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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 159 125
Rank change year-on-year +83 -34 -34
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,456 1,027 1,583
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.13% 2.08% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% 2.34% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,594 724 999
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £45,400
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £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 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,125 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -5.11%

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 84,196 43,853 63,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.72% 81.26%
Number of salaries quoted 58,302 24,746 35,929
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £95,000
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 18 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 18 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 +76 2,139 £77,500 +3.33% 2,702
UK excluding London +105 1,340 £70,000 - 1,446
London +27 933 £90,000 +5.88% 1,487
Work from Home +48 795 £75,000 - 1,214
North of England +80 475 £70,000 - 421
North West +99 262 £72,500 +11.54% 240
South East +55 245 £67,500 -18.18% 307
South West +34 237 £75,000 - 214
Midlands +32 148 £75,000 +15.83% 153
North East +14 111 £59,500 -17.93% 67
Yorkshire -9 105 £72,500 +3.57% 115
West Midlands +5 92 £85,000 +36.55% 97
Wales -5 76 £70,000 +21.74% 41
Northern Ireland -23 62 £71,991 +67.07% 62
East Midlands -5 56 £67,500 +3.85% 56
East of England -7 56 £65,000 - 88
Scotland +11 53 £72,500 +3.57% 165

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 60 (2.44%) Apache
2 58 (2.36%) Apache Spark
3 55 (2.24%) Apache Airflow
4 33 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (1.18%) Confluence
6 14 (0.57%) Jupyter
7 11 (0.45%) SharePoint
8 8 (0.33%) IIS
9 7 (0.29%) CMS
9 7 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.24%) nginx
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.12%) Camunda
11 3 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.12%) WordPress
12 2 (0.081%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.081%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.041%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.041%) Documentum
13 1 (0.041%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 21 (0.86%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.081%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.081%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.041%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) Summit
4 2 (0.081%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.041%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.041%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.041%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,381 (56.23%) AWS
2 1,323 (53.87%) Azure
3 486 (19.79%) GCP
4 446 (18.16%) GitHub
5 393 (16.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 378 (15.39%) Serverless
7 322 (13.11%) Azure DevOps
8 249 (10.14%) GitHub Actions
9 210 (8.55%) AWS Lambda
10 206 (8.39%) Amazon S3
11 175 (7.13%) PaaS
12 151 (6.15%) Amazon EKS
13 147 (5.99%) Amazon ECS
14 146 (5.94%) Amazon EC2
15 142 (5.78%) Azure AKS
16 134 (5.46%) SaaS
17 129 (5.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 128 (5.21%) IaaS
19 125 (5.09%) Microsoft 365
20 124 (5.05%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 172 (7.00%) Firewall
2 135 (5.50%) DNS
3 129 (5.25%) VPN
4 119 (4.85%) WAN
5 111 (4.52%) Network Security
6 94 (3.83%) LAN
7 68 (2.77%) TCP/IP
8 55 (2.24%) BGP
9 52 (2.12%) DHCP
10 43 (1.75%) Broadband
11 40 (1.63%) OSPF
12 32 (1.30%) VLAN
13 28 (1.14%) VXLAN
14 27 (1.10%) SD-WAN
15 26 (1.06%) Software-Defined Networking
16 17 (0.69%) Wireless
17 16 (0.65%) Ethernet VPN
17 16 (0.65%) HTTP
18 15 (0.61%) SAN
19 14 (0.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (7.65%) PostgreSQL
2 160 (6.51%) NoSQL
3 111 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
4 106 (4.32%) MongoDB
5 87 (3.54%) SQL Server
6 78 (3.18%) DynamoDB
7 72 (2.93%) MySQL
8 66 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 59 (2.40%) Data Lake
10 51 (2.08%) Metadata
11 49 (2.00%) Redis
11 49 (2.00%) Relational Database
12 44 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
13 36 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
14 31 (1.26%) Big Data
15 30 (1.22%) Delta Lake
16 29 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
17 25 (1.02%) BigQuery
18 24 (0.98%) Power BI
19 22 (0.90%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 340 (13.84%) Git
2 296 (12.05%) GitLab
3 265 (10.79%) Jenkins
4 59 (2.40%) JIRA
5 50 (2.04%) Cucumber
6 34 (1.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 25 (1.02%) TeamCity
8 24 (0.98%) Bitbucket
9 23 (0.94%) Claude Code
10 22 (0.90%) Selenium
11 21 (0.86%) CircleCI
12 19 (0.77%) SonarQube
13 15 (0.61%) Cypress.io
14 13 (0.53%) Subversion
15 12 (0.49%) Maven
15 12 (0.49%) NUnit
15 12 (0.49%) Snyk
16 9 (0.37%) MLflow
16 9 (0.37%) MSI
16 9 (0.37%) Vite
General
1 690 (28.09%) Social Skills
2 568 (23.13%) Finance
3 257 (10.46%) Public Sector
4 195 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
5 158 (6.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 139 (5.66%) Banking
7 121 (4.93%) Law
8 75 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
9 68 (2.77%) Retail
10 60 (2.44%) Aerospace
11 42 (1.71%) Marketing
12 38 (1.55%) Legal
13 37 (1.51%) Games
14 29 (1.18%) Manufacturing
15 24 (0.98%) Telecoms
16 20 (0.81%) Financial Institution
17 17 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
18 16 (0.65%) Local Government
19 15 (0.61%) Aviation
19 15 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 577 (23.49%) Senior
2 432 (17.59%) DevOps Engineer
3 337 (13.72%) Lead
4 333 (13.56%) Architect
5 296 (12.05%) Cloud Engineer
6 254 (10.34%) Platform Engineer
7 208 (8.47%) Developer
8 197 (8.02%) Azure Engineer
9 175 (7.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 156 (6.35%) Software Engineer
11 149 (6.07%) AWS Engineer
12 129 (5.25%) Principal Engineer
13 123 (5.01%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 118 (4.80%) Data Engineer
15 96 (3.91%) Security Engineer
15 96 (3.91%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 77 (3.14%) Senior Developer
17 75 (3.05%) Azure Platform Engineer
17 75 (3.05%) Senior DevOps
18 72 (2.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,650 (67.18%) Terraform
2 203 (8.27%) React
3 200 (8.14%) Kafka
4 183 (7.45%) .NET
5 163 (6.64%) Spring
6 162 (6.60%) Spring Boot
7 159 (6.47%) Node.js
8 150 (6.11%) RESTful
9 148 (6.03%) REST
10 89 (3.62%) AWS CDK
11 76 (3.09%) PySpark
12 67 (2.73%) ARM Templates
13 66 (2.69%) AngularJS
14 62 (2.52%) YAML
15 59 (2.40%) Next.js
15 59 (2.40%) RabbitMQ
16 51 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
17 48 (1.95%) OAuth
18 46 (1.87%) LangChain
19 43 (1.75%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 744 (30.29%) Cloud Native
2 279 (11.36%) Distributed Systems
3 134 (5.46%) Hybrid Cloud
4 130 (5.29%) Public Cloud
5 128 (5.21%) Onboarding
6 94 (3.83%) Data Centre
7 80 (3.26%) Product Ownership
8 78 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
9 65 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
10 63 (2.57%) Security Posture
11 57 (2.32%) Enterprise Cloud
12 51 (2.08%) Virtual Team
13 48 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
14 44 (1.79%) AI Agents
15 43 (1.75%) e-Learning
15 43 (1.75%) Private Cloud
16 41 (1.67%) Management Information System
17 39 (1.59%) PKI
18 38 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
19 35 (1.43%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 418 (17.02%) Linux
2 223 (9.08%) Windows
3 101 (4.11%) Windows Server
4 61 (2.48%) CentOS
5 48 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 43 (1.75%) Unix
7 40 (1.63%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.90%) VMS
9 7 (0.29%) Debian
10 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.12%) AIX
11 3 (0.12%) Android
11 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.081%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.081%) Rocky
12 2 (0.081%) Solaris
13 1 (0.041%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.041%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,740 (70.85%) CI/CD
2 1,340 (54.56%) DevOps
3 719 (29.28%) Containerisation
4 705 (28.71%) Agile
5 692 (28.18%) Observability
6 599 (24.39%) Platform Engineering
7 554 (22.56%) AI
8 544 (22.15%) Mentoring
9 536 (21.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 521 (21.21%) Software Engineering
11 454 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
12 424 (17.26%) Microservices
13 415 (16.90%) Technical Leadership
14 388 (15.80%) Cloud Security
14 388 (15.80%) Test Automation
15 370 (15.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 351 (14.29%) Roadmaps
17 286 (11.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 281 (11.44%) Event-Driven
19 257 (10.46%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,065 (43.36%) Python
2 390 (15.88%) Java
3 381 (15.51%) Bash
4 376 (15.31%) SQL
5 354 (14.41%) PowerShell
6 236 (9.61%) Bicep
7 227 (9.24%) TypeScript
8 197 (8.02%) JavaScript
9 188 (7.65%) C#
10 157 (6.39%) Go
11 47 (1.91%) Ruby
12 41 (1.67%) Scala
13 34 (1.38%) PHP
14 33 (1.34%) Groovy
15 31 (1.26%) Shell Script
16 29 (1.18%) Rust
17 25 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
18 22 (0.90%) C++
19 20 (0.81%) Perl
20 13 (0.53%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 620 (25.24%) Security Cleared
2 392 (15.96%) SC Cleared
3 215 (8.75%) AWS Certification
4 204 (8.31%) DV Cleared
5 185 (7.53%) Degree
6 154 (6.27%) Azure Certification
7 95 (3.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 86 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 57 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
11 40 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
12 33 (1.34%) CCNP
13 29 (1.18%) Master's Degree
14 24 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
15 22 (0.90%) CISSP
16 21 (0.86%) CCNA
17 17 (0.69%) SnowPro
18 14 (0.57%) DBS Check
18 14 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 12 (0.49%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (5.09%) QA
2 104 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 72 (2.93%) GRC
4 66 (2.69%) GDPR
5 57 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (1.87%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.34%) NIST
8 31 (1.26%) NCSC
9 27 (1.10%) SOC 2
10 24 (0.98%) SLA
11 21 (0.86%) WCAG
12 19 (0.77%) PCI DSS
13 9 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.29%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.20%) ISO 20022
17 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 2 (0.081%) IFRS
18 2 (0.081%) ISO 9001
18 2 (0.081%) Solvency II
System Software
1 647 (26.34%) Docker
2 137 (5.58%) Active Directory
3 133 (5.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (1.87%) vSphere
5 44 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
7 23 (0.94%) Hyper-V
8 17 (0.69%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.37%) KVM
9 9 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.33%) Firmware
10 8 (0.33%) Squid
10 8 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.12%) iptables
12 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.081%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 890 (36.24%) Kubernetes
2 493 (20.07%) Ansible
3 236 (9.61%) Grafana
4 175 (7.13%) Prometheus
5 75 (3.05%) Argo
6 66 (2.69%) Puppet
7 46 (1.87%) Progress Chef
8 39 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
9 36 (1.47%) Istio
9 36 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 28 (1.14%) Packer
11 23 (0.94%) FortiGate
12 20 (0.81%) Rancher
13 19 (0.77%) vCenter Server
14 17 (0.69%) Nagios
15 14 (0.57%) Cilium
16 13 (0.53%) Kustomize
17 12 (0.49%) linkerd
17 12 (0.49%) logstash
17 12 (0.49%) Podman
Vendors
1 578 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 165 (6.72%) VMware
3 162 (6.60%) Google
4 106 (4.32%) Databricks
5 88 (3.58%) Splunk
6 82 (3.34%) Red Hat
7 73 (2.97%) Cisco
7 73 (2.97%) Oracle
8 42 (1.71%) OpenAI
9 39 (1.59%) Dynatrace
9 39 (1.59%) Fortinet
10 38 (1.55%) Palo Alto
11 30 (1.22%) ServiceNow
12 26 (1.06%) Zscaler
13 15 (0.61%) Atlassian
13 15 (0.61%) Okta
13 15 (0.61%) SAP
14 14 (0.57%) SolarWinds
15 13 (0.53%) New Relic
16 12 (0.49%) Rapid7