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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 158 125
Rank change year-on-year +82 -33 -33
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,398 996 1,547
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.11% 2.03% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.89% 2.29% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,565 698 983
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £45,650
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,239 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.34% +7.69% -4.41%

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 82,954 43,576 62,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.83% 88.69% 80.93%
Number of salaries quoted 57,665 24,452 36,140
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +74 2,089 £77,500 - 3,104
UK excluding London +114 1,308 £70,239 +0.34% 1,618
London +28 907 £90,000 +2.86% 1,777
Work from Home +57 788 £75,000 -1.64% 1,393
North of England +93 458 £70,239 +0.34% 490
North West +91 254 £72,500 +11.54% 274
South East +57 243 £67,500 -18.18% 295
South West +37 235 £75,000 - 235
Midlands +26 145 £77,500 +19.23% 177
Yorkshire -3 104 £73,750 +5.36% 140
North East +19 100 £59,000 -18.62% 75
West Midlands +6 88 £85,000 +31.78% 105
Wales -12 71 £70,000 +21.74% 40
Northern Ireland -23 62 £71,991 +67.07% 81
East Midlands +10 57 £67,500 +3.85% 72
East of England -6 56 £65,000 - 116
Scotland +12 50 £72,500 +3.57% 192

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
2 57 (2.38%) Apache Spark
3 55 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (1.21%) Confluence
6 13 (0.54%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.42%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.38%) IIS
9 7 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.25%) CMS
11 4 (0.17%) nginx
12 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.13%) Camunda
12 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.13%) WordPress
13 2 (0.083%) Cloud Foundry
14 1 (0.042%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.042%) JBoss
14 1 (0.042%) NServiceBus
14 1 (0.042%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (0.88%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.083%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.083%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Office
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 (0.083%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,356 (56.55%) AWS
2 1,280 (53.38%) Azure
3 464 (19.35%) GCP
4 429 (17.89%) GitHub
5 385 (16.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 374 (15.60%) Serverless
7 314 (13.09%) Azure DevOps
8 241 (10.05%) GitHub Actions
9 211 (8.80%) AWS Lambda
10 204 (8.51%) Amazon S3
11 173 (7.21%) PaaS
12 152 (6.34%) Amazon EKS
13 145 (6.05%) Amazon ECS
14 144 (6.01%) Amazon EC2
15 139 (5.80%) Azure AKS
16 133 (5.55%) SaaS
17 126 (5.25%) IaaS
18 125 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 125 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
19 117 (4.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 169 (7.05%) Firewall
2 126 (5.25%) DNS
3 123 (5.13%) VPN
4 122 (5.09%) WAN
5 114 (4.75%) Network Security
6 97 (4.05%) LAN
7 66 (2.75%) TCP/IP
8 56 (2.34%) BGP
9 49 (2.04%) DHCP
10 43 (1.79%) Broadband
11 40 (1.67%) OSPF
12 33 (1.38%) VLAN
13 29 (1.21%) SD-WAN
14 28 (1.17%) Software-Defined Networking
14 28 (1.17%) VXLAN
15 19 (0.79%) Wireless
16 16 (0.67%) Ethernet VPN
16 16 (0.67%) HTTP
17 14 (0.58%) SAN
18 10 (0.42%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
2 158 (6.59%) NoSQL
3 110 (4.59%) Amazon RDS
4 103 (4.30%) MongoDB
5 85 (3.54%) SQL Server
6 79 (3.29%) DynamoDB
7 69 (2.88%) MySQL
8 61 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
9 58 (2.42%) Data Lake
10 51 (2.13%) Metadata
11 49 (2.04%) Relational Database
12 47 (1.96%) Redis
13 46 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
14 34 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
15 31 (1.29%) Big Data
16 30 (1.25%) Delta Lake
17 29 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
18 24 (1.00%) BigQuery
19 22 (0.92%) Data Vault
19 22 (0.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 324 (13.51%) Git
2 284 (11.84%) GitLab
3 261 (10.88%) Jenkins
4 58 (2.42%) JIRA
5 48 (2.00%) Cucumber
6 32 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 25 (1.04%) TeamCity
8 23 (0.96%) Bitbucket
8 23 (0.96%) CircleCI
8 23 (0.96%) Selenium
9 20 (0.83%) Claude Code
10 18 (0.75%) SonarQube
11 15 (0.63%) Cypress.io
12 13 (0.54%) Subversion
13 12 (0.50%) Maven
13 12 (0.50%) NUnit
14 10 (0.42%) Snyk
15 9 (0.38%) MLflow
15 9 (0.38%) MSI
16 8 (0.33%) Artifactory
General
1 675 (28.15%) Social Skills
2 557 (23.23%) Finance
3 240 (10.01%) Public Sector
4 179 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
5 156 (6.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 136 (5.67%) Banking
7 122 (5.09%) Law
8 74 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
9 68 (2.84%) Retail
10 60 (2.50%) Aerospace
11 42 (1.75%) Marketing
12 38 (1.58%) Legal
13 37 (1.54%) Games
14 31 (1.29%) Manufacturing
15 25 (1.04%) Telecoms
16 19 (0.79%) Financial Institution
17 17 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
17 17 (0.71%) Local Government
18 16 (0.67%) Aviation
19 15 (0.63%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 565 (23.56%) Senior
2 408 (17.01%) DevOps Engineer
3 333 (13.89%) Lead
4 326 (13.59%) Architect
5 289 (12.05%) Cloud Engineer
6 252 (10.51%) Platform Engineer
7 205 (8.55%) Developer
8 194 (8.09%) Azure Engineer
9 171 (7.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 155 (6.46%) Software Engineer
11 147 (6.13%) AWS Engineer
12 123 (5.13%) Principal Engineer
13 121 (5.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 120 (5.00%) Data Engineer
15 97 (4.05%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 93 (3.88%) Security Engineer
17 75 (3.13%) Senior Developer
18 74 (3.09%) Azure Platform Engineer
19 72 (3.00%) Senior DevOps
19 72 (3.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,620 (67.56%) Terraform
2 199 (8.30%) Kafka
2 199 (8.30%) React
3 178 (7.42%) .NET
4 160 (6.67%) Spring
5 159 (6.63%) Spring Boot
6 157 (6.55%) Node.js
7 146 (6.09%) REST
7 146 (6.09%) RESTful
8 89 (3.71%) AWS CDK
9 77 (3.21%) PySpark
10 64 (2.67%) AngularJS
10 64 (2.67%) YAML
11 63 (2.63%) ARM Templates
12 60 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
13 55 (2.29%) Next.js
14 52 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
15 46 (1.92%) OAuth
16 43 (1.79%) LangChain
17 41 (1.71%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 732 (30.53%) Cloud Native
2 270 (11.26%) Distributed Systems
3 130 (5.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 126 (5.25%) Public Cloud
5 125 (5.21%) Onboarding
6 94 (3.92%) Data Centre
7 80 (3.34%) Product Ownership
8 73 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
9 66 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
10 60 (2.50%) Security Posture
11 56 (2.34%) Enterprise Cloud
12 47 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
13 46 (1.92%) Virtual Team
14 42 (1.75%) Private Cloud
15 41 (1.71%) AI Agents
15 41 (1.71%) e-Learning
15 41 (1.71%) Management Information System
16 38 (1.58%) PKI
17 35 (1.46%) Video\Live Streaming
18 30 (1.25%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 395 (16.47%) Linux
2 214 (8.92%) Windows
3 95 (3.96%) Windows Server
4 59 (2.46%) CentOS
5 44 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (1.58%) Ubuntu
7 36 (1.50%) Unix
8 22 (0.92%) VMS
9 7 (0.29%) Debian
10 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.13%) AIX
12 3 (0.13%) Android
12 3 (0.13%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.083%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.083%) Rocky
13 2 (0.083%) Solaris
14 1 (0.042%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.042%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,693 (70.60%) CI/CD
2 1,296 (54.05%) DevOps
3 700 (29.19%) Containerisation
4 689 (28.73%) Agile
5 675 (28.15%) Observability
6 574 (23.94%) Platform Engineering
7 540 (22.52%) AI
8 526 (21.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 523 (21.81%) Mentoring
10 518 (21.60%) Software Engineering
11 442 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
12 415 (17.31%) Microservices
13 408 (17.01%) Technical Leadership
14 384 (16.01%) Test Automation
15 376 (15.68%) Cloud Security
16 352 (14.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 346 (14.43%) Roadmaps
18 274 (11.43%) Event-Driven
19 268 (11.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 253 (10.55%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,046 (43.62%) Python
2 386 (16.10%) Java
3 374 (15.60%) Bash
4 371 (15.47%) SQL
5 343 (14.30%) PowerShell
6 225 (9.38%) Bicep
6 225 (9.38%) TypeScript
7 194 (8.09%) JavaScript
8 184 (7.67%) C#
9 154 (6.42%) Go
10 48 (2.00%) Ruby
11 41 (1.71%) Scala
12 34 (1.42%) PHP
13 32 (1.33%) Groovy
14 29 (1.21%) Rust
15 25 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
16 22 (0.92%) C++
17 21 (0.88%) Shell Script
18 20 (0.83%) Perl
19 12 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 600 (25.02%) Security Cleared
2 378 (15.76%) SC Cleared
3 206 (8.59%) AWS Certification
4 196 (8.17%) DV Cleared
5 185 (7.71%) Degree
6 150 (6.26%) Azure Certification
7 91 (3.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 84 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 63 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 60 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
11 39 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
12 35 (1.46%) CCNP
13 29 (1.21%) Master's Degree
14 24 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
15 22 (0.92%) CISSP
16 21 (0.88%) CCNA
17 17 (0.71%) SnowPro
18 14 (0.58%) CCIE
18 14 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 13 (0.54%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (5.21%) QA
2 103 (4.30%) Data Quality
3 72 (3.00%) GRC
4 65 (2.71%) GDPR
5 56 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (1.88%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.38%) NIST
8 30 (1.25%) NCSC
9 29 (1.21%) SOC 2
10 24 (1.00%) SLA
11 21 (0.88%) WCAG
12 20 (0.83%) PCI DSS
13 9 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.29%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
16 4 (0.17%) ISO 20022
17 3 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 2 (0.083%) IFRS
18 2 (0.083%) ISO 9001
18 2 (0.083%) Solvency II
System Software
1 631 (26.31%) Docker
2 133 (5.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 132 (5.50%) Active Directory
4 46 (1.92%) vSphere
5 39 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (1.00%) Hyper-V
6 24 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (0.75%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (0.38%) KVM
10 8 (0.33%) Firmware
10 8 (0.33%) Squid
11 7 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.13%) iptables
14 2 (0.083%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 879 (36.66%) Kubernetes
2 484 (20.18%) Ansible
3 235 (9.80%) Grafana
4 173 (7.21%) Prometheus
5 75 (3.13%) Argo
6 63 (2.63%) Puppet
7 44 (1.83%) Progress Chef
8 39 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
9 36 (1.50%) Istio
10 35 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
11 28 (1.17%) Packer
12 23 (0.96%) FortiGate
13 20 (0.83%) Rancher
14 18 (0.75%) vCenter Server
15 17 (0.71%) Nagios
16 14 (0.58%) Cilium
17 13 (0.54%) Kustomize
18 12 (0.50%) linkerd
18 12 (0.50%) Podman
18 12 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 549 (22.89%) Microsoft
2 163 (6.80%) VMware
3 145 (6.05%) Google
4 105 (4.38%) Databricks
5 85 (3.54%) Splunk
6 83 (3.46%) Red Hat
7 75 (3.13%) Cisco
8 72 (3.00%) Oracle
9 41 (1.71%) Dynatrace
9 41 (1.71%) Fortinet
9 41 (1.71%) OpenAI
9 41 (1.71%) Palo Alto
10 28 (1.17%) ServiceNow
11 26 (1.08%) Zscaler
12 16 (0.67%) CrowdStrike
13 15 (0.63%) Atlassian
13 15 (0.63%) Okta
13 15 (0.63%) SAP
14 13 (0.54%) New Relic
15 12 (0.50%) Rapid7