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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 152 158
Rank change year-on-year +73 +6 -56
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,900 957 1,492
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.15% 2.21% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 2.45% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,320 652 1,143
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £56,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,313 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £109,875 £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 65,293 39,112 69,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.85% 90.12% 82.22%
Number of salaries quoted 46,254 22,446 49,410
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £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 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -8.72%

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 19 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 19 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 +26 893 £87,500 -2.78% 298
North of England +86 369 £68,750 -1.79% 147
South East +49 225 £70,000 -9.68% 119
North West +76 221 £72,500 +1.75% 80
South West +36 176 £75,000 +3.45% 75
Midlands +34 131 £75,000 +15.38% 46
Yorkshire +4 92 £66,538 -4.95% 38
West Midlands +15 78 £80,000 +23.08% 32
North East 0 56 £55,000 -15.38% 29
East Midlands +20 53 £67,500 +3.85% 14
East of England +3 52 £62,500 - 9
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 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (2.05%) Apache
3 37 (1.95%) Apache Spark
4 36 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 25 (1.32%) Confluence
6 10 (0.53%) Jupyter
6 10 (0.53%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.47%) IIS
8 5 (0.26%) 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 (0.053%) Documentum
12 1 (0.053%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.053%) nginx
12 1 (0.053%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.053%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (1.05%) PlantUML
2 10 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.11%) Weka
5 1 (0.053%) Maya
5 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.053%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.16%) Summit
2 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.053%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.053%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.053%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.053%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,085 (57.11%) AWS
2 1,028 (54.11%) Azure
3 336 (17.68%) Serverless
4 333 (17.53%) GitHub
5 326 (17.16%) GCP
6 292 (15.37%) Azure DevOps
7 289 (15.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 194 (10.21%) GitHub Actions
9 178 (9.37%) Amazon S3
10 176 (9.26%) AWS Lambda
11 156 (8.21%) PaaS
12 131 (6.89%) Amazon EC2
13 124 (6.53%) Amazon EKS
14 118 (6.21%) IaaS
15 113 (5.95%) Entra ID
16 112 (5.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 112 (5.89%) SaaS
17 106 (5.58%) Azure AKS
18 99 (5.21%) Amazon ECS
19 87 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 173 (9.11%) Firewall
2 109 (5.74%) VPN
3 107 (5.63%) DNS
4 92 (4.84%) Network Security
5 66 (3.47%) TCP/IP
6 62 (3.26%) Broadband
7 57 (3.00%) WAN
8 48 (2.53%) BGP
9 37 (1.95%) VLAN
10 34 (1.79%) LAN
11 32 (1.68%) DHCP
12 29 (1.53%) OSPF
13 23 (1.21%) SD-WAN
13 23 (1.21%) VXLAN
14 22 (1.16%) HTTP
14 22 (1.16%) Software-Defined Networking
15 13 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
16 11 (0.58%) Wireless
17 10 (0.53%) IPv4
17 10 (0.53%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
2 134 (7.05%) NoSQL
3 87 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
4 84 (4.42%) MongoDB
5 73 (3.84%) DynamoDB
6 65 (3.42%) SQL Server
7 55 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
8 50 (2.63%) Data Lake
9 49 (2.58%) Relational Database
10 46 (2.42%) Metadata
11 36 (1.89%) MySQL
12 32 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
13 26 (1.37%) Redis
14 25 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
15 24 (1.26%) Delta Lake
16 23 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
16 23 (1.21%) Power BI
17 22 (1.16%) BigQuery
18 21 (1.11%) Big Data
19 19 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 270 (14.21%) GitLab
2 250 (13.16%) Git
3 229 (12.05%) Jenkins
4 41 (2.16%) JIRA
5 40 (2.11%) Cucumber
6 31 (1.63%) Bitbucket
6 31 (1.63%) CircleCI
7 27 (1.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 24 (1.26%) TeamCity
9 16 (0.84%) Claude Code
10 15 (0.79%) Selenium
11 14 (0.74%) SonarQube
12 10 (0.53%) Maven
13 9 (0.47%) MLflow
13 9 (0.47%) Subversion
14 8 (0.42%) Cypress.io
14 8 (0.42%) Jaeger
14 8 (0.42%) JMeter
14 8 (0.42%) NUnit
14 8 (0.42%) Vite
General
1 470 (24.74%) Social Skills
2 375 (19.74%) Finance
3 145 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
3 145 (7.63%) Public Sector
4 101 (5.32%) Banking
5 80 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 60 (3.16%) Law
7 59 (3.11%) Retail
8 43 (2.26%) Games
9 36 (1.89%) Telecoms
10 32 (1.68%) Aerospace
11 28 (1.47%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
13 19 (1.00%) Advertising
14 17 (0.89%) Financial Institution
14 17 (0.89%) Legal
14 17 (0.89%) Marketing
15 16 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (0.53%) Automotive
16 10 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 452 (23.79%) Senior
2 337 (17.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 265 (13.95%) Cloud Engineer
4 249 (13.11%) Lead
5 201 (10.58%) Architect
6 199 (10.47%) Platform Engineer
7 187 (9.84%) Azure Engineer
8 159 (8.37%) Developer
9 125 (6.58%) AWS Engineer
10 116 (6.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 106 (5.58%) Software Engineer
12 102 (5.37%) Data Engineer
13 90 (4.74%) Principal Engineer
14 86 (4.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 85 (4.47%) Security Engineer
16 80 (4.21%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 70 (3.68%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 68 (3.58%) Senior DevOps
19 63 (3.32%) Senior Cloud Engineer
20 60 (3.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (7.53%) React
2 136 (7.16%) .NET
3 132 (6.95%) Kafka
4 115 (6.05%) REST
5 112 (5.89%) RESTful
6 110 (5.79%) Node.js
7 103 (5.42%) Spring
8 97 (5.11%) Spring Boot
9 77 (4.05%) YAML
10 70 (3.68%) ARM Templates
11 65 (3.42%) Elastic Stack
12 64 (3.37%) PySpark
13 63 (3.32%) AWS CDK
14 44 (2.32%) OAuth
15 43 (2.26%) RabbitMQ
16 42 (2.21%) Next.js
17 39 (2.05%) JSON
18 38 (2.00%) AngularJS
18 38 (2.00%) FastAPI
19 34 (1.79%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 526 (27.68%) Cloud Native
2 189 (9.95%) Distributed Systems
3 105 (5.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 93 (4.89%) Public Cloud
5 90 (4.74%) Onboarding
6 77 (4.05%) Data Centre
7 62 (3.26%) Product Ownership
8 60 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
9 58 (3.05%) Security Posture
10 49 (2.58%) Video\Live Streaming
11 45 (2.37%) Enterprise Cloud
12 37 (1.95%) Low-Code
13 36 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
14 31 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
15 30 (1.58%) PKI
16 26 (1.37%) e-Learning
17 24 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
18 23 (1.21%) Private Cloud
19 22 (1.16%) Data Structures
19 22 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 340 (17.89%) Linux
2 191 (10.05%) Windows
3 85 (4.47%) Windows Server
4 50 (2.63%) CentOS
5 42 (2.21%) Ubuntu
6 37 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 29 (1.53%) Unix
8 28 (1.47%) VMS
9 8 (0.42%) Android
10 7 (0.37%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.32%) Debian
12 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.053%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.053%) Rocky
14 1 (0.053%) SUSE
14 1 (0.053%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,330 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 1,069 (56.26%) DevOps
3 520 (27.37%) Containerisation
4 517 (27.21%) Agile
5 486 (25.58%) Observability
6 436 (22.95%) Platform Engineering
7 406 (21.37%) AI
8 402 (21.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 397 (20.89%) Mentoring
10 331 (17.42%) Software Engineering
11 330 (17.37%) Test Automation
12 321 (16.89%) Microservices
13 300 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
14 275 (14.47%) Cloud Security
15 270 (14.21%) Technical Leadership
16 247 (13.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 222 (11.68%) Analytics
18 213 (11.21%) Roadmaps
19 205 (10.79%) DevSecOps
20 197 (10.37%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 867 (45.63%) Python
2 341 (17.95%) Bash
3 317 (16.68%) SQL
4 307 (16.16%) PowerShell
5 262 (13.79%) Java
6 194 (10.21%) Bicep
7 168 (8.84%) Go
8 167 (8.79%) TypeScript
9 153 (8.05%) C#
10 151 (7.95%) JavaScript
11 38 (2.00%) PHP
12 29 (1.53%) Rust
13 26 (1.37%) Scala
14 24 (1.26%) Ruby
15 23 (1.21%) Kusto Query Language
16 20 (1.05%) C++
16 20 (1.05%) Groovy
16 20 (1.05%) Perl
17 9 (0.47%) Kotlin
17 9 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 420 (22.11%) Security Cleared
2 257 (13.53%) SC Cleared
3 167 (8.79%) Degree
4 139 (7.32%) DV Cleared
5 133 (7.00%) AWS Certification
6 117 (6.16%) Azure Certification
7 69 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 67 (3.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 50 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 45 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
11 29 (1.53%) CCNP
12 26 (1.37%) Master's Degree
13 24 (1.26%) OSCP
14 23 (1.21%) CISSP
15 18 (0.95%) CCNA
16 14 (0.74%) RHCSA
17 11 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 11 (0.58%) CCIE
17 11 (0.58%) DBS Check
18 10 (0.53%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (4.79%) QA
2 85 (4.47%) Data Quality
3 60 (3.16%) GDPR
4 48 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 42 (2.21%) SOC 2
6 37 (1.95%) PCI DSS
7 33 (1.74%) NIST
8 27 (1.42%) Accessibility
9 16 (0.84%) WCAG
10 12 (0.63%) GRC
11 10 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.53%) NCSC
12 8 (0.42%) SLA
13 5 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.11%) IFRS
14 2 (0.11%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.11%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.053%) GxP
15 1 (0.053%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 491 (25.84%) Docker
2 122 (6.42%) Active Directory
3 119 (6.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 44 (2.32%) vSphere
5 35 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (1.00%) Hyper-V
7 16 (0.84%) VMware NSX
8 15 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.42%) Squid
11 6 (0.32%) iptables
11 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.26%) Firmware
12 5 (0.26%) KVM
13 3 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,328 (69.89%) Terraform
2 740 (38.95%) Kubernetes
3 406 (21.37%) Ansible
4 210 (11.05%) Grafana
5 174 (9.16%) Prometheus
6 66 (3.47%) Argo
7 41 (2.16%) Puppet
8 39 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
9 36 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
10 27 (1.42%) Progress Chef
11 26 (1.37%) Packer
12 25 (1.32%) Istio
13 20 (1.05%) Nagios
14 16 (0.84%) Kustomize
15 15 (0.79%) FortiGate
16 14 (0.74%) vCenter Server
17 13 (0.68%) ZABBIX
18 12 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 12 (0.63%) Cilium
18 12 (0.63%) Rancher
Vendors
1 374 (19.68%) Microsoft
2 149 (7.84%) VMware
3 91 (4.79%) Google
4 75 (3.95%) Databricks
5 74 (3.89%) Red Hat
6 66 (3.47%) Splunk
7 63 (3.32%) Cisco
8 52 (2.74%) Palo Alto
9 40 (2.11%) Oracle
10 36 (1.89%) Fortinet
11 31 (1.63%) OpenAI
12 28 (1.47%) Zscaler
13 24 (1.26%) Dynatrace
14 15 (0.79%) CrowdStrike
15 14 (0.74%) F5
16 13 (0.68%) Salesforce
17 12 (0.63%) ScienceLogic
17 12 (0.63%) ServiceNow
18 10 (0.53%) Rapid7
18 10 (0.53%) SolarWinds