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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 158 126
Rank change year-on-year +80 -32 -34
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,379 1,008 1,546
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.10% 2.04% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 2.30% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,552 707 985
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £45,800
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £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 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £108,000 £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 82,630 43,847 63,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.77% 88.67% 80.95%
Number of salaries quoted 57,445 24,695 36,468
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
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 14 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 14 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 +79 2,071 £77,500 - 2,977
UK excluding London +107 1,294 £70,000 - 1,582
London +32 904 £90,000 +2.86% 1,677
Work from Home +58 788 £74,500 -3.87% 2,318
North of England +87 453 £70,239 +0.34% 477
North West +95 252 £72,500 +11.54% 265
South East +58 244 £67,500 -18.18% 309
South West +35 228 £75,000 - 226
Midlands +26 144 £77,500 +19.23% 169
Yorkshire +9 101 £75,000 +7.14% 137
North East +20 100 £59,000 -18.62% 75
West Midlands +10 87 £85,000 +31.78% 101
Wales -11 71 £70,000 +21.74% 41
Northern Ireland -26 62 £71,991 +67.07% 60
East Midlands +7 57 £67,500 +3.85% 68
East of England -6 54 £62,500 -3.85% 114
Scotland +15 50 £72,500 +3.57% 197

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 56 (2.35%) Apache
1 56 (2.35%) Apache Spark
2 55 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 29 (1.22%) Confluence
5 13 (0.55%) Jupyter
6 10 (0.42%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.38%) IIS
8 7 (0.29%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.25%) CMS
10 4 (0.17%) nginx
11 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.13%) Camunda
11 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.13%) WordPress
12 2 (0.084%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.042%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.042%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.042%) JBoss
13 1 (0.042%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 21 (0.88%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.084%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.084%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.042%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.13%) Summit
4 2 (0.084%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,344 (56.49%) AWS
2 1,269 (53.34%) Azure
3 458 (19.25%) GCP
4 422 (17.74%) GitHub
5 375 (15.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 372 (15.64%) Serverless
7 313 (13.16%) Azure DevOps
8 234 (9.84%) GitHub Actions
9 210 (8.83%) AWS Lambda
10 204 (8.58%) Amazon S3
11 172 (7.23%) PaaS
12 149 (6.26%) Amazon EKS
13 144 (6.05%) Amazon ECS
14 142 (5.97%) Amazon EC2
15 137 (5.76%) Azure AKS
16 132 (5.55%) SaaS
17 126 (5.30%) IaaS
18 125 (5.25%) Microsoft 365
19 123 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 116 (4.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 167 (7.02%) Firewall
2 126 (5.30%) DNS
3 121 (5.09%) VPN
4 120 (5.04%) WAN
5 113 (4.75%) Network Security
6 97 (4.08%) LAN
7 66 (2.77%) TCP/IP
8 55 (2.31%) BGP
9 49 (2.06%) DHCP
10 46 (1.93%) Broadband
11 40 (1.68%) OSPF
12 32 (1.35%) VLAN
13 28 (1.18%) SD-WAN
13 28 (1.18%) VXLAN
14 27 (1.13%) Software-Defined Networking
15 19 (0.80%) Wireless
16 16 (0.67%) HTTP
17 15 (0.63%) Ethernet VPN
18 14 (0.59%) SAN
19 10 (0.42%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 157 (6.60%) NoSQL
3 109 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
4 105 (4.41%) MongoDB
5 83 (3.49%) SQL Server
6 78 (3.28%) DynamoDB
7 68 (2.86%) MySQL
8 59 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
9 58 (2.44%) Data Lake
10 51 (2.14%) Metadata
11 49 (2.06%) Relational Database
12 46 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
12 46 (1.93%) Redis
13 32 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
14 30 (1.26%) Big Data
14 30 (1.26%) Delta Lake
15 29 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
16 24 (1.01%) BigQuery
17 22 (0.92%) Data Vault
18 21 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 322 (13.54%) Git
2 279 (11.73%) GitLab
3 255 (10.72%) Jenkins
4 58 (2.44%) JIRA
5 48 (2.02%) Cucumber
6 32 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 25 (1.05%) TeamCity
8 23 (0.97%) CircleCI
8 23 (0.97%) Selenium
9 22 (0.92%) Bitbucket
10 20 (0.84%) Claude Code
11 18 (0.76%) SonarQube
12 15 (0.63%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.55%) Subversion
14 12 (0.50%) Maven
14 12 (0.50%) NUnit
15 10 (0.42%) Snyk
16 9 (0.38%) MLflow
16 9 (0.38%) MSI
17 8 (0.34%) Artifactory
General
1 665 (27.95%) Social Skills
2 554 (23.29%) Finance
3 236 (9.92%) Public Sector
4 179 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
5 156 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 136 (5.72%) Banking
7 121 (5.09%) Law
8 74 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
9 67 (2.82%) Retail
10 57 (2.40%) Aerospace
11 42 (1.77%) Marketing
12 40 (1.68%) Games
13 38 (1.60%) Legal
14 30 (1.26%) Manufacturing
15 24 (1.01%) Telecoms
16 19 (0.80%) Financial Institution
17 17 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
17 17 (0.71%) Local Government
18 16 (0.67%) Aviation
19 15 (0.63%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 565 (23.75%) Senior
2 404 (16.98%) DevOps Engineer
3 331 (13.91%) Lead
4 324 (13.62%) Architect
5 286 (12.02%) Cloud Engineer
6 249 (10.47%) Platform Engineer
7 203 (8.53%) Developer
8 194 (8.15%) Azure Engineer
9 167 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 154 (6.47%) Software Engineer
11 143 (6.01%) AWS Engineer
12 123 (5.17%) Principal Engineer
13 120 (5.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 120 (5.04%) Data Engineer
14 97 (4.08%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 92 (3.87%) Security Engineer
16 74 (3.11%) Azure Platform Engineer
16 74 (3.11%) Senior Developer
17 73 (3.07%) Senior DevOps
18 71 (2.98%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,604 (67.42%) Terraform
2 199 (8.36%) Kafka
3 197 (8.28%) React
4 176 (7.40%) .NET
5 159 (6.68%) Spring
6 158 (6.64%) Spring Boot
7 156 (6.56%) Node.js
8 148 (6.22%) REST
9 145 (6.09%) RESTful
10 89 (3.74%) AWS CDK
11 77 (3.24%) PySpark
12 64 (2.69%) YAML
13 63 (2.65%) ARM Templates
14 62 (2.61%) AngularJS
15 59 (2.48%) RabbitMQ
16 55 (2.31%) Next.js
17 52 (2.19%) Elastic Stack
18 46 (1.93%) OAuth
19 43 (1.81%) LangChain
20 41 (1.72%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 725 (30.47%) Cloud Native
2 268 (11.27%) Distributed Systems
3 129 (5.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 125 (5.25%) Onboarding
4 125 (5.25%) Public Cloud
5 94 (3.95%) Data Centre
6 82 (3.45%) Product Ownership
7 72 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
8 66 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
9 60 (2.52%) Security Posture
10 56 (2.35%) Enterprise Cloud
11 47 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
12 46 (1.93%) Virtual Team
13 42 (1.77%) Private Cloud
14 41 (1.72%) e-Learning
14 41 (1.72%) Management Information System
15 40 (1.68%) AI Agents
16 38 (1.60%) PKI
16 38 (1.60%) Video\Live Streaming
17 33 (1.39%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 390 (16.39%) Linux
2 214 (9.00%) Windows
3 95 (3.99%) Windows Server
4 58 (2.44%) CentOS
5 43 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 37 (1.56%) Ubuntu
7 36 (1.51%) Unix
8 22 (0.92%) VMS
9 6 (0.25%) Debian
10 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.13%) AIX
12 3 (0.13%) Android
12 3 (0.13%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.084%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.084%) Solaris
14 1 (0.042%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.042%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.042%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,677 (70.49%) CI/CD
2 1,283 (53.93%) DevOps
3 692 (29.09%) Containerisation
4 678 (28.50%) Agile
5 670 (28.16%) Observability
6 571 (24.00%) Platform Engineering
7 536 (22.53%) AI
8 522 (21.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 520 (21.86%) Mentoring
10 516 (21.69%) Software Engineering
11 436 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
12 411 (17.28%) Microservices
13 403 (16.94%) Technical Leadership
14 385 (16.18%) Test Automation
15 372 (15.64%) Cloud Security
16 346 (14.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 344 (14.46%) Roadmaps
18 273 (11.48%) Event-Driven
19 264 (11.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 253 (10.63%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,036 (43.55%) Python
2 383 (16.10%) Java
3 369 (15.51%) Bash
4 368 (15.47%) SQL
5 339 (14.25%) PowerShell
6 225 (9.46%) TypeScript
7 224 (9.42%) Bicep
8 193 (8.11%) JavaScript
9 182 (7.65%) C#
10 156 (6.56%) Go
11 48 (2.02%) Ruby
12 41 (1.72%) Scala
13 34 (1.43%) PHP
14 30 (1.26%) Groovy
15 28 (1.18%) Rust
16 25 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
17 22 (0.92%) C++
18 20 (0.84%) Perl
18 20 (0.84%) Shell Script
19 12 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 590 (24.80%) Security Cleared
2 372 (15.64%) SC Cleared
3 206 (8.66%) AWS Certification
4 190 (7.99%) DV Cleared
5 184 (7.73%) Degree
6 148 (6.22%) Azure Certification
7 91 (3.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 84 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 63 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 60 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
11 39 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
12 35 (1.47%) CCNP
13 29 (1.22%) Master's Degree
14 24 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
15 22 (0.92%) CISSP
16 21 (0.88%) CCNA
17 17 (0.71%) SnowPro
18 14 (0.59%) CCIE
18 14 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 13 (0.55%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (5.38%) QA
2 103 (4.33%) Data Quality
3 72 (3.03%) GRC
4 65 (2.73%) GDPR
5 56 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (1.89%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.39%) NIST
8 30 (1.26%) NCSC
9 29 (1.22%) SOC 2
10 24 (1.01%) SLA
11 21 (0.88%) WCAG
12 20 (0.84%) PCI DSS
13 9 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.29%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
16 4 (0.17%) ISO 20022
17 3 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 2 (0.084%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 2 (0.084%) ISO 9001
18 2 (0.084%) Solvency II
System Software
1 621 (26.10%) Docker
2 133 (5.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 132 (5.55%) Active Directory
4 46 (1.93%) vSphere
5 39 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (1.01%) Hyper-V
6 24 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (0.76%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (0.38%) KVM
10 8 (0.34%) Firmware
10 8 (0.34%) Squid
11 7 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.13%) iptables
14 2 (0.084%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 865 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 477 (20.05%) Ansible
3 232 (9.75%) Grafana
4 170 (7.15%) Prometheus
5 72 (3.03%) Argo
6 62 (2.61%) Puppet
7 41 (1.72%) Progress Chef
8 38 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
9 35 (1.47%) Istio
10 34 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
11 28 (1.18%) Packer
12 23 (0.97%) FortiGate
13 19 (0.80%) Rancher
14 18 (0.76%) vCenter Server
15 17 (0.71%) Nagios
16 14 (0.59%) Cilium
17 13 (0.55%) Kustomize
18 12 (0.50%) Podman
18 12 (0.50%) ZABBIX
19 11 (0.46%) linkerd
Vendors
1 545 (22.91%) Microsoft
2 163 (6.85%) VMware
3 142 (5.97%) Google
4 105 (4.41%) Databricks
5 85 (3.57%) Splunk
6 81 (3.40%) Red Hat
7 75 (3.15%) Cisco
8 72 (3.03%) Oracle
9 41 (1.72%) Dynatrace
9 41 (1.72%) Fortinet
9 41 (1.72%) OpenAI
9 41 (1.72%) Palo Alto
10 28 (1.18%) ServiceNow
11 26 (1.09%) Zscaler
12 16 (0.67%) CrowdStrike
13 15 (0.63%) Atlassian
13 15 (0.63%) Okta
13 15 (0.63%) SAP
14 13 (0.55%) New Relic
15 12 (0.50%) Rapid7