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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 75 57
Rank change year-on-year +23 -18 +35
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 23 9 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.06% 0.96% 3.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 1.17% 3.90%
Number of salaries quoted 23 9 30
10th Percentile £46,000 - £43,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £41,594 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £74,679 £67,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £78,790 £76,050 £73,875
UK median annual salary £71,500 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.38% - -3.33%

All Process and 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 862 772 794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 77.10% 82.30% 92.87%
Number of salaries quoted 596 393 607
10th Percentile £25,500 £31,250 £30,150
25th Percentile £30,625 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £49,104 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +3.38% -1.04%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £61,452
90th Percentile £76,944 £75,000 £72,433
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 26 December 2025.

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 26 December 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
South Wales +14 18 £60,500 +0.83% 51
West Wales +8 3 £68,958 +20.87% 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 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 14 (60.87%) Azure
2 9 (39.13%) AWS
3 7 (30.43%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (30.43%) GCP
4 6 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (26.09%) Serverless
5 5 (21.74%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (21.74%) Entra ID
6 4 (17.39%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (17.39%) dbt
7 3 (13.04%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (13.04%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (13.04%) PaaS
7 3 (13.04%) Pulumi
8 2 (8.70%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 2 (8.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (8.70%) Azure Functions
8 2 (8.70%) GitHub
8 2 (8.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (8.70%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (13.04%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (13.04%) Redis
2 2 (8.70%) BigQuery
2 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (4.35%) Big Data
3 1 (4.35%) Delta Lake
3 1 (4.35%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.35%) git-flow
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) JMeter
2 1 (4.35%) Locust
General
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (17.39%) Retail
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Senior
3 5 (21.74%) Developer
3 5 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Salesforce Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Lead
6 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Site Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) GCP Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) Node.js
2 3 (13.04%) Django
3 1 (4.35%) Gherkin
3 1 (4.35%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.35%) Jest
3 1 (4.35%) Kafka
3 1 (4.35%) Playwright
3 1 (4.35%) React
3 1 (4.35%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
1 3 (13.04%) Unix
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (91.30%) DevOps
2 20 (86.96%) CI/CD
3 8 (34.78%) Agile
3 8 (34.78%) Observability
4 6 (26.09%) Configuration Management
4 6 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (26.09%) Mentoring
5 5 (21.74%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (21.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (17.39%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 4 (17.39%) Software Architecture
7 3 (13.04%) Clean Code
7 3 (13.04%) Containerisation
7 3 (13.04%) FinOps
7 3 (13.04%) Kanban
7 3 (13.04%) Scrum
7 3 (13.04%) Service-Level Objective
8 2 (8.70%) Cloud Security
8 2 (8.70%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) Python
2 3 (13.04%) Apex Code
3 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.35%) Bash
4 1 (4.35%) Java
4 1 (4.35%) SQL
4 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.35%) GDPR
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.35%) NIST
1 1 (4.35%) QA
1 1 (4.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (56.52%) Terraform
2 5 (21.74%) Argo
2 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
3 3 (13.04%) Grafana
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Copilot
4 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Salesforce
2 5 (21.74%) Google
3 4 (17.39%) PagerDuty
4 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.35%) Databricks