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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 156 170
Rank change year-on-year +64 +14 -63
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,783 904 1,676
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.91% 2.12% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.59% 2.27% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,189 613 1,304
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,200 £48,750
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 £105,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -6.40%

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 68,898 39,816 83,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.92% 93.23% 83.93%
Number of salaries quoted 44,884 20,923 60,289
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,000 £39,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,033 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% +5.51% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,324 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.29% +2.65% -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 28 May 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 28 May 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 +62 1,620 £77,500 -1.66% 688
UK excluding London +69 831 £67,500 -3.57% 457
London +33 798 £87,500 -2.78% 314
Work from Home +90 652 £70,000 -7.11% 355
North of England +55 307 £67,374 -3.75% 157
South East +51 189 £70,000 -6.67% 132
North West +59 180 £74,651 +2.97% 84
South West -3 113 £72,500 +2.12% 63
Midlands +34 112 £68,000 -2.86% 44
Yorkshire -15 89 £65,576 -1.39% 37
West Midlands +1 61 £72,500 +3.57% 30
East Midlands +10 51 £67,500 +3.85% 14
East of England -3 48 £60,100 -7.54% 25
Scotland +11 44 £60,000 -20.38% 22
North East -15 38 £52,500 -20.48% 36
Wales -29 17 £61,250 +2.08% 10
Northern Ireland -30 4 £95,000 - 9

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 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (2.24%) Apache
3 33 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (1.12%) Confluence
6 14 (0.79%) IIS
6 14 (0.79%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.28%) CMS
9 4 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.11%) Camunda
12 1 (0.056%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.056%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.056%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.056%) nginx
12 1 (0.056%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.056%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.056%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (0.67%) PlantUML
2 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.22%) Weka
4 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.056%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.056%) Maya
5 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.056%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.056%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.056%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,041 (58.38%) AWS
2 949 (53.22%) Azure
3 345 (19.35%) GitHub
4 322 (18.06%) GCP
5 318 (17.84%) Serverless
6 301 (16.88%) Azure DevOps
7 274 (15.37%) AWS CloudFormation
8 219 (12.28%) GitHub Actions
9 184 (10.32%) AWS Lambda
10 169 (9.48%) Amazon S3
11 142 (7.96%) PaaS
12 125 (7.01%) Amazon EKS
13 121 (6.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 118 (6.62%) SaaS
15 117 (6.56%) Entra ID
16 112 (6.28%) Amazon EC2
17 111 (6.23%) IaaS
18 102 (5.72%) Datadog
19 99 (5.55%) Azure AKS
20 93 (5.22%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 176 (9.87%) Firewall
2 97 (5.44%) DNS
3 76 (4.26%) VPN
4 68 (3.81%) TCP/IP
5 63 (3.53%) Broadband
6 57 (3.20%) Network Security
7 45 (2.52%) WAN
8 34 (1.91%) DHCP
9 33 (1.85%) BGP
10 26 (1.46%) LAN
11 24 (1.35%) HTTP
12 22 (1.23%) VLAN
13 18 (1.01%) Software-Defined Networking
14 17 (0.95%) Cisco ASA
14 17 (0.95%) SD-WAN
15 15 (0.84%) DSL
15 15 (0.84%) OSPF
16 11 (0.62%) VXLAN
17 9 (0.50%) IPv4
17 9 (0.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (7.40%) NoSQL
2 125 (7.01%) PostgreSQL
3 92 (5.16%) Amazon RDS
4 75 (4.21%) MongoDB
5 68 (3.81%) DynamoDB
6 67 (3.76%) SQL Server
7 56 (3.14%) Relational Database
8 53 (2.97%) Data Lake
9 46 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
10 40 (2.24%) Metadata
11 39 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
12 28 (1.57%) BigQuery
12 28 (1.57%) MySQL
13 26 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
14 22 (1.23%) Redis
15 20 (1.12%) Delta Lake
15 20 (1.12%) Power BI
16 18 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
16 18 (1.01%) RDBMS
17 17 (0.95%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 246 (13.80%) GitLab
2 241 (13.52%) Git
3 229 (12.84%) Jenkins
4 46 (2.58%) CircleCI
5 35 (1.96%) Bitbucket
6 33 (1.85%) Cucumber
6 33 (1.85%) JIRA
7 20 (1.12%) Jaeger
8 19 (1.07%) TeamCity
9 16 (0.90%) Selenium
9 16 (0.90%) SonarQube
10 12 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 12 (0.67%) Subversion
11 10 (0.56%) JMeter
11 10 (0.56%) MLflow
12 9 (0.50%) Maven
12 9 (0.50%) NUnit
12 9 (0.50%) Storybook
13 8 (0.45%) Robot Framework
14 7 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 435 (24.40%) Social Skills
2 378 (21.20%) Finance
3 128 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (6.56%) Public Sector
5 108 (6.06%) Banking
6 76 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 63 (3.53%) Retail
8 52 (2.92%) Law
9 46 (2.58%) Telecoms
10 36 (2.02%) Games
11 32 (1.79%) Manufacturing
12 24 (1.35%) Aerospace
13 21 (1.18%) Legal
13 21 (1.18%) Marketing
14 20 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
15 19 (1.07%) Advertising
15 19 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
16 18 (1.01%) Billing
17 17 (0.95%) Financial Institution
18 12 (0.67%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 401 (22.49%) Senior
2 293 (16.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 268 (15.03%) Cloud Engineer
4 252 (14.13%) Lead
5 177 (9.93%) Platform Engineer
6 175 (9.81%) Azure Engineer
7 163 (9.14%) Developer
8 161 (9.03%) Architect
9 138 (7.74%) AWS Engineer
10 122 (6.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 97 (5.44%) Software Engineer
12 91 (5.10%) Data Engineer
13 87 (4.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 81 (4.54%) Security Engineer
15 68 (3.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 68 (3.81%) Senior DevOps
16 63 (3.53%) Principal Engineer
17 61 (3.42%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 58 (3.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 53 (2.97%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (8.13%) React
2 128 (7.18%) Node.js
3 126 (7.07%) .NET
4 125 (7.01%) Kafka
5 120 (6.73%) REST
6 98 (5.50%) RESTful
7 86 (4.82%) YAML
8 84 (4.71%) Spring
9 79 (4.43%) AWS CDK
10 77 (4.32%) Spring Boot
11 68 (3.81%) Elastic Stack
12 66 (3.70%) OAuth
13 56 (3.14%) ARM Templates
14 54 (3.03%) PySpark
15 50 (2.80%) RabbitMQ
16 45 (2.52%) JSON
17 39 (2.19%) ASP.NET
18 38 (2.13%) AngularJS
19 37 (2.08%) ASP.NET Core
19 37 (2.08%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 440 (24.68%) Cloud Native
2 146 (8.19%) Distributed Systems
3 91 (5.10%) Hybrid Cloud
4 78 (4.37%) Public Cloud
5 61 (3.42%) Product Ownership
6 58 (3.25%) Data Centre
7 51 (2.86%) Security Posture
8 49 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
9 46 (2.58%) Onboarding
10 39 (2.19%) Video\Live Streaming
11 32 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
12 29 (1.63%) Low-Code
13 27 (1.51%) PKI
14 26 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
15 25 (1.40%) Blockchain
15 25 (1.40%) Management Information System
15 25 (1.40%) Mobile App
16 23 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
16 23 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
16 23 (1.29%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 345 (19.35%) Linux
2 167 (9.37%) Windows
3 84 (4.71%) Windows Server
4 54 (3.03%) Unix
5 44 (2.47%) Ubuntu
6 36 (2.02%) CentOS
7 27 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 25 (1.40%) VMS
9 15 (0.84%) Android
10 14 (0.79%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.39%) Debian
11 7 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.11%) SUSE
14 1 (0.056%) Rocky
14 1 (0.056%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,261 (70.72%) CI/CD
2 1,049 (58.83%) DevOps
3 491 (27.54%) Agile
4 487 (27.31%) Containerisation
5 482 (27.03%) Observability
6 377 (21.14%) Mentoring
7 376 (21.09%) Platform Engineering
8 373 (20.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 335 (18.79%) AI
10 319 (17.89%) Test Automation
11 306 (17.16%) Software Engineering
12 286 (16.04%) Microservices
13 281 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
14 240 (13.46%) Cloud Security
15 232 (13.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 231 (12.96%) Technical Leadership
17 209 (11.72%) Analytics
18 196 (10.99%) DevSecOps
19 180 (10.10%) High Availability
20 177 (9.93%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 808 (45.32%) Python
2 317 (17.78%) Bash
3 288 (16.15%) PowerShell
4 280 (15.70%) SQL
5 253 (14.19%) Java
6 174 (9.76%) Go
7 171 (9.59%) JavaScript
8 170 (9.53%) TypeScript
9 148 (8.30%) Bicep
10 130 (7.29%) C#
11 30 (1.68%) Rust
12 28 (1.57%) C++
13 22 (1.23%) Scala
14 16 (0.90%) PHP
15 15 (0.84%) Groovy
16 14 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
17 13 (0.73%) C
18 11 (0.62%) Kotlin
19 9 (0.50%) Shell Script
20 8 (0.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 349 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 218 (12.23%) SC Cleared
3 159 (8.92%) Degree
4 138 (7.74%) AWS Certification
5 103 (5.78%) DV Cleared
6 91 (5.10%) Azure Certification
7 60 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 40 (2.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 32 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 29 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
10 29 (1.63%) OSCP
11 22 (1.23%) CISSP
12 16 (0.90%) CCNP
12 16 (0.90%) DBS Check
13 14 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
13 14 (0.79%) CCNA
13 14 (0.79%) Master's Degree
14 12 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 11 (0.62%) RHCSA
16 10 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (4.94%) QA
2 75 (4.21%) Data Quality
3 62 (3.48%) GDPR
4 50 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 48 (2.69%) SOC 2
6 41 (2.30%) NIST
7 33 (1.85%) Accessibility
8 30 (1.68%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.73%) SLA
10 12 (0.67%) WCAG
11 9 (0.50%) GRC
12 8 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.34%) NCSC
14 4 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.11%) IFRS
16 2 (0.11%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.11%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.11%) Solvency II
17 1 (0.056%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 491 (27.54%) Docker
2 108 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 89 (4.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (1.79%) vSphere
6 22 (1.23%) VMware NSX
7 19 (1.07%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.39%) iptables
8 7 (0.39%) Squid
8 7 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.34%) Firmware
9 6 (0.34%) KVM
9 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,237 (69.38%) Terraform
2 684 (38.36%) Kubernetes
3 380 (21.31%) Ansible
4 224 (12.56%) Grafana
5 210 (11.78%) Prometheus
6 66 (3.70%) Argo
7 44 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
8 41 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
9 40 (2.24%) Puppet
10 25 (1.40%) Progress Chef
11 22 (1.23%) Kustomize
12 20 (1.12%) Nagios
12 20 (1.12%) Packer
13 19 (1.07%) Istio
14 17 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 16 (0.90%) Rancher
16 12 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
16 12 (0.67%) vCenter Server
16 12 (0.67%) ZABBIX
17 10 (0.56%) Cilium
Vendors
1 332 (18.62%) Microsoft
2 125 (7.01%) VMware
3 110 (6.17%) Google
4 74 (4.15%) Databricks
5 68 (3.81%) Red Hat
6 55 (3.08%) Cisco
7 53 (2.97%) Splunk
8 43 (2.41%) Palo Alto
9 29 (1.63%) Oracle
10 23 (1.29%) Zscaler
11 22 (1.23%) Dynatrace
11 22 (1.23%) OpenAI
12 21 (1.18%) Fortinet
12 21 (1.18%) Salesforce
13 19 (1.07%) CrowdStrike
14 12 (0.67%) Atlassian
14 12 (0.67%) CheckPoint
14 12 (0.67%) F5
15 11 (0.62%) Foundry
16 10 (0.56%) SolarWinds