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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 131 158
Rank change year-on-year +24 +27 -55
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,282 868 1,456
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.81% 2.37% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 2.55% 2.15%
Number of salaries quoted 878 641 1,200
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,573
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £92,813
90th Percentile £111,625 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -0.66% +4.14% -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 54,337 34,070 67,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 76.70% 93.20% 86.26%
Number of salaries quoted 34,149 20,338 52,300
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,844 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,875 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

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 April 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 April 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 +38 632 £85,000 -5.56% 278
North of England -19 248 £70,000 +3.70% 159
South East +7 149 £70,000 -5.08% 123
North West -7 120 £73,801 +1.79% 84
South West -5 97 £62,500 -13.18% 88
Yorkshire -10 96 £65,000 +13.04% 47
Midlands -8 74 £67,500 +3.85% 47
East Midlands -19 37 £67,500 +3.85% 6
West Midlands -21 35 £65,500 -6.43% 41
East of England -9 33 £62,500 -12.28% 35
North East -8 32 £48,445 -15.75% 28
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 44 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (2.57%) Apache
3 23 (1.79%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.17%) Confluence
5 15 (1.17%) IIS
6 9 (0.70%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.23%) CMS
7 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.078%) Appian
9 1 (0.078%) Camunda
9 1 (0.078%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.078%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.31%) PlantUML
1 4 (0.31%) Weka
2 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.078%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.078%) Maya
3 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.078%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.078%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.078%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 814 (63.49%) AWS
2 697 (54.37%) Azure
3 290 (22.62%) GCP
4 277 (21.61%) GitHub
5 248 (19.34%) Azure DevOps
5 248 (19.34%) Serverless
6 218 (17.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 192 (14.98%) GitHub Actions
8 143 (11.15%) AWS Lambda
9 130 (10.14%) Amazon S3
10 106 (8.27%) Amazon EKS
11 100 (7.80%) SaaS
12 99 (7.72%) PaaS
13 96 (7.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 93 (7.25%) Datadog
14 93 (7.25%) Entra ID
15 78 (6.08%) Amazon EC2
16 70 (5.46%) Microsoft 365
17 67 (5.23%) Amazon ECS
18 64 (4.99%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 163 (12.71%) Firewall
2 84 (6.55%) DNS
3 71 (5.54%) VPN
4 69 (5.38%) TCP/IP
5 42 (3.28%) WAN
6 38 (2.96%) Broadband
6 38 (2.96%) Network Security
7 26 (2.03%) DHCP
8 21 (1.64%) HTTP
8 21 (1.64%) LAN
9 19 (1.48%) BGP
10 17 (1.33%) VLAN
11 16 (1.25%) Cisco ASA
12 13 (1.01%) DSL
12 13 (1.01%) Internet
13 11 (0.86%) SD-WAN
14 9 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.62%) Software-Defined Networking
15 8 (0.62%) Wireless
16 5 (0.39%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (8.58%) NoSQL
2 93 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
3 81 (6.32%) Amazon RDS
4 60 (4.68%) SQL Server
5 55 (4.29%) DynamoDB
6 43 (3.35%) MongoDB
7 40 (3.12%) Relational Database
8 38 (2.96%) Data Lake
9 29 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
10 27 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
11 26 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
11 26 (2.03%) MySQL
12 25 (1.95%) Redis
13 23 (1.79%) BigQuery
14 21 (1.64%) Power BI
15 20 (1.56%) Metadata
16 19 (1.48%) RDBMS
17 15 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
17 15 (1.17%) Delta Lake
18 12 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 199 (15.52%) Jenkins
2 179 (13.96%) GitLab
3 176 (13.73%) Git
4 35 (2.73%) JIRA
5 32 (2.50%) Bitbucket
5 32 (2.50%) CircleCI
6 28 (2.18%) Selenium
7 24 (1.87%) Cucumber
7 24 (1.87%) Robot Framework
8 21 (1.64%) Jaeger
9 16 (1.25%) Snyk
10 14 (1.09%) SonarQube
10 14 (1.09%) TeamCity
11 13 (1.01%) JMeter
11 13 (1.01%) MLflow
12 10 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 9 (0.70%) Locust
14 8 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
14 8 (0.62%) Storybook
14 8 (0.62%) Subversion
General
1 358 (27.93%) Social Skills
2 277 (21.61%) Finance
3 122 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (7.57%) Banking
5 75 (5.85%) Public Sector
6 64 (4.99%) Law
7 62 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 61 (4.76%) Retail
9 60 (4.68%) Telecoms
10 30 (2.34%) Financial Institution
11 25 (1.95%) Marketing
12 24 (1.87%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.72%) Billing
13 22 (1.72%) Games
14 21 (1.64%) Back Office
15 19 (1.48%) Advertising
15 19 (1.48%) Aerospace
16 14 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
16 14 (1.09%) Electronics
17 11 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 275 (21.45%) Senior
2 214 (16.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 198 (15.44%) Cloud Engineer
4 170 (13.26%) Lead
5 120 (9.36%) Developer
6 114 (8.89%) Azure Engineer
7 113 (8.81%) Platform Engineer
8 104 (8.11%) Architect
9 103 (8.03%) AWS Engineer
10 94 (7.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 66 (5.15%) Software Engineer
12 61 (4.76%) Data Engineer
13 59 (4.60%) Security Engineer
14 53 (4.13%) Senior DevOps
15 46 (3.59%) Cloud Security Engineer
16 45 (3.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 44 (3.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 40 (3.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 40 (3.12%) Python Engineer
19 39 (3.04%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (9.36%) React
2 87 (6.79%) .NET
3 84 (6.55%) Node.js
4 76 (5.93%) Elastic Stack
4 76 (5.93%) RESTful
5 73 (5.69%) Kafka
6 72 (5.62%) REST
7 61 (4.76%) AWS CDK
7 61 (4.76%) Spring
8 53 (4.13%) Spring Boot
8 53 (4.13%) YAML
9 42 (3.28%) Django
10 41 (3.20%) RabbitMQ
11 40 (3.12%) ARM Templates
12 38 (2.96%) FastAPI
13 36 (2.81%) CSS
14 35 (2.73%) OAuth
15 32 (2.50%) HTML
16 30 (2.34%) .NET Core
17 29 (2.26%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 295 (23.01%) Cloud Native
2 79 (6.16%) Hybrid Cloud
3 63 (4.91%) Distributed Systems
4 58 (4.52%) Security Posture
5 53 (4.13%) Public Cloud
6 45 (3.51%) Product Ownership
7 44 (3.43%) Data Centre
8 32 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (2.34%) Onboarding
10 29 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
11 24 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
12 23 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
12 23 (1.79%) Management Information System
13 21 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
14 18 (1.40%) Blockchain
14 18 (1.40%) Cloud Security Posture
14 18 (1.40%) Hedge funds
15 17 (1.33%) Video\Live Streaming
15 17 (1.33%) Web3
16 16 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 295 (23.01%) Linux
2 145 (11.31%) Windows
3 67 (5.23%) Unix
4 54 (4.21%) Windows Server
5 32 (2.50%) Ubuntu
6 29 (2.26%) VMS
7 22 (1.72%) CentOS
7 22 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (1.01%) Android
9 12 (0.94%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.62%) Debian
11 5 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.31%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.31%) SUSE
13 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.078%) Rocky
14 1 (0.078%) Solaris
14 1 (0.078%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 867 (67.63%) CI/CD
2 787 (61.39%) DevOps
3 365 (28.47%) Agile
4 363 (28.32%) Containerisation
5 312 (24.34%) Observability
6 283 (22.07%) Continuous Improvement
7 239 (18.64%) Mentoring
8 234 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
9 205 (15.99%) Platform Engineering
9 205 (15.99%) Test Automation
10 194 (15.13%) AI
11 187 (14.59%) Software Engineering
12 179 (13.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 178 (13.88%) Cloud Security
14 175 (13.65%) Microservices
15 153 (11.93%) DevSecOps
16 148 (11.54%) Analytics
17 143 (11.15%) High Availability
17 143 (11.15%) Incident Response
18 126 (9.83%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 596 (46.49%) Python
2 259 (20.20%) Bash
3 207 (16.15%) SQL
4 202 (15.76%) PowerShell
5 169 (13.18%) Java
6 148 (11.54%) Go
7 119 (9.28%) JavaScript
8 114 (8.89%) Bicep
9 103 (8.03%) TypeScript
10 68 (5.30%) C#
11 19 (1.48%) Rust
12 18 (1.40%) C++
12 18 (1.40%) Kusto Query Language
13 17 (1.33%) Scala
14 11 (0.86%) C
15 10 (0.78%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.62%) Ruby
17 7 (0.55%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.55%) Perl
17 7 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 230 (17.94%) Security Cleared
2 136 (10.61%) SC Cleared
3 123 (9.59%) Degree
4 105 (8.19%) AWS Certification
5 98 (7.64%) DV Cleared
6 69 (5.38%) Azure Certification
7 52 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (2.26%) OSCP
9 28 (2.18%) CISSP
10 27 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.17%) AWS Certified Developer
12 14 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
13 12 (0.94%) Master's Degree
14 11 (0.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 11 (0.86%) CCSK
15 10 (0.78%) CCNP
15 10 (0.78%) DBS Check
15 10 (0.78%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 7 (0.55%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (5.23%) QA
2 57 (4.45%) GDPR
3 56 (4.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 54 (4.21%) SOC 2
5 46 (3.59%) Data Quality
6 40 (3.12%) NIST
6 40 (3.12%) PCI DSS
7 26 (2.03%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.94%) WCAG
9 11 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.70%) SLA
11 7 (0.55%) GRC
11 7 (0.55%) NCSC
12 6 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.31%) EU AI Act
14 2 (0.16%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.16%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.16%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 413 (32.22%) Docker
2 82 (6.40%) Active Directory
3 62 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (1.79%) vSphere
6 19 (1.48%) Hyper-V
7 15 (1.17%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.78%) Firmware
9 6 (0.47%) KVM
10 5 (0.39%) iptables
10 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.16%) GPFS
11 2 (0.16%) Lustre
11 2 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.078%) QEMU
12 1 (0.078%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 910 (70.98%) Terraform
2 521 (40.64%) Kubernetes
3 321 (25.04%) Ansible
4 182 (14.20%) Grafana
5 181 (14.12%) Prometheus
6 48 (3.74%) Argo
7 33 (2.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 27 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
9 22 (1.72%) Puppet
10 19 (1.48%) Kustomize
11 15 (1.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 14 (1.09%) Nagios
12 14 (1.09%) Rancher
13 13 (1.01%) Progress Chef
14 11 (0.86%) Docker Swarm
15 10 (0.78%) Istio
16 9 (0.70%) AWS Copilot
17 8 (0.62%) Proxmox
17 8 (0.62%) vCenter Server
18 7 (0.55%) logstash
Vendors
1 207 (16.15%) Microsoft
2 108 (8.42%) Google
3 98 (7.64%) VMware
4 51 (3.98%) Red Hat
5 48 (3.74%) Cisco
5 48 (3.74%) Databricks
6 45 (3.51%) Splunk
7 41 (3.20%) Palo Alto
8 22 (1.72%) Zscaler
9 18 (1.40%) Salesforce
10 16 (1.25%) Black Duck
10 16 (1.25%) Coverity
10 16 (1.25%) CrowdStrike
10 16 (1.25%) Dynatrace
11 15 (1.17%) Atlassian
11 15 (1.17%) Juniper
12 14 (1.09%) Fortinet
12 14 (1.09%) OpenAI
13 12 (0.94%) Oracle
13 12 (0.94%) SAP