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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 58 73
Rank change year-on-year -14 +15 -22
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 71 9 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.31% 1.09% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.53% 1.32% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 64 9 9
10th Percentile £45,750 £42,547 £50,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £74,750 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,075 £69,500 £76,050
UK median annual salary £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.64% +8.93% -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 2,012 684 989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 65.47% 82.51% 65.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,401 514 657
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £28,800
25th Percentile £38,000 £29,813 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% +6.59% -0.43%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -16 37 £55,000 -6.38% 20
West Wales -30 34 £71,250 +88.83% 3
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 (8.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 52 (73.24%) AWS
2 48 (67.61%) Azure
3 33 (46.48%) GCP
4 31 (43.66%) AWS CloudFormation
5 20 (28.17%) Serverless
6 19 (26.76%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (22.54%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (21.13%) GitHub
9 12 (16.90%) Amazon S3
9 12 (16.90%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (8.45%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (8.45%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (8.45%) Amazon EventBridge
10 6 (8.45%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (8.45%) CloudFront
10 6 (8.45%) IaaS
10 6 (8.45%) PaaS
11 4 (5.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (5.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.63%) Firewall
2 3 (4.23%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (23.94%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (22.54%) MySQL
3 14 (19.72%) MongoDB
3 14 (19.72%) NoSQL
4 6 (8.45%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (7.04%) Relational Database
6 4 (5.63%) Ataccama
6 4 (5.63%) IBM InfoSphere
6 4 (5.63%) SQL Server
6 4 (5.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (5.63%) TIBCO EBX
7 3 (4.23%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.82%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.41%) Adabas
9 1 (1.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (28.17%) Git
2 11 (15.49%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.82%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.41%) GitLab
4 1 (1.41%) Mocha
4 1 (1.41%) RSpec
General
1 34 (47.89%) Public Sector
2 19 (26.76%) Social Skills
3 11 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (15.49%) Banking
3 11 (15.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (8.45%) Retail
5 4 (5.63%) Finance
6 3 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.82%) Local Government
7 2 (2.82%) Police
8 1 (1.41%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 20 (28.17%) Developer
1 20 (28.17%) Senior
2 14 (19.72%) Lead
3 11 (15.49%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (15.49%) Java Developer
4 7 (9.86%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (9.86%) Senior DevOps
4 7 (9.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) Architect
5 6 (8.45%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (7.04%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.63%) Software Developer
7 4 (5.63%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Technical Leader
8 3 (4.23%) Principal Software Developer
8 3 (4.23%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (92.96%) Terraform
2 30 (42.25%) Spring Boot
3 24 (33.80%) Spring
4 21 (29.58%) Kafka
4 21 (29.58%) Node.js
5 17 (23.94%) React
5 17 (23.94%) RESTful
6 16 (22.54%) Ruby on Rails
7 15 (21.13%) AWS CDK
8 14 (19.72%) Hibernate
8 14 (19.72%) JPA
8 14 (19.72%) RabbitMQ
9 10 (14.08%) REST
10 7 (9.86%) Serverless Framework
11 6 (8.45%) AWS SAM
11 6 (8.45%) GraphQL
11 6 (8.45%) Next.js
12 4 (5.63%) NestJS
12 4 (5.63%) OAuth2
12 4 (5.63%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 36 (50.70%) Cloud Native
2 21 (29.58%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (21.13%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (21.13%) Mainframe
3 15 (21.13%) Product Ownership
4 11 (15.49%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (15.49%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (15.49%) Virtual Team
5 8 (11.27%) Digital Wallet
6 5 (7.04%) Management Information System
7 4 (5.63%) Mobile App
7 4 (5.63%) Reference Data
8 3 (4.23%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (4.23%) Onboarding
8 3 (4.23%) Replication
9 2 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.27%) Linux
2 6 (8.45%) Unix
2 6 (8.45%) Windows
3 3 (4.23%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (97.18%) CI/CD
2 49 (69.01%) DevOps
3 39 (54.93%) Agile
4 37 (52.11%) Observability
5 35 (49.30%) Software Engineering
6 34 (47.89%) Technical Leadership
7 32 (45.07%) Containerisation
7 32 (45.07%) Mentoring
8 31 (43.66%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 28 (39.44%) Microservices
10 27 (38.03%) Event-Driven
11 26 (36.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 24 (33.80%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 24 (33.80%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (30.99%) Scrum
14 20 (28.17%) Deployment Automation
14 20 (28.17%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (26.76%) Platform Engineering
16 18 (25.35%) Roadmaps
17 17 (23.94%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 36 (50.70%) Java
2 16 (22.54%) Ruby
3 15 (21.13%) Python
4 11 (15.49%) SQL
5 8 (11.27%) PowerShell
5 8 (11.27%) TypeScript
6 6 (8.45%) Bash
6 6 (8.45%) Bicep
6 6 (8.45%) COBOL
6 6 (8.45%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.63%) C#
8 3 (4.23%) Go
9 1 (1.41%) Natural
Qualifications
1 13 (18.31%) SC Cleared
1 13 (18.31%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.27%) AWS Certification
3 7 (9.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (8.45%) TOGAF Certification
5 4 (5.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.82%) Degree
7 1 (1.41%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.41%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (18.31%) QA
2 11 (15.49%) Accessibility
3 8 (11.27%) WCAG
4 6 (8.45%) Government Security Classifications
4 6 (8.45%) NCSC
5 4 (5.63%) Data Quality
System Software
1 34 (47.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (40.85%) Kubernetes
2 12 (16.90%) Grafana
2 12 (16.90%) Prometheus
3 8 (11.27%) Ansible
4 1 (1.41%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (15.49%) Google
1 11 (15.49%) Splunk
2 10 (14.08%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.63%) ForgeRock
3 4 (5.63%) IBM
3 4 (5.63%) Informatica
3 4 (5.63%) Okta
3 4 (5.63%) OneLogin
3 4 (5.63%) Ping Identity
3 4 (5.63%) TIBCO
4 3 (4.23%) OpenAI
4 3 (4.23%) Oracle
5 2 (2.82%) Databricks