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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 157 154
Rank change year-on-year +81 -3 -51
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,336 1,043 1,422
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.22% 2.09% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.01% 2.34% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,559 730 1,035
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,250 £107,550 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,079 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% +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 77,641 44,566 67,247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.69% 89.32% 81.09%
Number of salaries quoted 53,461 25,406 43,850
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,073 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.41% -3.85% -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 9 August 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 9 August 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 +75 2,053 £77,500 - 1,512
UK excluding London +109 1,255 £70,079 +0.11% 823
London +26 918 £90,000 - 832
Work from Home +74 826 £72,500 -8.01% 704
North of England +89 424 £70,400 +0.57% 264
South East +49 250 £67,500 -12.90% 188
North West +92 242 £74,651 +6.64% 147
South West +50 215 £75,000 -4.83% 153
Midlands +46 149 £77,500 +19.23% 66
Yorkshire -4 98 £75,000 +7.14% 74
West Midlands +11 91 £80,000 +23.08% 40
North East +17 84 £56,500 -19.29% 43
Wales -6 65 £70,000 +21.74% 32
East Midlands +15 58 £67,500 +3.85% 26
Northern Ireland -20 58 £72,896 +69.17% 19
East of England -9 54 £65,000 +1.96% 34
Scotland +21 50 £71,991 +6.65% 71

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 61 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
2 56 (2.40%) Apache Spark
3 53 (2.27%) Apache
4 31 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 30 (1.28%) Confluence
6 12 (0.51%) Jupyter
7 11 (0.47%) IIS
8 10 (0.43%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.17%) Camunda
9 4 (0.17%) CMS
9 4 (0.17%) nginx
10 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.13%) WordPress
11 2 (0.086%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.086%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.043%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.043%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.043%) JBoss
12 1 (0.043%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 21 (0.90%) PlantUML
2 9 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.086%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.086%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.086%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.043%) Maya
6 1 (0.043%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.13%) Summit
4 2 (0.086%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.086%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.043%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,338 (57.28%) AWS
2 1,277 (54.67%) Azure
3 448 (19.18%) GCP
4 410 (17.55%) GitHub
5 378 (16.18%) Serverless
6 373 (15.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 317 (13.57%) Azure DevOps
8 225 (9.63%) GitHub Actions
9 207 (8.86%) AWS Lambda
10 204 (8.73%) Amazon S3
11 187 (8.01%) PaaS
12 145 (6.21%) Amazon EC2
13 141 (6.04%) Amazon ECS
14 139 (5.95%) Amazon EKS
15 135 (5.78%) SaaS
16 127 (5.44%) IaaS
17 125 (5.35%) Microsoft 365
18 123 (5.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 118 (5.05%) Azure AKS
20 114 (4.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 178 (7.62%) Firewall
2 117 (5.01%) DNS
3 116 (4.97%) WAN
4 110 (4.71%) Network Security
5 108 (4.62%) VPN
6 96 (4.11%) LAN
7 80 (3.42%) TCP/IP
8 54 (2.31%) Broadband
9 50 (2.14%) BGP
10 41 (1.76%) DHCP
11 35 (1.50%) OSPF
12 34 (1.46%) VLAN
13 26 (1.11%) VXLAN
14 25 (1.07%) Software-Defined Networking
15 24 (1.03%) SD-WAN
16 19 (0.81%) HTTP
17 15 (0.64%) Wireless
18 14 (0.60%) SAN
19 13 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
20 12 (0.51%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (7.53%) PostgreSQL
2 147 (6.29%) NoSQL
3 107 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
4 97 (4.15%) MongoDB
5 81 (3.47%) SQL Server
6 77 (3.30%) DynamoDB
7 60 (2.57%) MySQL
8 59 (2.53%) Data Lake
9 55 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
10 54 (2.31%) Relational Database
11 53 (2.27%) Metadata
12 42 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
13 39 (1.67%) Redis
14 35 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
15 29 (1.24%) Delta Lake
16 27 (1.16%) BigQuery
16 27 (1.16%) Power BI
17 26 (1.11%) Big Data
18 25 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
19 22 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 308 (13.18%) Git
2 288 (12.33%) GitLab
3 252 (10.79%) Jenkins
4 53 (2.27%) JIRA
5 43 (1.84%) Cucumber
6 33 (1.41%) CircleCI
7 32 (1.37%) Bitbucket
8 30 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 27 (1.16%) TeamCity
10 21 (0.90%) Selenium
11 18 (0.77%) Claude Code
12 16 (0.68%) SonarQube
13 14 (0.60%) NUnit
14 12 (0.51%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.51%) MLflow
14 12 (0.51%) Subversion
15 11 (0.47%) Maven
16 9 (0.39%) JMeter
16 9 (0.39%) MSI
16 9 (0.39%) Snyk
General
1 643 (27.53%) Social Skills
2 533 (22.82%) Finance
3 207 (8.86%) Public Sector
4 178 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
5 140 (5.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 122 (5.22%) Banking
7 115 (4.92%) Law
8 70 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
9 68 (2.91%) Retail
10 45 (1.93%) Aerospace
10 45 (1.93%) Games
11 42 (1.80%) Marketing
12 37 (1.58%) Legal
13 34 (1.46%) Telecoms
14 29 (1.24%) Manufacturing
15 21 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
16 19 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
17 18 (0.77%) Advertising
18 17 (0.73%) Aviation
19 16 (0.68%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 532 (22.77%) Senior
2 399 (17.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 342 (14.64%) Lead
4 311 (13.31%) Architect
5 280 (11.99%) Cloud Engineer
6 234 (10.02%) Platform Engineer
7 205 (8.78%) Developer
8 181 (7.75%) Azure Engineer
9 141 (6.04%) Software Engineer
10 137 (5.86%) AWS Engineer
11 132 (5.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 122 (5.22%) Data Engineer
13 111 (4.75%) Principal Engineer
14 105 (4.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 89 (3.81%) Security Engineer
16 86 (3.68%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 78 (3.34%) Senior DevOps
18 75 (3.21%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 73 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 68 (2.91%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (8.13%) React
2 176 (7.53%) .NET
2 176 (7.53%) Kafka
3 150 (6.42%) Node.js
3 150 (6.42%) REST
4 142 (6.08%) Spring
5 140 (5.99%) Spring Boot
6 133 (5.69%) RESTful
7 95 (4.07%) AWS CDK
8 77 (3.30%) YAML
9 75 (3.21%) PySpark
10 71 (3.04%) ARM Templates
11 61 (2.61%) AngularJS
12 59 (2.53%) RabbitMQ
13 56 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
13 56 (2.40%) Next.js
14 52 (2.23%) OAuth
15 43 (1.84%) ASP.NET
16 41 (1.76%) CSS
17 40 (1.71%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 677 (28.98%) Cloud Native
2 248 (10.62%) Distributed Systems
3 119 (5.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 116 (4.97%) Onboarding
5 109 (4.67%) Public Cloud
6 87 (3.72%) Data Centre
7 78 (3.34%) Product Ownership
8 70 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
9 66 (2.83%) Security Posture
10 61 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
11 51 (2.18%) Enterprise Cloud
12 47 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
13 45 (1.93%) Video\Live Streaming
14 39 (1.67%) Low-Code
15 36 (1.54%) Management Information System
16 35 (1.50%) Virtual Team
17 34 (1.46%) Private Cloud
18 32 (1.37%) e-Learning
19 31 (1.33%) PKI
20 28 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 392 (16.78%) Linux
2 222 (9.50%) Windows
3 97 (4.15%) Windows Server
4 56 (2.40%) CentOS
5 41 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (1.76%) Ubuntu
5 41 (1.76%) Unix
6 22 (0.94%) VMS
7 8 (0.34%) Android
8 7 (0.30%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.21%) Debian
9 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.086%) AIX
10 2 (0.086%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.086%) Solaris
11 1 (0.043%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.043%) Rocky
11 1 (0.043%) SUSE
11 1 (0.043%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,643 (70.33%) CI/CD
2 1,297 (55.52%) DevOps
3 691 (29.58%) Containerisation
4 659 (28.21%) Agile
5 649 (27.78%) Observability
6 543 (23.24%) Platform Engineering
7 516 (22.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 514 (22.00%) Mentoring
9 497 (21.28%) AI
10 476 (20.38%) Software Engineering
11 400 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
12 398 (17.04%) Microservices
13 391 (16.74%) Technical Leadership
14 374 (16.01%) Test Automation
15 341 (14.60%) Cloud Security
16 335 (14.34%) Roadmaps
17 307 (13.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 257 (11.00%) Analytics
19 254 (10.87%) Event-Driven
19 254 (10.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,012 (43.32%) Python
2 367 (15.71%) Java
3 361 (15.45%) SQL
4 356 (15.24%) Bash
5 330 (14.13%) PowerShell
6 222 (9.50%) Bicep
7 214 (9.16%) TypeScript
8 195 (8.35%) JavaScript
9 181 (7.75%) C#
10 165 (7.06%) Go
11 46 (1.97%) Ruby
12 37 (1.58%) PHP
12 37 (1.58%) Scala
13 25 (1.07%) Rust
14 24 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
15 22 (0.94%) C++
16 21 (0.90%) Groovy
16 21 (0.90%) Perl
17 13 (0.56%) Shell Script
18 11 (0.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 552 (23.63%) Security Cleared
2 349 (14.94%) SC Cleared
3 197 (8.43%) Degree
4 179 (7.66%) AWS Certification
5 178 (7.62%) DV Cleared
6 141 (6.04%) Azure Certification
7 82 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 82 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 54 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 51 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
10 35 (1.50%) CCNP
11 29 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 28 (1.20%) Master's Degree
13 23 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
14 21 (0.90%) CISSP
15 20 (0.86%) OSCP
16 18 (0.77%) CCNA
17 16 (0.68%) DBS Check
18 14 (0.60%) RHCSA
18 14 (0.60%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (5.39%) QA
2 101 (4.32%) Data Quality
3 69 (2.95%) GDPR
3 69 (2.95%) GRC
4 57 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 47 (2.01%) Accessibility
6 38 (1.63%) NIST
7 36 (1.54%) SOC 2
8 28 (1.20%) PCI DSS
9 25 (1.07%) NCSC
10 24 (1.03%) WCAG
11 16 (0.68%) SLA
12 9 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.21%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.086%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.086%) IFRS
15 2 (0.086%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.086%) Solvency II
System Software
1 621 (26.58%) Docker
2 133 (5.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 127 (5.44%) Active Directory
4 46 (1.97%) vSphere
5 33 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (1.03%) Hyper-V
7 19 (0.81%) VMware NSX
8 18 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.39%) Firmware
10 9 (0.39%) KVM
11 8 (0.34%) Squid
11 8 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.21%) iptables
14 3 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.043%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 1,569 (67.17%) Terraform
2 872 (37.33%) Kubernetes
3 469 (20.08%) Ansible
4 241 (10.32%) Grafana
5 179 (7.66%) Prometheus
6 68 (2.91%) Argo
7 57 (2.44%) Puppet
8 36 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
9 35 (1.50%) Progress Chef
10 33 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
11 28 (1.20%) Istio
12 27 (1.16%) Packer
13 24 (1.03%) Nagios
14 16 (0.68%) FortiGate
14 16 (0.68%) vCenter Server
15 12 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 12 (0.51%) Cilium
15 12 (0.51%) Rancher
15 12 (0.51%) ZABBIX
16 11 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 508 (21.75%) Microsoft
2 161 (6.89%) VMware
3 137 (5.86%) Google
4 100 (4.28%) Databricks
5 91 (3.90%) Red Hat
6 86 (3.68%) Splunk
7 71 (3.04%) Cisco
8 63 (2.70%) Oracle
9 49 (2.10%) Palo Alto
10 40 (1.71%) OpenAI
11 39 (1.67%) Dynatrace
11 39 (1.67%) Fortinet
12 25 (1.07%) Zscaler
13 22 (0.94%) ServiceNow
14 16 (0.68%) CrowdStrike
15 15 (0.64%) F5
15 15 (0.64%) SAP
16 14 (0.60%) Atlassian
17 13 (0.56%) Rapid7
18 12 (0.51%) ScienceLogic