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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 133 152
Rank change year-on-year +23 +19 -51
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,402 1,012 1,650
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.88% 2.35% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 2.51% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 936 729 1,325
10th Percentile £46,446 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,438 £60,000 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -3.70%

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 58,145 40,321 73,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.92% 93.51% 87.23%
Number of salaries quoted 35,200 22,427 56,120
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,925 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,911 £44,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.78%
75th Percentile £76,299 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 16 March 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 16 March 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 +20 1,210 £75,000 - 636
UK excluding London -1 640 £67,500 - 483
London +33 604 £85,000 -5.56% 243
Work from Home +51 569 £70,000 -6.67% 405
North of England -10 220 £65,000 -3.04% 150
South East +18 137 £70,000 -2.10% 136
North West -18 97 £73,801 +2.51% 77
Yorkshire -13 91 £62,500 +19.05% 48
South West -16 87 £62,500 -10.71% 82
Midlands -4 69 £67,500 +3.85% 38
Scotland -8 60 £66,250 -1.85% 25
East of England +12 35 £65,000 -10.34% 40
West Midlands -14 35 £66,500 -5.00% 26
North East -11 32 £48,445 -15.75% 25
East Midlands -14 32 £67,500 +3.85% 12
Wales -5 22 £64,998 +32.37% 14
Northern Ireland -30 10 £95,000 +11.76% 8

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 (3.78%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (3.00%) Apache
3 32 (2.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 28 (2.00%) Apache Spark
5 18 (1.28%) SharePoint
6 14 (1.00%) IIS
7 12 (0.86%) Confluence
7 12 (0.86%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.21%) CMS
8 3 (0.21%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.14%) Appian
9 2 (0.14%) nginx
9 2 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.071%) Camunda
10 1 (0.071%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.071%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.071%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.29%) PlantUML
1 4 (0.29%) Weka
2 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.071%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.071%) Maya
4 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.071%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.071%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.071%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.071%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 859 (61.27%) AWS
2 784 (55.92%) Azure
3 311 (22.18%) GCP
4 310 (22.11%) GitHub
5 292 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
6 264 (18.83%) Serverless
7 257 (18.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 221 (15.76%) GitHub Actions
9 170 (12.13%) AWS Lambda
10 141 (10.06%) Amazon S3
11 136 (9.70%) PaaS
12 121 (8.63%) Amazon EKS
12 121 (8.63%) SaaS
13 116 (8.27%) Entra ID
14 112 (7.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 92 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
16 89 (6.35%) Amazon ECS
17 88 (6.28%) Datadog
17 88 (6.28%) IaaS
18 85 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 163 (11.63%) Firewall
2 92 (6.56%) DNS
3 79 (5.63%) TCP/IP
4 77 (5.49%) VPN
5 37 (2.64%) Broadband
5 37 (2.64%) WAN
6 35 (2.50%) DHCP
6 35 (2.50%) Network Security
7 20 (1.43%) HTTP
8 17 (1.21%) BGP
8 17 (1.21%) VLAN
9 15 (1.07%) DSL
9 15 (1.07%) Internet
10 14 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
10 14 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (0.93%) LAN
12 7 (0.50%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.43%) SAN
14 5 (0.36%) AMQP
14 5 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
2 104 (7.42%) NoSQL
3 97 (6.92%) Amazon RDS
4 57 (4.07%) SQL Server
5 53 (3.78%) DynamoDB
6 46 (3.28%) Data Lake
7 43 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
8 42 (3.00%) MongoDB
8 42 (3.00%) Relational Database
9 37 (2.64%) Redis
10 36 (2.57%) Elasticsearch
11 34 (2.43%) MySQL
12 29 (2.07%) BigQuery
13 26 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
14 23 (1.64%) Metadata
14 23 (1.64%) Power BI
15 19 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
15 19 (1.36%) RDBMS
16 18 (1.28%) Delta Lake
17 16 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 212 (15.12%) Jenkins
2 180 (12.84%) GitLab
3 179 (12.77%) Git
4 31 (2.21%) Bitbucket
5 30 (2.14%) CircleCI
5 30 (2.14%) JIRA
6 27 (1.93%) Selenium
7 24 (1.71%) Robot Framework
8 22 (1.57%) Jaeger
9 21 (1.50%) Cucumber
10 18 (1.28%) TeamCity
11 17 (1.21%) Snyk
12 16 (1.14%) MLflow
13 15 (1.07%) JMeter
14 12 (0.86%) Locust
14 12 (0.86%) SonarQube
15 10 (0.71%) Subversion
16 9 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 9 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
16 9 (0.64%) Storybook
General
1 382 (27.25%) Social Skills
2 341 (24.32%) Finance
3 138 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (6.49%) Banking
5 89 (6.35%) Public Sector
6 73 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 67 (4.78%) Law
8 58 (4.14%) Retail
9 57 (4.07%) Telecoms
10 33 (2.35%) Financial Institution
11 27 (1.93%) Marketing
12 22 (1.57%) Games
13 20 (1.43%) Back Office
13 20 (1.43%) Billing
13 20 (1.43%) Manufacturing
14 17 (1.21%) Advertising
15 15 (1.07%) Aerospace
15 15 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
15 15 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (1.07%) Legal
Job Titles
1 312 (22.25%) Senior
2 224 (15.98%) DevOps Engineer
3 209 (14.91%) Cloud Engineer
4 178 (12.70%) Lead
5 131 (9.34%) Azure Engineer
6 128 (9.13%) Developer
6 128 (9.13%) Platform Engineer
7 119 (8.49%) Architect
8 99 (7.06%) AWS Engineer
9 98 (6.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 66 (4.71%) Software Engineer
11 60 (4.28%) Data Engineer
12 54 (3.85%) Security Engineer
12 54 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
13 46 (3.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 42 (3.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
15 41 (2.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 40 (2.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 39 (2.78%) Lead DevOps
18 37 (2.64%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (8.77%) React
2 96 (6.85%) Node.js
3 86 (6.13%) .NET
3 86 (6.13%) RESTful
4 81 (5.78%) Elastic Stack
5 75 (5.35%) Kafka
6 71 (5.06%) REST
7 69 (4.92%) AWS CDK
8 59 (4.21%) Spring
9 55 (3.92%) OAuth
9 55 (3.92%) Spring Boot
9 55 (3.92%) YAML
10 47 (3.35%) Django
11 39 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
12 37 (2.64%) ARM Templates
13 36 (2.57%) FastAPI
14 35 (2.50%) CSS
15 34 (2.43%) .NET Core
16 32 (2.28%) SAML
17 31 (2.21%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 312 (22.25%) Cloud Native
2 82 (5.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 62 (4.42%) Security Posture
4 61 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
5 60 (4.28%) Public Cloud
6 52 (3.71%) Product Ownership
7 44 (3.14%) Onboarding
8 41 (2.92%) Data Centre
9 36 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
10 33 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
11 31 (2.21%) Linux Command Line
12 26 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
13 23 (1.64%) Management Information System
14 22 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
15 19 (1.36%) Mobile App
16 18 (1.28%) Cloud Security Posture
16 18 (1.28%) Hedge funds
16 18 (1.28%) PKI
17 17 (1.21%) Blog
17 17 (1.21%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 314 (22.40%) Linux
2 160 (11.41%) Windows
3 82 (5.85%) Unix
4 59 (4.21%) Windows Server
5 35 (2.50%) VMS
6 29 (2.07%) Ubuntu
7 22 (1.57%) CentOS
7 22 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (1.07%) Android
9 14 (1.00%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.57%) Debian
11 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.29%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.29%) SUSE
13 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.071%) Rocky
14 1 (0.071%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.071%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 966 (68.90%) CI/CD
2 900 (64.19%) DevOps
3 415 (29.60%) Agile
4 385 (27.46%) Containerisation
5 350 (24.96%) Observability
6 321 (22.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 282 (20.11%) Mentoring
7 282 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
8 229 (16.33%) Platform Engineering
9 216 (15.41%) Software Engineering
10 215 (15.34%) AI
11 205 (14.62%) Test Automation
12 191 (13.62%) Cloud Security
13 190 (13.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 182 (12.98%) Analytics
15 176 (12.55%) Incident Response
15 176 (12.55%) Microservices
16 153 (10.91%) DevSecOps
17 144 (10.27%) High Availability
18 143 (10.20%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 640 (45.65%) Python
2 267 (19.04%) Bash
3 240 (17.12%) PowerShell
4 221 (15.76%) SQL
5 192 (13.69%) Java
6 144 (10.27%) Go
7 134 (9.56%) Bicep
8 127 (9.06%) JavaScript
9 106 (7.56%) TypeScript
10 86 (6.13%) C#
11 20 (1.43%) C++
12 19 (1.36%) Rust
13 17 (1.21%) Kusto Query Language
14 16 (1.14%) Scala
15 15 (1.07%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.71%) C
17 9 (0.64%) Apex Code
18 7 (0.50%) Google Apps Script
18 7 (0.50%) Ruby
19 5 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 278 (19.83%) Security Cleared
2 167 (11.91%) SC Cleared
3 117 (8.35%) Degree
4 116 (8.27%) AWS Certification
5 105 (7.49%) DV Cleared
6 81 (5.78%) Azure Certification
7 48 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 43 (3.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 34 (2.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 29 (2.07%) CISSP
11 28 (2.00%) OSCP
12 16 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
13 12 (0.86%) Master's Degree
14 11 (0.78%) CCSK
14 11 (0.78%) DBS Check
15 10 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 9 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
16 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 8 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
18 7 (0.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (5.06%) GDPR
2 69 (4.92%) QA
3 59 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 58 (4.14%) Data Quality
5 49 (3.50%) SOC 2
6 47 (3.35%) NIST
7 39 (2.78%) Accessibility
7 39 (2.78%) PCI DSS
8 17 (1.21%) SLA
9 14 (1.00%) WCAG
10 13 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.50%) GRC
11 7 (0.50%) NCSC
12 4 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.29%) EU AI Act
13 2 (0.14%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.14%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 459 (32.74%) Docker
2 91 (6.49%) Active Directory
3 73 (5.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (2.07%) Hyper-V
6 21 (1.50%) vSphere
7 15 (1.07%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.86%) Firmware
8 12 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (0.71%) KVM
10 9 (0.64%) vCloud
11 4 (0.29%) iptables
11 4 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.14%) GPFS
13 2 (0.14%) Lustre
13 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.071%) QEMU
14 1 (0.071%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 984 (70.19%) Terraform
2 543 (38.73%) Kubernetes
3 333 (23.75%) Ansible
4 211 (15.05%) Grafana
5 202 (14.41%) Prometheus
6 56 (3.99%) Argo
7 46 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 33 (2.35%) Puppet
9 28 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (1.36%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.21%) AWS Copilot
12 16 (1.14%) Rancher
13 15 (1.07%) Docker Swarm
14 14 (1.00%) Nagios
14 14 (1.00%) Progress Chef
15 13 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 11 (0.78%) SCCM
17 9 (0.64%) Istio
18 8 (0.57%) linkerd
18 8 (0.57%) Mesos
Vendors
1 253 (18.05%) Microsoft
2 130 (9.27%) Google
3 110 (7.85%) VMware
4 49 (3.50%) Databricks
5 45 (3.21%) Red Hat
5 45 (3.21%) Splunk
6 44 (3.14%) Cisco
7 36 (2.57%) Palo Alto
8 21 (1.50%) Zscaler
9 20 (1.43%) Salesforce
10 17 (1.21%) Black Duck
10 17 (1.21%) Coverity
10 17 (1.21%) Dynatrace
11 16 (1.14%) Juniper
12 14 (1.00%) Atlassian
13 13 (0.93%) Ab Initio
13 13 (0.93%) Foundry
13 13 (0.93%) OpenAI
14 12 (0.86%) CrowdStrike
14 12 (0.86%) Palantir