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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 155 167
Rank change year-on-year +78 +12 -62
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,140 1,022 1,668
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.17% 2.08% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 2.31% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,437 698 1,267
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,250 £62,500 £57,500
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 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £108,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +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 72,817 44,332 83,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 90.20% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 50,259 24,803 58,175
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +80 1,895 £77,500 - 1,028
UK excluding London +106 1,075 £70,000 - 847
London +31 894 £87,500 -2.78% 372
Work from Home +82 768 £70,079 -9.58% 753
North of England +81 365 £70,000 - 222
South East +60 225 £70,000 -9.68% 201
North West +71 220 £72,500 - 126
South West +31 175 £75,000 +7.14% 123
Midlands +34 130 £75,000 +15.38% 108
Yorkshire +1 91 £67,500 -3.57% 65
West Midlands +7 77 £80,000 +23.08% 63
North East -12 54 £55,000 -15.38% 31
East Midlands +11 53 £67,500 +3.85% 45
East of England +1 51 £62,500 - 71
Northern Ireland -11 51 £73,801 +71.27% 28
Wales -13 47 £70,039 +21.81% 39
Scotland +18 38 £65,000 -13.04% 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 53 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (2.06%) Apache
3 42 (1.96%) Apache Spark
4 36 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 26 (1.21%) Confluence
6 11 (0.51%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.47%) IIS
7 10 (0.47%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.23%) CMS
10 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.14%) WordPress
12 2 (0.093%) Camunda
12 2 (0.093%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.047%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.047%) Documentum
13 1 (0.047%) nginx
13 1 (0.047%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.047%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (0.93%) PlantUML
2 11 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.093%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.093%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.093%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.093%) Weka
5 1 (0.047%) Maya
5 1 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.047%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.14%) Summit
4 2 (0.093%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.093%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.047%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 1,202 (56.17%) AWS
2 1,169 (54.63%) Azure
3 386 (18.04%) GitHub
4 367 (17.15%) GCP
5 362 (16.92%) Serverless
6 332 (15.51%) AWS CloudFormation
7 317 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
8 225 (10.51%) GitHub Actions
9 199 (9.30%) AWS Lambda
10 192 (8.97%) Amazon S3
11 181 (8.46%) PaaS
12 148 (6.92%) Amazon EKS
13 132 (6.17%) IaaS
14 131 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
15 129 (6.03%) SaaS
16 123 (5.75%) Microsoft 365
17 120 (5.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 119 (5.56%) Entra ID
19 117 (5.47%) Amazon ECS
20 116 (5.42%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 182 (8.50%) Firewall
2 113 (5.28%) DNS
3 112 (5.23%) VPN
4 105 (4.91%) WAN
5 96 (4.49%) Network Security
6 81 (3.79%) LAN
7 70 (3.27%) TCP/IP
8 64 (2.99%) Broadband
9 46 (2.15%) BGP
10 37 (1.73%) VLAN
11 33 (1.54%) DHCP
12 27 (1.26%) OSPF
13 23 (1.07%) SD-WAN
13 23 (1.07%) Software-Defined Networking
14 22 (1.03%) HTTP
15 21 (0.98%) VXLAN
16 13 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
17 11 (0.51%) DSL
17 11 (0.51%) Wireless
18 10 (0.47%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (7.34%) PostgreSQL
2 146 (6.82%) NoSQL
3 93 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
4 90 (4.21%) MongoDB
5 72 (3.36%) DynamoDB
5 72 (3.36%) SQL Server
6 57 (2.66%) Relational Database
7 55 (2.57%) Azure SQL Database
8 53 (2.48%) Data Lake
9 51 (2.38%) Metadata
10 48 (2.24%) MySQL
11 38 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
12 33 (1.54%) Redis
13 31 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
14 25 (1.17%) Delta Lake
15 24 (1.12%) BigQuery
16 23 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
16 23 (1.07%) Big Data
16 23 (1.07%) Power BI
17 20 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 286 (13.36%) GitLab
2 278 (12.99%) Git
3 248 (11.59%) Jenkins
4 43 (2.01%) Cucumber
4 43 (2.01%) JIRA
5 42 (1.96%) CircleCI
6 34 (1.59%) Bitbucket
7 25 (1.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 25 (1.17%) TeamCity
8 17 (0.79%) Selenium
8 17 (0.79%) SonarQube
9 16 (0.75%) Claude Code
10 13 (0.61%) Subversion
11 10 (0.47%) JMeter
11 10 (0.47%) Maven
11 10 (0.47%) MLflow
11 10 (0.47%) NUnit
12 9 (0.42%) Cypress.io
13 8 (0.37%) Jaeger
13 8 (0.37%) Robot Framework
General
1 564 (26.36%) Social Skills
2 475 (22.20%) Finance
3 182 (8.50%) Public Sector
4 149 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
5 113 (5.28%) Banking
6 104 (4.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 95 (4.44%) Law
8 65 (3.04%) Retail
9 60 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
10 43 (2.01%) Games
11 36 (1.68%) Telecoms
12 33 (1.54%) Aerospace
13 30 (1.40%) Manufacturing
14 27 (1.26%) Legal
15 22 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
15 22 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
16 19 (0.89%) Advertising
16 19 (0.89%) Marketing
17 17 (0.79%) Financial Institution
18 10 (0.47%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 498 (23.27%) Senior
2 364 (17.01%) DevOps Engineer
3 294 (13.74%) Lead
4 282 (13.18%) Architect
5 274 (12.80%) Cloud Engineer
6 220 (10.28%) Platform Engineer
7 189 (8.83%) Azure Engineer
8 187 (8.74%) Developer
9 137 (6.40%) AWS Engineer
10 131 (6.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 115 (5.37%) Software Engineer
12 106 (4.95%) Data Engineer
13 100 (4.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 91 (4.25%) Principal Engineer
15 88 (4.11%) Security Engineer
16 82 (3.83%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 80 (3.74%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 78 (3.64%) Senior DevOps
19 68 (3.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 66 (3.08%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (7.80%) React
2 153 (7.15%) .NET
2 153 (7.15%) Kafka
3 142 (6.64%) Node.js
4 139 (6.50%) REST
5 123 (5.75%) RESTful
6 120 (5.61%) Spring
7 119 (5.56%) Spring Boot
8 92 (4.30%) AWS CDK
9 83 (3.88%) YAML
10 70 (3.27%) ARM Templates
11 68 (3.18%) Elastic Stack
11 68 (3.18%) PySpark
12 59 (2.76%) RabbitMQ
13 53 (2.48%) OAuth
14 52 (2.43%) AngularJS
15 48 (2.24%) Next.js
16 42 (1.96%) JSON
17 37 (1.73%) ASP.NET
17 37 (1.73%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 601 (28.08%) Cloud Native
2 210 (9.81%) Distributed Systems
3 107 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 105 (4.91%) Public Cloud
5 98 (4.58%) Onboarding
6 81 (3.79%) Product Ownership
7 75 (3.50%) Data Centre
8 66 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
9 62 (2.90%) Security Posture
10 51 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
11 48 (2.24%) Video\Live Streaming
12 45 (2.10%) Enterprise Cloud
13 39 (1.82%) Low-Code
14 33 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
15 32 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
16 31 (1.45%) PKI
17 30 (1.40%) e-Learning
18 27 (1.26%) Private Cloud
19 26 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
19 26 (1.21%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 366 (17.10%) Linux
2 208 (9.72%) Windows
3 88 (4.11%) Windows Server
4 54 (2.52%) CentOS
5 47 (2.20%) Ubuntu
6 38 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 35 (1.64%) Unix
8 30 (1.40%) VMS
9 11 (0.51%) Android
10 10 (0.47%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.37%) Debian
12 7 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.093%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.093%) Rocky
15 1 (0.047%) AIX
15 1 (0.047%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.047%) SUSE
15 1 (0.047%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,493 (69.77%) CI/CD
2 1,193 (55.75%) DevOps
3 633 (29.58%) Containerisation
4 596 (27.85%) Agile
5 574 (26.82%) Observability
6 483 (22.57%) Platform Engineering
7 456 (21.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 456 (21.31%) Mentoring
8 439 (20.51%) AI
9 406 (18.97%) Software Engineering
10 363 (16.96%) Microservices
10 363 (16.96%) Test Automation
11 348 (16.26%) Problem-Solving
12 327 (15.28%) Technical Leadership
13 300 (14.02%) Cloud Security
14 291 (13.60%) Roadmaps
15 283 (13.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 239 (11.17%) Analytics
17 228 (10.65%) Event-Driven
18 226 (10.56%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 944 (44.11%) Python
2 359 (16.78%) Bash
3 335 (15.65%) SQL
4 331 (15.47%) Java
5 322 (15.05%) PowerShell
6 211 (9.86%) Bicep
7 193 (9.02%) TypeScript
8 192 (8.97%) JavaScript
9 177 (8.27%) Go
10 165 (7.71%) C#
11 42 (1.96%) Ruby
12 37 (1.73%) PHP
13 29 (1.36%) Rust
14 27 (1.26%) C++
15 25 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
15 25 (1.17%) Scala
16 20 (0.93%) Groovy
16 20 (0.93%) Perl
17 11 (0.51%) Kotlin
18 9 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 474 (22.15%) Security Cleared
2 283 (13.22%) SC Cleared
3 179 (8.36%) Degree
4 151 (7.06%) AWS Certification
5 138 (6.45%) DV Cleared
6 119 (5.56%) Azure Certification
7 77 (3.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 72 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 53 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 44 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
11 27 (1.26%) CCNP
12 26 (1.21%) Master's Degree
13 24 (1.12%) OSCP
14 22 (1.03%) CISSP
15 18 (0.84%) CCNA
16 14 (0.65%) RHCSA
17 13 (0.61%) DBS Check
17 13 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
18 12 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 11 (0.51%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (5.28%) QA
2 92 (4.30%) Data Quality
3 63 (2.94%) GDPR
4 62 (2.90%) GRC
5 52 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 44 (2.06%) SOC 2
7 38 (1.78%) NIST
8 37 (1.73%) Accessibility
9 36 (1.68%) PCI DSS
10 22 (1.03%) WCAG
11 18 (0.84%) NCSC
12 12 (0.56%) SLA
13 10 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.093%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.093%) IFRS
16 2 (0.093%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.093%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.093%) Solvency II
System Software
1 551 (25.75%) Docker
2 126 (5.89%) Active Directory
3 121 (5.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 44 (2.06%) vSphere
5 37 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.93%) Hyper-V
7 16 (0.75%) VMware NSX
8 15 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.37%) Squid
11 7 (0.33%) Firmware
12 6 (0.28%) iptables
12 6 (0.28%) KVM
12 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,449 (67.71%) Terraform
2 808 (37.76%) Kubernetes
3 433 (20.23%) Ansible
4 238 (11.12%) Grafana
5 197 (9.21%) Prometheus
6 68 (3.18%) Argo
7 49 (2.29%) Puppet
8 43 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
9 40 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
10 29 (1.36%) Packer
11 28 (1.31%) Progress Chef
12 24 (1.12%) Istio
13 21 (0.98%) Nagios
14 15 (0.70%) Kustomize
14 15 (0.70%) vCenter Server
15 14 (0.65%) Rancher
16 13 (0.61%) FortiGate
16 13 (0.61%) ZABBIX
17 12 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 12 (0.56%) Cilium
Vendors
1 451 (21.07%) Microsoft
2 153 (7.15%) VMware
3 105 (4.91%) Google
4 82 (3.83%) Databricks
5 80 (3.74%) Red Hat
6 74 (3.46%) Splunk
7 64 (2.99%) Cisco
8 51 (2.38%) Palo Alto
9 47 (2.20%) Oracle
10 34 (1.59%) Fortinet
11 32 (1.50%) OpenAI
12 27 (1.26%) Zscaler
13 25 (1.17%) Dynatrace
14 18 (0.84%) CrowdStrike
15 14 (0.65%) F5
15 14 (0.65%) Salesforce
16 12 (0.56%) ScienceLogic
16 12 (0.56%) ServiceNow
17 11 (0.51%) Atlassian
17 11 (0.51%) Rapid7