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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 140 161
Rank change year-on-year +35 +21 -54
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,393 840 1,473
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.75% 2.22% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 2.38% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 939 611 1,188
10th Percentile £49,750 £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 £92,500 £96,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £113,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £71,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +9.15% -5.33%

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 59,771 35,248 71,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.96% 93.04% 85.59%
Number of salaries quoted 37,816 20,543 53,619
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,773 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £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% -10.57%

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 29 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 29 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 +43 700 £87,500 -2.78% 234
North of England +1 262 £67,249 -0.74% 126
South East +6 145 £70,000 -6.67% 120
North West +2 139 £72,000 -0.69% 66
South West -4 106 £65,000 -9.71% 59
Yorkshire -27 92 £65,000 +8.33% 25
Midlands +11 88 £69,000 -1.43% 29
East Midlands -17 43 £67,500 +3.85% 6
West Midlands -19 43 £70,000 - 23
East of England +7 40 £60,100 -10.96% 26
North East -19 31 £48,445 -15.01% 35
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 43 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
2 32 (2.30%) Apache
3 26 (1.87%) Apache Spark
4 24 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (1.15%) Confluence
6 15 (1.08%) IIS
7 10 (0.72%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.36%) CMS
9 4 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.072%) Camunda
12 1 (0.072%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.072%) nginx
12 1 (0.072%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.072%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.57%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.29%) Weka
3 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.072%) Maya
4 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.072%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.072%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.072%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.072%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 840 (60.30%) AWS
2 769 (55.20%) Azure
3 281 (20.17%) GCP
4 280 (20.10%) GitHub
5 261 (18.74%) Azure DevOps
5 261 (18.74%) Serverless
6 225 (16.15%) AWS CloudFormation
7 199 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
8 146 (10.48%) AWS Lambda
9 129 (9.26%) Amazon S3
10 104 (7.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 104 (7.47%) Amazon EKS
11 100 (7.18%) Entra ID
12 99 (7.11%) PaaS
13 95 (6.82%) Datadog
14 85 (6.10%) SaaS
15 84 (6.03%) Amazon EC2
16 77 (5.53%) IaaS
17 74 (5.31%) Microsoft 365
18 73 (5.24%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 169 (12.13%) Firewall
2 90 (6.46%) DNS
3 74 (5.31%) VPN
4 66 (4.74%) TCP/IP
5 48 (3.45%) WAN
6 42 (3.02%) Network Security
7 38 (2.73%) Broadband
8 34 (2.44%) DHCP
9 27 (1.94%) LAN
10 26 (1.87%) HTTP
11 24 (1.72%) BGP
12 17 (1.22%) VLAN
13 16 (1.15%) Cisco ASA
14 15 (1.08%) SD-WAN
15 13 (0.93%) DSL
16 12 (0.86%) Software-Defined Networking
17 11 (0.79%) Internet
18 10 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
19 7 (0.50%) SAN
19 7 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 91 (6.53%) PostgreSQL
3 80 (5.74%) Amazon RDS
4 61 (4.38%) DynamoDB
5 59 (4.24%) SQL Server
6 46 (3.30%) MongoDB
7 42 (3.02%) Data Lake
7 42 (3.02%) Relational Database
8 35 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
9 33 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
10 26 (1.87%) MySQL
11 25 (1.79%) Metadata
12 24 (1.72%) BigQuery
13 22 (1.58%) Power BI
14 19 (1.36%) Delta Lake
14 19 (1.36%) RDBMS
15 18 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
16 16 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
17 14 (1.01%) Big Data
18 13 (0.93%) Redis
Development Applications
1 208 (14.93%) Jenkins
2 195 (14.00%) GitLab
3 182 (13.07%) Git
4 37 (2.66%) Bitbucket
5 34 (2.44%) CircleCI
5 34 (2.44%) JIRA
6 22 (1.58%) Cucumber
7 21 (1.51%) Jaeger
8 17 (1.22%) Selenium
9 14 (1.01%) MLflow
10 13 (0.93%) SonarQube
11 12 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 12 (0.86%) TeamCity
12 11 (0.79%) Robot Framework
13 10 (0.72%) Subversion
14 9 (0.65%) Vite
15 8 (0.57%) JMeter
15 8 (0.57%) Maven
15 8 (0.57%) Storybook
16 7 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 367 (26.35%) Social Skills
2 291 (20.89%) Finance
3 115 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (6.10%) Banking
4 85 (6.10%) Public Sector
5 58 (4.16%) Retail
6 57 (4.09%) Telecoms
7 56 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 55 (3.95%) Law
9 25 (1.79%) Manufacturing
10 22 (1.58%) Aerospace
10 22 (1.58%) Marketing
11 21 (1.51%) Advertising
11 21 (1.51%) Games
12 20 (1.44%) Billing
13 17 (1.22%) Financial Institution
14 16 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
14 16 (1.15%) Electronics
15 15 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
16 14 (1.01%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 308 (22.11%) Senior
2 234 (16.80%) DevOps Engineer
3 225 (16.15%) Cloud Engineer
4 196 (14.07%) Lead
5 138 (9.91%) Azure Engineer
6 123 (8.83%) Architect
6 123 (8.83%) Platform Engineer
7 121 (8.69%) Developer
8 106 (7.61%) AWS Engineer
8 106 (7.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 75 (5.38%) Data Engineer
10 70 (5.03%) Software Engineer
11 68 (4.88%) Security Engineer
12 59 (4.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 59 (4.24%) Senior DevOps
13 50 (3.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 49 (3.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 48 (3.45%) Cloud Security Engineer
16 42 (3.02%) Python Engineer
17 39 (2.80%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (8.76%) React
2 95 (6.82%) Node.js
3 89 (6.39%) .NET
4 88 (6.32%) Kafka
5 79 (5.67%) REST
6 78 (5.60%) RESTful
7 73 (5.24%) Elastic Stack
8 62 (4.45%) AWS CDK
8 62 (4.45%) Spring
9 61 (4.38%) YAML
10 55 (3.95%) Spring Boot
11 50 (3.59%) ARM Templates
12 45 (3.23%) OAuth
13 42 (3.02%) RabbitMQ
14 41 (2.94%) PySpark
15 31 (2.23%) FastAPI
15 31 (2.23%) Next.js
15 31 (2.23%) OpenTelemetry
16 28 (2.01%) .NET Core
17 25 (1.79%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 322 (23.12%) Cloud Native
2 85 (6.10%) Hybrid Cloud
3 76 (5.46%) Distributed Systems
4 58 (4.16%) Public Cloud
5 55 (3.95%) Security Posture
6 50 (3.59%) Product Ownership
7 44 (3.16%) Data Centre
8 41 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
9 33 (2.37%) Onboarding
10 29 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
11 25 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.72%) Blockchain
13 22 (1.58%) Management Information System
14 21 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (1.51%) Web3
15 19 (1.36%) Cloud Security Posture
15 19 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
16 18 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
16 18 (1.29%) Hedge funds
16 18 (1.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 298 (21.39%) Linux
2 149 (10.70%) Windows
3 65 (4.67%) Windows Server
4 55 (3.95%) Unix
5 33 (2.37%) Ubuntu
6 27 (1.94%) VMS
7 24 (1.72%) CentOS
7 24 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.79%) Android
9 10 (0.72%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.50%) Debian
11 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.29%) SUSE
13 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.072%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.072%) Rocky
14 1 (0.072%) Solaris
14 1 (0.072%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 932 (66.91%) CI/CD
2 849 (60.95%) DevOps
3 406 (29.15%) Containerisation
4 370 (26.56%) Agile
5 344 (24.69%) Observability
6 293 (21.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 265 (19.02%) Mentoring
8 247 (17.73%) Platform Engineering
9 237 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
10 227 (16.30%) AI
11 224 (16.08%) Test Automation
12 210 (15.08%) Microservices
13 198 (14.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 196 (14.07%) Software Engineering
15 189 (13.57%) Cloud Security
16 169 (12.13%) Analytics
17 163 (11.70%) High Availability
18 155 (11.13%) DevSecOps
19 152 (10.91%) Technical Leadership
20 141 (10.12%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 638 (45.80%) Python
2 284 (20.39%) Bash
3 232 (16.65%) SQL
4 229 (16.44%) PowerShell
5 181 (12.99%) Java
6 155 (11.13%) Go
7 125 (8.97%) Bicep
8 121 (8.69%) JavaScript
9 116 (8.33%) TypeScript
10 82 (5.89%) C#
11 22 (1.58%) C++
11 22 (1.58%) Rust
12 21 (1.51%) Scala
13 20 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
14 13 (0.93%) C
15 10 (0.72%) Groovy
16 8 (0.57%) PHP
16 8 (0.57%) Ruby
16 8 (0.57%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 244 (17.52%) Security Cleared
2 154 (11.06%) SC Cleared
3 138 (9.91%) Degree
4 112 (8.04%) AWS Certification
5 84 (6.03%) DV Cleared
6 78 (5.60%) Azure Certification
7 58 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 29 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (2.08%) OSCP
10 28 (2.01%) CISSP
11 23 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
12 14 (1.01%) DBS Check
13 13 (0.93%) CCNP
13 13 (0.93%) Master's Degree
14 12 (0.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 12 (0.86%) CCNA
15 11 (0.79%) CCSK
16 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (4.45%) QA
2 57 (4.09%) GDPR
3 56 (4.02%) Data Quality
4 48 (3.45%) SOC 2
5 46 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (2.66%) NIST
7 33 (2.37%) PCI DSS
8 25 (1.79%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.72%) WCAG
10 7 (0.50%) NCSC
11 6 (0.43%) GRC
12 5 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.29%) 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
1 422 (30.29%) Docker
2 97 (6.96%) Active Directory
3 75 (5.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (2.66%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (1.87%) vSphere
6 18 (1.29%) Hyper-V
6 18 (1.29%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.57%) Firmware
8 7 (0.50%) iptables
9 5 (0.36%) KVM
9 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 5 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.29%) Squid
11 3 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.14%) GPFS
12 2 (0.14%) Lustre
12 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.072%) vCloud
13 1 (0.072%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 971 (69.71%) Terraform
2 578 (41.49%) Kubernetes
3 323 (23.19%) Ansible
4 189 (13.57%) Grafana
5 188 (13.50%) Prometheus
6 56 (4.02%) Argo
7 33 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
7 33 (2.37%) Single Sign-On
8 28 (2.01%) Puppet
9 23 (1.65%) Kustomize
10 18 (1.29%) Progress Chef
10 18 (1.29%) Rancher
11 17 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 15 (1.08%) Nagios
13 14 (1.01%) Istio
14 12 (0.86%) Packer
15 10 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
16 8 (0.57%) logstash
16 8 (0.57%) vCenter Server
16 8 (0.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 247 (17.73%) Microsoft
2 111 (7.97%) VMware
3 99 (7.11%) Google
4 62 (4.45%) Databricks
5 61 (4.38%) Red Hat
6 51 (3.66%) Cisco
7 47 (3.37%) Splunk
8 39 (2.80%) Palo Alto
9 23 (1.65%) Zscaler
10 22 (1.58%) CrowdStrike
11 21 (1.51%) OpenAI
12 18 (1.29%) Dynatrace
12 18 (1.29%) Salesforce
13 17 (1.22%) Oracle
14 14 (1.01%) Atlassian
14 14 (1.01%) Fortinet
15 13 (0.93%) Juniper
16 11 (0.79%) SolarWinds
17 10 (0.72%) CyberArk
17 10 (0.72%) SAP