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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 135 152
Rank change year-on-year +29 +17 -51
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,394 989 1,653
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.86% 2.31% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 2.47% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 929 707 1,324
10th Percentile £46,446 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -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 58,218 39,990 74,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.81% 93.48% 87.20%
Number of salaries quoted 35,252 22,229 56,158
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,424 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 +24 1,203 £75,000 - 655
UK excluding London +3 637 £67,500 - 467
London +26 599 £85,000 -5.56% 281
Work from Home +48 561 £70,000 -6.67% 400
North of England -14 218 £65,000 -2.54% 150
South East +19 137 £70,000 -3.45% 140
North West -18 100 £72,500 +0.71% 78
Yorkshire -15 88 £62,500 +19.05% 46
South West -9 87 £62,500 -10.71% 73
Midlands -1 71 £67,500 +3.85% 34
Scotland -12 57 £65,000 -5.45% 23
East of England +1 35 £65,000 -10.34% 36
West Midlands -10 35 £66,500 -5.00% 29
East Midlands -10 34 £67,500 +3.85% 4
North East -9 30 £47,972 -16.57% 26
Wales -5 22 £64,998 +32.37% 12
Northern Ireland -30 10 £95,000 +11.76% 7

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 52 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (2.87%) Apache
3 29 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (1.79%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.15%) IIS
6 15 (1.08%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.86%) Confluence
7 12 (0.86%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.22%) CMS
8 3 (0.22%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.14%) Appian
9 2 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.072%) Camunda
10 1 (0.072%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.072%) nginx
10 1 (0.072%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.072%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.29%) PlantUML
1 4 (0.29%) Weka
2 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.072%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.072%) Maya
4 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.072%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.072%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.072%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.072%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 861 (61.76%) AWS
2 771 (55.31%) Azure
3 308 (22.09%) GCP
4 307 (22.02%) GitHub
5 290 (20.80%) Azure DevOps
6 266 (19.08%) Serverless
7 258 (18.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 219 (15.71%) GitHub Actions
9 169 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
10 142 (10.19%) Amazon S3
11 131 (9.40%) PaaS
12 122 (8.75%) Amazon EKS
13 121 (8.68%) SaaS
14 113 (8.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 107 (7.68%) Entra ID
16 90 (6.46%) Datadog
16 90 (6.46%) Microsoft 365
17 89 (6.38%) Amazon ECS
18 87 (6.24%) Amazon EC2
19 83 (5.95%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 159 (11.41%) Firewall
2 85 (6.10%) DNS
3 77 (5.52%) TCP/IP
4 70 (5.02%) VPN
5 37 (2.65%) Broadband
5 37 (2.65%) Network Security
6 36 (2.58%) WAN
7 33 (2.37%) DHCP
8 20 (1.43%) HTTP
9 17 (1.22%) BGP
9 17 (1.22%) VLAN
10 15 (1.08%) Cisco ASA
10 15 (1.08%) DSL
10 15 (1.08%) Internet
11 14 (1.00%) LAN
12 12 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (0.43%) SD-WAN
14 5 (0.36%) AMQP
14 5 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
14 5 (0.36%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (7.75%) NoSQL
2 104 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
3 98 (7.03%) Amazon RDS
4 57 (4.09%) SQL Server
5 54 (3.87%) DynamoDB
6 43 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
7 42 (3.01%) Data Lake
7 42 (3.01%) Relational Database
8 41 (2.94%) MongoDB
9 38 (2.73%) Redis
10 36 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
11 33 (2.37%) MySQL
12 29 (2.08%) BigQuery
13 26 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
14 23 (1.65%) Power BI
15 22 (1.58%) Metadata
16 19 (1.36%) RDBMS
17 17 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
17 17 (1.22%) Delta Lake
18 15 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 208 (14.92%) Jenkins
2 180 (12.91%) Git
2 180 (12.91%) GitLab
3 31 (2.22%) CircleCI
4 30 (2.15%) Bitbucket
5 29 (2.08%) JIRA
6 28 (2.01%) Selenium
7 24 (1.72%) Robot Framework
8 21 (1.51%) Cucumber
8 21 (1.51%) Jaeger
9 17 (1.22%) Snyk
9 17 (1.22%) TeamCity
10 15 (1.08%) JMeter
10 15 (1.08%) MLflow
11 12 (0.86%) Locust
12 11 (0.79%) SonarQube
13 10 (0.72%) Subversion
14 9 (0.65%) Storybook
15 8 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 8 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 375 (26.90%) Social Skills
2 334 (23.96%) Finance
3 136 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (6.60%) Banking
5 89 (6.38%) Public Sector
6 75 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 68 (4.88%) Law
8 59 (4.23%) Retail
9 57 (4.09%) Telecoms
10 32 (2.30%) Financial Institution
11 28 (2.01%) Marketing
12 22 (1.58%) Games
13 21 (1.51%) Manufacturing
14 20 (1.43%) Back Office
14 20 (1.43%) Billing
15 18 (1.29%) Advertising
16 15 (1.08%) Aerospace
16 15 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
16 15 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (1.08%) Legal
Job Titles
1 313 (22.45%) Senior
2 224 (16.07%) DevOps Engineer
3 206 (14.78%) Cloud Engineer
4 178 (12.77%) Lead
5 131 (9.40%) Developer
6 130 (9.33%) Azure Engineer
7 126 (9.04%) Platform Engineer
8 118 (8.46%) Architect
9 98 (7.03%) AWS Engineer
10 97 (6.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 68 (4.88%) Software Engineer
12 61 (4.38%) Data Engineer
13 54 (3.87%) Security Engineer
13 54 (3.87%) Senior DevOps
14 46 (3.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 43 (3.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 43 (3.08%) Cloud Security Engineer
16 41 (2.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 39 (2.80%) Lead DevOps
18 37 (2.65%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (9.11%) React
2 100 (7.17%) Node.js
3 89 (6.38%) .NET
4 86 (6.17%) RESTful
5 80 (5.74%) Elastic Stack
6 76 (5.45%) Kafka
7 72 (5.16%) REST
8 70 (5.02%) AWS CDK
9 62 (4.45%) Spring
10 58 (4.16%) Spring Boot
11 56 (4.02%) OAuth
11 56 (4.02%) YAML
12 47 (3.37%) Django
13 42 (3.01%) RabbitMQ
14 38 (2.73%) ARM Templates
15 35 (2.51%) .NET Core
15 35 (2.51%) CSS
15 35 (2.51%) FastAPI
16 33 (2.37%) SAML
17 31 (2.22%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 314 (22.53%) Cloud Native
2 77 (5.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 61 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (4.38%) Security Posture
4 58 (4.16%) Public Cloud
5 52 (3.73%) Product Ownership
6 40 (2.87%) Data Centre
6 40 (2.87%) Onboarding
7 37 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
10 27 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
11 23 (1.65%) Management Information System
12 20 (1.43%) Mobile App
12 20 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
13 19 (1.36%) PKI
14 18 (1.29%) Cloud Security Posture
14 18 (1.29%) Hedge funds
15 17 (1.22%) Blog
15 17 (1.22%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 320 (22.96%) Linux
2 161 (11.55%) Windows
3 82 (5.88%) Unix
4 59 (4.23%) Windows Server
5 35 (2.51%) VMS
6 29 (2.08%) Ubuntu
7 22 (1.58%) CentOS
7 22 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (1.08%) Android
9 14 (1.00%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.57%) Debian
11 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.29%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.29%) SUSE
13 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.072%) Rocky
14 1 (0.072%) Solaris
14 1 (0.072%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 963 (69.08%) CI/CD
2 897 (64.35%) DevOps
3 416 (29.84%) Agile
4 387 (27.76%) Containerisation
5 351 (25.18%) Observability
6 323 (23.17%) Continuous Improvement
7 280 (20.09%) Mentoring
8 278 (19.94%) Problem-Solving
9 227 (16.28%) Platform Engineering
10 221 (15.85%) Software Engineering
11 214 (15.35%) AI
12 213 (15.28%) Test Automation
13 192 (13.77%) Cloud Security
14 191 (13.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 180 (12.91%) Microservices
16 175 (12.55%) Analytics
16 175 (12.55%) Incident Response
17 155 (11.12%) DevSecOps
18 144 (10.33%) High Availability
19 140 (10.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 635 (45.55%) Python
2 267 (19.15%) Bash
3 234 (16.79%) PowerShell
4 221 (15.85%) SQL
5 196 (14.06%) Java
6 145 (10.40%) Go
7 128 (9.18%) Bicep
7 128 (9.18%) JavaScript
8 110 (7.89%) TypeScript
9 86 (6.17%) C#
10 20 (1.43%) C++
11 19 (1.36%) Rust
12 18 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
13 16 (1.15%) Scala
14 15 (1.08%) Kotlin
15 10 (0.72%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.72%) C
16 8 (0.57%) Ruby
17 7 (0.50%) Google Apps Script
18 5 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 271 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 160 (11.48%) SC Cleared
3 116 (8.32%) Degree
4 114 (8.18%) AWS Certification
5 105 (7.53%) DV Cleared
6 73 (5.24%) Azure Certification
7 47 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 38 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 34 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 28 (2.01%) CISSP
10 28 (2.01%) OSCP
11 17 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.86%) Master's Degree
13 11 (0.79%) CCSK
13 11 (0.79%) DBS Check
14 10 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 9 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 7 (0.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 7 (0.50%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (5.02%) GDPR
1 70 (5.02%) QA
2 58 (4.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 55 (3.95%) Data Quality
4 50 (3.59%) SOC 2
5 45 (3.23%) NIST
6 39 (2.80%) Accessibility
6 39 (2.80%) PCI DSS
7 17 (1.22%) SLA
8 14 (1.00%) WCAG
9 12 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (0.50%) GRC
10 7 (0.50%) NCSC
11 4 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.29%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.14%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.14%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 457 (32.78%) Docker
2 85 (6.10%) Active Directory
3 69 (4.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (1.79%) Hyper-V
6 22 (1.58%) vSphere
7 16 (1.15%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.86%) Firmware
9 10 (0.72%) KVM
9 10 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
10 9 (0.65%) vCloud
11 4 (0.29%) iptables
11 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.14%) GPFS
12 2 (0.14%) Lustre
12 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.072%) QEMU
13 1 (0.072%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 975 (69.94%) Terraform
2 540 (38.74%) Kubernetes
3 324 (23.24%) Ansible
4 209 (14.99%) Grafana
5 201 (14.42%) Prometheus
6 55 (3.95%) Argo
7 44 (3.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 32 (2.30%) Puppet
9 29 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (1.36%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.22%) AWS Copilot
12 16 (1.15%) Rancher
13 14 (1.00%) Docker Swarm
13 14 (1.00%) Nagios
13 14 (1.00%) Progress Chef
14 12 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 10 (0.72%) SCCM
16 9 (0.65%) Istio
17 8 (0.57%) linkerd
17 8 (0.57%) yum
Vendors
1 242 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 129 (9.25%) Google
3 105 (7.53%) VMware
4 49 (3.52%) Databricks
5 46 (3.30%) Splunk
6 45 (3.23%) Red Hat
7 43 (3.08%) Cisco
8 37 (2.65%) Palo Alto
9 21 (1.51%) Salesforce
9 21 (1.51%) Zscaler
10 19 (1.36%) Dynatrace
11 17 (1.22%) Black Duck
11 17 (1.22%) Coverity
12 16 (1.15%) Juniper
13 15 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
14 13 (0.93%) Atlassian
14 13 (0.93%) Foundry
14 13 (0.93%) OpenAI
15 12 (0.86%) Palantir
15 12 (0.86%) SAP