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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 77 55
Rank change year-on-year +21 -22 +30
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 9 13 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 1.08% 0.85% 4.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 1.31% 4.62%
Number of salaries quoted 9 9 37
10th Percentile £42,547 £50,750 £42,691
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £68,497
90th Percentile £69,500 £76,050 £70,880
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% -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 684 995 952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 82.41% 65.42% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 511 658 737
10th Percentile £25,087 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,750 £35,700 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £45,250 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.18% -0.55% -9.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,324 £61,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £71,963
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 +11 8 £58,750 +2.17% 14
West Wales +17 1 £37,733 -41.95%
Infrastructure as Code
UK

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) GitHub
2 3 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (33.33%) Serverless
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (11.11%) Anthos
4 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 2 (22.22%) Retail
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Jest
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
1 1 (11.11%) Playwright
1 1 (11.11%) React
1 1 (11.11%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (22.22%) Observability
3 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Software Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
4 1 (11.11%) GitOps
4 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 1 (11.11%) Micro Frontends
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Software Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Bash
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Terraform
2 4 (44.44%) Grafana
2 4 (44.44%) Prometheus
3 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (22.22%) Argo
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) PagerDuty