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 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 155 162
Rank change year-on-year +77 +7 -61
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,869 946 1,539
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.16% 2.23% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% 2.45% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,288 641 1,191
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £105,000
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 63,989 38,586 74,951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.85% 90.92% 82.33%
Number of salaries quoted 45,232 21,845 54,026
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,898 £29,629
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,679 £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 £77,500 £73,346
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 7 July 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 7 July 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 +35 886 £87,500 -2.78% 350
North of England +73 362 £67,500 -3.57% 174
North West +75 219 £72,500 - 103
South East +48 219 £70,000 -9.68% 164
South West +33 167 £75,000 +3.45% 117
Midlands +37 127 £75,000 +15.38% 75
Yorkshire +12 92 £65,576 -6.32% 44
West Midlands +11 74 £80,000 +23.08% 41
East Midlands +12 53 £67,500 +3.85% 34
East of England +4 52 £60,100 -7.54% 38
North East -6 51 £55,000 -14.06% 29
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 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (2.09%) Apache
3 38 (2.03%) Apache Spark
3 38 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (1.34%) Confluence
5 11 (0.59%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.54%) IIS
7 9 (0.48%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.27%) CMS
9 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.16%) WordPress
11 2 (0.11%) Camunda
11 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.054%) Documentum
12 1 (0.054%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.054%) nginx
12 1 (0.054%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.054%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (1.07%) PlantUML
2 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.21%) Weka
4 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.054%) Maya
5 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.054%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.054%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.054%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.054%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.054%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,077 (57.62%) AWS
2 1,014 (54.25%) Azure
3 339 (18.14%) GitHub
3 339 (18.14%) Serverless
4 316 (16.91%) GCP
5 299 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
6 291 (15.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 204 (10.91%) GitHub Actions
8 178 (9.52%) Amazon S3
8 178 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
9 158 (8.45%) PaaS
10 128 (6.85%) Amazon EC2
11 125 (6.69%) Amazon EKS
12 121 (6.47%) IaaS
13 116 (6.21%) Entra ID
14 114 (6.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 110 (5.89%) SaaS
16 106 (5.67%) Azure AKS
17 91 (4.87%) Amazon ECS
18 90 (4.82%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 175 (9.36%) Firewall
2 109 (5.83%) VPN
3 106 (5.67%) DNS
4 82 (4.39%) Network Security
5 68 (3.64%) Broadband
6 66 (3.53%) TCP/IP
7 54 (2.89%) WAN
8 45 (2.41%) BGP
9 36 (1.93%) VLAN
10 33 (1.77%) DHCP
11 30 (1.61%) LAN
12 25 (1.34%) OSPF
13 23 (1.23%) HTTP
14 22 (1.18%) SD-WAN
15 21 (1.12%) Software-Defined Networking
16 20 (1.07%) VXLAN
17 15 (0.80%) Cisco ASA
18 11 (0.59%) DSL
18 11 (0.59%) SAN
19 10 (0.54%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (7.28%) PostgreSQL
2 134 (7.17%) NoSQL
3 87 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
4 83 (4.44%) MongoDB
5 71 (3.80%) DynamoDB
6 66 (3.53%) SQL Server
7 57 (3.05%) Azure SQL Database
8 51 (2.73%) Relational Database
9 47 (2.51%) Data Lake
10 46 (2.46%) Metadata
11 33 (1.77%) MySQL
12 31 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
13 25 (1.34%) Delta Lake
13 25 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
14 23 (1.23%) BigQuery
14 23 (1.23%) Power BI
14 23 (1.23%) Redis
15 21 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
16 20 (1.07%) Big Data
17 19 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 264 (14.13%) GitLab
2 240 (12.84%) Git
3 232 (12.41%) Jenkins
4 41 (2.19%) JIRA
5 40 (2.14%) Cucumber
6 35 (1.87%) Bitbucket
7 33 (1.77%) CircleCI
8 24 (1.28%) TeamCity
9 22 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 15 (0.80%) SonarQube
11 14 (0.75%) Jaeger
12 13 (0.70%) Claude Code
12 13 (0.70%) Selenium
13 10 (0.54%) Maven
13 10 (0.54%) MLflow
13 10 (0.54%) Subversion
14 9 (0.48%) Vite
15 8 (0.43%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.43%) JMeter
15 8 (0.43%) NUnit
General
1 461 (24.67%) Social Skills
2 373 (19.96%) Finance
3 136 (7.28%) Public Sector
4 135 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
5 99 (5.30%) Banking
6 78 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (3.21%) Law
8 59 (3.16%) Retail
9 44 (2.35%) Games
10 41 (2.19%) Telecoms
11 32 (1.71%) Aerospace
12 28 (1.50%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
14 20 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
15 17 (0.91%) Advertising
15 17 (0.91%) Financial Institution
15 17 (0.91%) Legal
16 13 (0.70%) Marketing
17 10 (0.54%) Back Office
18 9 (0.48%) Billing
Job Titles
1 447 (23.92%) Senior
2 319 (17.07%) DevOps Engineer
3 270 (14.45%) Cloud Engineer
4 245 (13.11%) Lead
5 199 (10.65%) Platform Engineer
6 190 (10.17%) Architect
7 185 (9.90%) Azure Engineer
8 155 (8.29%) Developer
9 126 (6.74%) AWS Engineer
10 117 (6.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 104 (5.56%) Software Engineer
12 97 (5.19%) Data Engineer
13 87 (4.65%) Security Engineer
14 84 (4.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 84 (4.49%) Principal Engineer
15 80 (4.28%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 71 (3.80%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 67 (3.58%) Senior DevOps
18 60 (3.21%) Senior Cloud Engineer
19 59 (3.16%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (7.60%) React
2 134 (7.17%) .NET
3 127 (6.80%) Kafka
4 116 (6.21%) REST
5 112 (5.99%) Node.js
6 108 (5.78%) RESTful
7 95 (5.08%) Spring
8 88 (4.71%) Spring Boot
9 79 (4.23%) YAML
10 74 (3.96%) Elastic Stack
11 69 (3.69%) ARM Templates
12 64 (3.42%) AWS CDK
12 64 (3.42%) PySpark
13 47 (2.51%) OAuth
14 46 (2.46%) RabbitMQ
15 43 (2.30%) Next.js
16 40 (2.14%) AngularJS
17 39 (2.09%) JSON
18 38 (2.03%) FastAPI
19 36 (1.93%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 517 (27.66%) Cloud Native
2 176 (9.42%) Distributed Systems
3 104 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 95 (5.08%) Public Cloud
5 77 (4.12%) Data Centre
6 76 (4.07%) Onboarding
7 64 (3.42%) Security Posture
8 61 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
9 58 (3.10%) Product Ownership
10 48 (2.57%) Video\Live Streaming
11 41 (2.19%) Enterprise Cloud
12 36 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
13 35 (1.87%) Low-Code
14 29 (1.55%) PKI
15 28 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
16 26 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
17 25 (1.34%) e-Learning
18 23 (1.23%) Private Cloud
19 22 (1.18%) Blockchain
20 21 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 345 (18.46%) Linux
2 188 (10.06%) Windows
3 86 (4.60%) Windows Server
4 47 (2.51%) CentOS
5 46 (2.46%) Ubuntu
6 36 (1.93%) Unix
7 35 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 31 (1.66%) VMS
9 9 (0.48%) Android
10 8 (0.43%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.43%) Debian
10 8 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.11%) Rocky
13 1 (0.054%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.054%) SUSE
13 1 (0.054%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,303 (69.72%) CI/CD
2 1,053 (56.34%) DevOps
3 510 (27.29%) Agile
4 506 (27.07%) Containerisation
5 479 (25.63%) Observability
6 422 (22.58%) Platform Engineering
7 395 (21.13%) Mentoring
8 393 (21.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 390 (20.87%) AI
10 328 (17.55%) Test Automation
11 316 (16.91%) Microservices
12 313 (16.75%) Software Engineering
13 287 (15.36%) Problem-Solving
14 270 (14.45%) Cloud Security
15 260 (13.91%) Technical Leadership
16 237 (12.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 222 (11.88%) Analytics
18 204 (10.91%) Roadmaps
19 200 (10.70%) DevSecOps
20 186 (9.95%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 853 (45.64%) Python
2 343 (18.35%) Bash
3 310 (16.59%) PowerShell
3 310 (16.59%) SQL
4 252 (13.48%) Java
5 190 (10.17%) Bicep
6 174 (9.31%) Go
7 165 (8.83%) TypeScript
8 158 (8.45%) JavaScript
9 148 (7.92%) C#
10 32 (1.71%) PHP
11 30 (1.61%) Rust
12 26 (1.39%) Scala
13 25 (1.34%) Kusto Query Language
14 21 (1.12%) C++
15 20 (1.07%) Groovy
15 20 (1.07%) Ruby
16 16 (0.86%) Perl
17 10 (0.54%) Shell Script
18 8 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 399 (21.35%) Security Cleared
2 249 (13.32%) SC Cleared
3 161 (8.61%) Degree
4 137 (7.33%) AWS Certification
5 123 (6.58%) DV Cleared
6 116 (6.21%) Azure Certification
7 66 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 62 (3.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 52 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
10 42 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.39%) OSCP
12 25 (1.34%) CCNP
13 21 (1.12%) CISSP
13 21 (1.12%) Master's Degree
14 18 (0.96%) CCNA
15 14 (0.75%) DBS Check
15 14 (0.75%) RHCSA
16 12 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 11 (0.59%) CCIE
18 9 (0.48%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (4.76%) QA
2 80 (4.28%) Data Quality
3 62 (3.32%) GDPR
4 49 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 44 (2.35%) SOC 2
6 36 (1.93%) PCI DSS
7 34 (1.82%) NIST
8 25 (1.34%) Accessibility
9 15 (0.80%) WCAG
10 11 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.59%) GRC
11 9 (0.48%) NCSC
12 8 (0.43%) SLA
13 5 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.11%) IFRS
15 2 (0.11%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.11%) Solvency II
16 1 (0.054%) GxP
16 1 (0.054%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 486 (26.00%) Docker
2 124 (6.63%) Active Directory
3 119 (6.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (2.46%) vSphere
5 38 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (1.12%) VMware NSX
7 19 (1.02%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.43%) Squid
11 7 (0.37%) iptables
12 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.27%) Firmware
13 5 (0.27%) KVM
14 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
15 1 (0.054%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,315 (70.36%) Terraform
2 734 (39.27%) Kubernetes
3 404 (21.62%) Ansible
4 210 (11.24%) Grafana
5 188 (10.06%) Prometheus
6 69 (3.69%) Argo
7 44 (2.35%) Puppet
8 39 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
9 37 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
10 29 (1.55%) Progress Chef
11 24 (1.28%) Packer
12 22 (1.18%) Istio
13 20 (1.07%) Kustomize
14 19 (1.02%) Nagios
15 15 (0.80%) vCenter Server
15 15 (0.80%) ZABBIX
16 14 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 14 (0.75%) Rancher
17 12 (0.64%) Cilium
18 11 (0.59%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 363 (19.42%) Microsoft
2 154 (8.24%) VMware
3 90 (4.82%) Google
4 76 (4.07%) Red Hat
5 75 (4.01%) Databricks
6 65 (3.48%) Splunk
7 63 (3.37%) Cisco
8 49 (2.62%) Palo Alto
9 39 (2.09%) Oracle
10 32 (1.71%) Fortinet
10 32 (1.71%) OpenAI
11 26 (1.39%) Zscaler
12 22 (1.18%) Dynatrace
13 15 (0.80%) CrowdStrike
14 14 (0.75%) F5
14 14 (0.75%) Salesforce
15 12 (0.64%) ScienceLogic
15 12 (0.64%) ServiceNow
16 11 (0.59%) CheckPoint
16 11 (0.59%) SolarWinds