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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 154 132
Rank change year-on-year +79 -22 -42
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,122 937 1,380
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.18% 2.15% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.97% 2.42% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,440 669 928
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £45,350
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £55,000
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 £105,000 £107,750 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -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 71,345 38,684 57,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.38% 88.66% 81.23%
Number of salaries quoted 50,773 22,445 35,770
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,125 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £76,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,075
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.92% -6.54%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 +32 923 £90,000 +2.86% 1,363
North of England +97 462 £70,000 - 347
North West +88 256 £72,500 +3.57% 186
South East +66 251 £67,500 -12.90% 235
South West +45 234 £75,000 - 190
Midlands +40 149 £75,000 +15.38% 114
Yorkshire +1 105 £73,750 +5.36% 112
North East +21 101 £59,000 -18.62% 49
West Midlands +19 90 £85,000 +30.77% 56
East Midlands +13 59 £67,500 +3.85% 58
East of England 0 58 £70,000 +7.69% 88
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 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
1 49 (2.31%) Apache Spark
2 48 (2.26%) Apache
3 31 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 27 (1.27%) Confluence
5 13 (0.61%) Jupyter
6 11 (0.52%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.42%) IIS
8 6 (0.28%) CMS
9 5 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.19%) Camunda
10 4 (0.19%) nginx
11 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.14%) WordPress
12 2 (0.094%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.047%) Documentum
13 1 (0.047%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.047%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.047%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (0.99%) PlantUML
2 11 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.094%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.094%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.047%) Maya
6 1 (0.047%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.047%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.14%) Summit
2 2 (0.094%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.047%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.047%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.047%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.047%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,221 (57.54%) AWS
2 1,118 (52.69%) Azure
3 402 (18.94%) GCP
4 368 (17.34%) GitHub
5 346 (16.31%) Serverless
6 335 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 292 (13.76%) Azure DevOps
8 203 (9.57%) GitHub Actions
9 185 (8.72%) Amazon S3
10 183 (8.62%) AWS Lambda
11 152 (7.16%) PaaS
12 140 (6.60%) Amazon EC2
13 130 (6.13%) Amazon EKS
13 130 (6.13%) Azure AKS
14 122 (5.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 122 (5.75%) Amazon ECS
15 112 (5.28%) SaaS
16 109 (5.14%) IaaS
17 108 (5.09%) Entra ID
18 102 (4.81%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 167 (7.87%) Firewall
2 120 (5.66%) DNS
3 118 (5.56%) VPN
4 100 (4.71%) Network Security
5 59 (2.78%) TCP/IP
6 57 (2.69%) WAN
7 53 (2.50%) BGP
8 46 (2.17%) Broadband
8 46 (2.17%) DHCP
9 39 (1.84%) LAN
10 38 (1.79%) OSPF
11 32 (1.51%) VLAN
12 27 (1.27%) VXLAN
13 26 (1.23%) SD-WAN
13 26 (1.23%) Software-Defined Networking
14 18 (0.85%) Wireless
15 15 (0.71%) HTTP
16 14 (0.66%) SAN
17 13 (0.61%) Ethernet VPN
18 10 (0.47%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
2 138 (6.50%) NoSQL
3 94 (4.43%) Amazon RDS
4 92 (4.34%) MongoDB
5 82 (3.86%) SQL Server
6 76 (3.58%) DynamoDB
7 59 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 57 (2.69%) Data Lake
9 52 (2.45%) MySQL
10 49 (2.31%) Metadata
11 46 (2.17%) Relational Database
12 41 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
13 33 (1.56%) Redis
14 31 (1.46%) Delta Lake
15 28 (1.32%) Big Data
15 28 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
16 25 (1.18%) BigQuery
17 23 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
18 22 (1.04%) Data Vault
18 22 (1.04%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 288 (13.57%) Git
2 274 (12.91%) GitLab
3 235 (11.07%) Jenkins
4 53 (2.50%) JIRA
5 47 (2.21%) Cucumber
6 33 (1.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 27 (1.27%) Bitbucket
8 26 (1.23%) TeamCity
9 22 (1.04%) Selenium
10 18 (0.85%) Claude Code
11 17 (0.80%) SonarQube
12 16 (0.75%) CircleCI
13 15 (0.71%) NUnit
14 14 (0.66%) Cypress.io
15 12 (0.57%) Maven
16 11 (0.52%) MLflow
17 10 (0.47%) Snyk
18 9 (0.42%) MSI
18 9 (0.42%) Subversion
19 8 (0.38%) Robot Framework
General
1 548 (25.82%) Social Skills
2 440 (20.74%) Finance
3 186 (8.77%) Public Sector
4 160 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
5 119 (5.61%) Banking
6 114 (5.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 78 (3.68%) Law
8 56 (2.64%) Retail
9 51 (2.40%) Aerospace
10 46 (2.17%) Games
11 34 (1.60%) Marketing
12 31 (1.46%) Manufacturing
13 30 (1.41%) Legal
14 28 (1.32%) Telecoms
15 19 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
16 18 (0.85%) Financial Institution
17 17 (0.80%) Aviation
18 15 (0.71%) Advertising
18 15 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
19 14 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 500 (23.56%) Senior
2 373 (17.58%) DevOps Engineer
3 284 (13.38%) Lead
4 279 (13.15%) Cloud Engineer
5 238 (11.22%) Architect
6 226 (10.65%) Platform Engineer
7 186 (8.77%) Azure Engineer
8 177 (8.34%) Developer
9 143 (6.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 134 (6.31%) Software Engineer
11 132 (6.22%) AWS Engineer
12 114 (5.37%) Data Engineer
13 112 (5.28%) Principal Engineer
14 101 (4.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 86 (4.05%) Security Engineer
16 80 (3.77%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 72 (3.39%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 70 (3.30%) Senior Developer
19 67 (3.16%) Senior DevOps
20 65 (3.06%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,475 (69.51%) Terraform
2 172 (8.11%) .NET
3 166 (7.82%) React
4 162 (7.63%) Kafka
5 140 (6.60%) REST
6 129 (6.08%) RESTful
7 125 (5.89%) Spring
8 124 (5.84%) Node.js
9 117 (5.51%) Spring Boot
10 73 (3.44%) PySpark
11 67 (3.16%) ARM Templates
12 66 (3.11%) YAML
13 62 (2.92%) AWS CDK
14 52 (2.45%) AngularJS
14 52 (2.45%) Elastic Stack
15 44 (2.07%) ASP.NET
15 44 (2.07%) Next.js
16 43 (2.03%) OAuth
17 42 (1.98%) RabbitMQ
18 41 (1.93%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 636 (29.97%) Cloud Native
2 228 (10.74%) Distributed Systems
3 129 (6.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 121 (5.70%) Onboarding
5 115 (5.42%) Public Cloud
6 93 (4.38%) Data Centre
7 61 (2.87%) Product Ownership
8 59 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
9 58 (2.73%) Enterprise Cloud
10 55 (2.59%) Security Posture
11 49 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
12 46 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
13 41 (1.93%) Video\Live Streaming
14 37 (1.74%) Private Cloud
15 36 (1.70%) e-Learning
15 36 (1.70%) Low-Code
16 35 (1.65%) PKI
17 32 (1.51%) AI Agents
17 32 (1.51%) Virtual Team
18 29 (1.37%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 363 (17.11%) Linux
2 208 (9.80%) Windows
3 94 (4.43%) Windows Server
4 58 (2.73%) CentOS
5 40 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 37 (1.74%) Ubuntu
7 28 (1.32%) Unix
8 22 (1.04%) VMS
9 5 (0.24%) Debian
9 5 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.19%) Android
10 4 (0.19%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.094%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.094%) Solaris
12 1 (0.047%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.047%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.047%) Rocky
12 1 (0.047%) SUSE
12 1 (0.047%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,509 (71.11%) CI/CD
2 1,158 (54.57%) DevOps
3 588 (27.71%) Containerisation
4 586 (27.62%) Agile
5 566 (26.67%) Observability
6 526 (24.79%) Platform Engineering
7 472 (22.24%) AI
8 466 (21.96%) Continuous Improvement
9 447 (21.07%) Mentoring
10 415 (19.56%) Software Engineering
11 371 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
12 369 (17.39%) Microservices
13 363 (17.11%) Test Automation
14 335 (15.79%) Cloud Security
15 333 (15.69%) Technical Leadership
16 296 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 257 (12.11%) Roadmaps
18 240 (11.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 237 (11.17%) Analytics
20 230 (10.84%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 950 (44.77%) Python
2 353 (16.64%) SQL
3 351 (16.54%) Bash
4 323 (15.22%) PowerShell
5 305 (14.37%) Java
6 214 (10.08%) Bicep
7 187 (8.81%) TypeScript
8 178 (8.39%) C#
9 155 (7.30%) JavaScript
10 153 (7.21%) Go
11 41 (1.93%) Scala
12 36 (1.70%) PHP
13 28 (1.32%) Rust
14 27 (1.27%) Groovy
15 26 (1.23%) Ruby
16 23 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
17 21 (0.99%) Perl
18 15 (0.71%) C++
19 14 (0.66%) Shell Script
20 12 (0.57%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 533 (25.12%) Security Cleared
2 337 (15.88%) SC Cleared
3 191 (9.00%) DV Cleared
4 181 (8.53%) AWS Certification
5 179 (8.44%) Degree
6 147 (6.93%) Azure Certification
7 87 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 75 (3.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 57 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
10 56 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
11 36 (1.70%) CCNP
12 32 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
13 29 (1.37%) Master's Degree
14 21 (0.99%) CISSP
15 19 (0.90%) CCNA
16 18 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
17 17 (0.80%) SnowPro
18 15 (0.71%) OSCP
19 14 (0.66%) CCIE
20 12 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (4.85%) QA
2 97 (4.57%) Data Quality
3 63 (2.97%) GDPR
4 56 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (1.51%) Accessibility
6 31 (1.46%) NIST
6 31 (1.46%) SOC 2
7 23 (1.08%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.08%) SLA
8 20 (0.94%) NCSC
9 14 (0.66%) WCAG
10 13 (0.61%) GRC
11 10 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.14%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.094%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.094%) IFRS
14 2 (0.094%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.094%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.047%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 559 (26.34%) Docker
2 132 (6.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 129 (6.08%) Active Directory
4 44 (2.07%) vSphere
5 39 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (1.08%) Hyper-V
6 23 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (0.80%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (0.42%) KVM
10 8 (0.38%) Squid
11 7 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.28%) Firmware
13 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.19%) iptables
15 3 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 2 (0.094%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 811 (38.22%) Kubernetes
2 457 (21.54%) Ansible
3 207 (9.75%) Grafana
4 141 (6.64%) Prometheus
5 65 (3.06%) Argo
6 56 (2.64%) Puppet
7 37 (1.74%) Progress Chef
7 37 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
8 34 (1.60%) Istio
9 33 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
10 25 (1.18%) Packer
11 19 (0.90%) FortiGate
11 19 (0.90%) vCenter Server
12 16 (0.75%) Nagios
13 15 (0.71%) Rancher
14 14 (0.66%) Cilium
15 13 (0.61%) Kustomize
16 12 (0.57%) ZABBIX
17 11 (0.52%) Kibana
17 11 (0.52%) linkerd
Vendors
1 450 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 163 (7.68%) VMware
3 122 (5.75%) Google
4 97 (4.57%) Databricks
5 78 (3.68%) Red Hat
6 73 (3.44%) Cisco
7 70 (3.30%) Splunk
8 55 (2.59%) Oracle
9 45 (2.12%) Palo Alto
10 42 (1.98%) Fortinet
11 38 (1.79%) OpenAI
12 37 (1.74%) Dynatrace
13 28 (1.32%) ServiceNow
14 25 (1.18%) Zscaler
15 15 (0.71%) Atlassian
15 15 (0.71%) SAP
16 14 (0.66%) CrowdStrike
16 14 (0.66%) F5
17 12 (0.57%) ScienceLogic
18 11 (0.52%) New Relic