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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 55 81
Rank change year-on-year -9 +26 -22
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 60 7 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.44% 0.96% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.73% 1.16% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 57 7 11
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,843 £48,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,750 £63,688 £66,250
90th Percentile £79,274 £73,925 £68,750
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 1,607 605 1,149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 65.22% 83.33% 66.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,174 448 900
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £33,875 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,334 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £79,637 £75,065 £70,000
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 30 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 30 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
South Wales -14 33 £55,000 -6.38% 19
West Wales -19 27 £72,500 +92.14% 3
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 (10.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 45 (75.00%) AWS
2 38 (63.33%) Azure
3 26 (43.33%) GCP
4 25 (41.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (28.33%) Serverless
6 16 (26.67%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (21.67%) GitHub
9 12 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (16.67%) Amazon S3
11 7 (11.67%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (11.67%) PaaS
12 6 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
12 6 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (10.00%) CloudFront
12 6 (10.00%) SaaS
13 5 (8.33%) IaaS
14 4 (6.67%) dbt
15 3 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.33%) Firewall
2 3 (5.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (16.67%) MySQL
3 8 (13.33%) MongoDB
3 8 (13.33%) NoSQL
4 7 (11.67%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (8.33%) Relational Database
6 4 (6.67%) Ataccama
6 4 (6.67%) IBM InfoSphere
6 4 (6.67%) SQL Server
6 4 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (6.67%) TIBCO EBX
7 2 (3.33%) Redis
8 1 (1.67%) Adabas
8 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 15 (25.00%) Git
2 11 (18.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.67%) GitLab
3 1 (1.67%) JMeter
3 1 (1.67%) Locust
3 1 (1.67%) Mocha
3 1 (1.67%) RSpec
General
1 27 (45.00%) Public Sector
2 16 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 11 (18.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (10.00%) Retail
5 5 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.33%) Banking
6 3 (5.00%) Finance
6 3 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Aviation
7 1 (1.67%) Local Government
7 1 (1.67%) Police
Job Titles
1 15 (25.00%) Lead
2 14 (23.33%) Senior
3 11 (18.33%) Developer
3 11 (18.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Architect
4 6 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
4 6 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 5 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Software Developer
6 4 (6.67%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Technical Leader
7 3 (5.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Principal Developer
7 3 (5.00%) Principal Software Developer
8 2 (3.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (38.33%) Spring Boot
2 21 (35.00%) Node.js
3 17 (28.33%) Spring
4 16 (26.67%) Kafka
5 15 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails
6 14 (23.33%) React
7 13 (21.67%) AWS CDK
8 10 (16.67%) REST
8 10 (16.67%) RESTful
9 8 (13.33%) Hibernate
9 8 (13.33%) JPA
9 8 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (11.67%) Serverless Framework
11 6 (10.00%) AWS SAM
11 6 (10.00%) GraphQL
12 4 (6.67%) AngularJS
12 4 (6.67%) NestJS
12 4 (6.67%) OAuth2
12 4 (6.67%) OpenID
12 4 (6.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (41.67%) Cloud Native
2 15 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (23.33%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (23.33%) Mainframe
4 8 (13.33%) Product Ownership
5 7 (11.67%) Digital Wallet
6 5 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (8.33%) Virtual Team
7 4 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (6.67%) Management Information System
7 4 (6.67%) Mobile App
7 4 (6.67%) Reference Data
8 3 (5.00%) Onboarding
8 3 (5.00%) Replication
9 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.33%) Linux
2 6 (10.00%) Unix
2 6 (10.00%) Windows
3 2 (3.33%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (98.33%) CI/CD
2 41 (68.33%) DevOps
3 33 (55.00%) Agile
4 32 (53.33%) Observability
5 29 (48.33%) Technical Leadership
6 28 (46.67%) Containerisation
7 27 (45.00%) Software Engineering
8 26 (43.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 23 (38.33%) Mentoring
10 21 (35.00%) Event-Driven
10 21 (35.00%) Microservices
11 20 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 17 (28.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 17 (28.33%) Platform Engineering
12 17 (28.33%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (26.67%) Scrum
14 15 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
15 13 (21.67%) Continuous Improvement
16 12 (20.00%) Roadmaps
16 12 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (51.67%) Java
2 16 (26.67%) Python
3 15 (25.00%) Ruby
4 11 (18.33%) SQL
5 6 (10.00%) Bash
5 6 (10.00%) COBOL
5 6 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 5 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 5 (8.33%) TypeScript
7 4 (6.67%) Bicep
7 4 (6.67%) C#
8 3 (5.00%) Go
9 1 (1.67%) Natural
Qualifications
1 12 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.33%) AWS Certification
3 7 (11.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
5 3 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.33%) Accessibility
2 8 (13.33%) WCAG
3 7 (11.67%) QA
4 6 (10.00%) Government Security Classifications
4 6 (10.00%) NCSC
5 4 (6.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 57 (95.00%) Terraform
2 24 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 9 (15.00%) Ansible
4 7 (11.67%) Grafana
5 6 (10.00%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.33%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.33%) Puppet
7 1 (1.67%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) Google
2 7 (11.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.33%) Splunk
4 4 (6.67%) ForgeRock
4 4 (6.67%) IBM
4 4 (6.67%) Informatica
4 4 (6.67%) Okta
4 4 (6.67%) Ping Identity
4 4 (6.67%) TIBCO
5 3 (5.00%) OneLogin
6 2 (3.33%) Oracle
7 1 (1.67%) OpenAI