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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 155 160
Rank change year-on-year +59 +5 -54
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,437 835 1,494
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.79% 2.17% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 2.33% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 965 607 1,199
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,250 £49,850
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 £92,500 £96,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £114,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -3.23% +9.81% -5.90%

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 60,045 35,779 71,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.70% 93.09% 85.50%
Number of salaries quoted 38,092 20,632 53,699
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,625 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £59,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.67% +9.09% -10.57%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +47 731 £87,500 -2.78% 290
North of England +5 264 £67,500 -2.17% 158
South East +11 148 £70,000 -6.67% 147
North West +9 144 £75,000 +3.45% 73
South West -8 104 £65,000 -9.71% 78
Midlands +15 93 £68,000 -2.86% 50
Yorkshire -27 89 £65,288 +7.98% 46
West Midlands +2 47 £70,000 - 31
East Midlands -11 44 £67,500 +3.85% 19
East of England +10 42 £60,100 -10.96% 41
North East -15 31 £48,445 -19.59% 39
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 45 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (2.16%) Apache
3 26 (1.81%) Apache Spark
4 24 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.04%) Confluence
5 15 (1.04%) IIS
6 10 (0.70%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.35%) CMS
8 4 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.070%) Camunda
11 1 (0.070%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.070%) nginx
11 1 (0.070%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.070%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.070%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.56%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.28%) Weka
3 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.070%) Maya
5 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.070%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.070%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.070%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.070%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 864 (60.13%) AWS
2 794 (55.25%) Azure
3 286 (19.90%) GCP
4 282 (19.62%) GitHub
5 261 (18.16%) Serverless
6 259 (18.02%) Azure DevOps
7 233 (16.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 203 (14.13%) GitHub Actions
9 146 (10.16%) AWS Lambda
10 129 (8.98%) Amazon S3
11 105 (7.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 105 (7.31%) Amazon EKS
11 105 (7.31%) Entra ID
12 103 (7.17%) PaaS
13 95 (6.61%) Datadog
14 87 (6.05%) Amazon EC2
15 86 (5.98%) SaaS
16 81 (5.64%) IaaS
17 76 (5.29%) Azure AKS
18 74 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 166 (11.55%) Firewall
2 90 (6.26%) DNS
3 76 (5.29%) VPN
4 66 (4.59%) TCP/IP
5 47 (3.27%) Broadband
6 46 (3.20%) WAN
7 42 (2.92%) Network Security
8 35 (2.44%) DHCP
9 26 (1.81%) HTTP
10 25 (1.74%) LAN
11 24 (1.67%) BGP
12 16 (1.11%) Cisco ASA
12 16 (1.11%) VLAN
13 15 (1.04%) SD-WAN
14 13 (0.90%) DSL
15 12 (0.84%) Software-Defined Networking
16 11 (0.77%) Internet
17 9 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
18 7 (0.49%) SAN
19 6 (0.42%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (8.35%) NoSQL
2 99 (6.89%) PostgreSQL
3 83 (5.78%) Amazon RDS
4 64 (4.45%) DynamoDB
5 61 (4.24%) SQL Server
6 54 (3.76%) MongoDB
7 44 (3.06%) Data Lake
8 43 (2.99%) Relational Database
9 36 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
10 32 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
11 30 (2.09%) Metadata
12 27 (1.88%) BigQuery
13 26 (1.81%) MySQL
14 22 (1.53%) Power BI
15 19 (1.32%) Delta Lake
15 19 (1.32%) RDBMS
16 18 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
17 15 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
18 14 (0.97%) Big Data
18 14 (0.97%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 214 (14.89%) Jenkins
2 202 (14.06%) GitLab
3 184 (12.80%) Git
4 39 (2.71%) Bitbucket
5 35 (2.44%) CircleCI
6 33 (2.30%) JIRA
7 24 (1.67%) Cucumber
8 21 (1.46%) Jaeger
9 16 (1.11%) Selenium
10 13 (0.90%) MLflow
10 13 (0.90%) SonarQube
11 12 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 12 (0.84%) TeamCity
12 10 (0.70%) Robot Framework
12 10 (0.70%) Subversion
13 9 (0.63%) Maven
13 9 (0.63%) Vite
14 8 (0.56%) JMeter
14 8 (0.56%) Storybook
15 7 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 368 (25.61%) Social Skills
2 299 (20.81%) Finance
3 112 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (6.12%) Banking
5 87 (6.05%) Public Sector
6 59 (4.11%) Retail
7 57 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (3.97%) Telecoms
8 55 (3.83%) Law
9 27 (1.88%) Games
10 26 (1.81%) Manufacturing
11 22 (1.53%) Aerospace
11 22 (1.53%) Marketing
12 21 (1.46%) Advertising
13 20 (1.39%) Billing
14 18 (1.25%) Financial Institution
15 16 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
15 16 (1.11%) Electronics
16 15 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
17 14 (0.97%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 318 (22.13%) Senior
2 237 (16.49%) DevOps Engineer
3 233 (16.21%) Cloud Engineer
4 203 (14.13%) Lead
5 143 (9.95%) Azure Engineer
6 130 (9.05%) Platform Engineer
7 127 (8.84%) Architect
8 124 (8.63%) Developer
9 114 (7.93%) AWS Engineer
10 109 (7.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 80 (5.57%) Data Engineer
12 72 (5.01%) Software Engineer
13 71 (4.94%) Security Engineer
14 60 (4.18%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 59 (4.11%) Senior DevOps
16 53 (3.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 49 (3.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 48 (3.34%) Cloud Security Engineer
19 45 (3.13%) Python Engineer
20 40 (2.78%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (8.42%) React
2 95 (6.61%) .NET
3 94 (6.54%) Kafka
3 94 (6.54%) Node.js
4 86 (5.98%) RESTful
5 81 (5.64%) REST
6 72 (5.01%) Elastic Stack
7 63 (4.38%) AWS CDK
7 63 (4.38%) Spring
8 60 (4.18%) YAML
9 56 (3.90%) Spring Boot
10 49 (3.41%) ARM Templates
11 45 (3.13%) OAuth
12 44 (3.06%) RabbitMQ
13 42 (2.92%) PySpark
14 32 (2.23%) Next.js
15 31 (2.16%) OpenTelemetry
16 29 (2.02%) ASP.NET
17 28 (1.95%) .NET Core
17 28 (1.95%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 344 (23.94%) Cloud Native
2 94 (6.54%) Distributed Systems
3 87 (6.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 63 (4.38%) Public Cloud
5 56 (3.90%) Security Posture
6 49 (3.41%) Product Ownership
7 46 (3.20%) Data Centre
8 42 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
9 33 (2.30%) Onboarding
10 30 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
11 25 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.67%) Blockchain
12 24 (1.67%) Video\Live Streaming
13 22 (1.53%) Management Information System
13 22 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (1.53%) Web3
14 19 (1.32%) Cloud Security Posture
14 19 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
14 19 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
14 19 (1.32%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 300 (20.88%) Linux
2 149 (10.37%) Windows
3 64 (4.45%) Windows Server
4 52 (3.62%) Unix
5 33 (2.30%) Ubuntu
6 27 (1.88%) VMS
7 25 (1.74%) CentOS
7 25 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.77%) Android
9 10 (0.70%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.49%) Debian
11 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.28%) SUSE
13 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.070%) Rocky
14 1 (0.070%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 969 (67.43%) CI/CD
2 860 (59.85%) DevOps
3 410 (28.53%) Containerisation
4 377 (26.24%) Agile
5 361 (25.12%) Observability
6 302 (21.02%) Continuous Improvement
7 266 (18.51%) Mentoring
8 262 (18.23%) Platform Engineering
9 239 (16.63%) Test Automation
10 238 (16.56%) AI
11 234 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
12 219 (15.24%) Microservices
13 206 (14.34%) Software Engineering
14 198 (13.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 195 (13.57%) Cloud Security
16 178 (12.39%) Analytics
17 165 (11.48%) High Availability
18 161 (11.20%) DevSecOps
19 157 (10.93%) Technical Leadership
20 140 (9.74%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 661 (46.00%) Python
2 290 (20.18%) Bash
3 236 (16.42%) SQL
4 232 (16.14%) PowerShell
5 188 (13.08%) Java
6 161 (11.20%) Go
7 128 (8.91%) Bicep
8 120 (8.35%) JavaScript
9 118 (8.21%) TypeScript
10 91 (6.33%) C#
11 24 (1.67%) Rust
12 22 (1.53%) Scala
13 21 (1.46%) C++
14 20 (1.39%) Kusto Query Language
15 13 (0.90%) C
16 12 (0.84%) Groovy
17 8 (0.56%) PHP
17 8 (0.56%) Ruby
17 8 (0.56%) Shell Script
18 7 (0.49%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 249 (17.33%) Security Cleared
2 160 (11.13%) SC Cleared
3 144 (10.02%) Degree
4 113 (7.86%) AWS Certification
5 83 (5.78%) DV Cleared
6 80 (5.57%) Azure Certification
7 60 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 33 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 30 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 29 (2.02%) OSCP
11 27 (1.88%) CISSP
12 23 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (0.97%) AWS Certified Developer
13 14 (0.97%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.90%) CCNP
14 13 (0.90%) Master's Degree
15 12 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 12 (0.84%) CCNA
16 11 (0.77%) CCSK
17 10 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (4.80%) QA
2 59 (4.11%) Data Quality
3 56 (3.90%) GDPR
4 49 (3.41%) SOC 2
5 45 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 35 (2.44%) NIST
7 32 (2.23%) PCI DSS
8 25 (1.74%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.70%) WCAG
10 7 (0.49%) NCSC
11 6 (0.42%) GRC
12 5 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.28%) SLA
14 2 (0.14%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.14%) IFRS
14 2 (0.14%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 426 (29.65%) Docker
2 100 (6.96%) Active Directory
3 75 (5.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (1.81%) vSphere
6 18 (1.25%) Hyper-V
6 18 (1.25%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.56%) Firmware
8 7 (0.49%) iptables
9 5 (0.35%) KVM
9 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 5 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.28%) Squid
11 3 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.14%) GPFS
12 2 (0.14%) Lustre
12 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.070%) vCloud
13 1 (0.070%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 998 (69.45%) Terraform
2 589 (40.99%) Kubernetes
3 324 (22.55%) Ansible
4 192 (13.36%) Grafana
4 192 (13.36%) Prometheus
5 56 (3.90%) Argo
6 34 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
7 33 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
8 29 (2.02%) Puppet
9 23 (1.60%) Kustomize
10 20 (1.39%) Progress Chef
11 18 (1.25%) Rancher
12 17 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 15 (1.04%) Nagios
14 14 (0.97%) Istio
15 12 (0.84%) Packer
16 10 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
17 8 (0.56%) logstash
17 8 (0.56%) Proxmox
17 8 (0.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 255 (17.75%) Microsoft
2 112 (7.79%) VMware
3 101 (7.03%) Google
4 67 (4.66%) Databricks
5 60 (4.18%) Red Hat
6 50 (3.48%) Cisco
7 46 (3.20%) Splunk
8 39 (2.71%) Palo Alto
9 23 (1.60%) Zscaler
10 22 (1.53%) CrowdStrike
11 21 (1.46%) OpenAI
12 18 (1.25%) Dynatrace
12 18 (1.25%) Salesforce
13 16 (1.11%) Oracle
14 14 (0.97%) Fortinet
14 14 (0.97%) SAP
15 13 (0.90%) Atlassian
15 13 (0.90%) Juniper
16 11 (0.77%) SolarWinds
17 10 (0.70%) CyberArk