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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 128 123
Rank change year-on-year +13 -5 -24
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,049 1,101 1,506
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.88% 2.33% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 2.54% 2.82%
Number of salaries quoted 754 681 1,249
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,875 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,988 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £112,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £73,801 £74,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -0.94% +2.76% -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 44,707 43,296 53,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 80.31% 91.66% 88.61%
Number of salaries quoted 27,023 21,021 42,133
10th Percentile £28,928 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,110 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +6.28% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,354 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,444
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.45% -8.09%

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 29 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 29 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 +16 510 £85,000 -5.56% 294
North of England -11 206 £68,000 +7.94% 167
South East +5 112 £75,000 +15.38% 279
Yorkshire -10 92 £65,000 +20.93% 71
North West +1 87 £70,039 +3.76% 77
South West -15 77 £62,500 -13.18% 132
Midlands -2 60 £66,250 +0.38% 95
West Midlands +6 34 £65,000 -5.45% 37
East of England +29 30 £76,250 +5.17% 99
North East -8 27 £65,000 +33.33% 19
East Midlands +1 24 £67,500 +3.85% 53
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 47 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (3.53%) Apache
3 20 (1.91%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (1.53%) Confluence
6 11 (1.05%) IIS
6 11 (1.05%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.29%) Appian
7 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.19%) nginx
9 1 (0.095%) CMS
9 1 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.095%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.095%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.38%) Weka
2 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.095%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.095%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.095%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.095%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 660 (62.92%) AWS
2 600 (57.20%) Azure
3 240 (22.88%) GitHub
4 236 (22.50%) Azure DevOps
5 232 (22.12%) GCP
6 184 (17.54%) Serverless
7 173 (16.49%) AWS CloudFormation
8 157 (14.97%) GitHub Actions
9 122 (11.63%) AWS Lambda
10 106 (10.10%) Amazon S3
11 97 (9.25%) SaaS
12 85 (8.10%) PaaS
13 79 (7.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 76 (7.24%) Entra ID
15 73 (6.96%) Amazon EKS
16 63 (6.01%) Amazon EC2
17 60 (5.72%) Azure Monitor
17 60 (5.72%) IaaS
17 60 (5.72%) Microsoft 365
18 58 (5.53%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 126 (12.01%) Firewall
2 74 (7.05%) DNS
2 74 (7.05%) VPN
3 50 (4.77%) TCP/IP
4 46 (4.39%) WAN
5 31 (2.96%) DHCP
6 28 (2.67%) Network Security
7 27 (2.57%) Broadband
8 23 (2.19%) Wi-Fi
9 22 (2.10%) LAN
10 17 (1.62%) BGP
10 17 (1.62%) VLAN
11 16 (1.53%) Internet
12 13 (1.24%) SD-WAN
13 9 (0.86%) HTTP
13 9 (0.86%) SAN
14 8 (0.76%) VoIP
14 8 (0.76%) Wireless
15 7 (0.67%) AMQP
16 6 (0.57%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (8.48%) NoSQL
2 70 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (6.20%) Amazon RDS
4 51 (4.86%) SQL Server
5 48 (4.58%) DynamoDB
6 41 (3.91%) Data Lake
7 35 (3.34%) MongoDB
8 29 (2.76%) BigQuery
9 28 (2.67%) Relational Database
10 26 (2.48%) MySQL
11 21 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
11 21 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
12 19 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
12 19 (1.81%) RDBMS
12 19 (1.81%) Redis
13 17 (1.62%) Power BI
14 16 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
14 16 (1.53%) Big Data
15 15 (1.43%) Metadata
16 13 (1.24%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 179 (17.06%) Jenkins
2 149 (14.20%) Git
3 115 (10.96%) GitLab
4 30 (2.86%) JIRA
5 25 (2.38%) Selenium
6 24 (2.29%) Robot Framework
7 21 (2.00%) Bitbucket
7 21 (2.00%) Jaeger
8 18 (1.72%) CircleCI
8 18 (1.72%) Snyk
9 17 (1.62%) MLflow
10 14 (1.33%) TeamCity
11 11 (1.05%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.95%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.76%) Artifactory
13 8 (0.76%) JMeter
14 7 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
14 7 (0.67%) Subversion
14 7 (0.67%) Vite
15 6 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 301 (28.69%) Social Skills
2 230 (21.93%) Finance
3 95 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (6.48%) Banking
5 59 (5.62%) Law
6 58 (5.53%) Public Sector
7 47 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 43 (4.10%) Retail
9 42 (4.00%) Telecoms
10 33 (3.15%) Financial Institution
11 23 (2.19%) Games
12 21 (2.00%) Billing
12 21 (2.00%) Marketing
13 20 (1.91%) Legal
14 19 (1.81%) Back Office
15 17 (1.62%) Manufacturing
16 13 (1.24%) Aerospace
16 13 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
17 12 (1.14%) Advertising
17 12 (1.14%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 207 (19.73%) Senior
2 170 (16.21%) Cloud Engineer
3 162 (15.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 121 (11.53%) Lead
5 106 (10.10%) Platform Engineer
6 105 (10.01%) Developer
7 95 (9.06%) Azure Engineer
8 92 (8.77%) Architect
9 77 (7.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 70 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
11 49 (4.67%) Software Engineer
12 45 (4.29%) Data Engineer
13 40 (3.81%) Security Engineer
13 40 (3.81%) Senior DevOps
14 36 (3.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 31 (2.96%) Cloud Security Engineer
15 31 (2.96%) GCP Engineer
16 30 (2.86%) Lead DevOps
17 29 (2.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 29 (2.76%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (10.01%) React
2 83 (7.91%) .NET
3 68 (6.48%) Node.js
4 65 (6.20%) RESTful
5 62 (5.91%) Elastic Stack
6 50 (4.77%) Kafka
7 47 (4.48%) AWS CDK
8 39 (3.72%) Spring
8 39 (3.72%) YAML
9 38 (3.62%) REST
10 35 (3.34%) ARM Templates
10 35 (3.34%) Spring Boot
11 31 (2.96%) .NET Core
11 31 (2.96%) Django
11 31 (2.96%) FastAPI
12 29 (2.76%) CSS
13 28 (2.67%) HTML
14 27 (2.57%) OpenTelemetry
15 24 (2.29%) RabbitMQ
16 20 (1.91%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 254 (24.21%) Cloud Native
2 71 (6.77%) Hybrid Cloud
3 53 (5.05%) Public Cloud
4 52 (4.96%) Data Centre
5 40 (3.81%) Security Posture
6 35 (3.34%) Distributed Systems
7 32 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
8 31 (2.96%) Onboarding
9 24 (2.29%) Management Information System
10 22 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
10 22 (2.10%) Product Ownership
11 21 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
12 17 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (1.33%) Blog
13 14 (1.33%) Hedge funds
14 13 (1.24%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
15 12 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
15 12 (1.14%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 238 (22.69%) Linux
2 115 (10.96%) Windows
3 57 (5.43%) Unix
4 41 (3.91%) Windows Server
5 30 (2.86%) VMS
6 25 (2.38%) Ubuntu
7 17 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (1.33%) Debian
9 11 (1.05%) CentOS
10 6 (0.57%) Android
10 6 (0.57%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.38%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.29%) SUSE
13 2 (0.19%) Solaris
13 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.095%) AIX
14 1 (0.095%) Rocky
14 1 (0.095%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 705 (67.21%) CI/CD
2 662 (63.11%) DevOps
3 300 (28.60%) Agile
4 289 (27.55%) Containerisation
5 211 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
6 210 (20.02%) Observability
7 207 (19.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 178 (16.97%) Mentoring
9 168 (16.02%) Platform Engineering
10 159 (15.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 150 (14.30%) AI
12 146 (13.92%) Software Engineering
13 145 (13.82%) Cloud Security
14 132 (12.58%) Microservices
15 128 (12.20%) Analytics
16 123 (11.73%) High Availability
17 119 (11.34%) DevSecOps
18 118 (11.25%) Test Automation
19 104 (9.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 102 (9.72%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 462 (44.04%) Python
2 207 (19.73%) Bash
3 178 (16.97%) PowerShell
4 158 (15.06%) SQL
5 125 (11.92%) Java
6 115 (10.96%) Bicep
7 108 (10.30%) Go
8 103 (9.82%) JavaScript
9 88 (8.39%) TypeScript
10 70 (6.67%) C#
11 15 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
11 15 (1.43%) Scala
12 13 (1.24%) C++
13 11 (1.05%) Rust
14 10 (0.95%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.86%) C
16 7 (0.67%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.38%) Ruby
17 4 (0.38%) T-SQL
18 2 (0.19%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 180 (17.16%) Security Cleared
2 104 (9.91%) SC Cleared
3 100 (9.53%) AWS Certification
4 90 (8.58%) Degree
5 85 (8.10%) DV Cleared
6 68 (6.48%) Azure Certification
7 38 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 26 (2.48%) CISSP
10 25 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (1.81%) Master's Degree
12 17 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
13 16 (1.53%) OSCP
14 14 (1.33%) AWS Certified Developer
14 14 (1.33%) CCNP
15 8 (0.76%) CCSK
16 7 (0.67%) CISM
17 6 (0.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 6 (0.57%) MCP
17 6 (0.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (5.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 47 (4.48%) GDPR
3 37 (3.53%) NIST
3 37 (3.53%) SOC 2
4 34 (3.24%) QA
5 33 (3.15%) Data Quality
6 30 (2.86%) PCI DSS
7 18 (1.72%) Accessibility
8 16 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 9 (0.86%) SLA
11 6 (0.57%) GRC
12 5 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.48%) NCSC
12 5 (0.48%) WCAG
13 4 (0.38%) EU AI Act
14 2 (0.19%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.19%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.19%) NIST 800
System Software
1 352 (33.56%) Docker
2 80 (7.63%) Active Directory
3 59 (5.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (2.96%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (1.91%) Hyper-V
6 17 (1.62%) vSphere
7 13 (1.24%) VMware NSX
8 11 (1.05%) Firmware
9 8 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.67%) NFS
10 7 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.57%) KVM
12 3 (0.29%) vCloud
12 3 (0.29%) XenApp
12 3 (0.29%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.19%) GPFS
13 2 (0.19%) Lustre
13 2 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.095%) iptables
14 1 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 751 (71.59%) Terraform
2 423 (40.32%) Kubernetes
3 284 (27.07%) Ansible
4 152 (14.49%) Prometheus
5 131 (12.49%) Grafana
6 41 (3.91%) Argo
7 29 (2.76%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (1.81%) Kustomize
8 19 (1.81%) Puppet
9 17 (1.62%) Rancher
9 17 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (1.43%) SCCM
11 12 (1.14%) Progress Chef
12 11 (1.05%) Docker Swarm
13 8 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.76%) SCOM
14 7 (0.67%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.57%) AWS Copilot
15 6 (0.57%) Nagios
15 6 (0.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 187 (17.83%) Microsoft
2 100 (9.53%) Google
3 93 (8.87%) VMware
4 42 (4.00%) Databricks
5 41 (3.91%) Cisco
6 34 (3.24%) Splunk
7 32 (3.05%) Red Hat
8 29 (2.76%) Palo Alto
9 20 (1.91%) Zscaler
10 18 (1.72%) Black Duck
10 18 (1.72%) Coverity
11 15 (1.43%) CrowdStrike
12 14 (1.33%) Oracle
13 13 (1.24%) Atlassian
13 13 (1.24%) Salesforce
14 12 (1.14%) SAP
14 12 (1.14%) SolarWinds
15 10 (0.95%) Juniper
15 10 (0.95%) New Relic
16 9 (0.86%) OpenAI