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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 68 53
Rank change year-on-year +16 -15 +45
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 17 11 39
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.82% 0.90% 4.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 1.31% 4.42%
Number of salaries quoted 17 7 35
10th Percentile £41,915 - £42,819
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,594 £50,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £74,679 £68,125 £69,275
90th Percentile £78,790 £83,350 £74,500
UK median annual salary £73,401 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +4.86% -6.67% -

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 765 842 882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 81.99% 69.07% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 563 483 701
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,122 £47,500 £46,898
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% +1.28% -6.20%
75th Percentile £60,000 £64,108 £61,445
90th Percentile £74,220 £74,144 £72,433
UK median annual salary £54,250 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.58% - -

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 5 November 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 5 November 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 +12 14 £60,000 +15.00% 21
West Wales +15 3 £39,163 -39.75% 5
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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) AWS
1 9 (52.94%) Azure
2 8 (47.06%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (29.41%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (29.41%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (29.41%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (29.41%) GCP
3 5 (29.41%) Serverless
4 4 (23.53%) dbt
5 3 (17.65%) Amazon ECR
5 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (17.65%) Entra ID
5 3 (17.65%) GitHub
5 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (17.65%) PaaS
5 3 (17.65%) Pulumi
6 2 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (11.76%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
6 2 (11.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (17.65%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (17.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) JMeter
2 1 (5.88%) Locust
General
1 3 (17.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (17.65%) Retail
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Senior
2 4 (23.53%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Salesforce Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Site Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Django
1 3 (17.65%) Node.js
2 1 (5.88%) Gherkin
2 1 (5.88%) Jest
2 1 (5.88%) Playwright
2 1 (5.88%) React
2 1 (5.88%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Linux
2 3 (17.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (94.12%) CI/CD
3 6 (35.29%) Observability
3 6 (35.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 5 (29.41%) Agile
4 5 (29.41%) Configuration Management
4 5 (29.41%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
5 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (17.65%) Clean Code
6 3 (17.65%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
6 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (17.65%) Service-Level Objective
6 3 (17.65%) Software Architecture
7 2 (11.76%) Migration
7 2 (11.76%) Open Source
7 2 (11.76%) Prototyping
7 2 (11.76%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) Bash
3 1 (5.88%) Apex Code
3 1 (5.88%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (70.59%) Terraform
2 5 (29.41%) Grafana
3 4 (23.53%) Argo
3 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
3 4 (23.53%) Prometheus
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Salesforce
2 4 (23.53%) Google
3 3 (17.65%) PagerDuty