Which roles ask for Infrastructure as Code at tech companies · 253 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
253 roles counted that list Infrastructure as Code, one per company, title and level; 559 postings in the window.
In short
Infrastructure as Code: listed in 253 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 176 and preferred in 77. The largest group is software engineer roles: 69 of 253 (27%).
- Required
- 176 of 253 (70%)
- Of the roles that list Infrastructure as Code
- Preferred
- 77 of 253 (30%)
- Of the roles that list Infrastructure as Code
- Largest group
- 69 of 253 (27%)
- Software engineer
Roles that ask for Infrastructure as Code
Roles listing Infrastructure as Code, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.
| Role | Roles | Of the role's roles we read |
|---|---|---|
| Software engineer | 69 | 69 of 719 (10%) |
| Site reliability engineer | 41 | 41 of 70 (59%) |
| Security engineer | 34 | 34 of 126 (27%) |
| Platform engineer | 32 | 32 of 57 (56%) |
| DevOps engineer | 31 | 31 of 58 (53%) |
| Data engineer | 18 | 18 of 99 (18%) |
| Forward deployed engineer | 9 | 9 of 63 (14%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 5 | 5 of 79 (6%) |
| Software architect | 5 | 5 of 32 |
| AI engineer | 4 | 4 of 70 (6%) |
Companies that ask for it most
- Akamai Technologies8 roles
- Okta6 roles
- Peraton6 roles
- Zscaler5 roles
- Anthropic4 roles
- Cloudflare4 roles
- GitLab4 roles
- Replit4 roles
- Glean3 roles
- Netskope3 roles
Asked alongside
Out of the 253 Infrastructure as Code roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 144 of 253 (57%) |
| AWS | 139 of 253 (55%) |
| Terraform | 139 of 253 (55%) |
| CI/CD | 124 of 253 (49%) |
| Kubernetes | 114 of 253 (45%) |
| GCP | 85 of 253 (34%) |
| Docker | 80 of 253 (32%) |
| Observability | 79 of 253 (31%) |
| Azure | 78 of 253 (31%) |
| Go | 74 of 253 (29%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Terraform | 55 of 253 (22%) |
| CI/CD | 38 of 253 (15%) |
| AWS | 23 of 253 (9%) |
| Cybersecurity | 23 of 253 (9%) |
| Observability | 23 of 253 (9%) |
| AI | 21 of 253 (8%) |
| Monitoring | 21 of 253 (8%) |
| Azure | 19 of 253 (8%) |
| Incident Response | 19 of 253 (8%) |
| Open Source | 19 of 253 (8%) |
Experience
Of the 132 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 131 of 132 (99%)
- 2+ years
- 129 of 132 (98%)
- 3+ years
- 125 of 132 (95%)
- 5+ years
- 94 of 132 (71%)
- 8+ years
- 27 of 132 (20%)
- 10+ years
- 7 of 132 (5%)
Degree
Of the 182 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 11 of 182 (6%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 38 of 182 (21%)
- Preferred
- 6 of 182 (3%)
- Not mentioned
- 127 of 182 (70%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 253 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Median stated pay
- $178k a year
- Roles stating pay
- 112 of 253 (44%)
- Remote roles
- 185 of 253 (73%)
How we count: 253 roles from 181 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology