Infrastructure as Code Job Trends in England

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 132 158
Rank change year-on-year +25 +26 -52
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,336 860 1,484
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.76% 2.34% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 2.51% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 899 630 1,205
10th Percentile £48,400 £47,450 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,596 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £113,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -3.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Infrastructure as Code falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 57,387 34,217 69,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 75.69% 93.06% 85.99%
Number of salaries quoted 36,072 20,488 53,249
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.54%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure as Code relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in England

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Infrastructure as Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in England over the 6 months to 15 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure as Code in England

Infrastructure as Code
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 15 April 2026. 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
London +42 670 £85,000 -5.56% 290
North of England -20 257 £67,500 - 151
South East -8 145 £71,250 -5.00% 117
North West -2 130 £74,051 +2.14% 75
South West -20 100 £62,500 -13.18% 72
Yorkshire -21 94 £65,000 +8.33% 46
Midlands -2 82 £67,500 -3.57% 44
East Midlands -14 42 £67,500 +3.85% 13
West Midlands -14 38 £66,500 -5.00% 31
East of England -5 33 £62,500 -9.09% 39
North East -10 33 £48,445 -15.01% 30
Infrastructure as Code
UK

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 45 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (2.47%) Apache
3 25 (1.87%) Apache Spark
4 22 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.27%) Confluence
6 16 (1.20%) IIS
7 10 (0.75%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.22%) CMS
9 2 (0.15%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.075%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.075%) Camunda
10 1 (0.075%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.075%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.45%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.30%) Weka
3 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.075%) Maya
4 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.075%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.075%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.075%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.075%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.075%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 826 (61.83%) AWS
2 731 (54.72%) Azure
3 291 (21.78%) GCP
4 275 (20.58%) GitHub
5 259 (19.39%) Serverless
6 251 (18.79%) Azure DevOps
7 223 (16.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 193 (14.45%) GitHub Actions
9 148 (11.08%) AWS Lambda
10 131 (9.81%) Amazon S3
11 109 (8.16%) Amazon EKS
12 102 (7.63%) PaaS
13 99 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 99 (7.41%) Entra ID
13 99 (7.41%) SaaS
14 95 (7.11%) Datadog
15 81 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
16 73 (5.46%) IaaS
17 70 (5.24%) Microsoft 365
18 65 (4.87%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 171 (12.80%) Firewall
2 84 (6.29%) DNS
3 73 (5.46%) VPN
4 69 (5.16%) TCP/IP
5 44 (3.29%) WAN
6 39 (2.92%) Network Security
7 38 (2.84%) Broadband
8 31 (2.32%) DHCP
9 24 (1.80%) LAN
10 22 (1.65%) HTTP
11 21 (1.57%) BGP
12 16 (1.20%) Cisco ASA
12 16 (1.20%) VLAN
13 13 (0.97%) DSL
14 12 (0.90%) Internet
14 12 (0.90%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.75%) Software-Defined Networking
16 9 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
17 8 (0.60%) Wireless
18 6 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (8.31%) NoSQL
2 91 (6.81%) PostgreSQL
3 80 (5.99%) Amazon RDS
4 62 (4.64%) SQL Server
5 59 (4.42%) DynamoDB
6 46 (3.44%) MongoDB
7 41 (3.07%) Relational Database
8 40 (2.99%) Data Lake
9 32 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
9 32 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
10 27 (2.02%) MySQL
11 23 (1.72%) BigQuery
11 23 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
12 22 (1.65%) Power BI
13 20 (1.50%) Metadata
13 20 (1.50%) Redis
14 19 (1.42%) RDBMS
15 17 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
15 17 (1.27%) Delta Lake
16 12 (0.90%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 199 (14.90%) Jenkins
2 184 (13.77%) GitLab
3 179 (13.40%) Git
4 35 (2.62%) Bitbucket
4 35 (2.62%) JIRA
5 32 (2.40%) CircleCI
6 24 (1.80%) Cucumber
7 21 (1.57%) Jaeger
7 21 (1.57%) Selenium
8 16 (1.20%) Robot Framework
9 15 (1.12%) TeamCity
10 14 (1.05%) SonarQube
11 13 (0.97%) JMeter
11 13 (0.97%) MLflow
12 12 (0.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 10 (0.75%) Subversion
14 9 (0.67%) Locust
15 8 (0.60%) Snyk
15 8 (0.60%) Storybook
15 8 (0.60%) Vite
General
1 363 (27.17%) Social Skills
2 289 (21.63%) Finance
3 120 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (7.41%) Banking
5 78 (5.84%) Public Sector
6 67 (5.01%) Retail
7 64 (4.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 62 (4.64%) Law
9 56 (4.19%) Telecoms
10 30 (2.25%) Financial Institution
11 24 (1.80%) Manufacturing
12 23 (1.72%) Aerospace
13 22 (1.65%) Back Office
13 22 (1.65%) Billing
13 22 (1.65%) Games
13 22 (1.65%) Marketing
14 19 (1.42%) Advertising
15 15 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
16 14 (1.05%) Electronics
17 13 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 293 (21.93%) Senior
2 219 (16.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 211 (15.79%) Cloud Engineer
4 185 (13.85%) Lead
5 129 (9.66%) Azure Engineer
6 116 (8.68%) Developer
7 112 (8.38%) Platform Engineer
8 109 (8.16%) Architect
9 105 (7.86%) AWS Engineer
10 104 (7.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 70 (5.24%) Software Engineer
12 66 (4.94%) Data Engineer
13 62 (4.64%) Security Engineer
14 57 (4.27%) Senior DevOps
15 52 (3.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 48 (3.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 47 (3.52%) Cloud Security Engineer
18 45 (3.37%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 41 (3.07%) Python Engineer
20 39 (2.92%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (9.21%) React
2 90 (6.74%) .NET
3 89 (6.66%) Node.js
4 78 (5.84%) RESTful
5 77 (5.76%) Kafka
6 75 (5.61%) REST
7 72 (5.39%) Elastic Stack
8 63 (4.72%) Spring
9 61 (4.57%) AWS CDK
10 56 (4.19%) YAML
11 55 (4.12%) Spring Boot
12 47 (3.52%) ARM Templates
13 42 (3.14%) RabbitMQ
14 39 (2.92%) OAuth
15 35 (2.62%) FastAPI
15 35 (2.62%) PySpark
16 34 (2.54%) Django
17 32 (2.40%) CSS
18 30 (2.25%) .NET Core
19 29 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 310 (23.20%) Cloud Native
2 88 (6.59%) Hybrid Cloud
3 68 (5.09%) Distributed Systems
4 57 (4.27%) Security Posture
5 55 (4.12%) Public Cloud
6 46 (3.44%) Data Centre
7 45 (3.37%) Product Ownership
8 34 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (2.25%) Onboarding
10 28 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
11 23 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
11 23 (1.72%) Management Information System
12 22 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (1.57%) Blockchain
14 20 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
15 19 (1.42%) Web3
16 18 (1.35%) Cloud Security Posture
16 18 (1.35%) Hedge funds
17 17 (1.27%) Mobile App
17 17 (1.27%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 297 (22.23%) Linux
2 150 (11.23%) Windows
3 61 (4.57%) Windows Server
4 60 (4.49%) Unix
5 35 (2.62%) Ubuntu
6 29 (2.17%) VMS
7 24 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 23 (1.72%) CentOS
9 13 (0.97%) Android
10 12 (0.90%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.67%) Debian
12 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.30%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.30%) SUSE
14 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.075%) Rocky
15 1 (0.075%) Solaris
15 1 (0.075%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 892 (66.77%) CI/CD
2 814 (60.93%) DevOps
3 385 (28.82%) Containerisation
4 369 (27.62%) Agile
5 330 (24.70%) Observability
6 290 (21.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 247 (18.49%) Mentoring
8 239 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
9 215 (16.09%) Platform Engineering
10 210 (15.72%) Test Automation
11 205 (15.34%) AI
12 197 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 194 (14.52%) Software Engineering
14 191 (14.30%) Microservices
15 187 (14.00%) Cloud Security
16 162 (12.13%) Analytics
17 152 (11.38%) High Availability
18 149 (11.15%) DevSecOps
19 141 (10.55%) Incident Response
20 134 (10.03%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 615 (46.03%) Python
2 268 (20.06%) Bash
3 220 (16.47%) SQL
4 219 (16.39%) PowerShell
5 183 (13.70%) Java
6 154 (11.53%) Go
7 121 (9.06%) Bicep
7 121 (9.06%) JavaScript
8 108 (8.08%) TypeScript
9 71 (5.31%) C#
10 22 (1.65%) C++
11 21 (1.57%) Rust
12 20 (1.50%) Kusto Query Language
13 17 (1.27%) Scala
14 12 (0.90%) C
15 11 (0.82%) Kotlin
16 9 (0.67%) Ruby
17 7 (0.52%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.52%) Perl
18 6 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 230 (17.22%) Security Cleared
2 139 (10.40%) SC Cleared
3 127 (9.51%) Degree
4 109 (8.16%) AWS Certification
5 90 (6.74%) DV Cleared
6 75 (5.61%) Azure Certification
7 55 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (2.32%) OSCP
9 28 (2.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 28 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 27 (2.02%) CISSP
11 17 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
13 11 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 11 (0.82%) CCNP
13 11 (0.82%) CCSK
13 11 (0.82%) DBS Check
13 11 (0.82%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 9 (0.67%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (4.94%) QA
2 56 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 55 (4.12%) GDPR
4 54 (4.04%) SOC 2
5 49 (3.67%) Data Quality
6 41 (3.07%) NIST
6 41 (3.07%) PCI DSS
7 26 (1.95%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.90%) WCAG
9 11 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.60%) GRC
10 8 (0.60%) SLA
11 6 (0.45%) NCSC
12 5 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.30%) EU AI Act
14 2 (0.15%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.15%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 418 (31.29%) Docker
2 91 (6.81%) Active Directory
3 68 (5.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (2.62%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (1.80%) vSphere
6 19 (1.42%) Hyper-V
7 16 (1.20%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.67%) Firmware
9 7 (0.52%) KVM
10 6 (0.45%) iptables
11 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 5 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.15%) GPFS
13 2 (0.15%) Lustre
13 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.15%) Squid
14 1 (0.075%) QEMU
14 1 (0.075%) vCloud
14 1 (0.075%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 948 (70.96%) Terraform
2 551 (41.24%) Kubernetes
3 323 (24.18%) Ansible
4 186 (13.92%) Grafana
5 182 (13.62%) Prometheus
6 51 (3.82%) Argo
7 34 (2.54%) Microsoft Intune
8 27 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
9 25 (1.87%) Puppet
10 19 (1.42%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 17 (1.27%) Rancher
12 14 (1.05%) Nagios
13 13 (0.97%) Progress Chef
14 11 (0.82%) Docker Swarm
15 10 (0.75%) Istio
16 9 (0.67%) Packer
17 8 (0.60%) Cilium
17 8 (0.60%) Proxmox
18 7 (0.52%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 230 (17.22%) Microsoft
2 104 (7.78%) Google
2 104 (7.78%) VMware
3 56 (4.19%) Red Hat
4 54 (4.04%) Databricks
5 47 (3.52%) Cisco
6 43 (3.22%) Splunk
7 39 (2.92%) Palo Alto
8 23 (1.72%) Zscaler
9 19 (1.42%) CrowdStrike
10 18 (1.35%) Salesforce
11 17 (1.27%) OpenAI
12 16 (1.20%) Dynatrace
13 14 (1.05%) Atlassian
13 14 (1.05%) Juniper
13 14 (1.05%) Oracle
14 13 (0.97%) Fortinet
15 11 (0.82%) New Relic
16 10 (0.75%) CyberArk
16 10 (0.75%) SolarWinds