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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 126 93
Rank change year-on-year +2 -33 +1
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,115 1,273 1,651
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.88% 2.30% 3.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% 2.56% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 789 778 1,331
10th Percentile £46,500 £45,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.33%
75th Percentile £88,500 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £66,175 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.78% +1.81% -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 48,671 49,754 47,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.04% 89.85% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 28,569 24,792 36,014
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,500 £45,000 £42,631
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -3.67%

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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 2025. 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 -8 932 £73,500 +1.38% 3,305
UK excluding London +3 561 £70,000 +5.78% 2,975
Work from Home +26 476 £72,500 +0.71% 1,900
London +2 430 £83,375 -7.36% 634
North of England -23 189 £70,000 +15.77% 677
South East +12 110 £75,000 +15.38% 754
Yorkshire -13 88 £70,000 +27.27% 277
Scotland +19 77 £70,039 +3.76% 134
North West -7 76 £70,000 +3.70% 339
South West -25 66 £62,500 -10.71% 343
Midlands +14 63 £67,250 +1.89% 514
West Midlands +5 41 £65,500 -1.87% 257
East of England +33 27 £67,500 -6.90% 439
North East +3 25 £67,539 +35.08% 62
Wales +16 23 £61,000 +1.67% 81
East Midlands 0 20 £67,500 +3.85% 224
Northern Ireland -8 8 £95,000 +11.76% 62

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 44 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (3.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 34 (3.05%) Apache
4 24 (2.15%) SharePoint
5 20 (1.79%) Apache Spark
6 19 (1.70%) Confluence
7 8 (0.72%) IIS
8 6 (0.54%) Appian
9 5 (0.45%) nginx
10 4 (0.36%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.090%) CMS
11 1 (0.090%) SAS
11 1 (0.090%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.090%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.090%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.090%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.090%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.090%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.090%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.090%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 701 (62.87%) Azure
2 657 (58.92%) AWS
3 287 (25.74%) Azure DevOps
4 260 (23.32%) GitHub
5 228 (20.45%) GCP
6 190 (17.04%) AWS CloudFormation
7 188 (16.86%) Serverless
8 171 (15.34%) GitHub Actions
9 130 (11.66%) AWS Lambda
10 107 (9.60%) Amazon S3
11 101 (9.06%) SaaS
12 97 (8.70%) PaaS
13 93 (8.34%) Microsoft 365
14 91 (8.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 89 (7.98%) Entra ID
16 85 (7.62%) Azure Monitor
17 75 (6.73%) Amazon EKS
18 72 (6.46%) Amazon ECS
19 68 (6.10%) Amazon EC2
20 62 (5.56%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 120 (10.76%) Firewall
2 79 (7.09%) DNS
3 68 (6.10%) VPN
4 57 (5.11%) TCP/IP
5 53 (4.75%) WAN
6 34 (3.05%) DHCP
6 34 (3.05%) LAN
6 34 (3.05%) Network Security
7 26 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (1.26%) BGP
8 14 (1.26%) SD-WAN
9 13 (1.17%) Internet
10 12 (1.08%) VLAN
10 12 (1.08%) VoIP
11 10 (0.90%) Broadband
11 10 (0.90%) Wireless
12 9 (0.81%) SAN
13 7 (0.63%) OSPF
13 7 (0.63%) Unified Communications
14 6 (0.54%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (6.28%) PostgreSQL
2 67 (6.01%) Amazon RDS
3 59 (5.29%) NoSQL
4 46 (4.13%) SQL Server
5 43 (3.86%) DynamoDB
6 41 (3.68%) Data Lake
7 32 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
8 28 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
8 28 (2.51%) Redis
9 26 (2.33%) BigQuery
9 26 (2.33%) MySQL
10 25 (2.24%) MongoDB
11 19 (1.70%) Relational Database
12 17 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
13 16 (1.43%) Power BI
14 13 (1.17%) Big Data
15 11 (0.99%) Delta Lake
16 9 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
16 9 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 177 (15.87%) Jenkins
2 157 (14.08%) Git
3 120 (10.76%) GitLab
4 35 (3.14%) JIRA
5 29 (2.60%) Selenium
6 25 (2.24%) Robot Framework
7 21 (1.88%) Snyk
8 17 (1.52%) Bitbucket
8 17 (1.52%) TeamCity
9 16 (1.43%) MLflow
10 14 (1.26%) CircleCI
11 13 (1.17%) Cucumber
11 13 (1.17%) SonarQube
12 12 (1.08%) JMeter
13 10 (0.90%) Artifactory
14 9 (0.81%) Jaeger
15 8 (0.72%) Locust
16 6 (0.54%) git-flow
16 6 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
17 5 (0.45%) Storybook
General
1 302 (27.09%) Social Skills
2 286 (25.65%) Finance
3 90 (8.07%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (5.38%) Banking
5 57 (5.11%) Law
6 54 (4.84%) Public Sector
7 44 (3.95%) Retail
8 40 (3.59%) Telecoms
9 36 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 27 (2.42%) Financial Institution
11 24 (2.15%) Games
12 21 (1.88%) Legal
13 20 (1.79%) Marketing
14 18 (1.61%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.43%) Billing
16 14 (1.26%) Advertising
16 14 (1.26%) Back Office
17 13 (1.17%) Electronics
18 12 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
19 11 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 246 (22.06%) Senior
2 178 (15.96%) DevOps Engineer
3 167 (14.98%) Cloud Engineer
4 118 (10.58%) Lead
5 110 (9.87%) Azure Engineer
6 105 (9.42%) Developer
7 103 (9.24%) Platform Engineer
8 99 (8.88%) Architect
9 71 (6.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 57 (5.11%) AWS Engineer
11 39 (3.50%) Data Engineer
11 39 (3.50%) Senior DevOps
12 38 (3.41%) Software Engineer
13 37 (3.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 35 (3.14%) Lead DevOps
14 35 (3.14%) Support Engineer
15 32 (2.87%) Security Engineer
15 32 (2.87%) Senior Cloud Engineer
16 25 (2.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 25 (2.24%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (8.88%) React
2 80 (7.17%) .NET
3 66 (5.92%) Node.js
4 65 (5.83%) RESTful
5 54 (4.84%) Elastic Stack
6 48 (4.30%) YAML
7 47 (4.22%) Kafka
8 46 (4.13%) ARM Templates
9 41 (3.68%) OAuth
10 39 (3.50%) Django
11 36 (3.23%) AWS CDK
12 33 (2.96%) REST
13 30 (2.69%) .NET Core
13 30 (2.69%) FastAPI
14 29 (2.60%) Spring
15 26 (2.33%) CSS
16 25 (2.24%) HTML
16 25 (2.24%) Spring Boot
17 21 (1.88%) Vue
18 20 (1.79%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 247 (22.15%) Cloud Native
2 68 (6.10%) Hybrid Cloud
3 56 (5.02%) Data Centre
4 55 (4.93%) Public Cloud
5 46 (4.13%) Product Ownership
6 40 (3.59%) Security Posture
7 39 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
8 33 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
9 27 (2.42%) Management Information System
9 27 (2.42%) Onboarding
10 23 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
11 19 (1.70%) PKI
12 18 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
13 16 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (1.35%) Low-Code
15 13 (1.17%) Data Structures
16 11 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
17 10 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
17 10 (0.90%) Private Cloud
17 10 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 258 (23.14%) Linux
2 139 (12.47%) Windows
3 57 (5.11%) Unix
4 45 (4.04%) Windows Server
5 29 (2.60%) VMS
6 23 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 23 (2.06%) Ubuntu
7 14 (1.26%) Debian
8 9 (0.81%) CentOS
9 5 (0.45%) Android
9 5 (0.45%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.36%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.27%) Solaris
11 3 (0.27%) SUSE
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.090%) AIX
13 1 (0.090%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 759 (68.07%) DevOps
2 748 (67.09%) CI/CD
3 348 (31.21%) Agile
4 287 (25.74%) Containerisation
5 242 (21.70%) Continuous Improvement
6 230 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
7 229 (20.54%) Observability
8 190 (17.04%) Mentoring
9 168 (15.07%) Platform Engineering
10 162 (14.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 160 (14.35%) AI
12 152 (13.63%) Cloud Security
13 147 (13.18%) Analytics
14 139 (12.47%) Software Engineering
15 127 (11.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 125 (11.21%) Incident Response
17 123 (11.03%) Test Automation
18 119 (10.67%) Roadmaps
19 112 (10.04%) DevSecOps
19 112 (10.04%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 494 (44.30%) Python
2 229 (20.54%) PowerShell
3 213 (19.10%) Bash
4 180 (16.14%) SQL
5 147 (13.18%) Bicep
6 106 (9.51%) Java
7 90 (8.07%) JavaScript
8 84 (7.53%) TypeScript
9 82 (7.35%) C#
10 77 (6.91%) Go
11 13 (1.17%) C++
12 12 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
12 12 (1.08%) Shell Script
13 10 (0.90%) Scala
14 8 (0.72%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.63%) C
16 5 (0.45%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.45%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
17 4 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 211 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 138 (12.38%) SC Cleared
3 103 (9.24%) AWS Certification
4 88 (7.89%) Azure Certification
5 84 (7.53%) DV Cleared
6 78 (7.00%) Degree
7 39 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (3.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 31 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (2.33%) CISSP
11 22 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (1.70%) CCNP
12 19 (1.70%) Master's Degree
13 13 (1.17%) AWS Certified Developer
13 13 (1.17%) OSCP
14 9 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (0.81%) CISM
15 7 (0.63%) MCP
15 7 (0.63%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (5.65%) GDPR
2 59 (5.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 46 (4.13%) NIST
4 41 (3.68%) QA
5 29 (2.60%) Accessibility
5 29 (2.60%) Data Quality
5 29 (2.60%) SOC 2
6 22 (1.97%) PCI DSS
7 13 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
7 13 (1.17%) SLA
8 11 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (0.72%) WCAG
10 6 (0.54%) GRC
11 5 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.45%) NCSC
12 4 (0.36%) EU AI Act
13 2 (0.18%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.18%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 376 (33.72%) Docker
2 72 (6.46%) Active Directory
3 71 (6.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (2.60%) Hyper-V
6 26 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (1.43%) vSphere
8 11 (0.99%) Firmware
8 11 (0.99%) NFS
8 11 (0.99%) vCloud
9 8 (0.72%) KVM
9 8 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.54%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.45%) XenApp
11 5 (0.45%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.18%) GPFS
13 2 (0.18%) Lustre
13 2 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.18%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 810 (72.65%) Terraform
2 430 (38.57%) Kubernetes
3 286 (25.65%) Ansible
4 149 (13.36%) Grafana
5 134 (12.02%) Prometheus
6 47 (4.22%) Microsoft Intune
7 35 (3.14%) Argo
8 19 (1.70%) SCCM
9 18 (1.61%) Puppet
10 14 (1.26%) Docker Swarm
10 14 (1.26%) Rancher
11 12 (1.08%) AWS Copilot
11 12 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
12 11 (0.99%) Progress Chef
13 9 (0.81%) SCOM
14 7 (0.63%) Kustomize
15 5 (0.45%) Istio
15 5 (0.45%) linkerd
15 5 (0.45%) MaaS360
15 5 (0.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 238 (21.35%) Microsoft
2 102 (9.15%) VMware
3 88 (7.89%) Google
4 48 (4.30%) Cisco
5 41 (3.68%) Databricks
6 38 (3.41%) Splunk
7 35 (3.14%) Red Hat
8 26 (2.33%) Palo Alto
9 21 (1.88%) Black Duck
10 20 (1.79%) Coverity
11 17 (1.52%) Salesforce
12 16 (1.43%) Oracle
13 15 (1.35%) Zscaler
14 14 (1.26%) Ab Initio
15 13 (1.17%) SAP
16 12 (1.08%) Atlassian
17 11 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
17 11 (0.99%) SolarWinds
18 10 (0.90%) Juniper
18 10 (0.90%) New Relic