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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 151 162
Rank change year-on-year +74 +11 -63
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,912 954 1,529
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.20% 2.21% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.97% 2.44% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,312 650 1,179
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £56,888
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 64,347 39,118 73,727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.05% 90.53% 82.51%
Number of salaries quoted 45,425 22,207 52,903
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,898 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,500 £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 £73,750
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% -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 10 July 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 10 July 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 +36 905 £87,500 -2.78% 394
North of England +78 367 £70,000 - 156
South East +44 226 £70,000 -9.68% 136
North West +79 223 £73,401 +1.24% 99
South West +39 176 £75,000 +3.45% 198
Midlands +36 129 £75,000 +15.38% 55
Yorkshire +7 91 £67,500 -3.57% 36
West Midlands +19 75 £80,000 +23.08% 36
East Midlands +14 54 £67,500 +3.85% 19
North East -4 53 £55,000 -14.06% 21
East of England +13 52 £60,100 -7.54% 19
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 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (2.09%) Apache
3 38 (1.99%) Apache Spark
3 38 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (1.31%) Confluence
5 11 (0.58%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.52%) IIS
7 9 (0.47%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.26%) CMS
9 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.16%) WordPress
11 2 (0.10%) Camunda
11 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.052%) Documentum
12 1 (0.052%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.052%) nginx
12 1 (0.052%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.052%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (1.05%) PlantUML
2 9 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.21%) Weka
4 3 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.10%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.10%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.052%) Maya
6 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.052%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.10%) Summit
2 1 (0.052%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.052%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.052%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.052%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,089 (56.96%) AWS
2 1,034 (54.08%) Azure
3 342 (17.89%) GitHub
4 339 (17.73%) Serverless
5 328 (17.15%) GCP
6 299 (15.64%) Azure DevOps
7 292 (15.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 202 (10.56%) GitHub Actions
9 175 (9.15%) AWS Lambda
10 174 (9.10%) Amazon S3
11 159 (8.32%) PaaS
12 128 (6.69%) Amazon EC2
13 124 (6.49%) Amazon EKS
14 121 (6.33%) IaaS
15 118 (6.17%) Entra ID
16 112 (5.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 112 (5.86%) SaaS
17 107 (5.60%) Azure AKS
18 93 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
19 89 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 179 (9.36%) Firewall
2 112 (5.86%) VPN
3 109 (5.70%) DNS
4 88 (4.60%) Network Security
5 67 (3.50%) Broadband
5 67 (3.50%) TCP/IP
6 55 (2.88%) WAN
7 48 (2.51%) BGP
8 38 (1.99%) VLAN
9 33 (1.73%) DHCP
10 31 (1.62%) LAN
11 27 (1.41%) OSPF
12 23 (1.20%) HTTP
12 23 (1.20%) SD-WAN
12 23 (1.20%) Software-Defined Networking
13 21 (1.10%) VXLAN
14 15 (0.78%) Cisco ASA
15 11 (0.58%) SAN
16 10 (0.52%) DSL
16 10 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (7.17%) NoSQL
1 137 (7.17%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (4.50%) Amazon RDS
2 86 (4.50%) MongoDB
3 71 (3.71%) DynamoDB
4 66 (3.45%) SQL Server
5 56 (2.93%) Azure SQL Database
6 52 (2.72%) Relational Database
7 49 (2.56%) Data Lake
8 47 (2.46%) Metadata
9 34 (1.78%) MySQL
10 31 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
11 25 (1.31%) Delta Lake
11 25 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
12 24 (1.26%) Power BI
12 24 (1.26%) Redis
13 23 (1.20%) BigQuery
14 21 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
14 21 (1.10%) Big Data
15 19 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 265 (13.86%) GitLab
2 250 (13.08%) Git
3 236 (12.34%) Jenkins
4 41 (2.14%) JIRA
5 40 (2.09%) Cucumber
6 35 (1.83%) Bitbucket
7 33 (1.73%) CircleCI
8 25 (1.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 25 (1.31%) TeamCity
9 15 (0.78%) Claude Code
9 15 (0.78%) Selenium
9 15 (0.78%) SonarQube
10 13 (0.68%) Jaeger
11 11 (0.58%) Subversion
12 10 (0.52%) Maven
13 9 (0.47%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.47%) JMeter
13 9 (0.47%) MLflow
13 9 (0.47%) Vite
14 8 (0.42%) Robot Framework
General
1 472 (24.69%) Social Skills
2 382 (19.98%) Finance
3 142 (7.43%) Public Sector
4 137 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
5 101 (5.28%) Banking
6 82 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 62 (3.24%) Law
7 62 (3.24%) Retail
8 44 (2.30%) Games
9 40 (2.09%) Telecoms
10 34 (1.78%) Aerospace
11 28 (1.46%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
13 19 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
14 18 (0.94%) Advertising
15 17 (0.89%) Financial Institution
15 17 (0.89%) Legal
16 16 (0.84%) Marketing
17 10 (0.52%) Back Office
18 9 (0.47%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 458 (23.95%) Senior
2 330 (17.26%) DevOps Engineer
3 275 (14.38%) Cloud Engineer
4 252 (13.18%) Lead
5 201 (10.51%) Platform Engineer
6 198 (10.36%) Architect
7 190 (9.94%) Azure Engineer
8 158 (8.26%) Developer
9 124 (6.49%) AWS Engineer
10 119 (6.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 106 (5.54%) Software Engineer
12 101 (5.28%) Data Engineer
13 87 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
13 87 (4.55%) Security Engineer
14 86 (4.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 81 (4.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 72 (3.77%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 69 (3.61%) Senior DevOps
18 63 (3.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
19 60 (3.14%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (7.37%) React
2 136 (7.11%) .NET
3 129 (6.75%) Kafka
4 116 (6.07%) REST
5 111 (5.81%) Node.js
6 109 (5.70%) RESTful
7 101 (5.28%) Spring
8 94 (4.92%) Spring Boot
9 78 (4.08%) YAML
10 74 (3.87%) Elastic Stack
11 69 (3.61%) ARM Templates
12 65 (3.40%) PySpark
13 64 (3.35%) AWS CDK
14 46 (2.41%) OAuth
14 46 (2.41%) RabbitMQ
15 44 (2.30%) Next.js
16 40 (2.09%) AngularJS
17 39 (2.04%) JSON
18 38 (1.99%) FastAPI
19 36 (1.88%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 527 (27.56%) Cloud Native
2 180 (9.41%) Distributed Systems
3 106 (5.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 96 (5.02%) Public Cloud
5 82 (4.29%) Onboarding
6 79 (4.13%) Data Centre
7 64 (3.35%) Product Ownership
8 63 (3.29%) Security Posture
9 60 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
10 48 (2.51%) Video\Live Streaming
11 43 (2.25%) Enterprise Cloud
12 37 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
13 35 (1.83%) Low-Code
14 31 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
14 31 (1.62%) PKI
15 26 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
16 25 (1.31%) e-Learning
17 24 (1.26%) Private Cloud
18 22 (1.15%) Blockchain
19 21 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 356 (18.62%) Linux
2 197 (10.30%) Windows
3 87 (4.55%) Windows Server
4 50 (2.62%) CentOS
5 47 (2.46%) Ubuntu
6 37 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 35 (1.83%) Unix
8 31 (1.62%) VMS
9 9 (0.47%) Android
10 8 (0.42%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.42%) Debian
10 8 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.10%) Rocky
13 1 (0.052%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.052%) SUSE
13 1 (0.052%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,334 (69.77%) CI/CD
2 1,070 (55.96%) DevOps
3 524 (27.41%) Containerisation
4 522 (27.30%) Agile
5 483 (25.26%) Observability
6 433 (22.65%) Platform Engineering
7 403 (21.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 400 (20.92%) Mentoring
9 399 (20.87%) AI
10 334 (17.47%) Test Automation
11 322 (16.84%) Microservices
12 321 (16.79%) Software Engineering
13 296 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
14 277 (14.49%) Cloud Security
15 267 (13.96%) Technical Leadership
16 246 (12.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 226 (11.82%) Analytics
18 211 (11.04%) Roadmaps
19 202 (10.56%) DevSecOps
20 192 (10.04%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 878 (45.92%) Python
2 352 (18.41%) Bash
3 316 (16.53%) PowerShell
4 314 (16.42%) SQL
5 266 (13.91%) Java
6 193 (10.09%) Bicep
7 180 (9.41%) Go
8 164 (8.58%) TypeScript
9 161 (8.42%) JavaScript
10 151 (7.90%) C#
11 35 (1.83%) PHP
12 30 (1.57%) Rust
13 26 (1.36%) Scala
14 24 (1.26%) Kusto Query Language
15 22 (1.15%) C++
15 22 (1.15%) Ruby
16 20 (1.05%) Groovy
17 18 (0.94%) Perl
18 10 (0.52%) Shell Script
19 9 (0.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 422 (22.07%) Security Cleared
2 254 (13.28%) SC Cleared
3 163 (8.53%) Degree
4 136 (7.11%) AWS Certification
5 135 (7.06%) DV Cleared
6 117 (6.12%) Azure Certification
7 68 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 65 (3.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 53 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 44 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
11 27 (1.41%) CCNP
12 25 (1.31%) OSCP
13 23 (1.20%) CISSP
13 23 (1.20%) Master's Degree
14 18 (0.94%) CCNA
15 14 (0.73%) RHCSA
16 13 (0.68%) DBS Check
17 12 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 11 (0.58%) CCIE
19 10 (0.52%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (4.81%) QA
2 83 (4.34%) Data Quality
3 61 (3.19%) GDPR
4 49 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 44 (2.30%) SOC 2
6 37 (1.94%) PCI DSS
7 34 (1.78%) NIST
8 25 (1.31%) Accessibility
9 15 (0.78%) WCAG
10 11 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.58%) GRC
11 9 (0.47%) NCSC
12 8 (0.42%) SLA
13 5 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.10%) IFRS
15 2 (0.10%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.10%) Solvency II
16 1 (0.052%) GxP
16 1 (0.052%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 497 (25.99%) Docker
2 126 (6.59%) Active Directory
3 123 (6.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (2.41%) vSphere
5 39 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (1.10%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.99%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.42%) Squid
11 7 (0.37%) iptables
12 6 (0.31%) KVM
12 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.26%) Firmware
14 2 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,338 (69.98%) Terraform
2 757 (39.59%) Kubernetes
3 416 (21.76%) Ansible
4 216 (11.30%) Grafana
5 188 (9.83%) Prometheus
6 71 (3.71%) Argo
7 48 (2.51%) Puppet
8 40 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
9 38 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
10 29 (1.52%) Progress Chef
11 25 (1.31%) Packer
12 24 (1.26%) Istio
13 20 (1.05%) Kustomize
14 19 (0.99%) Nagios
15 16 (0.84%) vCenter Server
16 15 (0.78%) Rancher
16 15 (0.78%) ZABBIX
17 14 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 13 (0.68%) FortiGate
19 12 (0.63%) Cilium
Vendors
1 373 (19.51%) Microsoft
2 158 (8.26%) VMware
3 94 (4.92%) Google
4 77 (4.03%) Red Hat
5 76 (3.97%) Databricks
6 66 (3.45%) Splunk
7 64 (3.35%) Cisco
8 51 (2.67%) Palo Alto
9 40 (2.09%) Oracle
10 34 (1.78%) Fortinet
11 32 (1.67%) OpenAI
12 27 (1.41%) Zscaler
13 23 (1.20%) Dynatrace
14 16 (0.84%) CrowdStrike
15 14 (0.73%) F5
15 14 (0.73%) Salesforce
16 12 (0.63%) ScienceLogic
16 12 (0.63%) ServiceNow
17 11 (0.58%) CheckPoint
17 11 (0.58%) SolarWinds