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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 159 170
Rank change year-on-year +64 +11 -59
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,786 931 1,687
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.91% 2.12% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.59% 2.28% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,199 627 1,303
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 £90,313 £96,250 £89,375
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,750 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.21% +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 68,914 40,901 84,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.88% 93.19% 83.44%
Number of salaries quoted 45,055 21,599 60,884
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £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 1 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 1 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 +63 1,631 £77,500 -0.84% 611
UK excluding London +76 829 £67,750 -3.21% 428
London +32 806 £87,500 -2.78% 279
Work from Home +93 652 £70,000 -7.11% 324
North of England +58 316 £67,500 -3.57% 136
South East +49 188 £70,000 -6.67% 124
North West +63 186 £74,651 +2.97% 74
South West +6 114 £72,500 +1.75% 60
Midlands +28 108 £70,000 - 41
Yorkshire -20 89 £65,576 -3.57% 29
West Midlands +5 61 £73,750 +5.36% 29
East of England +6 48 £60,100 -7.54% 23
East Midlands -2 47 £67,500 +3.85% 12
North East -11 41 £55,000 -15.38% 33
Scotland +3 38 £60,000 -20.38% 25
Wales -27 16 £65,000 +13.04% 10
Northern Ireland -34 4 £95,000 - 15

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 52 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (2.30%) Apache
3 37 (2.07%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 21 (1.18%) Confluence
6 14 (0.78%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.73%) IIS
8 10 (0.56%) 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 (0.056%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.056%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.056%) NetWeaver
14 1 (0.056%) nginx
14 1 (0.056%) NServiceBus
14 1 (0.056%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.056%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (0.67%) 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 (0.056%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.056%) Maya
5 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.056%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.056%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.056%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,047 (58.62%) AWS
2 942 (52.74%) Azure
3 338 (18.92%) GitHub
4 321 (17.97%) GCP
5 319 (17.86%) Serverless
6 294 (16.46%) Azure DevOps
7 274 (15.34%) AWS CloudFormation
8 213 (11.93%) GitHub Actions
9 187 (10.47%) AWS Lambda
10 175 (9.80%) Amazon S3
11 142 (7.95%) PaaS
12 128 (7.17%) Amazon EKS
13 124 (6.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 120 (6.72%) SaaS
15 118 (6.61%) Entra ID
16 116 (6.49%) Amazon EC2
17 110 (6.16%) IaaS
18 100 (5.60%) Datadog
19 99 (5.54%) Azure AKS
20 91 (5.10%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 176 (9.85%) Firewall
2 99 (5.54%) DNS
3 78 (4.37%) VPN
4 69 (3.86%) TCP/IP
5 64 (3.58%) Broadband
6 58 (3.25%) Network Security
7 46 (2.58%) WAN
8 35 (1.96%) BGP
9 34 (1.90%) DHCP
10 26 (1.46%) LAN
11 24 (1.34%) HTTP
11 24 (1.34%) VLAN
12 18 (1.01%) Software-Defined Networking
13 17 (0.95%) Cisco ASA
13 17 (0.95%) OSPF
13 17 (0.95%) SD-WAN
14 15 (0.84%) DSL
15 13 (0.73%) VXLAN
16 10 (0.56%) IPv4
17 9 (0.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (7.33%) NoSQL
2 126 (7.05%) PostgreSQL
3 93 (5.21%) Amazon RDS
4 76 (4.26%) MongoDB
5 69 (3.86%) DynamoDB
6 65 (3.64%) SQL Server
7 57 (3.19%) Relational Database
8 55 (3.08%) Data Lake
9 44 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
10 40 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
10 40 (2.24%) Metadata
11 28 (1.57%) BigQuery
11 28 (1.57%) MySQL
12 26 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
13 21 (1.18%) Redis
14 20 (1.12%) Delta Lake
14 20 (1.12%) Power BI
15 19 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
15 19 (1.06%) Big Data
15 19 (1.06%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 251 (14.05%) GitLab
2 237 (13.27%) Git
3 227 (12.71%) Jenkins
4 44 (2.46%) CircleCI
5 36 (2.02%) Bitbucket
6 34 (1.90%) Cucumber
6 34 (1.90%) JIRA
7 20 (1.12%) Jaeger
8 19 (1.06%) TeamCity
9 15 (0.84%) Selenium
9 15 (0.84%) SonarQube
10 13 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 11 (0.62%) Subversion
12 10 (0.56%) MLflow
13 9 (0.50%) JMeter
13 9 (0.50%) Maven
13 9 (0.50%) NUnit
13 9 (0.50%) Storybook
14 8 (0.45%) Robot Framework
15 7 (0.39%) Vite
General
1 433 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 373 (20.88%) Finance
3 131 (7.33%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (6.77%) Public Sector
5 109 (6.10%) Banking
6 77 (4.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 62 (3.47%) Retail
8 52 (2.91%) Law
9 46 (2.58%) Telecoms
10 34 (1.90%) Games
11 32 (1.79%) Manufacturing
12 24 (1.34%) Aerospace
13 21 (1.18%) Legal
13 21 (1.18%) Marketing
14 19 (1.06%) Advertising
14 19 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
15 18 (1.01%) Billing
15 18 (1.01%) Financial Institution
15 18 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (0.67%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 401 (22.45%) Senior
2 295 (16.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 269 (15.06%) Cloud Engineer
4 252 (14.11%) Lead
5 180 (10.08%) Platform Engineer
6 172 (9.63%) Azure Engineer
7 161 (9.01%) Architect
8 160 (8.96%) Developer
9 139 (7.78%) AWS Engineer
10 118 (6.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 98 (5.49%) Software Engineer
12 93 (5.21%) Data Engineer
13 88 (4.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 84 (4.70%) Security Engineer
15 70 (3.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 67 (3.75%) Senior DevOps
17 64 (3.58%) Principal Engineer
18 62 (3.47%) Senior Platform Engineer
19 57 (3.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 54 (3.02%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (8.01%) React
2 128 (7.17%) Node.js
3 126 (7.05%) Kafka
4 124 (6.94%) .NET
5 119 (6.66%) REST
6 93 (5.21%) RESTful
7 85 (4.76%) YAML
8 84 (4.70%) Spring
9 79 (4.42%) AWS CDK
10 77 (4.31%) Spring Boot
11 67 (3.75%) Elastic Stack
12 63 (3.53%) OAuth
13 58 (3.25%) PySpark
14 56 (3.14%) ARM Templates
15 50 (2.80%) RabbitMQ
16 43 (2.41%) JSON
17 38 (2.13%) AngularJS
17 38 (2.13%) ASP.NET
18 37 (2.07%) Next.js
18 37 (2.07%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 448 (25.08%) Cloud Native
2 150 (8.40%) Distributed Systems
3 94 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 78 (4.37%) Public Cloud
5 61 (3.42%) Product Ownership
6 60 (3.36%) Data Centre
7 51 (2.86%) Security Posture
8 49 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
9 47 (2.63%) Onboarding
10 39 (2.18%) Video\Live Streaming
11 30 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
12 28 (1.57%) Low-Code
13 27 (1.51%) PKI
14 26 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
15 25 (1.40%) Blockchain
15 25 (1.40%) Management Information System
15 25 (1.40%) Mobile App
16 23 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
16 23 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
16 23 (1.29%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 338 (18.92%) Linux
2 164 (9.18%) Windows
3 85 (4.76%) Windows Server
4 53 (2.97%) Unix
5 44 (2.46%) Ubuntu
6 36 (2.02%) CentOS
7 27 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 23 (1.29%) VMS
9 15 (0.84%) Android
10 14 (0.78%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.39%) Debian
11 7 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.056%) Rocky
14 1 (0.056%) SUSE
14 1 (0.056%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,260 (70.55%) CI/CD
2 1,044 (58.45%) DevOps
3 489 (27.38%) Containerisation
4 488 (27.32%) Agile
5 483 (27.04%) Observability
6 380 (21.28%) Mentoring
7 377 (21.11%) Platform Engineering
8 374 (20.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 339 (18.98%) AI
10 322 (18.03%) Test Automation
11 308 (17.25%) Software Engineering
12 284 (15.90%) Microservices
13 278 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
14 238 (13.33%) Cloud Security
15 235 (13.16%) Technical Leadership
16 230 (12.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 209 (11.70%) Analytics
18 190 (10.64%) DevSecOps
19 182 (10.19%) High Availability
20 177 (9.91%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 810 (45.35%) Python
2 318 (17.81%) Bash
3 284 (15.90%) PowerShell
4 282 (15.79%) SQL
5 254 (14.22%) Java
6 175 (9.80%) Go
7 172 (9.63%) JavaScript
8 171 (9.57%) TypeScript
9 145 (8.12%) Bicep
10 129 (7.22%) C#
11 30 (1.68%) Rust
12 27 (1.51%) C++
13 22 (1.23%) Scala
14 17 (0.95%) PHP
15 15 (0.84%) Groovy
16 14 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
17 12 (0.67%) C
18 11 (0.62%) Kotlin
19 9 (0.50%) Shell Script
20 8 (0.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 355 (19.88%) Security Cleared
2 224 (12.54%) SC Cleared
3 159 (8.90%) Degree
4 138 (7.73%) AWS Certification
5 104 (5.82%) DV Cleared
6 92 (5.15%) Azure Certification
7 60 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 33 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 31 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (1.57%) OSCP
12 21 (1.18%) CISSP
13 17 (0.95%) CCNP
14 16 (0.90%) DBS Check
15 15 (0.84%) CCNA
16 14 (0.78%) Master's Degree
17 13 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
18 12 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 12 (0.67%) RHCSA
19 10 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (4.87%) QA
2 77 (4.31%) Data Quality
3 60 (3.36%) GDPR
4 50 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 48 (2.69%) SOC 2
6 40 (2.24%) NIST
7 31 (1.74%) Accessibility
8 30 (1.68%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.78%) SLA
10 12 (0.67%) WCAG
11 9 (0.50%) GRC
12 8 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.34%) NCSC
14 4 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.11%) IFRS
16 2 (0.11%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.11%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.11%) Solvency II
17 1 (0.056%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 485 (27.16%) Docker
2 108 (6.05%) Active Directory
3 90 (5.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (1.79%) vSphere
6 22 (1.23%) VMware NSX
7 19 (1.06%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.45%) Squid
9 7 (0.39%) iptables
9 7 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.34%) Firmware
10 6 (0.34%) KVM
10 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,236 (69.20%) Terraform
2 681 (38.13%) Kubernetes
3 380 (21.28%) Ansible
4 222 (12.43%) Grafana
5 209 (11.70%) Prometheus
6 62 (3.47%) Argo
7 44 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
8 41 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
9 40 (2.24%) Puppet
10 25 (1.40%) Progress Chef
11 22 (1.23%) Kustomize
12 21 (1.18%) Packer
13 19 (1.06%) Nagios
14 18 (1.01%) Istio
15 17 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 14 (0.78%) Rancher
17 13 (0.73%) ZABBIX
18 12 (0.67%) vCenter Server
19 11 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
20 10 (0.56%) Cilium
Vendors
1 330 (18.48%) Microsoft
2 124 (6.94%) VMware
3 110 (6.16%) Google
4 74 (4.14%) Databricks
5 71 (3.98%) Red Hat
6 55 (3.08%) Cisco
7 54 (3.02%) Splunk
8 45 (2.52%) Palo Alto
9 31 (1.74%) Oracle
10 25 (1.40%) Zscaler
11 23 (1.29%) Fortinet
12 22 (1.23%) OpenAI
13 20 (1.12%) Dynatrace
13 20 (1.12%) Salesforce
14 18 (1.01%) CrowdStrike
15 12 (0.67%) Atlassian
15 12 (0.67%) CheckPoint
15 12 (0.67%) F5
16 11 (0.62%) Foundry
17 10 (0.56%) SolarWinds