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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 149 142
Rank change year-on-year +74 -7 -50
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,421 1,025 1,485
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.20% 2.05% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.02% 2.31% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,602 719 985
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £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 80,269 44,315 65,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.64% 80.88%
Number of salaries quoted 55,761 25,263 40,217
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -6.86% -6.87%

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 1 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 1 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 +80 2,116 £77,500 - 2,161
UK excluding London +108 1,318 £70,000 - 1,181
London +34 926 £90,000 +2.86% 1,282
Work from Home +64 824 £73,500 -2.00% 1,006
North of England +93 456 £70,000 - 347
South East +59 252 £67,500 -12.90% 226
North West +87 251 £72,500 +3.57% 184
South West +49 233 £75,000 - 190
Midlands +36 147 £75,000 +15.38% 110
Yorkshire +5 106 £72,500 +3.57% 111
North East +21 99 £59,000 -18.62% 54
West Midlands +20 89 £85,000 +30.77% 58
Wales -10 68 £70,000 +19.15% 29
Northern Ireland -25 62 £71,991 +67.07% 67
East Midlands +19 58 £67,500 +3.85% 52
East of England +2 58 £70,000 +7.69% 80
Scotland +14 54 £72,246 +3.21% 139

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 59 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
2 56 (2.31%) Apache
2 56 (2.31%) Apache Spark
3 31 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 28 (1.16%) Confluence
5 13 (0.54%) Jupyter
6 11 (0.45%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.37%) IIS
8 6 (0.25%) CMS
9 5 (0.21%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.17%) Camunda
10 4 (0.17%) nginx
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.12%) WordPress
12 2 (0.083%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.041%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.041%) JBoss
13 1 (0.041%) NetWeaver
13 1 (0.041%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 21 (0.87%) PlantUML
2 10 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.083%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.083%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.041%) Maya
6 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.041%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) Summit
4 2 (0.083%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.041%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,375 (56.79%) AWS
2 1,295 (53.49%) Azure
3 468 (19.33%) GCP
4 425 (17.55%) GitHub
5 388 (16.03%) AWS CloudFormation
6 378 (15.61%) Serverless
7 322 (13.30%) Azure DevOps
8 234 (9.67%) GitHub Actions
9 215 (8.88%) AWS Lambda
10 210 (8.67%) Amazon S3
11 174 (7.19%) PaaS
12 150 (6.20%) Amazon EC2
13 147 (6.07%) Amazon EKS
14 144 (5.95%) Amazon ECS
15 136 (5.62%) Azure AKS
16 133 (5.49%) SaaS
17 126 (5.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 126 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
18 125 (5.16%) IaaS
19 115 (4.75%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 177 (7.31%) Firewall
2 126 (5.20%) DNS
3 121 (5.00%) VPN
4 116 (4.79%) WAN
5 112 (4.63%) Network Security
6 97 (4.01%) LAN
7 72 (2.97%) TCP/IP
8 54 (2.23%) BGP
9 49 (2.02%) Broadband
10 47 (1.94%) DHCP
11 39 (1.61%) OSPF
12 32 (1.32%) VLAN
13 28 (1.16%) VXLAN
14 26 (1.07%) SD-WAN
14 26 (1.07%) Software-Defined Networking
15 18 (0.74%) Wireless
16 15 (0.62%) HTTP
17 14 (0.58%) Ethernet VPN
17 14 (0.58%) SAN
18 10 (0.41%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (7.68%) PostgreSQL
2 154 (6.36%) NoSQL
3 111 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
4 104 (4.30%) MongoDB
5 87 (3.59%) SQL Server
6 80 (3.30%) DynamoDB
7 67 (2.77%) MySQL
8 65 (2.68%) Data Lake
9 59 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
10 53 (2.19%) Metadata
11 52 (2.15%) Relational Database
12 47 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
13 38 (1.57%) Redis
14 33 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
15 32 (1.32%) Delta Lake
16 29 (1.20%) Big Data
17 28 (1.16%) BigQuery
18 26 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
19 23 (0.95%) Power BI
20 22 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 323 (13.34%) Git
2 290 (11.98%) GitLab
3 259 (10.70%) Jenkins
4 54 (2.23%) JIRA
5 47 (1.94%) Cucumber
6 33 (1.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 27 (1.12%) Bitbucket
7 27 (1.12%) CircleCI
8 26 (1.07%) TeamCity
9 23 (0.95%) Selenium
10 19 (0.78%) Claude Code
11 18 (0.74%) SonarQube
12 16 (0.66%) Cypress.io
13 15 (0.62%) NUnit
14 12 (0.50%) MLflow
14 12 (0.50%) Subversion
15 11 (0.45%) Maven
16 10 (0.41%) Snyk
17 9 (0.37%) MSI
18 8 (0.33%) Robot Framework
General
1 669 (27.63%) Social Skills
2 559 (23.09%) Finance
3 227 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 184 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
5 149 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 138 (5.70%) Banking
7 122 (5.04%) Law
8 74 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
9 63 (2.60%) Retail
10 51 (2.11%) Aerospace
11 46 (1.90%) Games
12 42 (1.73%) Marketing
13 40 (1.65%) Legal
14 33 (1.36%) Manufacturing
15 27 (1.12%) Telecoms
16 20 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (0.74%) Aviation
17 18 (0.74%) Financial Institution
18 17 (0.70%) Local Government
19 16 (0.66%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 556 (22.97%) Senior
2 412 (17.02%) DevOps Engineer
3 341 (14.09%) Lead
4 328 (13.55%) Architect
5 288 (11.90%) Cloud Engineer
6 248 (10.24%) Platform Engineer
7 208 (8.59%) Developer
8 191 (7.89%) Azure Engineer
9 160 (6.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 148 (6.11%) Software Engineer
11 144 (5.95%) AWS Engineer
12 124 (5.12%) Data Engineer
13 122 (5.04%) Principal Engineer
14 115 (4.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 94 (3.88%) Security Engineer
16 92 (3.80%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 79 (3.26%) Senior DevOps
18 75 (3.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 74 (3.06%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 73 (3.02%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,632 (67.41%) Terraform
2 197 (8.14%) React
3 193 (7.97%) Kafka
4 184 (7.60%) .NET
5 157 (6.48%) REST
6 156 (6.44%) Node.js
7 152 (6.28%) Spring
8 150 (6.20%) Spring Boot
9 145 (5.99%) RESTful
10 93 (3.84%) AWS CDK
11 80 (3.30%) PySpark
12 70 (2.89%) YAML
13 67 (2.77%) ARM Templates
14 63 (2.60%) AngularJS
15 58 (2.40%) Next.js
15 58 (2.40%) RabbitMQ
16 53 (2.19%) Elastic Stack
17 48 (1.98%) OAuth
18 44 (1.82%) ASP.NET
19 41 (1.69%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 722 (29.82%) Cloud Native
2 265 (10.95%) Distributed Systems
3 133 (5.49%) Hybrid Cloud
4 127 (5.25%) Public Cloud
5 122 (5.04%) Onboarding
6 92 (3.80%) Data Centre
7 88 (3.63%) Product Ownership
8 69 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
9 66 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
10 63 (2.60%) Security Posture
11 58 (2.40%) Enterprise Cloud
12 47 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
13 42 (1.73%) Virtual Team
14 41 (1.69%) Private Cloud
14 41 (1.69%) Video\Live Streaming
15 39 (1.61%) e-Learning
16 38 (1.57%) Management Information System
17 36 (1.49%) Low-Code
18 35 (1.45%) AI Agents
18 35 (1.45%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 394 (16.27%) Linux
2 225 (9.29%) Windows
3 99 (4.09%) Windows Server
4 60 (2.48%) CentOS
5 40 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (1.57%) Ubuntu
6 38 (1.57%) Unix
7 22 (0.91%) VMS
8 5 (0.21%) Debian
8 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.17%) Android
9 4 (0.17%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.12%) AIX
11 2 (0.083%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.083%) Solaris
12 1 (0.041%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.041%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.041%) SUSE
12 1 (0.041%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,699 (70.18%) CI/CD
2 1,313 (54.23%) DevOps
3 712 (29.41%) Containerisation
4 681 (28.13%) Observability
5 676 (27.92%) Agile
6 577 (23.83%) Platform Engineering
7 537 (22.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 525 (21.69%) Mentoring
9 523 (21.60%) AI
10 514 (21.23%) Software Engineering
11 430 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
12 418 (17.27%) Microservices
13 404 (16.69%) Technical Leadership
14 394 (16.27%) Test Automation
15 366 (15.12%) Cloud Security
16 347 (14.33%) Roadmaps
17 340 (14.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 273 (11.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 269 (11.11%) Event-Driven
20 267 (11.03%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,048 (43.29%) Python
2 377 (15.57%) Java
3 375 (15.49%) SQL
4 373 (15.41%) Bash
5 344 (14.21%) PowerShell
6 232 (9.58%) Bicep
7 224 (9.25%) TypeScript
8 195 (8.05%) JavaScript
9 186 (7.68%) C#
10 161 (6.65%) Go
11 47 (1.94%) Ruby
12 41 (1.69%) Scala
13 36 (1.49%) PHP
14 28 (1.16%) Rust
15 27 (1.12%) Groovy
16 25 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
17 21 (0.87%) C++
17 21 (0.87%) Perl
18 16 (0.66%) Shell Script
19 12 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 588 (24.29%) Security Cleared
2 368 (15.20%) SC Cleared
3 200 (8.26%) AWS Certification
4 197 (8.14%) Degree
5 193 (7.97%) DV Cleared
6 153 (6.32%) Azure Certification
7 92 (3.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 88 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 65 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 55 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
11 36 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
11 36 (1.49%) CCNP
12 30 (1.24%) Master's Degree
13 24 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
14 20 (0.83%) CISSP
15 19 (0.78%) CCNA
16 17 (0.70%) SnowPro
17 15 (0.62%) DBS Check
17 15 (0.62%) OSCP
18 14 (0.58%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (5.41%) QA
2 108 (4.46%) Data Quality
3 72 (2.97%) GRC
4 70 (2.89%) GDPR
5 59 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (1.94%) Accessibility
7 34 (1.40%) NIST
8 31 (1.28%) SOC 2
9 28 (1.16%) NCSC
10 23 (0.95%) PCI DSS
11 22 (0.91%) SLA
11 22 (0.91%) WCAG
12 10 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.29%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.12%) ISO 20022
17 2 (0.083%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 2 (0.083%) ISO 9001
17 2 (0.083%) Solvency II
System Software
1 628 (25.94%) Docker
2 134 (5.53%) Active Directory
2 134 (5.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (1.86%) vSphere
4 38 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (1.03%) Hyper-V
6 24 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (0.70%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (0.37%) KVM
10 8 (0.33%) Squid
11 7 (0.29%) Firmware
11 7 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.17%) iptables
14 3 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 2 (0.083%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 887 (36.64%) Kubernetes
2 492 (20.32%) Ansible
3 241 (9.95%) Grafana
4 172 (7.10%) Prometheus
5 72 (2.97%) Argo
6 61 (2.52%) Puppet
7 41 (1.69%) Progress Chef
8 37 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
9 34 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
10 33 (1.36%) Istio
11 27 (1.12%) Packer
12 19 (0.78%) FortiGate
12 19 (0.78%) Nagios
12 19 (0.78%) vCenter Server
13 15 (0.62%) Rancher
14 14 (0.58%) Cilium
15 13 (0.54%) Kustomize
16 12 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 12 (0.50%) ZABBIX
17 11 (0.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 546 (22.55%) Microsoft
2 165 (6.82%) VMware
3 146 (6.03%) Google
4 106 (4.38%) Databricks
5 86 (3.55%) Splunk
6 84 (3.47%) Red Hat
7 73 (3.02%) Cisco
8 68 (2.81%) Oracle
9 45 (1.86%) Palo Alto
10 44 (1.82%) OpenAI
11 41 (1.69%) Dynatrace
11 41 (1.69%) Fortinet
12 27 (1.12%) ServiceNow
13 25 (1.03%) Zscaler
14 16 (0.66%) Atlassian
14 16 (0.66%) CrowdStrike
14 16 (0.66%) SAP
15 14 (0.58%) Okta
16 13 (0.54%) F5
16 13 (0.54%) Rapid7