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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 156 168
Rank change year-on-year +62 +12 -61
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,731 904 1,683
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.87% 2.12% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 2.27% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,141 619 1,324
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +9.81% -5.90%
75th Percentile £90,988 £96,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £111,250 £107,125
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 68,427 39,782 82,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.76% 93.32% 84.70%
Number of salaries quoted 44,356 20,831 59,666
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,797 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% +8.18% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -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 23 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 23 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 +65 1,566 £77,500 - 703
UK excluding London +71 794 £67,500 -3.57% 487
London +38 783 £87,500 -2.78% 303
Work from Home +82 623 £70,000 -7.11% 375
North of England +41 294 £67,374 -3.75% 171
South East +36 178 £70,000 -6.67% 138
North West +49 168 £72,500 - 90
South West -7 110 £70,450 +0.64% 80
Midlands +26 107 £67,750 -3.21% 30
Yorkshire -7 88 £65,576 -0.27% 40
West Midlands -6 57 £71,289 +1.84% 20
East Midlands +3 50 £67,500 +3.85% 10
Scotland +13 43 £60,000 -20.38% 26
East of England +10 42 £60,100 -7.54% 26
North East -11 38 £55,000 -16.69% 41
Wales -23 18 £60,000 - 11
Northern Ireland -31 5 £95,000 - 11

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 (2.89%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (2.31%) Apache
3 33 (1.91%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 21 (1.21%) Confluence
6 15 (0.87%) IIS
7 14 (0.81%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.29%) CMS
10 4 (0.23%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.058%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.058%) Camunda
12 1 (0.058%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.058%) nginx
12 1 (0.058%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.058%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.058%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.64%) PlantUML
2 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.23%) Weka
4 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.058%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.058%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.058%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.058%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.058%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,015 (58.64%) AWS
2 928 (53.61%) Azure
3 337 (19.47%) GitHub
4 320 (18.49%) GCP
5 313 (18.08%) Serverless
6 298 (17.22%) Azure DevOps
7 271 (15.66%) AWS CloudFormation
8 220 (12.71%) GitHub Actions
9 182 (10.51%) AWS Lambda
10 161 (9.30%) Amazon S3
11 133 (7.68%) PaaS
12 123 (7.11%) Amazon EKS
13 119 (6.87%) Entra ID
14 118 (6.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 112 (6.47%) SaaS
16 108 (6.24%) Amazon EC2
17 103 (5.95%) Datadog
17 103 (5.95%) IaaS
18 91 (5.26%) Azure AKS
19 90 (5.20%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 177 (10.23%) Firewall
2 99 (5.72%) DNS
3 77 (4.45%) VPN
4 68 (3.93%) TCP/IP
5 58 (3.35%) Broadband
6 57 (3.29%) Network Security
7 47 (2.72%) WAN
8 37 (2.14%) DHCP
9 33 (1.91%) BGP
10 26 (1.50%) LAN
11 23 (1.33%) HTTP
12 20 (1.16%) VLAN
13 18 (1.04%) SD-WAN
13 18 (1.04%) Software-Defined Networking
14 17 (0.98%) Cisco ASA
15 15 (0.87%) DSL
15 15 (0.87%) OSPF
16 11 (0.64%) VXLAN
17 9 (0.52%) Internet
17 9 (0.52%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (7.34%) NoSQL
2 121 (6.99%) PostgreSQL
3 89 (5.14%) Amazon RDS
4 74 (4.27%) MongoDB
5 70 (4.04%) DynamoDB
6 66 (3.81%) SQL Server
7 54 (3.12%) Relational Database
8 52 (3.00%) Data Lake
9 46 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
10 40 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
11 35 (2.02%) Metadata
12 30 (1.73%) BigQuery
13 28 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
13 28 (1.62%) MySQL
14 20 (1.16%) Delta Lake
14 20 (1.16%) Power BI
14 20 (1.16%) Redis
15 18 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
15 18 (1.04%) RDBMS
16 17 (0.98%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 243 (14.04%) GitLab
2 235 (13.58%) Git
3 229 (13.23%) Jenkins
4 45 (2.60%) CircleCI
5 37 (2.14%) Bitbucket
6 34 (1.96%) JIRA
7 31 (1.79%) Cucumber
8 20 (1.16%) Jaeger
9 19 (1.10%) TeamCity
10 16 (0.92%) Selenium
10 16 (0.92%) SonarQube
11 12 (0.69%) Subversion
12 11 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 11 (0.64%) MLflow
13 9 (0.52%) JMeter
13 9 (0.52%) Maven
13 9 (0.52%) NUnit
13 9 (0.52%) Storybook
14 8 (0.46%) Robot Framework
15 7 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 427 (24.67%) Social Skills
2 371 (21.43%) Finance
3 121 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (6.41%) Public Sector
5 107 (6.18%) Banking
6 77 (4.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 64 (3.70%) Retail
8 53 (3.06%) Law
9 47 (2.72%) Telecoms
10 36 (2.08%) Games
11 32 (1.85%) Manufacturing
12 24 (1.39%) Aerospace
13 22 (1.27%) Marketing
14 21 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
15 20 (1.16%) Legal
16 19 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
17 18 (1.04%) Advertising
18 17 (0.98%) Billing
18 17 (0.98%) Financial Institution
19 12 (0.69%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 383 (22.13%) Senior
2 276 (15.94%) DevOps Engineer
3 259 (14.96%) Cloud Engineer
4 243 (14.04%) Lead
5 172 (9.94%) Azure Engineer
5 172 (9.94%) Platform Engineer
6 160 (9.24%) Developer
7 156 (9.01%) Architect
8 130 (7.51%) AWS Engineer
9 121 (6.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 93 (5.37%) Software Engineer
11 89 (5.14%) Data Engineer
12 81 (4.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 77 (4.45%) Security Engineer
14 70 (4.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 64 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
16 57 (3.29%) Principal Engineer
16 57 (3.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 54 (3.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 50 (2.89%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (8.09%) React
2 124 (7.16%) Node.js
3 122 (7.05%) Kafka
4 119 (6.87%) .NET
5 113 (6.53%) REST
6 100 (5.78%) RESTful
7 84 (4.85%) YAML
8 79 (4.56%) AWS CDK
9 76 (4.39%) Spring
10 70 (4.04%) Spring Boot
11 69 (3.99%) Elastic Stack
12 64 (3.70%) OAuth
13 54 (3.12%) ARM Templates
13 54 (3.12%) PySpark
14 51 (2.95%) RabbitMQ
15 42 (2.43%) JSON
16 38 (2.20%) AngularJS
16 38 (2.20%) ASP.NET
17 37 (2.14%) OpenTelemetry
18 36 (2.08%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 426 (24.61%) Cloud Native
2 138 (7.97%) Distributed Systems
3 91 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 76 (4.39%) Public Cloud
5 60 (3.47%) Product Ownership
6 58 (3.35%) Data Centre
7 51 (2.95%) Security Posture
8 48 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
9 44 (2.54%) Onboarding
10 35 (2.02%) Video\Live Streaming
11 32 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
12 30 (1.73%) Low-Code
13 27 (1.56%) PKI
14 26 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
15 25 (1.44%) Blockchain
15 25 (1.44%) Management Information System
15 25 (1.44%) Mobile App
16 24 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
17 23 (1.33%) Web3
18 22 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 337 (19.47%) Linux
2 167 (9.65%) Windows
3 84 (4.85%) Windows Server
4 55 (3.18%) Unix
5 43 (2.48%) Ubuntu
6 34 (1.96%) CentOS
7 26 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 26 (1.50%) VMS
8 15 (0.87%) Android
9 14 (0.81%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (0.40%) Debian
12 5 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.12%) SUSE
14 1 (0.058%) Rocky
14 1 (0.058%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,217 (70.31%) CI/CD
2 1,022 (59.04%) DevOps
3 478 (27.61%) Agile
4 473 (27.33%) Containerisation
5 468 (27.04%) Observability
6 370 (21.37%) Continuous Improvement
7 360 (20.80%) Mentoring
8 355 (20.51%) Platform Engineering
9 317 (18.31%) AI
10 313 (18.08%) Test Automation
11 298 (17.22%) Software Engineering
12 275 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
13 273 (15.77%) Microservices
14 234 (13.52%) Cloud Security
15 233 (13.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 219 (12.65%) Technical Leadership
17 203 (11.73%) Analytics
18 190 (10.98%) DevSecOps
19 179 (10.34%) High Availability
20 170 (9.82%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 787 (45.47%) Python
2 308 (17.79%) Bash
3 279 (16.12%) PowerShell
4 271 (15.66%) SQL
5 248 (14.33%) Java
6 174 (10.05%) Go
7 168 (9.71%) JavaScript
8 163 (9.42%) TypeScript
9 140 (8.09%) Bicep
10 126 (7.28%) C#
11 30 (1.73%) Rust
12 29 (1.68%) C++
13 22 (1.27%) Scala
14 15 (0.87%) Groovy
14 15 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
14 15 (0.87%) PHP
15 13 (0.75%) C
16 12 (0.69%) Kotlin
17 9 (0.52%) Shell Script
18 8 (0.46%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 331 (19.12%) Security Cleared
2 207 (11.96%) SC Cleared
3 159 (9.19%) Degree
4 139 (8.03%) AWS Certification
5 93 (5.37%) DV Cleared
6 91 (5.26%) Azure Certification
7 61 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 39 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 31 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 30 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
11 29 (1.68%) OSCP
12 22 (1.27%) CISSP
13 17 (0.98%) CCNP
14 16 (0.92%) DBS Check
15 15 (0.87%) AWS Certified Developer
16 14 (0.81%) CCNA
16 14 (0.81%) Master's Degree
17 12 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 11 (0.64%) RHCSA
19 10 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (5.08%) QA
2 71 (4.10%) Data Quality
3 64 (3.70%) GDPR
4 53 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 50 (2.89%) SOC 2
6 39 (2.25%) NIST
7 33 (1.91%) Accessibility
8 30 (1.73%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.75%) SLA
10 12 (0.69%) WCAG
11 9 (0.52%) GRC
12 8 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.35%) NCSC
14 4 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.12%) IFRS
16 2 (0.12%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.12%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.12%) Solvency II
17 1 (0.058%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 483 (27.90%) Docker
2 108 (6.24%) Active Directory
3 87 (5.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (1.85%) vSphere
6 21 (1.21%) VMware NSX
7 18 (1.04%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.46%) Firmware
9 7 (0.40%) iptables
9 7 (0.40%) KVM
9 7 (0.40%) Squid
9 7 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.058%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,196 (69.09%) Terraform
2 667 (38.53%) Kubernetes
3 371 (21.43%) Ansible
4 223 (12.88%) Grafana
5 210 (12.13%) Prometheus
6 62 (3.58%) Argo
7 43 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 43 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
8 40 (2.31%) Puppet
9 26 (1.50%) Progress Chef
10 22 (1.27%) Kustomize
11 20 (1.16%) Nagios
12 19 (1.10%) Packer
13 18 (1.04%) Istio
14 17 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 17 (0.98%) Rancher
15 13 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
16 11 (0.64%) vCenter Server
16 11 (0.64%) ZABBIX
17 10 (0.58%) Cilium
Vendors
1 319 (18.43%) Microsoft
2 123 (7.11%) VMware
3 109 (6.30%) Google
4 74 (4.27%) Databricks
5 69 (3.99%) Red Hat
6 57 (3.29%) Cisco
7 53 (3.06%) Splunk
8 47 (2.72%) Palo Alto
9 25 (1.44%) Zscaler
10 24 (1.39%) Oracle
11 23 (1.33%) Dynatrace
12 22 (1.27%) OpenAI
12 22 (1.27%) Salesforce
13 21 (1.21%) Fortinet
14 20 (1.16%) CrowdStrike
15 12 (0.69%) CheckPoint
15 12 (0.69%) F5
16 11 (0.64%) Atlassian
16 11 (0.64%) Foundry
16 11 (0.64%) Juniper