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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 125 118
Rank change year-on-year +10 -7 -19
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,060 1,095 1,533
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.89% 2.34% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 2.55% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 766 674 1,272
10th Percentile £47,125 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,875 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,741 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £112,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £73,801 £73,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year +0.07% +1.72% -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 45,020 42,905 54,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 80.22% 91.64% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 27,200 20,892 43,493
10th Percentile £28,803 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,206 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% +6.45% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,031 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% -9.60%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 +18 515 £85,000 -5.56% 306
North of England -9 210 £67,500 +7.14% 149
South East +14 111 £75,000 +13.21% 230
Yorkshire -2 92 £63,750 +18.60% 62
North West -2 89 £70,000 +3.70% 73
South West -18 79 £62,500 -13.18% 121
Midlands +4 60 £66,250 -0.75% 76
West Midlands 0 34 £65,000 -7.14% 32
East of England +32 30 £76,250 +5.17% 69
North East -4 29 £62,500 +28.21% 14
East Midlands +8 24 £67,500 +3.85% 40
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 47 (4.43%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (3.49%) Apache
3 21 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (1.89%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.51%) Confluence
6 11 (1.04%) IIS
6 11 (1.04%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.28%) Appian
8 3 (0.28%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.19%) CMS
9 2 (0.19%) nginx
9 2 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.094%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.094%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.38%) Weka
2 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.094%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.094%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.094%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.094%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 667 (62.92%) AWS
2 607 (57.26%) Azure
3 245 (23.11%) GitHub
4 239 (22.55%) Azure DevOps
5 238 (22.45%) GCP
6 188 (17.74%) Serverless
7 176 (16.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 162 (15.28%) GitHub Actions
9 122 (11.51%) AWS Lambda
10 106 (10.00%) Amazon S3
11 99 (9.34%) SaaS
12 85 (8.02%) PaaS
13 81 (7.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 79 (7.45%) Entra ID
15 76 (7.17%) Amazon EKS
16 63 (5.94%) Amazon EC2
17 62 (5.85%) Microsoft 365
18 61 (5.75%) Azure Monitor
19 60 (5.66%) IaaS
20 58 (5.47%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 129 (12.17%) Firewall
2 76 (7.17%) VPN
3 75 (7.08%) DNS
4 52 (4.91%) TCP/IP
5 45 (4.25%) WAN
6 31 (2.92%) DHCP
7 28 (2.64%) Network Security
8 27 (2.55%) Broadband
9 21 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
10 20 (1.89%) LAN
11 17 (1.60%) BGP
12 16 (1.51%) Internet
12 16 (1.51%) VLAN
13 12 (1.13%) SD-WAN
14 11 (1.04%) HTTP
15 9 (0.85%) SAN
16 7 (0.66%) AMQP
16 7 (0.66%) VoIP
16 7 (0.66%) Wireless
17 6 (0.57%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (8.58%) NoSQL
2 70 (6.60%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (6.13%) Amazon RDS
4 52 (4.91%) SQL Server
5 47 (4.43%) DynamoDB
6 41 (3.87%) Data Lake
7 35 (3.30%) MongoDB
8 29 (2.74%) BigQuery
9 28 (2.64%) Relational Database
10 26 (2.45%) MySQL
11 21 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
12 20 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
13 19 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
13 19 (1.79%) RDBMS
13 19 (1.79%) Redis
14 17 (1.60%) Power BI
15 16 (1.51%) Big Data
16 15 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
16 15 (1.42%) Metadata
17 13 (1.23%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 183 (17.26%) Jenkins
2 147 (13.87%) Git
3 118 (11.13%) GitLab
4 30 (2.83%) JIRA
5 25 (2.36%) Selenium
6 24 (2.26%) Robot Framework
7 22 (2.08%) Bitbucket
8 21 (1.98%) Jaeger
9 20 (1.89%) CircleCI
10 18 (1.70%) Snyk
11 17 (1.60%) MLflow
12 14 (1.32%) TeamCity
13 12 (1.13%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.94%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.75%) Artifactory
15 8 (0.75%) JMeter
16 7 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
16 7 (0.66%) Subversion
16 7 (0.66%) Vite
17 6 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 302 (28.49%) Social Skills
2 232 (21.89%) Finance
3 95 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (6.51%) Banking
5 61 (5.75%) Law
6 60 (5.66%) Public Sector
7 47 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 44 (4.15%) Retail
9 43 (4.06%) Telecoms
10 33 (3.11%) Financial Institution
11 23 (2.17%) Games
12 21 (1.98%) Billing
12 21 (1.98%) Marketing
13 20 (1.89%) Legal
14 19 (1.79%) Back Office
15 17 (1.60%) Manufacturing
16 13 (1.23%) Aerospace
16 13 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
17 12 (1.13%) Advertising
17 12 (1.13%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 207 (19.53%) Senior
2 173 (16.32%) Cloud Engineer
3 168 (15.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 122 (11.51%) Lead
5 107 (10.09%) Platform Engineer
6 106 (10.00%) Developer
7 97 (9.15%) Azure Engineer
8 94 (8.87%) Architect
9 78 (7.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 71 (6.70%) AWS Engineer
11 50 (4.72%) Software Engineer
12 44 (4.15%) Data Engineer
13 42 (3.96%) Senior DevOps
14 40 (3.77%) Security Engineer
15 37 (3.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 31 (2.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 31 (2.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 31 (2.92%) Cloud Security Engineer
16 31 (2.92%) GCP Engineer
17 30 (2.83%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (10.00%) React
2 83 (7.83%) .NET
3 68 (6.42%) Node.js
4 65 (6.13%) Elastic Stack
4 65 (6.13%) RESTful
5 52 (4.91%) Kafka
6 46 (4.34%) AWS CDK
7 42 (3.96%) Spring
8 40 (3.77%) YAML
9 38 (3.58%) REST
9 38 (3.58%) Spring Boot
10 34 (3.21%) ARM Templates
11 31 (2.92%) .NET Core
11 31 (2.92%) Django
11 31 (2.92%) FastAPI
12 29 (2.74%) CSS
13 28 (2.64%) HTML
14 27 (2.55%) OpenTelemetry
15 24 (2.26%) RabbitMQ
16 20 (1.89%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 258 (24.34%) Cloud Native
2 72 (6.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 55 (5.19%) Public Cloud
4 50 (4.72%) Data Centre
5 41 (3.87%) Security Posture
6 36 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
7 32 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
7 32 (3.02%) Onboarding
8 24 (2.26%) Management Information System
9 23 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
10 22 (2.08%) Product Ownership
11 17 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (1.32%) Blog
12 14 (1.32%) Hedge funds
12 14 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.23%) Data Structures
13 13 (1.23%) Private Cloud
14 12 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (1.13%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 239 (22.55%) Linux
2 115 (10.85%) Windows
3 57 (5.38%) Unix
4 39 (3.68%) Windows Server
5 31 (2.92%) VMS
6 25 (2.36%) Ubuntu
7 17 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (1.32%) Debian
9 11 (1.04%) CentOS
10 6 (0.57%) Android
10 6 (0.57%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.38%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.28%) SUSE
13 2 (0.19%) Solaris
13 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.094%) AIX
14 1 (0.094%) Rocky
14 1 (0.094%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 718 (67.74%) CI/CD
2 673 (63.49%) DevOps
3 305 (28.77%) Agile
4 297 (28.02%) Containerisation
5 212 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 212 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 211 (19.91%) Observability
7 183 (17.26%) Mentoring
8 169 (15.94%) Platform Engineering
9 160 (15.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 152 (14.34%) AI
11 148 (13.96%) Software Engineering
12 146 (13.77%) Cloud Security
13 133 (12.55%) Microservices
14 130 (12.26%) Analytics
15 124 (11.70%) High Availability
16 122 (11.51%) DevSecOps
16 122 (11.51%) Test Automation
17 107 (10.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 103 (9.72%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 468 (44.15%) Python
2 214 (20.19%) Bash
3 180 (16.98%) PowerShell
4 160 (15.09%) SQL
5 129 (12.17%) Java
6 115 (10.85%) Bicep
7 113 (10.66%) Go
8 104 (9.81%) JavaScript
9 89 (8.40%) TypeScript
10 70 (6.60%) C#
11 16 (1.51%) Kusto Query Language
12 15 (1.42%) Scala
13 13 (1.23%) C++
14 11 (1.04%) Rust
15 10 (0.94%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.85%) C
17 7 (0.66%) Kotlin
18 4 (0.38%) Ruby
18 4 (0.38%) T-SQL
19 3 (0.28%) VB
Qualifications
1 181 (17.08%) Security Cleared
2 105 (9.91%) SC Cleared
3 101 (9.53%) AWS Certification
4 90 (8.49%) Degree
5 84 (7.92%) DV Cleared
6 67 (6.32%) Azure Certification
7 38 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (2.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 26 (2.45%) CISSP
10 25 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (1.70%) Master's Degree
12 16 (1.51%) OSCP
13 15 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
14 14 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
15 12 (1.13%) CCNP
16 8 (0.75%) CCSK
17 7 (0.66%) CISM
18 6 (0.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
18 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 6 (0.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (5.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 49 (4.62%) GDPR
3 39 (3.68%) SOC 2
4 35 (3.30%) NIST
4 35 (3.30%) QA
5 32 (3.02%) Data Quality
6 31 (2.92%) PCI DSS
7 19 (1.79%) Accessibility
8 16 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 9 (0.85%) SLA
11 6 (0.57%) GRC
11 6 (0.57%) WCAG
12 5 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.47%) NCSC
13 4 (0.38%) EU AI Act
14 2 (0.19%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.19%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.19%) NIST 800
System Software
1 358 (33.77%) Docker
2 82 (7.74%) Active Directory
3 58 (5.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (3.02%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (1.89%) Hyper-V
6 16 (1.51%) vSphere
7 13 (1.23%) VMware NSX
8 11 (1.04%) Firmware
9 7 (0.66%) NFS
9 7 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.57%) KVM
10 6 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.28%) vCloud
11 3 (0.28%) XenApp
11 3 (0.28%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.19%) GPFS
12 2 (0.19%) iptables
12 2 (0.19%) Lustre
12 2 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 757 (71.42%) Terraform
2 430 (40.57%) Kubernetes
3 289 (27.26%) Ansible
4 158 (14.91%) Prometheus
5 138 (13.02%) Grafana
6 41 (3.87%) Argo
7 29 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
8 20 (1.89%) Puppet
9 19 (1.79%) Kustomize
9 19 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
10 17 (1.60%) Rancher
11 15 (1.42%) SCCM
12 14 (1.32%) Progress Chef
13 11 (1.04%) Docker Swarm
14 8 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 8 (0.75%) SCOM
15 6 (0.57%) AWS Copilot
15 6 (0.57%) Nagios
15 6 (0.57%) ZABBIX
16 5 (0.47%) yum
Vendors
1 187 (17.64%) Microsoft
2 100 (9.43%) Google
3 93 (8.77%) VMware
4 42 (3.96%) Databricks
5 39 (3.68%) Cisco
6 34 (3.21%) Splunk
7 31 (2.92%) Red Hat
8 30 (2.83%) Palo Alto
9 22 (2.08%) Zscaler
10 18 (1.70%) Black Duck
10 18 (1.70%) Coverity
11 15 (1.42%) CrowdStrike
12 14 (1.32%) Oracle
13 13 (1.23%) Atlassian
13 13 (1.23%) Salesforce
14 12 (1.13%) SAP
14 12 (1.13%) SolarWinds
15 10 (0.94%) Juniper
15 10 (0.94%) New Relic
16 9 (0.85%) CyberArk