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

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 174 105 89
Rank change year-on-year -69 -16 +26
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,715 3,022 6,644
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.61% 3.24% 3.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 3.39% 4.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,294 1,857 2,807
10th Percentile £48,250 £48,486 £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 £105,500 £101,250
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 88,771 89,162 163,288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.39% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,540 53,734 83,113
10th Percentile £29,375 £34,000 £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% +9.10%

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 5 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 5 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 -66 1,537 £70,000 -6.67% 450
UK excluding London -68 1,021 £65,000 -6.40% 273
Work from Home -68 765 £70,000 -6.67% 283
London -51 592 £88,250 +10.31% 197
North of England -36 345 £62,783 -9.60% 67
North West -38 195 £65,000 -7.14% 39
South East -121 182 £66,500 -11.33% 49
South West -46 181 £70,000 +3.70% 60
Midlands +18 162 £67,500 -3.57% 53
West Midlands +17 118 £70,000 -1.75% 38
Yorkshire -24 104 £60,000 -11.11% 24
Scotland -103 75 £70,576 +10.71% 20
North East +4 48 £62,783 -3.41% 4
East of England -37 46 £67,500 +12.50% 19
East Midlands -22 44 £57,500 - 15
Wales -53 18 £60,000 -12.40% 4
Northern Ireland 0 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 44 (2.57%) 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 8 (0.47%) Drupal
11 6 (0.35%) JBoss
12 5 (0.29%) CMS
12 5 (0.29%) IIS
12 5 (0.29%) WordPress
13 2 (0.12%) Liferay
13 2 (0.12%) Magnolia
13 2 (0.12%) Moodle
13 2 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
14 1 (0.058%) Jetty
14 1 (0.058%) OpenStack
Applications
1 20 (1.17%) Simulink
2 14 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.058%) Notion
6 1 (0.058%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.52%) 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 1,052 (61.34%) AWS
2 997 (58.13%) Azure
3 351 (20.47%) GCP
4 308 (17.96%) Azure DevOps
5 257 (14.99%) AWS CloudFormation
6 247 (14.40%) Serverless
7 202 (11.78%) GitHub
8 175 (10.20%) PaaS
9 172 (10.03%) Amazon S3
10 169 (9.85%) AWS Lambda
11 145 (8.45%) Amazon EC2
12 135 (7.87%) IaaS
13 128 (7.46%) SaaS
14 89 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
15 87 (5.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 87 (5.07%) Cloud Computing
16 85 (4.96%) Amazon EKS
17 78 (4.55%) Entra ID
18 77 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
19 74 (4.31%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 141 (8.22%) Firewall
2 106 (6.18%) DNS
3 55 (3.21%) Network Security
4 53 (3.09%) 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
1 111 (6.47%) Amazon RDS
2 94 (5.48%) MySQL
3 90 (5.25%) NoSQL
4 79 (4.61%) SQL Server
5 71 (4.14%) Big Data
6 51 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
7 49 (2.86%) MongoDB
7 49 (2.86%) 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 (1.87%) Amazon Aurora
15 29 (1.69%) Cloudera CDH
15 29 (1.69%) RDBMS
16 28 (1.63%) Presto
17 26 (1.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 265 (15.45%) Git
2 221 (12.89%) Jenkins
3 165 (9.62%) GitLab
4 73 (4.26%) 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%) Octopus Deploy
13 15 (0.87%) Subversion
13 15 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
14 14 (0.82%) Selenium
15 13 (0.76%) NUnit
15 13 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
16 11 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 391 (22.80%) Social Skills
2 329 (19.18%) Finance
3 152 (8.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 131 (7.64%) Public Sector
5 94 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
6 82 (4.78%) Law
7 73 (4.26%) Banking
8 67 (3.91%) Retail
9 54 (3.15%) Marketing
10 53 (3.09%) Aerospace
11 52 (3.03%) Legal
12 28 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
13 23 (1.34%) Tech for Good
14 22 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
14 22 (1.28%) Telecoms
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
1 417 (24.31%) Senior
2 373 (21.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 271 (15.80%) Cloud Engineer
4 252 (14.69%) Lead
5 206 (12.01%) Architect
6 197 (11.49%) Software Engineer
7 171 (9.97%) AWS Engineer
8 159 (9.27%) Azure Engineer
9 146 (8.51%) Developer
10 132 (7.70%) Platform Engineer
11 126 (7.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 120 (7.00%) Senior DevOps
13 113 (6.59%) Cloud Architect
14 111 (6.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 91 (5.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 71 (4.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
17 67 (3.91%) Consultant
17 67 (3.91%) Full Stack Developer
18 64 (3.73%) Data Engineer
19 63 (3.67%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (8.80%) React
2 134 (7.81%) Node.js
3 123 (7.17%) ARM Templates
4 100 (5.83%) .NET
5 82 (4.78%) Spring
6 71 (4.14%) REST
7 70 (4.08%) YAML
8 67 (3.91%) Elastic Stack
9 65 (3.79%) JSON
10 64 (3.73%) Spring Boot
11 63 (3.67%) Kafka
12 61 (3.56%) CSS
13 60 (3.50%) AngularJS
14 57 (3.32%) HTML
15 55 (3.21%) AWS CDK
16 51 (2.97%) RabbitMQ
17 49 (2.86%) Swagger
18 43 (2.51%) RESTful
19 38 (2.22%) Lambda Expressions
19 38 (2.22%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 258 (15.04%) Cloud Native
2 237 (13.82%) Public Cloud
3 91 (5.31%) Hybrid Cloud
4 89 (5.19%) Data Centre
5 75 (4.37%) Private Cloud
6 62 (3.62%) Management Information System
7 59 (3.44%) Product Ownership
8 51 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
9 50 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
10 40 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
11 37 (2.16%) PKI
12 28 (1.63%) IoT
12 28 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
13 27 (1.57%) Virtual Team
14 26 (1.52%) Clustering
15 24 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
16 22 (1.28%) Blog
17 20 (1.17%) Onboarding
17 20 (1.17%) PropTech
17 20 (1.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 424 (24.72%) Linux
2 206 (12.01%) Windows
3 84 (4.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 75 (4.37%) Windows Server
5 60 (3.50%) Ubuntu
6 56 (3.27%) CentOS
7 29 (1.69%) Debian
8 28 (1.63%) Unix
9 25 (1.46%) Android
10 21 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
11 19 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 12 (0.70%) Oracle Linux
13 10 (0.58%) Solaris
14 9 (0.52%) Windows 10
15 8 (0.47%) VMS
16 7 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
16 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
17 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
18 3 (0.17%) Rocky
18 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,089 (63.50%) DevOps
2 885 (51.60%) CI/CD
3 673 (39.24%) Agile
4 413 (24.08%) Containerisation
5 364 (21.22%) Software Engineering
6 323 (18.83%) Problem-Solving
7 216 (12.59%) Microservices
8 210 (12.24%) Platform Engineering
9 207 (12.07%) Mentoring
10 203 (11.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 200 (11.66%) Scrum
12 191 (11.14%) Continuous Integration
13 173 (10.09%) Continuous Improvement
14 165 (9.62%) Migration
15 162 (9.45%) Computer Science
16 145 (8.45%) Configuration Management
17 137 (7.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 134 (7.81%) Roadmaps
19 129 (7.52%) Test Automation
20 126 (7.35%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 625 (36.44%) Python
2 315 (18.37%) PowerShell
3 301 (17.55%) Java
4 231 (13.47%) Bash
5 219 (12.77%) SQL
6 209 (12.19%) JavaScript
7 173 (10.09%) C#
8 148 (8.63%) TypeScript
9 136 (7.93%) Go
10 115 (6.71%) Bicep
11 77 (4.49%) PHP
12 53 (3.09%) Kotlin
13 52 (3.03%) C++
14 50 (2.92%) Ruby
15 44 (2.57%) Shell Script
16 32 (1.87%) Scala
17 25 (1.46%) Groovy
18 22 (1.28%) Perl
19 20 (1.17%) VB
20 18 (1.05%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 292 (17.03%) Security Cleared
2 231 (13.47%) Degree
3 207 (12.07%) SC Cleared
4 151 (8.80%) AWS Certification
5 148 (8.63%) Azure Certification
6 139 (8.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 91 (5.31%) DV Cleared
8 55 (3.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 47 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
10 27 (1.57%) Master's Degree
11 23 (1.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 18 (1.05%) 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 65 (3.79%) QA
2 56 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 42 (2.45%) NIST
4 18 (1.05%) GDPR
5 16 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 16 (0.93%) PCI DSS
6 13 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
6 13 (0.76%) SLA
7 8 (0.47%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.47%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.29%) GRC
8 5 (0.29%) NCSC
9 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.17%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.058%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.058%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.058%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.058%) SEPA
11 1 (0.058%) WCAG
System Software
1 474 (27.64%) Docker
2 102 (5.95%) Virtual Machines
3 87 (5.07%) 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 1,154 (67.29%) Terraform
2 671 (39.13%) Kubernetes
3 400 (23.32%) Ansible
4 123 (7.17%) Puppet
5 100 (5.83%) Grafana
6 90 (5.25%) Prometheus
7 65 (3.79%) 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 (1.17%) 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
1 311 (18.13%) Microsoft
2 187 (10.90%) Google
3 66 (3.85%) VMware
4 61 (3.56%) Red Hat
5 45 (2.62%) Splunk
6 41 (2.39%) Citrix
7 37 (2.16%) Databricks
8 36 (2.10%) SaltStack
9 27 (1.57%) Cisco
10 26 (1.52%) New Relic
11 25 (1.46%) Atlassian
11 25 (1.46%) ServiceNow
12 21 (1.22%) Oracle
13 20 (1.17%) Xilinx
14 16 (0.93%) Meraki
15 15 (0.87%) Black Duck
16 13 (0.76%) Zscaler
17 12 (0.70%) Adobe
17 12 (0.70%) Apple
17 12 (0.70%) OpenAI