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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 131 148
Rank change year-on-year +21 +17 -45
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,341 1,047 1,678
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.86% 2.38% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 2.54% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 889 732 1,350
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,800 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £112,375 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.48% +3.85% -3.70%

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 56,331 41,289 73,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.05% 93.69% 87.56%
Number of salaries quoted 33,961 22,320 55,807
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.78%
75th Percentile £76,299 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £94,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 9 March 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 March 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 +19 1,148 £75,000 - 838
UK excluding London +4 611 £68,500 +1.48% 662
London +32 572 £85,000 -5.56% 289
Work from Home +45 547 £70,000 -6.50% 555
North of England -9 210 £65,500 +0.77% 176
South East +2 131 £72,500 +3.20% 204
Yorkshire -11 89 £62,500 +19.05% 56
North West -24 88 £74,651 +6.64% 95
South West -13 83 £62,500 -10.71% 112
Midlands -3 68 £67,500 +3.85% 61
Scotland -6 59 £73,801 +15.77% 27
East Midlands 0 33 £67,500 +3.85% 24
North East -8 33 £48,445 -13.10% 25
West Midlands -11 33 £66,500 -5.00% 37
East of England +13 30 £60,100 -17.10% 66
Wales +6 22 £64,998 +32.37% 16
Northern Ireland -28 10 £95,000 +11.76% 8

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 50 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (3.13%) Apache
3 33 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 28 (2.09%) Apache Spark
5 19 (1.42%) SharePoint
6 14 (1.04%) IIS
7 12 (0.89%) Confluence
7 12 (0.89%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.22%) Appian
8 3 (0.22%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.15%) CMS
9 2 (0.15%) nginx
9 2 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.075%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.075%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.30%) PlantUML
1 4 (0.30%) Weka
2 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.075%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.075%) Maya
4 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.075%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.075%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.075%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.075%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 826 (61.60%) AWS
2 754 (56.23%) Azure
3 298 (22.22%) GCP
3 298 (22.22%) GitHub
4 284 (21.18%) Azure DevOps
5 250 (18.64%) Serverless
6 244 (18.20%) AWS CloudFormation
7 214 (15.96%) GitHub Actions
8 164 (12.23%) AWS Lambda
9 138 (10.29%) PaaS
10 134 (9.99%) Amazon S3
11 119 (8.87%) SaaS
12 117 (8.72%) Entra ID
13 115 (8.58%) Amazon EKS
14 114 (8.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 96 (7.16%) Microsoft 365
16 90 (6.71%) IaaS
17 86 (6.41%) Amazon ECS
18 84 (6.26%) Azure Monitor
19 80 (5.97%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 154 (11.48%) Firewall
2 86 (6.41%) DNS
3 75 (5.59%) TCP/IP
3 75 (5.59%) VPN
4 37 (2.76%) WAN
5 34 (2.54%) DHCP
6 33 (2.46%) Network Security
7 32 (2.39%) Broadband
8 20 (1.49%) HTTP
9 17 (1.27%) VLAN
10 16 (1.19%) BGP
11 15 (1.12%) Internet
12 14 (1.04%) DSL
12 14 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
13 13 (0.97%) LAN
14 12 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
15 8 (0.60%) SAN
16 7 (0.52%) SD-WAN
17 5 (0.37%) AMQP
17 5 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (7.46%) NoSQL
2 94 (7.01%) PostgreSQL
3 90 (6.71%) Amazon RDS
4 52 (3.88%) DynamoDB
4 52 (3.88%) SQL Server
5 41 (3.06%) Data Lake
5 41 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
6 39 (2.91%) Relational Database
7 38 (2.83%) Redis
8 37 (2.76%) MongoDB
9 34 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
10 30 (2.24%) MySQL
11 25 (1.86%) BigQuery
12 24 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
13 22 (1.64%) Metadata
13 22 (1.64%) Power BI
14 19 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
14 19 (1.42%) RDBMS
15 17 (1.27%) Delta Lake
16 15 (1.12%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 207 (15.44%) Jenkins
2 168 (12.53%) Git
3 161 (12.01%) GitLab
4 30 (2.24%) JIRA
5 28 (2.09%) Bitbucket
6 27 (2.01%) Selenium
7 26 (1.94%) CircleCI
8 24 (1.79%) Robot Framework
9 22 (1.64%) Jaeger
10 20 (1.49%) Cucumber
11 18 (1.34%) Snyk
12 17 (1.27%) TeamCity
13 15 (1.12%) MLflow
14 14 (1.04%) JMeter
14 14 (1.04%) SonarQube
15 11 (0.82%) Locust
16 10 (0.75%) Subversion
17 9 (0.67%) Storybook
18 8 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 8 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 368 (27.44%) Social Skills
2 332 (24.76%) Finance
3 129 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (6.64%) Public Sector
5 84 (6.26%) Banking
6 67 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 66 (4.92%) Law
8 58 (4.33%) Retail
9 55 (4.10%) Telecoms
10 33 (2.46%) Financial Institution
11 27 (2.01%) Marketing
12 21 (1.57%) Billing
12 21 (1.57%) Manufacturing
13 20 (1.49%) Back Office
14 16 (1.19%) Advertising
14 16 (1.19%) Games
15 15 (1.12%) Aerospace
15 15 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
16 14 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
16 14 (1.04%) Legal
Job Titles
1 300 (22.37%) Senior
2 215 (16.03%) DevOps Engineer
3 208 (15.51%) Cloud Engineer
4 165 (12.30%) Lead
5 130 (9.69%) Azure Engineer
6 121 (9.02%) Platform Engineer
7 120 (8.95%) Developer
8 113 (8.43%) Architect
9 100 (7.46%) AWS Engineer
10 95 (7.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 65 (4.85%) Software Engineer
12 55 (4.10%) Data Engineer
13 53 (3.95%) Security Engineer
13 53 (3.95%) Senior DevOps
14 46 (3.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 40 (2.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 40 (2.98%) Cloud Security Engineer
16 38 (2.83%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 37 (2.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 36 (2.68%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (9.02%) React
2 91 (6.79%) Node.js
3 81 (6.04%) RESTful
4 80 (5.97%) .NET
5 79 (5.89%) Elastic Stack
6 71 (5.29%) Kafka
7 65 (4.85%) AWS CDK
8 57 (4.25%) REST
8 57 (4.25%) Spring
9 54 (4.03%) Spring Boot
10 53 (3.95%) OAuth
11 52 (3.88%) YAML
12 46 (3.43%) Django
13 35 (2.61%) ARM Templates
14 34 (2.54%) RabbitMQ
15 33 (2.46%) CSS
15 33 (2.46%) FastAPI
16 31 (2.31%) .NET Core
17 30 (2.24%) SAML
18 28 (2.09%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 297 (22.15%) Cloud Native
2 80 (5.97%) Hybrid Cloud
3 59 (4.40%) Public Cloud
3 59 (4.40%) Security Posture
4 57 (4.25%) Distributed Systems
5 45 (3.36%) Product Ownership
6 43 (3.21%) Onboarding
7 40 (2.98%) Data Centre
8 36 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
9 34 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
10 29 (2.16%) Linux Command Line
11 24 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
12 22 (1.64%) Management Information System
12 22 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
13 18 (1.34%) Mobile App
14 17 (1.27%) Blog
14 17 (1.27%) Hedge funds
14 17 (1.27%) PKI
15 16 (1.19%) Cloud Security Posture
15 16 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 301 (22.45%) Linux
2 153 (11.41%) Windows
3 82 (6.11%) Unix
4 57 (4.25%) Windows Server
5 35 (2.61%) VMS
6 27 (2.01%) Ubuntu
7 21 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 19 (1.42%) CentOS
9 14 (1.04%) Android
10 13 (0.97%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.60%) Debian
12 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.30%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.22%) SUSE
15 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
16 1 (0.075%) Rocky
16 1 (0.075%) Solaris
16 1 (0.075%) Windows 10
16 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 922 (68.75%) CI/CD
2 868 (64.73%) DevOps
3 399 (29.75%) Agile
4 366 (27.29%) Containerisation
5 323 (24.09%) Observability
6 296 (22.07%) Continuous Improvement
7 276 (20.58%) Problem-Solving
8 269 (20.06%) Mentoring
9 207 (15.44%) AI
9 207 (15.44%) Platform Engineering
10 195 (14.54%) Software Engineering
11 187 (13.94%) Test Automation
12 186 (13.87%) Cloud Security
12 186 (13.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 173 (12.90%) Analytics
14 166 (12.38%) Microservices
15 162 (12.08%) Incident Response
16 147 (10.96%) DevSecOps
17 141 (10.51%) Roadmaps
18 138 (10.29%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 614 (45.79%) Python
2 258 (19.24%) Bash
3 232 (17.30%) PowerShell
4 207 (15.44%) SQL
5 187 (13.94%) Java
6 140 (10.44%) Go
7 130 (9.69%) Bicep
8 124 (9.25%) JavaScript
9 104 (7.76%) TypeScript
10 83 (6.19%) C#
11 20 (1.49%) C++
12 18 (1.34%) Rust
13 17 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
14 16 (1.19%) Scala
15 14 (1.04%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.75%) C
17 9 (0.67%) Apex Code
18 7 (0.52%) Ruby
19 6 (0.45%) Google Apps Script
19 6 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 273 (20.36%) Security Cleared
2 166 (12.38%) SC Cleared
3 118 (8.80%) AWS Certification
4 108 (8.05%) Degree
5 100 (7.46%) DV Cleared
6 79 (5.89%) Azure Certification
7 44 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (3.06%) Microsoft Certification
9 32 (2.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 28 (2.09%) CISSP
11 26 (1.94%) OSCP
12 14 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
13 12 (0.89%) Master's Degree
14 11 (0.82%) CCSK
15 10 (0.75%) DBS Check
16 9 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 8 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 8 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
18 7 (0.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
18 7 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (4.92%) GDPR
2 59 (4.40%) QA
3 57 (4.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 53 (3.95%) Data Quality
5 48 (3.58%) NIST
6 46 (3.43%) SOC 2
7 38 (2.83%) Accessibility
8 36 (2.68%) PCI DSS
9 17 (1.27%) SLA
10 13 (0.97%) WCAG
11 12 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (0.52%) GRC
13 6 (0.45%) NCSC
14 4 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.30%) EU AI Act
15 2 (0.15%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.15%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
16 1 (0.075%) HIPAA
System Software
1 447 (33.33%) Docker
2 91 (6.79%) Active Directory
3 71 (5.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
5 30 (2.24%) Hyper-V
6 20 (1.49%) vSphere
7 15 (1.12%) VMware NSX
8 14 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.89%) Firmware
10 9 (0.67%) KVM
10 9 (0.67%) vCloud
11 4 (0.30%) iptables
11 4 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.15%) GPFS
13 2 (0.15%) Lustre
13 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.075%) QEMU
14 1 (0.075%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 942 (70.25%) Terraform
2 515 (38.40%) Kubernetes
3 322 (24.01%) Ansible
4 202 (15.06%) Grafana
5 193 (14.39%) Prometheus
6 55 (4.10%) Argo
7 47 (3.50%) Microsoft Intune
8 33 (2.46%) Puppet
9 28 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (1.42%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.27%) AWS Copilot
12 16 (1.19%) Rancher
13 15 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
14 14 (1.04%) Progress Chef
15 12 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 12 (0.89%) Nagios
16 11 (0.82%) SCCM
17 9 (0.67%) Istio
18 8 (0.60%) linkerd
18 8 (0.60%) Mesos
Vendors
1 241 (17.97%) Microsoft
2 122 (9.10%) Google
3 109 (8.13%) VMware
4 46 (3.43%) Databricks
5 41 (3.06%) Cisco
5 41 (3.06%) Splunk
6 39 (2.91%) Red Hat
7 34 (2.54%) Palo Alto
8 21 (1.57%) Zscaler
9 19 (1.42%) Salesforce
10 18 (1.34%) Black Duck
10 18 (1.34%) Coverity
11 15 (1.12%) Dynatrace
12 14 (1.04%) Ab Initio
12 14 (1.04%) Juniper
13 13 (0.97%) Atlassian
13 13 (0.97%) CrowdStrike
13 13 (0.97%) Foundry
13 13 (0.97%) Oracle
14 12 (0.89%) Palantir