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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 157 150
Rank change year-on-year +82 -7 -53
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,394 1,019 1,445
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.20% 2.04% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.00% 2.30% 2.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,587 717 997
10th Percentile £49,376 £52,400 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,750 £61,250 £56,250
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 £104,250
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 79,759 44,399 67,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 88.84% 80.67%
Number of salaries quoted 55,200 25,247 42,330
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
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 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 26 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 26 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 +78 2,092 £77,500 - 1,259
UK excluding London +113 1,308 £70,000 - 745
London +29 917 £90,000 +5.88% 673
Work from Home +69 821 £72,500 -3.33% 652
North of England +88 451 £70,000 - 243
South East +55 251 £67,500 -12.90% 126
North West +92 248 £72,500 +3.57% 134
South West +47 226 £75,000 - 155
Midlands +37 147 £75,000 +15.38% 75
Yorkshire +10 105 £73,750 +5.36% 69
North East +18 98 £59,000 -18.62% 41
West Midlands +13 90 £84,387 +30.33% 39
Wales -3 69 £70,000 +16.67% 17
Northern Ireland -27 62 £71,991 +67.07% 27
East of England -2 58 £70,000 +7.69% 40
East Midlands +19 57 £67,500 +3.85% 36
Scotland +25 56 £72,246 +3.21% 68

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 58 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
1 58 (2.42%) Apache Spark
2 54 (2.26%) Apache
3 29 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 28 (1.17%) Confluence
5 13 (0.54%) Jupyter
6 10 (0.42%) IIS
7 9 (0.38%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.25%) CMS
9 5 (0.21%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.17%) Camunda
10 4 (0.17%) nginx
11 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.13%) WordPress
12 2 (0.084%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.042%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.042%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.042%) JBoss
13 1 (0.042%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 22 (0.92%) PlantUML
2 10 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.084%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.084%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.084%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.042%) Maya
6 1 (0.042%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.13%) Summit
4 2 (0.084%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,355 (56.60%) AWS
2 1,286 (53.72%) Azure
3 463 (19.34%) GCP
4 420 (17.54%) GitHub
5 385 (16.08%) AWS CloudFormation
6 374 (15.62%) Serverless
7 318 (13.28%) Azure DevOps
8 229 (9.57%) GitHub Actions
9 210 (8.77%) AWS Lambda
10 205 (8.56%) Amazon S3
11 179 (7.48%) PaaS
12 146 (6.10%) Amazon EC2
13 142 (5.93%) Amazon ECS
14 141 (5.89%) Amazon EKS
15 136 (5.68%) SaaS
16 132 (5.51%) Azure AKS
17 126 (5.26%) IaaS
17 126 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
18 124 (5.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 114 (4.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 176 (7.35%) Firewall
2 122 (5.10%) DNS
3 116 (4.85%) WAN
4 114 (4.76%) VPN
5 113 (4.72%) Network Security
6 96 (4.01%) LAN
7 73 (3.05%) TCP/IP
8 54 (2.26%) BGP
9 49 (2.05%) Broadband
10 46 (1.92%) DHCP
11 38 (1.59%) OSPF
12 32 (1.34%) VLAN
13 28 (1.17%) VXLAN
14 26 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
15 25 (1.04%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.67%) Wireless
17 15 (0.63%) HTTP
18 14 (0.58%) Ethernet VPN
18 14 (0.58%) SAN
19 10 (0.42%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (7.39%) PostgreSQL
2 152 (6.35%) NoSQL
3 105 (4.39%) Amazon RDS
4 102 (4.26%) MongoDB
5 84 (3.51%) SQL Server
6 79 (3.30%) DynamoDB
7 67 (2.80%) MySQL
8 66 (2.76%) Data Lake
9 58 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
10 54 (2.26%) Relational Database
11 51 (2.13%) Metadata
12 46 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
13 35 (1.46%) Redis
14 33 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
15 32 (1.34%) Delta Lake
16 29 (1.21%) Big Data
17 28 (1.17%) BigQuery
18 25 (1.04%) Power BI
19 24 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
20 22 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 318 (13.28%) Git
2 285 (11.90%) GitLab
3 253 (10.57%) Jenkins
4 54 (2.26%) JIRA
5 48 (2.01%) Cucumber
6 33 (1.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 29 (1.21%) Bitbucket
8 28 (1.17%) CircleCI
9 26 (1.09%) TeamCity
10 22 (0.92%) Selenium
11 19 (0.79%) Claude Code
12 18 (0.75%) SonarQube
13 15 (0.63%) Cypress.io
13 15 (0.63%) NUnit
14 12 (0.50%) MLflow
15 11 (0.46%) Maven
15 11 (0.46%) Subversion
16 10 (0.42%) Snyk
17 9 (0.38%) JMeter
17 9 (0.38%) MSI
General
1 660 (27.57%) Social Skills
2 554 (23.14%) Finance
3 227 (9.48%) Public Sector
4 184 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 147 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 135 (5.64%) Banking
7 119 (4.97%) Law
8 74 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
9 64 (2.67%) Retail
10 50 (2.09%) Aerospace
11 47 (1.96%) Games
12 43 (1.80%) Marketing
13 40 (1.67%) Legal
14 33 (1.38%) Manufacturing
15 27 (1.13%) Telecoms
16 21 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (0.75%) Aviation
18 17 (0.71%) Financial Institution
18 17 (0.71%) Local Government
19 16 (0.67%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 555 (23.18%) Senior
2 405 (16.92%) DevOps Engineer
3 342 (14.29%) Lead
4 327 (13.66%) Architect
5 283 (11.82%) Cloud Engineer
6 243 (10.15%) Platform Engineer
7 206 (8.60%) Developer
8 187 (7.81%) Azure Engineer
9 151 (6.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 147 (6.14%) Software Engineer
11 137 (5.72%) AWS Engineer
12 123 (5.14%) Data Engineer
13 120 (5.01%) Principal Engineer
14 112 (4.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 93 (3.88%) Security Engineer
16 90 (3.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 78 (3.26%) Senior DevOps
18 74 (3.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 74 (3.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 73 (3.05%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,612 (67.34%) Terraform
2 193 (8.06%) React
3 188 (7.85%) Kafka
4 183 (7.64%) .NET
5 155 (6.47%) Node.js
5 155 (6.47%) REST
6 150 (6.27%) Spring
7 148 (6.18%) Spring Boot
8 144 (6.02%) RESTful
9 92 (3.84%) AWS CDK
10 78 (3.26%) PySpark
11 72 (3.01%) YAML
12 67 (2.80%) ARM Templates
13 63 (2.63%) AngularJS
14 59 (2.46%) RabbitMQ
15 57 (2.38%) Next.js
16 50 (2.09%) OAuth
17 49 (2.05%) Elastic Stack
18 44 (1.84%) ASP.NET
19 41 (1.71%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 714 (29.82%) Cloud Native
2 262 (10.94%) Distributed Systems
3 127 (5.30%) Hybrid Cloud
4 124 (5.18%) Public Cloud
5 121 (5.05%) Onboarding
6 92 (3.84%) Data Centre
7 87 (3.63%) Product Ownership
8 68 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
9 67 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
10 63 (2.63%) Security Posture
11 56 (2.34%) Enterprise Cloud
12 47 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
13 42 (1.75%) Virtual Team
14 41 (1.71%) Video\Live Streaming
15 40 (1.67%) Private Cloud
16 38 (1.59%) Management Information System
17 37 (1.55%) e-Learning
18 36 (1.50%) Low-Code
19 35 (1.46%) PKI
20 34 (1.42%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 391 (16.33%) Linux
2 223 (9.31%) Windows
3 99 (4.14%) Windows Server
4 59 (2.46%) CentOS
5 40 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (1.63%) Ubuntu
7 38 (1.59%) Unix
8 22 (0.92%) VMS
9 5 (0.21%) Android
9 5 (0.21%) Debian
9 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.17%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.13%) AIX
12 2 (0.084%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.084%) Solaris
13 1 (0.042%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.042%) Rocky
13 1 (0.042%) SUSE
13 1 (0.042%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,679 (70.13%) CI/CD
2 1,305 (54.51%) DevOps
3 712 (29.74%) Containerisation
4 667 (27.86%) Agile
5 666 (27.82%) Observability
6 566 (23.64%) Platform Engineering
7 531 (22.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 520 (21.72%) Mentoring
9 515 (21.51%) AI
10 508 (21.22%) Software Engineering
11 423 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
12 416 (17.38%) Microservices
13 403 (16.83%) Technical Leadership
14 391 (16.33%) Test Automation
15 356 (14.87%) Cloud Security
16 344 (14.37%) Roadmaps
17 331 (13.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 267 (11.15%) Event-Driven
18 267 (11.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 266 (11.11%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,034 (43.19%) Python
2 378 (15.79%) Java
3 367 (15.33%) SQL
4 366 (15.29%) Bash
5 340 (14.20%) PowerShell
6 231 (9.65%) Bicep
7 221 (9.23%) TypeScript
8 194 (8.10%) JavaScript
9 183 (7.64%) C#
10 160 (6.68%) Go
11 47 (1.96%) Ruby
12 41 (1.71%) Scala
13 36 (1.50%) PHP
14 26 (1.09%) Rust
15 25 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
16 24 (1.00%) Groovy
17 21 (0.88%) C++
17 21 (0.88%) Perl
18 16 (0.67%) Shell Script
19 11 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 573 (23.93%) Security Cleared
2 360 (15.04%) SC Cleared
3 200 (8.35%) Degree
4 197 (8.23%) AWS Certification
5 190 (7.94%) DV Cleared
6 152 (6.35%) Azure Certification
7 90 (3.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 89 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 62 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 53 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
11 36 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
12 35 (1.46%) CCNP
13 30 (1.25%) Master's Degree
14 24 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
15 20 (0.84%) CISSP
16 19 (0.79%) CCNA
17 17 (0.71%) OSCP
18 16 (0.67%) SnowPro
19 14 (0.58%) CCIE
19 14 (0.58%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (5.43%) QA
2 107 (4.47%) Data Quality
3 73 (3.05%) GRC
4 72 (3.01%) GDPR
5 59 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 49 (2.05%) Accessibility
7 35 (1.46%) NIST
8 33 (1.38%) SOC 2
9 28 (1.17%) NCSC
10 25 (1.04%) WCAG
11 24 (1.00%) PCI DSS
12 22 (0.92%) SLA
13 10 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.29%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
18 2 (0.084%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 2 (0.084%) IFRS
18 2 (0.084%) Solvency II
System Software
1 621 (25.94%) Docker
2 135 (5.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 133 (5.56%) Active Directory
4 44 (1.84%) vSphere
5 37 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (1.09%) Hyper-V
7 24 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (0.75%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.38%) KVM
11 8 (0.33%) Squid
12 7 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
13 6 (0.25%) Firmware
14 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.17%) iptables
16 3 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 2 (0.084%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 880 (36.76%) Kubernetes
2 487 (20.34%) Ansible
3 239 (9.98%) Grafana
4 168 (7.02%) Prometheus
5 69 (2.88%) Argo
6 59 (2.46%) Puppet
7 40 (1.67%) Progress Chef
8 34 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
9 33 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 30 (1.25%) Istio
11 27 (1.13%) Packer
12 20 (0.84%) Nagios
13 19 (0.79%) FortiGate
14 17 (0.71%) vCenter Server
15 14 (0.58%) Cilium
16 12 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 12 (0.50%) Kustomize
16 12 (0.50%) ZABBIX
17 11 (0.46%) Rancher
18 10 (0.42%) linkerd
Vendors
1 539 (22.51%) Microsoft
2 162 (6.77%) VMware
3 144 (6.02%) Google
4 106 (4.43%) Databricks
5 86 (3.59%) Splunk
6 83 (3.47%) Red Hat
7 72 (3.01%) Cisco
8 68 (2.84%) Oracle
9 45 (1.88%) Palo Alto
10 43 (1.80%) OpenAI
11 39 (1.63%) Dynatrace
11 39 (1.63%) Fortinet
12 25 (1.04%) Zscaler
13 23 (0.96%) ServiceNow
14 17 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
15 16 (0.67%) SAP
16 15 (0.63%) Atlassian
17 14 (0.58%) Okta
18 13 (0.54%) Rapid7
19 12 (0.50%) F5