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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 124 134
Rank change year-on-year +13 +10 -35
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,149 1,040 1,483
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.87% 2.44% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 2.62% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 807 667 1,239
10th Percentile £46,367 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,500 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.60% +3.45% -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 48,558 39,642 58,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 78.92% 93.04% 88.20%
Number of salaries quoted 29,771 20,090 46,517
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,075 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,001 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 +22 577 £85,000 -5.56% 233
North of England -12 212 £65,250 +1.16% 131
South East +4 127 £72,500 +3.57% 121
North West -13 90 £73,801 +9.33% 75
Yorkshire -14 90 £62,500 +13.64% 37
South West -9 85 £62,500 -10.71% 62
Midlands +4 66 £67,250 +3.46% 30
West Midlands -7 33 £65,000 -3.70% 23
North East -1 32 £48,445 -13.10% 19
East Midlands -1 31 £67,750 +4.23% 7
East of England +18 29 £62,500 -13.79% 14
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 (4.61%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (3.48%) Apache
3 25 (2.18%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (1.22%) Confluence
6 13 (1.13%) IIS
7 10 (0.87%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.26%) Appian
9 3 (0.26%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.17%) CMS
10 2 (0.17%) nginx
10 2 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.087%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.087%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.35%) Weka
2 3 (0.26%) PlantUML
3 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.087%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.087%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.087%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 733 (63.79%) AWS
2 634 (55.18%) Azure
3 259 (22.54%) GCP
4 258 (22.45%) GitHub
5 239 (20.80%) Azure DevOps
6 212 (18.45%) Serverless
7 197 (17.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 177 (15.40%) GitHub Actions
9 134 (11.66%) AWS Lambda
10 119 (10.36%) Amazon S3
11 105 (9.14%) PaaS
12 99 (8.62%) SaaS
13 90 (7.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 90 (7.83%) Entra ID
14 87 (7.57%) Amazon EKS
15 71 (6.18%) Datadog
15 71 (6.18%) IaaS
16 67 (5.83%) Amazon EC2
16 67 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
17 61 (5.31%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 145 (12.62%) Firewall
2 81 (7.05%) DNS
3 76 (6.61%) VPN
4 61 (5.31%) TCP/IP
5 43 (3.74%) WAN
6 32 (2.79%) Broadband
7 31 (2.70%) DHCP
8 29 (2.52%) Network Security
9 18 (1.57%) VLAN
10 17 (1.48%) BGP
10 17 (1.48%) HTTP
10 17 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
11 16 (1.39%) LAN
12 15 (1.31%) Internet
13 11 (0.96%) DSL
14 9 (0.78%) Cisco ASA
14 9 (0.78%) SD-WAN
15 8 (0.70%) SAN
16 6 (0.52%) Wireless
17 5 (0.44%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (8.27%) NoSQL
2 78 (6.79%) PostgreSQL
3 70 (6.09%) Amazon RDS
4 51 (4.44%) DynamoDB
5 50 (4.35%) SQL Server
6 37 (3.22%) MongoDB
7 36 (3.13%) Data Lake
8 33 (2.87%) Relational Database
9 25 (2.18%) MySQL
9 25 (2.18%) Redis
10 24 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
11 23 (2.00%) BigQuery
11 23 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
12 21 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
13 20 (1.74%) Metadata
14 19 (1.65%) RDBMS
15 18 (1.57%) Power BI
16 17 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
17 15 (1.31%) Big Data
18 13 (1.13%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 188 (16.36%) Jenkins
2 150 (13.05%) Git
3 143 (12.45%) GitLab
4 30 (2.61%) JIRA
5 27 (2.35%) CircleCI
6 25 (2.18%) Bitbucket
6 25 (2.18%) Selenium
7 24 (2.09%) Robot Framework
8 23 (2.00%) Jaeger
9 18 (1.57%) Snyk
10 16 (1.39%) MLflow
11 14 (1.22%) Cucumber
12 13 (1.13%) TeamCity
13 11 (0.96%) SonarQube
14 8 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 8 (0.70%) JMeter
14 8 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
14 8 (0.70%) Subversion
15 7 (0.61%) Artifactory
15 7 (0.61%) Storybook
General
1 332 (28.89%) Social Skills
2 257 (22.37%) Finance
3 118 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (7.22%) Banking
5 70 (6.09%) Public Sector
6 67 (5.83%) Law
7 54 (4.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 51 (4.44%) Telecoms
9 50 (4.35%) Retail
10 34 (2.96%) Financial Institution
11 23 (2.00%) Billing
12 22 (1.91%) Marketing
13 21 (1.83%) Back Office
14 18 (1.57%) Games
14 18 (1.57%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.39%) Advertising
15 16 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
16 15 (1.31%) Legal
17 14 (1.22%) Aerospace
18 11 (0.96%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 237 (20.63%) Senior
2 188 (16.36%) Cloud Engineer
3 180 (15.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 140 (12.18%) Lead
5 111 (9.66%) Platform Engineer
6 106 (9.23%) Developer
7 105 (9.14%) Architect
7 105 (9.14%) Azure Engineer
8 88 (7.66%) AWS Engineer
8 88 (7.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 60 (5.22%) Software Engineer
10 51 (4.44%) Data Engineer
11 48 (4.18%) Security Engineer
12 45 (3.92%) Senior DevOps
13 39 (3.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 38 (3.31%) Cloud Security Engineer
15 35 (3.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 34 (2.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 32 (2.79%) Lead DevOps
18 30 (2.61%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (9.75%) React
2 73 (6.35%) Node.js
3 72 (6.27%) .NET
4 68 (5.92%) Elastic Stack
5 66 (5.74%) Kafka
5 66 (5.74%) RESTful
6 58 (5.05%) AWS CDK
7 54 (4.70%) Spring
8 50 (4.35%) Spring Boot
9 43 (3.74%) YAML
10 38 (3.31%) REST
11 35 (3.05%) Django
12 33 (2.87%) FastAPI
13 32 (2.79%) ARM Templates
14 31 (2.70%) CSS
15 30 (2.61%) RabbitMQ
16 27 (2.35%) HTML
17 26 (2.26%) .NET Core
18 25 (2.18%) OpenTelemetry
19 24 (2.09%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 270 (23.50%) Cloud Native
2 76 (6.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 55 (4.79%) Public Cloud
4 51 (4.44%) Security Posture
5 45 (3.92%) Data Centre
6 43 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
7 36 (3.13%) Onboarding
8 32 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
9 28 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
9 28 (2.44%) Product Ownership
10 25 (2.18%) Management Information System
11 23 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
12 21 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
13 18 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (1.48%) Hedge funds
15 15 (1.31%) Blog
15 15 (1.31%) Cloud Security Posture
15 15 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
16 13 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
16 13 (1.13%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 254 (22.11%) Linux
2 120 (10.44%) Windows
3 67 (5.83%) Unix
4 44 (3.83%) Windows Server
5 31 (2.70%) VMS
6 25 (2.18%) Ubuntu
7 20 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (1.31%) CentOS
9 11 (0.96%) Debian
10 9 (0.78%) Android
10 9 (0.78%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.35%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.26%) SUSE
14 2 (0.17%) Solaris
14 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.087%) AIX
15 1 (0.087%) Rocky
15 1 (0.087%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 785 (68.32%) CI/CD
2 718 (62.49%) DevOps
3 330 (28.72%) Agile
4 326 (28.37%) Containerisation
5 253 (22.02%) Observability
6 234 (20.37%) Continuous Improvement
7 231 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
8 205 (17.84%) Mentoring
9 178 (15.49%) AI
10 176 (15.32%) Platform Engineering
11 168 (14.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 162 (14.10%) Software Engineering
13 161 (14.01%) Cloud Security
14 153 (13.32%) Microservices
15 144 (12.53%) Test Automation
16 136 (11.84%) DevSecOps
17 134 (11.66%) Analytics
18 130 (11.31%) High Availability
19 123 (10.70%) Incident Response
20 116 (10.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 519 (45.17%) Python
2 225 (19.58%) Bash
3 179 (15.58%) PowerShell
4 174 (15.14%) SQL
5 149 (12.97%) Java
6 129 (11.23%) Go
7 108 (9.40%) Bicep
8 106 (9.23%) JavaScript
9 92 (8.01%) TypeScript
10 61 (5.31%) C#
11 17 (1.48%) Rust
12 16 (1.39%) C++
12 16 (1.39%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (1.31%) Scala
14 10 (0.87%) C
15 8 (0.70%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.70%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.52%) Ruby
17 5 (0.44%) Apex Code
18 4 (0.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 207 (18.02%) Security Cleared
2 123 (10.70%) SC Cleared
3 104 (9.05%) Degree
4 99 (8.62%) AWS Certification
5 88 (7.66%) DV Cleared
6 66 (5.74%) Azure Certification
7 42 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (2.61%) CISSP
9 28 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (2.09%) OSCP
12 14 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
13 13 (1.13%) Master's Degree
14 11 (0.96%) CCSK
15 9 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.78%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 8 (0.70%) DBS Check
17 7 (0.61%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 7 (0.61%) CCNP
17 7 (0.61%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (4.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 48 (4.18%) GDPR
3 44 (3.83%) SOC 2
4 42 (3.66%) QA
5 40 (3.48%) Data Quality
6 39 (3.39%) NIST
7 35 (3.05%) PCI DSS
8 20 (1.74%) Accessibility
9 13 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.78%) SLA
11 8 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (0.61%) WCAG
13 6 (0.52%) GRC
14 5 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.44%) NCSC
15 4 (0.35%) EU AI Act
16 2 (0.17%) Def Stans
16 2 (0.17%) JSP 440
16 2 (0.17%) NIST 800
17 1 (0.087%) HIPAA
System Software
1 386 (33.59%) Docker
2 84 (7.31%) Active Directory
3 60 (5.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (2.96%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (1.91%) Hyper-V
6 19 (1.65%) vSphere
7 14 (1.22%) VMware NSX
8 13 (1.13%) Firmware
9 6 (0.52%) KVM
10 5 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.26%) iptables
12 3 (0.26%) NFS
12 3 (0.26%) vCloud
12 3 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.17%) GPFS
13 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.17%) XenApp
13 2 (0.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 807 (70.23%) Terraform
2 461 (40.12%) Kubernetes
3 299 (26.02%) Ansible
4 171 (14.88%) Prometheus
5 157 (13.66%) Grafana
6 47 (4.09%) Argo
7 32 (2.79%) Microsoft Intune
8 24 (2.09%) Puppet
9 21 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (1.65%) Kustomize
11 16 (1.39%) Rancher
12 13 (1.13%) Progress Chef
13 12 (1.04%) Docker Swarm
13 12 (1.04%) SCCM
14 10 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 10 (0.87%) Nagios
15 9 (0.78%) AWS Copilot
16 7 (0.61%) Istio
17 6 (0.52%) SCOM
17 6 (0.52%) yum
Vendors
1 188 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 105 (9.14%) Google
3 96 (8.36%) VMware
4 41 (3.57%) Databricks
5 40 (3.48%) Cisco
5 40 (3.48%) Red Hat
6 37 (3.22%) Splunk
7 35 (3.05%) Palo Alto
8 22 (1.91%) Zscaler
9 18 (1.57%) Black Duck
9 18 (1.57%) Coverity
10 14 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
10 14 (1.22%) Oracle
10 14 (1.22%) Salesforce
11 13 (1.13%) Atlassian
11 13 (1.13%) Juniper
12 11 (0.96%) Dynatrace
12 11 (0.96%) New Relic
12 11 (0.96%) SAP
13 10 (0.87%) CyberArk