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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 152 168
Rank change year-on-year +74 +16 -58
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,703 892 1,532
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.07% 2.27% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 2.45% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,171 585 1,196
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
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 £87,813
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,750 £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 60,140 36,455 77,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 72.96% 92.71% 82.38%
Number of salaries quoted 42,197 19,854 56,054
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 12 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 12 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 +35 840 £87,500 -2.78% 190
North of England +72 325 £67,500 -3.57% 93
South East +51 197 £70,000 -6.67% 132
North West +79 196 £75,000 +3.45% 57
South West +11 123 £73,750 +5.36% 59
Midlands +48 118 £70,079 +7.81% 39
Yorkshire -4 87 £65,576 -2.49% 19
West Midlands +15 69 £77,500 +19.23% 25
East of England +8 49 £60,100 -7.54% 23
East Midlands +3 49 £67,500 +3.85% 14
North East -6 42 £55,000 -15.38% 17
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 48 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (2.11%) Apache
3 34 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 31 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 21 (1.23%) Confluence
6 13 (0.76%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.70%) IIS
8 7 (0.41%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.29%) CMS
10 4 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.12%) Camunda
12 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.12%) WordPress
13 1 (0.059%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.059%) nginx
13 1 (0.059%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.059%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (0.82%) PlantUML
2 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.23%) Weka
4 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.059%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.059%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.059%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.059%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.059%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 998 (58.60%) AWS
2 918 (53.90%) Azure
3 314 (18.44%) GitHub
4 311 (18.26%) Serverless
5 301 (17.67%) GCP
6 281 (16.50%) Azure DevOps
7 261 (15.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 200 (11.74%) GitHub Actions
9 171 (10.04%) AWS Lambda
10 167 (9.81%) Amazon S3
11 139 (8.16%) PaaS
12 119 (6.99%) Amazon EC2
13 114 (6.69%) Entra ID
14 113 (6.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 111 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
16 109 (6.40%) SaaS
17 106 (6.22%) IaaS
18 100 (5.87%) Azure AKS
19 89 (5.23%) Azure Monitor
20 88 (5.17%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 173 (10.16%) Firewall
2 93 (5.46%) DNS
3 86 (5.05%) VPN
4 73 (4.29%) Broadband
5 63 (3.70%) TCP/IP
6 59 (3.46%) Network Security
7 50 (2.94%) WAN
8 40 (2.35%) BGP
9 31 (1.82%) DHCP
10 29 (1.70%) VLAN
11 27 (1.59%) LAN
12 23 (1.35%) HTTP
13 20 (1.17%) OSPF
13 20 (1.17%) SD-WAN
13 20 (1.17%) Software-Defined Networking
14 17 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
15 15 (0.88%) VXLAN
16 13 (0.76%) DSL
17 10 (0.59%) IPv4
18 9 (0.53%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 130 (7.63%) PostgreSQL
3 88 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
4 86 (5.05%) MongoDB
5 66 (3.88%) DynamoDB
6 61 (3.58%) SQL Server
7 52 (3.05%) Relational Database
8 49 (2.88%) Data Lake
9 46 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
10 39 (2.29%) Metadata
11 30 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
12 25 (1.47%) BigQuery
13 24 (1.41%) MySQL
14 23 (1.35%) Power BI
15 22 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
16 21 (1.23%) Delta Lake
17 20 (1.17%) RDBMS
18 18 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
18 18 (1.06%) Big Data
19 17 (1.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 245 (14.39%) GitLab
2 221 (12.98%) Jenkins
3 217 (12.74%) Git
4 35 (2.06%) Cucumber
5 34 (2.00%) Bitbucket
5 34 (2.00%) JIRA
6 33 (1.94%) CircleCI
7 22 (1.29%) TeamCity
8 20 (1.17%) Jaeger
9 13 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 13 (0.76%) SonarQube
10 11 (0.65%) Selenium
11 10 (0.59%) MLflow
11 10 (0.59%) Vite
12 9 (0.53%) Maven
13 8 (0.47%) JMeter
13 8 (0.47%) Subversion
14 7 (0.41%) Artifactory
14 7 (0.41%) NUnit
14 7 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 407 (23.90%) Social Skills
2 323 (18.97%) Finance
3 127 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (6.11%) Public Sector
5 102 (5.99%) Banking
6 65 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 61 (3.58%) Retail
8 51 (2.99%) Law
9 43 (2.52%) Games
9 43 (2.52%) Telecoms
10 28 (1.64%) Manufacturing
11 26 (1.53%) Aerospace
12 20 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
13 18 (1.06%) Advertising
13 18 (1.06%) Financial Institution
14 16 (0.94%) Billing
14 16 (0.94%) Legal
15 15 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
16 14 (0.82%) Marketing
17 12 (0.70%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 388 (22.78%) Senior
2 283 (16.62%) DevOps Engineer
3 266 (15.62%) Cloud Engineer
4 229 (13.45%) Lead
5 180 (10.57%) Platform Engineer
6 177 (10.39%) Azure Engineer
7 157 (9.22%) Architect
8 144 (8.46%) Developer
9 126 (7.40%) AWS Engineer
10 108 (6.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 95 (5.58%) Data Engineer
12 93 (5.46%) Software Engineer
13 84 (4.93%) Security Engineer
14 81 (4.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 77 (4.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 67 (3.93%) Principal Engineer
17 61 (3.58%) Senior DevOps
18 59 (3.46%) Senior Platform Engineer
19 58 (3.41%) Senior Developer
20 52 (3.05%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (7.81%) React
2 121 (7.11%) Kafka
3 113 (6.64%) .NET
4 105 (6.17%) REST
5 103 (6.05%) Node.js
6 94 (5.52%) RESTful
7 80 (4.70%) Spring
7 80 (4.70%) YAML
8 72 (4.23%) Spring Boot
9 70 (4.11%) Elastic Stack
10 60 (3.52%) AWS CDK
11 59 (3.46%) PySpark
12 58 (3.41%) ARM Templates
13 51 (2.99%) OAuth
14 44 (2.58%) RabbitMQ
15 40 (2.35%) Next.js
16 37 (2.17%) JSON
17 36 (2.11%) ASP.NET
18 34 (2.00%) ASP.NET Core
18 34 (2.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 447 (26.25%) Cloud Native
2 153 (8.98%) Distributed Systems
3 94 (5.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 79 (4.64%) Public Cloud
5 64 (3.76%) Data Centre
6 56 (3.29%) Security Posture
7 53 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
8 51 (2.99%) Product Ownership
9 48 (2.82%) Video\Live Streaming
10 44 (2.58%) Onboarding
11 33 (1.94%) Low-Code
12 29 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
13 26 (1.53%) PKI
14 25 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
15 24 (1.41%) Blockchain
16 22 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
16 22 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
16 22 (1.29%) Web3
17 21 (1.23%) e-Learning
17 21 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 328 (19.26%) Linux
2 164 (9.63%) Windows
3 82 (4.82%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.64%) Ubuntu
5 43 (2.52%) Unix
6 37 (2.17%) CentOS
7 27 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 27 (1.59%) VMS
8 11 (0.65%) Android
9 10 (0.59%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (0.41%) Debian
12 5 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.059%) Rocky
14 1 (0.059%) SUSE
14 1 (0.059%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,181 (69.35%) CI/CD
2 962 (56.49%) DevOps
3 453 (26.60%) Containerisation
4 449 (26.37%) Agile
5 436 (25.60%) Observability
6 369 (21.67%) Platform Engineering
7 345 (20.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 340 (19.96%) AI
8 340 (19.96%) Mentoring
9 297 (17.44%) Test Automation
10 274 (16.09%) Software Engineering
11 272 (15.97%) Microservices
12 243 (14.27%) Problem-Solving
13 228 (13.39%) Cloud Security
14 217 (12.74%) Technical Leadership
15 214 (12.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 202 (11.86%) Analytics
17 177 (10.39%) High Availability
18 174 (10.22%) Roadmaps
19 171 (10.04%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 774 (45.45%) Python
2 314 (18.44%) Bash
3 279 (16.38%) PowerShell
3 279 (16.38%) SQL
4 217 (12.74%) Java
5 182 (10.69%) Go
6 153 (8.98%) TypeScript
7 151 (8.87%) Bicep
8 143 (8.40%) JavaScript
9 122 (7.16%) C#
10 32 (1.88%) Rust
11 24 (1.41%) Scala
12 21 (1.23%) C++
13 19 (1.12%) PHP
14 18 (1.06%) Groovy
14 18 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
15 12 (0.70%) C
16 9 (0.53%) Ruby
16 9 (0.53%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.41%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 322 (18.91%) Security Cleared
2 216 (12.68%) SC Cleared
3 150 (8.81%) Degree
4 126 (7.40%) AWS Certification
5 98 (5.75%) Azure Certification
6 95 (5.58%) DV Cleared
7 60 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 39 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 33 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (1.64%) OSCP
12 20 (1.17%) CISSP
13 19 (1.12%) CCNP
14 15 (0.88%) CCNA
14 15 (0.88%) DBS Check
14 15 (0.88%) Master's Degree
15 13 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 12 (0.70%) RHCSA
17 9 (0.53%) CCIE
17 9 (0.53%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (4.64%) QA
2 68 (3.99%) Data Quality
3 58 (3.41%) GDPR
4 48 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 47 (2.76%) SOC 2
6 33 (1.94%) NIST
7 31 (1.82%) PCI DSS
8 25 (1.47%) Accessibility
9 12 (0.70%) WCAG
10 9 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.53%) GRC
11 6 (0.35%) NCSC
11 6 (0.35%) SLA
12 5 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.12%) IFRS
14 2 (0.12%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.12%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.059%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 448 (26.31%) Docker
2 112 (6.58%) Active Directory
3 96 (5.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
5 37 (2.17%) vSphere
6 22 (1.29%) VMware NSX
7 18 (1.06%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.47%) Squid
10 7 (0.41%) iptables
10 7 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.23%) Firmware
12 4 (0.23%) KVM
13 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,190 (69.88%) Terraform
2 658 (38.64%) Kubernetes
3 366 (21.49%) Ansible
4 200 (11.74%) Grafana
5 195 (11.45%) Prometheus
6 66 (3.88%) Argo
7 37 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
7 37 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
8 35 (2.06%) Puppet
9 25 (1.47%) Progress Chef
10 24 (1.41%) Kustomize
11 23 (1.35%) Packer
12 19 (1.12%) Nagios
13 18 (1.06%) Istio
14 17 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 14 (0.82%) vCenter Server
15 14 (0.82%) ZABBIX
16 12 (0.70%) Cilium
16 12 (0.70%) Rancher
17 10 (0.59%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 321 (18.85%) Microsoft
2 133 (7.81%) VMware
3 96 (5.64%) Google
4 74 (4.35%) Red Hat
5 71 (4.17%) Databricks
6 56 (3.29%) Splunk
7 55 (3.23%) Cisco
8 47 (2.76%) Palo Alto
9 29 (1.70%) Oracle
10 28 (1.64%) OpenAI
11 26 (1.53%) Fortinet
11 26 (1.53%) Zscaler
12 19 (1.12%) Dynatrace
13 16 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
14 15 (0.88%) Salesforce
15 13 (0.76%) CheckPoint
16 12 (0.70%) F5
17 11 (0.65%) Atlassian
17 11 (0.65%) ServiceNow
18 10 (0.59%) SolarWinds