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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 157 168
Rank change year-on-year +79 +11 -65
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,054 1,008 1,694
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.12% 2.12% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 2.33% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,395 682 1,300
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,750 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,313 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +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 71,201 43,352 86,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 91.03% 82.05%
Number of salaries quoted 49,187 23,974 60,816
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,738 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.48% - -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 4 July 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 4 July 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 1,853 £77,500 -1.66% 814
UK excluding London +96 1,002 £70,000 - 540
London +32 879 £87,500 -2.78% 397
Work from Home +81 730 £70,079 -9.58% 437
North of England +81 357 £67,500 -3.57% 137
South East +51 220 £70,000 -9.68% 168
North West +71 216 £72,500 - 81
South West +30 164 £75,000 +3.45% 106
Midlands +37 125 £75,000 +15.38% 59
Yorkshire +10 91 £65,576 -6.32% 36
West Midlands +8 72 £80,000 +23.08% 40
East Midlands +16 53 £67,500 +3.85% 19
East of England +4 52 £60,100 -7.54% 16
North East -3 50 £55,000 -14.06% 22
Scotland +15 37 £62,500 -16.67% 31
Wales -16 37 £70,039 +24.51% 11
Northern Ireland -33 16 £84,401 +95.86% 20

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 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (2.14%) Apache
3 42 (2.04%) Apache Spark
4 38 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 26 (1.27%) Confluence
6 12 (0.58%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.49%) IIS
8 9 (0.44%) Jupyter
9 7 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.24%) CMS
11 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.15%) WordPress
13 2 (0.097%) Camunda
13 2 (0.097%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.049%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.049%) Documentum
14 1 (0.049%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.049%) nginx
14 1 (0.049%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 19 (0.93%) PlantUML
2 9 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.19%) Weka
4 2 (0.097%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.097%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.097%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.049%) Maya
5 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.097%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.097%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.049%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.049%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,187 (57.79%) AWS
2 1,106 (53.85%) Azure
3 389 (18.94%) GitHub
4 359 (17.48%) Serverless
5 357 (17.38%) GCP
6 325 (15.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 319 (15.53%) Azure DevOps
8 230 (11.20%) GitHub Actions
9 198 (9.64%) AWS Lambda
10 194 (9.44%) Amazon S3
11 184 (8.96%) PaaS
12 143 (6.96%) Amazon EKS
13 137 (6.67%) IaaS
14 130 (6.33%) Amazon EC2
15 129 (6.28%) SaaS
16 124 (6.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 122 (5.94%) Entra ID
18 116 (5.65%) Azure AKS
19 109 (5.31%) Amazon ECS
20 106 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 187 (9.10%) Firewall
2 111 (5.40%) DNS
3 110 (5.36%) VPN
4 87 (4.24%) Network Security
5 70 (3.41%) Broadband
5 70 (3.41%) TCP/IP
6 66 (3.21%) WAN
7 44 (2.14%) BGP
8 43 (2.09%) LAN
9 36 (1.75%) VLAN
10 33 (1.61%) DHCP
11 25 (1.22%) OSPF
12 24 (1.17%) HTTP
13 21 (1.02%) SD-WAN
13 21 (1.02%) Software-Defined Networking
14 20 (0.97%) VXLAN
15 15 (0.73%) Cisco ASA
16 14 (0.68%) DSL
17 11 (0.54%) SAN
18 10 (0.49%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
2 141 (6.86%) NoSQL
3 96 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
4 90 (4.38%) MongoDB
5 71 (3.46%) DynamoDB
6 70 (3.41%) SQL Server
7 58 (2.82%) Relational Database
8 57 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 50 (2.43%) Data Lake
9 50 (2.43%) Metadata
10 42 (2.04%) MySQL
11 38 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
12 31 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
12 31 (1.51%) Redis
13 26 (1.27%) BigQuery
13 26 (1.27%) Delta Lake
14 23 (1.12%) Power BI
15 21 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
15 21 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
15 21 (1.02%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 278 (13.53%) GitLab
2 270 (13.15%) Git
3 251 (12.22%) Jenkins
4 44 (2.14%) CircleCI
5 42 (2.04%) JIRA
6 39 (1.90%) Cucumber
7 35 (1.70%) Bitbucket
8 25 (1.22%) TeamCity
9 18 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 17 (0.83%) SonarQube
11 16 (0.78%) Selenium
12 14 (0.68%) Jaeger
12 14 (0.68%) Subversion
13 13 (0.63%) Claude Code
14 11 (0.54%) MLflow
15 10 (0.49%) Maven
15 10 (0.49%) NUnit
16 9 (0.44%) JMeter
16 9 (0.44%) Vite
17 8 (0.39%) Cypress.io
General
1 516 (25.12%) Social Skills
2 436 (21.23%) Finance
3 164 (7.98%) Public Sector
4 146 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
5 112 (5.45%) Banking
6 101 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 79 (3.85%) Law
8 62 (3.02%) Retail
9 44 (2.14%) Games
10 41 (2.00%) Telecoms
11 32 (1.56%) Aerospace
12 30 (1.46%) Manufacturing
13 28 (1.36%) Legal
14 24 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
14 24 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
15 22 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
16 17 (0.83%) Advertising
17 16 (0.78%) Financial Institution
17 16 (0.78%) Marketing
18 11 (0.54%) Billing
Job Titles
1 478 (23.27%) Senior
2 347 (16.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 291 (14.17%) Lead
4 277 (13.49%) Cloud Engineer
5 231 (11.25%) Architect
6 219 (10.66%) Platform Engineer
7 187 (9.10%) Azure Engineer
8 182 (8.86%) Developer
9 140 (6.82%) AWS Engineer
10 129 (6.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 110 (5.36%) Software Engineer
12 100 (4.87%) Data Engineer
13 98 (4.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 89 (4.33%) Security Engineer
15 81 (3.94%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 80 (3.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 79 (3.85%) Principal Engineer
18 73 (3.55%) Senior DevOps
19 63 (3.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 61 (2.97%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (7.98%) React
2 146 (7.11%) .NET
3 145 (7.06%) Kafka
4 142 (6.91%) Node.js
5 138 (6.72%) REST
6 117 (5.70%) RESTful
7 104 (5.06%) Spring
8 103 (5.01%) Spring Boot
9 87 (4.24%) AWS CDK
10 83 (4.04%) YAML
11 75 (3.65%) Elastic Stack
12 69 (3.36%) ARM Templates
13 67 (3.26%) PySpark
14 59 (2.87%) RabbitMQ
15 53 (2.58%) OAuth
16 51 (2.48%) AngularJS
17 50 (2.43%) Next.js
18 42 (2.04%) JSON
19 39 (1.90%) FastAPI
19 39 (1.90%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 580 (28.24%) Cloud Native
2 198 (9.64%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 102 (4.97%) Public Cloud
5 81 (3.94%) Onboarding
6 76 (3.70%) Data Centre
7 73 (3.55%) Product Ownership
8 66 (3.21%) Security Posture
9 63 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
10 48 (2.34%) Video\Live Streaming
11 47 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
12 38 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
12 38 (1.85%) Low-Code
13 31 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
14 30 (1.46%) PKI
15 29 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
16 27 (1.31%) Management Information System
17 26 (1.27%) e-Learning
17 26 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
18 25 (1.22%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 366 (17.82%) Linux
2 199 (9.69%) Windows
3 89 (4.33%) Windows Server
4 47 (2.29%) CentOS
4 47 (2.29%) Ubuntu
5 44 (2.14%) Unix
6 32 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 31 (1.51%) VMS
8 12 (0.58%) Android
9 11 (0.54%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.39%) Debian
10 8 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.097%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.097%) Rocky
13 1 (0.049%) AIX
13 1 (0.049%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.049%) SUSE
13 1 (0.049%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,451 (70.64%) CI/CD
2 1,171 (57.01%) DevOps
3 582 (28.33%) Agile
4 580 (28.24%) Containerisation
5 568 (27.65%) Observability
6 467 (22.74%) Platform Engineering
7 449 (21.86%) Mentoring
8 443 (21.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 424 (20.64%) AI
10 385 (18.74%) Software Engineering
11 355 (17.28%) Test Automation
12 347 (16.89%) Microservices
13 336 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
14 307 (14.95%) Technical Leadership
15 296 (14.41%) Cloud Security
16 268 (13.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 245 (11.93%) Roadmaps
18 236 (11.49%) Analytics
19 225 (10.95%) DevSecOps
20 213 (10.37%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 924 (44.99%) Python
2 357 (17.38%) Bash
3 322 (15.68%) SQL
4 318 (15.48%) PowerShell
5 310 (15.09%) Java
6 203 (9.88%) Bicep
7 196 (9.54%) TypeScript
8 195 (9.49%) JavaScript
9 182 (8.86%) Go
10 157 (7.64%) C#
11 34 (1.66%) Ruby
12 30 (1.46%) Rust
13 29 (1.41%) PHP
14 28 (1.36%) C++
15 26 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
15 26 (1.27%) Scala
16 20 (0.97%) Groovy
17 14 (0.68%) Perl
18 11 (0.54%) Kotlin
19 10 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 448 (21.81%) Security Cleared
2 275 (13.39%) SC Cleared
3 173 (8.42%) Degree
4 150 (7.30%) AWS Certification
5 120 (5.84%) DV Cleared
6 118 (5.74%) Azure Certification
7 67 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 66 (3.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 54 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 41 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.27%) OSCP
12 25 (1.22%) CCNP
13 22 (1.07%) Master's Degree
14 21 (1.02%) CISSP
15 18 (0.88%) CCNA
16 15 (0.73%) DBS Check
17 14 (0.68%) RHCSA
18 13 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
19 12 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
20 10 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (5.36%) QA
2 88 (4.28%) Data Quality
3 64 (3.12%) GDPR
4 52 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 45 (2.19%) SOC 2
6 38 (1.85%) NIST
7 35 (1.70%) PCI DSS
8 34 (1.66%) Accessibility
9 25 (1.22%) GRC
10 20 (0.97%) WCAG
11 16 (0.78%) NCSC
12 13 (0.63%) SLA
13 11 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.097%) IFRS
16 2 (0.097%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.097%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.097%) Solvency II
System Software
1 539 (26.24%) Docker
2 125 (6.09%) Active Directory
3 119 (5.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (2.24%) vSphere
5 38 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (1.02%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.93%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.39%) Squid
11 7 (0.34%) Firmware
11 7 (0.34%) iptables
12 6 (0.29%) KVM
12 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.097%) VMware ESXi
14 1 (0.049%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,423 (69.28%) Terraform
2 789 (38.41%) Kubernetes
3 426 (20.74%) Ansible
4 236 (11.49%) Grafana
5 207 (10.08%) Prometheus
6 71 (3.46%) Argo
7 50 (2.43%) Puppet
8 44 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
9 40 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
10 31 (1.51%) Progress Chef
11 28 (1.36%) Packer
12 22 (1.07%) Istio
12 22 (1.07%) Nagios
13 19 (0.93%) Kustomize
14 15 (0.73%) Rancher
14 15 (0.73%) vCenter Server
14 15 (0.73%) ZABBIX
15 14 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 12 (0.58%) Cilium
17 11 (0.54%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 398 (19.38%) Microsoft
2 154 (7.50%) VMware
3 102 (4.97%) Google
4 80 (3.89%) Databricks
5 79 (3.85%) Red Hat
6 71 (3.46%) Splunk
7 63 (3.07%) Cisco
8 49 (2.39%) Palo Alto
9 46 (2.24%) Oracle
10 33 (1.61%) OpenAI
11 32 (1.56%) Fortinet
12 25 (1.22%) Zscaler
13 24 (1.17%) Dynatrace
14 17 (0.83%) CrowdStrike
15 14 (0.68%) Salesforce
16 13 (0.63%) F5
17 12 (0.58%) ScienceLogic
17 12 (0.58%) ServiceNow
18 11 (0.54%) Foundry
18 11 (0.54%) Rapid7