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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 57 89
Rank change year-on-year -12 +32 -28
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 48 7 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.06% 1.02% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.19% 1.22% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 45 7 13
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,843 £48,750
25th Percentile £53,000 £51,875 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £74,750 £63,688 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,925 £97,950
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%

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 1,504 574 1,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 64.58% 83.92% 69.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,092 410 1,123
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,241 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £34,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,173 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.34% +11.49% -
75th Percentile £65,750 £65,938 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,126 £77,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,201 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.89% +4.00% -8.84%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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
West Wales -18 24 £72,500 +92.14% 3
South Wales -22 24 £55,000 -6.38% 17
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:

Business Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 37 (77.08%) AWS
2 29 (60.42%) Azure
3 21 (43.75%) AWS CloudFormation
4 20 (41.67%) GCP
5 14 (29.17%) Serverless
6 13 (27.08%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (22.92%) GitHub
8 11 (22.92%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (18.75%) Amazon S3
10 7 (14.58%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (12.50%) CloudFront
11 6 (12.50%) PaaS
11 6 (12.50%) SaaS
12 5 (10.42%) Amazon EventBridge
12 5 (10.42%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (8.33%) IaaS
14 2 (4.17%) Datadog
14 2 (4.17%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.42%) Firewall
2 2 (4.17%) SSL
3 1 (2.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (16.67%) MySQL
3 7 (14.58%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (14.58%) MongoDB
3 7 (14.58%) NoSQL
4 4 (8.33%) Relational Database
5 3 (6.25%) Ataccama
5 3 (6.25%) IBM InfoSphere
5 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
5 3 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (6.25%) TIBCO EBX
6 2 (4.17%) Redis
7 1 (2.08%) Adabas
7 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 14 (29.17%) Git
2 10 (20.83%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.08%) GitLab
3 1 (2.08%) JMeter
3 1 (2.08%) Locust
3 1 (2.08%) Mocha
3 1 (2.08%) RSpec
General
1 24 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 12 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Banking
4 4 (8.33%) Retail
5 3 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.17%) Finance
7 1 (2.08%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 13 (27.08%) Lead
2 10 (20.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (18.75%) Senior
4 8 (16.67%) Developer
5 6 (12.50%) Architect
5 6 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Senior DevOps
6 5 (10.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Java Developer
7 4 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Software Developer
8 3 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Principal Developer
8 3 (6.25%) Principal Software Developer
8 3 (6.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Software Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Technical Leader
9 2 (4.17%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 1 (2.08%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (41.67%) Node.js
1 20 (41.67%) Spring Boot
2 14 (29.17%) Kafka
2 14 (29.17%) Spring
3 13 (27.08%) Ruby on Rails
4 11 (22.92%) AWS CDK
5 10 (20.83%) React
6 9 (18.75%) REST
7 8 (16.67%) RESTful
8 7 (14.58%) Hibernate
8 7 (14.58%) JPA
8 7 (14.58%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (12.50%) GraphQL
9 6 (12.50%) Serverless Framework
10 5 (10.42%) AWS SAM
11 3 (6.25%) .NET
11 3 (6.25%) AngularJS
11 3 (6.25%) NestJS
11 3 (6.25%) OAuth2
11 3 (6.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (43.75%) Cloud Native
2 12 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (25.00%) Mainframe
3 10 (20.83%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (12.50%) Digital Wallet
4 6 (12.50%) Product Ownership
5 4 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (8.33%) Virtual Team
6 3 (6.25%) Management Information System
6 3 (6.25%) Mobile App
6 3 (6.25%) Onboarding
6 3 (6.25%) Reference Data
6 3 (6.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.50%) Linux
2 4 (8.33%) Unix
2 4 (8.33%) Windows
3 1 (2.08%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 33 (68.75%) DevOps
3 29 (60.42%) Agile
4 26 (54.17%) Containerisation
4 26 (54.17%) Observability
4 26 (54.17%) Technical Leadership
5 23 (47.92%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 21 (43.75%) Software Engineering
7 19 (39.58%) Event-Driven
7 19 (39.58%) Microservices
8 18 (37.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 17 (35.42%) Mentoring
10 15 (31.25%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 15 (31.25%) Platform Engineering
11 14 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (29.17%) Scrum
12 12 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
13 10 (20.83%) Collaborative Working
13 10 (20.83%) Decision-Making
13 10 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (58.33%) Java
2 14 (29.17%) Python
3 13 (27.08%) Ruby
4 10 (20.83%) SQL
5 6 (12.50%) Bash
5 6 (12.50%) COBOL
5 6 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 4 (8.33%) Bicep
6 4 (8.33%) C#
6 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
7 3 (6.25%) Go
7 3 (6.25%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.08%) Natural
Qualifications
1 9 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 9 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 7 (14.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.08%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.75%) Accessibility
2 6 (12.50%) Government Security Classifications
2 6 (12.50%) NCSC
2 6 (12.50%) WCAG
3 5 (10.42%) QA
4 3 (6.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 27 (56.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 47 (97.92%) Terraform
2 21 (43.75%) Kubernetes
3 7 (14.58%) Ansible
4 6 (12.50%) Grafana
5 5 (10.42%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.17%) Progress Chef
6 2 (4.17%) Puppet
7 1 (2.08%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 7 (14.58%) Google
2 5 (10.42%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.33%) Splunk
4 3 (6.25%) ForgeRock
4 3 (6.25%) IBM
4 3 (6.25%) Informatica
4 3 (6.25%) Okta
4 3 (6.25%) Ping Identity
4 3 (6.25%) TIBCO
5 2 (4.17%) OneLogin
6 1 (2.08%) Oracle