Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

infrastructure-as-code

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

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 167 postings naming infrastructure-as-code that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer40.1%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer31.7%
  3. 3Security Engineer15%
  4. 4Data Engineer3.6%
  5. 5AI Engineer2.4%
  6. 6Backend Engineer2.4%
  7. 7Full-Stack Engineer2.4%
  8. 8Machine Learning Engineer1.8%

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 = 30
10th
$118k
25th
$150k
Median
$179k
75th
$220k
90th
$250k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote20.4%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA16.8%
  3. 3New York, NY8.4%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA6.6%
  5. 5Los Angeles, CA4.8%
  6. 6Austin, TX4.2%
  7. 7Washington, DC3.6%
  8. 8Boston, MA3%

How we counted

457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.