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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 147 122
Rank change year-on-year +70 -25 -38
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,581 1,026 1,454
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.17% 2.10% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 2.36% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,664 737 876
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £42,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £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 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -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 87,497 43,445 57,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.45% 88.84% 82.20%
Number of salaries quoted 59,802 24,607 31,056
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £33,099
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £44,541
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,000 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +17.02% -11.32% -1.85%

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 16 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 16 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 +74 2,236 £77,500 +3.33% 514
UK excluding London +91 1,422 £70,000 - 387
London +29 964 £90,000 +5.88% 209
Work from Home +53 824 £75,000 - 310
North of England +82 497 £68,250 -2.50% 112
North West +94 269 £70,400 +8.31% 68
South West +58 257 £75,000 +7.14% 77
South East +41 256 £67,500 -16.92% 98
Midlands +36 156 £73,500 +13.08% 41
North East +16 133 £60,000 -12.73% 22
Yorkshire -4 104 £67,750 -3.21% 25
West Midlands +8 102 £80,000 +23.55% 28
Wales -6 87 £67,500 +12.50% 14
East of England -22 63 £75,000 +15.38% 17
Northern Ireland -30 61 £71,991 +23.17% 5
Scotland +8 56 £72,500 +3.57% 29
East Midlands -1 54 £65,000 - 13

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 71 (2.75%) Apache
2 64 (2.48%) Apache Spark
3 60 (2.32%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (1.08%) Confluence
6 17 (0.66%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.50%) SharePoint
8 12 (0.46%) nginx
9 9 (0.35%) CMS
10 8 (0.31%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.27%) IIS
12 5 (0.19%) Camunda
12 5 (0.19%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.12%) WordPress
14 2 (0.077%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.077%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.077%) Sitecore CMS
15 1 (0.039%) Apache Solr
15 1 (0.039%) NServiceBus
15 1 (0.039%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 19 (0.74%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.077%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.039%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.039%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) Summit
4 2 (0.077%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.077%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.077%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.039%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 1 (0.039%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.039%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1,433 (55.52%) AWS
2 1,373 (53.20%) Azure
3 525 (20.34%) GCP
4 478 (18.52%) GitHub
5 409 (15.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 388 (15.03%) Serverless
7 325 (12.59%) Azure DevOps
8 258 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
9 214 (8.29%) Amazon S3
10 209 (8.10%) AWS Lambda
11 186 (7.21%) PaaS
12 159 (6.16%) SaaS
13 157 (6.08%) Amazon EKS
14 150 (5.81%) Amazon ECS
15 144 (5.58%) Amazon EC2
16 141 (5.46%) Entra ID
17 140 (5.42%) Azure AKS
18 138 (5.35%) Cloud Computing
19 133 (5.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 130 (5.04%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 180 (6.97%) Firewall
2 149 (5.77%) VPN
3 140 (5.42%) DNS
4 123 (4.77%) Network Security
5 113 (4.38%) WAN
6 85 (3.29%) LAN
7 70 (2.71%) TCP/IP
8 59 (2.29%) BGP
9 48 (1.86%) DHCP
10 43 (1.67%) Internet
11 42 (1.63%) Broadband
12 38 (1.47%) OSPF
13 34 (1.32%) VLAN
14 29 (1.12%) VXLAN
15 24 (0.93%) Software-Defined Networking
16 21 (0.81%) SD-WAN
17 16 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
17 16 (0.62%) SAN
17 16 (0.62%) Wireless
18 13 (0.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 169 (6.55%) NoSQL
3 123 (4.77%) Amazon RDS
4 112 (4.34%) MongoDB
5 89 (3.45%) SQL Server
6 78 (3.02%) MySQL
7 73 (2.83%) DynamoDB
8 69 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 65 (2.52%) Data Lake
10 53 (2.05%) Redis
11 50 (1.94%) Metadata
12 49 (1.90%) Relational Database
13 42 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
14 37 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
15 36 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
16 34 (1.32%) Power BI
17 30 (1.16%) Big Data
18 26 (1.01%) Delta Lake
19 24 (0.93%) BigQuery
20 23 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 370 (14.34%) Git
2 327 (12.67%) GitLab
3 274 (10.62%) Jenkins
4 52 (2.01%) JIRA
5 50 (1.94%) Cucumber
6 37 (1.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 33 (1.28%) TeamCity
8 29 (1.12%) Claude Code
9 20 (0.77%) CircleCI
10 18 (0.70%) Bitbucket
11 17 (0.66%) Selenium
12 15 (0.58%) SonarQube
13 14 (0.54%) Cypress.io
14 13 (0.50%) Snyk
14 13 (0.50%) Subversion
15 10 (0.39%) Terragrunt
16 9 (0.35%) Artifactory
16 9 (0.35%) JUnit
16 9 (0.35%) MSI
16 9 (0.35%) NUnit
General
1 724 (28.05%) Social Skills
2 583 (22.59%) Finance
3 336 (13.02%) Public Sector
4 240 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
5 174 (6.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 137 (5.31%) Banking
7 121 (4.69%) Law
8 73 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
9 65 (2.52%) Retail
10 61 (2.36%) Aerospace
11 42 (1.63%) Marketing
12 39 (1.51%) Legal
13 32 (1.24%) Financial Institution
13 32 (1.24%) Games
14 23 (0.89%) Telecoms
15 22 (0.85%) Manufacturing
16 18 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
17 15 (0.58%) Aviation
17 15 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
17 15 (0.58%) Military
Job Titles
1 650 (25.18%) Senior
2 530 (20.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 345 (13.37%) Lead
4 342 (13.25%) Architect
5 289 (11.20%) Cloud Engineer
6 260 (10.07%) Platform Engineer
7 204 (7.90%) Developer
8 203 (7.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 194 (7.52%) Azure Engineer
10 175 (6.78%) Software Engineer
11 148 (5.73%) AWS Engineer
12 141 (5.46%) Principal Engineer
13 124 (4.80%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 120 (4.65%) Data Engineer
15 110 (4.26%) Senior DevOps
16 107 (4.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 103 (3.99%) Security Engineer
18 97 (3.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
19 79 (3.06%) Senior Developer
20 78 (3.02%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,699 (65.83%) Terraform
2 211 (8.18%) React
3 207 (8.02%) Kafka
4 190 (7.36%) .NET
5 185 (7.17%) Spring Boot
6 183 (7.09%) Spring
7 154 (5.97%) Node.js
7 154 (5.97%) RESTful
8 149 (5.77%) REST
9 86 (3.33%) AWS CDK
10 74 (2.87%) PySpark
11 65 (2.52%) AngularJS
12 59 (2.29%) ARM Templates
12 59 (2.29%) Next.js
13 56 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
14 54 (2.09%) Elastic Stack
15 50 (1.94%) LangChain
16 49 (1.90%) YAML
17 45 (1.74%) FastAPI
18 43 (1.67%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 780 (30.22%) Cloud Native
2 288 (11.16%) Distributed Systems
3 141 (5.46%) Onboarding
4 135 (5.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 131 (5.08%) Public Cloud
6 93 (3.60%) Data Centre
7 85 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
8 80 (3.10%) Security Posture
9 75 (2.91%) Product Ownership
10 68 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
11 65 (2.52%) Linux Command Line
12 64 (2.48%) Enterprise Cloud
13 61 (2.36%) Management Information System
14 57 (2.21%) AI Agents
15 52 (2.01%) Virtual Team
16 49 (1.90%) e-Learning
17 48 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
18 45 (1.74%) Private Cloud
19 37 (1.43%) Blog
19 37 (1.43%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 486 (18.83%) Linux
2 235 (9.10%) Windows
3 95 (3.68%) Windows Server
4 66 (2.56%) CentOS
5 54 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 53 (2.05%) Unix
7 35 (1.36%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.85%) VMS
9 8 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.27%) Debian
11 5 (0.19%) Rocky
11 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.15%) AIX
13 2 (0.077%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.077%) Solaris
14 1 (0.039%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.039%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.039%) macOS
14 1 (0.039%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,854 (71.83%) CI/CD
2 1,443 (55.91%) DevOps
3 760 (29.45%) Containerisation
4 752 (29.14%) Agile
5 689 (26.70%) Observability
6 687 (26.62%) Platform Engineering
7 608 (23.56%) AI
8 600 (23.25%) Mentoring
9 565 (21.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 561 (21.74%) Software Engineering
11 483 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
12 457 (17.71%) Technical Leadership
13 450 (17.44%) Microservices
14 442 (17.13%) Cloud Security
15 437 (16.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 402 (15.58%) Test Automation
17 372 (14.41%) Roadmaps
18 321 (12.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 289 (11.20%) Event-Driven
20 283 (10.96%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,094 (42.39%) Python
2 427 (16.54%) Java
3 400 (15.50%) Bash
4 375 (14.53%) SQL
5 361 (13.99%) PowerShell
6 238 (9.22%) Bicep
7 230 (8.91%) TypeScript
8 197 (7.63%) C#
9 182 (7.05%) JavaScript
10 167 (6.47%) Go
11 57 (2.21%) Shell Script
12 51 (1.98%) Ruby
13 39 (1.51%) Scala
14 36 (1.39%) PHP
15 31 (1.20%) Groovy
15 31 (1.20%) Rust
16 24 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
17 18 (0.70%) C++
18 17 (0.66%) Kotlin
18 17 (0.66%) Perl
Qualifications
1 694 (26.89%) Security Cleared
2 444 (17.20%) SC Cleared
3 234 (9.07%) DV Cleared
4 220 (8.52%) AWS Certification
5 169 (6.55%) Degree
6 163 (6.32%) Azure Certification
7 102 (3.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 80 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 65 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 60 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
11 47 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
12 36 (1.39%) CISSP
13 30 (1.16%) CCNP
13 30 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
14 28 (1.08%) Master's Degree
15 18 (0.70%) CCNA
16 17 (0.66%) SnowPro
17 14 (0.54%) CISM
18 13 (0.50%) CCSP
18 13 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (4.73%) QA
2 109 (4.22%) Data Quality
3 75 (2.91%) GDPR
4 69 (2.67%) GRC
4 69 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 53 (2.05%) Accessibility
6 47 (1.82%) NIST
7 35 (1.36%) SOC 2
8 32 (1.24%) NCSC
9 31 (1.20%) PCI DSS
10 23 (0.89%) SLA
11 19 (0.74%) WCAG
12 17 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.27%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
15 6 (0.23%) ISO 20022
16 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.077%) NIST 800
17 2 (0.077%) RMADS
System Software
1 705 (27.31%) Docker
2 137 (5.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 130 (5.04%) Active Directory
4 48 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
4 48 (1.86%) vSphere
5 29 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
6 26 (1.01%) VMware NSX
7 24 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
8 21 (0.81%) Hyper-V
9 10 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.35%) KVM
11 6 (0.23%) Firmware
11 6 (0.23%) Squid
12 4 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.077%) Lustre
15 1 (0.039%) iptables
15 1 (0.039%) LXC
Systems Management
1 926 (35.88%) Kubernetes
2 527 (20.42%) Ansible
3 261 (10.11%) Grafana
4 189 (7.32%) Prometheus
5 81 (3.14%) Puppet
6 79 (3.06%) Argo
7 51 (1.98%) Progress Chef
8 39 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
9 38 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
10 34 (1.32%) Istio
11 30 (1.16%) vCenter Server
12 28 (1.08%) Packer
13 24 (0.93%) FortiGate
14 22 (0.85%) Rancher
15 17 (0.66%) Cilium
16 16 (0.62%) Nagios
17 14 (0.54%) Kustomize
17 14 (0.54%) logstash
17 14 (0.54%) Podman
18 13 (0.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 656 (25.42%) Microsoft
2 203 (7.87%) Google
3 168 (6.51%) VMware
4 111 (4.30%) Databricks
5 88 (3.41%) Splunk
6 81 (3.14%) Red Hat
7 71 (2.75%) Cisco
8 70 (2.71%) Oracle
9 51 (1.98%) Dynatrace
10 42 (1.63%) OpenAI
11 39 (1.51%) Fortinet
12 36 (1.39%) Palo Alto
13 33 (1.28%) ServiceNow
14 24 (0.93%) Zscaler
15 15 (0.58%) F5
15 15 (0.58%) SAP
16 14 (0.54%) Atlassian
16 14 (0.54%) SolarWinds
17 13 (0.50%) Mistral
17 13 (0.50%) New Relic