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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 161 172
Rank change year-on-year +68 +11 -63
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,802 932 1,680
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.94% 2.13% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 2.29% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,211 622 1,297
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £48,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,938 £88,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% +7.69% -6.40%

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 68,107 40,669 85,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.51% 93.11% 83.11%
Number of salaries quoted 45,062 21,401 61,158
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,114 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 4 June 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 4 June 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 +64 1,646 £77,500 - 811
UK excluding London +69 839 £68,000 -2.86% 523
London +34 810 £87,500 -2.78% 380
Work from Home +100 656 £70,000 -7.11% 463
North of England +59 321 £67,500 -3.57% 155
South East +45 194 £70,000 -6.67% 151
North West +66 186 £74,651 +2.97% 89
South West +6 114 £72,500 +1.75% 84
Midlands +20 109 £70,079 +7.81% 42
Yorkshire -5 93 £65,576 -3.57% 35
West Midlands 0 63 £77,500 +10.71% 29
East Midlands +7 46 £67,500 +3.85% 13
East of England -2 46 £60,100 -7.54% 31
North East -3 42 £55,000 -15.38% 31
Scotland +11 38 £60,000 -20.38% 31
Wales -27 16 £65,000 +13.04% 20
Northern Ireland -35 4 £95,000 +120.46% 18

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 53 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (2.28%) Apache
3 37 (2.05%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (1.11%) Confluence
6 14 (0.78%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.67%) IIS
8 10 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
9 7 (0.39%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.28%) CMS
11 4 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.11%) Camunda
14 1 (0.055%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.055%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.055%) NetWeaver
14 1 (0.055%) nginx
14 1 (0.055%) NServiceBus
14 1 (0.055%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.055%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (0.72%) PlantUML
2 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.22%) Weka
4 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.055%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.055%) Maya
5 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.055%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.055%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,052 (58.38%) AWS
2 955 (53.00%) Azure
3 345 (19.15%) GitHub
4 325 (18.04%) GCP
5 323 (17.92%) Serverless
6 298 (16.54%) Azure DevOps
7 278 (15.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 216 (11.99%) GitHub Actions
9 186 (10.32%) AWS Lambda
10 175 (9.71%) Amazon S3
11 149 (8.27%) PaaS
12 125 (6.94%) Amazon EKS
13 124 (6.88%) SaaS
14 123 (6.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 119 (6.60%) Entra ID
16 114 (6.33%) Amazon EC2
16 114 (6.33%) IaaS
17 102 (5.66%) Azure AKS
18 99 (5.49%) Datadog
19 92 (5.11%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 175 (9.71%) Firewall
2 97 (5.38%) DNS
3 80 (4.44%) VPN
4 68 (3.77%) TCP/IP
5 64 (3.55%) Broadband
6 57 (3.16%) Network Security
7 46 (2.55%) WAN
8 36 (2.00%) BGP
9 33 (1.83%) DHCP
10 26 (1.44%) LAN
11 24 (1.33%) HTTP
11 24 (1.33%) VLAN
12 18 (1.00%) Software-Defined Networking
13 17 (0.94%) Cisco ASA
13 17 (0.94%) OSPF
13 17 (0.94%) SD-WAN
14 16 (0.89%) DSL
15 13 (0.72%) VXLAN
16 10 (0.55%) IPv4
17 9 (0.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (7.27%) NoSQL
2 128 (7.10%) PostgreSQL
3 88 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
4 77 (4.27%) MongoDB
5 68 (3.77%) DynamoDB
6 65 (3.61%) SQL Server
7 57 (3.16%) Relational Database
8 53 (2.94%) Data Lake
9 43 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
10 42 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
11 41 (2.28%) Metadata
12 29 (1.61%) MySQL
13 28 (1.55%) BigQuery
14 27 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
15 21 (1.17%) Power BI
15 21 (1.17%) Redis
16 19 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
16 19 (1.05%) Delta Lake
16 19 (1.05%) RDBMS
17 18 (1.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 257 (14.26%) GitLab
2 233 (12.93%) Git
3 229 (12.71%) Jenkins
4 44 (2.44%) CircleCI
5 35 (1.94%) Bitbucket
5 35 (1.94%) Cucumber
6 33 (1.83%) JIRA
7 20 (1.11%) Jaeger
7 20 (1.11%) TeamCity
8 15 (0.83%) SonarQube
9 14 (0.78%) Selenium
10 13 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 11 (0.61%) Subversion
12 10 (0.55%) MLflow
13 9 (0.50%) JMeter
13 9 (0.50%) Maven
13 9 (0.50%) NUnit
14 8 (0.44%) Storybook
15 7 (0.39%) Artifactory
15 7 (0.39%) Vite
General
1 436 (24.20%) Social Skills
2 371 (20.59%) Finance
3 133 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (6.71%) Public Sector
5 111 (6.16%) Banking
6 81 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 62 (3.44%) Retail
8 55 (3.05%) Law
9 45 (2.50%) Telecoms
10 34 (1.89%) Games
11 31 (1.72%) Manufacturing
12 24 (1.33%) Aerospace
13 22 (1.22%) Legal
14 20 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
14 20 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (1.11%) Marketing
15 19 (1.05%) Advertising
16 18 (1.00%) Financial Institution
17 16 (0.89%) Billing
18 12 (0.67%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 406 (22.53%) Senior
2 300 (16.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 265 (14.71%) Cloud Engineer
4 252 (13.98%) Lead
5 185 (10.27%) Platform Engineer
6 179 (9.93%) Azure Engineer
7 163 (9.05%) Architect
8 161 (8.93%) Developer
9 137 (7.60%) AWS Engineer
10 119 (6.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 97 (5.38%) Software Engineer
12 93 (5.16%) Data Engineer
13 92 (5.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 83 (4.61%) Security Engineer
15 74 (4.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 67 (3.72%) Principal Engineer
17 66 (3.66%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 65 (3.61%) Senior DevOps
19 55 (3.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 54 (3.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (7.94%) React
2 128 (7.10%) Kafka
3 126 (6.99%) Node.js
4 124 (6.88%) .NET
5 122 (6.77%) REST
6 93 (5.16%) RESTful
7 85 (4.72%) Spring
8 84 (4.66%) YAML
9 80 (4.44%) AWS CDK
10 78 (4.33%) Spring Boot
11 68 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
12 62 (3.44%) OAuth
13 59 (3.27%) ARM Templates
14 58 (3.22%) PySpark
15 49 (2.72%) RabbitMQ
16 43 (2.39%) JSON
17 40 (2.22%) AngularJS
18 39 (2.16%) ASP.NET
18 39 (2.16%) Next.js
19 37 (2.05%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 461 (25.58%) Cloud Native
2 152 (8.44%) Distributed Systems
3 95 (5.27%) Hybrid Cloud
4 82 (4.55%) Public Cloud
5 60 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 60 (3.33%) Product Ownership
6 52 (2.89%) Security Posture
7 51 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
8 48 (2.66%) Onboarding
9 39 (2.16%) Video\Live Streaming
10 30 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
11 28 (1.55%) Low-Code
12 27 (1.50%) PKI
13 26 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
14 24 (1.33%) Blockchain
14 24 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
14 24 (1.33%) Management Information System
14 24 (1.33%) Mobile App
14 24 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
15 22 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 339 (18.81%) Linux
2 167 (9.27%) Windows
3 87 (4.83%) Windows Server
4 53 (2.94%) Unix
5 46 (2.55%) Ubuntu
6 39 (2.16%) CentOS
7 28 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 25 (1.39%) VMS
9 15 (0.83%) Android
10 14 (0.78%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.39%) Debian
13 5 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.055%) Rocky
15 1 (0.055%) SUSE
15 1 (0.055%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,276 (70.81%) CI/CD
2 1,048 (58.16%) DevOps
3 496 (27.52%) Agile
4 493 (27.36%) Containerisation
5 488 (27.08%) Observability
6 385 (21.37%) Platform Engineering
7 383 (21.25%) Mentoring
8 377 (20.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 341 (18.92%) AI
10 322 (17.87%) Test Automation
11 310 (17.20%) Software Engineering
12 287 (15.93%) Microservices
13 281 (15.59%) Problem-Solving
14 240 (13.32%) Cloud Security
15 236 (13.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 235 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
17 208 (11.54%) Analytics
18 190 (10.54%) DevSecOps
19 182 (10.10%) Roadmaps
20 176 (9.77%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 814 (45.17%) Python
2 318 (17.65%) Bash
3 288 (15.98%) PowerShell
4 286 (15.87%) SQL
5 256 (14.21%) Java
6 175 (9.71%) Go
7 173 (9.60%) TypeScript
8 171 (9.49%) JavaScript
9 152 (8.44%) Bicep
10 129 (7.16%) C#
11 30 (1.66%) Rust
12 27 (1.50%) C++
13 21 (1.17%) Scala
14 18 (1.00%) PHP
15 17 (0.94%) Groovy
16 15 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
17 12 (0.67%) C
18 11 (0.61%) Kotlin
19 9 (0.50%) Shell Script
20 8 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 362 (20.09%) Security Cleared
2 231 (12.82%) SC Cleared
3 156 (8.66%) Degree
4 138 (7.66%) AWS Certification
5 102 (5.66%) DV Cleared
6 96 (5.33%) Azure Certification
7 58 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (2.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 36 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 31 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (1.55%) OSCP
12 20 (1.11%) CISSP
13 17 (0.94%) CCNP
14 16 (0.89%) DBS Check
15 15 (0.83%) CCNA
16 14 (0.78%) Master's Degree
17 13 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
18 12 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 12 (0.67%) RHCSA
19 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (4.99%) QA
2 75 (4.16%) Data Quality
3 61 (3.39%) GDPR
4 49 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 47 (2.61%) SOC 2
6 40 (2.22%) NIST
7 31 (1.72%) Accessibility
8 30 (1.66%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.78%) SLA
10 12 (0.67%) WCAG
11 9 (0.50%) GRC
12 8 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.33%) NCSC
14 5 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.11%) IFRS
16 2 (0.11%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.11%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.11%) Solvency II
17 1 (0.055%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 490 (27.19%) Docker
2 111 (6.16%) Active Directory
3 94 (5.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (1.94%) vSphere
6 22 (1.22%) VMware NSX
7 19 (1.05%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.44%) Squid
9 7 (0.39%) iptables
9 7 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.33%) Firmware
10 6 (0.33%) KVM
10 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 5 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,249 (69.31%) Terraform
2 688 (38.18%) Kubernetes
3 382 (21.20%) Ansible
4 223 (12.38%) Grafana
5 208 (11.54%) Prometheus
6 66 (3.66%) Argo
7 45 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
8 41 (2.28%) Microsoft Intune
9 40 (2.22%) Puppet
10 27 (1.50%) Progress Chef
11 24 (1.33%) Kustomize
12 23 (1.28%) Packer
13 21 (1.17%) Nagios
14 19 (1.05%) Istio
15 17 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 14 (0.78%) Rancher
17 13 (0.72%) vCenter Server
17 13 (0.72%) ZABBIX
18 12 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
19 10 (0.55%) Cilium
Vendors
1 334 (18.53%) Microsoft
2 129 (7.16%) VMware
3 109 (6.05%) Google
4 75 (4.16%) Red Hat
5 74 (4.11%) Databricks
6 56 (3.11%) Cisco
6 56 (3.11%) Splunk
7 44 (2.44%) Palo Alto
8 31 (1.72%) Oracle
9 24 (1.33%) Zscaler
10 23 (1.28%) Fortinet
10 23 (1.28%) OpenAI
11 21 (1.17%) Dynatrace
12 19 (1.05%) Salesforce
13 17 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
14 12 (0.67%) CheckPoint
14 12 (0.67%) F5
14 12 (0.67%) Foundry
15 11 (0.61%) Atlassian
15 11 (0.61%) ServiceNow