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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 142 160
Rank change year-on-year +36 +18 -54
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,368 848 1,490
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.74% 2.25% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 2.42% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 926 618 1,202
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,150
% change year-on-year -3.23% +7.42% -3.80%

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 59,164 34,994 71,154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 75.21% 92.99% 85.72%
Number of salaries quoted 37,321 20,700 53,754
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,600 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,776 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.90%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +50 689 £85,000 -5.56% 220
North of England +3 257 £65,576 -3.21% 126
South East -1 142 £70,000 -6.67% 123
North West 0 133 £72,500 - 67
South West -14 104 £65,000 -9.71% 62
Yorkshire -25 94 £65,000 +8.33% 25
Midlands -5 84 £68,000 -2.86% 41
West Midlands -19 41 £70,000 - 32
East Midlands -27 41 £67,500 +3.85% 9
East of England -8 39 £61,300 -9.19% 29
North East -25 30 £47,972 -15.84% 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 44 (3.22%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (2.41%) Apache
3 24 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 23 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (1.17%) IIS
6 15 (1.10%) Confluence
7 10 (0.73%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.29%) CMS
9 3 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.073%) Camunda
11 1 (0.073%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.073%) nginx
11 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.51%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.29%) Weka
3 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.073%) Maya
4 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.073%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.073%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.073%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.073%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 833 (60.89%) AWS
2 750 (54.82%) Azure
3 279 (20.39%) GCP
4 275 (20.10%) GitHub
5 260 (19.01%) Serverless
6 254 (18.57%) Azure DevOps
7 222 (16.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 196 (14.33%) GitHub Actions
9 147 (10.75%) AWS Lambda
10 130 (9.50%) Amazon S3
11 106 (7.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 105 (7.68%) Amazon EKS
13 101 (7.38%) Entra ID
14 97 (7.09%) PaaS
15 92 (6.73%) Datadog
16 84 (6.14%) SaaS
17 83 (6.07%) Amazon EC2
18 76 (5.56%) IaaS
19 72 (5.26%) Azure AKS
20 71 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 168 (12.28%) Firewall
2 88 (6.43%) DNS
3 76 (5.56%) VPN
4 66 (4.82%) TCP/IP
5 47 (3.44%) WAN
6 40 (2.92%) Network Security
7 38 (2.78%) Broadband
8 33 (2.41%) DHCP
9 27 (1.97%) LAN
10 26 (1.90%) HTTP
11 23 (1.68%) BGP
12 16 (1.17%) Cisco ASA
12 16 (1.17%) VLAN
13 14 (1.02%) SD-WAN
14 13 (0.95%) DSL
15 11 (0.80%) Internet
15 11 (0.80%) Software-Defined Networking
16 10 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
17 7 (0.51%) Wireless
18 6 (0.44%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (8.48%) NoSQL
2 92 (6.73%) PostgreSQL
3 79 (5.77%) Amazon RDS
4 62 (4.53%) DynamoDB
5 60 (4.39%) SQL Server
6 46 (3.36%) MongoDB
7 43 (3.14%) Relational Database
8 39 (2.85%) Data Lake
9 34 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
10 30 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
11 26 (1.90%) MySQL
12 25 (1.83%) BigQuery
13 23 (1.68%) Metadata
14 22 (1.61%) Power BI
15 19 (1.39%) RDBMS
16 18 (1.32%) Delta Lake
16 18 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
17 16 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
18 13 (0.95%) Redis
19 12 (0.88%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 204 (14.91%) Jenkins
2 192 (14.04%) GitLab
3 184 (13.45%) Git
4 36 (2.63%) Bitbucket
5 33 (2.41%) CircleCI
5 33 (2.41%) JIRA
6 22 (1.61%) Cucumber
7 21 (1.54%) Jaeger
8 17 (1.24%) Selenium
9 13 (0.95%) MLflow
9 13 (0.95%) SonarQube
10 12 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 11 (0.80%) Robot Framework
11 11 (0.80%) TeamCity
12 10 (0.73%) Subversion
13 9 (0.66%) Vite
14 8 (0.58%) JMeter
14 8 (0.58%) Storybook
15 7 (0.51%) Maven
15 7 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 365 (26.68%) Social Skills
2 285 (20.83%) Finance
3 114 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (6.29%) Banking
5 82 (5.99%) Public Sector
6 58 (4.24%) Retail
7 57 (4.17%) Telecoms
8 55 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 55 (4.02%) Law
9 24 (1.75%) Manufacturing
10 22 (1.61%) Marketing
11 21 (1.54%) Advertising
11 21 (1.54%) Aerospace
11 21 (1.54%) Games
12 20 (1.46%) Billing
13 18 (1.32%) Financial Institution
14 16 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
15 15 (1.10%) Electronics
16 14 (1.02%) Back Office
16 14 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 297 (21.71%) Senior
2 224 (16.37%) DevOps Engineer
3 219 (16.01%) Cloud Engineer
4 186 (13.60%) Lead
5 132 (9.65%) Azure Engineer
6 120 (8.77%) Developer
7 118 (8.63%) Platform Engineer
8 116 (8.48%) Architect
9 107 (7.82%) AWS Engineer
10 106 (7.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 73 (5.34%) Software Engineer
12 70 (5.12%) Data Engineer
13 67 (4.90%) Security Engineer
14 56 (4.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 55 (4.02%) Senior DevOps
16 47 (3.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 47 (3.44%) Cloud Security Engineer
17 45 (3.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 42 (3.07%) Python Engineer
19 38 (2.78%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (9.14%) React
2 95 (6.94%) Node.js
3 88 (6.43%) .NET
4 84 (6.14%) Kafka
5 80 (5.85%) RESTful
6 78 (5.70%) REST
7 72 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
8 64 (4.68%) AWS CDK
8 64 (4.68%) Spring
9 60 (4.39%) YAML
10 56 (4.09%) Spring Boot
11 49 (3.58%) ARM Templates
12 44 (3.22%) OAuth
13 41 (3.00%) RabbitMQ
14 37 (2.70%) PySpark
15 32 (2.34%) FastAPI
15 32 (2.34%) Next.js
16 30 (2.19%) .NET Core
16 30 (2.19%) OpenTelemetry
17 26 (1.90%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 319 (23.32%) Cloud Native
2 84 (6.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 73 (5.34%) Distributed Systems
4 59 (4.31%) Public Cloud
5 54 (3.95%) Security Posture
6 47 (3.44%) Product Ownership
7 42 (3.07%) Data Centre
8 40 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
9 31 (2.27%) Onboarding
10 30 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
11 23 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
11 23 (1.68%) Blockchain
11 23 (1.68%) Management Information System
12 21 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
13 20 (1.46%) Web3
14 19 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
15 18 (1.32%) Cloud Security Posture
15 18 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
15 18 (1.32%) Hedge funds
16 17 (1.24%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 292 (21.35%) Linux
2 146 (10.67%) Windows
3 64 (4.68%) Windows Server
4 54 (3.95%) Unix
5 34 (2.49%) Ubuntu
6 28 (2.05%) VMS
7 24 (1.75%) CentOS
7 24 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.95%) Android
9 12 (0.88%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.51%) Debian
11 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.29%) SUSE
13 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.073%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.073%) Rocky
14 1 (0.073%) Solaris
14 1 (0.073%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 916 (66.96%) CI/CD
2 831 (60.75%) DevOps
3 402 (29.39%) Containerisation
4 365 (26.68%) Agile
5 337 (24.63%) Observability
6 289 (21.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 258 (18.86%) Mentoring
8 237 (17.32%) Platform Engineering
9 236 (17.25%) Problem-Solving
10 220 (16.08%) Test Automation
11 217 (15.86%) AI
12 207 (15.13%) Microservices
13 199 (14.55%) Software Engineering
14 194 (14.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 185 (13.52%) Cloud Security
16 167 (12.21%) Analytics
17 159 (11.62%) High Availability
18 152 (11.11%) DevSecOps
19 149 (10.89%) Technical Leadership
20 139 (10.16%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 627 (45.83%) Python
2 276 (20.18%) Bash
3 227 (16.59%) SQL
4 225 (16.45%) PowerShell
5 178 (13.01%) Java
6 154 (11.26%) Go
7 125 (9.14%) Bicep
8 119 (8.70%) JavaScript
9 117 (8.55%) TypeScript
10 79 (5.77%) C#
11 22 (1.61%) Rust
12 21 (1.54%) C++
13 20 (1.46%) Kusto Query Language
14 19 (1.39%) Scala
15 13 (0.95%) C
16 10 (0.73%) Groovy
17 9 (0.66%) Ruby
18 8 (0.58%) PHP
18 8 (0.58%) Shell Script
19 7 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 231 (16.89%) Security Cleared
2 145 (10.60%) SC Cleared
3 137 (10.01%) Degree
4 113 (8.26%) AWS Certification
5 84 (6.14%) DV Cleared
6 78 (5.70%) Azure Certification
7 58 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 29 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 28 (2.05%) CISSP
10 28 (2.05%) OSCP
11 22 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (1.10%) AWS Certified Developer
13 13 (0.95%) CCNP
13 13 (0.95%) DBS Check
13 13 (0.95%) Master's Degree
14 12 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 11 (0.80%) CCNA
15 11 (0.80%) CCSK
16 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (4.53%) QA
2 55 (4.02%) GDPR
3 52 (3.80%) Data Quality
4 48 (3.51%) SOC 2
5 47 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (2.70%) NIST
7 33 (2.41%) PCI DSS
8 24 (1.75%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.66%) WCAG
11 7 (0.51%) NCSC
12 6 (0.44%) GRC
13 5 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (0.37%) SLA
14 2 (0.15%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.15%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.073%) Basel III
15 1 (0.073%) Solvency II
System Software
1 417 (30.48%) Docker
2 96 (7.02%) Active Directory
3 71 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (1.75%) vSphere
6 18 (1.32%) Hyper-V
7 17 (1.24%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.58%) Firmware
9 7 (0.51%) iptables
10 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.29%) KVM
12 3 (0.22%) Squid
12 3 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.15%) GPFS
13 2 (0.15%) Lustre
13 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.073%) vCloud
14 1 (0.073%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 949 (69.37%) Terraform
2 564 (41.23%) Kubernetes
3 321 (23.46%) Ansible
4 189 (13.82%) Grafana
5 188 (13.74%) Prometheus
6 56 (4.09%) Argo
7 34 (2.49%) Microsoft Intune
8 32 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
9 26 (1.90%) Puppet
10 23 (1.68%) Kustomize
11 18 (1.32%) Progress Chef
11 18 (1.32%) Rancher
12 17 (1.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 15 (1.10%) Nagios
14 14 (1.02%) Istio
15 11 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
15 11 (0.80%) Packer
16 8 (0.58%) logstash
16 8 (0.58%) Proxmox
16 8 (0.58%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 242 (17.69%) Microsoft
2 107 (7.82%) VMware
3 96 (7.02%) Google
4 60 (4.39%) Red Hat
5 58 (4.24%) Databricks
6 51 (3.73%) Cisco
7 46 (3.36%) Splunk
8 39 (2.85%) Palo Alto
9 23 (1.68%) Zscaler
10 21 (1.54%) CrowdStrike
11 20 (1.46%) OpenAI
12 18 (1.32%) Dynatrace
12 18 (1.32%) Salesforce
13 16 (1.17%) Oracle
14 14 (1.02%) Atlassian
14 14 (1.02%) Fortinet
15 13 (0.95%) Juniper
16 11 (0.80%) SolarWinds
17 10 (0.73%) CyberArk
17 10 (0.73%) SAP