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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 154 139
Rank change year-on-year +79 -15 -47
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,426 1,019 1,484
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.21% 2.04% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.02% 2.31% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,600 716 985
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -5.11%

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 80,408 44,155 65,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.09% 88.60% 80.85%
Number of salaries quoted 55,868 25,145 40,215
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,075
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.92% -6.54%
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 £51,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -6.86% -6.58%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 +79 2,122 £77,500 - 2,265
UK excluding London +115 1,325 £70,000 - 1,204
London +32 923 £90,000 +2.86% 1,358
Work from Home +62 820 £73,500 -2.00% 1,040
North of England +97 462 £70,000 - 356
North West +88 256 £72,500 +3.57% 190
South East +66 251 £67,500 -12.90% 233
South West +45 234 £75,000 - 192
Midlands +40 149 £75,000 +15.38% 114
Yorkshire +1 105 £73,750 +5.36% 113
North East +21 101 £59,000 -18.62% 54
West Midlands +19 90 £85,000 +30.77% 57
Wales -14 67 £70,000 +19.15% 29
Northern Ireland -30 62 £71,991 +67.07% 59
East Midlands +13 59 £67,500 +3.85% 57
East of England 0 58 £70,000 +7.69% 86
Scotland +18 54 £72,246 +3.21% 143

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 58 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
2 56 (2.31%) Apache Spark
3 55 (2.27%) Apache
4 31 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (1.15%) Confluence
6 13 (0.54%) Jupyter
7 11 (0.45%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.37%) IIS
9 6 (0.25%) CMS
10 5 (0.21%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.16%) Camunda
11 4 (0.16%) nginx
12 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.12%) WordPress
13 2 (0.082%) Cloud Foundry
14 1 (0.041%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.041%) Documentum
14 1 (0.041%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.041%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 21 (0.87%) PlantUML
2 11 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.082%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.082%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.041%) Maya
6 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.041%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) Summit
4 2 (0.082%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.082%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.041%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,379 (56.84%) AWS
2 1,297 (53.46%) Azure
3 471 (19.41%) GCP
4 426 (17.56%) GitHub
5 389 (16.03%) AWS CloudFormation
6 378 (15.58%) Serverless
7 324 (13.36%) Azure DevOps
8 235 (9.69%) GitHub Actions
9 214 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
10 210 (8.66%) Amazon S3
11 174 (7.17%) PaaS
12 150 (6.18%) Amazon EKS
13 149 (6.14%) Amazon EC2
14 144 (5.94%) Amazon ECS
15 138 (5.69%) Azure AKS
16 130 (5.36%) SaaS
17 126 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 126 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
18 125 (5.15%) IaaS
19 114 (4.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 177 (7.30%) Firewall
2 129 (5.32%) DNS
3 123 (5.07%) VPN
4 118 (4.86%) WAN
5 113 (4.66%) Network Security
6 98 (4.04%) LAN
7 70 (2.89%) TCP/IP
8 55 (2.27%) BGP
9 49 (2.02%) Broadband
10 48 (1.98%) DHCP
11 40 (1.65%) OSPF
12 32 (1.32%) VLAN
13 28 (1.15%) VXLAN
14 27 (1.11%) SD-WAN
15 26 (1.07%) Software-Defined Networking
16 19 (0.78%) Wireless
17 15 (0.62%) HTTP
18 14 (0.58%) Ethernet VPN
18 14 (0.58%) SAN
19 10 (0.41%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (7.63%) PostgreSQL
2 152 (6.27%) NoSQL
3 111 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
4 104 (4.29%) MongoDB
5 88 (3.63%) SQL Server
6 79 (3.26%) DynamoDB
7 68 (2.80%) MySQL
8 63 (2.60%) Data Lake
9 60 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
10 52 (2.14%) Metadata
10 52 (2.14%) Relational Database
11 47 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
12 39 (1.61%) Redis
13 33 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
14 32 (1.32%) Delta Lake
15 29 (1.20%) Big Data
16 28 (1.15%) BigQuery
17 26 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
18 23 (0.95%) Power BI
19 22 (0.91%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 323 (13.31%) Git
2 293 (12.08%) GitLab
3 260 (10.72%) Jenkins
4 55 (2.27%) JIRA
5 47 (1.94%) Cucumber
6 33 (1.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 27 (1.11%) Bitbucket
7 27 (1.11%) CircleCI
8 26 (1.07%) TeamCity
9 23 (0.95%) Selenium
10 19 (0.78%) Claude Code
11 18 (0.74%) SonarQube
12 16 (0.66%) Cypress.io
13 15 (0.62%) NUnit
14 12 (0.49%) Maven
14 12 (0.49%) MLflow
14 12 (0.49%) Subversion
15 10 (0.41%) Snyk
16 9 (0.37%) MSI
17 8 (0.33%) Artifactory
General
1 673 (27.74%) Social Skills
2 560 (23.08%) Finance
3 231 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 183 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
5 151 (6.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 139 (5.73%) Banking
7 122 (5.03%) Law
8 74 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
9 63 (2.60%) Retail
10 51 (2.10%) Aerospace
11 46 (1.90%) Games
12 42 (1.73%) Marketing
13 40 (1.65%) Legal
14 32 (1.32%) Manufacturing
15 28 (1.15%) Telecoms
16 20 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (0.74%) Aviation
17 18 (0.74%) Financial Institution
18 17 (0.70%) Local Government
19 16 (0.66%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 559 (23.04%) Senior
2 413 (17.02%) DevOps Engineer
3 344 (14.18%) Lead
4 329 (13.56%) Architect
5 290 (11.95%) Cloud Engineer
6 248 (10.22%) Platform Engineer
7 209 (8.62%) Developer
8 191 (7.87%) Azure Engineer
9 163 (6.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 149 (6.14%) Software Engineer
11 144 (5.94%) AWS Engineer
12 123 (5.07%) Data Engineer
13 122 (5.03%) Principal Engineer
14 115 (4.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 94 (3.87%) Security Engineer
16 92 (3.79%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 79 (3.26%) Senior DevOps
18 75 (3.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 74 (3.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 74 (3.05%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,636 (67.44%) Terraform
2 199 (8.20%) React
3 193 (7.96%) Kafka
4 183 (7.54%) .NET
5 157 (6.47%) Node.js
6 156 (6.43%) REST
7 153 (6.31%) Spring
8 151 (6.22%) Spring Boot
9 145 (5.98%) RESTful
10 93 (3.83%) AWS CDK
11 80 (3.30%) PySpark
12 70 (2.89%) YAML
13 67 (2.76%) ARM Templates
14 63 (2.60%) AngularJS
15 59 (2.43%) RabbitMQ
16 58 (2.39%) Next.js
17 53 (2.18%) Elastic Stack
18 48 (1.98%) OAuth
19 44 (1.81%) ASP.NET
20 42 (1.73%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 726 (29.93%) Cloud Native
2 264 (10.88%) Distributed Systems
3 134 (5.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 126 (5.19%) Public Cloud
5 125 (5.15%) Onboarding
6 94 (3.87%) Data Centre
7 89 (3.67%) Product Ownership
8 70 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
9 66 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
10 62 (2.56%) Security Posture
11 59 (2.43%) Enterprise Cloud
12 48 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
13 42 (1.73%) Virtual Team
14 41 (1.69%) Private Cloud
14 41 (1.69%) Video\Live Streaming
15 39 (1.61%) e-Learning
15 39 (1.61%) Management Information System
16 36 (1.48%) AI Agents
16 36 (1.48%) Low-Code
16 36 (1.48%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 396 (16.32%) Linux
2 225 (9.27%) Windows
3 98 (4.04%) Windows Server
4 60 (2.47%) CentOS
5 40 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (1.61%) Unix
7 38 (1.57%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.91%) VMS
9 5 (0.21%) Debian
9 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.16%) Android
10 4 (0.16%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.12%) AIX
12 2 (0.082%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.082%) Solaris
13 1 (0.041%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.041%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.041%) SUSE
13 1 (0.041%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,705 (70.28%) CI/CD
2 1,315 (54.20%) DevOps
3 715 (29.47%) Containerisation
4 685 (28.24%) Observability
5 679 (27.99%) Agile
6 580 (23.91%) Platform Engineering
7 538 (22.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 529 (21.81%) Mentoring
9 527 (21.72%) AI
10 515 (21.23%) Software Engineering
11 434 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
12 418 (17.23%) Microservices
13 406 (16.74%) Technical Leadership
14 396 (16.32%) Test Automation
15 372 (15.33%) Cloud Security
16 347 (14.30%) Roadmaps
17 343 (14.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 273 (11.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 267 (11.01%) Event-Driven
20 266 (10.96%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,053 (43.40%) Python
2 379 (15.62%) Java
3 374 (15.42%) Bash
3 374 (15.42%) SQL
4 345 (14.22%) PowerShell
5 232 (9.56%) Bicep
6 225 (9.27%) TypeScript
7 197 (8.12%) JavaScript
8 185 (7.63%) C#
9 161 (6.64%) Go
10 47 (1.94%) Ruby
11 41 (1.69%) Scala
12 36 (1.48%) PHP
13 28 (1.15%) Rust
14 27 (1.11%) Groovy
15 25 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
16 21 (0.87%) C++
16 21 (0.87%) Perl
17 16 (0.66%) Shell Script
18 12 (0.49%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 590 (24.32%) Security Cleared
2 370 (15.25%) SC Cleared
3 203 (8.37%) AWS Certification
4 196 (8.08%) Degree
5 194 (8.00%) DV Cleared
6 155 (6.39%) Azure Certification
7 92 (3.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 88 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 65 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 57 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
11 38 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
12 36 (1.48%) CCNP
13 30 (1.24%) Master's Degree
14 24 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
15 21 (0.87%) CISSP
16 19 (0.78%) CCNA
17 17 (0.70%) SnowPro
18 15 (0.62%) DBS Check
18 15 (0.62%) OSCP
19 14 (0.58%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (5.44%) QA
2 107 (4.41%) Data Quality
3 72 (2.97%) GRC
4 70 (2.89%) GDPR
5 59 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (1.94%) Accessibility
7 34 (1.40%) NIST
8 31 (1.28%) SOC 2
9 28 (1.15%) NCSC
10 23 (0.95%) PCI DSS
10 23 (0.95%) SLA
11 22 (0.91%) WCAG
12 10 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.29%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.12%) ISO 20022
17 2 (0.082%) IFRS
17 2 (0.082%) ISO 9001
17 2 (0.082%) Solvency II
System Software
1 632 (26.05%) Docker
2 134 (5.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 132 (5.44%) Active Directory
4 45 (1.85%) vSphere
5 39 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (1.03%) Hyper-V
7 24 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (0.70%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.37%) KVM
11 8 (0.33%) Firmware
11 8 (0.33%) Squid
12 7 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
13 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.16%) iptables
15 3 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 2 (0.082%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 891 (36.73%) Kubernetes
2 491 (20.24%) Ansible
3 241 (9.93%) Grafana
4 172 (7.09%) Prometheus
5 72 (2.97%) Argo
6 60 (2.47%) Puppet
7 40 (1.65%) Progress Chef
8 37 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
9 35 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
10 34 (1.40%) Istio
11 27 (1.11%) Packer
12 20 (0.82%) FortiGate
13 19 (0.78%) Nagios
13 19 (0.78%) vCenter Server
14 15 (0.62%) Rancher
15 14 (0.58%) Cilium
16 13 (0.54%) Kustomize
17 12 (0.49%) ZABBIX
18 11 (0.45%) Kibana
18 11 (0.45%) linkerd
Vendors
1 548 (22.59%) Microsoft
2 165 (6.80%) VMware
3 148 (6.10%) Google
4 105 (4.33%) Databricks
5 86 (3.54%) Splunk
6 84 (3.46%) Red Hat
7 75 (3.09%) Cisco
8 69 (2.84%) Oracle
9 45 (1.85%) Palo Alto
10 44 (1.81%) OpenAI
11 43 (1.77%) Fortinet
12 41 (1.69%) Dynatrace
13 28 (1.15%) ServiceNow
14 25 (1.03%) Zscaler
15 16 (0.66%) Atlassian
15 16 (0.66%) CrowdStrike
15 16 (0.66%) SAP
16 14 (0.58%) F5
16 14 (0.58%) Okta
17 13 (0.54%) Rapid7