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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 157 140
Rank change year-on-year +82 -17 -42
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,098 942 1,345
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 1,434 672 939
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 £106,250 £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 70,979 38,973 59,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.36% 88.89% 81.01%
Number of salaries quoted 50,404 22,584 37,530
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 27 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 27 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 +32 919 £90,000 +2.86% 1,311
North of England +92 451 £70,000 - 358
South East +73 252 £67,500 -12.90% 238
North West +91 248 £72,500 +3.57% 194
South West +48 227 £75,000 - 204
Midlands +46 149 £75,000 +15.38% 115
Yorkshire +6 105 £73,750 +5.36% 110
North East +20 98 £59,000 -18.62% 55
West Midlands +11 90 £84,387 +30.83% 58
East Midlands +21 59 £67,500 +3.85% 57
East of England -7 58 £70,000 +7.69% 71
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 50 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
1 50 (2.38%) Apache Spark
2 49 (2.34%) Apache
3 29 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 27 (1.29%) Confluence
5 13 (0.62%) Jupyter
6 10 (0.48%) IIS
7 9 (0.43%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.29%) CMS
9 5 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.19%) Camunda
10 4 (0.19%) nginx
11 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.14%) WordPress
12 2 (0.095%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.048%) Documentum
13 1 (0.048%) JBoss
13 1 (0.048%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.048%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (1.05%) PlantUML
2 10 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.095%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.095%) 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 (0.095%) 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 1,204 (57.39%) AWS
2 1,106 (52.72%) Azure
3 394 (18.78%) GCP
4 363 (17.30%) GitHub
5 343 (16.35%) Serverless
6 332 (15.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 286 (13.63%) Azure DevOps
8 199 (9.49%) GitHub Actions
9 183 (8.72%) Amazon S3
10 180 (8.58%) AWS Lambda
11 156 (7.44%) PaaS
12 138 (6.58%) Amazon EC2
13 124 (5.91%) Azure AKS
14 123 (5.86%) Amazon EKS
15 120 (5.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 120 (5.72%) Amazon ECS
16 117 (5.58%) SaaS
17 110 (5.24%) IaaS
18 108 (5.15%) Entra ID
19 101 (4.81%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 163 (7.77%) Firewall
2 112 (5.34%) DNS
3 109 (5.20%) VPN
4 99 (4.72%) Network Security
5 60 (2.86%) TCP/IP
6 55 (2.62%) WAN
7 52 (2.48%) BGP
8 46 (2.19%) Broadband
9 44 (2.10%) DHCP
10 37 (1.76%) LAN
11 36 (1.72%) OSPF
12 32 (1.53%) VLAN
13 27 (1.29%) VXLAN
14 26 (1.24%) Software-Defined Networking
15 24 (1.14%) SD-WAN
16 15 (0.71%) HTTP
16 15 (0.71%) Wireless
17 14 (0.67%) SAN
18 13 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
19 10 (0.48%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (7.34%) PostgreSQL
2 137 (6.53%) NoSQL
3 90 (4.29%) MongoDB
4 89 (4.24%) Amazon RDS
5 81 (3.86%) SQL Server
6 77 (3.67%) DynamoDB
7 59 (2.81%) Data Lake
8 57 (2.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 51 (2.43%) MySQL
10 49 (2.34%) Metadata
11 47 (2.24%) Relational Database
12 42 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
13 31 (1.48%) Delta Lake
14 29 (1.38%) Redis
15 28 (1.33%) Big Data
15 28 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
16 25 (1.19%) BigQuery
17 24 (1.14%) Power BI
18 23 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
19 21 (1.00%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 283 (13.49%) Git
2 266 (12.68%) GitLab
3 226 (10.77%) Jenkins
4 52 (2.48%) JIRA
5 47 (2.24%) Cucumber
6 33 (1.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 28 (1.33%) Bitbucket
8 26 (1.24%) TeamCity
9 21 (1.00%) Selenium
10 18 (0.86%) Claude Code
11 17 (0.81%) CircleCI
11 17 (0.81%) SonarQube
12 15 (0.71%) NUnit
13 13 (0.62%) Cypress.io
14 11 (0.52%) Maven
14 11 (0.52%) MLflow
15 10 (0.48%) Snyk
16 9 (0.43%) MSI
17 8 (0.38%) JMeter
17 8 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 533 (25.41%) Social Skills
2 432 (20.59%) Finance
3 183 (8.72%) Public Sector
4 158 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
5 116 (5.53%) Banking
6 110 (5.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 75 (3.57%) Law
8 57 (2.72%) Retail
9 50 (2.38%) Aerospace
10 47 (2.24%) Games
11 35 (1.67%) Marketing
12 31 (1.48%) Manufacturing
13 30 (1.43%) Legal
14 27 (1.29%) Telecoms
15 19 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
16 17 (0.81%) Aviation
16 17 (0.81%) Financial Institution
17 15 (0.71%) Advertising
17 15 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
18 14 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 500 (23.83%) Senior
2 368 (17.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 282 (13.44%) Lead
4 272 (12.96%) Cloud Engineer
5 234 (11.15%) Architect
6 223 (10.63%) Platform Engineer
7 182 (8.67%) Azure Engineer
8 175 (8.34%) Developer
9 134 (6.39%) Software Engineer
10 131 (6.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 128 (6.10%) AWS Engineer
12 116 (5.53%) Data Engineer
13 111 (5.29%) Principal Engineer
14 98 (4.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 85 (4.05%) Security Engineer
16 79 (3.77%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 72 (3.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 69 (3.29%) Senior Developer
19 67 (3.19%) Senior DevOps
20 63 (3.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,457 (69.45%) Terraform
2 174 (8.29%) .NET
3 162 (7.72%) React
4 157 (7.48%) Kafka
5 141 (6.72%) REST
6 129 (6.15%) RESTful
7 122 (5.82%) Node.js
8 121 (5.77%) Spring
9 113 (5.39%) Spring Boot
10 73 (3.48%) PySpark
11 68 (3.24%) YAML
12 67 (3.19%) ARM Templates
13 63 (3.00%) AWS CDK
14 52 (2.48%) AngularJS
15 48 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
16 45 (2.14%) OAuth
17 44 (2.10%) ASP.NET
18 43 (2.05%) Next.js
19 42 (2.00%) RabbitMQ
20 41 (1.95%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 627 (29.89%) Cloud Native
2 226 (10.77%) Distributed Systems
3 123 (5.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 117 (5.58%) Onboarding
5 113 (5.39%) Public Cloud
6 91 (4.34%) Data Centre
7 59 (2.81%) Product Ownership
8 57 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
9 55 (2.62%) Enterprise Cloud
9 55 (2.62%) Security Posture
10 51 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
11 45 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
12 41 (1.95%) Video\Live Streaming
13 36 (1.72%) Low-Code
13 36 (1.72%) Private Cloud
14 34 (1.62%) e-Learning
14 34 (1.62%) PKI
15 32 (1.53%) Virtual Team
16 30 (1.43%) AI Agents
17 28 (1.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 360 (17.16%) Linux
2 205 (9.77%) Windows
3 95 (4.53%) Windows Server
4 57 (2.72%) CentOS
5 40 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (1.81%) Ubuntu
7 26 (1.24%) Unix
8 22 (1.05%) 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 (0.095%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.095%) 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 1,489 (70.97%) CI/CD
2 1,150 (54.81%) DevOps
3 586 (27.93%) Containerisation
4 575 (27.41%) Agile
5 554 (26.41%) Observability
6 515 (24.55%) Platform Engineering
7 462 (22.02%) Continuous Improvement
8 461 (21.97%) AI
9 441 (21.02%) Mentoring
10 413 (19.69%) Software Engineering
11 367 (17.49%) Microservices
12 362 (17.25%) Problem-Solving
13 359 (17.11%) Test Automation
14 329 (15.68%) Technical Leadership
15 323 (15.40%) Cloud Security
16 287 (13.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 252 (12.01%) Roadmaps
18 237 (11.30%) Analytics
18 237 (11.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 230 (10.96%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 933 (44.47%) Python
2 349 (16.63%) SQL
3 344 (16.40%) Bash
4 319 (15.20%) PowerShell
5 302 (14.39%) Java
6 213 (10.15%) Bicep
7 186 (8.87%) TypeScript
8 178 (8.48%) C#
9 153 (7.29%) Go
10 152 (7.24%) JavaScript
11 41 (1.95%) Scala
12 36 (1.72%) PHP
13 27 (1.29%) Rust
14 26 (1.24%) Ruby
15 24 (1.14%) Groovy
16 23 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
17 21 (1.00%) Perl
18 15 (0.71%) C++
19 14 (0.67%) Shell Script
20 11 (0.52%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 520 (24.79%) Security Cleared
2 330 (15.73%) SC Cleared
3 188 (8.96%) DV Cleared
4 182 (8.67%) Degree
5 176 (8.39%) AWS Certification
6 144 (6.86%) Azure Certification
7 88 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 73 (3.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 54 (2.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 53 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
11 35 (1.67%) CCNP
12 31 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
13 29 (1.38%) Master's Degree
14 20 (0.95%) CISSP
15 19 (0.91%) CCNA
16 18 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
17 16 (0.76%) OSCP
17 16 (0.76%) SnowPro
18 14 (0.67%) CCIE
19 13 (0.62%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (4.81%) QA
2 98 (4.67%) Data Quality
3 64 (3.05%) GDPR
4 55 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (1.57%) Accessibility
6 32 (1.53%) NIST
6 32 (1.53%) SOC 2
7 24 (1.14%) PCI DSS
8 22 (1.05%) SLA
9 20 (0.95%) NCSC
10 16 (0.76%) 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 (0.095%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.095%) IFRS
15 2 (0.095%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.095%) Solvency II
16 1 (0.048%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 549 (26.17%) Docker
2 133 (6.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 130 (6.20%) Active Directory
4 43 (2.05%) vSphere
5 37 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (1.14%) Hyper-V
7 23 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (0.86%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.43%) KVM
11 8 (0.38%) Squid
12 7 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
13 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.19%) Firmware
14 4 (0.19%) iptables
15 3 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 2 (0.095%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 801 (38.18%) Kubernetes
2 453 (21.59%) Ansible
3 204 (9.72%) Grafana
4 137 (6.53%) Prometheus
5 62 (2.96%) Argo
6 54 (2.57%) Puppet
7 36 (1.72%) Progress Chef
8 34 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
9 31 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
10 30 (1.43%) Istio
11 25 (1.19%) Packer
12 18 (0.86%) FortiGate
13 17 (0.81%) Nagios
13 17 (0.81%) vCenter Server
14 14 (0.67%) Cilium
15 12 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 12 (0.57%) Kustomize
15 12 (0.57%) ZABBIX
16 11 (0.52%) Rancher
17 10 (0.48%) Kibana
Vendors
1 439 (20.92%) Microsoft
2 161 (7.67%) VMware
3 117 (5.58%) Google
4 98 (4.67%) Databricks
5 77 (3.67%) Red Hat
6 70 (3.34%) Cisco
6 70 (3.34%) Splunk
7 54 (2.57%) Oracle
8 45 (2.14%) Palo Alto
9 38 (1.81%) Fortinet
10 37 (1.76%) OpenAI
11 35 (1.67%) Dynatrace
12 25 (1.19%) Zscaler
13 23 (1.10%) ServiceNow
14 15 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
14 15 (0.71%) SAP
15 14 (0.67%) Atlassian
16 12 (0.57%) F5
16 12 (0.57%) ScienceLogic
17 11 (0.52%) New Relic