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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 155 173
Rank change year-on-year +75 +18 -62
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,856 951 1,690
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.01% 2.15% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 2.32% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,253 621 1,298
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 £96,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 67,331 40,980 87,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.88% 92.69% 82.42%
Number of salaries quoted 46,057 21,831 62,274
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% -9.54%
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 11 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 11 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 +75 1,693 £75,588 -4.09% 553
UK excluding London +81 872 £70,000 - 402
London +33 832 £87,500 -2.78% 234
Work from Home +96 677 £70,000 -7.11% 360
North of England +74 325 £67,500 -3.57% 111
South East +57 199 £70,000 -6.67% 137
North West +75 195 £74,651 +2.97% 68
Midlands +50 119 £70,079 +7.81% 39
South West +16 119 £73,750 +5.36% 61
Yorkshire -7 87 £65,576 -3.57% 22
West Midlands +19 70 £77,500 +10.71% 26
East Midlands +13 49 £67,500 +3.85% 13
East of England +8 48 £60,100 -7.54% 25
North East -9 43 £55,000 -15.38% 21
Scotland +15 38 £60,000 -20.38% 18
Wales -23 24 £68,500 +19.13% 7
Northern Ireland -32 3 £84,401 +95.86% 10

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 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (2.21%) Apache
3 37 (1.99%) Apache Spark
4 31 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 21 (1.13%) Confluence
6 14 (0.75%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.65%) IIS
8 10 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
9 7 (0.38%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.27%) CMS
11 4 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.11%) Camunda
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
14 1 (0.054%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (0.75%) PlantUML
2 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.22%) 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 1,083 (58.35%) AWS
2 982 (52.91%) Azure
3 355 (19.13%) GitHub
4 335 (18.05%) GCP
5 328 (17.67%) Serverless
6 301 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
7 286 (15.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 218 (11.75%) GitHub Actions
9 186 (10.02%) AWS Lambda
10 176 (9.48%) Amazon S3
11 160 (8.62%) PaaS
12 128 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
12 128 (6.90%) SaaS
13 121 (6.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 121 (6.52%) Entra ID
13 121 (6.52%) IaaS
14 117 (6.30%) Amazon EC2
15 106 (5.71%) Azure AKS
16 100 (5.39%) Datadog
17 94 (5.06%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 179 (9.64%) Firewall
2 97 (5.23%) DNS
3 87 (4.69%) VPN
4 75 (4.04%) Broadband
5 67 (3.61%) TCP/IP
6 63 (3.39%) Network Security
7 49 (2.64%) WAN
8 39 (2.10%) BGP
9 31 (1.67%) DHCP
10 28 (1.51%) VLAN
11 27 (1.45%) LAN
12 24 (1.29%) HTTP
13 20 (1.08%) OSPF
14 19 (1.02%) SD-WAN
14 19 (1.02%) Software-Defined Networking
15 17 (0.92%) Cisco ASA
16 16 (0.86%) DSL
17 15 (0.81%) VXLAN
18 10 (0.54%) IPv4
19 9 (0.48%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
2 134 (7.22%) NoSQL
3 92 (4.96%) Amazon RDS
4 88 (4.74%) MongoDB
5 66 (3.56%) DynamoDB
6 64 (3.45%) SQL Server
7 59 (3.18%) Relational Database
8 52 (2.80%) Data Lake
9 46 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
10 42 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
10 42 (2.26%) Metadata
11 30 (1.62%) BigQuery
11 30 (1.62%) MySQL
12 26 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
13 23 (1.24%) Power BI
13 23 (1.24%) Redis
14 20 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
14 20 (1.08%) Delta Lake
14 20 (1.08%) RDBMS
15 18 (0.97%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 260 (14.01%) GitLab
2 239 (12.88%) Git
3 234 (12.61%) Jenkins
4 44 (2.37%) CircleCI
5 36 (1.94%) Cucumber
6 35 (1.89%) JIRA
7 34 (1.83%) Bitbucket
8 22 (1.19%) TeamCity
9 20 (1.08%) Jaeger
10 15 (0.81%) SonarQube
11 13 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 13 (0.70%) Selenium
12 11 (0.59%) MLflow
12 11 (0.59%) Subversion
13 10 (0.54%) NUnit
13 10 (0.54%) Vite
14 9 (0.48%) JMeter
14 9 (0.48%) Maven
15 8 (0.43%) Storybook
16 7 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 449 (24.19%) Social Skills
2 372 (20.04%) Finance
3 134 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (6.79%) Public Sector
5 111 (5.98%) Banking
6 88 (4.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 62 (3.34%) Retail
8 57 (3.07%) Law
9 43 (2.32%) Games
9 43 (2.32%) Telecoms
10 30 (1.62%) Manufacturing
11 25 (1.35%) Aerospace
12 24 (1.29%) Legal
13 20 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
13 20 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
14 19 (1.02%) Advertising
15 18 (0.97%) Financial Institution
15 18 (0.97%) Marketing
16 16 (0.86%) Billing
17 12 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 422 (22.74%) Senior
2 306 (16.49%) DevOps Engineer
3 275 (14.82%) Cloud Engineer
4 256 (13.79%) Lead
5 195 (10.51%) Platform Engineer
6 182 (9.81%) Azure Engineer
7 174 (9.38%) Architect
8 168 (9.05%) Developer
9 140 (7.54%) AWS Engineer
10 120 (6.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 98 (5.28%) Software Engineer
12 95 (5.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 94 (5.06%) Data Engineer
14 85 (4.58%) Security Engineer
15 77 (4.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 68 (3.66%) Principal Engineer
16 68 (3.66%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 65 (3.50%) Senior DevOps
18 61 (3.29%) Senior Developer
19 56 (3.02%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (7.92%) React
2 132 (7.11%) Kafka
3 127 (6.84%) Node.js
4 126 (6.79%) REST
5 123 (6.63%) .NET
6 100 (5.39%) RESTful
7 89 (4.80%) Spring
8 86 (4.63%) YAML
9 84 (4.53%) Spring Boot
10 79 (4.26%) AWS CDK
11 69 (3.72%) Elastic Stack
12 60 (3.23%) ARM Templates
12 60 (3.23%) OAuth
13 59 (3.18%) PySpark
14 51 (2.75%) RabbitMQ
15 43 (2.32%) Next.js
16 42 (2.26%) JSON
17 40 (2.16%) AngularJS
17 40 (2.16%) OpenTelemetry
18 38 (2.05%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 498 (26.83%) Cloud Native
2 167 (9.00%) Distributed Systems
3 97 (5.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 85 (4.58%) Public Cloud
5 63 (3.39%) Data Centre
6 62 (3.34%) Product Ownership
7 58 (3.13%) Security Posture
8 53 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
9 52 (2.80%) Onboarding
10 48 (2.59%) Video\Live Streaming
11 36 (1.94%) Low-Code
12 35 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
13 27 (1.45%) PKI
14 26 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
15 25 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
15 25 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
16 24 (1.29%) Blockchain
16 24 (1.29%) Management Information System
16 24 (1.29%) Mobile App
17 22 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 343 (18.48%) Linux
2 170 (9.16%) Windows
3 88 (4.74%) Windows Server
4 52 (2.80%) Unix
5 46 (2.48%) Ubuntu
6 39 (2.10%) CentOS
7 28 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 27 (1.45%) VMS
9 15 (0.81%) Android
10 14 (0.75%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.38%) 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 1,314 (70.80%) CI/CD
2 1,064 (57.33%) DevOps
3 517 (27.86%) Observability
4 507 (27.32%) Containerisation
5 506 (27.26%) Agile
6 403 (21.71%) Platform Engineering
7 394 (21.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 389 (20.96%) Mentoring
9 368 (19.83%) AI
10 330 (17.78%) Software Engineering
11 328 (17.67%) Test Automation
12 297 (16.00%) Microservices
13 286 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
14 251 (13.52%) Cloud Security
15 248 (13.36%) Technical Leadership
16 244 (13.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 216 (11.64%) Analytics
18 195 (10.51%) Roadmaps
19 193 (10.40%) DevSecOps
20 181 (9.75%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 840 (45.26%) Python
2 324 (17.46%) Bash
3 295 (15.89%) SQL
4 292 (15.73%) PowerShell
5 265 (14.28%) Java
6 185 (9.97%) Go
7 177 (9.54%) TypeScript
8 174 (9.38%) JavaScript
9 162 (8.73%) Bicep
10 133 (7.17%) C#
11 31 (1.67%) Rust
12 27 (1.45%) C++
13 22 (1.19%) Scala
14 19 (1.02%) PHP
15 18 (0.97%) Groovy
15 18 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
16 13 (0.70%) Ruby
17 12 (0.65%) C
18 11 (0.59%) Kotlin
19 9 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 367 (19.77%) Security Cleared
2 238 (12.82%) SC Cleared
3 158 (8.51%) Degree
4 140 (7.54%) AWS Certification
5 101 (5.44%) Azure Certification
5 101 (5.44%) DV Cleared
6 60 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 46 (2.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 40 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 33 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
10 28 (1.51%) OSCP
11 20 (1.08%) CISSP
12 19 (1.02%) CCNP
13 16 (0.86%) DBS Check
14 15 (0.81%) CCNA
14 15 (0.81%) Master's Degree
15 12 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 12 (0.65%) RHCSA
16 10 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
17 9 (0.48%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (5.01%) QA
2 78 (4.20%) Data Quality
3 63 (3.39%) GDPR
4 51 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 48 (2.59%) SOC 2
6 39 (2.10%) NIST
7 33 (1.78%) Accessibility
8 32 (1.72%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.75%) SLA
9 14 (0.75%) WCAG
10 10 (0.54%) NCSC
11 9 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.48%) GRC
12 5 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.11%) IFRS
14 2 (0.11%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.11%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 499 (26.89%) Docker
2 115 (6.20%) Active Directory
3 97 (5.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
4 37 (1.99%) vSphere
5 22 (1.19%) VMware NSX
6 19 (1.02%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.43%) Squid
7 8 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
8 7 (0.38%) iptables
8 7 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.32%) Firmware
9 6 (0.32%) KVM
9 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,285 (69.23%) Terraform
2 703 (37.88%) Kubernetes
3 389 (20.96%) Ansible
4 222 (11.96%) Grafana
5 210 (11.31%) Prometheus
6 70 (3.77%) Argo
7 45 (2.42%) Single Sign-On
8 41 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
9 40 (2.16%) Puppet
10 27 (1.45%) Progress Chef
11 24 (1.29%) Kustomize
11 24 (1.29%) Packer
12 21 (1.13%) Nagios
13 20 (1.08%) Istio
14 17 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 14 (0.75%) Rancher
16 13 (0.70%) vCenter Server
16 13 (0.70%) ZABBIX
17 12 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
18 11 (0.59%) Cilium
Vendors
1 349 (18.80%) Microsoft
2 135 (7.27%) VMware
3 112 (6.03%) Google
4 75 (4.04%) Red Hat
5 74 (3.99%) Databricks
6 59 (3.18%) Splunk
7 57 (3.07%) Cisco
8 47 (2.53%) Palo Alto
9 32 (1.72%) Oracle
10 28 (1.51%) OpenAI
11 26 (1.40%) Fortinet
11 26 (1.40%) Zscaler
12 22 (1.19%) Dynatrace
13 17 (0.92%) CrowdStrike
14 16 (0.86%) Salesforce
15 13 (0.70%) CheckPoint
15 13 (0.70%) Foundry
16 12 (0.65%) F5
17 11 (0.59%) Atlassian
17 11 (0.59%) ServiceNow