Infrastructure as Code Jobs

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 174 101
Rank change year-on-year +16 -73 -11
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,116 1,712 3,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.05% 1.68% 3.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 1.99% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 612 1,311 1,951
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,576 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.81% -5.90% +7.14%
75th Percentile £96,250 £89,375 £93,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £106,250 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +7.69% -6.40% +15.75%

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 51,121 85,992 93,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.75% 84.40% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,076 60,364 55,438
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

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 27 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Top 18 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 27 May 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 +20 1,056 £77,500 +10.71% 5,876
Work from Home +16 554 £75,180 +7.40% 4,443
London +52 507 £90,000 +2.86% 1,064
UK excluding London -39 474 £70,000 +7.69% 5,576
North of England -71 155 £70,000 +11.50% 1,318
South East +34 126 £75,000 +11.11% 1,582
North West -85 96 £72,500 +11.54% 657
South West +15 60 £70,000 -5.08% 674
Yorkshire +10 50 £66,500 +10.83% 521
East of England +39 49 £65,000 -3.70% 748
Midlands -37 44 £70,000 +7.65% 941
Scotland +61 34 £75,360 +6.78% 260
West Midlands -7 29 £70,000 - 511
East Midlands +11 15 £65,000 +13.04% 367
North East +11 9 £66,019 +5.15% 143
Wales +35 7 £60,000 - 137
Isle of Man +13 2 £34,500 -
Northern Ireland +34 1 - - 92

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 26 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 24 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.52%) Apache
5 16 (1.43%) Confluence
6 7 (0.63%) nginx
7 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.45%) Appian
8 5 (0.45%) IIS
9 4 (0.36%) CMS
9 4 (0.36%) IBM Domino
9 4 (0.36%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.36%) WordPress
10 2 (0.18%) CICS
10 2 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.18%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.18%) Luigi
11 1 (0.090%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.090%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.090%) Traefik
Applications
1 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.18%) Simulink
5 1 (0.090%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.090%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 14 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.090%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.090%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.090%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.090%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 726 (65.05%) AWS
2 516 (46.24%) Azure
3 248 (22.22%) Pulumi
4 214 (19.18%) GCP
5 155 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
6 143 (12.81%) Serverless
7 127 (11.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 122 (10.93%) GitHub
9 103 (9.23%) AWS Lambda
10 94 (8.42%) SaaS
11 84 (7.53%) PaaS
12 83 (7.44%) Amazon S3
13 76 (6.81%) Entra ID
14 70 (6.27%) Amazon EC2
15 69 (6.18%) Amazon EKS
16 67 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
17 60 (5.38%) GitHub Actions
18 58 (5.20%) IaaS
19 48 (4.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 45 (4.03%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 215 (19.27%) Broadband
2 85 (7.62%) Firewall
3 63 (5.65%) DNS
4 58 (5.20%) VPN
5 39 (3.49%) WAN
6 32 (2.87%) Network Security
7 25 (2.24%) SD-WAN
8 16 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
9 15 (1.34%) LAN
10 12 (1.08%) 5G
11 11 (0.99%) Bluetooth
11 11 (0.99%) LTE
11 11 (0.99%) TCP/IP
12 10 (0.90%) DHCP
12 10 (0.90%) SAN
13 7 (0.63%) Internet
13 7 (0.63%) NAS
14 6 (0.54%) IPv4
14 6 (0.54%) Kerberos
14 6 (0.54%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 264 (23.66%) NoSQL
2 225 (20.16%) Relational Database
3 216 (19.35%) RDBMS
4 45 (4.03%) SQL Server
5 43 (3.85%) Data Lake
5 43 (3.85%) MySQL
6 42 (3.76%) Amazon RDS
7 31 (2.78%) DynamoDB
8 29 (2.60%) Power BI
9 23 (2.06%) Big Data
10 21 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
10 21 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
11 18 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (1.52%) BigQuery
13 15 (1.34%) Hadoop
14 14 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
15 12 (1.08%) MongoDB
16 11 (0.99%) Tableau
17 10 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
18 8 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 215 (19.27%) Jaeger
2 141 (12.63%) Jenkins
3 122 (10.93%) Git
4 104 (9.32%) GitLab
5 35 (3.14%) SonarQube
6 29 (2.60%) Sonatype Nexus
7 27 (2.42%) JIRA
7 27 (2.42%) JUnit
8 25 (2.24%) Maven
9 24 (2.15%) CircleCI
10 20 (1.79%) TeamCity
11 19 (1.70%) Cucumber
12 15 (1.34%) Mockito
13 14 (1.25%) IntelliJ
14 13 (1.16%) Bitbucket
15 10 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
16 6 (0.54%) Artifactory
16 6 (0.54%) Robot Framework
16 6 (0.54%) Selenium
17 5 (0.45%) Subversion
General
1 278 (24.91%) Social Skills
2 276 (24.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 260 (23.30%) Finance
4 83 (7.44%) Banking
5 65 (5.82%) Law
6 34 (3.05%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (3.05%) Public Sector
7 27 (2.42%) Telecoms
8 18 (1.61%) Advertising
9 17 (1.52%) Back Office
10 15 (1.34%) Electronics
10 15 (1.34%) Marketing
11 11 (0.99%) Automotive
11 11 (0.99%) Retail
12 10 (0.90%) Financial Institution
12 10 (0.90%) Front Office
12 10 (0.90%) Investment Banking
12 10 (0.90%) Legal
13 9 (0.81%) Games
14 4 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 352 (31.54%) Lead
2 221 (19.80%) Team Leader
3 185 (16.58%) Senior
4 156 (13.98%) Cloud Engineer
5 149 (13.35%) DevOps Engineer
6 112 (10.04%) Architect
7 98 (8.78%) Platform Engineer
8 95 (8.51%) Azure Engineer
9 69 (6.18%) AWS Engineer
10 67 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 67 (6.00%) Software Engineer
11 61 (5.47%) Cloud Architect
12 59 (5.29%) Developer
13 55 (4.93%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 52 (4.66%) AWS DevOps
15 48 (4.30%) Senior DevOps
16 42 (3.76%) Data Engineer
17 35 (3.14%) Python Engineer
18 34 (3.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 33 (2.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 254 (22.76%) Elastic Stack
2 219 (19.62%) OpenTelemetry
3 69 (6.18%) .NET
4 62 (5.56%) Kafka
5 61 (5.47%) ARM Templates
6 53 (4.75%) REST
7 48 (4.30%) React
8 43 (3.85%) Spring
9 40 (3.58%) Spring Boot
10 39 (3.49%) Node.js
11 34 (3.05%) RESTful
12 28 (2.51%) YAML
13 21 (1.88%) AWS CDK
14 17 (1.52%) .NET Core
15 16 (1.43%) .NET Framework
16 15 (1.34%) AngularJS
17 14 (1.25%) ActiveMQ
17 14 (1.25%) JMS
18 13 (1.16%) Hibernate
18 13 (1.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 142 (12.72%) Cloud Native
2 92 (8.24%) Public Cloud
3 72 (6.45%) Management Information System
4 56 (5.02%) Hybrid Cloud
5 41 (3.67%) Product Ownership
6 40 (3.58%) Data Centre
7 34 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
8 21 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (1.70%) NHS
10 18 (1.61%) IoT
10 18 (1.61%) Private Cloud
11 16 (1.43%) Hedge funds
11 16 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
12 14 (1.25%) Credit Derivative
12 14 (1.25%) PKI
13 12 (1.08%) Onboarding
13 12 (1.08%) Security Posture
14 11 (0.99%) NB-IoT
14 11 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 424 (37.99%) Linux
2 238 (21.33%) Unix
3 111 (9.95%) Windows
4 57 (5.11%) Windows Server
5 27 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.99%) CentOS
7 8 (0.72%) Android
7 8 (0.72%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.72%) VMS
8 5 (0.45%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.36%) Debian
9 4 (0.36%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.090%) AIX
11 1 (0.090%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.090%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 791 (70.88%) DevOps
2 609 (54.57%) CI/CD
3 465 (41.67%) Containerisation
4 458 (41.04%) Agile
5 342 (30.65%) Mentoring
6 329 (29.48%) Roadmaps
7 314 (28.14%) High Availability
8 277 (24.82%) Continuous Integration
9 258 (23.12%) Performance Optimisation
10 252 (22.58%) Cost Optimisation
11 249 (22.31%) Resource Management
12 245 (21.95%) Task Automation
13 233 (20.88%) Product Management
14 231 (20.70%) GitOps
15 215 (19.27%) Budget Control
16 167 (14.96%) Platform Engineering
17 163 (14.61%) Analytics
18 162 (14.52%) Software Engineering
19 149 (13.35%) Microservices
20 141 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 629 (56.36%) Python
2 356 (31.90%) Bash
2 356 (31.90%) Java
3 291 (26.08%) Go
4 285 (25.54%) JavaScript
5 191 (17.11%) PowerShell
6 143 (12.81%) SQL
7 89 (7.97%) Bicep
8 52 (4.66%) TypeScript
9 51 (4.57%) C#
10 29 (2.60%) Ruby
11 19 (1.70%) Scala
12 15 (1.34%) C++
13 12 (1.08%) R
14 9 (0.81%) PHP
15 8 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.72%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.63%) Perl
16 7 (0.63%) Rust
17 5 (0.45%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 291 (26.08%) AWS Certification
2 128 (11.47%) Degree
3 96 (8.60%) Azure Certification
4 90 (8.06%) Security Cleared
5 63 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 58 (5.20%) SC Cleared
7 36 (3.23%) Master's Degree
8 32 (2.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 29 (2.60%) DV Cleared
10 28 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (1.61%) DBS Check
12 12 (1.08%) Network+ Certification
13 11 (0.99%) CompTIA Security+
14 10 (0.90%) CISSP
15 9 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
16 7 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 6 (0.54%) CISM
18 5 (0.45%) CCNP
18 5 (0.45%) PhD
19 4 (0.36%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (5.65%) GDPR
2 37 (3.32%) QA
3 34 (3.05%) HIPAA
4 30 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (1.52%) SOC 2
6 14 (1.25%) PCI DSS
7 13 (1.16%) NIST
8 9 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 9 (0.81%) Data Quality
9 8 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.54%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.27%) SLA
13 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.090%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.090%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 1 (0.090%) NIST 800
System Software
1 504 (45.16%) Docker
2 60 (5.38%) Virtual Machines
3 57 (5.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 51 (4.57%) Active Directory
5 24 (2.15%) vSphere
6 16 (1.43%) Hyper-V
7 13 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.27%) LXC
10 2 (0.18%) HDFS
10 2 (0.18%) KVM
10 2 (0.18%) Xen
11 1 (0.090%) Firmware
11 1 (0.090%) NFS
11 1 (0.090%) zsh
Systems Management
1 867 (77.69%) Terraform
2 616 (55.20%) Kubernetes
3 486 (43.55%) Ansible
4 310 (27.78%) Prometheus
5 228 (20.43%) Argo
6 217 (19.44%) Kustomize
7 109 (9.77%) Grafana
8 59 (5.29%) Puppet
9 48 (4.30%) Progress Chef
10 27 (2.42%) Single Sign-On
11 22 (1.97%) Istio
12 21 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
13 16 (1.43%) Podman
14 9 (0.81%) SCCM
15 6 (0.54%) Consul
15 6 (0.54%) QRadar
16 5 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
16 5 (0.45%) Kibana
16 5 (0.45%) Packer
17 4 (0.36%) Salt
Vendors
1 291 (26.08%) Google
2 169 (15.14%) Microsoft
3 75 (6.72%) VMware
4 58 (5.20%) Databricks
5 37 (3.32%) Cisco
6 28 (2.51%) Splunk
7 25 (2.24%) IBM
8 21 (1.88%) Red Hat
9 20 (1.79%) Meraki
10 18 (1.61%) Palo Alto
11 15 (1.34%) SolarWinds
12 13 (1.16%) Atlassian
12 13 (1.16%) Oracle
12 13 (1.16%) Siebel
13 11 (0.99%) Fortinet
13 11 (0.99%) Hitachi
14 10 (0.90%) Citrix
15 8 (0.72%) Aruba
15 8 (0.72%) SAP
15 8 (0.72%) ServiceNow