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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 160 143
Rank change year-on-year +81 -17 -45
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,092 947 1,311
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.22% 2.17% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.01% 2.43% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,425 670 954
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,326 £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 £92,500 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £108,750 £102,500
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 69,561 39,049 58,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.70% 89.35% 81.24%
Number of salaries quoted 49,075 22,526 38,528
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 August 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 August 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 +30 929 £90,000 +2.86% 1,184
North of England +92 439 £70,000 - 269
South East +76 253 £67,500 -12.90% 213
North West +92 245 £72,500 +3.57% 152
South West +46 224 £75,000 - 166
Midlands +42 147 £77,500 +19.23% 87
Yorkshire +13 104 £72,500 +3.57% 77
West Midlands +18 91 £80,000 +23.08% 54
North East +17 90 £57,000 -17.09% 40
East Midlands +15 56 £67,500 +3.85% 33
East of England +4 56 £70,000 +7.69% 56
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 55 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
2 52 (2.49%) Apache Spark
3 51 (2.44%) Apache
4 29 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (1.34%) Confluence
6 13 (0.62%) Jupyter
7 9 (0.43%) IIS
7 9 (0.43%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.24%) CMS
9 4 (0.19%) Camunda
9 4 (0.19%) nginx
10 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.14%) WordPress
11 2 (0.096%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.048%) Documentum
12 1 (0.048%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.048%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.048%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (1.00%) PlantUML
2 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.096%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.096%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.048%) Maya
5 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.048%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.14%) Summit
2 2 (0.096%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.048%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.048%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.048%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.048%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,202 (57.46%) AWS
2 1,117 (53.39%) Azure
3 390 (18.64%) GCP
4 361 (17.26%) GitHub
5 350 (16.73%) Serverless
6 328 (15.68%) AWS CloudFormation
7 289 (13.81%) Azure DevOps
8 199 (9.51%) GitHub Actions
9 185 (8.84%) Amazon S3
10 181 (8.65%) AWS Lambda
11 160 (7.65%) PaaS
12 139 (6.64%) Amazon EC2
13 124 (5.93%) Amazon EKS
14 121 (5.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 118 (5.64%) Azure AKS
16 117 (5.59%) Amazon ECS
17 116 (5.54%) SaaS
18 112 (5.35%) IaaS
19 108 (5.16%) Entra ID
20 102 (4.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 164 (7.84%) Firewall
2 108 (5.16%) DNS
3 105 (5.02%) VPN
4 98 (4.68%) Network Security
5 63 (3.01%) TCP/IP
6 61 (2.92%) WAN
7 52 (2.49%) BGP
8 51 (2.44%) Broadband
9 41 (1.96%) LAN
10 40 (1.91%) DHCP
11 36 (1.72%) OSPF
12 34 (1.63%) VLAN
13 27 (1.29%) VXLAN
14 26 (1.24%) Software-Defined Networking
15 24 (1.15%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.76%) HTTP
17 15 (0.72%) Wireless
18 14 (0.67%) SAN
19 13 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
20 12 (0.57%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (7.17%) PostgreSQL
2 136 (6.50%) NoSQL
3 89 (4.25%) MongoDB
4 87 (4.16%) Amazon RDS
5 78 (3.73%) DynamoDB
6 77 (3.68%) SQL Server
7 57 (2.72%) Data Lake
8 54 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
9 51 (2.44%) Metadata
10 48 (2.29%) MySQL
10 48 (2.29%) Relational Database
11 41 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
12 29 (1.39%) Delta Lake
12 29 (1.39%) Redis
13 28 (1.34%) Big Data
14 27 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
15 25 (1.20%) BigQuery
15 25 (1.20%) Power BI
16 22 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
17 21 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 281 (13.43%) Git
2 270 (12.91%) GitLab
3 229 (10.95%) Jenkins
4 52 (2.49%) JIRA
5 43 (2.06%) Cucumber
6 31 (1.48%) Bitbucket
7 30 (1.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 27 (1.29%) TeamCity
9 21 (1.00%) CircleCI
10 20 (0.96%) Selenium
11 18 (0.86%) Claude Code
12 15 (0.72%) NUnit
12 15 (0.72%) SonarQube
13 13 (0.62%) Cypress.io
14 11 (0.53%) Maven
14 11 (0.53%) MLflow
15 9 (0.43%) MSI
15 9 (0.43%) Snyk
16 8 (0.38%) JMeter
16 8 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 537 (25.67%) Social Skills
2 430 (20.55%) Finance
3 175 (8.37%) Public Sector
4 169 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
5 112 (5.35%) Banking
6 104 (4.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 74 (3.54%) Law
8 58 (2.77%) Retail
9 49 (2.34%) Aerospace
10 46 (2.20%) Games
11 36 (1.72%) Marketing
12 31 (1.48%) Telecoms
13 29 (1.39%) Legal
13 29 (1.39%) Manufacturing
14 19 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
15 18 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
16 17 (0.81%) Aviation
17 16 (0.76%) Advertising
18 15 (0.72%) Financial Institution
18 15 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 494 (23.61%) Senior
2 362 (17.30%) DevOps Engineer
3 288 (13.77%) Lead
4 275 (13.15%) Cloud Engineer
5 230 (10.99%) Architect
6 211 (10.09%) Platform Engineer
7 179 (8.56%) Azure Engineer
8 176 (8.41%) Developer
9 133 (6.36%) Software Engineer
10 128 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
11 126 (6.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 117 (5.59%) Data Engineer
13 105 (5.02%) Principal Engineer
14 93 (4.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 87 (4.16%) Security Engineer
16 73 (3.49%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 71 (3.39%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 67 (3.20%) Senior Developer
18 67 (3.20%) Senior DevOps
19 65 (3.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (7.98%) .NET
2 164 (7.84%) React
3 152 (7.27%) Kafka
4 138 (6.60%) REST
5 124 (5.93%) RESTful
6 121 (5.78%) Node.js
7 118 (5.64%) Spring
8 110 (5.26%) Spring Boot
9 73 (3.49%) PySpark
10 71 (3.39%) YAML
11 70 (3.35%) ARM Templates
12 67 (3.20%) AWS CDK
13 51 (2.44%) AngularJS
13 51 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
14 46 (2.20%) Next.js
14 46 (2.20%) OAuth
15 44 (2.10%) ASP.NET
15 44 (2.10%) RabbitMQ
16 41 (1.96%) ASP.NET Core
16 41 (1.96%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 608 (29.06%) Cloud Native
2 215 (10.28%) Distributed Systems
3 119 (5.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 115 (5.50%) Onboarding
5 108 (5.16%) Public Cloud
6 89 (4.25%) Data Centre
7 61 (2.92%) Product Ownership
8 60 (2.87%) Security Posture
9 54 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
10 52 (2.49%) Enterprise Cloud
10 52 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
11 45 (2.15%) Video\Live Streaming
12 44 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
13 36 (1.72%) Low-Code
14 33 (1.58%) Private Cloud
15 30 (1.43%) e-Learning
15 30 (1.43%) PKI
15 30 (1.43%) Virtual Team
16 28 (1.34%) AI Agents
17 27 (1.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 365 (17.45%) Linux
2 208 (9.94%) Windows
3 97 (4.64%) Windows Server
4 55 (2.63%) CentOS
5 43 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (1.86%) Ubuntu
7 29 (1.39%) Unix
8 22 (1.05%) VMS
9 5 (0.24%) Android
9 5 (0.24%) Debian
9 5 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.19%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.096%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.096%) Solaris
12 1 (0.048%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.048%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.048%) Rocky
12 1 (0.048%) SUSE
12 1 (0.048%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,483 (70.89%) CI/CD
2 1,155 (55.21%) DevOps
3 580 (27.72%) Containerisation
4 570 (27.25%) Agile
5 548 (26.20%) Observability
6 493 (23.57%) Platform Engineering
7 467 (22.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 456 (21.80%) AI
9 445 (21.27%) Mentoring
10 403 (19.26%) Software Engineering
11 360 (17.21%) Microservices
12 356 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
13 355 (16.97%) Test Automation
14 336 (16.06%) Technical Leadership
15 320 (15.30%) Cloud Security
16 275 (13.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 251 (12.00%) Roadmaps
18 231 (11.04%) Analytics
19 230 (10.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 225 (10.76%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 939 (44.89%) Python
2 347 (16.59%) SQL
3 342 (16.35%) Bash
4 317 (15.15%) PowerShell
5 297 (14.20%) Java
6 210 (10.04%) Bicep
7 181 (8.65%) TypeScript
8 177 (8.46%) C#
9 155 (7.41%) Go
10 154 (7.36%) JavaScript
11 40 (1.91%) Scala
12 37 (1.77%) PHP
13 27 (1.29%) Ruby
14 25 (1.20%) Rust
15 23 (1.10%) Groovy
15 23 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
16 21 (1.00%) Perl
17 17 (0.81%) C++
18 12 (0.57%) Shell Script
19 11 (0.53%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 506 (24.19%) Security Cleared
2 323 (15.44%) SC Cleared
3 188 (8.99%) Degree
4 181 (8.65%) DV Cleared
5 163 (7.79%) AWS Certification
6 139 (6.64%) Azure Certification
7 87 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 67 (3.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 52 (2.49%) Cisco Certification
10 51 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
11 36 (1.72%) CCNP
12 29 (1.39%) Master's Degree
13 26 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
14 21 (1.00%) CISSP
15 20 (0.96%) OSCP
16 18 (0.86%) CCNA
17 17 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
18 15 (0.72%) SnowPro
19 14 (0.67%) CCIE
19 14 (0.67%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (4.97%) QA
2 99 (4.73%) Data Quality
3 65 (3.11%) GDPR
4 54 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 36 (1.72%) NIST
6 34 (1.63%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.58%) SOC 2
8 26 (1.24%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.86%) NCSC
9 18 (0.86%) SLA
10 16 (0.76%) WCAG
11 13 (0.62%) GRC
12 10 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.096%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.096%) IFRS
14 2 (0.096%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.096%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.096%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.048%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 552 (26.39%) Docker
2 131 (6.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 127 (6.07%) Active Directory
4 45 (2.15%) vSphere
5 34 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (1.05%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (0.86%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.43%) KVM
11 8 (0.38%) Squid
11 8 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 6 (0.29%) Firmware
14 4 (0.19%) iptables
15 3 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 2 (0.096%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 1,442 (68.93%) Terraform
2 804 (38.43%) Kubernetes
3 445 (21.27%) Ansible
4 210 (10.04%) Grafana
5 149 (7.12%) Prometheus
6 63 (3.01%) Argo
7 52 (2.49%) Puppet
8 34 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
9 32 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
9 32 (1.53%) Progress Chef
10 29 (1.39%) Istio
11 25 (1.20%) Packer
12 20 (0.96%) Nagios
13 16 (0.76%) FortiGate
13 16 (0.76%) vCenter Server
14 14 (0.67%) Cilium
15 12 (0.57%) Kustomize
15 12 (0.57%) ZABBIX
16 11 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 11 (0.53%) Rancher
Vendors
1 433 (20.70%) Microsoft
2 159 (7.60%) VMware
3 114 (5.45%) Google
4 96 (4.59%) Databricks
5 86 (4.11%) Red Hat
6 75 (3.59%) Splunk
7 72 (3.44%) Cisco
8 54 (2.58%) Oracle
9 48 (2.29%) Palo Alto
10 40 (1.91%) Fortinet
11 37 (1.77%) OpenAI
12 35 (1.67%) Dynatrace
13 25 (1.20%) Zscaler
14 23 (1.10%) ServiceNow
15 15 (0.72%) CrowdStrike
15 15 (0.72%) SAP
16 14 (0.67%) Atlassian
17 13 (0.62%) F5
18 12 (0.57%) Salesforce
18 12 (0.57%) ScienceLogic