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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 160 155
Rank change year-on-year +84 -5 -53
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,250 1,028 1,461
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.19% 2.08% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.97% 2.32% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,523 702 1,090
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,275 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £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 £91,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £107,950 £102,500
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 75,768 44,292 70,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.63% 81.31%
Number of salaries quoted 52,326 25,118 47,262
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% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,886
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
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 31 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 31 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 1,980 £77,500 - 1,051
UK excluding London +111 1,190 £70,000 - 615
London +26 897 £90,000 - 561
Work from Home +83 797 £72,500 -8.01% 537
North of England +92 401 £70,400 +0.57% 220
South East +54 245 £67,500 -12.90% 143
North West +92 232 £74,651 +6.64% 122
South West +46 199 £75,000 - 102
Midlands +30 141 £75,000 +15.38% 50
Yorkshire +7 95 £73,750 +5.36% 59
West Midlands +20 86 £80,000 +23.08% 34
North East +12 74 £55,750 -17.41% 39
Wales -8 60 £70,000 +21.74% 23
Northern Ireland -14 58 £72,896 +69.17% 15
East Midlands +13 55 £67,500 +3.85% 16
East of England 0 50 £63,750 +2.00% 26
Scotland +18 45 £71,991 +2.84% 39

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 59 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
2 50 (2.22%) Apache Spark
3 49 (2.18%) Apache
4 32 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (1.24%) Confluence
6 11 (0.49%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.44%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.40%) IIS
9 4 (0.18%) CMS
10 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.13%) Camunda
10 3 (0.13%) nginx
10 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.13%) WordPress
11 2 (0.089%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.089%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.044%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.044%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.044%) Documentum
12 1 (0.044%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 20 (0.89%) PlantUML
2 10 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.089%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.089%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.089%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.044%) Maya
6 1 (0.044%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.13%) Summit
4 2 (0.089%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.089%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,280 (56.89%) AWS
2 1,236 (54.93%) Azure
3 413 (18.36%) GCP
4 399 (17.73%) GitHub
5 372 (16.53%) Serverless
6 354 (15.73%) AWS CloudFormation
7 319 (14.18%) Azure DevOps
8 222 (9.87%) GitHub Actions
9 205 (9.11%) AWS Lambda
10 199 (8.84%) Amazon S3
11 188 (8.36%) PaaS
12 139 (6.18%) Amazon EC2
13 138 (6.13%) Amazon EKS
14 135 (6.00%) Amazon ECS
15 133 (5.91%) SaaS
16 127 (5.64%) IaaS
17 126 (5.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 124 (5.51%) Microsoft 365
19 116 (5.16%) Azure AKS
20 110 (4.89%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 178 (7.91%) Firewall
2 115 (5.11%) WAN
3 110 (4.89%) DNS
4 108 (4.80%) Network Security
5 106 (4.71%) VPN
6 95 (4.22%) LAN
7 75 (3.33%) TCP/IP
8 53 (2.36%) Broadband
9 50 (2.22%) BGP
10 35 (1.56%) DHCP
10 35 (1.56%) VLAN
11 34 (1.51%) OSPF
12 26 (1.16%) VXLAN
13 23 (1.02%) SD-WAN
13 23 (1.02%) Software-Defined Networking
14 20 (0.89%) HTTP
15 14 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
15 14 (0.62%) Wireless
16 12 (0.53%) Ethernet VPN
16 12 (0.53%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (7.56%) PostgreSQL
2 144 (6.40%) NoSQL
3 104 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
4 94 (4.18%) MongoDB
5 77 (3.42%) DynamoDB
6 76 (3.38%) SQL Server
7 56 (2.49%) Data Lake
8 54 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 54 (2.40%) MySQL
8 54 (2.40%) Relational Database
9 50 (2.22%) Metadata
10 39 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
11 37 (1.64%) Redis
12 33 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
13 27 (1.20%) Delta Lake
14 25 (1.11%) Big Data
14 25 (1.11%) BigQuery
15 24 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
16 23 (1.02%) Power BI
17 21 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 297 (13.20%) Git
2 289 (12.84%) GitLab
3 250 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 47 (2.09%) JIRA
5 42 (1.87%) Cucumber
6 35 (1.56%) CircleCI
7 31 (1.38%) Bitbucket
8 30 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 27 (1.20%) TeamCity
10 19 (0.84%) Selenium
11 18 (0.80%) Claude Code
12 15 (0.67%) SonarQube
13 12 (0.53%) Subversion
14 11 (0.49%) MLflow
14 11 (0.49%) NUnit
15 10 (0.44%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.44%) Maven
16 9 (0.40%) JMeter
17 8 (0.36%) MSI
17 8 (0.36%) Vite
General
1 620 (27.56%) Social Skills
2 505 (22.44%) Finance
3 195 (8.67%) Public Sector
4 171 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
5 119 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 116 (5.16%) Banking
7 104 (4.62%) Law
8 70 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
9 65 (2.89%) Retail
10 45 (2.00%) Games
11 37 (1.64%) Aerospace
12 35 (1.56%) Telecoms
13 32 (1.42%) Marketing
14 31 (1.38%) Legal
14 31 (1.38%) Manufacturing
15 22 (0.98%) Advertising
16 21 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
17 20 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
18 14 (0.62%) Financial Institution
19 13 (0.58%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 517 (22.98%) Senior
2 391 (17.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 325 (14.44%) Lead
4 300 (13.33%) Architect
5 274 (12.18%) Cloud Engineer
6 224 (9.96%) Platform Engineer
7 198 (8.80%) Developer
8 183 (8.13%) Azure Engineer
9 137 (6.09%) AWS Engineer
10 125 (5.56%) Software Engineer
11 121 (5.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 116 (5.16%) Data Engineer
13 104 (4.62%) Principal Engineer
14 102 (4.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 88 (3.91%) Security Engineer
16 83 (3.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 77 (3.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 76 (3.38%) Senior DevOps
19 70 (3.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 69 (3.07%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (8.18%) React
2 168 (7.47%) Kafka
3 164 (7.29%) .NET
4 148 (6.58%) REST
5 147 (6.53%) Node.js
6 136 (6.04%) Spring
7 135 (6.00%) Spring Boot
8 125 (5.56%) RESTful
9 93 (4.13%) AWS CDK
10 78 (3.47%) YAML
11 72 (3.20%) PySpark
12 71 (3.16%) ARM Templates
13 57 (2.53%) RabbitMQ
14 56 (2.49%) AngularJS
15 55 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
15 55 (2.44%) Next.js
16 51 (2.27%) OAuth
17 41 (1.82%) JSON
18 40 (1.78%) ASP.NET
19 39 (1.73%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 645 (28.67%) Cloud Native
2 238 (10.58%) Distributed Systems
3 112 (4.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 105 (4.67%) Public Cloud
5 101 (4.49%) Onboarding
6 83 (3.69%) Data Centre
7 78 (3.47%) Product Ownership
8 62 (2.76%) Security Posture
9 61 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
10 59 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
11 47 (2.09%) Enterprise Cloud
12 45 (2.00%) Video\Live Streaming
13 42 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
14 39 (1.73%) Low-Code
15 32 (1.42%) Management Information System
15 32 (1.42%) Virtual Team
16 31 (1.38%) e-Learning
16 31 (1.38%) PKI
16 31 (1.38%) Private Cloud
17 28 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 375 (16.67%) Linux
2 208 (9.24%) Windows
3 93 (4.13%) Windows Server
4 56 (2.49%) CentOS
5 41 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (1.82%) Ubuntu
6 39 (1.73%) Unix
7 23 (1.02%) VMS
8 8 (0.36%) Android
9 7 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.22%) Debian
11 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.089%) AIX
12 2 (0.089%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.044%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.044%) Rocky
13 1 (0.044%) Solaris
13 1 (0.044%) SUSE
13 1 (0.044%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,586 (70.49%) CI/CD
2 1,265 (56.22%) DevOps
3 669 (29.73%) Containerisation
4 632 (28.09%) Agile
5 623 (27.69%) Observability
6 516 (22.93%) Platform Engineering
7 493 (21.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 484 (21.51%) Mentoring
9 479 (21.29%) AI
10 448 (19.91%) Software Engineering
11 383 (17.02%) Microservices
12 379 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
13 368 (16.36%) Test Automation
14 364 (16.18%) Technical Leadership
15 323 (14.36%) Cloud Security
16 322 (14.31%) Roadmaps
17 287 (12.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 247 (10.98%) Event-Driven
19 242 (10.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 240 (10.67%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 979 (43.51%) Python
2 354 (15.73%) SQL
3 346 (15.38%) Bash
4 344 (15.29%) Java
5 317 (14.09%) PowerShell
6 218 (9.69%) Bicep
7 209 (9.29%) TypeScript
8 194 (8.62%) JavaScript
9 174 (7.73%) C#
10 165 (7.33%) Go
11 44 (1.96%) Ruby
12 37 (1.64%) PHP
13 31 (1.38%) Scala
14 26 (1.16%) Rust
15 23 (1.02%) C++
16 22 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
17 21 (0.93%) Perl
18 20 (0.89%) Groovy
19 12 (0.53%) Shell Script
20 11 (0.49%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 511 (22.71%) Security Cleared
2 318 (14.13%) SC Cleared
3 188 (8.36%) Degree
4 161 (7.16%) DV Cleared
5 160 (7.11%) AWS Certification
6 129 (5.73%) Azure Certification
7 81 (3.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 77 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 54 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 49 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
11 33 (1.47%) CCNP
12 28 (1.24%) Master's Degree
13 22 (0.98%) CISSP
13 22 (0.98%) OSCP
14 18 (0.80%) CCNA
14 18 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
15 16 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
15 16 (0.71%) DBS Check
16 14 (0.62%) RHCSA
17 13 (0.58%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (5.38%) QA
2 97 (4.31%) Data Quality
3 69 (3.07%) GRC
4 66 (2.93%) GDPR
5 53 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (1.87%) Accessibility
7 37 (1.64%) NIST
8 36 (1.60%) SOC 2
9 29 (1.29%) PCI DSS
10 24 (1.07%) WCAG
11 21 (0.93%) NCSC
12 13 (0.58%) SLA
13 9 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.089%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.089%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.089%) IFRS
16 2 (0.089%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.089%) Solvency II
System Software
1 596 (26.49%) Docker
2 124 (5.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 119 (5.29%) Active Directory
4 45 (2.00%) vSphere
5 32 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.98%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.62%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.36%) Firmware
10 8 (0.36%) KVM
10 8 (0.36%) Squid
11 7 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.22%) iptables
13 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,523 (67.69%) Terraform
2 839 (37.29%) Kubernetes
3 449 (19.96%) Ansible
4 238 (10.58%) Grafana
5 182 (8.09%) Prometheus
6 65 (2.89%) Argo
7 48 (2.13%) Puppet
8 38 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
9 34 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
10 31 (1.38%) Progress Chef
11 27 (1.20%) Istio
11 27 (1.20%) Packer
12 24 (1.07%) Nagios
13 16 (0.71%) FortiGate
14 12 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 12 (0.53%) Cilium
14 12 (0.53%) Rancher
14 12 (0.53%) vCenter Server
14 12 (0.53%) ZABBIX
15 11 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 488 (21.69%) Microsoft
2 151 (6.71%) VMware
3 122 (5.42%) Google
4 92 (4.09%) Databricks
5 83 (3.69%) Red Hat
6 81 (3.60%) Splunk
7 71 (3.16%) Cisco
8 54 (2.40%) Oracle
9 52 (2.31%) Palo Alto
10 40 (1.78%) Fortinet
11 37 (1.64%) OpenAI
12 34 (1.51%) Dynatrace
13 26 (1.16%) Zscaler
14 17 (0.76%) ServiceNow
15 15 (0.67%) CrowdStrike
15 15 (0.67%) F5
16 13 (0.58%) Atlassian
16 13 (0.58%) Rapid7
17 12 (0.53%) Salesforce
17 12 (0.53%) SAP