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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 149 123
Rank change year-on-year +74 -26 -37
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,589 1,031 1,473
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.18% 2.10% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.97% 2.36% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,669 740 890
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £42,950
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 £105,000 £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 87,229 43,738 58,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.43% 88.90% 82.16%
Number of salaries quoted 59,718 24,553 31,325
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,925
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,243 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,600
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.70% -2.59%

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 15 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 15 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 +78 2,242 £77,500 +3.33% 2,479
UK excluding London +86 1,424 £70,000 - 1,264
London +32 964 £90,000 +5.88% 1,329
Work from Home +50 821 £75,000 - 1,373
North of England +89 497 £68,500 -2.14% 392
North West +96 269 £70,400 +8.31% 218
South West +53 259 £75,000 +7.14% 179
South East +46 258 £67,500 -16.92% 245
Midlands +40 156 £73,500 +13.08% 127
North East +23 132 £60,000 -17.24% 70
Yorkshire -1 105 £67,500 -3.57% 107
West Midlands +11 103 £80,000 +23.55% 72
Wales 0 85 £70,000 +16.67% 44
East of England -19 63 £70,000 +7.69% 106
Northern Ireland -29 61 £71,991 +23.17% 31
Scotland +19 56 £72,500 +3.57% 148
East Midlands +7 53 £63,750 -1.92% 55

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 71 (2.74%) Apache
2 65 (2.51%) Apache Spark
3 57 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
4 36 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (1.04%) Confluence
6 17 (0.66%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.50%) SharePoint
8 12 (0.46%) nginx
9 9 (0.35%) CMS
10 8 (0.31%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.27%) IIS
12 5 (0.19%) Camunda
12 5 (0.19%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.12%) WordPress
14 2 (0.077%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.077%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.077%) Sitecore CMS
15 1 (0.039%) Apache Solr
15 1 (0.039%) NServiceBus
15 1 (0.039%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 19 (0.73%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.077%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.039%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.039%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) Summit
4 2 (0.077%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.077%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.077%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.039%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 1 (0.039%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.039%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1,440 (55.62%) AWS
2 1,382 (53.38%) Azure
3 528 (20.39%) GCP
4 478 (18.46%) GitHub
5 413 (15.95%) AWS CloudFormation
6 389 (15.03%) Serverless
7 328 (12.67%) Azure DevOps
8 257 (9.93%) GitHub Actions
9 211 (8.15%) Amazon S3
10 209 (8.07%) AWS Lambda
11 185 (7.15%) PaaS
12 158 (6.10%) SaaS
13 155 (5.99%) Amazon EKS
14 149 (5.76%) Amazon ECS
15 145 (5.60%) Amazon EC2
16 141 (5.45%) Azure AKS
16 141 (5.45%) Entra ID
17 138 (5.33%) Cloud Computing
18 131 (5.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 129 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 181 (6.99%) Firewall
2 150 (5.79%) VPN
3 142 (5.48%) DNS
4 127 (4.91%) Network Security
5 114 (4.40%) WAN
6 86 (3.32%) LAN
7 72 (2.78%) TCP/IP
8 60 (2.32%) BGP
9 49 (1.89%) DHCP
10 43 (1.66%) Internet
11 42 (1.62%) Broadband
12 39 (1.51%) OSPF
13 34 (1.31%) VLAN
14 29 (1.12%) VXLAN
15 24 (0.93%) Software-Defined Networking
16 22 (0.85%) SD-WAN
17 16 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
17 16 (0.62%) SAN
17 16 (0.62%) Wireless
18 13 (0.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (8.30%) PostgreSQL
2 171 (6.60%) NoSQL
3 125 (4.83%) Amazon RDS
4 113 (4.36%) MongoDB
5 89 (3.44%) SQL Server
6 78 (3.01%) MySQL
7 74 (2.86%) DynamoDB
8 68 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 64 (2.47%) Data Lake
10 52 (2.01%) Metadata
10 52 (2.01%) Redis
11 48 (1.85%) Relational Database
12 41 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
13 36 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
13 36 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
14 35 (1.35%) Power BI
15 31 (1.20%) Big Data
16 27 (1.04%) Delta Lake
17 23 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
17 23 (0.89%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 372 (14.37%) Git
2 329 (12.71%) GitLab
3 278 (10.74%) Jenkins
4 51 (1.97%) Cucumber
4 51 (1.97%) JIRA
5 37 (1.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 34 (1.31%) TeamCity
7 29 (1.12%) Claude Code
8 19 (0.73%) CircleCI
9 18 (0.70%) Bitbucket
9 18 (0.70%) Selenium
10 15 (0.58%) Cypress.io
10 15 (0.58%) SonarQube
11 13 (0.50%) Snyk
11 13 (0.50%) Subversion
12 9 (0.35%) Artifactory
12 9 (0.35%) JUnit
12 9 (0.35%) Maven
12 9 (0.35%) MSI
12 9 (0.35%) Terragrunt
General
1 730 (28.20%) Social Skills
2 587 (22.67%) Finance
3 332 (12.82%) Public Sector
4 239 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
5 174 (6.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 138 (5.33%) Banking
7 120 (4.63%) Law
8 73 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
9 67 (2.59%) Retail
10 61 (2.36%) Aerospace
11 42 (1.62%) Marketing
12 38 (1.47%) Legal
13 32 (1.24%) Games
14 31 (1.20%) Financial Institution
15 24 (0.93%) Telecoms
16 22 (0.85%) Manufacturing
17 18 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
18 16 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
19 15 (0.58%) Aviation
19 15 (0.58%) Military
Job Titles
1 648 (25.03%) Senior
2 527 (20.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 346 (13.36%) Architect
4 343 (13.25%) Lead
5 292 (11.28%) Cloud Engineer
6 260 (10.04%) Platform Engineer
7 206 (7.96%) Developer
8 205 (7.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 194 (7.49%) Azure Engineer
10 173 (6.68%) Software Engineer
11 149 (5.76%) AWS Engineer
12 144 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
13 124 (4.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 120 (4.63%) Data Engineer
15 108 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
16 105 (4.06%) Security Engineer
16 105 (4.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 98 (3.79%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 80 (3.09%) Senior Developer
19 78 (3.01%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,701 (65.70%) Terraform
2 210 (8.11%) React
3 206 (7.96%) Kafka
4 189 (7.30%) .NET
5 184 (7.11%) Spring Boot
6 182 (7.03%) Spring
7 155 (5.99%) Node.js
8 154 (5.95%) RESTful
9 148 (5.72%) REST
10 86 (3.32%) AWS CDK
11 74 (2.86%) PySpark
12 65 (2.51%) AngularJS
13 60 (2.32%) Next.js
14 59 (2.28%) ARM Templates
15 57 (2.20%) Elastic Stack
16 55 (2.12%) RabbitMQ
17 51 (1.97%) LangChain
17 51 (1.97%) YAML
18 46 (1.78%) FastAPI
19 43 (1.66%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 784 (30.28%) Cloud Native
2 290 (11.20%) Distributed Systems
3 139 (5.37%) Onboarding
4 135 (5.21%) Hybrid Cloud
5 134 (5.18%) Public Cloud
6 93 (3.59%) Data Centre
7 87 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
8 80 (3.09%) Security Posture
9 77 (2.97%) Product Ownership
10 68 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
11 65 (2.51%) Linux Command Line
12 63 (2.43%) Enterprise Cloud
13 61 (2.36%) Management Information System
14 57 (2.20%) AI Agents
15 52 (2.01%) Virtual Team
16 50 (1.93%) e-Learning
17 49 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
18 45 (1.74%) Private Cloud
19 37 (1.43%) Blog
19 37 (1.43%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 490 (18.93%) Linux
2 239 (9.23%) Windows
3 97 (3.75%) Windows Server
4 67 (2.59%) CentOS
5 54 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 54 (2.09%) Unix
6 35 (1.35%) Ubuntu
7 22 (0.85%) VMS
8 8 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.27%) Debian
10 5 (0.19%) Rocky
10 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.15%) AIX
12 2 (0.077%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.077%) Solaris
13 1 (0.039%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.039%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.039%) macOS
13 1 (0.039%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,855 (71.65%) CI/CD
2 1,449 (55.97%) DevOps
3 763 (29.47%) Containerisation
4 756 (29.20%) Agile
5 690 (26.65%) Platform Engineering
6 689 (26.61%) Observability
7 606 (23.41%) AI
8 605 (23.37%) Mentoring
9 568 (21.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 554 (21.40%) Software Engineering
11 486 (18.77%) Problem-Solving
12 456 (17.61%) Technical Leadership
13 454 (17.54%) Microservices
14 444 (17.15%) Cloud Security
15 438 (16.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 404 (15.60%) Test Automation
17 371 (14.33%) Roadmaps
18 324 (12.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 289 (11.16%) Event-Driven
20 286 (11.05%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,099 (42.45%) Python
2 426 (16.45%) Java
3 406 (15.68%) Bash
4 377 (14.56%) SQL
5 361 (13.94%) PowerShell
6 238 (9.19%) Bicep
7 229 (8.85%) TypeScript
8 194 (7.49%) C#
9 185 (7.15%) JavaScript
10 167 (6.45%) Go
11 59 (2.28%) Shell Script
12 50 (1.93%) Ruby
13 39 (1.51%) Scala
14 36 (1.39%) PHP
15 31 (1.20%) Groovy
16 30 (1.16%) Rust
17 24 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
18 17 (0.66%) C++
18 17 (0.66%) Kotlin
18 17 (0.66%) Perl
Qualifications
1 701 (27.08%) Security Cleared
2 446 (17.23%) SC Cleared
3 236 (9.12%) DV Cleared
4 226 (8.73%) AWS Certification
5 172 (6.64%) Degree
6 163 (6.30%) Azure Certification
7 103 (3.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 80 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 65 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 61 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
11 46 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
12 36 (1.39%) CISSP
13 30 (1.16%) CCNP
13 30 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
14 29 (1.12%) Master's Degree
15 18 (0.70%) CCNA
16 17 (0.66%) SnowPro
17 14 (0.54%) CISM
17 14 (0.54%) DBS Check
18 13 (0.50%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (4.67%) QA
2 107 (4.13%) Data Quality
3 75 (2.90%) GDPR
4 70 (2.70%) GRC
5 69 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 53 (2.05%) Accessibility
7 48 (1.85%) NIST
8 35 (1.35%) SOC 2
9 31 (1.20%) NCSC
9 31 (1.20%) PCI DSS
10 23 (0.89%) SLA
11 19 (0.73%) WCAG
12 16 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.27%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
15 6 (0.23%) ISO 20022
16 3 (0.12%) ISO 9001
16 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.077%) IFRS
System Software
1 708 (27.35%) Docker
2 139 (5.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 131 (5.06%) Active Directory
4 49 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (1.85%) vSphere
6 29 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (1.00%) VMware NSX
8 24 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
9 21 (0.81%) Hyper-V
10 10 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
11 9 (0.35%) KVM
12 7 (0.27%) Firmware
13 6 (0.23%) Squid
14 4 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.077%) Lustre
17 1 (0.039%) iptables
17 1 (0.039%) LXC
Systems Management
1 933 (36.04%) Kubernetes
2 534 (20.63%) Ansible
3 265 (10.24%) Grafana
4 190 (7.34%) Prometheus
5 83 (3.21%) Puppet
6 80 (3.09%) Argo
7 52 (2.01%) Progress Chef
8 39 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
8 39 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
9 36 (1.39%) Istio
10 31 (1.20%) vCenter Server
11 28 (1.08%) Packer
12 24 (0.93%) FortiGate
13 22 (0.85%) Rancher
14 18 (0.70%) Cilium
15 16 (0.62%) Kustomize
15 16 (0.62%) Nagios
16 15 (0.58%) logstash
17 14 (0.54%) Kibana
17 14 (0.54%) Podman
Vendors
1 654 (25.26%) Microsoft
2 201 (7.76%) Google
3 170 (6.57%) VMware
4 112 (4.33%) Databricks
5 89 (3.44%) Splunk
6 83 (3.21%) Red Hat
7 72 (2.78%) Cisco
8 71 (2.74%) Oracle
9 51 (1.97%) Dynatrace
10 43 (1.66%) OpenAI
11 39 (1.51%) Fortinet
12 36 (1.39%) Palo Alto
13 33 (1.27%) ServiceNow
14 24 (0.93%) Zscaler
15 15 (0.58%) Atlassian
15 15 (0.58%) F5
15 15 (0.58%) SAP
16 14 (0.54%) Mistral
16 14 (0.54%) SolarWinds
17 13 (0.50%) New Relic