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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 154 164
Rank change year-on-year +77 +10 -65
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,081 1,013 1,692
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.13% 2.11% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.90% 2.32% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,410 685 1,293
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,250 £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 £90,897 £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 71,870 43,651 85,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.67% 90.86% 82.18%
Number of salaries quoted 49,673 24,244 60,243
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -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 7 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 7 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 +77 1,869 £77,500 - 840
UK excluding London +94 1,021 £70,000 - 669
London +35 886 £87,500 -2.78% 350
Work from Home +79 739 £70,079 -8.31% 676
North of England +73 362 £67,500 -3.57% 174
North West +75 219 £72,500 - 103
South East +48 219 £70,000 -9.68% 164
South West +33 167 £75,000 +3.45% 117
Midlands +37 127 £75,000 +15.38% 75
Yorkshire +12 92 £65,576 -6.32% 44
West Midlands +11 74 £80,000 +23.08% 41
East Midlands +12 53 £67,500 +3.85% 34
East of England +4 52 £60,100 -7.54% 38
North East -6 51 £55,000 -14.06% 29
Wales -17 40 £70,000 +24.44% 28
Scotland +6 37 £62,500 -16.39% 49
Northern Ireland -28 23 £84,401 +95.86% 34

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 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (2.11%) Apache
3 42 (2.02%) Apache Spark
4 38 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 26 (1.25%) Confluence
6 12 (0.58%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.48%) IIS
8 9 (0.43%) Jupyter
9 7 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.24%) CMS
11 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.14%) WordPress
13 2 (0.096%) Camunda
13 2 (0.096%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.048%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.048%) Documentum
14 1 (0.048%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.048%) nginx
14 1 (0.048%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 20 (0.96%) PlantUML
2 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.19%) Weka
4 2 (0.096%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.096%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.096%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.048%) Maya
5 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.096%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.096%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.048%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.048%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,199 (57.62%) AWS
2 1,121 (53.87%) Azure
3 392 (18.84%) GitHub
4 363 (17.44%) Serverless
5 361 (17.35%) GCP
6 330 (15.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 319 (15.33%) Azure DevOps
8 230 (11.05%) GitHub Actions
9 201 (9.66%) AWS Lambda
10 195 (9.37%) Amazon S3
11 184 (8.84%) PaaS
12 146 (7.02%) Amazon EKS
13 136 (6.54%) IaaS
14 132 (6.34%) Amazon EC2
15 130 (6.25%) SaaS
16 124 (5.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 121 (5.81%) Entra ID
18 114 (5.48%) Azure AKS
19 113 (5.43%) Microsoft 365
20 112 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 185 (8.89%) Firewall
2 112 (5.38%) DNS
3 110 (5.29%) VPN
4 89 (4.28%) Network Security
5 74 (3.56%) WAN
6 70 (3.36%) Broadband
6 70 (3.36%) TCP/IP
7 50 (2.40%) LAN
8 45 (2.16%) BGP
9 36 (1.73%) VLAN
10 33 (1.59%) DHCP
11 25 (1.20%) OSPF
12 24 (1.15%) HTTP
13 22 (1.06%) SD-WAN
14 21 (1.01%) Software-Defined Networking
15 20 (0.96%) VXLAN
16 15 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
17 14 (0.67%) DSL
18 11 (0.53%) SAN
19 10 (0.48%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (7.45%) PostgreSQL
2 144 (6.92%) NoSQL
3 97 (4.66%) Amazon RDS
4 89 (4.28%) MongoDB
5 71 (3.41%) DynamoDB
6 70 (3.36%) SQL Server
7 58 (2.79%) Relational Database
8 57 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
9 51 (2.45%) Data Lake
10 50 (2.40%) Metadata
11 43 (2.07%) MySQL
12 38 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
13 31 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
13 31 (1.49%) Redis
14 26 (1.25%) Delta Lake
15 25 (1.20%) BigQuery
16 23 (1.11%) Power BI
17 21 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
17 21 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
17 21 (1.01%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 284 (13.65%) GitLab
2 273 (13.12%) Git
3 253 (12.16%) Jenkins
4 44 (2.11%) CircleCI
5 43 (2.07%) JIRA
6 41 (1.97%) Cucumber
7 35 (1.68%) Bitbucket
8 25 (1.20%) TeamCity
9 22 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 17 (0.82%) SonarQube
11 16 (0.77%) Selenium
12 14 (0.67%) Jaeger
12 14 (0.67%) Subversion
13 13 (0.62%) Claude Code
14 11 (0.53%) MLflow
15 10 (0.48%) Maven
15 10 (0.48%) NUnit
16 9 (0.43%) JMeter
16 9 (0.43%) Vite
17 8 (0.38%) Cypress.io
General
1 530 (25.47%) Social Skills
2 449 (21.58%) Finance
3 171 (8.22%) Public Sector
4 146 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
5 113 (5.43%) Banking
6 102 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 86 (4.13%) Law
8 63 (3.03%) Retail
9 44 (2.11%) Games
10 41 (1.97%) Telecoms
11 32 (1.54%) Aerospace
12 31 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
13 30 (1.44%) Manufacturing
14 28 (1.35%) Legal
15 25 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
16 22 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
17 18 (0.86%) Advertising
18 17 (0.82%) Financial Institution
18 17 (0.82%) Marketing
19 10 (0.48%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 485 (23.31%) Senior
2 356 (17.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 294 (14.13%) Lead
4 278 (13.36%) Cloud Engineer
5 240 (11.53%) Architect
6 220 (10.57%) Platform Engineer
7 186 (8.94%) Azure Engineer
8 183 (8.79%) Developer
9 141 (6.78%) AWS Engineer
10 130 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 112 (5.38%) Software Engineer
12 100 (4.81%) Data Engineer
13 98 (4.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 89 (4.28%) Security Engineer
15 86 (4.13%) Principal Engineer
16 82 (3.94%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 80 (3.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 75 (3.60%) Senior DevOps
19 65 (3.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 62 (2.98%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (7.93%) React
2 147 (7.06%) Kafka
3 146 (7.02%) .NET
4 144 (6.92%) Node.js
5 138 (6.63%) REST
6 117 (5.62%) RESTful
7 112 (5.38%) Spring
8 111 (5.33%) Spring Boot
9 89 (4.28%) AWS CDK
10 83 (3.99%) YAML
11 75 (3.60%) Elastic Stack
12 69 (3.32%) ARM Templates
13 67 (3.22%) PySpark
14 59 (2.84%) RabbitMQ
15 53 (2.55%) OAuth
16 52 (2.50%) AngularJS
17 50 (2.40%) Next.js
18 42 (2.02%) JSON
19 39 (1.87%) FastAPI
19 39 (1.87%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 590 (28.35%) Cloud Native
2 201 (9.66%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 104 (5.00%) Public Cloud
5 85 (4.08%) Onboarding
6 77 (3.70%) Data Centre
7 73 (3.51%) Product Ownership
8 66 (3.17%) Security Posture
9 65 (3.12%) Enterprise Software
10 48 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
10 48 (2.31%) Video\Live Streaming
11 41 (1.97%) Enterprise Cloud
12 38 (1.83%) Low-Code
13 31 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
14 30 (1.44%) PKI
15 29 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
16 28 (1.35%) e-Learning
17 27 (1.30%) Management Information System
18 26 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
19 25 (1.20%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 369 (17.73%) Linux
2 200 (9.61%) Windows
3 89 (4.28%) Windows Server
4 51 (2.45%) CentOS
5 47 (2.26%) Ubuntu
6 44 (2.11%) Unix
7 36 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 31 (1.49%) VMS
9 12 (0.58%) Android
10 11 (0.53%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.38%) Debian
11 8 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.096%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.096%) Rocky
14 1 (0.048%) AIX
14 1 (0.048%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.048%) SUSE
14 1 (0.048%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,467 (70.49%) CI/CD
2 1,182 (56.80%) DevOps
3 595 (28.59%) Containerisation
4 586 (28.16%) Agile
5 572 (27.49%) Observability
6 471 (22.63%) Platform Engineering
7 456 (21.91%) Mentoring
8 448 (21.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 427 (20.52%) AI
10 390 (18.74%) Software Engineering
11 358 (17.20%) Test Automation
12 356 (17.11%) Microservices
13 336 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
14 314 (15.09%) Technical Leadership
15 298 (14.32%) Cloud Security
16 272 (13.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 253 (12.16%) Roadmaps
18 237 (11.39%) Analytics
19 225 (10.81%) DevSecOps
20 217 (10.43%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 933 (44.83%) Python
2 360 (17.30%) Bash
3 325 (15.62%) SQL
4 320 (15.38%) Java
5 319 (15.33%) PowerShell
6 205 (9.85%) Bicep
7 197 (9.47%) JavaScript
8 196 (9.42%) TypeScript
9 182 (8.75%) Go
10 158 (7.59%) C#
11 36 (1.73%) Ruby
12 32 (1.54%) PHP
13 30 (1.44%) Rust
14 28 (1.35%) C++
15 26 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
15 26 (1.25%) Scala
16 20 (0.96%) Groovy
17 16 (0.77%) Perl
18 11 (0.53%) Kotlin
19 10 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 460 (22.10%) Security Cleared
2 279 (13.41%) SC Cleared
3 173 (8.31%) Degree
4 154 (7.40%) AWS Certification
5 129 (6.20%) DV Cleared
6 119 (5.72%) Azure Certification
7 70 (3.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 67 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 54 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 42 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.25%) OSCP
12 25 (1.20%) CCNP
13 22 (1.06%) Master's Degree
14 21 (1.01%) CISSP
15 18 (0.86%) CCNA
16 15 (0.72%) DBS Check
17 14 (0.67%) RHCSA
18 13 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
19 12 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
20 11 (0.53%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (5.29%) QA
2 88 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 64 (3.08%) GDPR
4 52 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 45 (2.16%) SOC 2
6 38 (1.83%) NIST
7 36 (1.73%) PCI DSS
8 34 (1.63%) Accessibility
9 32 (1.54%) GRC
10 20 (0.96%) WCAG
11 16 (0.77%) NCSC
12 13 (0.62%) SLA
13 11 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.096%) IFRS
16 2 (0.096%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.096%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.096%) Solvency II
System Software
1 552 (26.53%) Docker
2 125 (6.01%) Active Directory
3 120 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (2.21%) vSphere
5 38 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (1.01%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.91%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.38%) 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 (0.096%) VMware ESXi
14 1 (0.048%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,441 (69.25%) Terraform
2 801 (38.49%) Kubernetes
3 437 (21.00%) Ansible
4 237 (11.39%) Grafana
5 208 (10.00%) Prometheus
6 72 (3.46%) Argo
7 50 (2.40%) Puppet
8 44 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
9 40 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
10 31 (1.49%) Progress Chef
11 28 (1.35%) Packer
12 23 (1.11%) Istio
13 22 (1.06%) Nagios
14 20 (0.96%) Kustomize
15 15 (0.72%) Rancher
15 15 (0.72%) vCenter Server
15 15 (0.72%) ZABBIX
16 14 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 12 (0.58%) Cilium
18 11 (0.53%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 407 (19.56%) Microsoft
2 155 (7.45%) VMware
3 105 (5.05%) Google
4 81 (3.89%) Databricks
5 79 (3.80%) Red Hat
6 72 (3.46%) Splunk
7 65 (3.12%) Cisco
8 49 (2.35%) Palo Alto
9 46 (2.21%) Oracle
10 34 (1.63%) OpenAI
11 32 (1.54%) Fortinet
12 26 (1.25%) Zscaler
13 24 (1.15%) Dynatrace
14 17 (0.82%) CrowdStrike
15 14 (0.67%) F5
15 14 (0.67%) Salesforce
16 12 (0.58%) ScienceLogic
16 12 (0.58%) ServiceNow
17 11 (0.53%) Foundry
17 11 (0.53%) SolarWinds