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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 147 154
Rank change year-on-year +69 +7 -55
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,948 967 1,367
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.16% 2.23% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.93% 2.48% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,353 661 1,035
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £108,750 £104,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%

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 66,548 38,995 62,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.82% 89.82% 81.69%
Number of salaries quoted 46,995 22,507 43,155
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -11.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.66%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 +27 887 £90,000 - 490
North of England +88 394 £70,239 +0.34% 218
South East +69 238 £67,500 -12.90% 126
North West +91 232 £74,651 +6.64% 116
South West +37 191 £75,000 - 94
Midlands +34 139 £77,500 +19.23% 54
Yorkshire -3 92 £72,500 +3.57% 58
West Midlands +25 85 £80,000 +23.08% 38
North East +12 70 £55,000 -18.52% 44
East Midlands +13 54 £67,500 +3.85% 16
East of England +5 51 £63,750 +2.00% 20
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 53 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (2.21%) Apache Spark
3 42 (2.16%) Apache
4 34 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 26 (1.33%) Confluence
6 11 (0.56%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.51%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.46%) IIS
9 5 (0.26%) CMS
10 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.15%) Camunda
11 3 (0.15%) WordPress
12 2 (0.10%) nginx
12 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.051%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.051%) Documentum
13 1 (0.051%) JBoss
13 1 (0.051%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.051%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (1.03%) PlantUML
2 10 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.10%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.10%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.051%) Maya
5 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.051%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.15%) Summit
2 2 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.051%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.051%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.051%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,115 (57.24%) AWS
2 1,056 (54.21%) Azure
3 345 (17.71%) GCP
4 343 (17.61%) Serverless
5 341 (17.51%) GitHub
6 300 (15.40%) AWS CloudFormation
7 290 (14.89%) Azure DevOps
8 193 (9.91%) GitHub Actions
9 180 (9.24%) Amazon S3
10 177 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
11 160 (8.21%) PaaS
12 132 (6.78%) Amazon EC2
13 122 (6.26%) Amazon EKS
14 117 (6.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 116 (5.95%) SaaS
16 113 (5.80%) IaaS
17 110 (5.65%) Azure AKS
18 108 (5.54%) Entra ID
19 106 (5.44%) Amazon ECS
20 89 (4.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 167 (8.57%) Firewall
2 108 (5.54%) VPN
3 105 (5.39%) DNS
4 96 (4.93%) Network Security
5 66 (3.39%) TCP/IP
6 59 (3.03%) WAN
7 55 (2.82%) Broadband
8 50 (2.57%) BGP
9 38 (1.95%) LAN
10 35 (1.80%) VLAN
11 34 (1.75%) DHCP
12 33 (1.69%) OSPF
13 26 (1.33%) VXLAN
14 23 (1.18%) SD-WAN
15 22 (1.13%) Software-Defined Networking
16 21 (1.08%) HTTP
17 13 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
17 13 (0.67%) Wireless
18 12 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
19 11 (0.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (7.34%) PostgreSQL
2 131 (6.72%) NoSQL
3 88 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
4 85 (4.36%) MongoDB
5 74 (3.80%) DynamoDB
6 70 (3.59%) SQL Server
7 55 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 51 (2.62%) Data Lake
9 48 (2.46%) Metadata
10 43 (2.21%) Relational Database
11 40 (2.05%) MySQL
12 36 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
13 27 (1.39%) Redis
14 25 (1.28%) Delta Lake
14 25 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
15 24 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
16 23 (1.18%) Big Data
16 23 (1.18%) Power BI
17 22 (1.13%) BigQuery
18 20 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 273 (14.01%) GitLab
2 262 (13.45%) Git
3 227 (11.65%) Jenkins
4 43 (2.21%) JIRA
5 42 (2.16%) Cucumber
6 31 (1.59%) Bitbucket
7 29 (1.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 26 (1.33%) CircleCI
8 26 (1.33%) TeamCity
9 18 (0.92%) Selenium
10 17 (0.87%) Claude Code
11 14 (0.72%) SonarQube
12 11 (0.56%) NUnit
13 10 (0.51%) Maven
13 10 (0.51%) MLflow
14 9 (0.46%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.46%) Subversion
15 8 (0.41%) JMeter
15 8 (0.41%) MSI
15 8 (0.41%) Vite
General
1 491 (25.21%) Social Skills
2 388 (19.92%) Finance
3 153 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
4 150 (7.70%) Public Sector
5 97 (4.98%) Banking
6 85 (4.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 64 (3.29%) Law
8 58 (2.98%) Retail
9 44 (2.26%) Games
10 36 (1.85%) Telecoms
11 34 (1.75%) Aerospace
12 28 (1.44%) Manufacturing
13 23 (1.18%) Marketing
14 21 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
14 21 (1.08%) Legal
15 20 (1.03%) Advertising
16 17 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
17 15 (0.77%) Financial Institution
18 13 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
19 10 (0.51%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 464 (23.82%) Senior
2 353 (18.12%) DevOps Engineer
3 262 (13.45%) Lead
4 260 (13.35%) Cloud Engineer
5 209 (10.73%) Architect
6 200 (10.27%) Platform Engineer
7 181 (9.29%) Azure Engineer
8 165 (8.47%) Developer
9 120 (6.16%) AWS Engineer
10 112 (5.75%) Software Engineer
11 109 (5.60%) Data Engineer
12 107 (5.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 97 (4.98%) Principal Engineer
14 89 (4.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 81 (4.16%) Security Engineer
16 77 (3.95%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 71 (3.64%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 68 (3.49%) Senior DevOps
19 62 (3.18%) Senior Cloud Engineer
20 61 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (7.70%) .NET
1 150 (7.70%) React
2 143 (7.34%) Kafka
3 126 (6.47%) REST
4 115 (5.90%) Spring
5 112 (5.75%) RESTful
6 111 (5.70%) Node.js
7 108 (5.54%) Spring Boot
8 74 (3.80%) YAML
9 71 (3.64%) ARM Templates
10 68 (3.49%) PySpark
11 61 (3.13%) AWS CDK
12 57 (2.93%) Elastic Stack
13 46 (2.36%) OAuth
14 43 (2.21%) AngularJS
14 43 (2.21%) Next.js
14 43 (2.21%) RabbitMQ
15 39 (2.00%) JSON
16 38 (1.95%) ASP.NET
16 38 (1.95%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 556 (28.54%) Cloud Native
2 206 (10.57%) Distributed Systems
3 106 (5.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 98 (5.03%) Public Cloud
5 93 (4.77%) Onboarding
6 81 (4.16%) Data Centre
7 59 (3.03%) Product Ownership
8 57 (2.93%) Security Posture
9 55 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
10 49 (2.52%) Video\Live Streaming
11 46 (2.36%) Enterprise Cloud
12 39 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
13 38 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
14 37 (1.90%) Low-Code
15 30 (1.54%) PKI
16 29 (1.49%) e-Learning
17 26 (1.33%) Private Cloud
18 24 (1.23%) Virtual Team
19 23 (1.18%) Data Structures
19 23 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 339 (17.40%) Linux
2 191 (9.80%) Windows
3 87 (4.47%) Windows Server
4 53 (2.72%) CentOS
5 41 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (2.10%) Ubuntu
6 25 (1.28%) Unix
6 25 (1.28%) VMS
7 8 (0.41%) Android
8 7 (0.36%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.31%) Debian
10 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.051%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.051%) Rocky
12 1 (0.051%) Solaris
12 1 (0.051%) SUSE
12 1 (0.051%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,391 (71.41%) CI/CD
2 1,099 (56.42%) DevOps
3 538 (27.62%) Agile
3 538 (27.62%) Containerisation
4 507 (26.03%) Observability
5 453 (23.25%) Platform Engineering
6 430 (22.07%) AI
7 417 (21.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 410 (21.05%) Mentoring
9 353 (18.12%) Software Engineering
10 344 (17.66%) Test Automation
11 337 (17.30%) Microservices
12 312 (16.02%) Problem-Solving
13 290 (14.89%) Technical Leadership
14 285 (14.63%) Cloud Security
15 241 (12.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 226 (11.60%) Roadmaps
17 223 (11.45%) Analytics
18 212 (10.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 209 (10.73%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 881 (45.23%) Python
2 331 (16.99%) SQL
3 324 (16.63%) Bash
4 299 (15.35%) PowerShell
5 272 (13.96%) Java
6 200 (10.27%) Bicep
7 171 (8.78%) TypeScript
8 163 (8.37%) C#
9 160 (8.21%) Go
10 151 (7.75%) JavaScript
11 38 (1.95%) PHP
12 29 (1.49%) Scala
13 26 (1.33%) Rust
14 23 (1.18%) Ruby
15 22 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
16 20 (1.03%) Groovy
16 20 (1.03%) Perl
17 18 (0.92%) C++
18 10 (0.51%) Shell Script
19 9 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 445 (22.84%) Security Cleared
2 277 (14.22%) SC Cleared
3 172 (8.83%) Degree
4 151 (7.75%) DV Cleared
5 144 (7.39%) AWS Certification
6 125 (6.42%) Azure Certification
7 75 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 72 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 50 (2.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 49 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
11 33 (1.69%) CCNP
12 26 (1.33%) Master's Degree
13 22 (1.13%) CISSP
13 22 (1.13%) OSCP
14 18 (0.92%) CCNA
15 14 (0.72%) RHCSA
16 13 (0.67%) CCIE
17 11 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 11 (0.56%) DBS Check
17 11 (0.56%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (4.88%) QA
2 89 (4.57%) Data Quality
3 62 (3.18%) GDPR
4 50 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 38 (1.95%) SOC 2
6 33 (1.69%) NIST
7 30 (1.54%) PCI DSS
8 28 (1.44%) Accessibility
9 17 (0.87%) WCAG
10 13 (0.67%) GRC
10 13 (0.67%) NCSC
11 10 (0.51%) SLA
12 8 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.10%) IFRS
14 2 (0.10%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.10%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.051%) GxP
15 1 (0.051%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 515 (26.44%) Docker
2 120 (6.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 117 (6.01%) Active Directory
4 43 (2.21%) vSphere
5 33 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.98%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.72%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.41%) Squid
10 6 (0.31%) Firmware
10 6 (0.31%) iptables
10 6 (0.31%) KVM
10 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,350 (69.30%) Terraform
2 758 (38.91%) Kubernetes
3 410 (21.05%) Ansible
4 210 (10.78%) Grafana
5 164 (8.42%) Prometheus
6 61 (3.13%) Argo
7 43 (2.21%) Puppet
8 36 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
9 34 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
10 29 (1.49%) Progress Chef
11 26 (1.33%) Istio
11 26 (1.33%) Packer
12 20 (1.03%) Nagios
13 16 (0.82%) FortiGate
14 13 (0.67%) vCenter Server
15 12 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 12 (0.62%) Cilium
15 12 (0.62%) Rancher
16 11 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
16 11 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 394 (20.23%) Microsoft
2 147 (7.55%) VMware
3 91 (4.67%) Google
4 83 (4.26%) Databricks
5 77 (3.95%) Red Hat
6 69 (3.54%) Splunk
7 67 (3.44%) Cisco
8 52 (2.67%) Palo Alto
9 42 (2.16%) Oracle
10 38 (1.95%) Fortinet
11 32 (1.64%) OpenAI
12 28 (1.44%) Zscaler
13 25 (1.28%) Dynatrace
14 15 (0.77%) F5
14 15 (0.77%) ServiceNow
15 13 (0.67%) Salesforce
16 12 (0.62%) Atlassian
16 12 (0.62%) CrowdStrike
16 12 (0.62%) ScienceLogic
17 10 (0.51%) SolarWinds