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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 150 172
Rank change year-on-year +71 +22 -62
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,867 953 1,695
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.02% 2.15% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 2.32% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,260 623 1,299
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
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 £90,000 £95,625 £88,750
90th Percentile £107,625 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +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 67,454 41,012 87,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.86% 92.64% 82.31%
Number of salaries quoted 46,240 21,844 62,402
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £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 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 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 12 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 +74 1,703 £77,500 - 470
UK excluding London +83 873 £70,000 - 368
London +35 840 £87,500 -2.78% 193
Work from Home +98 677 £70,000 -7.11% 310
North of England +72 325 £67,500 -3.57% 93
South East +51 197 £70,000 -6.67% 135
North West +79 196 £75,000 +3.45% 56
South West +11 123 £73,750 +5.36% 57
Midlands +48 118 £70,079 +7.81% 37
Yorkshire -4 87 £65,576 -2.49% 19
West Midlands +15 69 £77,500 +19.23% 25
East of England +8 49 £60,100 -7.54% 23
East Midlands +3 49 £67,500 +3.85% 12
North East -6 42 £55,000 -15.38% 18
Scotland +11 38 £60,000 -20.38% 12
Wales -23 23 £69,250 +20.43% 7
Northern Ireland -31 3 £84,401 +95.86% 11

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 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (2.20%) Apache
3 38 (2.04%) Apache Spark
4 31 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 21 (1.12%) Confluence
6 14 (0.75%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.64%) IIS
8 10 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
9 7 (0.37%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.27%) CMS
11 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.11%) Camunda
13 2 (0.11%) WordPress
14 1 (0.054%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.054%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.054%) NetWeaver
14 1 (0.054%) nginx
14 1 (0.054%) NServiceBus
14 1 (0.054%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (0.75%) PlantUML
2 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.21%) Weka
4 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.054%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.054%) Maya
5 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.054%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.054%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1,094 (58.60%) AWS
2 983 (52.65%) Azure
3 359 (19.23%) GitHub
4 333 (17.84%) GCP
5 332 (17.78%) Serverless
6 301 (16.12%) Azure DevOps
7 286 (15.32%) AWS CloudFormation
8 221 (11.84%) GitHub Actions
9 191 (10.23%) AWS Lambda
10 180 (9.64%) Amazon S3
11 158 (8.46%) PaaS
12 129 (6.91%) Amazon EKS
13 128 (6.86%) SaaS
14 124 (6.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 121 (6.48%) Amazon EC2
16 120 (6.43%) Entra ID
17 119 (6.37%) IaaS
18 106 (5.68%) Azure AKS
19 100 (5.36%) Datadog
20 96 (5.14%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 181 (9.69%) Firewall
2 97 (5.20%) DNS
3 87 (4.66%) VPN
4 75 (4.02%) Broadband
5 67 (3.59%) TCP/IP
6 65 (3.48%) Network Security
7 50 (2.68%) WAN
8 40 (2.14%) BGP
9 31 (1.66%) DHCP
10 29 (1.55%) VLAN
11 27 (1.45%) LAN
12 24 (1.29%) HTTP
13 20 (1.07%) OSPF
13 20 (1.07%) SD-WAN
13 20 (1.07%) Software-Defined Networking
14 17 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
15 16 (0.86%) DSL
16 15 (0.80%) VXLAN
17 10 (0.54%) IPv4
18 9 (0.48%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (7.66%) PostgreSQL
2 136 (7.28%) NoSQL
3 95 (5.09%) Amazon RDS
4 89 (4.77%) MongoDB
5 66 (3.54%) DynamoDB
6 64 (3.43%) SQL Server
7 59 (3.16%) Relational Database
8 51 (2.73%) Data Lake
9 46 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
10 43 (2.30%) Metadata
11 42 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
12 31 (1.66%) MySQL
13 29 (1.55%) BigQuery
14 28 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
15 25 (1.34%) Redis
16 23 (1.23%) Power BI
17 22 (1.18%) Delta Lake
18 20 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
18 20 (1.07%) RDBMS
19 19 (1.02%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 262 (14.03%) GitLab
2 243 (13.02%) Git
3 236 (12.64%) Jenkins
4 44 (2.36%) CircleCI
5 36 (1.93%) Cucumber
6 35 (1.87%) JIRA
7 34 (1.82%) Bitbucket
8 24 (1.29%) TeamCity
9 20 (1.07%) Jaeger
10 15 (0.80%) SonarQube
11 14 (0.75%) Selenium
12 13 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 12 (0.64%) Subversion
14 11 (0.59%) MLflow
15 10 (0.54%) NUnit
15 10 (0.54%) Vite
16 9 (0.48%) JMeter
16 9 (0.48%) Maven
17 7 (0.37%) Artifactory
17 7 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 446 (23.89%) Social Skills
2 377 (20.19%) Finance
3 134 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (6.80%) Public Sector
5 113 (6.05%) Banking
6 88 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 63 (3.37%) Retail
8 57 (3.05%) Law
9 43 (2.30%) Games
9 43 (2.30%) Telecoms
10 30 (1.61%) Manufacturing
11 26 (1.39%) Aerospace
12 24 (1.29%) Legal
13 20 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
13 20 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
14 19 (1.02%) Advertising
15 18 (0.96%) Financial Institution
15 18 (0.96%) Marketing
16 16 (0.86%) Billing
17 12 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 424 (22.71%) Senior
2 309 (16.55%) DevOps Engineer
3 275 (14.73%) Cloud Engineer
4 260 (13.93%) Lead
5 200 (10.71%) Platform Engineer
6 181 (9.69%) Azure Engineer
7 178 (9.53%) Architect
8 169 (9.05%) Developer
9 142 (7.61%) AWS Engineer
10 118 (6.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 98 (5.25%) Data Engineer
11 98 (5.25%) Software Engineer
12 96 (5.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 86 (4.61%) Security Engineer
14 77 (4.12%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 70 (3.75%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 69 (3.70%) Principal Engineer
17 65 (3.48%) Senior DevOps
18 61 (3.27%) Senior Developer
19 56 (3.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (7.93%) React
2 134 (7.18%) Kafka
3 128 (6.86%) Node.js
4 127 (6.80%) REST
5 123 (6.59%) .NET
6 100 (5.36%) RESTful
7 91 (4.87%) Spring
8 86 (4.61%) Spring Boot
8 86 (4.61%) YAML
9 81 (4.34%) AWS CDK
10 71 (3.80%) Elastic Stack
11 62 (3.32%) PySpark
12 60 (3.21%) OAuth
13 59 (3.16%) ARM Templates
14 52 (2.79%) RabbitMQ
15 44 (2.36%) Next.js
16 42 (2.25%) AngularJS
16 42 (2.25%) JSON
17 41 (2.20%) OpenTelemetry
18 39 (2.09%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 501 (26.83%) Cloud Native
2 169 (9.05%) Distributed Systems
3 98 (5.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 86 (4.61%) Public Cloud
5 64 (3.43%) Data Centre
6 63 (3.37%) Product Ownership
7 58 (3.11%) Security Posture
8 54 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
8 54 (2.89%) Onboarding
9 48 (2.57%) Video\Live Streaming
10 36 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
10 36 (1.93%) Low-Code
11 28 (1.50%) PKI
12 26 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
13 25 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
13 25 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
14 24 (1.29%) Blockchain
14 24 (1.29%) Management Information System
15 23 (1.23%) Mobile App
16 22 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 351 (18.80%) Linux
2 172 (9.21%) Windows
3 86 (4.61%) Windows Server
4 51 (2.73%) Unix
5 46 (2.46%) Ubuntu
6 41 (2.20%) CentOS
7 28 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 27 (1.45%) VMS
9 15 (0.80%) Android
10 14 (0.75%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.37%) Debian
13 5 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.054%) AIX
15 1 (0.054%) Rocky
15 1 (0.054%) SUSE
15 1 (0.054%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,322 (70.81%) CI/CD
2 1,067 (57.15%) DevOps
3 518 (27.75%) Observability
4 510 (27.32%) Agile
5 505 (27.05%) Containerisation
6 409 (21.91%) Platform Engineering
7 393 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 390 (20.89%) Mentoring
9 370 (19.82%) AI
10 335 (17.94%) Software Engineering
11 332 (17.78%) Test Automation
12 301 (16.12%) Microservices
13 281 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
14 253 (13.55%) Cloud Security
15 251 (13.44%) Technical Leadership
16 243 (13.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 220 (11.78%) Analytics
18 197 (10.55%) Roadmaps
19 195 (10.44%) DevSecOps
20 181 (9.69%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 846 (45.31%) Python
2 329 (17.62%) Bash
3 295 (15.80%) SQL
4 292 (15.64%) PowerShell
5 269 (14.41%) Java
6 187 (10.02%) Go
7 179 (9.59%) TypeScript
8 176 (9.43%) JavaScript
9 165 (8.84%) Bicep
10 134 (7.18%) C#
11 32 (1.71%) Rust
12 27 (1.45%) C++
13 24 (1.29%) Scala
14 19 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
14 19 (1.02%) PHP
15 18 (0.96%) Groovy
16 15 (0.80%) Ruby
17 12 (0.64%) C
18 11 (0.59%) Kotlin
19 9 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 373 (19.98%) Security Cleared
2 240 (12.85%) SC Cleared
3 161 (8.62%) Degree
4 142 (7.61%) AWS Certification
5 103 (5.52%) DV Cleared
6 102 (5.46%) Azure Certification
7 61 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 46 (2.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 41 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
10 33 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (1.50%) OSCP
12 20 (1.07%) CISSP
13 19 (1.02%) CCNP
14 16 (0.86%) DBS Check
14 16 (0.86%) Master's Degree
15 15 (0.80%) CCNA
16 13 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 12 (0.64%) RHCSA
18 10 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
19 9 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (5.03%) QA
2 78 (4.18%) Data Quality
3 62 (3.32%) GDPR
4 51 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 48 (2.57%) SOC 2
6 38 (2.04%) NIST
7 33 (1.77%) Accessibility
8 31 (1.66%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.80%) WCAG
10 14 (0.75%) SLA
11 10 (0.54%) GRC
11 10 (0.54%) NCSC
12 9 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
15 2 (0.11%) IFRS
15 2 (0.11%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.11%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 499 (26.73%) Docker
2 114 (6.11%) Active Directory
3 98 (5.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
5 37 (1.98%) vSphere
6 22 (1.18%) VMware NSX
7 19 (1.02%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.43%) Squid
10 7 (0.37%) iptables
10 7 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.32%) Firmware
11 6 (0.32%) KVM
11 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,295 (69.36%) Terraform
2 708 (37.92%) Kubernetes
3 394 (21.10%) Ansible
4 224 (12.00%) Grafana
5 210 (11.25%) Prometheus
6 70 (3.75%) Argo
7 45 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
8 41 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 41 (2.20%) Puppet
9 27 (1.45%) Packer
9 27 (1.45%) Progress Chef
10 24 (1.29%) Kustomize
11 22 (1.18%) Nagios
12 19 (1.02%) Istio
13 17 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 14 (0.75%) Rancher
14 14 (0.75%) vCenter Server
14 14 (0.75%) ZABBIX
15 12 (0.64%) Cilium
16 11 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 347 (18.59%) Microsoft
2 136 (7.28%) VMware
3 111 (5.95%) Google
4 77 (4.12%) Red Hat
5 75 (4.02%) Databricks
6 60 (3.21%) Splunk
7 57 (3.05%) Cisco
8 47 (2.52%) Palo Alto
9 33 (1.77%) Oracle
10 28 (1.50%) OpenAI
11 26 (1.39%) Fortinet
11 26 (1.39%) Zscaler
12 21 (1.12%) Dynatrace
13 17 (0.91%) CrowdStrike
14 15 (0.80%) Salesforce
15 13 (0.70%) CheckPoint
15 13 (0.70%) Foundry
16 12 (0.64%) F5
17 11 (0.59%) Rapid7
17 11 (0.59%) ServiceNow