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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 134 154
Rank change year-on-year +26 +20 -51
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,217 877 1,447
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.79% 2.37% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 2.53% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 838 652 1,201
10th Percentile £46,750 £47,050 £50,000
25th Percentile £59,063 £60,000 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £94,083 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £74,254 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.00% +3.45% -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 52,696 34,624 66,377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 77.53% 93.54% 86.72%
Number of salaries quoted 32,701 20,241 51,522
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 +35 607 £85,000 -5.56% 263
North of England -15 222 £66,500 -1.48% 161
South East +4 139 £70,000 -5.08% 127
North West -17 103 £72,500 - 84
South West -7 90 £62,500 -11.97% 95
Yorkshire -10 89 £62,500 +8.70% 51
Midlands -10 70 £67,500 +3.85% 46
East of England 0 35 £65,000 -10.34% 36
West Midlands -13 34 £67,500 -3.57% 41
East Midlands -14 34 £67,500 +3.85% 5
North East -7 30 £48,445 -15.75% 26
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 (3.78%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (2.79%) Apache
3 23 (1.89%) Apache Spark
4 22 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (1.31%) IIS
6 12 (0.99%) Confluence
7 10 (0.82%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.25%) CMS
8 3 (0.25%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.16%) Appian
9 2 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.082%) Camunda
10 1 (0.082%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.082%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.082%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.33%) PlantUML
1 4 (0.33%) Weka
2 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.082%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.082%) Maya
3 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.082%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.082%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.082%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 776 (63.76%) AWS
2 669 (54.97%) Azure
3 277 (22.76%) GCP
4 266 (21.86%) GitHub
5 243 (19.97%) Azure DevOps
6 235 (19.31%) Serverless
7 212 (17.42%) AWS CloudFormation
8 184 (15.12%) GitHub Actions
9 138 (11.34%) AWS Lambda
10 125 (10.27%) Amazon S3
11 100 (8.22%) PaaS
11 100 (8.22%) SaaS
12 95 (7.81%) Amazon EKS
13 93 (7.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 87 (7.15%) Datadog
15 86 (7.07%) Entra ID
16 72 (5.92%) Amazon EC2
17 70 (5.75%) Microsoft 365
18 67 (5.51%) IaaS
19 64 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 155 (12.74%) Firewall
2 81 (6.66%) DNS
3 69 (5.67%) VPN
4 68 (5.59%) TCP/IP
5 38 (3.12%) Broadband
5 38 (3.12%) WAN
6 36 (2.96%) Network Security
7 27 (2.22%) DHCP
8 20 (1.64%) HTTP
9 19 (1.56%) BGP
10 18 (1.48%) LAN
11 16 (1.31%) VLAN
12 15 (1.23%) Cisco ASA
13 14 (1.15%) Internet
14 13 (1.07%) DSL
15 10 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
16 9 (0.74%) SD-WAN
17 8 (0.66%) Software-Defined Networking
17 8 (0.66%) Wireless
18 5 (0.41%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (8.87%) NoSQL
2 87 (7.15%) PostgreSQL
3 78 (6.41%) Amazon RDS
4 57 (4.68%) SQL Server
5 54 (4.44%) DynamoDB
6 42 (3.45%) MongoDB
7 38 (3.12%) Relational Database
8 37 (3.04%) Data Lake
9 28 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 28 (2.30%) MySQL
10 25 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
10 25 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
10 25 (2.05%) Redis
11 21 (1.73%) BigQuery
11 21 (1.73%) Power BI
12 19 (1.56%) Metadata
12 19 (1.56%) RDBMS
13 15 (1.23%) Delta Lake
14 13 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 190 (15.61%) Jenkins
2 166 (13.64%) GitLab
3 160 (13.15%) Git
4 32 (2.63%) CircleCI
5 30 (2.47%) Bitbucket
6 28 (2.30%) JIRA
7 27 (2.22%) Selenium
8 24 (1.97%) Robot Framework
9 21 (1.73%) Jaeger
10 18 (1.48%) Cucumber
11 17 (1.40%) Snyk
12 14 (1.15%) MLflow
13 13 (1.07%) TeamCity
14 12 (0.99%) JMeter
15 9 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 9 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
16 8 (0.66%) Locust
16 8 (0.66%) SonarQube
16 8 (0.66%) Storybook
16 8 (0.66%) Subversion
General
1 345 (28.35%) Social Skills
2 266 (21.86%) Finance
3 123 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (7.72%) Banking
5 72 (5.92%) Public Sector
6 64 (5.26%) Law
7 59 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 58 (4.77%) Telecoms
9 54 (4.44%) Retail
10 31 (2.55%) Financial Institution
11 24 (1.97%) Marketing
12 23 (1.89%) Games
13 21 (1.73%) Manufacturing
14 20 (1.64%) Back Office
14 20 (1.64%) Billing
15 19 (1.56%) Advertising
16 16 (1.31%) Aerospace
17 13 (1.07%) Electronics
18 12 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
19 11 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 264 (21.69%) Senior
2 198 (16.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 188 (15.45%) Cloud Engineer
4 156 (12.82%) Lead
5 112 (9.20%) Developer
6 108 (8.87%) Azure Engineer
6 108 (8.87%) Platform Engineer
7 106 (8.71%) Architect
8 93 (7.64%) AWS Engineer
9 91 (7.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 64 (5.26%) Software Engineer
11 57 (4.68%) Data Engineer
12 53 (4.35%) Security Engineer
13 50 (4.11%) Senior DevOps
14 43 (3.53%) Cloud Security Engineer
15 42 (3.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 42 (3.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 36 (2.96%) AWS DevOps
16 36 (2.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 35 (2.88%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (9.61%) React
2 82 (6.74%) .NET
3 81 (6.66%) Node.js
4 72 (5.92%) RESTful
5 71 (5.83%) Kafka
6 70 (5.75%) Elastic Stack
7 62 (5.09%) AWS CDK
8 60 (4.93%) REST
9 59 (4.85%) Spring
10 53 (4.35%) Spring Boot
11 49 (4.03%) YAML
12 38 (3.12%) ARM Templates
12 38 (3.12%) RabbitMQ
13 37 (3.04%) Django
14 36 (2.96%) CSS
15 34 (2.79%) FastAPI
16 31 (2.55%) HTML
17 30 (2.47%) .NET Core
17 30 (2.47%) OAuth
18 27 (2.22%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 283 (23.25%) Cloud Native
2 74 (6.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 57 (4.68%) Security Posture
4 51 (4.19%) Public Cloud
5 46 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
6 44 (3.62%) Data Centre
7 41 (3.37%) Product Ownership
8 31 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
9 29 (2.38%) Onboarding
10 28 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
11 25 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
12 23 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
12 23 (1.89%) Management Information System
13 18 (1.48%) Cloud Security Posture
13 18 (1.48%) Hedge funds
13 18 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (1.40%) Blockchain
14 17 (1.40%) Video\Live Streaming
15 16 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
15 16 (1.31%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 281 (23.09%) Linux
2 142 (11.67%) Windows
3 68 (5.59%) Unix
4 51 (4.19%) Windows Server
5 30 (2.47%) VMS
6 27 (2.22%) Ubuntu
7 21 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 20 (1.64%) CentOS
9 11 (0.90%) Android
10 10 (0.82%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.66%) Debian
12 5 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.33%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.33%) SUSE
14 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.082%) Rocky
15 1 (0.082%) Solaris
15 1 (0.082%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 827 (67.95%) CI/CD
2 755 (62.04%) DevOps
3 351 (28.84%) Agile
4 350 (28.76%) Containerisation
5 291 (23.91%) Observability
6 268 (22.02%) Continuous Improvement
7 233 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
8 230 (18.90%) Mentoring
9 194 (15.94%) Platform Engineering
10 188 (15.45%) Test Automation
11 186 (15.28%) AI
12 182 (14.95%) Software Engineering
13 171 (14.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 168 (13.80%) Cloud Security
15 167 (13.72%) Microservices
16 148 (12.16%) DevSecOps
17 143 (11.75%) High Availability
18 142 (11.67%) Analytics
19 140 (11.50%) Incident Response
20 126 (10.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 560 (46.01%) Python
2 248 (20.38%) Bash
3 196 (16.11%) PowerShell
4 195 (16.02%) SQL
5 159 (13.06%) Java
6 142 (11.67%) Go
7 113 (9.29%) JavaScript
8 106 (8.71%) Bicep
9 96 (7.89%) TypeScript
10 63 (5.18%) C#
11 19 (1.56%) Rust
12 18 (1.48%) Kusto Query Language
13 17 (1.40%) C++
14 16 (1.31%) Scala
15 11 (0.90%) C
16 9 (0.74%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.66%) Ruby
18 7 (0.58%) Apex Code
19 5 (0.41%) PHP
19 5 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 211 (17.34%) Security Cleared
2 123 (10.11%) SC Cleared
3 114 (9.37%) Degree
4 100 (8.22%) AWS Certification
5 94 (7.72%) DV Cleared
6 63 (5.18%) Azure Certification
7 49 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 28 (2.30%) CISSP
8 28 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (2.30%) OSCP
9 15 (1.23%) AWS Certified Developer
10 13 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (0.99%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.90%) CCSK
13 10 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 10 (0.82%) CCNP
13 10 (0.82%) DBS Check
14 9 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (0.58%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (5.09%) QA
2 55 (4.52%) GDPR
2 55 (4.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 50 (4.11%) SOC 2
4 43 (3.53%) Data Quality
5 40 (3.29%) PCI DSS
6 39 (3.20%) NIST
7 25 (2.05%) Accessibility
8 11 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (0.90%) WCAG
9 9 (0.74%) SLA
10 6 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.49%) GRC
10 6 (0.49%) NCSC
11 4 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.33%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.16%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.16%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.16%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 400 (32.87%) Docker
2 76 (6.24%) Active Directory
3 58 (4.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (1.89%) vSphere
6 19 (1.56%) Hyper-V
7 16 (1.31%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.90%) Firmware
9 6 (0.49%) KVM
10 4 (0.33%) iptables
10 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 4 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.25%) vCloud
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 (0.082%) XenApp
13 1 (0.082%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 853 (70.09%) Terraform
2 490 (40.26%) Kubernetes
3 304 (24.98%) Ansible
4 179 (14.71%) Prometheus
5 175 (14.38%) Grafana
6 46 (3.78%) Argo
7 33 (2.71%) Microsoft Intune
8 24 (1.97%) Puppet
9 21 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (1.56%) Kustomize
11 14 (1.15%) Nagios
11 14 (1.15%) Rancher
12 13 (1.07%) Progress Chef
13 12 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 11 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
15 9 (0.74%) AWS Copilot
15 9 (0.74%) SCCM
16 8 (0.66%) Istio
17 7 (0.58%) Proxmox
17 7 (0.58%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 193 (15.86%) Microsoft
2 106 (8.71%) Google
3 93 (7.64%) VMware
4 47 (3.86%) Databricks
4 47 (3.86%) Red Hat
5 46 (3.78%) Cisco
6 44 (3.62%) Splunk
7 39 (3.20%) Palo Alto
8 20 (1.64%) Zscaler
9 17 (1.40%) Black Duck
9 17 (1.40%) Coverity
9 17 (1.40%) Salesforce
10 16 (1.31%) CrowdStrike
10 16 (1.31%) Dynatrace
11 15 (1.23%) Juniper
12 13 (1.07%) Atlassian
13 12 (0.99%) Fortinet
13 12 (0.99%) OpenAI
13 12 (0.99%) Oracle
13 12 (0.99%) SAP