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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 151 154
Rank change year-on-year +74 +3 -52
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,316 1,039 1,440
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.21% 2.09% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.00% 2.34% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,551 723 1,050
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,250 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £107,900 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,079 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% +7.69% -7.14%

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 77,301 44,356 67,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 89.43% 81.01%
Number of salaries quoted 53,282 25,229 44,135
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.40% -3.00% -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 7 August 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 7 August 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 +75 2,034 £77,500 - 1,484
UK excluding London +119 1,243 £70,079 +0.11% 815
London +24 910 £90,000 - 821
Work from Home +77 822 £72,500 -8.01% 701
North of England +89 418 £70,400 +0.57% 268
South East +62 249 £67,500 -12.90% 190
North West +88 239 £75,000 +7.14% 146
South West +45 213 £75,000 -4.83% 147
Midlands +39 147 £77,500 +19.23% 65
Yorkshire +12 97 £75,000 +7.14% 77
West Midlands +11 90 £80,000 +23.08% 42
North East +16 82 £56,500 -16.30% 45
Wales -3 65 £70,000 +21.74% 30
Northern Ireland -21 58 £72,896 +69.17% 19
East Midlands +12 57 £67,500 +3.85% 23
East of England -6 54 £65,000 +4.00% 32
Scotland +32 49 £71,991 +10.76% 68

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 60 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
2 54 (2.33%) Apache Spark
3 50 (2.16%) Apache
4 31 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 30 (1.30%) Confluence
6 12 (0.52%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.43%) IIS
7 10 (0.43%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.17%) Camunda
8 4 (0.17%) CMS
8 4 (0.17%) nginx
9 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.13%) WordPress
10 2 (0.086%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.086%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.043%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.043%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.043%) JBoss
11 1 (0.043%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 21 (0.91%) PlantUML
2 9 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.086%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.086%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.086%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.043%) Maya
6 1 (0.043%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.13%) Summit
4 2 (0.086%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.086%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,326 (57.25%) AWS
2 1,269 (54.79%) Azure
3 444 (19.17%) GCP
4 407 (17.57%) GitHub
5 377 (16.28%) Serverless
6 372 (16.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 316 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
8 223 (9.63%) GitHub Actions
9 206 (8.89%) AWS Lambda
10 202 (8.72%) Amazon S3
11 185 (7.99%) PaaS
12 145 (6.26%) Amazon EC2
13 140 (6.04%) Amazon ECS
14 139 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
15 132 (5.70%) SaaS
16 125 (5.40%) Microsoft 365
17 124 (5.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 124 (5.35%) IaaS
18 119 (5.14%) Azure AKS
19 113 (4.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 176 (7.60%) Firewall
2 116 (5.01%) WAN
3 114 (4.92%) DNS
4 110 (4.75%) Network Security
5 107 (4.62%) VPN
6 96 (4.15%) LAN
7 80 (3.45%) TCP/IP
8 54 (2.33%) Broadband
9 50 (2.16%) BGP
10 38 (1.64%) DHCP
11 35 (1.51%) OSPF
12 34 (1.47%) VLAN
13 26 (1.12%) VXLAN
14 24 (1.04%) SD-WAN
14 24 (1.04%) Software-Defined Networking
15 19 (0.82%) HTTP
16 15 (0.65%) Wireless
17 13 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
17 13 (0.56%) SAN
18 12 (0.52%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (7.56%) PostgreSQL
2 145 (6.26%) NoSQL
3 107 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
4 96 (4.15%) MongoDB
5 80 (3.45%) SQL Server
6 77 (3.32%) DynamoDB
7 59 (2.55%) MySQL
8 58 (2.50%) Data Lake
9 55 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
10 54 (2.33%) Relational Database
11 52 (2.25%) Metadata
12 41 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
13 38 (1.64%) Redis
14 34 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
15 29 (1.25%) Delta Lake
16 27 (1.17%) BigQuery
17 25 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
17 25 (1.08%) Big Data
17 25 (1.08%) Power BI
18 22 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 307 (13.26%) Git
2 288 (12.44%) GitLab
3 253 (10.92%) Jenkins
4 52 (2.25%) JIRA
5 43 (1.86%) Cucumber
6 33 (1.42%) CircleCI
7 32 (1.38%) Bitbucket
8 30 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 27 (1.17%) TeamCity
10 21 (0.91%) Selenium
11 19 (0.82%) Claude Code
12 16 (0.69%) SonarQube
13 14 (0.60%) NUnit
14 12 (0.52%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.52%) Subversion
15 11 (0.47%) Maven
15 11 (0.47%) MLflow
16 9 (0.39%) JMeter
16 9 (0.39%) MSI
16 9 (0.39%) Snyk
General
1 639 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 525 (22.67%) Finance
3 203 (8.77%) Public Sector
4 174 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
5 136 (5.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 122 (5.27%) Banking
7 112 (4.84%) Law
8 70 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
9 68 (2.94%) Retail
10 45 (1.94%) Games
11 42 (1.81%) Aerospace
12 40 (1.73%) Marketing
13 36 (1.55%) Legal
14 34 (1.47%) Telecoms
15 29 (1.25%) Manufacturing
16 22 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
17 19 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
18 18 (0.78%) Advertising
19 16 (0.69%) Aviation
19 16 (0.69%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 529 (22.84%) Senior
2 399 (17.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 337 (14.55%) Lead
4 308 (13.30%) Architect
5 278 (12.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 232 (10.02%) Platform Engineer
7 205 (8.85%) Developer
8 181 (7.82%) Azure Engineer
9 138 (5.96%) AWS Engineer
9 138 (5.96%) Software Engineer
10 130 (5.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 119 (5.14%) Data Engineer
12 108 (4.66%) Principal Engineer
13 105 (4.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 88 (3.80%) Security Engineer
15 85 (3.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 78 (3.37%) Senior DevOps
17 76 (3.28%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 73 (3.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 68 (2.94%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (8.20%) React
2 174 (7.51%) .NET
3 173 (7.47%) Kafka
4 150 (6.48%) Node.js
4 150 (6.48%) REST
5 140 (6.04%) Spring
6 138 (5.96%) Spring Boot
7 130 (5.61%) RESTful
8 94 (4.06%) AWS CDK
9 76 (3.28%) YAML
10 75 (3.24%) PySpark
11 72 (3.11%) ARM Templates
12 60 (2.59%) AngularJS
13 59 (2.55%) RabbitMQ
14 57 (2.46%) Next.js
15 55 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
16 52 (2.25%) OAuth
17 42 (1.81%) ASP.NET
18 41 (1.77%) CSS
19 39 (1.68%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 667 (28.80%) Cloud Native
2 246 (10.62%) Distributed Systems
3 118 (5.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 112 (4.84%) Onboarding
5 109 (4.71%) Public Cloud
6 85 (3.67%) Data Centre
7 78 (3.37%) Product Ownership
8 67 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
9 65 (2.81%) Security Posture
10 60 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
11 51 (2.20%) Enterprise Cloud
12 47 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
13 45 (1.94%) Video\Live Streaming
14 39 (1.68%) Low-Code
15 35 (1.51%) Management Information System
16 34 (1.47%) Virtual Team
17 33 (1.42%) Private Cloud
18 32 (1.38%) e-Learning
19 31 (1.34%) PKI
20 28 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 387 (16.71%) Linux
2 219 (9.46%) Windows
3 96 (4.15%) Windows Server
4 56 (2.42%) CentOS
5 41 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (1.77%) Ubuntu
5 41 (1.77%) Unix
6 22 (0.95%) VMS
7 8 (0.35%) Android
8 7 (0.30%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.22%) Debian
9 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.086%) AIX
10 2 (0.086%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.086%) Solaris
11 1 (0.043%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.043%) Rocky
11 1 (0.043%) SUSE
11 1 (0.043%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,631 (70.42%) CI/CD
2 1,290 (55.70%) DevOps
3 685 (29.58%) Containerisation
4 655 (28.28%) Agile
5 642 (27.72%) Observability
6 537 (23.19%) Platform Engineering
7 510 (22.02%) Continuous Improvement
8 506 (21.85%) Mentoring
9 490 (21.16%) AI
10 470 (20.29%) Software Engineering
11 394 (17.01%) Microservices
11 394 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
12 384 (16.58%) Technical Leadership
13 376 (16.23%) Test Automation
14 339 (14.64%) Cloud Security
15 329 (14.21%) Roadmaps
16 303 (13.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 253 (10.92%) Event-Driven
17 253 (10.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 252 (10.88%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,005 (43.39%) Python
2 362 (15.63%) Java
3 357 (15.41%) SQL
4 353 (15.24%) Bash
5 329 (14.21%) PowerShell
6 222 (9.59%) Bicep
7 212 (9.15%) TypeScript
8 194 (8.38%) JavaScript
9 178 (7.69%) C#
10 162 (6.99%) Go
11 46 (1.99%) Ruby
12 37 (1.60%) PHP
13 35 (1.51%) Scala
14 24 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
14 24 (1.04%) Rust
15 22 (0.95%) C++
16 21 (0.91%) Groovy
16 21 (0.91%) Perl
17 13 (0.56%) Shell Script
18 11 (0.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 546 (23.58%) Security Cleared
2 344 (14.85%) SC Cleared
3 193 (8.33%) Degree
4 176 (7.60%) DV Cleared
5 175 (7.56%) AWS Certification
6 139 (6.00%) Azure Certification
7 83 (3.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 78 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 55 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 50 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
11 34 (1.47%) CCNP
12 27 (1.17%) Master's Degree
13 24 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
14 21 (0.91%) CISSP
14 21 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
15 20 (0.86%) OSCP
16 18 (0.78%) CCNA
17 16 (0.69%) DBS Check
18 14 (0.60%) RHCSA
18 14 (0.60%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (5.44%) QA
2 100 (4.32%) Data Quality
3 69 (2.98%) GRC
4 68 (2.94%) GDPR
5 55 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (1.94%) Accessibility
7 37 (1.60%) NIST
8 36 (1.55%) SOC 2
9 27 (1.17%) PCI DSS
10 24 (1.04%) NCSC
10 24 (1.04%) WCAG
11 15 (0.65%) SLA
12 9 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.17%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.086%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.086%) IFRS
16 2 (0.086%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.086%) Solvency II
System Software
1 615 (26.55%) Docker
2 132 (5.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 125 (5.40%) Active Directory
4 44 (1.90%) vSphere
5 33 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (1.04%) Hyper-V
7 18 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (0.78%) VMware NSX
8 13 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (0.39%) Firmware
9 9 (0.39%) KVM
10 8 (0.35%) Squid
10 8 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.22%) iptables
13 3 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.043%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 1,561 (67.40%) Terraform
2 861 (37.18%) Kubernetes
3 465 (20.08%) Ansible
4 241 (10.41%) Grafana
5 179 (7.73%) Prometheus
6 68 (2.94%) Argo
7 56 (2.42%) Puppet
8 36 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 34 (1.47%) Progress Chef
10 33 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
11 28 (1.21%) Istio
12 27 (1.17%) Packer
13 24 (1.04%) Nagios
14 16 (0.69%) FortiGate
15 15 (0.65%) vCenter Server
16 12 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 12 (0.52%) Cilium
16 12 (0.52%) Rancher
16 12 (0.52%) ZABBIX
17 11 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 504 (21.76%) Microsoft
2 158 (6.82%) VMware
3 135 (5.83%) Google
4 98 (4.23%) Databricks
5 88 (3.80%) Red Hat
6 86 (3.71%) Splunk
7 70 (3.02%) Cisco
8 61 (2.63%) Oracle
9 49 (2.12%) Palo Alto
10 39 (1.68%) Dynatrace
10 39 (1.68%) Fortinet
10 39 (1.68%) OpenAI
11 25 (1.08%) Zscaler
12 21 (0.91%) ServiceNow
13 15 (0.65%) CrowdStrike
13 15 (0.65%) F5
14 14 (0.60%) Atlassian
14 14 (0.60%) SAP
15 13 (0.56%) Rapid7
16 12 (0.52%) Salesforce