Infrastructure as Code Jobs

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 170 101
Rank change year-on-year +17 -69 -10
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,218 1,734 2,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.07% 1.61% 3.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 1.95% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 680 1,310 1,823
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £48,091
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £96,250 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +14.42%

All Process and 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 53,555 88,965 84,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 91.01% 82.48% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 27,659 61,319 52,810
10th Percentile £27,367 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,331
Median % change year-on-year - -8.84% +0.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code.

Salary trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Top 18 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 3 July 2025. 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 +23 1,152 £78,810 +12.59% 1,593
Work from Home +24 579 £77,500 +10.71% 967
London +64 562 £90,000 +2.86% 832
UK excluding London -29 516 £70,000 +7.69% 864
North of England -55 159 £70,000 +11.50% 317
South East +39 141 £77,500 +26.53% 176
North West -70 98 £72,500 +11.54% 203
Midlands -30 61 £65,000 - 86
South West +8 56 £72,500 +3.57% 115
East of England +46 55 £65,000 -3.70% 76
Yorkshire +6 51 £70,000 +16.67% 87
West Midlands -6 41 £65,000 -7.14% 59
Scotland +78 36 £75,000 -11.76% 55
East Midlands +13 20 £65,000 +13.04% 27
North East +15 10 £64,000 +1.94% 27
Wales +29 8 £56,250 +2.27% 14
Isle of Man +14 2 £34,500 -
Northern Ireland +36 1 £43,092 -28.18% 37

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 33 (2.71%) Apache Spark
2 25 (2.05%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (1.89%) Apache
5 19 (1.56%) Confluence
6 13 (1.07%) nginx
7 10 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.41%) Appian
8 5 (0.41%) IIS
9 4 (0.33%) CMS
9 4 (0.33%) IBM Domino
9 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.33%) Traefik
9 4 (0.33%) WordPress
10 2 (0.16%) CICS
10 2 (0.16%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.082%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.082%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.33%) Adobe XD
3 4 (0.33%) Sketch
4 3 (0.25%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.16%) Simulink
6 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 19 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 794 (65.19%) AWS
2 585 (48.03%) Azure
3 238 (19.54%) Pulumi
4 226 (18.56%) GCP
5 175 (14.37%) Azure DevOps
6 152 (12.48%) Serverless
7 142 (11.66%) AWS CloudFormation
8 137 (11.25%) GitHub
9 108 (8.87%) AWS Lambda
10 100 (8.21%) SaaS
11 90 (7.39%) Amazon S3
12 88 (7.22%) PaaS
13 83 (6.81%) Entra ID
14 81 (6.65%) Amazon EKS
15 78 (6.40%) Amazon EC2
16 76 (6.24%) Azure Monitor
17 69 (5.67%) IaaS
18 68 (5.58%) GitHub Actions
19 54 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
20 51 (4.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 215 (17.65%) Broadband
2 98 (8.05%) Firewall
3 69 (5.67%) DNS
4 66 (5.42%) VPN
5 53 (4.35%) WAN
6 39 (3.20%) Network Security
7 29 (2.38%) SD-WAN
8 27 (2.22%) LAN
9 13 (1.07%) DHCP
9 13 (1.07%) TCP/IP
10 11 (0.90%) SAN
11 10 (0.82%) Internet
11 10 (0.82%) Kerberos
12 7 (0.57%) NAS
13 6 (0.49%) BGP
13 6 (0.49%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 6 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
13 6 (0.49%) VLAN
13 6 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (0.33%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 274 (22.50%) NoSQL
2 228 (18.72%) Relational Database
3 216 (17.73%) RDBMS
4 57 (4.68%) SQL Server
5 49 (4.02%) Amazon RDS
6 48 (3.94%) Data Lake
7 41 (3.37%) DynamoDB
8 37 (3.04%) MySQL
9 34 (2.79%) Big Data
10 28 (2.30%) Power BI
11 26 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
12 22 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
13 21 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
14 16 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
14 16 (1.31%) MongoDB
15 15 (1.23%) Hadoop
16 12 (0.99%) BigQuery
17 11 (0.90%) Tableau
18 9 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
19 8 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 215 (17.65%) Jaeger
2 144 (11.82%) Jenkins
3 132 (10.84%) Git
4 119 (9.77%) GitLab
5 40 (3.28%) SonarQube
6 34 (2.79%) Sonatype Nexus
7 33 (2.71%) JIRA
8 27 (2.22%) JUnit
9 21 (1.72%) Maven
10 20 (1.64%) CircleCI
11 19 (1.56%) Cucumber
11 19 (1.56%) TeamCity
12 17 (1.40%) Bitbucket
13 14 (1.15%) Mockito
13 14 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
14 10 (0.82%) IntelliJ
15 9 (0.74%) Selenium
15 9 (0.74%) Spinnaker
16 8 (0.66%) Artifactory
17 6 (0.49%) Robot Framework
General
1 315 (25.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 296 (24.30%) Finance
3 289 (23.73%) Social Skills
4 100 (8.21%) Banking
4 100 (8.21%) Law
5 50 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (3.04%) Marketing
7 31 (2.55%) Public Sector
8 23 (1.89%) Retail
9 22 (1.81%) Advertising
10 20 (1.64%) Back Office
10 20 (1.64%) Legal
11 16 (1.31%) Telecoms
12 15 (1.23%) Automotive
13 14 (1.15%) Investment Banking
14 12 (0.99%) Financial Institution
15 10 (0.82%) Front Office
16 7 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.33%) Agriculture
17 4 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 379 (31.12%) Lead
2 223 (18.31%) Team Leader
3 190 (15.60%) Senior
4 160 (13.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 148 (12.15%) DevOps Engineer
6 125 (10.26%) Architect
7 95 (7.80%) Azure Engineer
8 94 (7.72%) Software Engineer
9 93 (7.64%) Platform Engineer
10 75 (6.16%) AWS Engineer
11 69 (5.67%) Developer
12 68 (5.58%) Cloud Architect
13 57 (4.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 52 (4.27%) Data Engineer
15 48 (3.94%) AWS DevOps
15 48 (3.94%) Senior Cloud Engineer
16 45 (3.69%) Python Engineer
16 45 (3.69%) Senior DevOps
17 35 (2.87%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 35 (2.87%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 256 (21.02%) Elastic Stack
2 220 (18.06%) OpenTelemetry
3 96 (7.88%) .NET
4 74 (6.08%) Kafka
5 63 (5.17%) React
6 60 (4.93%) ARM Templates
7 58 (4.76%) REST
8 51 (4.19%) Spring
9 46 (3.78%) Spring Boot
10 43 (3.53%) RESTful
11 35 (2.87%) Node.js
11 35 (2.87%) YAML
12 27 (2.22%) .NET Core
13 25 (2.05%) .NET Framework
14 22 (1.81%) AWS CDK
15 19 (1.56%) AngularJS
16 16 (1.31%) Django
16 16 (1.31%) Flask
16 16 (1.31%) gRPC
16 16 (1.31%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 191 (15.68%) Cloud Native
2 100 (8.21%) Public Cloud
3 61 (5.01%) Hybrid Cloud
4 54 (4.43%) Management Information System
5 47 (3.86%) Product Ownership
6 41 (3.37%) Data Centre
7 40 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
8 28 (2.30%) Private Cloud
9 27 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
9 27 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
10 22 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (1.64%) Onboarding
12 18 (1.48%) NHS
13 17 (1.40%) PKI
14 16 (1.31%) Data Structures
14 16 (1.31%) Distributed Architecture
14 16 (1.31%) Hedge funds
15 13 (1.07%) Algorithms
15 13 (1.07%) Security Posture
15 13 (1.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 412 (33.83%) Linux
2 237 (19.46%) Unix
3 106 (8.70%) Windows
4 58 (4.76%) Windows Server
5 30 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.74%) VMS
7 8 (0.66%) Android
7 8 (0.66%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (0.57%) CentOS
8 7 (0.57%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.49%) Debian
10 4 (0.33%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.16%) AIX
11 2 (0.16%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.082%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.082%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 856 (70.28%) DevOps
2 684 (56.16%) CI/CD
3 520 (42.69%) Agile
4 488 (40.07%) Containerisation
5 370 (30.38%) Mentoring
6 344 (28.24%) Roadmaps
7 315 (25.86%) High Availability
8 283 (23.23%) Continuous Integration
9 269 (22.09%) Performance Optimisation
10 253 (20.77%) Resource Management
11 250 (20.53%) Cost Optimisation
12 243 (19.95%) Task Automation
13 236 (19.38%) Product Management
14 231 (18.97%) GitOps
15 215 (17.65%) Budget Control
16 213 (17.49%) Software Engineering
17 189 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
18 169 (13.88%) Platform Engineering
19 167 (13.71%) Microservices
20 146 (11.99%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 647 (53.12%) Python
2 365 (29.97%) Java
3 360 (29.56%) Bash
4 310 (25.45%) Go
5 300 (24.63%) JavaScript
6 199 (16.34%) PowerShell
7 170 (13.96%) SQL
8 76 (6.24%) Bicep
9 73 (5.99%) C#
10 52 (4.27%) TypeScript
11 20 (1.64%) Scala
12 16 (1.31%) Ruby
13 15 (1.23%) Shell Script
14 14 (1.15%) C++
15 12 (0.99%) R
16 10 (0.82%) PHP
16 10 (0.82%) Rust
17 9 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
18 7 (0.57%) Groovy
18 7 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 308 (25.29%) AWS Certification
2 119 (9.77%) Degree
3 117 (9.61%) Azure Certification
4 110 (9.03%) Security Cleared
5 78 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 74 (6.08%) SC Cleared
7 36 (2.96%) DV Cleared
7 36 (2.96%) Master's Degree
8 35 (2.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 31 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (1.40%) DBS Check
11 15 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.90%) CCNP
13 10 (0.82%) CCNA
14 8 (0.66%) CISSP
15 6 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 5 (0.41%) CISM
16 5 (0.41%) ISTQB
17 4 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
18 3 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (5.50%) GDPR
2 47 (3.86%) QA
3 40 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (2.46%) HIPAA
5 19 (1.56%) SOC 2
6 18 (1.48%) NIST
7 14 (1.15%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.99%) Data Quality
9 9 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.41%) SLA
12 4 (0.33%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.082%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.082%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 1 (0.082%) NCSC
14 1 (0.082%) NIST 800
System Software
1 519 (42.61%) Docker
2 59 (4.84%) Virtual Machines
3 57 (4.68%) Active Directory
4 53 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.31%) Hyper-V
5 16 (1.31%) vSphere
6 12 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.33%) NFS
7 4 (0.33%) zsh
8 3 (0.25%) LXC
9 2 (0.16%) HDFS
9 2 (0.16%) KVM
9 2 (0.16%) vCloud
9 2 (0.16%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.16%) Xen
10 1 (0.082%) Firmware
10 1 (0.082%) XenApp
10 1 (0.082%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 900 (73.89%) Terraform
2 649 (53.28%) Kubernetes
3 481 (39.49%) Ansible
4 323 (26.52%) Prometheus
5 225 (18.47%) Argo
6 216 (17.73%) Kustomize
7 118 (9.69%) Grafana
8 36 (2.96%) Puppet
9 30 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
10 28 (2.30%) Progress Chef
11 23 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
12 16 (1.31%) Istio
13 12 (0.99%) SCCM
14 8 (0.66%) Podman
15 7 (0.57%) Salt
16 6 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
16 6 (0.49%) Failover Clustering
16 6 (0.49%) HAProxy
16 6 (0.49%) QRadar
17 5 (0.41%) Packer
Vendors
1 303 (24.88%) Google
2 198 (16.26%) Microsoft
3 71 (5.83%) VMware
4 67 (5.50%) Databricks
5 50 (4.11%) Cisco
6 30 (2.46%) Splunk
7 25 (2.05%) Palo Alto
7 25 (2.05%) Red Hat
8 22 (1.81%) Meraki
8 22 (1.81%) SolarWinds
9 21 (1.72%) IBM
10 16 (1.31%) Fortinet
10 16 (1.31%) Oracle
10 16 (1.31%) Siebel
11 14 (1.15%) Aruba
12 13 (1.07%) Mellanox
12 13 (1.07%) NVIDIA
13 11 (0.90%) Atlassian
13 11 (0.90%) Citrix
14 9 (0.74%) Salesforce