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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 158 124
Rank change year-on-year +81 -34 -37
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,510 999 1,569
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.14% 2.03% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.93% 2.28% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,608 708 951
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,513 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,807 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,625 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.32% +4.23% -3.70%

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 85,804 43,854 61,991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.05% 88.92% 81.71%
Number of salaries quoted 59,130 24,461 33,915
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 28 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 28 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 +81 2,180 £77,500 +3.33% 2,335
UK excluding London +105 1,373 £70,000 +3.32% 1,180
London +30 944 £90,000 +5.88% 1,280
Work from Home +53 805 £75,000 +0.67% 1,042
North of England +102 489 £70,000 - 367
North West +104 270 £72,245 +15.59% 219
South East +48 249 £67,500 -14.29% 182
South West +48 245 £75,000 +7.14% 199
Midlands +32 152 £75,000 +15.83% 152
North East +22 118 £60,000 -17.24% 59
Yorkshire +9 107 £68,250 -2.50% 91
West Midlands +10 94 £85,000 +36.55% 96
Wales +3 79 £70,000 +19.15% 39
Northern Ireland -31 62 £71,991 +67.07% 40
East Midlands +3 58 £65,000 - 56
East of England -6 56 £65,000 - 79
Scotland +12 53 £72,500 +7.41% 129

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 (2.47%) Apache
2 60 (2.39%) Apache Spark
3 57 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
4 36 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (1.12%) Confluence
6 15 (0.60%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.52%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.36%) CMS
9 8 (0.32%) IIS
10 7 (0.28%) nginx
10 7 (0.28%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.20%) Camunda
12 4 (0.16%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.12%) WordPress
14 2 (0.080%) Cloud Foundry
15 1 (0.040%) Apache Solr
15 1 (0.040%) NServiceBus
15 1 (0.040%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 21 (0.84%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.080%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.040%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.040%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) Summit
4 2 (0.080%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.080%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.080%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.080%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.040%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1,420 (56.57%) AWS
2 1,353 (53.90%) Azure
3 515 (20.52%) GCP
4 456 (18.17%) GitHub
5 403 (16.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 387 (15.42%) Serverless
7 328 (13.07%) Azure DevOps
8 252 (10.04%) GitHub Actions
9 214 (8.53%) AWS Lambda
10 213 (8.49%) Amazon S3
11 183 (7.29%) PaaS
12 157 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
13 152 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
14 149 (5.94%) Amazon ECS
15 142 (5.66%) Azure AKS
16 138 (5.50%) SaaS
17 137 (5.46%) Cloud Computing
17 137 (5.46%) Entra ID
18 133 (5.30%) IaaS
19 129 (5.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 177 (7.05%) Firewall
2 137 (5.46%) DNS
3 135 (5.38%) VPN
4 119 (4.74%) Network Security
5 118 (4.70%) WAN
6 91 (3.63%) LAN
7 67 (2.67%) TCP/IP
8 54 (2.15%) BGP
9 52 (2.07%) DHCP
10 43 (1.71%) Internet
11 42 (1.67%) Broadband
12 39 (1.55%) OSPF
13 31 (1.24%) VLAN
14 28 (1.12%) VXLAN
15 26 (1.04%) Software-Defined Networking
16 24 (0.96%) SD-WAN
17 16 (0.64%) SAN
17 16 (0.64%) Wireless
18 15 (0.60%) Ethernet VPN
18 15 (0.60%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
2 163 (6.49%) NoSQL
3 117 (4.66%) Amazon RDS
4 106 (4.22%) MongoDB
5 90 (3.59%) SQL Server
6 78 (3.11%) DynamoDB
7 74 (2.95%) MySQL
8 71 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
9 63 (2.51%) Data Lake
10 53 (2.11%) Metadata
10 53 (2.11%) Redis
11 49 (1.95%) Relational Database
12 44 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
13 35 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
14 31 (1.24%) Big Data
15 30 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
15 30 (1.20%) Delta Lake
15 30 (1.20%) Power BI
16 25 (1.00%) BigQuery
17 23 (0.92%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 373 (14.86%) Git
2 309 (12.31%) GitLab
3 270 (10.76%) Jenkins
4 58 (2.31%) JIRA
5 50 (1.99%) Cucumber
6 35 (1.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 26 (1.04%) TeamCity
8 24 (0.96%) Bitbucket
8 24 (0.96%) Claude Code
9 20 (0.80%) CircleCI
9 20 (0.80%) Selenium
10 19 (0.76%) SonarQube
11 15 (0.60%) Cypress.io
12 14 (0.56%) Subversion
13 12 (0.48%) Maven
13 12 (0.48%) Snyk
14 11 (0.44%) Artifactory
14 11 (0.44%) NUnit
15 9 (0.36%) JUnit
15 9 (0.36%) MSI
General
1 706 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 574 (22.87%) Finance
3 285 (11.35%) Public Sector
4 228 (9.08%) Analytical Skills
5 167 (6.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 141 (5.62%) Banking
7 121 (4.82%) Law
8 73 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
9 71 (2.83%) Retail
10 63 (2.51%) Aerospace
11 41 (1.63%) Marketing
12 37 (1.47%) Legal
13 34 (1.35%) Games
14 26 (1.04%) Manufacturing
15 22 (0.88%) Financial Institution
16 21 (0.84%) Telecoms
17 17 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
18 15 (0.60%) Aviation
18 15 (0.60%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 597 (23.78%) Senior
2 473 (18.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 352 (14.02%) Architect
4 343 (13.67%) Lead
5 296 (11.79%) Cloud Engineer
6 255 (10.16%) Platform Engineer
7 206 (8.21%) Developer
8 196 (7.81%) Azure Engineer
9 181 (7.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 160 (6.37%) Software Engineer
11 153 (6.10%) AWS Engineer
12 135 (5.38%) Principal Engineer
13 127 (5.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 119 (4.74%) Data Engineer
15 99 (3.94%) Security Engineer
16 97 (3.86%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 80 (3.19%) Senior DevOps
18 79 (3.15%) Senior Developer
19 78 (3.11%) Azure Platform Engineer
20 77 (3.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,664 (66.29%) Terraform
2 206 (8.21%) Kafka
3 205 (8.17%) React
4 183 (7.29%) .NET
5 172 (6.85%) Spring
5 172 (6.85%) Spring Boot
6 157 (6.25%) Node.js
7 153 (6.10%) RESTful
8 150 (5.98%) REST
9 87 (3.47%) AWS CDK
10 77 (3.07%) PySpark
11 66 (2.63%) AngularJS
12 64 (2.55%) ARM Templates
13 62 (2.47%) Next.js
14 60 (2.39%) RabbitMQ
14 60 (2.39%) YAML
15 57 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
16 47 (1.87%) LangChain
17 46 (1.83%) OAuth
18 40 (1.59%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 759 (30.24%) Cloud Native
2 281 (11.20%) Distributed Systems
3 138 (5.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 131 (5.22%) Onboarding
5 130 (5.18%) Public Cloud
6 94 (3.75%) Data Centre
7 87 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
8 76 (3.03%) Product Ownership
9 68 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
10 67 (2.67%) Security Posture
11 64 (2.55%) Linux Command Line
12 58 (2.31%) Enterprise Cloud
13 53 (2.11%) Management Information System
14 51 (2.03%) Virtual Team
15 48 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
16 45 (1.79%) e-Learning
17 44 (1.75%) AI Agents
18 43 (1.71%) Private Cloud
19 41 (1.63%) PKI
20 35 (1.39%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 454 (18.09%) Linux
2 227 (9.04%) Windows
3 102 (4.06%) Windows Server
4 61 (2.43%) CentOS
5 49 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 47 (1.87%) Unix
7 39 (1.55%) Ubuntu
8 21 (0.84%) VMS
9 7 (0.28%) Debian
10 6 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.16%) AIX
13 3 (0.12%) Android
13 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
14 2 (0.080%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.080%) Rocky
14 2 (0.080%) Solaris
15 1 (0.040%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.040%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.040%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,795 (71.51%) CI/CD
2 1,390 (55.38%) DevOps
3 758 (30.20%) Containerisation
4 726 (28.92%) Agile
5 687 (27.37%) Observability
6 637 (25.38%) Platform Engineering
7 583 (23.23%) Mentoring
8 565 (22.51%) AI
9 549 (21.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 529 (21.08%) Software Engineering
11 463 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
12 437 (17.41%) Microservices
13 430 (17.13%) Cloud Security
14 421 (16.77%) Technical Leadership
15 404 (16.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 390 (15.54%) Test Automation
17 365 (14.54%) Roadmaps
18 315 (12.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 288 (11.47%) Event-Driven
20 281 (11.20%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,075 (42.83%) Python
2 407 (16.22%) Java
3 390 (15.54%) Bash
4 378 (15.06%) SQL
5 358 (14.26%) PowerShell
6 241 (9.60%) Bicep
7 224 (8.92%) TypeScript
8 190 (7.57%) JavaScript
9 186 (7.41%) C#
10 158 (6.29%) Go
11 59 (2.35%) Shell Script
12 50 (1.99%) Ruby
13 41 (1.63%) Scala
14 36 (1.43%) Groovy
15 35 (1.39%) PHP
16 29 (1.16%) Rust
17 25 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
18 22 (0.88%) C++
19 20 (0.80%) Perl
20 14 (0.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 655 (26.10%) Security Cleared
2 414 (16.49%) SC Cleared
3 223 (8.88%) AWS Certification
4 214 (8.53%) DV Cleared
5 177 (7.05%) Degree
6 161 (6.41%) Azure Certification
7 98 (3.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 82 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 56 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
11 43 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
12 30 (1.20%) CCNP
13 28 (1.12%) Master's Degree
13 28 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
14 27 (1.08%) CISSP
15 21 (0.84%) CCNA
16 17 (0.68%) SnowPro
17 14 (0.56%) DBS Check
18 13 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 13 (0.52%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (4.90%) QA
2 105 (4.18%) Data Quality
3 72 (2.87%) GDPR
3 72 (2.87%) GRC
4 62 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 49 (1.95%) Accessibility
6 38 (1.51%) NIST
7 30 (1.20%) NCSC
7 30 (1.20%) SOC 2
8 23 (0.92%) SLA
9 22 (0.88%) PCI DSS
10 20 (0.80%) WCAG
11 14 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.28%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.20%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.12%) ISO 9001
15 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.080%) Solvency II
System Software
1 687 (27.37%) Docker
2 137 (5.46%) Active Directory
3 131 (5.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
5 45 (1.79%) vSphere
6 28 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
7 20 (0.80%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.80%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.36%) KVM
10 8 (0.32%) Squid
10 8 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (0.28%) Firmware
12 4 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.12%) iptables
14 2 (0.080%) Lustre
14 2 (0.080%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 911 (36.29%) Kubernetes
2 505 (20.12%) Ansible
3 246 (9.80%) Grafana
4 181 (7.21%) Prometheus
5 76 (3.03%) Argo
6 72 (2.87%) Puppet
7 48 (1.91%) Progress Chef
8 42 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
9 36 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
10 35 (1.39%) Istio
11 30 (1.20%) Packer
12 25 (1.00%) FortiGate
13 24 (0.96%) Rancher
14 22 (0.88%) vCenter Server
15 16 (0.64%) Nagios
16 14 (0.56%) Cilium
17 13 (0.52%) Kustomize
17 13 (0.52%) logstash
18 12 (0.48%) linkerd
18 12 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 623 (24.82%) Microsoft
2 190 (7.57%) Google
3 165 (6.57%) VMware
4 111 (4.42%) Databricks
5 87 (3.47%) Splunk
6 79 (3.15%) Red Hat
7 77 (3.07%) Oracle
8 71 (2.83%) Cisco
9 49 (1.95%) Dynatrace
10 41 (1.63%) OpenAI
11 36 (1.43%) Fortinet
11 36 (1.43%) Palo Alto
12 33 (1.31%) ServiceNow
13 26 (1.04%) Zscaler
14 15 (0.60%) Atlassian
14 15 (0.60%) SAP
15 14 (0.56%) F5
15 14 (0.56%) Okta
15 14 (0.56%) SolarWinds
16 13 (0.52%) CrowdStrike