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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 152 144
Rank change year-on-year +74 -8 -43
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,034 968 1,332
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.19% 2.22% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.97% 2.48% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,400 675 988
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £108,750 £102,500
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 68,438 39,016 59,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.74% 89.57% 81.29%
Number of salaries quoted 48,346 22,579 39,414
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 August 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 August 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 +30 914 £90,000 - 825
North of England +91 416 £70,400 +0.57% 269
South East +53 250 £67,500 -12.90% 187
North West +92 239 £75,000 +7.14% 146
South West +47 211 £75,000 -2.48% 148
Midlands +38 146 £75,000 +15.38% 66
Yorkshire +9 95 £75,000 +7.14% 79
West Midlands +15 89 £80,000 +23.08% 43
North East +15 82 £56,500 -16.30% 44
East Midlands +23 57 £67,500 +3.85% 23
East of England -5 53 £65,000 +4.00% 31
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 56 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
2 46 (2.26%) Apache
2 46 (2.26%) Apache Spark
3 32 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 28 (1.38%) Confluence
5 12 (0.59%) Jupyter
6 10 (0.49%) IIS
7 9 (0.44%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.20%) Camunda
8 4 (0.20%) CMS
9 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.15%) nginx
9 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.15%) WordPress
10 2 (0.098%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.098%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.049%) Documentum
11 1 (0.049%) JBoss
11 1 (0.049%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.049%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (1.03%) PlantUML
2 9 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.098%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.098%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.049%) Maya
6 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.049%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.15%) Summit
2 2 (0.098%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.049%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.049%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.049%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,180 (58.01%) AWS
2 1,100 (54.08%) Azure
3 379 (18.63%) GCP
4 353 (17.35%) GitHub
5 345 (16.96%) Serverless
6 316 (15.54%) AWS CloudFormation
7 288 (14.16%) Azure DevOps
8 196 (9.64%) GitHub Actions
9 181 (8.90%) Amazon S3
10 175 (8.60%) AWS Lambda
11 159 (7.82%) PaaS
12 137 (6.74%) Amazon EC2
13 121 (5.95%) Amazon EKS
14 119 (5.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 116 (5.70%) SaaS
16 113 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
17 110 (5.41%) Azure AKS
17 110 (5.41%) IaaS
18 109 (5.36%) Entra ID
19 93 (4.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 167 (8.21%) Firewall
2 109 (5.36%) DNS
3 107 (5.26%) VPN
4 99 (4.87%) Network Security
5 69 (3.39%) TCP/IP
6 61 (3.00%) WAN
7 51 (2.51%) Broadband
8 50 (2.46%) BGP
9 41 (2.02%) LAN
10 37 (1.82%) DHCP
11 35 (1.72%) OSPF
12 34 (1.67%) VLAN
13 26 (1.28%) VXLAN
14 24 (1.18%) SD-WAN
14 24 (1.18%) Software-Defined Networking
15 19 (0.93%) HTTP
16 15 (0.74%) Wireless
17 13 (0.64%) Cisco ASA
17 13 (0.64%) SAN
18 12 (0.59%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
2 134 (6.59%) NoSQL
3 88 (4.33%) Amazon RDS
4 87 (4.28%) MongoDB
5 76 (3.74%) DynamoDB
6 73 (3.59%) SQL Server
7 55 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
8 52 (2.56%) Data Lake
9 48 (2.36%) Metadata
10 46 (2.26%) MySQL
10 46 (2.26%) Relational Database
11 38 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
12 28 (1.38%) Redis
13 27 (1.33%) Delta Lake
13 27 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
14 25 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
14 25 (1.23%) Power BI
15 24 (1.18%) Big Data
15 24 (1.18%) BigQuery
16 22 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 272 (13.37%) Git
1 272 (13.37%) GitLab
2 229 (11.26%) Jenkins
3 49 (2.41%) JIRA
4 43 (2.11%) Cucumber
5 31 (1.52%) Bitbucket
6 29 (1.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 27 (1.33%) TeamCity
8 24 (1.18%) CircleCI
9 20 (0.98%) Selenium
10 19 (0.93%) Claude Code
11 15 (0.74%) SonarQube
12 14 (0.69%) NUnit
13 11 (0.54%) Cypress.io
13 11 (0.54%) Maven
14 10 (0.49%) MLflow
15 9 (0.44%) MSI
15 9 (0.44%) Snyk
15 9 (0.44%) Subversion
16 8 (0.39%) JMeter
General
1 524 (25.76%) Social Skills
2 409 (20.11%) Finance
3 161 (7.92%) Public Sector
4 160 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
5 106 (5.21%) Banking
6 97 (4.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 69 (3.39%) Law
8 62 (3.05%) Retail
9 45 (2.21%) Games
10 42 (2.06%) Aerospace
11 35 (1.72%) Telecoms
12 30 (1.47%) Marketing
13 27 (1.33%) Manufacturing
14 24 (1.18%) Legal
15 19 (0.93%) Advertising
15 19 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
16 18 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
17 16 (0.79%) Financial Institution
18 15 (0.74%) Aviation
19 13 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 482 (23.70%) Senior
2 363 (17.85%) DevOps Engineer
3 279 (13.72%) Lead
4 265 (13.03%) Cloud Engineer
5 218 (10.72%) Architect
6 210 (10.32%) Platform Engineer
7 178 (8.75%) Azure Engineer
8 175 (8.60%) Developer
9 124 (6.10%) AWS Engineer
10 121 (5.95%) Software Engineer
11 114 (5.60%) Data Engineer
11 114 (5.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 101 (4.97%) Principal Engineer
13 92 (4.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 82 (4.03%) Security Engineer
15 75 (3.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 73 (3.59%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 69 (3.39%) Senior DevOps
18 65 (3.20%) Senior Developer
19 63 (3.10%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (7.82%) .NET
2 157 (7.72%) React
3 149 (7.33%) Kafka
4 133 (6.54%) REST
5 117 (5.75%) RESTful
6 116 (5.70%) Spring
7 115 (5.65%) Node.js
8 108 (5.31%) Spring Boot
9 73 (3.59%) YAML
10 72 (3.54%) ARM Templates
11 71 (3.49%) PySpark
12 63 (3.10%) AWS CDK
13 55 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
14 48 (2.36%) AngularJS
15 46 (2.26%) OAuth
16 45 (2.21%) Next.js
16 45 (2.21%) RabbitMQ
17 42 (2.06%) ASP.NET
18 39 (1.92%) ASP.NET Core
18 39 (1.92%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 583 (28.66%) Cloud Native
2 213 (10.47%) Distributed Systems
3 113 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 109 (5.36%) Onboarding
5 101 (4.97%) Public Cloud
6 86 (4.23%) Data Centre
7 59 (2.90%) Security Posture
8 58 (2.85%) Product Ownership
9 54 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
10 50 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
11 49 (2.41%) Enterprise Cloud
12 45 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
12 45 (2.21%) Video\Live Streaming
13 36 (1.77%) Low-Code
14 32 (1.57%) Private Cloud
15 30 (1.47%) e-Learning
15 30 (1.47%) PKI
16 27 (1.33%) Virtual Team
17 24 (1.18%) AI Agents
17 24 (1.18%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 357 (17.55%) Linux
2 203 (9.98%) Windows
3 92 (4.52%) Windows Server
4 54 (2.65%) CentOS
5 41 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (1.97%) Ubuntu
7 28 (1.38%) Unix
8 22 (1.08%) VMS
9 8 (0.39%) Android
10 7 (0.34%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.25%) Debian
11 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.098%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.098%) Solaris
13 1 (0.049%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.049%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.049%) Rocky
13 1 (0.049%) SUSE
13 1 (0.049%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,440 (70.80%) CI/CD
2 1,136 (55.85%) DevOps
3 566 (27.83%) Agile
4 559 (27.48%) Containerisation
5 535 (26.30%) Observability
6 482 (23.70%) Platform Engineering
7 445 (21.88%) AI
8 441 (21.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 428 (21.04%) Mentoring
10 376 (18.49%) Software Engineering
11 352 (17.31%) Test Automation
12 348 (17.11%) Microservices
13 342 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
14 312 (15.34%) Technical Leadership
15 304 (14.95%) Cloud Security
16 261 (12.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 243 (11.95%) Roadmaps
18 229 (11.26%) Analytics
19 226 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 218 (10.72%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 912 (44.84%) Python
2 340 (16.72%) SQL
3 334 (16.42%) Bash
4 314 (15.44%) PowerShell
5 287 (14.11%) Java
6 204 (10.03%) Bicep
7 175 (8.60%) TypeScript
8 169 (8.31%) C#
9 159 (7.82%) Go
10 152 (7.47%) JavaScript
11 37 (1.82%) PHP
12 34 (1.67%) Scala
13 25 (1.23%) Ruby
14 24 (1.18%) Rust
15 22 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
16 21 (1.03%) Groovy
16 21 (1.03%) Perl
17 16 (0.79%) C++
18 12 (0.59%) Shell Script
19 9 (0.44%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 486 (23.89%) Security Cleared
2 307 (15.09%) SC Cleared
3 179 (8.80%) Degree
4 172 (8.46%) DV Cleared
5 156 (7.67%) AWS Certification
6 135 (6.64%) Azure Certification
7 77 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 70 (3.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 50 (2.46%) Cisco Certification
9 50 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 34 (1.67%) CCNP
11 26 (1.28%) Master's Degree
12 21 (1.03%) CISSP
13 20 (0.98%) OSCP
14 19 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
15 18 (0.88%) CCNA
16 15 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
17 14 (0.69%) RHCSA
18 13 (0.64%) CCIE
18 13 (0.64%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (4.92%) QA
2 92 (4.52%) Data Quality
3 63 (3.10%) GDPR
4 52 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (1.72%) SOC 2
6 34 (1.67%) NIST
7 31 (1.52%) Accessibility
8 27 (1.33%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.84%) WCAG
10 16 (0.79%) NCSC
11 15 (0.74%) SLA
12 13 (0.64%) GRC
13 9 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.098%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.098%) IFRS
15 2 (0.098%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.098%) Solvency II
16 1 (0.049%) GxP
16 1 (0.049%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 539 (26.50%) Docker
2 129 (6.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 121 (5.95%) Active Directory
4 43 (2.11%) vSphere
5 33 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (1.13%) Hyper-V
7 18 (0.88%) VMware NSX
8 17 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.44%) KVM
11 8 (0.39%) Squid
11 8 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.34%) Firmware
12 7 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.25%) iptables
14 3 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.049%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 1,408 (69.22%) Terraform
2 786 (38.64%) Kubernetes
3 434 (21.34%) Ansible
4 214 (10.52%) Grafana
5 156 (7.67%) Prometheus
6 63 (3.10%) Argo
7 50 (2.46%) Puppet
8 35 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
9 33 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
10 31 (1.52%) Progress Chef
11 28 (1.38%) Istio
12 25 (1.23%) Packer
13 21 (1.03%) Nagios
14 16 (0.79%) FortiGate
15 15 (0.74%) vCenter Server
16 12 (0.59%) Cilium
16 12 (0.59%) Rancher
16 12 (0.59%) ZABBIX
17 11 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 11 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 413 (20.30%) Microsoft
2 156 (7.67%) VMware
3 105 (5.16%) Google
4 91 (4.47%) Databricks
5 82 (4.03%) Red Hat
6 74 (3.64%) Splunk
7 68 (3.34%) Cisco
8 49 (2.41%) Oracle
8 49 (2.41%) Palo Alto
9 39 (1.92%) Fortinet
10 34 (1.67%) OpenAI
11 33 (1.62%) Dynatrace
12 26 (1.28%) Zscaler
13 21 (1.03%) ServiceNow
14 15 (0.74%) F5
15 13 (0.64%) Atlassian
15 13 (0.64%) CrowdStrike
15 13 (0.64%) SAP
16 12 (0.59%) Salesforce
16 12 (0.59%) ScienceLogic