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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 60 76
Rank change year-on-year -5 +16 -20
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 69 9 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.39% 1.09% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 1.32% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 65 9 9
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,547 £48,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £51,250
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 £64,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,075 £69,500 £76,050
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -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 1,884 684 1,077
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 65.28% 83.21% 65.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,327 517 783
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £27,600
25th Percentile £38,000 £30,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.53% +10.56% -0.08%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,555 £70,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 27 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 27 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 -14 37 £55,000 -8.33% 26
West Wales -27 32 £72,500 +92.14% 4
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 (8.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 52 (75.36%) AWS
2 44 (63.77%) Azure
3 31 (44.93%) GCP
4 29 (42.03%) AWS CloudFormation
5 20 (28.99%) Serverless
6 19 (27.54%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (23.19%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (23.19%) GitHub
8 13 (18.84%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (17.39%) Amazon S3
10 7 (10.14%) PaaS
11 6 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (8.70%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (8.70%) CloudFront
11 6 (8.70%) IaaS
11 6 (8.70%) SaaS
12 4 (5.80%) dbt
12 4 (5.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.25%) Firewall
2 3 (4.35%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.90%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (20.29%) MySQL
3 12 (17.39%) MongoDB
3 12 (17.39%) NoSQL
4 6 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (7.25%) Relational Database
6 4 (5.80%) Ataccama
6 4 (5.80%) IBM InfoSphere
6 4 (5.80%) SQL Server
6 4 (5.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (5.80%) TIBCO EBX
7 3 (4.35%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.45%) Adabas
8 1 (1.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (27.54%) Git
2 12 (17.39%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.90%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.45%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.45%) GitLab
4 1 (1.45%) JMeter
4 1 (1.45%) Locust
4 1 (1.45%) Mocha
4 1 (1.45%) RSpec
General
1 32 (46.38%) Public Sector
2 19 (27.54%) Social Skills
3 12 (17.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (13.04%) Banking
5 6 (8.70%) Retail
6 4 (5.80%) Finance
7 3 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.90%) Local Government
8 2 (2.90%) Police
9 1 (1.45%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 18 (26.09%) Developer
2 17 (24.64%) Senior
3 15 (21.74%) Lead
4 12 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (13.04%) Java Developer
6 7 (10.14%) Senior DevOps
6 7 (10.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 6 (8.70%) Architect
7 6 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (7.25%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.80%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.80%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.80%) Software Developer
9 4 (5.80%) Software Engineer
9 4 (5.80%) Technical Leader
10 3 (4.35%) Principal Developer
10 3 (4.35%) Python Engineer
10 3 (4.35%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (92.75%) Terraform
2 28 (40.58%) Spring Boot
3 22 (31.88%) Spring
4 21 (30.43%) Node.js
5 20 (28.99%) Kafka
6 17 (24.64%) React
7 16 (23.19%) Ruby on Rails
8 15 (21.74%) AWS CDK
8 15 (21.74%) RESTful
9 12 (17.39%) Hibernate
9 12 (17.39%) JPA
9 12 (17.39%) RabbitMQ
10 10 (14.49%) REST
11 7 (10.14%) Serverless Framework
12 6 (8.70%) AWS SAM
12 6 (8.70%) GraphQL
12 6 (8.70%) Next.js
13 4 (5.80%) AngularJS
13 4 (5.80%) NestJS
13 4 (5.80%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 32 (46.38%) Cloud Native
2 20 (28.99%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (21.74%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (21.74%) Mainframe
4 13 (18.84%) Product Ownership
5 9 (13.04%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (13.04%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (13.04%) Virtual Team
6 8 (11.59%) Digital Wallet
7 5 (7.25%) Management Information System
8 4 (5.80%) Mobile App
8 4 (5.80%) Reference Data
9 3 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (4.35%) Onboarding
9 3 (4.35%) Replication
10 2 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.59%) Linux
2 6 (8.70%) Unix
2 6 (8.70%) Windows
3 3 (4.35%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (97.10%) CI/CD
2 47 (68.12%) DevOps
3 39 (56.52%) Agile
4 37 (53.62%) Observability
5 33 (47.83%) Software Engineering
5 33 (47.83%) Technical Leadership
6 31 (44.93%) Containerisation
7 30 (43.48%) Mentoring
7 30 (43.48%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 26 (37.68%) Microservices
9 25 (36.23%) Event-Driven
10 24 (34.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 22 (31.88%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 22 (31.88%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (28.99%) Scrum
13 19 (27.54%) Deployment Automation
14 18 (26.09%) Platform Engineering
14 18 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
15 16 (23.19%) Roadmaps
16 15 (21.74%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 35 (50.72%) Java
2 16 (23.19%) Python
2 16 (23.19%) Ruby
3 11 (15.94%) SQL
4 8 (11.59%) TypeScript
5 6 (8.70%) Bash
5 6 (8.70%) COBOL
5 6 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.70%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.80%) Bicep
6 4 (5.80%) C#
7 3 (4.35%) Go
8 1 (1.45%) Natural
Qualifications
1 13 (18.84%) SC Cleared
1 13 (18.84%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.59%) AWS Certification
3 7 (10.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (8.70%) TOGAF Certification
5 4 (5.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.90%) Degree
7 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.45%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.39%) Accessibility
1 12 (17.39%) QA
2 9 (13.04%) WCAG
3 6 (8.70%) Government Security Classifications
3 6 (8.70%) NCSC
4 4 (5.80%) Data Quality
System Software
1 33 (47.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (42.03%) Kubernetes
2 11 (15.94%) Grafana
3 10 (14.49%) Prometheus
4 9 (13.04%) Ansible
5 2 (2.90%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.90%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (15.94%) Google
2 9 (13.04%) Splunk
3 8 (11.59%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.80%) ForgeRock
4 4 (5.80%) IBM
4 4 (5.80%) Informatica
4 4 (5.80%) Okta
4 4 (5.80%) OneLogin
4 4 (5.80%) Ping Identity
4 4 (5.80%) TIBCO
5 3 (4.35%) OpenAI
5 3 (4.35%) Oracle