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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 153 122
Rank change year-on-year +77 -31 -37
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,565 1,018 1,474
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.17% 2.07% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 2.33% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,649 729 890
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £42,950
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £91,250 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -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 86,825 43,614 58,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.38% 88.89% 82.21%
Number of salaries quoted 59,360 24,460 31,261
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.02% -10.48% -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 13 October 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 13 October 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 2,219 £77,500 +3.33% 2,483
UK excluding London +91 1,410 £70,000 - 1,237
London +30 955 £90,000 +5.88% 1,366
Work from Home +55 817 £75,000 +0.67% 1,107
North of England +101 495 £69,305 -0.99% 380
North West +94 266 £70,400 +8.31% 209
South West +56 256 £75,000 +7.14% 166
South East +60 254 £67,500 -14.29% 246
Midlands +25 154 £75,000 +15.38% 129
North East +19 132 £60,000 -17.24% 69
Yorkshire +1 106 £67,750 -3.21% 105
West Midlands +13 101 £80,000 +23.55% 73
Wales -5 84 £70,000 +16.67% 43
East of England -13 61 £75,000 +15.38% 102
Northern Ireland -27 61 £71,991 +23.17% 31
Scotland +10 56 £72,500 +3.57% 148
East Midlands +2 53 £63,750 -1.92% 56

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 72 (2.81%) Apache
2 66 (2.57%) Apache Spark
3 58 (2.26%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (1.09%) Confluence
6 17 (0.66%) Jupyter
7 12 (0.47%) nginx
7 12 (0.47%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.35%) CMS
9 8 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.27%) IIS
11 5 (0.19%) Camunda
11 5 (0.19%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.12%) WordPress
13 2 (0.078%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.078%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.078%) Sitecore CMS
14 1 (0.039%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.039%) JBoss
14 1 (0.039%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 20 (0.78%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.078%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.039%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.039%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) Summit
4 2 (0.078%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.078%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.039%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 1 (0.039%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.039%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1,427 (55.63%) AWS
2 1,369 (53.37%) Azure
3 523 (20.39%) GCP
4 474 (18.48%) GitHub
5 407 (15.87%) AWS CloudFormation
6 389 (15.17%) Serverless
7 327 (12.75%) Azure DevOps
8 255 (9.94%) GitHub Actions
9 210 (8.19%) Amazon S3
10 209 (8.15%) AWS Lambda
11 187 (7.29%) PaaS
12 156 (6.08%) SaaS
13 153 (5.96%) Amazon EKS
14 148 (5.77%) Amazon ECS
15 145 (5.65%) Amazon EC2
16 140 (5.46%) Azure AKS
17 139 (5.42%) Entra ID
18 138 (5.38%) Cloud Computing
19 131 (5.11%) IaaS
20 129 (5.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 181 (7.06%) Firewall
2 148 (5.77%) VPN
3 141 (5.50%) DNS
4 127 (4.95%) Network Security
5 115 (4.48%) WAN
6 87 (3.39%) LAN
7 72 (2.81%) TCP/IP
8 60 (2.34%) BGP
9 50 (1.95%) DHCP
10 43 (1.68%) Internet
11 42 (1.64%) Broadband
12 39 (1.52%) OSPF
13 34 (1.33%) VLAN
14 29 (1.13%) VXLAN
15 24 (0.94%) Software-Defined Networking
16 22 (0.86%) SD-WAN
17 16 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
17 16 (0.62%) SAN
17 16 (0.62%) Wireless
18 13 (0.51%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (8.38%) PostgreSQL
2 168 (6.55%) NoSQL
3 125 (4.87%) Amazon RDS
4 113 (4.41%) MongoDB
5 90 (3.51%) SQL Server
6 78 (3.04%) MySQL
7 74 (2.88%) DynamoDB
8 68 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 65 (2.53%) Data Lake
10 52 (2.03%) Metadata
11 51 (1.99%) Redis
12 49 (1.91%) Relational Database
13 43 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
14 36 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
14 36 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
15 35 (1.36%) Power BI
16 31 (1.21%) Big Data
17 28 (1.09%) Delta Lake
18 23 (0.90%) Data Vault
19 22 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 372 (14.50%) Git
2 327 (12.75%) GitLab
3 275 (10.72%) Jenkins
4 52 (2.03%) JIRA
5 49 (1.91%) Cucumber
6 37 (1.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 34 (1.33%) TeamCity
8 28 (1.09%) Claude Code
9 19 (0.74%) CircleCI
10 18 (0.70%) Bitbucket
10 18 (0.70%) Selenium
11 15 (0.58%) Cypress.io
11 15 (0.58%) SonarQube
12 13 (0.51%) Snyk
12 13 (0.51%) Subversion
13 9 (0.35%) JUnit
13 9 (0.35%) Maven
13 9 (0.35%) MSI
13 9 (0.35%) NUnit
13 9 (0.35%) Terragrunt
General
1 724 (28.23%) Social Skills
2 582 (22.69%) Finance
3 323 (12.59%) Public Sector
4 241 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
5 174 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 137 (5.34%) Banking
7 120 (4.68%) Law
8 73 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
9 65 (2.53%) Retail
10 60 (2.34%) Aerospace
11 42 (1.64%) Marketing
12 38 (1.48%) Legal
13 32 (1.25%) Games
14 30 (1.17%) Financial Institution
15 22 (0.86%) Manufacturing
15 22 (0.86%) Telecoms
16 17 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
16 17 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
17 15 (0.58%) Aviation
17 15 (0.58%) Military
Job Titles
1 629 (24.52%) Senior
2 516 (20.12%) DevOps Engineer
3 348 (13.57%) Architect
4 341 (13.29%) Lead
5 292 (11.38%) Cloud Engineer
6 258 (10.06%) Platform Engineer
7 206 (8.03%) Developer
8 203 (7.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 197 (7.68%) Azure Engineer
10 172 (6.71%) Software Engineer
11 150 (5.85%) AWS Engineer
12 143 (5.58%) Principal Engineer
13 125 (4.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 120 (4.68%) Data Engineer
15 105 (4.09%) Security Engineer
16 101 (3.94%) Senior DevOps
17 98 (3.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 96 (3.74%) Senior Platform Engineer
19 80 (3.12%) Senior Developer
20 79 (3.08%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,692 (65.96%) Terraform
2 209 (8.15%) React
3 205 (7.99%) Kafka
4 187 (7.29%) .NET
5 181 (7.06%) Spring Boot
6 179 (6.98%) Spring
7 153 (5.96%) Node.js
7 153 (5.96%) RESTful
8 148 (5.77%) REST
9 86 (3.35%) AWS CDK
10 74 (2.88%) PySpark
11 65 (2.53%) AngularJS
12 60 (2.34%) Next.js
13 59 (2.30%) ARM Templates
14 57 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
15 55 (2.14%) RabbitMQ
16 52 (2.03%) YAML
17 51 (1.99%) LangChain
18 46 (1.79%) FastAPI
19 42 (1.64%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 777 (30.29%) Cloud Native
2 287 (11.19%) Distributed Systems
3 138 (5.38%) Onboarding
4 135 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 131 (5.11%) Public Cloud
6 92 (3.59%) Data Centre
7 86 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
8 79 (3.08%) Security Posture
9 75 (2.92%) Product Ownership
10 68 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
11 65 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
12 63 (2.46%) Enterprise Cloud
13 61 (2.38%) Management Information System
14 55 (2.14%) AI Agents
15 51 (1.99%) Virtual Team
16 49 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
17 48 (1.87%) e-Learning
18 45 (1.75%) Private Cloud
19 37 (1.44%) Blog
19 37 (1.44%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 485 (18.91%) Linux
2 237 (9.24%) Windows
3 97 (3.78%) Windows Server
4 67 (2.61%) CentOS
5 53 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 53 (2.07%) Unix
6 36 (1.40%) Ubuntu
7 22 (0.86%) VMS
8 8 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.27%) Debian
10 5 (0.19%) Rocky
10 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.16%) AIX
12 2 (0.078%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.078%) Solaris
13 1 (0.039%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.039%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.039%) macOS
13 1 (0.039%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,835 (71.54%) CI/CD
2 1,429 (55.71%) DevOps
3 761 (29.67%) Containerisation
4 753 (29.36%) Agile
5 684 (26.67%) Observability
6 677 (26.39%) Platform Engineering
7 600 (23.39%) Mentoring
8 595 (23.20%) AI
9 564 (21.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 547 (21.33%) Software Engineering
11 484 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
12 452 (17.62%) Technical Leadership
13 451 (17.58%) Microservices
14 443 (17.27%) Cloud Security
15 434 (16.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 404 (15.75%) Test Automation
17 365 (14.23%) Roadmaps
18 319 (12.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 286 (11.15%) Event-Driven
20 284 (11.07%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,098 (42.81%) Python
2 422 (16.45%) Java
3 406 (15.83%) Bash
4 377 (14.70%) SQL
5 362 (14.11%) PowerShell
6 239 (9.32%) Bicep
7 228 (8.89%) TypeScript
8 192 (7.49%) C#
9 185 (7.21%) JavaScript
10 164 (6.39%) Go
11 59 (2.30%) Shell Script
12 49 (1.91%) Ruby
13 39 (1.52%) Scala
14 36 (1.40%) PHP
15 31 (1.21%) Groovy
16 29 (1.13%) Rust
17 23 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
18 18 (0.70%) C++
19 17 (0.66%) Perl
20 15 (0.58%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 694 (27.06%) Security Cleared
2 439 (17.12%) SC Cleared
3 235 (9.16%) DV Cleared
4 224 (8.73%) AWS Certification
5 174 (6.78%) Degree
6 163 (6.35%) Azure Certification
7 101 (3.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 80 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 65 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 61 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
11 46 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
12 36 (1.40%) CISSP
13 30 (1.17%) CCNP
13 30 (1.17%) TOGAF Certification
14 29 (1.13%) Master's Degree
15 18 (0.70%) CCNA
16 17 (0.66%) SnowPro
17 14 (0.55%) CISM
17 14 (0.55%) DBS Check
18 13 (0.51%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (4.72%) QA
2 109 (4.25%) Data Quality
3 75 (2.92%) GDPR
4 70 (2.73%) GRC
5 68 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 53 (2.07%) Accessibility
7 47 (1.83%) NIST
8 35 (1.36%) SOC 2
9 31 (1.21%) NCSC
9 31 (1.21%) PCI DSS
10 23 (0.90%) SLA
11 19 (0.74%) WCAG
12 16 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.27%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.19%) ISO 20022
17 3 (0.12%) ISO 9001
17 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 2 (0.078%) RMADS
System Software
1 703 (27.41%) Docker
2 140 (5.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 130 (5.07%) Active Directory
4 49 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (1.87%) vSphere
6 29 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (1.01%) VMware NSX
8 24 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
9 21 (0.82%) Hyper-V
10 10 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
11 9 (0.35%) KVM
12 7 (0.27%) Firmware
13 6 (0.23%) Squid
14 4 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.078%) Lustre
17 1 (0.039%) iptables
17 1 (0.039%) LXC
Systems Management
1 929 (36.22%) Kubernetes
2 532 (20.74%) Ansible
3 264 (10.29%) Grafana
4 188 (7.33%) Prometheus
5 83 (3.24%) Puppet
6 80 (3.12%) Argo
7 52 (2.03%) Progress Chef
8 37 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
8 37 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
9 36 (1.40%) Istio
10 31 (1.21%) vCenter Server
11 28 (1.09%) Packer
12 24 (0.94%) FortiGate
13 22 (0.86%) Rancher
14 18 (0.70%) Cilium
15 16 (0.62%) Kustomize
15 16 (0.62%) Nagios
16 15 (0.58%) logstash
17 14 (0.55%) Kibana
18 13 (0.51%) Podman
Vendors
1 644 (25.11%) Microsoft
2 198 (7.72%) Google
3 171 (6.67%) VMware
4 112 (4.37%) Databricks
5 89 (3.47%) Splunk
6 83 (3.24%) Red Hat
7 72 (2.81%) Cisco
8 71 (2.77%) Oracle
9 51 (1.99%) Dynatrace
10 43 (1.68%) OpenAI
11 39 (1.52%) Fortinet
12 36 (1.40%) Palo Alto
13 33 (1.29%) ServiceNow
14 24 (0.94%) Zscaler
15 15 (0.58%) Atlassian
15 15 (0.58%) F5
15 15 (0.58%) SAP
16 14 (0.55%) Mistral
16 14 (0.55%) SolarWinds
17 13 (0.51%) New Relic