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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 160 149
Rank change year-on-year +84 -11 -50
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,399 1,017 1,436
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.22% 2.04% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.03% 2.29% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,597 709 999
10th Percentile £48,959 £52,450 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,250 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £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 79,126 44,376 67,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.31% 89.04% 80.77%
Number of salaries quoted 54,636 25,137 42,574
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 22 August 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 22 August 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 +76 2,101 £77,500 - 1,322
UK excluding London +111 1,309 £70,000 - 795
London +30 922 £90,000 +2.86% 704
Work from Home +67 830 £72,500 -3.33% 662
North of England +91 453 £70,000 - 247
South East +66 253 £67,500 -12.90% 195
North West +89 250 £72,500 +3.57% 138
South West +45 226 £75,000 - 137
Midlands +35 148 £75,000 +15.38% 78
Yorkshire +11 106 £72,500 +3.57% 67
North East +24 97 £59,000 -18.62% 43
West Midlands +19 91 £83,774 +29.38% 41
Wales -5 67 £70,000 +16.67% 19
Northern Ireland -29 62 £71,991 +67.07% 18
East Midlands +16 57 £67,500 +3.85% 37
East of England -3 57 £67,500 +3.85% 44
Scotland +28 55 £72,246 +3.21% 62

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 60 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
2 58 (2.42%) Apache Spark
3 56 (2.33%) Apache
4 29 (1.21%) Confluence
4 29 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.54%) Jupyter
6 10 (0.42%) IIS
7 9 (0.38%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.25%) CMS
9 4 (0.17%) Camunda
9 4 (0.17%) nginx
10 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.13%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.13%) WordPress
11 2 (0.083%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.042%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.042%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.042%) JBoss
12 1 (0.042%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 21 (0.88%) PlantUML
2 10 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.083%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.083%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.083%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.042%) Maya
6 1 (0.042%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.13%) Summit
4 2 (0.083%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,362 (56.77%) AWS
2 1,287 (53.65%) Azure
3 460 (19.17%) GCP
4 421 (17.55%) GitHub
5 383 (15.96%) AWS CloudFormation
6 382 (15.92%) Serverless
7 319 (13.30%) Azure DevOps
8 230 (9.59%) GitHub Actions
9 214 (8.92%) AWS Lambda
10 210 (8.75%) Amazon S3
11 181 (7.54%) PaaS
12 148 (6.17%) Amazon EC2
13 144 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
14 142 (5.92%) Amazon ECS
15 136 (5.67%) SaaS
16 129 (5.38%) Azure AKS
17 127 (5.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 127 (5.29%) Microsoft 365
18 126 (5.25%) IaaS
19 114 (4.75%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 177 (7.38%) Firewall
2 120 (5.00%) DNS
3 118 (4.92%) WAN
4 113 (4.71%) VPN
5 112 (4.67%) Network Security
6 98 (4.09%) LAN
7 72 (3.00%) TCP/IP
8 53 (2.21%) BGP
9 50 (2.08%) Broadband
10 46 (1.92%) DHCP
11 37 (1.54%) OSPF
12 33 (1.38%) VLAN
13 28 (1.17%) VXLAN
14 26 (1.08%) Software-Defined Networking
15 24 (1.00%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.67%) Wireless
17 14 (0.58%) Ethernet VPN
17 14 (0.58%) HTTP
17 14 (0.58%) SAN
18 10 (0.42%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
2 150 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 106 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
4 103 (4.29%) MongoDB
5 84 (3.50%) SQL Server
6 82 (3.42%) DynamoDB
7 66 (2.75%) Data Lake
8 64 (2.67%) MySQL
9 56 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
10 53 (2.21%) Relational Database
11 52 (2.17%) Metadata
12 46 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
13 35 (1.46%) Redis
14 33 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
15 31 (1.29%) Delta Lake
16 29 (1.21%) Big Data
17 28 (1.17%) BigQuery
18 25 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
19 24 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
19 24 (1.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 321 (13.38%) Git
2 290 (12.09%) GitLab
3 254 (10.59%) Jenkins
4 56 (2.33%) JIRA
5 46 (1.92%) Cucumber
6 32 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 30 (1.25%) Bitbucket
7 30 (1.25%) CircleCI
8 27 (1.13%) TeamCity
9 21 (0.88%) Selenium
10 18 (0.75%) Claude Code
10 18 (0.75%) SonarQube
11 15 (0.63%) Cypress.io
11 15 (0.63%) NUnit
12 12 (0.50%) MLflow
13 11 (0.46%) Maven
13 11 (0.46%) Subversion
14 10 (0.42%) Snyk
15 9 (0.38%) JMeter
15 9 (0.38%) MSI
General
1 666 (27.76%) Social Skills
2 555 (23.13%) Finance
3 226 (9.42%) Public Sector
4 186 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
5 146 (6.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 134 (5.59%) Banking
7 119 (4.96%) Law
8 74 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
9 64 (2.67%) Retail
10 50 (2.08%) Aerospace
11 47 (1.96%) Games
12 44 (1.83%) Marketing
13 40 (1.67%) Legal
14 32 (1.33%) Manufacturing
15 27 (1.13%) Telecoms
16 21 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (0.75%) Aviation
18 17 (0.71%) Advertising
18 17 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
18 17 (0.71%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 555 (23.13%) Senior
2 405 (16.88%) DevOps Engineer
3 341 (14.21%) Lead
4 326 (13.59%) Architect
5 285 (11.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 241 (10.05%) Platform Engineer
7 206 (8.59%) Developer
8 185 (7.71%) Azure Engineer
9 150 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 150 (6.25%) Software Engineer
10 141 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
11 125 (5.21%) Data Engineer
12 119 (4.96%) Principal Engineer
13 110 (4.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 93 (3.88%) Security Engineer
15 87 (3.63%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 79 (3.29%) Senior DevOps
17 75 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 74 (3.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 72 (3.00%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,619 (67.49%) Terraform
2 194 (8.09%) React
3 183 (7.63%) Kafka
4 181 (7.54%) .NET
5 157 (6.54%) Node.js
6 155 (6.46%) REST
7 151 (6.29%) Spring
8 149 (6.21%) Spring Boot
9 142 (5.92%) RESTful
10 93 (3.88%) AWS CDK
11 78 (3.25%) PySpark
12 73 (3.04%) YAML
13 68 (2.83%) ARM Templates
14 62 (2.58%) AngularJS
15 59 (2.46%) RabbitMQ
16 58 (2.42%) Next.js
17 52 (2.17%) OAuth
18 49 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
19 44 (1.83%) ASP.NET
20 42 (1.75%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 706 (29.43%) Cloud Native
2 256 (10.67%) Distributed Systems
3 126 (5.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 122 (5.09%) Onboarding
4 122 (5.09%) Public Cloud
5 92 (3.83%) Data Centre
6 84 (3.50%) Product Ownership
7 68 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
8 65 (2.71%) Security Posture
9 62 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
10 54 (2.25%) Enterprise Cloud
11 45 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
12 41 (1.71%) Video\Live Streaming
13 40 (1.67%) Virtual Team
14 39 (1.63%) Private Cloud
15 38 (1.58%) Management Information System
16 36 (1.50%) Low-Code
17 35 (1.46%) e-Learning
18 34 (1.42%) PKI
19 33 (1.38%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 394 (16.42%) Linux
2 227 (9.46%) Windows
3 102 (4.25%) Windows Server
4 59 (2.46%) CentOS
5 42 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (1.63%) Ubuntu
7 38 (1.58%) Unix
8 22 (0.92%) VMS
9 5 (0.21%) Android
9 5 (0.21%) Debian
9 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.17%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.13%) AIX
12 2 (0.083%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.083%) Solaris
13 1 (0.042%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.042%) Rocky
13 1 (0.042%) SUSE
13 1 (0.042%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,684 (70.20%) CI/CD
2 1,312 (54.69%) DevOps
3 715 (29.80%) Containerisation
4 669 (27.89%) Agile
5 665 (27.72%) Observability
6 563 (23.47%) Platform Engineering
7 538 (22.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 520 (21.68%) Mentoring
9 512 (21.34%) AI
10 502 (20.93%) Software Engineering
11 426 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
12 416 (17.34%) Microservices
13 404 (16.84%) Technical Leadership
14 388 (16.17%) Test Automation
15 357 (14.88%) Cloud Security
16 339 (14.13%) Roadmaps
17 330 (13.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 270 (11.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 265 (11.05%) Event-Driven
20 263 (10.96%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,043 (43.48%) Python
2 380 (15.84%) Java
3 369 (15.38%) SQL
4 367 (15.30%) Bash
5 343 (14.30%) PowerShell
6 231 (9.63%) Bicep
7 221 (9.21%) TypeScript
8 194 (8.09%) JavaScript
9 185 (7.71%) C#
10 159 (6.63%) Go
11 47 (1.96%) Ruby
12 41 (1.71%) Scala
13 36 (1.50%) PHP
14 26 (1.08%) Rust
15 25 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
16 24 (1.00%) Groovy
17 23 (0.96%) C++
18 21 (0.88%) Perl
19 13 (0.54%) Shell Script
20 12 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 576 (24.01%) Security Cleared
2 362 (15.09%) SC Cleared
3 204 (8.50%) Degree
4 193 (8.05%) AWS Certification
5 191 (7.96%) DV Cleared
6 150 (6.25%) Azure Certification
7 90 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 88 (3.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 60 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 53 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
11 35 (1.46%) CCNP
12 34 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
13 30 (1.25%) Master's Degree
14 23 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
15 21 (0.88%) CISSP
16 19 (0.79%) CCNA
17 18 (0.75%) OSCP
18 16 (0.67%) SnowPro
19 14 (0.58%) CCIE
19 14 (0.58%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (5.42%) QA
2 108 (4.50%) Data Quality
3 73 (3.04%) GDPR
3 73 (3.04%) GRC
4 58 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 49 (2.04%) Accessibility
6 37 (1.54%) NIST
7 33 (1.38%) SOC 2
8 27 (1.13%) NCSC
9 25 (1.04%) PCI DSS
9 25 (1.04%) WCAG
10 22 (0.92%) SLA
11 10 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.29%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
16 2 (0.083%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.083%) IFRS
16 2 (0.083%) Solvency II
System Software
1 631 (26.30%) Docker
2 135 (5.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 134 (5.59%) Active Directory
4 46 (1.92%) vSphere
5 37 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (1.08%) Hyper-V
7 24 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (0.75%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.38%) KVM
11 8 (0.33%) Squid
11 8 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.29%) Firmware
13 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.17%) iptables
15 3 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 2 (0.083%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 887 (36.97%) Kubernetes
2 489 (20.38%) Ansible
3 241 (10.05%) Grafana
4 170 (7.09%) Prometheus
5 71 (2.96%) Argo
6 60 (2.50%) Puppet
7 40 (1.67%) Progress Chef
8 34 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
9 33 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 30 (1.25%) Istio
11 27 (1.13%) Packer
12 22 (0.92%) Nagios
13 18 (0.75%) FortiGate
14 17 (0.71%) vCenter Server
15 14 (0.58%) Cilium
16 12 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 12 (0.50%) Kustomize
16 12 (0.50%) ZABBIX
17 11 (0.46%) Rancher
18 10 (0.42%) linkerd
Vendors
1 535 (22.30%) Microsoft
2 164 (6.84%) VMware
3 142 (5.92%) Google
4 106 (4.42%) Databricks
5 87 (3.63%) Splunk
6 86 (3.58%) Red Hat
7 73 (3.04%) Cisco
8 69 (2.88%) Oracle
9 46 (1.92%) Palo Alto
10 43 (1.79%) OpenAI
11 41 (1.71%) Dynatrace
12 39 (1.63%) Fortinet
13 25 (1.04%) Zscaler
14 23 (0.96%) ServiceNow
15 17 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
16 16 (0.67%) SAP
17 15 (0.63%) Atlassian
18 13 (0.54%) Okta
18 13 (0.54%) Rapid7
19 12 (0.50%) ScienceLogic