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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 126 82
Rank change year-on-year +3 -44 +17
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,127 1,370 1,777
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.08% 2.14% 3.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% 2.50% 3.75%
Number of salaries quoted 809 841 1,423
10th Percentile £47,617 £42,500 £50,394
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,991 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% -4.01% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £103,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,958 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.09% -3.70% +3.85%

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 45,523 54,873 47,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.89% 85.86% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 27,788 28,510 36,562
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,905 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -0.94%

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 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 0 961 £73,801 +2.51% 632
UK excluding London +8 572 £68,958 +6.09% 568
Work from Home +17 473 £73,801 +5.43% 370
London +8 437 £85,000 -5.56% 257
North of England +1 190 £70,000 +16.67% 125
South East +20 121 £78,000 +20.00% 231
North West +17 84 £66,500 +2.31% 70
Yorkshire -7 81 £70,000 +27.27% 40
Midlands +32 72 £65,000 +0.17% 55
Scotland +13 70 £70,079 +3.82% 26
South West -45 62 £62,500 -10.71% 79
West Midlands +24 46 £65,500 -1.87% 26
East of England +29 30 £66,500 -8.28% 33
North East +1 25 £70,079 +40.16% 15
East Midlands +29 24 £65,000 +54.76% 25
Wales +17 21 £60,000 - 20
Northern Ireland -2 8 £73,801 -13.18% 7

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 45 (3.99%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 33 (2.93%) Apache
4 24 (2.13%) SharePoint
5 22 (1.95%) Apache Spark
6 19 (1.69%) Confluence
7 9 (0.80%) nginx
8 6 (0.53%) Appian
9 5 (0.44%) IIS
10 4 (0.35%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.18%) Traefik
12 1 (0.089%) CMS
12 1 (0.089%) SAS
12 1 (0.089%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.089%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.089%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.18%) Sketch
3 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.089%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.089%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.089%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 723 (64.15%) Azure
2 669 (59.36%) AWS
3 256 (22.72%) Azure DevOps
4 242 (21.47%) GitHub
5 240 (21.30%) GCP
6 183 (16.24%) AWS CloudFormation
7 170 (15.08%) Serverless
8 154 (13.66%) GitHub Actions
9 111 (9.85%) AWS Lambda
10 109 (9.67%) SaaS
11 103 (9.14%) PaaS
12 100 (8.87%) Amazon S3
13 94 (8.34%) Microsoft 365
14 89 (7.90%) Entra ID
15 80 (7.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 78 (6.92%) Azure Monitor
17 71 (6.30%) Amazon ECS
18 69 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
19 67 (5.94%) Amazon EC2
20 66 (5.86%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 125 (11.09%) Firewall
2 82 (7.28%) DNS
3 70 (6.21%) VPN
4 54 (4.79%) TCP/IP
4 54 (4.79%) WAN
5 43 (3.82%) Network Security
6 39 (3.46%) LAN
7 32 (2.84%) DHCP
8 27 (2.40%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (1.42%) SD-WAN
10 13 (1.15%) BGP
10 13 (1.15%) VLAN
11 12 (1.06%) VoIP
12 11 (0.98%) Internet
12 11 (0.98%) Wireless
13 10 (0.89%) SAN
14 7 (0.62%) OSPF
14 7 (0.62%) Unified Communications
14 7 (0.62%) Wireshark
15 6 (0.53%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (5.32%) Amazon RDS
2 59 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
3 48 (4.26%) NoSQL
4 47 (4.17%) SQL Server
5 41 (3.64%) DynamoDB
6 36 (3.19%) Data Lake
7 30 (2.66%) Redis
8 29 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
9 25 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
10 22 (1.95%) BigQuery
10 22 (1.95%) MySQL
11 21 (1.86%) MongoDB
12 20 (1.77%) Big Data
13 16 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (1.33%) Power BI
15 14 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
15 14 (1.24%) Relational Database
16 12 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
17 9 (0.80%) Apache Iceberg
18 8 (0.71%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 175 (15.53%) Jenkins
2 146 (12.95%) Git
3 121 (10.74%) GitLab
4 40 (3.55%) JIRA
5 27 (2.40%) Selenium
6 22 (1.95%) Robot Framework
7 19 (1.69%) TeamCity
8 18 (1.60%) Snyk
9 17 (1.51%) SonarQube
10 16 (1.42%) Cucumber
11 15 (1.33%) Bitbucket
11 15 (1.33%) MLflow
12 14 (1.24%) CircleCI
13 13 (1.15%) JMeter
14 12 (1.06%) Artifactory
15 9 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
16 8 (0.71%) Locust
17 7 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 7 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
18 6 (0.53%) git-flow
General
1 300 (26.62%) Social Skills
2 290 (25.73%) Finance
3 99 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (7.45%) Law
5 72 (6.39%) Banking
6 61 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 51 (4.53%) Public Sector
8 48 (4.26%) Retail
9 34 (3.02%) Telecoms
10 28 (2.48%) Legal
10 28 (2.48%) Marketing
11 27 (2.40%) Financial Institution
12 24 (2.13%) Games
13 17 (1.51%) Advertising
14 14 (1.24%) Back Office
14 14 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
14 14 (1.24%) Manufacturing
15 11 (0.98%) Billing
15 11 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (0.80%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 248 (22.01%) Senior
2 173 (15.35%) DevOps Engineer
3 155 (13.75%) Cloud Engineer
4 127 (11.27%) Lead
5 116 (10.29%) Architect
6 100 (8.87%) Platform Engineer
7 99 (8.78%) Developer
8 96 (8.52%) Azure Engineer
9 66 (5.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 50 (4.44%) Software Engineer
11 46 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
12 40 (3.55%) Data Engineer
13 38 (3.37%) Cloud Architect
14 37 (3.28%) Senior DevOps
15 35 (3.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 35 (3.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 34 (3.02%) Support Engineer
17 32 (2.84%) Security Engineer
18 31 (2.75%) Lead DevOps
19 29 (2.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (8.25%) .NET
2 91 (8.07%) React
3 56 (4.97%) RESTful
4 53 (4.70%) Kafka
5 51 (4.53%) Elastic Stack
5 51 (4.53%) Node.js
6 47 (4.17%) YAML
7 46 (4.08%) ARM Templates
7 46 (4.08%) Django
8 36 (3.19%) OAuth
9 33 (2.93%) Spring
10 31 (2.75%) REST
11 29 (2.57%) .NET Core
11 29 (2.57%) Spring Boot
12 28 (2.48%) FastAPI
13 26 (2.31%) CSS
14 25 (2.22%) Flask
14 25 (2.22%) HTML
15 23 (2.04%) AWS CDK
16 22 (1.95%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 258 (22.89%) Cloud Native
2 81 (7.19%) Public Cloud
3 70 (6.21%) Hybrid Cloud
4 55 (4.88%) Data Centre
5 49 (4.35%) Product Ownership
6 43 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
7 39 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
8 35 (3.11%) Security Posture
9 31 (2.75%) Onboarding
10 28 (2.48%) Management Information System
11 25 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
12 20 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (1.77%) PKI
13 19 (1.69%) Private Cloud
14 17 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
14 17 (1.51%) Data Structures
15 16 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
16 14 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
16 14 (1.24%) Low-Code
17 13 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 245 (21.74%) Linux
2 147 (13.04%) Windows
3 50 (4.44%) Windows Server
4 47 (4.17%) Unix
5 28 (2.48%) VMS
6 23 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 22 (1.95%) Ubuntu
8 14 (1.24%) Debian
9 7 (0.62%) CentOS
9 7 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.35%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.27%) AIX
11 3 (0.27%) Android
11 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.27%) Solaris
11 3 (0.27%) SUSE
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.089%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 763 (67.70%) CI/CD
2 754 (66.90%) DevOps
3 363 (32.21%) Agile
4 284 (25.20%) Containerisation
5 246 (21.83%) Problem-Solving
6 245 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 204 (18.10%) Observability
8 194 (17.21%) Mentoring
9 162 (14.37%) Platform Engineering
10 161 (14.29%) Software Engineering
11 159 (14.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 157 (13.93%) AI
13 145 (12.87%) Cloud Security
14 132 (11.71%) Analytics
15 128 (11.36%) Test Automation
16 124 (11.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 120 (10.65%) Roadmaps
18 117 (10.38%) Microservices
19 108 (9.58%) Incident Response
20 105 (9.32%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 497 (44.10%) Python
2 241 (21.38%) PowerShell
3 210 (18.63%) Bash
4 175 (15.53%) SQL
5 140 (12.42%) Bicep
6 103 (9.14%) Java
7 88 (7.81%) C#
8 82 (7.28%) JavaScript
9 76 (6.74%) Go
10 72 (6.39%) TypeScript
11 18 (1.60%) Shell Script
12 12 (1.06%) C++
13 11 (0.98%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.44%) Ruby
15 5 (0.44%) Scala
15 5 (0.44%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.35%) Apex Code
17 3 (0.27%) Google Apps Script
17 3 (0.27%) Perl
Qualifications
1 206 (18.28%) Security Cleared
2 139 (12.33%) SC Cleared
3 102 (9.05%) AWS Certification
3 102 (9.05%) Azure Certification
4 82 (7.28%) Degree
5 76 (6.74%) DV Cleared
6 41 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
7 38 (3.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 38 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
9 23 (2.04%) CCNP
10 22 (1.95%) Master's Degree
11 20 (1.77%) CISSP
12 11 (0.98%) OSCP
13 10 (0.89%) AWS Certified Developer
14 9 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.62%) CCNA
15 7 (0.62%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.62%) PMP
16 6 (0.53%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (5.41%) GDPR
2 60 (5.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (3.99%) NIST
3 45 (3.99%) QA
4 25 (2.22%) SOC 2
5 23 (2.04%) PCI DSS
6 22 (1.95%) Data Quality
7 21 (1.86%) Accessibility
8 12 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
8 12 (1.06%) SLA
9 10 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.71%) WCAG
11 6 (0.53%) GRC
12 5 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.44%) NCSC
13 4 (0.35%) EU AI Act
14 2 (0.18%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.18%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 367 (32.56%) Docker
2 73 (6.48%) Active Directory
3 72 (6.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (2.48%) Hyper-V
6 27 (2.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (1.69%) vSphere
8 13 (1.15%) NFS
8 13 (1.15%) vCloud
9 11 (0.98%) Firmware
10 8 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (0.62%) KVM
12 6 (0.53%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.44%) XenApp
13 5 (0.44%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.27%) zsh
15 2 (0.18%) GPFS
15 2 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 2 (0.18%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 792 (70.28%) Terraform
2 448 (39.75%) Kubernetes
3 280 (24.84%) Ansible
4 143 (12.69%) Grafana
5 121 (10.74%) Prometheus
6 48 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 26 (2.31%) Argo
8 20 (1.77%) SCCM
9 19 (1.69%) Puppet
10 15 (1.33%) Docker Swarm
11 12 (1.06%) AWS Copilot
12 11 (0.98%) Rancher
12 11 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
13 10 (0.89%) Progress Chef
14 9 (0.80%) SCOM
15 5 (0.44%) MaaS360
15 5 (0.44%) ZABBIX
16 4 (0.35%) Cilium
16 4 (0.35%) Kubeflow
16 4 (0.35%) vRealize
Vendors
1 253 (22.45%) Microsoft
2 102 (9.05%) VMware
3 80 (7.10%) Google
4 49 (4.35%) Cisco
5 41 (3.64%) Splunk
6 40 (3.55%) Databricks
7 38 (3.37%) Red Hat
8 23 (2.04%) Palo Alto
9 18 (1.60%) Black Duck
9 18 (1.60%) Oracle
10 17 (1.51%) Coverity
11 15 (1.33%) SolarWinds
12 12 (1.06%) Commvault
12 12 (1.06%) Salesforce
13 11 (0.98%) Ab Initio
14 10 (0.89%) Juniper
14 10 (0.89%) New Relic
15 9 (0.80%) CrowdStrike
15 9 (0.80%) SAP
15 9 (0.80%) Zscaler