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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 57 94
Rank change year-on-year -12 +37 -18
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 22 5 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.32% 0.93% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 1.06% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 19 5 15
10th Percentile £52,094 £40,622 £48,750
25th Percentile £53,000 £44,956 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.14% +5.42% +0.33%
75th Percentile £72,125 £64,875 £69,966
90th Percentile £75,501 £78,450 £72,433
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -3.23% +9.81% -5.90%

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 1,147 471 1,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 68.81% 87.55% 77.00%
Number of salaries quoted 737 279 1,059
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £26,700
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,335 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% +12.22% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,733 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £59,450 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.92% +9.09% -10.57%

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 May 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 5 May 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 -17 18 £57,500 -9.09% 6
West Wales -12 1 £68,958 +58.82% 1
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 (4.55%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (50.00%) Azure
2 10 (45.45%) AWS
3 7 (31.82%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (27.27%) SaaS
5 5 (22.73%) PaaS
5 5 (22.73%) Serverless
6 4 (18.18%) GCP
6 4 (18.18%) GitHub
6 4 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
7 3 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (13.64%) Azure Functions
7 3 (13.64%) Entra ID
7 3 (13.64%) IaaS
8 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (9.09%) Cloud Functions
8 2 (9.09%) dbt
9 1 (4.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (4.55%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) Firewall
2 2 (9.09%) SSL
3 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) BigQuery
1 3 (13.64%) MongoDB
2 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.55%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (4.55%) Big Data
3 1 (4.55%) Delta Lake
3 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.55%) Parquet
3 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (45.45%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.55%) git-flow
3 1 (4.55%) JIRA
3 1 (4.55%) JMeter
3 1 (4.55%) Locust
General
1 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 3 (13.64%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Retail
6 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Senior
3 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Lead
4 3 (13.64%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (13.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Developer
5 2 (9.09%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Salesforce Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) SEO Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) Node.js
2 3 (13.64%) .NET
2 3 (13.64%) Kafka
3 1 (4.55%) Django
3 1 (4.55%) Gherkin
3 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.55%) Next.js
3 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (13.64%) Management Information System
2 3 (13.64%) Replication
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
1 4 (18.18%) Unix
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
2 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 19 (86.36%) DevOps
3 10 (45.45%) Containerisation
3 10 (45.45%) Observability
4 9 (40.91%) Agile
5 8 (36.36%) Mentoring
5 8 (36.36%) Test Automation
6 7 (31.82%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
7 6 (27.27%) FinOps
7 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (22.73%) Continuous Delivery
8 5 (22.73%) Incident Response
8 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (18.18%) Configuration Management
9 4 (18.18%) Cost Optimisation
9 4 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
9 4 (18.18%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) PowerShell
3 5 (22.73%) Java
4 4 (18.18%) Bash
4 4 (18.18%) SQL
5 2 (9.09%) Apex Code
6 1 (4.55%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.55%) GDPR
1 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.55%) NIST
1 1 (4.55%) QA
1 1 (4.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (45.45%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (72.73%) Terraform
2 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
3 2 (9.09%) Ansible
3 2 (9.09%) Argo
3 2 (9.09%) Progress Chef
3 2 (9.09%) Puppet
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (4.55%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Google
3 2 (9.09%) PagerDuty
3 2 (9.09%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.55%) Databricks