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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 148 169
Rank change year-on-year +71 +21 -64
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,806 935 1,535
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.13% 2.32% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.90% 2.51% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,243 621 1,198
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £78,810 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +12.59% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £108,500 £110,000 £105,000
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 62,329 37,196 76,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.59% 92.18% 82.35%
Number of salaries quoted 43,937 20,499 55,155
10th Percentile £30,806 £28,822 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,926 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 June 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 June 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 +34 868 £87,500 -2.78% 258
North of England +77 341 £67,500 -3.57% 112
South East +37 212 £70,000 -9.68% 141
North West +77 204 £72,500 - 64
South West +34 157 £75,000 +3.45% 67
Midlands +32 123 £73,500 +13.08% 48
Yorkshire -1 89 £65,576 -6.32% 29
West Midlands +18 71 £80,000 +23.08% 36
East Midlands +7 52 £67,500 +3.85% 12
East of England +6 52 £60,100 -7.54% 17
North East -3 48 £55,000 -12.70% 20
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 50 (2.77%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (2.10%) Apache
2 38 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 37 (2.05%) Apache Spark
4 24 (1.33%) Confluence
5 12 (0.66%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.55%) IIS
7 9 (0.50%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.28%) CMS
9 4 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.17%) WordPress
11 2 (0.11%) Camunda
11 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.055%) Documentum
12 1 (0.055%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.055%) nginx
12 1 (0.055%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.055%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (1.00%) PlantUML
2 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.22%) Weka
4 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.055%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.055%) Maya
5 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.055%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.055%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.055%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.055%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,043 (57.75%) AWS
2 979 (54.21%) Azure
3 331 (18.33%) GitHub
4 326 (18.05%) Serverless
5 305 (16.89%) GCP
6 298 (16.50%) Azure DevOps
7 275 (15.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 202 (11.18%) GitHub Actions
9 177 (9.80%) Amazon S3
10 172 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
11 155 (8.58%) PaaS
12 127 (7.03%) Amazon EC2
13 121 (6.70%) IaaS
14 117 (6.48%) Amazon EKS
14 117 (6.48%) Entra ID
15 116 (6.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 109 (6.04%) Azure AKS
16 109 (6.04%) SaaS
17 95 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
18 88 (4.87%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 174 (9.63%) Firewall
2 105 (5.81%) VPN
3 103 (5.70%) DNS
4 73 (4.04%) Network Security
5 68 (3.77%) Broadband
6 64 (3.54%) TCP/IP
7 51 (2.82%) WAN
8 42 (2.33%) BGP
9 35 (1.94%) VLAN
10 34 (1.88%) DHCP
11 29 (1.61%) LAN
12 24 (1.33%) OSPF
13 22 (1.22%) HTTP
14 21 (1.16%) Software-Defined Networking
15 20 (1.11%) SD-WAN
16 19 (1.05%) VXLAN
17 15 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
18 11 (0.61%) DSL
19 10 (0.55%) IPv4
19 10 (0.55%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
2 130 (7.20%) NoSQL
3 88 (4.87%) Amazon RDS
4 83 (4.60%) MongoDB
5 71 (3.93%) DynamoDB
6 65 (3.60%) SQL Server
7 56 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
8 49 (2.71%) Relational Database
9 48 (2.66%) Data Lake
10 45 (2.49%) Metadata
11 31 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
12 29 (1.61%) MySQL
13 25 (1.38%) Delta Lake
13 25 (1.38%) Power BI
14 24 (1.33%) BigQuery
14 24 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
15 21 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
15 21 (1.16%) Redis
16 19 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
16 19 (1.05%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 253 (14.01%) GitLab
2 234 (12.96%) Git
3 229 (12.68%) Jenkins
4 38 (2.10%) JIRA
5 37 (2.05%) Cucumber
6 34 (1.88%) Bitbucket
6 34 (1.88%) CircleCI
7 24 (1.33%) TeamCity
8 15 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 14 (0.78%) Jaeger
9 14 (0.78%) SonarQube
10 12 (0.66%) Selenium
11 11 (0.61%) Claude Code
11 11 (0.61%) MLflow
12 10 (0.55%) Maven
13 9 (0.50%) Subversion
13 9 (0.50%) Vite
14 8 (0.44%) Cypress.io
14 8 (0.44%) JMeter
14 8 (0.44%) NUnit
General
1 439 (24.31%) Social Skills
2 355 (19.66%) Finance
3 132 (7.31%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (6.26%) Public Sector
5 99 (5.48%) Banking
6 74 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (3.27%) Law
8 57 (3.16%) Retail
9 44 (2.44%) Games
10 40 (2.21%) Telecoms
11 30 (1.66%) Aerospace
12 28 (1.55%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
14 18 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (0.89%) Advertising
15 16 (0.89%) Financial Institution
15 16 (0.89%) Legal
16 13 (0.72%) Billing
17 12 (0.66%) Marketing
18 10 (0.55%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 424 (23.48%) Senior
2 299 (16.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 273 (15.12%) Cloud Engineer
4 234 (12.96%) Lead
5 192 (10.63%) Platform Engineer
6 184 (10.19%) Azure Engineer
7 182 (10.08%) Architect
8 152 (8.42%) Developer
9 129 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
10 116 (6.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 98 (5.43%) Software Engineer
12 97 (5.37%) Data Engineer
13 86 (4.76%) Security Engineer
14 85 (4.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 79 (4.37%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 74 (4.10%) Principal Engineer
17 65 (3.60%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 62 (3.43%) Senior DevOps
19 59 (3.27%) Senior Cloud Engineer
20 58 (3.21%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (7.53%) React
2 126 (6.98%) .NET
3 123 (6.81%) Kafka
4 111 (6.15%) REST
5 103 (5.70%) RESTful
6 102 (5.65%) Node.js
7 83 (4.60%) Spring
8 80 (4.43%) YAML
9 76 (4.21%) Spring Boot
10 70 (3.88%) Elastic Stack
11 67 (3.71%) ARM Templates
12 64 (3.54%) PySpark
13 58 (3.21%) AWS CDK
14 49 (2.71%) OAuth
15 45 (2.49%) RabbitMQ
16 42 (2.33%) Next.js
17 38 (2.10%) AngularJS
17 38 (2.10%) JSON
18 37 (2.05%) FastAPI
19 36 (1.99%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 489 (27.08%) Cloud Native
2 165 (9.14%) Distributed Systems
3 102 (5.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 91 (5.04%) Public Cloud
5 72 (3.99%) Data Centre
6 63 (3.49%) Onboarding
6 63 (3.49%) Security Posture
7 56 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
8 54 (2.99%) Product Ownership
9 48 (2.66%) Video\Live Streaming
10 34 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
10 34 (1.88%) Low-Code
11 33 (1.83%) Enterprise Cloud
12 29 (1.61%) PKI
13 26 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
14 24 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
15 23 (1.27%) Blockchain
16 22 (1.22%) e-Learning
17 21 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
17 21 (1.16%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 336 (18.60%) Linux
2 184 (10.19%) Windows
3 84 (4.65%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.49%) Ubuntu
5 40 (2.21%) CentOS
6 36 (1.99%) Unix
7 32 (1.77%) VMS
8 28 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.50%) Android
10 8 (0.44%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (0.39%) Debian
12 5 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.11%) Rocky
14 1 (0.055%) SUSE
14 1 (0.055%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,257 (69.60%) CI/CD
2 1,015 (56.20%) DevOps
3 491 (27.19%) Agile
4 481 (26.63%) Containerisation
5 467 (25.86%) Observability
6 403 (22.31%) Platform Engineering
7 381 (21.10%) AI
8 373 (20.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 366 (20.27%) Mentoring
10 309 (17.11%) Test Automation
11 297 (16.45%) Microservices
12 294 (16.28%) Software Engineering
13 271 (15.01%) Problem-Solving
14 258 (14.29%) Cloud Security
15 242 (13.40%) Technical Leadership
16 226 (12.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 223 (12.35%) Analytics
18 197 (10.91%) Roadmaps
19 191 (10.58%) DevSecOps
20 174 (9.63%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 821 (45.46%) Python
2 334 (18.49%) Bash
3 305 (16.89%) PowerShell
4 302 (16.72%) SQL
5 228 (12.62%) Java
6 182 (10.08%) Bicep
7 175 (9.69%) Go
8 161 (8.91%) TypeScript
9 148 (8.19%) JavaScript
10 139 (7.70%) C#
11 29 (1.61%) Rust
12 26 (1.44%) Scala
13 25 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
13 25 (1.38%) PHP
14 21 (1.16%) C++
15 20 (1.11%) Groovy
16 14 (0.78%) Ruby
17 10 (0.55%) Perl
18 9 (0.50%) Shell Script
19 8 (0.44%) C
Qualifications
1 370 (20.49%) Security Cleared
2 237 (13.12%) SC Cleared
3 157 (8.69%) Degree
4 129 (7.14%) AWS Certification
5 113 (6.26%) Azure Certification
6 107 (5.92%) DV Cleared
7 64 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 52 (2.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 51 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 39 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.44%) OSCP
12 24 (1.33%) CCNP
13 21 (1.16%) CISSP
14 19 (1.05%) Master's Degree
15 18 (1.00%) CCNA
16 14 (0.78%) DBS Check
17 13 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 13 (0.72%) RHCSA
18 9 (0.50%) CCIE
18 9 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (4.60%) QA
2 77 (4.26%) Data Quality
3 62 (3.43%) GDPR
4 49 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 44 (2.44%) SOC 2
6 32 (1.77%) NIST
6 32 (1.77%) PCI DSS
7 24 (1.33%) Accessibility
8 14 (0.78%) WCAG
9 11 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.55%) GRC
11 8 (0.44%) NCSC
11 8 (0.44%) SLA
12 5 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.11%) IFRS
14 2 (0.11%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.11%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.055%) GxP
15 1 (0.055%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 464 (25.69%) Docker
2 124 (6.87%) Active Directory
3 115 (6.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (2.55%) vSphere
5 38 (2.10%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (1.16%) VMware NSX
7 19 (1.05%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.44%) Squid
11 7 (0.39%) iptables
12 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.28%) KVM
14 4 (0.22%) Firmware
15 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
16 1 (0.055%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,267 (70.16%) Terraform
2 698 (38.65%) Kubernetes
3 382 (21.15%) Ansible
4 207 (11.46%) Grafana
5 188 (10.41%) Prometheus
6 65 (3.60%) Argo
7 39 (2.16%) Puppet
7 39 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
8 37 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
9 28 (1.55%) Progress Chef
10 24 (1.33%) Packer
11 21 (1.16%) Istio
12 19 (1.05%) Kustomize
12 19 (1.05%) Nagios
13 16 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 15 (0.83%) vCenter Server
14 15 (0.83%) ZABBIX
15 13 (0.72%) Rancher
16 12 (0.66%) Cilium
17 11 (0.61%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 352 (19.49%) Microsoft
2 150 (8.31%) VMware
3 86 (4.76%) Google
4 76 (4.21%) Databricks
5 75 (4.15%) Red Hat
6 60 (3.32%) Splunk
7 59 (3.27%) Cisco
8 49 (2.71%) Palo Alto
9 37 (2.05%) Oracle
10 31 (1.72%) Fortinet
10 31 (1.72%) OpenAI
11 25 (1.38%) Zscaler
12 22 (1.22%) Dynatrace
13 15 (0.83%) CrowdStrike
14 14 (0.78%) Salesforce
15 12 (0.66%) F5
15 12 (0.66%) ScienceLogic
16 11 (0.61%) CheckPoint
16 11 (0.61%) ServiceNow
16 11 (0.61%) SolarWinds