Infrastructure as Code Job Trends in Wales

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 74 80
Rank change year-on-year +15 +6 +12
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 22 8 23
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.01% 1.06% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% 1.20% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 22 8 20
10th Percentile £44,875 £40,436 £44,525
25th Percentile £56,250 £41,594 £56,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,248 £46,724 £66,875
Median % change year-on-year +31.08% -30.13% +5.73%
75th Percentile £74,679 £63,094 £72,813
90th Percentile £78,790 £65,663 £76,125
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.60% +3.45% -3.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 792 667 1,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 72.20% 88.34% 86.65%
Number of salaries quoted 503 297 898
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,750 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,798 £77,500 £72,253
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure as Code relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in Wales

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Infrastructure as Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Wales over the 6 months to 15 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure as Code in Wales

Infrastructure as Code
Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 15 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
South Wales +8 16 £60,500 +36.43% 4
West Wales -1 3 £68,958 +40.43% 2
Infrastructure as Code
UK

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 (4.55%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) Azure
2 10 (45.45%) AWS
3 8 (36.36%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (31.82%) GCP
5 6 (27.27%) Serverless
6 5 (22.73%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (22.73%) dbt
6 5 (22.73%) Entra ID
7 4 (18.18%) Amazon ECR
7 4 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (18.18%) PaaS
7 4 (18.18%) Pulumi
8 3 (13.64%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 3 (13.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (13.64%) Sentry
9 2 (9.09%) Azure Functions
9 2 (9.09%) Cloud Functions
10 1 (4.55%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (18.18%) Redis
2 3 (13.64%) BigQuery
3 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.55%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (4.55%) Big Data
4 1 (4.55%) Delta Lake
4 1 (4.55%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
1 1 (4.55%) Git
1 1 (4.55%) git-flow
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
1 1 (4.55%) JMeter
1 1 (4.55%) Locust
General
1 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (13.64%) Retail
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Senior
3 5 (22.73%) Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Salesforce Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Lead
6 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) GCP Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Site Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) Django
1 4 (18.18%) Node.js
2 1 (4.55%) Gherkin
2 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
2 1 (4.55%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (13.64%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (9.09%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
1 4 (18.18%) Unix
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
2 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (86.36%) CI/CD
1 19 (86.36%) DevOps
2 9 (40.91%) Agile
3 8 (36.36%) Observability
4 6 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (22.73%) Configuration Management
5 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
5 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (18.18%) Clean Code
7 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
7 3 (13.64%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 3 (13.64%) FinOps
7 3 (13.64%) Kanban
7 3 (13.64%) Migration
7 3 (13.64%) Open Source
7 3 (13.64%) Prototyping
7 3 (13.64%) Scrum
7 3 (13.64%) Service-Level Objective
7 3 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) Python
2 3 (13.64%) Apex Code
3 2 (9.09%) Java
3 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
1 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.55%) GDPR
1 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.55%) NIST
1 1 (4.55%) QA
1 1 (4.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (59.09%) Terraform
2 4 (18.18%) Argo
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Copilot
3 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.55%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Google
2 5 (22.73%) Salesforce
3 4 (18.18%) PagerDuty
4 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.55%) Databricks