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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 159 154
Rank change year-on-year +83 -5 -51
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,316 1,032 1,441
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.21% 2.08% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.01% 2.33% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,555 717 1,052
10th Percentile £48,917 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,750 £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 £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £107,700 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,079 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% +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 76,965 44,351 67,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.55% 89.45% 81.04%
Number of salaries quoted 53,101 25,205 44,372
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £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 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% -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 6 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 6 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 +74 2,034 £77,500 - 1,473
UK excluding London +110 1,238 £70,079 +0.11% 810
London +30 914 £90,000 - 822
Work from Home +74 821 £72,500 -8.01% 717
North of England +91 416 £70,400 +0.57% 257
South East +53 250 £67,500 -12.90% 188
North West +92 239 £75,000 +7.14% 138
South West +47 211 £75,000 -2.48% 151
Midlands +38 146 £75,000 +15.38% 65
Yorkshire +9 95 £75,000 +7.14% 75
West Midlands +15 89 £80,000 +23.08% 44
North East +15 82 £56,500 -16.30% 44
Wales +2 64 £70,000 +21.74% 32
Northern Ireland -21 58 £72,896 +69.17% 22
East Midlands +23 57 £67,500 +3.85% 21
East of England -5 53 £65,000 +4.00% 32
Scotland +41 49 £71,991 +10.76% 65

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 62 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
2 53 (2.29%) Apache Spark
3 50 (2.16%) Apache
4 32 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (1.25%) Confluence
6 12 (0.52%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.43%) IIS
7 10 (0.43%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.17%) Camunda
8 4 (0.17%) CMS
9 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.13%) nginx
9 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.13%) WordPress
10 2 (0.086%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.086%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.043%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.043%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.043%) JBoss
11 1 (0.043%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 21 (0.91%) PlantUML
2 10 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.086%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.086%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.086%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.043%) Maya
6 1 (0.043%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.13%) Summit
4 2 (0.086%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.086%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,329 (57.38%) AWS
2 1,270 (54.84%) Azure
3 445 (19.21%) GCP
4 409 (17.66%) GitHub
5 374 (16.15%) Serverless
6 366 (15.80%) AWS CloudFormation
7 316 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
8 225 (9.72%) GitHub Actions
9 203 (8.77%) AWS Lambda
10 201 (8.68%) Amazon S3
11 185 (7.99%) PaaS
12 144 (6.22%) Amazon EC2
13 139 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
14 137 (5.92%) Amazon ECS
15 133 (5.74%) SaaS
16 125 (5.40%) IaaS
16 125 (5.40%) Microsoft 365
17 124 (5.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 118 (5.09%) Azure AKS
19 112 (4.84%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 177 (7.64%) Firewall
2 116 (5.01%) WAN
3 115 (4.97%) DNS
4 109 (4.71%) Network Security
4 109 (4.71%) VPN
5 96 (4.15%) LAN
6 81 (3.50%) TCP/IP
7 54 (2.33%) Broadband
8 50 (2.16%) BGP
9 38 (1.64%) DHCP
10 35 (1.51%) OSPF
11 34 (1.47%) VLAN
12 26 (1.12%) VXLAN
13 24 (1.04%) SD-WAN
13 24 (1.04%) Software-Defined Networking
14 20 (0.86%) HTTP
15 15 (0.65%) Wireless
16 13 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
16 13 (0.56%) SAN
17 12 (0.52%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (7.47%) PostgreSQL
2 146 (6.30%) NoSQL
3 105 (4.53%) Amazon RDS
4 95 (4.10%) MongoDB
5 80 (3.45%) SQL Server
6 78 (3.37%) DynamoDB
7 58 (2.50%) MySQL
8 57 (2.46%) Data Lake
9 55 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
10 54 (2.33%) Relational Database
11 52 (2.25%) Metadata
12 40 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
13 38 (1.64%) Redis
14 34 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
15 28 (1.21%) Delta Lake
16 27 (1.17%) BigQuery
17 25 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
17 25 (1.08%) Big Data
17 25 (1.08%) Power BI
18 23 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 303 (13.08%) Git
2 291 (12.56%) GitLab
3 254 (10.97%) Jenkins
4 50 (2.16%) JIRA
5 44 (1.90%) Cucumber
6 35 (1.51%) CircleCI
7 31 (1.34%) Bitbucket
8 29 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 27 (1.17%) TeamCity
10 21 (0.91%) Selenium
11 19 (0.82%) Claude Code
12 16 (0.69%) SonarQube
13 14 (0.60%) NUnit
14 12 (0.52%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.52%) Subversion
15 11 (0.47%) Maven
15 11 (0.47%) MLflow
16 9 (0.39%) JMeter
16 9 (0.39%) MSI
16 9 (0.39%) Snyk
General
1 640 (27.63%) Social Skills
2 523 (22.58%) Finance
3 201 (8.68%) Public Sector
4 175 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
5 133 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 121 (5.22%) Banking
7 111 (4.79%) Law
8 69 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
8 69 (2.98%) Retail
9 45 (1.94%) Games
10 42 (1.81%) Aerospace
11 38 (1.64%) Marketing
12 35 (1.51%) Telecoms
13 34 (1.47%) Legal
14 29 (1.25%) Manufacturing
15 22 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
16 20 (0.86%) Advertising
17 19 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
18 16 (0.69%) Aviation
18 16 (0.69%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 536 (23.14%) Senior
2 399 (17.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 339 (14.64%) Lead
4 306 (13.21%) Architect
5 275 (11.87%) Cloud Engineer
6 232 (10.02%) Platform Engineer
7 205 (8.85%) Developer
8 181 (7.82%) Azure Engineer
9 135 (5.83%) AWS Engineer
9 135 (5.83%) Software Engineer
10 127 (5.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 119 (5.14%) Data Engineer
12 108 (4.66%) Principal Engineer
13 104 (4.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 88 (3.80%) Security Engineer
15 86 (3.71%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 79 (3.41%) Senior DevOps
17 76 (3.28%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 73 (3.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 69 (2.98%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (8.16%) React
2 175 (7.56%) Kafka
3 172 (7.43%) .NET
4 151 (6.52%) REST
5 150 (6.48%) Node.js
6 140 (6.04%) Spring
7 138 (5.96%) Spring Boot
8 129 (5.57%) RESTful
9 92 (3.97%) AWS CDK
10 77 (3.32%) YAML
11 74 (3.20%) PySpark
12 72 (3.11%) ARM Templates
13 60 (2.59%) AngularJS
14 59 (2.55%) RabbitMQ
15 57 (2.46%) Next.js
16 56 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
17 52 (2.25%) OAuth
18 42 (1.81%) ASP.NET
19 40 (1.73%) CSS
20 39 (1.68%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 669 (28.89%) Cloud Native
2 247 (10.66%) Distributed Systems
3 117 (5.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 113 (4.88%) Onboarding
5 110 (4.75%) Public Cloud
6 86 (3.71%) Data Centre
7 77 (3.32%) Product Ownership
8 67 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
9 65 (2.81%) Security Posture
10 60 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
11 50 (2.16%) Enterprise Cloud
12 47 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
13 45 (1.94%) Video\Live Streaming
14 39 (1.68%) Low-Code
15 34 (1.47%) Management Information System
15 34 (1.47%) Private Cloud
16 33 (1.42%) e-Learning
16 33 (1.42%) Virtual Team
17 31 (1.34%) PKI
18 27 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 389 (16.80%) Linux
2 219 (9.46%) Windows
3 96 (4.15%) Windows Server
4 56 (2.42%) CentOS
5 41 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (1.77%) Ubuntu
5 41 (1.77%) Unix
6 22 (0.95%) VMS
7 8 (0.35%) Android
8 7 (0.30%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.22%) Debian
9 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.086%) AIX
10 2 (0.086%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.086%) Solaris
11 1 (0.043%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.043%) Rocky
11 1 (0.043%) SUSE
11 1 (0.043%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,630 (70.38%) CI/CD
2 1,289 (55.66%) DevOps
3 684 (29.53%) Containerisation
4 654 (28.24%) Agile
5 643 (27.76%) Observability
6 536 (23.14%) Platform Engineering
7 509 (21.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 506 (21.85%) Mentoring
9 493 (21.29%) AI
10 469 (20.25%) Software Engineering
11 394 (17.01%) Microservices
12 393 (16.97%) Problem-Solving
13 381 (16.45%) Technical Leadership
14 380 (16.41%) Test Automation
15 336 (14.51%) Cloud Security
16 328 (14.16%) Roadmaps
17 300 (12.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 256 (11.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 254 (10.97%) Event-Driven
20 252 (10.88%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,007 (43.48%) Python
2 359 (15.50%) Java
2 359 (15.50%) SQL
3 353 (15.24%) Bash
4 329 (14.21%) PowerShell
5 220 (9.50%) Bicep
6 211 (9.11%) TypeScript
7 195 (8.42%) JavaScript
8 176 (7.60%) C#
9 167 (7.21%) Go
10 45 (1.94%) Ruby
11 37 (1.60%) PHP
12 34 (1.47%) Scala
13 24 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
13 24 (1.04%) Rust
14 22 (0.95%) C++
15 21 (0.91%) Groovy
15 21 (0.91%) Perl
16 13 (0.56%) Shell Script
17 11 (0.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 543 (23.45%) Security Cleared
2 341 (14.72%) SC Cleared
3 195 (8.42%) Degree
4 176 (7.60%) AWS Certification
5 175 (7.56%) DV Cleared
6 139 (6.00%) Azure Certification
7 85 (3.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 78 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 54 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 50 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
11 34 (1.47%) CCNP
12 27 (1.17%) Master's Degree
13 23 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
14 21 (0.91%) CISSP
14 21 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
15 20 (0.86%) OSCP
16 18 (0.78%) CCNA
17 16 (0.69%) DBS Check
18 14 (0.60%) RHCSA
19 13 (0.56%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (5.40%) QA
2 99 (4.27%) Data Quality
3 69 (2.98%) GDPR
3 69 (2.98%) GRC
4 55 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (1.99%) Accessibility
6 37 (1.60%) NIST
7 36 (1.55%) SOC 2
8 27 (1.17%) PCI DSS
9 25 (1.08%) WCAG
10 24 (1.04%) NCSC
11 15 (0.65%) SLA
12 9 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.17%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.086%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.086%) IFRS
16 2 (0.086%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.086%) Solvency II
System Software
1 611 (26.38%) Docker
2 130 (5.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 123 (5.31%) Active Directory
4 44 (1.90%) vSphere
5 33 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (1.04%) Hyper-V
7 18 (0.78%) VMware NSX
8 17 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.39%) Firmware
10 9 (0.39%) KVM
11 8 (0.35%) Squid
11 8 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.22%) iptables
14 3 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.043%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 1,560 (67.36%) Terraform
2 865 (37.35%) Kubernetes
3 467 (20.16%) Ansible
4 243 (10.49%) Grafana
5 182 (7.86%) Prometheus
6 69 (2.98%) Argo
7 55 (2.37%) Puppet
8 36 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 34 (1.47%) Progress Chef
10 33 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
11 28 (1.21%) Istio
12 27 (1.17%) Packer
13 24 (1.04%) Nagios
14 16 (0.69%) FortiGate
15 15 (0.65%) vCenter Server
16 12 (0.52%) Cilium
16 12 (0.52%) Rancher
16 12 (0.52%) ZABBIX
17 11 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 11 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 502 (21.68%) Microsoft
2 157 (6.78%) VMware
3 133 (5.74%) Google
4 98 (4.23%) Databricks
5 87 (3.76%) Red Hat
6 86 (3.71%) Splunk
7 69 (2.98%) Cisco
8 60 (2.59%) Oracle
9 49 (2.12%) Palo Alto
10 39 (1.68%) Dynatrace
10 39 (1.68%) Fortinet
11 38 (1.64%) OpenAI
12 26 (1.12%) Zscaler
13 21 (0.91%) ServiceNow
14 15 (0.65%) CrowdStrike
14 15 (0.65%) F5
15 14 (0.60%) SAP
16 13 (0.56%) Atlassian
16 13 (0.56%) Rapid7
17 12 (0.52%) Salesforce