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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 160 154
Rank change year-on-year +84 -6 -54
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,397 1,014 1,410
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.23% 2.03% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 2.28% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,593 711 998
10th Percentile £48,959 £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 £91,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -5.99%

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 78,793 44,552 66,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.35% 89.17% 80.87%
Number of salaries quoted 54,339 25,245 43,003
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £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 £96,650 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 18 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 18 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 +86 2,105 £77,500 - 544
UK excluding London +115 1,303 £70,000 - 470
London +33 928 £90,000 +2.86% 198
Work from Home +81 833 £72,500 -6.45% 323
North of England +100 450 £70,000 - 151
South East +76 253 £67,500 -12.90% 142
North West +98 250 £72,500 +3.57% 85
South West +52 226 £75,000 - 84
Midlands +43 147 £77,500 +19.23% 31
Yorkshire +16 106 £72,500 +3.57% 37
North East +16 94 £57,000 -21.38% 29
West Midlands +18 90 £81,887 +25.98% 19
Wales -6 67 £70,000 +16.67% 13
Northern Ireland -27 60 £71,991 +67.07% 22
East of England -4 58 £65,000 - 12
East Midlands +16 57 £67,500 +3.85% 12
Scotland +18 53 £72,500 +7.41% 19

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 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
2 58 (2.42%) Apache Spark
3 55 (2.29%) Apache
4 29 (1.21%) Confluence
4 29 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.54%) Jupyter
6 9 (0.38%) IIS
6 9 (0.38%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.25%) 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 (0.083%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.042%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.042%) Documentum
11 1 (0.042%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.042%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 22 (0.92%) PlantUML
2 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.083%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.083%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.083%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.042%) Maya
5 1 (0.042%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.13%) Summit
4 2 (0.083%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,365 (56.95%) AWS
2 1,294 (53.98%) Azure
3 459 (19.15%) GCP
4 420 (17.52%) GitHub
5 384 (16.02%) AWS CloudFormation
5 384 (16.02%) Serverless
6 319 (13.31%) Azure DevOps
7 229 (9.55%) GitHub Actions
8 214 (8.93%) AWS Lambda
9 207 (8.64%) Amazon S3
10 182 (7.59%) PaaS
11 147 (6.13%) Amazon EC2
12 144 (6.01%) Amazon EKS
13 141 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
14 136 (5.67%) SaaS
15 128 (5.34%) Azure AKS
15 128 (5.34%) IaaS
16 126 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 126 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
17 113 (4.71%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 177 (7.38%) Firewall
2 119 (4.96%) DNS
3 116 (4.84%) WAN
4 111 (4.63%) Network Security
5 109 (4.55%) VPN
6 97 (4.05%) LAN
7 77 (3.21%) TCP/IP
8 52 (2.17%) BGP
9 50 (2.09%) Broadband
10 44 (1.84%) DHCP
11 36 (1.50%) OSPF
12 33 (1.38%) VLAN
13 27 (1.13%) VXLAN
14 26 (1.08%) Software-Defined Networking
15 24 (1.00%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.67%) HTTP
17 15 (0.63%) Wireless
18 14 (0.58%) SAN
19 13 (0.54%) Ethernet VPN
20 11 (0.46%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
2 151 (6.30%) NoSQL
3 105 (4.38%) Amazon RDS
4 103 (4.30%) MongoDB
5 84 (3.50%) SQL Server
6 81 (3.38%) DynamoDB
7 65 (2.71%) Data Lake
8 64 (2.67%) MySQL
9 55 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
10 53 (2.21%) Relational Database
11 51 (2.13%) Metadata
12 45 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
13 36 (1.50%) Redis
14 33 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
15 30 (1.25%) Delta Lake
16 29 (1.21%) Big Data
17 27 (1.13%) BigQuery
18 24 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
18 24 (1.00%) Power BI
19 23 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 316 (13.18%) Git
2 290 (12.10%) GitLab
3 258 (10.76%) Jenkins
4 52 (2.17%) JIRA
5 46 (1.92%) Cucumber
6 33 (1.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 31 (1.29%) Bitbucket
7 31 (1.29%) CircleCI
8 27 (1.13%) TeamCity
9 21 (0.88%) Selenium
10 18 (0.75%) Claude Code
11 17 (0.71%) SonarQube
12 15 (0.63%) Cypress.io
12 15 (0.63%) NUnit
13 12 (0.50%) MLflow
14 11 (0.46%) Maven
14 11 (0.46%) Subversion
15 9 (0.38%) JMeter
15 9 (0.38%) MSI
15 9 (0.38%) Snyk
General
1 658 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 551 (22.99%) Finance
3 225 (9.39%) Public Sector
4 186 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
5 144 (6.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 130 (5.42%) Banking
7 119 (4.96%) Law
8 73 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
9 64 (2.67%) Retail
10 50 (2.09%) Aerospace
11 47 (1.96%) Games
12 44 (1.84%) Marketing
13 39 (1.63%) Legal
14 31 (1.29%) Manufacturing
15 30 (1.25%) Telecoms
16 21 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (0.75%) Aviation
18 17 (0.71%) Advertising
18 17 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
19 16 (0.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 553 (23.07%) Senior
2 410 (17.10%) DevOps Engineer
3 347 (14.48%) Lead
4 323 (13.48%) Architect
5 285 (11.89%) Cloud Engineer
6 237 (9.89%) Platform Engineer
7 207 (8.64%) Developer
8 187 (7.80%) Azure Engineer
9 150 (6.26%) Software Engineer
10 144 (6.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 141 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
12 122 (5.09%) Data Engineer
13 120 (5.01%) Principal Engineer
14 109 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 94 (3.92%) Security Engineer
16 85 (3.55%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 80 (3.34%) Senior DevOps
18 76 (3.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 75 (3.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 71 (2.96%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (8.09%) React
2 183 (7.63%) Kafka
3 180 (7.51%) .NET
4 156 (6.51%) Node.js
4 156 (6.51%) REST
5 152 (6.34%) Spring
6 150 (6.26%) Spring Boot
7 141 (5.88%) RESTful
8 94 (3.92%) AWS CDK
9 75 (3.13%) PySpark
9 75 (3.13%) YAML
10 68 (2.84%) ARM Templates
11 62 (2.59%) AngularJS
12 59 (2.46%) Next.js
12 59 (2.46%) RabbitMQ
13 52 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
14 50 (2.09%) OAuth
15 44 (1.84%) ASP.NET
16 41 (1.71%) ASP.NET Core
16 41 (1.71%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 705 (29.41%) Cloud Native
2 256 (10.68%) Distributed Systems
3 126 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 123 (5.13%) Public Cloud
5 121 (5.05%) Onboarding
6 89 (3.71%) Data Centre
7 85 (3.55%) Product Ownership
8 68 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
9 67 (2.80%) Security Posture
10 63 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
11 54 (2.25%) Enterprise Cloud
12 46 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
13 41 (1.71%) Video\Live Streaming
14 39 (1.63%) Virtual Team
15 38 (1.59%) Management Information System
15 38 (1.59%) Private Cloud
16 36 (1.50%) Low-Code
17 35 (1.46%) e-Learning
18 32 (1.34%) AI Agents
18 32 (1.34%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 402 (16.77%) Linux
2 227 (9.47%) Windows
3 102 (4.26%) Windows Server
4 59 (2.46%) CentOS
5 45 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 41 (1.71%) Unix
7 39 (1.63%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.92%) VMS
9 5 (0.21%) Android
9 5 (0.21%) Debian
9 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.17%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.13%) AIX
12 2 (0.083%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.083%) Solaris
13 1 (0.042%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.042%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.042%) Rocky
13 1 (0.042%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,685 (70.30%) CI/CD
2 1,319 (55.03%) DevOps
3 711 (29.66%) Containerisation
4 668 (27.87%) Agile
5 660 (27.53%) Observability
6 557 (23.24%) Platform Engineering
7 540 (22.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 522 (21.78%) Mentoring
9 508 (21.19%) AI
10 499 (20.82%) Software Engineering
11 424 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
12 418 (17.44%) Microservices
13 409 (17.06%) Technical Leadership
14 386 (16.10%) Test Automation
15 358 (14.94%) Cloud Security
16 335 (13.98%) Roadmaps
17 325 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 269 (11.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 263 (10.97%) Event-Driven
20 259 (10.81%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,037 (43.26%) Python
2 378 (15.77%) Java
3 370 (15.44%) Bash
4 367 (15.31%) SQL
5 340 (14.18%) PowerShell
6 228 (9.51%) Bicep
7 219 (9.14%) TypeScript
8 195 (8.14%) JavaScript
9 185 (7.72%) C#
10 163 (6.80%) Go
11 47 (1.96%) Ruby
12 39 (1.63%) Scala
13 36 (1.50%) PHP
14 26 (1.08%) Rust
15 25 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
16 23 (0.96%) C++
16 23 (0.96%) Groovy
17 21 (0.88%) Perl
18 13 (0.54%) Shell Script
19 11 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 572 (23.86%) Security Cleared
2 360 (15.02%) SC Cleared
3 204 (8.51%) Degree
4 191 (7.97%) AWS Certification
4 191 (7.97%) DV Cleared
5 148 (6.17%) Azure Certification
6 89 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 88 (3.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 57 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 52 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
10 36 (1.50%) CCNP
11 34 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
12 30 (1.25%) Master's Degree
13 23 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
14 22 (0.92%) CISSP
15 20 (0.83%) OSCP
16 18 (0.75%) CCNA
17 15 (0.63%) DBS Check
17 15 (0.63%) SnowPro
18 14 (0.58%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (5.42%) QA
2 105 (4.38%) Data Quality
3 73 (3.05%) GDPR
4 71 (2.96%) GRC
5 58 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (2.09%) Accessibility
7 38 (1.59%) NIST
8 34 (1.42%) SOC 2
9 27 (1.13%) NCSC
10 26 (1.08%) PCI DSS
11 25 (1.04%) WCAG
12 19 (0.79%) SLA
13 10 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.29%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.083%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 2 (0.083%) ISO 20022
17 2 (0.083%) ISO 9001
17 2 (0.083%) Solvency II
System Software
1 631 (26.32%) Docker
2 136 (5.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 133 (5.55%) Active Directory
4 45 (1.88%) vSphere
5 35 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
6 27 (1.13%) Hyper-V
7 23 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (0.75%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.38%) KVM
11 8 (0.33%) Squid
11 8 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.29%) Firmware
13 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.17%) iptables
15 3 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 2 (0.083%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 1,615 (67.38%) Terraform
2 891 (37.17%) Kubernetes
3 489 (20.40%) Ansible
4 241 (10.05%) Grafana
5 176 (7.34%) Prometheus
6 71 (2.96%) Argo
7 58 (2.42%) Puppet
8 37 (1.54%) Progress Chef
9 35 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
10 34 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
11 30 (1.25%) Istio
12 27 (1.13%) Packer
13 22 (0.92%) Nagios
14 16 (0.67%) FortiGate
14 16 (0.67%) vCenter Server
15 14 (0.58%) Cilium
16 12 (0.50%) Kustomize
16 12 (0.50%) ZABBIX
17 11 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 11 (0.46%) Rancher
Vendors
1 531 (22.15%) Microsoft
2 165 (6.88%) VMware
3 142 (5.92%) Google
4 104 (4.34%) Databricks
5 90 (3.75%) Red Hat
6 87 (3.63%) Splunk
7 72 (3.00%) Cisco
8 68 (2.84%) Oracle
9 47 (1.96%) Palo Alto
10 43 (1.79%) OpenAI
11 39 (1.63%) Fortinet
12 38 (1.59%) Dynatrace
13 25 (1.04%) Zscaler
14 23 (0.96%) ServiceNow
15 17 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
16 16 (0.67%) SAP
17 14 (0.58%) Atlassian
18 13 (0.54%) F5
18 13 (0.54%) Rapid7
19 12 (0.50%) Informatica