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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 135 157
Rank change year-on-year +22 +22 -54
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,230 873 1,441
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.79% 2.38% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 2.55% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 848 655 1,193
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,200 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -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 53,002 34,266 66,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 77.33% 93.54% 86.56%
Number of salaries quoted 32,961 20,243 51,625
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,750 £74,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 +38 612 £85,000 -5.56% 278
North of England -17 227 £67,500 - 159
South East +7 141 £70,000 -5.08% 123
North West -21 107 £73,801 +1.79% 84
South West -8 92 £62,500 -13.18% 88
Yorkshire -11 90 £62,500 +8.70% 47
Midlands -17 72 £67,500 +3.85% 47
West Midlands -12 35 £66,500 -5.00% 41
East Midlands -16 35 £67,500 +3.85% 6
East of England -2 34 £62,500 -13.79% 35
North East -10 30 £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 (3.58%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (2.68%) Apache
3 23 (1.87%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (1.30%) IIS
6 15 (1.22%) Confluence
7 10 (0.81%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.24%) CMS
8 3 (0.24%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.081%) Appian
10 1 (0.081%) Camunda
10 1 (0.081%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.081%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.081%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.33%) PlantUML
1 4 (0.33%) Weka
2 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.081%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.081%) Maya
3 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.081%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.081%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.081%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 781 (63.50%) AWS
2 677 (55.04%) Azure
3 277 (22.52%) GCP
4 267 (21.71%) GitHub
5 244 (19.84%) Azure DevOps
6 239 (19.43%) Serverless
7 213 (17.32%) AWS CloudFormation
8 186 (15.12%) GitHub Actions
9 139 (11.30%) AWS Lambda
10 125 (10.16%) Amazon S3
11 102 (8.29%) SaaS
12 99 (8.05%) PaaS
13 95 (7.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 95 (7.72%) Amazon EKS
14 89 (7.24%) Datadog
15 88 (7.15%) Entra ID
16 72 (5.85%) Amazon EC2
17 69 (5.61%) Microsoft 365
18 66 (5.37%) IaaS
19 65 (5.28%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 155 (12.60%) Firewall
2 81 (6.59%) DNS
3 69 (5.61%) VPN
4 68 (5.53%) TCP/IP
5 38 (3.09%) Broadband
5 38 (3.09%) WAN
6 36 (2.93%) Network Security
7 26 (2.11%) DHCP
8 20 (1.63%) HTTP
9 19 (1.54%) BGP
10 18 (1.46%) LAN
11 16 (1.30%) VLAN
12 15 (1.22%) Cisco ASA
13 13 (1.06%) DSL
13 13 (1.06%) Internet
14 9 (0.73%) SD-WAN
14 9 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
15 8 (0.65%) Wireless
16 5 (0.41%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (8.78%) NoSQL
2 87 (7.07%) PostgreSQL
3 79 (6.42%) Amazon RDS
4 57 (4.63%) SQL Server
5 55 (4.47%) DynamoDB
6 42 (3.41%) MongoDB
7 38 (3.09%) Data Lake
7 38 (3.09%) Relational Database
8 28 (2.28%) Azure SQL Database
8 28 (2.28%) MySQL
9 25 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
9 25 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
9 25 (2.03%) Redis
10 21 (1.71%) BigQuery
10 21 (1.71%) Power BI
11 19 (1.54%) Metadata
11 19 (1.54%) RDBMS
12 15 (1.22%) Delta Lake
13 13 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 191 (15.53%) Jenkins
2 167 (13.58%) GitLab
3 164 (13.33%) Git
4 32 (2.60%) CircleCI
5 31 (2.52%) JIRA
6 30 (2.44%) Bitbucket
7 26 (2.11%) Selenium
8 23 (1.87%) Robot Framework
9 21 (1.71%) Jaeger
10 18 (1.46%) Cucumber
11 16 (1.30%) Snyk
12 13 (1.06%) MLflow
12 13 (1.06%) TeamCity
13 12 (0.98%) JMeter
14 9 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 8 (0.65%) Locust
15 8 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
15 8 (0.65%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.65%) Storybook
15 8 (0.65%) Subversion
General
1 344 (27.97%) Social Skills
2 269 (21.87%) Finance
3 125 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (7.64%) Banking
5 73 (5.93%) Public Sector
6 63 (5.12%) Law
7 59 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (4.80%) Telecoms
8 54 (4.39%) Retail
9 31 (2.52%) Financial Institution
10 24 (1.95%) Marketing
11 23 (1.87%) Games
12 22 (1.79%) Billing
12 22 (1.79%) Manufacturing
13 20 (1.63%) Back Office
14 19 (1.54%) Advertising
15 16 (1.30%) Aerospace
16 13 (1.06%) Electronics
17 12 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
18 11 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 268 (21.79%) Senior
2 199 (16.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 190 (15.45%) Cloud Engineer
4 162 (13.17%) Lead
5 115 (9.35%) Developer
6 111 (9.02%) Azure Engineer
7 109 (8.86%) Platform Engineer
8 105 (8.54%) Architect
9 94 (7.64%) AWS Engineer
10 90 (7.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 65 (5.28%) Software Engineer
12 57 (4.63%) Data Engineer
13 53 (4.31%) Security Engineer
14 50 (4.07%) Senior DevOps
15 43 (3.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 43 (3.50%) Cloud Security Engineer
16 42 (3.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 37 (3.01%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 36 (2.93%) AWS DevOps
19 35 (2.85%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (9.51%) React
2 84 (6.83%) .NET
3 82 (6.67%) Node.js
4 72 (5.85%) RESTful
5 71 (5.77%) Kafka
6 70 (5.69%) Elastic Stack
7 62 (5.04%) AWS CDK
8 61 (4.96%) REST
9 59 (4.80%) Spring
10 53 (4.31%) Spring Boot
11 49 (3.98%) YAML
12 38 (3.09%) ARM Templates
12 38 (3.09%) RabbitMQ
13 37 (3.01%) CSS
13 37 (3.01%) Django
14 34 (2.76%) FastAPI
15 32 (2.60%) HTML
15 32 (2.60%) OAuth
16 30 (2.44%) .NET Core
17 27 (2.20%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 283 (23.01%) Cloud Native
2 73 (5.93%) Hybrid Cloud
3 57 (4.63%) Security Posture
4 52 (4.23%) Public Cloud
5 51 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
6 43 (3.50%) Data Centre
7 41 (3.33%) Product Ownership
8 31 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
9 29 (2.36%) Onboarding
10 28 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
11 26 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
12 23 (1.87%) Linux Command Line
12 23 (1.87%) Management Information System
13 19 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
14 18 (1.46%) Cloud Security Posture
14 18 (1.46%) Hedge funds
15 17 (1.38%) Blockchain
15 17 (1.38%) Video\Live Streaming
16 16 (1.30%) Data Structures
16 16 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 283 (23.01%) Linux
2 141 (11.46%) Windows
3 68 (5.53%) Unix
4 50 (4.07%) Windows Server
5 30 (2.44%) VMS
6 27 (2.20%) Ubuntu
7 21 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 20 (1.63%) CentOS
9 11 (0.89%) Android
10 10 (0.81%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.65%) Debian
12 5 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.33%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.33%) SUSE
14 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.081%) Rocky
15 1 (0.081%) Solaris
15 1 (0.081%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 831 (67.56%) CI/CD
2 759 (61.71%) DevOps
3 353 (28.70%) Agile
4 352 (28.62%) Containerisation
5 298 (24.23%) Observability
6 271 (22.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 234 (19.02%) Problem-Solving
8 233 (18.94%) Mentoring
9 195 (15.85%) Platform Engineering
10 192 (15.61%) Test Automation
11 189 (15.37%) AI
12 184 (14.96%) Software Engineering
13 172 (13.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 169 (13.74%) Cloud Security
15 168 (13.66%) Microservices
16 148 (12.03%) DevSecOps
17 143 (11.63%) Analytics
17 143 (11.63%) High Availability
18 140 (11.38%) Incident Response
19 126 (10.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 563 (45.77%) Python
2 252 (20.49%) Bash
3 198 (16.10%) PowerShell
4 197 (16.02%) SQL
5 160 (13.01%) Java
6 143 (11.63%) Go
7 115 (9.35%) JavaScript
8 110 (8.94%) Bicep
9 98 (7.97%) TypeScript
10 64 (5.20%) C#
11 19 (1.54%) Rust
12 18 (1.46%) Kusto Query Language
13 17 (1.38%) C++
14 16 (1.30%) Scala
15 11 (0.89%) C
16 9 (0.73%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.65%) Ruby
18 7 (0.57%) Apex Code
19 5 (0.41%) PHP
19 5 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 213 (17.32%) Security Cleared
2 125 (10.16%) SC Cleared
3 115 (9.35%) Degree
4 100 (8.13%) AWS Certification
5 94 (7.64%) DV Cleared
6 64 (5.20%) Azure Certification
7 50 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (2.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 28 (2.28%) CISSP
8 28 (2.28%) OSCP
9 27 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
11 14 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.89%) CCSK
12 11 (0.89%) Master's Degree
13 10 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 10 (0.81%) CCNP
13 10 (0.81%) DBS Check
14 9 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (0.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (5.12%) QA
2 55 (4.47%) GDPR
2 55 (4.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 51 (4.15%) SOC 2
4 44 (3.58%) Data Quality
5 40 (3.25%) PCI DSS
6 39 (3.17%) NIST
7 25 (2.03%) Accessibility
8 11 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (0.89%) WCAG
9 9 (0.73%) SLA
10 6 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.49%) GRC
10 6 (0.49%) NCSC
11 4 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.33%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.16%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.16%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.16%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 401 (32.60%) Docker
2 78 (6.34%) Active Directory
3 59 (4.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (1.87%) vSphere
6 20 (1.63%) Hyper-V
7 16 (1.30%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.81%) Firmware
9 6 (0.49%) KVM
10 4 (0.33%) iptables
10 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 4 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.16%) GPFS
11 2 (0.16%) Lustre
11 2 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.16%) vCloud
11 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.081%) QEMU
12 1 (0.081%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 861 (70.00%) Terraform
2 489 (39.76%) Kubernetes
3 306 (24.88%) Ansible
4 181 (14.72%) Prometheus
5 177 (14.39%) Grafana
6 46 (3.74%) Argo
7 33 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
8 23 (1.87%) Puppet
9 22 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (1.54%) Kustomize
11 14 (1.14%) Nagios
11 14 (1.14%) Rancher
12 13 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 13 (1.06%) Progress Chef
13 11 (0.89%) Docker Swarm
14 9 (0.73%) AWS Copilot
15 8 (0.65%) Istio
15 8 (0.65%) SCCM
16 7 (0.57%) Proxmox
16 7 (0.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 199 (16.18%) Microsoft
2 107 (8.70%) Google
3 93 (7.56%) VMware
4 47 (3.82%) Databricks
4 47 (3.82%) Red Hat
5 45 (3.66%) Cisco
6 44 (3.58%) Splunk
7 38 (3.09%) Palo Alto
8 20 (1.63%) Zscaler
9 17 (1.38%) Salesforce
10 16 (1.30%) Black Duck
10 16 (1.30%) Coverity
10 16 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
10 16 (1.30%) Dynatrace
11 14 (1.14%) Juniper
12 13 (1.06%) Atlassian
12 13 (1.06%) OpenAI
13 12 (0.98%) Fortinet
13 12 (0.98%) Oracle
13 12 (0.98%) SAP