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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 159 125
Rank change year-on-year +82 -34 -34
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,474 1,027 1,583
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.13% 2.08% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% 2.34% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,603 724 999
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £45,400
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 £107,125 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -5.11%

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 84,848 43,853 63,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.08% 88.72% 81.26%
Number of salaries quoted 58,707 24,746 35,929
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,585 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £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 19 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 19 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 +75 2,156 £77,500 +3.33% 2,637
UK excluding London +107 1,349 £70,000 - 1,367
London +28 941 £90,000 +5.88% 1,488
Work from Home +47 796 £75,000 - 1,153
North of England +81 480 £70,000 - 399
North West +101 264 £72,500 +11.54% 229
South East +46 247 £67,500 -18.18% 271
South West +35 238 £75,000 - 212
Midlands +36 149 £75,000 +15.83% 155
North East +16 113 £59,000 -18.62% 61
Yorkshire -3 106 £73,750 +5.36% 109
West Midlands +5 92 £85,000 +36.55% 92
Wales -8 76 £70,000 +21.74% 35
Northern Ireland -18 62 £71,991 +67.07% 49
East Midlands +2 57 £67,500 +3.85% 63
East of England -4 56 £65,000 - 90
Scotland +13 53 £72,500 +3.57% 159

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 (2.43%) Apache
2 58 (2.34%) Apache Spark
3 55 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
4 33 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (1.17%) Confluence
6 14 (0.57%) Jupyter
7 11 (0.44%) SharePoint
8 8 (0.32%) CMS
8 8 (0.32%) IIS
9 7 (0.28%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.24%) nginx
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.12%) Camunda
11 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.12%) WordPress
12 2 (0.081%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.040%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.040%) Documentum
13 1 (0.040%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 21 (0.85%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.081%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.081%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.040%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) Summit
4 2 (0.081%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.040%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.040%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.040%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,389 (56.14%) AWS
2 1,332 (53.84%) Azure
3 488 (19.73%) GCP
4 450 (18.19%) GitHub
5 393 (15.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 381 (15.40%) Serverless
7 324 (13.10%) Azure DevOps
8 250 (10.11%) GitHub Actions
9 212 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
10 207 (8.37%) Amazon S3
11 176 (7.11%) PaaS
12 154 (6.22%) Amazon EKS
13 147 (5.94%) Amazon EC2
13 147 (5.94%) Amazon ECS
14 144 (5.82%) Azure AKS
15 135 (5.46%) SaaS
16 130 (5.25%) IaaS
17 129 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 127 (5.13%) Entra ID
19 125 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 175 (7.07%) Firewall
2 137 (5.54%) DNS
3 130 (5.25%) VPN
4 120 (4.85%) WAN
5 113 (4.57%) Network Security
6 94 (3.80%) LAN
7 69 (2.79%) TCP/IP
8 55 (2.22%) BGP
9 52 (2.10%) DHCP
10 43 (1.74%) Broadband
11 40 (1.62%) OSPF
12 32 (1.29%) VLAN
13 28 (1.13%) VXLAN
14 27 (1.09%) SD-WAN
15 26 (1.05%) Software-Defined Networking
16 17 (0.69%) Wireless
17 16 (0.65%) Ethernet VPN
17 16 (0.65%) HTTP
17 16 (0.65%) Internet
18 15 (0.61%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (7.76%) PostgreSQL
2 161 (6.51%) NoSQL
3 115 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
4 106 (4.28%) MongoDB
5 88 (3.56%) SQL Server
6 78 (3.15%) DynamoDB
7 73 (2.95%) MySQL
8 68 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
9 60 (2.43%) Data Lake
10 52 (2.10%) Redis
11 51 (2.06%) Metadata
12 49 (1.98%) Relational Database
13 44 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
14 37 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
15 31 (1.25%) Big Data
16 30 (1.21%) Delta Lake
17 29 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
18 25 (1.01%) BigQuery
18 25 (1.01%) Power BI
19 22 (0.89%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 347 (14.03%) Git
2 300 (12.13%) GitLab
3 270 (10.91%) Jenkins
4 59 (2.38%) JIRA
5 50 (2.02%) Cucumber
6 36 (1.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 25 (1.01%) TeamCity
8 24 (0.97%) Bitbucket
9 23 (0.93%) Claude Code
10 22 (0.89%) Selenium
11 21 (0.85%) CircleCI
12 19 (0.77%) SonarQube
13 15 (0.61%) Cypress.io
14 13 (0.53%) Subversion
15 12 (0.49%) Maven
15 12 (0.49%) NUnit
15 12 (0.49%) Snyk
16 9 (0.36%) MLflow
16 9 (0.36%) MSI
16 9 (0.36%) Vite
General
1 694 (28.05%) Social Skills
2 571 (23.08%) Finance
3 260 (10.51%) Public Sector
4 198 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 163 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 139 (5.62%) Banking
7 121 (4.89%) Law
8 75 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
9 68 (2.75%) Retail
10 62 (2.51%) Aerospace
11 42 (1.70%) Marketing
12 38 (1.54%) Legal
13 37 (1.50%) Games
14 29 (1.17%) Manufacturing
15 24 (0.97%) Telecoms
16 20 (0.81%) Financial Institution
17 17 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
18 16 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
18 16 (0.65%) Local Government
19 15 (0.61%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 579 (23.40%) Senior
2 442 (17.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 340 (13.74%) Lead
4 336 (13.58%) Architect
5 296 (11.96%) Cloud Engineer
6 255 (10.31%) Platform Engineer
7 209 (8.45%) Developer
8 199 (8.04%) Azure Engineer
9 175 (7.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 157 (6.35%) Software Engineer
11 152 (6.14%) AWS Engineer
12 132 (5.34%) Principal Engineer
13 124 (5.01%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 119 (4.81%) Data Engineer
15 96 (3.88%) Security Engineer
15 96 (3.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 78 (3.15%) Senior Developer
17 76 (3.07%) Azure Platform Engineer
18 75 (3.03%) Senior DevOps
19 72 (2.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,662 (67.18%) Terraform
2 204 (8.25%) Kafka
2 204 (8.25%) React
3 184 (7.44%) .NET
4 165 (6.67%) Spring
5 164 (6.63%) Spring Boot
6 160 (6.47%) Node.js
7 150 (6.06%) REST
7 150 (6.06%) RESTful
8 89 (3.60%) AWS CDK
9 76 (3.07%) PySpark
10 67 (2.71%) ARM Templates
11 66 (2.67%) AngularJS
12 62 (2.51%) YAML
13 59 (2.38%) Next.js
13 59 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
14 54 (2.18%) Elastic Stack
15 48 (1.94%) OAuth
16 46 (1.86%) LangChain
17 43 (1.74%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 749 (30.27%) Cloud Native
2 279 (11.28%) Distributed Systems
3 135 (5.46%) Hybrid Cloud
4 130 (5.25%) Public Cloud
5 128 (5.17%) Onboarding
6 95 (3.84%) Data Centre
7 80 (3.23%) Product Ownership
8 78 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
9 65 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
10 63 (2.55%) Security Posture
11 58 (2.34%) Enterprise Cloud
12 51 (2.06%) Virtual Team
13 48 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
14 44 (1.78%) AI Agents
15 43 (1.74%) e-Learning
15 43 (1.74%) Private Cloud
16 42 (1.70%) Management Information System
17 40 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
17 40 (1.62%) PKI
18 35 (1.41%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 424 (17.14%) Linux
2 225 (9.09%) Windows
3 102 (4.12%) Windows Server
4 63 (2.55%) CentOS
5 50 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 43 (1.74%) Unix
7 40 (1.62%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.89%) VMS
9 7 (0.28%) Debian
10 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.12%) AIX
11 3 (0.12%) Android
11 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.081%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.081%) Rocky
12 2 (0.081%) Solaris
13 1 (0.040%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.040%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,754 (70.90%) CI/CD
2 1,353 (54.69%) DevOps
3 725 (29.30%) Containerisation
4 711 (28.74%) Agile
5 695 (28.09%) Observability
6 606 (24.49%) Platform Engineering
7 555 (22.43%) AI
8 548 (22.15%) Mentoring
9 540 (21.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 522 (21.10%) Software Engineering
11 456 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
12 427 (17.26%) Microservices
13 417 (16.86%) Technical Leadership
14 392 (15.84%) Test Automation
15 391 (15.80%) Cloud Security
16 372 (15.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 355 (14.35%) Roadmaps
18 292 (11.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 283 (11.44%) Event-Driven
20 260 (10.51%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,074 (43.41%) Python
2 392 (15.84%) Java
3 386 (15.60%) Bash
4 379 (15.32%) SQL
5 358 (14.47%) PowerShell
6 238 (9.62%) Bicep
7 228 (9.22%) TypeScript
8 197 (7.96%) JavaScript
9 189 (7.64%) C#
10 157 (6.35%) Go
11 47 (1.90%) Ruby
12 41 (1.66%) Scala
13 36 (1.46%) Groovy
14 34 (1.37%) PHP
15 33 (1.33%) Shell Script
16 29 (1.17%) Rust
17 25 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
18 22 (0.89%) C++
19 20 (0.81%) Perl
20 13 (0.53%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 629 (25.42%) Security Cleared
2 398 (16.09%) SC Cleared
3 215 (8.69%) AWS Certification
4 208 (8.41%) DV Cleared
5 185 (7.48%) Degree
6 156 (6.31%) Azure Certification
7 95 (3.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 86 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 58 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
11 40 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
12 33 (1.33%) CCNP
13 29 (1.17%) Master's Degree
14 24 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
15 23 (0.93%) CISSP
16 22 (0.89%) CCNA
17 17 (0.69%) SnowPro
18 14 (0.57%) DBS Check
18 14 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 12 (0.49%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (5.05%) QA
2 104 (4.20%) Data Quality
3 72 (2.91%) GRC
4 66 (2.67%) GDPR
5 57 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (1.86%) Accessibility
7 34 (1.37%) NIST
8 31 (1.25%) NCSC
9 27 (1.09%) SOC 2
10 24 (0.97%) SLA
11 21 (0.85%) WCAG
12 19 (0.77%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.28%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.20%) ISO 20022
17 3 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 2 (0.081%) IFRS
18 2 (0.081%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 659 (26.64%) Docker
2 138 (5.58%) Active Directory
3 133 (5.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (1.86%) vSphere
5 44 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
6 27 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
7 23 (0.93%) Hyper-V
8 17 (0.69%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.36%) KVM
9 9 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.32%) Firmware
10 8 (0.32%) Squid
10 8 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.12%) iptables
12 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.081%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 900 (36.38%) Kubernetes
2 500 (20.21%) Ansible
3 240 (9.70%) Grafana
4 179 (7.24%) Prometheus
5 75 (3.03%) Argo
6 66 (2.67%) Puppet
7 46 (1.86%) Progress Chef
8 39 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
9 37 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
10 36 (1.46%) Istio
11 28 (1.13%) Packer
12 24 (0.97%) FortiGate
13 23 (0.93%) Rancher
14 19 (0.77%) vCenter Server
15 17 (0.69%) Nagios
16 14 (0.57%) Cilium
17 13 (0.53%) Kustomize
18 12 (0.49%) linkerd
18 12 (0.49%) Podman
18 12 (0.49%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 585 (23.65%) Microsoft
2 165 (6.67%) VMware
3 164 (6.63%) Google
4 108 (4.37%) Databricks
5 88 (3.56%) Splunk
6 82 (3.31%) Red Hat
7 74 (2.99%) Cisco
8 73 (2.95%) Oracle
9 42 (1.70%) Dynatrace
9 42 (1.70%) OpenAI
10 39 (1.58%) Fortinet
10 39 (1.58%) Palo Alto
11 33 (1.33%) ServiceNow
12 26 (1.05%) Zscaler
13 15 (0.61%) Atlassian
13 15 (0.61%) Okta
13 15 (0.61%) SAP
14 14 (0.57%) SolarWinds
15 13 (0.53%) F5
15 13 (0.53%) New Relic