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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 161 171
Rank change year-on-year +67 +10 -61
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,796 929 1,680
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.93% 2.12% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% 2.28% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,206 625 1,298
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £48,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £105,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +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 68,860 40,768 84,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.96% 93.19% 83.65%
Number of salaries quoted 45,013 21,524 60,756
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,228
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,750 £39,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -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 31 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 31 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 +66 1,641 £77,500 -0.84% 394
UK excluding London +73 836 £67,500 -3.57% 326
London +32 808 £87,500 -2.78% 149
Work from Home +92 654 £70,000 -7.11% 206
North of England +62 317 £67,500 -3.57% 107
South East +55 188 £70,000 -6.67% 107
North West +60 187 £75,000 +3.45% 58
South West +6 114 £72,500 +1.75% 43
Midlands +34 113 £69,000 -1.43% 29
Yorkshire -9 89 £65,576 -3.57% 23
West Midlands +3 62 £72,500 +3.57% 20
East Midlands +11 51 £67,500 +3.85% 9
East of England +8 49 £60,100 -7.54% 20
North East -14 41 £55,000 -15.38% 26
Scotland +7 38 £60,000 -20.38% 19
Wales -28 16 £65,000 +13.04% 3
Northern Ireland -35 4 £95,000 - 3

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 (2.95%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (2.34%) Apache
3 37 (2.06%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 21 (1.17%) Confluence
6 14 (0.78%) IIS
6 14 (0.78%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.39%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.28%) CMS
10 4 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.11%) Camunda
13 1 (0.056%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.056%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.056%) NetWeaver
13 1 (0.056%) nginx
13 1 (0.056%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.056%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.056%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (0.67%) PlantUML
2 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.22%) Weka
4 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.056%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.056%) Maya
5 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.056%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.056%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.056%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,054 (58.69%) AWS
2 950 (52.90%) Azure
3 341 (18.99%) GitHub
4 326 (18.15%) GCP
5 319 (17.76%) Serverless
6 296 (16.48%) Azure DevOps
7 276 (15.37%) AWS CloudFormation
8 215 (11.97%) GitHub Actions
9 185 (10.30%) AWS Lambda
10 174 (9.69%) Amazon S3
11 143 (7.96%) PaaS
12 128 (7.13%) Amazon EKS
13 124 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 120 (6.68%) SaaS
15 118 (6.57%) Entra ID
16 117 (6.51%) Amazon EC2
17 111 (6.18%) IaaS
18 102 (5.68%) Datadog
19 100 (5.57%) Azure AKS
20 92 (5.12%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 175 (9.74%) Firewall
2 99 (5.51%) DNS
3 78 (4.34%) VPN
4 69 (3.84%) TCP/IP
5 64 (3.56%) Broadband
6 59 (3.29%) Network Security
7 46 (2.56%) WAN
8 35 (1.95%) BGP
9 34 (1.89%) DHCP
10 26 (1.45%) LAN
11 24 (1.34%) HTTP
11 24 (1.34%) VLAN
12 18 (1.00%) Software-Defined Networking
13 17 (0.95%) Cisco ASA
13 17 (0.95%) OSPF
13 17 (0.95%) SD-WAN
14 15 (0.84%) DSL
15 13 (0.72%) VXLAN
16 10 (0.56%) IPv4
17 9 (0.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (7.35%) NoSQL
2 127 (7.07%) PostgreSQL
3 93 (5.18%) Amazon RDS
4 76 (4.23%) MongoDB
5 69 (3.84%) DynamoDB
6 65 (3.62%) SQL Server
7 57 (3.17%) Relational Database
8 55 (3.06%) Data Lake
9 44 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
10 41 (2.28%) Azure SQL Database
11 40 (2.23%) Metadata
12 28 (1.56%) BigQuery
12 28 (1.56%) MySQL
13 26 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
14 22 (1.22%) Redis
15 20 (1.11%) Delta Lake
15 20 (1.11%) Power BI
16 19 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
16 19 (1.06%) Big Data
16 19 (1.06%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 252 (14.03%) GitLab
2 239 (13.31%) Git
3 229 (12.75%) Jenkins
4 46 (2.56%) CircleCI
5 36 (2.00%) Bitbucket
6 34 (1.89%) Cucumber
6 34 (1.89%) JIRA
7 20 (1.11%) Jaeger
8 19 (1.06%) TeamCity
9 15 (0.84%) Selenium
9 15 (0.84%) SonarQube
10 13 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 11 (0.61%) Subversion
12 10 (0.56%) MLflow
13 9 (0.50%) JMeter
13 9 (0.50%) Maven
13 9 (0.50%) NUnit
13 9 (0.50%) Storybook
14 8 (0.45%) Robot Framework
15 7 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 439 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 375 (20.88%) Finance
3 131 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (6.63%) Public Sector
5 109 (6.07%) Banking
6 77 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 62 (3.45%) Retail
8 52 (2.90%) Law
9 46 (2.56%) Telecoms
10 34 (1.89%) Games
11 32 (1.78%) Manufacturing
12 24 (1.34%) Aerospace
13 21 (1.17%) Legal
13 21 (1.17%) Marketing
14 20 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
15 19 (1.06%) Advertising
15 19 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
16 18 (1.00%) Billing
16 18 (1.00%) Financial Institution
17 12 (0.67%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 404 (22.49%) Senior
2 296 (16.48%) DevOps Engineer
3 271 (15.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 252 (14.03%) Lead
5 179 (9.97%) Platform Engineer
6 172 (9.58%) Azure Engineer
7 163 (9.08%) Architect
7 163 (9.08%) Developer
8 140 (7.80%) AWS Engineer
9 118 (6.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 98 (5.46%) Software Engineer
11 93 (5.18%) Data Engineer
12 88 (4.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 83 (4.62%) Security Engineer
14 70 (3.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 68 (3.79%) Senior DevOps
16 64 (3.56%) Principal Engineer
17 61 (3.40%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 58 (3.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 54 (3.01%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (8.07%) React
2 129 (7.18%) Node.js
3 127 (7.07%) Kafka
4 125 (6.96%) .NET
5 120 (6.68%) REST
6 96 (5.35%) RESTful
7 86 (4.79%) YAML
8 85 (4.73%) Spring
9 79 (4.40%) AWS CDK
10 78 (4.34%) Spring Boot
11 67 (3.73%) Elastic Stack
12 63 (3.51%) OAuth
13 58 (3.23%) PySpark
14 56 (3.12%) ARM Templates
15 50 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
16 43 (2.39%) JSON
17 38 (2.12%) AngularJS
17 38 (2.12%) ASP.NET
18 37 (2.06%) Next.js
18 37 (2.06%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 448 (24.94%) Cloud Native
2 150 (8.35%) Distributed Systems
3 94 (5.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 78 (4.34%) Public Cloud
5 61 (3.40%) Product Ownership
6 60 (3.34%) Data Centre
7 53 (2.95%) Security Posture
8 49 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
9 47 (2.62%) Onboarding
10 39 (2.17%) Video\Live Streaming
11 31 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
12 29 (1.61%) Low-Code
13 27 (1.50%) PKI
14 26 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
15 25 (1.39%) Blockchain
15 25 (1.39%) Management Information System
15 25 (1.39%) Mobile App
16 23 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
16 23 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
16 23 (1.28%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 342 (19.04%) Linux
2 166 (9.24%) Windows
3 85 (4.73%) Windows Server
4 53 (2.95%) Unix
5 44 (2.45%) Ubuntu
6 36 (2.00%) CentOS
7 27 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 24 (1.34%) VMS
9 15 (0.84%) Android
10 14 (0.78%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.39%) Debian
11 7 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.056%) Rocky
14 1 (0.056%) SUSE
14 1 (0.056%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,266 (70.49%) CI/CD
2 1,051 (58.52%) DevOps
3 494 (27.51%) Containerisation
4 491 (27.34%) Agile
5 483 (26.89%) Observability
6 379 (21.10%) Mentoring
7 376 (20.94%) Platform Engineering
8 375 (20.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 340 (18.93%) AI
10 321 (17.87%) Test Automation
11 309 (17.20%) Software Engineering
12 288 (16.04%) Microservices
13 281 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
14 243 (13.53%) Cloud Security
15 235 (13.08%) Technical Leadership
16 231 (12.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 211 (11.75%) Analytics
18 197 (10.97%) DevSecOps
19 182 (10.13%) High Availability
20 177 (9.86%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 813 (45.27%) Python
2 320 (17.82%) Bash
3 288 (16.04%) PowerShell
4 284 (15.81%) SQL
5 256 (14.25%) Java
6 175 (9.74%) Go
7 172 (9.58%) JavaScript
7 172 (9.58%) TypeScript
8 146 (8.13%) Bicep
9 130 (7.24%) C#
10 30 (1.67%) Rust
11 28 (1.56%) C++
12 22 (1.22%) Scala
13 17 (0.95%) PHP
14 15 (0.84%) Groovy
15 14 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
16 13 (0.72%) C
17 11 (0.61%) Kotlin
18 9 (0.50%) Shell Script
19 8 (0.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 354 (19.71%) Security Cleared
2 225 (12.53%) SC Cleared
3 159 (8.85%) Degree
4 139 (7.74%) AWS Certification
5 102 (5.68%) DV Cleared
6 92 (5.12%) Azure Certification
7 60 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (2.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 33 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 31 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
11 30 (1.67%) OSCP
12 23 (1.28%) CISSP
13 17 (0.95%) CCNP
14 16 (0.89%) DBS Check
15 15 (0.84%) CCNA
16 14 (0.78%) Master's Degree
17 13 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
18 12 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 12 (0.67%) RHCSA
19 10 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (4.84%) QA
2 77 (4.29%) Data Quality
3 60 (3.34%) GDPR
4 50 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 48 (2.67%) SOC 2
6 40 (2.23%) NIST
7 31 (1.73%) Accessibility
8 30 (1.67%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.78%) SLA
10 12 (0.67%) WCAG
11 9 (0.50%) GRC
12 8 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.33%) NCSC
14 4 (0.22%) 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 (0.056%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 492 (27.39%) Docker
2 108 (6.01%) Active Directory
3 90 (5.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (1.84%) vSphere
6 23 (1.28%) VMware NSX
7 19 (1.06%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.45%) Squid
9 7 (0.39%) iptables
9 7 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.33%) Firmware
10 6 (0.33%) KVM
10 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,241 (69.10%) Terraform
2 688 (38.31%) Kubernetes
3 381 (21.21%) Ansible
4 222 (12.36%) Grafana
5 208 (11.58%) Prometheus
6 62 (3.45%) Argo
7 44 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
8 41 (2.28%) Microsoft Intune
9 40 (2.23%) Puppet
10 25 (1.39%) Progress Chef
11 22 (1.22%) Kustomize
12 21 (1.17%) Packer
13 20 (1.11%) Nagios
14 18 (1.00%) Istio
15 17 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 14 (0.78%) Rancher
17 13 (0.72%) ZABBIX
18 12 (0.67%) vCenter Server
19 11 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
20 10 (0.56%) Cilium
Vendors
1 332 (18.49%) Microsoft
2 125 (6.96%) VMware
3 110 (6.12%) Google
4 74 (4.12%) Databricks
5 71 (3.95%) Red Hat
6 55 (3.06%) Cisco
7 54 (3.01%) Splunk
8 45 (2.51%) Palo Alto
9 31 (1.73%) Oracle
10 25 (1.39%) Zscaler
11 23 (1.28%) Fortinet
12 22 (1.22%) OpenAI
13 20 (1.11%) Dynatrace
13 20 (1.11%) Salesforce
14 19 (1.06%) CrowdStrike
15 12 (0.67%) Atlassian
15 12 (0.67%) CheckPoint
15 12 (0.67%) F5
16 11 (0.61%) Foundry
17 10 (0.56%) SolarWinds