Infrastructure as Code Jobs

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 89 84
Rank change year-on-year -34 -5 +18
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,681 2,274 5,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.04% 3.56% 3.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 3.76% 3.89%
Number of salaries quoted 991 1,516 2,647
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £74,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% -0.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £109,375 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67,984 60,548 148,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.36% 94.66% 96.31%
Number of salaries quoted 35,867 43,131 80,678
10th Percentile £32,258 £32,620 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,235 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.00%

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 20 September 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Top 17 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 20 September 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 -30 1,569 £70,000 -6.67% 454
UK excluding London -69 948 £65,000 -3.70% 260
London -21 669 £90,000 +12.50% 242
Work from Home -79 609 £70,000 -3.45% 262
North of England -33 303 £60,000 -14.29% 87
South West -7 220 £72,500 +16.00% 36
South East -65 175 £59,500 -15.00% 46
Midlands +12 148 £66,000 -5.71% 24
North West -63 144 £67,500 -3.57% 56
Yorkshire +4 125 £55,000 -21.15% 20
West Midlands +34 104 £70,000 - 17
Scotland -76 60 £80,000 +22.42% 50
East Midlands -46 44 £55,000 -13.73% 7
North East -5 34 £50,000 -23.08% 11
East of England -48 30 £72,500 -3.33% 13
Wales -27 12 £60,000 +4.35% 4
Northern Ireland +1 5 £60,000 -14.29% 6

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 67 (3.99%) Apache Spark
2 59 (3.51%) Apache
3 35 (2.08%) Confluence
3 35 (2.08%) nginx
4 24 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (1.19%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.01%) Jupyter
7 9 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
8 4 (0.24%) JBoss
9 3 (0.18%) Camunda
9 3 (0.18%) IIS
9 3 (0.18%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.059%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.059%) CMS
10 1 (0.059%) Moodle
10 1 (0.059%) Umbraco
Applications
1 40 (2.38%) Simulink
2 10 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.059%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 15 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.24%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,082 (64.37%) Azure
2 1,004 (59.73%) AWS
3 396 (23.56%) GCP
4 266 (15.82%) Azure DevOps
5 204 (12.14%) Serverless
6 200 (11.90%) GitHub
7 180 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 159 (9.46%) Cloud Computing
9 134 (7.97%) Amazon S3
10 133 (7.91%) SaaS
11 132 (7.85%) PaaS
12 119 (7.08%) AWS Lambda
13 111 (6.60%) GitHub Actions
14 105 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
15 97 (5.77%) Entra ID
16 92 (5.47%) IaaS
17 83 (4.94%) Azure Monitor
18 77 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
19 72 (4.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 64 (3.81%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 125 (7.44%) Network Security
2 111 (6.60%) Firewall
3 102 (6.07%) Broadband
4 76 (4.52%) DNS
5 36 (2.14%) WAN
6 31 (1.84%) VPN
7 25 (1.49%) HTTP
8 22 (1.31%) LAN
9 21 (1.25%) DHCP
10 20 (1.19%) TCP/IP
11 17 (1.01%) Wireshark
12 16 (0.95%) NGFW
12 16 (0.95%) SD-WAN
12 16 (0.95%) VXLAN
12 16 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
13 15 (0.89%) Internet
14 13 (0.77%) AMQP
15 10 (0.59%) Kerberos
16 9 (0.54%) VLAN
16 9 (0.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (6.78%) NoSQL
2 104 (6.19%) Amazon RDS
3 76 (4.52%) MySQL
4 74 (4.40%) SQL Server
5 63 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
6 62 (3.69%) Big Data
7 58 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
8 54 (3.21%) MongoDB
9 48 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
10 44 (2.62%) Relational Database
11 41 (2.44%) Hadoop
12 39 (2.32%) DynamoDB
13 38 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
14 32 (1.90%) Power BI
15 27 (1.61%) Presto
16 24 (1.43%) RDBMS
17 23 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
18 22 (1.31%) Data Lake
19 19 (1.13%) Tableau
20 17 (1.01%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 261 (15.53%) Git
2 179 (10.65%) Jenkins
3 149 (8.86%) GitLab
4 90 (5.35%) JIRA
5 54 (3.21%) CircleCI
6 48 (2.86%) Vagrant
7 37 (2.20%) TeamCity
8 29 (1.73%) Postman
9 26 (1.55%) SonarQube
10 19 (1.13%) Octopus Deploy
11 17 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 17 (1.01%) Subversion
12 16 (0.95%) Terragrunt
12 16 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
13 15 (0.89%) Selenium
14 14 (0.83%) Bitbucket
14 14 (0.83%) Cucumber
14 14 (0.83%) Spinnaker
15 12 (0.71%) Artifactory
15 12 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 449 (26.71%) Social Skills
2 226 (13.44%) Finance
3 127 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (6.42%) Public Sector
5 94 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 69 (4.10%) Law
7 57 (3.39%) Retail
8 55 (3.27%) Legal
9 44 (2.62%) Banking
10 40 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
11 31 (1.84%) Marketing
12 25 (1.49%) Aerospace
12 25 (1.49%) Tech for Good
13 21 (1.25%) Manufacturing
14 20 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
15 16 (0.95%) Electronics
15 16 (0.95%) Games
16 15 (0.89%) Telecoms
17 12 (0.71%) Retail Banking
18 11 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 363 (21.59%) Senior
2 303 (18.02%) Cloud Engineer
3 287 (17.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 230 (13.68%) Lead
5 208 (12.37%) Software Engineer
6 178 (10.59%) Azure Engineer
7 157 (9.34%) Architect
8 133 (7.91%) Developer
9 131 (7.79%) Platform Engineer
10 112 (6.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 109 (6.48%) Analyst
12 96 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
13 84 (5.00%) Cloud Security Analyst
13 84 (5.00%) Security Analyst
13 84 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
14 83 (4.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 79 (4.70%) Cloud Architect
16 71 (4.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 61 (3.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 58 (3.45%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (8.86%) React
2 110 (6.54%) .NET
3 103 (6.13%) Node.js
4 96 (5.71%) ARM Templates
5 89 (5.29%) REST
6 73 (4.34%) YAML
7 70 (4.16%) Spring
8 69 (4.10%) Kafka
9 60 (3.57%) Spring Boot
10 58 (3.45%) HTML
10 58 (3.45%) Middleware
11 55 (3.27%) AngularJS
11 55 (3.27%) CSS
12 53 (3.15%) Elastic Stack
13 52 (3.09%) RESTful
14 50 (2.97%) RabbitMQ
15 47 (2.80%) GraphQL
15 47 (2.80%) JSON
16 39 (2.32%) Swagger
17 37 (2.20%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 333 (19.81%) Cloud Native
2 168 (9.99%) Public Cloud
3 141 (8.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 112 (6.66%) Distributed Systems
5 98 (5.83%) Cyberattack
6 87 (5.18%) Cyber Threat
7 84 (5.00%) Social Media
8 70 (4.16%) Data Centre
9 62 (3.69%) Management Information System
10 56 (3.33%) Product Ownership
11 50 (2.97%) Linux Command Line
12 43 (2.56%) IoT
12 43 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
13 39 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
14 38 (2.26%) PKI
15 23 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
16 20 (1.19%) Blog
16 20 (1.19%) Onboarding
17 19 (1.13%) Security Posture
18 18 (1.07%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 375 (22.31%) Linux
2 174 (10.35%) Windows
3 122 (7.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 72 (4.28%) Ubuntu
5 63 (3.75%) CentOS
6 61 (3.63%) Windows Server
7 47 (2.80%) Android
8 23 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
9 20 (1.19%) Unix
10 18 (1.07%) VMS
11 13 (0.77%) Debian
12 12 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (0.48%) Oracle Linux
14 7 (0.42%) Solaris
14 7 (0.42%) Windows 10
15 6 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
16 4 (0.24%) Rocky
17 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
18 1 (0.059%) CoreOS
18 1 (0.059%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,007 (59.90%) DevOps
2 892 (53.06%) CI/CD
3 619 (36.82%) Agile
4 421 (25.04%) Containerisation
5 384 (22.84%) Software Engineering
6 313 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
7 254 (15.11%) Cloud Security
8 231 (13.74%) Microservices
9 221 (13.15%) Platform Engineering
10 182 (10.83%) Mentoring
11 181 (10.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 179 (10.65%) Continuous Improvement
12 179 (10.65%) Continuous Integration
13 177 (10.53%) Computer Science
14 170 (10.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 166 (9.88%) Disaster Recovery
16 156 (9.28%) Analytics
17 148 (8.80%) Identity Access Management
18 140 (8.33%) Scrum
19 139 (8.27%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 614 (36.53%) Python
2 311 (18.50%) PowerShell
3 300 (17.85%) Java
4 231 (13.74%) SQL
5 213 (12.67%) JavaScript
6 203 (12.08%) Bash
7 169 (10.05%) TypeScript
8 163 (9.70%) C#
9 120 (7.14%) Bicep
10 105 (6.25%) Go
11 88 (5.23%) C++
12 85 (5.06%) Kotlin
13 59 (3.51%) PHP
14 48 (2.86%) Shell Script
15 42 (2.50%) Scala
16 32 (1.90%) Perl
17 25 (1.49%) Ruby
18 20 (1.19%) C
18 20 (1.19%) Rust
19 18 (1.07%) R
Qualifications
1 254 (15.11%) Degree
2 231 (13.74%) Security Cleared
3 161 (9.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 154 (9.16%) Azure Certification
5 141 (8.39%) SC Cleared
6 117 (6.96%) AWS Certification
7 69 (4.10%) DV Cleared
8 47 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 37 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 35 (2.08%) Master's Degree
11 20 (1.19%) DBS Check
12 18 (1.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 9 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
14 8 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
15 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 7 (0.42%) CISSP
16 5 (0.30%) CCNA
16 5 (0.30%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 120 (7.14%) NIST
3 98 (5.83%) GDPR
4 93 (5.53%) HIPAA
5 70 (4.16%) QA
6 31 (1.84%) PCI DSS
7 22 (1.31%) SOC 2
8 19 (1.13%) Accessibility
9 18 (1.07%) Data Quality
10 16 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.65%) SLA
12 7 (0.42%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.30%) GRC
13 5 (0.30%) NCSC
14 2 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 1 (0.059%) COBIT
15 1 (0.059%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 1 (0.059%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 1 (0.059%) WCAG
System Software
1 488 (29.03%) Docker
2 118 (7.02%) Virtual Machines
3 104 (6.19%) Active Directory
4 49 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 26 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (0.95%) vSphere
7 13 (0.77%) Hyper-V
8 12 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.54%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.36%) Ceph
11 5 (0.30%) XenApp
11 5 (0.30%) XenDesktop
12 4 (0.24%) Firmware
13 3 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.12%) LXC
15 1 (0.059%) KVM
15 1 (0.059%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,107 (65.85%) Terraform
2 642 (38.19%) Kubernetes
3 399 (23.74%) Ansible
4 110 (6.54%) Puppet
5 93 (5.53%) Prometheus
6 91 (5.41%) Grafana
7 50 (2.97%) Progress Chef
8 41 (2.44%) Packer
9 30 (1.78%) Argo
10 28 (1.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 28 (1.67%) Istio
11 25 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
12 23 (1.37%) Salt
12 23 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
13 20 (1.19%) Consul
14 19 (1.13%) HAProxy
15 15 (0.89%) SCCM
16 12 (0.71%) SCOM
17 11 (0.65%) WSUS
18 10 (0.59%) Nagios
Vendors
1 318 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 179 (10.65%) Google
3 68 (4.05%) VMware
4 52 (3.09%) Red Hat
5 44 (2.62%) Databricks
6 40 (2.38%) Xilinx
7 35 (2.08%) Splunk
8 33 (1.96%) Oracle
9 31 (1.84%) BMC
10 27 (1.61%) ServiceNow
11 24 (1.43%) Atlassian
12 23 (1.37%) Cisco
13 21 (1.25%) New Relic
14 17 (1.01%) Arista
14 17 (1.01%) OpenAI
15 16 (0.95%) Aruba
15 16 (0.95%) NetScout
16 15 (0.89%) Black Duck
16 15 (0.89%) Remedy
16 15 (0.89%) SaltStack