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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 123 84
Rank change year-on-year -3 -39 +14
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,128 1,379 1,765
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.00% 2.22% 3.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 2.56% 3.73%
Number of salaries quoted 814 853 1,415
10th Percentile £47,617 £42,500 £50,539
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -
75th Percentile £88,938 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £103,375 £110,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,000 £65,000 £66,875
% change year-on-year +6.15% -2.80% +2.88%

All Process and 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 47,424 53,892 47,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.09% 86.75% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 28,060 28,022 36,472
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.87%

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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 2025. 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 -4 958 £73,801 +1.79% 1,207
UK excluding London +6 579 £69,000 +6.15% 1,034
Work from Home +14 485 £73,801 +5.43% 695
London +3 426 £85,000 -5.56% 344
North of England -8 191 £70,000 +16.67% 247
South East +24 122 £78,000 +20.00% 301
North West +6 84 £66,500 +2.31% 120
Yorkshire -20 82 £70,000 +27.27% 103
Midlands +17 71 £67,250 +3.64% 158
Scotland +8 71 £70,039 +3.76% 38
South West -39 65 £62,500 -10.71% 140
West Midlands +7 44 £67,500 +1.12% 79
East of England +27 32 £66,500 -8.28% 109
East Midlands +21 25 £67,000 +59.52% 72
North East -2 25 £70,079 +40.16% 25
Wales +15 21 £60,000 - 31
Northern Ireland -4 8 £95,000 +11.76% 28

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 44 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (3.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 32 (2.84%) Apache
4 23 (2.04%) SharePoint
5 20 (1.77%) Apache Spark
5 20 (1.77%) Confluence
6 6 (0.53%) Appian
6 6 (0.53%) IIS
6 6 (0.53%) nginx
7 4 (0.35%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.089%) CMS
8 1 (0.089%) SAS
8 1 (0.089%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.089%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.089%) Traefik
8 1 (0.089%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.089%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.089%) Sketch
2 1 (0.089%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.089%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.089%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.089%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 724 (64.18%) Azure
2 666 (59.04%) AWS
3 265 (23.49%) Azure DevOps
4 244 (21.63%) GitHub
5 235 (20.83%) GCP
6 183 (16.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 172 (15.25%) Serverless
8 157 (13.92%) GitHub Actions
9 112 (9.93%) AWS Lambda
10 108 (9.57%) SaaS
11 102 (9.04%) PaaS
12 100 (8.87%) Amazon S3
13 92 (8.16%) Microsoft 365
14 86 (7.62%) Entra ID
15 83 (7.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 80 (7.09%) Azure Monitor
17 71 (6.29%) Amazon EKS
18 70 (6.21%) Amazon EC2
18 70 (6.21%) Amazon ECS
19 65 (5.76%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 121 (10.73%) Firewall
2 80 (7.09%) DNS
3 68 (6.03%) VPN
4 55 (4.88%) TCP/IP
5 53 (4.70%) WAN
6 40 (3.55%) Network Security
7 38 (3.37%) LAN
8 33 (2.93%) DHCP
9 27 (2.39%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (1.33%) SD-WAN
11 13 (1.15%) BGP
11 13 (1.15%) VLAN
12 12 (1.06%) VoIP
13 11 (0.98%) Internet
13 11 (0.98%) Wireless
14 10 (0.89%) SAN
15 7 (0.62%) OSPF
15 7 (0.62%) Unified Communications
15 7 (0.62%) Wireshark
16 6 (0.53%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (5.59%) Amazon RDS
2 60 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (4.34%) NoSQL
4 47 (4.17%) SQL Server
5 40 (3.55%) DynamoDB
6 38 (3.37%) Data Lake
7 30 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
7 30 (2.66%) Redis
8 25 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (1.95%) BigQuery
9 22 (1.95%) MySQL
10 20 (1.77%) MongoDB
11 19 (1.68%) Big Data
12 17 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
13 15 (1.33%) Power BI
14 13 (1.15%) Relational Database
15 12 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
16 8 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
16 8 (0.71%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 174 (15.43%) Jenkins
2 152 (13.48%) Git
3 117 (10.37%) GitLab
4 40 (3.55%) JIRA
5 29 (2.57%) Selenium
6 24 (2.13%) Robot Framework
7 20 (1.77%) Snyk
8 18 (1.60%) TeamCity
9 16 (1.42%) Bitbucket
9 16 (1.42%) Cucumber
9 16 (1.42%) SonarQube
10 15 (1.33%) MLflow
11 14 (1.24%) CircleCI
12 13 (1.15%) JMeter
13 12 (1.06%) Artifactory
14 8 (0.71%) Locust
14 8 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
15 6 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (0.53%) git-flow
15 6 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 299 (26.51%) Social Skills
2 290 (25.71%) Finance
3 97 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (6.56%) Law
5 67 (5.94%) Banking
6 53 (4.70%) Public Sector
7 49 (4.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 46 (4.08%) Retail
9 36 (3.19%) Telecoms
10 27 (2.39%) Financial Institution
11 26 (2.30%) Legal
12 25 (2.22%) Marketing
13 24 (2.13%) Games
14 17 (1.51%) Advertising
15 16 (1.42%) Manufacturing
16 14 (1.24%) Back Office
16 14 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
17 13 (1.15%) Billing
18 11 (0.98%) Electronics
18 11 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 251 (22.25%) Senior
2 173 (15.34%) DevOps Engineer
3 161 (14.27%) Cloud Engineer
4 122 (10.82%) Lead
5 113 (10.02%) Architect
6 106 (9.40%) Platform Engineer
7 99 (8.78%) Azure Engineer
8 98 (8.69%) Developer
9 69 (6.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 48 (4.26%) AWS Engineer
11 46 (4.08%) Software Engineer
12 40 (3.55%) Data Engineer
13 38 (3.37%) Senior DevOps
14 37 (3.28%) Cloud Architect
15 36 (3.19%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 36 (3.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 35 (3.10%) Support Engineer
17 32 (2.84%) Security Engineer
18 31 (2.75%) Lead DevOps
19 28 (2.48%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (8.07%) .NET
1 91 (8.07%) React
2 57 (5.05%) RESTful
3 54 (4.79%) Node.js
4 51 (4.52%) Kafka
5 50 (4.43%) Elastic Stack
6 48 (4.26%) YAML
7 45 (3.99%) ARM Templates
7 45 (3.99%) Django
8 39 (3.46%) OAuth
9 32 (2.84%) Spring
10 29 (2.57%) .NET Core
10 29 (2.57%) Spring Boot
11 28 (2.48%) FastAPI
11 28 (2.48%) REST
12 25 (2.22%) CSS
13 24 (2.13%) Flask
13 24 (2.13%) HTML
14 23 (2.04%) AWS CDK
15 21 (1.86%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 256 (22.70%) Cloud Native
2 75 (6.65%) Public Cloud
3 69 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
4 54 (4.79%) Data Centre
5 50 (4.43%) Product Ownership
6 42 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
7 40 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
8 36 (3.19%) Security Posture
9 30 (2.66%) Onboarding
10 29 (2.57%) Management Information System
11 25 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
12 20 (1.77%) PKI
13 18 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
14 17 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
14 17 (1.51%) Private Cloud
15 16 (1.42%) Data Structures
16 15 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
17 14 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
17 14 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
17 14 (1.24%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 251 (22.25%) Linux
2 145 (12.85%) Windows
3 47 (4.17%) Unix
3 47 (4.17%) Windows Server
4 29 (2.57%) VMS
5 22 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (1.95%) Ubuntu
6 14 (1.24%) Debian
7 7 (0.62%) CentOS
8 6 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.35%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.27%) Android
10 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.27%) Solaris
10 3 (0.27%) SUSE
11 2 (0.18%) AIX
11 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.089%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 762 (67.55%) CI/CD
2 758 (67.20%) DevOps
3 364 (32.27%) Agile
4 278 (24.65%) Containerisation
5 247 (21.90%) Continuous Improvement
6 241 (21.37%) Problem-Solving
7 208 (18.44%) Observability
8 195 (17.29%) Mentoring
9 165 (14.63%) Platform Engineering
10 161 (14.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 157 (13.92%) AI
12 154 (13.65%) Software Engineering
13 148 (13.12%) Cloud Security
14 137 (12.15%) Analytics
15 128 (11.35%) Test Automation
16 127 (11.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 119 (10.55%) Roadmaps
18 116 (10.28%) Microservices
19 110 (9.75%) Incident Response
20 107 (9.49%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 497 (44.06%) Python
2 243 (21.54%) PowerShell
3 213 (18.88%) Bash
4 177 (15.69%) SQL
5 141 (12.50%) Bicep
6 101 (8.95%) Java
7 89 (7.89%) C#
8 82 (7.27%) JavaScript
9 73 (6.47%) TypeScript
10 69 (6.12%) Go
11 17 (1.51%) Shell Script
12 12 (1.06%) C++
13 10 (0.89%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
15 7 (0.62%) Scala
16 5 (0.44%) Ruby
16 5 (0.44%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.35%) Apex Code
18 3 (0.27%) Google Apps Script
18 3 (0.27%) Perl
Qualifications
1 209 (18.53%) Security Cleared
2 141 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 101 (8.95%) Azure Certification
4 100 (8.87%) AWS Certification
5 83 (7.36%) Degree
6 79 (7.00%) DV Cleared
7 41 (3.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 37 (3.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 36 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
11 21 (1.86%) CCNP
11 21 (1.86%) CISSP
11 21 (1.86%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.98%) OSCP
13 10 (0.89%) AWS Certified Developer
14 9 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.62%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.62%) PMP
16 6 (0.53%) CISM
17 5 (0.44%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (5.41%) GDPR
2 60 (5.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 44 (3.90%) NIST
4 43 (3.81%) QA
5 26 (2.30%) SOC 2
6 25 (2.22%) Data Quality
7 23 (2.04%) Accessibility
8 22 (1.95%) PCI DSS
9 12 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.98%) SLA
11 10 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (0.71%) WCAG
13 6 (0.53%) GRC
14 5 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.44%) NCSC
15 4 (0.35%) EU AI Act
16 2 (0.18%) Def Stans
16 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.18%) JSP 440
16 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 364 (32.27%) Docker
2 71 (6.29%) Active Directory
2 71 (6.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (2.48%) Hyper-V
5 27 (2.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 19 (1.68%) vSphere
7 13 (1.15%) vCloud
8 12 (1.06%) NFS
9 11 (0.98%) Firmware
10 8 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (0.62%) KVM
12 6 (0.53%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.44%) XenApp
13 5 (0.44%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.27%) zsh
15 2 (0.18%) GPFS
15 2 (0.18%) Lustre
15 2 (0.18%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 795 (70.48%) Terraform
2 438 (38.83%) Kubernetes
3 284 (25.18%) Ansible
4 142 (12.59%) Grafana
5 122 (10.82%) Prometheus
6 47 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
7 26 (2.30%) Argo
8 20 (1.77%) SCCM
9 18 (1.60%) Puppet
10 15 (1.33%) Docker Swarm
11 12 (1.06%) AWS Copilot
12 11 (0.98%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.98%) Rancher
13 10 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.80%) SCOM
15 5 (0.44%) MaaS360
15 5 (0.44%) ZABBIX
16 4 (0.35%) Cilium
16 4 (0.35%) FortiGate
16 4 (0.35%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 254 (22.52%) Microsoft
2 101 (8.95%) VMware
3 78 (6.91%) Google
4 48 (4.26%) Cisco
5 41 (3.63%) Databricks
6 39 (3.46%) Splunk
7 38 (3.37%) Red Hat
8 24 (2.13%) Palo Alto
9 20 (1.77%) Black Duck
10 19 (1.68%) Coverity
10 19 (1.68%) Oracle
11 14 (1.24%) SolarWinds
12 12 (1.06%) Ab Initio
12 12 (1.06%) Salesforce
13 11 (0.98%) Commvault
13 11 (0.98%) SAP
14 10 (0.89%) CrowdStrike
14 10 (0.89%) Juniper
14 10 (0.89%) New Relic
14 10 (0.89%) Zscaler