Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Infrastructure as Code skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 85 98 102
Rank change year-on-year +13 +4 +39
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,879 4,202 4,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.55% 3.42% 3.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.77% 3.57% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,396 2,472 3,067
10th Percentile £50,125 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,750 £75,000 £70,400
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% +6.53% +8.31%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,625 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,351 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +0.54% +4.00% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Infrastructure as Code is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 49,863 117,613 122,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.11% 95.75% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 36,022 72,003 82,155
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,700 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,680 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.87% +7.00% +4.17%

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 +11 1,593 £75,000 - 599
UK excluding London +56 1,047 £65,351 +0.54% 340
Work from Home +17 997 £72,500 - 355
London -8 673 £85,000 +3.03% 333
North of England +19 281 £65,351 -3.18% 77
South West +59 263 £65,000 +13.04% 67
South East +79 187 £70,000 +3.70% 113
North West +37 157 £65,351 -2.15% 48
Midlands +56 113 £65,000 -7.14% 29
Yorkshire +5 112 £70,000 +3.70% 20
Scotland +7 110 £70,000 +12.00% 23
East Midlands +64 71 £62,500 -10.71% 7
Wales +29 43 £60,000 +4.35% 17
West Midlands +28 42 £70,000 +3.70% 22
East of England +70 40 £65,000 -7.14% 16
Northern Ireland +20 19 £70,000 +33.33% 2
North East +15 12 £62,500 -10.71% 11
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 -

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 82 (4.36%) Apache
2 77 (4.10%) Confluence
3 70 (3.73%) Apache Spark
4 26 (1.38%) IIS
5 23 (1.22%) nginx
6 18 (0.96%) MS Exchange
7 16 (0.85%) SharePoint
8 14 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
8 14 (0.75%) Jupyter
9 10 (0.53%) WebSphere
10 8 (0.43%) CMS
11 7 (0.37%) NServiceBus
12 5 (0.27%) Ethereum
13 3 (0.16%) Luigi
14 2 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.11%) Drupal
14 2 (0.11%) JBoss
14 2 (0.11%) WordPress
15 1 (0.053%) Tomcat
15 1 (0.053%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (0.48%) AutoCAD
1 9 (0.48%) PTC Creo
1 9 (0.48%) SOLIDWORKS
2 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.43%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1,120 (59.61%) Azure
2 894 (47.58%) AWS
3 426 (22.67%) GCP
4 412 (21.93%) Azure DevOps
5 362 (19.27%) PaaS
6 312 (16.60%) Serverless
7 290 (15.43%) IaaS
8 280 (14.90%) GitHub
9 243 (12.93%) AWS CloudFormation
10 208 (11.07%) SaaS
11 135 (7.18%) AWS Lambda
12 124 (6.60%) GitHub Actions
13 104 (5.53%) Microsoft 365
14 100 (5.32%) Entra ID
15 93 (4.95%) Amazon S3
16 87 (4.63%) OpenShift
17 86 (4.58%) Amazon EC2
18 80 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
19 74 (3.94%) Cloud Computing
20 73 (3.89%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 144 (7.66%) DNS
2 98 (5.22%) Firewall
3 94 (5.00%) TCP/IP
4 90 (4.79%) VPN
5 84 (4.47%) DHCP
6 74 (3.94%) SAN
7 41 (2.18%) IPv4
8 38 (2.02%) HTTP
9 33 (1.76%) Network Security
10 31 (1.65%) Internet
11 28 (1.49%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 28 (1.49%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 28 (1.49%) VLAN
12 24 (1.28%) OSPF
13 23 (1.22%) NGFW
14 10 (0.53%) WAN
15 9 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
15 9 (0.48%) LAN
16 6 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
16 6 (0.32%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (6.01%) NoSQL
2 93 (4.95%) DynamoDB
3 88 (4.68%) Big Data
4 85 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
5 84 (4.47%) Data Lake
5 84 (4.47%) MySQL
6 82 (4.36%) SQL Server
7 72 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
8 70 (3.73%) BigQuery
8 70 (3.73%) Relational Database
9 65 (3.46%) Power BI
10 51 (2.71%) Tableau
11 47 (2.50%) Bigtable
11 47 (2.50%) Looker
12 40 (2.13%) MongoDB
13 34 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
14 29 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
15 28 (1.49%) Redis
16 23 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
17 20 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 441 (23.47%) Jenkins
2 217 (11.55%) Git
3 140 (7.45%) GitLab
4 122 (6.49%) JIRA
5 50 (2.66%) Bitbucket
5 50 (2.66%) SonarQube
6 39 (2.08%) CircleCI
6 39 (2.08%) Octopus Deploy
6 39 (2.08%) TeamCity
7 27 (1.44%) IBM UrbanCode
7 27 (1.44%) Maven
7 27 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
8 26 (1.38%) Artifactory
9 24 (1.28%) Team Foundation Server
10 21 (1.12%) Spinnaker
11 19 (1.01%) git-flow
12 17 (0.90%) Gradle
13 15 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 13 (0.69%) Selenium
15 12 (0.64%) Chocolatey
General
1 548 (29.16%) Finance
2 413 (21.98%) Social Skills
3 251 (13.36%) Banking
4 199 (10.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 130 (6.92%) Retail
6 80 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
7 75 (3.99%) Public Sector
8 67 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
9 66 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
10 62 (3.30%) Law
11 45 (2.39%) Legal
12 27 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (1.28%) Telecoms
14 22 (1.17%) Aerospace
15 16 (0.85%) Marketing
15 16 (0.85%) Tech for Good
16 15 (0.80%) Retail Banking
17 10 (0.53%) Financial Institution
18 9 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
19 8 (0.43%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 581 (30.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 460 (24.48%) Senior
3 317 (16.87%) Cloud Engineer
4 311 (16.55%) Architect
5 218 (11.60%) Azure Engineer
6 207 (11.02%) Senior DevOps
6 207 (11.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 156 (8.30%) Lead
8 152 (8.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 127 (6.76%) Cloud Architect
10 124 (6.60%) Developer
11 116 (6.17%) AWS Engineer
12 111 (5.91%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 107 (5.69%) Infrastructure Architect
14 93 (4.95%) Security Engineer
14 93 (4.95%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 91 (4.84%) Software Engineer
16 89 (4.74%) Azure Architect
17 79 (4.20%) AWS DevOps
17 79 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (7.45%) .NET
2 132 (7.03%) YAML
3 107 (5.69%) ARM Templates
4 103 (5.48%) Kafka
5 97 (5.16%) Elastic Stack
6 86 (4.58%) JSON
7 60 (3.19%) React
8 58 (3.09%) REST
9 54 (2.87%) Node.js
10 48 (2.55%) HTML
11 45 (2.39%) .NET Core
12 43 (2.29%) AngularJS
12 43 (2.29%) AWS CDK
12 43 (2.29%) SAML
13 42 (2.24%) OpenID
14 36 (1.92%) RESTful
15 34 (1.81%) GraphQL
16 33 (1.76%) RabbitMQ
17 29 (1.54%) Spring Boot
18 28 (1.49%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 452 (24.06%) Public Cloud
2 214 (11.39%) Cloud Native
3 159 (8.46%) Private Cloud
4 87 (4.63%) Data Centre
5 69 (3.67%) Virtual Team
6 67 (3.57%) Product Ownership
7 59 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 53 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
9 40 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
9 40 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
10 37 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
11 29 (1.54%) Cyberattack
12 24 (1.28%) Onboarding
13 19 (1.01%) Management Information System
13 19 (1.01%) Mobile App
14 17 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
14 17 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (0.80%) Algorithms
16 14 (0.75%) Online Banking
16 14 (0.75%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 511 (27.20%) Linux
2 323 (17.19%) Windows
3 136 (7.24%) Windows Server
4 60 (3.19%) Android
5 57 (3.03%) Unix
6 39 (2.08%) Ubuntu
7 33 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 22 (1.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 19 (1.01%) Debian
10 18 (0.96%) Windows 10
11 12 (0.64%) CentOS
11 12 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
12 11 (0.59%) Apple iOS
13 8 (0.43%) Solaris
14 6 (0.32%) VMS
15 1 (0.053%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,236 (65.78%) DevOps
2 1,000 (53.22%) CI/CD
3 871 (46.35%) Agile
4 468 (24.91%) Containerisation
5 275 (14.64%) Problem-Solving
6 265 (14.10%) Cloud Security
7 251 (13.36%) Continuous Integration
8 250 (13.30%) Microservices
9 246 (13.09%) DevSecOps
10 238 (12.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 226 (12.03%) Configuration Management
11 226 (12.03%) Software Engineering
12 209 (11.12%) Mentoring
13 188 (10.01%) Analytics
14 173 (9.21%) SDLC
15 171 (9.10%) Scrum
16 159 (8.46%) Roadmaps
17 156 (8.30%) Actionable Insight
18 145 (7.72%) Platform Engineering
19 140 (7.45%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 768 (40.87%) Python
2 486 (25.86%) PowerShell
3 410 (21.82%) Bash
4 202 (10.75%) Java
5 185 (9.85%) SQL
6 139 (7.40%) C#
7 134 (7.13%) Bicep
8 119 (6.33%) JavaScript
9 66 (3.51%) Ruby
10 60 (3.19%) Go
10 60 (3.19%) Groovy
10 60 (3.19%) Shell Script
11 59 (3.14%) TypeScript
12 30 (1.60%) Perl
13 23 (1.22%) C++
14 13 (0.69%) PHP
15 11 (0.59%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.53%) MATLAB
17 9 (0.48%) C
18 6 (0.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 251 (13.36%) Security Cleared
2 182 (9.69%) Degree
3 153 (8.14%) AWS Certification
3 153 (8.14%) Azure Certification
4 147 (7.82%) SC Cleared
5 76 (4.04%) DV Cleared
6 57 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 55 (2.93%) Cisco Certification
8 52 (2.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 49 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 27 (1.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 22 (1.17%) MCSA
12 19 (1.01%) Master's Degree
13 17 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (0.75%) MCSE
15 10 (0.53%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 10 (0.53%) GIAC
15 10 (0.53%) RHCE
16 6 (0.32%) CISM
17 4 (0.21%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (2.66%) QA
2 19 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (0.64%) GDPR
4 10 (0.53%) NCSC
5 9 (0.48%) NIST
6 6 (0.32%) SLA
7 5 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.27%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.21%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.16%) PSD2
10 2 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.11%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.11%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.11%) WCAG
11 1 (0.053%) COBIT
11 1 (0.053%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.053%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.053%) RMADS
System Software
1 620 (33.00%) Docker
2 153 (8.14%) Active Directory
3 82 (4.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 52 (2.77%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (1.86%) VMware ESXi
6 33 (1.76%) Virtual Desktop
7 28 (1.49%) vSphere
8 23 (1.22%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.21%) DFS Replication
9 4 (0.21%) Varnish
10 3 (0.16%) KVM
10 3 (0.16%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.11%) XenApp
12 1 (0.053%) Ceph
12 1 (0.053%) Firmware
12 1 (0.053%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.053%) Squid
12 1 (0.053%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.053%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1,324 (70.46%) Terraform
2 791 (42.10%) Kubernetes
3 638 (33.95%) Ansible
4 191 (10.16%) Puppet
5 137 (7.29%) Grafana
6 113 (6.01%) Prometheus
7 76 (4.04%) Progress Chef
8 57 (3.03%) Istio
9 29 (1.54%) Packer
10 27 (1.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 23 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
12 21 (1.12%) SCCM
13 17 (0.90%) Argo
14 15 (0.80%) HAProxy
15 13 (0.69%) Salt
16 12 (0.64%) logstash
16 12 (0.64%) Nagios
16 12 (0.64%) SCOM
17 11 (0.59%) Kibana
18 10 (0.53%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 269 (14.32%) Microsoft
2 183 (9.74%) Google
3 132 (7.03%) Oracle
4 102 (5.43%) VMware
5 87 (4.63%) Cisco
6 86 (4.58%) Citrix
7 50 (2.66%) Splunk
8 46 (2.45%) Red Hat
9 44 (2.34%) IBM
10 34 (1.81%) New Relic
11 32 (1.70%) ServiceNow
12 31 (1.65%) Databricks
12 31 (1.65%) F5
13 29 (1.54%) CheckPoint
14 28 (1.49%) Fortinet
15 25 (1.33%) Atlassian
16 20 (1.06%) SaltStack
17 18 (0.96%) Veracode
18 17 (0.90%) SAP
19 12 (0.64%) TOWER Software