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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 137 164
Rank change year-on-year +30 +27 -58
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,549 930 1,681
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.77% 2.22% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 2.39% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,009 681 1,321
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,625 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £113,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,450 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.21% +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 65,992 38,867 81,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.24% 92.91% 85.83%
Number of salaries quoted 40,690 22,673 59,246
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.86%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 +30 1,370 £75,000 -3.23% 687
UK excluding London +20 716 £68,450 -2.21% 472
London +40 688 £85,000 -5.56% 299
Work from Home +47 595 £70,039 -7.06% 382
North of England -9 262 £67,500 -0.74% 158
South East -7 142 £71,250 -5.00% 113
North West -3 134 £73,151 +0.90% 87
South West -14 106 £65,000 -9.71% 78
Yorkshire -19 95 £65,000 +8.33% 35
Midlands +4 82 £67,500 -3.57% 42
Scotland -2 58 £60,000 -15.49% 29
East Midlands -25 42 £67,750 +4.23% 10
West Midlands -21 38 £67,500 -3.57% 32
East of England -11 37 £61,300 -9.19% 35
North East -18 33 £48,445 -15.75% 36
Wales -10 24 £61,000 -3.56% 6
Northern Ireland -37 8 £95,000 - 21

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 49 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (2.39%) Apache
3 26 (1.68%) Apache Spark
4 24 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (1.03%) Confluence
5 16 (1.03%) IIS
6 11 (0.71%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.26%) CMS
9 3 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.065%) Camunda
11 1 (0.065%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.065%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.39%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.26%) Weka
3 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.065%) Maya
5 1 (0.065%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.065%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.065%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.065%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.065%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.065%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 933 (60.23%) AWS
2 846 (54.62%) Azure
3 330 (21.30%) GCP
4 314 (20.27%) GitHub
5 297 (19.17%) Azure DevOps
6 290 (18.72%) Serverless
7 257 (16.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 217 (14.01%) GitHub Actions
9 174 (11.23%) AWS Lambda
10 140 (9.04%) Amazon S3
11 127 (8.20%) Amazon EKS
12 120 (7.75%) PaaS
13 113 (7.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 113 (7.30%) Entra ID
14 111 (7.17%) SaaS
15 106 (6.84%) Datadog
16 86 (5.55%) Amazon EC2
17 83 (5.36%) Amazon ECS
18 81 (5.23%) Microsoft 365
19 80 (5.16%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 177 (11.43%) Firewall
2 90 (5.81%) DNS
3 81 (5.23%) TCP/IP
4 76 (4.91%) VPN
5 47 (3.03%) Network Security
5 47 (3.03%) WAN
6 38 (2.45%) Broadband
7 35 (2.26%) DHCP
8 28 (1.81%) LAN
9 26 (1.68%) HTTP
10 22 (1.42%) BGP
11 16 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
11 16 (1.03%) VLAN
12 15 (0.97%) DSL
13 14 (0.90%) SD-WAN
14 12 (0.77%) Internet
15 11 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
15 11 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.52%) Wireless
17 6 (0.39%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (7.62%) NoSQL
2 112 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
3 93 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
4 64 (4.13%) SQL Server
5 63 (4.07%) DynamoDB
6 49 (3.16%) MongoDB
7 48 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
7 48 (3.10%) Relational Database
8 45 (2.91%) Data Lake
9 34 (2.19%) MySQL
10 33 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
10 33 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
11 29 (1.87%) BigQuery
12 28 (1.81%) Metadata
12 28 (1.81%) Redis
13 23 (1.48%) Power BI
14 20 (1.29%) Delta Lake
15 19 (1.23%) RDBMS
16 18 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
17 15 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 211 (13.62%) Jenkins
2 204 (13.17%) Git
3 202 (13.04%) GitLab
4 36 (2.32%) Bitbucket
4 36 (2.32%) CircleCI
5 35 (2.26%) JIRA
6 28 (1.81%) Cucumber
7 21 (1.36%) Jaeger
7 21 (1.36%) Selenium
8 17 (1.10%) JMeter
8 17 (1.10%) TeamCity
9 16 (1.03%) SonarQube
10 14 (0.90%) MLflow
10 14 (0.90%) Robot Framework
11 13 (0.84%) Locust
12 12 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 12 (0.77%) Subversion
13 9 (0.58%) NUnit
13 9 (0.58%) Storybook
13 9 (0.58%) Vite
General
1 407 (26.28%) Social Skills
2 361 (23.31%) Finance
3 127 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (6.26%) Banking
5 93 (6.00%) Public Sector
6 83 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 68 (4.39%) Retail
8 64 (4.13%) Law
9 57 (3.68%) Telecoms
10 26 (1.68%) Manufacturing
10 26 (1.68%) Marketing
11 24 (1.55%) Financial Institution
12 21 (1.36%) Aerospace
12 21 (1.36%) Billing
12 21 (1.36%) Games
13 20 (1.29%) Advertising
14 19 (1.23%) Back Office
15 18 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
16 17 (1.10%) Legal
17 16 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 350 (22.60%) Senior
2 245 (15.82%) DevOps Engineer
3 234 (15.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 219 (14.14%) Lead
5 150 (9.68%) Azure Engineer
6 146 (9.43%) Developer
7 129 (8.33%) Architect
8 127 (8.20%) Platform Engineer
9 115 (7.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 114 (7.36%) AWS Engineer
11 77 (4.97%) Software Engineer
12 71 (4.58%) Data Engineer
13 68 (4.39%) Security Engineer
14 64 (4.13%) Senior DevOps
15 56 (3.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 54 (3.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 52 (3.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 48 (3.10%) Cloud Security Engineer
19 45 (2.91%) Python Engineer
20 42 (2.71%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (8.91%) React
2 117 (7.55%) Node.js
3 101 (6.52%) .NET
4 94 (6.07%) REST
5 93 (6.00%) RESTful
6 92 (5.94%) Kafka
7 76 (4.91%) Elastic Stack
8 75 (4.84%) AWS CDK
9 69 (4.45%) OAuth
10 68 (4.39%) YAML
11 67 (4.33%) Spring
12 60 (3.87%) Spring Boot
13 49 (3.16%) RabbitMQ
14 48 (3.10%) ARM Templates
15 40 (2.58%) Django
16 37 (2.39%) OpenTelemetry
17 36 (2.32%) FastAPI
17 36 (2.32%) Next.js
17 36 (2.32%) PySpark
18 35 (2.26%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 360 (23.24%) Cloud Native
2 92 (5.94%) Distributed Systems
3 90 (5.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 65 (4.20%) Public Cloud
5 60 (3.87%) Product Ownership
6 58 (3.74%) Security Posture
7 44 (2.84%) Data Centre
8 40 (2.58%) Onboarding
9 39 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
10 33 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
11 25 (1.61%) Mobile App
11 25 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
12 24 (1.55%) Management Information System
13 22 (1.42%) Blockchain
13 22 (1.42%) PKI
14 20 (1.29%) Web3
15 19 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
16 18 (1.16%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 316 (20.40%) Linux
2 163 (10.52%) Windows
3 71 (4.58%) Unix
4 68 (4.39%) Windows Server
5 34 (2.19%) Ubuntu
6 29 (1.87%) VMS
7 25 (1.61%) CentOS
7 25 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 17 (1.10%) Android
9 16 (1.03%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.45%) Debian
11 5 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.26%) SUSE
13 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.065%) Rocky
14 1 (0.065%) Solaris
14 1 (0.065%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,066 (68.82%) CI/CD
2 966 (62.36%) DevOps
3 446 (28.79%) Agile
4 442 (28.53%) Containerisation
5 418 (26.99%) Observability
6 350 (22.60%) Continuous Improvement
7 312 (20.14%) Mentoring
8 290 (18.72%) Problem-Solving
9 267 (17.24%) Platform Engineering
10 259 (16.72%) Test Automation
11 248 (16.01%) Software Engineering
12 242 (15.62%) AI
13 224 (14.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 224 (14.46%) Microservices
14 210 (13.56%) Cloud Security
15 190 (12.27%) Analytics
16 173 (11.17%) Incident Response
17 168 (10.85%) DevSecOps
18 167 (10.78%) Technical Leadership
19 161 (10.39%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 702 (45.32%) Python
2 285 (18.40%) Bash
3 256 (16.53%) PowerShell
3 256 (16.53%) SQL
4 223 (14.40%) Java
5 158 (10.20%) Go
6 149 (9.62%) JavaScript
7 143 (9.23%) Bicep
8 137 (8.84%) TypeScript
9 103 (6.65%) C#
10 26 (1.68%) C++
11 22 (1.42%) Rust
12 20 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
13 19 (1.23%) Scala
14 14 (0.90%) Kotlin
15 13 (0.84%) C
16 9 (0.58%) Apex Code
16 9 (0.58%) Ruby
17 7 (0.45%) Perl
17 7 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 285 (18.40%) Security Cleared
2 170 (10.97%) SC Cleared
3 138 (8.91%) Degree
4 125 (8.07%) AWS Certification
5 93 (6.00%) DV Cleared
6 78 (5.04%) Azure Certification
7 56 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 30 (1.94%) OSCP
9 29 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 28 (1.81%) CISSP
11 22 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (1.23%) AWS Certified Developer
13 14 (0.90%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.84%) CCNP
15 12 (0.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 12 (0.77%) Master's Degree
16 11 (0.71%) CCNA
16 11 (0.71%) CCSK
17 10 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (5.10%) QA
2 69 (4.45%) GDPR
3 63 (4.07%) Data Quality
4 59 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 54 (3.49%) SOC 2
6 46 (2.97%) NIST
7 42 (2.71%) Accessibility
8 38 (2.45%) PCI DSS
9 17 (1.10%) WCAG
10 15 (0.97%) SLA
11 11 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.58%) GRC
13 8 (0.52%) NCSC
14 5 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.13%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.13%) EU AI Act
15 2 (0.13%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.13%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 477 (30.79%) Docker
2 98 (6.33%) Active Directory
3 74 (4.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (1.61%) vSphere
6 21 (1.36%) Hyper-V
7 18 (1.16%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.65%) Firmware
9 8 (0.52%) KVM
10 6 (0.39%) iptables
11 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 5 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.19%) Squid
13 2 (0.13%) GPFS
13 2 (0.13%) Lustre
13 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.13%) vCloud
14 1 (0.065%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,083 (69.92%) Terraform
2 608 (39.25%) Kubernetes
3 346 (22.34%) Ansible
4 217 (14.01%) Grafana
5 202 (13.04%) Prometheus
6 63 (4.07%) Argo
7 42 (2.71%) Microsoft Intune
8 38 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
9 32 (2.07%) Puppet
10 22 (1.42%) Kustomize
11 19 (1.23%) Rancher
12 17 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 16 (1.03%) Progress Chef
14 15 (0.97%) Istio
14 15 (0.97%) Nagios
15 13 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
16 12 (0.77%) Packer
17 10 (0.65%) AWS Copilot
18 9 (0.58%) logstash
18 9 (0.58%) yum
Vendors
1 281 (18.14%) Microsoft
2 122 (7.88%) Google
3 111 (7.17%) VMware
4 60 (3.87%) Databricks
5 59 (3.81%) Red Hat
6 52 (3.36%) Cisco
7 49 (3.16%) Splunk
8 38 (2.45%) Palo Alto
9 23 (1.48%) Zscaler
10 22 (1.42%) CrowdStrike
11 20 (1.29%) Dynatrace
11 20 (1.29%) OpenAI
11 20 (1.29%) Salesforce
12 17 (1.10%) Oracle
13 15 (0.97%) Atlassian
14 14 (0.90%) Juniper
15 13 (0.84%) Fortinet
16 12 (0.77%) SolarWinds
17 10 (0.65%) Foundry
17 10 (0.65%) Palantir