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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 157 141
Rank change year-on-year +81 -16 -43
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,084 943 1,339
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.17% 2.15% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.96% 2.42% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,428 669 939
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £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 £106,250 £106,500 £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 70,489 39,024 59,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.45% 89.04% 81.03%
Number of salaries quoted 49,966 22,592 37,637
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -10.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 +31 911 £90,000 +2.86% 235
North of England +97 453 £70,000 - 165
North West +84 250 £72,500 +3.57% 88
South East +65 249 £67,500 -12.90% 149
South West +47 224 £75,000 - 112
Midlands +38 148 £75,000 +15.38% 44
Yorkshire +19 106 £72,500 +3.57% 48
North East +19 97 £59,000 -18.62% 30
West Midlands +25 91 £83,774 +29.38% 24
East Midlands +16 57 £67,500 +3.85% 20
East of England -5 57 £67,500 +3.85% 14
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 53 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
2 51 (2.45%) Apache
2 51 (2.45%) Apache Spark
3 29 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 28 (1.34%) Confluence
5 13 (0.62%) Jupyter
6 10 (0.48%) IIS
7 9 (0.43%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.29%) CMS
9 4 (0.19%) Camunda
9 4 (0.19%) nginx
10 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.14%) WordPress
11 2 (0.096%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.048%) Documentum
12 1 (0.048%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.048%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.048%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (1.01%) PlantUML
2 10 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.096%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.096%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.048%) Maya
6 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.048%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.14%) Summit
2 2 (0.096%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.048%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.048%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.048%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.048%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,197 (57.44%) AWS
2 1,101 (52.83%) Azure
3 390 (18.71%) GCP
4 362 (17.37%) GitHub
5 347 (16.65%) Serverless
6 329 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 285 (13.68%) Azure DevOps
8 198 (9.50%) GitHub Actions
9 184 (8.83%) Amazon S3
10 181 (8.69%) AWS Lambda
11 155 (7.44%) PaaS
12 138 (6.62%) Amazon EC2
13 124 (5.95%) Amazon EKS
14 122 (5.85%) Azure AKS
15 120 (5.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 120 (5.76%) Amazon ECS
16 117 (5.61%) SaaS
17 109 (5.23%) IaaS
18 108 (5.18%) Entra ID
19 100 (4.80%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 166 (7.97%) Firewall
2 111 (5.33%) DNS
3 109 (5.23%) VPN
4 99 (4.75%) Network Security
5 61 (2.93%) TCP/IP
6 57 (2.74%) WAN
7 52 (2.50%) BGP
8 46 (2.21%) Broadband
9 44 (2.11%) DHCP
10 39 (1.87%) LAN
11 36 (1.73%) OSPF
12 33 (1.58%) VLAN
13 27 (1.30%) VXLAN
14 26 (1.25%) Software-Defined Networking
15 24 (1.15%) SD-WAN
16 15 (0.72%) Wireless
17 14 (0.67%) HTTP
17 14 (0.67%) SAN
18 13 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
19 10 (0.48%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
2 134 (6.43%) NoSQL
3 90 (4.32%) MongoDB
4 88 (4.22%) Amazon RDS
5 78 (3.74%) DynamoDB
5 78 (3.74%) SQL Server
6 59 (2.83%) Data Lake
7 56 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 50 (2.40%) Metadata
8 50 (2.40%) MySQL
9 47 (2.26%) Relational Database
10 42 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
11 30 (1.44%) Delta Lake
12 29 (1.39%) Redis
13 28 (1.34%) Big Data
13 28 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
14 25 (1.20%) BigQuery
15 24 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
16 23 (1.10%) Power BI
17 22 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 280 (13.44%) Git
2 264 (12.67%) GitLab
3 225 (10.80%) Jenkins
4 53 (2.54%) JIRA
5 45 (2.16%) Cucumber
6 32 (1.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 30 (1.44%) Bitbucket
8 26 (1.25%) TeamCity
9 20 (0.96%) Selenium
10 18 (0.86%) Claude Code
11 17 (0.82%) CircleCI
11 17 (0.82%) SonarQube
12 15 (0.72%) NUnit
13 13 (0.62%) Cypress.io
14 11 (0.53%) Maven
14 11 (0.53%) MLflow
15 10 (0.48%) Snyk
16 9 (0.43%) MSI
17 8 (0.38%) JMeter
17 8 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 533 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 430 (20.63%) Finance
3 182 (8.73%) Public Sector
4 161 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
5 114 (5.47%) Banking
6 108 (5.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 75 (3.60%) Law
8 56 (2.69%) Retail
9 50 (2.40%) Aerospace
10 47 (2.26%) Games
11 36 (1.73%) Marketing
12 30 (1.44%) Legal
12 30 (1.44%) Manufacturing
13 27 (1.30%) Telecoms
14 19 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
15 17 (0.82%) Aviation
16 16 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
16 16 (0.77%) Financial Institution
17 15 (0.72%) Advertising
18 14 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 494 (23.70%) Senior
2 363 (17.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 280 (13.44%) Lead
4 272 (13.05%) Cloud Engineer
5 234 (11.23%) Architect
6 219 (10.51%) Platform Engineer
7 179 (8.59%) Azure Engineer
8 174 (8.35%) Developer
9 132 (6.33%) Software Engineer
10 131 (6.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 128 (6.14%) AWS Engineer
12 118 (5.66%) Data Engineer
13 110 (5.28%) Principal Engineer
14 97 (4.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 85 (4.08%) Security Engineer
16 75 (3.60%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 72 (3.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 67 (3.21%) Senior Developer
19 66 (3.17%) Senior DevOps
20 63 (3.02%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,451 (69.63%) Terraform
2 170 (8.16%) .NET
3 160 (7.68%) React
4 154 (7.39%) Kafka
5 138 (6.62%) REST
6 127 (6.09%) RESTful
7 123 (5.90%) Node.js
8 122 (5.85%) Spring
9 114 (5.47%) Spring Boot
10 73 (3.50%) PySpark
11 69 (3.31%) YAML
12 67 (3.21%) ARM Templates
13 63 (3.02%) AWS CDK
14 52 (2.50%) AngularJS
15 47 (2.26%) Elastic Stack
16 45 (2.16%) OAuth
17 44 (2.11%) ASP.NET
18 43 (2.06%) Next.js
19 41 (1.97%) ASP.NET Core
19 41 (1.97%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 614 (29.46%) Cloud Native
2 220 (10.56%) Distributed Systems
3 122 (5.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 117 (5.61%) Onboarding
5 111 (5.33%) Public Cloud
6 91 (4.37%) Data Centre
7 59 (2.83%) Product Ownership
8 57 (2.74%) Security Posture
9 55 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
10 54 (2.59%) Enterprise Cloud
11 50 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
12 43 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
13 41 (1.97%) Video\Live Streaming
14 36 (1.73%) Low-Code
14 36 (1.73%) Private Cloud
15 33 (1.58%) PKI
16 32 (1.54%) e-Learning
16 32 (1.54%) Virtual Team
17 29 (1.39%) AI Agents
18 28 (1.34%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 360 (17.27%) Linux
2 208 (9.98%) Windows
3 96 (4.61%) Windows Server
4 56 (2.69%) CentOS
5 41 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 37 (1.78%) Ubuntu
7 27 (1.30%) Unix
8 22 (1.06%) VMS
9 5 (0.24%) Android
9 5 (0.24%) Debian
9 5 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.19%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.096%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.096%) Solaris
12 1 (0.048%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.048%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.048%) Rocky
12 1 (0.048%) SUSE
12 1 (0.048%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,479 (70.97%) CI/CD
2 1,143 (54.85%) DevOps
3 580 (27.83%) Containerisation
4 570 (27.35%) Agile
5 545 (26.15%) Observability
6 507 (24.33%) Platform Engineering
7 461 (22.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 454 (21.79%) AI
9 437 (20.97%) Mentoring
10 402 (19.29%) Software Engineering
11 362 (17.37%) Microservices
12 360 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
13 354 (16.99%) Test Automation
14 328 (15.74%) Technical Leadership
15 320 (15.36%) Cloud Security
16 284 (13.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 250 (12.00%) Roadmaps
18 235 (11.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 233 (11.18%) Analytics
20 225 (10.80%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 936 (44.91%) Python
2 347 (16.65%) SQL
3 341 (16.36%) Bash
4 318 (15.26%) PowerShell
5 303 (14.54%) Java
6 212 (10.17%) Bicep
7 183 (8.78%) TypeScript
8 174 (8.35%) C#
9 150 (7.20%) Go
9 150 (7.20%) JavaScript
10 41 (1.97%) Scala
11 36 (1.73%) PHP
12 26 (1.25%) Ruby
12 26 (1.25%) Rust
13 24 (1.15%) Groovy
14 23 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
15 21 (1.01%) Perl
16 16 (0.77%) C++
17 12 (0.58%) Shell Script
18 11 (0.53%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 512 (24.57%) Security Cleared
2 325 (15.60%) SC Cleared
3 186 (8.93%) Degree
3 186 (8.93%) DV Cleared
4 171 (8.21%) AWS Certification
5 143 (6.86%) Azure Certification
6 88 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 71 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 53 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
8 53 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 35 (1.68%) CCNP
10 29 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 29 (1.39%) Master's Degree
11 21 (1.01%) CISSP
12 19 (0.91%) CCNA
13 18 (0.86%) OSCP
14 17 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
15 16 (0.77%) SnowPro
16 14 (0.67%) CCIE
17 13 (0.62%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (4.80%) Data Quality
1 100 (4.80%) QA
2 65 (3.12%) GDPR
3 54 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (1.63%) NIST
5 33 (1.58%) Accessibility
6 32 (1.54%) SOC 2
7 25 (1.20%) PCI DSS
8 22 (1.06%) SLA
9 19 (0.91%) NCSC
10 16 (0.77%) WCAG
11 13 (0.62%) GRC
12 10 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.14%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.096%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.096%) IFRS
15 2 (0.096%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.096%) Solvency II
16 1 (0.048%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 550 (26.39%) Docker
2 133 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 130 (6.24%) Active Directory
4 45 (2.16%) vSphere
5 37 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (1.15%) Hyper-V
7 23 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (0.86%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.43%) KVM
11 8 (0.38%) Squid
12 7 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
13 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.19%) Firmware
14 4 (0.19%) iptables
15 3 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 2 (0.096%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 798 (38.29%) Kubernetes
2 452 (21.69%) Ansible
3 205 (9.84%) Grafana
4 138 (6.62%) Prometheus
5 63 (3.02%) Argo
6 54 (2.59%) Puppet
7 36 (1.73%) Progress Chef
8 34 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
9 31 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
10 30 (1.44%) Istio
11 25 (1.20%) Packer
12 18 (0.86%) FortiGate
12 18 (0.86%) Nagios
13 17 (0.82%) vCenter Server
14 14 (0.67%) Cilium
15 12 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 12 (0.58%) Kustomize
15 12 (0.58%) ZABBIX
16 11 (0.53%) Rancher
17 10 (0.48%) linkerd
Vendors
1 437 (20.97%) Microsoft
2 161 (7.73%) VMware
3 117 (5.61%) Google
4 98 (4.70%) Databricks
5 77 (3.69%) Red Hat
6 71 (3.41%) Splunk
7 70 (3.36%) Cisco
8 54 (2.59%) Oracle
9 46 (2.21%) Palo Alto
10 39 (1.87%) Fortinet
11 37 (1.78%) OpenAI
12 35 (1.68%) Dynatrace
13 25 (1.20%) Zscaler
14 23 (1.10%) ServiceNow
15 15 (0.72%) CrowdStrike
15 15 (0.72%) SAP
16 14 (0.67%) Atlassian
17 12 (0.58%) F5
17 12 (0.58%) ScienceLogic
18 11 (0.53%) New Relic