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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 160 129
Rank change year-on-year +85 -31 -40
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,436 1,012 1,525
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.16% 2.04% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 2.30% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,592 710 977
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +8.93% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,625 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -5.11%

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 82,520 44,009 63,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.04% 88.59% 80.80%
Number of salaries quoted 57,449 24,888 36,814
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,288 £95,000
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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +77 2,121 £77,500 - 1,384
UK excluding London +111 1,326 £70,000 - 799
London +27 927 £90,000 +2.86% 772
Work from Home +55 815 £74,500 -3.87% 678
North of England +90 463 £70,000 - 233
North West +93 261 £72,500 +9.43% 120
South East +71 248 £67,500 -15.63% 178
South West +36 232 £75,000 - 141
Midlands +36 148 £75,000 +15.38% 79
Yorkshire -5 103 £73,750 +5.36% 74
North East +24 99 £59,000 -18.62% 39
West Midlands +16 89 £85,000 +31.78% 47
Wales -14 71 £70,000 +21.74% 22
Northern Ireland -26 62 £71,991 +67.07% 27
East Midlands +18 59 £67,500 +3.85% 32
East of England -3 59 £70,000 +7.69% 45
Scotland +22 55 £71,991 +2.84% 84

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 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
2 58 (2.38%) Apache
3 55 (2.26%) Apache Spark
4 32 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (1.19%) Confluence
6 13 (0.53%) Jupyter
7 11 (0.45%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.37%) IIS
9 7 (0.29%) CMS
9 7 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.16%) Camunda
10 4 (0.16%) nginx
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.12%) WordPress
12 2 (0.082%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.082%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.041%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.041%) Documentum
13 1 (0.041%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 21 (0.86%) PlantUML
2 12 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.082%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.082%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.041%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) Summit
4 2 (0.082%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.082%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.041%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,376 (56.49%) AWS
2 1,303 (53.49%) Azure
3 468 (19.21%) GCP
4 429 (17.61%) GitHub
5 392 (16.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 378 (15.52%) Serverless
7 325 (13.34%) Azure DevOps
8 237 (9.73%) GitHub Actions
9 213 (8.74%) AWS Lambda
10 211 (8.66%) Amazon S3
11 172 (7.06%) PaaS
12 151 (6.20%) Amazon EKS
13 147 (6.03%) Amazon EC2
13 147 (6.03%) Amazon ECS
14 139 (5.71%) Azure AKS
15 135 (5.54%) SaaS
16 126 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
17 125 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 124 (5.09%) IaaS
19 120 (4.93%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 176 (7.22%) Firewall
2 131 (5.38%) DNS
3 124 (5.09%) VPN
4 120 (4.93%) WAN
5 115 (4.72%) Network Security
6 97 (3.98%) LAN
7 69 (2.83%) TCP/IP
8 56 (2.30%) BGP
9 49 (2.01%) DHCP
10 48 (1.97%) Broadband
11 40 (1.64%) OSPF
12 32 (1.31%) VLAN
13 28 (1.15%) SD-WAN
13 28 (1.15%) VXLAN
14 27 (1.11%) Software-Defined Networking
15 19 (0.78%) Wireless
16 16 (0.66%) HTTP
17 15 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
18 14 (0.57%) SAN
19 10 (0.41%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (7.68%) PostgreSQL
2 156 (6.40%) NoSQL
3 109 (4.47%) Amazon RDS
4 107 (4.39%) MongoDB
5 88 (3.61%) SQL Server
6 79 (3.24%) DynamoDB
7 72 (2.96%) MySQL
8 61 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 61 (2.50%) Data Lake
9 52 (2.13%) Metadata
10 50 (2.05%) Relational Database
11 47 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
12 42 (1.72%) Redis
13 33 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
14 30 (1.23%) Big Data
14 30 (1.23%) Delta Lake
15 28 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
16 27 (1.11%) BigQuery
17 22 (0.90%) Data Vault
17 22 (0.90%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 325 (13.34%) Git
2 291 (11.95%) GitLab
3 257 (10.55%) Jenkins
4 57 (2.34%) JIRA
5 49 (2.01%) Cucumber
6 33 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 26 (1.07%) TeamCity
8 25 (1.03%) Bitbucket
8 25 (1.03%) CircleCI
8 25 (1.03%) Selenium
9 20 (0.82%) Claude Code
10 18 (0.74%) SonarQube
11 16 (0.66%) Cypress.io
12 15 (0.62%) NUnit
13 13 (0.53%) Subversion
14 12 (0.49%) Maven
15 10 (0.41%) MLflow
15 10 (0.41%) Snyk
16 9 (0.37%) MSI
17 8 (0.33%) Vite
General
1 675 (27.71%) Social Skills
2 565 (23.19%) Finance
3 237 (9.73%) Public Sector
4 184 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
5 155 (6.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 140 (5.75%) Banking
7 119 (4.89%) Law
8 73 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
9 64 (2.63%) Retail
10 55 (2.26%) Aerospace
11 44 (1.81%) Games
12 42 (1.72%) Marketing
13 39 (1.60%) Legal
14 31 (1.27%) Manufacturing
15 26 (1.07%) Telecoms
16 19 (0.78%) Financial Institution
17 18 (0.74%) Aviation
17 18 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (0.74%) Local Government
18 16 (0.66%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 574 (23.56%) Senior
2 413 (16.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 345 (14.16%) Lead
4 330 (13.55%) Architect
5 292 (11.99%) Cloud Engineer
6 251 (10.30%) Platform Engineer
7 210 (8.62%) Developer
8 195 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
9 167 (6.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 153 (6.28%) Software Engineer
11 142 (5.83%) AWS Engineer
12 124 (5.09%) Data Engineer
13 122 (5.01%) Principal Engineer
14 119 (4.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 96 (3.94%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 93 (3.82%) Security Engineer
17 77 (3.16%) Senior DevOps
18 76 (3.12%) Senior Developer
19 74 (3.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 74 (3.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,640 (67.32%) Terraform
2 199 (8.17%) React
3 198 (8.13%) Kafka
4 182 (7.47%) .NET
5 160 (6.57%) Spring
6 159 (6.53%) Node.js
7 158 (6.49%) REST
7 158 (6.49%) Spring Boot
8 149 (6.12%) RESTful
9 93 (3.82%) AWS CDK
10 80 (3.28%) PySpark
11 69 (2.83%) YAML
12 66 (2.71%) ARM Templates
13 64 (2.63%) AngularJS
14 61 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
15 58 (2.38%) Next.js
16 52 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
17 47 (1.93%) OAuth
18 44 (1.81%) ASP.NET
19 43 (1.77%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 728 (29.89%) Cloud Native
2 267 (10.96%) Distributed Systems
3 131 (5.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 129 (5.30%) Public Cloud
5 125 (5.13%) Onboarding
6 96 (3.94%) Data Centre
7 88 (3.61%) Product Ownership
8 72 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
9 65 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
10 62 (2.55%) Security Posture
11 60 (2.46%) Enterprise Cloud
12 48 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
13 46 (1.89%) Virtual Team
14 42 (1.72%) Private Cloud
15 41 (1.68%) e-Learning
15 41 (1.68%) Management Information System
16 40 (1.64%) Video\Live Streaming
17 38 (1.56%) AI Agents
17 38 (1.56%) PKI
18 35 (1.44%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 401 (16.46%) Linux
2 221 (9.07%) Windows
3 97 (3.98%) Windows Server
4 61 (2.50%) CentOS
5 43 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (1.56%) Ubuntu
6 38 (1.56%) Unix
7 22 (0.90%) VMS
8 6 (0.25%) Debian
9 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.16%) Android
10 4 (0.16%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.12%) AIX
12 2 (0.082%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.082%) Solaris
13 1 (0.041%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.041%) Rocky
13 1 (0.041%) SUSE
13 1 (0.041%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,716 (70.44%) CI/CD
2 1,316 (54.02%) DevOps
3 709 (29.11%) Containerisation
4 692 (28.41%) Agile
5 687 (28.20%) Observability
6 583 (23.93%) Platform Engineering
7 538 (22.09%) AI
8 537 (22.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 528 (21.67%) Mentoring
10 525 (21.55%) Software Engineering
11 436 (17.90%) Problem-Solving
12 419 (17.20%) Microservices
13 409 (16.79%) Technical Leadership
14 398 (16.34%) Test Automation
15 377 (15.48%) Cloud Security
16 347 (14.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 347 (14.24%) Roadmaps
17 275 (11.29%) Event-Driven
18 272 (11.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 264 (10.84%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,056 (43.35%) Python
2 388 (15.93%) Java
3 379 (15.56%) SQL
4 374 (15.35%) Bash
5 345 (14.16%) PowerShell
6 233 (9.56%) Bicep
7 227 (9.32%) TypeScript
8 201 (8.25%) JavaScript
9 186 (7.64%) C#
10 158 (6.49%) Go
11 48 (1.97%) Ruby
12 41 (1.68%) Scala
13 36 (1.48%) PHP
14 28 (1.15%) Rust
15 27 (1.11%) Groovy
16 25 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
17 23 (0.94%) C++
18 21 (0.86%) Perl
19 18 (0.74%) Shell Script
20 13 (0.53%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 598 (24.55%) Security Cleared
2 374 (15.35%) SC Cleared
3 206 (8.46%) AWS Certification
4 196 (8.05%) DV Cleared
5 190 (7.80%) Degree
6 152 (6.24%) Azure Certification
7 93 (3.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 85 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 63 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 61 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
11 38 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
12 36 (1.48%) CCNP
13 30 (1.23%) Master's Degree
14 24 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
15 23 (0.94%) CISSP
16 21 (0.86%) CCNA
17 17 (0.70%) SnowPro
18 14 (0.57%) CCIE
18 14 (0.57%) DBS Check
18 14 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (5.58%) QA
2 106 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 72 (2.96%) GRC
4 70 (2.87%) GDPR
5 59 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (1.93%) Accessibility
7 32 (1.31%) NIST
8 31 (1.27%) SOC 2
9 30 (1.23%) NCSC
10 24 (0.99%) SLA
11 22 (0.90%) PCI DSS
11 22 (0.90%) WCAG
12 10 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.29%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 4 (0.16%) ISO 20022
17 2 (0.082%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 2 (0.082%) IFRS
17 2 (0.082%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 632 (25.94%) Docker
2 135 (5.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 133 (5.46%) Active Directory
4 45 (1.85%) vSphere
5 39 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (0.99%) Hyper-V
6 24 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (0.70%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.41%) KVM
8 10 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.33%) Firmware
9 8 (0.33%) Squid
10 7 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.12%) iptables
13 2 (0.082%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 885 (36.33%) Kubernetes
2 489 (20.07%) Ansible
3 240 (9.85%) Grafana
4 171 (7.02%) Prometheus
5 73 (3.00%) Argo
6 62 (2.55%) Puppet
7 40 (1.64%) Progress Chef
8 38 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
9 35 (1.44%) Istio
9 35 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
10 27 (1.11%) Packer
11 22 (0.90%) FortiGate
12 19 (0.78%) vCenter Server
13 18 (0.74%) Nagios
14 16 (0.66%) Rancher
15 14 (0.57%) Cilium
16 13 (0.53%) Kustomize
17 12 (0.49%) Podman
17 12 (0.49%) ZABBIX
18 11 (0.45%) linkerd
Vendors
1 556 (22.82%) Microsoft
2 165 (6.77%) VMware
3 151 (6.20%) Google
4 106 (4.35%) Databricks
5 86 (3.53%) Splunk
6 84 (3.45%) Red Hat
7 78 (3.20%) Cisco
8 72 (2.96%) Oracle
9 44 (1.81%) Palo Alto
10 42 (1.72%) Fortinet
10 42 (1.72%) OpenAI
11 39 (1.60%) Dynatrace
12 28 (1.15%) ServiceNow
13 26 (1.07%) Zscaler
14 16 (0.66%) Atlassian
14 16 (0.66%) CrowdStrike
14 16 (0.66%) Okta
14 16 (0.66%) SAP
15 14 (0.57%) F5
16 13 (0.53%) Rapid7