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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 156 153
Rank change year-on-year +81 -3 -50
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,275 1,043 1,451
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.20% 2.11% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.99% 2.35% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,537 719 1,079
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,050 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,063 £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 £106,250 £108,150 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +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 76,038 44,320 69,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.68% 89.51% 81.15%
Number of salaries quoted 52,466 25,228 46,329
10th Percentile £30,603 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.41%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 1 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 1 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 +79 2,001 £77,500 - 1,195
UK excluding London +106 1,210 £70,000 - 705
London +26 900 £90,000 - 627
Work from Home +81 802 £72,500 -8.01% 610
North of England +89 408 £70,400 +0.57% 241
South East +56 249 £67,500 -12.90% 151
North West +91 234 £74,651 +6.64% 139
South West +41 202 £75,000 -2.48% 135
Midlands +35 145 £75,000 +15.38% 54
Yorkshire +5 95 £73,750 +5.36% 64
West Midlands +13 89 £80,000 +23.08% 38
North East +14 79 £56,500 -16.30% 38
Wales -9 60 £70,000 +21.74% 32
Northern Ireland -20 58 £72,896 +69.17% 24
East Midlands +9 56 £67,500 +3.85% 16
East of England +1 50 £63,750 +2.00% 26
Scotland +24 47 £71,991 +2.84% 45

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 62 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
2 54 (2.37%) Apache Spark
3 50 (2.20%) Apache
4 32 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (1.27%) Confluence
6 12 (0.53%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.44%) IIS
7 10 (0.44%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.18%) CMS
9 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.13%) Camunda
9 3 (0.13%) nginx
9 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.13%) WordPress
10 2 (0.088%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.088%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.088%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.044%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.044%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.044%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 20 (0.88%) PlantUML
2 10 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.088%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.088%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.088%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.044%) Maya
6 1 (0.044%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.13%) Summit
4 2 (0.088%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.088%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,298 (57.05%) AWS
2 1,248 (54.86%) Azure
3 422 (18.55%) GCP
4 401 (17.63%) GitHub
5 373 (16.40%) Serverless
6 357 (15.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 320 (14.07%) Azure DevOps
8 223 (9.80%) GitHub Actions
9 205 (9.01%) AWS Lambda
10 200 (8.79%) Amazon S3
11 189 (8.31%) PaaS
12 140 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
13 138 (6.07%) Amazon EKS
14 137 (6.02%) Amazon ECS
15 135 (5.93%) SaaS
16 128 (5.63%) IaaS
17 127 (5.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 124 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
19 116 (5.10%) Azure AKS
20 110 (4.84%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 178 (7.82%) Firewall
2 115 (5.05%) WAN
3 111 (4.88%) DNS
4 108 (4.75%) Network Security
5 106 (4.66%) VPN
6 95 (4.18%) LAN
7 76 (3.34%) TCP/IP
8 53 (2.33%) Broadband
9 50 (2.20%) BGP
10 36 (1.58%) DHCP
11 35 (1.54%) VLAN
12 34 (1.49%) OSPF
13 26 (1.14%) VXLAN
14 24 (1.05%) Software-Defined Networking
15 23 (1.01%) SD-WAN
16 20 (0.88%) HTTP
17 14 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
17 14 (0.62%) Wireless
18 12 (0.53%) Ethernet VPN
18 12 (0.53%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (7.47%) PostgreSQL
2 144 (6.33%) NoSQL
3 104 (4.57%) Amazon RDS
4 94 (4.13%) MongoDB
5 78 (3.43%) DynamoDB
6 76 (3.34%) SQL Server
7 56 (2.46%) Data Lake
8 55 (2.42%) MySQL
9 54 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
9 54 (2.37%) Relational Database
10 50 (2.20%) Metadata
11 39 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
12 37 (1.63%) Redis
13 33 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
14 27 (1.19%) Delta Lake
15 26 (1.14%) Big Data
15 26 (1.14%) BigQuery
16 25 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
17 23 (1.01%) Power BI
18 22 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 301 (13.23%) Git
2 293 (12.88%) GitLab
3 253 (11.12%) Jenkins
4 49 (2.15%) JIRA
5 42 (1.85%) Cucumber
6 35 (1.54%) CircleCI
7 31 (1.36%) Bitbucket
8 30 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 27 (1.19%) TeamCity
10 19 (0.84%) Claude Code
10 19 (0.84%) Selenium
11 15 (0.66%) SonarQube
12 12 (0.53%) Subversion
13 11 (0.48%) MLflow
13 11 (0.48%) NUnit
14 10 (0.44%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.44%) Maven
15 9 (0.40%) JMeter
15 9 (0.40%) MSI
16 8 (0.35%) Vite
General
1 629 (27.65%) Social Skills
2 511 (22.46%) Finance
3 200 (8.79%) Public Sector
4 174 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
5 126 (5.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 116 (5.10%) Banking
7 106 (4.66%) Law
8 70 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
9 67 (2.95%) Retail
10 45 (1.98%) Games
11 39 (1.71%) Aerospace
12 36 (1.58%) Telecoms
13 34 (1.49%) Marketing
14 31 (1.36%) Legal
14 31 (1.36%) Manufacturing
15 22 (0.97%) Advertising
16 21 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
17 20 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
18 14 (0.62%) Aviation
18 14 (0.62%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 522 (22.95%) Senior
2 393 (17.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 332 (14.59%) Lead
4 301 (13.23%) Architect
5 277 (12.18%) Cloud Engineer
6 224 (9.85%) Platform Engineer
7 199 (8.75%) Developer
8 183 (8.04%) Azure Engineer
9 137 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
10 128 (5.63%) Software Engineer
11 122 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 120 (5.27%) Data Engineer
13 106 (4.66%) Principal Engineer
14 102 (4.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 89 (3.91%) Security Engineer
16 83 (3.65%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 77 (3.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 76 (3.34%) Senior DevOps
19 70 (3.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 69 (3.03%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (8.13%) React
2 173 (7.60%) Kafka
3 166 (7.30%) .NET
4 150 (6.59%) REST
5 147 (6.46%) Node.js
6 137 (6.02%) Spring
7 136 (5.98%) Spring Boot
8 126 (5.54%) RESTful
9 94 (4.13%) AWS CDK
10 78 (3.43%) YAML
11 74 (3.25%) PySpark
12 72 (3.16%) ARM Templates
13 57 (2.51%) RabbitMQ
14 56 (2.46%) AngularJS
14 56 (2.46%) Next.js
15 55 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
16 51 (2.24%) OAuth
17 41 (1.80%) JSON
18 40 (1.76%) ASP.NET
19 39 (1.71%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 654 (28.75%) Cloud Native
2 240 (10.55%) Distributed Systems
3 112 (4.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 106 (4.66%) Onboarding
5 105 (4.62%) Public Cloud
6 84 (3.69%) Data Centre
7 78 (3.43%) Product Ownership
8 63 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
9 62 (2.73%) Security Posture
10 59 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
11 47 (2.07%) Enterprise Cloud
12 45 (1.98%) Video\Live Streaming
13 44 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
14 39 (1.71%) Low-Code
15 33 (1.45%) Management Information System
15 33 (1.45%) Virtual Team
16 32 (1.41%) Private Cloud
17 31 (1.36%) e-Learning
17 31 (1.36%) PKI
18 28 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 379 (16.66%) Linux
2 211 (9.27%) Windows
3 93 (4.09%) Windows Server
4 56 (2.46%) CentOS
5 41 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (1.80%) Ubuntu
6 40 (1.76%) Unix
7 23 (1.01%) VMS
8 8 (0.35%) Android
9 7 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.22%) Debian
11 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.088%) AIX
12 2 (0.088%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.044%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.044%) Rocky
13 1 (0.044%) Solaris
13 1 (0.044%) SUSE
13 1 (0.044%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,607 (70.64%) CI/CD
2 1,277 (56.13%) DevOps
3 676 (29.71%) Containerisation
4 642 (28.22%) Agile
5 631 (27.74%) Observability
6 520 (22.86%) Platform Engineering
7 500 (21.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 492 (21.63%) Mentoring
9 488 (21.45%) AI
10 456 (20.04%) Software Engineering
11 386 (16.97%) Microservices
12 385 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
13 372 (16.35%) Technical Leadership
13 372 (16.35%) Test Automation
14 326 (14.33%) Roadmaps
15 325 (14.29%) Cloud Security
16 290 (12.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 249 (10.95%) Event-Driven
18 245 (10.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 244 (10.73%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 991 (43.56%) Python
2 357 (15.69%) SQL
3 349 (15.34%) Java
4 348 (15.30%) Bash
5 320 (14.07%) PowerShell
6 220 (9.67%) Bicep
7 211 (9.27%) TypeScript
8 197 (8.66%) JavaScript
9 175 (7.69%) C#
10 167 (7.34%) Go
11 44 (1.93%) Ruby
12 37 (1.63%) PHP
13 31 (1.36%) Scala
14 27 (1.19%) Rust
15 23 (1.01%) C++
15 23 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
16 21 (0.92%) Perl
17 20 (0.88%) Groovy
18 13 (0.57%) Shell Script
19 11 (0.48%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 522 (22.95%) Security Cleared
2 327 (14.37%) SC Cleared
3 193 (8.48%) Degree
4 167 (7.34%) AWS Certification
5 165 (7.25%) DV Cleared
6 133 (5.85%) Azure Certification
7 82 (3.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 80 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 54 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 49 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
11 33 (1.45%) CCNP
12 28 (1.23%) Master's Degree
13 22 (0.97%) CISSP
13 22 (0.97%) OSCP
14 20 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
15 19 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
16 18 (0.79%) CCNA
17 16 (0.70%) DBS Check
18 14 (0.62%) RHCSA
19 13 (0.57%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (5.41%) QA
2 99 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 69 (3.03%) GRC
4 66 (2.90%) GDPR
5 53 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 44 (1.93%) Accessibility
7 37 (1.63%) NIST
8 36 (1.58%) SOC 2
9 29 (1.27%) PCI DSS
10 25 (1.10%) WCAG
11 23 (1.01%) NCSC
12 14 (0.62%) SLA
13 9 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.088%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.088%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.088%) IFRS
16 2 (0.088%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.088%) Solvency II
System Software
1 602 (26.46%) Docker
2 124 (5.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 120 (5.27%) Active Directory
4 45 (1.98%) vSphere
5 32 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.97%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.62%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.35%) Firmware
10 8 (0.35%) KVM
10 8 (0.35%) Squid
11 7 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.22%) iptables
13 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,536 (67.52%) Terraform
2 846 (37.19%) Kubernetes
3 454 (19.96%) Ansible
4 239 (10.51%) Grafana
5 183 (8.04%) Prometheus
6 66 (2.90%) Argo
7 50 (2.20%) Puppet
8 38 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 34 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
10 32 (1.41%) Progress Chef
11 27 (1.19%) Istio
11 27 (1.19%) Packer
12 24 (1.05%) Nagios
13 16 (0.70%) FortiGate
14 12 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 12 (0.53%) Cilium
14 12 (0.53%) Rancher
14 12 (0.53%) vCenter Server
14 12 (0.53%) ZABBIX
15 11 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 492 (21.63%) Microsoft
2 151 (6.64%) VMware
3 124 (5.45%) Google
4 95 (4.18%) Databricks
5 83 (3.65%) Red Hat
6 82 (3.60%) Splunk
7 71 (3.12%) Cisco
8 56 (2.46%) Oracle
9 52 (2.29%) Palo Alto
10 40 (1.76%) Fortinet
11 37 (1.63%) OpenAI
12 35 (1.54%) Dynatrace
13 26 (1.14%) Zscaler
14 18 (0.79%) ServiceNow
15 15 (0.66%) CrowdStrike
15 15 (0.66%) F5
16 13 (0.57%) Atlassian
16 13 (0.57%) Rapid7
16 13 (0.57%) SAP
17 12 (0.53%) Salesforce