Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
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The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Infrastructure as Code skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 28 June 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
28 Jun 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 80 91 140
Rank change year-on-year +11 +49 +36
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 3,269 1,299 199
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.22% 3.55% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.37% 3.74% 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,666 979 172
10th Percentile £46,250 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +3.70%

Infrastructure as Code is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 74,750 34,690 8,150
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 96.58% 94.74% 92.80%
Number of salaries quoted 42,757 26,920 6,953
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,361
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.12% -0.24%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £88,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%

Infrastructure as Code
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure as Code trend for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Infrastructure as Code.

Infrastructure as Code salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 28 June 2022.

Infrastructure as Code salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 28 June 2022, Infrastructure as Code job roles required the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for Infrastructure as Code.

1 2,456 (75.13%) AWS
2 2,147 (65.68%) DevOps
3 2,136 (65.34%) Terraform
4 1,799 (55.03%) Kubernetes
5 1,762 (53.90%) CI/CD
6 1,401 (42.86%) Docker
7 1,389 (42.49%) Agile
8 1,372 (41.97%) Azure
9 1,340 (40.99%) Python
10 1,144 (35.00%) Linux
11 1,010 (30.90%) Finance
12 958 (29.31%) Software Engineering
13 816 (24.96%) Ansible
14 751 (22.97%) GCP
15 720 (22.03%) SQL
16 687 (21.02%) AWS CloudFormation
17 677 (20.71%) Jenkins
18 668 (20.43%) Java
19 643 (19.67%) Serverless
20 629 (19.24%) Cloud Native
21 594 (18.17%) .NET
22 577 (17.65%) C#
23 557 (17.04%) Microservices
24 526 (16.09%) Social Skills
25 525 (16.06%) Fintech
26 494 (15.11%) Bash
27 476 (14.56%) Go
28 468 (14.32%) Continuous Integration
29 450 (13.77%) Node.js
30 436 (13.34%) SaaS

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 62 (1.90%) Cloud Foundry
2 42 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (1.25%) Apache
4 36 (1.10%) Apache Spark
5 33 (1.01%) nginx
6 29 (0.89%) CMS
7 23 (0.70%) Drupal
8 22 (0.67%) Confluence
8 22 (0.67%) OpenStack
8 22 (0.67%) SharePoint
9 17 (0.52%) Headless CMS
10 15 (0.46%) Tomcat
11 12 (0.37%) Luigi
12 10 (0.31%) IIS
13 5 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.092%) EPiServer
14 3 (0.092%) Ethereum
15 2 (0.061%) OpenWhisk
15 2 (0.061%) OpenZeppelin
16 1 (0.031%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 11 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.061%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.031%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (0.49%) Dynamics NAV
2 14 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 14 (0.43%) R3 Corda
3 13 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.28%) Summit
5 7 (0.21%) Distributed Ledger
6 5 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.092%) Fidessa
8 2 (0.061%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.061%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 2,456 (75.13%) AWS
2 1,372 (41.97%) Azure
3 751 (22.97%) GCP
4 687 (21.02%) AWS CloudFormation
5 643 (19.67%) Serverless
6 436 (13.34%) SaaS
7 366 (11.20%) GitHub
8 356 (10.89%) Azure DevOps
9 332 (10.16%) AWS Lambda
10 323 (9.88%) PaaS
11 296 (9.05%) Amazon ECS
12 276 (8.44%) Amazon S3
13 249 (7.62%) Amazon EC2
14 238 (7.28%) Amazon EKS
15 232 (7.10%) IaaS
16 172 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
17 160 (4.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 155 (4.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 149 (4.56%) Amazon SQS
20 144 (4.41%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 170 (5.20%) DNS
2 117 (3.58%) Firewall
3 107 (3.27%) Network Security
4 85 (2.60%) VPN
5 80 (2.45%) TCP/IP
6 56 (1.71%) HTTP
7 49 (1.50%) DHCP
8 39 (1.19%) Software-Defined Networking
9 37 (1.13%) Internet
10 32 (0.98%) WAN
11 30 (0.92%) SAN
12 27 (0.83%) PPP
13 26 (0.80%) HTTPS
14 24 (0.73%) DSL
14 24 (0.73%) Intrusion Detection
15 20 (0.61%) VLAN
16 18 (0.55%) LAN
17 16 (0.49%) Broadband
17 16 (0.49%) Fibre Channel
18 13 (0.40%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 269 (8.23%) NoSQL
2 240 (7.34%) PostgreSQL
3 201 (6.15%) Elasticsearch
4 178 (5.45%) Amazon RDS
5 148 (4.53%) Big Data
6 127 (3.88%) DynamoDB
7 110 (3.36%) MongoDB
8 109 (3.33%) MySQL
9 104 (3.18%) SQL Server
10 98 (3.00%) Amazon Aurora
11 97 (2.97%) Relational Database
12 87 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
13 80 (2.45%) Redis
14 71 (2.17%) Data Lake
15 52 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
16 46 (1.41%) InfluxDB
17 38 (1.16%) RDBMS
18 32 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
19 29 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
20 27 (0.83%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 677 (20.71%) Jenkins
2 412 (12.60%) Git (software)
3 313 (9.57%) GitLab
4 154 (4.71%) Octopus Deploy
5 139 (4.25%) CircleCI
6 99 (3.03%) TeamCity
7 94 (2.88%) JIRA
8 74 (2.26%) Travis CI
9 54 (1.65%) Bitbucket
10 47 (1.44%) SonarQube
11 46 (1.41%) Spinnaker
12 39 (1.19%) Cucumber
13 35 (1.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 35 (1.07%) Selenium
14 32 (0.98%) Cypress.io
15 31 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
16 30 (0.92%) Terragrunt
17 27 (0.83%) webpack
18 25 (0.76%) GoCD
19 20 (0.61%) Jaeger
General
1 1,010 (30.90%) Finance
2 526 (16.09%) Social Skills
3 312 (9.54%) Public Sector
4 299 (9.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 222 (6.79%) Banking
6 201 (6.15%) Retail
7 178 (5.45%) Games
8 121 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
9 90 (2.75%) Marketing
10 89 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
11 86 (2.63%) Legal
12 54 (1.65%) Advertising
13 49 (1.50%) Law
14 39 (1.19%) Local Government
14 39 (1.19%) Telecoms
15 38 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
16 37 (1.13%) Automotive
17 32 (0.98%) Financial Institution
18 30 (0.92%) Publishing
19 29 (0.89%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1,200 (36.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 481 (14.71%) Developer
3 424 (12.97%) Senior DevOps
4 422 (12.91%) Cloud Engineer
5 413 (12.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 328 (10.03%) Software Engineer
7 284 (8.69%) C# Developer
8 169 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 155 (4.74%) Platform Engineer
10 152 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
11 144 (4.41%) Lead DevOps
12 141 (4.31%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 130 (3.98%) AWS Engineer
14 117 (3.58%) Azure Engineer
15 109 (3.33%) Architect
15 109 (3.33%) Data Engineer
16 108 (3.30%) Lead DevOps Engineer
17 100 (3.06%) Principal Engineer
18 93 (2.84%) Security Engineer
19 85 (2.60%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 594 (18.17%) .NET
2 450 (13.77%) Node.js
3 368 (11.26%) React
4 354 (10.83%) .NET Core
5 229 (7.01%) Kafka
6 179 (5.48%) Elastic Stack
7 141 (4.31%) CSS
8 123 (3.76%) ARM Templates
9 120 (3.67%) GraphQL
10 105 (3.21%) AngularJS
11 87 (2.66%) .NET Framework
12 76 (2.32%) Ruby on Rails
13 74 (2.26%) gRPC
13 74 (2.26%) REST
14 73 (2.23%) Jest
15 71 (2.17%) RESTful
16 68 (2.08%) Protocol Buffers
17 66 (2.02%) React Native
18 65 (1.99%) RabbitMQ
19 62 (1.90%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 629 (19.24%) Cloud Native
2 366 (11.20%) Public Cloud
3 167 (5.11%) Blog
4 123 (3.76%) Private Cloud
5 115 (3.52%) Greenfield Project
6 112 (3.43%) User Experience
7 107 (3.27%) Data Centre
8 93 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
9 89 (2.72%) Linux Command Line
10 78 (2.39%) Blockchain
11 77 (2.36%) Cyberattack
12 76 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
13 75 (2.29%) Management Information System
14 73 (2.23%) IoT
15 64 (1.96%) Cyber Defence
15 64 (1.96%) iPhone
16 60 (1.84%) Algorithms
17 59 (1.80%) Mobile App
18 58 (1.77%) Virtual Team
19 57 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,144 (35.00%) Linux
2 419 (12.82%) Windows
3 200 (6.12%) Unix
4 75 (2.29%) Windows Server
5 65 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 58 (1.77%) Android
7 55 (1.68%) CentOS
8 30 (0.92%) Apple iOS
8 30 (0.92%) Ubuntu
9 19 (0.58%) Mesosphere
10 17 (0.52%) Windows 10
11 13 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
13 10 (0.31%) VMS
13 10 (0.31%) zOS
14 8 (0.24%) Mac OS
15 7 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
16 4 (0.12%) Solaris
17 3 (0.092%) CoreOS
18 1 (0.031%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,147 (65.68%) DevOps
2 1,762 (53.90%) CI/CD
3 1,389 (42.49%) Agile
4 958 (29.31%) Software Engineering
5 557 (17.04%) Microservices
6 525 (16.06%) Fintech
7 468 (14.32%) Continuous Integration
8 427 (13.06%) Test Automation
9 424 (12.97%) Scrum
10 406 (12.42%) Configuration Management
10 406 (12.42%) Mentoring
11 392 (11.99%) TDD
12 378 (11.56%) Coaching
13 348 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
14 312 (9.54%) Observability
15 284 (8.69%) Open Source
16 279 (8.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 264 (8.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 257 (7.86%) Continuous Delivery
19 255 (7.80%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,340 (40.99%) Python
2 720 (22.03%) SQL
3 668 (20.43%) Java
4 577 (17.65%) C#
5 494 (15.11%) Bash
6 476 (14.56%) Go
7 433 (13.25%) JavaScript
8 424 (12.97%) PowerShell
9 290 (8.87%) Ruby
10 278 (8.50%) T-SQL
11 237 (7.25%) TypeScript
12 131 (4.01%) Groovy
13 127 (3.88%) Scala
14 93 (2.84%) PHP
15 90 (2.75%) Rust
16 70 (2.14%) Kotlin
17 54 (1.65%) Perl
18 43 (1.32%) ES6
19 39 (1.19%) C++
20 31 (0.95%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 183 (5.60%) AWS Certification
2 179 (5.48%) Degree
3 173 (5.29%) Security Cleared
4 165 (5.05%) SC Cleared
5 95 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 71 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 23 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
9 18 (0.55%) MCSE
10 17 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
11 15 (0.46%) DBS Check
11 15 (0.46%) MCSA
12 13 (0.40%) MCTS
13 12 (0.37%) CCNA
13 12 (0.37%) RHCE
14 11 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 11 (0.34%) CCA
14 11 (0.34%) CISSP
15 10 (0.31%) CESG Certified Professional
15 10 (0.31%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (4.19%) QA
2 90 (2.75%) SLA
3 69 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 60 (1.84%) GDPR
5 57 (1.74%) SOC 2
6 32 (0.98%) GRC
7 21 (0.64%) NIST
8 18 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 18 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.37%) Accessibility
10 11 (0.34%) GxP
11 10 (0.31%) Data Quality
11 10 (0.31%) IASME
12 9 (0.28%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.24%) FISMA
13 8 (0.24%) HITRUST
14 7 (0.21%) SOC 1
15 5 (0.15%) FedRAMP
16 4 (0.12%) WCAG
17 3 (0.092%) NCSC
System Software
1 1,401 (42.86%) Docker
2 123 (3.76%) Active Directory
3 69 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
5 34 (1.04%) vSphere
6 24 (0.73%) KVM
7 23 (0.70%) Hyper-V
8 18 (0.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 17 (0.52%) Xen
10 13 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
11 12 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
12 8 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 8 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
13 7 (0.21%) DFS Replication
13 7 (0.21%) XenApp
13 7 (0.21%) XenDesktop
14 6 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 4 (0.12%) LXC
15 4 (0.12%) NFS
16 2 (0.061%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2,136 (65.34%) Terraform
2 1,799 (55.03%) Kubernetes
3 816 (24.96%) Ansible
4 300 (9.18%) Puppet
5 272 (8.32%) Prometheus
6 268 (8.20%) Grafana
7 234 (7.16%) Opscode Chef
8 80 (2.45%) Packer
9 62 (1.90%) Istio
10 49 (1.50%) Kibana
11 42 (1.28%) Graphite
11 42 (1.28%) Rancher
12 37 (1.13%) ZABBIX
13 31 (0.95%) Nagios
14 29 (0.89%) Consul
15 24 (0.73%) StatsD
16 22 (0.67%) Argo
17 21 (0.64%) Mesos
18 19 (0.58%) Automic
18 19 (0.58%) Graylog
Vendors
1 406 (12.42%) Microsoft
2 271 (8.29%) Google
3 124 (3.79%) Splunk
4 88 (2.69%) VMware
5 78 (2.39%) TrueLayer
6 75 (2.29%) Revolut
7 56 (1.71%) Red Hat
8 53 (1.62%) Oracle
9 45 (1.38%) Dynatrace
10 44 (1.35%) PagerDuty
11 39 (1.19%) Apple
11 39 (1.19%) SaltStack
12 38 (1.16%) New Relic
13 33 (1.01%) Dell
14 29 (0.89%) Citrix
14 29 (0.89%) Funding Circle
15 25 (0.76%) Cisco
15 25 (0.76%) Salesforce.com
16 19 (0.58%) Hitachi
17 17 (0.52%) ServiceNow