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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 153 173
Rank change year-on-year +77 +20 -65
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,783 920 1,535
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.11% 2.29% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% 2.49% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,223 609 1,196
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,450 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £78,810 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +12.59% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £108,950 £110,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,810 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.83% +12.59% -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 62,060 37,011 77,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.39% 92.32% 81.92%
Number of salaries quoted 43,762 20,363 56,096
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,822 £29,444
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +34 869 £87,500 -2.78% 198
North of England +69 330 £67,500 -3.57% 100
South East +38 209 £70,000 -9.68% 134
North West +70 200 £72,500 - 59
South West +24 150 £73,750 +5.36% 58
Midlands +42 120 £75,000 +15.38% 40
Yorkshire -12 83 £65,576 -6.32% 24
West Midlands +23 70 £80,000 +14.29% 28
East of England +8 53 £60,100 -7.54% 16
East Midlands +3 50 £67,500 +3.85% 12
North East -3 47 £55,000 -14.06% 18
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 50 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (2.13%) Apache
3 37 (2.08%) Apache Spark
3 37 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (1.29%) Confluence
5 13 (0.73%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.56%) IIS
7 9 (0.50%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.28%) CMS
9 4 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.17%) WordPress
11 2 (0.11%) Camunda
11 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.056%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.056%) nginx
12 1 (0.056%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.056%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (1.01%) PlantUML
2 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.22%) Weka
4 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.056%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.056%) Maya
5 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.056%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.056%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.056%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.056%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.056%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,031 (57.82%) AWS
2 964 (54.07%) Azure
3 326 (18.28%) GitHub
4 324 (18.17%) Serverless
5 301 (16.88%) GCP
6 298 (16.71%) Azure DevOps
7 270 (15.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 199 (11.16%) GitHub Actions
9 175 (9.81%) Amazon S3
10 171 (9.59%) AWS Lambda
11 151 (8.47%) PaaS
12 126 (7.07%) Amazon EC2
13 119 (6.67%) IaaS
14 118 (6.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 117 (6.56%) Entra ID
16 114 (6.39%) Amazon EKS
17 112 (6.28%) SaaS
18 109 (6.11%) Azure AKS
19 97 (5.44%) Azure Monitor
20 90 (5.05%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 170 (9.53%) Firewall
2 100 (5.61%) DNS
2 100 (5.61%) VPN
3 70 (3.93%) Network Security
4 68 (3.81%) Broadband
5 63 (3.53%) TCP/IP
6 49 (2.75%) WAN
7 41 (2.30%) BGP
8 33 (1.85%) DHCP
8 33 (1.85%) VLAN
9 27 (1.51%) LAN
10 23 (1.29%) OSPF
11 22 (1.23%) HTTP
12 20 (1.12%) Software-Defined Networking
13 19 (1.07%) SD-WAN
14 18 (1.01%) VXLAN
15 15 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
16 11 (0.62%) DSL
17 10 (0.56%) IPv4
18 9 (0.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (7.52%) PostgreSQL
2 129 (7.23%) NoSQL
3 90 (5.05%) Amazon RDS
4 84 (4.71%) MongoDB
5 70 (3.93%) DynamoDB
6 65 (3.65%) SQL Server
7 56 (3.14%) Azure SQL Database
8 50 (2.80%) Data Lake
9 48 (2.69%) Relational Database
10 45 (2.52%) Metadata
11 31 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
12 28 (1.57%) MySQL
13 26 (1.46%) Delta Lake
13 26 (1.46%) Power BI
14 25 (1.40%) BigQuery
15 24 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
16 21 (1.18%) Redis
17 20 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
18 19 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
18 19 (1.07%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 251 (14.08%) GitLab
2 230 (12.90%) Git
3 223 (12.51%) Jenkins
4 37 (2.08%) Cucumber
4 37 (2.08%) JIRA
5 35 (1.96%) CircleCI
6 34 (1.91%) Bitbucket
7 24 (1.35%) TeamCity
8 14 (0.79%) Jaeger
8 14 (0.79%) SonarQube
9 13 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 12 (0.67%) Selenium
11 11 (0.62%) Claude Code
11 11 (0.62%) MLflow
12 10 (0.56%) Maven
13 9 (0.50%) Subversion
13 9 (0.50%) Vite
14 8 (0.45%) Cypress.io
14 8 (0.45%) JMeter
14 8 (0.45%) NUnit
General
1 433 (24.28%) Social Skills
2 355 (19.91%) Finance
3 128 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (6.23%) Public Sector
5 100 (5.61%) Banking
6 73 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 58 (3.25%) Law
8 57 (3.20%) Retail
9 44 (2.47%) Games
10 39 (2.19%) Telecoms
11 29 (1.63%) Aerospace
12 28 (1.57%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
14 17 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (0.90%) Advertising
15 16 (0.90%) Financial Institution
15 16 (0.90%) Legal
16 14 (0.79%) Billing
17 12 (0.67%) Marketing
18 10 (0.56%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 416 (23.33%) Senior
2 296 (16.60%) DevOps Engineer
3 270 (15.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 229 (12.84%) Lead
5 189 (10.60%) Platform Engineer
6 185 (10.38%) Azure Engineer
7 180 (10.10%) Architect
8 153 (8.58%) Developer
9 132 (7.40%) AWS Engineer
10 112 (6.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 98 (5.50%) Software Engineer
12 97 (5.44%) Data Engineer
13 86 (4.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 85 (4.77%) Security Engineer
15 81 (4.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 69 (3.87%) Principal Engineer
17 62 (3.48%) Senior DevOps
17 62 (3.48%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 59 (3.31%) Senior Developer
19 56 (3.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (7.63%) React
2 125 (7.01%) .NET
3 124 (6.95%) Kafka
4 109 (6.11%) REST
5 102 (5.72%) Node.js
5 102 (5.72%) RESTful
6 81 (4.54%) Spring
6 81 (4.54%) YAML
7 74 (4.15%) Spring Boot
8 70 (3.93%) Elastic Stack
9 65 (3.65%) ARM Templates
9 65 (3.65%) PySpark
10 58 (3.25%) AWS CDK
11 50 (2.80%) OAuth
12 46 (2.58%) RabbitMQ
13 42 (2.36%) Next.js
14 38 (2.13%) AngularJS
14 38 (2.13%) JSON
15 36 (2.02%) ASP.NET
15 36 (2.02%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 480 (26.92%) Cloud Native
2 161 (9.03%) Distributed Systems
3 101 (5.66%) Hybrid Cloud
4 89 (4.99%) Public Cloud
5 69 (3.87%) Data Centre
6 63 (3.53%) Security Posture
7 60 (3.37%) Onboarding
8 55 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
9 54 (3.03%) Product Ownership
10 48 (2.69%) Video\Live Streaming
11 33 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
11 33 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
11 33 (1.85%) Low-Code
12 28 (1.57%) PKI
13 26 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
14 24 (1.35%) Blockchain
14 24 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
15 22 (1.23%) e-Learning
15 22 (1.23%) Web3
16 21 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 331 (18.56%) Linux
2 181 (10.15%) Windows
3 83 (4.66%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.52%) Ubuntu
5 38 (2.13%) CentOS
6 37 (2.08%) Unix
7 33 (1.85%) VMS
8 26 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (0.62%) Android
10 10 (0.56%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.39%) Debian
13 5 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.11%) Rocky
15 1 (0.056%) SUSE
15 1 (0.056%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,242 (69.66%) CI/CD
2 1,004 (56.31%) DevOps
3 484 (27.15%) Agile
4 476 (26.70%) Containerisation
5 460 (25.80%) Observability
6 392 (21.99%) Platform Engineering
7 372 (20.86%) AI
8 367 (20.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 360 (20.19%) Mentoring
10 308 (17.27%) Test Automation
11 294 (16.49%) Microservices
12 293 (16.43%) Software Engineering
13 263 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
14 257 (14.41%) Cloud Security
15 234 (13.12%) Technical Leadership
16 225 (12.62%) Analytics
17 223 (12.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 191 (10.71%) Roadmaps
19 189 (10.60%) DevSecOps
20 175 (9.81%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 810 (45.43%) Python
2 337 (18.90%) Bash
3 301 (16.88%) SQL
4 300 (16.83%) PowerShell
5 225 (12.62%) Java
6 176 (9.87%) Bicep
7 174 (9.76%) Go
8 161 (9.03%) TypeScript
9 145 (8.13%) JavaScript
10 139 (7.80%) C#
11 29 (1.63%) Rust
12 27 (1.51%) Scala
13 25 (1.40%) Kusto Query Language
14 24 (1.35%) PHP
15 21 (1.18%) C++
16 19 (1.07%) Groovy
17 14 (0.79%) Ruby
18 10 (0.56%) Perl
19 9 (0.50%) C
19 9 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 354 (19.85%) Security Cleared
2 228 (12.79%) SC Cleared
3 157 (8.81%) Degree
4 129 (7.23%) AWS Certification
5 112 (6.28%) Azure Certification
6 99 (5.55%) DV Cleared
7 64 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 52 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 50 (2.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 36 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.46%) OSCP
12 21 (1.18%) CCNP
12 21 (1.18%) CISSP
13 19 (1.07%) Master's Degree
14 16 (0.90%) CCNA
15 15 (0.84%) DBS Check
16 14 (0.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 13 (0.73%) RHCSA
18 9 (0.50%) CCIE
18 9 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (4.60%) QA
2 78 (4.37%) Data Quality
3 59 (3.31%) GDPR
4 48 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 45 (2.52%) SOC 2
6 31 (1.74%) NIST
6 31 (1.74%) PCI DSS
7 25 (1.40%) Accessibility
8 14 (0.79%) WCAG
9 10 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.56%) GRC
10 8 (0.45%) NCSC
10 8 (0.45%) SLA
11 5 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.11%) IFRS
12 2 (0.11%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.11%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.056%) GxP
13 1 (0.056%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 456 (25.57%) Docker
2 124 (6.95%) Active Directory
3 114 (6.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (2.58%) vSphere
5 39 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (1.18%) VMware NSX
7 19 (1.07%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.45%) Squid
11 7 (0.39%) iptables
12 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.28%) KVM
14 4 (0.22%) Firmware
15 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
16 1 (0.056%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,248 (69.99%) Terraform
2 687 (38.53%) Kubernetes
3 371 (20.81%) Ansible
4 209 (11.72%) Grafana
5 192 (10.77%) Prometheus
6 65 (3.65%) Argo
7 39 (2.19%) Puppet
7 39 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
8 38 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
9 27 (1.51%) Progress Chef
10 23 (1.29%) Packer
11 20 (1.12%) Istio
12 19 (1.07%) Kustomize
12 19 (1.07%) Nagios
13 17 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 15 (0.84%) vCenter Server
14 15 (0.84%) ZABBIX
15 13 (0.73%) Rancher
16 12 (0.67%) Cilium
17 11 (0.62%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 351 (19.69%) Microsoft
2 150 (8.41%) VMware
3 89 (4.99%) Google
4 77 (4.32%) Databricks
5 75 (4.21%) Red Hat
6 59 (3.31%) Splunk
7 58 (3.25%) Cisco
8 48 (2.69%) Palo Alto
9 34 (1.91%) Oracle
10 31 (1.74%) OpenAI
11 29 (1.63%) Fortinet
12 26 (1.46%) Zscaler
13 21 (1.18%) Dynatrace
14 15 (0.84%) CrowdStrike
15 14 (0.79%) Salesforce
16 12 (0.67%) F5
16 12 (0.67%) ScienceLogic
17 11 (0.62%) Atlassian
17 11 (0.62%) CheckPoint
17 11 (0.62%) ServiceNow