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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 161 125
Rank change year-on-year +85 -36 -38
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,515 1,008 1,539
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.13% 2.03% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 2.28% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,611 717 929
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £43,684
25th Percentile £60,993 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.78%
75th Percentile £91,250 £93,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £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 86,353 44,239 60,788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 89.09% 81.92%
Number of salaries quoted 59,227 24,477 32,914
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,430
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.45% -0.95%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
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 5 October 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 5 October 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 +83 2,180 £77,500 +3.33% 3,020
UK excluding London +107 1,368 £70,000 +1.45% 1,788
London +31 950 £90,000 +5.88% 1,527
Work from Home +47 810 £75,000 +0.67% 1,637
North of England +105 484 £69,305 -0.99% 501
North West +96 264 £70,950 +11.29% 285
South East +47 249 £67,500 -18.18% 348
South West +55 245 £75,000 +7.14% 238
Midlands +25 148 £75,000 +15.38% 212
North East +24 125 £60,000 -17.24% 88
Yorkshire -7 104 £67,750 -3.21% 133
West Midlands +8 93 £83,774 +29.88% 121
Wales -4 79 £70,000 +19.15% 74
Northern Ireland -28 61 £71,991 +67.07% 32
East of England -12 58 £75,000 +15.38% 151
East Midlands -4 55 £65,000 - 91
Scotland +5 53 £72,500 +7.41% 242

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 66 (2.62%) Apache
2 65 (2.58%) Apache Spark
3 55 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 30 (1.19%) Confluence
6 16 (0.64%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.52%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.40%) CMS
9 9 (0.36%) nginx
10 8 (0.32%) IIS
10 8 (0.32%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.20%) Camunda
11 5 (0.20%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.12%) WordPress
13 2 (0.080%) Cloud Foundry
14 1 (0.040%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.040%) NServiceBus
14 1 (0.040%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 21 (0.83%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.080%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.040%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.040%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 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 1,412 (56.14%) AWS
2 1,359 (54.04%) Azure
3 517 (20.56%) GCP
4 461 (18.33%) GitHub
5 405 (16.10%) AWS CloudFormation
6 384 (15.27%) Serverless
7 325 (12.92%) Azure DevOps
8 249 (9.90%) GitHub Actions
9 205 (8.15%) Amazon S3
9 205 (8.15%) AWS Lambda
10 186 (7.40%) PaaS
11 149 (5.92%) Amazon EKS
12 146 (5.81%) Amazon ECS
13 144 (5.73%) SaaS
14 142 (5.65%) Amazon EC2
15 141 (5.61%) Azure AKS
16 137 (5.45%) Cloud Computing
17 135 (5.37%) IaaS
18 134 (5.33%) Entra ID
19 128 (5.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 177 (7.04%) Firewall
2 142 (5.65%) VPN
3 140 (5.57%) DNS
4 121 (4.81%) Network Security
5 115 (4.57%) WAN
6 87 (3.46%) LAN
7 69 (2.74%) TCP/IP
8 55 (2.19%) BGP
9 51 (2.03%) DHCP
10 43 (1.71%) Internet
11 42 (1.67%) Broadband
12 38 (1.51%) OSPF
13 31 (1.23%) VLAN
14 28 (1.11%) VXLAN
15 26 (1.03%) Software-Defined Networking
16 22 (0.87%) SD-WAN
17 17 (0.68%) SAN
18 16 (0.64%) Wireless
19 15 (0.60%) Ethernet VPN
20 13 (0.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (8.07%) PostgreSQL
2 164 (6.52%) NoSQL
3 117 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
4 112 (4.45%) MongoDB
5 89 (3.54%) SQL Server
6 77 (3.06%) MySQL
7 76 (3.02%) DynamoDB
8 68 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
9 65 (2.58%) Data Lake
10 52 (2.07%) Metadata
10 52 (2.07%) Redis
11 49 (1.95%) Relational Database
12 41 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
13 36 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
14 32 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
15 31 (1.23%) Big Data
15 31 (1.23%) Power BI
16 30 (1.19%) Delta Lake
17 23 (0.91%) Data Vault
18 22 (0.87%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 371 (14.75%) Git
2 314 (12.49%) GitLab
3 266 (10.58%) Jenkins
4 55 (2.19%) JIRA
5 47 (1.87%) Cucumber
6 34 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 30 (1.19%) TeamCity
8 26 (1.03%) Claude Code
9 22 (0.87%) Bitbucket
10 19 (0.76%) CircleCI
11 18 (0.72%) Selenium
12 14 (0.56%) Cypress.io
12 14 (0.56%) Subversion
13 13 (0.52%) SonarQube
14 12 (0.48%) Snyk
15 10 (0.40%) Maven
16 9 (0.36%) Artifactory
16 9 (0.36%) JUnit
16 9 (0.36%) MSI
16 9 (0.36%) NUnit
General
1 709 (28.19%) Social Skills
2 576 (22.90%) Finance
3 293 (11.65%) Public Sector
4 237 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
5 169 (6.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 137 (5.45%) Banking
7 119 (4.73%) Law
8 73 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
9 67 (2.66%) Retail
10 63 (2.50%) Aerospace
11 41 (1.63%) Marketing
12 36 (1.43%) Legal
13 33 (1.31%) Games
14 25 (0.99%) Manufacturing
15 24 (0.95%) Financial Institution
16 21 (0.83%) Telecoms
17 17 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
18 15 (0.60%) Aviation
19 14 (0.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 606 (24.10%) Senior
2 482 (19.17%) DevOps Engineer
3 351 (13.96%) Architect
4 338 (13.44%) Lead
5 293 (11.65%) Cloud Engineer
6 261 (10.38%) Platform Engineer
7 205 (8.15%) Developer
8 198 (7.87%) Azure Engineer
9 189 (7.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 167 (6.64%) Software Engineer
11 150 (5.96%) AWS Engineer
12 134 (5.33%) Principal Engineer
13 129 (5.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 113 (4.49%) Data Engineer
15 99 (3.94%) Security Engineer
15 99 (3.94%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 84 (3.34%) Senior DevOps
17 81 (3.22%) Azure Platform Engineer
17 81 (3.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 79 (3.14%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,656 (65.84%) Terraform
2 212 (8.43%) React
3 202 (8.03%) Kafka
4 187 (7.44%) .NET
5 173 (6.88%) Spring Boot
6 171 (6.80%) Spring
7 155 (6.16%) Node.js
8 150 (5.96%) RESTful
9 145 (5.77%) REST
10 85 (3.38%) AWS CDK
11 74 (2.94%) PySpark
12 65 (2.58%) AngularJS
13 63 (2.50%) ARM Templates
14 62 (2.47%) Next.js
15 55 (2.19%) YAML
16 54 (2.15%) RabbitMQ
17 53 (2.11%) Elastic Stack
18 52 (2.07%) LangChain
19 46 (1.83%) FastAPI
20 44 (1.75%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 762 (30.30%) Cloud Native
2 280 (11.13%) Distributed Systems
3 137 (5.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 133 (5.29%) Public Cloud
5 132 (5.25%) Onboarding
6 90 (3.58%) Data Centre
7 86 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
8 74 (2.94%) Product Ownership
9 71 (2.82%) Security Posture
10 69 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
11 65 (2.58%) Linux Command Line
12 59 (2.35%) Enterprise Cloud
13 54 (2.15%) Management Information System
14 52 (2.07%) AI Agents
14 52 (2.07%) Virtual Team
15 50 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
16 47 (1.87%) e-Learning
17 44 (1.75%) Private Cloud
18 40 (1.59%) PKI
19 35 (1.39%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 460 (18.29%) Linux
2 229 (9.11%) Windows
3 100 (3.98%) Windows Server
4 61 (2.43%) CentOS
5 52 (2.07%) Unix
6 49 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 36 (1.43%) Ubuntu
8 21 (0.83%) VMS
9 8 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.28%) Debian
11 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.16%) AIX
12 4 (0.16%) Rocky
13 2 (0.080%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.080%) Solaris
14 1 (0.040%) Android
14 1 (0.040%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.040%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.040%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.040%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,801 (71.61%) CI/CD
2 1,398 (55.59%) DevOps
3 751 (29.86%) Containerisation
4 736 (29.26%) Agile
5 685 (27.24%) Observability
6 650 (25.84%) Platform Engineering
7 599 (23.82%) Mentoring
8 580 (23.06%) AI
9 556 (22.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 536 (21.31%) Software Engineering
11 477 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
12 442 (17.57%) Microservices
13 436 (17.34%) Cloud Security
14 422 (16.78%) Technical Leadership
15 417 (16.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 394 (15.67%) Test Automation
17 363 (14.43%) Roadmaps
18 313 (12.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 287 (11.41%) Event-Driven
20 279 (11.09%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,075 (42.74%) Python
2 404 (16.06%) Java
3 393 (15.63%) Bash
4 368 (14.63%) SQL
5 356 (14.16%) PowerShell
6 239 (9.50%) Bicep
7 230 (9.15%) TypeScript
8 190 (7.55%) C#
9 185 (7.36%) JavaScript
10 161 (6.40%) Go
11 57 (2.27%) Shell Script
12 50 (1.99%) Ruby
13 40 (1.59%) Scala
14 35 (1.39%) PHP
15 31 (1.23%) Groovy
16 30 (1.19%) Rust
17 25 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
18 21 (0.83%) C++
19 16 (0.64%) Perl
20 13 (0.52%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 655 (26.04%) Security Cleared
2 421 (16.74%) SC Cleared
3 222 (8.83%) AWS Certification
4 212 (8.43%) DV Cleared
5 174 (6.92%) Degree
6 161 (6.40%) Azure Certification
7 100 (3.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 84 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 67 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 58 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
11 44 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
12 30 (1.19%) CCNP
12 30 (1.19%) CISSP
13 28 (1.11%) Master's Degree
13 28 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
14 21 (0.83%) CCNA
15 17 (0.68%) SnowPro
16 15 (0.60%) DBS Check
17 13 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 13 (0.52%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (4.77%) QA
2 104 (4.14%) Data Quality
3 74 (2.94%) GDPR
4 71 (2.82%) GRC
5 64 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 51 (2.03%) Accessibility
7 42 (1.67%) NIST
8 31 (1.23%) SOC 2
9 30 (1.19%) NCSC
10 27 (1.07%) PCI DSS
11 23 (0.91%) SLA
12 20 (0.80%) WCAG
13 15 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.28%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.20%) ISO 20022
17 3 (0.12%) ISO 9001
17 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 2 (0.080%) Solvency II
System Software
1 690 (27.44%) Docker
2 133 (5.29%) Active Directory
3 131 (5.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 48 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
4 48 (1.91%) vSphere
5 30 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 20 (0.80%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.80%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.36%) KVM
9 8 (0.32%) Squid
9 8 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
10 7 (0.28%) Firmware
11 4 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.080%) iptables
12 2 (0.080%) Lustre
12 2 (0.080%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 906 (36.02%) Kubernetes
2 506 (20.12%) Ansible
3 246 (9.78%) Grafana
4 180 (7.16%) Prometheus
5 78 (3.10%) Argo
6 74 (2.94%) Puppet
7 51 (2.03%) Progress Chef
8 38 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
9 36 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
10 33 (1.31%) Istio
11 27 (1.07%) Packer
12 25 (0.99%) FortiGate
13 24 (0.95%) Rancher
14 22 (0.87%) vCenter Server
15 16 (0.64%) Nagios
16 15 (0.60%) Cilium
17 13 (0.52%) Kustomize
17 13 (0.52%) Podman
18 12 (0.48%) linkerd
18 12 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 624 (24.81%) Microsoft
2 193 (7.67%) Google
3 162 (6.44%) VMware
4 114 (4.53%) Databricks
5 87 (3.46%) Splunk
6 79 (3.14%) Red Hat
7 74 (2.94%) Oracle
8 69 (2.74%) Cisco
9 49 (1.95%) Dynatrace
10 45 (1.79%) OpenAI
11 38 (1.51%) Fortinet
12 35 (1.39%) Palo Alto
13 33 (1.31%) ServiceNow
14 25 (0.99%) Zscaler
15 15 (0.60%) Mistral
15 15 (0.60%) SAP
15 15 (0.60%) SolarWinds
16 14 (0.56%) F5
17 13 (0.52%) Atlassian
17 13 (0.52%) Okta