Infrastructure as Code Jobs

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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 177 103 87
Rank change year-on-year -74 -16 +28
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,713 2,990 6,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.58% 3.21% 3.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 3.37% 4.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,288 1,861 2,792
10th Percentile £48,175 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -

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 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 9 June 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 9 June 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 1,543 £70,000 -6.67% 442
UK excluding London -77 1,018 £65,000 -7.14% 266
Work from Home -66 761 £70,000 -6.67% 281
London -51 593 £89,000 +11.25% 193
North of England -37 339 £62,783 -9.60% 64
North West -40 192 £65,000 -7.14% 39
South West -40 183 £70,000 +3.70% 59
South East -110 183 £66,500 -11.33% 54
Midlands +3 169 £67,500 -3.57% 51
West Midlands +23 123 £70,000 -1.75% 36
Yorkshire -22 102 £60,000 -11.11% 22
Scotland -101 68 £75,000 +25.00% 16
North East +2 47 £62,783 -3.41% 3
East of England -33 47 £67,500 -10.00% 15
East Midlands -31 46 £57,500 - 15
Wales -47 17 £57,500 -3.85% 5
Northern Ireland -1 9 £60,000 +9.09% 4
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 84 (4.90%) Apache Spark
2 79 (4.61%) Apache
3 43 (2.51%) Confluence
4 34 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
5 32 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 31 (1.81%) nginx
7 17 (0.99%) Cloud Foundry
8 16 (0.93%) Jupyter
9 10 (0.58%) SharePoint
10 7 (0.41%) Drupal
11 6 (0.35%) JBoss
12 5 (0.29%) IIS
13 4 (0.23%) CMS
13 4 (0.23%) WordPress
14 2 (0.12%) Liferay
14 2 (0.12%) Magnolia
14 2 (0.12%) Moodle
14 2 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
15 1 (0.058%) Jetty
15 1 (0.058%) OpenStack
Applications
1 20 (1.17%) Simulink
2 14 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.058%) Notion
6 1 (0.058%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (0.64%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.23%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.058%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.058%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,054 (61.53%) AWS
2 990 (57.79%) Azure
3 338 (19.73%) GCP
4 302 (17.63%) Azure DevOps
5 256 (14.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 248 (14.48%) Serverless
7 197 (11.50%) GitHub
8 173 (10.10%) Amazon S3
9 170 (9.92%) PaaS
10 169 (9.87%) AWS Lambda
11 145 (8.46%) Amazon EC2
12 136 (7.94%) IaaS
13 127 (7.41%) SaaS
14 90 (5.25%) GitHub Actions
15 87 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 87 (5.08%) Cloud Computing
16 86 (5.02%) Amazon EKS
17 82 (4.79%) Entra ID
18 81 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
19 74 (4.32%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 142 (8.29%) Firewall
2 106 (6.19%) DNS
3 56 (3.27%) Network Security
4 54 (3.15%) VPN
5 39 (2.28%) WAN
6 37 (2.16%) DHCP
7 35 (2.04%) Internet
8 33 (1.93%) TCP/IP
9 29 (1.69%) AMQP
10 23 (1.34%) LAN
11 17 (0.99%) Kerberos
12 15 (0.88%) IPv4
12 15 (0.88%) SSL
13 13 (0.76%) HTTP
13 13 (0.76%) SD-WAN
14 12 (0.70%) Unified Communications
14 12 (0.70%) VSAN
15 11 (0.64%) OSPF
16 10 (0.58%) SNMP
16 10 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (6.54%) Amazon RDS
2 95 (5.55%) MySQL
3 91 (5.31%) NoSQL
4 80 (4.67%) SQL Server
5 71 (4.14%) Big Data
6 52 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
7 49 (2.86%) MongoDB
7 49 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
8 47 (2.74%) Hadoop
9 45 (2.63%) DynamoDB
9 45 (2.63%) Relational Database
10 42 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
11 40 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
12 35 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
13 33 (1.93%) BigQuery
14 32 (1.87%) Amazon Aurora
15 29 (1.69%) Cloudera CDH
15 29 (1.69%) RDBMS
16 28 (1.63%) Presto
17 27 (1.58%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 268 (15.65%) Git
2 215 (12.55%) Jenkins
3 166 (9.69%) GitLab
4 72 (4.20%) JIRA
5 41 (2.39%) CircleCI
6 34 (1.98%) Bitbucket
7 31 (1.81%) Postman
7 31 (1.81%) TeamCity
8 29 (1.69%) SonarQube
9 24 (1.40%) Artifactory
9 24 (1.40%) Vagrant
10 18 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 17 (0.99%) Terragrunt
12 15 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
12 15 (0.88%) Subversion
12 15 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
13 14 (0.82%) Selenium
14 13 (0.76%) NUnit
14 13 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
15 12 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 389 (22.71%) Social Skills
2 313 (18.27%) Finance
3 149 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 131 (7.65%) Public Sector
5 98 (5.72%) Analytical Skills
6 78 (4.55%) Law
7 68 (3.97%) Retail
8 64 (3.74%) Banking
9 54 (3.15%) Legal
10 53 (3.09%) Aerospace
11 49 (2.86%) Marketing
12 29 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
13 24 (1.40%) Tech for Good
14 22 (1.28%) Telecoms
15 17 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
15 17 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
17 15 (0.88%) Electronics
17 15 (0.88%) Health Technology
18 12 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 405 (23.64%) Senior
2 365 (21.31%) DevOps Engineer
3 271 (15.82%) Cloud Engineer
4 252 (14.71%) Lead
5 207 (12.08%) Architect
6 191 (11.15%) Software Engineer
7 172 (10.04%) AWS Engineer
8 154 (8.99%) Azure Engineer
9 150 (8.76%) Developer
10 131 (7.65%) Platform Engineer
11 126 (7.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 114 (6.65%) Cloud Architect
12 114 (6.65%) Senior DevOps
13 105 (6.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 91 (5.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 69 (4.03%) Full Stack Developer
16 68 (3.97%) Consultant
17 66 (3.85%) Senior Cloud Engineer
18 64 (3.74%) Data Engineer
19 63 (3.68%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (8.87%) React
2 132 (7.71%) Node.js
3 123 (7.18%) ARM Templates
4 98 (5.72%) .NET
5 82 (4.79%) Spring
6 72 (4.20%) YAML
7 71 (4.14%) REST
8 67 (3.91%) Elastic Stack
9 66 (3.85%) JSON
10 64 (3.74%) Spring Boot
11 63 (3.68%) Kafka
12 62 (3.62%) CSS
13 59 (3.44%) AngularJS
14 58 (3.39%) HTML
15 56 (3.27%) AWS CDK
16 51 (2.98%) RabbitMQ
17 49 (2.86%) Swagger
18 43 (2.51%) RESTful
19 39 (2.28%) Lambda Expressions
20 38 (2.22%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 262 (15.29%) Cloud Native
2 220 (12.84%) Public Cloud
3 91 (5.31%) Hybrid Cloud
4 89 (5.20%) Data Centre
5 77 (4.50%) Private Cloud
6 62 (3.62%) Management Information System
7 55 (3.21%) Product Ownership
8 50 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
8 50 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
9 40 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
10 37 (2.16%) PKI
11 31 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
12 28 (1.63%) IoT
13 27 (1.58%) Virtual Team
14 26 (1.52%) Clustering
15 24 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
16 22 (1.28%) Blog
17 21 (1.23%) PropTech
18 20 (1.17%) Onboarding
18 20 (1.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 423 (24.69%) Linux
2 205 (11.97%) Windows
3 84 (4.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 77 (4.50%) Windows Server
5 61 (3.56%) Ubuntu
6 56 (3.27%) CentOS
7 29 (1.69%) Debian
7 29 (1.69%) Unix
8 25 (1.46%) Android
9 21 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
10 19 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
11 12 (0.70%) Oracle Linux
12 10 (0.58%) Solaris
13 9 (0.53%) VMS
13 9 (0.53%) Windows 10
14 7 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
14 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
15 4 (0.23%) Rocky
16 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,082 (63.16%) DevOps
2 882 (51.49%) CI/CD
3 668 (39.00%) Agile
4 418 (24.40%) Containerisation
5 357 (20.84%) Software Engineering
6 326 (19.03%) Problem-Solving
7 216 (12.61%) Microservices
8 209 (12.20%) Platform Engineering
9 207 (12.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 203 (11.85%) Mentoring
10 203 (11.85%) Scrum
11 195 (11.38%) Continuous Integration
12 170 (9.92%) Continuous Improvement
13 164 (9.57%) Migration
14 161 (9.40%) Computer Science
15 143 (8.35%) Configuration Management
16 140 (8.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 130 (7.59%) Analytics
17 130 (7.59%) Roadmaps
18 125 (7.30%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 620 (36.19%) Python
2 323 (18.86%) PowerShell
3 297 (17.34%) Java
4 234 (13.66%) Bash
5 217 (12.67%) SQL
6 210 (12.26%) JavaScript
7 173 (10.10%) C#
8 151 (8.81%) TypeScript
9 132 (7.71%) Go
10 117 (6.83%) Bicep
11 77 (4.50%) PHP
12 54 (3.15%) C++
12 54 (3.15%) Kotlin
13 52 (3.04%) Ruby
14 44 (2.57%) Shell Script
15 33 (1.93%) Scala
16 22 (1.28%) Perl
17 20 (1.17%) Groovy
17 20 (1.17%) VB
18 18 (1.05%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 295 (17.22%) Security Cleared
2 230 (13.43%) Degree
3 208 (12.14%) SC Cleared
4 153 (8.93%) AWS Certification
5 151 (8.81%) Azure Certification
6 139 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 91 (5.31%) DV Cleared
8 55 (3.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 49 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 27 (1.58%) Master's Degree
11 23 (1.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 19 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 13 (0.76%) PMI Certification
14 11 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.53%) PhD
16 8 (0.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 8 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
17 5 (0.29%) CCIE
17 5 (0.29%) CCNA
17 5 (0.29%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (3.91%) QA
2 58 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 44 (2.57%) NIST
4 17 (0.99%) GDPR
5 16 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 16 (0.93%) PCI DSS
6 14 (0.82%) SLA
7 13 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (0.47%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.47%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.29%) GRC
9 5 (0.29%) NCSC
10 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.18%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.058%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.058%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.058%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.058%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.058%) SEPA
12 1 (0.058%) WCAG
System Software
1 466 (27.20%) Docker
2 105 (6.13%) Virtual Machines
3 91 (5.31%) Active Directory
4 58 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 36 (2.10%) Virtual Desktop
6 30 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
7 23 (1.34%) vSphere
8 12 (0.70%) VMware NSX
9 10 (0.58%) Hyper-V
10 8 (0.47%) Ceph
11 7 (0.41%) KVM
12 5 (0.29%) DFS Replication
12 5 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.23%) XenApp
13 4 (0.23%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.18%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.12%) Firmware
15 2 (0.12%) Varnish
16 1 (0.058%) LXC
16 1 (0.058%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 1,138 (66.43%) Terraform
2 660 (38.53%) Kubernetes
3 395 (23.06%) Ansible
4 122 (7.12%) Puppet
5 98 (5.72%) Grafana
6 89 (5.20%) Prometheus
7 59 (3.44%) Progress Chef
8 35 (2.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 33 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
10 25 (1.46%) HAProxy
11 24 (1.40%) SCCM
12 21 (1.23%) Docker Swarm
12 21 (1.23%) Packer
13 20 (1.17%) SCOM
14 19 (1.11%) Nagios
15 18 (1.05%) logstash
15 18 (1.05%) WSUS
16 14 (0.82%) Kibana
17 13 (0.76%) Argo
17 13 (0.76%) Istio
Vendors
1 319 (18.62%) Microsoft
2 178 (10.39%) Google
3 66 (3.85%) VMware
4 62 (3.62%) Red Hat
5 43 (2.51%) Splunk
6 40 (2.34%) Citrix
7 36 (2.10%) Databricks
7 36 (2.10%) SaltStack
8 27 (1.58%) Cisco
9 26 (1.52%) New Relic
10 25 (1.46%) ServiceNow
11 24 (1.40%) Atlassian
12 21 (1.23%) Oracle
13 20 (1.17%) Xilinx
14 16 (0.93%) Meraki
15 15 (0.88%) Black Duck
16 13 (0.76%) Remedy
16 13 (0.76%) Zscaler
17 12 (0.70%) Apple
17 12 (0.70%) OpenAI