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 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 122 138
Rank change year-on-year +10 +16 -38
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,144 1,012 1,479
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.85% 2.41% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 2.59% 2.43%
Number of salaries quoted 803 664 1,230
10th Percentile £46,289 £47,150 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £74,250
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -1.00%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,313 £95,000
90th Percentile £114,500 £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 48,700 39,131 60,827
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 78.70% 93.13% 87.90%
Number of salaries quoted 29,868 20,064 47,917
10th Percentile £29,250 £33,200 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +12.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £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 1 March 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 1 March 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 +23 575 £85,000 -5.56% 268
North of England -8 210 £65,250 +1.16% 181
South East -1 127 £72,500 +3.57% 228
Yorkshire -11 90 £62,500 +16.28% 61
North West -11 89 £73,801 +9.33% 92
South West -15 83 £62,500 -13.18% 108
Midlands -1 66 £67,250 +3.46% 65
West Midlands -4 33 £65,000 - 32
North East -4 31 £48,445 -13.10% 28
East Midlands -6 31 £67,750 +4.23% 30
East of England +18 29 £62,500 -13.79% 65
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 52 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (3.50%) Apache
3 25 (2.19%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (1.22%) Confluence
6 13 (1.14%) 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%) PlantUML
1 4 (0.35%) Weka
2 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Office
3 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
1 731 (63.90%) AWS
2 629 (54.98%) Azure
3 257 (22.47%) GCP
4 256 (22.38%) GitHub
5 237 (20.72%) Azure DevOps
6 213 (18.62%) Serverless
7 197 (17.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 176 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
9 134 (11.71%) AWS Lambda
10 119 (10.40%) Amazon S3
11 106 (9.27%) PaaS
12 100 (8.74%) SaaS
13 90 (7.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 89 (7.78%) Entra ID
15 87 (7.60%) Amazon EKS
16 73 (6.38%) Datadog
17 71 (6.21%) IaaS
18 67 (5.86%) Amazon EC2
18 67 (5.86%) Microsoft 365
19 61 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 143 (12.50%) Firewall
2 80 (6.99%) DNS
3 76 (6.64%) VPN
4 60 (5.24%) TCP/IP
5 41 (3.58%) WAN
6 32 (2.80%) Broadband
7 31 (2.71%) DHCP
8 29 (2.53%) Network Security
9 18 (1.57%) VLAN
10 17 (1.49%) BGP
10 17 (1.49%) HTTP
10 17 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (1.31%) Internet
11 15 (1.31%) LAN
12 11 (0.96%) DSL
13 9 (0.79%) Cisco ASA
13 9 (0.79%) SD-WAN
14 8 (0.70%) SAN
15 6 (0.52%) Wireless
16 5 (0.44%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (8.30%) NoSQL
2 78 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
3 70 (6.12%) Amazon RDS
4 51 (4.46%) DynamoDB
5 50 (4.37%) SQL Server
6 38 (3.32%) MongoDB
7 36 (3.15%) Data Lake
8 33 (2.88%) Relational Database
9 25 (2.19%) MySQL
9 25 (2.19%) Redis
10 24 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
11 23 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
12 22 (1.92%) BigQuery
13 20 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
13 20 (1.75%) Metadata
14 19 (1.66%) RDBMS
15 18 (1.57%) Power BI
16 17 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
17 15 (1.31%) Big Data
18 13 (1.14%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 187 (16.35%) Jenkins
2 149 (13.02%) Git
3 143 (12.50%) GitLab
4 30 (2.62%) JIRA
5 27 (2.36%) CircleCI
6 26 (2.27%) Bitbucket
7 25 (2.19%) Selenium
8 24 (2.10%) Robot Framework
9 23 (2.01%) Jaeger
10 18 (1.57%) Snyk
11 16 (1.40%) Cucumber
11 16 (1.40%) MLflow
12 13 (1.14%) TeamCity
13 11 (0.96%) SonarQube
14 10 (0.87%) JMeter
15 8 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 8 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
15 8 (0.70%) Subversion
16 7 (0.61%) Artifactory
16 7 (0.61%) Locust
General
1 331 (28.93%) Social Skills
2 256 (22.38%) Finance
3 118 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (7.17%) Banking
5 70 (6.12%) Public Sector
6 67 (5.86%) Law
7 56 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 51 (4.46%) Telecoms
9 50 (4.37%) Retail
10 34 (2.97%) Financial Institution
11 23 (2.01%) Billing
12 22 (1.92%) Marketing
13 21 (1.84%) Back Office
14 18 (1.57%) Games
14 18 (1.57%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.40%) Advertising
15 16 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
16 15 (1.31%) Legal
17 14 (1.22%) Aerospace
18 11 (0.96%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 238 (20.80%) Senior
2 186 (16.26%) Cloud Engineer
3 178 (15.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 141 (12.33%) Lead
5 110 (9.62%) Platform Engineer
6 106 (9.27%) Developer
7 105 (9.18%) Architect
7 105 (9.18%) Azure Engineer
8 88 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
9 87 (7.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 61 (5.33%) Software Engineer
11 51 (4.46%) Data Engineer
12 48 (4.20%) Security Engineer
13 44 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
14 38 (3.32%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 38 (3.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 35 (3.06%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 34 (2.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 32 (2.80%) Lead DevOps
18 30 (2.62%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (9.79%) React
2 73 (6.38%) Node.js
3 72 (6.29%) .NET
4 68 (5.94%) Elastic Stack
5 67 (5.86%) RESTful
6 66 (5.77%) Kafka
7 58 (5.07%) AWS CDK
8 54 (4.72%) Spring
9 50 (4.37%) Spring Boot
10 43 (3.76%) YAML
11 38 (3.32%) REST
12 35 (3.06%) Django
13 33 (2.88%) FastAPI
14 32 (2.80%) ARM Templates
15 31 (2.71%) CSS
16 30 (2.62%) RabbitMQ
17 27 (2.36%) HTML
18 26 (2.27%) .NET Core
19 25 (2.19%) OpenTelemetry
20 24 (2.10%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 268 (23.43%) Cloud Native
2 75 (6.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 52 (4.55%) Public Cloud
4 51 (4.46%) Security Posture
5 44 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
6 43 (3.76%) Data Centre
7 35 (3.06%) Onboarding
8 32 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
9 28 (2.45%) Product Ownership
10 27 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
11 24 (2.10%) Management Information System
12 23 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
13 21 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
14 18 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
15 17 (1.49%) Hedge funds
16 15 (1.31%) Blog
16 15 (1.31%) Cloud Security Posture
16 15 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
17 14 (1.22%) Mobile App
18 13 (1.14%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 251 (21.94%) Linux
2 120 (10.49%) Windows
3 66 (5.77%) Unix
4 44 (3.85%) Windows Server
5 31 (2.71%) VMS
6 24 (2.10%) Ubuntu
7 18 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (1.31%) CentOS
9 10 (0.87%) Android
10 9 (0.79%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.79%) Debian
11 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.35%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.26%) SUSE
14 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.087%) Rocky
15 1 (0.087%) Solaris
15 1 (0.087%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 784 (68.53%) CI/CD
2 715 (62.50%) DevOps
3 331 (28.93%) Agile
4 324 (28.32%) Containerisation
5 255 (22.29%) Observability
6 234 (20.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 229 (20.02%) Problem-Solving
8 204 (17.83%) Mentoring
9 176 (15.38%) AI
10 175 (15.30%) Platform Engineering
11 169 (14.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 163 (14.25%) Software Engineering
13 158 (13.81%) Cloud Security
14 153 (13.37%) Microservices
15 147 (12.85%) Test Automation
16 134 (11.71%) Analytics
16 134 (11.71%) DevSecOps
17 129 (11.28%) High Availability
18 123 (10.75%) Incident Response
19 114 (9.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 516 (45.10%) Python
2 224 (19.58%) Bash
3 177 (15.47%) PowerShell
4 174 (15.21%) SQL
5 152 (13.29%) Java
6 130 (11.36%) Go
7 106 (9.27%) JavaScript
8 105 (9.18%) Bicep
9 93 (8.13%) TypeScript
10 60 (5.24%) C#
11 17 (1.49%) Rust
12 16 (1.40%) C++
12 16 (1.40%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (1.31%) Scala
14 10 (0.87%) C
15 8 (0.70%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.61%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.52%) Ruby
18 5 (0.44%) Apex Code
19 4 (0.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 206 (18.01%) Security Cleared
2 122 (10.66%) SC Cleared
3 104 (9.09%) Degree
4 97 (8.48%) AWS Certification
5 87 (7.60%) DV Cleared
6 65 (5.68%) Azure Certification
7 42 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (2.62%) CISSP
9 28 (2.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (2.10%) OSCP
12 14 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
13 13 (1.14%) Master's Degree
14 11 (0.96%) CCSK
15 9 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 8 (0.70%) DBS Check
17 7 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 7 (0.61%) CCNP
17 7 (0.61%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 48 (4.20%) GDPR
3 44 (3.85%) QA
3 44 (3.85%) SOC 2
4 40 (3.50%) Data Quality
5 39 (3.41%) NIST
6 35 (3.06%) PCI DSS
7 22 (1.92%) Accessibility
8 13 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (0.79%) SLA
9 9 (0.79%) WCAG
10 8 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.52%) GRC
12 5 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.44%) NCSC
13 4 (0.35%) EU AI Act
14 2 (0.17%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.17%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.17%) NIST 800
15 1 (0.087%) HIPAA
System Software
1 387 (33.83%) Docker
2 82 (7.17%) Active Directory
3 58 (5.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (1.84%) Hyper-V
6 18 (1.57%) vSphere
7 14 (1.22%) VMware NSX
8 13 (1.14%) Firmware
9 5 (0.44%) KVM
9 5 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.26%) iptables
11 3 (0.26%) vCloud
11 3 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.17%) GPFS
12 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.17%) NFS
12 2 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.17%) XenApp
12 2 (0.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 802 (70.10%) Terraform
2 459 (40.12%) Kubernetes
3 295 (25.79%) Ansible
4 171 (14.95%) Prometheus
5 159 (13.90%) Grafana
6 47 (4.11%) Argo
7 32 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
8 23 (2.01%) Puppet
9 21 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (1.66%) Kustomize
11 16 (1.40%) Rancher
12 12 (1.05%) Docker Swarm
12 12 (1.05%) Progress Chef
12 12 (1.05%) SCCM
13 10 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 10 (0.87%) Nagios
14 9 (0.79%) AWS Copilot
15 7 (0.61%) Istio
16 6 (0.52%) linkerd
16 6 (0.52%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 187 (16.35%) Microsoft
2 103 (9.00%) Google
3 94 (8.22%) VMware
4 41 (3.58%) Databricks
5 39 (3.41%) Cisco
6 37 (3.23%) Red Hat
6 37 (3.23%) Splunk
7 34 (2.97%) Palo Alto
8 22 (1.92%) Zscaler
9 18 (1.57%) Black Duck
9 18 (1.57%) Coverity
10 14 (1.22%) Oracle
10 14 (1.22%) Salesforce
11 13 (1.14%) Atlassian
11 13 (1.14%) CrowdStrike
11 13 (1.14%) Juniper
12 11 (0.96%) Dynatrace
12 11 (0.96%) New Relic
12 11 (0.96%) SAP
13 10 (0.87%) CyberArk