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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 155 122
Rank change year-on-year +79 -33 -36
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,549 1,017 1,492
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.16% 2.07% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 2.33% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,637 729 907
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £43,619
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £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 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -3.70%

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 86,468 43,703 59,228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.32% 88.90% 82.25%
Number of salaries quoted 59,116 24,458 31,674
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £78,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.95% -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 12 October 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 12 October 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 +78 2,205 £77,500 +3.33% 2,092
UK excluding London +95 1,402 £70,000 - 1,048
London +27 948 £90,000 +5.88% 1,145
Work from Home +51 813 £75,000 +0.67% 933
North of England +95 491 £69,305 -0.99% 324
North West +99 263 £70,400 +8.31% 189
South West +56 256 £75,000 +7.14% 145
South East +51 252 £67,500 -14.29% 193
Midlands +32 153 £75,000 +15.38% 127
North East +18 131 £61,250 -15.52% 58
Yorkshire -8 106 £67,750 -3.21% 80
West Midlands +8 100 £80,000 +23.55% 69
Wales -2 84 £70,000 +16.67% 32
East of England -15 61 £75,000 +15.38% 86
Northern Ireland -23 61 £71,991 +23.17% 25
Scotland +10 55 £72,500 +3.57% 124
East Midlands +4 53 £63,750 -1.92% 58

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 72 (2.82%) Apache
2 66 (2.59%) Apache Spark
3 58 (2.28%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (1.14%) Confluence
6 17 (0.67%) Jupyter
7 12 (0.47%) nginx
7 12 (0.47%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.35%) CMS
9 8 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.27%) IIS
11 5 (0.20%) Camunda
11 5 (0.20%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.12%) WordPress
13 2 (0.078%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.078%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.078%) Sitecore CMS
14 1 (0.039%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.039%) NServiceBus
14 1 (0.039%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 20 (0.78%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.078%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.039%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.039%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) Summit
4 2 (0.078%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.078%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.039%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 1 (0.039%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.039%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1,420 (55.71%) AWS
2 1,360 (53.35%) Azure
3 519 (20.36%) GCP
4 468 (18.36%) GitHub
5 405 (15.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 388 (15.22%) Serverless
7 325 (12.75%) Azure DevOps
8 252 (9.89%) GitHub Actions
9 209 (8.20%) Amazon S3
9 209 (8.20%) AWS Lambda
10 185 (7.26%) PaaS
11 154 (6.04%) SaaS
12 150 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
13 147 (5.77%) Amazon ECS
14 145 (5.69%) Amazon EC2
15 140 (5.49%) Azure AKS
16 139 (5.45%) Entra ID
17 138 (5.41%) Cloud Computing
18 131 (5.14%) IaaS
19 129 (5.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 180 (7.06%) Firewall
2 147 (5.77%) VPN
3 141 (5.53%) DNS
4 126 (4.94%) Network Security
5 115 (4.51%) WAN
6 87 (3.41%) LAN
7 71 (2.79%) TCP/IP
8 59 (2.31%) BGP
9 50 (1.96%) DHCP
10 43 (1.69%) Internet
11 42 (1.65%) Broadband
12 39 (1.53%) OSPF
13 34 (1.33%) VLAN
14 29 (1.14%) VXLAN
15 25 (0.98%) Software-Defined Networking
16 22 (0.86%) SD-WAN
17 16 (0.63%) Ethernet VPN
17 16 (0.63%) SAN
17 16 (0.63%) Wireless
18 13 (0.51%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 211 (8.28%) PostgreSQL
2 165 (6.47%) NoSQL
3 124 (4.86%) Amazon RDS
4 111 (4.35%) MongoDB
5 90 (3.53%) SQL Server
6 78 (3.06%) MySQL
7 74 (2.90%) DynamoDB
8 68 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 65 (2.55%) Data Lake
10 52 (2.04%) Metadata
11 51 (2.00%) Redis
12 49 (1.92%) Relational Database
13 42 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
14 36 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
14 36 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
15 35 (1.37%) Power BI
16 31 (1.22%) Big Data
17 28 (1.10%) Delta Lake
18 23 (0.90%) Data Vault
19 22 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 370 (14.52%) Git
2 325 (12.75%) GitLab
3 272 (10.67%) Jenkins
4 53 (2.08%) JIRA
5 49 (1.92%) Cucumber
6 36 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 33 (1.29%) TeamCity
8 27 (1.06%) Claude Code
9 19 (0.75%) Bitbucket
9 19 (0.75%) CircleCI
10 18 (0.71%) Selenium
11 15 (0.59%) Cypress.io
11 15 (0.59%) SonarQube
12 13 (0.51%) Snyk
12 13 (0.51%) Subversion
13 9 (0.35%) JUnit
13 9 (0.35%) Maven
13 9 (0.35%) MSI
13 9 (0.35%) NUnit
13 9 (0.35%) Terragrunt
General
1 718 (28.17%) Social Skills
2 581 (22.79%) Finance
3 318 (12.48%) Public Sector
4 241 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
5 173 (6.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 137 (5.37%) Banking
7 120 (4.71%) Law
8 73 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
9 65 (2.55%) Retail
10 61 (2.39%) Aerospace
11 42 (1.65%) Marketing
12 38 (1.49%) Legal
13 32 (1.26%) Games
14 29 (1.14%) Financial Institution
15 23 (0.90%) Manufacturing
16 22 (0.86%) Telecoms
17 17 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
18 15 (0.59%) Aviation
18 15 (0.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 622 (24.40%) Senior
2 510 (20.01%) DevOps Engineer
3 348 (13.65%) Architect
4 338 (13.26%) Lead
5 290 (11.38%) Cloud Engineer
6 257 (10.08%) Platform Engineer
7 206 (8.08%) Developer
8 202 (7.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 195 (7.65%) Azure Engineer
10 172 (6.75%) Software Engineer
11 150 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
12 140 (5.49%) Principal Engineer
13 125 (4.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 119 (4.67%) Data Engineer
15 104 (4.08%) Security Engineer
16 98 (3.84%) Senior DevOps
17 96 (3.77%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 95 (3.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 80 (3.14%) Senior Developer
20 79 (3.10%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,681 (65.95%) Terraform
2 207 (8.12%) React
3 205 (8.04%) Kafka
4 187 (7.34%) .NET
5 178 (6.98%) Spring Boot
6 176 (6.90%) Spring
7 151 (5.92%) Node.js
7 151 (5.92%) RESTful
8 146 (5.73%) REST
9 85 (3.33%) AWS CDK
10 74 (2.90%) PySpark
11 65 (2.55%) AngularJS
12 60 (2.35%) Next.js
13 58 (2.28%) ARM Templates
14 57 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
15 55 (2.16%) RabbitMQ
16 51 (2.00%) LangChain
16 51 (2.00%) YAML
17 46 (1.80%) FastAPI
18 41 (1.61%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 772 (30.29%) Cloud Native
2 286 (11.22%) Distributed Systems
3 138 (5.41%) Onboarding
4 135 (5.30%) Hybrid Cloud
5 130 (5.10%) Public Cloud
6 92 (3.61%) Data Centre
7 86 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
8 78 (3.06%) Security Posture
9 75 (2.94%) Product Ownership
10 68 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
11 65 (2.55%) Linux Command Line
12 63 (2.47%) Enterprise Cloud
13 60 (2.35%) Management Information System
14 55 (2.16%) AI Agents
15 51 (2.00%) Virtual Team
16 49 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
17 48 (1.88%) e-Learning
18 45 (1.77%) Private Cloud
19 37 (1.45%) PKI
20 36 (1.41%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 485 (19.03%) Linux
2 238 (9.34%) Windows
3 98 (3.84%) Windows Server
4 66 (2.59%) CentOS
5 53 (2.08%) Unix
6 52 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 36 (1.41%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.86%) VMS
9 8 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.27%) Debian
11 5 (0.20%) Rocky
11 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.16%) AIX
13 2 (0.078%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.078%) Solaris
14 1 (0.039%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.039%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.039%) macOS
14 1 (0.039%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,822 (71.48%) CI/CD
2 1,416 (55.55%) DevOps
3 757 (29.70%) Containerisation
4 749 (29.38%) Agile
5 679 (26.64%) Observability
6 669 (26.25%) Platform Engineering
7 597 (23.42%) Mentoring
8 593 (23.26%) AI
9 561 (22.01%) Continuous Improvement
10 545 (21.38%) Software Engineering
11 482 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
12 447 (17.54%) Microservices
13 445 (17.46%) Technical Leadership
14 440 (17.26%) Cloud Security
15 432 (16.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 404 (15.85%) Test Automation
17 363 (14.24%) Roadmaps
18 315 (12.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 286 (11.22%) Event-Driven
20 283 (11.10%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,093 (42.88%) Python
2 419 (16.44%) Java
3 405 (15.89%) Bash
4 372 (14.59%) SQL
5 363 (14.24%) PowerShell
6 238 (9.34%) Bicep
7 225 (8.83%) TypeScript
8 192 (7.53%) C#
9 183 (7.18%) JavaScript
10 163 (6.39%) Go
11 59 (2.31%) Shell Script
12 49 (1.92%) Ruby
13 39 (1.53%) Scala
14 36 (1.41%) PHP
15 31 (1.22%) Groovy
16 29 (1.14%) Rust
17 23 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
18 18 (0.71%) C++
19 17 (0.67%) Perl
20 13 (0.51%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 686 (26.91%) Security Cleared
2 432 (16.95%) SC Cleared
3 233 (9.14%) DV Cleared
4 223 (8.75%) AWS Certification
5 173 (6.79%) Degree
6 161 (6.32%) Azure Certification
7 101 (3.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 80 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 61 (2.39%) Cisco Certification
11 45 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
12 35 (1.37%) CISSP
13 30 (1.18%) CCNP
13 30 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
14 29 (1.14%) Master's Degree
15 19 (0.75%) CCNA
16 17 (0.67%) SnowPro
17 14 (0.55%) DBS Check
18 13 (0.51%) CISM
18 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (4.75%) QA
2 109 (4.28%) Data Quality
3 74 (2.90%) GDPR
4 70 (2.75%) GRC
5 67 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 53 (2.08%) Accessibility
7 46 (1.80%) NIST
8 34 (1.33%) SOC 2
9 31 (1.22%) NCSC
10 30 (1.18%) PCI DSS
11 23 (0.90%) SLA
12 19 (0.75%) WCAG
13 16 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (0.27%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
17 5 (0.20%) ISO 20022
18 3 (0.12%) ISO 9001
18 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 2 (0.078%) Solvency II
System Software
1 697 (27.34%) Docker
2 141 (5.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 131 (5.14%) Active Directory
4 49 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
4 49 (1.92%) vSphere
5 29 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 27 (1.06%) VMware NSX
7 24 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
8 21 (0.82%) Hyper-V
9 10 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.35%) KVM
11 7 (0.27%) Firmware
11 7 (0.27%) Squid
12 4 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.078%) Lustre
15 1 (0.039%) iptables
15 1 (0.039%) LXC
Systems Management
1 920 (36.09%) Kubernetes
2 529 (20.75%) Ansible
3 260 (10.20%) Grafana
4 186 (7.30%) Prometheus
5 83 (3.26%) Puppet
6 78 (3.06%) Argo
7 52 (2.04%) Progress Chef
8 37 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
8 37 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
9 35 (1.37%) Istio
10 31 (1.22%) vCenter Server
11 29 (1.14%) Packer
12 24 (0.94%) FortiGate
13 22 (0.86%) Rancher
14 17 (0.67%) Cilium
15 16 (0.63%) Nagios
16 15 (0.59%) Kustomize
16 15 (0.59%) logstash
17 14 (0.55%) Kibana
18 13 (0.51%) Podman
Vendors
1 643 (25.23%) Microsoft
2 196 (7.69%) Google
3 172 (6.75%) VMware
4 112 (4.39%) Databricks
5 90 (3.53%) Splunk
6 83 (3.26%) Red Hat
7 72 (2.82%) Cisco
7 72 (2.82%) Oracle
8 51 (2.00%) Dynatrace
9 43 (1.69%) OpenAI
10 39 (1.53%) Fortinet
11 36 (1.41%) Palo Alto
12 32 (1.26%) ServiceNow
13 24 (0.94%) Zscaler
14 15 (0.59%) Atlassian
14 15 (0.59%) F5
14 15 (0.59%) SAP
15 14 (0.55%) Mistral
15 14 (0.55%) SolarWinds
16 13 (0.51%) New Relic