Pulumi Job Trends

Pulumi
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Pulumi skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 611 624 735
Rank change year-on-year +13 +111 +209
Permanent jobs citing Pulumi 61 57 63
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.090% 0.12% 0.084%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.27% 0.31% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 40 52 45
10th Percentile - £62,697 £55,000
25th Percentile £68,813 £64,471 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £73,442 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% +8.80% -19.64%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,938 £110,000
90th Percentile £111,000 £140,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% -7.14%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

Pulumi falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 22,608 18,303 28,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.30% 37.21% 38.43%
Number of salaries quoted 12,219 10,901 23,698
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Pulumi
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Pulumi relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Pulumi job vacancy trend in the UK

Pulumi
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Pulumi.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Pulumi

Pulumi
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Pulumi over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Pulumi in the UK

Pulumi
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Pulumi within the UK over the 6 months to 18 February 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 +35 47 £74,989 -6.26% 11
Work from Home +57 37 £73,801 +6.48% 9
London +33 32 £90,000 +12.50% 3
UK excluding London +6 25 £73,801 +6.48% 11
North of England -17 8 £73,801 +6.42% 5
Wales +1 4 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Scotland -4 4 £73,801 +6.48% 1
North East -6 4 £73,801 +6.42% 1
North West +7 3 £73,801 +6.43% 4
Midlands +6 3 £73,801 +13.54%
South West +4 3 £68,750 -16.67% 1
Northern Ireland -23 3 £73,801 +6.48% 1
West Midlands +13 2 £73,801 +6.48%
East Midlands -18 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -

Pulumi
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 1 (1.64%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 60 (98.36%) AWS
2 34 (55.74%) AWS CloudFormation
3 28 (45.90%) Azure
4 26 (42.62%) Amazon ECS
4 26 (42.62%) GCP
5 25 (40.98%) Amazon ECR
5 25 (40.98%) dbt
6 17 (27.87%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 17 (27.87%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 17 (27.87%) PaaS
6 17 (27.87%) Sentry
7 10 (16.39%) GitHub
7 10 (16.39%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (16.39%) Serverless
8 9 (14.75%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (14.75%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (8.20%) AWS CodeBuild
9 5 (8.20%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (40.98%) TCP/IP
2 19 (31.15%) Broadband
3 9 (14.75%) DSL
4 1 (1.64%) Firewall
4 1 (1.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (42.62%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (40.98%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (40.98%) Elasticsearch
2 25 (40.98%) Redis
3 20 (32.79%) NoSQL
4 19 (31.15%) RDBMS
4 19 (31.15%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.64%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (1.64%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 19 (31.15%) Jaeger
2 10 (16.39%) GitLab
2 10 (16.39%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.64%) JIRA
3 1 (1.64%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (39.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 10 (16.39%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.64%) Aviation
3 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (1.64%) Law
3 1 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 26 (42.62%) Senior
2 20 (32.79%) Lead
3 17 (27.87%) Platform Engineer
3 17 (27.87%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 10 (16.39%) Architect
5 9 (14.75%) AWS Architect
5 9 (14.75%) AWS Security Architect
5 9 (14.75%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (14.75%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 9 (14.75%) Security Architect
6 8 (13.11%) Site Engineer
6 8 (13.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 7 (11.48%) Team Leader
8 5 (8.20%) Lead DevOps
9 3 (4.92%) CloudOps Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Head of Infrastructure
9 3 (4.92%) Infrastructure Team Leader
9 3 (4.92%) Lead CloudOps Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Lead Systems Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (40.98%) Django
2 19 (31.15%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (31.15%) OpenTelemetry
3 9 (14.75%) AWS CDK
4 2 (3.28%) React
4 2 (3.28%) SvelteKit
5 1 (1.64%) .NET
5 1 (1.64%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.64%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.64%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.64%) Avalonia
5 1 (1.64%) CSS
5 1 (1.64%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.64%) Flutter
5 1 (1.64%) HTML
5 1 (1.64%) NestJS
5 1 (1.64%) React Native
5 1 (1.64%) REST
5 1 (1.64%) Svelte
5 1 (1.64%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 17 (27.87%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (14.75%) Cloud Native
2 9 (14.75%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.64%) Hackathon
3 1 (1.64%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.64%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 44 (72.13%) Linux
1 44 (72.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (95.08%) Infrastructure as Code
2 49 (80.33%) DevOps
3 40 (65.57%) CI/CD
4 27 (44.26%) Clean Code
5 25 (40.98%) Agile
5 25 (40.98%) Containerisation
5 25 (40.98%) Observability
6 24 (39.34%) Continuous Integration
6 24 (39.34%) Task Automation
7 20 (32.79%) Mentoring
7 20 (32.79%) Service-Level Objective
7 20 (32.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 19 (31.15%) Budget Control
8 19 (31.15%) Cost Optimisation
8 19 (31.15%) GitOps
8 19 (31.15%) High Availability
8 19 (31.15%) Performance Optimisation
8 19 (31.15%) Product Management
8 19 (31.15%) Resource Management
8 19 (31.15%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 56 (91.80%) Python
2 30 (49.18%) Go
3 24 (39.34%) Java
4 22 (36.07%) JavaScript
5 19 (31.15%) Bash
6 9 (14.75%) Rust
7 2 (3.28%) SQL
7 2 (3.28%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.64%) Bicep
8 1 (1.64%) C#
8 1 (1.64%) Perl
8 1 (1.64%) XAML
Qualifications
1 26 (42.62%) SC Cleared
1 26 (42.62%) Security Cleared
2 19 (31.15%) AWS Certification
3 9 (14.75%) Degree
3 9 (14.75%) OSCP
4 1 (1.64%) CCNA
4 1 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.64%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
System Software
1 46 (75.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 58 (95.08%) Terraform
2 30 (49.18%) Kubernetes
3 19 (31.15%) Ansible
3 19 (31.15%) Argo
3 19 (31.15%) Kustomize
3 19 (31.15%) Prometheus
4 17 (27.87%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 44 (72.13%) Google
2 3 (4.92%) Databricks