Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 169 101 93
Rank change year-on-year -68 -8 +18
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,726 3,433 5,683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.75% 3.31% 3.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 3.46% 3.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,327 2,067 2,774
10th Percentile £49,050 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £69,447 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.40% +15.75% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,746 99,225 149,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 59,834 58,281 83,297
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code.

Salary trend for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Top 19 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
England -63 1,523 £71,400 -4.80% 453
UK excluding London -67 1,038 £65,000 -6.40% 265
Work from Home -54 784 £70,288 -6.28% 258
London -51 576 £87,500 +9.38% 207
North of England -30 342 £62,783 -6.99% 70
South West -21 200 £75,000 +11.11% 48
North West -29 192 £65,000 -6.40% 38
South East -114 171 £67,500 -10.00% 57
Midlands +18 153 £65,000 -7.14% 49
Yorkshire -24 106 £60,000 -11.11% 24
West Midlands +19 103 £68,750 -1.79% 33
Scotland -99 90 £69,000 +15.00% 14
East of England -11 52 £67,500 -10.00% 11
East Midlands -2 50 £57,500 -17.86% 16
North East +14 46 £62,783 +2.50% 8
Wales -40 18 £60,000 +0.33% 6
Northern Ireland +7 9 £60,000 +9.09% 13
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 -

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 75 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 73 (4.23%) Apache
3 45 (2.61%) Confluence
4 32 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
5 30 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
6 28 (1.62%) nginx
7 17 (0.98%) Cloud Foundry
7 17 (0.98%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.58%) SharePoint
9 9 (0.52%) Drupal
10 6 (0.35%) CMS
10 6 (0.35%) IIS
10 6 (0.35%) WordPress
11 4 (0.23%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.17%) JBoss
13 2 (0.12%) Liferay
13 2 (0.12%) Magnolia
13 2 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
14 1 (0.058%) Moodle
14 1 (0.058%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.70%) Simulink
3 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.058%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.058%) Notion
6 1 (0.058%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.058%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.058%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.23%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.058%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.058%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,038 (60.14%) AWS
2 991 (57.42%) Azure
3 342 (19.81%) GCP
4 335 (19.41%) Azure DevOps
5 281 (16.28%) AWS CloudFormation
6 256 (14.83%) Serverless
7 210 (12.17%) PaaS
8 207 (11.99%) GitHub
9 175 (10.14%) Amazon S3
10 173 (10.02%) AWS Lambda
11 163 (9.44%) IaaS
12 150 (8.69%) Amazon EC2
13 120 (6.95%) SaaS
14 90 (5.21%) Amazon EKS
15 87 (5.04%) GitHub Actions
16 78 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
17 77 (4.46%) Cloud Computing
18 75 (4.35%) OpenShift
19 72 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 72 (4.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 136 (7.88%) Firewall
2 128 (7.42%) DNS
3 64 (3.71%) TCP/IP
4 60 (3.48%) VPN
5 58 (3.36%) DHCP
6 54 (3.13%) Network Security
7 43 (2.49%) HTTP
8 39 (2.26%) Internet
9 36 (2.09%) WAN
10 25 (1.45%) AMQP
11 21 (1.22%) LAN
12 17 (0.98%) Kerberos
13 15 (0.87%) IPv4
14 13 (0.75%) NGFW
14 13 (0.75%) SSL
15 12 (0.70%) SD-WAN
15 12 (0.70%) Unified Communications
16 11 (0.64%) OSPF
16 11 (0.64%) SNMP
16 11 (0.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (6.20%) Amazon RDS
2 89 (5.16%) MySQL
3 79 (4.58%) NoSQL
3 79 (4.58%) SQL Server
4 72 (4.17%) Big Data
5 50 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
6 48 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
7 46 (2.67%) Relational Database
8 45 (2.61%) MongoDB
9 44 (2.55%) Hadoop
10 43 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
11 42 (2.43%) DynamoDB
12 38 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
13 37 (2.14%) BigQuery
14 35 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
15 30 (1.74%) Amazon Aurora
15 30 (1.74%) RDBMS
16 25 (1.45%) Data Lake
16 25 (1.45%) Power BI
16 25 (1.45%) Presto
Development Applications
1 254 (14.72%) Git
2 248 (14.37%) Jenkins
3 175 (10.14%) GitLab
4 62 (3.59%) JIRA
5 37 (2.14%) CircleCI
6 33 (1.91%) Bitbucket
7 32 (1.85%) TeamCity
8 30 (1.74%) SonarQube
9 29 (1.68%) Postman
10 25 (1.45%) Artifactory
11 19 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 17 (0.98%) IBM UrbanCode
12 17 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
12 17 (0.98%) Selenium
13 16 (0.93%) Subversion
13 16 (0.93%) Vagrant
14 15 (0.87%) NUnit
14 15 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
14 15 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
15 9 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 405 (23.46%) Finance
2 381 (22.07%) Social Skills
3 173 (10.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 120 (6.95%) Public Sector
5 96 (5.56%) Banking
6 95 (5.50%) Law
7 88 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
8 72 (4.17%) Retail
9 59 (3.42%) Marketing
10 48 (2.78%) Legal
11 46 (2.67%) Aerospace
12 28 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
13 23 (1.33%) Tech for Good
13 23 (1.33%) Telecoms
14 22 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
15 21 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
16 15 (0.87%) Health Technology
17 13 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
18 12 (0.70%) Games
19 11 (0.64%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 451 (26.13%) Senior
2 397 (23.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 277 (16.05%) Cloud Engineer
4 240 (13.90%) Lead
5 227 (13.15%) Architect
6 185 (10.72%) Azure Engineer
7 182 (10.54%) AWS Engineer
8 179 (10.37%) Software Engineer
9 145 (8.40%) Platform Engineer
10 132 (7.65%) Developer
11 126 (7.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 126 (7.30%) Senior DevOps
12 122 (7.07%) Cloud Architect
13 121 (7.01%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 99 (5.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 84 (4.87%) Senior Cloud Engineer
16 81 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
17 76 (4.40%) AWS DevOps
18 72 (4.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 69 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (8.05%) React
2 118 (6.84%) Node.js
3 106 (6.14%) .NET
3 106 (6.14%) ARM Templates
4 85 (4.92%) Elastic Stack
5 84 (4.87%) YAML
6 77 (4.46%) JSON
6 77 (4.46%) Spring
7 75 (4.35%) HTML
8 67 (3.88%) REST
9 64 (3.71%) Kafka
10 59 (3.42%) Spring Boot
11 58 (3.36%) AWS CDK
12 55 (3.19%) AngularJS
13 51 (2.95%) CSS
13 51 (2.95%) RabbitMQ
14 45 (2.61%) OpenID
15 42 (2.43%) Swagger
16 41 (2.38%) RESTful
16 41 (2.38%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 284 (16.45%) Public Cloud
2 254 (14.72%) Cloud Native
3 96 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 86 (4.98%) Data Centre
5 82 (4.75%) Private Cloud
6 60 (3.48%) Management Information System
7 52 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
8 50 (2.90%) Product Ownership
9 48 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
10 40 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
11 35 (2.03%) Cyberattack
12 32 (1.85%) Virtual Team
13 31 (1.80%) PKI
14 28 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
15 26 (1.51%) IoT
16 25 (1.45%) Clustering
17 24 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
18 23 (1.33%) Onboarding
19 22 (1.27%) Blog
20 18 (1.04%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 425 (24.62%) Linux
2 218 (12.63%) Windows
3 71 (4.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 70 (4.06%) Windows Server
5 46 (2.67%) CentOS
6 43 (2.49%) Ubuntu
7 26 (1.51%) Debian
8 22 (1.27%) Android
9 21 (1.22%) Unix
10 17 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
11 16 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
12 11 (0.64%) Oracle Linux
13 9 (0.52%) Apple iOS
13 9 (0.52%) Solaris
14 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
15 6 (0.35%) VMS
16 5 (0.29%) Windows 10
17 3 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
17 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
18 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,111 (64.37%) DevOps
2 881 (51.04%) CI/CD
3 692 (40.09%) Agile
4 421 (24.39%) Containerisation
5 355 (20.57%) Software Engineering
6 320 (18.54%) Problem-Solving
7 213 (12.34%) Platform Engineering
8 208 (12.05%) Microservices
9 207 (11.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 191 (11.07%) Scrum
11 190 (11.01%) Continuous Integration
11 190 (11.01%) Mentoring
12 167 (9.68%) SDLC
13 157 (9.10%) Continuous Improvement
14 156 (9.04%) Migration
15 154 (8.92%) Roadmaps
16 152 (8.81%) Cloud Security
17 149 (8.63%) Configuration Management
18 148 (8.57%) Computer Science
19 132 (7.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 605 (35.05%) Python
2 319 (18.48%) PowerShell
3 285 (16.51%) Java
4 243 (14.08%) Bash
5 207 (11.99%) SQL
6 171 (9.91%) JavaScript
7 166 (9.62%) C#
8 135 (7.82%) TypeScript
9 127 (7.36%) Go
10 119 (6.89%) Bicep
11 74 (4.29%) PHP
12 52 (3.01%) Shell Script
13 42 (2.43%) Ruby
14 35 (2.03%) C++
14 35 (2.03%) Groovy
15 33 (1.91%) Perl
16 30 (1.74%) Kotlin
17 21 (1.22%) Scala
18 16 (0.93%) VB
19 14 (0.81%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 295 (17.09%) Security Cleared
2 212 (12.28%) Degree
3 180 (10.43%) SC Cleared
4 147 (8.52%) AWS Certification
5 131 (7.59%) Azure Certification
6 121 (7.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 121 (7.01%) DV Cleared
7 79 (4.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 44 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 28 (1.62%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 15 (0.87%) PMI Certification
12 14 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 11 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
14 10 (0.58%) PhD
15 8 (0.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 8 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
15 8 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
16 5 (0.29%) CCIE
16 5 (0.29%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (2.95%) QA
2 46 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (1.56%) NIST
4 16 (0.93%) GDPR
5 14 (0.81%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.75%) PCI DSS
7 11 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (0.64%) SLA
8 8 (0.46%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.46%) NCSC
9 5 (0.29%) GRC
9 5 (0.29%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.058%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.058%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.058%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.058%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.058%) SEPA
12 1 (0.058%) WCAG
System Software
1 493 (28.56%) Docker
2 82 (4.75%) Active Directory
3 75 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
4 67 (3.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 39 (2.26%) VMware ESXi
6 33 (1.91%) Virtual Desktop
7 27 (1.56%) vSphere
8 11 (0.64%) Hyper-V
9 10 (0.58%) VMware NSX
10 7 (0.41%) KVM
11 6 (0.35%) DFS Replication
12 5 (0.29%) Ceph
13 4 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.17%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.12%) Firmware
15 2 (0.12%) Varnish
16 1 (0.058%) LXC
16 1 (0.058%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 1 (0.058%) XenApp
16 1 (0.058%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1,199 (69.47%) Terraform
2 682 (39.51%) Kubernetes
3 413 (23.93%) Ansible
4 140 (8.11%) Puppet
5 116 (6.72%) Grafana
6 102 (5.91%) Prometheus
7 80 (4.63%) Progress Chef
8 29 (1.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 28 (1.62%) HAProxy
9 28 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
10 27 (1.56%) Packer
11 24 (1.39%) Salt
12 20 (1.16%) logstash
13 19 (1.10%) Docker Swarm
13 19 (1.10%) Nagios
14 18 (1.04%) SCCM
15 17 (0.98%) Istio
16 16 (0.93%) Kibana
16 16 (0.93%) SCOM
17 14 (0.81%) WSUS
Vendors
1 276 (15.99%) Microsoft
2 189 (10.95%) Google
3 73 (4.23%) VMware
4 57 (3.30%) Citrix
5 51 (2.95%) Red Hat
6 43 (2.49%) Splunk
7 34 (1.97%) Databricks
7 34 (1.97%) SaltStack
8 27 (1.56%) Cisco
9 22 (1.27%) Atlassian
10 21 (1.22%) New Relic
11 20 (1.16%) IBM
12 18 (1.04%) Oracle
13 16 (0.93%) Meraki
14 12 (0.70%) Adobe
14 12 (0.70%) Apple
14 12 (0.70%) Xilinx
15 11 (0.64%) Serena
15 11 (0.64%) ServiceNow
16 10 (0.58%) Zscaler