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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 133 155
Rank change year-on-year +26 +22 -49
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,496 938 1,703
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.80% 2.29% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 2.47% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 975 688 1,346
10th Percentile £47,617 £47,350 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,891 £60,000 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,640 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +4.33% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £92,500
90th Percentile £109,000 £112,875 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,450 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.21% +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 63,076 38,012 79,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.08% 92.99% 86.12%
Number of salaries quoted 38,955 22,518 58,781
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +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 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -8.26%

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 9 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 9 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 +29 1,318 £75,000 -3.23% 672
UK excluding London +13 697 £68,450 -2.21% 486
London +41 655 £85,000 -5.56% 278
Work from Home +50 585 £70,000 -7.11% 338
North of England -23 254 £70,000 +3.70% 159
South East +9 149 £70,000 -6.67% 123
North West -11 126 £74,051 +2.14% 84
South West -3 98 £62,500 -13.18% 88
Yorkshire -20 96 £65,000 +13.04% 47
Midlands -4 80 £67,500 -3.57% 47
Scotland +4 54 £60,000 -14.89% 22
East Midlands -22 40 £67,500 +3.85% 6
West Midlands -17 38 £66,500 -5.00% 41
East of England -9 33 £62,500 -10.71% 35
North East -15 32 £48,445 -15.75% 28
Wales -11 23 £61,248 -0.61% 12
Northern Ireland -33 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 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (2.47%) Apache
3 25 (1.67%) Apache Spark
3 25 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (1.07%) IIS
5 15 (1.00%) Confluence
6 11 (0.74%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.20%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.13%) CMS
10 1 (0.067%) Appian
10 1 (0.067%) Camunda
10 1 (0.067%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.067%) nginx
10 1 (0.067%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.33%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.27%) 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 (0.067%) Maya
5 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.067%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.067%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.067%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.067%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.067%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 916 (61.23%) AWS
2 821 (54.88%) Azure
3 326 (21.79%) GCP
4 314 (20.99%) GitHub
5 290 (19.39%) Azure DevOps
6 287 (19.18%) Serverless
7 259 (17.31%) AWS CloudFormation
8 218 (14.57%) GitHub Actions
9 173 (11.56%) AWS Lambda
10 145 (9.69%) Amazon S3
11 128 (8.56%) Amazon EKS
12 120 (8.02%) PaaS
13 116 (7.75%) SaaS
14 115 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 111 (7.42%) Entra ID
16 102 (6.82%) Datadog
17 91 (6.08%) Amazon EC2
18 85 (5.68%) Amazon ECS
19 81 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
20 78 (5.21%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 177 (11.83%) Firewall
2 87 (5.82%) DNS
3 78 (5.21%) TCP/IP
4 74 (4.95%) VPN
5 42 (2.81%) WAN
6 41 (2.74%) Network Security
7 38 (2.54%) Broadband
8 32 (2.14%) DHCP
9 23 (1.54%) HTTP
10 22 (1.47%) LAN
11 21 (1.40%) BGP
12 17 (1.14%) VLAN
13 16 (1.07%) Cisco ASA
14 15 (1.00%) DSL
15 12 (0.80%) Internet
15 12 (0.80%) SD-WAN
16 9 (0.60%) Software-Defined Networking
16 9 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
17 8 (0.53%) Wireless
18 6 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (7.75%) NoSQL
2 104 (6.95%) PostgreSQL
3 94 (6.28%) Amazon RDS
4 63 (4.21%) SQL Server
5 58 (3.88%) DynamoDB
6 46 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
6 46 (3.07%) Relational Database
7 44 (2.94%) Data Lake
8 43 (2.87%) MongoDB
9 34 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
10 32 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
10 32 (2.14%) MySQL
11 31 (2.07%) Redis
12 28 (1.87%) BigQuery
13 23 (1.54%) Metadata
13 23 (1.54%) Power BI
14 19 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
14 19 (1.27%) RDBMS
15 18 (1.20%) Delta Lake
16 15 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 217 (14.51%) Jenkins
2 199 (13.30%) Git
3 198 (13.24%) GitLab
4 35 (2.34%) JIRA
5 34 (2.27%) CircleCI
6 33 (2.21%) Bitbucket
7 29 (1.94%) Cucumber
8 26 (1.74%) Selenium
9 21 (1.40%) Jaeger
10 19 (1.27%) Robot Framework
11 18 (1.20%) TeamCity
12 17 (1.14%) JMeter
12 17 (1.14%) SonarQube
13 15 (1.00%) MLflow
14 13 (0.87%) Locust
15 12 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 11 (0.74%) Snyk
17 10 (0.67%) Subversion
18 9 (0.60%) NUnit
18 9 (0.60%) Storybook
General
1 393 (26.27%) Social Skills
2 351 (23.46%) Finance
3 132 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (6.75%) Banking
5 93 (6.22%) Public Sector
6 85 (5.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 69 (4.61%) Law
8 68 (4.55%) Retail
9 59 (3.94%) Telecoms
10 30 (2.01%) Financial Institution
11 27 (1.80%) Manufacturing
11 27 (1.80%) Marketing
12 22 (1.47%) Billing
12 22 (1.47%) Games
13 21 (1.40%) Back Office
14 20 (1.34%) Aerospace
15 19 (1.27%) Advertising
16 18 (1.20%) Legal
17 16 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
17 16 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 332 (22.19%) Senior
2 246 (16.44%) DevOps Engineer
3 224 (14.97%) Cloud Engineer
4 206 (13.77%) Lead
5 143 (9.56%) Azure Engineer
5 143 (9.56%) Developer
6 124 (8.29%) Platform Engineer
7 121 (8.09%) Architect
8 111 (7.42%) AWS Engineer
9 108 (7.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 71 (4.75%) Software Engineer
11 68 (4.55%) Data Engineer
12 61 (4.08%) Senior DevOps
13 60 (4.01%) Security Engineer
14 52 (3.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 51 (3.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 48 (3.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 46 (3.07%) Cloud Security Engineer
18 43 (2.87%) AWS DevOps
18 43 (2.87%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (8.89%) React
2 108 (7.22%) Node.js
3 97 (6.48%) .NET
4 92 (6.15%) REST
5 90 (6.02%) RESTful
6 88 (5.88%) Kafka
7 79 (5.28%) Elastic Stack
8 71 (4.75%) AWS CDK
9 68 (4.55%) Spring
10 64 (4.28%) OAuth
10 64 (4.28%) YAML
11 61 (4.08%) Spring Boot
12 47 (3.14%) ARM Templates
13 46 (3.07%) Django
13 46 (3.07%) RabbitMQ
14 38 (2.54%) FastAPI
15 37 (2.47%) CSS
16 35 (2.34%) .NET Core
17 34 (2.27%) JSON
17 34 (2.27%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 342 (22.86%) Cloud Native
2 87 (5.82%) Distributed Systems
3 85 (5.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 64 (4.28%) Public Cloud
5 59 (3.94%) Security Posture
6 55 (3.68%) Product Ownership
7 45 (3.01%) Data Centre
8 39 (2.61%) Onboarding
9 35 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
10 33 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
11 27 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
12 26 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
12 26 (1.74%) Management Information System
13 25 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
14 24 (1.60%) Mobile App
15 21 (1.40%) Blockchain
15 21 (1.40%) PKI
16 19 (1.27%) Web3
17 18 (1.20%) Cloud Security Posture
17 18 (1.20%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 328 (21.93%) Linux
2 167 (11.16%) Windows
3 75 (5.01%) Unix
4 66 (4.41%) Windows Server
5 37 (2.47%) Ubuntu
6 29 (1.94%) VMS
7 27 (1.80%) CentOS
7 27 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 16 (1.07%) Android
9 15 (1.00%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.53%) Debian
11 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.27%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.27%) SUSE
13 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.067%) Rocky
14 1 (0.067%) Solaris
14 1 (0.067%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,030 (68.85%) CI/CD
2 938 (62.70%) DevOps
3 439 (29.34%) Agile
4 422 (28.21%) Containerisation
5 391 (26.14%) Observability
6 344 (22.99%) Continuous Improvement
7 297 (19.85%) Mentoring
8 286 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
9 247 (16.51%) Test Automation
10 243 (16.24%) Platform Engineering
11 236 (15.78%) Software Engineering
12 227 (15.17%) AI
13 212 (14.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 203 (13.57%) Cloud Security
15 202 (13.50%) Microservices
16 179 (11.97%) Analytics
17 173 (11.56%) Incident Response
18 162 (10.83%) DevSecOps
19 156 (10.43%) High Availability
20 154 (10.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 683 (45.66%) Python
2 276 (18.45%) Bash
3 252 (16.84%) SQL
4 247 (16.51%) PowerShell
5 215 (14.37%) Java
6 153 (10.23%) Go
7 145 (9.69%) JavaScript
8 140 (9.36%) Bicep
9 123 (8.22%) TypeScript
10 93 (6.22%) C#
11 25 (1.67%) C++
12 20 (1.34%) Kusto Query Language
12 20 (1.34%) Rust
13 17 (1.14%) Kotlin
14 16 (1.07%) Scala
15 11 (0.74%) C
16 10 (0.67%) Apex Code
17 9 (0.60%) Ruby
18 8 (0.53%) Google Apps Script
19 7 (0.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 278 (18.58%) Security Cleared
2 165 (11.03%) SC Cleared
3 132 (8.82%) Degree
4 125 (8.36%) AWS Certification
5 101 (6.75%) DV Cleared
6 81 (5.41%) Azure Certification
7 56 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 32 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 32 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (1.94%) OSCP
10 27 (1.80%) CISSP
11 20 (1.34%) AWS Certified Developer
12 15 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
13 12 (0.80%) Master's Degree
14 11 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 11 (0.74%) CCSK
14 11 (0.74%) DBS Check
15 10 (0.67%) CCNP
15 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 7 (0.47%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (5.15%) QA
2 68 (4.55%) GDPR
3 59 (3.94%) Data Quality
4 58 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 55 (3.68%) SOC 2
6 46 (3.07%) NIST
7 41 (2.74%) PCI DSS
8 39 (2.61%) Accessibility
9 17 (1.14%) SLA
10 15 (1.00%) WCAG
11 11 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.53%) GRC
12 8 (0.53%) NCSC
13 5 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.27%) EU AI Act
15 2 (0.13%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.13%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.13%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 477 (31.89%) Docker
2 92 (6.15%) Active Directory
3 74 (4.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (1.60%) vSphere
6 23 (1.54%) Hyper-V
7 16 (1.07%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.74%) 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 (0.067%) QEMU
13 1 (0.067%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1,059 (70.79%) Terraform
2 590 (39.44%) Kubernetes
3 347 (23.20%) Ansible
4 218 (14.57%) Grafana
5 200 (13.37%) Prometheus
6 58 (3.88%) Argo
7 41 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
8 35 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
9 30 (2.01%) Puppet
10 19 (1.27%) Kustomize
11 16 (1.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 16 (1.07%) Rancher
12 15 (1.00%) Nagios
12 15 (1.00%) Progress Chef
13 14 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
14 12 (0.80%) Istio
15 10 (0.67%) AWS Copilot
15 10 (0.67%) Packer
16 8 (0.53%) logstash
16 8 (0.53%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 269 (17.98%) Microsoft
2 124 (8.29%) Google
3 111 (7.42%) VMware
4 55 (3.68%) Databricks
5 54 (3.61%) Red Hat
6 49 (3.28%) Cisco
6 49 (3.28%) Splunk
7 40 (2.67%) Palo Alto
8 23 (1.54%) Zscaler
9 21 (1.40%) Salesforce
10 19 (1.27%) CrowdStrike
10 19 (1.27%) Dynatrace
11 17 (1.14%) OpenAI
12 15 (1.00%) Oracle
13 14 (0.94%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.94%) Fortinet
13 14 (0.94%) Juniper
14 11 (0.74%) Coverity
14 11 (0.74%) New Relic
14 11 (0.74%) SAP