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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 101 93
Rank change year-on-year -72 -8 +20
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,693 3,293 6,048
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.69% 3.32% 3.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 3.47% 3.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,319 2,000 2,743
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £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 £107,500 £106,325 £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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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 18 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 18 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 -68 1,500 £70,576 -5.90% 514
UK excluding London -71 1,011 £65,000 -6.40% 338
Work from Home -58 772 £70,000 -6.67% 318
London -48 577 £87,500 +9.38% 238
North of England -28 343 £62,783 -9.60% 78
North West -27 190 £65,000 -6.40% 39
South West -33 178 £75,000 +11.11% 56
South East -114 173 £67,500 -10.00% 96
Midlands +5 153 £65,025 -7.11% 60
West Midlands +20 108 £70,000 - 45
Yorkshire -20 107 £60,000 -13.60% 32
Scotland -96 89 £69,788 +7.37% 14
North East +14 48 £62,783 +2.50% 7
East of England -22 47 £67,500 -10.00% 20
East Midlands -8 45 £57,500 -17.86% 15
Wales -41 17 £60,000 -12.40% 6
Northern Ireland -2 8 £60,000 +9.09% 9
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 78 (4.61%) Apache Spark
2 75 (4.43%) Apache
3 44 (2.60%) Confluence
4 34 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
5 30 (1.77%) nginx
6 28 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
7 17 (1.00%) Cloud Foundry
7 17 (1.00%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.59%) SharePoint
9 8 (0.47%) Drupal
10 6 (0.35%) IIS
11 5 (0.30%) CMS
11 5 (0.30%) JBoss
11 5 (0.30%) WordPress
12 2 (0.12%) Liferay
12 2 (0.12%) Magnolia
12 2 (0.12%) Moodle
12 2 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.059%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.059%) OpenStack
Applications
1 16 (0.95%) Simulink
2 14 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.059%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.059%) Notion
6 1 (0.059%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.059%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.059%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.24%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.059%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.059%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,026 (60.60%) AWS
2 984 (58.12%) Azure
3 348 (20.56%) GCP
4 312 (18.43%) Azure DevOps
5 254 (15.00%) Serverless
6 239 (14.12%) AWS CloudFormation
7 208 (12.29%) GitHub
8 202 (11.93%) PaaS
9 176 (10.40%) Amazon S3
10 173 (10.22%) AWS Lambda
11 152 (8.98%) IaaS
12 149 (8.80%) Amazon EC2
13 120 (7.09%) SaaS
14 87 (5.14%) Amazon EKS
14 87 (5.14%) GitHub Actions
15 80 (4.73%) OpenShift
16 79 (4.67%) Cloud Computing
17 76 (4.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 75 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
19 74 (4.37%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 137 (8.09%) Firewall
2 98 (5.79%) DNS
3 57 (3.37%) VPN
4 53 (3.13%) Network Security
5 38 (2.24%) Internet
6 37 (2.19%) WAN
7 34 (2.01%) TCP/IP
8 28 (1.65%) DHCP
9 27 (1.59%) AMQP
10 21 (1.24%) LAN
11 17 (1.00%) Kerberos
12 15 (0.89%) IPv4
12 15 (0.89%) SSL
13 14 (0.83%) HTTP
14 13 (0.77%) SD-WAN
15 12 (0.71%) Unified Communications
15 12 (0.71%) VSAN
16 11 (0.65%) NGFW
16 11 (0.65%) OSPF
16 11 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
2 89 (5.26%) MySQL
3 83 (4.90%) NoSQL
4 76 (4.49%) SQL Server
5 71 (4.19%) Big Data
6 49 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
7 47 (2.78%) MongoDB
8 46 (2.72%) Hadoop
8 46 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
9 43 (2.54%) Amazon Redshift
9 43 (2.54%) DynamoDB
9 43 (2.54%) Relational Database
10 37 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
11 36 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
12 34 (2.01%) BigQuery
13 29 (1.71%) Amazon Aurora
13 29 (1.71%) RDBMS
14 27 (1.59%) Cloudera CDH
14 27 (1.59%) Presto
15 23 (1.36%) Redis
Development Applications
1 253 (14.94%) Git
2 226 (13.35%) Jenkins
3 166 (9.81%) GitLab
4 60 (3.54%) JIRA
5 38 (2.24%) CircleCI
6 35 (2.07%) Bitbucket
6 35 (2.07%) TeamCity
7 30 (1.77%) Postman
8 24 (1.42%) Artifactory
9 20 (1.18%) Vagrant
10 19 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 19 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
10 19 (1.12%) SonarQube
11 17 (1.00%) IBM UrbanCode
12 16 (0.95%) Selenium
12 16 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
12 16 (0.95%) Subversion
13 15 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
14 14 (0.83%) NUnit
15 9 (0.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 361 (21.32%) Social Skills
2 360 (21.26%) Finance
3 149 (8.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 128 (7.56%) Public Sector
5 94 (5.55%) Law
6 90 (5.32%) Banking
7 89 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
8 66 (3.90%) Retail
9 60 (3.54%) Marketing
10 51 (3.01%) Aerospace
11 47 (2.78%) Legal
12 30 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
13 25 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
14 23 (1.36%) Tech for Good
14 23 (1.36%) Telecoms
15 18 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (0.89%) Health Technology
17 14 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
18 13 (0.77%) Electronics
19 12 (0.71%) Games
Job Titles
1 431 (25.46%) Senior
2 381 (22.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 274 (16.18%) Cloud Engineer
4 243 (14.35%) Lead
5 206 (12.17%) Architect
6 195 (11.52%) Software Engineer
7 180 (10.63%) AWS Engineer
8 163 (9.63%) Azure Engineer
9 141 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
10 133 (7.86%) Developer
11 125 (7.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 125 (7.38%) Senior DevOps
12 118 (6.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 107 (6.32%) Cloud Architect
14 100 (5.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 78 (4.61%) Senior Cloud Engineer
16 70 (4.13%) AWS DevOps
16 70 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
17 68 (4.02%) Consultant
17 68 (4.02%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (8.45%) React
2 123 (7.27%) Node.js
3 106 (6.26%) ARM Templates
4 102 (6.02%) .NET
5 80 (4.73%) Spring
5 80 (4.73%) YAML
6 73 (4.31%) Elastic Stack
7 70 (4.13%) JSON
8 69 (4.08%) REST
9 62 (3.66%) Kafka
9 62 (3.66%) Spring Boot
10 58 (3.43%) AWS CDK
11 56 (3.31%) AngularJS
12 55 (3.25%) CSS
13 51 (3.01%) HTML
14 49 (2.89%) RabbitMQ
15 45 (2.66%) Swagger
16 40 (2.36%) RESTful
17 35 (2.07%) OpenAPI
18 31 (1.83%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 271 (16.01%) Public Cloud
2 232 (13.70%) Cloud Native
3 91 (5.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 89 (5.26%) Data Centre
5 82 (4.84%) Private Cloud
6 61 (3.60%) Management Information System
7 52 (3.07%) Product Ownership
8 49 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
9 44 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
10 41 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
11 33 (1.95%) PKI
12 30 (1.77%) Virtual Team
13 27 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
14 26 (1.54%) IoT
15 25 (1.48%) Clustering
15 25 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
16 22 (1.30%) Blog
16 22 (1.30%) Onboarding
17 18 (1.06%) Client/Server
18 17 (1.00%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 424 (25.04%) Linux
2 205 (12.11%) Windows
3 78 (4.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 68 (4.02%) Windows Server
5 52 (3.07%) CentOS
6 48 (2.84%) Ubuntu
7 27 (1.59%) Debian
7 27 (1.59%) Unix
8 23 (1.36%) Android
9 17 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
11 12 (0.71%) Oracle Linux
12 10 (0.59%) Solaris
13 7 (0.41%) VMS
13 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
14 6 (0.35%) Apple iOS
14 6 (0.35%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
15 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
16 1 (0.059%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,088 (64.26%) DevOps
2 875 (51.68%) CI/CD
3 665 (39.28%) Agile
4 412 (24.34%) Containerisation
5 357 (21.09%) Software Engineering
6 318 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
7 212 (12.52%) Platform Engineering
8 205 (12.11%) Microservices
9 203 (11.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 196 (11.58%) Mentoring
11 192 (11.34%) Continuous Integration
12 186 (10.99%) Scrum
13 167 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 159 (9.39%) Migration
15 154 (9.10%) Computer Science
16 146 (8.62%) Configuration Management
17 138 (8.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 133 (7.86%) Roadmaps
19 132 (7.80%) SDLC
20 125 (7.38%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 607 (35.85%) Python
2 302 (17.84%) Java
3 299 (17.66%) PowerShell
4 233 (13.76%) Bash
5 214 (12.64%) SQL
6 182 (10.75%) JavaScript
7 166 (9.81%) C#
8 138 (8.15%) TypeScript
9 131 (7.74%) Go
10 113 (6.67%) Bicep
11 74 (4.37%) PHP
12 49 (2.89%) Shell Script
13 45 (2.66%) Ruby
14 44 (2.60%) C++
15 40 (2.36%) Kotlin
16 34 (2.01%) Groovy
17 28 (1.65%) Perl
18 25 (1.48%) Scala
19 16 (0.95%) VB
20 14 (0.83%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 278 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 216 (12.76%) Degree
3 189 (11.16%) SC Cleared
4 131 (7.74%) Azure Certification
5 127 (7.50%) AWS Certification
6 126 (7.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 92 (5.43%) DV Cleared
8 51 (3.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 47 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (1.54%) Master's Degree
11 23 (1.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 15 (0.89%) PMI Certification
13 14 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 11 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.59%) PhD
16 8 (0.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 8 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
17 6 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
18 5 (0.30%) CCIE
18 5 (0.30%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (3.37%) QA
2 49 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (1.95%) NIST
4 15 (0.89%) GDPR
5 14 (0.83%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.77%) PCI DSS
7 12 (0.71%) SLA
8 10 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (0.41%) Data Quality
10 6 (0.35%) NCSC
11 5 (0.30%) GRC
11 5 (0.30%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.059%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.059%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.059%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.059%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.059%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.059%) SEPA
13 1 (0.059%) WCAG
System Software
1 481 (28.41%) Docker
2 82 (4.84%) Virtual Machines
3 81 (4.78%) Active Directory
4 64 (3.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 38 (2.24%) VMware ESXi
6 34 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
7 27 (1.59%) vSphere
8 12 (0.71%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.53%) Hyper-V
10 8 (0.47%) Ceph
11 7 (0.41%) KVM
12 5 (0.30%) DFS Replication
13 4 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.18%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.12%) Firmware
15 2 (0.12%) Varnish
15 2 (0.12%) XenApp
15 2 (0.12%) XenDesktop
16 1 (0.059%) LXC
16 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 1,158 (68.40%) Terraform
2 673 (39.75%) Kubernetes
3 403 (23.80%) Ansible
4 136 (8.03%) Puppet
5 107 (6.32%) Grafana
6 95 (5.61%) Prometheus
7 81 (4.78%) Progress Chef
8 32 (1.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 28 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
10 27 (1.59%) HAProxy
11 26 (1.54%) Packer
12 20 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
12 20 (1.18%) Salt
13 19 (1.12%) logstash
13 19 (1.12%) Nagios
13 19 (1.12%) SCCM
14 16 (0.95%) Istio
14 16 (0.95%) Kibana
14 16 (0.95%) SCOM
15 15 (0.89%) Argo
Vendors
1 288 (17.01%) Microsoft
2 193 (11.40%) Google
3 71 (4.19%) VMware
4 56 (3.31%) Red Hat
5 49 (2.89%) Citrix
6 45 (2.66%) Splunk
7 36 (2.13%) SaltStack
8 34 (2.01%) Databricks
9 27 (1.59%) Cisco
10 25 (1.48%) Atlassian
11 24 (1.42%) New Relic
12 21 (1.24%) Oracle
13 19 (1.12%) IBM
14 16 (0.95%) Meraki
14 16 (0.95%) Xilinx
15 12 (0.71%) Adobe
15 12 (0.71%) Apple
15 12 (0.71%) Serena
16 11 (0.65%) ServiceNow
16 11 (0.65%) Zscaler