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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 152 174
Rank change year-on-year +75 +22 -69
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,747 920 1,542
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.08% 2.31% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% 2.50% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,200 608 1,195
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,950 £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 £91,000 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,625 £111,250 £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 61,488 36,863 78,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.28% 92.45% 81.75%
Number of salaries quoted 43,312 20,255 56,794
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,939 £29,500
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 £78,750 £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 21 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 21 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 +30 849 £87,500 -2.78% 205
North of England +75 327 £67,500 -3.57% 98
South East +40 206 £70,000 -9.68% 135
North West +78 197 £72,500 - 57
South West +17 139 £75,000 +7.14% 59
Midlands +40 120 £73,000 +12.31% 41
Yorkshire -5 84 £65,576 -6.32% 23
West Midlands +14 69 £80,000 +14.29% 28
East of England +13 53 £60,100 -7.54% 17
East Midlands +6 51 £67,500 +3.85% 13
North East -9 46 £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 49 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (2.12%) Apache
3 36 (2.06%) Apache Spark
4 33 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 23 (1.32%) Confluence
6 12 (0.69%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.57%) IIS
8 8 (0.46%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.29%) CMS
10 4 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.17%) WordPress
12 2 (0.11%) Camunda
12 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.057%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.057%) nginx
13 1 (0.057%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.057%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (0.92%) PlantUML
2 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.23%) Weka
4 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.057%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.057%) Maya
5 1 (0.057%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.057%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.057%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.057%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.057%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.057%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,017 (58.21%) AWS
2 938 (53.69%) Azure
3 318 (18.20%) GitHub
4 313 (17.92%) Serverless
5 297 (17.00%) GCP
6 289 (16.54%) Azure DevOps
7 266 (15.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 198 (11.33%) GitHub Actions
9 168 (9.62%) Amazon S3
10 166 (9.50%) AWS Lambda
11 146 (8.36%) PaaS
12 122 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
13 115 (6.58%) Entra ID
14 114 (6.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 113 (6.47%) Amazon EKS
15 113 (6.47%) IaaS
16 108 (6.18%) SaaS
17 106 (6.07%) Azure AKS
18 94 (5.38%) Azure Monitor
19 89 (5.09%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 170 (9.73%) Firewall
2 98 (5.61%) DNS
3 94 (5.38%) VPN
4 73 (4.18%) Broadband
5 68 (3.89%) Network Security
6 62 (3.55%) TCP/IP
7 49 (2.80%) WAN
8 41 (2.35%) BGP
9 33 (1.89%) VLAN
10 32 (1.83%) DHCP
11 27 (1.55%) LAN
12 23 (1.32%) OSPF
13 22 (1.26%) HTTP
14 20 (1.14%) Software-Defined Networking
15 19 (1.09%) SD-WAN
16 18 (1.03%) VXLAN
17 15 (0.86%) Cisco ASA
18 12 (0.69%) DSL
19 10 (0.57%) IPv4
20 9 (0.52%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (7.56%) NoSQL
2 131 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
3 87 (4.98%) Amazon RDS
4 85 (4.87%) MongoDB
5 66 (3.78%) DynamoDB
6 61 (3.49%) SQL Server
7 53 (3.03%) Relational Database
8 51 (2.92%) Azure SQL Database
9 49 (2.80%) Data Lake
10 42 (2.40%) Metadata
11 31 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
12 25 (1.43%) BigQuery
12 25 (1.43%) MySQL
12 25 (1.43%) Power BI
13 23 (1.32%) Delta Lake
13 23 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
14 21 (1.20%) RDBMS
14 21 (1.20%) Redis
15 19 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
15 19 (1.09%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 248 (14.20%) GitLab
2 222 (12.71%) Git
3 220 (12.59%) Jenkins
4 37 (2.12%) JIRA
5 36 (2.06%) Cucumber
6 34 (1.95%) Bitbucket
6 34 (1.95%) CircleCI
7 24 (1.37%) TeamCity
8 20 (1.14%) Jaeger
9 14 (0.80%) SonarQube
10 13 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 11 (0.63%) MLflow
11 11 (0.63%) Selenium
12 10 (0.57%) Maven
13 9 (0.52%) Vite
14 8 (0.46%) Claude Code
14 8 (0.46%) JMeter
14 8 (0.46%) NUnit
14 8 (0.46%) Subversion
15 7 (0.40%) Cypress.io
General
1 415 (23.76%) Social Skills
2 338 (19.35%) Finance
3 124 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (6.18%) Public Sector
5 98 (5.61%) Banking
6 73 (4.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (3.26%) Retail
8 54 (3.09%) Law
9 44 (2.52%) Games
10 39 (2.23%) Telecoms
11 28 (1.60%) Manufacturing
12 27 (1.55%) Aerospace
13 20 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
14 16 (0.92%) Financial Institution
14 16 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (0.86%) Advertising
15 15 (0.86%) Billing
15 15 (0.86%) Legal
16 12 (0.69%) Marketing
17 10 (0.57%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 403 (23.07%) Senior
2 293 (16.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 270 (15.46%) Cloud Engineer
4 235 (13.45%) Lead
5 189 (10.82%) Platform Engineer
6 181 (10.36%) Azure Engineer
7 171 (9.79%) Architect
8 146 (8.36%) Developer
9 129 (7.38%) AWS Engineer
10 109 (6.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 96 (5.50%) Data Engineer
12 93 (5.32%) Software Engineer
13 86 (4.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 84 (4.81%) Security Engineer
15 78 (4.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 67 (3.84%) Principal Engineer
17 62 (3.55%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 60 (3.43%) Senior DevOps
19 58 (3.32%) Senior Developer
20 55 (3.15%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (7.50%) React
2 122 (6.98%) Kafka
3 119 (6.81%) .NET
4 107 (6.12%) REST
5 100 (5.72%) Node.js
6 99 (5.67%) RESTful
7 81 (4.64%) YAML
8 80 (4.58%) Spring
9 74 (4.24%) Elastic Stack
10 73 (4.18%) Spring Boot
11 63 (3.61%) ARM Templates
12 61 (3.49%) PySpark
13 56 (3.21%) AWS CDK
14 49 (2.80%) OAuth
15 45 (2.58%) RabbitMQ
16 40 (2.29%) Next.js
17 37 (2.12%) JSON
18 36 (2.06%) OpenTelemetry
19 35 (2.00%) AngularJS
19 35 (2.00%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 468 (26.79%) Cloud Native
2 156 (8.93%) Distributed Systems
3 98 (5.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 84 (4.81%) Public Cloud
5 67 (3.84%) Data Centre
6 60 (3.43%) Security Posture
7 57 (3.26%) Onboarding
8 53 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
8 53 (3.03%) Product Ownership
9 48 (2.75%) Video\Live Streaming
10 33 (1.89%) Low-Code
11 32 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
12 29 (1.66%) Enterprise Cloud
13 28 (1.60%) PKI
14 24 (1.37%) Blockchain
14 24 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
15 23 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
16 22 (1.26%) Web3
17 21 (1.20%) e-Learning
17 21 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 332 (19.00%) Linux
2 175 (10.02%) Windows
3 83 (4.75%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.58%) Ubuntu
5 42 (2.40%) Unix
6 36 (2.06%) CentOS
7 29 (1.66%) VMS
8 26 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (0.63%) Android
10 10 (0.57%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.40%) Debian
13 5 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.057%) Rocky
15 1 (0.057%) SUSE
15 1 (0.057%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,213 (69.43%) CI/CD
2 988 (56.55%) DevOps
3 477 (27.30%) Agile
4 471 (26.96%) Containerisation
5 450 (25.76%) Observability
6 386 (22.10%) Platform Engineering
7 359 (20.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 357 (20.44%) AI
9 353 (20.21%) Mentoring
10 299 (17.12%) Test Automation
11 286 (16.37%) Microservices
12 282 (16.14%) Software Engineering
13 254 (14.54%) Problem-Solving
14 244 (13.97%) Cloud Security
15 228 (13.05%) Technical Leadership
16 220 (12.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 215 (12.31%) Analytics
18 189 (10.82%) Roadmaps
19 183 (10.48%) DevSecOps
20 178 (10.19%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 798 (45.68%) Python
2 329 (18.83%) Bash
3 292 (16.71%) PowerShell
4 288 (16.49%) SQL
5 225 (12.88%) Java
6 178 (10.19%) Go
7 167 (9.56%) Bicep
8 155 (8.87%) TypeScript
9 147 (8.41%) JavaScript
10 134 (7.67%) C#
11 30 (1.72%) Rust
12 25 (1.43%) Scala
13 21 (1.20%) C++
13 21 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
13 21 (1.20%) PHP
14 19 (1.09%) Groovy
15 12 (0.69%) Ruby
16 10 (0.57%) C
17 9 (0.52%) Shell Script
18 8 (0.46%) Perl
Qualifications
1 342 (19.58%) Security Cleared
2 224 (12.82%) SC Cleared
3 154 (8.82%) Degree
4 130 (7.44%) AWS Certification
5 104 (5.95%) Azure Certification
6 98 (5.61%) DV Cleared
7 64 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 47 (2.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 46 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 36 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
11 27 (1.55%) OSCP
12 21 (1.20%) CCNP
12 21 (1.20%) CISSP
13 17 (0.97%) Master's Degree
14 16 (0.92%) CCNA
15 15 (0.86%) DBS Check
16 13 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 13 (0.74%) RHCSA
17 9 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
17 9 (0.52%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (4.52%) QA
2 73 (4.18%) Data Quality
3 58 (3.32%) GDPR
4 49 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 45 (2.58%) SOC 2
6 32 (1.83%) NIST
7 31 (1.77%) PCI DSS
8 25 (1.43%) Accessibility
9 14 (0.80%) WCAG
10 11 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.52%) GRC
11 9 (0.52%) NCSC
12 8 (0.46%) SLA
13 5 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.11%) IFRS
15 2 (0.11%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.11%) Solvency II
16 1 (0.057%) GxP
16 1 (0.057%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 457 (26.16%) Docker
2 118 (6.75%) Active Directory
3 106 (6.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (2.40%) vSphere
5 39 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (1.20%) VMware NSX
7 19 (1.09%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.46%) Squid
11 7 (0.40%) iptables
12 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.29%) KVM
14 4 (0.23%) Firmware
15 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
16 1 (0.057%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,224 (70.06%) Terraform
2 684 (39.15%) Kubernetes
3 372 (21.29%) Ansible
4 206 (11.79%) Grafana
5 197 (11.28%) Prometheus
6 70 (4.01%) Argo
7 38 (2.18%) Microsoft Intune
8 37 (2.12%) Puppet
8 37 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
9 27 (1.55%) Progress Chef
10 25 (1.43%) Kustomize
11 23 (1.32%) Packer
12 20 (1.14%) Istio
13 18 (1.03%) Nagios
14 17 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 15 (0.86%) ZABBIX
16 14 (0.80%) vCenter Server
17 12 (0.69%) Cilium
17 12 (0.69%) Rancher
18 11 (0.63%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 338 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 141 (8.07%) VMware
3 94 (5.38%) Google
4 73 (4.18%) Databricks
5 72 (4.12%) Red Hat
6 57 (3.26%) Splunk
7 56 (3.21%) Cisco
8 48 (2.75%) Palo Alto
9 31 (1.77%) Oracle
10 29 (1.66%) Fortinet
11 28 (1.60%) OpenAI
12 26 (1.49%) Zscaler
13 21 (1.20%) Dynatrace
14 15 (0.86%) CrowdStrike
15 13 (0.74%) Salesforce
16 12 (0.69%) F5
17 11 (0.63%) CheckPoint
17 11 (0.63%) ServiceNow
18 10 (0.57%) Atlassian
18 10 (0.57%) SolarWinds