Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

infrastructure-as-code

206 live US technical postings name infrastructure-as-code in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 206 postings naming infrastructure-as-code that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer55.3%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer20.4%
  3. 3Security Engineer11.7%
  4. 4Data Engineer3.4%
  5. 5AI Engineer2.9%
  6. 6Backend Engineer2.9%
  7. 7Full-Stack Engineer1.5%
  8. 8Frontend Engineer1%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where infrastructure-as-code is named
n = 122
10th
$119k
25th
$155k
Median
$190k
75th
$228k
90th
$265k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA14.1%
  2. 2Remote12.1%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA9.2%
  4. 4New York, NY8.7%
  5. 5Boston, MA4.4%
  6. 6Los Angeles, CA4.4%
  7. 7Seattle, WA2.4%
  8. 8Austin, TX1.9%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.