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 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 125 101
Rank change year-on-year -8 -24 -3
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 941 1,127 1,411
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.80% 2.31% 3.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 2.56% 3.33%
Number of salaries quoted 706 707 1,152
10th Percentile £47,559 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £91,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year - - -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 42,692 44,038 42,419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.67% 90.44% 90.61%
Number of salaries quoted 25,525 21,717 32,741
10th Percentile £28,518 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,750 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 6 January 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 6 January 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 +9 438 £83,375 -7.36% 249
North of England -8 192 £70,000 +12.00% 167
South East +3 110 £75,000 +15.38% 234
Yorkshire -11 89 £70,000 +33.33% 66
North West -1 78 £70,000 +3.70% 73
South West -30 67 £62,500 -10.71% 105
Midlands +11 60 £67,500 +2.27% 80
West Midlands +5 38 £66,500 -0.37% 33
East of England +35 27 £75,000 +3.45% 72
North East -3 25 £67,539 +46.03% 29
East Midlands +11 20 £67,500 +3.85% 45
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 45 (4.78%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (3.51%) Apache
3 18 (1.91%) Apache Spark
3 18 (1.91%) Confluence
4 17 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.85%) IIS
5 8 (0.85%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.64%) Appian
7 4 (0.43%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.32%) nginx
9 1 (0.11%) CMS
9 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.11%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 583 (61.96%) AWS
2 566 (60.15%) Azure
3 223 (23.70%) Azure DevOps
3 223 (23.70%) GitHub
4 202 (21.47%) GCP
5 159 (16.90%) Serverless
6 148 (15.73%) AWS CloudFormation
7 139 (14.77%) GitHub Actions
8 108 (11.48%) AWS Lambda
9 99 (10.52%) Amazon S3
10 92 (9.78%) SaaS
11 76 (8.08%) PaaS
12 72 (7.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 58 (6.16%) Amazon EC2
14 56 (5.95%) Microsoft 365
15 54 (5.74%) Entra ID
16 53 (5.63%) Amazon ECS
16 53 (5.63%) Amazon EKS
17 52 (5.53%) Azure Monitor
18 49 (5.21%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 109 (11.58%) Firewall
2 68 (7.23%) DNS
3 64 (6.80%) VPN
4 51 (5.42%) WAN
5 48 (5.10%) TCP/IP
6 31 (3.29%) LAN
7 30 (3.19%) Network Security
8 28 (2.98%) DHCP
9 26 (2.76%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (1.59%) Internet
11 14 (1.49%) BGP
11 14 (1.49%) SD-WAN
12 12 (1.28%) VLAN
13 11 (1.17%) VoIP
14 10 (1.06%) Broadband
14 10 (1.06%) Wireless
15 8 (0.85%) SAN
16 7 (0.74%) OSPF
16 7 (0.74%) Unified Communications
17 6 (0.64%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (6.70%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (6.48%) NoSQL
3 55 (5.84%) Amazon RDS
4 46 (4.89%) SQL Server
5 42 (4.46%) DynamoDB
6 37 (3.93%) Data Lake
7 29 (3.08%) MongoDB
8 26 (2.76%) BigQuery
9 22 (2.34%) MySQL
10 21 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
11 18 (1.91%) Redis
12 17 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
13 16 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
13 16 (1.70%) Relational Database
14 15 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (1.59%) Power BI
15 12 (1.28%) Big Data
16 10 (1.06%) Delta Lake
17 9 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
17 9 (0.96%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 161 (17.11%) Jenkins
2 141 (14.98%) Git
3 107 (11.37%) GitLab
4 32 (3.40%) JIRA
5 27 (2.87%) Selenium
6 25 (2.66%) Robot Framework
7 21 (2.23%) Snyk
8 17 (1.81%) Bitbucket
8 17 (1.81%) MLflow
9 14 (1.49%) TeamCity
10 13 (1.38%) CircleCI
11 11 (1.17%) SonarQube
12 10 (1.06%) Artifactory
13 9 (0.96%) Jaeger
14 7 (0.74%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.74%) JMeter
15 6 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
16 5 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 5 (0.53%) git-flow
16 5 (0.53%) Vite
General
1 273 (29.01%) Social Skills
2 202 (21.47%) Finance
3 85 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (6.06%) Banking
5 53 (5.63%) Law
6 45 (4.78%) Public Sector
7 39 (4.14%) Telecoms
8 36 (3.83%) Retail
9 30 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 27 (2.87%) Financial Institution
11 25 (2.66%) Games
12 20 (2.13%) Billing
13 19 (2.02%) Legal
14 18 (1.91%) Marketing
15 17 (1.81%) Manufacturing
16 14 (1.49%) Advertising
16 14 (1.49%) Back Office
17 12 (1.28%) Electronics
18 11 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
19 10 (1.06%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 184 (19.55%) Senior
2 156 (16.58%) DevOps Engineer
3 141 (14.98%) Cloud Engineer
4 107 (11.37%) Lead
5 100 (10.63%) Developer
6 93 (9.88%) Platform Engineer
7 91 (9.67%) Architect
8 83 (8.82%) Azure Engineer
9 59 (6.27%) AWS Engineer
10 56 (5.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 37 (3.93%) Data Engineer
12 36 (3.83%) Senior DevOps
12 36 (3.83%) Software Engineer
13 34 (3.61%) Lead DevOps
13 34 (3.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 32 (3.40%) Security Engineer
15 29 (3.08%) Support Engineer
16 27 (2.87%) GCP Engineer
17 25 (2.66%) Cloud Security Engineer
18 23 (2.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (9.88%) React
2 78 (8.29%) .NET
3 52 (5.53%) Node.js
4 51 (5.42%) RESTful
5 45 (4.78%) Kafka
6 44 (4.68%) Elastic Stack
7 41 (4.36%) ARM Templates
8 38 (4.04%) YAML
9 34 (3.61%) AWS CDK
10 31 (3.29%) Spring
11 30 (3.19%) .NET Core
11 30 (3.19%) Django
12 29 (3.08%) REST
13 28 (2.98%) FastAPI
13 28 (2.98%) Spring Boot
14 26 (2.76%) CSS
15 25 (2.66%) HTML
16 19 (2.02%) RabbitMQ
17 18 (1.91%) Flask
18 17 (1.81%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 228 (24.23%) Cloud Native
2 66 (7.01%) Hybrid Cloud
3 51 (5.42%) Data Centre
4 49 (5.21%) Public Cloud
5 33 (3.51%) Security Posture
6 29 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
7 27 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
8 26 (2.76%) Management Information System
9 23 (2.44%) Onboarding
10 19 (2.02%) Product Ownership
11 17 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
13 15 (1.59%) Low-Code
14 13 (1.38%) Data Structures
15 12 (1.28%) Hedge funds
16 11 (1.17%) Distributed Architecture
17 10 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
17 10 (1.06%) Private Cloud
18 9 (0.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
18 9 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 212 (22.53%) Linux
2 106 (11.26%) Windows
3 46 (4.89%) Unix
4 37 (3.93%) Windows Server
5 21 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (2.23%) VMS
6 20 (2.13%) Ubuntu
7 13 (1.38%) Debian
8 7 (0.74%) CentOS
9 5 (0.53%) Android
9 5 (0.53%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.43%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.32%) Solaris
11 3 (0.32%) SUSE
12 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.11%) AIX
13 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 639 (67.91%) CI/CD
2 623 (66.21%) DevOps
3 279 (29.65%) Agile
4 257 (27.31%) Containerisation
5 183 (19.45%) Problem-Solving
6 182 (19.34%) Continuous Improvement
6 182 (19.34%) Observability
7 148 (15.73%) Mentoring
8 145 (15.41%) Platform Engineering
9 134 (14.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 130 (13.82%) AI
10 130 (13.82%) Cloud Security
11 122 (12.96%) Software Engineering
12 111 (11.80%) Analytics
13 108 (11.48%) Microservices
14 107 (11.37%) DevSecOps
15 106 (11.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 100 (10.63%) Test Automation
17 98 (10.41%) Incident Response
18 95 (10.10%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 405 (43.04%) Python
2 168 (17.85%) Bash
3 159 (16.90%) PowerShell
4 146 (15.52%) SQL
5 114 (12.11%) Bicep
6 89 (9.46%) Java
7 79 (8.40%) JavaScript
8 77 (8.18%) TypeScript
9 71 (7.55%) Go
10 63 (6.70%) C#
11 12 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
12 11 (1.17%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.06%) Scala
14 9 (0.96%) C++
15 8 (0.85%) C
16 5 (0.53%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.43%) Rust
17 4 (0.43%) T-SQL
18 3 (0.32%) Perl
18 3 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 157 (16.68%) Security Cleared
2 97 (10.31%) SC Cleared
3 79 (8.40%) AWS Certification
3 79 (8.40%) Degree
4 78 (8.29%) DV Cleared
5 67 (7.12%) Azure Certification
6 32 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 24 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (2.44%) CISSP
10 22 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
11 19 (2.02%) CCNP
11 19 (2.02%) Master's Degree
12 13 (1.38%) AWS Certified Developer
12 13 (1.38%) OSCP
13 7 (0.74%) CISM
13 7 (0.74%) PMI Certification
13 7 (0.74%) PMP
14 6 (0.64%) CCSK
14 6 (0.64%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (5.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 43 (4.57%) GDPR
3 33 (3.51%) NIST
4 31 (3.29%) QA
5 28 (2.98%) Data Quality
6 27 (2.87%) SOC 2
7 20 (2.13%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.59%) Accessibility
9 13 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (1.06%) SLA
12 6 (0.64%) GRC
13 5 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.53%) NCSC
13 5 (0.53%) WCAG
14 4 (0.43%) EU AI Act
15 2 (0.21%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.21%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.21%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.21%) NIST 800
System Software
1 323 (34.33%) Docker
2 62 (6.59%) Active Directory
3 58 (6.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (2.13%) Hyper-V
6 16 (1.70%) vSphere
7 11 (1.17%) Firmware
7 11 (1.17%) NFS
8 8 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.64%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.53%) KVM
11 5 (0.53%) vCloud
12 4 (0.43%) XenApp
12 4 (0.43%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.21%) GPFS
13 2 (0.21%) Lustre
13 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.11%) iptables
14 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 678 (72.05%) Terraform
2 377 (40.06%) Kubernetes
3 261 (27.74%) Ansible
4 123 (13.07%) Prometheus
5 115 (12.22%) Grafana
6 26 (2.76%) Argo
6 26 (2.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (2.02%) SCCM
8 13 (1.38%) Rancher
9 12 (1.28%) Docker Swarm
10 11 (1.17%) Puppet
11 10 (1.06%) Progress Chef
11 10 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (0.96%) SCOM
13 7 (0.74%) Kustomize
14 6 (0.64%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.53%) MaaS360
16 4 (0.43%) logstash
16 4 (0.43%) vRealize
16 4 (0.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 184 (19.55%) Microsoft
2 89 (9.46%) VMware
3 75 (7.97%) Google
4 48 (5.10%) Cisco
5 39 (4.14%) Databricks
6 33 (3.51%) Red Hat
6 33 (3.51%) Splunk
7 27 (2.87%) Palo Alto
8 21 (2.23%) Black Duck
9 20 (2.13%) Coverity
10 17 (1.81%) Zscaler
11 15 (1.59%) Oracle
12 12 (1.28%) Atlassian
12 12 (1.28%) SAP
13 11 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
13 11 (1.17%) Salesforce
14 10 (1.06%) Commvault
14 10 (1.06%) Juniper
14 10 (1.06%) New Relic
14 10 (1.06%) SolarWinds