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 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 126 97
Rank change year-on-year +3 -29 +3
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,121 1,240 1,641
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.89% 2.29% 3.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 2.53% 3.40%
Number of salaries quoted 792 761 1,324
10th Percentile £46,600 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £66,350 £65,175
% change year-on-year +5.50% +1.80% -2.41%

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 48,249 48,920 48,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.52% 90.19% 90.95%
Number of salaries quoted 28,284 23,965 36,703
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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 -5 937 £73,801 +1.79% 1,517
UK excluding London 0 557 £70,000 +5.50% 1,327
Work from Home +35 483 £73,000 +0.69% 700
London +9 438 £83,375 -7.36% 442
North of England -8 190 £70,000 +13.85% 266
South East -4 108 £75,000 +15.38% 444
Yorkshire -9 89 £70,000 +33.33% 117
Scotland +15 76 £70,079 +9.93% 48
North West -7 76 £70,000 +3.70% 118
South West -30 67 £62,500 -10.71% 159
Midlands +15 60 £67,500 +2.27% 199
West Midlands +5 38 £66,500 -0.37% 103
East of England +31 27 £75,000 +3.45% 172
North East 0 25 £67,539 +35.08% 32
Wales +21 23 £61,496 +12.73% 36
East Midlands +5 20 £67,500 +3.85% 84
Northern Ireland -6 8 £95,000 +11.76% 20

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 45 (4.01%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 34 (3.03%) Apache
4 24 (2.14%) SharePoint
5 19 (1.69%) Apache Spark
6 18 (1.61%) Confluence
7 8 (0.71%) IIS
8 6 (0.54%) Appian
9 4 (0.36%) nginx
9 4 (0.36%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.089%) CMS
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%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 698 (62.27%) Azure
2 658 (58.70%) AWS
3 291 (25.96%) Azure DevOps
4 261 (23.28%) GitHub
5 230 (20.52%) GCP
6 192 (17.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 191 (17.04%) Serverless
8 173 (15.43%) GitHub Actions
9 133 (11.86%) AWS Lambda
10 109 (9.72%) Amazon S3
11 102 (9.10%) SaaS
12 98 (8.74%) PaaS
13 93 (8.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 91 (8.12%) Entra ID
14 91 (8.12%) Microsoft 365
15 87 (7.76%) Azure Monitor
16 78 (6.96%) Amazon EKS
17 72 (6.42%) Amazon ECS
18 69 (6.16%) Amazon EC2
19 63 (5.62%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 119 (10.62%) Firewall
2 79 (7.05%) DNS
3 69 (6.16%) VPN
4 57 (5.08%) TCP/IP
5 52 (4.64%) WAN
6 35 (3.12%) DHCP
7 32 (2.85%) LAN
7 32 (2.85%) Network Security
8 26 (2.32%) Wi-Fi
9 15 (1.34%) Internet
10 14 (1.25%) BGP
10 14 (1.25%) SD-WAN
11 12 (1.07%) VLAN
12 11 (0.98%) VoIP
13 10 (0.89%) Broadband
13 10 (0.89%) Wireless
14 8 (0.71%) SAN
15 7 (0.62%) OSPF
15 7 (0.62%) Unified Communications
16 6 (0.54%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (6.60%) PostgreSQL
2 71 (6.33%) Amazon RDS
3 61 (5.44%) NoSQL
4 46 (4.10%) SQL Server
5 43 (3.84%) DynamoDB
6 39 (3.48%) Data Lake
7 32 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
8 29 (2.59%) MongoDB
9 28 (2.50%) BigQuery
9 28 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
9 28 (2.50%) Redis
10 26 (2.32%) MySQL
11 19 (1.69%) Relational Database
12 16 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
12 16 (1.43%) Power BI
13 13 (1.16%) Big Data
14 12 (1.07%) Delta Lake
15 10 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
16 9 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 178 (15.88%) Jenkins
2 157 (14.01%) Git
3 119 (10.62%) GitLab
4 33 (2.94%) JIRA
5 27 (2.41%) Selenium
6 25 (2.23%) Robot Framework
7 21 (1.87%) Snyk
8 17 (1.52%) Bitbucket
8 17 (1.52%) MLflow
8 17 (1.52%) TeamCity
9 13 (1.16%) CircleCI
9 13 (1.16%) SonarQube
10 10 (0.89%) Artifactory
10 10 (0.89%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.89%) JMeter
11 9 (0.80%) Jaeger
12 8 (0.71%) Locust
13 6 (0.54%) git-flow
13 6 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.45%) Subversion
General
1 302 (26.94%) Social Skills
2 283 (25.25%) Finance
3 89 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (5.08%) Banking
5 55 (4.91%) Law
5 55 (4.91%) Public Sector
6 41 (3.66%) Retail
7 39 (3.48%) Telecoms
8 35 (3.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 27 (2.41%) Financial Institution
10 25 (2.23%) Games
11 20 (1.78%) Legal
12 19 (1.69%) Marketing
13 18 (1.61%) Billing
14 17 (1.52%) Manufacturing
15 14 (1.25%) Advertising
15 14 (1.25%) Back Office
16 12 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (1.07%) Electronics
17 10 (0.89%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 246 (21.94%) Senior
2 185 (16.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 172 (15.34%) Cloud Engineer
4 119 (10.62%) Lead
5 114 (10.17%) Azure Engineer
6 109 (9.72%) Developer
7 106 (9.46%) Platform Engineer
8 98 (8.74%) Architect
9 68 (6.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 62 (5.53%) AWS Engineer
11 43 (3.84%) Senior DevOps
12 41 (3.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 39 (3.48%) Data Engineer
14 38 (3.39%) Software Engineer
15 35 (3.12%) Lead DevOps
15 35 (3.12%) Support Engineer
16 33 (2.94%) Security Engineer
17 31 (2.77%) Senior Cloud Engineer
18 27 (2.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 27 (2.41%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (9.01%) React
2 80 (7.14%) .NET
3 66 (5.89%) RESTful
4 65 (5.80%) Node.js
5 53 (4.73%) Elastic Stack
6 48 (4.28%) Kafka
7 46 (4.10%) YAML
8 45 (4.01%) ARM Templates
9 41 (3.66%) OAuth
10 39 (3.48%) Django
11 38 (3.39%) AWS CDK
12 34 (3.03%) REST
13 32 (2.85%) Spring
14 31 (2.77%) .NET Core
14 31 (2.77%) FastAPI
15 29 (2.59%) Spring Boot
16 27 (2.41%) CSS
17 26 (2.32%) HTML
18 21 (1.87%) Vue
19 20 (1.78%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 243 (21.68%) Cloud Native
2 68 (6.07%) Hybrid Cloud
3 55 (4.91%) Public Cloud
4 53 (4.73%) Data Centre
5 45 (4.01%) Product Ownership
6 42 (3.75%) Security Posture
7 39 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
8 31 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
9 28 (2.50%) Management Information System
10 27 (2.41%) Onboarding
11 23 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
12 18 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
13 17 (1.52%) PKI
14 16 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (1.34%) Low-Code
16 13 (1.16%) Data Structures
17 12 (1.07%) Hedge funds
18 11 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
19 10 (0.89%) Private Cloud
19 10 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 259 (23.10%) Linux
2 137 (12.22%) Windows
3 57 (5.08%) Unix
4 45 (4.01%) Windows Server
5 30 (2.68%) VMS
6 23 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 22 (1.96%) Ubuntu
8 13 (1.16%) Debian
9 9 (0.80%) CentOS
10 6 (0.54%) Android
10 6 (0.54%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.36%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.27%) Solaris
13 3 (0.27%) SUSE
14 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.089%) AIX
15 1 (0.089%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 761 (67.89%) DevOps
2 753 (67.17%) CI/CD
3 344 (30.69%) Agile
4 284 (25.33%) Containerisation
5 240 (21.41%) Continuous Improvement
6 232 (20.70%) Observability
7 226 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
8 191 (17.04%) Mentoring
9 172 (15.34%) Platform Engineering
10 161 (14.36%) AI
11 160 (14.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 152 (13.56%) Cloud Security
13 149 (13.29%) Analytics
14 142 (12.67%) Software Engineering
15 126 (11.24%) Incident Response
16 125 (11.15%) Test Automation
17 123 (10.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 118 (10.53%) Roadmaps
19 114 (10.17%) Microservices
20 112 (9.99%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 495 (44.16%) Python
2 224 (19.98%) PowerShell
3 209 (18.64%) Bash
4 177 (15.79%) SQL
5 148 (13.20%) Bicep
6 109 (9.72%) Java
7 90 (8.03%) JavaScript
8 87 (7.76%) TypeScript
9 82 (7.31%) C#
10 80 (7.14%) Go
11 12 (1.07%) C++
11 12 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
12 11 (0.98%) Shell Script
13 10 (0.89%) Scala
14 8 (0.71%) C
14 8 (0.71%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.45%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.45%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 210 (18.73%) Security Cleared
2 136 (12.13%) SC Cleared
3 102 (9.10%) AWS Certification
4 86 (7.67%) Azure Certification
5 84 (7.49%) DV Cleared
6 79 (7.05%) Degree
7 38 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 32 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (2.23%) CISSP
11 22 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (1.69%) CCNP
12 19 (1.69%) Master's Degree
13 13 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
13 13 (1.16%) OSCP
14 9 (0.80%) CISM
15 8 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
16 7 (0.62%) MCP
16 7 (0.62%) PMI Certification
16 7 (0.62%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (5.35%) GDPR
2 58 (5.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 44 (3.93%) NIST
4 37 (3.30%) QA
5 32 (2.85%) Data Quality
6 29 (2.59%) Accessibility
7 28 (2.50%) SOC 2
8 21 (1.87%) PCI DSS
9 13 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 13 (1.16%) SLA
10 11 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (0.71%) WCAG
12 6 (0.54%) GRC
13 5 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.45%) NCSC
14 4 (0.36%) EU AI Act
15 2 (0.18%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.18%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 379 (33.81%) Docker
2 75 (6.69%) Active Directory
3 68 (6.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (2.41%) Hyper-V
6 25 (2.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (1.43%) vSphere
8 11 (0.98%) Firmware
8 11 (0.98%) NFS
8 11 (0.98%) vCloud
9 8 (0.71%) KVM
9 8 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.54%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.36%) XenApp
11 4 (0.36%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.18%) GPFS
13 2 (0.18%) Lustre
13 2 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.089%) iptables
Systems Management
1 819 (73.06%) Terraform
2 435 (38.80%) Kubernetes
3 283 (25.25%) Ansible
4 150 (13.38%) Grafana
5 138 (12.31%) Prometheus
6 47 (4.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 35 (3.12%) Argo
8 19 (1.69%) SCCM
9 18 (1.61%) Puppet
10 14 (1.25%) Docker Swarm
10 14 (1.25%) Rancher
11 13 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (1.07%) AWS Copilot
13 10 (0.89%) Progress Chef
14 9 (0.80%) SCOM
15 7 (0.62%) Kustomize
16 5 (0.45%) logstash
16 5 (0.45%) MaaS360
17 4 (0.36%) vRealize
17 4 (0.36%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 237 (21.14%) Microsoft
2 100 (8.92%) VMware
3 89 (7.94%) Google
4 48 (4.28%) Cisco
5 40 (3.57%) Databricks
6 35 (3.12%) Splunk
7 33 (2.94%) Red Hat
8 27 (2.41%) Palo Alto
9 21 (1.87%) Black Duck
10 20 (1.78%) Coverity
11 17 (1.52%) Zscaler
12 16 (1.43%) Salesforce
13 15 (1.34%) Oracle
14 14 (1.25%) Ab Initio
15 12 (1.07%) Atlassian
15 12 (1.07%) SAP
16 11 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
17 10 (0.89%) Commvault
17 10 (0.89%) Juniper
17 10 (0.89%) SolarWinds