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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 60 78
Rank change year-on-year -6 +18 -19
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 65 9 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.44% 1.11% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.72% 1.32% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 62 9 11
10th Percentile £49,109 £48,547 £48,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,750 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,518 £79,500 £68,750
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 1,746 683 1,091
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 65.49% 84.01% 66.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,253 508 834
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £31,159 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -1.31%
75th Percentile £69,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -3 37 £55,000 -10.75% 26
West Wales -24 28 £72,500 +92.14% 8
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 (9.23%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 48 (73.85%) AWS
2 42 (64.62%) Azure
3 29 (44.62%) GCP
4 27 (41.54%) AWS CloudFormation
5 18 (27.69%) Serverless
6 17 (26.15%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (24.62%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (21.54%) GitHub
9 12 (18.46%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (16.92%) Amazon S3
11 8 (12.31%) PaaS
12 7 (10.77%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (9.23%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (9.23%) Amazon EventBridge
13 6 (9.23%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (9.23%) CloudFront
13 6 (9.23%) IaaS
13 6 (9.23%) SaaS
14 5 (7.69%) dbt
15 4 (6.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.69%) Firewall
2 4 (6.15%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (16.92%) MySQL
3 9 (13.85%) MongoDB
3 9 (13.85%) NoSQL
4 7 (10.77%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (7.69%) Relational Database
6 4 (6.15%) Ataccama
6 4 (6.15%) IBM InfoSphere
6 4 (6.15%) SQL Server
6 4 (6.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (6.15%) TIBCO EBX
7 2 (3.08%) DynamoDB
7 2 (3.08%) Redis
8 1 (1.54%) Adabas
8 1 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 16 (24.62%) Git
2 11 (16.92%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.54%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.54%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.54%) GitLab
3 1 (1.54%) JMeter
3 1 (1.54%) Locust
3 1 (1.54%) Mocha
3 1 (1.54%) RSpec
General
1 28 (43.08%) Public Sector
2 18 (27.69%) Social Skills
3 12 (18.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.23%) Banking
4 6 (9.23%) Retail
5 4 (6.15%) Finance
6 3 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.08%) Local Government
7 2 (3.08%) Police
8 1 (1.54%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 16 (24.62%) Senior
2 15 (23.08%) Lead
3 13 (20.00%) Developer
4 12 (18.46%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (10.77%) Senior DevOps
5 7 (10.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) Architect
6 6 (9.23%) Java Developer
6 6 (9.23%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Software Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Software Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Technical Leader
9 3 (4.62%) Principal Developer
9 3 (4.62%) Principal Software Developer
9 3 (4.62%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (36.92%) Spring Boot
2 21 (32.31%) Node.js
3 18 (27.69%) Spring
4 17 (26.15%) Kafka
5 15 (23.08%) React
5 15 (23.08%) Ruby on Rails
6 14 (21.54%) AWS CDK
7 11 (16.92%) RESTful
8 10 (15.38%) REST
9 9 (13.85%) Hibernate
9 9 (13.85%) JPA
9 9 (13.85%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (10.77%) Serverless Framework
11 6 (9.23%) AWS SAM
11 6 (9.23%) GraphQL
12 4 (6.15%) NestJS
12 4 (6.15%) Next.js
12 4 (6.15%) OAuth
12 4 (6.15%) OAuth2
12 4 (6.15%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (41.54%) Cloud Native
2 17 (26.15%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (21.54%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (21.54%) Mainframe
4 9 (13.85%) Product Ownership
5 7 (10.77%) Digital Wallet
6 6 (9.23%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (9.23%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (9.23%) Virtual Team
7 5 (7.69%) Management Information System
8 4 (6.15%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (6.15%) Mobile App
8 4 (6.15%) Reference Data
9 3 (4.62%) Onboarding
9 3 (4.62%) Replication
10 2 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.85%) Linux
2 7 (10.77%) Unix
3 6 (9.23%) Windows
4 2 (3.08%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (96.92%) CI/CD
2 45 (69.23%) DevOps
3 35 (53.85%) Agile
4 34 (52.31%) Observability
5 30 (46.15%) Technical Leadership
6 29 (44.62%) Containerisation
6 29 (44.62%) Software Engineering
7 27 (41.54%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 26 (40.00%) Mentoring
9 22 (33.85%) Event-Driven
9 22 (33.85%) Microservices
10 21 (32.31%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 19 (29.23%) Platform Engineering
11 19 (29.23%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (27.69%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 17 (26.15%) Scrum
14 16 (24.62%) Deployment Automation
15 14 (21.54%) Continuous Improvement
15 14 (21.54%) Stakeholder Management
16 13 (20.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 32 (49.23%) Java
2 17 (26.15%) Python
3 15 (23.08%) Ruby
4 11 (16.92%) SQL
5 6 (9.23%) Bash
5 6 (9.23%) COBOL
5 6 (9.23%) PowerShell
5 6 (9.23%) TypeScript
6 5 (7.69%) JavaScript
7 4 (6.15%) Bicep
7 4 (6.15%) C#
8 3 (4.62%) Go
9 1 (1.54%) Natural
Qualifications
1 13 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.31%) AWS Certification
3 7 (10.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (9.23%) TOGAF Certification
5 3 (4.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.08%) Degree
7 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.92%) Accessibility
2 8 (12.31%) QA
2 8 (12.31%) WCAG
3 6 (9.23%) Government Security Classifications
3 6 (9.23%) NCSC
4 4 (6.15%) Data Quality
System Software
1 31 (47.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 61 (93.85%) Terraform
2 26 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 9 (13.85%) Ansible
4 8 (12.31%) Grafana
5 7 (10.77%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.08%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.08%) Puppet
7 1 (1.54%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 12 (18.46%) Google
2 8 (12.31%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.23%) Splunk
4 4 (6.15%) ForgeRock
4 4 (6.15%) IBM
4 4 (6.15%) Informatica
4 4 (6.15%) Okta
4 4 (6.15%) Ping Identity
4 4 (6.15%) TIBCO
5 3 (4.62%) OneLogin
6 2 (3.08%) OpenAI
6 2 (3.08%) Oracle