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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 130 129
Rank change year-on-year +15 -1 -30
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,062 1,083 1,528
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.86% 2.35% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 2.56% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 760 669 1,270
10th Percentile £46,446 £48,100 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,901 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £112,750 £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 45,803 42,292 57,583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 80.03% 91.93% 88.39%
Number of salaries quoted 27,773 20,667 45,655
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,205 £55,440
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% +12.20% -11.30%
75th Percentile £77,424 £81,250 £75,772
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 6 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 6 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 +15 516 £85,000 -5.56% 246
North of England -16 206 £65,250 +1.95% 116
South East +12 118 £75,000 +7.14% 118
Yorkshire -7 91 £62,500 +13.64% 37
North West -10 86 £70,000 +1.82% 69
South West -14 77 £62,500 -13.18% 72
Midlands +7 60 £65,250 -0.38% 33
West Midlands +2 34 £62,500 -9.09% 27
East of England +27 30 £75,000 +3.45% 10
North East -10 29 £62,500 +28.21% 10
East Midlands +1 24 £67,500 +3.85% 6
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 49 (4.61%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (3.39%) Apache
3 21 (1.98%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.41%) Confluence
6 11 (1.04%) IIS
6 11 (1.04%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.28%) Appian
8 3 (0.28%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.19%) CMS
9 2 (0.19%) nginx
9 2 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.094%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.094%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.38%) Weka
2 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.094%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.094%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.094%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.094%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 671 (63.18%) AWS
2 602 (56.69%) Azure
3 242 (22.79%) GitHub
4 241 (22.69%) Azure DevOps
5 236 (22.22%) GCP
6 195 (18.36%) Serverless
7 183 (17.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 160 (15.07%) GitHub Actions
9 128 (12.05%) AWS Lambda
10 109 (10.26%) Amazon S3
11 104 (9.79%) SaaS
12 91 (8.57%) PaaS
13 83 (7.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 82 (7.72%) Entra ID
15 77 (7.25%) Amazon EKS
16 66 (6.21%) IaaS
17 63 (5.93%) Amazon EC2
18 59 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
18 59 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
18 59 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 131 (12.34%) Firewall
2 76 (7.16%) VPN
3 74 (6.97%) DNS
4 52 (4.90%) TCP/IP
5 42 (3.95%) WAN
6 31 (2.92%) DHCP
7 27 (2.54%) Broadband
7 27 (2.54%) Network Security
8 20 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
9 18 (1.69%) BGP
10 17 (1.60%) LAN
10 17 (1.60%) VLAN
11 16 (1.51%) Internet
12 12 (1.13%) HTTP
12 12 (1.13%) SD-WAN
13 8 (0.75%) DSL
14 7 (0.66%) SAN
15 6 (0.56%) OSPF
15 6 (0.56%) VoIP
15 6 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (8.57%) NoSQL
2 71 (6.69%) PostgreSQL
3 67 (6.31%) Amazon RDS
4 51 (4.80%) SQL Server
5 48 (4.52%) DynamoDB
6 41 (3.86%) Data Lake
7 35 (3.30%) MongoDB
8 29 (2.73%) Relational Database
9 27 (2.54%) BigQuery
10 26 (2.45%) MySQL
11 22 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
12 21 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
13 19 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
13 19 (1.79%) RDBMS
13 19 (1.79%) Redis
14 16 (1.51%) Big Data
14 16 (1.51%) Power BI
15 15 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
16 14 (1.32%) Metadata
17 13 (1.22%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 183 (17.23%) Jenkins
2 144 (13.56%) Git
3 120 (11.30%) GitLab
4 29 (2.73%) JIRA
5 25 (2.35%) Selenium
6 24 (2.26%) Robot Framework
7 22 (2.07%) Bitbucket
8 21 (1.98%) CircleCI
8 21 (1.98%) Jaeger
9 18 (1.69%) Snyk
10 17 (1.60%) MLflow
11 14 (1.32%) TeamCity
12 12 (1.13%) Cucumber
13 11 (1.04%) SonarQube
14 8 (0.75%) Artifactory
14 8 (0.75%) JMeter
15 7 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
15 7 (0.66%) Subversion
15 7 (0.66%) Vite
16 6 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 303 (28.53%) Social Skills
2 235 (22.13%) Finance
3 96 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (6.59%) Banking
5 60 (5.65%) Law
6 59 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 48 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 45 (4.24%) Telecoms
9 44 (4.14%) Retail
10 33 (3.11%) Financial Institution
11 23 (2.17%) Billing
12 21 (1.98%) Games
12 21 (1.98%) Marketing
13 19 (1.79%) Back Office
13 19 (1.79%) Manufacturing
14 18 (1.69%) Legal
15 14 (1.32%) Advertising
15 14 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (1.22%) Aerospace
17 12 (1.13%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 208 (19.59%) Senior
2 179 (16.85%) Cloud Engineer
3 167 (15.73%) DevOps Engineer
4 119 (11.21%) Lead
5 105 (9.89%) Developer
5 105 (9.89%) Platform Engineer
6 100 (9.42%) Azure Engineer
7 96 (9.04%) Architect
8 80 (7.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 75 (7.06%) AWS Engineer
10 51 (4.80%) Software Engineer
11 45 (4.24%) Data Engineer
12 43 (4.05%) Security Engineer
13 42 (3.95%) Senior DevOps
14 37 (3.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 34 (3.20%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 34 (3.20%) Cloud Security Engineer
16 31 (2.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 30 (2.82%) GCP Engineer
17 30 (2.82%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (10.08%) React
2 82 (7.72%) .NET
3 69 (6.50%) Node.js
4 66 (6.21%) RESTful
5 64 (6.03%) Elastic Stack
6 54 (5.08%) Kafka
7 50 (4.71%) AWS CDK
8 44 (4.14%) Spring
9 41 (3.86%) YAML
10 40 (3.77%) Spring Boot
11 38 (3.58%) REST
12 33 (3.11%) ARM Templates
13 31 (2.92%) .NET Core
13 31 (2.92%) Django
13 31 (2.92%) FastAPI
14 29 (2.73%) CSS
15 28 (2.64%) HTML
16 25 (2.35%) OpenTelemetry
17 23 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
18 20 (1.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 255 (24.01%) Cloud Native
2 68 (6.40%) Hybrid Cloud
3 54 (5.08%) Public Cloud
4 49 (4.61%) Data Centre
5 44 (4.14%) Security Posture
6 37 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
7 32 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
7 32 (3.01%) Onboarding
8 24 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
8 24 (2.26%) Product Ownership
9 23 (2.17%) Management Information System
10 21 (1.98%) Linux Command Line
11 18 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
12 15 (1.41%) Hedge funds
12 15 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (1.32%) Blog
14 13 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
14 13 (1.22%) Data Structures
15 12 (1.13%) Distributed Architecture
15 12 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 235 (22.13%) Linux
2 109 (10.26%) Windows
3 58 (5.46%) Unix
4 37 (3.48%) Windows Server
5 32 (3.01%) VMS
6 25 (2.35%) Ubuntu
7 16 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (1.32%) Debian
9 11 (1.04%) CentOS
10 6 (0.56%) Android
10 6 (0.56%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.38%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.28%) SUSE
14 2 (0.19%) Solaris
14 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.094%) AIX
15 1 (0.094%) Rocky
15 1 (0.094%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 720 (67.80%) CI/CD
2 669 (62.99%) DevOps
3 305 (28.72%) Agile
4 297 (27.97%) Containerisation
5 212 (19.96%) Continuous Improvement
6 211 (19.87%) Observability
7 210 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
8 181 (17.04%) Mentoring
9 166 (15.63%) Platform Engineering
10 160 (15.07%) AI
11 159 (14.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 151 (14.22%) Cloud Security
12 151 (14.22%) Software Engineering
13 133 (12.52%) Microservices
14 129 (12.15%) Analytics
15 126 (11.86%) DevSecOps
15 126 (11.86%) High Availability
16 123 (11.58%) Test Automation
17 105 (9.89%) Incident Response
18 103 (9.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 475 (44.73%) Python
2 210 (19.77%) Bash
3 171 (16.10%) PowerShell
4 164 (15.44%) SQL
5 130 (12.24%) Java
6 116 (10.92%) Go
7 114 (10.73%) Bicep
8 106 (9.98%) JavaScript
9 90 (8.47%) TypeScript
10 70 (6.59%) C#
11 16 (1.51%) Kusto Query Language
12 15 (1.41%) Scala
13 14 (1.32%) C++
13 14 (1.32%) Rust
14 9 (0.85%) C
14 9 (0.85%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.66%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.38%) Ruby
16 4 (0.38%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.28%) VB
Qualifications
1 180 (16.95%) Security Cleared
2 106 (9.98%) SC Cleared
3 101 (9.51%) AWS Certification
4 95 (8.95%) Degree
5 81 (7.63%) DV Cleared
6 65 (6.12%) Azure Certification
7 41 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (2.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 27 (2.54%) CISSP
10 26 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (1.69%) Master's Degree
11 18 (1.69%) OSCP
12 14 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
13 13 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (1.04%) CCNP
15 9 (0.85%) CCSK
15 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 7 (0.66%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 7 (0.66%) CISM
16 7 (0.66%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (5.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 48 (4.52%) GDPR
3 40 (3.77%) SOC 2
4 38 (3.58%) NIST
5 36 (3.39%) QA
6 35 (3.30%) Data Quality
7 33 (3.11%) PCI DSS
8 19 (1.79%) Accessibility
9 15 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 9 (0.85%) SLA
12 6 (0.56%) GRC
12 6 (0.56%) WCAG
13 5 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.47%) NCSC
14 4 (0.38%) EU AI Act
15 2 (0.19%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.19%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.19%) NIST 800
16 1 (0.094%) HIPAA
System Software
1 354 (33.33%) Docker
2 80 (7.53%) Active Directory
3 56 (5.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (3.11%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (1.88%) Hyper-V
6 16 (1.51%) vSphere
7 13 (1.22%) VMware NSX
8 11 (1.04%) Firmware
9 6 (0.56%) KVM
9 6 (0.56%) NFS
9 6 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.28%) vCloud
12 2 (0.19%) GPFS
12 2 (0.19%) iptables
12 2 (0.19%) Lustre
12 2 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.19%) XenApp
12 2 (0.19%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 759 (71.47%) Terraform
2 425 (40.02%) Kubernetes
3 282 (26.55%) Ansible
4 155 (14.60%) Prometheus
5 138 (12.99%) Grafana
6 42 (3.95%) Argo
7 28 (2.64%) Microsoft Intune
8 21 (1.98%) Puppet
9 19 (1.79%) Kustomize
9 19 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (1.51%) Rancher
11 13 (1.22%) Progress Chef
11 13 (1.22%) SCCM
12 10 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
13 9 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.56%) AWS Copilot
14 6 (0.56%) Istio
14 6 (0.56%) SCOM
14 6 (0.56%) vCenter Server
14 6 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 188 (17.70%) Microsoft
2 99 (9.32%) Google
3 87 (8.19%) VMware
4 41 (3.86%) Databricks
5 40 (3.77%) Cisco
6 33 (3.11%) Palo Alto
6 33 (3.11%) Splunk
7 31 (2.92%) Red Hat
8 22 (2.07%) Zscaler
9 18 (1.69%) Black Duck
9 18 (1.69%) Coverity
10 15 (1.41%) CrowdStrike
11 13 (1.22%) Atlassian
11 13 (1.22%) Salesforce
12 12 (1.13%) Oracle
12 12 (1.13%) SAP
13 11 (1.04%) Juniper
13 11 (1.04%) SolarWinds
14 10 (0.94%) New Relic
15 9 (0.85%) CyberArk