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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 159 173
Rank change year-on-year +75 +14 -62
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,813 930 1,684
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.96% 2.12% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 2.28% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,220 619 1,294
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £48,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £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 £90,000 £95,625 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.14% +7.69% -6.40%

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 67,549 40,838 86,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.19% 92.97% 82.99%
Number of salaries quoted 45,324 21,582 61,408
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 6 June 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 6 June 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 +70 1,656 £77,500 -1.66% 852
UK excluding London +81 847 £68,500 -2.14% 546
London +36 815 £87,500 -2.78% 399
Work from Home +97 653 £70,000 -7.11% 493
North of England +66 324 £67,500 -3.57% 165
South East +52 194 £70,000 -6.67% 160
North West +64 189 £74,651 +2.97% 97
Midlands +40 114 £70,079 +7.81% 48
South West +7 113 £73,750 +5.36% 81
Yorkshire 0 93 £65,576 -4.96% 36
West Midlands +5 67 £77,500 +10.71% 34
East Midlands +4 47 £67,500 +3.85% 14
East of England +6 46 £60,100 -7.54% 31
North East -8 42 £55,000 -15.38% 32
Scotland +5 36 £60,000 -20.38% 32
Wales -27 20 £68,500 +19.13% 18
Northern Ireland -35 3 £84,401 +95.86% 17

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 (2.92%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (2.26%) Apache
3 37 (2.04%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (1.10%) Confluence
6 14 (0.77%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.66%) IIS
8 10 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
9 7 (0.39%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.28%) CMS
11 4 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.11%) Camunda
14 1 (0.055%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.055%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.055%) NetWeaver
14 1 (0.055%) nginx
14 1 (0.055%) NServiceBus
14 1 (0.055%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.055%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (0.72%) PlantUML
2 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.22%) Weka
4 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.055%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.055%) Maya
5 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.055%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1,058 (58.36%) AWS
2 959 (52.90%) Azure
3 347 (19.14%) GitHub
4 326 (17.98%) Serverless
5 325 (17.93%) GCP
6 297 (16.38%) Azure DevOps
7 280 (15.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 218 (12.02%) GitHub Actions
9 189 (10.42%) AWS Lambda
10 176 (9.71%) Amazon S3
11 151 (8.33%) PaaS
12 127 (7.00%) Amazon EKS
13 125 (6.89%) SaaS
14 122 (6.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 119 (6.56%) Entra ID
16 115 (6.34%) Amazon EC2
16 115 (6.34%) IaaS
17 102 (5.63%) Azure AKS
18 99 (5.46%) Datadog
19 92 (5.07%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 178 (9.82%) Firewall
2 97 (5.35%) DNS
3 82 (4.52%) VPN
4 67 (3.70%) TCP/IP
5 64 (3.53%) Broadband
6 60 (3.31%) Network Security
7 48 (2.65%) WAN
8 38 (2.10%) BGP
9 32 (1.77%) DHCP
10 27 (1.49%) LAN
10 27 (1.49%) VLAN
11 24 (1.32%) HTTP
12 19 (1.05%) OSPF
12 19 (1.05%) Software-Defined Networking
13 18 (0.99%) SD-WAN
14 17 (0.94%) Cisco ASA
15 16 (0.88%) DSL
16 14 (0.77%) VXLAN
17 10 (0.55%) IPv4
18 9 (0.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
2 130 (7.17%) NoSQL
3 89 (4.91%) Amazon RDS
4 77 (4.25%) MongoDB
5 67 (3.70%) DynamoDB
6 64 (3.53%) SQL Server
7 59 (3.25%) Relational Database
8 53 (2.92%) Data Lake
9 43 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
10 42 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
11 41 (2.26%) Metadata
12 30 (1.65%) MySQL
13 28 (1.54%) BigQuery
14 27 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
15 22 (1.21%) Power BI
15 22 (1.21%) Redis
16 20 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
16 20 (1.10%) Delta Lake
16 20 (1.10%) RDBMS
17 18 (0.99%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 256 (14.12%) GitLab
2 234 (12.91%) Git
3 232 (12.80%) Jenkins
4 44 (2.43%) CircleCI
5 35 (1.93%) Bitbucket
5 35 (1.93%) Cucumber
6 33 (1.82%) JIRA
7 20 (1.10%) Jaeger
7 20 (1.10%) TeamCity
8 15 (0.83%) SonarQube
9 14 (0.77%) Selenium
10 13 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 11 (0.61%) MLflow
11 11 (0.61%) Subversion
12 9 (0.50%) JMeter
12 9 (0.50%) Maven
12 9 (0.50%) NUnit
13 8 (0.44%) Storybook
14 7 (0.39%) Artifactory
14 7 (0.39%) Vite
General
1 439 (24.21%) Social Skills
2 369 (20.35%) Finance
3 134 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (6.84%) Public Sector
5 111 (6.12%) Banking
6 81 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 62 (3.42%) Retail
8 55 (3.03%) Law
9 44 (2.43%) Telecoms
10 34 (1.88%) Games
11 31 (1.71%) Manufacturing
12 24 (1.32%) Aerospace
13 22 (1.21%) Legal
14 20 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
14 20 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
15 19 (1.05%) Advertising
15 19 (1.05%) Marketing
16 18 (0.99%) Financial Institution
17 16 (0.88%) Billing
18 12 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 409 (22.56%) Senior
2 302 (16.66%) DevOps Engineer
3 269 (14.84%) Cloud Engineer
4 251 (13.84%) Lead
5 186 (10.26%) Platform Engineer
6 178 (9.82%) Azure Engineer
7 166 (9.16%) Architect
8 162 (8.94%) Developer
9 138 (7.61%) AWS Engineer
10 120 (6.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 97 (5.35%) Software Engineer
12 94 (5.18%) Data Engineer
13 92 (5.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 83 (4.58%) Security Engineer
15 75 (4.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 67 (3.70%) Principal Engineer
17 66 (3.64%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 65 (3.59%) Senior DevOps
19 55 (3.03%) Senior Developer
19 55 (3.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (8.00%) React
2 129 (7.12%) Kafka
2 129 (7.12%) Node.js
3 123 (6.78%) .NET
3 123 (6.78%) REST
4 92 (5.07%) RESTful
5 88 (4.85%) Spring
6 84 (4.63%) YAML
7 82 (4.52%) Spring Boot
8 81 (4.47%) AWS CDK
9 68 (3.75%) Elastic Stack
10 60 (3.31%) OAuth
11 59 (3.25%) ARM Templates
11 59 (3.25%) PySpark
12 50 (2.76%) RabbitMQ
13 42 (2.32%) JSON
14 39 (2.15%) AngularJS
15 38 (2.10%) ASP.NET
15 38 (2.10%) Next.js
16 37 (2.04%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 462 (25.48%) Cloud Native
2 153 (8.44%) Distributed Systems
3 96 (5.30%) Hybrid Cloud
4 82 (4.52%) Public Cloud
5 62 (3.42%) Data Centre
6 61 (3.36%) Product Ownership
7 52 (2.87%) Security Posture
8 51 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
9 48 (2.65%) Onboarding
10 39 (2.15%) Video\Live Streaming
11 32 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
12 28 (1.54%) Low-Code
13 27 (1.49%) PKI
14 26 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
15 24 (1.32%) Blockchain
15 24 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
15 24 (1.32%) Management Information System
15 24 (1.32%) Mobile App
15 24 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
16 22 (1.21%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 340 (18.75%) Linux
2 168 (9.27%) Windows
3 88 (4.85%) Windows Server
4 53 (2.92%) Unix
5 46 (2.54%) Ubuntu
6 39 (2.15%) CentOS
7 28 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 25 (1.38%) VMS
9 15 (0.83%) Android
10 14 (0.77%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.39%) Debian
13 5 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.055%) AIX
15 1 (0.055%) Rocky
15 1 (0.055%) SUSE
15 1 (0.055%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,279 (70.55%) CI/CD
2 1,050 (57.92%) DevOps
3 496 (27.36%) Containerisation
4 495 (27.30%) Agile
5 492 (27.14%) Observability
6 389 (21.46%) Platform Engineering
7 383 (21.13%) Mentoring
8 376 (20.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 345 (19.03%) AI
10 322 (17.76%) Test Automation
11 311 (17.15%) Software Engineering
12 290 (16.00%) Microservices
13 281 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
14 242 (13.35%) Cloud Security
15 240 (13.24%) Technical Leadership
16 237 (13.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 209 (11.53%) Analytics
18 191 (10.54%) DevSecOps
19 186 (10.26%) Roadmaps
20 179 (9.87%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 819 (45.17%) Python
2 320 (17.65%) Bash
3 288 (15.89%) PowerShell
4 287 (15.83%) SQL
5 259 (14.29%) Java
6 175 (9.65%) Go
7 173 (9.54%) TypeScript
8 171 (9.43%) JavaScript
9 152 (8.38%) Bicep
10 127 (7.00%) C#
11 30 (1.65%) Rust
12 27 (1.49%) C++
13 22 (1.21%) Scala
14 18 (0.99%) Groovy
14 18 (0.99%) PHP
15 15 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
16 12 (0.66%) C
16 12 (0.66%) Ruby
17 11 (0.61%) Kotlin
18 9 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 366 (20.19%) Security Cleared
2 235 (12.96%) SC Cleared
3 156 (8.60%) Degree
4 140 (7.72%) AWS Certification
5 102 (5.63%) DV Cleared
6 96 (5.30%) Azure Certification
7 58 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 43 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 36 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 33 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (1.54%) OSCP
12 22 (1.21%) CISSP
13 19 (1.05%) CCNP
14 16 (0.88%) DBS Check
15 15 (0.83%) CCNA
16 14 (0.77%) Master's Degree
17 12 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 12 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
17 12 (0.66%) RHCSA
18 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (4.96%) QA
2 75 (4.14%) Data Quality
3 60 (3.31%) GDPR
4 50 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 47 (2.59%) SOC 2
6 40 (2.21%) NIST
7 31 (1.71%) Accessibility
8 30 (1.65%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.77%) SLA
10 13 (0.72%) WCAG
11 9 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.50%) GRC
12 7 (0.39%) NCSC
13 5 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.11%) IFRS
15 2 (0.11%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.11%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.11%) Solvency II
16 1 (0.055%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 490 (27.03%) Docker
2 111 (6.12%) Active Directory
3 95 (5.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (1.93%) vSphere
6 22 (1.21%) VMware NSX
7 20 (1.10%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.44%) Squid
9 7 (0.39%) iptables
9 7 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.33%) Firmware
10 6 (0.33%) KVM
10 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 5 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,256 (69.28%) Terraform
2 689 (38.00%) Kubernetes
3 383 (21.13%) Ansible
4 223 (12.30%) Grafana
5 208 (11.47%) Prometheus
6 66 (3.64%) Argo
7 45 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
8 41 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
9 40 (2.21%) Puppet
10 27 (1.49%) Progress Chef
11 24 (1.32%) Kustomize
12 23 (1.27%) Packer
13 21 (1.16%) Nagios
14 19 (1.05%) Istio
15 17 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 14 (0.77%) Rancher
17 13 (0.72%) vCenter Server
17 13 (0.72%) ZABBIX
18 12 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
19 10 (0.55%) Cilium
Vendors
1 337 (18.59%) Microsoft
2 132 (7.28%) VMware
3 109 (6.01%) Google
4 75 (4.14%) Databricks
4 75 (4.14%) Red Hat
5 57 (3.14%) Cisco
6 56 (3.09%) Splunk
7 46 (2.54%) Palo Alto
8 32 (1.77%) Oracle
9 25 (1.38%) Fortinet
9 25 (1.38%) Zscaler
10 23 (1.27%) OpenAI
11 21 (1.16%) Dynatrace
12 19 (1.05%) Salesforce
13 17 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
14 13 (0.72%) CheckPoint
15 12 (0.66%) F5
15 12 (0.66%) Foundry
16 11 (0.61%) Atlassian
16 11 (0.61%) ServiceNow