 £80,000 +23.55% 80
Wales -10 80 £70,000 +16.67% 41
Northern Ireland -27 61 £71,991 +23.17% 27
East of England -18 59 £75,000 +15.38% 102
East Midlands +1 54 £63,750 -1.92% 58
Scotland +13 53 £72,500 +3.57% 179

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 70 (2.77%) Apache
2 66 (2.61%) Apache Spark
3 56 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (1.15%) Confluence
6 17 (0.67%) Jupyter
7 12 (0.47%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.40%) CMS
8 10 (0.40%) nginx
9 8 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.28%) IIS
11 5 (0.20%) Camunda
11 5 (0.20%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.12%) WordPress
13 2 (0.079%) Cloud Foundry
14 1 (0.040%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.040%) NServiceBus
14 1 (0.040%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 20 (0.79%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.079%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.040%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.040%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) Summit
4 2 (0.079%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.079%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.040%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.040%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1,413 (55.89%) AWS
2 1,357 (53.68%) Azure
3 522 (20.65%) GCP
4 461 (18.24%) GitHub
5 405 (16.02%) AWS CloudFormation
6 386 (15.27%) Serverless
7 324 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
8 251 (9.93%) GitHub Actions
9 205 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
10 204 (8.07%) Amazon S3
11 186 (7.36%) PaaS
12 154 (6.09%) SaaS
13 153 (6.05%) Amazon EKS
14 146 (5.78%) Amazon ECS
15 144 (5.70%) Amazon EC2
16 141 (5.58%) Azure AKS
17 138 (5.46%) Entra ID
18 137 (5.42%) Cloud Computing
19 131 (5.18%) IaaS
20 128 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 176 (6.96%) Firewall
2 145 (5.74%) VPN
3 139 (5.50%) DNS
4 127 (5.02%) Network Security
5 115 (4.55%) WAN
6 87 (3.44%) LAN
7 70 (2.77%) TCP/IP
8 57 (2.25%) BGP
9 49 (1.94%) DHCP
10 43 (1.70%) Internet
11 42 (1.66%) Broadband
12 38 (1.50%) OSPF
13 31 (1.23%) VLAN
14 28 (1.11%) VXLAN
15 25 (0.99%) Software-Defined Networking
16 22 (0.87%) SD-WAN
17 16 (0.63%) SAN
17 16 (0.63%) Wireless
18 15 (0.59%) Ethernet VPN
19 13 (0.51%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (8.15%) PostgreSQL
2 165 (6.53%) NoSQL
3 120 (4.75%) Amazon RDS
4 111 (4.39%) MongoDB
5 88 (3.48%) SQL Server
6 76 (3.01%) MySQL
7 74 (2.93%) DynamoDB
8 68 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 64 (2.53%) Data Lake
10 52 (2.06%) Metadata
11 51 (2.02%) Redis
12 49 (1.94%) Relational Database
13 40 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
14 36 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
15 34 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
16 32 (1.27%) Big Data
17 30 (1.19%) Power BI
18 29 (1.15%) Delta Lake
19 23 (0.91%) Data Vault
20 22 (0.87%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 370 (14.64%) Git
2 321 (12.70%) GitLab
3 268 (10.60%) Jenkins
4 53 (2.10%) JIRA
5 49 (1.94%) Cucumber
6 33 (1.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 33 (1.31%) TeamCity
7 26 (1.03%) Claude Code
8 20 (0.79%) Bitbucket
9 18 (0.71%) CircleCI
9 18 (0.71%) Selenium
10 15 (0.59%) Cypress.io
10 15 (0.59%) SonarQube
10 15 (0.59%) Subversion
11 13 (0.51%) Snyk
12 9 (0.36%) Artifactory
12 9 (0.36%) JUnit
12 9 (0.36%) Maven
12 9 (0.36%) NUnit
12 9 (0.36%) Vite
General
1 710 (28.09%) Social Skills
2 582 (23.02%) Finance
3 303 (11.99%) Public Sector
4 237 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 171 (6.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 137 (5.42%) Banking
7 119 (4.71%) Law
8 73 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
9 66 (2.61%) Retail
10 63 (2.49%) Aerospace
11 41 (1.62%) Marketing
12 38 (1.50%) Legal
13 32 (1.27%) Games
14 29 (1.15%) Financial Institution
15 23 (0.91%) Manufacturing
16 21 (0.83%) Telecoms
17 17 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
18 16 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
19 15 (0.59%) Aviation
20 14 (0.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 612 (24.21%) Senior
2 489 (19.34%) DevOps Engineer
3 351 (13.88%) Architect
4 340 (13.45%) Lead
5 292 (11.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 259 (10.25%) Platform Engineer
7 205 (8.11%) Developer
8 199 (7.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 198 (7.83%) Azure Engineer
10 170 (6.72%) Software Engineer
11 147 (5.81%) AWS Engineer
12 134 (5.30%) Principal Engineer
13 127 (5.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 115 (4.55%) Data Engineer
15 105 (4.15%) Security Engineer
16 98 (3.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 88 (3.48%) Senior DevOps
18 85 (3.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 81 (3.20%) Azure Platform Engineer
20 78 (3.09%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,659 (65.63%) Terraform
2 211 (8.35%) React
3 201 (7.95%) Kafka
4 185 (7.32%) .NET
5 174 (6.88%) Spring Boot
6 172 (6.80%) Spring
7 154 (6.09%) Node.js
8 152 (6.01%) RESTful
9 145 (5.74%) REST
10 86 (3.40%) AWS CDK
11 73 (2.89%) PySpark
12 67 (2.65%) AngularJS
13 62 (2.45%) Next.js
14 60 (2.37%) ARM Templates
15 55 (2.18%) Elastic Stack
15 55 (2.18%) RabbitMQ
16 52 (2.06%) LangChain
16 52 (2.06%) YAML
17 47 (1.86%) FastAPI
18 42 (1.66%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 772 (30.54%) Cloud Native
2 282 (11.16%) Distributed Systems
3 136 (5.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 134 (5.30%) Onboarding
5 132 (5.22%) Public Cloud
6 91 (3.60%) Data Centre
7 87 (3.44%) Enterprise Software
8 76 (3.01%) Security Posture
9 75 (2.97%) Product Ownership
10 68 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
11 64 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
12 60 (2.37%) Enterprise Cloud
13 58 (2.29%) Management Information System
14 55 (2.18%) AI Agents
15 51 (2.02%) Virtual Team
16 49 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
17 48 (1.90%) e-Learning
18 44 (1.74%) Private Cloud
19 39 (1.54%) PKI
20 35 (1.38%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 467 (18.47%) Linux
2 232 (9.18%) Windows
3 96 (3.80%) Windows Server
4 62 (2.45%) CentOS
5 53 (2.10%) Unix
6 48 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 35 (1.38%) Ubuntu
8 21 (0.83%) VMS
9 8 (0.32%) Debian
9 8 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.16%) AIX
11 4 (0.16%) Rocky
12 2 (0.079%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.079%) Solaris
13 1 (0.040%) Android
13 1 (0.040%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.040%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.040%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.040%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,806 (71.44%) CI/CD
2 1,400 (55.38%) DevOps
3 752 (29.75%) Agile
4 751 (29.71%) Containerisation
5 679 (26.86%) Observability
6 656 (25.95%) Platform Engineering
7 596 (23.58%) Mentoring
8 589 (23.30%) AI
9 563 (22.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 545 (21.56%) Software Engineering
11 479 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
12 446 (17.64%) Microservices
13 440 (17.41%) Cloud Security
14 428 (16.93%) Technical Leadership
15 427 (16.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 398 (15.74%) Test Automation
17 360 (14.24%) Roadmaps
18 313 (12.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 285 (11.27%) DevSecOps
19 285 (11.27%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 1,079 (42.68%) Python
2 411 (16.26%) Java
3 399 (15.78%) Bash
4 367 (14.52%) SQL
5 357 (14.12%) PowerShell
6 236 (9.34%) Bicep
7 228 (9.02%) TypeScript
8 189 (7.48%) C#
9 185 (7.32%) JavaScript
10 166 (6.57%) Go
11 58 (2.29%) Shell Script
12 49 (1.94%) Ruby
13 40 (1.58%) Scala
14 36 (1.42%) PHP
15 31 (1.23%) Groovy
16 29 (1.15%) Rust
17 23 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
18 19 (0.75%) C++
19 16 (0.63%) Perl
20 13 (0.51%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 675 (26.70%) Security Cleared
2 428 (16.93%) SC Cleared
3 223 (8.82%) AWS Certification
4 221 (8.74%) DV Cleared
5 172 (6.80%) Degree
6 160 (6.33%) Azure Certification
7 101 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 80 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 60 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
11 45 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
12 34 (1.34%) CISSP
13 30 (1.19%) CCNP
13 30 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
14 28 (1.11%) Master's Degree
15 20 (0.79%) CCNA
16 17 (0.67%) SnowPro
17 15 (0.59%) DBS Check
18 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 13 (0.51%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (4.79%) QA
2 104 (4.11%) Data Quality
3 75 (2.97%) GDPR
4 71 (2.81%) GRC
5 67 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 52 (2.06%) Accessibility
7 45 (1.78%) NIST
8 34 (1.34%) SOC 2
9 30 (1.19%) NCSC
10 29 (1.15%) PCI DSS
11 23 (0.91%) SLA
12 20 (0.79%) WCAG
13 16 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (0.28%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
17 5 (0.20%) ISO 20022
18 3 (0.12%) ISO 9001
18 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 2 (0.079%) IFRS
System Software
1 686 (27.14%) Docker
2 134 (5.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 129 (5.10%) Active Directory
4 49 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
5 47 (1.86%) vSphere
6 29 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
7 23 (0.91%) VMware NSX
8 20 (0.79%) Hyper-V
9 18 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.36%) KVM
11 8 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
12 7 (0.28%) Firmware
12 7 (0.28%) Squid
13 4 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.079%) Lustre
14 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.040%) iptables
Systems Management
1 908 (35.92%) Kubernetes
2 514 (20.33%) Ansible
3 251 (9.93%) Grafana
4 180 (7.12%) Prometheus
5 81 (3.20%) Puppet
6 79 (3.13%) Argo
7 51 (2.02%) Progress Chef
8 37 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
9 35 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 34 (1.34%) Istio
11 28 (1.11%) Packer
12 27 (1.07%) vCenter Server
13 25 (0.99%) FortiGate
13 25 (0.99%) Rancher
14 17 (0.67%) Cilium
15 16 (0.63%) Nagios
16 14 (0.55%) Kustomize
16 14 (0.55%) logstash
17 13 (0.51%) Kibana
17 13 (0.51%) Podman
Vendors
1 630 (24.92%) Microsoft
2 196 (7.75%) Google
3 165 (6.53%) VMware
4 112 (4.43%) Databricks
5 87 (3.44%) Splunk
6 81 (3.20%) Red Hat
7 72 (2.85%) Oracle
8 70 (2.77%) Cisco
9 50 (1.98%) Dynatrace
10 44 (1.74%) OpenAI
11 38 (1.50%) Fortinet
12 35 (1.38%) Palo Alto
13 32 (1.27%) ServiceNow
14 24 (0.95%) Zscaler
15 15 (0.59%) Atlassian
15 15 (0.59%) F5
15 15 (0.59%) Mistral
15 15 (0.59%) SAP
15 15 (0.59%) SolarWinds
16 13 (0.51%) New Relic