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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 132 157
Rank change year-on-year +24 +25 -54
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,511 940 1,700
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.81% 2.30% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 2.47% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 981 689 1,338
10th Percentile £48,000 £47,400 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £92,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £112,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,200 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.57% +7.69% -5.11%

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 63,393 38,022 79,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.08% 92.93% 86.08%
Number of salaries quoted 39,190 22,514 58,792
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,008
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.87% +7.38% -7.94%

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 10 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 10 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 +25 1,332 £75,000 -3.23% 672
UK excluding London +9 705 £68,200 -2.57% 486
London +41 661 £85,000 -5.56% 278
Work from Home +51 592 £70,000 -7.11% 338
North of England -19 258 £68,750 +1.85% 159
South East +13 149 £70,000 -6.67% 123
North West -9 128 £74,051 +2.14% 84
South West -15 100 £62,500 -13.18% 88
Yorkshire -15 97 £65,288 +13.54% 47
Midlands -11 82 £67,500 -3.57% 47
Scotland +3 54 £60,000 -14.89% 22
East Midlands -20 42 £67,500 +3.85% 6
West Midlands -12 38 £66,500 -5.00% 41
North East -11 33 £48,445 -15.01% 28
East of England -21 33 £62,500 -10.71% 35
Wales -13 23 £61,248 -0.61% 12
Northern Ireland -32 9 £95,000 - 7

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 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (2.51%) Apache
3 26 (1.72%) Apache Spark
4 25 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (1.06%) IIS
6 15 (0.99%) Confluence
7 11 (0.73%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.20%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.13%) CMS
11 1 (0.066%) Appian
11 1 (0.066%) Camunda
11 1 (0.066%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.066%) nginx
11 1 (0.066%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.066%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.33%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.26%) Weka
3 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.066%) Maya
5 1 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.066%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.066%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.066%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.066%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.066%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.066%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 924 (61.15%) AWS
2 826 (54.67%) Azure
3 330 (21.84%) GCP
4 314 (20.78%) GitHub
5 293 (19.39%) Azure DevOps
6 290 (19.19%) Serverless
7 263 (17.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 218 (14.43%) GitHub Actions
9 174 (11.52%) AWS Lambda
10 145 (9.60%) Amazon S3
11 133 (8.80%) Amazon EKS
12 121 (8.01%) PaaS
13 117 (7.74%) SaaS
14 115 (7.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 111 (7.35%) Entra ID
16 102 (6.75%) Datadog
17 91 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
18 86 (5.69%) Amazon ECS
19 82 (5.43%) Microsoft 365
20 80 (5.29%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 178 (11.78%) Firewall
2 88 (5.82%) DNS
3 79 (5.23%) TCP/IP
4 75 (4.96%) VPN
5 43 (2.85%) WAN
6 42 (2.78%) Network Security
7 38 (2.51%) Broadband
8 33 (2.18%) DHCP
9 23 (1.52%) HTTP
9 23 (1.52%) LAN
10 21 (1.39%) BGP
11 17 (1.13%) VLAN
12 16 (1.06%) Cisco ASA
13 15 (0.99%) DSL
14 12 (0.79%) Internet
14 12 (0.79%) SD-WAN
15 9 (0.60%) Software-Defined Networking
15 9 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.53%) Wireless
17 6 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (7.74%) NoSQL
2 106 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
3 94 (6.22%) Amazon RDS
4 63 (4.17%) SQL Server
5 59 (3.90%) DynamoDB
6 46 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
6 46 (3.04%) Relational Database
7 45 (2.98%) MongoDB
8 44 (2.91%) Data Lake
9 35 (2.32%) Elasticsearch
10 33 (2.18%) MySQL
11 32 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
12 31 (2.05%) Redis
13 28 (1.85%) BigQuery
14 24 (1.59%) Metadata
15 23 (1.52%) Power BI
16 19 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
16 19 (1.26%) Delta Lake
16 19 (1.26%) RDBMS
17 15 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 216 (14.30%) Jenkins
2 201 (13.30%) Git
3 199 (13.17%) GitLab
4 35 (2.32%) JIRA
5 34 (2.25%) Bitbucket
5 34 (2.25%) CircleCI
6 28 (1.85%) Cucumber
7 26 (1.72%) Selenium
8 21 (1.39%) Jaeger
9 19 (1.26%) Robot Framework
10 18 (1.19%) TeamCity
11 17 (1.13%) JMeter
11 17 (1.13%) SonarQube
12 15 (0.99%) MLflow
13 13 (0.86%) Locust
14 12 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 12 (0.79%) Subversion
15 11 (0.73%) Snyk
16 9 (0.60%) NUnit
16 9 (0.60%) Storybook
General
1 397 (26.27%) Social Skills
2 352 (23.30%) Finance
3 130 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (6.68%) Banking
5 94 (6.22%) Public Sector
6 86 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 69 (4.57%) Retail
8 68 (4.50%) Law
9 58 (3.84%) Telecoms
10 30 (1.99%) Financial Institution
11 26 (1.72%) Manufacturing
11 26 (1.72%) Marketing
12 22 (1.46%) Aerospace
12 22 (1.46%) Back Office
12 22 (1.46%) Billing
12 22 (1.46%) Games
13 19 (1.26%) Advertising
14 16 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
14 16 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (1.06%) Legal
Job Titles
1 337 (22.30%) Senior
2 248 (16.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 225 (14.89%) Cloud Engineer
4 208 (13.77%) Lead
5 147 (9.73%) Azure Engineer
6 144 (9.53%) Developer
7 126 (8.34%) Platform Engineer
8 122 (8.07%) Architect
9 112 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 111 (7.35%) AWS Engineer
11 72 (4.77%) Software Engineer
12 68 (4.50%) Data Engineer
13 62 (4.10%) Senior DevOps
14 61 (4.04%) Security Engineer
15 53 (3.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 53 (3.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 50 (3.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 46 (3.04%) Cloud Security Engineer
18 44 (2.91%) Python Engineer
19 43 (2.85%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (9.00%) React
2 111 (7.35%) Node.js
3 98 (6.49%) .NET
4 93 (6.15%) REST
5 91 (6.02%) RESTful
6 87 (5.76%) Kafka
7 79 (5.23%) Elastic Stack
8 72 (4.77%) AWS CDK
9 68 (4.50%) Spring
10 65 (4.30%) OAuth
11 64 (4.24%) YAML
12 61 (4.04%) Spring Boot
13 48 (3.18%) ARM Templates
14 47 (3.11%) Django
14 47 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
15 39 (2.58%) FastAPI
16 37 (2.45%) CSS
17 35 (2.32%) .NET Core
18 34 (2.25%) OpenTelemetry
18 34 (2.25%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 347 (22.96%) Cloud Native
2 88 (5.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 87 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
4 64 (4.24%) Public Cloud
5 59 (3.90%) Security Posture
6 56 (3.71%) Product Ownership
7 45 (2.98%) Data Centre
8 39 (2.58%) Onboarding
9 35 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
10 33 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
11 26 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
11 26 (1.72%) Management Information System
12 25 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
12 25 (1.65%) Mobile App
12 25 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (1.39%) Blockchain
13 21 (1.39%) PKI
14 19 (1.26%) Web3
15 18 (1.19%) Cloud Security Posture
15 18 (1.19%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 333 (22.04%) Linux
2 167 (11.05%) Windows
3 75 (4.96%) Unix
4 66 (4.37%) Windows Server
5 38 (2.51%) Ubuntu
6 29 (1.92%) VMS
7 28 (1.85%) CentOS
7 28 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 17 (1.13%) Android
9 16 (1.06%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.60%) Debian
11 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.26%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.26%) SUSE
13 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.066%) Rocky
14 1 (0.066%) Solaris
14 1 (0.066%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,036 (68.56%) CI/CD
2 948 (62.74%) DevOps
3 443 (29.32%) Agile
4 426 (28.19%) Containerisation
5 397 (26.27%) Observability
6 346 (22.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 300 (19.85%) Mentoring
8 289 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
9 248 (16.41%) Platform Engineering
9 248 (16.41%) Test Automation
10 236 (15.62%) Software Engineering
11 230 (15.22%) AI
12 218 (14.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 206 (13.63%) Cloud Security
13 206 (13.63%) Microservices
14 181 (11.98%) Analytics
15 173 (11.45%) Incident Response
16 163 (10.79%) DevSecOps
17 159 (10.52%) High Availability
18 155 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 691 (45.73%) Python
2 277 (18.33%) Bash
3 254 (16.81%) SQL
4 247 (16.35%) PowerShell
5 220 (14.56%) Java
6 157 (10.39%) Go
7 146 (9.66%) JavaScript
8 140 (9.27%) Bicep
9 124 (8.21%) TypeScript
10 94 (6.22%) C#
11 25 (1.65%) C++
12 20 (1.32%) Kusto Query Language
12 20 (1.32%) Rust
13 17 (1.13%) Kotlin
13 17 (1.13%) Scala
14 11 (0.73%) C
15 10 (0.66%) Apex Code
16 9 (0.60%) Ruby
17 8 (0.53%) Google Apps Script
18 7 (0.46%) Perl
Qualifications
1 282 (18.66%) Security Cleared
2 166 (10.99%) SC Cleared
3 133 (8.80%) Degree
4 123 (8.14%) AWS Certification
5 102 (6.75%) DV Cleared
6 81 (5.36%) Azure Certification
7 56 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 32 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 31 (2.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 30 (1.99%) OSCP
11 27 (1.79%) CISSP
12 20 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
13 16 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.79%) DBS Check
14 12 (0.79%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 11 (0.73%) CCNP
15 11 (0.73%) CCSK
16 10 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 8 (0.53%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (5.23%) QA
2 69 (4.57%) GDPR
3 59 (3.90%) Data Quality
3 59 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 55 (3.64%) SOC 2
5 46 (3.04%) NIST
6 41 (2.71%) PCI DSS
7 39 (2.58%) Accessibility
8 16 (1.06%) SLA
9 15 (0.99%) WCAG
10 11 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.53%) GRC
11 8 (0.53%) NCSC
12 5 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.26%) EU AI Act
14 2 (0.13%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.13%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.13%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 479 (31.70%) Docker
2 93 (6.15%) Active Directory
3 74 (4.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (1.59%) vSphere
6 23 (1.52%) Hyper-V
7 16 (1.06%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.73%) KVM
9 9 (0.60%) Firmware
10 6 (0.40%) iptables
11 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 5 (0.33%) vCloud
11 5 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.13%) GPFS
12 2 (0.13%) Lustre
12 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.066%) QEMU
13 1 (0.066%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1,069 (70.75%) Terraform
2 598 (39.58%) Kubernetes
3 352 (23.30%) Ansible
4 218 (14.43%) Grafana
5 200 (13.24%) Prometheus
6 60 (3.97%) Argo
7 41 (2.71%) Microsoft Intune
8 35 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
9 33 (2.18%) Puppet
10 19 (1.26%) Kustomize
10 19 (1.26%) Rancher
11 16 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 15 (0.99%) Nagios
12 15 (0.99%) Progress Chef
13 14 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
14 12 (0.79%) Istio
15 10 (0.66%) AWS Copilot
15 10 (0.66%) Packer
16 9 (0.60%) yum
17 8 (0.53%) logstash
Vendors
1 269 (17.80%) Microsoft
2 125 (8.27%) Google
3 111 (7.35%) VMware
4 57 (3.77%) Databricks
5 55 (3.64%) Red Hat
6 49 (3.24%) Cisco
6 49 (3.24%) Splunk
7 40 (2.65%) Palo Alto
8 23 (1.52%) Zscaler
9 21 (1.39%) Salesforce
10 19 (1.26%) CrowdStrike
10 19 (1.26%) Dynatrace
11 17 (1.13%) OpenAI
12 15 (0.99%) Oracle
13 14 (0.93%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.93%) Fortinet
13 14 (0.93%) Juniper
14 11 (0.73%) Black Duck
14 11 (0.73%) Coverity
14 11 (0.73%) New Relic