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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 152 175
Rank change year-on-year +73 +23 -69
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,953 986 1,689
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.05% 2.18% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.81% 2.36% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,325 652 1,296
10th Percentile £48,806 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £78,810 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +12.59% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,625 £96,250 £87,813
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +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 69,604 41,717 88,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 92.25% 81.84%
Number of salaries quoted 48,009 22,461 62,520
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,800 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +77 1,783 £77,500 -1.66% 541
UK excluding London +87 923 £70,000 - 393
London +34 869 £87,500 -2.78% 254
Work from Home +84 697 £70,079 -9.58% 284
North of England +69 330 £67,500 -3.57% 105
South East +38 209 £70,000 -9.68% 136
North West +70 200 £72,500 - 61
South West +24 150 £73,750 +5.36% 61
Midlands +42 120 £75,000 +15.38% 45
Yorkshire -12 83 £65,576 -6.32% 27
West Midlands +23 70 £80,000 +14.29% 31
East of England +8 53 £60,100 -7.54% 16
East Midlands +3 50 £67,500 +3.85% 14
North East -3 47 £55,000 -14.06% 18
Scotland +6 33 £60,000 -20.19% 13
Wales -23 30 £70,000 +27.27% 9
Northern Ireland -32 3 £84,401 +95.86% 17

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 53 (2.71%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (2.20%) Apache
3 41 (2.10%) Apache Spark
4 37 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 23 (1.18%) Confluence
6 14 (0.72%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.51%) IIS
8 9 (0.46%) Jupyter
8 9 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.26%) CMS
10 4 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.15%) WordPress
12 2 (0.10%) Camunda
12 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.051%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.051%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.051%) nginx
13 1 (0.051%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.051%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (0.92%) PlantUML
2 8 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.20%) Weka
4 2 (0.10%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.051%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.051%) Maya
5 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.051%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.051%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,139 (58.32%) AWS
2 1,031 (52.79%) Azure
3 374 (19.15%) GitHub
4 346 (17.72%) Serverless
5 338 (17.31%) GCP
6 312 (15.98%) Azure DevOps
7 304 (15.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 221 (11.32%) GitHub Actions
9 192 (9.83%) AWS Lambda
10 189 (9.68%) Amazon S3
11 171 (8.76%) PaaS
12 132 (6.76%) Amazon EKS
13 131 (6.71%) IaaS
13 131 (6.71%) SaaS
14 128 (6.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 128 (6.55%) Amazon EC2
15 122 (6.25%) Entra ID
16 116 (5.94%) Azure AKS
17 102 (5.22%) Datadog
18 101 (5.17%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 179 (9.17%) Firewall
2 105 (5.38%) DNS
3 101 (5.17%) VPN
4 77 (3.94%) Network Security
5 70 (3.58%) Broadband
6 67 (3.43%) TCP/IP
7 49 (2.51%) WAN
8 41 (2.10%) BGP
9 33 (1.69%) DHCP
9 33 (1.69%) VLAN
10 27 (1.38%) LAN
11 23 (1.18%) HTTP
11 23 (1.18%) OSPF
12 20 (1.02%) Software-Defined Networking
13 19 (0.97%) SD-WAN
14 18 (0.92%) VXLAN
15 15 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
16 14 (0.72%) DSL
17 10 (0.51%) IPv4
18 9 (0.46%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (7.63%) PostgreSQL
2 137 (7.01%) NoSQL
3 99 (5.07%) Amazon RDS
4 89 (4.56%) MongoDB
5 70 (3.58%) DynamoDB
6 68 (3.48%) SQL Server
7 56 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
8 54 (2.76%) Relational Database
9 53 (2.71%) Data Lake
10 49 (2.51%) Metadata
11 40 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
12 36 (1.84%) MySQL
13 30 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
14 29 (1.48%) Redis
15 28 (1.43%) BigQuery
16 27 (1.38%) Delta Lake
17 26 (1.33%) Power BI
18 21 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
19 20 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
19 20 (1.02%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 269 (13.77%) GitLab
2 258 (13.21%) Git
3 240 (12.29%) Jenkins
4 46 (2.36%) CircleCI
5 38 (1.95%) Cucumber
5 38 (1.95%) JIRA
6 34 (1.74%) Bitbucket
7 25 (1.28%) TeamCity
8 16 (0.82%) SonarQube
9 15 (0.77%) Selenium
10 14 (0.72%) Jaeger
11 13 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 13 (0.67%) Subversion
12 12 (0.61%) MLflow
13 11 (0.56%) Claude Code
14 10 (0.51%) Maven
14 10 (0.51%) NUnit
15 9 (0.46%) JMeter
15 9 (0.46%) Vite
16 8 (0.41%) Cypress.io
General
1 477 (24.42%) Social Skills
2 404 (20.69%) Finance
3 140 (7.17%) Public Sector
4 137 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
5 113 (5.79%) Banking
6 97 (4.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 64 (3.28%) Law
8 59 (3.02%) Retail
9 44 (2.25%) Games
10 39 (2.00%) Telecoms
11 30 (1.54%) Manufacturing
12 29 (1.48%) Aerospace
13 26 (1.33%) Legal
14 22 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
14 22 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
15 17 (0.87%) Advertising
16 16 (0.82%) Financial Institution
16 16 (0.82%) Marketing
17 14 (0.72%) Billing
18 10 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 447 (22.89%) Senior
2 326 (16.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 277 (14.18%) Cloud Engineer
4 268 (13.72%) Lead
5 208 (10.65%) Platform Engineer
6 206 (10.55%) Architect
7 185 (9.47%) Azure Engineer
8 181 (9.27%) Developer
9 147 (7.53%) AWS Engineer
10 124 (6.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 103 (5.27%) Software Engineer
12 100 (5.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 100 (5.12%) Data Engineer
13 87 (4.45%) Security Engineer
14 81 (4.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 72 (3.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 71 (3.64%) Principal Engineer
17 66 (3.38%) Senior DevOps
18 62 (3.17%) Senior Developer
19 59 (3.02%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (7.83%) React
2 141 (7.22%) Kafka
3 134 (6.86%) .NET
4 131 (6.71%) Node.js
4 131 (6.71%) REST
5 109 (5.58%) RESTful
6 96 (4.92%) Spring
7 94 (4.81%) Spring Boot
8 85 (4.35%) YAML
9 81 (4.15%) AWS CDK
10 71 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
11 68 (3.48%) PySpark
12 65 (3.33%) ARM Templates
13 57 (2.92%) RabbitMQ
14 54 (2.76%) OAuth
15 47 (2.41%) AngularJS
15 47 (2.41%) Next.js
16 41 (2.10%) JSON
17 38 (1.95%) OpenTelemetry
18 37 (1.89%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 543 (27.80%) Cloud Native
2 182 (9.32%) Distributed Systems
3 105 (5.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 97 (4.97%) Public Cloud
5 70 (3.58%) Onboarding
6 69 (3.53%) Data Centre
7 68 (3.48%) Product Ownership
8 65 (3.33%) Security Posture
9 58 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
10 48 (2.46%) Video\Live Streaming
11 42 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
12 36 (1.84%) Low-Code
13 33 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
14 30 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
15 29 (1.48%) PKI
16 27 (1.38%) Management Information System
17 26 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
18 24 (1.23%) Blockchain
18 24 (1.23%) e-Learning
18 24 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 354 (18.13%) Linux
2 190 (9.73%) Windows
3 86 (4.40%) Windows Server
4 46 (2.36%) Ubuntu
5 45 (2.30%) Unix
6 42 (2.15%) CentOS
7 33 (1.69%) VMS
8 27 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (0.77%) Android
10 14 (0.72%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.36%) Debian
13 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.10%) Rocky
15 1 (0.051%) AIX
15 1 (0.051%) SUSE
15 1 (0.051%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,387 (71.02%) CI/CD
2 1,114 (57.04%) DevOps
3 550 (28.16%) Agile
4 546 (27.96%) Observability
5 535 (27.39%) Containerisation
6 435 (22.27%) Platform Engineering
7 416 (21.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 414 (21.20%) Mentoring
9 406 (20.79%) AI
10 361 (18.48%) Software Engineering
11 340 (17.41%) Test Automation
12 330 (16.90%) Microservices
13 304 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
14 284 (14.54%) Cloud Security
15 279 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
16 256 (13.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 240 (12.29%) Analytics
18 217 (11.11%) Roadmaps
19 213 (10.91%) DevSecOps
20 200 (10.24%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 885 (45.31%) Python
2 353 (18.07%) Bash
3 314 (16.08%) SQL
4 308 (15.77%) PowerShell
5 286 (14.64%) Java
6 190 (9.73%) Bicep
7 189 (9.68%) TypeScript
8 180 (9.22%) Go
9 179 (9.17%) JavaScript
10 148 (7.58%) C#
11 29 (1.48%) Rust
12 27 (1.38%) C++
12 27 (1.38%) Scala
13 26 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
14 25 (1.28%) Ruby
15 24 (1.23%) PHP
16 19 (0.97%) Groovy
17 11 (0.56%) Kotlin
18 10 (0.51%) Perl
19 9 (0.46%) C
Qualifications
1 410 (20.99%) Security Cleared
2 256 (13.11%) SC Cleared
3 168 (8.60%) Degree
4 145 (7.42%) AWS Certification
5 115 (5.89%) Azure Certification
6 105 (5.38%) DV Cleared
7 65 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 57 (2.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 54 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 36 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.33%) OSCP
12 21 (1.08%) CCNP
12 21 (1.08%) CISSP
13 20 (1.02%) Master's Degree
14 16 (0.82%) CCNA
14 16 (0.82%) DBS Check
15 14 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 13 (0.67%) RHCSA
17 10 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
17 10 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (5.07%) QA
2 87 (4.45%) Data Quality
3 61 (3.12%) GDPR
4 51 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (2.36%) SOC 2
6 35 (1.79%) NIST
7 33 (1.69%) Accessibility
8 31 (1.59%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.92%) WCAG
10 15 (0.77%) SLA
11 14 (0.72%) NCSC
12 11 (0.56%) GRC
13 10 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
16 2 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.10%) IFRS
16 2 (0.10%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.10%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.10%) Solvency II
System Software
1 513 (26.27%) Docker
2 125 (6.40%) Active Directory
3 115 (5.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (2.36%) vSphere
5 39 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (1.08%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.97%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.41%) Squid
11 7 (0.36%) iptables
12 6 (0.31%) Firmware
12 6 (0.31%) KVM
12 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
14 1 (0.051%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,358 (69.53%) Terraform
2 744 (38.10%) Kubernetes
3 402 (20.58%) Ansible
4 234 (11.98%) Grafana
5 210 (10.75%) Prometheus
6 68 (3.48%) Argo
7 46 (2.36%) Single Sign-On
8 45 (2.30%) Puppet
9 41 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
10 29 (1.48%) Progress Chef
11 27 (1.38%) Packer
12 22 (1.13%) Nagios
13 21 (1.08%) Istio
14 19 (0.97%) Kustomize
15 17 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 15 (0.77%) vCenter Server
16 15 (0.77%) ZABBIX
17 14 (0.72%) Rancher
18 12 (0.61%) Cilium
19 11 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 371 (19.00%) Microsoft
2 151 (7.73%) VMware
3 103 (5.27%) Google
4 82 (4.20%) Databricks
5 78 (3.99%) Red Hat
6 65 (3.33%) Splunk
7 60 (3.07%) Cisco
8 48 (2.46%) Palo Alto
9 40 (2.05%) Oracle
10 32 (1.64%) OpenAI
11 29 (1.48%) Fortinet
12 26 (1.33%) Zscaler
13 23 (1.18%) Dynatrace
14 17 (0.87%) CrowdStrike
15 14 (0.72%) Salesforce
16 13 (0.67%) Foundry
17 12 (0.61%) F5
17 12 (0.61%) ScienceLogic
18 11 (0.56%) Rapid7
18 11 (0.56%) ServiceNow