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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 153 163
Rank change year-on-year +59 +10 -58
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,489 844 1,486
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.86% 2.17% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.51% 2.33% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,005 597 1,201
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,400 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - +9.81% -5.90%
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -3.23% +9.81% -5.90%

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 59,242 36,291 71,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.97% 93.41% 85.20%
Number of salaries quoted 38,835 20,234 53,682
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +40 756 £87,500 -2.78% 248
North of England +42 275 £67,249 -3.93% 159
South East +39 163 £70,000 -6.67% 137
North West +50 153 £72,000 -0.69% 81
South West -5 104 £68,400 -4.99% 70
Midlands +17 99 £67,750 -3.21% 41
Yorkshire -32 86 £65,576 +2.46% 41
West Midlands -3 51 £70,079 +0.11% 25
East Midlands +10 46 £67,500 +3.85% 16
East of England +9 40 £60,100 -10.96% 22
North East -12 36 £50,000 -17.01% 37
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 45 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (2.08%) Apache
3 26 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 25 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (1.21%) Confluence
6 15 (1.01%) IIS
7 12 (0.81%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.34%) CMS
9 4 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.067%) Camunda
12 1 (0.067%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.067%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.067%) nginx
12 1 (0.067%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.067%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.67%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.27%) Weka
3 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.067%) Maya
5 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.067%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.067%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.067%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.067%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 884 (59.37%) AWS
2 820 (55.07%) Azure
3 289 (19.41%) GitHub
4 284 (19.07%) GCP
5 272 (18.27%) Serverless
6 268 (18.00%) Azure DevOps
7 230 (15.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 203 (13.63%) GitHub Actions
9 149 (10.01%) AWS Lambda
10 132 (8.87%) Amazon S3
11 112 (7.52%) PaaS
12 108 (7.25%) Entra ID
13 103 (6.92%) Amazon EKS
14 102 (6.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 95 (6.38%) Datadog
16 91 (6.11%) Amazon EC2
17 88 (5.91%) IaaS
17 88 (5.91%) SaaS
18 83 (5.57%) Azure AKS
19 78 (5.24%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 167 (11.22%) Firewall
2 93 (6.25%) DNS
3 72 (4.84%) VPN
4 66 (4.43%) TCP/IP
5 54 (3.63%) Broadband
6 47 (3.16%) WAN
7 42 (2.82%) Network Security
8 36 (2.42%) DHCP
9 27 (1.81%) BGP
10 26 (1.75%) LAN
11 25 (1.68%) HTTP
12 17 (1.14%) Cisco ASA
12 17 (1.14%) SD-WAN
12 17 (1.14%) VLAN
13 15 (1.01%) Software-Defined Networking
14 13 (0.87%) DSL
15 10 (0.67%) Internet
16 9 (0.60%) OSPF
17 8 (0.54%) SAN
17 8 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (7.99%) NoSQL
2 105 (7.05%) PostgreSQL
3 80 (5.37%) Amazon RDS
4 68 (4.57%) MongoDB
5 62 (4.16%) DynamoDB
5 62 (4.16%) SQL Server
6 48 (3.22%) Relational Database
7 47 (3.16%) Data Lake
8 38 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 31 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
10 29 (1.95%) Metadata
11 26 (1.75%) BigQuery
12 22 (1.48%) MySQL
13 21 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
13 21 (1.41%) Power BI
14 19 (1.28%) Delta Lake
15 18 (1.21%) RDBMS
16 16 (1.07%) Spark SQL
17 15 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
18 14 (0.94%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 219 (14.71%) Jenkins
2 215 (14.44%) GitLab
3 199 (13.36%) Git
4 36 (2.42%) Bitbucket
4 36 (2.42%) CircleCI
5 33 (2.22%) JIRA
6 25 (1.68%) Cucumber
7 20 (1.34%) Jaeger
8 15 (1.01%) SonarQube
9 14 (0.94%) Selenium
10 12 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 11 (0.74%) MLflow
11 11 (0.74%) TeamCity
12 9 (0.60%) Maven
12 9 (0.60%) Subversion
13 8 (0.54%) Robot Framework
13 8 (0.54%) Storybook
13 8 (0.54%) Vite
14 7 (0.47%) JMeter
14 7 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 368 (24.71%) Social Skills
2 297 (19.95%) Finance
3 106 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (6.11%) Public Sector
5 87 (5.84%) Banking
6 57 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 55 (3.69%) Retail
7 55 (3.69%) Telecoms
8 50 (3.36%) Law
9 36 (2.42%) Games
10 27 (1.81%) Manufacturing
11 22 (1.48%) Aerospace
12 19 (1.28%) Billing
13 18 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
13 18 (1.21%) Marketing
14 16 (1.07%) Advertising
14 16 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (1.01%) Financial Institution
16 13 (0.87%) Electronics
17 12 (0.81%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 338 (22.70%) Senior
2 245 (16.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 228 (15.31%) Cloud Engineer
4 206 (13.83%) Lead
5 150 (10.07%) Azure Engineer
6 148 (9.94%) Platform Engineer
7 132 (8.87%) Architect
8 130 (8.73%) Developer
9 111 (7.45%) AWS Engineer
10 110 (7.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 85 (5.71%) Data Engineer
12 80 (5.37%) Software Engineer
13 69 (4.63%) Security Engineer
14 64 (4.30%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 61 (4.10%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 59 (3.96%) Senior DevOps
17 49 (3.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 47 (3.16%) Senior Platform Engineer
19 45 (3.02%) Principal Engineer
19 45 (3.02%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (8.33%) React
2 104 (6.98%) .NET
3 99 (6.65%) Kafka
4 97 (6.51%) Node.js
5 91 (6.11%) RESTful
6 90 (6.04%) REST
7 70 (4.70%) Elastic Stack
8 67 (4.50%) YAML
9 64 (4.30%) Spring
10 61 (4.10%) AWS CDK
11 57 (3.83%) Spring Boot
12 49 (3.29%) ARM Templates
13 47 (3.16%) PySpark
14 46 (3.09%) OAuth
15 43 (2.89%) RabbitMQ
16 34 (2.28%) ASP.NET
17 32 (2.15%) ASP.NET Core
18 31 (2.08%) Next.js
19 29 (1.95%) JSON
19 29 (1.95%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 351 (23.57%) Cloud Native
2 108 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
3 85 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 65 (4.37%) Public Cloud
5 53 (3.56%) Security Posture
6 51 (3.43%) Data Centre
7 48 (3.22%) Product Ownership
8 45 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
9 34 (2.28%) Onboarding
10 31 (2.08%) Video\Live Streaming
11 28 (1.88%) Low-Code
12 27 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
13 24 (1.61%) Blockchain
14 22 (1.48%) Web3
15 21 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
15 21 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
16 20 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
16 20 (1.34%) Management Information System
17 19 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
17 19 (1.28%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 313 (21.02%) Linux
2 155 (10.41%) Windows
3 70 (4.70%) Windows Server
4 51 (3.43%) Unix
5 37 (2.48%) Ubuntu
6 27 (1.81%) CentOS
7 26 (1.75%) VMS
8 24 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (0.74%) Android
10 10 (0.67%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.47%) Debian
12 6 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.27%) SUSE
14 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
15 2 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
16 1 (0.067%) Rocky
16 1 (0.067%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2008
16 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,012 (67.97%) CI/CD
2 877 (58.90%) DevOps
3 412 (27.67%) Containerisation
4 393 (26.39%) Agile
5 377 (25.32%) Observability
6 315 (21.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 288 (19.34%) Platform Engineering
8 280 (18.80%) Mentoring
9 267 (17.93%) AI
10 264 (17.73%) Test Automation
11 225 (15.11%) Problem-Solving
12 224 (15.04%) Microservices
13 220 (14.78%) Software Engineering
14 200 (13.43%) Cloud Security
15 197 (13.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 180 (12.09%) Analytics
17 169 (11.35%) High Availability
18 165 (11.08%) DevSecOps
19 164 (11.01%) Technical Leadership
20 143 (9.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 690 (46.34%) Python
2 292 (19.61%) Bash
3 245 (16.45%) PowerShell
4 238 (15.98%) SQL
5 192 (12.89%) Java
6 168 (11.28%) Go
7 127 (8.53%) JavaScript
8 125 (8.39%) Bicep
9 123 (8.26%) TypeScript
10 102 (6.85%) C#
11 28 (1.88%) Rust
12 22 (1.48%) C++
12 22 (1.48%) Scala
13 17 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
14 13 (0.87%) C
14 13 (0.87%) Groovy
15 11 (0.74%) PHP
16 8 (0.54%) Ruby
16 8 (0.54%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.47%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 264 (17.73%) Security Cleared
2 170 (11.42%) SC Cleared
3 148 (9.94%) Degree
4 112 (7.52%) AWS Certification
5 83 (5.57%) Azure Certification
5 83 (5.57%) DV Cleared
6 61 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 33 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 29 (1.95%) OSCP
9 26 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
9 26 (1.75%) CISSP
10 15 (1.01%) CCNP
11 14 (0.94%) DBS Check
12 13 (0.87%) Master's Degree
13 12 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 12 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
13 12 (0.81%) CCNA
14 10 (0.67%) CCSK
14 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (4.63%) QA
2 59 (3.96%) Data Quality
3 55 (3.69%) GDPR
4 45 (3.02%) SOC 2
5 43 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 34 (2.28%) NIST
7 30 (2.01%) PCI DSS
8 24 (1.61%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.67%) WCAG
10 8 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.47%) NCSC
12 4 (0.27%) SLA
13 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.20%) GRC
14 2 (0.13%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.13%) IFRS
14 2 (0.13%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.13%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 422 (28.34%) Docker
2 101 (6.78%) Active Directory
3 78 (5.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (1.88%) vSphere
6 19 (1.28%) VMware NSX
7 18 (1.21%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.47%) Firmware
8 7 (0.47%) iptables
9 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.34%) Squid
11 4 (0.27%) KVM
12 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.13%) GPFS
13 2 (0.13%) Lustre
13 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.067%) vCloud
14 1 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,041 (69.91%) Terraform
2 598 (40.16%) Kubernetes
3 340 (22.83%) Ansible
4 201 (13.50%) Grafana
5 197 (13.23%) Prometheus
6 55 (3.69%) Argo
7 37 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
8 34 (2.28%) Single Sign-On
9 33 (2.22%) Puppet
10 22 (1.48%) Kustomize
11 21 (1.41%) Progress Chef
12 17 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 17 (1.14%) Rancher
13 16 (1.07%) Nagios
14 14 (0.94%) Istio
15 13 (0.87%) Packer
16 10 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
17 9 (0.60%) vCenter Server
17 9 (0.60%) ZABBIX
18 8 (0.54%) SCCM
Vendors
1 270 (18.13%) Microsoft
2 114 (7.66%) VMware
3 97 (6.51%) Google
4 70 (4.70%) Databricks
5 64 (4.30%) Red Hat
6 54 (3.63%) Cisco
7 46 (3.09%) Splunk
8 42 (2.82%) Palo Alto
9 24 (1.61%) Zscaler
10 21 (1.41%) OpenAI
11 20 (1.34%) CrowdStrike
11 20 (1.34%) Salesforce
12 18 (1.21%) Dynatrace
12 18 (1.21%) Fortinet
13 17 (1.14%) Oracle
14 12 (0.81%) Atlassian
14 12 (0.81%) Juniper
15 11 (0.74%) CheckPoint
15 11 (0.74%) SAP
16 10 (0.67%) SolarWinds