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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 155 118
Rank change year-on-year +80 -37 -29
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,217 905 1,432
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.14% 2.10% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.90% 2.35% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,459 659 883
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £44,738
25th Percentile £61,288 £60,875 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £88,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £107,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.04%

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 76,388 38,475 54,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.58% 89.15% 82.30%
Number of salaries quoted 53,883 21,744 29,840
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,215 £36,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £78,267
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,274
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.62% -2.88%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 +30 963 £90,000 +5.88% 1,302
North of England +97 498 £70,000 - 390
North West +104 273 £72,245 +13.33% 245
South East +47 251 £67,500 -15.63% 201
South West +49 248 £75,000 +7.14% 227
Midlands +32 154 £75,000 +15.83% 167
North East +22 124 £60,000 -17.24% 59
Yorkshire +7 107 £68,903 -1.57% 87
West Midlands +2 96 £84,387 +35.56% 99
East Midlands +5 58 £65,000 - 68
East of England -5 58 £75,000 +15.38% 92
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 57 (2.57%) Apache
2 55 (2.48%) Apache Spark
3 48 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 26 (1.17%) Confluence
6 15 (0.68%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.59%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.41%) CMS
9 8 (0.36%) IIS
9 8 (0.36%) nginx
9 8 (0.36%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.23%) Camunda
11 4 (0.18%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.14%) WordPress
13 2 (0.090%) Cloud Foundry
14 1 (0.045%) Documentum
14 1 (0.045%) NServiceBus
14 1 (0.045%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (0.95%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.090%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.045%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.045%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.045%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.14%) Summit
2 2 (0.090%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.090%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.090%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.045%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.045%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.045%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.045%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,257 (56.70%) AWS
2 1,170 (52.77%) Azure
3 447 (20.16%) GCP
4 398 (17.95%) GitHub
5 360 (16.24%) Serverless
6 344 (15.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 295 (13.31%) Azure DevOps
8 217 (9.79%) GitHub Actions
9 187 (8.43%) Amazon S3
10 183 (8.25%) AWS Lambda
11 163 (7.35%) PaaS
12 141 (6.36%) Amazon EC2
13 138 (6.22%) Amazon EKS
14 135 (6.09%) Azure AKS
15 129 (5.82%) Entra ID
16 126 (5.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 125 (5.64%) Amazon ECS
18 123 (5.55%) SaaS
19 119 (5.37%) IaaS
20 102 (4.60%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 169 (7.62%) Firewall
2 136 (6.13%) VPN
3 129 (5.82%) DNS
4 103 (4.65%) Network Security
5 57 (2.57%) WAN
6 55 (2.48%) TCP/IP
7 53 (2.39%) BGP
8 50 (2.26%) DHCP
9 39 (1.76%) Broadband
10 37 (1.67%) Internet
10 37 (1.67%) OSPF
11 32 (1.44%) LAN
12 31 (1.40%) VLAN
13 27 (1.22%) VXLAN
14 26 (1.17%) Software-Defined Networking
15 23 (1.04%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.72%) SAN
17 15 (0.68%) Wireless
18 14 (0.63%) Ethernet VPN
18 14 (0.63%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (7.53%) PostgreSQL
2 147 (6.63%) NoSQL
3 101 (4.56%) Amazon RDS
4 89 (4.01%) MongoDB
5 83 (3.74%) SQL Server
6 76 (3.43%) DynamoDB
7 70 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
8 55 (2.48%) Data Lake
9 53 (2.39%) MySQL
10 51 (2.30%) Metadata
11 45 (2.03%) Relational Database
12 43 (1.94%) Redis
13 35 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
14 30 (1.35%) Big Data
15 29 (1.31%) Delta Lake
16 28 (1.26%) Power BI
17 26 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
18 25 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
19 23 (1.04%) BigQuery
19 23 (1.04%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 326 (14.70%) Git
2 289 (13.04%) GitLab
3 247 (11.14%) Jenkins
4 55 (2.48%) JIRA
5 52 (2.35%) Cucumber
6 34 (1.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 30 (1.35%) TeamCity
8 24 (1.08%) Bitbucket
9 22 (0.99%) Claude Code
10 18 (0.81%) Selenium
10 18 (0.81%) SonarQube
11 12 (0.54%) Cypress.io
11 12 (0.54%) Maven
11 12 (0.54%) Snyk
12 11 (0.50%) Artifactory
12 11 (0.50%) NUnit
12 11 (0.50%) Subversion
13 10 (0.45%) CircleCI
14 9 (0.41%) MLflow
14 9 (0.41%) Vite
General
1 578 (26.07%) Social Skills
2 459 (20.70%) Finance
3 233 (10.51%) Public Sector
4 197 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
5 134 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 119 (5.37%) Banking
7 83 (3.74%) Law
8 64 (2.89%) Retail
9 60 (2.71%) Aerospace
10 33 (1.49%) Games
10 33 (1.49%) Marketing
11 32 (1.44%) Legal
12 26 (1.17%) Manufacturing
13 24 (1.08%) Financial Institution
14 21 (0.95%) Telecoms
15 18 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
16 16 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
17 15 (0.68%) Aviation
18 14 (0.63%) Military
19 13 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 537 (24.22%) Senior
2 426 (19.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 284 (12.81%) Cloud Engineer
4 282 (12.72%) Lead
5 265 (11.95%) Architect
6 233 (10.51%) Platform Engineer
7 187 (8.43%) Azure Engineer
8 174 (7.85%) Developer
9 170 (7.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 150 (6.77%) Software Engineer
11 137 (6.18%) AWS Engineer
12 125 (5.64%) Principal Engineer
13 109 (4.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 107 (4.83%) Data Engineer
15 92 (4.15%) Security Engineer
16 83 (3.74%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 75 (3.38%) Senior DevOps
18 72 (3.25%) Azure Platform Engineer
18 72 (3.25%) Senior Developer
19 71 (3.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,509 (68.06%) Terraform
2 177 (7.98%) React
3 176 (7.94%) .NET
4 170 (7.67%) Kafka
5 139 (6.27%) REST
6 138 (6.22%) Spring
7 133 (6.00%) RESTful
8 132 (5.95%) Spring Boot
9 129 (5.82%) Node.js
10 68 (3.07%) PySpark
11 63 (2.84%) ARM Templates
12 60 (2.71%) AWS CDK
13 59 (2.66%) AngularJS
14 56 (2.53%) YAML
15 54 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
16 48 (2.17%) Next.js
17 42 (1.89%) FastAPI
17 42 (1.89%) OAuth
18 41 (1.85%) LangChain
19 40 (1.80%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 676 (30.49%) Cloud Native
2 244 (11.01%) Distributed Systems
3 134 (6.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 126 (5.68%) Onboarding
5 118 (5.32%) Public Cloud
6 93 (4.19%) Data Centre
7 72 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
8 65 (2.93%) Security Posture
9 59 (2.66%) Enterprise Cloud
10 55 (2.48%) Linux Command Line
11 52 (2.35%) Product Ownership
12 50 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
13 47 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
14 44 (1.98%) e-Learning
15 42 (1.89%) AI Agents
16 41 (1.85%) Private Cloud
17 40 (1.80%) Management Information System
17 40 (1.80%) PKI
18 35 (1.58%) Video\Live Streaming
18 35 (1.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 417 (18.81%) Linux
2 211 (9.52%) Windows
3 95 (4.29%) Windows Server
4 58 (2.62%) CentOS
5 49 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 37 (1.67%) Ubuntu
7 36 (1.62%) Unix
8 21 (0.95%) VMS
9 7 (0.32%) Debian
10 6 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.14%) Android
12 3 (0.14%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.090%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.090%) Rocky
13 2 (0.090%) Solaris
14 1 (0.045%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.045%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.045%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,601 (72.21%) CI/CD
2 1,235 (55.71%) DevOps
3 636 (28.69%) Agile
4 620 (27.97%) Containerisation
5 573 (25.85%) Platform Engineering
6 568 (25.62%) Observability
7 515 (23.23%) AI
8 488 (22.01%) Mentoring
9 482 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 436 (19.67%) Software Engineering
11 401 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
12 396 (17.86%) Microservices
13 389 (17.55%) Cloud Security
14 370 (16.69%) Test Automation
15 361 (16.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 355 (16.01%) Technical Leadership
17 279 (12.58%) Roadmaps
18 276 (12.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 252 (11.37%) DevSecOps
20 251 (11.32%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 969 (43.71%) Python
2 364 (16.42%) Bash
3 359 (16.19%) SQL
4 334 (15.07%) Java
5 323 (14.57%) PowerShell
6 223 (10.06%) Bicep
7 194 (8.75%) TypeScript
8 183 (8.25%) C#
9 156 (7.04%) Go
10 154 (6.95%) JavaScript
11 50 (2.26%) Shell Script
12 41 (1.85%) Scala
13 37 (1.67%) Groovy
14 34 (1.53%) PHP
15 29 (1.31%) Rust
16 26 (1.17%) Ruby
17 23 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
18 20 (0.90%) Perl
19 16 (0.72%) C++
20 13 (0.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 597 (26.93%) Security Cleared
2 386 (17.41%) SC Cleared
3 208 (9.38%) DV Cleared
4 202 (9.11%) AWS Certification
5 162 (7.31%) Degree
6 153 (6.90%) Azure Certification
7 83 (3.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 80 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 57 (2.57%) Cisco Certification
10 56 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 36 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
12 30 (1.35%) CCNP
13 28 (1.26%) CISSP
14 27 (1.22%) Master's Degree
15 22 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
16 21 (0.95%) CCNA
17 17 (0.77%) SnowPro
18 13 (0.59%) OSCP
19 12 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
20 11 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (4.24%) Data Quality
2 87 (3.92%) QA
3 63 (2.84%) GDPR
4 58 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (1.67%) NIST
6 32 (1.44%) Accessibility
7 26 (1.17%) SOC 2
8 24 (1.08%) NCSC
8 24 (1.08%) PCI DSS
9 23 (1.04%) SLA
10 14 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
11 13 (0.59%) GRC
12 11 (0.50%) WCAG
13 6 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 5 (0.23%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.090%) IFRS
16 2 (0.090%) NIST 800
16 2 (0.090%) RMADS
16 2 (0.090%) Solvency II
System Software
1 603 (27.20%) Docker
2 131 (5.91%) Active Directory
3 129 (5.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
5 45 (2.03%) vSphere
6 29 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 20 (0.90%) VMware NSX
8 18 (0.81%) Hyper-V
9 12 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.41%) KVM
11 8 (0.36%) Squid
11 8 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.23%) Firmware
13 4 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 3 (0.14%) iptables
15 2 (0.090%) Lustre
15 2 (0.090%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 829 (37.39%) Kubernetes
2 475 (21.43%) Ansible
3 209 (9.43%) Grafana
4 145 (6.54%) Prometheus
5 69 (3.11%) Argo
5 69 (3.11%) Puppet
6 47 (2.12%) Progress Chef
7 42 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
8 35 (1.58%) Istio
8 35 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
9 27 (1.22%) Packer
10 24 (1.08%) FortiGate
10 24 (1.08%) Rancher
11 23 (1.04%) vCenter Server
12 15 (0.68%) Cilium
13 13 (0.59%) Kustomize
13 13 (0.59%) Nagios
13 13 (0.59%) Podman
14 12 (0.54%) Kibana
14 12 (0.54%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 516 (23.27%) Microsoft
2 164 (7.40%) Google
2 164 (7.40%) VMware
3 100 (4.51%) Databricks
4 74 (3.34%) Red Hat
5 69 (3.11%) Cisco
6 65 (2.93%) Splunk
7 60 (2.71%) Oracle
8 45 (2.03%) Dynatrace
9 36 (1.62%) Fortinet
10 35 (1.58%) OpenAI
10 35 (1.58%) Palo Alto
11 33 (1.49%) ServiceNow
12 27 (1.22%) Zscaler
13 14 (0.63%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.63%) F5
13 14 (0.63%) SAP
14 13 (0.59%) New Relic
14 13 (0.59%) SolarWinds
15 12 (0.54%) ScienceLogic