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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 126 82
Rank change year-on-year 0 -44 +12
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,144 1,371 1,867
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.17% 2.05% 3.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 2.45% 3.78%
Number of salaries quoted 816 813 1,445
10th Percentile £48,500 £43,991 £50,389
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,479 £65,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year +5.35% -1.89% +1.92%

All Process and 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 45,214 55,881 49,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 83.44% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,281 28,909 37,851
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,404 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,854 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 2025. 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 -6 990 £73,801 +5.43% 1,178
UK excluding London -1 560 £68,479 +5.35% 627
Work from Home +16 469 £73,801 +5.43% 807
London +13 469 £85,000 -5.56% 657
North of England +5 190 £70,000 +16.67% 175
South East +31 124 £77,500 +26.53% 179
North West +2 83 £65,000 +4.00% 121
Yorkshire +3 82 £70,000 +27.27% 40
Midlands +19 67 £65,000 -1.52% 60
Scotland -1 67 £70,039 +0.06% 47
South West -39 57 £62,500 -10.71% 99
West Midlands +21 47 £65,000 -5.80% 38
East of England +21 32 £67,500 -6.90% 36
North East -3 25 £71,289 +42.58% 14
East Midlands +27 20 £65,000 +56.63% 22
Wales +18 18 £60,000 +9.99% 18
Northern Ireland +1 7 £73,801 -13.18% 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 52 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (3.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 36 (3.15%) Apache
4 32 (2.80%) Apache Spark
5 27 (2.36%) SharePoint
6 20 (1.75%) Confluence
7 13 (1.14%) nginx
8 11 (0.96%) Appian
9 4 (0.35%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.35%) Traefik
10 3 (0.26%) IIS
11 1 (0.087%) CMS
11 1 (0.087%) SAS
11 1 (0.087%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.087%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.35%) Adobe XD
1 4 (0.35%) Sketch
2 3 (0.26%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.087%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.087%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.087%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 713 (62.33%) Azure
2 689 (60.23%) AWS
3 239 (20.89%) GCP
4 237 (20.72%) Azure DevOps
5 231 (20.19%) GitHub
6 186 (16.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 169 (14.77%) Serverless
8 138 (12.06%) GitHub Actions
9 112 (9.79%) AWS Lambda
10 111 (9.70%) SaaS
11 108 (9.44%) Amazon S3
12 101 (8.83%) PaaS
13 89 (7.78%) Microsoft 365
14 88 (7.69%) Entra ID
15 77 (6.73%) Amazon EKS
16 76 (6.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 74 (6.47%) Amazon EC2
17 74 (6.47%) Azure Monitor
18 72 (6.29%) Amazon ECS
19 65 (5.68%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 122 (10.66%) Firewall
2 87 (7.60%) DNS
3 70 (6.12%) VPN
4 58 (5.07%) WAN
5 55 (4.81%) TCP/IP
6 45 (3.93%) Network Security
7 44 (3.85%) LAN
8 31 (2.71%) DHCP
9 25 (2.19%) Wi-Fi
10 17 (1.49%) SD-WAN
11 14 (1.22%) BGP
12 13 (1.14%) VLAN
13 12 (1.05%) VoIP
14 11 (0.96%) Internet
14 11 (0.96%) SAN
15 10 (0.87%) Wireless
16 8 (0.70%) Kerberos
16 8 (0.70%) OSPF
17 7 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
17 7 (0.61%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (5.77%) Amazon RDS
2 59 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (4.46%) NoSQL
4 50 (4.37%) SQL Server
5 44 (3.85%) DynamoDB
6 37 (3.23%) Data Lake
7 31 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
8 30 (2.62%) Redis
9 27 (2.36%) Big Data
10 23 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
11 22 (1.92%) MongoDB
12 21 (1.84%) MySQL
13 20 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
14 18 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
15 17 (1.49%) BigQuery
16 15 (1.31%) Power BI
16 15 (1.31%) Relational Database
17 13 (1.14%) Apache Iceberg
18 8 (0.70%) Amazon Aurora
18 8 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 164 (14.34%) Jenkins
2 144 (12.59%) Git
3 122 (10.66%) GitLab
4 42 (3.67%) JIRA
5 31 (2.71%) Selenium
6 27 (2.36%) Robot Framework
7 24 (2.10%) Snyk
8 21 (1.84%) TeamCity
9 18 (1.57%) SonarQube
10 16 (1.40%) Bitbucket
10 16 (1.40%) Cucumber
11 14 (1.22%) CircleCI
12 13 (1.14%) Artifactory
12 13 (1.14%) MLflow
13 12 (1.05%) JMeter
13 12 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
14 9 (0.79%) Spinnaker
15 8 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
16 7 (0.61%) Locust
17 6 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 314 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 307 (26.84%) Finance
3 110 (9.62%) Law
4 104 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 95 (8.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 86 (7.52%) Banking
7 54 (4.72%) Public Sector
8 47 (4.11%) Retail
9 40 (3.50%) Marketing
10 33 (2.88%) Legal
11 30 (2.62%) Telecoms
12 28 (2.45%) Financial Institution
13 21 (1.84%) Games
14 19 (1.66%) Back Office
15 17 (1.49%) Advertising
16 13 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
17 12 (1.05%) Manufacturing
18 11 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
19 10 (0.87%) Automotive
19 10 (0.87%) Billing
Job Titles
1 242 (21.15%) Senior
2 169 (14.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 160 (13.99%) Cloud Engineer
4 144 (12.59%) Lead
5 114 (9.97%) Architect
6 99 (8.65%) Developer
7 95 (8.30%) Platform Engineer
8 83 (7.26%) Azure Engineer
9 67 (5.86%) Software Engineer
10 64 (5.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 53 (4.63%) AWS Engineer
12 43 (3.76%) Data Engineer
13 39 (3.41%) Senior DevOps
14 37 (3.23%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 37 (3.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 36 (3.15%) Cloud Architect
16 34 (2.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 33 (2.88%) Security Engineer
18 32 (2.80%) Support Engineer
19 30 (2.62%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (8.39%) .NET
2 95 (8.30%) React
3 68 (5.94%) Kafka
4 52 (4.55%) RESTful
5 50 (4.37%) Elastic Stack
6 49 (4.28%) Django
7 46 (4.02%) Node.js
8 44 (3.85%) YAML
9 42 (3.67%) ARM Templates
10 38 (3.32%) Spring
11 35 (3.06%) REST
12 34 (2.97%) Spring Boot
13 28 (2.45%) CSS
13 28 (2.45%) FastAPI
13 28 (2.45%) Flask
13 28 (2.45%) OAuth
14 27 (2.36%) .NET Core
14 27 (2.36%) HTML
15 25 (2.19%) Vue
16 23 (2.01%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 267 (23.34%) Cloud Native
2 88 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 72 (6.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 55 (4.81%) Data Centre
5 54 (4.72%) Product Ownership
6 49 (4.28%) Distributed Systems
7 41 (3.58%) Legacy Systems
8 30 (2.62%) Management Information System
9 29 (2.53%) Security Posture
10 27 (2.36%) Linux Command Line
10 27 (2.36%) Onboarding
11 24 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
12 22 (1.92%) Data Structures
12 22 (1.92%) Private Cloud
13 19 (1.66%) Distributed Architecture
13 19 (1.66%) PKI
14 18 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
15 17 (1.49%) Low-Code
16 15 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
17 13 (1.14%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 236 (20.63%) Linux
2 140 (12.24%) Windows
3 51 (4.46%) Windows Server
4 43 (3.76%) Unix
5 27 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (1.92%) Ubuntu
6 22 (1.92%) VMS
7 15 (1.31%) Debian
8 8 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.61%) CentOS
10 4 (0.35%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.26%) AIX
11 3 (0.26%) Android
11 3 (0.26%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.26%) Solaris
12 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.087%) SUSE
13 1 (0.087%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 762 (66.61%) CI/CD
2 757 (66.17%) DevOps
3 363 (31.73%) Agile
4 293 (25.61%) Containerisation
5 251 (21.94%) Problem-Solving
6 229 (20.02%) Continuous Improvement
7 206 (18.01%) Mentoring
8 196 (17.13%) Observability
9 193 (16.87%) Software Engineering
10 166 (14.51%) Platform Engineering
11 161 (14.07%) AI
12 148 (12.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 144 (12.59%) Test Automation
14 127 (11.10%) Microservices
15 125 (10.93%) Cloud Security
15 125 (10.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 124 (10.84%) Analytics
17 123 (10.75%) Roadmaps
18 106 (9.27%) Technical Leadership
19 102 (8.92%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 511 (44.67%) Python
2 221 (19.32%) PowerShell
3 202 (17.66%) Bash
4 175 (15.30%) SQL
5 127 (11.10%) Bicep
6 109 (9.53%) Java
7 88 (7.69%) Go
8 86 (7.52%) C#
9 82 (7.17%) JavaScript
10 71 (6.21%) TypeScript
11 20 (1.75%) Shell Script
12 12 (1.05%) C++
12 12 (1.05%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.44%) Ruby
13 5 (0.44%) Scala
14 4 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.35%) PHP
14 4 (0.35%) Rust
14 4 (0.35%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.17%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 204 (17.83%) Security Cleared
2 143 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 111 (9.70%) Azure Certification
4 108 (9.44%) AWS Certification
5 90 (7.87%) Degree
6 72 (6.29%) DV Cleared
7 48 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 43 (3.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 40 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 29 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (2.27%) Master's Degree
12 24 (2.10%) CCNP
13 15 (1.31%) CISSP
14 11 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (0.87%) CCNA
16 9 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
16 9 (0.79%) OSCP
17 7 (0.61%) PMI Certification
17 7 (0.61%) PMP
18 6 (0.52%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (5.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 58 (5.07%) GDPR
3 46 (4.02%) QA
4 44 (3.85%) NIST
5 23 (2.01%) Data Quality
6 22 (1.92%) PCI DSS
6 22 (1.92%) SOC 2
7 17 (1.49%) Accessibility
8 12 (1.05%) SLA
9 11 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (0.70%) WCAG
12 6 (0.52%) GRC
13 5 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.35%) EU AI Act
14 4 (0.35%) NCSC
15 3 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 2 (0.17%) Def Stans
16 2 (0.17%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 356 (31.12%) Docker
2 78 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 71 (6.21%) Active Directory
4 34 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (2.36%) Virtual Desktop
6 26 (2.27%) Hyper-V
7 19 (1.66%) vSphere
8 15 (1.31%) NFS
9 12 (1.05%) vCloud
10 9 (0.79%) Firmware
11 8 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.52%) KVM
13 5 (0.44%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.44%) XenApp
13 5 (0.44%) XenDesktop
13 5 (0.44%) zsh
14 3 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.17%) GPFS
15 2 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 2 (0.17%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 796 (69.58%) Terraform
2 456 (39.86%) Kubernetes
3 286 (25.00%) Ansible
4 142 (12.41%) Grafana
5 116 (10.14%) Prometheus
6 47 (4.11%) Microsoft Intune
7 22 (1.92%) Argo
7 22 (1.92%) Puppet
8 18 (1.57%) SCCM
9 14 (1.22%) Docker Swarm
10 12 (1.05%) AWS Copilot
10 12 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (0.87%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.87%) SCOM
12 7 (0.61%) Rancher
13 5 (0.44%) HAProxy
13 5 (0.44%) MaaS360
13 5 (0.44%) Salt
13 5 (0.44%) ZABBIX
14 4 (0.35%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 249 (21.77%) Microsoft
2 106 (9.27%) VMware
3 86 (7.52%) Google
4 59 (5.16%) Cisco
5 43 (3.76%) Splunk
6 41 (3.58%) Databricks
7 35 (3.06%) Red Hat
8 25 (2.19%) Palo Alto
9 23 (2.01%) Black Duck
10 20 (1.75%) SolarWinds
11 18 (1.57%) Coverity
11 18 (1.57%) Oracle
12 17 (1.49%) Commvault
13 11 (0.96%) BiZZdesign
13 11 (0.96%) Salesforce
13 11 (0.96%) UiPath
14 10 (0.87%) Fortinet
14 10 (0.87%) Pure Storage
15 9 (0.79%) Atlassian
16 8 (0.70%) Foundry