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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 156 128
Rank change year-on-year +80 -28 -36
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,392 1,014 1,549
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.11% 2.04% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.89% 2.31% 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,563 712 985
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £108,625 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -5.11%

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 82,691 43,965 63,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.84% 88.66% 80.94%
Number of salaries quoted 57,506 24,819 36,681
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -3.23%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 +78 2,082 £77,500 - 1,924
UK excluding London +110 1,299 £70,000 - 996
London +30 911 £90,000 +2.86% 1,140
Work from Home +55 795 £75,000 -3.23% 1,903
North of England +88 454 £70,400 +0.57% 279
North West +88 253 £72,500 +11.54% 152
South East +63 245 £67,500 -18.18% 227
South West +43 229 £75,000 - 147
Midlands +22 145 £75,000 +15.38% 101
Yorkshire -3 101 £75,000 +7.14% 80
North East +21 100 £59,000 -18.62% 47
West Midlands +8 88 £85,000 +31.78% 65
Wales -15 71 £70,000 +21.74% 25
Northern Ireland -24 62 £71,991 +67.07% 36
East Midlands +5 57 £67,500 +3.85% 36
East of England -10 54 £62,500 -3.85% 60
Scotland +17 51 £72,500 +3.57% 130

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 57 (2.38%) Apache
1 57 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
2 56 (2.34%) Apache Spark
3 32 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 29 (1.21%) Confluence
5 13 (0.54%) Jupyter
6 10 (0.42%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.38%) IIS
8 7 (0.29%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.25%) CMS
10 4 (0.17%) nginx
11 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.13%) Camunda
11 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.13%) WordPress
12 2 (0.084%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.042%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.042%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.042%) JBoss
13 1 (0.042%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 21 (0.88%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.084%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.084%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.042%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.13%) Summit
4 2 (0.084%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,355 (56.65%) AWS
2 1,276 (53.34%) Azure
3 461 (19.27%) GCP
4 421 (17.60%) GitHub
5 380 (15.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 372 (15.55%) Serverless
7 314 (13.13%) Azure DevOps
8 233 (9.74%) GitHub Actions
9 212 (8.86%) AWS Lambda
10 205 (8.57%) Amazon S3
11 172 (7.19%) PaaS
12 151 (6.31%) Amazon EKS
13 146 (6.10%) Amazon ECS
14 142 (5.94%) Amazon EC2
15 137 (5.73%) Azure AKS
16 132 (5.52%) SaaS
17 126 (5.27%) IaaS
18 125 (5.23%) Microsoft 365
19 124 (5.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 117 (4.89%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 169 (7.07%) Firewall
2 128 (5.35%) DNS
3 121 (5.06%) VPN
4 120 (5.02%) WAN
5 113 (4.72%) Network Security
6 97 (4.06%) LAN
7 68 (2.84%) TCP/IP
8 55 (2.30%) BGP
9 49 (2.05%) DHCP
10 48 (2.01%) Broadband
11 40 (1.67%) OSPF
12 32 (1.34%) VLAN
13 28 (1.17%) SD-WAN
13 28 (1.17%) VXLAN
14 27 (1.13%) Software-Defined Networking
15 19 (0.79%) Wireless
16 16 (0.67%) HTTP
17 15 (0.63%) Ethernet VPN
18 14 (0.59%) SAN
19 10 (0.42%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
2 157 (6.56%) NoSQL
3 111 (4.64%) Amazon RDS
4 107 (4.47%) MongoDB
5 83 (3.47%) SQL Server
6 79 (3.30%) DynamoDB
7 68 (2.84%) MySQL
8 60 (2.51%) Data Lake
9 59 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
10 51 (2.13%) Metadata
11 49 (2.05%) Relational Database
12 46 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
12 46 (1.92%) Redis
13 33 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
14 30 (1.25%) Big Data
14 30 (1.25%) Delta Lake
15 29 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
16 24 (1.00%) BigQuery
17 22 (0.92%) Data Vault
18 21 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 325 (13.59%) Git
2 279 (11.66%) GitLab
3 256 (10.70%) Jenkins
4 58 (2.42%) JIRA
5 48 (2.01%) Cucumber
6 33 (1.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 25 (1.05%) TeamCity
8 23 (0.96%) Bitbucket
8 23 (0.96%) CircleCI
8 23 (0.96%) Selenium
9 20 (0.84%) Claude Code
10 18 (0.75%) SonarQube
11 15 (0.63%) Cypress.io
12 13 (0.54%) Subversion
13 12 (0.50%) Maven
13 12 (0.50%) NUnit
14 10 (0.42%) MLflow
14 10 (0.42%) Snyk
15 9 (0.38%) MSI
16 8 (0.33%) Artifactory
General
1 667 (27.88%) Social Skills
2 554 (23.16%) Finance
3 237 (9.91%) Public Sector
4 180 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
5 156 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 136 (5.69%) Banking
7 121 (5.06%) Law
8 74 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
9 67 (2.80%) Retail
10 57 (2.38%) Aerospace
11 43 (1.80%) Games
12 42 (1.76%) Marketing
13 38 (1.59%) Legal
14 31 (1.30%) Manufacturing
15 24 (1.00%) Telecoms
16 19 (0.79%) Financial Institution
17 17 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
17 17 (0.71%) Local Government
18 16 (0.67%) Aviation
19 15 (0.63%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 568 (23.75%) Senior
2 404 (16.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 335 (14.01%) Lead
4 327 (13.67%) Architect
5 288 (12.04%) Cloud Engineer
6 248 (10.37%) Platform Engineer
7 205 (8.57%) Developer
8 194 (8.11%) Azure Engineer
9 167 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 153 (6.40%) Software Engineer
11 144 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
12 123 (5.14%) Principal Engineer
13 120 (5.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 120 (5.02%) Data Engineer
14 97 (4.06%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 93 (3.89%) Security Engineer
16 75 (3.14%) Senior Developer
17 74 (3.09%) Azure Platform Engineer
17 74 (3.09%) Senior DevOps
18 72 (3.01%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,610 (67.31%) Terraform
2 199 (8.32%) Kafka
3 196 (8.19%) React
4 176 (7.36%) .NET
5 159 (6.65%) Spring
6 158 (6.61%) Spring Boot
7 156 (6.52%) Node.js
8 151 (6.31%) REST
9 145 (6.06%) RESTful
10 90 (3.76%) AWS CDK
11 77 (3.22%) PySpark
12 65 (2.72%) ARM Templates
13 64 (2.68%) YAML
14 61 (2.55%) AngularJS
15 59 (2.47%) RabbitMQ
16 55 (2.30%) Next.js
17 52 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
18 47 (1.96%) OAuth
19 43 (1.80%) LangChain
20 41 (1.71%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 727 (30.39%) Cloud Native
2 267 (11.16%) Distributed Systems
3 129 (5.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 125 (5.23%) Onboarding
4 125 (5.23%) Public Cloud
5 94 (3.93%) Data Centre
6 83 (3.47%) Product Ownership
7 72 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
8 66 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
9 61 (2.55%) Security Posture
10 56 (2.34%) Enterprise Cloud
11 47 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
12 46 (1.92%) Virtual Team
13 42 (1.76%) Management Information System
13 42 (1.76%) Private Cloud
14 41 (1.71%) e-Learning
15 40 (1.67%) Video\Live Streaming
16 38 (1.59%) AI Agents
16 38 (1.59%) PKI
17 35 (1.46%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 393 (16.43%) Linux
2 215 (8.99%) Windows
3 96 (4.01%) Windows Server
4 59 (2.47%) CentOS
5 44 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (1.59%) Ubuntu
7 36 (1.51%) Unix
8 22 (0.92%) VMS
9 6 (0.25%) Debian
10 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.13%) AIX
12 3 (0.13%) Android
12 3 (0.13%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.084%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.084%) Solaris
14 1 (0.042%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.042%) Rocky
14 1 (0.042%) SUSE
14 1 (0.042%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,683 (70.36%) CI/CD
2 1,288 (53.85%) DevOps
3 698 (29.18%) Containerisation
4 678 (28.34%) Agile
5 672 (28.09%) Observability
6 573 (23.95%) Platform Engineering
7 540 (22.58%) AI
8 523 (21.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 522 (21.82%) Mentoring
10 519 (21.70%) Software Engineering
11 437 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
12 411 (17.18%) Microservices
13 403 (16.85%) Technical Leadership
14 387 (16.18%) Test Automation
15 374 (15.64%) Cloud Security
16 345 (14.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 345 (14.42%) Roadmaps
17 274 (11.45%) Event-Driven
18 264 (11.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 255 (10.66%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,042 (43.56%) Python
2 383 (16.01%) Java
3 371 (15.51%) Bash
3 371 (15.51%) SQL
4 341 (14.26%) PowerShell
5 226 (9.45%) Bicep
6 224 (9.36%) TypeScript
7 193 (8.07%) JavaScript
8 182 (7.61%) C#
9 158 (6.61%) Go
10 48 (2.01%) Ruby
11 41 (1.71%) Scala
12 34 (1.42%) PHP
13 30 (1.25%) Groovy
14 28 (1.17%) Rust
15 25 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
16 22 (0.92%) C++
17 21 (0.88%) Perl
18 20 (0.84%) Shell Script
19 12 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 593 (24.79%) Security Cleared
2 375 (15.68%) SC Cleared
3 206 (8.61%) AWS Certification
4 191 (7.98%) DV Cleared
5 185 (7.73%) Degree
6 150 (6.27%) Azure Certification
7 91 (3.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 84 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 63 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 61 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
11 39 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
12 35 (1.46%) CCNP
13 29 (1.21%) Master's Degree
14 24 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
15 23 (0.96%) CISSP
16 21 (0.88%) CCNA
17 17 (0.71%) SnowPro
18 14 (0.59%) CCIE
18 14 (0.59%) DBS Check
18 14 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (5.43%) QA
2 103 (4.31%) Data Quality
3 72 (3.01%) GRC
4 65 (2.72%) GDPR
5 56 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (1.92%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.38%) NIST
8 30 (1.25%) NCSC
9 29 (1.21%) SOC 2
10 24 (1.00%) SLA
11 21 (0.88%) WCAG
12 20 (0.84%) PCI DSS
13 9 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.29%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
16 4 (0.17%) ISO 20022
17 3 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 2 (0.084%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 2 (0.084%) ISO 9001
18 2 (0.084%) Solvency II
System Software
1 625 (26.13%) Docker
2 133 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 132 (5.52%) Active Directory
4 46 (1.92%) vSphere
5 39 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (1.00%) Hyper-V
6 24 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (0.75%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (0.38%) KVM
10 8 (0.33%) Firmware
10 8 (0.33%) Squid
11 7 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.13%) iptables
14 2 (0.084%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 871 (36.41%) Kubernetes
2 479 (20.03%) Ansible
3 233 (9.74%) Grafana
4 170 (7.11%) Prometheus
5 73 (3.05%) Argo
6 62 (2.59%) Puppet
7 41 (1.71%) Progress Chef
8 38 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
9 35 (1.46%) Istio
10 34 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
11 28 (1.17%) Packer
12 23 (0.96%) FortiGate
13 19 (0.79%) Rancher
14 18 (0.75%) vCenter Server
15 17 (0.71%) Nagios
16 14 (0.59%) Cilium
17 13 (0.54%) Kustomize
18 12 (0.50%) Podman
18 12 (0.50%) ZABBIX
19 11 (0.46%) linkerd
Vendors
1 547 (22.87%) Microsoft
2 163 (6.81%) VMware
3 143 (5.98%) Google
4 106 (4.43%) Databricks
5 85 (3.55%) Splunk
6 81 (3.39%) Red Hat
7 75 (3.14%) Cisco
8 72 (3.01%) Oracle
9 42 (1.76%) OpenAI
10 41 (1.71%) Dynatrace
10 41 (1.71%) Fortinet
10 41 (1.71%) Palo Alto
11 28 (1.17%) ServiceNow
12 26 (1.09%) Zscaler
13 16 (0.67%) CrowdStrike
13 16 (0.67%) SAP
14 15 (0.63%) Atlassian
14 15 (0.63%) Okta
15 13 (0.54%) New Relic
16 12 (0.50%) Rapid7