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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 161 154
Rank change year-on-year +84 -7 -51
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,366 1,021 1,417
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.23% 2.04% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.03% 2.29% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,566 717 1,016
10th Percentile £49,167 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,249 £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 £91,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £106,250 £103,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,039 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.06% +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 78,044 44,596 67,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.46% 89.30% 81.10%
Number of salaries quoted 53,720 25,240 43,624
10th Percentile £30,773 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,237 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,773 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.13% -4.45% -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 13 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 13 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 +79 2,078 £77,500 - 1,478
UK excluding London +115 1,275 £70,039 +0.06% 808
London +26 924 £90,000 +1.41% 818
Work from Home +78 834 £72,500 -8.01% 677
North of England +94 433 £70,400 +0.57% 245
South East +85 254 £67,500 -12.90% 188
North West +96 244 £74,301 +6.14% 132
South West +56 218 £75,000 - 154
Midlands +34 147 £75,000 +15.38% 68
Yorkshire +17 101 £75,000 +7.14% 71
West Midlands +13 90 £80,000 +23.08% 40
North East +16 88 £56,500 -17.82% 42
Wales -6 65 £70,000 +16.67% 31
Northern Ireland -19 59 £72,896 +69.17% 22
East Midlands +11 57 £67,500 +3.85% 28
East of England 0 56 £70,000 +7.69% 35
Scotland +35 53 £71,991 +6.65% 71

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 59 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
2 58 (2.45%) Apache Spark
3 54 (2.28%) Apache
4 29 (1.23%) Confluence
4 29 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.51%) Jupyter
6 10 (0.42%) IIS
6 10 (0.42%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.21%) CMS
8 4 (0.17%) Camunda
8 4 (0.17%) nginx
9 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.13%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.13%) WordPress
10 2 (0.085%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.042%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.042%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.042%) JBoss
11 1 (0.042%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 22 (0.93%) PlantUML
2 9 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.085%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.085%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.085%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.042%) Maya
6 1 (0.042%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.13%) Summit
4 2 (0.085%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.085%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,356 (57.31%) AWS
2 1,285 (54.31%) Azure
3 461 (19.48%) GCP
4 414 (17.50%) GitHub
5 382 (16.15%) AWS CloudFormation
6 376 (15.89%) Serverless
7 319 (13.48%) Azure DevOps
8 229 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
9 207 (8.75%) AWS Lambda
10 201 (8.50%) Amazon S3
11 187 (7.90%) PaaS
12 143 (6.04%) Amazon EC2
13 141 (5.96%) Amazon ECS
13 141 (5.96%) Amazon EKS
14 135 (5.71%) SaaS
15 128 (5.41%) IaaS
16 123 (5.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 123 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
17 119 (5.03%) Azure AKS
18 110 (4.65%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 177 (7.48%) Firewall
2 118 (4.99%) DNS
3 116 (4.90%) WAN
4 107 (4.52%) Network Security
4 107 (4.52%) VPN
5 96 (4.06%) LAN
6 82 (3.47%) TCP/IP
7 54 (2.28%) Broadband
8 52 (2.20%) BGP
9 41 (1.73%) DHCP
10 36 (1.52%) OSPF
11 34 (1.44%) VLAN
12 27 (1.14%) VXLAN
13 26 (1.10%) Software-Defined Networking
14 24 (1.01%) SD-WAN
15 19 (0.80%) HTTP
16 15 (0.63%) Wireless
17 14 (0.59%) SAN
18 13 (0.55%) Ethernet VPN
19 12 (0.51%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
2 149 (6.30%) NoSQL
3 105 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
4 98 (4.14%) MongoDB
5 84 (3.55%) SQL Server
6 79 (3.34%) DynamoDB
7 62 (2.62%) Data Lake
8 60 (2.54%) MySQL
9 54 (2.28%) Azure SQL Database
10 53 (2.24%) Metadata
10 53 (2.24%) Relational Database
11 42 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
12 41 (1.73%) Redis
13 34 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
14 29 (1.23%) Delta Lake
15 28 (1.18%) Big Data
15 28 (1.18%) BigQuery
16 25 (1.06%) Power BI
17 22 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
17 22 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 306 (12.93%) Git
2 284 (12.00%) GitLab
3 254 (10.74%) Jenkins
4 53 (2.24%) JIRA
5 45 (1.90%) Cucumber
6 32 (1.35%) CircleCI
7 31 (1.31%) Bitbucket
8 29 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 27 (1.14%) TeamCity
10 21 (0.89%) Selenium
11 18 (0.76%) Claude Code
12 16 (0.68%) SonarQube
13 15 (0.63%) NUnit
14 12 (0.51%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.51%) MLflow
15 11 (0.46%) Maven
15 11 (0.46%) Subversion
16 9 (0.38%) JMeter
16 9 (0.38%) MSI
16 9 (0.38%) Snyk
General
1 648 (27.39%) Social Skills
2 545 (23.03%) Finance
3 211 (8.92%) Public Sector
4 181 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
5 146 (6.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 125 (5.28%) Banking
7 118 (4.99%) Law
8 71 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
9 67 (2.83%) Retail
10 48 (2.03%) Aerospace
11 46 (1.94%) Games
12 45 (1.90%) Marketing
13 39 (1.65%) Legal
14 33 (1.39%) Telecoms
15 31 (1.31%) Manufacturing
16 22 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (0.76%) Aviation
17 18 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
18 17 (0.72%) Advertising
19 16 (0.68%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 545 (23.03%) Senior
2 395 (16.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 346 (14.62%) Lead
4 314 (13.27%) Architect
5 282 (11.92%) Cloud Engineer
6 235 (9.93%) Platform Engineer
7 205 (8.66%) Developer
8 183 (7.73%) Azure Engineer
9 146 (6.17%) Software Engineer
10 137 (5.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 136 (5.75%) AWS Engineer
12 124 (5.24%) Data Engineer
13 112 (4.73%) Principal Engineer
14 106 (4.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 93 (3.93%) Security Engineer
16 87 (3.68%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 78 (3.30%) Senior DevOps
18 75 (3.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 73 (3.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 70 (2.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (8.20%) React
2 179 (7.57%) .NET
3 178 (7.52%) Kafka
4 155 (6.55%) Node.js
5 153 (6.47%) REST
6 142 (6.00%) Spring
7 140 (5.92%) Spring Boot
8 134 (5.66%) RESTful
9 96 (4.06%) AWS CDK
10 76 (3.21%) YAML
11 74 (3.13%) PySpark
12 69 (2.92%) ARM Templates
13 61 (2.58%) AngularJS
14 58 (2.45%) RabbitMQ
15 57 (2.41%) Next.js
16 54 (2.28%) Elastic Stack
17 50 (2.11%) OAuth
18 44 (1.86%) ASP.NET
19 42 (1.78%) CSS
20 41 (1.73%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 691 (29.21%) Cloud Native
2 250 (10.57%) Distributed Systems
3 120 (5.07%) Hybrid Cloud
4 118 (4.99%) Onboarding
5 116 (4.90%) Public Cloud
6 90 (3.80%) Data Centre
7 82 (3.47%) Product Ownership
8 69 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
9 66 (2.79%) Security Posture
10 61 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
11 52 (2.20%) Enterprise Cloud
12 46 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
13 45 (1.90%) Video\Live Streaming
14 37 (1.56%) Low-Code
14 37 (1.56%) Virtual Team
15 36 (1.52%) Management Information System
15 36 (1.52%) Private Cloud
16 34 (1.44%) e-Learning
17 31 (1.31%) PKI
18 29 (1.23%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 395 (16.69%) Linux
2 223 (9.43%) Windows
3 98 (4.14%) Windows Server
4 55 (2.32%) CentOS
5 42 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 41 (1.73%) Unix
7 40 (1.69%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.93%) VMS
9 7 (0.30%) Android
10 6 (0.25%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.21%) Debian
11 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.085%) AIX
13 2 (0.085%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.085%) Solaris
14 1 (0.042%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.042%) Rocky
14 1 (0.042%) SUSE
14 1 (0.042%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,664 (70.33%) CI/CD
2 1,302 (55.03%) DevOps
3 697 (29.46%) Containerisation
4 666 (28.15%) Agile
5 659 (27.85%) Observability
6 546 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
7 527 (22.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 520 (21.98%) Mentoring
9 506 (21.39%) AI
10 492 (20.79%) Software Engineering
11 408 (17.24%) Microservices
12 403 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
13 401 (16.95%) Technical Leadership
14 378 (15.98%) Test Automation
15 346 (14.62%) Cloud Security
16 333 (14.07%) Roadmaps
17 311 (13.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 266 (11.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 260 (10.99%) Event-Driven
20 254 (10.74%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,028 (43.45%) Python
2 373 (15.77%) Java
3 365 (15.43%) SQL
4 355 (15.00%) Bash
5 334 (14.12%) PowerShell
6 222 (9.38%) Bicep
7 216 (9.13%) TypeScript
8 194 (8.20%) JavaScript
9 182 (7.69%) C#
10 166 (7.02%) Go
11 47 (1.99%) Ruby
12 39 (1.65%) Scala
13 37 (1.56%) PHP
14 25 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
14 25 (1.06%) Rust
15 23 (0.97%) C++
15 23 (0.97%) Groovy
16 21 (0.89%) Perl
17 13 (0.55%) Kotlin
17 13 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 562 (23.75%) Security Cleared
2 355 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 204 (8.62%) Degree
4 184 (7.78%) AWS Certification
5 179 (7.57%) DV Cleared
6 143 (6.04%) Azure Certification
7 86 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 83 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 56 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 52 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
11 36 (1.52%) CCNP
12 30 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
13 29 (1.23%) Master's Degree
14 23 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
15 20 (0.85%) CISSP
15 20 (0.85%) OSCP
16 18 (0.76%) CCNA
17 17 (0.72%) DBS Check
18 14 (0.59%) CCIE
18 14 (0.59%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (5.37%) QA
2 105 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 71 (3.00%) GDPR
4 69 (2.92%) GRC
5 57 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 49 (2.07%) Accessibility
7 39 (1.65%) NIST
8 34 (1.44%) SOC 2
9 26 (1.10%) NCSC
9 26 (1.10%) PCI DSS
10 24 (1.01%) WCAG
11 18 (0.76%) SLA
12 9 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.21%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.085%) IFRS
15 2 (0.085%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.085%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.085%) Solvency II
System Software
1 616 (26.04%) Docker
2 133 (5.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 127 (5.37%) Active Directory
4 46 (1.94%) vSphere
5 33 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (1.06%) Hyper-V
7 19 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (0.76%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.38%) KVM
11 8 (0.34%) Firmware
11 8 (0.34%) Squid
11 8 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.17%) iptables
14 3 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 2 (0.085%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 1,582 (66.86%) Terraform
2 875 (36.98%) Kubernetes
3 473 (19.99%) Ansible
4 241 (10.19%) Grafana
5 177 (7.48%) Prometheus
6 68 (2.87%) Argo
7 57 (2.41%) Puppet
8 36 (1.52%) Progress Chef
9 35 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
10 33 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
11 27 (1.14%) Istio
11 27 (1.14%) Packer
12 22 (0.93%) Nagios
13 16 (0.68%) FortiGate
13 16 (0.68%) vCenter Server
14 13 (0.55%) Cilium
15 12 (0.51%) ZABBIX
16 11 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 11 (0.46%) Kustomize
16 11 (0.46%) Rancher
Vendors
1 512 (21.64%) Microsoft
2 161 (6.80%) VMware
3 143 (6.04%) Google
4 103 (4.35%) Databricks
5 90 (3.80%) Red Hat
6 87 (3.68%) Splunk
7 72 (3.04%) Cisco
8 65 (2.75%) Oracle
9 48 (2.03%) Palo Alto
10 41 (1.73%) OpenAI
11 40 (1.69%) Dynatrace
12 39 (1.65%) Fortinet
13 25 (1.06%) Zscaler
14 23 (0.97%) ServiceNow
15 16 (0.68%) CrowdStrike
15 16 (0.68%) SAP
16 14 (0.59%) Atlassian
17 13 (0.55%) F5
18 12 (0.51%) Okta
18 12 (0.51%) Rapid7