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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 55 96
Rank change year-on-year -18 +41 -30
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 34 8 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.57% 1.29% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 1.53% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 31 8 11
10th Percentile £51,250 £37,733 £48,750
25th Percentile £53,000 £47,871 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £56,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.58% +2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,875 £63,094 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £71,663 £67,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -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 1,396 522 1,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 64.54% 84.33% 70.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,001 349 1,175
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,688 £26,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +15.56% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,201 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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
West Wales -14 17 £72,500 +92.14% 2
South Wales -24 17 £55,000 -6.38% 11
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 4 (11.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 26 (76.47%) AWS
2 18 (52.94%) Azure
3 15 (44.12%) AWS CloudFormation
4 11 (32.35%) GCP
4 11 (32.35%) Serverless
5 10 (29.41%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (26.47%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (26.47%) GitHub
6 9 (26.47%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (20.59%) Amazon S3
8 6 (17.65%) PaaS
8 6 (17.65%) SaaS
9 5 (14.71%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (11.76%) Amazon EventBridge
10 4 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (11.76%) CloudFront
10 4 (11.76%) IaaS
11 2 (5.88%) Datadog
11 2 (5.88%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.71%) Firewall
2 2 (5.88%) SSL
3 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (14.71%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (14.71%) MongoDB
3 4 (11.76%) MySQL
3 4 (11.76%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.88%) Redis
4 2 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.94%) Adabas
5 1 (2.94%) Ataccama
5 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.94%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.94%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 12 (35.29%) Git
2 8 (23.53%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.94%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.94%) GitLab
3 1 (2.94%) JMeter
3 1 (2.94%) Locust
3 1 (2.94%) Mocha
3 1 (2.94%) RSpec
General
1 18 (52.94%) Public Sector
2 10 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 8 (23.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (8.82%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Banking
5 2 (5.88%) Retail
6 1 (2.94%) Aviation
6 1 (2.94%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) DevOps Engineer
1 9 (26.47%) Lead
2 6 (17.65%) Senior
3 5 (14.71%) Developer
3 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Architect
4 4 (11.76%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (11.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (8.82%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Principal Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Principal Software Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (2.94%) Ruby on Rails Developer
7 1 (2.94%) SEO Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Technical Leader
7 1 (2.94%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (47.06%) Node.js
2 14 (41.18%) Spring Boot
3 10 (29.41%) Kafka
3 10 (29.41%) Ruby on Rails
3 10 (29.41%) Spring
4 8 (23.53%) AWS CDK
5 7 (20.59%) React
6 5 (14.71%) REST
6 5 (14.71%) RESTful
6 5 (14.71%) Serverless Framework
7 4 (11.76%) AWS SAM
7 4 (11.76%) GraphQL
7 4 (11.76%) Hibernate
7 4 (11.76%) JPA
7 4 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (8.82%) .NET
9 2 (5.88%) YAML
10 1 (2.94%) CSS3
10 1 (2.94%) Django
10 1 (2.94%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 15 (44.12%) Cloud Native
2 9 (26.47%) Mainframe
3 8 (23.53%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (20.59%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (11.76%) Digital Wallet
5 4 (11.76%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (11.76%) Product Ownership
6 3 (8.82%) Management Information System
6 3 (8.82%) Replication
7 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
7 2 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (5.88%) Virtual Team
8 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
8 1 (2.94%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.65%) Linux
2 4 (11.76%) Unix
3 2 (5.88%) Windows
4 1 (2.94%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 24 (70.59%) DevOps
3 22 (64.71%) Agile
4 20 (58.82%) Observability
5 19 (55.88%) Containerisation
6 17 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
7 16 (47.06%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 13 (38.24%) Event-Driven
8 13 (38.24%) Microservices
8 13 (38.24%) Software Engineering
9 12 (35.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 12 (35.29%) Platform Engineering
10 11 (32.35%) Mentoring
11 10 (29.41%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 10 (29.41%) Scrum
11 10 (29.41%) Test Automation
12 9 (26.47%) Collaborative Working
12 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (23.53%) Deployment Automation
13 8 (23.53%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 21 (61.76%) Java
2 13 (38.24%) Python
3 10 (29.41%) Ruby
4 7 (20.59%) SQL
5 6 (17.65%) Bash
5 6 (17.65%) PowerShell
6 4 (11.76%) COBOL
7 3 (8.82%) Bicep
7 3 (8.82%) C#
7 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
8 2 (5.88%) Go
8 2 (5.88%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.94%) Natural
Qualifications
1 9 (26.47%) SC Cleared
1 9 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 6 (17.65%) AWS Certification
3 5 (14.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (11.76%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.94%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.59%) Accessibility
2 5 (14.71%) WCAG
3 4 (11.76%) Government Security Classifications
3 4 (11.76%) NCSC
4 3 (8.82%) QA
5 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 19 (55.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (97.06%) Terraform
2 14 (41.18%) Kubernetes
3 5 (14.71%) Ansible
4 4 (11.76%) Grafana
5 3 (8.82%) Prometheus
6 2 (5.88%) Progress Chef
6 2 (5.88%) Puppet
7 1 (2.94%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) Google
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.88%) OneLogin
3 2 (5.88%) Splunk
4 1 (2.94%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.94%) IBM
4 1 (2.94%) Informatica
4 1 (2.94%) Okta
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle
4 1 (2.94%) Ping Identity
4 1 (2.94%) TIBCO