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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 153 155
Rank change year-on-year +77 +2 -51
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,310 1,032 1,433
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.21% 2.08% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.01% 2.33% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,553 716 1,045
10th Percentile £48,904 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,250 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £108,375 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,079 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% +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 76,763 44,374 67,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.58% 89.45% 81.06%
Number of salaries quoted 52,880 25,244 44,456
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,246
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,246 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -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 5 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 5 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 +75 2,031 £77,500 - 1,567
UK excluding London +112 1,235 £70,079 +0.11% 871
London +29 912 £90,000 - 855
Work from Home +80 814 £72,500 -8.01% 765
North of England +94 415 £70,400 +0.57% 279
South East +63 250 £67,500 -12.90% 190
North West +90 240 £74,651 +6.64% 160
South West +47 211 £75,000 -2.48% 175
Midlands +35 146 £75,000 +15.38% 75
Yorkshire +1 94 £75,000 +7.14% 75
West Midlands +11 89 £80,000 +23.08% 52
North East +15 81 £56,500 -16.30% 44
Wales +2 63 £70,039 +21.81% 32
Northern Ireland -22 58 £72,896 +69.17% 24
East Midlands +16 57 £67,500 +3.85% 23
East of England -4 53 £65,000 +4.00% 32
Scotland +25 48 £71,991 +6.65% 66

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 64 (2.77%) Apache Airflow
2 55 (2.38%) Apache Spark
3 50 (2.16%) Apache
4 32 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (1.26%) Confluence
6 12 (0.52%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.43%) IIS
7 10 (0.43%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.17%) Camunda
8 4 (0.17%) CMS
9 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.13%) nginx
9 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.13%) WordPress
10 2 (0.087%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.087%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.043%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.043%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.043%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.043%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 21 (0.91%) PlantUML
2 10 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.087%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.087%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.087%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.043%) Maya
6 1 (0.043%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.13%) Summit
4 2 (0.087%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.087%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,320 (57.14%) AWS
2 1,269 (54.94%) Azure
3 439 (19.00%) GCP
4 407 (17.62%) GitHub
5 371 (16.06%) Serverless
6 365 (15.80%) AWS CloudFormation
7 317 (13.72%) Azure DevOps
8 227 (9.83%) GitHub Actions
9 201 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
10 198 (8.57%) Amazon S3
11 185 (8.01%) PaaS
12 142 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
13 138 (5.97%) Amazon EKS
14 136 (5.89%) Amazon ECS
15 134 (5.80%) SaaS
16 126 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
17 125 (5.41%) IaaS
18 124 (5.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 118 (5.11%) Azure AKS
20 113 (4.89%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 178 (7.71%) Firewall
2 116 (5.02%) DNS
2 116 (5.02%) WAN
3 109 (4.72%) VPN
4 108 (4.68%) Network Security
5 96 (4.16%) LAN
6 82 (3.55%) TCP/IP
7 53 (2.29%) Broadband
8 50 (2.16%) BGP
9 38 (1.65%) DHCP
10 35 (1.52%) OSPF
11 34 (1.47%) VLAN
12 26 (1.13%) VXLAN
13 24 (1.04%) SD-WAN
13 24 (1.04%) Software-Defined Networking
14 21 (0.91%) HTTP
15 15 (0.65%) Wireless
16 13 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
16 13 (0.56%) SAN
17 12 (0.52%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
2 146 (6.32%) NoSQL
3 103 (4.46%) Amazon RDS
4 95 (4.11%) MongoDB
5 80 (3.46%) SQL Server
6 77 (3.33%) DynamoDB
7 58 (2.51%) MySQL
8 57 (2.47%) Data Lake
9 56 (2.42%) Relational Database
10 55 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
11 52 (2.25%) Metadata
12 41 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
13 38 (1.65%) Redis
14 34 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
15 28 (1.21%) Delta Lake
16 27 (1.17%) BigQuery
17 25 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
17 25 (1.08%) Big Data
17 25 (1.08%) Power BI
18 23 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 302 (13.07%) Git
2 291 (12.60%) GitLab
3 254 (11.00%) Jenkins
4 50 (2.16%) JIRA
5 44 (1.90%) Cucumber
6 34 (1.47%) CircleCI
7 31 (1.34%) Bitbucket
8 29 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 27 (1.17%) TeamCity
10 21 (0.91%) Selenium
11 19 (0.82%) Claude Code
12 16 (0.69%) SonarQube
13 14 (0.61%) NUnit
14 12 (0.52%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.52%) Subversion
15 11 (0.48%) Maven
15 11 (0.48%) MLflow
16 9 (0.39%) JMeter
16 9 (0.39%) MSI
17 8 (0.35%) Snyk
General
1 639 (27.66%) Social Skills
2 518 (22.42%) Finance
3 200 (8.66%) Public Sector
4 175 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
5 133 (5.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 118 (5.11%) Banking
7 112 (4.85%) Law
8 69 (2.99%) Retail
9 68 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
10 45 (1.95%) Games
11 42 (1.82%) Aerospace
12 38 (1.65%) Marketing
13 36 (1.56%) Telecoms
14 33 (1.43%) Legal
15 30 (1.30%) Manufacturing
16 22 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
17 20 (0.87%) Advertising
18 19 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
19 16 (0.69%) Aviation
19 16 (0.69%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 535 (23.16%) Senior
2 398 (17.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 339 (14.68%) Lead
4 307 (13.29%) Architect
5 273 (11.82%) Cloud Engineer
6 231 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
7 203 (8.79%) Developer
8 181 (7.84%) Azure Engineer
9 135 (5.84%) Software Engineer
10 132 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
11 124 (5.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 120 (5.19%) Data Engineer
13 108 (4.68%) Principal Engineer
14 104 (4.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 89 (3.85%) Security Engineer
16 86 (3.72%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 79 (3.42%) Senior DevOps
18 76 (3.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 73 (3.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 69 (2.99%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (8.10%) React
2 176 (7.62%) Kafka
3 170 (7.36%) .NET
4 152 (6.58%) REST
5 150 (6.49%) Node.js
6 142 (6.15%) Spring
7 140 (6.06%) Spring Boot
8 128 (5.54%) RESTful
9 91 (3.94%) AWS CDK
10 77 (3.33%) YAML
11 74 (3.20%) PySpark
12 72 (3.12%) ARM Templates
13 60 (2.60%) AngularJS
14 58 (2.51%) RabbitMQ
15 56 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
15 56 (2.42%) Next.js
16 52 (2.25%) OAuth
17 42 (1.82%) ASP.NET
18 39 (1.69%) ASP.NET Core
18 39 (1.69%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 668 (28.92%) Cloud Native
2 245 (10.61%) Distributed Systems
3 116 (5.02%) Hybrid Cloud
4 114 (4.94%) Onboarding
5 109 (4.72%) Public Cloud
6 86 (3.72%) Data Centre
7 77 (3.33%) Product Ownership
8 67 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
9 65 (2.81%) Security Posture
10 60 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
11 49 (2.12%) Enterprise Cloud
12 46 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
13 45 (1.95%) Video\Live Streaming
14 39 (1.69%) Low-Code
15 34 (1.47%) Management Information System
15 34 (1.47%) Private Cloud
16 33 (1.43%) e-Learning
16 33 (1.43%) Virtual Team
17 31 (1.34%) PKI
18 27 (1.17%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 389 (16.84%) Linux
2 220 (9.52%) Windows
3 97 (4.20%) Windows Server
4 56 (2.42%) CentOS
5 41 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (1.77%) Ubuntu
5 41 (1.77%) Unix
6 22 (0.95%) VMS
7 8 (0.35%) Android
8 7 (0.30%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.22%) Debian
9 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.087%) AIX
10 2 (0.087%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.087%) Solaris
11 1 (0.043%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.043%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.043%) Rocky
11 1 (0.043%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,630 (70.56%) CI/CD
2 1,286 (55.67%) DevOps
3 682 (29.52%) Containerisation
4 653 (28.27%) Agile
5 640 (27.71%) Observability
6 534 (23.12%) Platform Engineering
7 509 (22.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 504 (21.82%) Mentoring
9 491 (21.26%) AI
10 472 (20.43%) Software Engineering
11 392 (16.97%) Microservices
11 392 (16.97%) Problem-Solving
12 382 (16.54%) Technical Leadership
13 381 (16.49%) Test Automation
14 334 (14.46%) Cloud Security
15 330 (14.29%) Roadmaps
16 298 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 253 (10.95%) Event-Driven
18 251 (10.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 250 (10.82%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,006 (43.55%) Python
2 361 (15.63%) SQL
3 360 (15.58%) Java
4 353 (15.28%) Bash
5 326 (14.11%) PowerShell
6 220 (9.52%) Bicep
7 211 (9.13%) TypeScript
8 196 (8.48%) JavaScript
9 175 (7.58%) C#
10 169 (7.32%) Go
11 44 (1.90%) Ruby
12 37 (1.60%) PHP
13 34 (1.47%) Scala
14 25 (1.08%) Rust
15 24 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
16 23 (1.00%) C++
17 21 (0.91%) Groovy
17 21 (0.91%) Perl
18 13 (0.56%) Shell Script
19 11 (0.48%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 540 (23.38%) Security Cleared
2 338 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 196 (8.48%) Degree
4 175 (7.58%) DV Cleared
5 174 (7.53%) AWS Certification
6 139 (6.02%) Azure Certification
7 84 (3.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 78 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 54 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 50 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
11 34 (1.47%) CCNP
12 28 (1.21%) Master's Degree
13 23 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
14 21 (0.91%) CISSP
14 21 (0.91%) OSCP
14 21 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
15 18 (0.78%) CCNA
16 16 (0.69%) DBS Check
17 14 (0.61%) RHCSA
18 13 (0.56%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (5.45%) QA
2 101 (4.37%) Data Quality
3 69 (2.99%) GRC
4 68 (2.94%) GDPR
5 55 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (1.99%) Accessibility
7 38 (1.65%) NIST
8 36 (1.56%) SOC 2
9 27 (1.17%) PCI DSS
10 25 (1.08%) WCAG
11 24 (1.04%) NCSC
12 15 (0.65%) SLA
13 9 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
17 2 (0.087%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 2 (0.087%) IFRS
17 2 (0.087%) ISO 9001
17 2 (0.087%) Solvency II
System Software
1 609 (26.36%) Docker
2 131 (5.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 124 (5.37%) Active Directory
4 44 (1.90%) vSphere
5 33 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (1.08%) Hyper-V
7 18 (0.78%) VMware NSX
8 17 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.39%) Firmware
10 9 (0.39%) KVM
11 8 (0.35%) Squid
11 8 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.22%) iptables
14 3 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,556 (67.36%) Terraform
2 863 (37.36%) Kubernetes
3 465 (20.13%) Ansible
4 242 (10.48%) Grafana
5 185 (8.01%) Prometheus
6 67 (2.90%) Argo
7 55 (2.38%) Puppet
8 37 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
9 34 (1.47%) Progress Chef
9 34 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
10 28 (1.21%) Istio
11 27 (1.17%) Packer
12 24 (1.04%) Nagios
13 16 (0.69%) FortiGate
14 15 (0.65%) vCenter Server
15 12 (0.52%) Cilium
15 12 (0.52%) Rancher
15 12 (0.52%) ZABBIX
16 11 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 11 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 502 (21.73%) Microsoft
2 158 (6.84%) VMware
3 133 (5.76%) Google
4 98 (4.24%) Databricks
5 86 (3.72%) Red Hat
5 86 (3.72%) Splunk
6 69 (2.99%) Cisco
7 59 (2.55%) Oracle
8 49 (2.12%) Palo Alto
9 39 (1.69%) Fortinet
10 37 (1.60%) OpenAI
11 36 (1.56%) Dynatrace
12 26 (1.13%) Zscaler
13 21 (0.91%) ServiceNow
14 15 (0.65%) CrowdStrike
14 15 (0.65%) F5
15 14 (0.61%) SAP
16 13 (0.56%) Atlassian
16 13 (0.56%) Rapid7
17 12 (0.52%) Salesforce