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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 162 123
Rank change year-on-year +89 -39 -36
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,548 997 1,533
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.16% 2.02% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 2.27% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,630 709 924
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,125 £43,421
25th Percentile £60,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.04%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £69,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.45% +6.15% -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 86,307 43,936 60,951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.14% 89.11% 81.72%
Number of salaries quoted 59,386 24,309 33,164
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,033
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.23% -3.28%
75th Percentile £79,641 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 30 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 30 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 +85 2,213 £77,500 +3.33% 2,347
UK excluding London +103 1,389 £70,000 +1.45% 1,202
London +30 962 £90,000 +5.88% 1,285
Work from Home +51 820 £75,000 +0.67% 1,057
North of England +104 498 £70,000 - 369
North West +106 273 £71,991 +12.93% 223
South East +54 250 £67,500 -14.29% 187
South West +48 247 £75,000 +7.14% 208
Midlands +24 154 £75,000 +15.83% 150
North East +23 124 £60,000 -17.24% 60
Yorkshire -2 107 £68,250 -2.50% 89
West Midlands +4 96 £84,387 +35.56% 94
Wales -8 80 £70,000 +19.15% 41
Northern Ireland -33 62 £71,991 +67.07% 41
East Midlands 0 58 £65,000 - 56
East of England -12 57 £70,000 +7.69% 83
Scotland +26 53 £72,500 +7.41% 132

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 (2.51%) Apache
2 63 (2.47%) Apache Spark
3 57 (2.24%) Apache Airflow
4 34 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 30 (1.18%) Confluence
6 15 (0.59%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.51%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.35%) CMS
9 8 (0.31%) IIS
9 8 (0.31%) nginx
9 8 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.20%) Camunda
11 4 (0.16%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.12%) WordPress
13 2 (0.078%) Cloud Foundry
14 1 (0.039%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.039%) NServiceBus
14 1 (0.039%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 21 (0.82%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.078%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.039%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.039%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) Summit
4 2 (0.078%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.078%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.078%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.039%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1,439 (56.48%) AWS
2 1,368 (53.69%) Azure
3 525 (20.60%) GCP
4 464 (18.21%) GitHub
5 409 (16.05%) AWS CloudFormation
6 393 (15.42%) Serverless
7 332 (13.03%) Azure DevOps
8 257 (10.09%) GitHub Actions
9 215 (8.44%) Amazon S3
9 215 (8.44%) AWS Lambda
10 186 (7.30%) PaaS
11 159 (6.24%) Amazon EKS
12 153 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
13 151 (5.93%) Amazon ECS
14 145 (5.69%) SaaS
15 143 (5.61%) Azure AKS
16 139 (5.46%) Entra ID
17 137 (5.38%) Cloud Computing
18 134 (5.26%) IaaS
19 131 (5.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 180 (7.06%) Firewall
2 140 (5.49%) DNS
2 140 (5.49%) VPN
3 120 (4.71%) Network Security
4 118 (4.63%) WAN
5 91 (3.57%) LAN
6 67 (2.63%) TCP/IP
7 55 (2.16%) BGP
8 53 (2.08%) DHCP
9 43 (1.69%) Internet
10 42 (1.65%) Broadband
11 39 (1.53%) OSPF
12 31 (1.22%) VLAN
13 28 (1.10%) VXLAN
14 26 (1.02%) Software-Defined Networking
15 24 (0.94%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.63%) SAN
16 16 (0.63%) Wireless
17 15 (0.59%) Ethernet VPN
17 15 (0.59%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (7.81%) PostgreSQL
2 166 (6.51%) NoSQL
3 120 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
4 106 (4.16%) MongoDB
5 90 (3.53%) SQL Server
6 79 (3.10%) DynamoDB
7 74 (2.90%) MySQL
8 72 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
9 65 (2.55%) Data Lake
10 53 (2.08%) Metadata
10 53 (2.08%) Redis
11 51 (2.00%) Relational Database
12 45 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
13 34 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
14 31 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
14 31 (1.22%) Big Data
15 30 (1.18%) Delta Lake
15 30 (1.18%) Power BI
16 25 (0.98%) BigQuery
17 23 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 375 (14.72%) Git
2 316 (12.40%) GitLab
3 275 (10.79%) Jenkins
4 60 (2.35%) JIRA
5 52 (2.04%) Cucumber
6 34 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 30 (1.18%) TeamCity
8 24 (0.94%) Bitbucket
8 24 (0.94%) Claude Code
9 20 (0.78%) CircleCI
9 20 (0.78%) Selenium
10 19 (0.75%) SonarQube
11 15 (0.59%) Cypress.io
12 14 (0.55%) Subversion
13 13 (0.51%) Artifactory
14 12 (0.47%) Maven
14 12 (0.47%) Snyk
15 11 (0.43%) NUnit
16 9 (0.35%) JUnit
16 9 (0.35%) MSI
General
1 715 (28.06%) Social Skills
2 581 (22.80%) Finance
3 288 (11.30%) Public Sector
4 235 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
5 169 (6.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 143 (5.61%) Banking
7 122 (4.79%) Law
8 73 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
8 73 (2.86%) Retail
9 63 (2.47%) Aerospace
10 41 (1.61%) Marketing
11 37 (1.45%) Legal
12 33 (1.30%) Games
13 26 (1.02%) Manufacturing
14 24 (0.94%) Financial Institution
15 21 (0.82%) Telecoms
16 18 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
18 15 (0.59%) Aviation
18 15 (0.59%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 610 (23.94%) Senior
2 480 (18.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 354 (13.89%) Architect
4 345 (13.54%) Lead
5 299 (11.73%) Cloud Engineer
6 261 (10.24%) Platform Engineer
7 207 (8.12%) Developer
8 197 (7.73%) Azure Engineer
9 194 (7.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 165 (6.48%) Software Engineer
11 155 (6.08%) AWS Engineer
12 136 (5.34%) Principal Engineer
13 129 (5.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 120 (4.71%) Data Engineer
15 102 (4.00%) Security Engineer
16 99 (3.89%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 82 (3.22%) Senior DevOps
18 79 (3.10%) Azure Platform Engineer
18 79 (3.10%) Senior Developer
18 79 (3.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,691 (66.37%) Terraform
2 209 (8.20%) Kafka
2 209 (8.20%) React
3 186 (7.30%) .NET
4 174 (6.83%) Spring
4 174 (6.83%) Spring Boot
5 157 (6.16%) Node.js
6 154 (6.04%) RESTful
7 153 (6.00%) REST
8 87 (3.41%) AWS CDK
9 78 (3.06%) PySpark
10 69 (2.71%) AngularJS
11 64 (2.51%) ARM Templates
12 62 (2.43%) Next.js
13 60 (2.35%) RabbitMQ
13 60 (2.35%) YAML
14 58 (2.28%) Elastic Stack
15 47 (1.84%) LangChain
16 46 (1.81%) OAuth
17 42 (1.65%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 774 (30.38%) Cloud Native
2 288 (11.30%) Distributed Systems
3 139 (5.46%) Hybrid Cloud
4 132 (5.18%) Onboarding
5 131 (5.14%) Public Cloud
6 94 (3.69%) Data Centre
7 88 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
8 78 (3.06%) Product Ownership
9 71 (2.79%) Security Posture
10 69 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
11 64 (2.51%) Linux Command Line
12 60 (2.35%) Enterprise Cloud
13 53 (2.08%) Management Information System
14 51 (2.00%) Virtual Team
15 49 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
16 47 (1.84%) e-Learning
17 46 (1.81%) AI Agents
18 44 (1.73%) Private Cloud
19 41 (1.61%) PKI
20 35 (1.37%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 460 (18.05%) Linux
2 229 (8.99%) Windows
3 100 (3.92%) Windows Server
4 60 (2.35%) CentOS
5 49 (1.92%) Unix
6 48 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 38 (1.49%) Ubuntu
8 21 (0.82%) VMS
9 7 (0.27%) Debian
10 6 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.16%) AIX
13 3 (0.12%) Android
13 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
14 2 (0.078%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.078%) Rocky
14 2 (0.078%) Solaris
15 1 (0.039%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.039%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.039%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,823 (71.55%) CI/CD
2 1,416 (55.57%) DevOps
3 760 (29.83%) Containerisation
4 737 (28.92%) Agile
5 695 (27.28%) Observability
6 648 (25.43%) Platform Engineering
7 593 (23.27%) Mentoring
8 576 (22.61%) AI
9 560 (21.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 537 (21.08%) Software Engineering
11 477 (18.72%) Problem-Solving
12 446 (17.50%) Microservices
13 436 (17.11%) Cloud Security
14 432 (16.95%) Technical Leadership
15 419 (16.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 401 (15.74%) Test Automation
17 369 (14.48%) Roadmaps
18 317 (12.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 292 (11.46%) Event-Driven
20 284 (11.15%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,089 (42.74%) Python
2 414 (16.25%) Java
3 396 (15.54%) Bash
4 382 (14.99%) SQL
5 362 (14.21%) PowerShell
6 244 (9.58%) Bicep
7 229 (8.99%) TypeScript
8 191 (7.50%) JavaScript
9 189 (7.42%) C#
10 162 (6.36%) Go
11 59 (2.32%) Shell Script
12 50 (1.96%) Ruby
13 41 (1.61%) Scala
14 37 (1.45%) Groovy
15 35 (1.37%) PHP
16 29 (1.14%) Rust
17 25 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
18 22 (0.86%) C++
19 20 (0.78%) Perl
20 14 (0.55%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 666 (26.14%) Security Cleared
2 425 (16.68%) SC Cleared
3 226 (8.87%) AWS Certification
4 214 (8.40%) DV Cleared
5 176 (6.91%) Degree
6 163 (6.40%) Azure Certification
7 100 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 82 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 68 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 57 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
11 44 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
12 30 (1.18%) CCNP
13 28 (1.10%) CISSP
13 28 (1.10%) Master's Degree
13 28 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
14 21 (0.82%) CCNA
15 17 (0.67%) SnowPro
16 14 (0.55%) DBS Check
17 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 13 (0.51%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (4.83%) QA
2 106 (4.16%) Data Quality
3 74 (2.90%) GDPR
4 72 (2.83%) GRC
5 63 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (1.96%) Accessibility
7 40 (1.57%) NIST
8 31 (1.22%) SOC 2
9 30 (1.18%) NCSC
10 24 (0.94%) PCI DSS
11 23 (0.90%) SLA
12 20 (0.78%) WCAG
13 14 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.27%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.20%) ISO 20022
17 3 (0.12%) ISO 9001
17 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 2 (0.078%) Solvency II
System Software
1 693 (27.20%) Docker
2 136 (5.34%) Active Directory
3 130 (5.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 47 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
5 46 (1.81%) vSphere
6 30 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 20 (0.78%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.78%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.35%) KVM
10 8 (0.31%) Squid
10 8 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (0.27%) Firmware
12 4 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.12%) iptables
14 2 (0.078%) Lustre
14 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 922 (36.19%) Kubernetes
2 512 (20.09%) Ansible
3 249 (9.77%) Grafana
4 183 (7.18%) Prometheus
5 77 (3.02%) Argo
6 72 (2.83%) Puppet
7 49 (1.92%) Progress Chef
8 42 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
9 37 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 35 (1.37%) Istio
11 30 (1.18%) Packer
12 25 (0.98%) FortiGate
13 24 (0.94%) Rancher
14 23 (0.90%) vCenter Server
15 16 (0.63%) Nagios
16 15 (0.59%) Cilium
17 13 (0.51%) Kustomize
17 13 (0.51%) logstash
18 12 (0.47%) Kibana
18 12 (0.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 629 (24.69%) Microsoft
2 194 (7.61%) Google
3 165 (6.48%) VMware
4 115 (4.51%) Databricks
5 87 (3.41%) Splunk
6 79 (3.10%) Red Hat
7 77 (3.02%) Oracle
8 71 (2.79%) Cisco
9 49 (1.92%) Dynatrace
10 41 (1.61%) OpenAI
11 37 (1.45%) Fortinet
12 36 (1.41%) Palo Alto
13 33 (1.30%) ServiceNow
14 26 (1.02%) Zscaler
15 15 (0.59%) Atlassian
15 15 (0.59%) SAP
16 14 (0.55%) F5
16 14 (0.55%) Okta
16 14 (0.55%) SolarWinds
17 13 (0.51%) CrowdStrike