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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 161 164
Rank change year-on-year +66 +3 -56
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,746 904 1,683
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.88% 2.12% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 2.28% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,159 615 1,313
10th Percentile £49,280 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +9.81% -5.90%
75th Percentile £90,806 £96,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £107,750 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,750 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.21% +7.69% -6.40%

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 68,523 39,694 83,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.83% 93.27% 84.12%
Number of salaries quoted 44,541 20,818 60,168
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,875 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -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 26 May 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 26 May 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 +67 1,583 £77,500 - 640
UK excluding London +69 805 £67,750 -3.21% 436
London +41 787 £87,500 -2.78% 288
Work from Home +85 633 £70,000 -7.11% 387
North of England +57 302 £67,374 -3.75% 149
South East +49 181 £70,000 -6.67% 127
North West +57 175 £74,301 +2.48% 81
South West -12 110 £72,500 +3.57% 68
Midlands +20 108 £68,000 -2.86% 34
Yorkshire -14 90 £65,576 -1.39% 32
West Midlands -13 58 £72,500 +3.57% 21
East Midlands +3 50 £67,500 +3.85% 13
Scotland +8 44 £60,000 -20.38% 20
East of England -4 43 £60,100 -7.54% 24
North East -12 37 £55,000 -16.69% 36
Wales -23 16 £57,500 -4.17% 10
Northern Ireland -36 4 £95,000 - 8

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 49 (2.81%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (2.29%) Apache
3 32 (1.83%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (1.15%) Confluence
6 15 (0.86%) IIS
7 14 (0.80%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.29%) CMS
10 4 (0.23%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.057%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.057%) Camunda
12 1 (0.057%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.057%) nginx
12 1 (0.057%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.057%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (0.69%) PlantUML
2 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.23%) Weka
4 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.057%) Maya
5 1 (0.057%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.057%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.057%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.057%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.057%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.057%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,025 (58.71%) AWS
2 934 (53.49%) Azure
3 340 (19.47%) GitHub
4 319 (18.27%) GCP
5 313 (17.93%) Serverless
6 295 (16.90%) Azure DevOps
7 274 (15.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 221 (12.66%) GitHub Actions
9 183 (10.48%) AWS Lambda
10 165 (9.45%) Amazon S3
11 136 (7.79%) PaaS
12 122 (6.99%) Amazon EKS
13 119 (6.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 118 (6.76%) Entra ID
15 112 (6.41%) SaaS
16 110 (6.30%) Amazon EC2
17 106 (6.07%) IaaS
18 101 (5.78%) Datadog
19 92 (5.27%) Azure AKS
20 90 (5.15%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 177 (10.14%) Firewall
2 99 (5.67%) DNS
3 75 (4.30%) VPN
4 67 (3.84%) TCP/IP
5 59 (3.38%) Broadband
6 56 (3.21%) Network Security
7 45 (2.58%) WAN
8 36 (2.06%) DHCP
9 32 (1.83%) BGP
10 26 (1.49%) LAN
11 23 (1.32%) HTTP
12 21 (1.20%) VLAN
13 18 (1.03%) Software-Defined Networking
14 17 (0.97%) Cisco ASA
14 17 (0.97%) SD-WAN
15 15 (0.86%) DSL
16 14 (0.80%) OSPF
17 11 (0.63%) VXLAN
18 9 (0.52%) Internet
18 9 (0.52%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (7.27%) NoSQL
2 123 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
3 90 (5.15%) Amazon RDS
4 75 (4.30%) MongoDB
5 70 (4.01%) DynamoDB
6 67 (3.84%) SQL Server
7 55 (3.15%) Relational Database
8 52 (2.98%) Data Lake
9 46 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
10 39 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
11 36 (2.06%) Metadata
12 29 (1.66%) BigQuery
12 29 (1.66%) MySQL
13 28 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
14 20 (1.15%) Delta Lake
14 20 (1.15%) Power BI
14 20 (1.15%) Redis
15 18 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
15 18 (1.03%) RDBMS
16 16 (0.92%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 246 (14.09%) GitLab
2 237 (13.57%) Git
3 230 (13.17%) Jenkins
4 45 (2.58%) CircleCI
5 37 (2.12%) Bitbucket
6 33 (1.89%) JIRA
7 31 (1.78%) Cucumber
8 20 (1.15%) Jaeger
9 19 (1.09%) TeamCity
10 16 (0.92%) Selenium
10 16 (0.92%) SonarQube
11 12 (0.69%) Subversion
12 11 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 10 (0.57%) MLflow
14 9 (0.52%) JMeter
14 9 (0.52%) Maven
14 9 (0.52%) NUnit
14 9 (0.52%) Storybook
15 8 (0.46%) Robot Framework
16 7 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 430 (24.63%) Social Skills
2 375 (21.48%) Finance
3 123 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (6.53%) Public Sector
5 109 (6.24%) Banking
6 76 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 64 (3.67%) Retail
8 51 (2.92%) Law
9 47 (2.69%) Telecoms
10 35 (2.00%) Games
11 33 (1.89%) Manufacturing
12 24 (1.37%) Aerospace
13 22 (1.26%) Marketing
14 20 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (1.15%) Legal
15 19 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
16 18 (1.03%) Advertising
17 17 (0.97%) Billing
17 17 (0.97%) Financial Institution
18 12 (0.69%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 393 (22.51%) Senior
2 278 (15.92%) DevOps Engineer
3 263 (15.06%) Cloud Engineer
4 248 (14.20%) Lead
5 174 (9.97%) Platform Engineer
6 173 (9.91%) Azure Engineer
7 160 (9.16%) Developer
8 158 (9.05%) Architect
9 133 (7.62%) AWS Engineer
10 122 (6.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 93 (5.33%) Software Engineer
12 89 (5.10%) Data Engineer
13 83 (4.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 80 (4.58%) Security Engineer
15 68 (3.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 66 (3.78%) Senior DevOps
17 60 (3.44%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 57 (3.26%) Principal Engineer
19 56 (3.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 52 (2.98%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (8.02%) React
2 126 (7.22%) Node.js
3 124 (7.10%) Kafka
4 121 (6.93%) .NET
5 116 (6.64%) REST
6 99 (5.67%) RESTful
7 83 (4.75%) YAML
8 79 (4.52%) AWS CDK
9 77 (4.41%) Spring
10 71 (4.07%) Spring Boot
11 69 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
12 63 (3.61%) OAuth
13 54 (3.09%) ARM Templates
13 54 (3.09%) PySpark
14 51 (2.92%) RabbitMQ
15 42 (2.41%) JSON
16 39 (2.23%) ASP.NET
17 38 (2.18%) AngularJS
18 37 (2.12%) ASP.NET Core
18 37 (2.12%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 432 (24.74%) Cloud Native
2 141 (8.08%) Distributed Systems
3 92 (5.27%) Hybrid Cloud
4 79 (4.52%) Public Cloud
5 60 (3.44%) Product Ownership
6 58 (3.32%) Data Centre
7 51 (2.92%) Security Posture
8 48 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
9 46 (2.63%) Onboarding
10 35 (2.00%) Video\Live Streaming
11 31 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
12 29 (1.66%) Low-Code
13 28 (1.60%) PKI
14 26 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
15 25 (1.43%) Blockchain
15 25 (1.43%) Management Information System
15 25 (1.43%) Mobile App
16 23 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
16 23 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
16 23 (1.32%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 339 (19.42%) Linux
2 169 (9.68%) Windows
3 86 (4.93%) Windows Server
4 55 (3.15%) Unix
5 43 (2.46%) Ubuntu
6 34 (1.95%) CentOS
7 26 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 25 (1.43%) VMS
9 15 (0.86%) Android
10 14 (0.80%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.40%) Debian
13 5 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.11%) SUSE
15 1 (0.057%) Rocky
15 1 (0.057%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,228 (70.33%) CI/CD
2 1,025 (58.71%) DevOps
3 485 (27.78%) Agile
4 479 (27.43%) Containerisation
5 475 (27.21%) Observability
6 372 (21.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 366 (20.96%) Mentoring
8 361 (20.68%) Platform Engineering
9 321 (18.38%) AI
10 314 (17.98%) Test Automation
11 298 (17.07%) Software Engineering
12 279 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
13 275 (15.75%) Microservices
14 237 (13.57%) Cloud Security
15 235 (13.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 226 (12.94%) Technical Leadership
17 203 (11.63%) Analytics
18 192 (11.00%) DevSecOps
19 179 (10.25%) High Availability
20 170 (9.74%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 794 (45.48%) Python
2 312 (17.87%) Bash
3 284 (16.27%) PowerShell
4 272 (15.58%) SQL
5 248 (14.20%) Java
6 174 (9.97%) Go
7 169 (9.68%) JavaScript
8 165 (9.45%) TypeScript
9 143 (8.19%) Bicep
10 126 (7.22%) C#
11 30 (1.72%) Rust
12 29 (1.66%) C++
13 22 (1.26%) Scala
14 15 (0.86%) Groovy
14 15 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
14 15 (0.86%) PHP
15 13 (0.74%) C
16 12 (0.69%) Kotlin
17 9 (0.52%) Shell Script
18 7 (0.40%) Perl
Qualifications
1 339 (19.42%) Security Cleared
2 210 (12.03%) SC Cleared
3 158 (9.05%) Degree
4 139 (7.96%) AWS Certification
5 97 (5.56%) DV Cleared
6 91 (5.21%) Azure Certification
7 60 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 39 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 32 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 29 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
10 29 (1.66%) OSCP
11 22 (1.26%) CISSP
12 16 (0.92%) CCNP
12 16 (0.92%) DBS Check
13 15 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
14 14 (0.80%) CCNA
15 13 (0.74%) Master's Degree
16 12 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 11 (0.63%) RHCSA
18 10 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (5.04%) QA
2 73 (4.18%) Data Quality
3 62 (3.55%) GDPR
4 52 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 48 (2.75%) SOC 2
6 41 (2.35%) NIST
7 33 (1.89%) Accessibility
8 30 (1.72%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.74%) SLA
10 12 (0.69%) WCAG
11 9 (0.52%) GRC
12 8 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.34%) NCSC
14 4 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.11%) IFRS
16 2 (0.11%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.11%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.11%) Solvency II
17 1 (0.057%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 486 (27.84%) Docker
2 109 (6.24%) Active Directory
3 90 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (1.83%) vSphere
6 22 (1.26%) VMware NSX
7 19 (1.09%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.46%) Firmware
9 7 (0.40%) iptables
9 7 (0.40%) KVM
9 7 (0.40%) Squid
9 7 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,207 (69.13%) Terraform
2 673 (38.55%) Kubernetes
3 374 (21.42%) Ansible
4 227 (13.00%) Grafana
5 214 (12.26%) Prometheus
6 64 (3.67%) Argo
7 44 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
7 44 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
8 40 (2.29%) Puppet
9 26 (1.49%) Progress Chef
10 22 (1.26%) Kustomize
11 20 (1.15%) Nagios
12 19 (1.09%) Packer
13 18 (1.03%) Istio
14 17 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 17 (0.97%) Rancher
15 12 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
15 12 (0.69%) vCenter Server
16 11 (0.63%) ZABBIX
17 10 (0.57%) Cilium
Vendors
1 323 (18.50%) Microsoft
2 126 (7.22%) VMware
3 110 (6.30%) Google
4 73 (4.18%) Databricks
5 69 (3.95%) Red Hat
6 57 (3.26%) Cisco
7 54 (3.09%) Splunk
8 45 (2.58%) Palo Alto
9 28 (1.60%) Oracle
10 23 (1.32%) Zscaler
11 22 (1.26%) Dynatrace
11 22 (1.26%) OpenAI
11 22 (1.26%) Salesforce
12 21 (1.20%) Fortinet
13 20 (1.15%) CrowdStrike
14 12 (0.69%) CheckPoint
14 12 (0.69%) F5
15 11 (0.63%) Atlassian
15 11 (0.63%) Foundry
15 11 (0.63%) Juniper