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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 157 153
Rank change year-on-year +81 -4 -50
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,335 1,037 1,423
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.22% 2.09% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.01% 2.34% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,557 725 1,036
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £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 £91,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,500 £107,800 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,079 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% +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 77,565 44,386 67,277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.71% 89.40% 81.08%
Number of salaries quoted 53,403 25,236 43,866
10th Percentile £30,580 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,170 £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 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.40% -3.00% -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 8 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 8 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 +71 2,051 £77,500 - 1,482
UK excluding London +111 1,253 £70,079 +0.11% 812
London +26 918 £90,000 - 814
Work from Home +81 827 £72,500 -8.01% 704
North of England +92 422 £70,400 +0.57% 266
South East +64 250 £67,500 -12.90% 187
North West +93 242 £74,651 +6.64% 148
South West +43 214 £75,000 -4.83% 148
Midlands +50 150 £75,000 +15.38% 64
Yorkshire 0 97 £75,000 +7.14% 75
West Midlands +20 91 £80,000 +23.08% 39
North East +15 83 £56,500 -16.30% 43
Wales -1 65 £70,000 +21.74% 32
East Midlands +18 59 £67,500 +3.85% 25
Northern Ireland -19 58 £72,896 +69.17% 19
East of England -4 54 £65,000 +4.00% 33
Scotland +28 50 £71,991 +6.65% 67

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 61 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
2 56 (2.40%) Apache Spark
3 53 (2.27%) Apache
4 31 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 30 (1.28%) Confluence
6 12 (0.51%) Jupyter
7 11 (0.47%) IIS
8 10 (0.43%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.17%) Camunda
9 4 (0.17%) CMS
9 4 (0.17%) nginx
10 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.13%) WordPress
11 2 (0.086%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.086%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.043%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.043%) Documentum
12 1 (0.043%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.043%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 21 (0.90%) PlantUML
2 9 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.086%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.086%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.086%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.043%) Maya
6 1 (0.043%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.13%) Summit
4 2 (0.086%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.086%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.043%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,338 (57.30%) AWS
2 1,278 (54.73%) Azure
3 448 (19.19%) GCP
4 409 (17.52%) GitHub
5 378 (16.19%) Serverless
6 374 (16.02%) AWS CloudFormation
7 318 (13.62%) Azure DevOps
8 224 (9.59%) GitHub Actions
9 207 (8.87%) AWS Lambda
10 204 (8.74%) Amazon S3
11 187 (8.01%) PaaS
12 145 (6.21%) Amazon EC2
13 141 (6.04%) Amazon ECS
14 140 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
15 135 (5.78%) SaaS
16 126 (5.40%) IaaS
17 125 (5.35%) Microsoft 365
18 124 (5.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 119 (5.10%) Azure AKS
20 113 (4.84%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 178 (7.62%) Firewall
2 116 (4.97%) DNS
2 116 (4.97%) WAN
3 110 (4.71%) Network Security
4 108 (4.63%) VPN
5 96 (4.11%) LAN
6 80 (3.43%) TCP/IP
7 54 (2.31%) Broadband
8 50 (2.14%) BGP
9 40 (1.71%) DHCP
10 35 (1.50%) OSPF
11 34 (1.46%) VLAN
12 26 (1.11%) VXLAN
13 25 (1.07%) Software-Defined Networking
14 24 (1.03%) SD-WAN
15 19 (0.81%) HTTP
16 15 (0.64%) Wireless
17 14 (0.60%) SAN
18 13 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
19 12 (0.51%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
2 147 (6.30%) NoSQL
3 107 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
4 96 (4.11%) MongoDB
5 81 (3.47%) SQL Server
6 77 (3.30%) DynamoDB
7 59 (2.53%) Data Lake
7 59 (2.53%) MySQL
8 55 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
9 54 (2.31%) Relational Database
10 53 (2.27%) Metadata
11 42 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
12 38 (1.63%) Redis
13 34 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
14 29 (1.24%) Delta Lake
15 27 (1.16%) BigQuery
16 26 (1.11%) Big Data
16 26 (1.11%) Power BI
17 25 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
18 22 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 308 (13.19%) Git
2 288 (12.33%) GitLab
3 253 (10.84%) Jenkins
4 53 (2.27%) JIRA
5 43 (1.84%) Cucumber
6 33 (1.41%) CircleCI
7 32 (1.37%) Bitbucket
8 30 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 27 (1.16%) TeamCity
10 21 (0.90%) Selenium
11 19 (0.81%) Claude Code
12 16 (0.69%) SonarQube
13 14 (0.60%) NUnit
14 12 (0.51%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.51%) MLflow
14 12 (0.51%) Subversion
15 11 (0.47%) Maven
16 9 (0.39%) JMeter
16 9 (0.39%) MSI
16 9 (0.39%) Snyk
General
1 645 (27.62%) Social Skills
2 533 (22.83%) Finance
3 206 (8.82%) Public Sector
4 179 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
5 141 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 122 (5.22%) Banking
7 115 (4.93%) Law
8 70 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
9 68 (2.91%) Retail
10 45 (1.93%) Aerospace
10 45 (1.93%) Games
11 42 (1.80%) Marketing
12 37 (1.58%) Legal
13 34 (1.46%) Telecoms
14 29 (1.24%) Manufacturing
15 22 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
16 19 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
17 18 (0.77%) Advertising
18 17 (0.73%) Aviation
19 16 (0.69%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 531 (22.74%) Senior
2 399 (17.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 342 (14.65%) Lead
4 310 (13.28%) Architect
5 280 (11.99%) Cloud Engineer
6 233 (9.98%) Platform Engineer
7 206 (8.82%) Developer
8 182 (7.79%) Azure Engineer
9 141 (6.04%) Software Engineer
10 138 (5.91%) AWS Engineer
11 131 (5.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 122 (5.22%) Data Engineer
13 111 (4.75%) Principal Engineer
14 105 (4.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 89 (3.81%) Security Engineer
16 86 (3.68%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 78 (3.34%) Senior DevOps
18 76 (3.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 73 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 68 (2.91%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (8.18%) React
2 176 (7.54%) .NET
2 176 (7.54%) Kafka
3 151 (6.47%) REST
4 150 (6.42%) Node.js
5 142 (6.08%) Spring
6 140 (6.00%) Spring Boot
7 133 (5.70%) RESTful
8 95 (4.07%) AWS CDK
9 77 (3.30%) YAML
10 75 (3.21%) PySpark
11 72 (3.08%) ARM Templates
12 60 (2.57%) AngularJS
13 59 (2.53%) RabbitMQ
14 57 (2.44%) Next.js
15 56 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
16 52 (2.23%) OAuth
17 43 (1.84%) ASP.NET
18 41 (1.76%) CSS
19 40 (1.71%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 677 (28.99%) Cloud Native
2 248 (10.62%) Distributed Systems
3 119 (5.10%) Hybrid Cloud
4 115 (4.93%) Onboarding
5 109 (4.67%) Public Cloud
6 87 (3.73%) Data Centre
7 78 (3.34%) Product Ownership
8 70 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
9 66 (2.83%) Security Posture
10 60 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
11 51 (2.18%) Enterprise Cloud
12 47 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
13 45 (1.93%) Video\Live Streaming
14 39 (1.67%) Low-Code
15 36 (1.54%) Management Information System
16 35 (1.50%) Virtual Team
17 34 (1.46%) Private Cloud
18 32 (1.37%) e-Learning
19 31 (1.33%) PKI
20 28 (1.20%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 389 (16.66%) Linux
2 221 (9.46%) Windows
3 96 (4.11%) Windows Server
4 56 (2.40%) CentOS
5 41 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (1.76%) Ubuntu
5 41 (1.76%) Unix
6 22 (0.94%) VMS
7 8 (0.34%) Android
8 7 (0.30%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.21%) Debian
9 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.086%) AIX
10 2 (0.086%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.086%) Solaris
11 1 (0.043%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.043%) Rocky
11 1 (0.043%) SUSE
11 1 (0.043%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,643 (70.36%) CI/CD
2 1,298 (55.59%) DevOps
3 692 (29.64%) Containerisation
4 661 (28.31%) Agile
5 649 (27.79%) Observability
6 541 (23.17%) Platform Engineering
7 516 (22.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 512 (21.93%) Mentoring
9 498 (21.33%) AI
10 476 (20.39%) Software Engineering
11 400 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
12 398 (17.04%) Microservices
13 390 (16.70%) Technical Leadership
14 376 (16.10%) Test Automation
15 341 (14.60%) Cloud Security
16 334 (14.30%) Roadmaps
17 305 (13.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 257 (11.01%) Analytics
19 255 (10.92%) Event-Driven
20 254 (10.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,015 (43.47%) Python
2 368 (15.76%) Java
3 361 (15.46%) SQL
4 356 (15.25%) Bash
5 331 (14.18%) PowerShell
6 223 (9.55%) Bicep
7 213 (9.12%) TypeScript
8 196 (8.39%) JavaScript
9 181 (7.75%) C#
10 164 (7.02%) Go
11 47 (2.01%) Ruby
12 37 (1.58%) PHP
12 37 (1.58%) Scala
13 24 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
13 24 (1.03%) Rust
14 22 (0.94%) C++
15 21 (0.90%) Groovy
15 21 (0.90%) Perl
16 13 (0.56%) Shell Script
17 11 (0.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 550 (23.55%) Security Cleared
2 348 (14.90%) SC Cleared
3 198 (8.48%) Degree
4 179 (7.67%) AWS Certification
5 178 (7.62%) DV Cleared
6 142 (6.08%) Azure Certification
7 83 (3.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 82 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 55 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 51 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
11 35 (1.50%) CCNP
12 28 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
12 28 (1.20%) Master's Degree
13 23 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
14 21 (0.90%) CISSP
15 20 (0.86%) OSCP
16 18 (0.77%) CCNA
17 16 (0.69%) DBS Check
18 14 (0.60%) RHCSA
18 14 (0.60%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (5.48%) QA
2 101 (4.33%) Data Quality
3 69 (2.96%) GDPR
3 69 (2.96%) GRC
4 57 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 47 (2.01%) Accessibility
6 38 (1.63%) NIST
7 36 (1.54%) SOC 2
8 28 (1.20%) PCI DSS
9 25 (1.07%) NCSC
10 24 (1.03%) WCAG
11 16 (0.69%) SLA
12 9 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.21%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.086%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.086%) IFRS
15 2 (0.086%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.086%) Solvency II
System Software
1 621 (26.60%) Docker
2 133 (5.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 126 (5.40%) Active Directory
4 46 (1.97%) vSphere
5 33 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (1.03%) Hyper-V
7 19 (0.81%) VMware NSX
8 18 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.39%) Firmware
10 9 (0.39%) KVM
11 8 (0.34%) Squid
11 8 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.21%) iptables
14 3 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.043%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 1,569 (67.19%) Terraform
2 869 (37.22%) Kubernetes
3 468 (20.04%) Ansible
4 242 (10.36%) Grafana
5 180 (7.71%) Prometheus
6 68 (2.91%) Argo
7 57 (2.44%) Puppet
8 36 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
9 35 (1.50%) Progress Chef
10 33 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
11 28 (1.20%) Istio
12 27 (1.16%) Packer
13 24 (1.03%) Nagios
14 16 (0.69%) FortiGate
14 16 (0.69%) vCenter Server
15 12 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 12 (0.51%) Cilium
15 12 (0.51%) Rancher
15 12 (0.51%) ZABBIX
16 11 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 508 (21.76%) Microsoft
2 160 (6.85%) VMware
3 137 (5.87%) Google
4 100 (4.28%) Databricks
5 89 (3.81%) Red Hat
6 86 (3.68%) Splunk
7 71 (3.04%) Cisco
8 62 (2.66%) Oracle
9 49 (2.10%) Palo Alto
10 40 (1.71%) OpenAI
11 39 (1.67%) Dynatrace
11 39 (1.67%) Fortinet
12 25 (1.07%) Zscaler
13 22 (0.94%) ServiceNow
14 16 (0.69%) CrowdStrike
15 15 (0.64%) F5
15 15 (0.64%) SAP
16 14 (0.60%) Atlassian
17 13 (0.56%) Rapid7
18 12 (0.51%) Salesforce