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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 151 159
Rank change year-on-year +57 +8 -53
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,494 862 1,505
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.86% 2.20% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.51% 2.35% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,009 617 1,207
10th Percentile £49,750 £48,400 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - +9.81% -5.90%
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -3.23% +9.81% -5.90%

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 59,619 36,635 71,719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.07% 93.38% 85.22%
Number of salaries quoted 39,039 20,695 53,834
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 +38 762 £85,000 -5.56% 305
North of England +19 271 £67,249 -3.93% 154
South East +32 160 £70,000 -6.67% 173
North West +34 152 £73,401 +1.24% 73
South West -12 104 £67,500 -6.24% 82
Midlands +15 100 £70,000 - 46
Yorkshire -25 85 £65,000 +1.96% 45
West Midlands -2 54 £70,000 - 27
East Midlands +3 44 £67,750 +4.23% 19
East of England +11 42 £60,100 -10.96% 46
North East -19 34 £48,445 -19.59% 36
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 46 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (2.07%) Apache
3 26 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 24 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (1.20%) Confluence
6 15 (1.00%) IIS
7 12 (0.80%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.33%) CMS
9 4 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.067%) Camunda
12 1 (0.067%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.067%) nginx
12 1 (0.067%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.067%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (0.60%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.27%) Weka
3 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.067%) Maya
5 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.067%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.067%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.067%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.067%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 893 (59.77%) AWS
2 825 (55.22%) Azure
3 289 (19.34%) GCP
3 289 (19.34%) GitHub
4 272 (18.21%) Serverless
5 265 (17.74%) Azure DevOps
6 233 (15.60%) AWS CloudFormation
7 200 (13.39%) GitHub Actions
8 150 (10.04%) AWS Lambda
9 134 (8.97%) Amazon S3
10 109 (7.30%) PaaS
11 108 (7.23%) Entra ID
12 103 (6.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 102 (6.83%) Amazon EKS
14 94 (6.29%) Datadog
15 90 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
16 88 (5.89%) SaaS
17 87 (5.82%) IaaS
18 84 (5.62%) Azure AKS
19 79 (5.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 169 (11.31%) Firewall
2 92 (6.16%) DNS
3 74 (4.95%) VPN
4 66 (4.42%) TCP/IP
5 54 (3.61%) Broadband
6 47 (3.15%) WAN
7 44 (2.95%) Network Security
8 36 (2.41%) DHCP
9 26 (1.74%) HTTP
9 26 (1.74%) LAN
10 25 (1.67%) BGP
11 17 (1.14%) Cisco ASA
11 17 (1.14%) SD-WAN
11 17 (1.14%) VLAN
12 15 (1.00%) Software-Defined Networking
13 13 (0.87%) DSL
14 11 (0.74%) Internet
15 8 (0.54%) OSPF
15 8 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
16 7 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (8.23%) NoSQL
2 109 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
3 82 (5.49%) Amazon RDS
4 69 (4.62%) MongoDB
5 62 (4.15%) SQL Server
6 61 (4.08%) DynamoDB
7 49 (3.28%) Data Lake
8 48 (3.21%) Relational Database
9 39 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
10 32 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
11 30 (2.01%) Metadata
12 27 (1.81%) BigQuery
13 25 (1.67%) MySQL
14 22 (1.47%) Power BI
15 20 (1.34%) Delta Lake
15 20 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
16 18 (1.20%) RDBMS
17 16 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
18 15 (1.00%) Spark SQL
19 14 (0.94%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 219 (14.66%) Jenkins
2 214 (14.32%) GitLab
3 198 (13.25%) Git
4 36 (2.41%) Bitbucket
4 36 (2.41%) CircleCI
5 33 (2.21%) JIRA
6 26 (1.74%) Cucumber
7 20 (1.34%) Jaeger
8 14 (0.94%) Selenium
8 14 (0.94%) SonarQube
9 12 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 12 (0.80%) MLflow
10 11 (0.74%) TeamCity
11 10 (0.67%) Subversion
12 9 (0.60%) Maven
12 9 (0.60%) Vite
13 8 (0.54%) Robot Framework
13 8 (0.54%) Storybook
14 7 (0.47%) JMeter
14 7 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 374 (25.03%) Social Skills
2 297 (19.88%) Finance
3 108 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (6.09%) Public Sector
5 87 (5.82%) Banking
6 57 (3.82%) Telecoms
7 55 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 55 (3.68%) Retail
8 50 (3.35%) Law
9 36 (2.41%) Games
10 28 (1.87%) Manufacturing
11 21 (1.41%) Aerospace
11 21 (1.41%) Marketing
12 20 (1.34%) Billing
13 19 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
14 18 (1.20%) Advertising
15 17 (1.14%) Financial Institution
16 15 (1.00%) Electronics
16 15 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
17 12 (0.80%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 336 (22.49%) Senior
2 242 (16.20%) DevOps Engineer
3 235 (15.73%) Cloud Engineer
4 203 (13.59%) Lead
5 153 (10.24%) Azure Engineer
6 147 (9.84%) Platform Engineer
7 134 (8.97%) Architect
8 131 (8.77%) Developer
9 113 (7.56%) AWS Engineer
10 112 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 85 (5.69%) Data Engineer
12 75 (5.02%) Software Engineer
13 72 (4.82%) Security Engineer
14 64 (4.28%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 60 (4.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 58 (3.88%) Senior DevOps
17 48 (3.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 46 (3.08%) Cloud Security Engineer
18 46 (3.08%) Python Engineer
18 46 (3.08%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (8.30%) React
2 104 (6.96%) Kafka
3 102 (6.83%) .NET
4 95 (6.36%) Node.js
5 93 (6.22%) RESTful
6 85 (5.69%) REST
7 70 (4.69%) Elastic Stack
8 67 (4.48%) Spring
9 65 (4.35%) YAML
10 63 (4.22%) AWS CDK
11 60 (4.02%) Spring Boot
12 50 (3.35%) ARM Templates
13 47 (3.15%) PySpark
14 46 (3.08%) OAuth
15 43 (2.88%) RabbitMQ
16 34 (2.28%) ASP.NET
17 32 (2.14%) ASP.NET Core
17 32 (2.14%) Next.js
18 29 (1.94%) OpenTelemetry
19 27 (1.81%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 357 (23.90%) Cloud Native
2 107 (7.16%) Distributed Systems
3 88 (5.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 66 (4.42%) Public Cloud
5 55 (3.68%) Security Posture
6 50 (3.35%) Data Centre
7 48 (3.21%) Product Ownership
8 45 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
9 33 (2.21%) Onboarding
10 32 (2.14%) Video\Live Streaming
11 30 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
12 28 (1.87%) Low-Code
13 24 (1.61%) Blockchain
14 23 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
15 22 (1.47%) Web3
16 21 (1.41%) Management Information System
16 21 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
17 19 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
18 18 (1.20%) Hedge funds
18 18 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 313 (20.95%) Linux
2 157 (10.51%) Windows
3 71 (4.75%) Windows Server
4 52 (3.48%) Unix
5 34 (2.28%) Ubuntu
6 29 (1.94%) VMS
7 25 (1.67%) CentOS
7 25 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.74%) Android
9 10 (0.67%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.40%) Debian
10 6 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.27%) SUSE
12 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.067%) Rocky
14 1 (0.067%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,015 (67.94%) CI/CD
2 881 (58.97%) DevOps
3 415 (27.78%) Containerisation
4 393 (26.31%) Agile
5 377 (25.23%) Observability
6 319 (21.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 285 (19.08%) Platform Engineering
8 276 (18.47%) Mentoring
9 265 (17.74%) AI
10 261 (17.47%) Test Automation
11 229 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
12 228 (15.26%) Microservices
13 217 (14.52%) Software Engineering
14 205 (13.72%) Cloud Security
15 200 (13.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 182 (12.18%) Analytics
17 170 (11.38%) High Availability
18 167 (11.18%) DevSecOps
19 163 (10.91%) Technical Leadership
20 142 (9.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 691 (46.25%) Python
2 297 (19.88%) Bash
3 247 (16.53%) PowerShell
4 241 (16.13%) SQL
5 195 (13.05%) Java
6 166 (11.11%) Go
7 128 (8.57%) Bicep
8 126 (8.43%) JavaScript
9 124 (8.30%) TypeScript
10 100 (6.69%) C#
11 27 (1.81%) Rust
12 23 (1.54%) Scala
13 22 (1.47%) C++
14 19 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
15 13 (0.87%) C
15 13 (0.87%) Groovy
16 10 (0.67%) PHP
17 8 (0.54%) Ruby
18 7 (0.47%) Apex Code
18 7 (0.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 265 (17.74%) Security Cleared
2 171 (11.45%) SC Cleared
3 146 (9.77%) Degree
4 115 (7.70%) AWS Certification
5 85 (5.69%) Azure Certification
6 84 (5.62%) DV Cleared
7 61 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (2.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 31 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 29 (1.94%) OSCP
11 27 (1.81%) CISSP
12 26 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (1.00%) CCNP
14 14 (0.94%) DBS Check
15 13 (0.87%) AWS Certified Developer
15 13 (0.87%) Master's Degree
16 12 (0.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 12 (0.80%) CCNA
17 11 (0.74%) CCSK
18 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (4.69%) QA
2 60 (4.02%) Data Quality
3 57 (3.82%) GDPR
4 47 (3.15%) SOC 2
5 45 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 35 (2.34%) NIST
7 30 (2.01%) PCI DSS
8 25 (1.67%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.67%) WCAG
10 9 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.47%) NCSC
12 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.27%) GRC
12 4 (0.27%) SLA
13 2 (0.13%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.13%) IFRS
13 2 (0.13%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.13%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 430 (28.78%) Docker
2 103 (6.89%) Active Directory
3 77 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (1.87%) vSphere
6 19 (1.27%) VMware NSX
7 18 (1.20%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.54%) Firmware
9 7 (0.47%) iptables
10 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 6 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.33%) Squid
12 4 (0.27%) KVM
13 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.13%) GPFS
14 2 (0.13%) Lustre
14 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.067%) vCloud
15 1 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,038 (69.48%) Terraform
2 603 (40.36%) Kubernetes
3 342 (22.89%) Ansible
4 199 (13.32%) Grafana
5 195 (13.05%) Prometheus
6 54 (3.61%) Argo
7 37 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
8 34 (2.28%) Single Sign-On
9 32 (2.14%) Puppet
10 22 (1.47%) Kustomize
11 21 (1.41%) Progress Chef
12 18 (1.20%) Rancher
13 17 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 16 (1.07%) Nagios
15 14 (0.94%) Istio
16 13 (0.87%) Packer
17 11 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
18 9 (0.60%) vCenter Server
18 9 (0.60%) ZABBIX
19 8 (0.54%) SCCM
Vendors
1 274 (18.34%) Microsoft
2 117 (7.83%) VMware
3 97 (6.49%) Google
4 70 (4.69%) Databricks
5 63 (4.22%) Red Hat
6 54 (3.61%) Cisco
7 47 (3.15%) Splunk
8 43 (2.88%) Palo Alto
9 24 (1.61%) Zscaler
10 22 (1.47%) OpenAI
11 21 (1.41%) CrowdStrike
12 20 (1.34%) Salesforce
13 18 (1.20%) Dynatrace
13 18 (1.20%) Fortinet
14 16 (1.07%) Oracle
15 13 (0.87%) Juniper
15 13 (0.87%) SAP
16 12 (0.80%) Atlassian
17 11 (0.74%) CheckPoint
18 10 (0.67%) SolarWinds