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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 125 126
Rank change year-on-year +10 +1 -28
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,041 1,094 1,535
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.85% 2.34% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 2.55% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 748 671 1,275
10th Percentile £46,484 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £57,490
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,375 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,247 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £112,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £73,801 £73,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +1.10% +0.69% -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 45,015 42,838 55,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 80.15% 91.65% 88.71%
Number of salaries quoted 27,213 20,764 44,303
10th Percentile £28,865 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,425 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.46% +6.83% -8.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,063
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,751
% change year-on-year -8.33% +7.62% -10.80%

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 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 1 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 +18 508 £85,000 -5.56% 319
North of England -14 206 £67,500 +7.14% 114
South East +19 110 £75,000 +13.21% 161
Yorkshire -7 90 £62,500 +13.64% 42
North West +1 87 £70,039 +3.76% 64
South West -15 77 £62,500 -13.18% 85
Midlands +3 58 £66,250 +0.38% 39
West Midlands +5 32 £65,000 -5.45% 25
East of England +27 29 £77,500 +6.90% 32
North East -5 29 £62,500 +28.21% 8
East Midlands +6 24 £67,500 +3.85% 13
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 47 (4.51%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (3.46%) Apache
3 19 (1.83%) Apache Spark
3 19 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (1.44%) Confluence
5 11 (1.06%) IIS
5 11 (1.06%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.29%) Appian
7 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.19%) CMS
8 2 (0.19%) nginx
8 2 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.096%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.096%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.38%) Weka
2 1 (0.096%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.096%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.096%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.096%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.096%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.096%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.096%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 659 (63.30%) AWS
2 591 (56.77%) Azure
3 239 (22.96%) GitHub
4 233 (22.38%) GCP
5 232 (22.29%) Azure DevOps
6 187 (17.96%) Serverless
7 176 (16.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 158 (15.18%) GitHub Actions
9 121 (11.62%) AWS Lambda
10 105 (10.09%) Amazon S3
11 99 (9.51%) SaaS
12 84 (8.07%) PaaS
13 80 (7.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 79 (7.59%) Entra ID
15 74 (7.11%) Amazon EKS
16 62 (5.96%) Amazon EC2
17 59 (5.67%) IaaS
17 59 (5.67%) Microsoft 365
18 58 (5.57%) Amazon ECS
18 58 (5.57%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 127 (12.20%) Firewall
2 76 (7.30%) VPN
3 74 (7.11%) DNS
4 51 (4.90%) TCP/IP
5 44 (4.23%) WAN
6 31 (2.98%) DHCP
7 28 (2.69%) Network Security
8 27 (2.59%) Broadband
9 21 (2.02%) Wi-Fi
10 19 (1.83%) LAN
11 16 (1.54%) BGP
11 16 (1.54%) Internet
11 16 (1.54%) VLAN
12 12 (1.15%) SD-WAN
13 11 (1.06%) HTTP
14 7 (0.67%) SAN
14 7 (0.67%) VoIP
14 7 (0.67%) Wireless
15 6 (0.58%) DSL
15 6 (0.58%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (8.74%) NoSQL
2 70 (6.72%) PostgreSQL
3 64 (6.15%) Amazon RDS
4 51 (4.90%) SQL Server
5 47 (4.51%) DynamoDB
6 40 (3.84%) Data Lake
7 35 (3.36%) MongoDB
8 28 (2.69%) BigQuery
9 27 (2.59%) Relational Database
10 26 (2.50%) MySQL
11 21 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
12 19 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
12 19 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
12 19 (1.83%) RDBMS
12 19 (1.83%) Redis
13 16 (1.54%) Power BI
14 15 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (1.44%) Big Data
15 14 (1.34%) Metadata
16 13 (1.25%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 181 (17.39%) Jenkins
2 144 (13.83%) Git
3 114 (10.95%) GitLab
4 29 (2.79%) JIRA
5 25 (2.40%) Selenium
6 24 (2.31%) Robot Framework
7 22 (2.11%) Bitbucket
8 21 (2.02%) Jaeger
9 20 (1.92%) CircleCI
10 18 (1.73%) Snyk
11 17 (1.63%) MLflow
12 14 (1.34%) TeamCity
13 12 (1.15%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.96%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.77%) Artifactory
15 8 (0.77%) JMeter
16 7 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
16 7 (0.67%) Subversion
16 7 (0.67%) Vite
17 6 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 297 (28.53%) Social Skills
2 229 (22.00%) Finance
3 94 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (6.63%) Banking
5 60 (5.76%) Law
5 60 (5.76%) Public Sector
6 47 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (4.23%) Retail
8 43 (4.13%) Telecoms
9 33 (3.17%) Financial Institution
10 22 (2.11%) Games
11 21 (2.02%) Billing
11 21 (2.02%) Marketing
12 19 (1.83%) Back Office
12 19 (1.83%) Legal
13 17 (1.63%) Manufacturing
14 13 (1.25%) Aerospace
14 13 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (1.15%) Advertising
15 12 (1.15%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 205 (19.69%) Senior
2 171 (16.43%) Cloud Engineer
3 164 (15.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 119 (11.43%) Lead
5 105 (10.09%) Developer
5 105 (10.09%) Platform Engineer
6 94 (9.03%) Azure Engineer
7 92 (8.84%) Architect
8 77 (7.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 71 (6.82%) AWS Engineer
10 50 (4.80%) Software Engineer
11 42 (4.03%) Data Engineer
11 42 (4.03%) Senior DevOps
12 40 (3.84%) Security Engineer
13 37 (3.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 31 (2.98%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 31 (2.98%) Cloud Security Engineer
15 30 (2.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 30 (2.88%) GCP Engineer
16 29 (2.79%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (9.99%) React
2 81 (7.78%) .NET
3 67 (6.44%) Node.js
4 65 (6.24%) RESTful
5 64 (6.15%) Elastic Stack
6 51 (4.90%) Kafka
7 46 (4.42%) AWS CDK
8 42 (4.03%) Spring
9 40 (3.84%) YAML
10 38 (3.65%) Spring Boot
11 36 (3.46%) REST
12 33 (3.17%) ARM Templates
13 31 (2.98%) .NET Core
13 31 (2.98%) Django
13 31 (2.98%) FastAPI
14 29 (2.79%) CSS
15 28 (2.69%) HTML
16 27 (2.59%) OpenTelemetry
17 23 (2.21%) RabbitMQ
18 20 (1.92%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 253 (24.30%) Cloud Native
2 70 (6.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 52 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 50 (4.80%) Data Centre
5 41 (3.94%) Security Posture
6 35 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
7 32 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
7 32 (3.07%) Onboarding
8 23 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (2.11%) Management Information System
9 22 (2.11%) Product Ownership
10 21 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
11 17 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (1.34%) Blog
12 14 (1.34%) Hedge funds
12 14 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.25%) Data Structures
14 12 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
14 12 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 236 (22.67%) Linux
2 112 (10.76%) Windows
3 57 (5.48%) Unix
4 37 (3.55%) Windows Server
5 31 (2.98%) VMS
6 25 (2.40%) Ubuntu
7 16 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (1.34%) Debian
9 11 (1.06%) CentOS
10 6 (0.58%) Android
10 6 (0.58%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.38%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.29%) SUSE
13 2 (0.19%) Solaris
13 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.096%) AIX
14 1 (0.096%) Rocky
14 1 (0.096%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 707 (67.92%) CI/CD
2 660 (63.40%) DevOps
3 299 (28.72%) Agile
4 292 (28.05%) Containerisation
5 210 (20.17%) Problem-Solving
6 207 (19.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 207 (19.88%) Observability
7 181 (17.39%) Mentoring
8 166 (15.95%) Platform Engineering
9 156 (14.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 152 (14.60%) AI
11 146 (14.02%) Software Engineering
12 145 (13.93%) Cloud Security
13 132 (12.68%) Microservices
14 127 (12.20%) Analytics
15 123 (11.82%) High Availability
16 120 (11.53%) DevSecOps
16 120 (11.53%) Test Automation
17 102 (9.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 101 (9.70%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 460 (44.19%) Python
2 211 (20.27%) Bash
3 172 (16.52%) PowerShell
4 157 (15.08%) SQL
5 128 (12.30%) Java
6 111 (10.66%) Bicep
6 111 (10.66%) Go
7 101 (9.70%) JavaScript
8 88 (8.45%) TypeScript
9 68 (6.53%) C#
10 16 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
11 15 (1.44%) Scala
12 13 (1.25%) C++
13 11 (1.06%) Rust
14 9 (0.86%) C
14 9 (0.86%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.67%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.38%) Ruby
16 4 (0.38%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 180 (17.29%) Security Cleared
2 104 (9.99%) SC Cleared
3 101 (9.70%) AWS Certification
4 88 (8.45%) Degree
5 83 (7.97%) DV Cleared
6 66 (6.34%) Azure Certification
7 36 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (2.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 26 (2.50%) CISSP
10 25 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (1.63%) Master's Degree
12 16 (1.54%) OSCP
13 14 (1.34%) AWS Certified Developer
13 14 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (1.15%) CCNP
15 8 (0.77%) CCSK
16 7 (0.67%) CISM
17 6 (0.58%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 6 (0.58%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (5.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 48 (4.61%) GDPR
3 39 (3.75%) SOC 2
4 35 (3.36%) NIST
4 35 (3.36%) QA
5 32 (3.07%) Data Quality
6 31 (2.98%) PCI DSS
7 19 (1.83%) Accessibility
8 16 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 9 (0.86%) SLA
11 6 (0.58%) GRC
11 6 (0.58%) WCAG
12 5 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.48%) NCSC
13 4 (0.38%) EU AI Act
14 2 (0.19%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.19%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.19%) NIST 800
15 1 (0.096%) HIPAA
System Software
1 352 (33.81%) Docker
2 80 (7.68%) Active Directory
3 56 (5.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (3.07%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (1.83%) Hyper-V
6 15 (1.44%) vSphere
7 13 (1.25%) VMware NSX
8 11 (1.06%) Firmware
9 7 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.58%) KVM
10 6 (0.58%) NFS
10 6 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.29%) vCloud
11 3 (0.29%) XenApp
11 3 (0.29%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.19%) GPFS
12 2 (0.19%) iptables
12 2 (0.19%) Lustre
12 2 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.096%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 743 (71.37%) Terraform
2 421 (40.44%) Kubernetes
3 283 (27.19%) Ansible
4 153 (14.70%) Prometheus
5 133 (12.78%) Grafana
6 41 (3.94%) Argo
7 29 (2.79%) Microsoft Intune
8 20 (1.92%) Puppet
9 19 (1.83%) Kustomize
9 19 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (1.54%) Rancher
11 15 (1.44%) SCCM
12 13 (1.25%) Progress Chef
13 10 (0.96%) Docker Swarm
14 8 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.67%) SCOM
16 6 (0.58%) AWS Copilot
16 6 (0.58%) Nagios
16 6 (0.58%) ZABBIX
17 5 (0.48%) yum
Vendors
1 183 (17.58%) Microsoft
2 99 (9.51%) Google
3 87 (8.36%) VMware
4 41 (3.94%) Databricks
5 38 (3.65%) Cisco
6 33 (3.17%) Splunk
7 30 (2.88%) Palo Alto
7 30 (2.88%) Red Hat
8 22 (2.11%) Zscaler
9 18 (1.73%) Black Duck
9 18 (1.73%) Coverity
10 15 (1.44%) CrowdStrike
11 13 (1.25%) Atlassian
11 13 (1.25%) Salesforce
12 12 (1.15%) Oracle
12 12 (1.15%) SAP
13 11 (1.06%) SolarWinds
14 10 (0.96%) Juniper
14 10 (0.96%) New Relic
15 9 (0.86%) CyberArk