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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 58 76
Rank change year-on-year -13 +18 -22
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 77 9 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.38% 1.07% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.69% 1.29% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 66 9 8
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,547 £48,353
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £74,563 £62,500 £67,813
90th Percentile £76,075 £69,500 £79,700
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -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 2,086 695 991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 64.48% 82.84% 66.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,443 516 609
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £30,000 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% +5.43% +0.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £74,315
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -13 41 £55,000 -6.38% 32
West Wales -33 36 £70,000 +85.51% 9
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 (7.79%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 55 (71.43%) AWS
2 53 (68.83%) Azure
3 36 (46.75%) GCP
4 33 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
5 20 (25.97%) Serverless
6 19 (24.68%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (22.08%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (19.48%) GitHub
9 12 (15.58%) Amazon S3
9 12 (15.58%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (7.79%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (7.79%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (7.79%) Amazon EventBridge
10 6 (7.79%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (7.79%) CloudFront
10 6 (7.79%) IaaS
10 6 (7.79%) PaaS
11 5 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (5.19%) Power Platform
12 4 (5.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.19%) Firewall
2 3 (3.90%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.30%) Internet
3 1 (1.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (24.68%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (23.38%) MySQL
3 16 (20.78%) MongoDB
3 16 (20.78%) NoSQL
4 6 (7.79%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (6.49%) Relational Database
5 5 (6.49%) SQL Server
6 4 (5.19%) Ataccama
6 4 (5.19%) IBM InfoSphere
6 4 (5.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (5.19%) TIBCO EBX
7 3 (3.90%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.90%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.30%) Adabas
8 1 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.30%) Power BI
8 1 (1.30%) Redis
8 1 (1.30%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 24 (31.17%) Git
2 11 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.60%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.60%) GitLab
4 1 (1.30%) Flyway
4 1 (1.30%) Mocha
4 1 (1.30%) RSpec
General
1 36 (46.75%) Public Sector
2 19 (24.68%) Social Skills
3 15 (19.48%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (16.88%) Banking
5 11 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (7.79%) Retail
7 4 (5.19%) Finance
8 3 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.60%) Local Government
9 2 (2.60%) Police
10 1 (1.30%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 23 (29.87%) Senior
2 22 (28.57%) Developer
3 14 (18.18%) Lead
4 13 (16.88%) Java Developer
5 12 (15.58%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (10.39%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
7 7 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 7 (9.09%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 6 (7.79%) Architect
8 6 (7.79%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (6.49%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Senior Developer
10 4 (5.19%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) Software Developer
10 4 (5.19%) Software Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) Technical Leader
11 3 (3.90%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 3 (3.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (90.91%) Terraform
2 32 (41.56%) Spring Boot
3 26 (33.77%) Spring
4 23 (29.87%) Kafka
5 21 (27.27%) Node.js
6 19 (24.68%) RESTful
7 17 (22.08%) React
8 16 (20.78%) Hibernate
8 16 (20.78%) JPA
8 16 (20.78%) RabbitMQ
8 16 (20.78%) Ruby on Rails
9 15 (19.48%) AWS CDK
10 10 (12.99%) REST
11 7 (9.09%) Serverless Framework
12 6 (7.79%) AWS SAM
12 6 (7.79%) GraphQL
12 6 (7.79%) Next.js
13 4 (5.19%) AngularJS
13 4 (5.19%) NestJS
13 4 (5.19%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 39 (50.65%) Cloud Native
2 23 (29.87%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (22.08%) Product Ownership
4 15 (19.48%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (19.48%) Mainframe
5 13 (16.88%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (16.88%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (16.88%) Virtual Team
6 8 (10.39%) Digital Wallet
7 5 (6.49%) Management Information System
8 4 (5.19%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (5.19%) Mobile App
8 4 (5.19%) Reference Data
9 3 (3.90%) Onboarding
9 3 (3.90%) Replication
10 2 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (1.30%) Clustering
11 1 (1.30%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.99%) Linux
2 7 (9.09%) Unix
2 7 (9.09%) Windows
3 3 (3.90%) AIX
4 1 (1.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (96.10%) CI/CD
2 54 (70.13%) DevOps
3 41 (53.25%) Agile
4 39 (50.65%) Observability
5 37 (48.05%) Software Engineering
6 36 (46.75%) Technical Leadership
7 35 (45.45%) Containerisation
7 35 (45.45%) Mentoring
8 32 (41.56%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 30 (38.96%) Microservices
10 29 (37.66%) Event-Driven
11 28 (36.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 27 (35.06%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (33.77%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 24 (31.17%) Scrum
15 22 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
15 22 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
16 21 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
17 20 (25.97%) Roadmaps
18 19 (24.68%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 38 (49.35%) Java
2 16 (20.78%) Ruby
3 15 (19.48%) Python
4 12 (15.58%) SQL
5 11 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 8 (10.39%) Bicep
6 8 (10.39%) TypeScript
7 6 (7.79%) Bash
7 6 (7.79%) COBOL
7 6 (7.79%) JavaScript
8 4 (5.19%) C#
9 3 (3.90%) Go
10 2 (2.60%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.30%) Natural
Qualifications
1 15 (19.48%) SC Cleared
1 15 (19.48%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.39%) AWS Certification
3 7 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (7.79%) TOGAF Certification
5 4 (5.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.60%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.60%) Degree
7 1 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (19.48%) QA
2 11 (14.29%) Accessibility
3 8 (10.39%) WCAG
4 6 (7.79%) Government Security Classifications
4 6 (7.79%) NCSC
5 4 (5.19%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.30%) GDPR
6 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (48.05%) Docker
2 1 (1.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (40.26%) Kubernetes
2 14 (18.18%) Grafana
2 14 (18.18%) Prometheus
3 8 (10.39%) Ansible
4 1 (1.30%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (1.30%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (18.18%) Splunk
2 13 (16.88%) Microsoft
3 12 (15.58%) Google
4 4 (5.19%) ForgeRock
4 4 (5.19%) IBM
4 4 (5.19%) Informatica
4 4 (5.19%) Okta
4 4 (5.19%) OneLogin
4 4 (5.19%) Ping Identity
4 4 (5.19%) TIBCO
5 3 (3.90%) Databricks
5 3 (3.90%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.90%) Oracle