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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 153 145
Rank change year-on-year +75 -8 -46
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,053 976 1,315
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.20% 2.23% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.98% 2.49% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,403 686 972
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,875 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £108,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -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 69,000 39,152 58,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.88% 89.43% 81.36%
Number of salaries quoted 48,669 22,708 38,960
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 9 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 9 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 +26 918 £90,000 - 831
North of England +89 424 £70,400 +0.57% 265
South East +49 250 £67,500 -12.90% 188
North West +92 242 £74,651 +6.64% 148
South West +50 215 £75,000 -4.83% 157
Midlands +46 149 £77,500 +19.23% 66
Yorkshire -4 98 £75,000 +7.14% 74
West Midlands +11 91 £80,000 +23.08% 40
North East +17 84 £56,500 -19.29% 43
East Midlands +15 58 £67,500 +3.85% 26
East of England -9 54 £65,000 +1.96% 34
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 56 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (2.39%) Apache
2 49 (2.39%) Apache Spark
3 31 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 29 (1.41%) Confluence
5 12 (0.58%) Jupyter
6 11 (0.54%) IIS
7 9 (0.44%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.19%) Camunda
8 4 (0.19%) CMS
8 4 (0.19%) nginx
9 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.15%) WordPress
10 2 (0.097%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.097%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.049%) Documentum
11 1 (0.049%) JBoss
11 1 (0.049%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.049%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (1.02%) PlantUML
2 8 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.097%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.097%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.049%) Maya
6 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.049%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.15%) Summit
2 2 (0.097%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.049%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.049%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.049%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.049%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,187 (57.82%) AWS
2 1,108 (53.97%) Azure
3 381 (18.56%) GCP
4 354 (17.24%) GitHub
5 349 (17.00%) Serverless
6 322 (15.68%) AWS CloudFormation
7 289 (14.08%) Azure DevOps
8 196 (9.55%) GitHub Actions
9 184 (8.96%) Amazon S3
10 179 (8.72%) AWS Lambda
11 161 (7.84%) PaaS
12 138 (6.72%) Amazon EC2
13 120 (5.85%) Amazon EKS
14 118 (5.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 117 (5.70%) Amazon ECS
15 117 (5.70%) SaaS
16 112 (5.46%) IaaS
17 111 (5.41%) Entra ID
18 110 (5.36%) Azure AKS
19 95 (4.63%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 168 (8.18%) Firewall
2 111 (5.41%) DNS
3 106 (5.16%) VPN
4 100 (4.87%) Network Security
5 68 (3.31%) TCP/IP
6 61 (2.97%) WAN
7 51 (2.48%) Broadband
8 50 (2.44%) BGP
9 41 (2.00%) LAN
10 40 (1.95%) DHCP
11 35 (1.70%) OSPF
12 34 (1.66%) VLAN
13 26 (1.27%) VXLAN
14 25 (1.22%) Software-Defined Networking
15 24 (1.17%) SD-WAN
16 18 (0.88%) HTTP
17 15 (0.73%) Wireless
18 14 (0.68%) SAN
19 13 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
20 12 (0.58%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (7.26%) PostgreSQL
2 134 (6.53%) NoSQL
3 90 (4.38%) Amazon RDS
4 88 (4.29%) MongoDB
5 75 (3.65%) DynamoDB
6 74 (3.60%) SQL Server
7 55 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 54 (2.63%) Data Lake
9 49 (2.39%) Metadata
10 47 (2.29%) MySQL
11 46 (2.24%) Relational Database
12 40 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
13 29 (1.41%) Redis
14 28 (1.36%) Delta Lake
14 28 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
15 27 (1.32%) Power BI
16 25 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
16 25 (1.22%) Big Data
17 24 (1.17%) BigQuery
18 21 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 276 (13.44%) Git
2 269 (13.10%) GitLab
3 227 (11.06%) Jenkins
4 52 (2.53%) JIRA
5 42 (2.05%) Cucumber
6 32 (1.56%) Bitbucket
7 30 (1.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 27 (1.32%) TeamCity
9 22 (1.07%) CircleCI
10 20 (0.97%) Selenium
11 18 (0.88%) Claude Code
12 15 (0.73%) SonarQube
13 14 (0.68%) NUnit
14 11 (0.54%) Cypress.io
14 11 (0.54%) Maven
14 11 (0.54%) MLflow
15 9 (0.44%) MSI
15 9 (0.44%) Snyk
15 9 (0.44%) Subversion
16 8 (0.39%) JMeter
General
1 527 (25.67%) Social Skills
2 418 (20.36%) Finance
3 166 (8.09%) Public Sector
4 161 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 106 (5.16%) Banking
6 104 (5.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 72 (3.51%) Law
8 61 (2.97%) Retail
9 45 (2.19%) Aerospace
9 45 (2.19%) Games
10 34 (1.66%) Telecoms
11 33 (1.61%) Marketing
12 27 (1.32%) Legal
12 27 (1.32%) Manufacturing
13 19 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
14 18 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
15 17 (0.83%) Advertising
16 16 (0.78%) Aviation
16 16 (0.78%) Financial Institution
17 14 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 479 (23.33%) Senior
2 363 (17.68%) DevOps Engineer
3 281 (13.69%) Lead
4 270 (13.15%) Cloud Engineer
5 223 (10.86%) Architect
6 212 (10.33%) Platform Engineer
7 178 (8.67%) Azure Engineer
8 175 (8.52%) Developer
9 126 (6.14%) AWS Engineer
9 126 (6.14%) Software Engineer
10 119 (5.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 116 (5.65%) Data Engineer
12 103 (5.02%) Principal Engineer
13 93 (4.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 83 (4.04%) Security Engineer
15 74 (3.60%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 73 (3.56%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 68 (3.31%) Senior DevOps
18 65 (3.17%) Senior Developer
19 63 (3.07%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (7.94%) .NET
2 158 (7.70%) React
3 149 (7.26%) Kafka
4 132 (6.43%) REST
5 120 (5.85%) RESTful
6 117 (5.70%) Spring
7 115 (5.60%) Node.js
8 109 (5.31%) Spring Boot
9 73 (3.56%) YAML
10 72 (3.51%) PySpark
11 71 (3.46%) ARM Templates
12 66 (3.21%) AWS CDK
13 55 (2.68%) Elastic Stack
14 49 (2.39%) AngularJS
15 46 (2.24%) OAuth
16 44 (2.14%) Next.js
16 44 (2.14%) RabbitMQ
17 43 (2.09%) ASP.NET
18 40 (1.95%) ASP.NET Core
18 40 (1.95%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 591 (28.79%) Cloud Native
2 213 (10.38%) Distributed Systems
3 115 (5.60%) Hybrid Cloud
4 112 (5.46%) Onboarding
5 100 (4.87%) Public Cloud
6 87 (4.24%) Data Centre
7 60 (2.92%) Security Posture
8 58 (2.83%) Product Ownership
9 54 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
10 53 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
11 50 (2.44%) Enterprise Cloud
12 45 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
12 45 (2.19%) Video\Live Streaming
13 36 (1.75%) Low-Code
14 32 (1.56%) Private Cloud
15 30 (1.46%) PKI
16 29 (1.41%) e-Learning
17 28 (1.36%) Virtual Team
18 25 (1.22%) AI Agents
18 25 (1.22%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 360 (17.54%) Linux
2 206 (10.03%) Windows
3 93 (4.53%) Windows Server
4 54 (2.63%) CentOS
5 41 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (1.95%) Ubuntu
7 28 (1.36%) Unix
8 22 (1.07%) VMS
9 8 (0.39%) Android
10 7 (0.34%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.24%) Debian
11 5 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.097%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.097%) Solaris
13 1 (0.049%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.049%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.049%) Rocky
13 1 (0.049%) SUSE
13 1 (0.049%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,453 (70.77%) CI/CD
2 1,144 (55.72%) DevOps
3 571 (27.81%) Agile
4 566 (27.57%) Containerisation
5 538 (26.21%) Observability
6 489 (23.82%) Platform Engineering
7 448 (21.82%) AI
7 448 (21.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 435 (21.19%) Mentoring
9 381 (18.56%) Software Engineering
10 353 (17.19%) Microservices
11 348 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
12 347 (16.90%) Test Automation
13 321 (15.64%) Technical Leadership
14 309 (15.05%) Cloud Security
15 267 (13.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 249 (12.13%) Roadmaps
17 233 (11.35%) Analytics
18 223 (10.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 221 (10.76%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 917 (44.67%) Python
2 342 (16.66%) SQL
3 337 (16.42%) Bash
4 315 (15.34%) PowerShell
5 294 (14.32%) Java
6 206 (10.03%) Bicep
7 178 (8.67%) TypeScript
8 174 (8.48%) C#
9 157 (7.65%) Go
10 152 (7.40%) JavaScript
11 37 (1.80%) PHP
11 37 (1.80%) Scala
12 26 (1.27%) Ruby
13 25 (1.22%) Rust
14 22 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
15 21 (1.02%) Groovy
15 21 (1.02%) Perl
16 16 (0.78%) C++
17 12 (0.58%) Shell Script
18 9 (0.44%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 495 (24.11%) Security Cleared
2 315 (15.34%) SC Cleared
3 181 (8.82%) Degree
4 175 (8.52%) DV Cleared
5 159 (7.74%) AWS Certification
6 137 (6.67%) Azure Certification
7 81 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 67 (3.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 51 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
10 50 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
11 35 (1.70%) CCNP
12 27 (1.32%) Master's Degree
13 25 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
14 21 (1.02%) CISSP
15 20 (0.97%) OSCP
16 18 (0.88%) CCNA
17 17 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
18 14 (0.68%) RHCSA
18 14 (0.68%) SnowPro
19 13 (0.63%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (4.92%) QA
2 94 (4.58%) Data Quality
3 63 (3.07%) GDPR
4 54 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (1.70%) NIST
5 35 (1.70%) SOC 2
6 32 (1.56%) Accessibility
7 28 (1.36%) PCI DSS
8 17 (0.83%) NCSC
9 16 (0.78%) SLA
9 16 (0.78%) WCAG
10 13 (0.63%) GRC
11 9 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.097%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.097%) IFRS
13 2 (0.097%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.097%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.049%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.049%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 549 (26.74%) Docker
2 132 (6.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 125 (6.09%) Active Directory
4 45 (2.19%) vSphere
5 33 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (1.12%) Hyper-V
7 19 (0.93%) VMware NSX
8 18 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.44%) KVM
11 8 (0.39%) Squid
11 8 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.34%) Firmware
12 7 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.24%) iptables
14 3 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.049%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 1,415 (68.92%) Terraform
2 792 (38.58%) Kubernetes
3 436 (21.24%) Ansible
4 210 (10.23%) Grafana
5 151 (7.36%) Prometheus
6 62 (3.02%) Argo
7 52 (2.53%) Puppet
8 35 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
9 33 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
10 32 (1.56%) Progress Chef
11 28 (1.36%) Istio
12 25 (1.22%) Packer
13 21 (1.02%) Nagios
14 16 (0.78%) FortiGate
14 16 (0.78%) vCenter Server
15 12 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 12 (0.58%) Cilium
15 12 (0.58%) Rancher
15 12 (0.58%) ZABBIX
16 11 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 420 (20.46%) Microsoft
2 160 (7.79%) VMware
3 109 (5.31%) Google
4 94 (4.58%) Databricks
5 86 (4.19%) Red Hat
6 73 (3.56%) Splunk
7 70 (3.41%) Cisco
8 52 (2.53%) Oracle
9 49 (2.39%) Palo Alto
10 39 (1.90%) Fortinet
11 36 (1.75%) OpenAI
12 33 (1.61%) Dynatrace
13 25 (1.22%) Zscaler
14 22 (1.07%) ServiceNow
15 15 (0.73%) F5
16 14 (0.68%) Atlassian
16 14 (0.68%) CrowdStrike
16 14 (0.68%) SAP
17 12 (0.58%) ScienceLogic
18 11 (0.54%) Salesforce