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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 137 163
Rank change year-on-year +30 +26 -58
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,370 855 1,479
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.76% 2.29% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 2.46% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 928 626 1,196
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £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 £91,563 £96,250 £91,563
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -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 58,708 34,771 70,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 75.38% 93.06% 85.79%
Number of salaries quoted 36,937 20,617 53,431
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.86%

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 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 21 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 +40 688 £85,000 -5.56% 282
North of England -9 262 £67,500 -0.74% 150
South East -7 142 £71,250 -5.00% 115
North West -3 134 £73,151 +0.90% 85
South West -14 106 £65,000 -9.71% 80
Yorkshire -19 95 £65,000 +8.33% 36
Midlands +4 82 £67,500 -3.57% 44
East Midlands -25 42 £67,750 +4.23% 11
West Midlands -21 38 £67,500 -3.57% 33
East of England -11 37 £61,300 -9.19% 40
North East -18 33 £48,445 -15.75% 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 46 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (2.41%) Apache
3 25 (1.82%) Apache Spark
4 23 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (1.17%) Confluence
5 16 (1.17%) IIS
6 10 (0.73%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.29%) CMS
8 3 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.073%) Camunda
10 1 (0.073%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.44%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.29%) Weka
3 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.073%) Maya
4 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.073%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.073%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.073%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.073%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.073%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 844 (61.61%) AWS
2 745 (54.38%) Azure
3 288 (21.02%) GCP
4 279 (20.36%) GitHub
5 265 (19.34%) Serverless
6 255 (18.61%) Azure DevOps
7 224 (16.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 195 (14.23%) GitHub Actions
9 151 (11.02%) AWS Lambda
10 131 (9.56%) Amazon S3
11 107 (7.81%) Amazon EKS
12 103 (7.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 101 (7.37%) PaaS
14 99 (7.23%) Datadog
14 99 (7.23%) Entra ID
15 93 (6.79%) SaaS
16 81 (5.91%) Amazon EC2
17 73 (5.33%) IaaS
18 70 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
19 68 (4.96%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 170 (12.41%) Firewall
2 87 (6.35%) DNS
3 75 (5.47%) VPN
4 71 (5.18%) TCP/IP
5 47 (3.43%) WAN
6 41 (2.99%) Network Security
7 38 (2.77%) Broadband
8 34 (2.48%) DHCP
9 28 (2.04%) LAN
10 25 (1.82%) HTTP
11 22 (1.61%) BGP
12 16 (1.17%) Cisco ASA
12 16 (1.17%) VLAN
13 14 (1.02%) SD-WAN
14 13 (0.95%) DSL
15 12 (0.88%) Internet
16 11 (0.80%) Software-Defined Networking
16 11 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
17 8 (0.58%) Wireless
18 6 (0.44%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (8.32%) NoSQL
2 97 (7.08%) PostgreSQL
3 82 (5.99%) Amazon RDS
4 63 (4.60%) DynamoDB
4 63 (4.60%) SQL Server
5 48 (3.50%) MongoDB
6 43 (3.14%) Relational Database
7 41 (2.99%) Data Lake
8 33 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
9 32 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
10 28 (2.04%) MySQL
11 24 (1.75%) BigQuery
11 24 (1.75%) Metadata
12 23 (1.68%) Power BI
13 22 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
14 19 (1.39%) RDBMS
15 18 (1.31%) Delta Lake
15 18 (1.31%) Redis
16 17 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
17 12 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 201 (14.67%) Jenkins
2 189 (13.80%) GitLab
3 183 (13.36%) Git
4 36 (2.63%) Bitbucket
5 33 (2.41%) CircleCI
5 33 (2.41%) JIRA
6 24 (1.75%) Cucumber
7 21 (1.53%) Jaeger
8 19 (1.39%) Selenium
9 14 (1.02%) Robot Framework
9 14 (1.02%) SonarQube
10 13 (0.95%) JMeter
10 13 (0.95%) MLflow
10 13 (0.95%) TeamCity
11 12 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 10 (0.73%) Subversion
13 9 (0.66%) Locust
13 9 (0.66%) Vite
14 8 (0.58%) Storybook
15 7 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 373 (27.23%) Social Skills
2 288 (21.02%) Finance
3 118 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (6.72%) Banking
5 79 (5.77%) Public Sector
6 64 (4.67%) Retail
7 60 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 58 (4.23%) Law
9 57 (4.16%) Telecoms
10 24 (1.75%) Financial Institution
10 24 (1.75%) Manufacturing
11 22 (1.61%) Marketing
12 21 (1.53%) Aerospace
12 21 (1.53%) Billing
12 21 (1.53%) Games
13 20 (1.46%) Advertising
14 19 (1.39%) Back Office
15 15 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
15 15 (1.09%) Electronics
16 14 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 304 (22.19%) Senior
2 220 (16.06%) DevOps Engineer
3 218 (15.91%) Cloud Engineer
4 189 (13.80%) Lead
5 129 (9.42%) Azure Engineer
6 123 (8.98%) Developer
7 114 (8.32%) Platform Engineer
8 113 (8.25%) Architect
9 107 (7.81%) AWS Engineer
10 106 (7.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 73 (5.33%) Software Engineer
12 69 (5.04%) Data Engineer
13 67 (4.89%) Security Engineer
14 58 (4.23%) Senior DevOps
15 54 (3.94%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 48 (3.50%) Cloud Security Engineer
16 48 (3.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 46 (3.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 42 (3.07%) Python Engineer
19 38 (2.77%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (9.27%) React
2 96 (7.01%) Node.js
3 91 (6.64%) .NET
4 83 (6.06%) Kafka
5 80 (5.84%) RESTful
6 76 (5.55%) REST
7 74 (5.40%) Elastic Stack
8 63 (4.60%) AWS CDK
9 62 (4.53%) Spring
10 59 (4.31%) YAML
11 54 (3.94%) Spring Boot
12 47 (3.43%) ARM Templates
13 43 (3.14%) OAuth
13 43 (3.14%) RabbitMQ
14 36 (2.63%) PySpark
15 35 (2.55%) FastAPI
16 32 (2.34%) Django
17 31 (2.26%) CSS
17 31 (2.26%) OpenTelemetry
18 30 (2.19%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 320 (23.36%) Cloud Native
2 87 (6.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 73 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
4 56 (4.09%) Security Posture
5 55 (4.01%) Public Cloud
6 48 (3.50%) Product Ownership
7 44 (3.21%) Data Centre
8 38 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
9 31 (2.26%) Onboarding
10 29 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
11 23 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
12 22 (1.61%) Blockchain
12 22 (1.61%) Management Information System
12 22 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
13 20 (1.46%) Web3
14 19 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
15 18 (1.31%) Cloud Security Posture
15 18 (1.31%) Hedge funds
15 18 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
16 17 (1.24%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 292 (21.31%) Linux
2 152 (11.09%) Windows
3 64 (4.67%) Windows Server
4 60 (4.38%) Unix
5 32 (2.34%) Ubuntu
6 29 (2.12%) VMS
7 23 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 22 (1.61%) CentOS
9 13 (0.95%) Android
10 12 (0.88%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.51%) Debian
12 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.29%) SUSE
14 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.073%) Rocky
15 1 (0.073%) Solaris
15 1 (0.073%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 921 (67.23%) CI/CD
2 832 (60.73%) DevOps
3 399 (29.12%) Containerisation
4 373 (27.23%) Agile
5 343 (25.04%) Observability
6 294 (21.46%) Continuous Improvement
7 258 (18.83%) Mentoring
8 243 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
9 230 (16.79%) Platform Engineering
10 219 (15.99%) Test Automation
11 215 (15.69%) AI
12 204 (14.89%) Microservices
13 202 (14.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 199 (14.53%) Software Engineering
15 188 (13.72%) Cloud Security
16 167 (12.19%) Analytics
17 156 (11.39%) High Availability
18 153 (11.17%) DevSecOps
19 144 (10.51%) Technical Leadership
20 141 (10.29%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 630 (45.99%) Python
2 275 (20.07%) Bash
3 227 (16.57%) PowerShell
4 226 (16.50%) SQL
5 183 (13.36%) Java
6 155 (11.31%) Go
7 125 (9.12%) Bicep
8 124 (9.05%) JavaScript
9 117 (8.54%) TypeScript
10 77 (5.62%) C#
11 22 (1.61%) Rust
12 21 (1.53%) C++
13 20 (1.46%) Kusto Query Language
14 19 (1.39%) Scala
15 13 (0.95%) C
16 9 (0.66%) Ruby
17 8 (0.58%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.51%) Apex Code
18 7 (0.51%) Perl
18 7 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 236 (17.23%) Security Cleared
2 147 (10.73%) SC Cleared
3 132 (9.64%) Degree
4 112 (8.18%) AWS Certification
5 85 (6.20%) DV Cleared
6 73 (5.33%) Azure Certification
7 56 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (2.19%) OSCP
9 29 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 28 (2.04%) CISSP
11 27 (1.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 22 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (1.09%) AWS Certified Developer
14 13 (0.95%) CCNP
14 13 (0.95%) DBS Check
15 12 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 12 (0.88%) Master's Degree
16 11 (0.80%) CCNA
16 11 (0.80%) CCSK
17 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (4.82%) QA
2 55 (4.01%) GDPR
2 55 (4.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 53 (3.87%) SOC 2
4 52 (3.80%) Data Quality
5 40 (2.92%) NIST
6 38 (2.77%) PCI DSS
7 28 (2.04%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.95%) WCAG
9 11 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.58%) GRC
11 7 (0.51%) SLA
12 6 (0.44%) NCSC
13 5 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.15%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.15%) EU AI Act
14 2 (0.15%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 426 (31.09%) Docker
2 95 (6.93%) Active Directory
3 69 (5.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (1.82%) vSphere
6 19 (1.39%) Hyper-V
7 18 (1.31%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.66%) Firmware
9 6 (0.44%) iptables
10 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.29%) KVM
12 3 (0.22%) Squid
12 3 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.15%) GPFS
13 2 (0.15%) Lustre
13 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.073%) vCloud
14 1 (0.073%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 961 (70.15%) Terraform
2 562 (41.02%) Kubernetes
3 324 (23.65%) Ansible
4 190 (13.87%) Grafana
5 187 (13.65%) Prometheus
6 54 (3.94%) Argo
7 34 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
8 30 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
9 26 (1.90%) Puppet
10 22 (1.61%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 17 (1.24%) Rancher
12 14 (1.02%) Nagios
12 14 (1.02%) Progress Chef
13 13 (0.95%) Istio
14 11 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
15 10 (0.73%) Packer
16 8 (0.58%) logstash
16 8 (0.58%) Proxmox
16 8 (0.58%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 238 (17.37%) Microsoft
2 105 (7.66%) VMware
3 102 (7.45%) Google
4 58 (4.23%) Red Hat
5 56 (4.09%) Databricks
6 50 (3.65%) Cisco
7 46 (3.36%) Splunk
8 38 (2.77%) Palo Alto
9 23 (1.68%) Zscaler
10 21 (1.53%) CrowdStrike
11 20 (1.46%) OpenAI
12 18 (1.31%) Dynatrace
12 18 (1.31%) Salesforce
13 16 (1.17%) Oracle
14 15 (1.09%) Atlassian
15 14 (1.02%) Juniper
16 13 (0.95%) Fortinet
17 12 (0.88%) SolarWinds
18 10 (0.73%) CyberArk
18 10 (0.73%) New Relic