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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 130 149
Rank change year-on-year +20 +19 -45
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,349 1,038 1,676
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.85% 2.36% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 2.52% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 895 725 1,350
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,300 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £74,870 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% +3.27% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £109,500 £112,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,400 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.33% +3.85% -2.67%

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 56,840 41,126 73,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.06% 93.65% 87.53%
Number of salaries quoted 34,202 22,190 55,823
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%
75th Percentile £77,219 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £94,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 10 March 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 10 March 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 +19 1,158 £75,000 - 870
UK excluding London -1 613 £68,400 +1.33% 684
London +31 580 £85,000 -5.56% 215
Work from Home +52 548 £70,000 -6.50% 567
North of England -19 208 £65,250 +0.38% 173
South East +4 134 £72,500 +3.20% 198
Yorkshire -17 89 £62,500 +19.05% 60
North West -25 86 £74,301 +6.14% 90
South West -19 84 £62,500 -10.71% 118
Midlands -7 67 £67,500 +3.85% 71
Scotland -13 59 £73,801 +15.77% 27
North East -13 33 £48,445 -13.10% 23
West Midlands -16 33 £66,500 -5.00% 43
East Midlands -4 32 £67,500 +3.85% 27
East of England +14 30 £60,100 -17.10% 79
Wales +4 22 £64,998 +32.37% 18
Northern Ireland -28 10 £95,000 +11.76% 9

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 51 (3.78%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (3.11%) Apache
3 33 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 29 (2.15%) Apache Spark
5 19 (1.41%) SharePoint
6 14 (1.04%) IIS
7 12 (0.89%) Confluence
7 12 (0.89%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.22%) Appian
8 3 (0.22%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.15%) CMS
9 2 (0.15%) nginx
9 2 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.074%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.074%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.30%) PlantUML
1 4 (0.30%) Weka
2 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.074%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.074%) Maya
4 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.074%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.074%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.074%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.074%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 829 (61.45%) AWS
2 757 (56.12%) Azure
3 302 (22.39%) GCP
4 300 (22.24%) GitHub
5 284 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
6 255 (18.90%) Serverless
7 246 (18.24%) AWS CloudFormation
8 216 (16.01%) GitHub Actions
9 167 (12.38%) AWS Lambda
10 137 (10.16%) Amazon S3
10 137 (10.16%) PaaS
11 119 (8.82%) SaaS
12 117 (8.67%) Amazon EKS
12 117 (8.67%) Entra ID
13 114 (8.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 96 (7.12%) Microsoft 365
15 90 (6.67%) IaaS
16 86 (6.38%) Amazon ECS
17 83 (6.15%) Azure Monitor
18 82 (6.08%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 154 (11.42%) Firewall
2 86 (6.38%) DNS
3 75 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 75 (5.56%) VPN
4 37 (2.74%) WAN
5 34 (2.52%) DHCP
6 33 (2.45%) Network Security
7 32 (2.37%) Broadband
8 20 (1.48%) HTTP
9 17 (1.26%) VLAN
10 16 (1.19%) BGP
11 15 (1.11%) DSL
11 15 (1.11%) Internet
12 14 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
13 13 (0.96%) LAN
14 12 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
15 8 (0.59%) SAN
16 7 (0.52%) SD-WAN
17 5 (0.37%) AMQP
17 5 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (7.56%) NoSQL
2 96 (7.12%) PostgreSQL
3 92 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
4 53 (3.93%) DynamoDB
5 52 (3.85%) SQL Server
6 43 (3.19%) Data Lake
7 42 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
8 41 (3.04%) Relational Database
9 38 (2.82%) Redis
10 37 (2.74%) MongoDB
11 34 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
12 30 (2.22%) MySQL
13 26 (1.93%) BigQuery
14 24 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
15 23 (1.70%) Power BI
16 22 (1.63%) Metadata
17 19 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
17 19 (1.41%) RDBMS
18 18 (1.33%) Delta Lake
19 15 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 207 (15.34%) Jenkins
2 173 (12.82%) Git
3 168 (12.45%) GitLab
4 30 (2.22%) JIRA
5 28 (2.08%) Bitbucket
5 28 (2.08%) CircleCI
6 27 (2.00%) Selenium
7 24 (1.78%) Robot Framework
8 22 (1.63%) Jaeger
9 20 (1.48%) Cucumber
10 18 (1.33%) Snyk
11 17 (1.26%) TeamCity
12 16 (1.19%) MLflow
13 14 (1.04%) JMeter
14 13 (0.96%) SonarQube
15 11 (0.82%) Locust
16 10 (0.74%) Subversion
17 9 (0.67%) Storybook
18 8 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 8 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 372 (27.58%) Social Skills
2 334 (24.76%) Finance
3 130 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (6.52%) Public Sector
5 85 (6.30%) Banking
6 67 (4.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 66 (4.89%) Law
8 58 (4.30%) Retail
9 55 (4.08%) Telecoms
10 33 (2.45%) Financial Institution
11 27 (2.00%) Marketing
12 21 (1.56%) Billing
12 21 (1.56%) Manufacturing
13 20 (1.48%) Back Office
14 16 (1.19%) Advertising
14 16 (1.19%) Games
15 15 (1.11%) Aerospace
15 15 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
16 14 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
17 13 (0.96%) Legal
Job Titles
1 303 (22.46%) Senior
2 216 (16.01%) DevOps Engineer
3 208 (15.42%) Cloud Engineer
4 163 (12.08%) Lead
5 130 (9.64%) Azure Engineer
6 122 (9.04%) Platform Engineer
7 120 (8.90%) Developer
8 114 (8.45%) Architect
9 101 (7.49%) AWS Engineer
10 95 (7.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 66 (4.89%) Software Engineer
12 56 (4.15%) Data Engineer
13 54 (4.00%) Security Engineer
14 53 (3.93%) Senior DevOps
15 46 (3.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 41 (3.04%) Cloud Security Engineer
17 40 (2.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 38 (2.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 38 (2.82%) Senior Platform Engineer
19 36 (2.67%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (8.97%) React
2 91 (6.75%) Node.js
3 82 (6.08%) RESTful
4 80 (5.93%) .NET
4 80 (5.93%) Elastic Stack
5 74 (5.49%) Kafka
6 66 (4.89%) AWS CDK
7 59 (4.37%) REST
8 57 (4.23%) Spring
9 55 (4.08%) OAuth
10 54 (4.00%) Spring Boot
11 52 (3.85%) YAML
12 46 (3.41%) Django
13 37 (2.74%) RabbitMQ
14 35 (2.59%) ARM Templates
14 35 (2.59%) FastAPI
15 33 (2.45%) CSS
16 32 (2.37%) SAML
17 31 (2.30%) .NET Core
18 28 (2.08%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 304 (22.54%) Cloud Native
2 80 (5.93%) Hybrid Cloud
3 60 (4.45%) Security Posture
4 58 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
4 58 (4.30%) Public Cloud
5 45 (3.34%) Product Ownership
6 43 (3.19%) Onboarding
7 39 (2.89%) Data Centre
8 36 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
9 34 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
10 29 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
11 26 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
12 22 (1.63%) Management Information System
12 22 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
13 18 (1.33%) Mobile App
14 17 (1.26%) Blog
14 17 (1.26%) Cloud Security Posture
14 17 (1.26%) Hedge funds
14 17 (1.26%) PKI
15 16 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 301 (22.31%) Linux
2 153 (11.34%) Windows
3 82 (6.08%) Unix
4 58 (4.30%) Windows Server
5 35 (2.59%) VMS
6 28 (2.08%) Ubuntu
7 21 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 19 (1.41%) CentOS
9 14 (1.04%) Android
10 13 (0.96%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.59%) Debian
12 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.30%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.22%) SUSE
15 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
16 1 (0.074%) Rocky
16 1 (0.074%) Solaris
16 1 (0.074%) Windows 10
16 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 930 (68.94%) CI/CD
2 872 (64.64%) DevOps
3 399 (29.58%) Agile
4 371 (27.50%) Containerisation
5 330 (24.46%) Observability
6 297 (22.02%) Continuous Improvement
7 281 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
8 270 (20.01%) Mentoring
9 210 (15.57%) Platform Engineering
10 206 (15.27%) AI
11 200 (14.83%) Software Engineering
12 188 (13.94%) Test Automation
13 187 (13.86%) Cloud Security
14 185 (13.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 177 (13.12%) Analytics
16 167 (12.38%) Microservices
17 164 (12.16%) Incident Response
18 148 (10.97%) DevSecOps
19 141 (10.45%) High Availability
20 140 (10.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 620 (45.96%) Python
2 261 (19.35%) Bash
3 234 (17.35%) PowerShell
4 210 (15.57%) SQL
5 187 (13.86%) Java
6 143 (10.60%) Go
7 129 (9.56%) Bicep
8 124 (9.19%) JavaScript
9 104 (7.71%) TypeScript
10 83 (6.15%) C#
11 20 (1.48%) C++
12 19 (1.41%) Rust
13 17 (1.26%) Kusto Query Language
14 16 (1.19%) Scala
15 14 (1.04%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.74%) C
17 9 (0.67%) Apex Code
18 7 (0.52%) Ruby
19 6 (0.44%) Google Apps Script
19 6 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 273 (20.24%) Security Cleared
2 165 (12.23%) SC Cleared
3 117 (8.67%) AWS Certification
4 112 (8.30%) Degree
5 100 (7.41%) DV Cleared
6 79 (5.86%) Azure Certification
7 47 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 42 (3.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 32 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 28 (2.08%) CISSP
11 27 (2.00%) OSCP
12 14 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
13 12 (0.89%) Master's Degree
14 11 (0.82%) CCSK
15 10 (0.74%) DBS Check
16 9 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 8 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 8 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
18 7 (0.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
18 7 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (4.97%) GDPR
2 59 (4.37%) QA
3 57 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 55 (4.08%) Data Quality
5 49 (3.63%) NIST
6 47 (3.48%) SOC 2
7 37 (2.74%) Accessibility
7 37 (2.74%) PCI DSS
8 17 (1.26%) SLA
9 13 (0.96%) WCAG
10 12 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.52%) GRC
12 6 (0.44%) NCSC
13 4 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.30%) EU AI Act
14 2 (0.15%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.15%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
15 1 (0.074%) HIPAA
System Software
1 452 (33.51%) Docker
2 91 (6.75%) Active Directory
3 71 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (2.89%) Virtual Machines
5 30 (2.22%) Hyper-V
6 20 (1.48%) vSphere
7 15 (1.11%) VMware NSX
8 14 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.89%) Firmware
10 9 (0.67%) KVM
10 9 (0.67%) vCloud
11 4 (0.30%) iptables
11 4 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.15%) GPFS
13 2 (0.15%) Lustre
13 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.074%) QEMU
14 1 (0.074%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 953 (70.64%) Terraform
2 524 (38.84%) Kubernetes
3 323 (23.94%) Ansible
4 204 (15.12%) Grafana
5 197 (14.60%) Prometheus
6 55 (4.08%) Argo
7 47 (3.48%) Microsoft Intune
8 33 (2.45%) Puppet
9 28 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (1.41%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.26%) AWS Copilot
12 16 (1.19%) Rancher
13 15 (1.11%) Docker Swarm
14 14 (1.04%) Progress Chef
15 13 (0.96%) Nagios
16 12 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 11 (0.82%) SCCM
18 9 (0.67%) Istio
19 8 (0.59%) Mesos
19 8 (0.59%) yum
Vendors
1 242 (17.94%) Microsoft
2 123 (9.12%) Google
3 109 (8.08%) VMware
4 47 (3.48%) Databricks
5 42 (3.11%) Splunk
6 41 (3.04%) Cisco
6 41 (3.04%) Red Hat
7 34 (2.52%) Palo Alto
8 21 (1.56%) Zscaler
9 19 (1.41%) Salesforce
10 18 (1.33%) Black Duck
10 18 (1.33%) Coverity
11 17 (1.26%) Dynatrace
12 14 (1.04%) Ab Initio
12 14 (1.04%) Juniper
13 13 (0.96%) Atlassian
13 13 (0.96%) CrowdStrike
13 13 (0.96%) Foundry
13 13 (0.96%) Oracle
14 12 (0.89%) OpenAI