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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 162 151
Rank change year-on-year +88 -11 -50
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,394 1,020 1,408
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.24% 2.04% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.05% 2.28% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,591 716 1,005
10th Percentile £48,959 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £106,250 £102,500
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 78,515 44,640 67,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.47% 89.25% 80.94%
Number of salaries quoted 54,079 25,322 43,171
10th Percentile £30,975 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,236 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 16 August 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 16 August 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 +84 2,103 £77,500 - 1,464
UK excluding London +110 1,293 £70,000 - 805
London +28 934 £90,000 +2.86% 825
Work from Home +74 832 £72,500 -6.45% 700
North of England +92 443 £70,000 - 238
South East +67 253 £67,500 -12.90% 190
North West +95 247 £72,500 +3.57% 136
South West +46 225 £75,000 - 142
Midlands +43 148 £75,000 +15.38% 68
Yorkshire +14 104 £72,500 +3.57% 64
North East +14 92 £57,000 -21.38% 38
West Midlands +16 91 £80,000 +23.08% 41
Wales -5 67 £70,000 +16.67% 27
Northern Ireland -19 59 £71,991 +67.07% 38
East Midlands +15 57 £67,500 +3.85% 27
East of England -7 56 £70,000 +7.69% 34
Scotland +22 53 £72,500 +7.41% 72

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 60 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
2 59 (2.46%) Apache Spark
3 55 (2.30%) Apache
4 29 (1.21%) Confluence
4 29 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.54%) Jupyter
6 9 (0.38%) IIS
6 9 (0.38%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.21%) CMS
8 4 (0.17%) Camunda
8 4 (0.17%) nginx
9 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.13%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.13%) WordPress
10 2 (0.084%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.042%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.042%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.042%) JBoss
11 1 (0.042%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 21 (0.88%) PlantUML
2 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.084%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.084%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.084%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.042%) Maya
5 1 (0.042%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.13%) Summit
4 2 (0.084%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,362 (56.89%) AWS
2 1,293 (54.01%) Azure
3 457 (19.09%) GCP
4 419 (17.50%) GitHub
5 384 (16.04%) Serverless
6 381 (15.91%) AWS CloudFormation
7 321 (13.41%) Azure DevOps
8 229 (9.57%) GitHub Actions
9 214 (8.94%) AWS Lambda
10 209 (8.73%) Amazon S3
11 183 (7.64%) PaaS
12 149 (6.22%) Amazon EC2
13 145 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
14 140 (5.85%) Amazon ECS
15 136 (5.68%) SaaS
16 128 (5.35%) Azure AKS
16 128 (5.35%) IaaS
17 127 (5.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 124 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
19 112 (4.68%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 175 (7.31%) Firewall
2 117 (4.89%) WAN
3 115 (4.80%) DNS
4 110 (4.59%) Network Security
5 107 (4.47%) VPN
6 97 (4.05%) LAN
7 74 (3.09%) TCP/IP
8 54 (2.26%) Broadband
9 52 (2.17%) BGP
10 41 (1.71%) DHCP
11 36 (1.50%) OSPF
12 34 (1.42%) VLAN
13 27 (1.13%) VXLAN
14 26 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
15 24 (1.00%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.67%) HTTP
17 15 (0.63%) Wireless
18 14 (0.58%) SAN
19 13 (0.54%) Ethernet VPN
20 12 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
2 149 (6.22%) NoSQL
3 105 (4.39%) Amazon RDS
4 99 (4.14%) MongoDB
5 84 (3.51%) SQL Server
6 81 (3.38%) DynamoDB
7 63 (2.63%) Data Lake
8 62 (2.59%) MySQL
9 55 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
10 54 (2.26%) Relational Database
11 53 (2.21%) Metadata
12 43 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
13 35 (1.46%) Redis
14 32 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
15 30 (1.25%) Delta Lake
16 29 (1.21%) Big Data
17 27 (1.13%) BigQuery
18 25 (1.04%) Power BI
19 22 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
19 22 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 316 (13.20%) Git
2 291 (12.16%) GitLab
3 257 (10.74%) Jenkins
4 53 (2.21%) JIRA
5 44 (1.84%) Cucumber
6 32 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 32 (1.34%) CircleCI
7 31 (1.29%) Bitbucket
8 27 (1.13%) TeamCity
9 21 (0.88%) Selenium
10 18 (0.75%) Claude Code
11 16 (0.67%) SonarQube
12 15 (0.63%) Cypress.io
12 15 (0.63%) NUnit
13 12 (0.50%) MLflow
14 11 (0.46%) Maven
14 11 (0.46%) Subversion
15 9 (0.38%) JMeter
15 9 (0.38%) MSI
15 9 (0.38%) Snyk
General
1 660 (27.57%) Social Skills
2 548 (22.89%) Finance
3 220 (9.19%) Public Sector
4 190 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
5 142 (5.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 130 (5.43%) Banking
7 119 (4.97%) Law
8 72 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
9 65 (2.72%) Retail
10 49 (2.05%) Aerospace
11 46 (1.92%) Games
11 46 (1.92%) Marketing
12 39 (1.63%) Legal
13 31 (1.29%) Manufacturing
13 31 (1.29%) Telecoms
14 21 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
15 18 (0.75%) Aviation
15 18 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
16 17 (0.71%) Advertising
17 15 (0.63%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 550 (22.97%) Senior
2 405 (16.92%) DevOps Engineer
3 349 (14.58%) Lead
4 320 (13.37%) Architect
5 287 (11.99%) Cloud Engineer
6 236 (9.86%) Platform Engineer
7 207 (8.65%) Developer
8 186 (7.77%) Azure Engineer
9 148 (6.18%) Software Engineer
10 143 (5.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 140 (5.85%) AWS Engineer
12 123 (5.14%) Data Engineer
13 116 (4.85%) Principal Engineer
14 109 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 95 (3.97%) Security Engineer
16 86 (3.59%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 78 (3.26%) Senior DevOps
18 75 (3.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 74 (3.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 71 (2.97%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (8.19%) React
2 179 (7.48%) Kafka
3 178 (7.44%) .NET
4 155 (6.47%) Node.js
4 155 (6.47%) REST
5 145 (6.06%) Spring
6 143 (5.97%) Spring Boot
7 138 (5.76%) RESTful
8 97 (4.05%) AWS CDK
9 76 (3.17%) PySpark
10 75 (3.13%) YAML
11 70 (2.92%) ARM Templates
12 61 (2.55%) AngularJS
13 60 (2.51%) Next.js
14 59 (2.46%) RabbitMQ
15 52 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
16 51 (2.13%) OAuth
17 44 (1.84%) ASP.NET
18 42 (1.75%) CSS
19 41 (1.71%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 702 (29.32%) Cloud Native
2 251 (10.48%) Distributed Systems
3 124 (5.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 120 (5.01%) Onboarding
5 119 (4.97%) Public Cloud
6 90 (3.76%) Data Centre
7 85 (3.55%) Product Ownership
8 69 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
9 68 (2.84%) Security Posture
10 61 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
11 53 (2.21%) Enterprise Cloud
12 46 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
13 45 (1.88%) Video\Live Streaming
14 39 (1.63%) Virtual Team
15 37 (1.55%) Management Information System
16 36 (1.50%) Low-Code
16 36 (1.50%) Private Cloud
17 33 (1.38%) e-Learning
18 31 (1.29%) AI Agents
18 31 (1.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 400 (16.71%) Linux
2 226 (9.44%) Windows
3 101 (4.22%) Windows Server
4 59 (2.46%) CentOS
5 45 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (1.67%) Ubuntu
6 40 (1.67%) Unix
7 22 (0.92%) VMS
8 5 (0.21%) Android
8 5 (0.21%) Debian
8 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.17%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.13%) AIX
11 2 (0.084%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.084%) Solaris
12 1 (0.042%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.042%) Rocky
12 1 (0.042%) SUSE
12 1 (0.042%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,682 (70.26%) CI/CD
2 1,317 (55.01%) DevOps
3 703 (29.37%) Containerisation
4 664 (27.74%) Observability
5 661 (27.61%) Agile
6 555 (23.18%) Platform Engineering
7 539 (22.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 524 (21.89%) Mentoring
9 511 (21.35%) AI
10 501 (20.93%) Software Engineering
11 417 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
12 411 (17.17%) Microservices
12 411 (17.17%) Technical Leadership
13 383 (16.00%) Test Automation
14 358 (14.95%) Cloud Security
15 339 (14.16%) Roadmaps
16 320 (13.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 266 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 260 (10.86%) Event-Driven
19 257 (10.74%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,040 (43.44%) Python
2 371 (15.50%) Java
3 367 (15.33%) SQL
4 366 (15.29%) Bash
5 339 (14.16%) PowerShell
6 227 (9.48%) Bicep
7 217 (9.06%) TypeScript
8 195 (8.15%) JavaScript
9 184 (7.69%) C#
10 163 (6.81%) Go
11 47 (1.96%) Ruby
12 40 (1.67%) Scala
13 37 (1.55%) PHP
14 25 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
14 25 (1.04%) Rust
15 23 (0.96%) C++
15 23 (0.96%) Groovy
16 21 (0.88%) Perl
17 13 (0.54%) Shell Script
18 11 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 569 (23.77%) Security Cleared
2 361 (15.08%) SC Cleared
3 204 (8.52%) Degree
4 187 (7.81%) DV Cleared
5 186 (7.77%) AWS Certification
6 145 (6.06%) Azure Certification
7 88 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 84 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 57 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 52 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
11 36 (1.50%) CCNP
12 32 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
13 30 (1.25%) Master's Degree
14 23 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
15 21 (0.88%) CISSP
16 20 (0.84%) OSCP
17 18 (0.75%) CCNA
18 15 (0.63%) DBS Check
18 15 (0.63%) SnowPro
19 14 (0.58%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (5.43%) QA
2 105 (4.39%) Data Quality
3 73 (3.05%) GDPR
4 70 (2.92%) GRC
5 58 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (2.09%) Accessibility
7 39 (1.63%) NIST
8 34 (1.42%) SOC 2
9 26 (1.09%) NCSC
9 26 (1.09%) PCI DSS
10 25 (1.04%) WCAG
11 18 (0.75%) SLA
12 10 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.29%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.084%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.084%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.084%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.084%) Solvency II
System Software
1 626 (26.15%) Docker
2 133 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 130 (5.43%) Active Directory
4 46 (1.92%) vSphere
5 34 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (1.00%) Hyper-V
7 21 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (0.75%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.38%) KVM
11 8 (0.33%) Firmware
11 8 (0.33%) Squid
11 8 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.17%) iptables
14 3 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 2 (0.084%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 1,609 (67.21%) Terraform
2 888 (37.09%) Kubernetes
3 482 (20.13%) Ansible
4 242 (10.11%) Grafana
5 177 (7.39%) Prometheus
6 70 (2.92%) Argo
7 58 (2.42%) Puppet
8 36 (1.50%) Progress Chef
9 34 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
9 34 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
10 29 (1.21%) Istio
11 27 (1.13%) Packer
12 23 (0.96%) Nagios
13 16 (0.67%) FortiGate
13 16 (0.67%) vCenter Server
14 14 (0.58%) Cilium
15 12 (0.50%) Kustomize
15 12 (0.50%) ZABBIX
16 11 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 11 (0.46%) Rancher
Vendors
1 526 (21.97%) Microsoft
2 161 (6.73%) VMware
3 140 (5.85%) Google
4 103 (4.30%) Databricks
5 92 (3.84%) Red Hat
6 89 (3.72%) Splunk
7 73 (3.05%) Cisco
8 68 (2.84%) Oracle
9 48 (2.01%) Palo Alto
10 42 (1.75%) OpenAI
11 40 (1.67%) Fortinet
12 39 (1.63%) Dynatrace
13 25 (1.04%) Zscaler
14 23 (0.96%) ServiceNow
15 17 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
16 16 (0.67%) SAP
17 14 (0.58%) Atlassian
18 13 (0.54%) F5
18 13 (0.54%) Rapid7
19 12 (0.50%) ScienceLogic