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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 153 160
Rank change year-on-year +60 +7 -55
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,506 852 1,484
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.86% 2.19% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 2.34% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,015 603 1,201
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,500 £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 £114,750 £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 59,806 36,392 71,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.87% 93.41% 85.15%
Number of salaries quoted 39,236 20,177 53,681
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,750 £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% -10.10%

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 15 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 15 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 +40 764 £87,500 -2.78% 255
North of England +31 273 £67,249 -3.93% 169
South East +33 168 £70,000 -6.67% 141
North West +50 153 £72,000 -0.69% 84
South West -8 103 £69,200 -3.88% 72
Midlands +19 101 £68,000 -2.86% 36
Yorkshire -25 86 £65,576 +1.67% 45
West Midlands -9 51 £70,079 +0.11% 21
East Midlands +13 48 £67,500 +3.85% 15
East of England +11 41 £60,100 -10.96% 25
North East -12 34 £49,222 -18.30% 40
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 44 (2.92%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (2.06%) Apache
3 26 (1.73%) Apache Spark
4 25 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 19 (1.26%) Confluence
6 15 (1.00%) IIS
7 12 (0.80%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.33%) CMS
9 4 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.066%) Camunda
12 1 (0.066%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.066%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.066%) nginx
12 1 (0.066%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.066%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.066%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.66%) 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 (0.066%) Maya
5 1 (0.066%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.066%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.066%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.066%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.066%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 888 (58.96%) AWS
2 825 (54.78%) Azure
3 288 (19.12%) GitHub
4 281 (18.66%) GCP
5 279 (18.53%) Serverless
6 267 (17.73%) Azure DevOps
7 237 (15.74%) AWS CloudFormation
8 201 (13.35%) GitHub Actions
9 153 (10.16%) AWS Lambda
10 135 (8.96%) Amazon S3
11 114 (7.57%) PaaS
12 108 (7.17%) Entra ID
13 104 (6.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 103 (6.84%) Amazon EKS
15 95 (6.31%) Datadog
16 94 (6.24%) Amazon EC2
17 91 (6.04%) IaaS
18 89 (5.91%) SaaS
19 83 (5.51%) Azure AKS
20 81 (5.38%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 168 (11.16%) Firewall
2 94 (6.24%) DNS
3 72 (4.78%) VPN
4 63 (4.18%) TCP/IP
5 54 (3.59%) Broadband
6 47 (3.12%) WAN
7 45 (2.99%) Network Security
8 36 (2.39%) DHCP
9 31 (2.06%) BGP
10 26 (1.73%) LAN
11 22 (1.46%) HTTP
12 17 (1.13%) Cisco ASA
12 17 (1.13%) SD-WAN
12 17 (1.13%) VLAN
13 15 (1.00%) Software-Defined Networking
14 13 (0.86%) DSL
14 13 (0.86%) OSPF
15 10 (0.66%) Internet
16 9 (0.60%) VXLAN
17 8 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (7.90%) NoSQL
2 105 (6.97%) PostgreSQL
3 81 (5.38%) Amazon RDS
4 69 (4.58%) MongoDB
5 65 (4.32%) DynamoDB
6 63 (4.18%) SQL Server
7 48 (3.19%) Relational Database
8 46 (3.05%) Data Lake
9 40 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
10 31 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
11 28 (1.86%) Metadata
12 26 (1.73%) BigQuery
13 22 (1.46%) MySQL
14 21 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
14 21 (1.39%) Power BI
15 19 (1.26%) Delta Lake
16 18 (1.20%) RDBMS
17 17 (1.13%) Spark SQL
18 15 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
18 15 (1.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 216 (14.34%) GitLab
2 214 (14.21%) Jenkins
3 201 (13.35%) Git
4 36 (2.39%) CircleCI
5 35 (2.32%) Bitbucket
6 33 (2.19%) JIRA
7 26 (1.73%) Cucumber
8 20 (1.33%) Jaeger
9 14 (0.93%) Selenium
9 14 (0.93%) SonarQube
10 13 (0.86%) TeamCity
11 12 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 11 (0.73%) MLflow
13 9 (0.60%) Maven
13 9 (0.60%) Subversion
14 8 (0.53%) Robot Framework
14 8 (0.53%) Storybook
15 7 (0.46%) JMeter
15 7 (0.46%) Vite
16 6 (0.40%) NUnit
General
1 375 (24.90%) Social Skills
2 298 (19.79%) Finance
3 109 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (6.11%) Public Sector
5 90 (5.98%) Banking
6 59 (3.92%) Retail
7 58 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 51 (3.39%) Telecoms
9 49 (3.25%) Law
10 36 (2.39%) Games
11 28 (1.86%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.46%) Aerospace
13 19 (1.26%) Billing
13 19 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
13 19 (1.26%) Marketing
14 17 (1.13%) Advertising
15 16 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (1.00%) Financial Institution
17 13 (0.86%) Electronics
18 12 (0.80%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 343 (22.78%) Senior
2 242 (16.07%) DevOps Engineer
3 231 (15.34%) Cloud Engineer
4 205 (13.61%) Lead
5 152 (10.09%) Azure Engineer
6 150 (9.96%) Platform Engineer
7 133 (8.83%) Architect
8 129 (8.57%) Developer
9 113 (7.50%) AWS Engineer
10 110 (7.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 87 (5.78%) Data Engineer
12 83 (5.51%) Software Engineer
13 72 (4.78%) Security Engineer
14 65 (4.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 62 (4.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 59 (3.92%) Senior DevOps
17 49 (3.25%) Principal Engineer
17 49 (3.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 48 (3.19%) Senior Platform Engineer
19 47 (3.12%) Cloud Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (8.23%) React
2 106 (7.04%) .NET
3 102 (6.77%) Kafka
4 98 (6.51%) Node.js
5 92 (6.11%) RESTful
6 90 (5.98%) REST
7 70 (4.65%) YAML
8 67 (4.45%) Elastic Stack
9 65 (4.32%) Spring
10 62 (4.12%) AWS CDK
11 58 (3.85%) Spring Boot
12 52 (3.45%) ARM Templates
13 48 (3.19%) PySpark
14 46 (3.05%) OAuth
15 43 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
16 36 (2.39%) ASP.NET
17 34 (2.26%) ASP.NET Core
18 31 (2.06%) JSON
18 31 (2.06%) Next.js
19 29 (1.93%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 357 (23.71%) Cloud Native
2 112 (7.44%) Distributed Systems
3 85 (5.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 66 (4.38%) Public Cloud
5 55 (3.65%) Data Centre
6 53 (3.52%) Security Posture
7 49 (3.25%) Product Ownership
8 46 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
9 35 (2.32%) Onboarding
10 31 (2.06%) Video\Live Streaming
11 29 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
12 28 (1.86%) Low-Code
13 24 (1.59%) Blockchain
14 22 (1.46%) PKI
14 22 (1.46%) Web3
15 21 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
15 21 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
16 20 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
16 20 (1.33%) Management Information System
17 19 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 316 (20.98%) Linux
2 157 (10.42%) Windows
3 73 (4.85%) Windows Server
4 51 (3.39%) Unix
5 39 (2.59%) Ubuntu
6 29 (1.93%) CentOS
7 27 (1.79%) VMS
8 24 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (0.73%) Android
10 10 (0.66%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.46%) Debian
11 7 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.20%) SUSE
14 2 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.066%) Rocky
15 1 (0.066%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,027 (68.19%) CI/CD
2 885 (58.76%) DevOps
3 407 (27.03%) Containerisation
4 400 (26.56%) Agile
5 382 (25.37%) Observability
6 318 (21.12%) Continuous Improvement
7 293 (19.46%) Platform Engineering
8 288 (19.12%) Mentoring
9 274 (18.19%) AI
10 268 (17.80%) Test Automation
11 234 (15.54%) Microservices
12 229 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
13 227 (15.07%) Software Engineering
14 204 (13.55%) Cloud Security
15 203 (13.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 183 (12.15%) Analytics
17 171 (11.35%) High Availability
18 169 (11.22%) Technical Leadership
19 164 (10.89%) DevSecOps
20 141 (9.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 692 (45.95%) Python
2 292 (19.39%) Bash
3 249 (16.53%) PowerShell
4 244 (16.20%) SQL
5 193 (12.82%) Java
6 168 (11.16%) Go
7 131 (8.70%) JavaScript
8 127 (8.43%) TypeScript
9 125 (8.30%) Bicep
10 103 (6.84%) C#
11 29 (1.93%) Rust
12 22 (1.46%) C++
13 21 (1.39%) Scala
14 17 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
15 13 (0.86%) C
15 13 (0.86%) Groovy
15 13 (0.86%) PHP
16 9 (0.60%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.53%) Ruby
18 7 (0.46%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 270 (17.93%) Security Cleared
2 174 (11.55%) SC Cleared
3 149 (9.89%) Degree
4 116 (7.70%) AWS Certification
5 83 (5.51%) Azure Certification
5 83 (5.51%) DV Cleared
6 61 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (2.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (1.93%) OSCP
10 26 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (1.73%) CISSP
11 15 (1.00%) CCNP
12 14 (0.93%) DBS Check
13 13 (0.86%) Master's Degree
14 12 (0.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 12 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
14 12 (0.80%) CCNA
15 10 (0.66%) CCSK
15 10 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (4.65%) QA
2 57 (3.78%) Data Quality
3 56 (3.72%) GDPR
4 48 (3.19%) SOC 2
5 47 (3.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 35 (2.32%) NIST
7 30 (1.99%) PCI DSS
8 23 (1.53%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.66%) WCAG
10 8 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.46%) NCSC
12 6 (0.40%) GRC
13 5 (0.33%) SLA
14 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.13%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.13%) IFRS
15 2 (0.13%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.13%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 420 (27.89%) Docker
2 101 (6.71%) Active Directory
3 79 (5.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (2.32%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (1.86%) vSphere
6 19 (1.26%) Hyper-V
6 19 (1.26%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.46%) Firmware
7 7 (0.46%) iptables
8 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.33%) Squid
10 4 (0.27%) KVM
11 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.13%) GPFS
12 2 (0.13%) Lustre
12 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.066%) vCloud
13 1 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,051 (69.79%) Terraform
2 603 (40.04%) Kubernetes
3 337 (22.38%) Ansible
4 193 (12.82%) Grafana
5 190 (12.62%) Prometheus
6 54 (3.59%) Argo
7 37 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
8 35 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
9 34 (2.26%) Puppet
10 22 (1.46%) Kustomize
11 21 (1.39%) Progress Chef
12 17 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 17 (1.13%) Nagios
13 16 (1.06%) Rancher
14 14 (0.93%) Istio
15 13 (0.86%) Packer
16 10 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
16 10 (0.66%) vCenter Server
17 9 (0.60%) ZABBIX
18 8 (0.53%) SCCM
Vendors
1 276 (18.33%) Microsoft
2 112 (7.44%) VMware
3 96 (6.37%) Google
4 71 (4.71%) Databricks
5 64 (4.25%) Red Hat
6 54 (3.59%) Cisco
7 47 (3.12%) Splunk
8 46 (3.05%) Palo Alto
9 24 (1.59%) Zscaler
10 21 (1.39%) OpenAI
10 21 (1.39%) Salesforce
11 20 (1.33%) CrowdStrike
12 19 (1.26%) Dynatrace
13 18 (1.20%) Fortinet
14 17 (1.13%) Oracle
15 12 (0.80%) F5
15 12 (0.80%) Juniper
16 11 (0.73%) Atlassian
16 11 (0.73%) CheckPoint
16 11 (0.73%) SAP