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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 146 167
Rank change year-on-year +38 +21 -58
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,575 911 1,686
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.75% 2.15% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 2.31% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,017 657 1,327
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £49,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +9.15% -5.33%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £114,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,200 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.57% +7.69% -6.40%

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 67,118 39,358 81,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.74% 92.84% 85.64%
Number of salaries quoted 41,692 22,603 59,642
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,344 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +39 1,412 £77,500 - 579
London +47 715 £86,250 -4.17% 248
UK excluding London +29 715 £68,200 -2.57% 405
Work from Home +53 584 £70,039 -6.61% 327
North of England -1 263 £67,374 -0.92% 121
South East +5 145 £70,000 -6.67% 139
North West +2 139 £73,401 +1.24% 62
South West -5 104 £65,000 -9.71% 68
Yorkshire -30 93 £65,000 +7.92% 25
Midlands +12 91 £69,000 -1.43% 28
Scotland -9 46 £60,000 -17.53% 17
East Midlands -13 45 £67,500 +3.85% 6
West Midlands -10 44 £70,000 - 22
East of England +2 41 £60,100 -10.96% 27
North East -11 31 £48,445 -19.59% 34
Wales -12 22 £60,000 -5.14% 5
Northern Ireland -37 6 £95,000 - 8

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 46 (2.92%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (2.22%) Apache
3 28 (1.78%) Apache Spark
4 24 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.95%) Confluence
5 15 (0.95%) IIS
6 11 (0.70%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.32%) CMS
9 4 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.063%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.063%) Camunda
11 1 (0.063%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.063%) nginx
11 1 (0.063%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.063%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.51%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.25%) Weka
3 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.063%) Maya
5 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.063%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.063%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.063%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.063%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 933 (59.24%) AWS
2 863 (54.79%) Azure
3 319 (20.25%) GCP
4 317 (20.13%) GitHub
5 294 (18.67%) Azure DevOps
6 287 (18.22%) Serverless
7 254 (16.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 220 (13.97%) GitHub Actions
9 168 (10.67%) AWS Lambda
10 141 (8.95%) Amazon S3
11 123 (7.81%) Amazon EKS
12 116 (7.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 116 (7.37%) PaaS
13 113 (7.17%) Entra ID
14 101 (6.41%) SaaS
15 100 (6.35%) Datadog
16 89 (5.65%) IaaS
17 88 (5.59%) Amazon EC2
18 82 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
19 79 (5.02%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 176 (11.17%) Firewall
2 92 (5.84%) DNS
3 78 (4.95%) VPN
4 70 (4.44%) TCP/IP
5 48 (3.05%) Network Security
5 48 (3.05%) WAN
6 43 (2.73%) Broadband
7 35 (2.22%) DHCP
8 27 (1.71%) HTTP
8 27 (1.71%) LAN
9 24 (1.52%) BGP
10 16 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
10 16 (1.02%) VLAN
11 15 (0.95%) DSL
11 15 (0.95%) SD-WAN
12 12 (0.76%) Software-Defined Networking
13 11 (0.70%) Internet
14 10 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
15 7 (0.44%) SAN
15 7 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (7.68%) NoSQL
2 105 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 85 (5.40%) Amazon RDS
4 61 (3.87%) DynamoDB
5 58 (3.68%) SQL Server
6 53 (3.37%) MongoDB
7 49 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
8 48 (3.05%) Data Lake
9 47 (2.98%) Relational Database
10 35 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
11 33 (2.10%) MySQL
12 30 (1.90%) BigQuery
12 30 (1.90%) Metadata
13 25 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
14 22 (1.40%) Power BI
15 21 (1.33%) Delta Lake
16 19 (1.21%) RDBMS
17 18 (1.14%) Redis
18 17 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
19 15 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 221 (14.03%) Jenkins
2 211 (13.40%) GitLab
3 206 (13.08%) Git
4 38 (2.41%) CircleCI
5 37 (2.35%) Bitbucket
6 35 (2.22%) JIRA
7 24 (1.52%) Cucumber
8 21 (1.33%) Jaeger
9 18 (1.14%) Selenium
10 16 (1.02%) TeamCity
11 15 (0.95%) MLflow
11 15 (0.95%) SonarQube
12 13 (0.83%) Subversion
13 12 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 10 (0.63%) Robot Framework
15 9 (0.57%) JMeter
15 9 (0.57%) NUnit
15 9 (0.57%) Storybook
15 9 (0.57%) Vite
16 8 (0.51%) Maven
General
1 400 (25.40%) Social Skills
2 359 (22.79%) Finance
3 125 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (6.35%) Public Sector
5 91 (5.78%) Banking
6 80 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 62 (3.94%) Retail
8 61 (3.87%) Law
9 57 (3.62%) Telecoms
10 28 (1.78%) Manufacturing
11 26 (1.65%) Marketing
12 25 (1.59%) Games
13 22 (1.40%) Aerospace
14 21 (1.33%) Advertising
15 20 (1.27%) Billing
16 19 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (1.14%) Legal
18 17 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
18 17 (1.08%) Financial Institution
19 16 (1.02%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 348 (22.10%) Senior
2 262 (16.63%) DevOps Engineer
3 243 (15.43%) Cloud Engineer
4 227 (14.41%) Lead
5 158 (10.03%) Azure Engineer
6 147 (9.33%) Developer
7 139 (8.83%) Architect
8 138 (8.76%) Platform Engineer
9 116 (7.37%) AWS Engineer
9 116 (7.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 80 (5.08%) Data Engineer
11 74 (4.70%) Software Engineer
12 70 (4.44%) Security Engineer
13 63 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
14 62 (3.94%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 59 (3.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 53 (3.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 48 (3.05%) Cloud Security Engineer
18 46 (2.92%) Python Engineer
19 45 (2.86%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (8.57%) React
2 118 (7.49%) Node.js
3 101 (6.41%) .NET
4 99 (6.29%) Kafka
5 98 (6.22%) REST
6 92 (5.84%) RESTful
7 76 (4.83%) AWS CDK
8 75 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
9 68 (4.32%) Spring
9 68 (4.32%) YAML
10 66 (4.19%) OAuth
11 62 (3.94%) Spring Boot
12 50 (3.17%) ARM Templates
13 48 (3.05%) RabbitMQ
14 41 (2.60%) PySpark
15 38 (2.41%) Next.js
16 37 (2.35%) OpenTelemetry
17 33 (2.10%) .NET Core
17 33 (2.10%) JSON
17 33 (2.10%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 371 (23.56%) Cloud Native
2 98 (6.22%) Distributed Systems
3 89 (5.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 69 (4.38%) Public Cloud
5 60 (3.81%) Product Ownership
6 58 (3.68%) Security Posture
7 44 (2.79%) Data Centre
8 43 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
9 42 (2.67%) Onboarding
10 32 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
11 26 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
11 26 (1.65%) Management Information System
12 25 (1.59%) Mobile App
12 25 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
13 24 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
14 23 (1.46%) Blockchain
15 22 (1.40%) PKI
16 21 (1.33%) Video\Live Streaming
16 21 (1.33%) Web3
17 20 (1.27%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 317 (20.13%) Linux
2 156 (9.90%) Windows
3 67 (4.25%) Windows Server
4 61 (3.87%) Unix
5 34 (2.16%) Ubuntu
6 28 (1.78%) CentOS
7 27 (1.71%) VMS
8 26 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (0.95%) Android
10 14 (0.89%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.44%) Debian
12 5 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.25%) SUSE
14 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.063%) Rocky
15 1 (0.063%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,080 (68.57%) CI/CD
2 969 (61.52%) DevOps
3 449 (28.51%) Containerisation
4 439 (27.87%) Agile
5 419 (26.60%) Observability
6 348 (22.10%) Continuous Improvement
7 320 (20.32%) Mentoring
8 286 (18.16%) Platform Engineering
9 278 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
10 269 (17.08%) Test Automation
11 256 (16.25%) AI
12 252 (16.00%) Software Engineering
13 231 (14.67%) Microservices
14 216 (13.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 215 (13.65%) Cloud Security
16 192 (12.19%) Analytics
17 178 (11.30%) Technical Leadership
18 174 (11.05%) Incident Response
19 173 (10.98%) DevSecOps
20 165 (10.48%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 717 (45.52%) Python
2 296 (18.79%) Bash
3 264 (16.76%) SQL
4 254 (16.13%) PowerShell
5 223 (14.16%) Java
6 163 (10.35%) Go
7 147 (9.33%) JavaScript
8 143 (9.08%) Bicep
9 138 (8.76%) TypeScript
10 106 (6.73%) C#
11 27 (1.71%) C++
12 22 (1.40%) Rust
13 21 (1.33%) Scala
14 20 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
15 13 (0.83%) C
15 13 (0.83%) Kotlin
16 11 (0.70%) Groovy
17 9 (0.57%) Apex Code
18 8 (0.51%) Ruby
18 8 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 289 (18.35%) Security Cleared
2 173 (10.98%) SC Cleared
3 147 (9.33%) Degree
4 125 (7.94%) AWS Certification
5 91 (5.78%) DV Cleared
6 83 (5.27%) Azure Certification
7 59 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 29 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (1.84%) OSCP
10 28 (1.78%) CISSP
11 23 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
13 15 (0.95%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.83%) CCNP
14 13 (0.83%) Master's Degree
15 12 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 12 (0.76%) CCNA
16 11 (0.70%) CCSK
17 10 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (4.83%) QA
2 69 (4.38%) Data Quality
2 69 (4.38%) GDPR
3 50 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 50 (3.17%) SOC 2
4 43 (2.73%) NIST
5 35 (2.22%) Accessibility
6 33 (2.10%) PCI DSS
7 12 (0.76%) SLA
8 11 (0.70%) WCAG
9 10 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.57%) NCSC
11 7 (0.44%) GRC
12 5 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.13%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.13%) IFRS
13 2 (0.13%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.13%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 467 (29.65%) Docker
2 101 (6.41%) Active Directory
3 80 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (1.65%) vSphere
6 20 (1.27%) Hyper-V
7 18 (1.14%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.57%) Firmware
8 9 (0.57%) KVM
9 7 (0.44%) iptables
10 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.25%) Squid
12 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.13%) GPFS
13 2 (0.13%) Lustre
13 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.063%) vCloud
14 1 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,092 (69.33%) Terraform
2 625 (39.68%) Kubernetes
3 347 (22.03%) Ansible
4 215 (13.65%) Grafana
5 204 (12.95%) Prometheus
6 63 (4.00%) Argo
7 41 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
8 39 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
9 34 (2.16%) Puppet
10 23 (1.46%) Kustomize
11 21 (1.33%) Progress Chef
12 20 (1.27%) Rancher
13 17 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 17 (1.08%) Nagios
14 16 (1.02%) Istio
15 15 (0.95%) Packer
16 12 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
17 9 (0.57%) logstash
17 9 (0.57%) yum
18 8 (0.51%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 288 (18.29%) Microsoft
2 117 (7.43%) VMware
3 114 (7.24%) Google
4 67 (4.25%) Databricks
5 62 (3.94%) Red Hat
6 52 (3.30%) Cisco
7 51 (3.24%) Splunk
8 39 (2.48%) Palo Alto
9 23 (1.46%) CrowdStrike
9 23 (1.46%) Zscaler
10 21 (1.33%) OpenAI
11 20 (1.27%) Dynatrace
11 20 (1.27%) Salesforce
12 17 (1.08%) Oracle
13 14 (0.89%) Fortinet
13 14 (0.89%) SAP
14 13 (0.83%) Atlassian
14 13 (0.83%) Juniper
15 11 (0.70%) SolarWinds
16 10 (0.63%) Foundry