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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 153 170
Rank change year-on-year +75 +17 -67
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,026 1,001 1,697
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.10% 2.15% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 2.35% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,386 675 1,307
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £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 £91,000 £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 70,838 42,616 86,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.43% 91.47% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 48,971 23,341 61,278
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 £53,171 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.34% - -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 1 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 1 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 1,843 £77,500 -1.66% 812
UK excluding London +88 976 £70,000 - 545
London +34 880 £89,000 -1.11% 395
Work from Home +80 718 £70,079 -9.58% 448
North of England +69 355 £67,500 -3.57% 133
North West +73 214 £72,500 - 77
South East +44 214 £70,000 -9.68% 173
South West +32 163 £75,000 +3.45% 103
Midlands +28 126 £74,250 +14.23% 56
Yorkshire +1 91 £65,576 -6.32% 33
West Midlands +6 73 £80,000 +23.08% 38
East Midlands +9 53 £67,500 +3.85% 18
East of England +8 52 £60,100 -7.54% 19
North East -11 50 £55,000 -14.06% 24
Scotland +17 35 £60,000 -20.00% 27
Wales -21 34 £70,079 +27.42% 21
Northern Ireland -28 3 £84,401 +95.86% 21

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 54 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (2.17%) Apache
3 42 (2.07%) Apache Spark
4 39 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
5 26 (1.28%) Confluence
6 13 (0.64%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.49%) IIS
8 9 (0.44%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.25%) CMS
11 4 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.15%) WordPress
13 2 (0.099%) Camunda
13 2 (0.099%) 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 (0.94%) PlantUML
2 9 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.20%) Weka
4 2 (0.099%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.099%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.099%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.049%) Maya
5 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.099%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.099%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.049%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.049%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,182 (58.34%) AWS
2 1,075 (53.06%) Azure
3 386 (19.05%) GitHub
4 355 (17.52%) Serverless
5 350 (17.28%) GCP
6 322 (15.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 319 (15.75%) Azure DevOps
8 228 (11.25%) GitHub Actions
9 199 (9.82%) AWS Lambda
10 195 (9.62%) Amazon S3
11 183 (9.03%) PaaS
12 141 (6.96%) Amazon EKS
13 137 (6.76%) IaaS
14 132 (6.52%) Amazon EC2
15 131 (6.47%) SaaS
16 127 (6.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 123 (6.07%) Entra ID
18 115 (5.68%) Azure AKS
19 107 (5.28%) Amazon ECS
20 100 (4.94%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 187 (9.23%) Firewall
2 109 (5.38%) DNS
3 108 (5.33%) VPN
4 84 (4.15%) Network Security
5 70 (3.46%) Broadband
5 70 (3.46%) TCP/IP
6 51 (2.52%) WAN
7 42 (2.07%) BGP
8 35 (1.73%) VLAN
9 34 (1.68%) DHCP
10 29 (1.43%) LAN
11 24 (1.18%) HTTP
11 24 (1.18%) OSPF
12 21 (1.04%) Software-Defined Networking
13 20 (0.99%) SD-WAN
14 19 (0.94%) VXLAN
15 15 (0.74%) Cisco ASA
16 14 (0.69%) DSL
17 11 (0.54%) SAN
18 10 (0.49%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (7.65%) PostgreSQL
2 140 (6.91%) NoSQL
3 99 (4.89%) Amazon RDS
4 89 (4.39%) MongoDB
5 71 (3.50%) DynamoDB
5 71 (3.50%) SQL Server
6 57 (2.81%) Azure SQL Database
7 56 (2.76%) Relational Database
8 51 (2.52%) Data Lake
9 49 (2.42%) Metadata
10 39 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
11 38 (1.88%) MySQL
12 31 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
13 30 (1.48%) Redis
14 27 (1.33%) BigQuery
15 26 (1.28%) Delta Lake
16 24 (1.18%) Power BI
17 21 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
17 21 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
17 21 (1.04%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 278 (13.72%) GitLab
2 270 (13.33%) Git
3 252 (12.44%) Jenkins
4 45 (2.22%) CircleCI
5 41 (2.02%) JIRA
6 39 (1.92%) Cucumber
7 34 (1.68%) Bitbucket
8 25 (1.23%) TeamCity
9 17 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 17 (0.84%) SonarQube
10 15 (0.74%) Selenium
11 14 (0.69%) Jaeger
11 14 (0.69%) Subversion
12 12 (0.59%) MLflow
13 11 (0.54%) Claude Code
14 10 (0.49%) Maven
14 10 (0.49%) NUnit
15 9 (0.44%) JMeter
15 9 (0.44%) Vite
16 8 (0.39%) Cypress.io
General
1 495 (24.43%) Social Skills
2 422 (20.83%) Finance
3 156 (7.70%) Public Sector
4 144 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
5 112 (5.53%) Banking
6 99 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 65 (3.21%) Law
8 60 (2.96%) Retail
9 44 (2.17%) Games
10 40 (1.97%) Telecoms
11 31 (1.53%) Aerospace
12 30 (1.48%) Manufacturing
13 27 (1.33%) Legal
14 24 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
15 22 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
16 17 (0.84%) Advertising
17 16 (0.79%) Financial Institution
17 16 (0.79%) Marketing
18 12 (0.59%) Billing
19 10 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 473 (23.35%) Senior
2 351 (17.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 286 (14.12%) Lead
4 283 (13.97%) Cloud Engineer
5 220 (10.86%) Platform Engineer
6 212 (10.46%) Architect
7 189 (9.33%) Azure Engineer
8 182 (8.98%) Developer
9 145 (7.16%) AWS Engineer
10 129 (6.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 106 (5.23%) Software Engineer
12 101 (4.99%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 100 (4.94%) Data Engineer
14 90 (4.44%) Security Engineer
15 81 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 80 (3.95%) Principal Engineer
16 80 (3.95%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 75 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
18 65 (3.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 62 (3.06%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (7.80%) React
2 142 (7.01%) Kafka
3 139 (6.86%) .NET
4 137 (6.76%) Node.js
5 136 (6.71%) REST
6 112 (5.53%) RESTful
7 102 (5.03%) Spring
8 100 (4.94%) Spring Boot
9 86 (4.24%) AWS CDK
10 84 (4.15%) YAML
11 74 (3.65%) Elastic Stack
12 67 (3.31%) ARM Templates
12 67 (3.31%) PySpark
13 57 (2.81%) RabbitMQ
14 54 (2.67%) OAuth
15 51 (2.52%) AngularJS
16 49 (2.42%) Next.js
17 42 (2.07%) JSON
18 39 (1.92%) FastAPI
19 38 (1.88%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 571 (28.18%) Cloud Native
2 191 (9.43%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (5.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 102 (5.03%) Public Cloud
5 76 (3.75%) Onboarding
6 73 (3.60%) Data Centre
7 69 (3.41%) Product Ownership
8 66 (3.26%) Security Posture
9 62 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
10 48 (2.37%) Video\Live Streaming
11 47 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
12 37 (1.83%) Low-Code
13 36 (1.78%) Enterprise Cloud
14 30 (1.48%) PKI
14 30 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
15 28 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
15 28 (1.38%) Management Information System
16 26 (1.28%) e-Learning
16 26 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
17 24 (1.18%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 369 (18.21%) Linux
2 199 (9.82%) Windows
3 89 (4.39%) Windows Server
4 47 (2.32%) CentOS
4 47 (2.32%) Ubuntu
5 45 (2.22%) Unix
6 32 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 32 (1.58%) VMS
7 13 (0.64%) Android
8 12 (0.59%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.39%) Debian
9 8 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.099%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.099%) Rocky
12 1 (0.049%) AIX
12 1 (0.049%) SUSE
12 1 (0.049%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,439 (71.03%) CI/CD
2 1,165 (57.50%) DevOps
3 572 (28.23%) Agile
4 563 (27.79%) Observability
5 559 (27.59%) Containerisation
6 464 (22.90%) Platform Engineering
7 439 (21.67%) Mentoring
8 435 (21.47%) Continuous Improvement
9 418 (20.63%) AI
10 374 (18.46%) Software Engineering
11 350 (17.28%) Test Automation
12 341 (16.83%) Microservices
13 327 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
14 298 (14.71%) Technical Leadership
15 293 (14.46%) Cloud Security
16 266 (13.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 239 (11.80%) Analytics
18 227 (11.20%) Roadmaps
19 221 (10.91%) DevSecOps
20 205 (10.12%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 916 (45.21%) Python
2 357 (17.62%) Bash
3 320 (15.79%) SQL
4 316 (15.60%) PowerShell
5 301 (14.86%) Java
6 202 (9.97%) Bicep
7 194 (9.58%) TypeScript
8 187 (9.23%) JavaScript
9 184 (9.08%) Go
10 151 (7.45%) C#
11 31 (1.53%) Ruby
12 30 (1.48%) Rust
13 28 (1.38%) C++
14 27 (1.33%) PHP
15 26 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
15 26 (1.28%) Scala
16 20 (0.99%) Groovy
17 12 (0.59%) Perl
18 11 (0.54%) Kotlin
19 10 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 443 (21.87%) Security Cleared
2 272 (13.43%) SC Cleared
3 172 (8.49%) Degree
4 150 (7.40%) AWS Certification
5 120 (5.92%) DV Cleared
6 116 (5.73%) Azure Certification
7 67 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 63 (3.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 53 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 39 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.28%) OSCP
12 24 (1.18%) CCNP
13 22 (1.09%) Master's Degree
14 21 (1.04%) CISSP
15 18 (0.89%) CCNA
16 15 (0.74%) DBS Check
17 14 (0.69%) RHCSA
18 13 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 12 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
20 10 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (5.03%) QA
2 87 (4.29%) Data Quality
3 65 (3.21%) GDPR
4 53 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (2.27%) SOC 2
6 37 (1.83%) NIST
7 34 (1.68%) Accessibility
7 34 (1.68%) PCI DSS
8 20 (0.99%) WCAG
9 15 (0.74%) NCSC
10 14 (0.69%) SLA
11 11 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.54%) GRC
12 5 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
14 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.099%) IFRS
15 2 (0.099%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.099%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.099%) Solvency II
System Software
1 535 (26.41%) Docker
2 127 (6.27%) Active Directory
3 119 (5.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (2.27%) vSphere
5 38 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (1.04%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.94%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.39%) Squid
11 7 (0.35%) iptables
12 6 (0.30%) Firmware
12 6 (0.30%) KVM
12 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.099%) VMware ESXi
14 1 (0.049%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,414 (69.79%) Terraform
2 779 (38.45%) Kubernetes
3 425 (20.98%) Ansible
4 235 (11.60%) Grafana
5 209 (10.32%) Prometheus
6 70 (3.46%) Argo
7 50 (2.47%) Puppet
8 45 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
9 41 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
10 31 (1.53%) Progress Chef
11 28 (1.38%) Packer
12 22 (1.09%) Istio
12 22 (1.09%) Nagios
13 19 (0.94%) Kustomize
14 15 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 15 (0.74%) Rancher
14 15 (0.74%) vCenter Server
14 15 (0.74%) ZABBIX
15 12 (0.59%) Cilium
16 11 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 380 (18.76%) Microsoft
2 154 (7.60%) VMware
3 102 (5.03%) Google
4 81 (4.00%) Databricks
5 79 (3.90%) Red Hat
6 67 (3.31%) Splunk
7 62 (3.06%) Cisco
8 49 (2.42%) Palo Alto
9 45 (2.22%) Oracle
10 32 (1.58%) OpenAI
11 31 (1.53%) Fortinet
12 25 (1.23%) Zscaler
13 24 (1.18%) Dynatrace
14 17 (0.84%) CrowdStrike
15 14 (0.69%) Salesforce
16 12 (0.59%) F5
16 12 (0.59%) Foundry
16 12 (0.59%) ScienceLogic
17 11 (0.54%) ServiceNow
17 11 (0.54%) SolarWinds