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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 155 154
Rank change year-on-year +78 -1 -52
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,350 1,030 1,423
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.22% 2.07% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.02% 2.32% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,565 723 1,023
10th Percentile £48,959 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,250 £61,250 £56,250
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 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £107,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,039 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.06% +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 77,915 44,448 67,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.48% 89.27% 81.15%
Number of salaries quoted 53,724 25,250 43,771
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -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 12 August 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 August 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 +74 2,063 £77,500 - 2,172
UK excluding London +114 1,264 £70,039 +0.06% 1,088
London +26 921 £90,000 - 1,294
Work from Home +71 829 £72,500 -8.01% 990
North of England +86 430 £70,400 +0.57% 317
South East +65 253 £67,500 -12.90% 230
North West +88 243 £74,651 +6.64% 177
South West +47 214 £75,000 - 193
Midlands +51 147 £75,000 +15.38% 105
Yorkshire +11 99 £75,000 +7.14% 86
West Midlands +23 90 £80,000 +23.08% 60
North East +16 88 £56,500 -19.29% 54
Wales +1 65 £70,000 +21.74% 38
Northern Ireland -18 58 £72,896 +69.17% 35
East Midlands +19 57 £67,500 +3.85% 45
East of England -8 56 £70,000 +7.69% 65
Scotland +32 51 £71,991 +6.65% 111

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 60 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
2 58 (2.47%) Apache Spark
3 53 (2.26%) Apache
4 29 (1.23%) Confluence
4 29 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.51%) Jupyter
6 10 (0.43%) IIS
6 10 (0.43%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.17%) Camunda
7 4 (0.17%) CMS
7 4 (0.17%) nginx
8 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (0.13%) WordPress
9 2 (0.085%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.085%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.043%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.043%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.043%) JBoss
10 1 (0.043%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 22 (0.94%) PlantUML
2 9 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.085%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.085%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.085%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.043%) Maya
6 1 (0.043%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.13%) Summit
4 2 (0.085%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.085%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.043%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,347 (57.32%) AWS
2 1,280 (54.47%) Azure
3 451 (19.19%) GCP
4 413 (17.57%) GitHub
5 379 (16.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 375 (15.96%) Serverless
7 317 (13.49%) Azure DevOps
8 226 (9.62%) GitHub Actions
9 205 (8.72%) AWS Lambda
10 201 (8.55%) Amazon S3
11 188 (8.00%) PaaS
12 143 (6.09%) Amazon EC2
13 140 (5.96%) Amazon ECS
14 137 (5.83%) Amazon EKS
15 135 (5.74%) SaaS
16 128 (5.45%) IaaS
17 123 (5.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 122 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
19 117 (4.98%) Azure AKS
20 110 (4.68%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 176 (7.49%) Firewall
2 117 (4.98%) DNS
3 116 (4.94%) WAN
4 109 (4.64%) Network Security
5 107 (4.55%) VPN
6 96 (4.09%) LAN
7 80 (3.40%) TCP/IP
8 54 (2.30%) Broadband
9 52 (2.21%) BGP
10 41 (1.74%) DHCP
11 36 (1.53%) OSPF
12 34 (1.45%) VLAN
13 27 (1.15%) VXLAN
14 25 (1.06%) Software-Defined Networking
15 24 (1.02%) SD-WAN
16 19 (0.81%) HTTP
17 15 (0.64%) Wireless
18 13 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
18 13 (0.55%) Ethernet VPN
18 13 (0.55%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (7.53%) PostgreSQL
2 149 (6.34%) NoSQL
3 105 (4.47%) Amazon RDS
4 97 (4.13%) MongoDB
5 83 (3.53%) SQL Server
6 78 (3.32%) DynamoDB
7 62 (2.64%) Data Lake
8 59 (2.51%) MySQL
9 55 (2.34%) Relational Database
10 54 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
10 54 (2.30%) Metadata
11 42 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
11 42 (1.79%) Redis
12 34 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
13 29 (1.23%) Delta Lake
14 27 (1.15%) Big Data
14 27 (1.15%) BigQuery
15 25 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
15 25 (1.06%) Power BI
16 22 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 307 (13.06%) Git
2 285 (12.13%) GitLab
3 253 (10.77%) Jenkins
4 53 (2.26%) JIRA
5 45 (1.91%) Cucumber
6 32 (1.36%) CircleCI
7 31 (1.32%) Bitbucket
8 29 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 27 (1.15%) TeamCity
10 21 (0.89%) Selenium
11 18 (0.77%) Claude Code
12 16 (0.68%) SonarQube
13 15 (0.64%) NUnit
14 12 (0.51%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.51%) MLflow
15 11 (0.47%) Maven
15 11 (0.47%) Subversion
16 9 (0.38%) JMeter
16 9 (0.38%) MSI
16 9 (0.38%) Snyk
General
1 644 (27.40%) Social Skills
2 536 (22.81%) Finance
3 207 (8.81%) Public Sector
4 179 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
5 144 (6.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 122 (5.19%) Banking
7 117 (4.98%) Law
8 70 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
9 67 (2.85%) Retail
10 46 (1.96%) Aerospace
11 45 (1.91%) Games
12 44 (1.87%) Marketing
13 38 (1.62%) Legal
14 34 (1.45%) Telecoms
15 31 (1.32%) Manufacturing
16 22 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (0.77%) Aviation
17 18 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
18 17 (0.72%) Advertising
19 16 (0.68%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 538 (22.89%) Senior
2 395 (16.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 346 (14.72%) Lead
4 314 (13.36%) Architect
5 280 (11.91%) Cloud Engineer
6 234 (9.96%) Platform Engineer
7 206 (8.77%) Developer
8 181 (7.70%) Azure Engineer
9 142 (6.04%) Software Engineer
10 134 (5.70%) AWS Engineer
11 128 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 122 (5.19%) Data Engineer
13 112 (4.77%) Principal Engineer
14 105 (4.47%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 91 (3.87%) Security Engineer
16 86 (3.66%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 78 (3.32%) Senior DevOps
18 75 (3.19%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 73 (3.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 68 (2.89%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (8.21%) React
2 178 (7.57%) .NET
2 178 (7.57%) Kafka
3 153 (6.51%) Node.js
4 152 (6.47%) REST
5 144 (6.13%) Spring
6 142 (6.04%) Spring Boot
7 134 (5.70%) RESTful
8 96 (4.09%) AWS CDK
9 77 (3.28%) YAML
10 74 (3.15%) PySpark
11 69 (2.94%) ARM Templates
12 61 (2.60%) AngularJS
13 57 (2.43%) Next.js
13 57 (2.43%) RabbitMQ
14 54 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
15 51 (2.17%) OAuth
16 44 (1.87%) ASP.NET
17 41 (1.74%) ASP.NET Core
17 41 (1.74%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 689 (29.32%) Cloud Native
2 250 (10.64%) Distributed Systems
3 119 (5.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 118 (5.02%) Onboarding
5 112 (4.77%) Public Cloud
6 88 (3.74%) Data Centre
7 80 (3.40%) Product Ownership
8 69 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
9 66 (2.81%) Security Posture
10 62 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
11 52 (2.21%) Enterprise Cloud
12 46 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
13 45 (1.91%) Video\Live Streaming
14 39 (1.66%) Low-Code
15 37 (1.57%) Management Information System
15 37 (1.57%) Virtual Team
16 35 (1.49%) Private Cloud
17 34 (1.45%) e-Learning
18 31 (1.32%) PKI
19 29 (1.23%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 390 (16.60%) Linux
2 220 (9.36%) Windows
3 96 (4.09%) Windows Server
4 54 (2.30%) CentOS
5 41 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (1.70%) Unix
7 39 (1.66%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.94%) VMS
9 7 (0.30%) Android
10 6 (0.26%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.17%) Debian
12 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.085%) AIX
13 2 (0.085%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.085%) Solaris
14 1 (0.043%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.043%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.043%) SUSE
14 1 (0.043%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,656 (70.47%) CI/CD
2 1,296 (55.15%) DevOps
3 692 (29.45%) Containerisation
4 662 (28.17%) Agile
5 648 (27.57%) Observability
6 542 (23.06%) Platform Engineering
7 519 (22.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 516 (21.96%) Mentoring
9 501 (21.32%) AI
10 489 (20.81%) Software Engineering
11 404 (17.19%) Microservices
12 399 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
13 397 (16.89%) Technical Leadership
14 376 (16.00%) Test Automation
15 346 (14.72%) Cloud Security
16 335 (14.26%) Roadmaps
17 302 (12.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 261 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 259 (11.02%) Analytics
19 259 (11.02%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 1,015 (43.19%) Python
2 373 (15.87%) Java
3 364 (15.49%) SQL
4 352 (14.98%) Bash
5 329 (14.00%) PowerShell
6 220 (9.36%) Bicep
7 215 (9.15%) TypeScript
8 195 (8.30%) JavaScript
9 181 (7.70%) C#
10 166 (7.06%) Go
11 46 (1.96%) Ruby
12 39 (1.66%) Scala
13 37 (1.57%) PHP
14 25 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
14 25 (1.06%) Rust
15 23 (0.98%) Groovy
16 22 (0.94%) C++
17 21 (0.89%) Perl
18 13 (0.55%) Kotlin
18 13 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 556 (23.66%) Security Cleared
2 354 (15.06%) SC Cleared
3 203 (8.64%) Degree
4 183 (7.79%) AWS Certification
5 176 (7.49%) DV Cleared
6 143 (6.09%) Azure Certification
7 86 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 83 (3.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 56 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 52 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
11 36 (1.53%) CCNP
12 30 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
13 29 (1.23%) Master's Degree
14 23 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
15 20 (0.85%) CISSP
15 20 (0.85%) OSCP
16 18 (0.77%) CCNA
17 17 (0.72%) DBS Check
18 14 (0.60%) RHCSA
18 14 (0.60%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (5.32%) QA
2 105 (4.47%) Data Quality
3 71 (3.02%) GDPR
4 69 (2.94%) GRC
5 57 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (2.04%) Accessibility
7 39 (1.66%) NIST
8 34 (1.45%) SOC 2
9 26 (1.11%) NCSC
9 26 (1.11%) PCI DSS
10 24 (1.02%) WCAG
11 16 (0.68%) SLA
12 9 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.21%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.085%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.085%) IFRS
15 2 (0.085%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.085%) Solvency II
System Software
1 618 (26.30%) Docker
2 132 (5.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 127 (5.40%) Active Directory
4 46 (1.96%) vSphere
5 33 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (1.02%) Hyper-V
7 19 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (0.77%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.38%) KVM
11 8 (0.34%) Firmware
11 8 (0.34%) Squid
11 8 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.17%) iptables
14 3 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.043%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 1,573 (66.94%) Terraform
2 872 (37.11%) Kubernetes
3 466 (19.83%) Ansible
4 238 (10.13%) Grafana
5 178 (7.57%) Prometheus
6 67 (2.85%) Argo
7 56 (2.38%) Puppet
8 37 (1.57%) Progress Chef
9 35 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
10 33 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
11 28 (1.19%) Packer
12 27 (1.15%) Istio
13 22 (0.94%) Nagios
14 16 (0.68%) FortiGate
14 16 (0.68%) vCenter Server
15 13 (0.55%) Cilium
16 12 (0.51%) ZABBIX
17 11 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 11 (0.47%) Kustomize
17 11 (0.47%) Rancher
Vendors
1 508 (21.62%) Microsoft
2 160 (6.81%) VMware
3 141 (6.00%) Google
4 103 (4.38%) Databricks
5 90 (3.83%) Red Hat
6 85 (3.62%) Splunk
7 72 (3.06%) Cisco
8 63 (2.68%) Oracle
9 49 (2.09%) Palo Alto
10 41 (1.74%) OpenAI
11 39 (1.66%) Fortinet
12 38 (1.62%) Dynatrace
13 25 (1.06%) Zscaler
14 23 (0.98%) ServiceNow
15 16 (0.68%) CrowdStrike
15 16 (0.68%) SAP
16 14 (0.60%) Atlassian
16 14 (0.60%) F5
17 12 (0.51%) Rapid7
17 12 (0.51%) ScienceLogic