Infrastructure as Code Jobs

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 165 102
Rank change year-on-year +11 -63 -6
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 943 1,707 3,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.87% 1.84% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 2.12% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 695 1,332 2,324
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,597 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.14% -3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £93,778 £94,063 £93,750
90th Percentile £113,250 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +8.00%

All Process and 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 47,280 80,404 105,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.55% 86.78% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 25,837 58,088 61,888
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £34,095
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £54,590
% change year-on-year +5.20% -8.41% +3.98%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code.

Salary trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Top 18 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 2 April 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 +5 868 £77,500 +6.90% 1,389
London +17 448 £90,000 - 925
UK excluding London -17 443 £70,000 +7.69% 599
Work from Home 0 372 £75,780 +7.37% 836
North of England -1 169 £67,500 +7.51% 168
North West -21 102 £72,500 +14.17% 111
South East +41 100 £73,750 +9.26% 190
South West +5 66 £71,991 +2.01% 94
Yorkshire +32 52 £57,500 -8.41% 47
Midlands -24 48 £65,000 - 38
Scotland +67 40 £70,500 +2.17% 39
West Midlands -15 39 £70,000 +3.70% 16
East of England +13 17 £71,250 +8.58% 30
North East +12 15 £57,500 -8.41% 11
East Midlands +5 9 £65,000 +8.33% 22
Wales +31 7 £60,000 -7.69% 17
Northern Ireland +35 4 - - 23
Isle of Man +11 2 £34,500 -

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (1.70%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.17%) Confluence
4 11 (1.17%) nginx
5 10 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.95%) Apache
7 5 (0.53%) NetWeaver
7 5 (0.53%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.53%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.42%) CMS
8 4 (0.42%) IBM Domino
8 4 (0.42%) IIS
8 4 (0.42%) Luigi
9 3 (0.32%) WordPress
10 2 (0.21%) CICS
10 2 (0.21%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.11%) Liferay
Applications
1 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.21%) Simulink
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.53%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 3 (0.32%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.21%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.11%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 529 (56.10%) Azure
2 506 (53.66%) AWS
3 229 (24.28%) GCP
4 142 (15.06%) Serverless
5 139 (14.74%) GitHub
6 135 (14.32%) Azure DevOps
7 116 (12.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 100 (10.60%) PaaS
9 92 (9.76%) SaaS
10 91 (9.65%) AWS Lambda
11 83 (8.80%) Amazon S3
12 61 (6.47%) Amazon EKS
13 60 (6.36%) Entra ID
14 58 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
14 58 (6.15%) GitHub Actions
15 55 (5.83%) IaaS
16 50 (5.30%) Datadog
17 46 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
18 43 (4.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 42 (4.45%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (7.00%) Firewall
2 52 (5.51%) DNS
3 49 (5.20%) VPN
4 45 (4.77%) Network Security
5 17 (1.80%) WAN
6 15 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (1.38%) TCP/IP
8 12 (1.27%) 5G
9 11 (1.17%) Bluetooth
9 11 (1.17%) LTE
10 10 (1.06%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.95%) DHCP
11 9 (0.95%) LAN
12 8 (0.85%) SAN
13 7 (0.74%) IPsec
13 7 (0.74%) IPv4
14 6 (0.64%) Internet
14 6 (0.64%) VLAN
14 6 (0.64%) Wireless
15 5 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (5.51%) NoSQL
2 49 (5.20%) SQL Server
3 40 (4.24%) DynamoDB
4 31 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
5 30 (3.18%) MySQL
6 27 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
6 27 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
7 23 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
8 21 (2.23%) Big Data
9 20 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (2.12%) MongoDB
10 19 (2.01%) BigQuery
10 19 (2.01%) Data Lake
11 15 (1.59%) Power BI
12 12 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (1.27%) Relational Database
13 11 (1.17%) Hadoop
14 10 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
14 10 (1.06%) Redis
15 9 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 151 (16.01%) Jenkins
2 122 (12.94%) Git
3 102 (10.82%) GitLab
4 34 (3.61%) SonarQube
5 31 (3.29%) Maven
5 31 (3.29%) Sonatype Nexus
6 29 (3.08%) CircleCI
7 28 (2.97%) JUnit
8 22 (2.33%) JIRA
9 20 (2.12%) Cucumber
10 19 (2.01%) TeamCity
11 15 (1.59%) IntelliJ
12 14 (1.48%) Mockito
13 13 (1.38%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.85%) Artifactory
15 7 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
16 6 (0.64%) Terragrunt
17 5 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
18 3 (0.32%) MLflow
19 2 (0.21%) Storybook
General
1 278 (29.48%) Social Skills
2 250 (26.51%) Finance
3 88 (9.33%) Banking
4 45 (4.77%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (4.56%) Public Sector
6 40 (4.24%) Law
7 37 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 28 (2.97%) Telecoms
9 27 (2.86%) Legal
10 20 (2.12%) Games
11 16 (1.70%) Retail
12 15 (1.59%) Advertising
12 15 (1.59%) Electronics
13 13 (1.38%) Marketing
14 11 (1.17%) Financial Institution
15 10 (1.06%) Investment Banking
15 10 (1.06%) Local Government
16 9 (0.95%) Front Office
17 8 (0.85%) Automotive
17 8 (0.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 192 (20.36%) Senior
2 175 (18.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 156 (16.54%) Cloud Engineer
4 137 (14.53%) Lead
5 110 (11.66%) Platform Engineer
6 109 (11.56%) Architect
7 92 (9.76%) Azure Engineer
8 80 (8.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 80 (8.48%) Software Engineer
9 65 (6.89%) Developer
10 53 (5.62%) AWS Engineer
11 49 (5.20%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 49 (5.20%) Senior DevOps
12 47 (4.98%) Cloud Architect
13 41 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
14 39 (4.14%) Data Engineer
14 39 (4.14%) Security Engineer
15 36 (3.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 35 (3.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 32 (3.39%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (7.21%) .NET
2 65 (6.89%) ARM Templates
3 56 (5.94%) REST
4 55 (5.83%) React
5 51 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
5 51 (5.41%) Kafka
6 49 (5.20%) Node.js
7 45 (4.77%) Spring
7 45 (4.77%) Spring Boot
8 41 (4.35%) RESTful
9 31 (3.29%) AWS CDK
10 29 (3.08%) AngularJS
11 20 (2.12%) CSS
12 19 (2.01%) YAML
13 18 (1.91%) HTML
13 18 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
14 15 (1.59%) Web Services
15 14 (1.48%) ActiveMQ
15 14 (1.48%) Hibernate
15 14 (1.48%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 134 (14.21%) Cloud Native
2 112 (11.88%) Public Cloud
3 69 (7.32%) Management Information System
4 53 (5.62%) Hybrid Cloud
5 47 (4.98%) Product Ownership
6 40 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
7 36 (3.82%) Security Posture
8 29 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
9 25 (2.65%) Data Centre
10 17 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (1.80%) IoT
10 17 (1.80%) Private Cloud
11 15 (1.59%) PKI
11 15 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (1.48%) Credit Derivative
13 13 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.38%) Onboarding
14 12 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
15 11 (1.17%) Hedge funds
15 11 (1.17%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 224 (23.75%) Linux
2 139 (14.74%) Windows
3 56 (5.94%) Windows Server
4 27 (2.86%) Unix
5 24 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (1.91%) VMS
7 12 (1.27%) CentOS
8 6 (0.64%) Android
8 6 (0.64%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.53%) AIX
10 4 (0.42%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.32%) Debian
11 3 (0.32%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.32%) zOS
12 2 (0.21%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.21%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 636 (67.44%) CI/CD
2 600 (63.63%) DevOps
3 259 (27.47%) Containerisation
4 217 (23.01%) Agile
5 169 (17.92%) Software Engineering
6 161 (17.07%) Platform Engineering
7 152 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
8 149 (15.80%) Cloud Security
9 144 (15.27%) Analytics
10 138 (14.63%) Microservices
11 136 (14.42%) Mentoring
12 115 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 106 (11.24%) Deployment Automation
14 101 (10.71%) Roadmaps
15 99 (10.50%) Continuous Improvement
16 86 (9.12%) High Availability
17 85 (9.01%) Test Automation
18 81 (8.59%) Observability
19 79 (8.38%) Configuration Management
20 76 (8.06%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 438 (46.45%) Python
2 218 (23.12%) PowerShell
3 158 (16.76%) Bash
4 153 (16.22%) Java
5 123 (13.04%) SQL
6 102 (10.82%) Bicep
7 78 (8.27%) JavaScript
8 69 (7.32%) TypeScript
9 65 (6.89%) Go
10 52 (5.51%) C#
11 35 (3.71%) Ruby
12 22 (2.33%) Scala
13 20 (2.12%) C++
14 9 (0.95%) C
15 8 (0.85%) R
15 8 (0.85%) Rust
16 7 (0.74%) PHP
16 7 (0.74%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.64%) Perl
Qualifications
1 122 (12.94%) Degree
2 99 (10.50%) Security Cleared
3 72 (7.64%) Azure Certification
4 68 (7.21%) AWS Certification
5 65 (6.89%) SC Cleared
6 50 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 33 (3.50%) DV Cleared
8 32 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (3.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 26 (2.76%) Master's Degree
11 12 (1.27%) CISSP
12 11 (1.17%) CompTIA Security+
12 11 (1.17%) Network+ Certification
13 10 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 7 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.64%) CCSP
16 6 (0.64%) CISM
16 6 (0.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 5 (0.53%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (7.10%) GDPR
2 39 (4.14%) QA
3 33 (3.50%) NIST
4 30 (3.18%) HIPAA
4 30 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (2.33%) PCI DSS
6 19 (2.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 17 (1.80%) Data Quality
8 13 (1.38%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.74%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.11%) Basel III
12 1 (0.11%) IFRS
12 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.11%) NCSC
12 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 322 (34.15%) Docker
2 66 (7.00%) Active Directory
3 56 (5.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 48 (5.09%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (2.55%) vSphere
6 16 (1.70%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (1.48%) Hyper-V
8 12 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.32%) LXC
10 2 (0.21%) HDFS
10 2 (0.21%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.11%) GPFS
11 1 (0.11%) Lustre
11 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 684 (72.53%) Terraform
2 423 (44.86%) Kubernetes
3 277 (29.37%) Ansible
4 80 (8.48%) Grafana
5 77 (8.17%) Prometheus
5 77 (8.17%) Puppet
6 58 (6.15%) Progress Chef
7 31 (3.29%) Istio
8 23 (2.44%) Podman
9 19 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
10 16 (1.70%) Argo
11 13 (1.38%) CASB
12 9 (0.95%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.85%) SCCM
13 8 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.74%) Kibana
14 7 (0.74%) Nagios
15 6 (0.64%) Kustomize
15 6 (0.64%) linkerd
Vendors
1 179 (18.98%) Microsoft
2 82 (8.70%) Google
3 69 (7.32%) VMware
4 40 (4.24%) Databricks
5 31 (3.29%) IBM
6 25 (2.65%) Splunk
7 22 (2.33%) Cisco
8 20 (2.12%) Oracle
9 19 (2.01%) Red Hat
10 16 (1.70%) Atlassian
11 12 (1.27%) SAP
12 10 (1.06%) SolarWinds
13 9 (0.95%) Palo Alto
14 8 (0.85%) Citrix
15 7 (0.74%) Meraki
16 6 (0.64%) Dell
16 6 (0.64%) MicroStrategy
16 6 (0.64%) ServiceNow
17 5 (0.53%) Hitachi
17 5 (0.53%) OpenAI