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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 134 152
Rank change year-on-year +27 +18 -49
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,373 1,027 1,666
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.87% 2.35% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 2.51% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 918 721 1,339
10th Percentile £46,446 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £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 £111,250 £112,750
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 57,440 40,902 73,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.10% 93.61% 87.44%
Number of salaries quoted 34,676 22,163 55,834
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%
75th Percentile £76,299 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
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 12 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 12 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 +20 1,183 £75,000 - 683
UK excluding London +8 628 £67,500 - 499
London +33 589 £85,000 -5.56% 284
Work from Home +44 554 £70,000 -6.50% 435
North of England -11 217 £65,000 - 152
South East +3 133 £70,000 -0.71% 148
North West -9 94 £72,000 +2.86% 83
Yorkshire -14 91 £62,500 +19.05% 46
South West -12 85 £62,500 -10.71% 93
Midlands -5 69 £67,500 +3.85% 35
Scotland -8 59 £67,500 - 20
East of England +15 34 £62,500 -13.79% 40
West Midlands -8 34 £67,500 -3.57% 29
East Midlands -11 33 £67,500 +3.85% 6
North East -8 32 £48,445 -13.10% 23
Wales +1 22 £64,998 +32.37% 13
Northern Ireland -24 10 £95,000 +11.76% 5

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 51 (3.71%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (2.99%) Apache
3 31 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 28 (2.04%) Apache Spark
5 17 (1.24%) SharePoint
6 14 (1.02%) IIS
7 12 (0.87%) Confluence
7 12 (0.87%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.22%) CMS
8 3 (0.22%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.15%) Appian
9 2 (0.15%) nginx
9 2 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.073%) Camunda
10 1 (0.073%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.073%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.29%) PlantUML
1 4 (0.29%) Weka
2 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.073%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.073%) Maya
4 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.073%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.073%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.073%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 837 (60.96%) AWS
2 766 (55.79%) Azure
3 306 (22.29%) GCP
3 306 (22.29%) GitHub
4 286 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
5 261 (19.01%) Serverless
6 251 (18.28%) AWS CloudFormation
7 219 (15.95%) GitHub Actions
8 168 (12.24%) AWS Lambda
9 138 (10.05%) Amazon S3
10 137 (9.98%) PaaS
11 121 (8.81%) SaaS
12 118 (8.59%) Amazon EKS
13 116 (8.45%) Entra ID
14 112 (8.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 93 (6.77%) Microsoft 365
16 89 (6.48%) IaaS
17 86 (6.26%) Amazon ECS
18 85 (6.19%) Datadog
19 83 (6.05%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 157 (11.43%) Firewall
2 88 (6.41%) DNS
3 76 (5.54%) TCP/IP
4 75 (5.46%) VPN
5 37 (2.69%) WAN
6 35 (2.55%) DHCP
7 33 (2.40%) Network Security
8 32 (2.33%) Broadband
9 20 (1.46%) HTTP
10 17 (1.24%) VLAN
11 16 (1.17%) BGP
12 15 (1.09%) DSL
12 15 (1.09%) Internet
13 14 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
14 13 (0.95%) Cisco ASA
14 13 (0.95%) LAN
15 7 (0.51%) SAN
15 7 (0.51%) SD-WAN
16 5 (0.36%) AMQP
16 5 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (7.50%) NoSQL
2 98 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 93 (6.77%) Amazon RDS
4 56 (4.08%) SQL Server
5 54 (3.93%) DynamoDB
6 44 (3.20%) Data Lake
7 43 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
8 42 (3.06%) Relational Database
9 37 (2.69%) MongoDB
9 37 (2.69%) Redis
10 35 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
11 33 (2.40%) MySQL
12 29 (2.11%) BigQuery
13 25 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
14 24 (1.75%) Power BI
15 23 (1.68%) Metadata
16 19 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
16 19 (1.38%) RDBMS
17 18 (1.31%) Delta Lake
18 15 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 211 (15.37%) Jenkins
2 177 (12.89%) GitLab
3 176 (12.82%) Git
4 30 (2.18%) CircleCI
4 30 (2.18%) JIRA
5 29 (2.11%) Bitbucket
6 28 (2.04%) Selenium
7 24 (1.75%) Robot Framework
8 22 (1.60%) Jaeger
9 21 (1.53%) Cucumber
10 18 (1.31%) TeamCity
11 17 (1.24%) Snyk
12 15 (1.09%) JMeter
12 15 (1.09%) MLflow
13 13 (0.95%) SonarQube
14 12 (0.87%) Locust
15 10 (0.73%) Subversion
16 9 (0.66%) Storybook
17 8 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 8 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 377 (27.46%) Social Skills
2 337 (24.54%) Finance
3 133 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (6.55%) Banking
4 90 (6.55%) Public Sector
5 73 (5.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 67 (4.88%) Law
7 58 (4.22%) Retail
8 56 (4.08%) Telecoms
9 33 (2.40%) Financial Institution
10 27 (1.97%) Marketing
11 21 (1.53%) Billing
12 20 (1.46%) Back Office
13 19 (1.38%) Manufacturing
14 16 (1.17%) Advertising
14 16 (1.17%) Games
15 15 (1.09%) Aerospace
15 15 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
16 14 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
16 14 (1.02%) Legal
Job Titles
1 302 (22.00%) Senior
2 221 (16.10%) DevOps Engineer
3 209 (15.22%) Cloud Engineer
4 174 (12.67%) Lead
5 131 (9.54%) Azure Engineer
6 126 (9.18%) Developer
6 126 (9.18%) Platform Engineer
7 114 (8.30%) Architect
8 98 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
8 98 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 65 (4.73%) Software Engineer
10 59 (4.30%) Data Engineer
11 53 (3.86%) Security Engineer
12 52 (3.79%) Senior DevOps
13 45 (3.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 41 (2.99%) Cloud Security Engineer
15 40 (2.91%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 39 (2.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 38 (2.77%) Lead DevOps
18 37 (2.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (8.96%) React
2 94 (6.85%) Node.js
3 84 (6.12%) .NET
3 84 (6.12%) RESTful
4 80 (5.83%) Elastic Stack
5 76 (5.54%) Kafka
6 68 (4.95%) AWS CDK
7 63 (4.59%) REST
8 59 (4.30%) Spring
9 55 (4.01%) Spring Boot
10 54 (3.93%) OAuth
10 54 (3.93%) YAML
11 47 (3.42%) Django
12 39 (2.84%) RabbitMQ
13 36 (2.62%) ARM Templates
14 35 (2.55%) FastAPI
15 34 (2.48%) CSS
16 32 (2.33%) .NET Core
16 32 (2.33%) SAML
17 29 (2.11%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 308 (22.43%) Cloud Native
2 81 (5.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 60 (4.37%) Security Posture
4 59 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
5 58 (4.22%) Public Cloud
6 46 (3.35%) Product Ownership
7 44 (3.20%) Onboarding
8 40 (2.91%) Data Centre
9 36 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
10 33 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
11 29 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
12 26 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
13 22 (1.60%) Management Information System
14 21 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
15 19 (1.38%) Mobile App
16 18 (1.31%) PKI
17 17 (1.24%) Blog
17 17 (1.24%) Cloud Security Posture
17 17 (1.24%) Hedge funds
18 16 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 306 (22.29%) Linux
2 158 (11.51%) Windows
3 82 (5.97%) Unix
4 59 (4.30%) Windows Server
5 35 (2.55%) VMS
6 28 (2.04%) Ubuntu
7 21 (1.53%) CentOS
7 21 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (1.09%) Android
9 14 (1.02%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.58%) Debian
11 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.29%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.22%) SUSE
14 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.073%) Rocky
15 1 (0.073%) Solaris
15 1 (0.073%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 949 (69.12%) CI/CD
2 884 (64.38%) DevOps
3 412 (30.01%) Agile
4 376 (27.39%) Containerisation
5 342 (24.91%) Observability
6 312 (22.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 279 (20.32%) Problem-Solving
8 276 (20.10%) Mentoring
9 221 (16.10%) Platform Engineering
10 207 (15.08%) Software Engineering
11 206 (15.00%) AI
12 197 (14.35%) Test Automation
13 190 (13.84%) Cloud Security
13 190 (13.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 179 (13.04%) Analytics
15 171 (12.45%) Microservices
16 170 (12.38%) Incident Response
17 149 (10.85%) DevSecOps
18 142 (10.34%) Roadmaps
19 139 (10.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 627 (45.67%) Python
2 262 (19.08%) Bash
3 233 (16.97%) PowerShell
4 217 (15.80%) SQL
5 192 (13.98%) Java
6 140 (10.20%) Go
7 133 (9.69%) Bicep
8 125 (9.10%) JavaScript
9 106 (7.72%) TypeScript
10 84 (6.12%) C#
11 20 (1.46%) C++
12 19 (1.38%) Rust
13 17 (1.24%) Kusto Query Language
14 16 (1.17%) Scala
15 15 (1.09%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.73%) C
17 9 (0.66%) Apex Code
18 7 (0.51%) Google Apps Script
18 7 (0.51%) Ruby
19 5 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 274 (19.96%) Security Cleared
2 164 (11.94%) SC Cleared
3 118 (8.59%) AWS Certification
4 112 (8.16%) Degree
5 102 (7.43%) DV Cleared
6 79 (5.75%) Azure Certification
7 47 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 42 (3.06%) Microsoft Certification
9 34 (2.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 28 (2.04%) CISSP
11 27 (1.97%) OSCP
12 16 (1.17%) AWS Certified Developer
13 11 (0.80%) CCSK
13 11 (0.80%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.73%) DBS Check
15 9 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 8 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
17 7 (0.51%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 7 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (5.03%) GDPR
2 63 (4.59%) QA
3 58 (4.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 57 (4.15%) Data Quality
5 48 (3.50%) NIST
5 48 (3.50%) SOC 2
6 39 (2.84%) PCI DSS
7 38 (2.77%) Accessibility
8 18 (1.31%) SLA
9 14 (1.02%) WCAG
10 13 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.51%) GRC
11 7 (0.51%) NCSC
12 4 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.29%) EU AI Act
13 2 (0.15%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.15%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.073%) HIPAA
System Software
1 454 (33.07%) Docker
2 92 (6.70%) Active Directory
3 72 (5.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
5 30 (2.18%) Hyper-V
6 20 (1.46%) vSphere
7 15 (1.09%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.87%) Firmware
8 12 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (0.73%) KVM
10 9 (0.66%) vCloud
11 4 (0.29%) iptables
11 4 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.15%) GPFS
13 2 (0.15%) Lustre
13 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.073%) QEMU
14 1 (0.073%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 969 (70.58%) Terraform
2 534 (38.89%) Kubernetes
3 328 (23.89%) Ansible
4 207 (15.08%) Grafana
5 200 (14.57%) Prometheus
6 54 (3.93%) Argo
7 46 (3.35%) Microsoft Intune
8 33 (2.40%) Puppet
9 28 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (1.38%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.24%) AWS Copilot
12 16 (1.17%) Rancher
13 15 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
14 14 (1.02%) Nagios
14 14 (1.02%) Progress Chef
15 13 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 11 (0.80%) SCCM
17 9 (0.66%) Istio
18 8 (0.58%) Mesos
18 8 (0.58%) yum
Vendors
1 246 (17.92%) Microsoft
2 130 (9.47%) Google
3 109 (7.94%) VMware
4 48 (3.50%) Databricks
5 45 (3.28%) Splunk
6 44 (3.20%) Red Hat
7 41 (2.99%) Cisco
8 34 (2.48%) Palo Alto
9 21 (1.53%) Zscaler
10 19 (1.38%) Salesforce
11 17 (1.24%) Black Duck
11 17 (1.24%) Coverity
11 17 (1.24%) Dynatrace
12 15 (1.09%) Juniper
13 14 (1.02%) Atlassian
14 13 (0.95%) Ab Initio
14 13 (0.95%) Foundry
15 12 (0.87%) CrowdStrike
15 12 (0.87%) Oracle
15 12 (0.87%) Palantir