Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Infrastructure as Code skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 102 93
Rank change year-on-year -70 -9 +18
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,717 3,350 5,861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.73% 3.31% 3.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 3.46% 3.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,326 2,046 2,749
10th Percentile £49,250 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £106,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £69,447 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.40% +15.75% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Infrastructure as Code is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,952 96,876 150,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,894 57,115 82,331
10th Percentile £29,002 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code.

Salary trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Top 19 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 12 May 2024. 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 -63 1,522 £70,576 -5.90% 454
UK excluding London -71 1,034 £65,000 -6.40% 267
Work from Home -56 778 £70,000 -6.67% 285
London -50 573 £87,500 +9.38% 207
North of England -27 342 £62,783 -9.60% 70
South West -19 203 £75,000 +11.11% 46
North West -34 190 £65,000 -6.40% 39
South East -118 171 £67,500 -10.00% 62
Midlands +4 152 £65,000 -7.14% 50
Yorkshire -22 107 £60,000 -13.19% 21
West Midlands +33 106 £70,000 -1.75% 36
Scotland -89 88 £69,000 +6.15% 17
East of England -16 50 £67,500 -8.47% 8
North East +15 47 £62,783 +2.50% 10
East Midlands -10 46 £57,500 -17.86% 14
Wales -32 17 £60,000 +0.33% 5
Northern Ireland 0 8 £60,000 +9.09% 11
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 -

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 74 (4.31%) Apache Spark
2 71 (4.14%) Apache
3 44 (2.56%) Confluence
4 32 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
5 29 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (1.69%) nginx
6 17 (0.99%) Cloud Foundry
6 17 (0.99%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.58%) SharePoint
8 8 (0.47%) Drupal
9 6 (0.35%) IIS
10 5 (0.29%) CMS
10 5 (0.29%) WordPress
11 4 (0.23%) JBoss
12 2 (0.12%) Liferay
12 2 (0.12%) Magnolia
12 2 (0.12%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.058%) Moodle
13 1 (0.058%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
1 14 (0.82%) Simulink
2 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.058%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.058%) Notion
5 1 (0.058%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.058%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.058%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.23%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.058%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.058%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,046 (60.92%) AWS
2 980 (57.08%) Azure
3 341 (19.86%) GCP
4 316 (18.40%) Azure DevOps
5 267 (15.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 253 (14.74%) Serverless
7 206 (12.00%) GitHub
8 205 (11.94%) PaaS
9 175 (10.19%) Amazon S3
10 173 (10.08%) AWS Lambda
11 158 (9.20%) IaaS
12 148 (8.62%) Amazon EC2
13 120 (6.99%) SaaS
14 88 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
15 85 (4.95%) GitHub Actions
16 78 (4.54%) Cloud Computing
17 77 (4.48%) OpenShift
18 76 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
19 74 (4.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 73 (4.25%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 138 (8.04%) Firewall
2 129 (7.51%) DNS
3 64 (3.73%) TCP/IP
4 58 (3.38%) DHCP
4 58 (3.38%) VPN
5 54 (3.15%) Network Security
6 43 (2.50%) HTTP
7 39 (2.27%) Internet
8 37 (2.15%) WAN
9 26 (1.51%) AMQP
10 21 (1.22%) LAN
11 17 (0.99%) Kerberos
12 15 (0.87%) IPv4
13 14 (0.82%) SSL
14 13 (0.76%) SD-WAN
15 12 (0.70%) NGFW
15 12 (0.70%) Unified Communications
15 12 (0.70%) VSAN
16 11 (0.64%) OSPF
16 11 (0.64%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (6.17%) Amazon RDS
2 87 (5.07%) MySQL
3 79 (4.60%) NoSQL
4 78 (4.54%) SQL Server
5 71 (4.14%) Big Data
6 50 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
7 46 (2.68%) MongoDB
8 45 (2.62%) Hadoop
8 45 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
9 44 (2.56%) Relational Database
10 43 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
11 42 (2.45%) DynamoDB
12 38 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
13 36 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
14 33 (1.92%) BigQuery
15 30 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
15 30 (1.75%) RDBMS
16 26 (1.51%) Cloudera CDH
17 25 (1.46%) Presto
18 22 (1.28%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 254 (14.79%) Git
2 228 (13.28%) Jenkins
3 166 (9.67%) GitLab
4 60 (3.49%) JIRA
5 37 (2.15%) CircleCI
6 34 (1.98%) Bitbucket
6 34 (1.98%) TeamCity
7 30 (1.75%) Postman
8 24 (1.40%) Artifactory
9 19 (1.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 18 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
10 18 (1.05%) SonarQube
10 18 (1.05%) Vagrant
11 17 (0.99%) IBM UrbanCode
11 17 (0.99%) Selenium
12 16 (0.93%) Subversion
13 15 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
13 15 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
14 14 (0.82%) NUnit
15 9 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 398 (23.18%) Finance
2 382 (22.25%) Social Skills
3 174 (10.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 127 (7.40%) Public Sector
5 95 (5.53%) Law
6 91 (5.30%) Banking
7 89 (5.18%) Analytical Skills
8 67 (3.90%) Retail
9 59 (3.44%) Marketing
10 50 (2.91%) Aerospace
11 45 (2.62%) Legal
12 30 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
13 24 (1.40%) Telecoms
14 23 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
14 23 (1.34%) Tech for Good
15 18 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (0.87%) Health Technology
17 14 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
18 12 (0.70%) Games
19 11 (0.64%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 449 (26.15%) Senior
2 389 (22.66%) DevOps Engineer
3 276 (16.07%) Cloud Engineer
4 242 (14.09%) Lead
5 224 (13.05%) Architect
6 186 (10.83%) Software Engineer
7 183 (10.66%) AWS Engineer
8 167 (9.73%) Azure Engineer
9 144 (8.39%) Platform Engineer
10 131 (7.63%) Developer
11 127 (7.40%) Senior DevOps
12 125 (7.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 121 (7.05%) Cloud Architect
13 121 (7.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 100 (5.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 83 (4.83%) Senior Cloud Engineer
16 79 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
17 73 (4.25%) AWS DevOps
18 69 (4.02%) Consultant
19 68 (3.96%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (8.21%) React
2 122 (7.11%) Node.js
3 105 (6.12%) ARM Templates
4 104 (6.06%) .NET
5 84 (4.89%) YAML
6 78 (4.54%) Spring
7 77 (4.48%) HTML
8 74 (4.31%) JSON
9 73 (4.25%) Elastic Stack
10 67 (3.90%) REST
11 61 (3.55%) Kafka
12 60 (3.49%) Spring Boot
13 58 (3.38%) AWS CDK
14 55 (3.20%) AngularJS
15 53 (3.09%) CSS
16 49 (2.85%) RabbitMQ
17 46 (2.68%) OpenID
18 44 (2.56%) Swagger
19 42 (2.45%) SAML
20 40 (2.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 273 (15.90%) Public Cloud
2 253 (14.74%) Cloud Native
3 93 (5.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 87 (5.07%) Data Centre
5 82 (4.78%) Private Cloud
6 59 (3.44%) Management Information System
7 51 (2.97%) Product Ownership
8 49 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
9 42 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
10 40 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
11 35 (2.04%) Cyberattack
12 33 (1.92%) PKI
13 31 (1.81%) Virtual Team
14 29 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
15 26 (1.51%) Clustering
15 26 (1.51%) IoT
16 25 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
17 23 (1.34%) Onboarding
18 22 (1.28%) Blog
19 18 (1.05%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 427 (24.87%) Linux
2 206 (12.00%) Windows
3 76 (4.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 69 (4.02%) Windows Server
5 49 (2.85%) CentOS
6 45 (2.62%) Ubuntu
7 28 (1.63%) Unix
8 26 (1.51%) Debian
9 22 (1.28%) Android
10 17 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
11 15 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
12 12 (0.70%) Oracle Linux
13 10 (0.58%) Solaris
14 7 (0.41%) Apple iOS
14 7 (0.41%) VMS
14 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
15 6 (0.35%) Windows 10
16 3 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
16 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
17 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,100 (64.07%) DevOps
2 872 (50.79%) CI/CD
3 688 (40.07%) Agile
4 408 (23.76%) Containerisation
5 349 (20.33%) Software Engineering
6 318 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
7 213 (12.41%) Platform Engineering
8 206 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 198 (11.53%) Microservices
10 194 (11.30%) Mentoring
11 192 (11.18%) Continuous Integration
12 182 (10.60%) Scrum
13 168 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
14 163 (9.49%) SDLC
15 156 (9.09%) Roadmaps
16 155 (9.03%) Migration
17 151 (8.79%) Configuration Management
18 150 (8.74%) Cloud Security
19 147 (8.56%) Computer Science
20 136 (7.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 606 (35.29%) Python
2 304 (17.71%) PowerShell
3 292 (17.01%) Java
4 234 (13.63%) Bash
5 210 (12.23%) SQL
6 176 (10.25%) JavaScript
7 166 (9.67%) C#
8 137 (7.98%) TypeScript
9 131 (7.63%) Go
10 115 (6.70%) Bicep
11 73 (4.25%) PHP
12 50 (2.91%) Shell Script
13 42 (2.45%) Ruby
14 39 (2.27%) C++
15 34 (1.98%) Groovy
16 33 (1.92%) Kotlin
17 31 (1.81%) Perl
18 21 (1.22%) Scala
19 16 (0.93%) VB
20 14 (0.82%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 302 (17.59%) Security Cleared
2 210 (12.23%) Degree
3 184 (10.72%) SC Cleared
4 150 (8.74%) AWS Certification
5 132 (7.69%) Azure Certification
6 121 (7.05%) DV Cleared
7 120 (6.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 79 (4.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 45 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (1.51%) Master's Degree
11 22 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 15 (0.87%) PMI Certification
13 14 (0.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 11 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.58%) PhD
16 8 (0.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 8 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
17 7 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
18 5 (0.29%) CCIE
18 5 (0.29%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (3.09%) QA
2 48 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 31 (1.81%) NIST
4 15 (0.87%) GDPR
5 14 (0.82%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 12 (0.70%) SLA
8 10 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.47%) Data Quality
10 7 (0.41%) NCSC
11 5 (0.29%) GRC
11 5 (0.29%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.058%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.058%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.058%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.058%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.058%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.058%) SEPA
13 1 (0.058%) WCAG
System Software
1 479 (27.90%) Docker
2 82 (4.78%) Active Directory
3 77 (4.48%) Virtual Machines
4 66 (3.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 40 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
6 34 (1.98%) Virtual Desktop
7 28 (1.63%) vSphere
8 12 (0.70%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.52%) Hyper-V
10 7 (0.41%) Ceph
10 7 (0.41%) KVM
11 6 (0.35%) DFS Replication
12 4 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.17%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.12%) Firmware
14 2 (0.12%) Varnish
14 2 (0.12%) XenApp
14 2 (0.12%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.058%) LXC
15 1 (0.058%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 1,182 (68.84%) Terraform
2 670 (39.02%) Kubernetes
3 406 (23.65%) Ansible
4 141 (8.21%) Puppet
5 111 (6.46%) Grafana
6 98 (5.71%) Prometheus
7 81 (4.72%) Progress Chef
8 31 (1.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 28 (1.63%) HAProxy
9 28 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
10 26 (1.51%) Packer
11 23 (1.34%) Salt
12 20 (1.16%) Docker Swarm
12 20 (1.16%) logstash
13 19 (1.11%) Nagios
14 18 (1.05%) Istio
14 18 (1.05%) SCCM
15 16 (0.93%) Kibana
15 16 (0.93%) SCOM
16 14 (0.82%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 280 (16.31%) Microsoft
2 186 (10.83%) Google
3 73 (4.25%) VMware
4 54 (3.15%) Red Hat
5 53 (3.09%) Citrix
6 45 (2.62%) Splunk
7 35 (2.04%) SaltStack
8 33 (1.92%) Databricks
9 26 (1.51%) Cisco
10 23 (1.34%) Atlassian
10 23 (1.34%) New Relic
11 20 (1.16%) Oracle
12 19 (1.11%) IBM
13 16 (0.93%) Meraki
14 14 (0.82%) Xilinx
15 12 (0.70%) Adobe
15 12 (0.70%) Apple
15 12 (0.70%) Serena
16 11 (0.64%) ServiceNow
16 11 (0.64%) Zscaler