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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 156 124
Rank change year-on-year +80 -32 -35
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,516 1,004 1,587
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.14% 2.03% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.93% 2.29% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,612 709 964
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,550 £45,150
25th Percentile £60,250 £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 £88,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £69,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.45% +6.15% -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 85,853 43,932 62,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.10% 88.75% 81.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,280 24,639 34,370
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,585 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.11% -3.39%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
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% -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 26 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 26 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 2,186 £77,500 +3.33% 2,763
UK excluding London +101 1,378 £70,000 +1.45% 1,450
London +29 945 £90,000 +5.88% 1,538
Work from Home +51 810 £75,000 - 1,208
North of England +103 490 £70,000 - 425
North West +108 269 £72,500 +13.73% 253
South East +56 249 £67,500 -14.29% 281
South West +51 246 £75,000 +7.14% 239
Midlands +29 154 £75,000 +15.83% 165
North East +21 118 £60,000 -17.24% 64
Yorkshire -2 109 £69,250 -1.07% 111
West Midlands +11 95 £85,000 +36.55% 98
Wales -2 79 £70,000 +19.15% 39
Northern Ireland -32 62 £71,991 +67.07% 44
East Midlands +9 59 £66,250 +1.92% 67
East of England -7 56 £65,000 - 107
Scotland +17 54 £72,500 +7.41% 158

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 (2.46%) Apache
2 60 (2.38%) Apache Spark
3 57 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
4 36 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (1.11%) Confluence
6 15 (0.60%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.52%) SharePoint
8 8 (0.32%) CMS
8 8 (0.32%) IIS
9 7 (0.28%) nginx
9 7 (0.28%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.16%) Camunda
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.12%) WordPress
12 2 (0.079%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.040%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.040%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.040%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 21 (0.83%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.079%) 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 (0.079%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.079%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.079%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.040%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1,423 (56.56%) AWS
2 1,355 (53.86%) Azure
3 517 (20.55%) GCP
4 459 (18.24%) GitHub
5 401 (15.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 384 (15.26%) Serverless
7 330 (13.12%) Azure DevOps
8 254 (10.10%) GitHub Actions
9 213 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
10 210 (8.35%) Amazon S3
11 183 (7.27%) PaaS
12 156 (6.20%) Amazon EKS
13 149 (5.92%) Amazon EC2
14 148 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
15 141 (5.60%) SaaS
16 140 (5.56%) Azure AKS
17 137 (5.45%) Cloud Computing
18 135 (5.37%) Entra ID
19 133 (5.29%) IaaS
20 129 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 178 (7.07%) Firewall
2 136 (5.41%) DNS
3 135 (5.37%) VPN
4 119 (4.73%) WAN
5 117 (4.65%) Network Security
6 92 (3.66%) LAN
7 67 (2.66%) 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 32 (1.27%) VLAN
14 28 (1.11%) VXLAN
15 26 (1.03%) Software-Defined Networking
16 25 (0.99%) 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
1 196 (7.79%) PostgreSQL
2 163 (6.48%) NoSQL
3 116 (4.61%) Amazon RDS
4 106 (4.21%) MongoDB
5 91 (3.62%) SQL Server
6 78 (3.10%) DynamoDB
7 74 (2.94%) MySQL
8 69 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
9 63 (2.50%) Data Lake
10 53 (2.11%) Metadata
10 53 (2.11%) Redis
11 51 (2.03%) Relational Database
12 44 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
13 35 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
14 31 (1.23%) Big Data
15 30 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
15 30 (1.19%) Delta Lake
16 28 (1.11%) Power BI
17 25 (0.99%) BigQuery
18 23 (0.91%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 376 (14.94%) Git
2 307 (12.20%) GitLab
3 271 (10.77%) Jenkins
4 58 (2.31%) JIRA
5 51 (2.03%) Cucumber
6 35 (1.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 26 (1.03%) TeamCity
8 24 (0.95%) Bitbucket
8 24 (0.95%) Claude Code
9 20 (0.79%) CircleCI
9 20 (0.79%) 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%) MLflow
15 9 (0.36%) MSI
General
1 712 (28.30%) Social Skills
2 577 (22.93%) Finance
3 283 (11.25%) Public Sector
4 227 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
5 167 (6.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 143 (5.68%) Banking
7 121 (4.81%) Law
8 74 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
9 73 (2.90%) Retail
10 62 (2.46%) Aerospace
11 42 (1.67%) Marketing
12 37 (1.47%) Legal
13 34 (1.35%) Games
14 27 (1.07%) Manufacturing
15 22 (0.87%) Financial Institution
15 22 (0.87%) Telecoms
16 18 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
18 15 (0.60%) Aviation
18 15 (0.60%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 594 (23.61%) Senior
2 472 (18.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 349 (13.87%) Architect
4 343 (13.63%) Lead
5 295 (11.72%) Cloud Engineer
6 258 (10.25%) Platform Engineer
7 207 (8.23%) Developer
8 197 (7.83%) Azure Engineer
9 182 (7.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 158 (6.28%) Software Engineer
11 153 (6.08%) AWS Engineer
12 135 (5.37%) Principal Engineer
13 127 (5.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 120 (4.77%) Data Engineer
15 99 (3.93%) Security Engineer
16 98 (3.90%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 79 (3.14%) Senior Developer
18 78 (3.10%) Azure Platform Engineer
18 78 (3.10%) Senior DevOps
19 75 (2.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,671 (66.41%) Terraform
2 206 (8.19%) Kafka
3 205 (8.15%) React
4 182 (7.23%) .NET
5 171 (6.80%) Spring
5 171 (6.80%) Spring Boot
6 157 (6.24%) Node.js
7 152 (6.04%) RESTful
8 150 (5.96%) REST
9 88 (3.50%) AWS CDK
10 77 (3.06%) PySpark
11 66 (2.62%) AngularJS
12 64 (2.54%) ARM Templates
13 61 (2.42%) Next.js
14 60 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
14 60 (2.38%) YAML
15 57 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
16 48 (1.91%) LangChain
17 45 (1.79%) OAuth
18 41 (1.63%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 762 (30.29%) Cloud Native
2 283 (11.25%) Distributed Systems
3 140 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 132 (5.25%) Onboarding
4 132 (5.25%) Public Cloud
5 93 (3.70%) Data Centre
6 87 (3.46%) Enterprise Software
7 77 (3.06%) Product Ownership
8 68 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
9 67 (2.66%) Security Posture
10 64 (2.54%) Linux Command Line
11 58 (2.31%) Enterprise Cloud
12 52 (2.07%) Management Information System
13 51 (2.03%) Virtual Team
14 48 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
15 45 (1.79%) e-Learning
16 44 (1.75%) AI Agents
17 43 (1.71%) Private Cloud
18 39 (1.55%) PKI
19 35 (1.39%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 452 (17.97%) Linux
2 226 (8.98%) Windows
3 101 (4.01%) Windows Server
4 61 (2.42%) CentOS
5 48 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 46 (1.83%) Unix
7 39 (1.55%) Ubuntu
8 21 (0.83%) 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 (0.079%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.079%) Rocky
14 2 (0.079%) Solaris
15 1 (0.040%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.040%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.040%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,801 (71.58%) CI/CD
2 1,392 (55.33%) DevOps
3 760 (30.21%) Containerisation
4 725 (28.82%) Agile
5 694 (27.58%) Observability
6 642 (25.52%) Platform Engineering
7 585 (23.25%) Mentoring
8 568 (22.58%) AI
9 553 (21.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 530 (21.07%) Software Engineering
11 463 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
12 435 (17.29%) Microservices
13 430 (17.09%) Cloud Security
14 422 (16.77%) Technical Leadership
15 408 (16.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 391 (15.54%) Test Automation
17 364 (14.47%) Roadmaps
18 317 (12.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 288 (11.45%) Event-Driven
20 280 (11.13%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,083 (43.04%) Python
2 407 (16.18%) Java
3 391 (15.54%) Bash
4 378 (15.02%) SQL
5 357 (14.19%) PowerShell
6 240 (9.54%) Bicep
7 224 (8.90%) TypeScript
8 191 (7.59%) JavaScript
9 186 (7.39%) C#
10 158 (6.28%) Go
11 59 (2.34%) Shell Script
12 50 (1.99%) Ruby
13 41 (1.63%) Scala
14 36 (1.43%) Groovy
15 35 (1.39%) PHP
16 29 (1.15%) Rust
17 25 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
18 22 (0.87%) C++
19 20 (0.79%) Perl
20 14 (0.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 654 (25.99%) Security Cleared
2 414 (16.45%) SC Cleared
3 222 (8.82%) AWS Certification
4 214 (8.51%) DV Cleared
5 179 (7.11%) Degree
6 161 (6.40%) Azure Certification
7 97 (3.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 83 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 55 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
11 43 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
12 30 (1.19%) CCNP
13 28 (1.11%) Master's Degree
13 28 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
14 25 (0.99%) CISSP
15 20 (0.79%) CCNA
16 17 (0.68%) SnowPro
17 14 (0.56%) DBS Check
17 14 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 13 (0.52%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (4.93%) QA
2 105 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 72 (2.86%) GRC
4 70 (2.78%) GDPR
5 62 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (1.99%) Accessibility
7 37 (1.47%) NIST
8 31 (1.23%) NCSC
8 31 (1.23%) SOC 2
9 24 (0.95%) SLA
10 22 (0.87%) PCI DSS
11 21 (0.83%) WCAG
12 13 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.28%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.20%) ISO 20022
16 3 (0.12%) ISO 9001
16 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.079%) Solvency II
System Software
1 687 (27.31%) Docker
2 136 (5.41%) Active Directory
3 132 (5.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
4 46 (1.83%) vSphere
5 28 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 20 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.79%) VMware NSX
7 12 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.36%) KVM
8 9 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.32%) Squid
10 7 (0.28%) Firmware
11 4 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.12%) iptables
12 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.079%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 914 (36.33%) Kubernetes
2 504 (20.03%) Ansible
3 248 (9.86%) Grafana
4 181 (7.19%) Prometheus
5 76 (3.02%) Argo
6 72 (2.86%) Puppet
7 48 (1.91%) Progress Chef
8 43 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
9 37 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 35 (1.39%) Istio
11 30 (1.19%) Packer
12 24 (0.95%) FortiGate
12 24 (0.95%) Rancher
13 22 (0.87%) vCenter Server
14 16 (0.64%) Nagios
15 14 (0.56%) Cilium
16 13 (0.52%) Kustomize
16 13 (0.52%) logstash
17 12 (0.48%) linkerd
17 12 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 623 (24.76%) Microsoft
2 190 (7.55%) Google
3 166 (6.60%) VMware
4 111 (4.41%) Databricks
5 88 (3.50%) Splunk
6 80 (3.18%) Red Hat
7 77 (3.06%) Oracle
8 72 (2.86%) Cisco
9 49 (1.95%) Dynatrace
10 41 (1.63%) OpenAI
11 38 (1.51%) Fortinet
12 37 (1.47%) Palo Alto
13 33 (1.31%) ServiceNow
14 26 (1.03%) Zscaler
15 15 (0.60%) Atlassian
15 15 (0.60%) Okta
15 15 (0.60%) SAP
16 14 (0.56%) SolarWinds
17 13 (0.52%) F5
17 13 (0.52%) New Relic