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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 130 154
Rank change year-on-year +23 +24 -51
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,258 871 1,466
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.79% 2.38% 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 2.56% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 867 645 1,209
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,550 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £111,750 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,360 £72,500
% change year-on-year -0.48% +3.94% -3.33%

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 54,028 34,071 67,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 76.72% 93.22% 86.35%
Number of salaries quoted 33,923 20,346 52,125
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,844 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 1 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 1 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 +35 619 £85,000 -5.56% 278
North of England -16 244 £67,500 - 159
South East 0 147 £70,000 -3.45% 123
North West -13 114 £72,500 - 84
Yorkshire -11 98 £65,000 +18.18% 47
South West -13 94 £62,500 -13.18% 88
Midlands -5 72 £67,500 +3.85% 47
East Midlands -15 36 £67,500 +3.85% 6
East of England -7 34 £62,500 -12.28% 35
West Midlands -18 34 £65,250 -6.79% 41
North East -9 32 £48,445 -15.75% 28
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 44 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (2.62%) Apache
3 23 (1.83%) Apache Spark
4 22 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.19%) Confluence
5 15 (1.19%) IIS
6 9 (0.72%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.24%) CMS
7 3 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.079%) Appian
9 1 (0.079%) Camunda
9 1 (0.079%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.079%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.079%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.32%) PlantUML
1 4 (0.32%) Weka
2 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.079%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.079%) Maya
3 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.079%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.079%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.079%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 800 (63.59%) AWS
2 689 (54.77%) Azure
3 281 (22.34%) GCP
4 271 (21.54%) GitHub
5 245 (19.48%) Azure DevOps
5 245 (19.48%) Serverless
6 212 (16.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 187 (14.86%) GitHub Actions
8 141 (11.21%) AWS Lambda
9 128 (10.17%) Amazon S3
10 102 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
11 100 (7.95%) SaaS
12 98 (7.79%) PaaS
13 94 (7.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 91 (7.23%) Datadog
15 89 (7.07%) Entra ID
16 76 (6.04%) Amazon EC2
17 70 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
18 65 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
19 63 (5.01%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 161 (12.80%) Firewall
2 83 (6.60%) DNS
3 69 (5.48%) TCP/IP
3 69 (5.48%) VPN
4 40 (3.18%) WAN
5 38 (3.02%) Broadband
6 37 (2.94%) Network Security
7 26 (2.07%) DHCP
8 20 (1.59%) HTTP
9 19 (1.51%) BGP
9 19 (1.51%) LAN
10 17 (1.35%) VLAN
11 16 (1.27%) Cisco ASA
12 13 (1.03%) DSL
12 13 (1.03%) Internet
13 10 (0.79%) SD-WAN
14 9 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.64%) Software-Defined Networking
15 8 (0.64%) Wireless
16 5 (0.40%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (8.66%) NoSQL
2 91 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
3 79 (6.28%) Amazon RDS
4 59 (4.69%) SQL Server
5 54 (4.29%) DynamoDB
6 43 (3.42%) MongoDB
7 39 (3.10%) Relational Database
8 38 (3.02%) Data Lake
9 29 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
10 26 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
10 26 (2.07%) MySQL
11 25 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
11 25 (1.99%) Redis
12 21 (1.67%) BigQuery
12 21 (1.67%) Power BI
13 20 (1.59%) Metadata
14 19 (1.51%) RDBMS
15 15 (1.19%) Delta Lake
16 13 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
17 12 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 194 (15.42%) Jenkins
2 173 (13.75%) GitLab
3 172 (13.67%) Git
4 35 (2.78%) JIRA
5 32 (2.54%) Bitbucket
5 32 (2.54%) CircleCI
6 27 (2.15%) Selenium
7 24 (1.91%) Cucumber
8 23 (1.83%) Robot Framework
9 21 (1.67%) Jaeger
10 16 (1.27%) Snyk
11 13 (1.03%) JMeter
11 13 (1.03%) MLflow
11 13 (1.03%) SonarQube
11 13 (1.03%) TeamCity
12 10 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 9 (0.72%) Locust
14 8 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
14 8 (0.64%) Storybook
14 8 (0.64%) Subversion
General
1 352 (27.98%) Social Skills
2 272 (21.62%) Finance
3 123 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (7.47%) Banking
5 73 (5.80%) Public Sector
6 64 (5.09%) Law
7 60 (4.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (4.77%) Telecoms
8 55 (4.37%) Retail
9 31 (2.46%) Financial Institution
10 25 (1.99%) Marketing
11 24 (1.91%) Games
11 24 (1.91%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.75%) Billing
13 20 (1.59%) Back Office
14 19 (1.51%) Advertising
15 17 (1.35%) Aerospace
16 14 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
16 14 (1.11%) Electronics
17 11 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 269 (21.38%) Senior
2 212 (16.85%) DevOps Engineer
3 193 (15.34%) Cloud Engineer
4 165 (13.12%) Lead
5 118 (9.38%) Developer
6 114 (9.06%) Azure Engineer
7 110 (8.74%) Platform Engineer
8 105 (8.35%) Architect
9 100 (7.95%) AWS Engineer
10 91 (7.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 65 (5.17%) Software Engineer
12 60 (4.77%) Data Engineer
13 55 (4.37%) Security Engineer
14 51 (4.05%) Senior DevOps
15 45 (3.58%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 43 (3.42%) Cloud Security Engineer
16 43 (3.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 39 (3.10%) AWS DevOps
17 39 (3.10%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 39 (3.10%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (9.46%) React
2 86 (6.84%) .NET
3 83 (6.60%) Node.js
4 75 (5.96%) Elastic Stack
4 75 (5.96%) RESTful
5 73 (5.80%) Kafka
6 70 (5.56%) REST
7 61 (4.85%) AWS CDK
8 59 (4.69%) Spring
9 53 (4.21%) Spring Boot
9 53 (4.21%) YAML
10 41 (3.26%) Django
10 41 (3.26%) RabbitMQ
11 39 (3.10%) ARM Templates
12 37 (2.94%) FastAPI
13 36 (2.86%) CSS
14 33 (2.62%) OAuth
15 32 (2.54%) HTML
16 30 (2.38%) .NET Core
17 28 (2.23%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 286 (22.73%) Cloud Native
2 76 (6.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 59 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
4 56 (4.45%) Security Posture
5 53 (4.21%) Public Cloud
6 42 (3.34%) Product Ownership
7 41 (3.26%) Data Centre
8 31 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
9 30 (2.38%) Onboarding
10 29 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
11 26 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
12 23 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
12 23 (1.83%) Management Information System
13 20 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
14 18 (1.43%) Blockchain
14 18 (1.43%) Cloud Security Posture
14 18 (1.43%) Hedge funds
15 17 (1.35%) Video\Live Streaming
15 17 (1.35%) Web3
16 16 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 288 (22.89%) Linux
2 144 (11.45%) Windows
3 68 (5.41%) Unix
4 54 (4.29%) Windows Server
5 30 (2.38%) Ubuntu
6 29 (2.31%) VMS
7 22 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 21 (1.67%) CentOS
9 12 (0.95%) Android
10 11 (0.87%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.64%) Debian
12 5 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.32%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.32%) SUSE
14 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.079%) Rocky
15 1 (0.079%) Solaris
15 1 (0.079%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 852 (67.73%) CI/CD
2 778 (61.84%) DevOps
3 361 (28.70%) Agile
4 354 (28.14%) Containerisation
5 306 (24.32%) Observability
6 278 (22.10%) Continuous Improvement
7 237 (18.84%) Mentoring
8 232 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
9 202 (16.06%) Platform Engineering
10 201 (15.98%) Test Automation
11 193 (15.34%) AI
12 185 (14.71%) Software Engineering
13 174 (13.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 172 (13.67%) Cloud Security
15 171 (13.59%) Microservices
16 152 (12.08%) DevSecOps
17 145 (11.53%) Analytics
18 140 (11.13%) High Availability
18 140 (11.13%) Incident Response
19 124 (9.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 583 (46.34%) Python
2 254 (20.19%) Bash
3 204 (16.22%) SQL
4 198 (15.74%) PowerShell
5 166 (13.20%) Java
6 144 (11.45%) Go
7 117 (9.30%) JavaScript
8 113 (8.98%) Bicep
9 100 (7.95%) TypeScript
10 65 (5.17%) C#
11 19 (1.51%) Rust
12 18 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
13 17 (1.35%) C++
14 16 (1.27%) Scala
15 11 (0.87%) C
16 9 (0.72%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.64%) Ruby
18 7 (0.56%) Apex Code
19 6 (0.48%) Perl
19 6 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 222 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 133 (10.57%) SC Cleared
3 122 (9.70%) Degree
4 101 (8.03%) AWS Certification
5 95 (7.55%) DV Cleared
6 67 (5.33%) Azure Certification
7 53 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (2.23%) CISSP
8 28 (2.23%) OSCP
9 27 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 27 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
11 14 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.87%) CCSK
12 11 (0.87%) Master's Degree
13 10 (0.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 10 (0.79%) CCNP
13 10 (0.79%) DBS Check
13 10 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 7 (0.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (5.33%) QA
2 57 (4.53%) GDPR
3 55 (4.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 53 (4.21%) SOC 2
5 45 (3.58%) Data Quality
6 40 (3.18%) PCI DSS
7 39 (3.10%) NIST
8 26 (2.07%) Accessibility
9 12 (0.95%) WCAG
10 11 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.72%) SLA
12 7 (0.56%) NCSC
13 6 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.48%) GRC
14 4 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.32%) EU AI Act
15 2 (0.16%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.16%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.16%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 404 (32.11%) Docker
2 80 (6.36%) Active Directory
3 61 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (1.83%) vSphere
6 19 (1.51%) Hyper-V
7 15 (1.19%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.79%) Firmware
9 6 (0.48%) KVM
10 5 (0.40%) iptables
10 5 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.16%) GPFS
12 2 (0.16%) Lustre
12 2 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.079%) QEMU
13 1 (0.079%) vCloud
13 1 (0.079%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 887 (70.51%) Terraform
2 505 (40.14%) Kubernetes
3 314 (24.96%) Ansible
4 179 (14.23%) Grafana
4 179 (14.23%) Prometheus
5 48 (3.82%) Argo
6 33 (2.62%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.75%) Puppet
9 19 (1.51%) Kustomize
10 14 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (1.11%) Nagios
10 14 (1.11%) Rancher
11 13 (1.03%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.87%) Docker Swarm
13 9 (0.72%) AWS Copilot
13 9 (0.72%) Istio
14 8 (0.64%) SCCM
15 7 (0.56%) Proxmox
15 7 (0.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 203 (16.14%) Microsoft
2 106 (8.43%) Google
3 94 (7.47%) VMware
4 48 (3.82%) Databricks
4 48 (3.82%) Red Hat
5 47 (3.74%) Cisco
6 44 (3.50%) Splunk
7 41 (3.26%) Palo Alto
8 20 (1.59%) Zscaler
9 17 (1.35%) Salesforce
10 16 (1.27%) Black Duck
10 16 (1.27%) Coverity
10 16 (1.27%) CrowdStrike
10 16 (1.27%) Dynatrace
11 15 (1.19%) Juniper
12 14 (1.11%) Atlassian
12 14 (1.11%) Fortinet
13 13 (1.03%) OpenAI
14 12 (0.95%) SAP
15 11 (0.87%) Oracle