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

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 176 105 89
Rank change year-on-year -71 -16 +26
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,717 3,030 6,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.59% 3.23% 3.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 3.39% 4.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,290 1,868 2,826
10th Percentile £48,250 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,101 £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 £69,474 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.44% +15.79% -

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 89,606 89,460 164,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.05% 95.45% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 62,082 54,032 83,742
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,950 £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 7 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 7 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 -65 1,543 £70,000 -6.67% 444
UK excluding London -74 1,021 £65,000 -6.44% 266
Work from Home -64 763 £70,000 -6.67% 280
London -50 594 £89,000 +11.25% 197
North of England -31 342 £62,783 -9.60% 65
North West -34 192 £65,000 -7.14% 38
South West -39 182 £70,000 +3.70% 59
South East -125 182 £66,500 -11.33% 54
Midlands +12 168 £67,500 -3.57% 49
West Midlands +29 122 £70,000 -3.45% 34
Yorkshire -24 103 £60,000 -11.95% 24
Scotland -98 72 £75,000 +20.00% 17
North East +4 49 £62,783 -5.23% 3
East Midlands -21 46 £57,500 - 15
East of England -28 46 £67,500 -10.00% 15
Wales -52 17 £57,500 -16.05% 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 (4.89%) Apache Spark
2 79 (4.60%) Apache
3 44 (2.56%) Confluence
4 34 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
5 32 (1.86%) 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 (1.16%) Simulink
2 14 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.17%) 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 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.058%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.058%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,055 (61.44%) AWS
2 995 (57.95%) Azure
3 343 (19.98%) GCP
4 306 (17.82%) Azure DevOps
5 260 (15.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 248 (14.44%) Serverless
7 200 (11.65%) GitHub
8 174 (10.13%) Amazon S3
9 172 (10.02%) PaaS
10 170 (9.90%) AWS Lambda
11 146 (8.50%) Amazon EC2
12 135 (7.86%) IaaS
13 128 (7.45%) SaaS
14 90 (5.24%) GitHub Actions
15 89 (5.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 87 (5.07%) Cloud Computing
17 85 (4.95%) Amazon EKS
18 82 (4.78%) Entra ID
19 81 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
20 74 (4.31%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 142 (8.27%) Firewall
2 106 (6.17%) DNS
3 56 (3.26%) Network Security
4 54 (3.15%) VPN
5 39 (2.27%) WAN
6 36 (2.10%) DHCP
7 35 (2.04%) Internet
8 33 (1.92%) TCP/IP
9 29 (1.69%) AMQP
10 23 (1.34%) LAN
11 17 (0.99%) Kerberos
12 15 (0.87%) IPv4
12 15 (0.87%) 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
1 113 (6.58%) Amazon RDS
2 95 (5.53%) MySQL
3 91 (5.30%) NoSQL
4 80 (4.66%) SQL Server
5 71 (4.14%) Big Data
6 52 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
7 49 (2.85%) MongoDB
7 49 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
8 47 (2.74%) Hadoop
9 45 (2.62%) DynamoDB
9 45 (2.62%) Relational Database
10 42 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
11 40 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
12 35 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
13 33 (1.92%) BigQuery
14 32 (1.86%) Amazon Aurora
15 29 (1.69%) Cloudera CDH
15 29 (1.69%) RDBMS
16 28 (1.63%) Presto
17 27 (1.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 267 (15.55%) Git
2 218 (12.70%) Jenkins
3 164 (9.55%) GitLab
4 73 (4.25%) JIRA
5 41 (2.39%) CircleCI
6 35 (2.04%) 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 16 (0.93%) Subversion
13 15 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
13 15 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
14 14 (0.82%) Selenium
15 13 (0.76%) NUnit
15 13 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
15 13 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 391 (22.77%) Social Skills
2 319 (18.58%) Finance
3 151 (8.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 131 (7.63%) Public Sector
5 98 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 82 (4.78%) Law
7 68 (3.96%) Retail
8 67 (3.90%) Banking
9 53 (3.09%) Aerospace
10 52 (3.03%) Legal
10 52 (3.03%) Marketing
11 29 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
12 24 (1.40%) Tech for Good
13 22 (1.28%) Telecoms
14 18 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
16 16 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
17 15 (0.87%) Electronics
17 15 (0.87%) Health Technology
18 12 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 410 (23.88%) Senior
2 368 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 272 (15.84%) Cloud Engineer
4 252 (14.68%) Lead
5 206 (12.00%) Architect
6 195 (11.36%) Software Engineer
7 173 (10.08%) AWS Engineer
8 158 (9.20%) Azure Engineer
9 148 (8.62%) Developer
10 133 (7.75%) Platform Engineer
11 125 (7.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 115 (6.70%) Senior DevOps
13 114 (6.64%) Cloud Architect
14 106 (6.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 92 (5.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 68 (3.96%) Consultant
16 68 (3.96%) Senior Cloud Engineer
17 67 (3.90%) Full Stack Developer
18 64 (3.73%) Data Engineer
19 63 (3.67%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (8.79%) React
2 134 (7.80%) Node.js
3 123 (7.16%) ARM Templates
4 99 (5.77%) .NET
5 82 (4.78%) Spring
6 72 (4.19%) YAML
7 71 (4.14%) REST
8 67 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
9 66 (3.84%) JSON
10 64 (3.73%) Spring Boot
11 63 (3.67%) Kafka
12 62 (3.61%) CSS
13 60 (3.49%) AngularJS
14 58 (3.38%) HTML
15 56 (3.26%) AWS CDK
16 51 (2.97%) RabbitMQ
17 49 (2.85%) Swagger
18 43 (2.50%) RESTful
19 38 (2.21%) Lambda Expressions
19 38 (2.21%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 260 (15.14%) Cloud Native
2 228 (13.28%) Public Cloud
3 91 (5.30%) Hybrid Cloud
4 89 (5.18%) Data Centre
5 75 (4.37%) Private Cloud
6 62 (3.61%) Management Information System
7 56 (3.26%) Product Ownership
8 51 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
9 50 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
10 40 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
11 37 (2.15%) PKI
12 31 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
13 28 (1.63%) IoT
14 27 (1.57%) Virtual Team
15 26 (1.51%) Clustering
16 24 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
17 22 (1.28%) Blog
18 21 (1.22%) PropTech
19 20 (1.16%) Onboarding
19 20 (1.16%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 424 (24.69%) Linux
2 205 (11.94%) Windows
3 84 (4.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 76 (4.43%) Windows Server
5 61 (3.55%) Ubuntu
6 56 (3.26%) CentOS
7 29 (1.69%) Debian
7 29 (1.69%) Unix
8 25 (1.46%) Android
9 21 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
10 19 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
11 12 (0.70%) Oracle Linux
12 10 (0.58%) Solaris
13 9 (0.52%) VMS
13 9 (0.52%) 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 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,086 (63.25%) DevOps
2 883 (51.43%) CI/CD
3 672 (39.14%) Agile
4 418 (24.34%) Containerisation
5 362 (21.08%) Software Engineering
6 327 (19.04%) Problem-Solving
7 216 (12.58%) Microservices
8 211 (12.29%) Platform Engineering
9 205 (11.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 204 (11.88%) Mentoring
11 200 (11.65%) Scrum
12 192 (11.18%) Continuous Integration
13 173 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
14 165 (9.61%) Migration
15 161 (9.38%) Computer Science
16 144 (8.39%) Configuration Management
17 140 (8.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 131 (7.63%) Roadmaps
19 130 (7.57%) Analytics
20 128 (7.45%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 627 (36.52%) Python
2 322 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 300 (17.47%) Java
4 233 (13.57%) Bash
5 218 (12.70%) SQL
6 210 (12.23%) JavaScript
7 173 (10.08%) C#
8 149 (8.68%) TypeScript
9 135 (7.86%) Go
10 118 (6.87%) Bicep
11 77 (4.48%) PHP
12 53 (3.09%) Kotlin
13 52 (3.03%) C++
14 50 (2.91%) Ruby
15 44 (2.56%) Shell Script
16 32 (1.86%) Scala
17 22 (1.28%) Perl
18 21 (1.22%) Groovy
19 20 (1.16%) VB
20 18 (1.05%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 293 (17.06%) Security Cleared
2 230 (13.40%) Degree
3 206 (12.00%) SC Cleared
4 153 (8.91%) AWS Certification
5 151 (8.79%) Azure Certification
6 139 (8.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 91 (5.30%) DV Cleared
8 55 (3.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 49 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 27 (1.57%) 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 (0.52%) 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 66 (3.84%) QA
2 58 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 44 (2.56%) 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 (0.17%) 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
1 471 (27.43%) Docker
2 103 (6.00%) Virtual Machines
3 91 (5.30%) Active Directory
4 58 (3.38%) 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 (0.17%) 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 1,147 (66.80%) Terraform
2 667 (38.85%) Kubernetes
3 397 (23.12%) Ansible
4 123 (7.16%) Puppet
5 100 (5.82%) Grafana
6 91 (5.30%) Prometheus
7 61 (3.55%) Progress Chef
8 35 (2.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 33 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
10 25 (1.46%) HAProxy
11 24 (1.40%) SCCM
12 22 (1.28%) Packer
13 21 (1.22%) Docker Swarm
14 20 (1.16%) SCOM
15 19 (1.11%) Nagios
16 18 (1.05%) logstash
16 18 (1.05%) WSUS
17 14 (0.82%) Kibana
18 13 (0.76%) Argo
18 13 (0.76%) Istio
Vendors
1 317 (18.46%) Microsoft
2 180 (10.48%) Google
3 66 (3.84%) VMware
4 62 (3.61%) Red Hat
5 45 (2.62%) Splunk
6 40 (2.33%) Citrix
7 36 (2.10%) Databricks
7 36 (2.10%) SaltStack
8 27 (1.57%) Cisco
9 26 (1.51%) New Relic
10 25 (1.46%) Atlassian
10 25 (1.46%) ServiceNow
11 21 (1.22%) Oracle
12 20 (1.16%) Xilinx
13 16 (0.93%) Meraki
14 15 (0.87%) Black Duck
15 13 (0.76%) Remedy
15 13 (0.76%) Zscaler
16 12 (0.70%) Apple
16 12 (0.70%) OpenAI