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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 126 84
Rank change year-on-year -1 -42 +11
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,120 1,320 1,688
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.91% 2.30% 3.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% 2.58% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 811 823 1,353
10th Percentile £47,617 £43,750 £51,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.33%
75th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +7.69% -0.54% -1.57%

All Process and 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 48,869 51,114 45,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.21% 89.15% 93.71%
Number of salaries quoted 28,622 26,047 34,927
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,952 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.00% +4.76% -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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 2025. 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 -7 940 £73,801 +1.79% 719
UK excluding London -4 574 £70,000 +7.69% 621
Work from Home +23 478 £73,000 +2.82% 449
London +1 420 £84,250 -6.39% 232
North of England -12 194 £70,000 +16.67% 167
South East +19 113 £75,000 +15.38% 208
Yorkshire -17 86 £70,000 +27.27% 54
North West -1 82 £68,750 +1.85% 96
Scotland +13 74 £70,039 +9.87% 14
South West -40 68 £63,225 -12.18% 106
Midlands +17 67 £67,500 +3.85% 72
West Midlands +9 43 £67,500 +2.27% 40
East of England +29 29 £66,500 -8.28% 38
North East -2 26 £67,539 +46.03% 19
Wales +19 23 £60,000 - 22
East Midlands +10 22 £67,250 +33.61% 29
Northern Ireland -4 8 £95,000 +11.76% 10

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 44 (3.93%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 32 (2.86%) Apache
4 23 (2.05%) SharePoint
5 19 (1.70%) Apache Spark
5 19 (1.70%) Confluence
6 7 (0.63%) IIS
7 6 (0.54%) Appian
8 5 (0.45%) nginx
9 4 (0.36%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.089%) CMS
10 1 (0.089%) SAS
10 1 (0.089%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.089%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.089%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.089%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.089%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.089%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.089%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.089%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 713 (63.66%) Azure
2 661 (59.02%) AWS
3 280 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 252 (22.50%) GitHub
5 228 (20.36%) GCP
6 188 (16.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 180 (16.07%) Serverless
8 163 (14.55%) GitHub Actions
9 121 (10.80%) AWS Lambda
10 102 (9.11%) SaaS
11 101 (9.02%) Amazon S3
12 95 (8.48%) Microsoft 365
13 94 (8.39%) PaaS
14 88 (7.86%) Entra ID
15 87 (7.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 85 (7.59%) Azure Monitor
17 71 (6.34%) Amazon ECS
18 70 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
19 66 (5.89%) Amazon EC2
20 60 (5.36%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 120 (10.71%) Firewall
2 78 (6.96%) DNS
3 69 (6.16%) VPN
4 56 (5.00%) TCP/IP
5 53 (4.73%) WAN
6 36 (3.21%) LAN
7 35 (3.13%) Network Security
8 33 (2.95%) DHCP
9 27 (2.41%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (1.43%) SD-WAN
11 14 (1.25%) BGP
12 13 (1.16%) VLAN
13 12 (1.07%) VoIP
14 11 (0.98%) Internet
14 11 (0.98%) Wireless
15 10 (0.89%) SAN
16 7 (0.63%) OSPF
16 7 (0.63%) Unified Communications
16 7 (0.63%) Wireshark
17 6 (0.54%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (5.98%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (5.54%) Amazon RDS
3 51 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 45 (4.02%) SQL Server
5 44 (3.93%) DynamoDB
6 39 (3.48%) Data Lake
7 29 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
8 28 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
8 28 (2.50%) Redis
9 25 (2.23%) MySQL
10 24 (2.14%) BigQuery
10 24 (2.14%) MongoDB
11 17 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
13 15 (1.34%) Big Data
13 15 (1.34%) Power BI
14 12 (1.07%) Relational Database
15 9 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
15 9 (0.80%) Delta Lake
16 8 (0.71%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 176 (15.71%) Jenkins
2 159 (14.20%) Git
3 120 (10.71%) GitLab
4 38 (3.39%) JIRA
5 30 (2.68%) Selenium
6 25 (2.23%) Robot Framework
7 21 (1.88%) Snyk
8 18 (1.61%) Bitbucket
8 18 (1.61%) TeamCity
9 16 (1.43%) MLflow
9 16 (1.43%) SonarQube
10 15 (1.34%) Cucumber
11 13 (1.16%) CircleCI
11 13 (1.16%) JMeter
12 11 (0.98%) Artifactory
13 8 (0.71%) Locust
14 7 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
15 6 (0.54%) git-flow
16 5 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
16 5 (0.45%) Vite
General
1 300 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 282 (25.18%) Finance
3 89 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (5.45%) Law
5 59 (5.27%) Banking
6 55 (4.91%) Public Sector
7 46 (4.11%) Retail
8 38 (3.39%) Telecoms
9 33 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 27 (2.41%) Financial Institution
11 24 (2.14%) Games
12 23 (2.05%) Legal
13 21 (1.88%) Marketing
14 18 (1.61%) Manufacturing
15 14 (1.25%) Back Office
15 14 (1.25%) Billing
16 13 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (1.16%) Electronics
17 12 (1.07%) Advertising
17 12 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 250 (22.32%) Senior
2 180 (16.07%) DevOps Engineer
3 159 (14.20%) Cloud Engineer
4 114 (10.18%) Lead
5 106 (9.46%) Azure Engineer
6 105 (9.38%) Architect
7 102 (9.11%) Platform Engineer
8 100 (8.93%) Developer
9 72 (6.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 51 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
11 38 (3.39%) Senior DevOps
11 38 (3.39%) Software Engineer
12 37 (3.30%) Data Engineer
13 36 (3.21%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 36 (3.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 35 (3.13%) Support Engineer
15 33 (2.95%) Lead DevOps
16 30 (2.68%) Cloud Architect
16 30 (2.68%) Security Engineer
17 27 (2.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (8.66%) React
2 87 (7.77%) .NET
3 63 (5.63%) Node.js
4 61 (5.45%) RESTful
5 50 (4.46%) Elastic Stack
6 48 (4.29%) ARM Templates
6 48 (4.29%) YAML
7 46 (4.11%) Kafka
8 41 (3.66%) Django
9 40 (3.57%) OAuth
10 30 (2.68%) .NET Core
10 30 (2.68%) FastAPI
11 29 (2.59%) REST
12 28 (2.50%) AWS CDK
13 27 (2.41%) Spring
14 25 (2.23%) CSS
15 24 (2.14%) HTML
15 24 (2.14%) Spring Boot
16 20 (1.79%) Flask
16 20 (1.79%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 251 (22.41%) Cloud Native
2 71 (6.34%) Hybrid Cloud
3 61 (5.45%) Public Cloud
4 57 (5.09%) Data Centre
5 48 (4.29%) Product Ownership
6 41 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
7 38 (3.39%) Security Posture
8 37 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
9 27 (2.41%) Management Information System
9 27 (2.41%) Onboarding
10 23 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
11 21 (1.88%) PKI
12 17 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
13 15 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (1.34%) Low-Code
14 14 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
15 13 (1.16%) Data Structures
15 13 (1.16%) Private Cloud
16 12 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
17 10 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 256 (22.86%) Linux
2 147 (13.13%) Windows
3 50 (4.46%) Unix
4 48 (4.29%) Windows Server
5 28 (2.50%) VMS
6 23 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 23 (2.05%) Ubuntu
7 14 (1.25%) Debian
8 8 (0.71%) CentOS
9 6 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.36%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.27%) Android
11 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.27%) Solaris
11 3 (0.27%) SUSE
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.089%) AIX
13 1 (0.089%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 761 (67.95%) DevOps
2 753 (67.23%) CI/CD
3 362 (32.32%) Agile
4 282 (25.18%) Containerisation
5 244 (21.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 229 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
7 221 (19.73%) Observability
8 184 (16.43%) Mentoring
9 166 (14.82%) Platform Engineering
10 164 (14.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 160 (14.29%) AI
12 152 (13.57%) Cloud Security
13 141 (12.59%) Analytics
14 138 (12.32%) Software Engineering
15 127 (11.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 122 (10.89%) Test Automation
17 117 (10.45%) Incident Response
18 116 (10.36%) Microservices
19 113 (10.09%) Roadmaps
20 112 (10.00%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 500 (44.64%) Python
2 240 (21.43%) PowerShell
3 213 (19.02%) Bash
4 178 (15.89%) SQL
5 145 (12.95%) Bicep
6 99 (8.84%) Java
7 88 (7.86%) C#
7 88 (7.86%) JavaScript
8 82 (7.32%) TypeScript
9 67 (5.98%) Go
10 13 (1.16%) Shell Script
11 11 (0.98%) C++
12 10 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (0.71%) Kotlin
13 8 (0.71%) Scala
14 5 (0.45%) C
14 5 (0.45%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.36%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 216 (19.29%) Security Cleared
2 142 (12.68%) SC Cleared
3 96 (8.57%) AWS Certification
4 93 (8.30%) Azure Certification
5 83 (7.41%) DV Cleared
6 80 (7.14%) Degree
7 40 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 34 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (2.32%) CISSP
11 24 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
12 21 (1.88%) CCNP
12 21 (1.88%) Master's Degree
13 12 (1.07%) AWS Certified Developer
13 12 (1.07%) OSCP
14 9 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (0.80%) CISM
15 7 (0.63%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.63%) PMP
16 6 (0.54%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (5.36%) GDPR
2 59 (5.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 46 (4.11%) NIST
4 45 (4.02%) QA
5 30 (2.68%) SOC 2
6 26 (2.32%) Accessibility
7 25 (2.23%) PCI DSS
8 24 (2.14%) Data Quality
9 12 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.98%) SLA
11 10 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (0.71%) WCAG
13 6 (0.54%) GRC
14 5 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
15 4 (0.36%) EU AI Act
15 4 (0.36%) NCSC
16 2 (0.18%) Def Stans
16 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.18%) JSP 440
16 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 370 (33.04%) Docker
2 73 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 68 (6.07%) Active Directory
4 33 (2.95%) Virtual Machines
5 30 (2.68%) Hyper-V
6 27 (2.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (1.61%) vSphere
8 13 (1.16%) vCloud
9 12 (1.07%) NFS
10 11 (0.98%) Firmware
11 8 (0.71%) KVM
11 8 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.54%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.45%) XenApp
13 5 (0.45%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.18%) GPFS
15 2 (0.18%) Lustre
15 2 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 2 (0.18%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 802 (71.61%) Terraform
2 434 (38.75%) Kubernetes
3 287 (25.63%) Ansible
4 150 (13.39%) Grafana
5 126 (11.25%) Prometheus
6 47 (4.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 30 (2.68%) Argo
8 19 (1.70%) SCCM
9 18 (1.61%) Puppet
10 17 (1.52%) Docker Swarm
11 14 (1.25%) Rancher
12 12 (1.07%) AWS Copilot
13 11 (0.98%) Progress Chef
14 10 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
15 9 (0.80%) SCOM
16 5 (0.45%) Istio
16 5 (0.45%) linkerd
16 5 (0.45%) logstash
16 5 (0.45%) MaaS360
16 5 (0.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 244 (21.79%) Microsoft
2 104 (9.29%) VMware
3 77 (6.88%) Google
4 49 (4.38%) Cisco
5 43 (3.84%) Databricks
6 39 (3.48%) Splunk
7 37 (3.30%) Red Hat
8 25 (2.23%) Palo Alto
9 21 (1.88%) Black Duck
10 20 (1.79%) Coverity
11 19 (1.70%) Oracle
12 17 (1.52%) Salesforce
13 14 (1.25%) SolarWinds
14 13 (1.16%) Ab Initio
14 13 (1.16%) SAP
15 11 (0.98%) Atlassian
15 11 (0.98%) Commvault
15 11 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
15 11 (0.98%) Juniper
15 11 (0.98%) Zscaler