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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 128 121
Rank change year-on-year +14 -7 -22
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,051 1,092 1,523
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.88% 2.32% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 2.53% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 756 672 1,266
10th Percentile £47,125 £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 £90,247 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £112,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.60% +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 44,820 43,103 54,661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 80.28% 91.63% 88.65%
Number of salaries quoted 27,124 20,967 43,233
10th Percentile £28,821 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +6.09% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,424 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% -9.60%

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 30 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 30 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 +19 511 £85,000 -5.56% 296
North of England -6 208 £67,500 +7.14% 158
South East +9 110 £75,000 +13.21% 244
Yorkshire -12 92 £65,000 +20.93% 66
North West 0 88 £70,000 +3.70% 76
South West -13 78 £62,500 -13.18% 124
Midlands +10 60 £66,250 +0.38% 81
West Midlands -5 34 £65,000 -5.45% 32
East of England +32 30 £76,250 +5.17% 80
North East -5 28 £65,000 +33.33% 16
East Midlands +5 24 £67,500 +3.85% 45
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 (4.47%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (3.52%) Apache
3 20 (1.90%) Apache Spark
3 20 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (1.52%) Confluence
5 11 (1.05%) IIS
5 11 (1.05%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
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
1 661 (62.89%) AWS
2 604 (57.47%) Azure
3 241 (22.93%) GitHub
4 236 (22.45%) Azure DevOps
5 235 (22.36%) GCP
6 185 (17.60%) Serverless
7 174 (16.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 158 (15.03%) GitHub Actions
9 122 (11.61%) AWS Lambda
10 106 (10.09%) Amazon S3
11 97 (9.23%) SaaS
12 85 (8.09%) PaaS
13 80 (7.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 78 (7.42%) Entra ID
15 74 (7.04%) Amazon EKS
16 63 (5.99%) Amazon EC2
17 61 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
18 60 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
18 60 (5.71%) IaaS
19 58 (5.52%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 127 (12.08%) Firewall
2 73 (6.95%) DNS
2 73 (6.95%) VPN
3 50 (4.76%) TCP/IP
4 45 (4.28%) WAN
5 31 (2.95%) DHCP
6 28 (2.66%) Network Security
7 27 (2.57%) Broadband
8 22 (2.09%) Wi-Fi
9 21 (2.00%) LAN
10 17 (1.62%) BGP
10 17 (1.62%) VLAN
11 16 (1.52%) Internet
12 13 (1.24%) SD-WAN
13 9 (0.86%) HTTP
13 9 (0.86%) SAN
14 8 (0.76%) VoIP
15 7 (0.67%) AMQP
15 7 (0.67%) Wireless
16 6 (0.57%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (8.56%) NoSQL
2 70 (6.66%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (6.18%) Amazon RDS
4 51 (4.85%) SQL Server
5 47 (4.47%) DynamoDB
6 41 (3.90%) Data Lake
7 35 (3.33%) MongoDB
8 29 (2.76%) BigQuery
9 28 (2.66%) Relational Database
10 26 (2.47%) MySQL
11 21 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
12 20 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
13 19 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
13 19 (1.81%) RDBMS
13 19 (1.81%) Redis
14 17 (1.62%) Power BI
15 16 (1.52%) Big Data
16 15 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
16 15 (1.43%) Metadata
17 13 (1.24%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 181 (17.22%) Jenkins
2 147 (13.99%) Git
3 117 (11.13%) GitLab
4 30 (2.85%) JIRA
5 25 (2.38%) Selenium
6 24 (2.28%) Robot Framework
7 22 (2.09%) Bitbucket
8 21 (2.00%) Jaeger
9 20 (1.90%) CircleCI
10 18 (1.71%) Snyk
11 17 (1.62%) MLflow
12 14 (1.33%) TeamCity
13 11 (1.05%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.95%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.76%) Artifactory
15 8 (0.76%) JMeter
16 7 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
16 7 (0.67%) Subversion
16 7 (0.67%) Vite
17 6 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 301 (28.64%) Social Skills
2 230 (21.88%) Finance
3 93 (8.85%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (6.47%) Banking
5 60 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 59 (5.61%) Law
7 47 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 43 (4.09%) Retail
9 42 (4.00%) Telecoms
10 33 (3.14%) Financial Institution
11 23 (2.19%) Games
12 21 (2.00%) Billing
12 21 (2.00%) Marketing
13 20 (1.90%) 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
1 206 (19.60%) Senior
2 172 (16.37%) Cloud Engineer
3 164 (15.60%) DevOps Engineer
4 121 (11.51%) Lead
5 106 (10.09%) Platform Engineer
6 105 (9.99%) Developer
7 96 (9.13%) Azure Engineer
8 93 (8.85%) Architect
9 79 (7.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 69 (6.57%) AWS Engineer
11 49 (4.66%) Software Engineer
12 44 (4.19%) Data Engineer
13 41 (3.90%) Senior DevOps
14 40 (3.81%) Security Engineer
15 37 (3.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 31 (2.95%) Cloud Security Engineer
16 31 (2.95%) GCP Engineer
17 30 (2.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 30 (2.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 30 (2.85%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (9.99%) React
2 83 (7.90%) .NET
3 68 (6.47%) Node.js
4 65 (6.18%) RESTful
5 63 (5.99%) Elastic Stack
6 51 (4.85%) Kafka
7 46 (4.38%) AWS CDK
8 39 (3.71%) Spring
8 39 (3.71%) YAML
9 38 (3.62%) REST
10 35 (3.33%) ARM Templates
10 35 (3.33%) Spring Boot
11 31 (2.95%) .NET Core
11 31 (2.95%) Django
11 31 (2.95%) FastAPI
12 29 (2.76%) CSS
13 28 (2.66%) HTML
14 27 (2.57%) OpenTelemetry
15 24 (2.28%) RabbitMQ
16 20 (1.90%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 253 (24.07%) Cloud Native
2 71 (6.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 53 (5.04%) Public Cloud
4 51 (4.85%) Data Centre
5 40 (3.81%) Security Posture
6 35 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
7 32 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
7 32 (3.04%) Onboarding
8 24 (2.28%) Management Information System
9 22 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (2.09%) Linux Command Line
9 22 (2.09%) Product Ownership
10 17 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (1.33%) Blog
11 14 (1.33%) Hedge funds
11 14 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (1.24%) Data Structures
13 12 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
13 12 (1.14%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 239 (22.74%) Linux
2 115 (10.94%) Windows
3 57 (5.42%) Unix
4 40 (3.81%) Windows Server
5 30 (2.85%) 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
1 709 (67.46%) CI/CD
2 665 (63.27%) DevOps
3 300 (28.54%) Agile
4 293 (27.88%) Containerisation
5 211 (20.08%) Problem-Solving
6 209 (19.89%) Observability
7 208 (19.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 180 (17.13%) Mentoring
9 168 (15.98%) Platform Engineering
10 161 (15.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 149 (14.18%) AI
12 146 (13.89%) Cloud Security
12 146 (13.89%) Software Engineering
13 132 (12.56%) Microservices
14 127 (12.08%) Analytics
15 123 (11.70%) High Availability
16 121 (11.51%) DevSecOps
17 119 (11.32%) Test Automation
18 104 (9.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 103 (9.80%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 464 (44.15%) Python
2 211 (20.08%) Bash
3 181 (17.22%) PowerShell
4 158 (15.03%) SQL
5 126 (11.99%) Java
6 115 (10.94%) Bicep
7 109 (10.37%) Go
8 103 (9.80%) JavaScript
9 88 (8.37%) TypeScript
10 70 (6.66%) 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
1 179 (17.03%) Security Cleared
2 104 (9.90%) SC Cleared
3 100 (9.51%) AWS Certification
4 90 (8.56%) Degree
5 84 (7.99%) DV Cleared
6 68 (6.47%) Azure Certification
7 38 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (2.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 26 (2.47%) CISSP
10 25 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (1.81%) Master's Degree
12 16 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (1.52%) OSCP
13 14 (1.33%) AWS Certified Developer
14 13 (1.24%) CCNP
15 8 (0.76%) CCSK
16 7 (0.67%) CISM
17 6 (0.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 6 (0.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (5.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 48 (4.57%) GDPR
3 38 (3.62%) SOC 2
4 37 (3.52%) NIST
5 34 (3.24%) QA
6 32 (3.04%) Data Quality
7 31 (2.95%) PCI DSS
8 18 (1.71%) Accessibility
9 16 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 9 (0.86%) SLA
12 6 (0.57%) GRC
13 5 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.48%) NCSC
13 5 (0.48%) WCAG
14 4 (0.38%) EU AI Act
15 2 (0.19%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.19%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.19%) NIST 800
System Software
1 356 (33.87%) Docker
2 81 (7.71%) Active Directory
3 59 (5.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (2.95%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (1.90%) Hyper-V
6 17 (1.62%) vSphere
7 13 (1.24%) VMware NSX
8 11 (1.05%) Firmware
9 7 (0.67%) NFS
9 7 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.57%) KVM
11 3 (0.29%) vCloud
11 3 (0.29%) XenApp
11 3 (0.29%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.19%) GPFS
12 2 (0.19%) iptables
12 2 (0.19%) Lustre
12 2 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 752 (71.55%) Terraform
2 426 (40.53%) Kubernetes
3 286 (27.21%) Ansible
4 154 (14.65%) Prometheus
5 134 (12.75%) Grafana
6 41 (3.90%) Argo
7 30 (2.85%) Microsoft Intune
8 20 (1.90%) Puppet
9 19 (1.81%) Kustomize
10 18 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
11 17 (1.62%) Rancher
12 15 (1.43%) SCCM
13 13 (1.24%) Progress Chef
14 11 (1.05%) Docker Swarm
15 8 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 8 (0.76%) SCOM
16 6 (0.57%) AWS Copilot
16 6 (0.57%) Nagios
16 6 (0.57%) vCenter Server
16 6 (0.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 188 (17.89%) Microsoft
2 101 (9.61%) Google
3 93 (8.85%) VMware
4 42 (4.00%) Databricks
5 40 (3.81%) Cisco
6 34 (3.24%) Splunk
7 31 (2.95%) Red Hat
8 29 (2.76%) Palo Alto
9 20 (1.90%) Zscaler
10 18 (1.71%) Black Duck
10 18 (1.71%) 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