Infrastructure Engineer jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities
As of 2026-05-17, Skillenai has indexed 599 job postings with the title “Infrastructure Engineer” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is Terraform, with demand down 55% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-05-17
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+How many Infrastructure Engineer jobs are being posted in 2026?
Skillenai has indexed 599 job postings with the title “Infrastructure Engineer” over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17, with demand down 55% vs the prior 4 weeks.
+What skills do Infrastructure Engineer jobs require?
Across Infrastructure Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17, the skills mentioned most often are Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, Python, CI/CD.
+Which cities are hiring the most Infrastructure Engineer?
As of 2026-05-17, Infrastructure Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai are concentrated in San Francisco, New York City, London, Seattle, Palo Alto.
+Is Infrastructure Engineer a good career path right now?
Skillenai indexes 599 Infrastructure Engineer postings over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17, with demand down 55% vs the prior 4 weeks. The skill mentioned most often in Infrastructure Engineer postings is Terraform, so building it gives the strongest signal that an applicant matches the role.
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Weekly Infrastructure Engineer postings — last 90 days
Skills most often required for Infrastructure Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Terraform | 288 | 13.2% |
| Kubernetes | 271 | 12.4% |
| AWS | 237 | 10.9% |
| Python | 196 | 9.0% |
| CI/CD | 167 | 7.7% |
| observability | 140 | 6.4% |
| monitoring | 127 | 5.8% |
| Linux | 104 | 4.8% |
| Docker | 102 | 4.7% |
| Go | 97 | 4.4% |
| Grafana | 96 | 4.4% |
| GCP | 95 | 4.4% |
| infrastructure as code | 93 | 4.3% |
| Prometheus | 85 | 3.9% |
| automation | 83 | 3.8% |
Top metros hiring Infrastructure Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 53 | 31.0% |
| New York City | 43 | 25.1% |
| London | 23 | 13.5% |
| Seattle | 16 | 9.4% |
| Palo Alto | 8 | 4.7% |
| Washington | 8 | 4.7% |
| Toronto | 7 | 4.1% |
| Uk | 7 | 4.1% |
| Chicago | 6 | 3.5% |
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17, matching postings whose canonical role is “Infrastructure Engineer”. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-posted roles).
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- Infrastructure Engineer
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The demand, skills, and geo numbers on this page come from the same Skillenai labor market index that powers our API. Use it for compensation benchmarking, hiring-competition analysis, and skill-adoption tracking.
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